Hot Topics, Big Stars at N.Y. Critics' Dinner
Hot topics, big stars at N.Y. critics' dinner
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James Gandolfini went blue, as old-time comedians used to say, detailing the effects of drug addiction and an outbreak of diarrhea on a film production. (It was a hypothetical case, he said.) Michael Moore and Chris Rock both faced bizarre heckling …
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Lawyer: Philly priest accuser can't be believed
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Priests have been marked with a "bull's eye" by manipulative accusers who plan to sue the church, a defense lawyer said as Philadelphia's latest priest-abuse trial opened Monday. The case involves a single accuser: a policeman's …
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General Assembly kicks off today
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Michael Smigiel, R-36-Cecil, said the Rahm Emanuel quote, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" says it all about gun control legislation. "There's a … It has to do with the addiction that the state of Maryland has to money," Smigiel said …
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US War in Afghanistan Turned Millions to Drug Addicts, Including Many Children – Drug production in Afghanistan has had a 44-fold increase since the US led invasion of the country in 2001. But why doesn’t the US refuse to stop this dangerous and evil industry in occupied Afghanistan? Maybe like in the 80’s, the Russophobes in the US government do not mind to foster the terrorist networks in the strong desire to hurt neighboring Russia by killing tens of thousands of young Russians with a new covert action of narcotics flow. Estimates of how much money the former US governments channeled to the Afghan rebels during Soviet war with Islamic extremists vary, but most sources put the figure between billion and billion or more. If this is true, it is a repeated crime based on madness. The Russian intervention in December 1979 that meant to save the secular Afghan government and to prevent the neighboring country from turning into a terrorist state was the signal for US Russophobes to considerably increase support to the Afghan Mujahedeen. Results well known, after almost winning war against radicals Soviet army withdrew and now American solders are dying fighting former allies of US Russophobes. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the drug business provides the financial basis for terrorism and is one of its main factors for its upsurge- said Viktor Ivanov, the head of Russias Federal Service for the Control of Narcotics. IT WAS OSAMA BIN LADEN, IVANOV REMINDED, WHO IN THE MIDDLE 1990S CREATED HEROIN SUPPLY CHAINS TO RUSSIAS CHECHNYA IN ORDER TO …