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Xtine

The Real-Life ‘24’ of Summer 2008

Op-Ed Columnist The New York Times By FRANK RICH Published: July 13, 2008 WE know what a criminal White House looks like from “The Final Days,” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s classic account of Richard Nixon’s unraveling. The cauldron of lies, paranoia and illegal surveillance boiled...

Xtine

Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties

By BENEDICT CAREY and GARDINER HARRIS The New York Times Published: July 12, 2008 It seemed an ideal marriage, a scientific partnership that would attack mental illness from all sides. Psychiatrists would bring to the union their expertise and clinical experience, drug makers would provide their...

faeriefly25

Corruption

Yesterday was my friend's 25th Birthday so we went out and started what she calls my corruption. I had my first cigarette (3 menthol milds- though I just puffed (?) them), 2 sex on the beaches, half a yeager bomb, and a red snapper shot (a first, also-- Thanks, B). We went to Absolute Bar, stopped...

Mark

Piles of trash in Naples, Italy

This is a very old topic, but an American woman in Naples posted a new video on this subject in CNN's iReport section. She shows how she lives in a nice house and neighborhood, but she has to drive a very short distance to dump her trash. The trash just piles up. No truck ever comes to get it. The...

vtpanther

"Send a Bullet" (Manda Bala)

OK, so my theme for this week is poverty. The other day I had seen the new Incredible Hulk movie and in the opening scenes, there are shots of the favela (slums) in Rio De Janeiro. They almost don't look real all stacked up like milk cartons on the hillsides of destitution. I found myself curious...

Mythrall

Corruption

For many people, being around me turns out to be a bad thing. Not so much that bad things happen around me, but more so that their mind becomes infinitely more twisted. This is something that I've had to deal with every where I go. If it's not me saying something perverse it's some one else saying...

Dakotaranger

No wonder the democrats want to bail out those who got caught by the subprime meltdown

Foxnews.com is reporting that Senator chris dodd and Senator kent conrad (ND) both received sweetheart loans from Countrywide. I'll grant Senator mccain has the keating five, Senator obama has a whole herd of Anti-Americans, but the democrats took back congress after crying about a culture of...

TheDirector06

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND TENNESSEE COMPANY INDICTED FOR ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT VIOLATIONS

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND TENNESSEE COMPANY INDICTED FOR ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT VIOLATIONS KNOXVILLE, TN — A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Tennessee returned an 18-count indictment today charging J. Reece Roth, a Professor Emeritus at The University of Tennessee, and Atmospheric...

TheDirector06

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND TENNESSEE COMPANY INDICTED FOR ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT VIOLATIONS

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND TENNESSEE COMPANY INDICTED FOR ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT VIOLATIONS KNOXVILLE, TN — A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Tennessee returned an 18-count indictment today charging J. Reece Roth, a Professor Emeritus at The University of Tennessee, and Atmospheric...

ileen4justice

Bush Has ChevronTexaco Lawyer Head Up Fed's Oil Price Gouging Probe

Read here.

Cynthia

CIA Mind Control Operation MK-ULTRA - Really ended?

Has it ended? Think again. There are evil people at the top. MKULTRA Victim Testimony: MKULTRA Victim Testimony: CIA Brainwashing Experiments - MKULTRA MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence,...

Xtine

BBC uncovers lost Iraq $billions

By Jane Corbin BBC News Tuesday, 10 June 2008 A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq. The BBC's Panorama programme has used US and Iraqi government sources to research how much some private contractors have...

Cynthia

Government Lied (Gas should be cheap)

Government Lied (Gas should be cheap)

Cynthia

Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections

UNCOUNTED is an explosive new documentary that shows how the election fraud that changed the outcome of the 2004 election led to even greater fraud in 2006 - and now looms as an unbridled threat to the outcome of the 2008 election. This controversial feature length film by Emmy award-winning...

SengMing

Ms Groovy Olives was looking...

Ms Groovy Olives was herding ideas for her finance & economics dissertation so I gave some suggestions. Which were all quickly rejected. Why do people keep coming to me for suggestions when they don't listen to me anyways? I think they were pretty interesting ideas don't you? Colonial Venture...

sollee

Moral Recovery

As of today..number of students who enroll in public schools in the Philippines continue to rise...It's an indication that most families can't afford sending their children to private schools... Those who pursue college education would rather work first before finishing a course....We really could...

Jack Yan

I have read the judgement but my views aren’t changed

Finally, I have read the judgement from California about gay marriage. It may be prudent to post a comment from an earlier post, in response to a commenter, Madonna. I should note that I am not part of a conspiracy behind an ‘anti-gay industry’ or ‘“ex-gay” head cases’. I’ll also...

Jack Yan

The gay marriage flap in California summarized

John Armor in the Sun–Sentinel gives an excellent summary of the controversial case in California over gay marriage, where judges have ignored the separation of powers, trying to create laws from the bench. He begins: The recent decision on gay marriage handed down by the California Supreme Court...

Xtine

Granholm asks mayor, Cockrel to quickly name their lawyers

By Zachary Gorchow and Ben Schmitt Free Press Staff Writers May 21, 2008 Gov. Jennifer Granholm responded quickly today to the Detroit City Council’s request that she remove Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office, by sending a letter to Kilpatrick and the council asking them to name their...

Xtine

Buh-Bye, kwame!

City Council's ouster request is delivered to Granholm's office By Zachary Gorchow Free Press Staff Writer May 20, 2008 LANSING -- The Detroit City Council’s request that Gov. Jennifer Granholm remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office because of his conduct in the text message scandal was...