Truth's Blog – June 2010 Archive (31)

U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned.

SPC Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad, where he was arrested nearly two weeks ago by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. A… Continue

Added by truth on June 7, 2010 at 10:43am — 1 Comment

China's 'cancer villages' reveal dark side of economic boom

China's 'cancer villages' reveal dark side of economic boom

Polluting factories in rural communities are forming a deadly toxic cocktail for villagers, leading to surging rates of cancer…

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US seeks probe as American student hurt in anti-Israel demo

(AFP)

JERUSALEM — Washington has asked Israel to investigate an incident where a US student lost an eye after she was hit by an Israeli tear-gas canister during a West Bank protest, the US embassy said on Monday.

Emily Henochowicz, 21, was apparently hit in the face by a tear-gas canister fired by border police during a protest near the West Bank city of Ramallah over Israel's use of force against a Gaza-bound aid ship.

The US embassy in Tel Aviv passed on a… Continue

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Doctors group says Bush Administration conducted medical experiments on detainees

Experiments in Torture is the first report to reveal evidence indicating that CIA medical personnel allegedly engaged in the crime of illegal experimentation after 9/11, in addition to the previously disclosed crime of torture. In their attempt to justify the war crime of torture, the CIA appears to have committed another alleged war crime—illegal experimentation on prisoners.…

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KBR Employee Says She Was Raped and Beaten By Fellow KBR Employee in Iraq

Another female ex-employee of KBR has come forward to claim that she was raped while working for the military contracting company in Iraq. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Houston Wednesday, Anna Mayo was working at KBR's facility in Balad in November 2009 when she was assaulted by an unnamed rapist who worked for KBR. She charges that she was choked unconscious with a rope, beaten and raped. The suit seeks damages from KBR and from KBR subsidiary Service Employees International… Continue

Added by truth on June 4, 2010 at 8:37pm — No Comments

Obama Picks Bush Under Secretary as Director of Intelligence

04 Jun 2010 President Obama has picked Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. to become the next director of national intelligence. Mr. Obama plans to announce his selection on Saturday, a senior official said. General Clapper would replace Adm. Dennis C. Blair, whom the president forced to resign last month. General Clapper, who retired after 32 years in the Air Force in 1995, was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2007 as under secretary of defense for intelligence, overseeing the broad array of… Continue

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THE US Navy has a raygun - and it's a big one. ... "successfully tracked, engaged, and destroyed” drone aircraft with its Laser Weapon System

THE US Navy has a raygun - and it's a big one.

In a red-letter week for the US military, its Naval Sea Systems command "successfully tracked, engaged, and destroyed” several… Continue

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McPosion - Cadmium Laced McDonald's Shrek "Happy Meals" Glasses Recalled

By The Associated Press ADVERTISEMENT

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - McDonald's in the U.S. is recalling 12 million "Shrek"-themed drinking glasses because of cadmium in the painted design.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned consumers early Friday to immediately stop using the glasses. It was not yet clear if the recall extended to McDonald's in…

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Added by truth on June 4, 2010 at 12:46pm — 2 Comments

LAPD rolls out iWatch, an expansion of its

LAPD rolls out iWatch, an expansion of its

counter-terrorism program that gets public involved

June 3, 2010 | 7:24 am

In the years after the 9/11 attacks, Los Angeles Police Department trained officers to keep a better watch for…

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Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida Arrested on Corruption charges

by Michelle Yoffee | June 02, 2010

OVIEDO--While lying in bed with his young son Wednesday morning, the FDLE showed up to arrest former Oviedo City Councilman and Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, Jim Greer.

Shortly after 9 a.m., with his wife and children in the house, Greer, 47, was taken into custody and booked into the John E. Polk Correctional Facility. He is charged with four counts of… Continue

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Goldman Sachs sold $250 million of BP stock before spill

Firm's stock sale nearly twice as large as any other institution; Represented 44 percent of total BP investment

The brokerage firm that's faced the most scrutiny from regulators in the past year over the shorting of mortgage related securities seems to have had good timing when it came to something else: the stock of British oil giant BP.

According to regulatory filings, RawStory.com has found that Goldman Sachs sold 4,680,822 shares of BP in the first quarter of 2010.… Continue

Added by truth on June 2, 2010 at 3:38pm — No Comments