Category: News
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US Debt at $8 trillion
United States Debt hits $8 trillion
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Juan Cole: FOX News's Role in Plamegate
Juan Cole on the role of FOX News in the Plame leak: So here is how Murdoch and Fox and the Right in general tie into the NYT scandal. They stalked the Times. If you lexis Fox "News" transcripts and the NYT in the period between September 11 and the Iraq War, you find a […]
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Merry Fitzmas!
DailyKos has a checklist on prepping for Fitzmas – the impending reveal by Peter Fitzgerald on the grand jury investigation into the Plame leak.
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James Dobson's Exclusive Information
James Dobson on his exclusive information from the White House regarding Miers: Why would I not do that? Because it was a confidential conversation and I’ve had a long-standing policy of not going out and revealing things that are said to me in confidence. That may come from my training as a psychologist, where you […]
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Military Recruiters Approach Katrina Victims
Ten U.S. Army recruiters are offering volunteer help for Katrina evacuees at Houston’s Astrodome. But the recruiters, struggling to keep enlistment up during Iraq war, are also available with options for the jobless. "Our intent is to approach the evacuees at the right time for them,” says Army spokesman Douglas Smith."
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The Example of Norway
This post from MeFi made me want to make a few notes about Norway: World’s 3rd largest oil exporter. Saves oil revenus to finance future generations. Norway has been voted the best country to live in for the past five years. Norway has no external debt. No hormones in animal feed. Accept same-sex couples. "i […]
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Bush NOLA Speech: Prime Theatrics
As I’ve said to friends: this is part of the upswing to ensure Republicans can still clinch a 2006 mid-term election. Last night Bush spoke to the nation wearing a workshirt with sleeves rolled up. Obviously Karl Rove had just watched Evita and knew that the only way to show the President doing ‘hard work’ […]
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New Orleans Anthrax Labs
Russ Kick again proves his mettle for scaring the shit out of me: (via Defense Tech) So with all the known and probable Level-3 biolabs in and around New Orleans, what’s happened to the infected animals? Are they free and roaming? Are they dead, with their diseased bodies floating in the flood waters? And what […]
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Iraq War Leaves Us Over-Extended, Over-Exposed
From Democracy Now: And what it says is, while we’re fighting a war in Iraq, we have to depend on the charity of other countries, including donations like $25,000 from the tsunami-ravaged country of Sri Lanka or $1 million from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world. Those offers are being accepted because […]
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FEMA Blocks Photos of Dead
The US government agency leading the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from the flooded New Orleans area. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, […]