("Quid coniuratio est?")
PROJECT CENSORED
Top 25 Censored Stories
(From The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook by Carl Jensen &
Project Censored. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. ISSN
1074-5998)
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#12 -- How Unocal Covered Up a Record-Breaking California Oil Spill
In the early 1950s, Unocal started using a light oil to dilute heavy oil at their production facilities. The blend of the two oils sped across a network of pipelines criss-crossing Unocal's facilities. Over the years, these pipes began to leak, and the lost oil entered the water table, with some of it seeping into the ocean. For years, Unocal succeeded in warding off any discovery that millions of gallons of their oil was leaking from their pipes and into the water table. In fact, Unocal actively worked to hide the spills.
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#11 -- The Treasury Department Ignores S&L Crimes
The Treasury Department operates FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a database established in 1990 to help wage the "war against drugs" by tracking the flow of narcotics money. One might reasonably expect that this huge database would also be used to track down the financial criminals who looted the S&Ls and laundered the proceeds. However, the Treasury Department apparently has decided not to use FinCEN's extraordinary capabilities to track down the money laundered by the well-heeled S&L crooks.
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#10 -- News Media Masks Spousal Violence in the "Language of Love"
Ann Jones, a journalism professor and author, charges that the media are masking violence against women with the language of love. For example, a New York City cop shot his ex-girlfriend four times, then killed himself, and a headline read, "Tragedy of a Lovesick Cop".
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#9 -- The Pentagon's Mysterious HAARP Project
The HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) project, now under construction in Alaska, is an attempt to create an "ionospheric heater". Scientists envision a powerful 2.8-10 MHz beam to burn "holes" in the ionosphere and "create an artificial lens" in the sky that could focus large bursts of electromagnetic energy "to higher altitudes than is presently possible." For a project whose backers hail it as a major scientific feat, HAARP has remained extremely low-profile.
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#8 -- The Return of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), thought to be a disease of the past, has surged back with a vengeance and now kills more people than any other infectious or communicable disease in the world -- despite the fact that it is curable. Today, TB threatens more people than AIDS, cholera, dengue fever, and other infectious diseases combined. A person who has active TB can spread the infection simply by coughing, sneezing, etc., while another person has only to inhale the bacilli to become infected.
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#7 -- 60 Billion Pounds of Fish Wasted Annually
As large-scale fishing technologies have taken over the world's oceans, they have become less and less selective in their catch. Fish too small to be taken and species not legally fished are caught, and then thrown overboard to die. Ironically, the federal government's efforts to manage the catch has instead led to incredible waste, unsafe fishing practices, and economic chaos for the industry.
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#6 -- 1947 AEC Memo Reveals Why Human Radiation Experiments Were Censored
Unethical, immoral, and illegal Cold War radiation experiments on unsuspecting humans by the Department of Defense are now coming to light. An April 17, 1947 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) memo reads, in part,
SUBJECT: Medical Experiments on Humans
1. It is desired that no document be released which refers
to experiments with humans and might have adverse
effect on public opinion or result in legal suits.
Documents covering such work field should be classified
"secret".
The memorandum identifies the true enemy -- "public opinion." And the means used to defeat the enemy -- "classification".
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#5 -- Clinton Administration Retreats on Ozone Crisis
The Clinton administration has been moving backward on protecting the stratospheric ozone layer. Du Pont, the giant chemical firm, had planned to halt chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) production at the end of 1994. Yet, in late 1993, EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] asked Du Pont to keep making CFCs until 1996.
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#4 -- Poisoning Ourselves with Toxic Incinerators
(1) Incineration produces dioxin as a byproduct. (2) Dioxin is one of the most potent, toxic, and carcinogenic chemicals known to science. (3) Dioxin accumulates through the food chain. Despite this, incineration has rapidly proliferated throughout the country as the "profitable answer" for disposal of the nation's stockpile of toxic waste and garbage.
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#3 -- The Secret Pentagon Plan to Subsidize Defense Contractor Mergers
The Pentagon is secretly funneling taxpayer dollars to giant military contractors to help them grow even larger. This extraordinary Pentagon ploy to pay defense contractors billions of dollars to underwrite expenses connected with acquisitions and mergers was approved without any announcement in 1993; it was not discovered until July 1994.
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#2 -- Powerful Group of Ultra-Conservatives Has Secret Plans
Beware of the Council for National Policy (CNP), an elite group of administration officials, congressmen, industrialists, and conservative Christians. After the public inauguration of the group, the CNP went underground. Russ Bellant, author of The Coors Connection, said the meetings of this little-known organization are often a spring-board for radical-right campaigns and long-term planning. The group meets quarterly behind closed doors and is so secretive that the group's Washington office will neither confirm nor deny where, or even if, the group meets.
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#1 -- The Deadly Secrets of the Occupational Safety Agency
240,450 American workers exposed to hazardous materials at 258 worksites... many affected workers unaware of exposure... by 1994, fewer than 30 percent of these affected workers had been notified, leaving 169,270 still in the dark about health risks from on-the-job exposure. It has been estimated that notification of each individual worker would cost from $150 to $300. Nonetheless, more than 169,000 workers across the U.S. still have not been informed about their deadly exposure to cancer-causing agents.
I encourage distribution of "Conspiracy Nation."
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