“They said they would rape me, and one time they took a stick and dipped it into chili powder and threatened to insert the stick into my anus. They tried to pull off my pants. When they did that, I confessed to everything they wanted.”-prisoner at Kandahar prison
“After [the torture] was finished I told […] Continue Reading…
“….we’re surprised that high unemployment can exist at the same time as a skilled labor shortage.”-Mike Rowe, testimony to Senate Commerce Committee
Don’t be so surprised Mike Rowe. Your sponsor, Ford, is a prime example of why there is not a skilled labor shortage, only a shortage of skilled laborers who want to get paid […] Continue Reading…
The planned Global March on Al Quds includes people from South East Asia: “The troubles we have in this world now is because nobody stands up for justice. Everybody is so selfish….Therefore we feel that although Palestine does not affect us directly, it is imperative for every single person who loves peace and justice […] Continue Reading…
March 18, 2012, as protest against the U.S. puppet government of Yemen rage on, a U.S. citizen is assassinated.
Witnesses say two men on a motorcycle shot and killed the director of the Swedish Language Center, located in the city of Taez. The director is a U.S. citizen.
This follows the kidnapping of a teacher from […] Continue Reading…
How would you like to own a business that’s making money hand over fist, and get paid by the government on top of that? The Oil Industry is!
People are literally going hungry in the United States, and Republican controlled congress keeps cutting welfare for the poor, yet the Oil Industry gets 4 billion of […] Continue Reading…
The Xinjiang Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has revealed that they detained a U.S. citizen after he was caught using two GPS devices to map out cities in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
The detention happened back on January 31, 2012. Chinese officials say he collected and stored over 90,000 geographic coordinates using his GPS receivers.
Officials […] Continue Reading…
Governor Butch Otter pays the females in his administration an average of $20,000 less than his male administrators.
“Director Gould is about $38,000 under the newly employed Jeff Sayer. You can’t argue she doesn’t have as many employees. Our state is no different than the national averages that show women reach a ‘glass ceiling’ for […] Continue Reading…
March 18, 2012, California has notified at least 20,000 teachers that they will not be coming back to work.
Tom Torlakson, California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, says the notices reflect a financial emergency: “Though the very future of our state depends on California’s teachers …(they) will now spend months in limbo, worrying about their futures […] Continue Reading…
March 13, two U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, one in North Waziristan, one in South Waziristan, killed 15 people. Two of those killed were pro-government militants!
March 11, Israeli drone hits family as mother walked her children home. All ended up in the hospital with cuts and fractures. One 15 year old boy died.
“We were […] Continue Reading…
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters, all connected to the next generation internet using abundant, low cost, and high power computing. The latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater […] Continue Reading…