Arrests Made in Peruvian Ring That Sold Human Fat
On CNN:
Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling to European labs fat obtained from dead humans.
Officials are investigating the disappearance of at last 60 people they believe were killed by gang members in two mountainous states in central Peru, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said Friday.
The four suspects have been charged with murder in the September slaying of a Peruvian man, the prosecutor said.
“They killed to obtain human fat because there were European laboratories that would pay them,” Sanz Quiroz said.
The suspects told authorities they were paid $15,000 for a liter (about 1 quart) of human fat.
Read more: CNN
Climate Sceptics Claim Leaked Emails are Evidence of Collusion Among Scientists
Leo Hickman and James Randerson on the Guardian:
Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world’s leading climate scientists during the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online, it emerged today.
The computer files were apparently accessed earlier this week from servers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, a world-renowned centre focused on the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.
Climate change sceptics who have studied the emails allege they provide “smoking gun” evidence that some of the climatologists colluded in manipulating data to support the widely held view that climate change is real, and is being largely caused by the actions of mankind.
The veracity of the emails has not been confirmed and the scientists involved have declined to comment…
We Don’t Want Your Swine Flu Vaccinations (Music Video)
Check out this music vid from Steve Phillips where he lays out many of the arguments against the H1N1 vaccine. He also tells us:
I believe this is an extremely important issue. Because it’s not possible to present all the information in a short song, I sincerely hope that those who have not already done so will look into this matter more deeply.
Here are some links to get you started:http://www.theshotheardroundtheworld….
http://www.davidicke.com/content/blog…
http://www.wholetruthcoalition.org/
Michael Moore: Democrats’ Health Care Bill Is A Gift To Insurance Companies
From Prison Planet, Michael Moore says that the Democrats’ health care bill is a scam:
In a speech broadcast on Canadian television Tuesday, Michael Moore savaged the Democrats’ healthcare bill, calling it a gift to the health insurance industry, which he argues will make $70 billion more as a result of mandated health insurance.
“The health insurance companies are going to make an extra $70 billion dollars as a result of Americans being forced to buy their health insurance,” Moore quipped. “What company wouldn’t love this bill?”
Stoned Journalist Reports On Marijuana (Video)
There may be hope for the dinosaur media after all if this clip represents the future of reporting at the LA Times:
Can We Really Control the Weather?
From The Independent:
Recently both Russia and China have claimed to be able to use cloud seeding to increase rainfall and snowfall, or change the location of where it falls. In the past, snow-making experiments have been carried out in North American ski resorts in the past with little evidence of success. So how have the Russian and Chinese scientists achieved this feat and what evidence is there that it is in fact due to cloud seeding?
The seeding method used is to add tiny particles of silver iodide to the clouds and there is solid science behind this method. At temperatures a few degrees below zero degrees centigrade, clouds consist mainly of supercooled water droplets. These clouds can be quite stable, but silver iodide has an ice-like structure and it will…
Alcohol “Protects Men’s Hearts”
From BBC News:
Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.
The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.
Female drinkers did not benefit to the same extent, the study in Heart found.
Experts are critical, warning heavy drinking can increase the risk of other diseases, with alcohol responsible for 1.8 million deaths globally per year.
The study was conducted in Spain, a country with relatively high rates of alcohol consumption and low rates of coronary heart disease.
The research involved men and women aged between 29 and 69, who were asked to document their lifetime drinking habits and followed for 10 years.
Crucially the research team claim to…
Obama’s Approval Rating Falls Below 50 Percent For First Time
AFP reports that Obama’s leadership no longer is favored by the majority of Americans:
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has dipped below 50 percent nationally for the first time, as Americans worry about the war in Afghanistan, a new poll released Wednesday found.
The Quinnipiac University poll showed 48 percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president, compared to 42 percent who disapprove. The president also scored low marks from Americans on his handling of the situation in Afghanistan, with just 38 percent saying they approved of his approach.
How CGI Pioneers Were Banned for “Cheating”
A new interview with the director of the original TRON (and co-producer of the new TRON: Legacy) offers some fascinating perspective on the history of both cyberspace and cinema. “TRON was supposed to be our Mickey Mouse…It represented a new frontier a chance to get to this place… cyberspace, first…
“Some of the old-timers at Disney came up to me and said, ‘this is actually what it felt like in the old days, when Walt was around.’”
Ironically, the movie’s special effects weren’t nominated for an Academy award “because they said we cheated when we used computers.” But the film singlehandedly spawned the CGI business as well as the merging of movies and video games. (”I don’t even think there’s a line there, anymore…”)
Now 27 years later, the new TRON reflects more…
The Montauk Project Resurfaces
Our friends at AboveTopSecret have brushed off one of our favorite mad conspiracy theories, the Montauk Project. When the Disinformation team was commissioned by Britain’s Channel 4 TV to create a pilot for the TV series that later became Disinfo Nation, we asked friend (and now Disinformation author) Alexandra Bruce to take us to the far end of New York’s Long Island to meet the wacky characters at the center of the reptilian conspiracy depicted in Peter Moon’s series of books. You can watch that original pilot on the DVD DisinfoTV on DVD. Here’s the ATS report:
The original “Subversive Element” and one of AboveTopSecret.com’s original founding members, “William One Sac,” who is now in the battle of his life with cancer, recounts his first-hand experiences as he explored, photographed, and learned about the mysteries, stories, and hidden features of Camp Hero in Montauk, NY.
Climate Change Causes Women To Become Prostitutes
Well here’s a novel theory about the dangers of climate change! As more and more counter-arguments are raised against the now-establishment wisdom that man-made global warming is prevalent, those banging the warning drums on climate change have reached so far into the barrel it boggles the mind to think what they’ll say next. From the Filipino news organization GMANews:
The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said.
Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.
“Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving…
Mea Culpa: Fox News Keeps Making Conservative-Friendly Mistakes
From Daily Finance:
Every news organization makes mistakes. But when Fox News makes mistakes, they seem to tilt in a suspiciously consistent direction, favoring Republicans and conservatives over Democrats and liberals.
It happened again Wednesday, when host Gregg Jarrett, introducing a segment on Happening Now, described the “huge crowds” that were turning out to greet Sarah Palin on the promotional tour for her book, Going Rogue. “These are some of the pictures just coming into us,” Jarrett said as images of Palin surrounded by throngs of supporters flashed across the screen.
While Palin may indeed be drawing big crowds, it didn’t take long for liberal watchdog blogs like Think Progress and Media Matters to point out that the masses Jarrett touted on Happening Now had nothing to do with Palin’s book…
Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five
On the fascinating site Letters of Note:
In December of 1944, whilst behind enemy lines during the Rhineland Campaign, Private Kurt Vonnegut was captured by Wehrmacht troops and subsequently became a prisoner of war. A month later, Vonnegut and his fellow POWs reached a Dresden work camp where they were imprisoned in an underground slaughterhouse known by German soldiers as Schlachthof Fünf (Slaughterhouse Five). The next month — February — the subterranean nature of the prison saved their lives during the highly controversial and devastating bombing of Dresden, the aftermath of which Vonnegut and the remaining survivors helped to clear up.
Vonnegut released the book Slaughterhouse-Five in 1969.
Below is a letter he wrote to his family that May from a repatriation camp, in which he informs them of his capture and survival:
