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Bush Wants $1 Billion to Georgia for Attacking South Ossetia

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:43:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The NYT finally admits that Georgia was the aggressor:

"fighting that began on the night of Aug. 7 when Georgia tried to establish control [Ed. via military invasion] over a breakaway [i.e. independent for over a decade] region, South Ossetia, only to be driven back by Russian forces".

And to put that $1 billion figure in perspective the articles says:

The aid would dwarf the $63 million the United States provided to Georgia last year, roughly a third of it for training its soldiers, police officers and border guards. Excluding Iraq, the infusion would make Georgia one of the largest recipients of American foreign aid after Israel and Egypt.

That Dick Cheney was "sent" by Bush is indicative of the neocon agenda. Georgia did not attack without US or Israeli knowledge, but with their full support.

So in essence, the US is to pay $1billion to Georgia for a defeated military invasion and attempt to capture South Ossetia--i.e. for a proxy war.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

White House Unveils $1 Billion Georgia Aid Plan

BAKU, Azerbaijan — President Bush proposed $1 billion in humanitarian and economic assistance on Wednesday to help rebuild Georgia after its short, disastrous war with Russia last month

President Dmitri A. Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin have already complained that humanitarian supplies delivered by the American Navy and Air Force were a disguise for delivering new weapons

The initial money, Mr. Bush said in a statement, would be used to feed and shelter tens of thousands of Georgians displaced during the fighting that began on the night of Aug. 7 when Georgia tried to establish control over a breakaway region, South Ossetia, only to be driven back by Russian forces.

Ms. Rice said in Washington.

She also took the occasion to deride the Russian recognition of South Ossetia and the other breakaway Georgia region, Abkhazia,

Tags: georgia, south ossetia, nato, neoconservatives, bush, cheney

Fluff vs. Facts: Fact-Checking Sarah Palin

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:58:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What Sarah said during her RNC speech was VERY misleading. Conservatives especially should take note of her fiscal record on government spending before they jump up and down at their own Wonder Woman savior with her own stage-craft.

Trust is established on proof, not mere presentation and rhetoric. Even conservative Michael Savage is going after Palin and McCain as mere show horses, while the masses of the seduced and ear-tickled of the conservative naive get swept away by a little known governor who knows how to play to an audience, of men in particular, whose scandals and real "ethics" and "family values" are just now coming to light. Republicans are being tricked the most--and not for the first time--McCain loves it!

And about the Alaska plane that she put on Ebay...

Clip Source: www.samefacts.com

REALITY: PALIN WAS FOR THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE BEFORE SHE WAS AGAINST IT.

REALITY: UNDER PALIN, WASILLA GOVERNMENT SPENDING & DEBT SKYROCKETED.

Total Government Expenditures Increased 63 Percent Under Palin.

Palin Supported Increasing Wasilla Sales Tax From 2 to 2.5 Percent

Palin Left Behind Almost $19 Million In Long-Term Debt, Compared to None Before She Was Mayor.

PALIN: “It was the spirit that brought me to the governor’s office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau … when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good-ol’ boys network.”

Palin’s Oil & Gas Appointee Is Former Lobbyist for TransCanada.

Palin’s Former Chief of Staff is Stevens’ Campaign Manager.

As Mayor, Palin Hired a Washington Lobbyist to Help Get Earmarks for Wasilla – Lobbyist Was Former Chief of Staff for Indicted Senator Ted Stevens.

REALITY: PALIN HAS REPEATEDLY SUPPORTED TAX INCREASES

REALITY: PALIN IS CLOSE TO THE OIL INDUSTRY

February 2008: Palin Wouldn’t Endorse McCain

Tags: sarah palin, mccain, rnc speech

RNC: Secret Service Shakes Down Ron Paul Delegates

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:53:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is the neo-republican convention where fascism is evident as if McCain is President and the 1st amendment does not exist. See what we mean about the change in the Republican Party?

“You can’t bring that in here, this is Mc Cain territory”

-- RNC Security

Meanwhile the background music at some point is probably playing (like on Sean Hannity), "Let Freedom Ring...."

Clip Source: www.dailynewscaster.com

Secret Service confiscates books & buttons from Ron Paul delegates - Updated

Today at the Republican National Convention, as the Ron Paul Delegates were taking a picture in front of the model White House inside the Convention Center, they were surrounded by Secret Service which proceeded to search the bags of all the delegates. They took any and everything related to Ron Paul including signs, buttons, videos, slim jims, cards, even books.

