Prez says $10 billion needed in aid for poor facing 'danger zone' pric
McCain's Conservative Model? Roosevelt (Theodore) — HUDSON, Wis. — Senator John McCain in a wide-ranging interview called for a government that is frugal but more active than many conservatives might prefer. He said government should play an important role in areas like addressing climate change …
The Ron Paul Revolution in full swing — Ron Paulians filled Constitution Avenue this morning to bring the “Second Revolutionary War” to Washington. I'll admit that it was a pretty big crowd, the website had over 15,000 people pledged to come, but it looked like less than half that many showed up …
'We've come to this ignoble moment.' --'We have become like Serbia.' 'I never thought I would say this, but I think it might, in fact, be time for the United States to be held internationally to a tribunal. I never thought in my lifetime I would say that, that we have become like Serbia, where an international tribunal has to come to force us to apply the rule of law... So we've come to this ignoble moment, where we could be forced into a tribunal and forced to face the rule of law that we've refused to apply to ourselves.' --Constitutional Law expert Jonathan Turley, on MSNBC's Friday 'Countdown,' discussing accountability behind US war crimes at Guantanamo.
Iraq handing out [US] cash to people on the streets Handouts by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and a handful of other top officials are authorized -- as long as each goes no higher than about $8,000... The United States has been doling out cash itself, most effectively to former Sunni militants who switched sides to fight 'al-Qaida.' The military has also provided money and assistance to projects like fixing damaged roads in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City after battles there. Top U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus has repeatedly called money a crucial weapon to lure neighborhoods from extremists and stabilize Iraq. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, urged the government to pass out money even faster this week on a trip to devastated Mosul in the north.
Army Secretary Asks for Probe of Firing Army Secretary Pete Geren has asked his staff for an internal review to examine the Army's firing last month of Gina Gray, the former public affairs director of Arlington National Cemetery who had worked to restore media coverage of military funerals... After assuming her director position three months ago, Gray discovered that cemetery officials were trying to impose new media restrictions on funerals of Iraq war dead, despite families of the fallen having granted permission for coverage.
U.S. Soldiers Lose Haven in Canada For American soldiers seeking an escape, Canada is no longer a guaranteed haven. While the current Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has not backed the Iraq war, it has shown little sympathy for American deserters. Changes to immigration laws have made it far more difficult for deserters to remain in Canada.
Agreement reached on North Korea nukes --Six nations hammer out steps to verify nuclear power's disarmament Negotiators from six nations agreed Saturday on steps to verify North Korea's nuclear disarmament, opening the final phase in tortuous efforts to rid the North of nuclear weapons. The agreement, reached after three days of talks, requires North Korea to finish disabling its main nuclear facility by the end of October. Meanwhile the United States, China and the other three nations taking part would complete promised deliveries of fuel oil and other bribes.
Court tosses White House appeal on visitor logs A federal appeals court on Friday set back the White House's efforts to keep the names of its visitors secret. The three-member panel of judges threw out the government's appeal in a case brought by a watchdog group trying to find out how often prominent religious conservatives visited the White House and Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney's residence. The Bush administration was appealing a federal judge's decision last December that the government should gather the records the watchdog group wants. Despite the ruling against the White House, public disclosure of visitor logs is by no means assured. The Bush regime can still raise a variety of legal arguments in an attempt to keep the identities of White House visitors secret.
F.C.C. Chief Would Bar Comcast From Imposing Web Restrictions Federal regulators are prepared to take action against sellers of Internet access that want to restrict what their customers can do online. Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said Friday that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, should be sanctioned because it had interfered with the Internet connections of users who were exchanging files with other people.
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