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FACT CHECK: McCain Tries To Downplay His Connection To ExxonMobil
CLAIM: McCain’s Adviser Said McCain Took Fewer Donations From ExxonMobil Than His Opponent. Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” top McCain aide Nicole Wallace said, “Turns out Barack Obama has received more money from ExxonMobil and from oil than John McCain has.” [...]
The wording in H.R. 800 will determine if Congress can level the playing field and allow both sides a fair set of defined regulations. It should never be a choice of victims. It should be a choice for prosperity for all by making companies and workers a team with equitable rewards.
The world is finally brave enough to tell the US it is run by criminals … Did anyone miss this for all these years? The price of doing business with the US has over shadowed the most despicable of 3rd world dictators. The next president must carefully extract US talons from the bellys of the poor countries, beholden’ to our “charity”.
Americans have become soft and impractical. Americans are consumer robots that are mesmerized by ‘image over substance’. That is exactly where America’s marketing geniuses have brought us. Some Americans are waking up to a world known by their grand parents and great grand parents. Frugal is no longer a ‘quaint concept’. Gas prices and their effect on food and necessities is the slap in the face we need to come out of the hypnosis we have been enjoying.
The firefighting system in the massive $736 million embassy complex in Baghdad has potential safety problems that top U.S. officials dismissed in their rush to declare construction largely completed by the end of last year, according to internal State Department documents, e-mails and interviews.
Some officials assert that in the push to complete the long-delayed [...]
Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S.
BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate [...]
Colombian families’ suit says Chiquita liable for torture, murder
NEW YORK (CNN) — A $7.86 billion lawsuit was filed Wednesday in New York on behalf of nearly 400 Colombian families who say Chiquita Brands International should be held responsible for the “torture and murder” of their loved ones.
With [...]
State Dept. Intercedes in Blackwater Probe
A House panel reveals a letter telling the firm not to disclose information about its Iraq operations without the administration’s OK.
WASHINGTON — The State Department has interceded in a congressional investigation of Blackwater USA , the private security firm accused of killing Iraqi civilians last week, ordering the company [...]
Arms dealer reportedly flew into Iraq
WASHINGTON, (UPI) — An arms trafficker wanted by the U.S. government received $60 million for moving supplies into Iraq for the U.S. military, a new book says.
“Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Plans, and the Man Who Makes War Possible” by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun is the story of [...]
Iran is running 3,000 atomic centrifuges
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Iran had met a planned target of installing and running 3,000 atomic centrifuges used in enriching uranium, Iranian news agencies reported.
Iran had said it aimed to have that many centrifuges, which are set up in interlinked networks or “cascades” of [...]
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