Alternate Delegate Dennis Rothacker from Florida said “We were done taking the picture when Secret Service started walking into the room and surrounded us. There were about 30 of them. When they searched my bags they took my Ron Paul sign and turned a deaf ear to my complains, they just walked away.”

stopped by security which called on an obviously important higher up, who directed all the materials to be confiscated. She told him, and I quote “You can’t bring that in here, this is Mc Cain territory”

Tags: mccain, rnc, republican convention, ron paul, secret service

Bob Barr: The "Change" of the Republican Party

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:37:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Powerful. The neo-republican party exposed from a former republican who pushed to impeach Clinton. Barr's credibility from being a very influential republican Congressman, and earlier experience in the CIA, make his arguments formidable.

During the last 8 years republicans have left their own platform, especially regarding limited government and individual liberty which they once championed.

Listen on REAL audio beginning at 1:00:00 mark.

Despite much talk of democracy the Libertarian candidate is being excluded from debates from the two-party tyranny.

Ron Paul and Bob Barr are just two effective witnesses to the "change" of the republican party and the great danger to freedom it poses.

[Note: My posting of select Democracy Now excerpts is not necessarily an endorsement of all their philosophy and views, only of some of the facts and relevant news and interviews they have, usually entirely passed over by the MSM].

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Libertarian Presidential Candidate and Ex-Republican Rep. Bob Barr on Impeachment, Opening Up the Debates, and Why He Left the GOP

A decade ago, Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr was serving as a Republican congressman from Georgia and led the Republican drive to impeach President Bill Clinton. Since then he has become a vocal critic of the Republican Party, the war in Iraq and the erosion of civil liberties. Barr joins us in St. Paul. [includes rush transcript]

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BOB BARR: The Republican Party left me. I mean, the Republican Party of this early twenty-first century is a party that has no regard for individual liberty, that is focused dramatically on increasing the size, the scope, the power of the federal government, particularly in the executive branch.

This is a party that bears no relationship to the Republican Party of ages past.

Tags: republican party, gop, change, bob barr for president, libertarian, constitution, 2008 candidates

Scott Ritter Rips Obama and McCain on War Policy

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:51:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Powerful refutation of McCain and Obama's assessment of Iran and the "war on terrorism" in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the way it is being portrayed to the public. Democrats in particular should see that Obama and McCain's policies (now) are very close, and not based upon credible threats, much like Iraq. (Ritter is a republican and former Marine and the former UN weapons inspector in Iraq.)

If you listen on REAL video or audio his interview begins at the 42:10 mark.

This same podcast also includes excerpts from Ron Paul's counter-convention.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Fmr. UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter on the RNC, Joe Biden and the Possibility of an Attack on Iran

In these last few months of the Bush administration, as we continue to discuss the war in Iraq and the possibility of an attack on Iran, we turn to a man who was a UN weapons inspector inside Iraq in the 1990s: Scott Ritter. We speak with Ritter about Iran, Joe Biden’s role in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion and much more.

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Tags: obama, mccain, iran, war on terrorism, scott ritter, un weapons inspector

Google Chrome and Big Brother

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:39:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wow. Read this and it will raise your eyebrows and make you wonder about Google. This appears in the Money report for good reason. Anyone noticed all the government, even CIA contracts, that Google has obtained lately? Consider how the "love of money is the root of all sorts of evil", and that surveillance and security merchandisers are driving the changes in government, globally, toward more totalitarian population control and that Google increasingly holds all the data and technological means they want.

The public image of Google should change based upon this and other evidence as it moves closer toward the globalist corporations and the fascism they are enabling and building by partnering with governments for revenue while the people's liberties are increasingly trampled and power becomes consolidated.

Clip Source: www.abcnews.go.com

Is Google Turning Into Big Brother?

The Debut of Chrome, Google's New Browser, May Have Been Quiet for a Reason

Is Chrome, Google's new browser, part of an ambitious effort by Google to own all of the world's data?

(ABC News Photo Illustration)

While we're transfixed by the presidential election, in the world of high tech another duel between two well-funded, take-no-quarter candidates has just emerged … and in the long run the impact on our daily lives may be nearly as great -- and perhaps even sinister.

As you probably heard, on Monday -- that is, on a national holiday, when business announcements are almost never made -- Google rolled out Chrome, its new Web browser.

why would a company that knows it has a solid and newsworthy product on its hands intentionally dampen media coverage of it?

If Google pulls off this strategy, it will be the most valuable company on the planet. It will also be the scariest … and we should start worrying about that right now.

totalitarian) tendencies

Tags: google, big brother, surveillance, government contracts, globalism, fascism

Pakistan Furious Over U.S. Insurgency

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:56:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Everything that Bush accused Russia of (not respecting sovereignty of Georgia) suddenly does not apply.

