Archive for August, 2007
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
What does it say about our infrastructure when we can't even afford to keep up landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge and instead plan to sell them in part through corporate sponsorships?Read the full story
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Consider what happened on Aug. 14. Four jihadist suicide-bombers blew themselves up in two Iraqi villages, killing more than 500 Kurdish civilians — men, women and babies — who belonged to a tiny pre-Islamic sect known as the Yazidis. And what was the Bush team’s response to this outrage? Virtual ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
It’s time to end the game. It’s time to tell the big corporations and the lobbyists who have been running things for too long that their time is over. It’s time to challenge politicians to put the American people’s interests ahead of their own calculated political interests, to look the ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Mr. Wood said the current American programs for eradication, interdiction and alternative livelihoods should be intensified, but he added that spraying poppy crops with herbicide remained “a possibility.” Afghan and British officials have opposed spraying, saying it would drive farmers into the arms of the Taliban.Read the full story
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Floods that swept across North Korea earlier this month killed at least 600 people, double the previously known toll, the country’s official news agency said Saturday.Read the full story
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Is this the culture of life Bush and the GOP are promoting? U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
In another text Amy defended husband Blake, and told Perez: "He did not and never has hurt me. He has such a hard time and he so supportive... He is an amazing man who saved my life again and got cut badly for his troubles. "All he get's is horrible ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
"Rove is using his sneaky, underhanded tactics to try and trick Democrats into rallying around a candidate who won't be as strong as John in the general election," Trippi added.Read the full story
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Countrywide Financial Corp. said Bank of America Corp. made a $2 billion investment in the company Wednesday as the nation’s largest mortgage lender tries to weather a credit crunch that’s rocked Wall Street and the mortgage industry.Read the full story
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Not that they're worried or anything. But the White House evidently leaves little to chance when it comes to protests within eyesight of the president. As in, it doesn't want any.
A White House manual that came to light recently gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of "deterring ...
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