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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
The Best President Money Could Buy
Post Date: 2009-06-26 10:32:00 by christine
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Merriam Webster’s dictionary defines capitalism as “an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market (1).” Despite the appearance of completeness, this definition is missing one thing; an unregulated capitalist society run by corrupt men would eventually collapse like a house of cards. Our brand of capitalism relies on prolific consumerism as a means to globalization, where needs are created and where everything and everyone is for sale. We tend to sell the public ...
Uncounted - Clint Curtis: Million Dollar Programmer
Post Date: 2009-06-23 16:28:56 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Tom Feeney was defeated in 2008. Curtis ran but lost in the primary to a woman who defeated Feeney in the general election.
Fierce clashes in Tehran Saturday between police, protesters
Post Date: 2009-06-20 20:04:30 by Ada
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Eyewitnesses say thousands of police and plainclothes militia members filled the streets to prevent rallies. TEHRAN, IRAN - Police beat protesters and fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands who rallied Saturday in open defiance of Iran’s clerical government, sharply escalating the most serious internal conflict since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Witnesses described fierce clashes after some 3,000 protesters, many wearing black, chanted “Death to the dictator!” and “Death to dictatorship!” near Revolution Square in downtown Tehran. Police fired tear gas, water cannons and guns but it was not clear if they were firing live ammunition. Some protesters ...
Ensign aide: Ex-mistress' husband wanted money
Post Date: 2009-06-20 01:02:15 by HOUNDDAWG
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PIX AT LINK Fri Jun 19, 9:38 pm ET LAS VEGAS – The husband of Sen. John Ensign's former mistress made "exorbitant demands for cash and other financial benefits" through an attorney, an aide to the Nevada Republican said Friday. In a statement, Ensign spokesman Tory Mazzola said the demands from an attorney for Doug Hampton were made within the past month. "The demands were referred to Senator Ensign's legal counsel, who is handling the matter going forward," the statement said. Mazzola did not name the attorney nor immediately respond to requests for additional details. Hampton's lawyer, Daniel Albregts, did not immediately respond to messages ...
Iran's Election and US - Iranian Relations
Post Date: 2009-06-19 05:50:01 by Stephen Lendman
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Iran's Election and US - Iranian Relations - by Stephen Lendman In the run-up to Iran's June 12 presidential election, early indications suggested the media's reaction if the wrong candidate won. On June 7, New York Times writer Robert Worth reported "a surge of energy (for) Mir Hussein Mousavi, a reformist who is the leading contender to defeat Mr. Ahmadinejad (and) a new unofficial poll (has him well ahead) with 54 percent of respondents saying they would vote for him compared with 39 percent for Mr. Ahmadinejad." No mention of who conducted the poll, how it was done, what interests they represented, or if Mousavi winning might be the wrong result. More on that ...
Nevada GOP Sen. Ensign Admits Extramarital Affair
Post Date: 2009-06-17 00:55:44 by Brian S
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Associated Press - June 17, 2009 12:33 AM ET LAS VEGAS (AP) - Nevada Sen. John Ensign says he has no intention of resigning because of an extramarital affair. The conservative Republican says the affair was "the worst thing" he has ever done in his life. Ensign made a brief appearance before reporters in Las Vegas. He didn't take any questions. Ensign's spokesman says the affair was with a campaign staffer who was married to an employee in Ensign's Senate office. Neither has worked for the senator since May 2008. His wife did not appear with him Tuesday, but also released a statement saying she and her husband "have come to a reconciliation." In 2002, ...
Stealing the Iranian Election
Post Date: 2009-06-14 09:41:41 by Ada
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Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen 1. It is claimed that Ahmadinejad won the city of Tabriz with 57%. His main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, is an Azeri from Azerbaijan province, of which Tabriz is the capital. Mousavi, according to such polls as exist in Iran and widespread anecdotal evidence, did better in cities and is popular in Azerbaijan. Certainly, his rallies there were very well attended. So for an Azeri urban center to go so heavily for Ahmadinejad just makes no sense. In past elections, Azeris voted disproportionately for even minor presidential candidates who hailed from that province. 2. Ahmadinejad is claimed to have taken Tehran by ...
Ousted AmeriCorps watchdog defends waste probe
Post Date: 2009-06-13 14:57:22 by farmfriend
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Ousted AmeriCorps watchdog defends waste probe By ANN SANNER and PETE YOST Associated Press Writers Published: Thursday, Jun. 11, 2009 - 5:54 pm Last Modified: Friday, Jun. 12, 2009 - 5:24 pm WASHINGTON -- An inspector general fired by President Barack Obama said Friday he acted "with the highest integrity" in investigating AmeriCorps and other government-funded national service programs. Gerald Walpin said in an interview with The Associated Press that he reported facts and conclusions "in an honest and full way" while serving as inspector general at the Corporation for National and Community Service. In a letter to Congress on Thursday, Obama said he had lost ...
U. S. Cities May Have To Be Bulldozed In Order To Survive
Post Date: 2009-06-13 13:00:04 by Ada
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Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline. The US government is looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature Photo: GETTY The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature. Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more ...
