Welcome to Sott.net
Wed, 29 Nov 2023
The World for People who Think

Society's Child
Map

HAL9000

European Parliament spends £600,000 on body scanners that have never been used

Martin Banks
The Telegraph
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:43 UTC
Image
© PA
MEPs led the campaign to stop the use of the scanners in the Parliament yet they are in use in 70 airports across Europe, including London Heathrow
The European Parliament spent £600,000 on six body scanners that were never used because MEPs argued it would be an infringement of privacy.

The body scanners, bought in 2005 at a cost of £100,000 each, are "rotting" in the basement of the building in Brussels and have never been used.

When the scanners, which create an image of a person's nude body, were eventually delivered to the Parliament in the autumn of 2005 MEPs objected to them being used in the building on privacy grounds.

Nikki Sinclair, a British independent MEP, said the Parliament tried to sell the machines but failed to do so.

They are now so old that they are considered to be technically out of date and may be scrapped altogether.
      Read More...
Camcorder

BBC staff arrested and tortured in Libya by Gaddafi forces

Peter Beaumont
Guardian.co.UK
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:42 UTC
Journalists subjected to mock execution in ordeal which represents most serious incident against international media

Journalists working for the BBC in Libya have been arrested, tortured and subjected to a mock execution by security forces of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

The shocking account of their experiences, including being held in a cage in a militia barracks while others were tortured around them, was made available to media colleagues in Tripoli after the men had been released and left the country.

At one point during their captivity the men say they had shots fired past their heads as they were led into a barracks.

One of the men was attacked repeatedly with fists, boots, rifle butts, a stick and piece of pipe. He also described trying to help other victims of torture whom they saw, some of whom had had their ribs broken during beatings.

      Read More...
Bad Guys

California, US: Man Burns Ex-Girlfriend's Body as Kids Watch


New Haven Register
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00 UTC
Moreno Valley - A man killed his former girlfriend and torched her body in front of her six children before fleeing and remained at large Monday, Riverside County authorities said.

Tyrone Levoid Harts, 39, of Riverside is considered armed and dangerous, sheriff's investigator Melissa Nieburger said.

Harts is accused of killing Brandi Marie Morales at her Moreno Valley home.

Deputies called to the scene found her body on a staircase.

She had been set on fire, but four of her younger children had doused the flames before help arrived, they said.

Family members told investigators that Morales, 35, had at least a three-year relationship with Harts, but they recently separated and he had moved out of her home, according to officials.
      Read More...
2 + 2 = 4

Scientology's ugly truths revealed


Tampabay.com
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:49 UTC
Scientology calls itself a religion and claims to offer purpose and meaning to its members. Yet for some who worked in the church's militaristic Sea Organization, Scientology provided something different: physical punishment, humiliation, beatings, sleep deprivation, and long and ruinous separation from loved ones.

The stories of 11 former staffers, reported in a St. Petersburg Times special report Sunday, are told with such detail and emotional heft that the church's official denials of abuse ring hollow.

It takes courage to challenge the Church of Scientology, which has long pursued and attempted to destroy its critics. Yet now 15 former Sea Org members have gone on the record with their stories of abuse during years of working at or near the church's top management. Four of those, whose stories were related in the Times' first special report in June, are the highest ranking officials ever to defect from Scientology.
      Read More...
Bad Guys

BP Oil Spill Victims Sickened and Dying, Local Physicians Clueless

Creekkeeper
Bpoilslick.blogspot.com
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:49 UTC
Image
Lisa Nelson of Orange Beach, AL is one of a growing number of people sickened and dying as a result of the BP disaster. Local physicians have no idea how to diagnose or treat patients who have bee exposed to highly toxic crude/dispersant combination. Local, State, and federal agencies continue to cover-up and offer zero assistance.

Very sad; Lisa Nelson passed away today 3.7.11. She was an inspration to all who were fortunate enough to know her and will be dearly missed. God bless her beautiful soul.
      Read More...
Syringe

Drug War warriors at work in the US: Illegal steroid use by cops now epidemic

iching64
BrasscheckTV
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:22 UTC
      Read More...
Eye 2

Shell Oil - The Awful Truth


protectthehuman.com/shell
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:16 UTC
      Read More...
Vader

GOP rams anti-union bill through Wisconsin Senate


MSNBC
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:09 UTC


      Read More...
Vader

Wisconsin GOP bypasses Dems, cuts collective bargaining

Scott Bauer
Associated Press
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:30 UTC
Image
© AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, M.P. King
State Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, says 'no' during a vote on the budget repair bill after a meeting of a state Legislature conference committee at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Wednesday evening, March 9, 2011. Senate Republicans used a procedural move on Wednesday to pass the proposal without the Democrats present. Schultz was the lone Republican voting against the bill.

Madison, Wisconsin - The Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, approving an explosive proposal that had rocked the state and unions nationwide after Republicans discovered a way to bypass the chamber's missing Democrats.

All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker's "budget-repair bill" - a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall.

The Senate requires a quorum to take up any measures that spend money. But Republicans on Wednesday separated from the legislation the proposal to curtail union rights, which spends no money, and a special committee of lawmakers from both the Senate and Assembly approved the bill a short time later.
      Read More...
Info

UK: Victims' Concerns Put London 9/11 Sculpture on Hold

Michelle Martin
Reuters
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:22 UTC
Image
Plans to erect a sculpture in a London park using girders salvaged from New York's World Trade Center, which was destroyed in attacks on September 11, 2001, have been put on hold after victims' families complained.

The memorial, designed by Japanese-Russian artist Miya Ando, was to be crafted from twisted shards of steel ranging between 5 and 8 meters (yards) in height, standing in a pool with lights.

"It is my hope that by standing upright the fallen steel columns, I may evoke a quiet yet strong message of transcendence and the role of education in the growth of hope from tragedy," New York-based Ando said in a statement submitted with the planning application.

London's Southwark Council approved the plans last December and the sculpture was due to be inaugurated in London's Potters Fields Park this September to accompany an educational program and commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks by suicide hijackers who flew two planes into the World Trade Center, killing nearly three thousand people.

Trustees of the 9/11 London Project Foundation -- the educational charity which commissioned the sculpture -- on Wednesday said they had decided to extend a consultation period for the artwork after "significant concerns" were raised, especially by British families.
      Read More...
Revolt! T-shirts