World-News

Peter Wallsten, The Los Angeles Times: "For a candidate known to possess a quick temper and an unpredictable political streak, the decision raises questions about how McCain would lead -- whether his decisions would flow from careful deliberations or gut checks in which short-term considerations or feelings outweigh the long view."

http://www.truthout.org/article/risky-palin-pick-raises-questions-about-mccain



Long-Standing Feud in Alaska Embroils Palin

James V. Grimaldi and Kimberly Kindy, The Washington Post: "For the past several years, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, has been embroiled in a bitter family feud that has drawn in the state police, the attorney general, the governor's office and the state legislature."

http://www.truthout.org/article/long-standing-feud-alaska-embroils-palin



McCain Running Mate Sarah Palin Misled GOP

Alex Spillius, The Telegraph UK: "The Governor of Alaska gave a misleading version of events over a controversial bridge project in her home state when she made her maiden speech as the presumptive nominee. Mrs. Palin told a cheering audience in Ohio that she had turned down an offer from the US Congress to build the so-called 'Bridge to Nowhere', which would have connected Gravina Island with Ketchikan International, an airport in Alaska's southeast serving just 200,000 passengers a year. Mr. McCain routinely cites the $100 million project as a symbol of wasteful central government spending."

http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-running-mate-sarah-palin-misled-gop-supporters



Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process

Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times: "A series of disclosures about Gov. Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain's choice as running mate, called into question on Monday how thoroughly Mr. McCain had examined her background before putting her on the Republican presidential ticket. On Monday morning, Ms. Palin and her husband, Todd, issued a statement saying that their 17-year-old unmarried daughter, Bristol, was five months pregnant and that she intended to marry the father. Among other less attention-grabbing news of the day: it was learned that Ms. Palin now has a private lawyer in a legislative ethics investigation in Alaska into whether she abused her power in dismissing the state's public safety commissioner; that she was a member for two years in the 1990s of the Alaska Independence Party, which has at times sought a vote on whether the state should secede; and that Mr. Palin was arrested 22 years ago on a drunken-driving charge."

http://www.truthout.org/article/disclosures-palin-raise-questions-vetting-process



Palin Faces Laundry List of Complications

Matt Apuzzo, The Associated Press: "GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin accepted at least $4,500 in campaign contributions in the same fundraising scheme at the center of a public corruption scandal that led to the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens. The contributions, made during Palin's failed 2002 bid to become Alaska's lieutenant governor, were not illegal for her to accept. But they show how Palin, a self-proclaimed reformer who has bucked Stevens and his allies, is nonetheless a product of a political system in Alaska now under the cloud of an ongoing FBI investigation."

http://www.truthout.org/article/palin-faces-laundry-list-complications



Candidate McCain's Big Decision

Editorial, The New York Times: "More often than not, the role of a vice president is a minor one, unless some tragedy occurs. But a presidential nominee's choice of a running mate is vitally important. It is his first executive decision and offers an important insight into how that nominee would lead the nation. If John McCain wants voters to conclude, as he argues, that he has more independence and experience and better judgment than Barack Obama, he made a bad start by choosing Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska."

http://www.truthout.org/article/candidate-mccains-big-decision

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Sarah Palin as Stalking Horse
http://www.lewrockwell.com/carson/carson27.html

Sarah Palin's Career Ends in Tragedy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/palin-tragegy.html

Palin and the Beltway Pundits
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson225.html

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Chief Fired by Palin Speaks Out

Washington Post

The July firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan by Gov. Sarah Palin, who was announced as John McCain's running mate on Friday, has unearthed a stream of soap-opera-like details about Palin, her husband, her family and top state appointees. The controversy has also cut against Palin's reputation for holding an ethical line and standing up to colleagues in the Republican Party over matters of principle.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20651.htm



Ultra-Secretive Right-Wing Group Met In Minn. To Vet Palin

Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=352178



Palin's Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview

By Nico Pitney and Sam Stein

Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20672.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Sarah Palin, wrong woman for the job

The Nation
by Katha Pollitt

09/01/08

John McCain’s choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as running mate shows how desperate he is to distract attention from the fact that he is a cranky old man with nothing to offer but more of the same. Palin is a blatant pander for the women’s vote. He must think we have the collective IQ of a Tampax. Sure, Palin is cool — she’s pretty and vivacious and athletic, a former beauty queen who runs marathons, hunts, fishes and eats mooseburgers, plus she’s got five kids with unusual names like Willow and Track, including a newborn with Down’s syndrome. … And if life were a Lifetime movie, Palin would do just fine running the country should McCain keel over. Girls can do anything! and look great doing it! But seriously. Vice President? … She makes Obama’s resume look as thick as Winston Churchill’s...

http://tinyurl.com/5ubcme


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Palin was for 'Bridge to Nowhere'

McCain's VP did not reject Congressional funds for infrastructure projects in Alaska.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2191



McCain, Palin and the Iraq War

Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern on Palin and what McCain knew about false info that led to Iraq war.