Palin Refuses To Commit To Running For Re-Election In Alaska
Post Date: 2009-06-12 14:10:36 by christine
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Gov. Sarah Palin refused to commit to running not just for the 2012 Republican presidential candidacy but also for reelection as governor of Alaska, during an interview on Friday. In a sit down with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, the Alaska Republican said she had made no decision on her political future, whether in-state or nationally. "I'm not definitely going to do anything yet," she said. "What I'm trying to get done for Alaska right now is to get that Alaska gas line built. We need those energy sources flowing through North America. That's what my focus is." Palin's hesitancy in declaring her 2012 plans is expected. But her declining to commit to running ...
Now Playing at the "Holocaust Museum" - The Lone Nut
Post Date: 2009-06-11 08:33:29 by Kamala
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Now Playing at the "Holocaust Museum" - The Lone Nut (What a "coincidence"!) by Michael Hoffman Copyright©2009 RevisionistHistory.org Today another "lone nut"has changed the course of history. Like "lone nut" James Earl Ray and "lone nut" Sirhan Sirhan, as well as "lone nuts" Arthur Bremer and Ted Kaczynski, James von Brunn now joins the ranks of the Cryptocracy's hit parade. What a "coincidence"! With his shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Von Brunn has reinvigorated the old 20th century Black/Zionist coalition, on the very day when African-American U.S. Attorney General Eric ...
2 Israelis 'voted in Lebanese elections'
Post Date: 2009-06-10 20:17:52 by Dakmar
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Lebanese Security Forces have arrested two Israeli women over their participation in Lebanon's general elections earlier this week. Two sisters, Josephine, 67, and Georgette Mussa, 69, who entered the country ahead of the June 7 elections, were arrested in Beirut Airport before leaving the country, Al-Manar reported on Wednesday. According to the report, Georgette confessed that she took part in the elections in Beirut. Josephine, who carries an American passport in addition to her Israeli and Lebanese ones, however denied participating in the vote. The sisters who are residents of Israel were being interrogated by the Lebanese security forces, the report added. The Western-backed ...
Palin Beginning To Irritate Some Senate GOPers [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-06-09 12:38:57 by christine
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Sarah Palin has begun to get on the nerves of Republican senators who say the former GOP vice presidential nominee is taking her own White House aspirations entirely too seriously. But those same senators may have their eye on a 2012 White House run or be friends with senators with presidential ambitions. And Palin, who does not have a lot of Washington connections, energized the party’s grass roots in 2008 while bucking the D.C. establishment, leaving much of the party’s elite grumbling about her appeal to the conservative base. Several GOP senators offered searing criticism of the Alaska governor when asked in recent interviews whether she could pose a credible challenge to ...
'TOLD YA SO'
Post Date: 2009-06-08 12:51:34 by christine
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Sarah Palin hits FOXNEWS tonight for the big 'Told Ya So' interview, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. As President Obama vows to spend the 'stimulus' faster, Governor Palin tells host Sean Hannity: 'You gotta quit digging that hole!' MORE HANNITY: What do you make of – look at the state of the economy now... PALIN: Well, when you consider that the federal government is about eleven trillion dollars in debt, and we’re borrowing more to spend more.. it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college. It defies economy practices and principles that tell ya ‘you gotta quit digging that hole when you are in that financial ...
With Palin at Seneca Falls
Post Date: 2009-06-07 10:51:15 by christine
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SENECA FALLS, N.Y. — Governor Sarah Palin paused Friday afternoon at the in front of a monument bearing the Declaration of Sentiments, an early feminist touchstone. “We anticipate no small amount of ridicule,” she read, and remarked: “Some things never change.” America’s most famous Republican elected official quietly took a commercial flight into sleepy Central New York Thursday, and spent Friday on a private tour of landmarks of early feminism Harriet Tubman’s House, the Women’s Rights National Historic Park, and the National Women’s Hall of Fame — for the low-key beginning of a week-long return to the lower 48 states and another step in ...
The Collapse of the Union Jail for Women, 1863
Post Date: 2009-06-07 08:16:36 by Turtle
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The civil war before the Civil War August 1, 1863, after delivering a wagon-load of produce to Kansas City where it was sold, Susan Vandever, her sister Armenia Selvey and Armenia's nine year-old son Jeptha Selvey were quietly returning home by way of Westport to their home near Blue Springs, Missouri, when they were quickly surrounded by Union forces, restrained and returned to Kansas City where they were to be imprisoned - charged with aiding and abetting enemy forces; or, in other words, bringing medicine and other necessaries to Confederate guerrillas. Actually, these three were imprisoned in hope that their confinement would regulate the conduct of their husbands, brothers and ...
