Month: June 2005

DON’T READ THIS !! YOU WERE WARNED !!Dear Apian,The Daily Show with Jon Stewart lampooned a recent hearing on torture in which the microphones of several witnesses – including HRF’s Deborah Pearlstein –...

DIA -1.19%, SPY -.73%, QQQQ -1.12% 10-Year Treasury +10/32, yielding 3.92% Oil + 42 cents to 59.84/bbl Dollar -.6% versus Euro, +.1% versus Yen The markets were hit for a second day by oil’s price nearing $60/bbl....

The following letter had been sent to the Senate Intelligence Committee. These are the signatories: Senators Johnson, Corzine, Reed, Lautenberg, Boxer, Kennedy, Harkin, Bingaman, and Durbin. June 22, 2005 The Honorable Pat...

This is a tangent from Stirling’s post at BOP, and is in part an elaboration on Oldman’s concerns as expressed on the thread.   Loss of hegemony to China will have a centrifugal effect on America, because its...

A second cow, this one born in the US, has been found to have mad cow disease (BSE) in the US: June 24 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. confirmed its second case of mad-cow disease after a U.K. lab found traces of the illness in an...