‘I didn’t write Fifty Shades of Rodham’: Screenwriter behind upcoming film on Hilary Clinton denies steamy sex scenes (Real News)

It was billed as a racy look at Hillary Clinton in her mid-twenties, lingering on her early sex life with husband Bill. Reports of gratuitous scenes in the bedroom of the most powerful couple in American politics set tongues wagging in Washington and Hollywood. But yesterday the screenwriter of Rodham, a forthcoming film about Mrs. Clinton, said it would be an altogether tamer affair.
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The West is Behind the North Caucasus Insurgency.

“The West is interested in severing the Caucasus from Russia,” Kadyrov told Prokhanov. “The Caucasus is Russia’s strategic frontier. If they take away the Caucasus from Russia it’s like taking away half of Russia. In their time, the Americans created Bin Laden, taught him the art of terrorism. Now they are blanketing us with groups of foreigners. These are not ‘freedom fighters’ – these are brilliantly trained terrorists. We are fighting in the mountains with the American and English special services.
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Shocking Paper Claims That Microsoft Excel Coding Error Is Behind The Reinhart-Rogoff Study On Debt

Their “main result is that…median growth rates for countries with public debt over 90 percent of GDP are roughly one percent lower than otherwise; average (mean) growth rates are several percent lower.” Countries with debt-to-GDP ratios above 90 percent have a slightly negative average growth rate, in fact. This has been one of the most cited stats in the public debate during the Great Recession.
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