The Torture Conspiracy: Will They Get Away With
It

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It has become obvious that left to her own devices Nancy Pelosi WILL let them get away with it....no matter what they do or how horrendous "it" is. She is the only one with the real authority to stop them. And she, apparently, will not. The answer then,[...]

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McSame The Flip-Flopper, Or Just Old And Tired

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Some human rights observers say McCain’s latest position is best explained as a symptom of exhaustion at fighting an Administration that has continuously resisted efforts to clearly outlaw practices like waterboarding. Time’s Michael Scherer bends over backwards to put a pleasant spin on the, shall we say, evolving positions Johnny “Ace” McCain has promoted on [...]

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Lehman Brothers does it again, but with Federal
Reserve help

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 11 April 2008 12:20:00 PM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Will anyone in Congress, White House or Federal Reserve ever learn? Lehmen Brothers, rumored to be the next Bear Stearns only weeks ago and who just downplayed the seriousness of the subprime loss (surely by coincidence) has just used some more "innovative" financing to move a few billion of absolute shite into cash to help their books, all courtesy of the American taxpayer. Great. Just as they played games and took the country (and beyond) into this recession with funny business, they're doing it again but this time with the backing of the hapless Bernanke and Federal Reserve.

We bail out this bunch of bums and to say "thanks" they do it again. Does anyone in Washington have any common sense? Are they going to let Wall Street pull these games forever?

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WARRIORS IN KNEE-PANTS

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Is the U.S. contributing to robbing children of their childhood?read more | digg story

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Yoo Disbarment Sought

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The National Lawyers' Guild has called for the disbarment of John Yoo, the former Justice Department attorney who authored the notorious "torture memorandum," used to justify the illegal imprisonment and maltreatment of prisoners held by American military authorities as "unlawful combatants."read more | digg story

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Beth Hafer For Congress

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Congressman Tim Murphy of PA-18 is one of the worst and most extreme Member of Congress. Pittsburgh media caught him using his federal government staff to run his campaign in 2006. Taxpayer funded employees and equipment are not allowed to be[...]

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CHART OF THE DAY: WHAT A WORKER WANTS.

post from Ezra Klein on 11 April 2008 12:16:00 PM. © Ezra Klein

Lots of interesting stuff in the latest Pew Poll, but from the point of view of my personal obsessions, their questions around life priorities are particularly fascinating. Wresting "free time" clocks in at the very top, above career, above children,[...]

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Dave Lindorff: On Waking Sleeping Giants

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During my six-year sojourn in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, one of the things I came away with was a sense of how generally un-nationalistic and non-patriotic the Chinese people were.

Caught up in the struggle first to simply survive and then, in the mid-90s, to try and grab onto the moving train that was China's new Great Leap into Capitalism, average mainland Chinese, whether out in the remote farmlands of western Anhui Province or in the rundown house lining the hutongs of Shanghai or Beijing, had no time for patriotic displays or nationalistic concerns.

When Chinese Communist Party leaders in Beijing would beat the drum of nationalism over Taiwanese independence efforts in the 1990s, it evoked mostly yawns among average Chinese people, and in fact, to Beijing's embarrassment, a popular computer game featured a war-game in which Taiwan defeated the People's Liberation Army.

That all started to change when the U.S., early in the first term of President George W. Bush, taunted the Chinese by flying a spy plane into Chinese airspace, damaging a Chinese fighter jet that flew up to intercept it, and getting forced down itself on Hainan Island. That incident aroused a lot of anger among ordinary Chinese who felt that the U.S. was pushing their country around, and who felt pride at their country's willingness and ability to stand tough and take the American plane hostage.
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Anne Dicker For State Senate

Anne Dicker is running for the Pennsylvania State Senate from the First District in Philadelphia. This was the seat held by indicted Sen. Vince Fumo. Anne was the first candidate to step forward and challenge the powerful and influential Fumo[...]

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Daily Show: The Rise and Fall of FOX News

Eights months ago, I said that this was the best Daily Show clip I’ve seen in a while. Well, Thursday night Jon Stewart and Jon Oliver out-did themselves. I present to you…The Rise and Fall of FOX News. Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather for mash up)If there was ever a six minute video [...]

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