Every invasion of Bush's imperial storm troopers (or under Clinton too for that matter, like Kosovo) is always justified, and any other country acting in self-defense or to defend their jurisdictions (e.g. Russia-S. Ossetia) is condemned.

And for you hypocritical democrats who want Obama, he already stated he would do the very same thing, invade Pakistan for the "war on terrorism"! (Objective commentary based on principle must spare none who violate it).

The hypocrisy is self evident, yet the MSM does not expose it.

The wars will NEVER end until the people make the government stop and refuse to support ANY leader who violates the very restrictive principles of just war and the Constitution.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Pakistanis furious over U.S.-led border raid

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is determined to defend its territorial integrity, the country's foreign minister said on Thursday, as anger mounted over a raid by U.S.-led troops on a remote border village.

The pre-dawn helicopter-borne ground assault on the village of Angor Adda on the Afghan border on Wednesday was the first known incursion into Pakistan by U.S.-led troops since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

Twenty people, including women and children were killed, officials said, and a new civilian government, more sensitive to public anger than the previous government, summoned the U.S. ambassador to lodge an angry protest.

Foreign Minister Shah Memood Qureshi said the raid was a shameful violation of rules of engagement agreed with U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.

"We will not compromise on any violation of our sovereignty," Qureshi told the National Assembly.

Tags: bush, pakistan, war on terorrism, national sovereignty

"The Sarah Palin Baby"- Her Baby or Her Daughter's?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:10:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If your governor was 7 or 8 months pregnant, wouldn't you know it? Watch Sarah Palin, supposedly 8 months pregnant, in this interview, in which she also consumes a latte and fudge (i.e. plenty of caffeine), something that doctors strongly urge pregnant mothers not to do. Does she look pregnant at all? (Interview used in video is from Alaska Podshow "Urban Hike with Sarah Palin" and the interviewer has blogged about this here).

Clip Source: news.ionlinephilippines.com

Also this youtube video titled “The Sarah Palin Baby”

[Video]

Tags: sarah palin, alaska governor, sarah palin's baby

Why McCain Picked Palin: Not Too Conservative

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:12:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: She was neither a Romney nor a Lieberman, and shored up his broken maverick image. "Conservative...but not an ideologue", per McCain's inner circle.

Ms. Palin, and not Mr. Pawlenty or Mr. Romney, would reinforce Mr. McCain’s self-image, an adviser said. She had a reputation as a reformer in Alaska, she hunted and fished, and she had once belonged to a union. Just as crucial, Ms. Palin, 44, was beloved by the party’s religious base but did not come off as shrill. “She’s conservative,” Mr. Black said, “but she’s not an ideologue.”

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON — In the end, the choice of his running mate said more about Senator John McCain and his image of himself than it did about Sarah Palin, the little-known governor of Alaska whose selection has shaken up the presidential race.

McCain had wanted to name as his running mate his good friend Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrat turned independent. But by the end of last weekend, the outrage from Christian conservatives over the possibility that Mr. McCain would fill out the Republican ticket with Mr. Lieberman, a supporter of abortion rights, had become too intense to be ignored.

McCain winnowed his list to five or six finalists. They included, a McCain adviser said, Mr. Pawlenty, Mr. Romney, Mr. Lieberman, Ms. Palin and Tom Ridge

McCain then asked his inner circle — Mr. Salter, Rick Davis, Steve Schmidt and Charlie Black — to provide him with assessments of each

“She’s conservative,” Mr. Black said, “but she’s not an ideologue.”

Palin still sounded surprised

Tags: palin, mccain, 2008 candidates, republicans

Palin Pledges Allegiance to AIPAC--Stamped "Approved"

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:00:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From "Alaska First", and by-passing "America First", Palin goes straight to "Israel First". By consequence and definition then she can no longer be considered a "reformer". Like McCain, Obama, Pelosi, Hillary, and every other former 2008 candidate, the ultimate test of worthiness is not the American people but to the overbearing Lobby of a foreign government that sets the course of foreign policy in alliance with the neoconservatives--ensuring a continuance of the phony "war on terrorism"--to "make the world safe for Democracy" through wars for "regime change".

How quickly Washington transforms everyone, even from the remotest states, by coercing conformity to global democratic agenda and blind allegiance to Israel through the muscle of The Lobby. This trumps all other considerations, is the hallmark of foreign policy (and why wars never cease), which also in turn has consequences on the economy (high gas prices, national debt, value of money) and domestic policy as well.

Clip Source: firstread.msnbc.msn.com

From NBC/NJ's Matthew E. Berger
MINNEAPOLIS -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin today met with the board of directors of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, NBC/NJ has confirmed.

