MEANWHILE, ON THE INTERNET...

The guardian's take on the recent assassination of hamas official mahmoud al-mabhouh

engineering the economic collapse

TODAY'S NEWS

Links for today:

All roads lead to Goldman Sachs

A new temperature record in experimental physics

Outsourcing food stamps

More trouble for Robert Rubin and Citigroup

BACK TO THE LAB

In 1951 an entire village in France suffered what appeared to be an unexplained collective episode of mental illness. A new book ties it in with the infamous CIA mind control experiments developed under code names such as MKULTRA and MKNAOMI.

Article by F. William Engdahl here.

FIXING THE ECONOMY?

As explained in a previous post, drug money and other illicit profits can help keep the world economy afloat in times of contracted money supplies like the current period.

Here's a very interesting interview with Antonio Maria Costa of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, casting light on this troubling state of affairs.

DEATH FROM ABOVE

And the saga continues...

NYT article on the latest wave of drone attacks in Pakistan.

MERCENARIES – COMING TO A COUNTRY NEAR YOU?

Links to a couple of interesting articles from Pakistan Daily. As the war in Afghanistan is spilling into neighbouring Pakistan, the presence of mercenaries and other 'civilian' contractors in Pakistan increases, and the locals are less than happy about the situation, to say the least.

Pray that 'Democracy' never comes your way.

You may want to follow these developments closely. And bookmark Pakistan Daily for future reference.

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