Tag: mccain
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homer simpson vs electronic vote fraud
from greatscat!: Not certain if this has aired yet or if it’s from the upcoming Simpson’s Halloween special (?). One thing is for certain, if we’ve got the big Simpson’s vote, it’s all over for McCain. (ed: it’s gotta be from the upcoming halloween episode, because you can hear the theremin playing the kang &…
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wv: miners vs nra, dupont appeals, eminent domain & santa
miners union slams nra over film crewfrom examiner: The United Mine Workers of America is crying foul over what it says was an attempt to get miners to badmouth Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama for a camera crew. UMWA President Cecil Roberts plans to hold a news conference in Charleston at 12 p.m. Monday with…
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a new financial world order
gordon brown calls for ‘a new global financial order’from un news: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom today called for a new global financial system to bring an end to the current economic turmoil, laying out five principles on which the order should be based as he addressed the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate.…
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selection ’08: debates, rebates, horseshit & more
obamccain clash over iraniraq in first debatefrom dpa: Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain clashed in their first debate Friday night over the war in Iraq and whether the next person to occupy the White House should meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The two candidates disagreed sharply over the future course in Iraq,…
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money$hit: bailouts, banksters, bread & circuses
bush does 9/11 replay in ask for unprecedented powers & budgetfrom the washington note: Just after the September 11th terrorist attacks occurred, George W. Bush went before the nation and made the case that he needed unprecedented authority – budgetary and military – to take on the threats poised at the well-being and safety of…
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bush’s bankster bailout bullshit (& more)
from ap: President Bush on Wednesday warned Americans and lawmakers reluctant to pass a historic financial rescue plan that failing to act fast risks wiping out retirement savings, rising foreclosures, lost jobs, closed business and ‘a long and painful recession.’ He spoke just after inviting Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, one of whom…
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9/11 + 7: playing politics
rnc features ominous 9/11 ‘tribute’from raw replay: The three-minute video, which featured graphic, disturbing images of a plane flying into the World Trade Center and the Twin Towers’ collapse, attempts to conflate all of America’s struggles in the Middle East into a singular crusade against a uniform enemy. “The first attack occurred in Iran,” the…
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ron paul: 3rd parties, endorsements & more
ron paul rejects mccain campaign’s plea for endorsementfrom raw story: Ron Paul held a press conference urging voters to select a third-party presidential candidate instead of Barack Obama or John McCain. The Texas congressman said that he fielded a phone call from the McCain campaign on Tuesday asking him for an endorsement… This video is…
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historian demands action on powerful doomsday cults
from henry makow: A Munich-based historian Wolfgang Eggert, 46, has launched an Internet petition to demand action on powerful Jewish and Christian cults that want to instigate a nuclear holocaust to fulfill Biblical prophesy. He thinks religious fanatics must be exposed and removed from power. He points to the Jewish Chabad Lubavitcher sect who want…
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selection ’08: mccain/palin, gustav & the rnc police state
national emergency environment sets the stage for the mccain/palin election campaignfrom michel chossudovsky: The opening of the RNC has been characterised by a mass protest movement directed against the Bush administration, the candicacy of John McCain and more generally the Republican party. The presence of thousands of demonstrators in St-Paul Minneapolis has been a major…
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ron paul’s rally for the republic gathers 20k in st paul
ron paul convention hits minnesotafrom ap: There’s no room at the Xcel Energy Center for maverick Ron Paul, so his acolytes have packed their cars, hitched rides on “Ronvoys” and will pitch tents at Ronstock ’08 in Minneapolis in defiance of next week’s GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn. More than 9,700 tickets had been…
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the day before the rnc: storms, plans, raids & schemes
mccain may deliver convention speech from disaster zonefrom thinkprogress: Politico reports that the impending landfall of Hurricane Gustav has forced Republicans to scramble their convention plans. President Bush may not attend at all, and John McCain may deliver his acceptance speech from the hurricane-stricken areas… McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but…
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putin: america, you’re provoking wars for political gain
from times online: Vladimir Putin accused President Bush tonight of orchestrating the war in Georgia in a plot to get John McCain elected to the White House.
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mccain/palin ’08: and the crowd goes… huh?
alaskan governor sarah palin chosen by mccain as vpfrom wikinews: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been selected by United States Presidential candidate John McCain as his vice-presidential running-mate… News agencies began reporting Palin as the selection about an hour earlier, citing sources within the McCain campaign. In introducing Palin, McCain said, “I have found the…