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by Gary
Wingnut Watch

Michael Savage asks why Obama visited his grandmother “who suddenly and suspiciously died virtually the night before the election.”
87-year old woman with cancer dies. What are the odds?
Wingnut extraordinaire Alan Keyes joins lawsuit over Obama’s birth certificate. It is obvious to anyone with a brain that this isn’t going anywhere. The Certificate [...]

1. Targeted L.A. restaurant donates to group challenging Prop. 8…
El Coyote Mexican Cafe came under fire after a manager gave $100 to the campaign to ban same-sex marriage. Employees make an online donation of $500 to an advocacy group challenging the ban.
2. El Coyote: Anger, Tears–and Maybe Hope?…
But protesters, the majority of whom were El [...]

http://www.bloomberg.com…
By Massoud A. Derhally
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Israeli missiles are the source of traces of uranium that diplomats at the International Atomic Energy Agency say were found at a suspected nuclear site in Syria, according to Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem.

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MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to travel this month to Cuba and Venezuela, which have increasing military and trade ties with Moscow.
The U.S. has objected to Russia’s greater links with the two countries that have antagonistic relations with Washington.
Medvedev will visit Cuba on Nov. 27, the Kremlin press service said. He will also [...]

http://abcnews.go.com/…
Ex-employees Tell ABC News the Firm Used Dog Food Sacks to Smuggle Unauthorized Weapons to Iraq
By BRIAN ROSS and JASON RYAN
November 14, 2008
A federal grand jury in North Carolina is investigating allegations the controversial private security firm Blackwater illegally shipped assault weapons and silencers to Iraq, hidden in large sacks of dog food, ABCNews.com has [...]

http://www.harpers.org…
By Scott Horton
Gene Burns is one of the nation’s most popular talk radio hosts. For years he has dismissed accounts of torture; America, he has said, does not torture. But last night, after watching Torturing Democracy and realizing that he had not understood how important and serious an issue torture had become, Burns abruptly changed [...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com…
But Hayden Says Al-Qaeda Remains Greatest Threat to U.S.
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 14, 2008; A12
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday that al-Qaeda remains the single greatest threat to the United States but that Iraq is no longer the central front in the broader war on terrorism.

http://www.breitbart.com…
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin allegedly threatened to hang Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili “by the balls” during the August war in Georgia, a report not denied by Putin’s spokesman said on Friday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s diplomatic aide Jean-David Levitte earlier told Le Nouvel Observateur magazine that Putin had told Sarkozy in a meeting: “Saakashvili, I’m [...]

http://www.truthdig.com…
Juneau is hardly the top American target for terrorists, so what’s Blackwater doing in Alaska’s capital? Author Stuart Archer Cohen and Juneau’s KTOO News have reported sightings of uniformed guards from the private security contractor, and Cohen has some clues as to why they’re there.

Summary: Contradictory evidence points towards Indonesian Intelligence and CIA involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings, for which three “Islamic militants” were charged and executed.
A contradictory November 2002 report emanating from Indonesia’s top brass, pointed to the involvement of both the head of Indonesian intelligence General A. M. Hendropriyono as well as the CIA.
The links of [...]