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• False Prophets

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 127
  The misguided and the disingenuous are all over the news media speaking with the sincerity that we were used to seeing with ace chicken hawk, Dick Cheney. Senators Bluster and Fluster are speaking out daily with words like “dead on arrival”, or “I can not support that provision”. And from the side ...
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• KBR/Halliburton may have poisoned 100,000 Troops/Contractors/Etc in Iraq

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 142
  Defense contractor KBR may have exposed as many as 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancer-causing toxins by burning waste in open-air pits in Iraq, says a series of class-action lawsuits filed against the company.
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• World leaders in Berlin to mark fall of Wall

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 128
  Obama too busy making us the Socialist States of America to attend the 20th anniversary of the Berlin wall. World leaders past and present gathered in the German capital on Monday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Walls fall, which led to German reunification and hastened the demise of the Soviet ...
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• H1N1 vaccine: One big confusing mess

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 128
  But Obamacare will be efficient and cost effective. There are plenty of reasons to get upset about the H1N1 influenza situation. Over-optimistic projections of vaccine supply have given way to acknowledgements that by the time the vaccine is widely available, this wave of H1N1 infection may well be over. There have ...
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• Ft. Hood shooter was part of Obama’s Homeland Security transition team

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 128
  Or maybe he wasn’t. The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI), an entity that "creates innovative strategies and solutions to current and future threats to the nation," published a report entitled "Thinking Anew - Security Priorities for the Next Administration - Proceedings ...
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• Ft. Hood shooting proves we need more gun control laws

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 128
  What an asinine idea! This past week, we were sadly reminded that guns in the hands of the aggrieved or the disturbed can produce horrific consequences. Just as the nation dealt with the shock of an Army psychiatrist killing 13 and causing injury to another 38 on Thursday at Fort Hood in Texas, a disgruntled ...
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• FOX News Panel — Charles Krauthammer Says Barack Obama’s Attacks On Bush Are “Disgusting”

  
  USA | Barack Obama News — Authority: 139
  (10.27.09) — Award-winning columnist rips “child-like” president for Obama’s continued, unseemly and disingenuous attacks on his predecessor…. Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
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• The character and temperment of James Forrestal - Americas first Sec of Defense

  
  Opinione — Authority: 125
  In the book Limits of Power The End of American Exceptionalism written by Andrew Bacevich , a man retired from the institution of the military and now a member of the academic community with a Ph D in American history, the author writes about the current political crisis in America and explains how some influential ...
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• Foreign Hackers Pulled Off ‘Electronic Pearl Harbor’ Under Bush/Cheney in 2007

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 718
  Last night CBS’ 60 Minutes aired a disturbing report on how the next big attack on America may come not via bombs or planes flying into buildings but via the internet, where skilled hackers can disrupt the nation’s energy grid, banking system, air traffic controls, etc. Steve Kroft reported that we are, more than ...
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• Cheney Now Remembers CIA-Related Information!!

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  By emptywheel emptywheel.firedoglake.com originally posted Friday Nov. 6, 2009 I’m not so much surprised that Cheney, once again, used a public speaking opportunity to bitch and moan that Eric Holder is nodding briefly (but very ambivalently) toward the requirement to investigate the use of torture. ...
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• The BBC’s Jeremy Paxman On Iraq — “We Were Hoodwinked”

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  by MediaLens DissidentVoice.org In an interview last week, Jeremy Paxman — leading interviewer on BBC 2’s flagship “Newsnight” program — claimed that he had been “hoodwinked” by US government propaganda prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Paxman commented: As far as I personally was ...
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• FBI Interrogators Argued in 2002 That ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Techniques Were Illegal and Ineffective

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 782
  As former Vice President Dick Cheney and some Republican lawmakers continue to debate whether torture works and was a legitimate interrogation technique during the Bush administration, it’s almost jaw-dropping to read some of the memos that were written by the real experts on interrogation techniques in the U.S. ...
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• Now, Italy Must Gird for the Repercussions Over CIA Convictions: La Stampa of Italy

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 729
  Judge Oscar Magi: Repercussions over his decision to convict 23 CIA agents of kidnapping on Italian soil are already being felt. Italians today may be proud that their system of justice hasn’t spared intelligence agents of the world’s mightiest power, but the children of ancient Rome are well-acquainted with the ...
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• Sarah Palin and the Dysfunctional Political Class

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 781
  She may have been one of the most qualified members of a presidential ticket in a decade.
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• Dick Cheney: Life After The Oil Crash (.net)

  
  The Frager Factor — Authority: 140
  "Robert Hirsch on CNBC: Gasoline will soon be $12-to-$15 per gallon"Crediting Dick Cheney with making the early observations that formed this theory, LifeAfterTheOilCrash.net urges vistors to "deal with reality before it deals with you" opening with the words: "Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon. This ...
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• News Shots 11/07/09

  
  Johnny No One: I Hope You're Happy — Authority: 116
  Appendix fails to assassinate Glenn Beck The nation asks doctors to put it back for another try. The Golden State isn’t worth it After analysis, the studies find that the standard of living in the high tax, high social program, big government state of California, life isn’t as good as in the  no taxes, ...
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• Sarah Palin and Barney Frank Walk Into a Dinner Gala

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Talk about an odd couple! Former Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be joining U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, the longest serving openly LGBT member of Congress, as headliners for the Gridiron Club winter dinner . No word on whether theyll sing a version of "Endless Love" together. The ...
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• The Evil Empire

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 543
  By Paul Craig RobertsThe US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that  “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate.  Voters will vent their frustrations over their impotence on ...
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• Cheesehead hat is bigger news than Obama’s speech

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 128
  Why did Obama escape the oval office to go to Madison? Liberian immigrant Mansfield Neblett just wanted to wear his cheesehead hat to President Barack Obamas speech at a Wisconsin middle school. The first roadblock were U.S. Secret Service agents. They initially told him the bright yellow hat in the shape of a ...
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• Global Warming News: Dog owners killing the planet

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 128
  And it is not a PETA study that says pets have bigger carbon footprint than SUV. In "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required to feed a dog -- including the amount of land needed to feed the animals that go into its food -- give it ...
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