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WASHINGTON (AFP) — The world faces a growing risk of conflict over the next 20 to 30 years amid an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from West to East, according to the US intelligence chief.
Michael McConnell, the director of national intelligence, predicted rising demand for scarce supplies of food and fuel, strategic competition over [...]

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Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor, November 1, 2008 03:27 PM
Barack Obama’s campaign routinely describes John McCain’s attacks and critiques as desperate and false.
Today, it called McCain’s latest criticism “pathetic.”
At a rally in Springfield, Va., the Republican senator referred to a remark Obama made Friday in Iowa that his game-changing caucus win [...]

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Published: Nov. 1, 2008
MOSCOW, Nov. 1 (UPI) — Russia says its Navy warships are set to hold drills in the Indian Ocean after leaving Venezuelan waters in several weeks.
A fleet of ships, led by the missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky, plan to conduct combat naval exercises in the Indian Ocean before making a number of calls [...]

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Bolivian President Evo Morales has announced he is suspending “indefinitely” the operations of the US drug enforcement agency in his country.
Mr Morales accused the agency of having encouraged anti-government protests in Bolivia in September.
He did not say whether its staff would be asked to leave the country, as coca- growers have been pressing him to [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) — President Bush signed an executive order Friday certifying that Libya has settled U.S. claims over the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
The president’s order came after the United States received a final payment of $1.5 billion from the Libyan government. Under the U.S.-Libya Claims Settlement Agreement, the money is [...]

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Jack & Jill Politics by jilltubman
Just as with ACORN, I think everyone needs to understand that there may be more to this story than meets the eye. The Bush administration specializes in half-truths and straight-up fiction to promote their version of events. Rep. John Conyers is already on the case and has written a stern [...]

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Ben smith sez, “Sarah Palin’s campaign issued an “mildly amused” response to having joined Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy in having been the victim of a prank by a pair of French-Canadian comedians who impersonated Sarkozy on a call with the Alaska governor.” link
“Gov. [...]