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McCain and Palin pal around with terrorists:

McCain sat on board of council that supported Latin American death squads in Iran-Contra scandal

..."a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites"

...group linked to former Nazi collaborators

...cover for White House's secret and unconstitutional Iran-Contra program

...McCain says he resigned, but group leaders don't remember a resignation

...was featured on cover of council's newsletter

...voted to protect domestic terrorists who attack abortion clinics, doctors

...Palin attributes political success to Kenyan witch hunter, terrorist

...pals around with white supremacists

Study: Mainstream media biased in McCain's favor

Brzezinski warns against Afghanistan surge

Bush, McCain flip flop on GI bill, are trying to take credit now it's passed

Bush ridicules those who call for diplomacy in foreign relations, compares to Nazi appeasers

James Baker: talking to an enemy is not appeasement...

Flashback: McCain was for talking with Hamas before he was against it

..."the ultimate flip flop"

Defense Secretary Gates: "We need to... sit down and talk with" Iran

McCain agrees with Bush that diplomacy is equivalent to appeasement

...says Reagan didn't negotiate for hostages in Iran, but Reagan did negotiate

Flashback: The Bush family's Nazi past...

House Republicans twist Obama's words on Israel

Russia Today accuses CNN of misusing its footage of South Ossetia ruins

9-11 Commission reconvenes: slams Bush

Cheney aide was in Georgia just before war started

Putin thinks Cheney pushed for Georgia conflict to help McCain

Mukasey: Justice staffers won't be held accountable for breaking the law

White House wiretapped the late Benazir Bhutto, favored Musharraf

Bush family gushes on Rush Limbaugh:

"...important and excellent broadcasting..."
"...consider you a friend..."
"...our pal..."
"...a guy we really care for..."
"Proud of you, always"
"Do you see our man (Fox News President Roger) Ailes at all?"

Cheney considered false flag attack to provoke war with Iran

Judge to Karl Rove's citizen arresters: "It's about time"

Bush energy secretary repeats lie that there were not significant oil spills caused by Hurricane Katrina

Pentagon attempted to cover up KBR's negligence in electrocution of US soldier

Iraq War architect Richard Perle poised to get into the oil business...

Bush cronies tried to redefine 'carbon dioxide' to save power plants from emissions regulations

Former Chief Guantanamo Prosecutor: Military commissions "not justice"

Bush Homeland Security aide caught on tape offering high-level access for donations to Bush library...

Mukasey won't hold Justice Dept partisans accountable

McClellan: Cheney's in it for the oil

Former State Dept official: Hundreds of detainees died in US custody, at least 25 murdered

Army general: Bush has committed war crimes

Law school plans Bush Admin war crimes prosecution

Hundreds wrongfully held at Guantamo

Report: Withdrawal timetable necessary for Iraq stability

Senate GOP votes against troop funding

40,000 US troops diagnosed with PTSD since Iraq War began

Support our troops: Bush "strongly opposes" 0.5% pay raise for US military

Senate bows to Bush, preserves immunity for spying telecom companies

Bush committed at least 30 felonies in breaking FISA law...

House votes to give immunity to spying telecom companies

Iraq death toll "above highest estimates," above 655,000

Journalist: MSNBC, ABC corporate bosses pushed for stories selling Iraq War

Fox News suggests Obamas engage in a "terrorist fist jab"

Judge critical of Guantanamo trials dismissed

FBI concerned about Republican National Convention: recruits people to infiltrate "vegan potlucks," "investigate terrorist acts"

Bush lies about his sacrifice for Iraq War effort: hasn't actually given up golf

...looking forward to leaving office so he can email with his friends

...removed computer from Oval Office to avoid "record requests"

"Patriot Act Lite" making its way through Congress

UK police chief heading CIA rendition flight investigation found dead

McCain won't support Iraq oil audit

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaeda

McCain votes against ban on waterboarding, backs Bush veto

Flip flop: Watch McCain scold Romney for not ruling out waterboarding

"We don't torture": Bush vetoes ban on waterboarding

Flashback: Waterboarding results in death

House overwhelmingly passes bill that would allow US government to seize computers with pirated mp3s, videos...

