Politics & News
Zimbabwe Releases $10 Million Bill - Which is Worth USD $4
As the US economy inches ever closer to a recession, it might provide a little perspective to look at what a real economic crisis looks like. Plagued by hyperinflation of over 50,000% a year, Zimbabwe’s central bank recently decided to issue $10 million notes.
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Popularity: 6% [?]
Popularity: 6% [?]
VP Cheney makes strong pitch for telecom immunity
Yesterday, Cheney endorsed proposals to expand the scope of warrantless electronic surveillance, called for such programs to be made permanent, and advocated granting retroactive legal immunity to telecommunications service providers that were complicit in potentially illegal government wiretapping activities.
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Popularity: 5% [?]
Popularity: 5% [?]
Why Hillary Clinton Should Withdraw From the Race Today
(With citations)
Bonus reason: George W. Bush, and some number of his supporters, see her as the best candidate to protect the Bush legacy of torture, preemptive war, and executive overreach.
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Popularity: 7% [?]
Popularity: 7% [?]
KUCINICH DROPS OUT OF THE RACE!
Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich is dropping out of the Democratic race for president.
Kucinich will make the announcement Friday at a news conference in Cleveland. In an exclusive interview with Plain Dealer editors and reporters, Kucinich said he will explain his “transitioning” tomorrow.
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Popularity: 5% [?]
Popularity: 5% [?]
Going bankrupt: The US’s greatest threat
The neo-cons in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination. As a result, going into 2008, the U finds itself in the anomalous position of being unable to pay for its own elevated living standards […]
Popularity: 4% [?]
Obama: Clintons will ’say anything’ for Political Gain
Obama charged that Clinton and her husband have been duplicitous in campaign trail attacks on his record, suggesting that the Clintons have shown a willingness to “fudge the truth” and will “say anything to get a political or tactical advantage.
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Popularity: 10% [?]
Popularity: 10% [?]
Study Shows 900+ Bush Crime Family LIES to start WAR
Duh! you already knew it, but the Center for Public Integrity did a tally and it’s more than 1, the number needed to require Impeachment.
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Popularity: 6% [?]
Popularity: 6% [?]
42 Reasons We Won’t Miss President Bush [QUOTES and PICS]
Would you believe it’s possible to narrow the reasons we won’t miss Bush down to 42? No, but it’s a start. We all know the penalty for forgetting history - after all, we’ve been through two Bushes! Here’s to the next four years of anything but Bush:
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Popularity: 14% [?]
Popularity: 14% [?]
