Moyers to yak with Jon Stewart
Got cable? Then watch PBS at 9 p.m. EDT today for Bill Moyers’ Journal. Jonno will be on!
Fri, April 27 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
I just lied my ass off to the NYT
Well, to the company that does online marketing questionnaires through NYT.com. To their knowledge, I was born in 1914 and am a female U.S. independent financial advisor who lives in the 90210 zip code. However, I have never heard of most of the major investment companies in the United States, despite the fact I have an exclusively boomer clientele [...]
Fri, April 27 2007 » Main Page, Media, Minutiae » 2 Comments
'They’re not Americans, and I really don’t care'
Ex-CIA official Michael Scheuer, one-time head of its bin Laden unit, held forth earlier this month before a U.S. House of Representatives panel about the program of extraordinary rendition — one that caught Canadian citizen Maher Arar in its net. An excerpt from the April 20 Congressional Quarterly story: (thanks, Kevin!) … Scheuer’s main intent seemed to [...]
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Ex-CIA boss points finger at Cheney, others over Iraq
Former CIA director George Tenet will be playing the blame game when his new book comes out on Monday. An excerpt from the NYT story: The 549-page book, “At the Center of the Storm,” is to be published by HarperCollins on Monday. By turns accusatory, defensive, and modestly self-critical, it is the first detailed account [...]
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U.S. public says global warming's a problem. Now what?
An NYT/CBS News poll finds support from both Democratic and Republican Americans for the notion that global warming is a serious problem that must be dealt with. Now, what to do about it? Some excerpts: Ninety percent of Democrats, 80 percent of independents and 60 percent of Republicans said immediate action was required to curb [...]
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