Washington Post: White House Endorsed Waterboarding

CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos
Waterboarding Got White House Nod
Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 15, 2008; Page A01
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among [...]

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New ad from Move On-  Talk To Your Parents About John McCain

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William Timmons: McCain’s Transition Team Leader Aided Saddam Hussein

McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam In Lobbying Effort
Huffington Post- Murray Waas
October 14, 2008 02:49 PM
William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.
The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with [...]

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Palin Investigation Has Broadened Beyond Troopergate

Palin Probe Expanded Beyond Troopergate
Via Huffington Post- Anchorage Daily News |   October 14, 2008 08:38 AM

The state Personnel Board investigation of Gov. [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… Bruce Springsteen- In Philadelphia (Oct. 4, 2008)

Bruce Springsteen- in Philadelphia  (Oct. 4, 2008)

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Frank Schaeffer: McCain Is “Deliberately Feeding The Most Unhinged Elements Of Our Society The Red Meat Of Hate”

Former McCain Supporter: McCain Is “Unleashing the Monster of American Prejudice”

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted October 13, 2008
Lifelong Republican Frank Schaeffer says McCain is “deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate.”
Amy Goodman: We turn now to the McCain campaign’s strategy of repeatedly invoking Senator [...]

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Nine Major Banks: New Investment For Taxpayers

U.S. Forces Nine Major Banks To Accept Partial Nationalization
Dow Soars 11 Percent; Biggest Point Gain Ever
By David Cho, Neil Irwin and Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 14, 2008; Page A01
The U.S. government is dramatically escalating its response to the financial crisis by planning to invest $250 billion in the country’s banks, forcing nine of [...]

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Suicide Numbers Climbing Due To Financial Crisis

Financial Crisis Suicide Numbers Mounting
KELLI KENNEDY | October 14, 2008 09:00 AM EST |
An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the chest as authorities arrive to evict her from the modest house she called home for 38 [...]

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Buchanan: Liquidating the Empire

Sudhan @12:02 CET
by Patrick J. Buchanan | Antiwar, Oct 14, 2008

“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers.”
So Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised Herbert Hoover in the Great Crash of ‘29.
Hoover did. And the nation liquidated him – and the Republicans.
In the Crash of 2008, 40 percent of stock value [...]

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Nobel Honours Man Who Told Bush to “Please Go Away”

Sudhan @12:00 CET

By Wolfgang Kerler |Inter-Press Service

Paul Krugman

Credit:Princeton University

NEW YORK, Oct 13 – Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University who is best known for his New York Times columns — frequently involving scathing assaults on the policies of the George W. Bush administration — was awarded the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in [...]

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