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Matt Welch, of Reason.com, provides a history of McCain and his move to the militant neocons.

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=204



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The revelation, based on recruitment documents and interviews with US military trainers obtained by the Financial Times, could add fuel to accusations by Vlad­imir Putin, Russian prime minister, last month that the US had "orchestrated" the war in the Georgian enclave.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bdffd9a6-7b71-11dd-b839-000077b07658.html



US unloads aid to Georgia, Russians eye every move

As nearby Russian forces watched intently, a U.S. Navy ship unloaded 17 tons of humanitarian aid to a strategic Georgian port that was devastated in last month's war between Russia and Georgia.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/06/news/Georgia-Russia.php



Kremlin-watchers warn of direct U.S.-Russia clash

In the aftermath of last month's war between Russia and U.S.-backed Georgia, Kremlin-watchers in Moscow are worried that Russia and America are closer to direct confrontation than at any point since the end of the Cold War.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/51913.html



Russia backed over Georgia, angry at US

Russia has won backing over Georgia from six heads of ex-Soviet states and hit out at the United States for sending a navy flagship to a key Georgian port where its troops have been patrolling.

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Cheney says Russia's actions in Georgia an 'affront to civilized standards'.

He also says NATO enlargement must continue as the allies see fit, despite Russia's...

http://www.mytelus.com/ncp_news/article.en.do?pn=world&articleID=2990114



Russia a nation 'to be reckoned with'

"Russia will never allow anyone to infringe upon the lives and dignity of its citizens. Russia is a nation to be reckoned with from now on," he said.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=68675&sectionid=351020602



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Cheney to Peres: Russia supplies weapons to terrorists

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney met with President Shimon Peres on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti forum on the edge of Italy's Lake Como on Saturday, telling the Israeli leader that Russia is selling arms to Damascus and Iran with the clear knowledge that they are being channeled to Hezbollah and terror groups in Iraq.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1018583.html



Allegations of Israeli Plan to Attack Iran from Georgia

Deputy speaker of the Russian parliament, Sergei Markov, seems to have alleged an even more aggressive plan on Israel's part.

http://www.juancole.com/2008/09/allegations-of-israeli-plan-to-attack.html


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Jon Stewart

Video

On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart hit Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly with damning evidence of their hypocrisy regarding Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20704.htm

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Frank Rich: Palin and McCain's Shotgun Marriage

Frank Rich, The New York Times: "Given the actuarial odds that could make Palin our 45th president, it would be helpful to know who this mystery woman actually is. Meanwhile, two eternal axioms of our politics remain in place. Americans vote for the top of the ticket, not the bottom. And in judging the top of the ticket, voters look first at the candidates' maiden executive decision, their selection of running mates. Whatever we do and don't know about Palin's character at this point, there is no ambiguity in what her ascent tells us about McCain's character and potential presidency."

http://www.truthout.org/article/palin-and-mccains-shotgun-marriage



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By Angie Riedel

The US government now confronts every minor inconvenience with brutality and force. With lies. With tricks. With deceit. With unrivaled hypocrisy. It speaks a scripted and rehearsed dialog of illogic and insults. It changes the meanings of words and uses those words as weapons to crush, to silence and oppress, to steal what it wants.

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Randy Scheunemann: How McCain Sees the World

McCain recognizes there are certain people in the world whom you can't use any word other than evil to describe.

By Adam B. Kushner

KUSHNER: Does McCain divide the world into good and evil?

SCHEUNEMANN: He believes deeply that America is a force for good, and he recognizes there are certain people in the world who send children off to be suicide bombers or repress their citizens viciously whom you can't use any word other than evil to describe. On the larger question-does he see the world in black and white, in dividing lines?-absolutely not.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20702.htm



McCain and The Forrestal

By Robert Dreyfuss

Perhaps it is too much to expect McCain, born on a naval air station in the Panama Canal Zone and programmed virtually since birth for his part in the war, to have let his conscience get the better of him.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20698.htm



Bank Tied To McCain's Son Goes Under

Andrew K. McCain, a son of Republican presidential nominee John McCain, sat on the boards of Silver State Bank and of its parent, Silver State Bancorp. Andrew McCain also was a member of the bank's audit committee, responsible for oversight of the company's accounting.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/06/business/main4422652.shtml


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By Chan Akya

One of the more predictable turns during any US presidential election year is the sheer speed with which issues of longer-term strategic importance are quietly subsumed by a global media fed a steady diet of soap-operatic drama on the candidates, their spouses, born and unborn children and so on.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20700.htm

Stephen Labaton and Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times: "Senior officials from the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve on Friday called in top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants, and told them that the government was preparing to place the two companies under federal control, officials and company executives briefed on the discussions said."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-rescue-seen-hand-two-mortgage-giants

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Government to Wipe Out Fannie/Freddie Shareholders by Sunday

By Peter Cohan

And now what could become history's biggest transfer of tax dollars to bail out bad lending begins.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20697.htm



U.S. to take control of Fannie and Freddie: reports

The two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) own or guarantee almost half of the country's $12 trillion in outstanding home mortgage debt.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0527801420080906



Silver State Bank in Nevada is shut

Regulators shut failed Silver State Bank in Nevada; 11th bank failure this year.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080905/bank_closure_silver_state.html?.v=2



9% of homeowners are late with bill or in foreclosure, study says

An industry group says a record 9.2% of American homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of June, as damage from the housing crisis continued to mount.

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