...would create a new cabinet-level agency, copyright czar

...bill backed by entertainment giants

House closes doors to debate spying bill

How they voted: House fails to override Bush veto on torture ban

National Republican Congressional Committee treasurer embezzles up to $1 million

Iraq War costing American taxpayers $5.54 million per hour

"DC Madam" Palfrey found dead

Palfrey's condo manager on suicide note: "That is not her signature"

Palfrey: "...they will make it look like suicide."

Cheney may have been a client

Flashback: Cheney's prostitution problem

Hauls box of evidence to mother's before death...

BETRAY US: Petraeus promotion a sign of war with Iran?

Flashback: Whose Betrayal?

Report: Cookies more effective than waterboarding

Obama Administration files petition to block Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo from entering US

Obama nominates superfund polluter lawyer to run DOJ environment division

US air strikes kill over 100 Afghan civilians, residents demand troop withdrawal

Torture memo author Bybee personally lobbying members of Congress

Bush aides pressure Justice Dept to water down ethics report on torture memo authors

Powell aide: torture helped build Iraq War case

Abu Ghraib guards to appeal conviction: Torture memos prove they were 'scapegoats for Bush'

Private waterboarding contractors billed taxpayers $1,000 per day

Study: Churchgoers more likely to support torture

US soldiers in Afghanistan evangelize Afghans:
Distribute Bibles, "Hunt people for Jesus"

...Military denies

Air Force One photo op cost nearly $330,000

Pharmaceuticals benefit from flu panic: 15 million doses of bird flu vaccine expired

Obama negotiating exceptions to Iraq withdrawal deadline...

...no plans to close Baghdad bases housing 25,000 troops

Blackwater still in Iraq, gets $22.2 million contract from State Department to stay through the summer

Afghanistan veteran tells Congress:
War was a big mistake, warns against troop surge

Obama releases Bush torture memos

...does not support investigation, prosecution

UN torture expert: CIA exemption illegal

...torture architect still at CIA

...military agency warned against torture in 2002

Obama expands Bush defense of warrantless wiretaps

...invokes states secrets defense

A review of Obama's first 100 days:
Looks like Bush!

Obama breaks records for corporate welfare

Nader: Where's my Change?

Federal Reserve has been sending money to foreign banks for over a year...

Leaked memo: Pentagon knowingly exposed US soldiers to toxic waste under Bush

White House claims House GOP members asked for Obama's autograph during stimulus talks

Poll: 1 in 4 voters believe Bush committed war crimes

Domestic spying program targetted journalists, bloggers

Bush claims No Child Left Behind "liberated" American children

Former White House counter-terrorism official: Bush has not saved US lives

Cheney: If the President does it, it's not illegal

Pentagon executives get $30,000 bonuses

Suit claims Halliburton subsidiary KBR exposed troops to unsafe water, food, fumes

...Indiana troops sue KBR for chemical exposure

US interrogator: Bush's torture policies have caused more American deaths than 9/11

Bush's last-minute "fire sale": will auction off 50,000 acres for drilling

White House approves measure to encourage mountaintop mining

White House pressured entertainment industry to produce pro-war propaganda

Secret order allows US military to raid militants anywhere in the world

Shell negotiates for 25-year oil monopoly in southern Iraq

Bush's parting gift: lifting consumer protection and environmental regulations

Bush Administration contests status of 200,000 Ohio voters

US air raid in Syria kills eight

...witness says at least two Syrian villagers detained

...Syria demands apology, compensation

...US faces international condemnation

..."terrorist agression"

...Syria closes US school, cultural center

...may shut down US embassy in Damascus

Charges dropped against five Guantanamo prisoners

...Pentagon to renew charges

...CIA officers might be put on trial in Britain over torture allegations

Taxpayers to pay $46,790 for portrait of Rumsfeld

Bush issues two more presidential signing statements, can now bypass more than 1,100 laws

Revealed: White House abused domestic spying program

...US soldiers' "phone sex" and "pillow talk" recorded, passed around

...data collected on Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders

...eavesdropped on journalists routinely

New US intelligence report:
'victory' not certain in Iraq

Memo leaked: Bush had plans to ignite Iraq War with decoy UN plane...

