Tuesday, 25 August 2009
UK set to ban 'legal-highs'
@ 'BBC'
So they go back to taking drugs that you have deemed illegal and just tell me again, how many people die of alcohol related causes each year?
So they go back to taking drugs that you have deemed illegal and just tell me again, how many people die of alcohol related causes each year?
Monday, 24 August 2009
Dean Turner RIP
Dean Turner (right), bass player with Magic Dirt has passed away following a battle with lung cancer.@ 'SMH'
Could Afghanistan become Obama's Vietnam
President Obama had not even taken office before supporters were etching his likeness onto Mount Rushmore as another Abraham Lincoln or the second coming of Franklin D. Roosevelt.Yet what if they got the wrong predecessor? What if Mr. Obama is fated to be another Lyndon B. Johnson instead?
To be sure, such historical analogies are overly simplistic and fatally flawed, if only because each presidency is distinct in its own way. But the L.B.J. model — a president who aspired to reshape America at home while fighting a losing war abroad — is one that haunts Mr. Obama’s White House as it seeks to salvage Afghanistan while enacting an expansive domestic program.
@ 'NY Times'
We have said it before, the British couldn't win in Afghanistan. The Russians couldn't win in in Afghanistan and neither will the US.
To be sure, such historical analogies are overly simplistic and fatally flawed, if only because each presidency is distinct in its own way. But the L.B.J. model — a president who aspired to reshape America at home while fighting a losing war abroad — is one that haunts Mr. Obama’s White House as it seeks to salvage Afghanistan while enacting an expansive domestic program.
@ 'NY Times'
We have said it before, the British couldn't win in Afghanistan. The Russians couldn't win in in Afghanistan and neither will the US.
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Us shifts policy, giving names of detainees to the Red Cross
In a reversal of Pentagon policy, the military for the first time is notifying the International Committee of the Red Cross of the identities of militants who were being held in secret at a camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan run by United States Special Operations forces, according to three military officials.
@ 'NY Times'
@ 'NY Times'
Saturday, 22 August 2009
Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possession
Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, LSD and heroin on Friday — a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government's grueling battle against drug traffickers.
@ 'Raw Story'
A sensible move, even if the amounts are ridiculously small.
The only problem is now they will have to put up with even more idiotic young Americans heading down there at the holidays.
@ 'Raw Story'
A sensible move, even if the amounts are ridiculously small.
The only problem is now they will have to put up with even more idiotic young Americans heading down there at the holidays.
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