Big Oil Companies Are Questioned By Congress About Their Big Profits

By- Suzie-Q @ 6:30 PM MST

Congress questions Big Oil’s big profits
Executives deflect blame for skyrocketing fuel costs

updated 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

WASHINGTON – When it comes to public opinion, Congress isn’t held in very high regard, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver reminded executives of the country’s biggest oil companies.
Then the Missouri Democrat added, “Your approval [...]

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Harman: She Had No Clue That “The Administration Was Violating FISA”

By- Suzie-Q @ 4:30 PM MST

Harman: I Didn’t Know Surveillance Program Broke The Law
By Paul Kiel – March 31, 2008, 6:03PM
Earlier this month, we published an excerpt from Eric Lichtblau’s new book, Bush’s Law, in which Lichtblau wrote that when he’d approached Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), then the ranking member of the [...]

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HUD Secretary Quits Amid Federal Probe

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:45 PM MST

HUD Secretary Jackson Resigns Amid Federal Probe (Update5)
By Dawn Kopecki and Christopher Stern
March 31 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson quit following calls by lawmakers for him to step down amid a federal criminal probe into contracts the agency awarded.
“There comes a time [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… Do You Realize

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:30 PM MST

The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize
(H/T to my friend, Bob Cesca )

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Google To Help CIA In Spy Work

By- Suzie-Q @ 10:30 AM MST

From- Times Online
Jonathan Richards
CIA enlists Google’s help for spy work

US intelligence agencies are using Google’s technology to help its agents share information about their suspects
Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects.
Agencies such as the [...]

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Is 2008 The Second Great Depression?

By- Suzie-Q @ 9:00 AM MST

USA 2008: The Great Depression
Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world’s richest country faces economic crisis
By [...]

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Scorched Earth Policy From The Bunker…

GEF @ 8:08 AM MST
When Cheney visits the Middle East trembles…

Saudi Arabia prepares for nuclear radiation fallout from US-Israel attack on Iran
Saudi Arabia is reportedly preparing to counter any ‘radioactive hazards’ which may result from a US strike on Iran’s nuclear plants. Popular government-guided Saudi newspaper Okaz recently reported that the Saudi Shura Council [...]

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“Wall Street is Really Predicated on Greed”

Sudhan @16:10 CET
Immanuel Wallesrstein, Commentsary No. 230, 2008

It is not I who is saying that Wall Street is really predicated on greed, but Stephen Raphael. And who is Stephen Raphael? He is a former member of the Board of Bear Stearns, the Wall Street bank that collapsed last month. And where did Raphael say this? [...]

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Whack-A-Mole Finance!

GEF @ 6:08 AM MST

“Giant institutions are, to use the technical term, scared to death. They’ve had to come back time after time and report additional losses on their securities holdings after telling the market that they had cleaned everything up. It’s whack-a-mole finance – the problems keep appearing in unexpected places. Since the [...]

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Google and Virgin announce Mars expedition and colony

anthony @ 11:25 BST

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and LONDON, England (April 1st, 2008) – Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Virgin Group today announced the launch of Virgle Inc., a jointly owned and operated venture dedicated to the establishment of a human settlement on Mars.
“Some people are calling Virgle an ‘interplanetary Noah’s Ark,’” said Virgin Group President and [...]

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Bush seeking more support for Afghanistan war

Sudhan @11:25 CET
Bush Trying to Bolster Confidence, Commitment Toward War in Afghanistan
BEN FELLER |AP News, Mar 31, 2008 15:02 EST
President Bush wants to bolster the multinational fight in Afghanistan by reminding NATO allies that the war is in their interest — and by persuading them to send more troops into battle.
But this will be a [...]

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