Archive for November, 2009
And Now… Texas Army Killer Linked to September 11 Terrorists
November 8th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a “spiritual adviser” to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001. Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great […]
Mexico: Three Doctors and a Nurse Sold Newborns, Told Mothers Their Babies had Died
November 8th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Police uncovered the scheme after one of the women learned her baby was alive and had been sold to another woman for 15,000 pesos, said Luis Genaro, the capital’s deputy attorney general. The woman gave birth to a girl through cesarean section at the Central West Hospital in a working-class district in October […]
Profit ‘Not Satanic,’ Barclays Says, After Goldman Invokes Jesus
November 8th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer John Varley stood at the wooden lectern in St. Martin-in-the- Fields on London’s Trafalgar Square last night and told the packed pews of the church that “profit is not satanic.” The 53-year-old head of Britain’s second-biggest bank said banks are the “backbone” of the economy. Rewarding high- performing […]
Official U.S. Jobless Rate: 10.2 Percent
November 6th, 2009Via: AP: The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to a 26-1/2-year high of 10.2 percent last month, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount. The Labor Department said on Friday that employers cut 190,000 jobs in October, more than the 175,000 markets had […]
U.S. Army Psychiatrist Allegedly Carried Out Massacre at Fort Hood
November 6th, 2009Update: And Now… “Men in Suits” Take Another Suspect Away Via: CNN: Surviving Fort Hood shooting suspect arrested at golf course, officer says November 5, 2009 — Updated 2334 GMT (0734 HKT) (CNN) — A senior officer who was playing golf Thursday near Fort Hood, Texas, told CNN he witnessed the arrest of one of […]
Air Force: ‘Overwhelm Enemy Cognitive Abilities’ with Bioscience
November 5th, 2009A steady diet of toxic food and World of Warcraft would work. Via: Wired: The Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can “degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities.” It’s all part of a $49 million dollar bio-research effort unveiled last month by the Air Force Research Lab’s […]
Message from the Gyre
November 5th, 2009Via: Chris Jordan: These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to […]
CIA Had People Raped with Broken Bottles, Boiled Alive
November 5th, 2009Via: Raw Story: The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 […]
Pentagon: A Third of U.S. Youth Too Fat, Sickly to Serve in the Military, Most of the Rest Are Too Dumb or Have Used Too Many Drugs
November 5th, 2009Oh well, they’re not too fat and sickly to go to private prisons. And this is sure to result in much more funding for the terminator robots. Good news all around for the criminals who run the show. Via: USA Today: More than a third of American youth of military age are unfit for service, […]
Italy Convicts Former CIA Agents in Rendition Trial
November 5th, 2009Via: Reuters: An Italian judge sentenced 23 Americans to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric, in a symbolic condemnation of the CIA “rendition” flights used by the former U.S. government. The Americans were all tried in absentia because the United States refused to extradite them. The […]
