Herein is a fascinating video of the world’s regard for our fearless leader.
Friday, November 21st, 2008Please find story and video of G20 brush-off here.
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Images: (Rocky VI) via supersatellite.com; (W) via via idesign.wordpress.com
Please find story and video of G20 brush-off here.
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Images: (Rocky VI) via supersatellite.com; (W) via via idesign.wordpress.com
Professor Jonathan Turley feels that W is tromping on the will of the American people.
What’s new? The worst president in the Republic’s history is like a fungus blown by the winds in order to savage the people for years to come.
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(babs)turleymagic.com; (w) AP Photo/ Ron Edmunds; (movie)vcientertainment.com (curls) beauty.about.com;
Please find the MSNBC Countdown video […]
The New York Times
October 24, 2008
Editorial
Barack Obama for President
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government […]
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…this is how we attained our present status.
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Sam Stein
HuffPost Reporting From DC
McCain Using Same Robocall Firm That Helped Smear Him In 2000
October 17, 2008 04:29 PM
In his efforts to attack Barack Obama, John McCain appears to have turned to the same political consulting firm that was responsible for spreading vicious smears about the Senator during the 2000 South Carolina GOP primary.
In recent […]
Wall Street banks in $70bn staff payout
Pay and bonus deals equivalent to 10% of US government bail-out package
* Simon Bowers
* The Guardian,
* Saturday October 18 2008
Financial workers at Wall Street’s top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn (£40bn), a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid in discretionary bonuses, […]
CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos
Waterboarding Got White House Nod
By 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 […]
‘Substantive’ Press Is Taken for a Spin
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 29, 2008; C01
Not Too Bright
The rhetoric gets heated this time of year, but Paul Begala, the CNN commentator, went way over the line in calling President Bush a “high-functioning moron.”
The former Bill Clinton aide can be a witty partisan, but there are […]
This piece is from the Hill.com.
Kucinich says not enough votes for bailout
By Kevin Bogardus
Posted: 09/28/08 03:31 PM [ET]
A prominent liberal Democratic lawmaker said Sunday there are not enough votes to pass the bailout package as it stands now.
“I will tell you right now I don’t know if they have votes,” said Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). […]
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ABCNews
Grim’ Afghanistan Report To Be Kept Secret by US
“No Plans to Declassify” New National Intelligence Estimate for White House
By BRIAN ROSS
September 23, 2008
US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as “grim”, but there are “no plans to declassify” any of […]
Could it be that W’s perennial best-seller translates poorly into Urdu?
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Pakistani troops fire on intruding U.S. choppers
By Augustine Anthony Mon Sep 22, 5:07 AM ET
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani troops fired on two U.S. helicopters that intruded into Pakistani airspace on Sunday night, forcing them to turn back to Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani security official said […]