Bush had no plan to catch bin Laden after 9-11

Gonzales: Bush, worried about legality of wiretapping program, personally sent him to Ashcroft's hospital room for signature

...late night visit, Ashcroft heavily medicated

Rice, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft knew about US torture as early as 2002

Echoes of Iraq War: White House claims bailout will pay for itself

Maliki suggests Bush stalling withdrawal to help McCain

Military unit moved from Iraq to US to "help with civil unrest and crowd control"

White House illegally deletes over 10 million emails

At last minute, Bush bars press from financial meeting

Leaked US-Iraq agreement reveals plans to keep US troops and bases in Iraq indefinitely

Over 200 malnourished, diseased prisoners found in secret Basra prison...

Bush secretly ordered special ops troops into Pakistan

Woodward: Bush "failed to lead" on Iraq, was not involved in meetings on the surge

..."I got other things to do"

...Condi Rice, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Generals Casey and Abizaid, Rumsfeld advised against the surge

...Joint Chiefs almost revolted in 2006

...General Casey: Bush doesn't understand the Iraq War, called Baghdad a "troop sump"

Karl Rove met with Bush almost weekly, despite retirement

Rice: Military force "not the way to deal in the 21st century"

Bush admin continues to spread baseless rumors about Iran

Mukasey appoints torture-backer as DOJ Chief of Staff

White House knew Iraq had no WMD, ordered CIA to forge intelligence

Injured vets group cancels Cheney speech

...Cheney demanded vets be sequestered for two hours prior to speech

...would have barred them from leaving until his speech is over...

McClellan: White House gave Fox News talking points

2002 Justice dept memo revealed: It's not torture if the torturer believes "in good faith" that harsh methods will not cause "prolonged mental harm"

Karl Rove accused of threatening GOP operative to "take the fall" for 2004 election fraud in Ohio

Bush flips: agrees to a "general time horizon" for Iraq withdrawal

Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak

Turkey admits cooperation with Iran

Iraq Paliamentarian: 70% of Iraqis want US to withdraw...

Secret plan revealed to keep Iraq under US control...

...50 military bases

...control of Iraq's airspace

...legal immunity for US contractors, troops

...would allow the US to strike at any country from inside Iraq

US withholding funds from Iraq, pressuring government to accept plan

Bush: Iraq War will "take forty years"

..."I don't care if it created more enemies"

...decision to go to war not based on any long-term strategy for the mideast

McClellan book prompts Congress to call for the release of Bush/Cheney testimony in CIA leak investigation

Australia pulls out of Iraq

Australian PM Rudd: Bush abused intelligence to sell war

Manson prosecutor outlines case for prosecuting Bush for murder...

Coalition of the willing?
US paid allies to participate in Iraq invasion

McClellan: Bush misled US into Iraq War, directed administration to out CIA agent

BETRAY US: Petraeus "happy to" participate in Pentagon propaganda campaign

The Hollywood Left? Hollywood's role in Pentagon propaganda

Treatment of children in War on Terror amounts to war crimes...

US essentially waging nuclear war in Iraq...

Brand new torture tactic: not waterboarding, but "water treatment"

US interrogators do China's dirty work in Guantanamo

Rice defends Iran policy as "successful"

Bush Admin on hypocritical foreign policy: would "rather be right than consistent"

Bush promises to give enriched uranium to Saudi Arabia

Israeli official: Bush planning to attack Iran before term is over

...White House denies

US plane violates Venezuelan airspace

...Pentagon confirms

US won't support cluster bomb ban

Bush admin intended to spark media frenzy about Iranian weapons in Iraq

...US weapons experts:
There are no Iranian weapons in Iraq

Air Force aims for "full control" of "any and all" computers

Former Military Intel officer: U.S. listed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad as a target prior to killing journalists in 2003 attack

Pentagon analyist-propogandists made over 4,500 media appearances

Former State Dept. officials: Bush Admin. ignored Iraq corruption

...Ambassador Crocker either "negligent" or "intentionally misleading"

The facts about Petraeus' fog of war..