The meeting took place inside Palin's hotel, sources said.

A campaign official would not say who asked for the meeting, but said it was geared towards putting the American Jewish community at ease over her understanding of US-Middle East relations.

Palin, joined by Sen. Joe Lieberman, expressed her "heartfelt support for Israel" and spoke of the threats it faces from Iran and others, the campaign official said.

"We had a good productive discussion on the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and we were pleased that Gov. Palin expressed her deep, personal, and lifelong commitment to the safety and well-being of Israel," AIPAC spokesman Josh Block said.

would work to expand and deepen the strategic partnership

Tags: sarah palin, mccain, obama, 2008 candidates, israel, aipac, neoconservatives, war, middle east

Hurricane Evacuees Tagged & Tracked with Barcoded Bracelets

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:37:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The price of depending on government salvation is slavery, a forfeiture of all your liberties. Make due for yourself instead. Explain why evacuees MUST be tagged and tracked?

Blackwater has already contracted for Martial Law policing as well (and advertised in an Aug. 29 email).

Clip Source: www.tylerpaper.com

First Gustav Evacuees Begin Arriving In Tyler

Before leaving Beaumont, evacuees have already been entered into an intricate computer system that will keep track of them once they make it to Tyler.

“They already have a bracelet with a barcode,” Captain Akin said. “They will walk through the scanner and it automatically loads into the computers. We have a list of where they need to go.”

“With Hurricane Katrina, we had no system. Families were calling wanting to know where family members were and we had no way of finding out. This way, we have a better way of tracking where people are going.”

Tyler will be a hub for several thousand Hurricane Gustav evacuees as city officials enact its emergency response plan, and so far, it seems as though early relief efforts have been fluid.

Tags: homeland security, fema, surveillance, hurricane gustav

Israel Behind Georgia's Invasion of S. Ossettia

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:19:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This in Israeli press, but not in the U.S. MSM. Of course it was a Hezbollah leader who has exposed this truth and of course will be denounced. But the facts remain true and easily verified. Israel (and the neocons, Cheney had a man in Georgia prior to the war) were behind Georgia's invasion (and murder of civilians) of South Ossetia who declared independence from Georgia over a decade ago.

What the Hezbollah leader says (mocking Israel) is true, they stopped Israel's (unjust) war against Lebanon (bombing 70 percent of the country's infrastructure in a "disproportionate response") which was part of a neocon-Israeli plan for a "new middle east". Russia stopped the neocon-Israeli plans for the recapture of Ossetia.

Clip Source: www.haaretz.com

Nasrallah: 'Failed' IDF generals caused Georgia defeat in war

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday asserted that "failed" Israeli generals had caused Georgia's defeat in its current war with Russia.

"Israel exported failed generals in order to train the Georgian armed forces, including general Gal Hirsch, and we all know that the Georgian army was defeated by the Russian forces," Nasrallah said in a speech to mark two years since the end of the Second Lebanon War.

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Gal Hirsch was the commander of the Israel Defense Forces' Galilee Brigade when reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were abducted by Hezbollah on the northern border, sparking the Second Lebanon War. He operates a privately-owned Israeli military contractors that recently trained Georgian security forces .

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Nasrallah: Lebanon war crushed U.S. vision for 'new Middle East'

Tags: georgia, russia, israel, south ossetia, war, neoconservatives

Hurricane Gustav: 2 Million Evacuate New Orleans Area

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:13:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: After Katrina, now this. Live radio coverage here. Last night they said it could strengthen to category 4 or 5 with winds up to 150 mph and a deluge of rain. Recent reports say it may not as it now remains now at Category 3 level. The warnings made it clear that everyone in New Orleans should evacuate, and the massive exodus is already under way.

Clip Source: www.wwl.com

1.9 Million Flee Gustav In Southern La.
Heeding the call of officials, or perhaps their own best judgment, 1.9 million people - 95 percent of an expected 2 million - evacuated southern Louisiana as Hurricane Gustav approached, according to state police officials.

Nagin pleased with evacuation efforts
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says the City is emptying out and it appears most residents are heeding the call to evacuate.

Gustav nears, may not strengthen
Hurricane Gustav is set to crash ashore tomorrow, maybe as early as lunchtime.
The storm still moving quickly, at about 18 miles per hour, and that's been increasing through the afternoon. as the sustained winds have been decreasing. "

Tags: hurricane gustav, new orleans, weather

Missing Launch Devices at Minot AFB

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:41:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The number of odd circumstances at Minot Air Force Base which was the center of attention after the discovery of mis-shipped nuclear weapons without proper authorization is real interesting. This is about the 5th news report, which follows up on some of the previous oddities.

