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John McCain and the making of a financial crisis - Keating Economics
Sioux Falls :: SD :: USA | Oct 06, 11:10 AM | Political News
Posted by
Roxanne Weber 
A new video, out at noon eastern today, exposes John McCain's association with Charles Keating, chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, and the scandals that rocked the banking world in the late 80s and early 90s. Mr. McCain...
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Tear gas fired on protesters at Thai Parliament
Bangkok :: Thailand | Oct 06, 9:59 PM | Political News
Posted by
wisekwai
In the first show of force against the anti-government demonstrations in Bangkok, dozens of riot police fired tear gas to break up a blockade by 4,000 protesters on the Parliament building early this morning. At least three people were seriously...
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evilOpinion: McCain's Attack Strategy - Does Anyone Care?
Washington :: DC :: USA | Oct 06, 8:36 AM | Political News
Posted by
evilopinions
Indulge me in sports analogy, since it's a Monday morning. In football, when your team is facing a tough opponent, you watch game film of other teams facing them to see what they did that worked. Then you take those...
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The GREAT debate USA
Black Diamond :: WA :: USA | Oct 06, 12:34 PM | Political News
Posted by
Waqas 
According to some Critics debate between Palin and Biden was a waste of time. It was better to see two drunk persons jumping for nothing. A critic said that we expect same crap from John McCain & Barack Obama because...
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Bush aides win delay for congressional testimony
Washington :: DC :: USA | Oct 06, 1:08 PM | Political News
Source: Washington Post
A federal appeals court has ruled that two of President Bush's top aides do not have to cooperate with a congressional investigation about the firings of nine federal prosecutors in 2006...Court of Appeals in Washington says that time will run...
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PKK 'holding two Turkish troops'
Ankara :: Turkey | Oct 06, 10:13 AM | Political News
Source: Al Jazeera
The Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) has said it is holding two Turkish soldiers who went missing on Friday after its fighters killed 15 Turkish soldiers in an attack staged partly from Iraqi soil. Ahmed Danees, a PKK spokesman, said: "We have two Turkish...
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Supreme Court opens with 'light' cigarette dispute
Washington :: DC :: USA | Oct 06, 2:52 PM | Political News
Source: Contra Costa Times
His argument tracked a recent trend in the high court holding that products subjected to federal regulations are shielded from lawsuits filed under state law. In nearly every state, consumers who say they were fooled or cheated by a product...
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Pressure on to hit renewable energy targets
London :: United Kingdom | Oct 06, 6:04 PM | Political News
Source: The Scotsman
EW targets to increase renewable forms of energy were announced by the First Minister yesterday. The Scottish Government wants to see a tenfold increase in the amount of heat generated by renewable energy sources such as biomass, Alex Salmond said....
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Jury Hears Audio in Stevens Trial
Allen :: TX :: USA | Oct 06, 11:25 AM | Political News
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Their close friendship battered by a federal corruption investigation, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, and a former oil company executive listened in court Monday as prosecutors played three tape-recorded phone conversations in which the two men expressed anguish and apprehension about...
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Negroponte, Crocker to head to Sulaimaniya (Voices of Iraq)
Baghdad :: Iraq | Oct 06, 4:18 PM | Political News
Source: Iraq Updates
Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will arrive in Sulaimaniya city this afternoon to discuss several issues with Iraqi officials, an official spokesperson said. “Negroponte and Crocker will be received by a number of senior local...
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