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• DEHPComputer pick categories that are important to you, and computer selects your "perfect" Presidential candidate.
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The dirt on all the Republican Presidential candidates
• Opposition Research 2.0Self explanatory. All the dirty claims on all the Republican Presidential candidates from the Democrats.
Bush Likely to Claim Executive Privilege to Prevent Karl Rove From Testifying Before Congress
• Associated Press InternationalThursday is the deadline for Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser, to provide testimony and documents...
Iraqi Reversal
• Wall Street JournalThe largest Sunni Arab political bloc quit Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's cabinet Wednesday, saying Mr. Maliki didn't respond to demands including pardoning detainees not charged with specific crimes and disbanding militias.
FCC approves rules for spectrum auction
• tech.monstersandcritics.comThe Federal Communications Commission moved cautiously Tuesday toward creating a more open national wireless broadband network, handing a partial victory to Google, which was pushing for more competition in cellphone services.
Reviewing Linda McQuaig's "It's the Crude, Dude"
Stephen LendmanWar, oil, Iraq, global warming and Big Oil in one package.
Giving Gonzo cover, by admitting domestic spying worse than stated
• ReutersThe Bush administration's top intelligence official has acknowledged that a controversial domestic surveillance program was only one part of a much broader spying effort, The Washington Post reported in its Wednesday edition.
Candidates urged to sign anti-torture pledge
• ReutersA coalition of civil rights groups launched a campaign urging presidential candidates to sign an "American Freedom Pledge" rejecting torture, detention without trial and warrantless wire-tapping. Around 130,000 people have signed a petit
California: Golden dream or foreclosures by the sea?
• Reuters"The golden dream by the sea" is how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has fancifully described California. Yet for thousands who bought homes during the Golden State's latest housing boom, foreclosures have turned recent months into a nightma
The US is a safe haven for terrorists
Powell GammillAn editorial published in La Jorrnada (Mexico City) on the US giving shelter to a terrorist responsible for blowing up an airliner with 73 people on board. [in English and Spanish]
ICE Agent William Dreeland Deposed
Terry BressiAgent Dreeland's testimony reinforces my own account of the evening and makes it clear the scope of roadblock operations far exceeded legal limitations. Tribal police allowed a U.S. Customs agent to directly participate in roadblock operations an
One Speech Two Interpretations
• by Michael ShedlockThe Fed's Poole gave a speech. The differences in reporting on that speech are remarkable. But the bottom line is the same no
Who owns you? George Carlin - 3 Minute Video
• ICHThe game is rigged! Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.
Leaving your friends in the dark
• Raw StoryStaff for a top Democratic advocate of a US-India nuclear cooperation agreement admitted to Raw Story on Tuesday morning that the Bush adminstration had not yet showed him the text of the deal it announced last Friday.
Four million Iraqis on the run
• CounterpunchTwo thousand Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. It is the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and dwarfs anything seen in Europe since the Second World War.
Murdoch clinches deal for publisher of Journal
• MSNBC"The Wall Street Journal should be owned by a company dedicated to maintaining its integrity, not one grasping to find content for a yet-to-be-launched cable channel." By David Sweet - MSNBC contributor
Mr. President, Release Ramos And Compean
Chuck BaldwinAny thoughts that the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton were sincerely seeking true justice... have been thoroughly exposed as blatantly disingenuous by the recent revelation of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA).
Reflexiones Libertarias
EL PALIDO CABALLO
Ricardo Valenzuela“Y al mirar observaba un pálido caballo: y su carta de presentación era muerte, y el infierno llegaba con él.”Y el gran poder le fue concedido sobre una cuarta parte de la tierra, para matar con su espada, con la hambruna, con la muerte misma, y con
How to win in Iraq
• American Conservative(William Lind)Among the bits of lore of the US Senate is a story that dates back to before I arrived there in 1973 as a staffer to Sen. Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio. A senator - from New York, perhaps - known for depending wholly on his staff while treating it with con
Voting Machines Breached in 'top-to-bottom' Review - Allowed by Sec. of State in California
• WorldNetDaily'The veneer of security has evaporated': Hackers given shot at California devices
Open DNS
• Open DNSOpen DNS is a safer, faster, and smarter and more reliable way to navigate the Internet. Our service is free and requires nothing to download.
Ron Paul Radio will begin broadcasting on Monday, August 6th
Ernest HancockRon Paul Radio will be the ultimate source of information and hub for discussion of the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign. Ron Paul Radio will chronicle the progress of the amazing firestorm of popular support for Dr. Ron Paul's presidential bi
Sex for the motherland
• Daily MailRemember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp's mass wedding. "They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia." Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormito
CONNECTING THE DOTS
THEIR OWN STORIES: ETHNIC CLEANSING OF AMERICANS
Frosty WooldridgeHow would you like to have your job stolen by someone illegally in this country? How would you like your life threatened as you eat dinner in a restaurant? Americans suffer ethnic cleansing out of their own communities.
On this day in history: July 31,1970
• Farm Runoff"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destablilize their country." GWB. Here's the story of Dan Mitrione, policeman, ex-FBI, and trainer in "advanced counterinsurgency techniques". No wonde
It's a Worldwide RonPaulRevolution
• via LewRockwell.comGerman Video explains how Ron Paul's message of peace and freedom has worldwide support.
A newspaper with an agenda
• HaaretzWith an exclusive article about a new plan by Accountant General Yaron Zelekha to contain corruption and an adjacent article by Dan Margalit about the war waged by the sons of light, headed by Zelekha and Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, agent
PajamasMedia Presidential Straw Poll brings Ron Paul back :)
• PajamaMedia(C'mon guys... make up your mind.)
Iran and US Jiu-Jitsu in the Middle East
• ICGA BlogspotThis strikes me as a marvelous example of political jiu jitsu. The US made possible an emergent Iran by eliminating its Taliban rivals to the east and its Baathist rivals to the west and then installing a Shia government in Baghdad for the first tim
Middle East hypocrisy
• Antiwar(Jim Lobe)"For 60 years, my country - the US - pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Mid East," Rice declared in June 2005 at the American University in Cairo, in a widely noted speech that encouraged democracy act
