Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Inspired by the McCains' failure to pay taxes on their beach-front California condo, Jed Lewison of The Jed Report takes us on a Google Earth tour of the many McCain residences.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The number of civilians killed in fighting between insurgents and security forces in Afghanistan has soared by two-thirds in the first half of this year, to almost 700 people, a senior UN official said Sunday. The figures are a grim reminder of how the nearly seven-year war has failed ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are suing U.S. contractors in four states for alleged torture. The first complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Others are being filed in Detroit; Columbus, Ohio; and Greenbelt, Md.Read the full story
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Pretty consistent with his previous comments.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Foreign firms set to return after 36 years for developing Iraqi oil fields. The war appears to be a "success" to corporate interests!
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. Further, Hersh alleges that leading Democrats in Congress have been passively supportive in funding this effort. Via HuffPo, watch video
interview with Hersh
here.
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Via
HuffPo
: When you're poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you're rich, it's hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying. It's a lesson Cindy McCain learned the hard way when NEWSWEEK raised questions about an overdue property-tax bill on a La Jolla, Calif., ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The Onion seems to have come out for Pride week.
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
The buzz on "The New York City Waterfalls" was loud enough that a boatload of reporters chugged out into New York Harbor one recent steamy morning with the installation's artist, Olafur Eliasson, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg for a first, up-close look at the project: four cascades, ranging in height from ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Via
NewsJunk
: There's a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will be ice-free this summer, which would be a first in recorded history, a leading ice scientist says. The weather and ocean conditions in the next couple of weeks will determine how much of the sea ice will melt, and ...
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