In the early 1960s, America’s top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, [...]
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Records: Senators who OK’d war didn’t read key report - CNN.com
A new biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has once again raised the issue of whether members of Congress read a key intelligence report before the 2002 vote to authorize war in Iraq.
Clinton did not read the 90-page, classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, according [...]
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Construction of the U.S. embassy in Iraq, set to open in September, is projected to cost $592 million, with a staff of 1,000 people and operating costs totaling $1.2 billion a year. It will be a 104-acre complex, which is the size of approximately 80 football fields. On May 10, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) criticized [...]
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The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse
This was the biggest scandal in the history of the U.S.A history. The story received some newspaper coverage but there was a TV News Media blackout on the subject. For this reason, most Americans have never heard of it.
Former republican Senator John Decamp was involved [...]
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Miss USA
Uploaded by hotternewsThe pageant turned painful for Miss USA Rachel Smith who suffered a rough trek in the evening gown phase. The high-heels proved hellish as she fell to the stage. She made a quick recovery and the judges showed lenience. The audience seemed less forgiving. During the question and answer segment, the crowd [...]
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A radical group at a Bronx fundraiser confronted Rudolph Giuliani on Tuesday morning, accusing him of being one of the “criminals of 9/11.”The Republican nominee for president was outside City Island’s Sea Shore restaurant in the Bronx, speaking with WNBC.com’s Adam Shapiro about his fundraising in New York.Afterward, a young woman claiming to be the [...]
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David Evans
Mises.org
[A version of tihs article was previously blogged on Mises.org here, and inspired a spirited debate. The author reworked the piece for the Mises.org front page. The blog item remains the same.]
I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions [...]
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Secret plans to encourage the nation to give up eating meat are being examined by the Government.
A leaked e-mail expresses sympathy for the environmental benefits of a mass switch to a vegan diet - a strict form of vegetarianism which bans milk, dairy products and fish.
The change would need to be done [...]
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As Britain’s longest-serving dog warden, Terry Neighbour picked up thousands of animals, became a household name on his beat and received five police awards.
One of his greatest pleasures during 32 years of service was placing homeless dogs with families who told him they wanted a pet.
But the 64-year-old grandfather-of-seven has been sacked for [...]
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