Pentagon Papers finally published, 40 years on

40 years after embarrassing details of the document were leaked, a US government report into the Vietnam War, The Pentagon Papers, were finally published in full.



These papers are about President Lyndon Johnson's administration was launched a Vietnam Study Task Force in 1967. The purpose was to write a comprehensive report about America's in the Vietnam conflict.



In 1971, excerpts were leaked to the New York Times by former United States Military Analyst Daniel Ellsberg. It was shown in the report that US administrations had lied successively to the public regarding Vietnam War. President Richard Nixon needed to prevent any further such leaks.



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Ann Coulter On Sarah Palin Running For President: ‘I Wouldn’t If I Were Her’

Ann Coulter may spend a great deal of time professionally speculating on who will end up running the nation, but tonight on CNN she toldPiers Morgan that among the most insulting questions she has ever received has been “Why don’t you run for president?” Given her base-level aversion to the office, she told Morgan she couldn’t imagine Sarah Palin throwing her hat in the ring: “I wouldn’t if I were in her shoes.”

The segment of her interview with Morgan tonight focused on potential 2012 hopefuls, and Coulter began by reiterating a point she has made very vocally for some months: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie should run for President. That said, she argued that she didn’t see Republicans losing next year: “Obama has such a glass jaw that we might even win with [Mitt] Romney.”

Morgan then asked about the great unknown of the 2012 race, Sarah Palin. Is she running? “I haven’t the first Idea,” she confessed, but “I wouldn’t if I were in her shoes, not President. Maybe Senator or something.” This launched a mini-tirade on how awful being Commander in Chief must be: “It is the worst job imaginable, both running and holding the office.” And as Palin is “virtually the biggest thing on the planet,” Coulter argued, “Why would you wreck your life running for President?” Coulter went on, sharing an amusing anecdote about how insulted she was when people called for her to run for President– “it’s like saying ‘you’re the CEO of a company– why don’t you become a dog walker?’

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4. Leverage: Forex Brokers allow traders to trade the market using leverage. Leverage is the ability to trade more money on the market than what is actually in the trader's account. If you were to trade at 50:1 leverage, you could trade $50 on the market for every $1 that was in your account. This means you could control a trade of $50,000 using only $1000 of capital.

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Luc Ferry has been interviewed by police

Luc Ferry, who is also an accomplished writer and media commentator, was tryingto make the point that in France - unlike in other countries - there are laws that prevent the reporting of private peccadilloes.
He told a Canal-Plus TV chat show that he had it on good authority that a certain ex-minister had been "caught at an orgy in Morocco with young boys". He did not divulge any names.
The rumour was widely known, he said, buthad never been reported because the ex-minister was protected by the law.
The revelations came as another French politician, George Tron, resigned from government after being accused of sexuallyharassing female staff. Mr Tron denied the allegations.
Mr Ferry presumably intended to defend the French system - showing how journalists in France cannot simply shovel gossip into the public arena. Instead, he found himself at the centre of a monumental row, accused of doing exactly that: shovelling out gossip.

There's two of them! Sarah Palin bumps into her double as One Nation tour rolls into Boston

Sarah Palin had already managed to arrive in Boston at the same time as her Republican rival, Mitt Romney.

But today the former Alaskan governor also bumped into another very familiar face - Cecilia Thompson, a professional Palin impersonator.

Smiling broadly as she hugged her mirror image, the publicity-hungry Mrs Palin even had a job offer for Mrs Thompson - press spokesman.

New best friend? Sarah Palin beams as she shakes hands and poses with her lookalike, Cecilia Thompson, outside a church in Boston

As her bemused father, Chuck Heath, looked on, she said: 'Now you go talk to all these reporters. And you speak for me.’

Mrs Thompson, from New England, was waiting for Mrs Palin in the pews when she arrived to visit Old North Church on her One Nation bus tour.

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'Drive at 80mph on motorways'

Motorway speed limits could be raised from 70 to 80mph under radical plans being studied by ministers.

But drivers on congested sections of Britain's expressways could be forced to slow to 50mph under an official review of speed limits by the Department of Transport which is being considered by Transport Minister John Spellar.

