Recent Events - 12.15.13

Recent Events

A Disappearing Spy, and a Scandal at the C.I.A. - NYTimes.com

High prospects for Uruguay's legal marijuana business | Reuters

philip chism - Google Search

president obama and U.S. military - Google Search

the early life of barack obama - Google Search

Chuck Hagel - Google Search

Obama Changes Direction Of US Military Command, Fires 9th General In His Purge - Downtrend.com

President Obama Transforms Military In His Image By Firing 197 Officers - Investors.com

Top generals: Obama is ‘purging the military’

Recent Russia News

The Kremlin, the Press and the Protesters - A Case Study of Rule by Paranoia - NYTimes.com

putinism - Google Search

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s Gatsby Master Spy

PR News - December 2013

US Senate Leaders Caution Regarding New “Commonwealth” and Status Assembly Plan | Puerto Rico Report

Thinking Big - Caribbean Business

Government of Puerto Rico must tell the truth! - Caribbean Business

Does the scope of U.S. surveillance need to be scaled back? - 12/12/2013 - PBS NewsHour | High prospects for Uruguay's legal marijuana business 13/12/13 10:48 from Reuters: International

• Does the scope of U.S. surveillance need to be scaled back? - 12/12/2013 - PBS NewsHour
• Looking back at NSA revelations since the Snowden leaks - 12/12/2013 - PBS NewsHour
• Health coverage deadlines changed to prevent insurance gaps - 12/12/2013 - PBS NewsHour

» High prospects for Uruguay's legal marijuana business
13/12/13 10:48 from Reuters: International
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay's pioneering move to legalize the planting and sale of marijuana opens the door for a clandestine cottage industry of pot growers to transform into a legitimate business that could even export medical canna...

Mikhail Baryshnikov: "My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends..." - HP

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Russian dance legend and actor ("Sex and the City") sounded off on the controversial legislation in an exclusive statement for the No More Fear Foundation, an international LGBT advocacy organization.

"My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable," Baryshnikov, 65, said. "Equal treatment of people is a basic right and it is sad that we still have to even speak about this in [the] 21st century."

The Kremlin, the Press and the Protesters: A Case Study of Rule by Paranoia - 12/13/2013 - By SERGE SCHMEMANN - NYT | Uncle of Kim Jong Un Is Executed - 12/12/2013 - WSJ

• The Kremlin, the Press and the Protesters: A Case Study of Rule by Paranoia - 12/13/2013 - By SERGE SCHMEMANN 

• Uncle of Kim Jong Un Is Executed - 12/12/2013 - 
• North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un's powerful uncle executed - 12/12/2013 -

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Obama Changes Direction Of US Military Command, Fires 9th General In His Purge

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One Doctor's Legacy

How one of the most divisive figures in American medical history steered the government toward lobotomizing thousands of World War II veterans—some with ice picks.