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POPSGustav Halts Democratic Attack Machine When Republicans announced that they would curb their convention activities, Democrats followed suit and cancelled a media walk-through of its spin center scheduled for Sunday night. In addition, Monday’s briefing at the “More of the Same Media Center” was also called off. However, Democrats at their response center across the street from the convention site continue to monitor the Republican gathering, ready to go into attack mode as soon as the convention returns to its original schedule.
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POPSGreen technology creating 'green collar' jobs I stand strongly behind my belief that if this country committed ourselves to becoming energy independent with the same determination that we committed to putting a man on the moon, that we could do it and we could create millions of new jobs in the process. It would be an enormous driver of economic growth and strengthen our leverage in the Middle East because we would no longer be reliant on their oil.
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POPSPoor, Poor Buttsore Billary This is an especially sore point for Bill Clinton, people close to him say, because among many grievances he has about the campaign Obama waged against his wife is a belief that the candidate poor-mouthed the political and policy successes of his two terms. One senior Obama supporter said the Clinton associates negotiating on her behalf act like “Japanese soldiers in the South Pacific still fighting after the war is over.” A prominent Obama backer said some of Clinton’s lieutentants negotiating with the Obama team are “bitter enders” who presume that, rather than the Clintons reconciling themselves to Obama’s victory, it is up to Obama to accommodate them.
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POPSTensions Boiling Over Between Obama-Clinton Camps to Obama’s victory, it is up to Obama to accommodate them. In fact, some senior veterans of Clinton’s presidential campaign do believe this. “He has not fully reconciled,” said one political operative close to the Clintons, “and he has not demonstrated that he accepts the Clintons and the Clinton wing of the party.” While the Clintons have a relatively easy job in Denver — to deliver gracious speeches and accept what are likely to be loud cheers from their supporters — it is “Obama who has the heavy lifting” this week, this aide said. This is because large numbers of Clinton backers — 30 percent in a recent ABC/Washington Post poll — are still not backing Obama over McCain. The peevishness on both sides and the volume of behind-the-scenes catcalls are noteworthy because both the Clinton and Obama teams had resolved in pre-convention talks that it was overwhelmingly in the interests of both sides to get along.
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POPSThe new oil order Is that wording a play on Pappy Bush's favorite phrase... "new world order"? That's the first thing I thought when I read it.
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POPSOil: An Industry in Crisis? Not sure if that's the case--crisis might apply to the financial services industry right now--but it's certainly an interesting article.
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POPSThe Five GOP Senators Killing The Energy Issue For Americans
The WSJ explains that by "riding voter discontent over high gas prices, the GOP has made antidrilling Democrats this summer's headlines." But, along comes the Gang of 10, complete with five GOP senators who are quite eager to stick it to conservatives and cave in to the Democrats. The plan is a Democratic giveaway. New production on offshore federal lands is left to state legislatures, and then in only four coastal states. The regulatory hurdles are huge. And the bill bars drilling within 50 miles of the coast -- putting off limits some of the most productive areas. Alaska's oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is still a no-go. The highlight is instead $84 billion in tax credits, subsidies and federal handouts for alternative fuels and renewables. The Gang of 10 intends to pay for all this in part by raising taxes on . . . oil companies! The Republican Five has potentially given antidrilling Democrats the political cover they need to neutralize energy through November.
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POPSMystery to Ponder John McCain’s top campaign officials on national security issues, Randy Scheunemann, actually worked as a lobbyist for the Georgian government so that’s his excuse for not thinking this through more thoroughly. But how about everyone else?
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POPSE-bullion Anthony Fayed sought by LAPD as person of interest Mark Herpel over at digitalmagazine blog just posted this entry below. Click here to read in full.. http://www.dgcmagazine.com/blog/?p=203 I would have assumed this guy would be eager to come forward before now and eliminate himself from the murder investigation.
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POPSDiscuss :: (6 Comments) ANDREA MITCHELL Were you ready with an advertisement, as some have suggested, in case he had visited the troops to criticize him for doing it while on a political trip? DAVIS No, I mean, frankly, we learned about the trip from the media. We, like many people in the media, weren't very well informed on what the details of Barack Obama's trip were going to be. But when we learned about it, it was disappointing to us, because I am very confident that the soldiers at Landstuhl would have enjoyed a trip and a visit by Barack Obama. Does this guy have a crush on Barack Obama or what? Until now, listening to the McCain campaign all week, you would have thought the troops despised Obama. Oh well. Maybe now we're all in agreement that Barack Obama's popularity is derived in large part from his policy positions on the war, the military, and veterans' affairs--positions that are clearly supported by those whose countries we occupy and by those who've served there.
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POPSFor Sale: High-Tech, Lethal Weapons From Blackwater, others Some companies manufacture large-scale military equipment, like Blackwater’s GRIZZLY Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) - a 22-foot long (6.7 meters), 15-tonne heavily armored land vehicle able to transport up to 10 people and resist “projectiles up to .50 caliber and to provide an IED-survivable envelope.” Manufactured at Blackwater’s Moyock, North Carolina compound, the GRIZZL is equipped with a roof turret designed to mount a 12.7mm machine gun, a feature that is undoubtedly attractive to militaries possessing such a weapon. While the vast majority of the private military and security industry is made up of US and UK companies, there are explicit differences between the two. The GRIZZLY is symbolic of the US industry, often characterized by heavy-duty, lethal military equipment. The UK industry is in many ways softer, characterized by less lethal security technologies.
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POPSPlato's Cave - "Is that what we see the reality?"
Socrates: Each of you, when his turn comes, must go down to the general underground abode, and get the habit of seeing in the dark. When you have acquired the habit, you will see ten thousand times better than the inhabitants of the den, and you will know what the several images are, and what they represent, because you have seen the beautiful and just and good in their truth. And thus our State which is also yours will be a reality, and not a dream only, and will be administered in a spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in their eyes is a great good. Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.... When a person starts on the discovery of the absolute by the light of reason only, and without any assistance of sense, and perseveres until by
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POPSTHE LIFE AND DEATH OF KEVIN CARTER THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KEVIN CARTER Visiting Sudan, a little-known photographer took a picture that made the world weep. What happened afterward is a tragedy of another sort. Go to source for complete story!
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