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12. February, 2010
Just because you own your house outright doesn't mean Bank of America won't foreclose on it.
10. February, 2010
4. February, 2010
25. January, 2010
[Given that it took at least four days after the earthquake before the U.S. military permitted relief supplies to land at the Port-au-Prince airport, turned away planes from such NGOs as Doctors Without Borders, and that Defense Secretary Robert Gates refused to release aid until a full week had passed, one can hardly call the deployment of 10,000 troops a relief operation.]
17. January, 2010
How did Haiti get so poor? Despite a century of American colonialism, occupation, and propping up corrupt dictators? Even though the CIA staged coups d'état against every democratically elected president they ever had?
11. December, 2009
Heart specialists have saved the life of an Israeli man who had refused to visit a doctor for 64 years - and learned the terrible secret of his mistrust of the medical profession.
4. December, 2009
26. November, 2009
It was in 1934 that the Nazis brought into force the "law for the prevention of genetic ill procreation". For Hitler, the sterilisation of "genetically ill" people was a "humane deed" for mankind....Incredibly, the eugenic Nazi law still exists. The German Parliament suspended the "law for the prevention of genetic ill procreation" in 2007, but this did not eliminate it, only put it out of force.
15. November, 2009
9. November, 2009
31. October, 2009
22. October, 2009
A 22-year-old woman whose claims that she was abused in a trailer in rural West Virginia in 2007 helped send six people to prison now says she made up the story.
17. October, 2009
Who thinks rape is okay? The 30 Republican Senators who hate Franken so much that they voted against his bill to disallow government contractors to indemnify themselves against rape charges.
"Where is he going? Where is he taking my child? Why is he leaving?" Is there anything TSA can't fuck up?
8. October, 2009
3. October, 2009
28. September, 2009
If there is a more revoltingly inhumane and despicable society known to history than the Aztecs, I really don't care to know about it. But, on top of the moral ugliness of the Aztecs, there is the undeniable fact that almost everything they made was aesthetically hideous, too.
15. September, 2009
Horror hits New Haven: Body of 24-year-old medical student found, on her wedding day, in wall after six-day search of high-security lab in secure building where she was last seen. Bloody clothes of murderer found hidden in ceiling. Police believe it is an isolated crime of passion and that other students and residents are not threatened.
9. September, 2009
Sony BMG busted for piracy. Not for the first time. And this is all after that rootkit scandal. Sure enough, it'll eventually turn up that Vaio runs on the souls of dead kittens.
4. September, 2009
Human experimentation without consent has been prohibited in any setting since 1947, when the Nuremberg Code, which resulted from the prosecution of Nazi doctors, set down 10 sacrosanct principles. The code states that voluntary consent of subjects is essential and that all unnecessary physical and mental suffering should be avoided.
25. August, 2009
As Americans continue to debate the torture era of the Bush administration, a new report has emerged about the alleged existence of a third secret prison used by the CIA in Europe. According to ABC News, the CIA operated a "black site" prison in Lithuania until the end of 2005.
17. August, 2009
Unsatisfied with the increasing stability in Iraq, Sadr's army now targets gay men.
7. August, 2009
Now, added to the other suspicions, comes the goofy possibility that abstruse, supernatural, idiotic, laughable Bible prophecies were a factor. This casts an ominous pall over the needless war that has killed more than four thousand young Americans and cost U.S. taxpayers perhaps $1 trillion.
22. July, 2009
If William S. Burroughs, Bret Easton Ellis, and William Gibson collaborated on designing a very small dystopia, it would probably look an awful lot like Dubai.
15. July, 2009
"They crammed us into sealed shipping containers. We had no water for 20 hours. We banged on the side of the container. There was no air and it was very hot. There were 300 of us in my container. By the time we arrived in Sheberghan, only ten of us were alive."