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By Mike Stuckey, Senior news editor
Free sex toys — and much more — for voting
Businesses across nation ready to reward citizens for casting their ballots
Just when you thought it was safe to focus on the issues in this historic election season, a chain of sex toy shops has joined retailers, restaurateurs and other businesses across [...]

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Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Published: Friday October 31, 2008
Newly obtained computer schematics provide further detail of how electronic voting data was routed during the 2004 election from Ohio’s Secretary of State’s office through a partisan Tennessee web hosting company.
A network security expert with high-level US government clearances, who is also a former McCain delegate, says [...]

How Did McCain Escape Expulsion from the Senate?…
John McCain, according to a revelatory article in The New Republic, was almost certainly the source for illegal leaks during the Keating Five investigation — leaks that, if proven, would have been cause for his expulsion from the United States Senate for perjury. Additionally, according to [...]

RIA Novosti
MEXICO CITY - A Russian floating platform will start to drill deep test wells on November 7 to prospect natural gas fields in the Gulf of Venezuela, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.
In 2005, Gazprom won a tender to prospect and develop natural gas blocks Urumaco 1 and Urumaco 2 in the Gulf of [...]

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Crooks and Liars by David Neiwert

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Another day, another gimmick. Republicans are digging out every possible turd they can find to fling and seeing what will stick on Barack Obama’s wall — and so far, no luck. Earlier this weekend they were peddling a dumb smear about Barack Obama’s [...]

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by John Sweeney
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Oct 31, 2008
Venezuela is buying from Russia between 10 and 12 Mi-28NEs — Havoc or Night Hunter — helicopters.
The Mil Mi-28s will replace seven aged OV-10 Broncos currently deployed with Special Operations Air Group 15 at Maracaibo’s Gen. Rafael Urdaneta Air Base. Venezuelan defense officials boast that the FNAB will [...]

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Posted on Nov 2, 2008
Active-duty military members arguably have more to lose than anyone else in Tuesday’s election, but voting can be an obstacle course for servicemen and -women overseas. The Dallas Morning News reports that in 2006 only one-third of the absentee ballots requested by U.S. armed forces personnel abroad were counted.
Dallas Morning News:
In the 2006 [...]

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by Staff Writers
Moscow (AFP) Nov 1, 2008
The Russian navy will hold war games in the Indian Ocean in a bid to boost its global presence, a navy spokesman said Saturday, announcing Moscow’s latest move to flex its military muscle.
“Ships from the Pacific Ocean Fleet and forces from the Northern Fleet will meet and carry out [...]

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Published: Nov. 2, 2008 at 9:15 PM
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 2 (UPI) — The U.S. Veterans Administration has mistakenly posted patients’ personal information online, officials said.
The VA hospital in Portland, Ore., said the federal agency posted such personal information as Social Security numbers of about 1,600 patients in Oregon alone.
The (Portland) Oregonian reported Sunday that the [...]