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Off-Beat: Topless wife photo ends man’s pole protest 2007-03-05 03:45:06 BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man who spent 10 days in a self-made box atop a 72-foot-tall pole to protest a looming jail term was lured off his perch by his wife — who sent up a topless picture of herself in his lunch box.
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Politics: White House Ignored CIA Warnings on Iraq 2007-03-04 18:40:50 Washington, D.C., October 13, 2005 - The WhiteHouse
disregarded intelligence projections on post-Saddam Iraq
according to a newly-declassified CIA report, “Intelligence and Analysis on Iraq: Issues for the Intelligence Community,” posted today on the website of the National Security Archive.
“In an ironic twist,” the report finds, “the policy community was receptive to technical intelligence [...] Read more:White House
Politics: US court throws out CIA torture case 2007-03-04 18:20:35 WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US federal appeals court on Friday upheld a refusal to hear the case of a Lebanese-born German man who says he was tortured by the CIA, citing national security reasons.
Khaled el-Masri claims was detained by the CIA for several months in 2004 on suspicion of links to terrorism.
Masri, 43, filed suit [...] Read more:throws
Politics: Poll: Most Americans support illegals crackdown 2007-03-04 07:27:44 STAFF REPORTS
A nationwide telephone poll suggests that most Americans
support efforts like Hazleton’s ordinance to crack down on illegal immigrants.
The poll, conducted Feb. 22 to 26 with 1,000 respondents, shows that by a 68-25 margin, Americans support the ordinances proposed by Hazleton Mayor Louis Barletta and adopted by City Council.
The poll was conducted by Susquehanna [...]
Politics: Ron Paul Does Not Exist 2008-02-10 19:32:38 Seriously:
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Politics: Clinton’s Campaign Manager Jumps off the Bandwagon of Despair 2008-02-10 19:30:27 Clinton’s campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, left the position today, to be replaced by Clinton’s former top White House aide, Maggie Williams. The change formalizes a shift in the campaign’s power structure that began to set in after Clinton’s win in New Hampshire.
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Politics: Giulliani - ‘You’re all a bunch of idiots!’ 2007-11-28 07:43:13 Town hall meeting with our favorite presidential candidate gets a little out of hand with Giulliani participating in throwing insults around. This guys scares me, seriously.
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Politics: Listen to Mr. Stumpf: Housing In Worst Shape Since Great Depression 2007-11-26 14:55:09 Evoking Depression-era memories, Wells Fargo & Co. President John Stumpf on Thursday became the latest banker to predict continuing difficulties in the U.S. housing market as risky mortgages made to overextended borrowers disintegrate into large loan losses.
Stumpf said the current real estate conditions are the worst he has experienced during his 30-year career. He then [...] Read more:Listen
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Politics: McClellan to publish memoir that implicates Bush in Plame scandal 2007-11-20 22:43:52 Holy shit…
House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will publish a memoir in April titled “What Happened.” In an excerpt posted by his publisher, McClellan implicates “the President himself” in the Valerie Plame
scandal:
“The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility [...]