Afghanistan now exports not opium, but heroin. Opium is being converted into heroin on an industrial scale, not in huts and houses but in factories. The chemicals needed for this process are shipped into Afghanistan by tanker. The tankers and bulk opium lorries on the way to the factories share the roads (improved by international aid) [...]
This video and similar articles on the web cover some of the concerns expressed about the dispersant Corexit, including: Corexit is a solvent primarily used as a dispersant for breaking up oil slicks. It is produced by Nalco Holding Company which is associated with various major oil companies. Corexit 9500, four times more toxic than crude oil, [...]
A report on Bloomberg indicates that the housing and debt crisis in the U.S. is far from over, as instances of so-called ‘Buy and Bail’ are on the increase. Buy and Bail consists of acquiring a new house before the buyer’s credit rating is ruined by walking away an existing mortgage loan because it is “underwater” [...]
This piece from ‘Today Tonight’ highlights some of the medical opinion against the increasing flouridisation of water supplies and also notes growing use of floruide in many other products. Various institutions have identified fluoride as a possible developmental toxin. The Lancet, in 2006, listed fluoride as an “emerging neurotoxic substance”. In 2000, Greater Boston Physicians [...]
The Opium machine continues to thrive in Afghanistan. The Russians were often accused of sanctioning and assisting in the production and distribution of Opium whist in Afghanisatn. Has anything changed? Drug production in Afghanistan has increased dramatically since the US-led invasion and a recent report by the United Nations states that Afghan opium is having [...]
Google and an investment arm of the CIA are jointly backing a company working on real-time web monitoring and prediction. Recorded Future uses real-time analysis of tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to identify relationships between people, organisations and events — both present and still-to-come. The company says its temporal analytics engine looks at ‘invisible links’ [...]
US defence company Raytheon has been demonstrating a new solid-State, powerful laser that can shoot down aircraft and projectiles as well as sinking ships, with the capability of being hooked up with existing anti-aircraft weaponry. They are also working on land-based and more mobile versions with increased power.
A massive cache of secret US military files released by Wikileaks to selected newspapers provides a devastating portrait of the war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, attacks by Taliban groups have soared and also how NATO commanders fear that Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency. [...]
This is a piece of video that makes you glad that for the existence of the medium, and of the Internet. Invaluable experience and knowledge that otherwise could have been lost forever. It will explain much about what is going on today, but the events recalled are more than sixty years past and the interview [...]
For those in the developed world, Asbestos may seem like a health hazard from the past: A cancer-causing fibre banned in the EU, Australia and elsewhere and limited to a small number of products in the United States. Scientists have long agreed that any exposure to Asbestos presents grave risks. Yet an investigation from the [...]
