Army ‘Kill Team’ Leader Wanted a Necklace of Fingers Spencer Ackerman Wired, September 30, 2010 Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs didn’t just stock up on bootleg DVDs and mess-hall snacks, like a typical deployed soldier. During his deployment to Kandahar, Gibbs kept a water bottle with two wads of cloth wedged into it. Wrapped in the [...]
Will the Justice Department Be Authorized to Shut Down Internet Sites? by Rich Muny September 30, 2010 On September 20th, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced legislation — S. 3804, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act — that seeks to give the Department of Justice the power to shut down websites anywhere [...]
Deadly MRSA tainted MEAT Products being sold to consumers; government forms ‘work group’ Published on 09-28-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Wallet Pop Meat contaminated by a potentially lethal infection is being sold to consumers — creating a public health threat that has largely flown under the the radar due to powerful industry [...]
More reports of deadly flesh-eating bacteria in the Gulf Published on 09-28-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Florida Oil Spill Law The WDSU report notes the risk of infection by the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus increases if the liver is impaired from alcohol use, which is on the rise around the Gulf since [...]
The Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations Published on 09-29-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: The Big Picture – Barry Ritholtz Every generation or so, a major secular shift takes place that shakes up the existing paradigm. It happens in industry, finance, literature, sports, manufacturing, technology, entertainment, travel, communication, etc. [...]
Australian Law Confiscates “Unexplained Wealth” Published on 09-29-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Memo to criminals and everyone else: keep those receipts. Last week the state’s “unexplained wealth” law came into effect, to the outrage of civil libertarians and the horror of crooks and their accountants. Until now the [...]
Jewish Gaza-bound activists: IDF used excessive force in naval raid By Yanir Yagna September 28, 2010 Activists aboard Gaza-bound ship ‘Irene’ counter IDF version that the vessel was taken over in a peaceful manner. Israel Defense Forces soldiers used excessive force while taking over a Gaza-bound aid ship organized by Jewish and Israeli activists, the [...]
Age of Censorship and Internet Trade Wars Published on 09-28-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | By Francis Anthony Govia – Activist Post New U.S. legislation will impact every user of the Internet. The “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act” would empower the U.S. Department of Justice to shut down, or block access to, websites [...]
Japan to Drill for Methane Hydrate September 28th, 2010 Via: Guardian: In a bid to shore up its precarious energy security Japan is to start commercial test drilling for controversial frozen methane gas along its coast next year. The gas is methane hydrate, a sherbet-like substance consisting of methane trapped in water ice – sometimes [...]
World Gripped by ‘International Currency War’ September 28th, 2010 Via: Guardian: The world is in the midst of an “international currency war” according to Brazil’s finance minister as governments force down the value of their currencies to boost their struggling economies. The comments are the first public admission made by a senior policymaker about a [...]
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‘Israel to use all means in next Gaza war’ “We have less performance constraints there than in other areas, and we will not hesitate to use the many tools in our possession,” the commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Gaza Division, Brigadier General Eyal Eisenberg, said about possible Israeli offensives on the coastal sliver. [...]
by JJ Sutherland NPR’s Carrie Johnson has learned that lawyer Nick Marsh took his own life over the weekend. Marsh was one of the lawyers who prosecuted former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens for corruption, a prosecution that failed amidst charges of misconduct. The Attorney General dropped that case, saying there were problems with sharing evidence [...]
Chloramine + Lead Pipes + Fluoride = Contaminated tap water July 13, 2009 By Olga Naidenko, EWG Senior Scientist The lead pollution crisis of the Washington, D.C. water supply – and the culprit that caused it, the water disinfection chemical chloramine – is a powerful example of how things can go terribly wrong when water [...]
Thursday, 23 September 2010 * THE JEWISH ROLE IN ‘THE HOLOCAUST’ * It is a historical fact that in 1941 and again in 1942, the German Gestapo offered all European Jews transit to Spain, if they would relinquish all their property in Germany and Occupied France; on condition that: a) None of the deportees travel [...]
