Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
What Would Be The Odds?
February 9th, 2010I happen to know the name of the person mentioned in the story below. However, a New Zealand blogger is currently facing charges for releasing the name, so I will not publish it here. If you’re reading Cryptogon, you’re more cunning than most, so I’m confident that, if you want to know the name, you [...]
U.S. Doing ‘Scientific Research’ to Boost Interrogations
February 4th, 2010Via: AFP:
An elite US interrogation unit will conduct “scientific research” to find better ways of questioning top suspected terrorists, US intelligence director Dennis Blair said Wednesday.
“It is going to do scientific research on that long-neglected area,” Blair told the House Intelligence Committee, without elaborating on the nature of the techniques being tested.
A spokesman for Blair, [...]
City of L.A. Wants Construction of New Buildings to Include Catchment Systems to Handle Toxic Runoff During Rain Storms
February 2nd, 2010What is happening to the millions of people who are breathing the air that’s carrying all the pollutants that are winding up in the toxic runoff?
This is the Los Angeles Times from 2002:
A report by a Washington, D.C., environmental group says that children in California are at greater risk of contracting cancer from inhaling toxic [...]
Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast
February 1st, 2010Via: Scientific American:
Genetic engineering is coming to the forests.
While the practice of splicing foreign DNA into food crops has become common in corn and soy, few companies or researchers have dared to apply genetic engineering to plants that provide an essential strut of the U.S. economy, trees.
But that will soon change. Two industry giants, International [...]
Airstrip Built at Zimbabwe Diamond Field
February 1st, 2010Via: Telegraph:
A secret airstrip is being built in a diamond field illegally seized by the Zimbabwean army 14 months ago which would enable clandestine weapons shipments.
Diplomats and analysts believe that the mile-long runway is intended for arms shipments, probably from China, for which troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe would pay on the spot with [...]
Mexico: 13 Teens, Adults Killed at Party in Juarez
January 31st, 2010Via: Houston Chronicle:
Armed men stormed a party in this violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses said was an attack prompted by false information.
About two dozen teens and young adults were hospitalized after the late Saturday assault in Ciudad Juarez, a drug cartel-plagued city which is one of [...]
Formaldehyde-Laced Death Trailers to Haiti!?
January 29th, 2010Children in Katrina Trailers May Face Lifelong Ailments
FEMA Trailer Manufacturers Knew About Formaldehyde, Findings Went Undisclosed
Via: AP:
The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina — an idea denounced by some as a crass and self-serving attempt to dump inferior American products [...]
Howard Zinn Dies at 87
January 29th, 2010Via: Reuters:
Historian and activist Howard Zinn, whose 1980 book “A People’s History of the United States” was a rallying cry for the American left in a conservative era, has died aged 87.
Family members said Zinn, who for decades was a fixture in the U.S. civil rights and anti-war movements and lived in Auburndale, Massachusetts, died [...]
Hospitals Should “Be Extra Careful with Linear Accelerators”
January 25th, 2010This piece is classic New York Times. There must be an editorial template at that rag. Write about atrocity, smooth it over with experts and a clear, non-sticky Everything Is OK gel.
The article below reads like this:
Behold the marvels of modern medicine. Sure, atrocities happen here and there. Well, maybe more often than that. [...]
Children Disappearing from Hospitals in Haiti
January 24th, 2010With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave.
Via: France24:
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced Friday that several children have gone missing from hospitals in Haiti in the aftermath of the killer earthquake, raising fears of trafficking for adoption abroad.
“We have documented let’s say around 15 cases of children disappearing [...]
