Month December 2004

Even the FBI can’t stomach US military torture tactics

FBI agents complained of prisoner abuse FBI agents have lodged repeated complaints of physical and mental mistreatment of prisoners held in Iraq and Cuba, saying in reports that military officials have placed lighted cigarettes in detainees’ ears The order to…

Make that a veggie burger, please

U.S. meat plants are allowing brains and spinal cord from older cattle to enter the food supply, violating strict government regulations aimed at preventing the spread of mad cow disease, a federal meat inspectors union said on Monday. The FDA,…

The horror

“Today, I hope we can begin the healing”, John Kerry in his concession speech. Fuck the healing. There, in Kerry’s single dreadful sentence of just nine words is about half of what’s wrong with the Democrats. The Republicans don’t care…

Study: Lake Tahoe is warming up

The waters of Lake Tahoe are warming up at almost twice the rate of the world’s oceans, probably as a consequence of global climate change, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California, Davis.

YAFMFTI

That’s “Yet Another Fiendish Menace From the Internet…” “Dark Alleys” on the Internet “Sounding the alarmist tone many of us became used to in the early days of the web, The New York Times has a story that talks about…