Obama’s New Ad: McCain Voted With Bush 95% Of The Time Last Year

By- Suzie-Q @ 8:00 PM MST
McCain campaign re-defines ‘lockstep’
Crooks and Liars: By: Steve Benen on Friday, August 15th, 2008 at 4:07 PM – PDT
The Obama campaign unveiled a solid new ad recently, which, among other things, goes after McCain for having voted with George W. Bush 95% of the time last year.
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Humanity’s Dead End

By- Suzie-Q @ 6:35 PM MST

The Delusion Revolution: We’re on the Road to Extinction and in Denial

By Robert Jensen, AlterNet. Posted August 15, 2008
Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive.
A version of this [...]

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Evening Jukebox… INTO THE NIGHT

By- Suzie-Q @ 6:30 PM MST

SANTANA & CHAD KROEGER (NICKELBACK)  – INTO THE NIGHT

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VA Blocks Voter Registration at Vets’ Hospitals

By- Paul Rieckhoff @ 8:52 PM EDT

When it comes to making profoundly stupid bureaucratic decisions, the Department of Veterans Affairs is often in a class by itself. When VA bureaucrats aren’t losing laptops with millions of veterans’ personal data or forgetting to include Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in their budget calculations, they are giving themselves [...]

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Global Economic Collapse Begins: First One To Pop Is Spain!

GEF @ 6:38 PM ET

It’s extremely clear that World Governments are lying about the size of the US financial mess.. – GEF

Spanish government cuts short holiday as economy collapses
Spain’s cabinet ministers took the unprecedented step of interrupting their summer holidays to hold an emergency meeting on the nation’s deepening economic crisis.
By Fiona Govan, Madrid Correspondent
Jose [...]

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Hope for audacity: Unless something happens, John McCain will win

Sudhan @23:50 CET

by Ted Rall | Smirking Chimp, August 15, 2008
NEW YORK–Unless something happens, John McCain will win.
Of course, “unless something happens” is the biggest qualifier in the world, more than adequate to CYA me should Obama prevail. It’s politics. There are almost three months. Odds are something will happen.
Still, it wasn’t supposed to be [...]

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Abramoff Tainted: Ralph Reed, A source Of Campaign Cash For McCain

By- Suzie-Q @ 1:30 PM MST
Dems hit McCain over Abramoff-tainted fundraiser
Raw Story- Nick Juliano
Published: Friday August 15, 2008
Waxman says McCain ‘abandoning his principles’
Despite a healthy fundraising haul last month, presidential candidate John McCain is still being severely outpaced in the money race by his Democratic opponent, and a fundraiser scheduled on the Republican’s behalf next [...]

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Putin’s war enablers: Bush and Cheney

Sudhan @21:50 CET
Russia’s escalating war on Georgia reveals the consequences of the Bush administration’s long assault on the international rule of law.
By Juan Cole | Salon.com, August 14, 2008

Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
Vladimir Putin (right) of Russia and George W. Bush arrive at a summit on the Black Sea, April 5, 2008.

The run-up to the current chaos [...]

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Warren I. Cohen on China’s Charm Offensive

anthony @20:49 BST

Warren I. Cohen | TruthDig | Aug 15, 2008
The Olympics have gone to China, exposing the many contradictions within Chinese society and among international perceptions of the modern Chinese state. Newspapers and periodicals are filled with stories and photos of the magnificent new world-class architecture in Beijing and Shanghai. President George W. Bush [...]

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‘Meet The Bloggers’- August 15, 2008

By- Suzie-Q @ 11:15 AM MST
Watch ‘Meet the Bloggers.’
Think Progress-  By Faiz at 1:07 pm
‘Meet the Bloggers’ is a live weekly online show created by the [...]

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Exotic Candidate: The One With Eight Houses

By- Bob Cesca @ 1:52 PM EDT

“It is possible,” Gore Vidal once wrote, “for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news [...]

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What’s right with the Middle East!

anthony @ 14:59 BST

I switched the TV on half-way through a performance of Brahms’ 4th Symphony in London’s Royal Albert Hall last night. I’m not a great fan of Brahms (too stodgy, like German dumplings), but it was stirring nonetheless.
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
Orchestra: ?, but with a number of Levantine and Semitic features in the [...]

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everyday people

by betmo @ 8:22 AM EDT
i was very much surprised at the innovative ways people are thinking about changing their lives to help combat global climate change. i know that in the grander scheme of things, we are like drops from a bucket compared to the polluters of industry- but these are people who [...]

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McCain: Worse than you think

anthony @ 11:35 BST

Brasscheck TV | Thursday, Aug 14, 2008
John McCain is running as a war hero.
There are just a few problems with that.
He’s despised by fellow Vets, especially fellow POWs, not only for cooperating with the enemy, but also for blocking every effort to make sure all American POWs were [...]

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