Alcohol More Harmful Than Heroin?
Alcohol ‘more harmful than heroin’ says Prof David Nutt 1 November 2010
Journal: Sanity Rally Goes Global
Jon Stewart’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’ energizes expats from Paris to Prague Jon Stewart’s ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’ may have compelled some Americans living abroad to cast votes in a mid-term election they may have otherwise ignored. By Stephen Kurczy, Staff Writer / October 29, 2010 Boston Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” in Washington …
Journal: Taliban Unscathed by Attacks, Standing Pat…
Entirely predictable! Washington Post October 27, 2010 Pg. 1 Taliban Unscathed By U.S. Strikes Insurgents appear confident they can outlast troop buildup By Greg Miller An intense military campaign aimed at crippling the Taliban has so far failed to inflict more than fleeting setbacks on the insurgency or put meaningful pressure on its leaders to …
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Journal: Goldman Sachs Captures the White House
.. why Henry Kissinger may end up looking good. Obama Hires a Hustler Posted on Oct 19, 2010 By Robert Scheer One day as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson: “How did this happen?” Paulson, who headed Goldman Sachs before taking the Treasury job, …
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Journal: Five Myths Debunked–Treasury Run by Crooks
I asked my good friend Marshall Auerback, an investment advisor and lawyer by training and a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, to evaluate Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s claim that TARP has been a stunning success. Geithner made this claim in a 10 October op-ed in the Washington Post, entitled, “Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tackles …
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NIGHTWATCH Extract: On Warnings Good and Bad
Special comment on warning: In the past few days the US media has bombarded viewers and listeners with the latest State Department warning about an al Qaida threat in public places in European cities. The warning instructs travelers to not change their travel plans, but to be alert in public places, transportation hubs and gathering …
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Secrecy News on US Classification & 2 Headlines
BEHIND THE CENSORSHIP OF OPERATION DARK HEART By censoring Anthony Shaffer’s new book “Operation Dark Heart” even though uncensored review copies are already available in the public domain, the Department of Defense has produced a genuinely unique product: a revealing snapshot of the way that the Obama Administration classifies national security information in 2010. With …
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