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Salmonella Now Suspected in Jalepeno Peppers, Cilantro

Bill Lenner — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:03:00 GMT

After failing to find the source of a rare type of salmonella in tomatoes authorities are turning an eye to peppers and cilantro.Apparently their best clue is still a local chain of restaurants in Chicago, identified in this report as serving Mexican

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Bush Administration Working to Weaken Rules Protecting Investors Created After Enron Collapse and Stock Market Meltdown of 2002

Bill Lenner — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:06:00 GMT

According to NY Times report "Accounting Plan Would Allow Use of Foreign Rules ": Apparently the Bush administration is pushing to breakdown what were considered pretty wimpy protections put in place after the Enron collapse and stock

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Why Did John McCain Put A Swift Boat Veteran Out to Smear Clark and Obama

Bill Lenner — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:42:00 GMT

Just to put this in other words: since John McCain is trying to portray himself as a new kind of Republican, not one of those like his predecessors with their reliance on Karl Rove, why did he allow the lying attack on WesleyClark?This was not a 527

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US Government Given Heads Up on Rescue Attempt of Columbian Hostages. Did Bush administration pass it on to McCain's campaign? European news is reporting the hostages were released because of a deal i

Bill Lenner — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:59:00 GMT

The coincidence of McCain traveling to Columbia just as a hostage rescue is worked strains the credulity genes. Shades of storytelling like was done about the 'rescue of Jessica Lynch? or worse did they have to wait for McCain's trip to get release

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Hunt Oil Got Insider Information on oil deal in Iraq (and may have gotten another heads up on the original 'Kurdistan' deal via seat on Bush's Foreign Intelligence Policy Board)

Bill Lenner — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:08:00 GMT

An oil deal that flew in the face of stated Bush and al Maliki administration goals was crafted between Texas company Hunt Oil and the leadership of Kurdistan (oops, the Kurdish part of Iraq, of course. Just because the Kurds administer themsel

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Reviled Techniques from Communist China Aimed at Getting False Confessions From US Troops Used As Basis For Bush Administration 'Enemy Combatant' Detention and Interrogations

Bill Lenner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:26:00 GMT

I've been hearing this for a couple weeks at least from Amy Goodman at Democracy Now.Funny how those supposedly wacko ideas from the left turn out so often to be true.It's only my hectic schedule and inability to find a mainstream source on t

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Schwarzenegger's Verbal Knee Capper Steve Schmidt Takes Charge of McCain Campaign

Bill Lenner — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:22:00 GMT

A prominent name from Schwarzenegger's re-election campaign is taking charge of the McCain camp apparently as a reward for getting mainstream news to focus on a the shiny thing of fake outrage over Wesley Clark failing to prostate himself before

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Flash to News Media and McCain Crew: Wesley Clark is not a part of the Barack Obama Campaign

Bill Lenner — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Wesley Clark is not a surrogate for Barack Obama as an LA Times report "The campaign comment that will not die " points out:Clark isn't even a member of Obama's campaign. He backed Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nominatio

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McCain's Foreign Policy Proposals Could Cut UN Out of International Debate, Promote More "Interventions"

Bill Lenner — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:01:00 GMT

John McCain is set on sidelining the UN apparently in his foreign policy proposals and creating a "League of Democracies" that could

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John McCain's Foreign Policy is a Mess According to Evidence from Mainstream Sources

Bill Lenner — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:36:00 GMT

The evidence that mainstream sources have been putting out in the past few months show that John McCain's foreign policy is a jumble of soundbites on whatever makes him sound good and therefore would help him get elected.That is what has co

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Tom Brokaw Tells Schwarzenegger that He'd Be Fired If He Were a CEO

Bill Lenner — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:36:00 GMT

The Governator replies that state's problems are due to national economic crisis.See LA Times "Brokaw needles Schwarzenegger on spending, economy ". But, of course in 2003 Rs ignored national economic crisis as they demanded a reca

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Scott Ritter on David Albright: The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was (Updated W/ Link)

Bill Lenner — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:25:00 GMT

Excerpt Truth Dig column (title indicated above).In that he never has designed or worked in a nuclear reactor, never has designed or worked on nuclear weapons, in fact never has done anything of a practical, hands-on nature in the nuclear field, to c

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The Stories You Might Not Be Hearing: Israeli Intelligence Pushing Report that Syria's al Kibar Was to Produce Plutonium for Iran. Wants an Attack on Iran Soon.

Bill Lenner — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:40:00 GMT

I saw this first about a week ago, but only in Isreali reports at Ynet and Haaretz. Here's Ynet's "'Syria, N. Korea built reactor to help Iran' " in which a claim is made that German News Magazine Der Spiegel learned t

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Wayne La Pierre Needs to Check into Public Housing

Bill Lenner — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:28:00 GMT

I'll make a deal with him. If Mr. La Pierre wants his organization to promote forcing municipalities to allow guns in public housing, that he should make a deal to live in the first public housing system that gets regunned, at least for 6 m

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Our Faux Chechnyan Spring Not Working Out So Well In Baghdad. Four Americans Killed In Sadr City

Bill Lenner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:21:00 GMT

Our neo Stalinism in Baghdad isn't having the happy effect as the Bush administration as hoped.Dammit we bombed families into oblivion in Sadr city. Why aren't they pacified?Maybe they should call up Putin for advice on how to do it rig

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Supreme Court Takes A Bite Out Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 and May Endanger Even More Basic Campaign Finance Laws

Bill Lenner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:05:00 GMT

This year's legislation from the court strikes down the "Millionaire's Amendment" which allows easing of campaign finance rules when a candidate is faced with an opponent who can spend large amounts of his or her own money.Richard B

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Supreme Court Strikes Down DC's Handgun Law. Justice Antonin 'Torture is good!' Scalia Cites 'Historical Narrative'. No kidding

Bill Lenner — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:34:00 GMT

Somebody watched too many John Wayne movies when he was a kid.Apparently, to make the a decision to decide that Washington DC's handgun ban was unconstitutional Justice Antonin Scalia had to use 'historical narrative' as his guide since t

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Air Force Refueling Tankers Controversy Show McCain Camp A Little Too Cozy With European Arms Contractors. Interfering with Military Needs.

Bill Lenner — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:04:00 GMT

Excerpt Newsweek report "McCain’s Boeing Battle Boomerangs ":One of John McCain's most celebrated achievements in recent years was his crusade to block a Pentagon contract with Boeing for a new fleet of midair refueling tankers. I

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McCain Supported a Bill to Bolster Levees and Flood Control Before He Was Against It

Bill Lenner — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:10:00 GMT

McCain cosponsored an amendment to the 2007 Water Resources Development Act which was created to fund improvements in Levees and Flood Control programs, The Everglades (which we have heard for years was a massive flood risk because of misused of the

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The Truth About Obama and Public Financing

Bill Lenner — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:47:00 GMT

Most of mainstream failed to get the whole story and tell it to you, but here's a video that covers it from MSNBC's Countdown.Most of mainstream news is like the blind men and the elephant and even at that they tend to put their hands where

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