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2193



Palin comes out punching
http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/7cbdbc8d19876532?hl=de

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The Palin Choice: The Reality of the Political Mind
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/02

Rovian Politics Chose Sarah Palin
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/02-1

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Palin's connection to 'big oil'
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/200893225527640103.html


Informant: Duane Roberts



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Amber Ellis, The Cincinnati Enquirer: "Butler County still plans to use its controversial touchscreen voting machines in the November election - even though it joined the lawsuit Thursday against the manufacturer. Officials plan to deploy the machines even though the board voted unanimously to join a legal action against the manufacturer, Premier Election Solutions Inc., a unit of North Canton-based Diebold Inc."

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Britain has failed in its duty to stop the US from committing "shameful acts" in the treatment of suspects detained during the war on terror, one of America's most respected intellectuals warns today.

http://tinyurl.com/6gy45e


From Information Clearing House

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Amnesty International USA: U.K. Government Must Provide Information About Rendition, Disappearance and Torture, Urges Amnesty International

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/0829-31919.htm



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Russia is reportedly preparing to cut oil supplies to Poland and Germany in response to threatened EU sanctions over the Georgia conflict.

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From Information Clearing House



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Mike Whitney Interviews Michael Hudson

"Dollar hegemony enables the US to own indirectly but essentially the entire global economy by requiring its wealth to be denominated in fiat dollars that the US can print at will with little in the way of monetary penalties.

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28 August 2008

By JENNY MONROE

AS children across the city prepare to head back for the new term, one local school is so concerned about the possible health affects of the Wi-Fi network - a way of connecting computers to the internet without cables - it has decided not to use the system.

Read More...
http://www.lisburntoday.co.uk:80/news/PRIMARY-PULLS-PLUG-ON-WIFI.4435678.jp


Informant: Martin Weatherall



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Does the Existence of the State Cause Conflicts of Interest?
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Luc Bronner, Le Monde, evokes the great social experiment humanity is embarked upon as new constraints on human behavior obtain a planetary level.

http://www.truthout.org/article/we-are-all-white-mice

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PROPOSALS have been put forward for another mobile phone mast in Seaford.

Vodafone wants to put up a 10-metre telegraph pole at the junction of Sutton Avenue and Eastbourne Road and has applied to Lewes District Council for permission.

The site is only a short distance from where Vodafone wanted to put a similar mast on the Sutton Corner junction but abandoned it after residents' protests. The controversial plans also come as a similar application by the mobile phone giant in another part of the town was recently objected to by Seaford Town Council.

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http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/seaford/Another-plan-for-a-mobile.4427972.jp

A mobile phone giant may not need permission to site a 12-metre mast near homes and two schools in Shrewsbury, a public meeting in Frankwell has heard.

Protesters successfully stopped O2 erecting a 12.5 metre antenna near their homes in Copthorne.

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http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/08/29/mast-may-go-ahead/

CounterPunch
by Andy Worthington

08/28/08

As part of its alleged ‘desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary,’ the Pentagon announced on Tuesday that two Guantanamo prisoners had been transferred to Algeria. This follows the repatriation of two other Algerians — Mustafa Hamlili and Abdul Raham Houari — at the start of July, who were the first Algerians to be released from the prison in its six-and-a-half year history. Cynics could argue, with some justification, that the releases were less to do with benevolence than with the fact that the US administration has finally decided to clear out as much of the dead wood at Guantanamo as possible, following the US Supreme Court’s momentous decision, in June, that the prisoners have constitutional habeas corpus rights; in other words, that they have the right to challenge the basis of their long detention without charge or trial before an impartial judge...

http://counterpunch.org/worthington08282008.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Total filings rose to 967,831 from 751,056 a year earlier.
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U.S. Says Banks on `Problem List' Rose 30% in Quarter

The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said its "problem list'' of banks increased 30 percent in the second quarter to the highest total in five years as more commercial real-estate loans were overdue.

http://tinyurl.com/65dymv



FDIC Is Broke?

