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By David Holthouse, Hate Watch
Posted on July 30, 2008, Printed on July 31, 2008
As part of its ongoing “Black in America” project, CNN posted a story to its website earlier this week titled “Could an Obama presidency hurt black Americans?” Credited to CNN correspondent John Blake, the piece quotes the wit and wisdom of Steve [...]

The problem for McCain, as I noted below, is that if you’re going to lie in an effort to defame your opponent, you’d better hope you don’t get called on it. McCain and his staff and his surrogates have repeated this lie so many times, including airing a false TV commercial, that McCain can no [...]

The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, tonight announced that he will step down, throwing the country into political uncertainty.read more | digg story

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/…
Federal law enforcement and military will monitor ’suspicious activities’ for security threats.

The Colorado Information Analysis Center, a hub for state, local and federal law enforcement, is “like police intelligence units on steroids” claims one civil liberties expert. (Photo/Bob Spencer)
By Erin Rosa 07/30/2008
Federal and state law enforcement officials will increase intelligence operations during the [...]

CongressDaily July 29, 2008
Blackwater Worldwide and the private security company’s affiliates may have misrepresented their size to win more than $100 million in government contracts set aside for small businesses, according to a report released Monday by the Small Business Administration’s Office of Inspector General…
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The Department of Defense has embarked on a significant modification of its intelligence apparatus, creating a new human intelligence center within the DIA, abolishing a controversial counterintelligence agency, and reorganizing the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.read more | digg story

http://www.canada.com/…
Peter O’Neil
Canwest News Service
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
PARIS — Russia is proposing a broad new security alliance, possibly including India and China, that would deal with problems such as terrorism and crime from Vladivostok, on Russia’s eastern border, to Vancouver, the International Herald Tribune reported Sunday.

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Thanks to one of our readers, some freaky images have come our way. Omar sent me a link to these “wooden imprisonment crates” used in Iraq by American forces to detain insurgents and terrorist suspects.
They were published by Russ Rick at Memory Hole only a few days ago. After he spotted a mention of [...]

hat tip ~ Narconews.com
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For more than six years, from 1997 to February 2004, Chiquita Brands International, through its subsidiary in Colombia, Banadex S.A., made monthly payments to the paramilitary structures in the regions of Urabá and Santa Marta, which resulted in more than 100 payments for more than $1.7 million dollars. Chiquita Brands began to [...]

OLBERMANN: We know the White House sent out talking points. McClellan says this and I can tell you, from personal experience, I still have them. In 2004 — in retrospect, this looks like one of the great wastes of all time—they sent me a set of talking points, not fully understanding the nature of the [...]