From 06bc1d9f60e0eaa600575110e8384e2549f5307d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dessalines Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 15:21:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fixing lint --- us_atrocities.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/us_atrocities.md b/us_atrocities.md index 408ff0f..fa2677d 100644 --- a/us_atrocities.md +++ b/us_atrocities.md @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ Notes : - In 2004, during a protest at the republican national convention, over 1,800 people were arrested. They were held at [Hudson Pier Depot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_depots_of_the_New_York_City_Transit_Authority#Hudson_Pier_Depot) at [Pier 57](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_57) on the [Hudson River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_River_%28Hudson_River%29), a three-story, block-long pier that has been converted into a temporary prison, described as overcrowded, dirty, and contaminated with [oil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum) and [asbestos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos). People reported having suffered from smell, bad ventilation, and even chemical burns and rashes. In 2014, the city was forced to pay \$6.4 million to 430 individual plaintiffs. \$6.6 million was paid to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by 1,200 additional people. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Republican_National_Convention_protest_activity),[2](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state) - In 1987, FBI agent [Jack Ryan]() was arrested for refusing to investigate non-violent activists. He lost his job in September 1987 ten months short of retirement. He was thus ineligible for a full pension and had to live in a [homeless shelter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeless_shelter). In a report by the _LA Times_, he stated his belief that the Bureau could reinstate him to a position which would not conflict with his personal beliefs that U.S. involvement in [Central America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America) is "violent, illegal and immoral."[1]() - In 1976, the US tested [Agent White](https://www.projectcensored.org/4-agent-white/), a powerful pesticide developed by Dow Chemical, in Cherokee county, North Carolina. Within 3 years, the rate of cancer deaths leapt to 60% above the national average. -- In 1968, the US army tested VX gas, a nerve agent to be used in biological warfare, in the Skull valley Indian reservation in Utah. 27 miles away from the test, 6,000 sheep died, known as the [Dugway sheep incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident). Since its founding in 1941, much of the activity at [Dugway Proving Ground](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_Proving_Ground "Dugway Proving Ground") has been a closely guarded secret. Activities at Dugway included aerial [nerve agent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_agent "Nerve agent") testing.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident#cite_note-norrell-2) According to reports from _[New Scientist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist "New Scientist")_, Dugway was still producing small quantities of non-infectious [anthrax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax "Anthrax") of a type used in the making of vaccines as late as 1998, 30 years after the United States renounced biological weapons.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident#cite_note-hambling-3) There were at least 1,100 other chemical tests at Dugway during the time period of the Dugway sheep incident. In total, almost 500,000 lb (230,000 kg) of nerve agent were dispersed during open-air tests.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident#cite_note-norrell-2) There were also tests at Dugway with other [weapons of mass destruction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_mass_destruction "Weapons of mass destruction"), including 332 open-air tests of biological weapons, 74 [dirty bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb "Dirty bomb") tests, and eight furnace heatings of nuclear material under open air conditions to simulate the dispersal of fallout in the case of [meltdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown "Nuclear meltdown") of aeronautic nuclear reactors. +- In 1968, the US army tested VX gas, a nerve agent to be used in biological warfare, in the Skull valley Indian reservation in Utah. 27 miles away from the test, 6,000 sheep died, known as the [Dugway sheep incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident). Since its founding in 1941, much of the activity at [Dugway Proving Ground](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_Proving_Ground "Dugway Proving Ground") has been a closely guarded secret. Activities at Dugway included aerial [nerve agent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_agent "Nerve agent") testing.[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident#cite_note-norrell-2) According to reports from _[New Scientist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist "New Scientist")_, Dugway was still producing small quantities of non-infectious [anthrax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax "Anthrax") of a type used in the making of vaccines as late as 1998, 30 years after the United States renounced biological weapons.[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident#cite_note-hambling-3) There were at least 1,100 other chemical tests at Dugway during the time period of the Dugway sheep incident. In total, almost 500,000 lb (230,000 kg) of nerve agent were dispersed during open-air tests.[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident#cite_note-norrell-2) There were also tests at Dugway with other [weapons of mass destruction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_mass_destruction "Weapons of mass destruction"), including 332 open-air tests of biological weapons, 74 [dirty bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb "Dirty bomb") tests, and eight furnace heatings of nuclear material under open air conditions to simulate the dispersal of fallout in the case of [meltdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown "Nuclear meltdown") of aeronautic nuclear reactors. - In 1968, the CIA implemented [Operation CHAOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS), a spying program targeting [Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society), the [Black Panthers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party), the [Young Lords](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Lords), Women Strike for Peace, and Ramparts Magazine, in an effort to tie vietnam anti-war protests to foreign intervention. CIA agents went undercover as student radicals to spy on and disrupt campus organizations protesting the Vietnam War. In total, Operation CHAOS contained files on 7,200 Americans, and a computer index totaling 300,000 civilians and approximately 1,000 groups, with no foreign interventionism found. The operation was halted after the watergate break-in, and exposed a few years later. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS) - In January 1961, the [US air force accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs on North Carolina, each of them 250x the strength of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima, and one of them came very close to detonating](https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-bomb-drop/index.html). This was covered up for nearly 50 years. In 2013, the US finally [admitted the coverup and released the classified documents.](https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/us/north-carolina-nuclear-bomb-drop/index.html) Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara stated: "By the slightest margin of chance, literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted." The estimated death tolls would have been 28,000 dead with 26,000 people injured. - In the 1960s, the CIA implemented an operation called [Acoustic Kitty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty), to spy on the soviet union. Veterinary surgeons implanted a microphone in cat's ear canals, a small radio transmitter at the base of its skull and a thin wire into its fur.