Archive for August, 2014
South Korea’s Education System, “Amounts to Child Abuse”
August 3rd, 2014Via: New York Times: After my older brother fell ill from the stress of being a student in South Korea, my mother decided to move me from our home in Seoul to Vancouver for high school to spare me the intense pressure to succeed. She did not want me to suffer like my brother, who […]
China Says Violent Xinjiang Uprising Leaves Almost 100 Dead
August 3rd, 2014Via: Wall Street Journal: Chinese police forces last week gunned down 59 people and arrested another 215 during a violent uprising in the country’s far western Xinjiang region that left almost 100 dead, the government said Sunday, in a statement that shed fresh light on an incident that dissident groups had described as a major […]
Obama: “We Tortured Some Folks”
August 1st, 2014Via: Time: On Friday, President Barack Obama previewed the upcoming release of a Senate report into the CIA’s rendition, detention and interrogation after the attacks of September 11, 2001, saying “we tortured some folks.”
U.S. Government Seeking to Test Ebola Vaccine on Humans
August 1st, 2014Via: Reuters: The U.S. government will begin testing on people an experimental Ebola vaccine as early as September, after seeing positive results from tests on primates, according to media reports on Thursday. The National Institutes of Health’s infectious disease unit is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to put the vaccine into trial […]
NSA Spy Tools Were Set for NZ Installation
August 1st, 2014NSA wouldn’t need to tap the cables since the agency is already inside the boxes in the U.S., New Zealand and Aussie landing sites. What do you think Snowden was supposed to be doing at his NSA job in Hawaii? Working on his tan? Look at where the Southern Cross cables go. So let’s cut […]
