How True

post from Everyday Citizen on 17 October 2008 01:05:38 PM. © Everyday Citizen

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Journos Condemn Newest Violations

post from IraqSlogger.com on 17 October 2008 01:05:21 PM. © IraqSlogger.com

Just one day after the most recent murder of one of their colleagues one week ago, Iraqi journalists complained of at least two violations in separate instances of the freedom of the press in Iraq, including the beating of an Iraqi cameraman in Diwaniya and the forcible detention of nearly three dozen journalists and confiscation of their media equipment on the part of guards inside the Iraqi Parliament.

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Christians Flee Threats, Violence, Fears

post from IraqSlogger.com on 17 October 2008 01:05:12 PM. © IraqSlogger.com

Over 1,200 Iraqi Christian families so far have fled the city of Mosul to areas outside the city, according to a newly released statement by two Iraqi non-governmental organizations, who add that the number of Christians fleeing Mosul is growing.

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You Can Profit In A Miserable Market Like This -
Heres How

post from Jutia Group on 17 October 2008 01:03:59 PM. © Jutia Group

“The type of man she hated… was the type she wanted.”

That’s a tagline from the 1946 classic film noir movie The Big Sleep, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

As a former film student at school, the movie popped into my head…

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Glenn Beck: 'They're all Marxists'

post from Crooks and Liars on 17 October 2008 01:00:36 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Glenn Beck vs. the 'Marxists'
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It seems Glenn Beck has a solution for all that ails John McCain: He wants McCain to take off the kid gloves and start calling out Obama and "all of these guys" as Marxists:

He's bringing up these topics in the wrong way. Not as a political strategist or a politician or anything else, just as a guy who says, OK: The problem with all of these guys is they're all Marxists -- they're all Marxists. They're all spread the wealth. So look, I'm not going to tie you to these people any more than they have to, but -- but -- I mean, all the way from Frank Marshall Davis to your Reverend, they all preach Marxism. Now, you say to Joe the Plumber, I'm going to take some of your wealth and give it to somebody else, that's Marxism.

Well, no that isn't Marxism, unless your understanding of it is at about fifth-grade level. But that's beside the point, isn't it?

We've already graduated from wingnuts calling Obama and the Democrats "socialists" to "Marxists." Next: "Pinkos" and "Commies."

We're not just living in Nixonland. We're living in McCarthyville. I guess the next step in the devolution of the right is for the white hoods to come out.

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Dying Fred Baron to Get Biomed Cancer Drug

post from TalkLeft on 17 October 2008 01:00:00 PM. © TalkLeft

A few days ago I wrote about Fred Baron's sudden diagnosis of multiple myeloma and Biomed's refusal to allow him to use the drug Tysabri. His son Andrew, founder of Rocketboom, enlisted dignataries from Lance Armstrong to Bill Clinton, John Kerry and others to the public to convince Biomed to allow Baron to receive the drug.

Biomed has relented and Baron now is being treated with the drug at the Mayo Clinic.....Andrew Baron said the Mayo Clinic, working with the FDA, found a legal basis for using Tysabri on his father.

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Why the Fall in the Gold Price When Physical Gold
Remains in Huge Demand

post from Jutia Group on 17 October 2008 12:59:44 PM. © Jutia Group

“Why was gold down so sharply yesterday?” asks gold guru Jeff Nichols of American Precious Metals advisers - “and this in the face of reportedly record demand from investors for bullion coins and small bars?”

This seeming disparity in the overt…

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What's Up At NewsLadder: Alternet's 10 Biggest
Differences Between Barack Obama And John McCain

Every Friday, I take a moment and head over to NewsLadder and see what everyone thinks is the top[...]

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WILL PALIN ENDURE

Kevin Drum reads the moose entrails:Apropos of nothing in particular, I want to go on the record with a prediction that Sarah Palin will disappear into a well-deserved obscurity after the election is over. She is not a "comer." She is not the future of[...]

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Hell Freezes Over: Chicago Tribune Endorses Obama

"This endorsement makes some history for the Chicago Tribune. This is the first time the newspaper has endorsed the Democratic Party's nominee for president."

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On Dec. 6, 2006, this page encouraged Obama to join the presidential campaign. We wrote that he would celebrate our common values instead of exaggerate our differences. We said he would raise the tone of the campaign. We said his intellectual depth would sharpen the policy debate. In the ensuing 22 months he has done just that.

Many Americans say they're uneasy about Obama. He's pretty new to them.

We can provide some assurance. We have known Obama since he entered politics a dozen years ago. We have watched him, worked with him, argued with him as he rose from an effective state senator to an inspiring U.S. senator to the Democratic Party's nominee for president.

We have tremendous confidence in his intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions. He is ready.

The change that Obama talks about so much is not simply a change in this policy or that one. It is not fundamentally about lobbyists or Washington insiders. Obama envisions a change in the way we deal with one another in politics and government. His opponents may say this is empty, abstract rhetoric. In fact, it is hard to imagine how we are going to deal with the grave domestic and foreign crises we face without an end to the savagery and a return to civility in politics.