Category History/Events

Mar 23 2010

CIA Tested LSD on New York Subway?

https://i0.wp.com/lh6.ggpht.com/_dIbZxC7vaxY/Rr8WZDrWDoI/AAAAAAAACA0/siipUImNOio/DSC02856.jpgOn Nov. 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist, plunged to his death from room 1018A in New York’s Statler Hotel, landing on a Seventh Avenue sidewalk just opposite Penn Station.

Olson’s ignominious end was written off as an unremarkable suicide of a depressed government bureaucrat who came to New York City seeking psychiatric treatment, so it attracted scant attention at the time.

But 22 years later, the Rockefeller Commission report was released, detailing a litany of domestic abuses committed by the CIA. The ugly truth emerged: Olson’s death was the result of his having been surreptitiously dosed with LSD days earlier by his colleagues.

SEE ALSO: FRENCH VILLAGE PART OF LSD EXPERIMENT?

Mar 23 2010

Pompeii Fast Food Joint To Reopen After Two Thousand Year Hiatus

https://i0.wp.com/1.bp.blogspot.com/_6B8tPuW7TwQ/S6X1-xs--0I/AAAAAAAAP9w/0RKBwHFmgeA/s400/pffreopen.jpgIn just about the longest refurbishment period in history, the Pompeii based snack bar owned by Vetutius Placidus is to re-open. Its last customers left in something of a hurry 1,921 years ago but the high profile launch promises to be something of a more unhurried affair.

Three hundred specially invited guests are to taste the delights of Roman fast food in the thermopolium (that’s snack bar to you and me) in a special ceremony to mark the reopening of the joint, which has been closed to the general public for many years. Now after a long period of excavation and preservation, visitors will be able to once more taste the house specialty – baked cheese with lashings of honey.

VIA: -THE PRESURFER-

Mar 22 2010

Muslim Girls Must Wear Head-To-Toe Burkinis

“Schools have been told they should allow Muslim girls taking swimming lessons to cover themselves from head to toe in special outfits dubbed burkinis. An increasing number of pupils are insisting that conventional swimming costumes are “immodest” and, citing religious grounds, have been refusing to wear them. Now councilors in Ealing, West London, are encouraging local pools to stock the $39 Lycra ‘burkinis’ and instructing local schools to let girls wear them. Teachers have even been given details of an online swimwear company that will deliver the two-piece burka-like outfits, which cover every bit of skin from the ankle to the neck and come with a head covering to conceal the hair. The burkini is recommended in a document from Ealing council’s Standing Advisory

Council on Religious Education, which says it wants to encourage success through diversity.”

VIA: -UNIQUE DAILY-