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BULLETIN – REVISED STATISTICS CONCERNING OBAMA’S WAR
Report by Jeanne Whalen [This should be read in conjunction with the preceding post on Statistics and Damn Statistics.] A cache of nearly 400,000 U.S. military documents from the Iraq war has revealed about 15,000 civilian deaths that were not previously documented, the publisher of the documents, WikiLeaks, said Saturday. The civilians died from a [...]
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When you are feeling bad about your life, remember this: you could be a lawyer. In 2006, the Supreme Court ruled ...
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Some will tell you that this is all the doing of the Justice Department, headed up by Attorney General Eric ...
Leave it to the Republicans to be nasty for the sake of being nasty. The Swedish Nobel ...
PRESIDENT OR GANGSTER?
A court in Madagascar’s capital, Antanarivo, has sentenced former president Marc Ravalomanana and two officers to life imprisonment with hard labour for the part they played in the deaths of about 30 protesters before he was forced from office in 2009. Ravalomanana, who has lived in exile in South Africa since being deposed by the [...]
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION?
Taking a tip from the American colonists of 1776, Mike Bloomberg doesn’t want to pay taxes in Russia, claiming his company does not have a regular representative office in the country. For the first time, a U.S. company working in Russia has been accused of tax evasion by taking advantage of an intergovernmental agreement on [...]