Report: FDIC May Borrow Money From Treasury:

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) might have to borrow money from the Treasury Department to see it through an expected wave of bank failures, the Wall Street Journal reported.

http://moneynews.newsmax.com/headlines/fdic/2008/08/27/125366.html



Analyst: FDIC Will Need Half A Trillon Dollars

Chris Whalen, managing director of Institutional Risk Analytics, in an interview on CNBC, said: They need about a half a trillion dollars in borrowing authority, and they need a vehicle to own these banks while we triage them and sell them.

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2008/08/analyst-fdic-will-need-half-trillon.html


From Information Clearing House



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One in six American soldiers in Afghanistan and one in eight in Iraq are taking daily doses of prescription antidepressants, sleeping pills or painkillers to help them cope with the stresses of combat, according to figures contained in a US Army mental health advisory team report seen by The Herald.

http://tinyurl.com/6hp6ox


From Information Clearing House

The Keating Five


For anyone not aware of the Keating Five, here's a very simple summary:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20634.htm



McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five

The story of "the Keating Five" has become a scandal rivaling Teapot Dome and Watergate.

By Tom Fitzpatrick

You're John McCain, a fallen hero who wanted to become president so desperately that you sold yourself to Charlie Keating, the wealthy con man who bears such an incredible resemblance to The Joker. He poured $112,000 into your political campaigns. He became your friend. He threw fund raisers in your honor. He even made a sweet shopping-center investment deal for your wife, Cindy. Your father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was cut in on the deal, too.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20635.htm



No End In Sight
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20637.htm



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How the Democrats Helped Bush Hijack the Country

By Cynthia McKinney

Our country has been hijacked and the Democrats have proven themselves to have been in on the plan. When it came to the Constitution, the Democratic leadership showed us that aiding and abetting illegal spying on us was more important to them than protecting our civil liberties.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20641.htm



An Open Letter to Barack Obama

Symbolism Alone Will Not Bring Change

By LEONARD PELTIER

Yet symbolism alone will not bring about change. Our young people, black and Native alike, suffer from police brutality and racial profiling, underfunded schools, and discrimination in employment and housing. I sincerely hope your campaign will inspire some hope among our youth to struggle for a better future.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20646.htm



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Democrats in Denver Should Skip One of Their Parties and Read the American Monetary Act

By Richard C. Cook

The debt this nation owes to the banks, to foreign creditors, and to each other can never be paid off. - Nothing creates more debt than war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20636.htm



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By Max Fraad Wolff

Alongside falling prices, rising mortgage rates, stricter credit conditions and general malaise, the structure that supports American home ownership is being condemned by market valuation. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have nose dived and been downgraded toward a smaller future - and these are more important names for your future than Joe, Sam, Kathy, Mitt, Meg ..

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20642.htm



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By Jacob G. Hornberger

If Iraq really is a sovereign and independent country, then why does it have to negotiate anything with the United States, including an exit date for U.S. troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20633.htm



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By Steve Schifferes
Economics reporter, BBC News

28/08/08 "BBC" -- - The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought. It has revised its previous estimate and now says that 1.4 billion people live in poverty, based on a new poverty line of $1.25 per day.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20643.htm

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One in four ‘facing fuel poverty’
BBC

09/08/08

Almost a quarter of the population will be pushed into fuel poverty by the end of next year, a report has suggested.By the end of 2009, 5.7 million UK households will be spending at least 10% of their income on energy bills, the National Housing Federation said.Average household electricity bills are expected to increase to more than £500 per year by 2010, and gas bills to around £900...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7602859.stm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Duncan Campbell, The Guardian UK: "The US State Department yesterday warned that disclosure of secret information in the case of a British resident said to have been tortured before he was sent to Guantanamo Bay would cause "serious and lasting damage" to security relations between the countries."

http://www.truthout.org/article/us-warns-uk-against-releasing-information-torture-case



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On the evil of politics
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/longing-for-dictatorship.html

Reject State Lies
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer182.html

Barry’s Monstrous Itch
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/mcdarby6.html

Police State Mission-Creep
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/mcpherson10.html

Federal Attitude Policy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard59.html



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The Disneyfication of New Orleans

By Anna Hartnell

Three years after Hurricane Katrina, a more glamorous image of black America is presenting itself to the world in the person of Barack Obama. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, America's story of black urban poverty is still unfolding, largely beneath the radar of the global media.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20650.htm

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Three Years After Hurricane Katrina, Homelessness Looms
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/08/29-1



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