1. Wall Street Fat Cats Are Trying to Pocket Billions in Bailout Cash…
During his historic victory speech, President-elect Barack Obama told supporters, and the rest of the world, “If this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.”
But, it seems that Wall Street didn’t get [...]

http://www.bloomberg.com…
Steven Bodzin and Jose Orozco
Venezuela and Russia agreed to form a $4 billion joint bank to pay for development projects, along with 14 other agreements between the oil-exporting countries.
Officials from OAO Gazprombank and state energy company Petroleos de Venezuela SA signed a memorandum of understanding between the two countries yesterday in Caracas, in a ceremony [...]

http://www.denverpost.com…
By Felisa Cardona
The Denver Post
When a Jefferson County deputy deployed pepper spray into a crowd during the first night of the Democratic National Convention, he did not know that his targets were undercover Denver police officers.

http://www.theyoungturks.com…
posted by sfinneganus–11/08/2008 10:41:20 AM EST
For those who didn’t see the map already, the red areas shifted more red and blue areas shifted more blue this election.  Anyone know the study this map actually came from?
What caused the large red cluster in Arkansas?

I hope Obama never loses that sense of humor. The world is a better, and a safer, place with it than without it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com…
from Huff Po by Albert Brooks
I am not referring to the color of peoples’ skin, I am referring to the thickness of it. The president-elect made a small joke about Nancy Reagan having [...]

http://www.cnn.com…
By Peter Bergen
CNN National Security Analyst
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A classified review of U.S. policy in Afghanistan is likely to judge that the United States is losing ground there, according to a government official involved with preparing the review.
The review, under way since September 20 and led by Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute, the senior National [...]

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from Huff Po by The Huffington Post News Editors
NEW YORK — The FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades, newly released documents show.
Students at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism obtained the FBI documents by filing a Freedom of Information Act request. [...]

http://news.yahoo.com…
The Army has agreed to investigate a disproportionate cluster of suicides among recruiters in an East Texas battalion, as well as allegations by other soldiers and family members that they were pressured to cover up serious problems in the battalion, Army Secretary Pete Geren said.
Seventeen Army recruiters have committed suicide nationwide since 2001, but four [...]

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By: Elliott Friday November 7, 2008 9:25 am
On the hopes that we can effect change, please click through and sign the petition to change the tax code and challenge the Mormon Church’s tax-exempt status.

Sign this petition to support the legal effort to amend our tax laws such that the Mormon Church would lose its tax-exempt [...]