Sacked – For Telling The Truth About Drugs 'The Government's drugs tsar was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.The Home Secretary Alan Johnson asked Professor David Nutt to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), saying he had "lost confidence" in his ability to give impartial advice.' US Workers Starved Into Service 'It was only a matter of time before the nation’s skyrocketing unemployment translated into new recruits for the most powerful military force in the world. With the official US unemployment rate at 10 percent and climbing (that’s more than 15 million people struggling to put food on the table) and nearly double that number if you include part-time wage-earners who need full-time jobs, never mind all of those ‘discouraged workers,’ it’s little wonder that so many of the nation’s jobless are flocking into its military recruitment offices. After all, what better way for an unemployed American worker to survive the Great Recession of 2009 than in the ‘service’ of his or her country?'
Saturday, 31 October 2009
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