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THE SATURDAY ESSAY The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease Are butter, cheese and steak really bad for you? The dubious science behind the anti-fat crusade Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks Review Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks Review   From The Major News Sources »   The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease 04/05/14 19:54 from  Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks mikenova shared this story . May 2, 2014 6:48 p.m. ET RF Pictures/Corbis "Saturated fat does not cause heart disease"—or so concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. How could this be? The... »   Northern Ireland Police Release Gerry Adams Without Charge After Arrest 04/05/14 19:51 from  Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks mikenova shared this story . Updated May 4, 2014 5:08 p.m. ET Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams prepares to speak alongside Martin McGuinness after Mr. Adams was released by police without bei

Big Banks Started Laundering Massive Sums of Drug Money In the 1980s … And Are Still Doing It Today By  Washington's Blog Global Research, May 02, 2014 Washington's Blog Theme:  Global Economy   271       33     3       354 For More Than 30 Years, the Big Banks Have Been Key Players In the Drug Trade Official statistics  show that huge sums of drug money are laundered every year: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) conducted a  study  to determine the magnitude of illicit funds generated by drug trafficking and organised crimes and to investigate to what extent these funds are laundered.  The report estimates that in 2009, criminal proceeds amounted to  3.6% of global GDP , with 2.7%  (or USD 1.6 trillion) being laundered. This falls within the widely quoted estimate by the International Monetary Fund, who stated in 1998 that the aggregate size of money laundering in the world could be somewhere  between two and five