*eyebrowraise*

"A senior CIA official has died in an apparent suicide..." He was probably upset about his demotion to middle management by the fourth paragraph of that report. This reminds me of when one of State's top Iraq experts fell from the roof shortly before the 2003 invasion.

Was Michael Bloomberg this corrupt? I doubt it.

The #2 position on the Open Secrets list of top donors to 2014 candidates is the city of New York. The details show $5.9 million in donations to a PAC for Mayor Bloomberg's favourite candidates and another $2.5 million to a Democratic PAC. It would be so unusual for city funds to be used for a national race -- and Bloomberg has more than enough of his own money to spend -- that my assumption is that something has to be wrong with the data.

Russia invades eastern Ukraine

What's the over/under for how long it will take before the Western powers recognize it as an invasion?