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Ron Paul: Obama Presidency Will Not Bring Change - 0 views

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    "All three remaining candidates 'beholden to the military industrial complex', says Paul."
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Immigration agency plans new family detention centers - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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    practice for citizen detention camps?
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Raw Replay - Revisiting History - 0 views

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    Incredible foreign policy perspective of our future president, I confidently predict (without lending a comment to my personal preferences), will be the next president of the United States of America
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Money raised for Africa 'goes to civil wars' - 14 May 2008 - NZ Herald: New Zealand Nat... - 0 views

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    Aid money for Africa primarily subsidizes further corruption and violence.
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Fedfolder: The U.S. Government on One Page. - 0 views

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    The US Government on One Page... great site.
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Senate votes to roll back media ownership rule: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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    The Senate is trying to get rid of Bush-supported media consolidation rules... this is good! Break up the big media!
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at-Largely: All the President's Nazis (real and imagined): An Open Letter to Bush - 0 views

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    Bush Family Ties to the Nazis... UNBELIEVABLY WELL DOCUMENTED AND WRITTEN ARTICLE... featured prominantly on RawStory.com
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The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke | AlterNet - 0 views

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    Chalmers Johnson explains how militarism and debt don't mix well.
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The Raw Story | Bill seeks to jack soldiers' 'off time' reading materials - 0 views

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    A bunch of right wing congressmen, supported by "pro-family organizations," are trying to close a loophole that allows active duty soldiers to buy pornography on base. "Here's a radical idea: how about we let the men and women that put on the uniform and put their lives on the line every day read whatever they want."
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CIA - The World Factbook -- Rank Order - Current account balance - 0 views

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    The account balances of all countries on earth as of 2007
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    Check out what nation has the LOWEST account balance. Not surprising.
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Rick Falkvinge: Why the US is collapsing - 0 views

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    This essay is awesome. About US fascism and the end of our economic and, subsequently, military empipre.
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Game Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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    Cool game theory rundown.
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10 Things you should know about John McCain | Bligbi - 0 views

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    Interesting.
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The First Draft of History Looks a Bit Rough on Bush - US News and World Report - 0 views

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    98% of historians consider Bush a "failure." hahahaha, i mean, OBVIOUSLY
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U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 - April 10, 2008 - The New York Sun - 0 views

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    UN official publicly questions 9/11 official story.
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40 Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced - 0 views

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    This is a good piece from GNN.tv columnist Jeff Cohen about the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s work (especially the poor peoples campaign and anti-war agenda, also known as King's Phase 3).
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Shiite Militias Cling to Swaths of Basra and Stage Raids - New York Times - 0 views

  • Shiite militiamen in Basra openly controlled wide swaths of the city on Saturday and staged increasingly bold raids on Iraqi government forces sent five days ago to wrest control from the gunmen, witnesses said, as Iraqi political leaders grew increasingly critical of the stalled assault.
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    Shiite militiamen in Basra openly controlled wide swaths of the city on Saturday and staged increasingly bold raids on Iraqi government forces sent five days ago to wrest control from the gunmen, witnesses said, as Iraqi political leaders grew increasingly critical of the stalled assault.
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Leahy says Clinton should withdraw - Yahoo! News - 0 views

  • Sen. Patrick Leahy is suggesting that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton abandon her White House run.
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    Sen. Patrick Leahy is suggesting that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton abandon her White House run.
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Treasury's Plan Would Give Fed Wide New Power - New York Times - 0 views

  • Democratic lawmakers are all but certain to say the proposal does not go far enough in restricting the kinds of practices that caused the financial crisis.
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      Notice how the Democrats are only angry about the lack of restrictions on the practices that "caused the mortgage crisis," rather than the overall problems with the unregulated and arbitrary power of the Federal Reserve.
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    The Treasury Department will propose on Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad new authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of the industry or any institution that might pose a risk to the overall system.
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