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By Jim Polson
Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) — Crude-oil and natural-gas shipments from the Gulf of Mexico plummeted, and Valero Energy Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc cut refinery operations as Hurricane Gustav strengthened to a Category 4 storm on a course to strike Louisiana in two days.
The biggest Newspaper in the Netherlands today devotes its front page to news that the Dutch intelligence agency has helped the CIA prepare for an air attack on Iran which it now believes is imminent.read more | digg story
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By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON — Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush’s defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still at war with Al Qaeda.
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By BOB HERBERT
Detroit
It was as though the Champagne had been on ice for half a century or more. On Thursday night, with Barack Obama formally accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at Mile High Stadium in Denver, African-Americans from coast to coast and beyond felt they might now dare to pop the corks.
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Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida won widespread praise earlier this year when he announced that new rules that he had put in place had restored voting rights to more than 100,000 former inmates. But the numbers now turn out to have been an illusion.
The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia
’s breakaway regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become part of Russia, which will open military bases in the province under an agreement to be signed on Tuesday. read more | digg story
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By Dana Hedgpeth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 28, 2008; A13
A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Iraq, alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of Nepali workers.
Where are Katrina evacuee families supposed to go once FEMA kicks them out? A trailer park tale continues. read more | digg story
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Countdown to Crawford: Tracking the final days of the Bush administration
Cheney aide was in Georgia before war began What was a top national security aide to Vice President Dick Cheney doing in Georgia shortly before Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s troops engaged in what became a disastrous fight with South Ossetian rebels — and then Russian [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
By Allan Woods | OTTAWA–Canadian soldiers could get training from a U.S. company closely linked to Blackwater USA, a private security firm implicated in the killings of hundreds of Iraqi civilians, if the Department of National Defence has its way.
I’D RATHER HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO SCREWED HIS INTERN THAN ONE WHO SCREWED HIS COUNTRY
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