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BBC News – Yang Jisheng: The man who discovered 36 million dead

In the era whose secret he uncovered, a journalist’s office would have looked just like the one where Yang Jisheng works now. The tiled floor, the grimy window panes, the desk piled two feet high with papers, envelopes and books. The Mao-era radiators. The cigarette ash and the dust.
via BBC News – Yang Jisheng: The man who discovered 36 million dead.
One Interesting Thing About Paula Broadwell’s Petraeus Biography | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
So over the weekend I read All In, Paula Broadwell’s slobberific biography of General David Petraeus. It was nothing special, just a typically crappy piece of fawning, noncritical journalism, full of passages like the following:
via One Interesting Thing About Paula Broadwell’s Petraeus Biography | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone.
SEC Rocked By Lurid Sex-and-Corruption Lawsuit | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Move over, adulterous generals. It might be time to make way for a new sexual rats’nest – at America’s top financial police agency, the SEC.
In a salacious 77-page complaint that reads like Penthouse Forum meets The Insider meets the Keystone Kops, one David Weber, the former chief investigator for the SEC Inspector General’s office, accuses the SEC of retaliating against Weber for coming forward as a whistleblower. According to this lawsuit, Weber was made a target of intramural intrigues at the agency (which has a history of such retaliation) after he came forward with concerns that his bosses may have been spending more time copulating than they were investigating the SEC.
Continued:
via SEC Rocked By Lurid Sex-and-Corruption Lawsuit | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone.
A Lonely Opposition by Brion McClanahan
Congressman Ron Paul: ‘America Is Broke’
A Farewell to Arms: Kucinich Briefing to Blast Drones Program | The Clyde Fitch Report
How to Guard Your Email
How to Guard Your Email
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