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By- Suzie-Q @ 6:40 PM MST
DOJ to Oversight: DENIED
By kklonick – June 30, 2008, 12:36PM
Two weeks ago, Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued subpoenas for FBI paperwork regarding interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
And now the [...]
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GEF @ 5:18 PM MST
“The Patriot Act: The Most Abominable, UnConstitutional, Hatefull Law from the Point of Freedom since the Alien & Sedtion Act of 1798!”
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Judge Napolitano: Why The Patriot Act is Unconstitutional.(Sept 2007)
CNN – June 22, 2008
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By- Suzie-Q @ 5:00 PM MST
McCain aide: Reporters ‘have to earn’ special interview area seat on new ’straight talk’ airplane
Think Progress
By Ben at 4:14 pm
The Washington Post reports that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is now traveling in a new “Straight Talk Express” campaign airplane. It “features a special area” with “a couch and two captain’s [...]
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GEF @ 4:08 PM MST
Dick Cheney ‘tried to block North Korea nuclear deal’
By Philip Sherwell in New York
Last updated: 6:51 PM BST 28/06/2008
Vice President Dick Cheney fought furiously to block efforts by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to strike a controversial US compromise deal with North Korea over the communist state’s nuclear programme, the [...]
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by- Paul Rieckhoff @ 5:34 PM (EST)
This morning, President Bush signed the new GI Bill into law. With that signature, college became affordable for the 1.7 million troops we sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a promise we made to the veterans of World War II: that those who defend our country should be [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 2:30 PM MST
McCain Sticks It To Organized Labor: Visits Company That Refused To Pay Minimum Wage
Think Progress
By Ali at 3:25 pm
Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) visited Worth & Co., a contracting company in Bucks County, PA, where he held a town hall. The visit is a slap in the face to the [...]
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anthony @ 22:16 BST
The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.
Seymour M. Hersh | New Yorker | July 7, 2008
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional [...]
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anthony @ 19:00 BST
Truthdig | Posted on Jun 30, 2008
It seems a critique cannot be leveled against John McCain without first paying homage to his time as a prisoner of war. Even Barack Obama is careful not to offend. So it was somewhat surprising on Sunday to hear another veteran, Gen. [...]
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anthony @ 18:53 BST
By ANDREW E. KRAMER | NYT | Published: June 30, 2008
A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq, American officials say.
The [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 10:00 AM MST
AFP
The US Federal Reserve.
WEST WING
The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve
By Gabor Steingart in Washington
Humiliation for Mr. Dollar: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, faces a general investigation by the International Monetary Fund. Just one more example of the Fed losing its power.
06/26/2008
The United [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 7:30 AM MST
Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil
As forecasters take that possibility more seriously, they describe fundamental shifts in the way we work, where we live and how we spend our free time.
LA Times- By Martin Zimmerman : times staff writer
June 28, 2008
The more expensive oil gets, the more Katherine Carver’s life [...]
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Sudhan @11:05 CET
Nat Hentoff | RiNF.COM, June 29, 2008
In a June 6 letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey—largely ignored by a press immersed in the future of Hillary Clinton—56 Democrats in the House of Representatives asked for “an immediate investigation with the appointment of a special counsel to determine whether actions taken by the [...]
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Sudhan @11:00 CET
By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY | Counterpunch, June 27, 2008
Can anyone state exactly why foreign troops are fighting in Afghanistan? What is the collective aim, the specific mission, the ultimate objective, of the 60,000 soldiers there? I ask this because as I write the total of [...]
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