U.S. deploys more than 43,000 troops unfit for combat

Cheney: Baghdad's Disneyland-style amusement park is evidence that things are going "swimmingly" in Iraq

Iraqi military orders Sadr City residents to evacuate

Bush Administration ramps up pressure on Iran

Maliki disagrees with Bush/Petraeus, says U.S. troops should leave

Bush calls for end to Iraq troop withdrawals (as if they ever began)

All-day curfew imposed in Baghdad

White House torture memo gives green light for cutting, biting, scalding...

National Lawyers Guild calls for disbarment of memo author Yoo

Historian labels Bush "biggest thug" to occupy White House

Bush "envious" of soldiers' "exciting," "romantic" mission in Afghanistan

Iraq War costs reach $3 trillion

Perino "under strict instructions," will be fired if she talks to press about the falling dollar

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Pentagon Iraq memos to Bush contained Bible verses

Single-payer health care missing from Senate hearings

...single-payer advocates arrested

Wells Fargo needs $15 billion more from taxpayers

...Bank of America needs $34 billion more

Top-paid CEOs in 2008: Four of top ten subsidized by taxpayers

Senate kills foreclosure bill, Banks celebrate

...Durbin: Banks "own" US Congress

...Finance, insurance, real estate interests paid $42 million to lobby Congress

Why recession is not so bad

National Security: Air pollution threatens 60% of Americans

Geithner's love affair with Wall Street..

Obama expected to appoint Fannie Mae CEO to run bailout..

Wall Street pay bouncing back..

Bailed out banks shipping thousands of jobs overseas..

GM gets $2 billion more from taxpayers

Merrill Lynch uses $2.62 billion in tax dollars for bonuses, 22 times AIG bonuses...

JPMorgan Chase to spend US tax dollars on new jets, luxury aircraft hangar

AIG spends $218 million in US tax dollars to pay executive bonuses

Bailed-out banks raise interest rates for late credit card payments

Bank of America uses taxpayer bailout on $10 million for Super Bowl festivities

...is negotiating a Yankees sponsorship

...Bailed-out Citibank has giant Mets sponsorship

Israel using white phosphorus against Gazans

With economy in shambles, Congress gives itself a raise

Merril Lynch chief fights for $10 million bonus

Automakers spent $65 million on lobbying, political contributions in 2008

AIG to double, triple salaries of senior managers

Taxpayers to bail out Citigroup

Fed refuses to disclose recipients of $2 trillion in federal loans

...bailout package to save banks $140 billion in taxes

American Express requests $3.5 billion bailout

FDA: 90% of baby formula contains melamine

...Hairspray deemed unsafe for pregnant women

Poll: 23% of Texans think Obama is a Muslim

Exxon Mobil posts biggest quarterly profit ever

Alaska Senator Ted Stevens convicted on all counts of corruption

20% of Colorado voters purged from rolls

...50,000 Georgia voters' registrations in question, thousands purged

...Voting machines malfunction in
Florida, West Virginia

...machines flip votes in Tennessee

...votes flipped in Texas, Missouri

...same problem on two different voting machine brands

...ballots thrown out in Texas

...thrown out in Virginia, Georgia

...New Mexico GOP sued for voter intimidation

Georgia continues to attack South Ossetia

WV voting machines switching early Obama votes to McCain

Confusing ballots not being counted in NC

Fox News hires disgraced reporter Judith Miller

...hires Glen Beck

Bush Administration pressures PBS not to run torture documentary until term is over...

