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Saturday, November 8, 2008 13:40
GMT ACLU
wants probe into police-staged DNC protest When a Jefferson County deputy unleashed
pepper spray at unruly protesters on the first night of the Democratic
National Convention, he did not know that his targets were undercover
Denver police officers. Maddow:
‘Are we looking at Bill Clinton’s third term?’ President-elect Obama has fulfilled expectations
that he would hit the ground running and has already named the leaders
of his transition team and three members of his White House staff. Some
of those appointments come from Obama’s own campaign team, but
a larger number have a background of service in the Clinton administration.
Obama’s
Anti-Gun Agenda Spurs Record Firearms Sales Record gun sales across the United States are not a result of
misplaced paranoia, as the media would have it, but as a sensible response
to Barack Obama’s virulent hostility to the second amendment,
which is on the record and documented.
Meet
the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
The 2008 campaign season is mercifully over. Friend to Wall Street and
the murderous imperium, Barack Hussein Obama has been anointed with
power.
FBI
finds most terrorism threat reports baseless The FBI tracked about 108,000
potential terrorism threats or suspicious incidents from mid-2004 to
November 2007, but most were found groundless, a Justice Department
review found on Friday.
New
York Times report questions Georgia’s role in Ossetian war The New York Times has published an article
which questions Georgia’s account of the conflict in South Ossetia
in August this year. Based on the observations of OSCE monitors, it
reports that Georgia was not acting defensively, but started the shelling
of civilians in the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinval.
Obama
Calls On Congress to Act Fast on Stimulus With fresh evidence that the U.S. economy
is shedding jobs even faster than expected, President-elect Barack Obama
said yesterday that his top concern is passage of a multibillion dollar
stimulus package to create jobs.
The
Meltdown Of The Hedge Funds - And Its Effect On The Market – Was
Foreseeable As a Wall Street Journal article from today
entitled “Hedge Fund Selling Puts New Stress on Market”
notes, “Hedge funds are selling billions of dollars of securities
to meet demands for cash from their investors and their lenders, contributing
to the stock market’s nearly 10% drop over the past two days”.
G.M.
Says U.S. Cash Is Its Best Hope The rapidly deteriorating finances of General Motors are forcing
the federal government to decide whether to bail out the largest American
automaker or face the prospect that it might go bankrupt.
G-20
Urges Stimulus to Ease Impact of Global Slump Finance officials from the Group of 20 nations will press their
European colleagues to join a coordinated stimulus plan to tackle an
impending recession when they meet in Sao Paulo this weekend.
Americans
losing confidence in the Fed: survey
Most Americans say the country’s financial crisis has hurt their
confidence in the Federal Reserve, according to a Reuters/University
of Michigan survey released on Friday.
FBI
fights order for deposition of Oklahoma City
bombing conspirator, death-row inmate
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday that the United
States is vulnerable to attack or other incidents during the presidential
transition period and that the military is ready to respond.
