project for the old american century 


Government

 

It's a Three-Man Race: Obama vs The Two McCains
http://tinyurl.com/6e5oqb

 

McCain Campaign "Clarifies" His Colorado Water Grab Statement
http://tinyurl.com/6l82ls

 

McCain takes a lead in the electoral vote polling
http://www.politico.com/convention/swingstate.html

 

Gov. of Texas supports allowing concealed guns in school since pistols in school have worked so well in the past
http://tinyurl.com/6zvjtf

 

McCain angrily lashes out against bloggers that uncovered his "cross in the dirt" plagiarism. You hear that free republic? McCain is pissed at you
http://tinyurl.com/6ehc32

 

That guy who came forward to vouch for McCain's "cross in the sand" story? He ran an organization that laundered money for Abramoff
http://tinyurl.com/5zc43c

 

Remember the bear DNA study McCain complained about at the faith forum? He voted for it
http://tinyurl.com/67ray3

 

Poll shows McCain in 5-point lead over Obama
http://tinyurl.com/67topr

 

McCain's Wind Energy Double-Talk Express
http://tinyurl.com/569ja5

 

Obama ratchets up negative advertising: In a departure for his campaign, TV and radio spots critical of rival John McCain are airing in battleground states.
http://tinyurl.com/68xwtb

 

Dept. of Homeland Security: We can use whatever land we need for our virtual border fence. Dept. of Interior: Not so much
http://tinyurl.com/62jcb4

 

And so the tortured became the enabler of torture. Someone somewhere cried out in pain for the same reasons McCain once did. And McCain let it continue
http://tinyurl.com/6r5u2g

 

Right-Wing Vets For Freedom Attacks Hagel's Military Service: 'Show Me What Battle He Fought In Iraq'
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/20/bellavia-hagel/

 

Domestic Programs

 

Harry and Louise, the iconic couple who starred in TV ads credited with defeating President Bill Clinton's health-care plan, will appear in new commercials soon urging congressional action and plead with the new president "to promote an overhaul of the health-care system
http://tinyurl.com/5swnbj

 

Drum Major Institute released its first annual survey on the Middle Class and Public Policy, showing a "broad consensus" among middle class Americans in support of progressive policies like universal health care
http://tinyurl.com/64c8xo

Iraq

 

Washington is headed toward another dismal milestone in Iraq. With more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers dead and a conflict that's outlasted World War II, now add a $100 billion bill for private contractors by year's end.
http://tinyurl.com/6jwwm7

 

Failing to learn the lessons of past arms sales to unstable Muslim Middle Eastern nations, Iraq is fast becoming at top U.S. customer for military sales, having spent $3.1 billion on U.S. weapons since January 2007
http://tinyurl.com/6l6d62

 

US speaks out against Iraqi special forces raid 
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LK481614.htm

 

Security developments in Iraq, Aug 19 
http://tinyurl.com/5gzspq

 

Turkish troops shell Kurd rebels in N.Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/63qalk

 

Iraqi forces arrest Sunni Arab politician's son 
http://tinyurl.com/66m5xf

 

US mercenaries face prosecution over killing of 17 Iraqi civilians
http://tinyurl.com/5lk7cl

 

Kurdish control of Kirkuk creates a powder keg in Iraq
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/19/africa/19kirkuk.php

 

Afghanistan

 

Over the last two days, "Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in six years of fighting in Afghanistan."
http://tinyurl.com/69h45d

  

Pentagon planning to send up to 15,000 troops to Afghanistan.
http://tinyurl.com/6zbckj

 

Security developments in Afghanistan, Aug 20 
http://tinyurl.com/5q4bua

 

Afghan officials clamp down on the press
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0819/p06s02-wosc.html

 

CIA's..err ummm... I mean UNOCAL's..err ummm... I mean Afghanistan's Karzai to Run for Office Again
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-19-voa45.cfm?rss=politics


Iran

 

Iran plans to build six more nuclear plants: The country is building its first nuclear power plant in the southern port of Bushehr with the help of Russia. It is expected to begin operating later this year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1013118.html

Central Asia

 

Ambassador Patterson argued that if Washington continued supporting Mr Musharraf it would end up stoking massive anti-American feelings in Pakistan.
http://tinyurl.com/6lbf6r

 

 

Bush Administration Open To Giving Musharraf Asylum In The United States
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/19/musharraf-asylum/

 


Foreign Affairs

 

 

71 percent of Russians support the war with Georgia to "stand up to the West."
http://tinyurl.com/64plxu

 

 Nato allies agreed at their emergency meeting that Russia had violated international law with its military incursion into neighbouring Georgia.
http://tinyurl.com/56mucb

 

Russia vs. Georgia: LOBBYIST WAR
http://tinyurl.com/66fmcp

 

Russian threatens pro-Georgia Ukraine over leased naval base, decide to move a few divisons of "peacekeepers" to the border.
http://tinyurl.com/6cn8gl

 

Had George W. Bush prevailed and were Georgia in NATO, U.S. Marines could be fighting Russian troops over whose flag should fly over a province of 70,000 South Ossetians who prefer Russians to Georgians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20554.htm

 

How Foreign Policy Affects Gas Prices By Ron Paul
http://tinyurl.com/5fglzb

 

Kuwait Energy Company (KEC) has signed a partnership agreement with the Somali government and Indonesia's PT Medco Energi Internasional to set up a state oil firm in Somalia, KEC's chief executive said.
http://www.tradearabia.com/news/OGN_148062.html

 

Russia Shrugs Off NATO Threats As "Empty Words"
http://tinyurl.com/66f8h2

 

Russia seizes US vehicles: "Russian soldiers" held blindfolded Georgian servicemen at gunpoint and commandeered US Humvees in a dramatic sequence of events in the key Black Sea port of Poti.
http://tinyurl.com/5dbedu