Officials believe that the higher limit - rigidly enforced - would restore drivers' respect for all speed limits after surveys repeatedly showed that more than half of all drivers regularly exceed 70mph on motorways because it is "too slow".

The move would help mend relations with Britain's 30 million motorists after bruising encounters over the proliferation of "spy" cameras and the fuel tax protests more than a year ago. The higher limit would bring Britain closer into line with other European countries where 80mph is the norm.

Motorways are Britain's safest roads with drivers eight times less likely to have an accident than on a road in a built-up area, and motoring organisations have long demanded a more "realistic" limit that would enable drivers to complete long journeys in a shorter time.

Experts also point out that even a modest modern car is easily capable of travelling well above 70mph in safety. By setting a more realistic limit, officials believe, motorists would be more likely to obey lower limits elsewhere.

By demonstrating that ministers have conducted a thorough review of limits it would be easier to introduce 50mph thresholds on highly congested sections of motorway and more 20mph zones outside schools.

Officials within the Department of Transport are divided over the 80mph plan but are keen to implement 50mph limits in selected areas, claiming it cuts congestion by smoothing out the flow of traffic on heavily-used sections.





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Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin driven by Zizie Ezette

KUALA LUMPUR: Despite his remarks in Parliament about women being bad drivers, Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin is being driven around the city by his wife Zizie Ezette.

She said she drives him around Kuala Lumpur because “he trusts my driving”.

Zizie said she had to follow her husband's tight schedule as MP, including making trips to his constituency in Sabah.

However, the 33-year-old actress denied that she was quitting acting.

She admitted she had been off the radar ever since she tied the knot with the controversial MP in December 2009.

“I'm still in the process of getting to know my husband, his life and his work,” she added.

Zizie said she had no inkling that being married to a politician could be so tough.

She added that she was hurt by reports in the Malay dailies that she had quit acting.

“It hurts when people say I've quit showbusiness because I married a rich Datuk,” she told The Daily Chilli in an exclusive interview.

LUNCH AT ELYSÉE: SARKOZY'S HIGH-BROW CHARM OFFENSIVE French President Nicolas Sarkozy is stuck with an approval rating below 30 percent. Will his weekly lunches with the cream of Paris “civil society” help change his image?

PARIS - Last Wednesday, French President Nicolas
Sarkozy had a lunch date
scheduled with a journalist and two writers. Up until that
morning, the guests, political
chronicler Eric Zemmour, writer Denis Tillinac and
novelist Yann Moix, had
imagined that between
military intervention in Libya
and the rise of the far right in
local French elections, the president would be too busy to
attend. But Sarkozy arrived on
time, relaxed, smiling, and
even informal, “as if we were meeting in a restaurant,” said Tillinac. Over the last six months, the
president has regularly met
with writers, intellectuals and
artists, never once cancelling
one of these dates. It’s his time to relax and unplug. These
meetings are a chance for
Sarkozy to seduce those who
arrive imagining him
uncultured, but come away
praising his “youthfulness”, “energy” and “simplicity”. They are Sarkozy’s way of penetrating the Paris elite that
hold their nose up to his
controversial politics, but
continue to watch him with
interest and curiosity. Patrick Besson, writer and
chronicler from the weekly
news magazine Le Point, who
was one of the guests a few
weeks ago, amusingly sums up
these moments of presidential recreation: “I had felt like I was his gym instructor,
without the gym ”. Last Wednesday, the three
guests were also joined by
former politician Alain
Carignon, who despite
spending several years of
political scandal and prison, has remained a close friend of
the head of state. It is Carignon, alongside
presidential advisor and
former journalist Catherine
Pégard, who has been
responsible these past few
months for bringing this slice of Paris, regarded by those in
power as representative of
“civil society”, to the presidential Elysée palace.
Pégard, keen to get an eclectic
mix of guests, has invited
authors like Marc Dugain,
Alexandre Jardin, Dominique
Bona, as well as François- Guillaume Lorrain the cinema
critic for the weekly
newspaper Le Point, and
historian Evelyne Lever.