Palin: 'Screw the political correctness'
Post Date: 2009-06-06 16:32:13 by christine
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I didn't get to this in my story on Palin's lower-48 in Seneca Falls, but she hasn't lost her ability to deliver a raw, base-riling stemwinder, and her introduction of Michael Reagan in Anchorage the other night is worth a listen (.mp3) and is currently making the rounds on the right. She opens the introduction praising Reagan's son, a talk radio guy, for his willingness "to screw the political correctness that some would expect him to try to adhere to." She blasts "self-proclaimed intellectuals, and the smug lobbyists who dominate Washington, and the liberal media." And she suggests Obama is trying to impose big government as a tool of control. ...
Tillman's Mother says General Lied Again About His Death
Post Date: 2009-06-04 06:30:02 by Ada
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The latest explanation for why Pat Tillman's Silver Star citation failed to mention that friendly fire killed the former NFL star in Afghanistan is another lie by the U.S. military, Tillman's mother said Tuesday. Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan in 2004 after giving up a lucrative NFL career to serve in the Army. Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan in 2004 after giving up a lucrative NFL career to serve in the Army. Mary Tillman was responding to remarks made Tuesday by the general nominated to lead Allied forces in Afghanistan, who apologized before a Senate committee for his role in the matter. Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal told the Senate Armed Services Committee ...
Bush, Clinton appear on stage together in Canada - Dubya calls Clinton Brother
Post Date: 2009-05-30 12:59:39 by Jethro Tull
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TORONTO – Former President George W. Bush called ex-President Bill Clinton "his brother" and the two rarely disagreed in their first-ever appearance together on stage. The Republican and Democratic ex-presidents defended each other at a Toronto forum on Friday, disappointing some in the crowd of 6,000 who expected a more heated debate. Bush said that he never liked it when previous administration officials criticized his government but said Clinton was respectful and never did. Bush declined to criticize the Obama administration, in contrast to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been a vocal critic of Obama. Bush, who wasn't asked about Cheney, said there ...
Colin Powell fires back at Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney Read more: "Colin Powell fires back at Rush"
Post Date: 2009-05-26 11:24:51 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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In the latest round of the increasingly heated intra-GOP feud, former Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday defended his Republican credentials and fired back at radio host Rush Limbaugh and former Vice President Dick Cheney, saying the party had to expand beyond its conservative base. “Rush will not get his wish and Mr. Cheney was misinformed – I am still a Republican,” Powell said in a much-anticipated interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” two weeks after Cheney suggested on the same show that the retired general had left the party by endorsing Barack Obama last fall. Powell outlined his party bona fides, noting his votes for and services under a string of ...
What is the Federal Reserve Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman Scared Of?
Post Date: 2009-05-16 21:45:23 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Please pay close attention to the woman sitting Behind Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman! (she's wearing a blue suit, white blouse and has a notepad in her lap) Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve Inspector General about the trillions of dollars lent or spent by the Federal Reserve. Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is. She Is Scared She Knows Where The Money Went and Who It Went To The 3 People Sitting Behind Her Are There to Make Sure She Doesn't Tell I wonder What They Are Saying to Her? Rep. Alan Grayson: "Mr. Chairman, my time is up, but I have to tell you honestly, I am Shocked to ...
Alaska Governor Palin signs book deal: report
Post Date: 2009-05-12 21:24:14 by christine
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Sarah Palin, Alaska's governor and last year's Republican vice-presidential candidate, has signed a deal to write her memoirs with publisher HarperCollins, the Anchorage Daily News reported on Tuesday. Palin, who was Senator John McCain's running mate in their losing 2008 election campaign, did not disclose how much she would be paid by the publisher, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. "There have been so many things written and said through mainstream media that have not been accurate, and it will be nice through an unfiltered forum to get to speak truthfully about who we are and what we stand for and what Alaska is all ...
Democratic Rep. Sestak Considers Primary Challenge to Specter
Post Date: 2009-05-07 12:01:48 by Brian S
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(05-07) 07:55 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Rep. Joe Sestak, a former Navy vice admiral, says he's seriously considering challenging newest Democrat Arlen Specter in next year's Pennsylvania Senate primary. Sestak told The Associated Press Thursday he's concerned that Washington's Democratic establishment has picked a candidate who may not be the best for the party's voters in Pennsylvania. The suburban Philadelphia congressman says he has concerns about Specter's voting record — particularly his recent vote against the Democratic-backed budget. He says Specter's decision to break with the Republican Party and become a Democrat moved him closer to running. He ...
Dale Crover Destroys A Gong
Post Date: 2009-05-02 23:22:30 by Dakmar
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFEILRlA3fI
Republican Party is slipping into irrelevance as Sen. Arlen Specter and voters bail [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-04-30 07:54:43 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Republican Party is slipping into irrelevance as Sen. Arlen Specter and voters bailPosted by kheyboer April 30, 2009 05:33AM AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteSen. Arlen Specter recently announced he is switching from the Republican to the Democratic party. Back in the Reagan era, the Republican Party advertised itself as a "big tent," a collection of conservatives, independents, recovering liberals, even Reagan Democrats. Today, by comparison, it's little more than a pup tent. Much is made of the Grand Old Party's latest evidence of shrinkage -- Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's defection to the Democrats. Too little is made of the fact that in Obama's Washington ...
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