The Air Force also announced Thursday that three ballistic missile crew members from the Minot Air Force Base who fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices have been sanctioned and "decertified from missile operations."

See Minot AFB Nuclear Mishap Oddities

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

Air Force Searches For Lost Launch Devices

Three Crew Members Removed Over Allegations Of Sex Abuse And Equipment Tampering

The bomber wing at the Minot base has been under scrutiny for the past year, after nuclear missiles were mistakenly flown to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. (USAF)

(AP) The Air Force says at least three ballistic missile crew members at bases in North Dakota and Montana have been taken off the job while the military investigates allegations ranging from sexual abuse to missing classified components used in underground launch control centers.

The Air Force announced Thursday that an officer who earlier worked at Minot Air Force Base's 91st Space Wing notified the military in May that he and another officer had lied about destroying classified launch components in July 2005.

"They were supposed to destroy them and they signed documents saying they destroyed them," said Maj. Laurie A. Arellano, an Air Force spokeswoman. Instead, she said, "they took them home."

Tags: minot afb, nuclear missiles, minot oddities

NYPD audio clip: 9/11 "remote control plane", Truck with Airplane Mural Detained

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:41:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This NYPD scanner audio from 9/11 reports a remarkable incident that news has never covered, that they stopped a truck that day that had a mural of a plane diving into New York City, as well as "remote controlled plane" clearly mentioned in the audio. (See audio clip link at bottom above).

Also detained earlier were the "dancing Israeli" art students who were high-fiving each other during the tragedy, even later admitted their Mossad connections and that they were sent to "record the incident" (i.e. foreknowledge). Even Democracy Now here discussed that documented incident.

The full article, and the source it links to is worth consideration. The source linked also looks in depth into the transcript of this scanner, and whether the audio is authentic, etc.

911 was good for Israel

--former PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud Party, friend of Larry Silverstein (WTC lease-h

Clip Source: onlinejournal.com

A new 9/11 clue

By Jerry Mazza

Online Journal Associate Editor

Recently, an email drifted in about an article I wrote, What were the Mossad with fraudulent New Zealand Passports doing in Iraq?

The writer said, “I’ve known about this for some time -- that the Mossad was involved in murdering our troops in a variety of methods to keep them there so we could ‘finish’ the job by destroying Syria and Iran. For years now I’ve suspected and now know for sure the Mossad had a lot to do with the 9/11 attack on the WTC. The attached mp3 is a recording of NYPD radio transmissions on 9/11. Listen from the 3-minute mark almost to the end. This was never reported in the media.”

The recording is titled, “The WTC-10-5-the-message-about-the-remote-controlled-plane.”

the words “remote controlled-plane” bump through

assert quite clearly again that “there’s a big truck on King Street with the mural of an airplane painted on it diving into New York City and exploding.”

Clip Source: culhavoc.blogsome.com

audio here

Tags: 9/11, israel, mossad, nypd, dancing israelis

Clipmarks | blueridge's clips

Bush Wants $1 Billion to Georgia for Attacking South Ossetia

Fluff vs. Facts: Fact-Checking Sarah Palin

RNC: Secret Service Shakes Down Ron Paul Delegates

Secret Service confiscates books & buttons from Ron Paul delegates - Updated

Bob Barr: The "Change" of the Republican Party

Libertarian Presidential Candidate and Ex-Republican Rep. Bob Barr on Impeachment, Opening Up the Debates, and Why He Left the GOP

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Scott Ritter Rips Obama and McCain on War Policy

Fmr. UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter on the RNC, Joe Biden and the Possibility of an Attack on Iran

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Google Chrome and Big Brother

Is Google Turning Into Big Brother?

The Debut of Chrome, Google's New Browser, May Have Been Quiet for a Reason

Pakistan Furious Over U.S. Insurgency

Pakistanis furious over U.S.-led border raid

"The Sarah Palin Baby"- Her Baby or Her Daughter's?

Why McCain Picked Palin: Not Too Conservative

Palin Pledges Allegiance to AIPAC--Stamped "Approved"

Hurricane Evacuees Tagged & Tracked with Barcoded Bracelets

Israel Behind Georgia's Invasion of S. Ossettia

Hurricane Gustav: 2 Million Evacuate New Orleans Area

Missing Launch Devices at Minot AFB

Air Force Searches For Lost Launch Devices

Three Crew Members Removed Over Allegations Of Sex Abuse And Equipment Tampering

NYPD audio clip: 9/11 "remote control plane", Truck with Airplane Mural Detained

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