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GEF @ 8:08 PM ET Senate Reacts To Court Ruling With New Call For Testimony From Rove And Bolton By TPM Just hours after a federal judge shot down the White House’s claim to sweeping immunity from Congressional oversight, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) fired off a round of letters renewing his demand for testimony from [...]

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What is Bush So Afraid Of… ?

GEF @ 6:58 PM ET Watchdog: Bush turning intelligence agencies on Americans President Bush seems to be slowly turning the nation’s massive surveillance apparatus upon its citizens, and some worry that administration assurances to protect civil liberties are nothing but empty promises. With his update to a decades-old executive order governing the Intelligence Community, Bush [...]

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Economic Disaster: US Lost 2.3 Million Good Jobs To China Since 2001!

GEF @ 6:18 PM ET Report: N.Y. Jobs Lost To China By RACHEL SHANNON-SOLOMON America’s trade deficit with China is hitting close to home, with New York State losing 127,000 jobs to China between 2001 and 2007, a study released today by the Economic Policy Institute and the Alliance for American Manufacturing found. Since the [...]

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Blackwater And The Private Intelligence Business

By- Suzie-Q @ 1:45 PM MST Scahill: Blackwater now in the private intelligence business Raw Story- David Edwards and Muriel Kane Published: Thursday July 31, 2008 Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm’s latest foray into private intelligence. “They’re marketing their [...]

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White House Reaction To DOJ Hiring Scandal

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:15 PM MST Absolute Power, No Responsibility: White House reaction to the Department of Justice hiring scandal Raw Story- Eric Brewer Published: Thursday July 31, 2008 It had been two days since the Department of Justice released a report accusing itself of illegally discriminating against political enemies in its hiring of supposedly [...]

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GREEDY BP MAKES £555 A SECOND AS IT ‘PICKS THE POCKETS OF THE POOR’

anthony @ 20:00 BST Louise Barnett and John Ingham | Daily Express | Wednesday July 30,2008 PETROL companies faced growing demands to cut prices last night after the full scale of their profiteering from the soaring cost of crude oil emerged. BP announced half-yearly profits of £6.75billion – with £4.3billion coming in the past three [...]

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Judge Says White House Aides Can Be Subpoenaed

By- Suzie-Q @ 11:50 AM MST Rove & Miers- (Photo- Huffington Post) Judge rejects ‘absolute immunity’ claim, says White House aides can be subpoenaed CarpetBagger Report- Posted July 31st, 2008 at 12:30 pm White House attorneys are quite capable of coming up with creative legal arguments. The problem, though, is that judges aren’t willing to [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… Tattoo

By- Suzie-Q @ 11:45 AM MST Jordin Sparks- Tattoo

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Congress Should Rescind the State of Emergency Declared by Bush

anthony @ 17:45 BST George Washington’s Blog | Wednesday July 30, 2008 The White House suspended the Constitution and implemented Continuity of Government Plans on 9/11, based upon a declared state of national emergency. Bush has continually renewed the declared state of emergency up to and including today. See this. The White House has done [...]

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Be, Scared As You Can Be

By- JollyRoger @ 12:10 EDT It’s an issue that doesn’t get much press traction anymore (and never DID get any traction in the national MSM.) But, as you will see, it’s an issue that hasn’t gone away. As a matter of fact, it seems worse than ever, at least where the Army is concerned. My [...]

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