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Suicide Boys - Afghanistan ............................... |
| July 2008 |
| Date: 2008-07-16 10:26:19 - Added by: paul |
| Views: 857 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 |
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Subprime Swindle: Economic War on Black America |
| Nation magazine contributing writer Kai Wright, discusses his July 14 article about the mortgage crisis and its affect on the Black middle class. |
| Date: 2008-07-16 10:18:04 - Added by: paul |
| Views: 854 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 |
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BLACKWATER : THE SHADOW WAR |
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| Date: 2008-07-16 02:32:28 - Added by: paul |
| Views: 792 - Votes: 6 - Rating: 5 |
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Jesse Jackson Apologizes For Locker Room Talk |
| The Reverend Jesse Jackson cut right to the chase when he spoke Saturday at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library in Denver. He didn't wait to be asked about his gaffe of saying something crude about Senator Barack Obama earlier this week, but expressed contrition and moved on to discussing the context of the conversation. The Reverend expressed frustration with a focus on Faith-Based initiatives and personal responsibility when there are some services that only the larger entity of government can provide. Large scale disasters, economic and having to do with aging infrastructure, the Reverend stressed, can not be fixed by Church daycares and strong fathers. He particularly stressed the wide-spread impact of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, it's disproportionate impact on people of color, and infrastructure failures on the Mississippi from the bridge collapse in Minneapolis to the levee failures in Louisiana. |
| Date: 2008-07-16 02:27:02 - Added by: paul |
| Views: 793 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 |
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T. Boone Pickens Explains His Plan |
| T. Boone gives a four-minute presentation about his plan to save America's energy future. Find out more at http://www.pickensplan.com |
| Date: 2008-07-16 02:08:12 - Added by: paul |
| Views: 858 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 |
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Cow burps help climate study .............. |
| Argentine scientists are studying the effects of global warming by strapping plastic tanks to the backs of cows to collect their burps. |
| Date: 2008-07-16 02:06:37 - Added by: paul |
| Views: 813 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 |
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Ingrid Betancourt - 12 Jul 08 - Part 1 |
| Al Jazeera talks to former hostage Ingrid Betancourt. |
| Date: 2008-07-16 02:03:20 - Added by: paul |
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Alisa Miller: Why we know less than ever about the world |
| http://www.ted.com Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs. |
| Date: 2008-07-14 09:25:30 - Added by: Guest |
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McCain: Viagra or Birth Control |
| John McCain is stumped when asked about his feelings about health insurance companies that cover Viagra and not birth control. |
| Date: 2008-07-10 20:26:18 - Added by: Guest |
| Views: 726 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 |
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Daylight Robbery - What Happened to the $23billion? |
| Daylight Robbery - BBC Panorama investigates claims that as much as $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq. When the US goes to war, corporate America goes too. There are contracts for caterers, tanker drivers, security guards and even interrogators, many of them through companies with links to the White House. Now more than 70 whistleblower cases threaten to reveal the scandals behind billions of dollars worth of waste, theft and corruption during the Iraq war. Gagging orders A total of $23bn (£11.75bn) is under scrutiny. The US justice department has imposed gagging orders which prevent the real scale of the problem emerging. But Panorama's Jane Corbin has spoken to some of those involved - with astonishing stories to tell of who got rich and who got burned. She hears allegations of mismanagement, fraud and waste; tales of contractors chosen for their US government connections without a competitive bidding process; contractors inflating their costs and double counting to increase their profits and billions supposed to be used to rebuild the Iraqi military allegedly ending up in the pockets of some Iraqi government officials. Even the contract to oversee the expenditure went to a company with no relevant qualification in accounting. |
| Date: 2008-06-11 15:14:12 - Added by: Guest |
| Views: 753 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 |
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