Late on the night of August 23, 2001, at about 3 a.m. security cameras in the parking garage of the World Trade Centercaptured the arrival of two or three truck vans. Visual examination determined the vans were separate and unique from trucks used by janitorial services, including different colors and devoid of markings. More curious, all [...]
Archive for August 2nd, 2011
The Missing Security Tapes For The World Trade Center
Posted in 9-11, criminal justice system, government, history, law, media, technology, tagged Central Intelligence Agency, New York City, New York State Archives, September 11 2001, September 11 attacks, Truck, World Trade Center, World Trade Center site on August 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Word is Spreading: The Ruling Psychopaths Among Us
Posted in government, health, history, law, military, politics, tagged genocide, history, Jon Ronson, Kurt Vonnegut, Psychopathy, Robert Hare, United States, Wikipedia on August 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I always wondered why some people – particularly politicians – are cruel to the extent of committing genocide and wanting to inflict more pain on humanity until a friend introduced me to the term ponerology – a term coined by Polish psychiatrist Andrew Lobaczewski to describe the study of the causes of periods of social injustice. Ponerology [...]
House Roll Call: How they voted on debt-limit bill
Posted in economics, law, politics, Uncategorized, tagged Campaigns and Elections, Democratic, Gabrielle Giffords, politics, republicans, United States, United States House of Representatives, voting on August 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The 269-161 roll call Monday by which the House passed the compromise bill to raise the debt ceiling and prevent a government default. A “yes” vote is a vote to pass the measure. Voting yes were 95 Democrats and 174 Republicans. Voting no were 95 Democrats and 66 Republicans. X denotes those not voting. There [...]
TSA Reports Agents Developing Cancer from Naked Body Scanners
Posted in government, health, law, tagged Cancer cluster, Electronic Privacy Information Center, freedom of information act, Full body scanner, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Scanners, Transportation Security Administration, United States Department of Homeland Security on August 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
‘In a new twist to the TSA saga to which we can only say, “We told ya so,” the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal TSA employees are reporting “cancer clusters” among their own employees who work near radiation body scanners. At the same [...]