...watch documentary here

Chavez mocks "leftist" Bush for bank nationalization

Ron Marlett teaches Sally Kern a thing or two

Former OK governor Frank Keating calls Obama "a guy of the street"

Fox guards henhouse: former Goldman-Sachs executive responsible for oversight of bailout spending

...US retirement savings lose $2 trillion in 15 months

...Dow continues to fall

...AIG executives celebrate bailout with lavish retreat

House approves bailout, Dow Jones plunges

...credit still tight

...national debt tops $10 trillion

...world markets tank

...US stocks down

Kucinich: "We're back to taxation without representation"

...We had alternatives

Paul: Bailout guarantees a depression

Wells Fargo acquring Wachovia for
$15.1 billion

Wachovia faced 'silent' bank run,
FDIC forced sale

Man dies after being tasered by police

Pelosi paid husband with PAC funds

Naysayers in House win bailout vote

Kucinich: "Too much money in too short of time, going to too few people..."

Paul: Bailout is welfare, socialism for the rich...

Kaptur: "The people pushing this deal are the very same ones who are responsible for the implosion..."

Many economists say bailout not needed

Harvard economics prof: bailouts aren't the answer

Bloomberg analyist: $700 billion could balloon to $5 trillion

Washington Mutual siezed by Fed, largest takeover yet...

Ron Paul proposes legislation to abolish the federal reserve

Paulson's former firm one of the biggest beneficiaries of bailout plan

Pelosi, 50 other members of Congress benefit from Bush's bailout package

...could push US debt to post-WWII levels

...would crush dollar

...plan would bar review from "any court of law or any administrative agency"

...a historic swindle

...Main Street backlash

...Wall Street's five biggest firms paid themselves $39 billion in bonuses for 2007

Congressional leaders "stunned" to hear that US financial system may break down in a matter of days...

...bailout could cost one trillion dollars

...US taxpayers to bail out foreign banks as well

...treasury has offered $125 billion to banks outside of the US

Exclusive: Jim Inhofe accidentally implies that McCain, other Republicans don't love America...

In 2007, Inhofe lied about his reasons for supporting Iraq invasion

FDIC prepares for more bank failures

Limbaugh says Obama's nomination an example of affirmative action: "nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy"

Pelosi's why-haven't-you-impeached-Bush tour

...clashes with protesters over impeachment

FDIC takes 2 more banks, closes 28 branches

Sally Kern carries gun into OK state capitol, no homosexuals were harmed

Louisiana police officer kills man with taser

IndyMac Banks seized by federal regulators

Analysts: More banks will fail

Reporters: Major networks ignoring wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Veterans on the attack against Jim Inhofe

Lessons of the Tim Russert coverage

Video: Israeli terrorists beat Palestinians with bats

Pelosi's refusal to impeach enables Bush to trample Constitution

Ron Paul: Pelosi strikes down portion of bill requiring Congressional approval for attack on Iran... because "the leadership in Israel asked her to"

Former Congressman Ernest Istook was showered with gifts from Jack Abramoff

Missouri GOP Credentials Committee interrogates delegate, threatens to revoke credentials because of "support for Ron Paul"

GOP officials boast about cheating at state conventions to stop Ron Paul supporters

Texas preacher threatened with arrest for talking to boy scouts about the constitution

Some things you should know about cell phone spying...

Chris Matthews: MSNBC bosses are "pro-war"

Taser International sues medical examiners

puts chill on doctors...

Company plans to mine Grand Canyon

Report slams U.S. food safety

Are you unhappy? Is it because of consumer addiction?

Survivalism goes mainstream as U.S. economy tanks

Faulty NJ voting machines subpoenaed

NJ, OH voting errors 40,000% higher than allowed by law

Polonium found in cigarettes

Sally Kern has state investigate "death threats," investigators conclude there were no threats

Flashback: OKC Mayor Mick Cornett takes credit for Kern's victory against "the gay agenda"

Open Letter to Sally Kern

Sally Kern confirms hate speech against gays

Kern responds: "Shame on the person" who made speech public

Only on Coup by Memo:
the history behind Sally's "Kern-servative" crusade against gays

Ethanol not so green

EU officials: beware of new global warming cold war