JOHN YOO…..AT BOALT HALL AT UC BERKELEY….AN ARCHITECT OF THE U.S. TORTURE POLICY. AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW, AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION…..IS HE A FELON? FROM THE SF CHRONICLE/GATE Back to Article UC professor under fire for White House memo Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, December 5, 2008 (12-04) 18:02 PST — Berkeley’s City Council will delve [...]
THE OBSERVER ON OBAMA’S “THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME…. Obama criticised for economic team’s link to failed bank chief Presidential advisers are protégés of director of Citigroup, the bank accused of reckless sub-prime investments that led to its near-collapse Edward Helmore in New York guardian.co.uk, Sunday November 30 2008 00.01 [...]
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, AND ALL YOU HEALTH 239 STUDENTS WHO ARE STILL OUT THERE, TAKE HEED…… November 27, 2008 MEXICO CITY JOURNAL Mexico’s Unsuccessful Drug War, Painfully Preserved and Hidden By MARC LACEY MEXICO CITY — At their best, museums are glorious cultural repositories, reflecting the highest flowering of human creativity, ingenuity and [...]
FROM LE MONDE, VIA TRUTHOUT, VIA PROF CARY FRASER…. Thank You, George! Saturday 08 November 2008 by: Frédéric Lemaître, Le Monde Mister President, Dear George At the moment when it’s good form to criticize you – unfortunately, even within these columns – allow me, instead, to inform you of my admiration. And to deplore your [...]
I WROTE ABOUJT THIS A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WITH REGARD TO KINGSTON’S HOSPITALS. WE NEED A CREDO OF HAND-WASHING, WHICH WILL PREVENT HAND-RINGING….. IN ENGLAND, THE SAME DAMN THING. IF YOU GO TO A HOSPITAL, YOU SHOULD DEMAND THAT EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS YOU WASHES HANDS. AND YOU SHOULD WASH TOO. TWICE, AND WHEN YOU [...]
FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST, COURTESY OF PROFS RUSS MAULITZ AND JACKIE DUFFIN…… Andy Borowitz: Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy Huffington Post, November 18, 2008 In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, [...]
CNN blogathon November 23, 2008 Forbes: Paulson is ‘worst’ treasury secretary in modern times From CNN’s Peter Lanier Steve Forbes says he doesn’t have confidence in Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Forbes magazine President and CEO Steve Forbes called Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson “the worst treasury secretary we’ve had in modern times”, citing, [...]