Saturday, January 26
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Abu Ghraib Whistleblower Speaks Out on Torture and Cover-Up
From September 2003 to the spring of 2004, Samuel Provance ran the top-secret computer network used by Military Intelligence at Abu Ghraib. He was the first intelligence specialist to speak openly about abuse at the prison and is the only Military Intelligence soldier listed as a witness in the Taguba report.
"We call it a gold rush. People would come in and bring me their scrap gold," said Bob Wolf, the store's owner. "That's what we call it in the business - it's half an earring, or it's a dented piece."
U.S. in Role of Wounded Giant at Davos
“On the first day of this conference, a parade of bankers, economists, and political officials expressed deep fears about the faltering American economy, peppered with blunt criticism of its institutions, chiefly the Federal Reserve, which some accused of sowing the seeds of today's crisis.”
Brown Calls for Worldwide Reforms
“Mr Brown reiterated his support of free trade adding: 'The challenge is to show we can make the world trade talks move forward.'” All it takes to move free trade forward is to leave people alone.
Immigration Officials Detaining, Deporting American Citizens
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Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On January 15,
Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in
MSNBC Blames Romney Whisper on Microphone Malfunction
“The whisper that could be heard just before an answer from Mitt Romney at Thursday's Republican debate was the result of a microphone malfunction, an MSNBC spokesman tells RAW STORY, but its source remains a mystery.”
'I Little Slave': An Interview With Bounsang Khamkeo
“The Communists are professional politicians and they worked well with the poor. They listened to what they wanted to change and [to] their desires. This was a big change. They used words like clean government, patriotism, independence, peace, social progress, dignity, freedom, and justice, which were bad under the monarchy. People thought they would do better with the Communists, have a say in the government, freedom, and a good family life. They promised a society without class where everyone was equal and there was hope for a better life. The Communists didn't deliver.”
Cervical Cancer Jab in Death Scare
“The
two girls died "suddenly and unexpectedly" after being given the
cervical cancer vaccine. One of the young women died in
Modern Medicine Continues With Its Primary Objective - To Submit and Collect Insurance Claims
A medical practice consultant advises his physician clients to place all their patients on drugs. This way doctors can “up-code” their insurance claims and make more money. So every patient gets a prescription for heartburn, cholesterol control, sleep, anxiety, attention deficit, and drugs as yet to be invented for dealing with the common stresses of life. Forget advice to avoid tobacco, limit alcohol consumption, avoid refined sugars, ease up on red meat, eat more whole grains and fish. Doctors didn’t go to medical school to become dieticians.
Conceived in Liberty: The Audio Book
Rothbard's classic is being released in mp3 format. The Preface and Chapter 1 are now online.
If polls are reliable, Hillary will win the Democratic nomination. The Democratic groups that prefer Obama are not sufficiently numerous to give him the nomination.
“Back in 1974, the newly-formed Libertarian Party adopted what’s now called the Dallas Accord. The Dallas Accord was intended to make the LP platform compatible with both minarchism and anarchism by keeping the LP officially silent on whether or not governments should exist, in the end; hence the platform focused mainly on what ought to be repealed, and where it suggested any positive action by some level of government, it qualified the plank with conditional phrases like Where governments exist….” Charles Johnson on the Libertarian Party.
Weird
Blob Causing Big Mess in Maine
This is bizarre.
Fascinating!
Sometimes work feels like a Dilbert cartoon.
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