 

Russia's navy said on Tuesday it had cancelled a September visit by a United States navy frigate to a port in Russia's Far Eastern region of Kamchatka.
http://tinyurl.com/5ppb5f

 

Source: Secret IDF material went unguarded in Georgia. Former Israeli soldier returns disillusioned from training Georgian soldiers for company owned by Brig.-Gen. Hirsch in preparation for war with Russia; says confidential army material such as charts, officers' names was revealed to foreign troops
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3583278,00.html

 

Russian General Accuses Israel Of Arming Georgia Military: Nogovitsyn also said that the Russian soldiers had detained 20 mercenaries near the Georgian city of Poti, including three Arabs, all wearing Georgian army uniforms.
http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=15609

Human Rights

 

Red Cross denied access to Georgian region of South Ossetia
http://tinyurl.com/6b3pub

  

A Paraguayan tribal woman who says she was captured in the jungle and sold into forced labour as a child has become a member of the the country's cabinet, vowing to improve the lives of South America's indigenous population.
http://tinyurl.com/5dbkhk

 

The government of Peru suspended civil liberties following clashes between indigenous Peruvians and police. The action is taking place in remote jungle regions where Indian groups are blocking highways and oil and gas installations.
http://tinyurl.com/65rko4

 

I am innocent yet was detained without charge in solitary confinement for days on end. It was a devastating experience
http://tinyurl.com/5noe6e

 

Civil Liberties

 

San Francisco Court of Appeals rules passengers can challenge government's secret no-fly list.
http://tinyurl.com/5jqm86

 

CNN's Drew Griffin says that he found himself on the terror watch list after a report criticizing the Transportation Security Administration
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=1490

 

Feds to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all U.S. citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored for 15 years and may be used in criminal and intelligence investigations.
http://tinyurl.com/6lma3o

 

Environment

 

Extreme anti-environment Cheney aide up for top Energy Department post.
http://tinyurl.com/5csoa7

  

Water Pipeline Not Wind Power, Real Reason Pickens Can Build Transmission Lines
http://tinyurl.com/59pjdf

 

Arsenic in drinking water may contribute to the beetus even at government-approved levels. Government plans more studies rather than erring on the side of caution and eliminating arsenic altogether
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=106&sid=1462788

 

Clean energy will reduce greenhouse gases, protect the environment, create jobs and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. But the federal government needs to lead the way.
http://tinyurl.com/683s36

  

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg "is seeking to put wind turbines on the city's bridges and skyscrapers and in its waters as part of a wide-ranging push to develop renewable energy."
http://tinyurl.com/58uqpo

  

Coal company CEO: 'Black is the new green.'
http://tinyurl.com/6o7dkg

Media

 

Rachel Maddow gets her own show on MSNBC.
http://tinyurl.com/66shn6

 

After coming out in support of Obama, Toby Keith is about to learn what it means to be Dixie Chicked
http://tinyurl.com/5cka8v

  

Obama smear book author Jerome Corsi has also said McCain's campaign is backed by al Qaeda and his personal fortune is tied to the mob. Will Hannity/Rush/O'Rly mention that?
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=1705

 

Fox News's latest lie to fool people into supporting McCain
http://tinyurl.com/6n4odg

  

Cavuto: McCain is trying to protect us from the next Hitler
http://tinyurl.com/5wp8fy

 

"The casual revelation that McCain has never Googled is rather startling. It's like admitting that you've never clipped your own toenails because your valet always did that for you"
http://tinyurl.com/5bp922

  

Olbermann chastises McCain: Grow up! Senator is acting like a child, needs immediate attitude adjustment
http://tinyurl.com/58atu4

 

Corsi's previous appearance on "pro-White" radio show was streamed live on "White Nationalist" Stormfront.org
http://mediamatters.org/items/200808150009?f=h_top

 

Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity are still, even now, laughing like school children over the notion of properly-inflated tires.
http://tinyurl.com/57arzj

  

Ann Coulter: Obama wants doctors chasing a baby through the delivery room to make sure it gets killed
http://tinyurl.com/6bgqde

 

On Barr and Nader in the televised debates: "Millions of Americans would be dangerously exposed to another point of view"
http://tinyurl.com/5osqv4

 

That "pro-Obama basement dwelling blogger" is actually a 14-year veteran Navy submariner
http://tinyurl.com/6k8s5j

 

Vote Fraud

 

Ohio says no to voting machine sleepovers
http://tinyurl.com/6cjdqa


Corporate America

 

The oil industry has spent $55 million on lobbying so far in 2008 and is on pace to break last year's $83 million record.
http://tinyurl.com/6l7lzd

  

Health care costs "are climbing much more rapidly than incomes or the growth in the overall economy," according to a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund.
http://tinyurl.com/5suere


Militarization

 

Failing to learn the lessons of past arms sales to unstable Muslim Middle Eastern nations, Iraq is fast becoming at top U.S. customer for military sales, having spent $3.1 billion on U.S. weapons since January 2007
http://tinyurl.com/6l6d62


Economy

 

Prices for goods purchased by American businesses surged more than expected in July and have jumped by nearly 10 percent over the last year - the sharpest increase since 1981," according to new data released by the Labor Department.
http://tinyurl.com/6rvhne

 

Share prices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunged Monday amid growing fears that the two largest providers of funding for U.S. home mortgages won't be able to avoid a government bailout.
http://tinyurl.com/5oj49p


Editor's pick

 

Freepers rooting for different big banks to fail
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064375/posts

 

Only In America: Son Of Undocumented Immigrant Brings Home The Gold
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/19/immigrant-gold/

  

5 Insanely Small And Inhabited Private Islands
http://tinyurl.com/6c4lnk