Economy, first two debates fuel Obama-Biden ticket's jump among voters
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]]> John McCain would pay for his health plan with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, a top aide said, in a move that independent analysts estimate could result in cuts of $1.3 trillion over 10 years to the government programs.


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]]> Bailing out criminal bankers and rewarding fraudsters with public funds.Fleece the treasury to reward criminals.Money now entering the vaults of the nations biggest banks including the Bank of China with no intentions of recycling this money.
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]]> McCain, R-Ariz., handily defeated Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., 68 percent to 23 percent in a voluntary survey of 4,293 active-duty...
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]]> The parlous state of the US economy has dramatically narrowed John McCain's options for reaching the White House, leaving the Republican candidate campaigning hard in just four states won by the Democrats in 2004.
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]]> A TEENAGE girl in the Northern Territory woke when a snake that had slithered into her bed and wrapped itself around her neck bit her on the arm.

Ashlee Findlay, 16, who is afraid of snakes, spiders and centipedes, spent two hours at a hospital after t
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]]> Surrounded and programmed by the lobbyists he once despised, the man who once effortlessly straddled the aisle and spoke from the heart now carefully hews to a prompter-read, soulless far-right agenda.


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]]> Britain's native red squirrels will become extinct in just ten years' time if urgent action is not taken, experts have warned.
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]]> Governor Palin, in fact, took no leadership role to fight for Darfur divestment; she dismissed pleas for help and only changed her position in 2008.
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]]> Sarah Palin and John McCain have always been for it. Joe Biden was sort of against it before he was for it and Barack Obama embraces it. To what am I referring? The alleged panacea of clean coal.
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]]> It wasn't their money Wall Street was playing with. It was ours.
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]]> A man distraught because he could not find work shot and killed his mother-in-law, his wife and three sons and then killed himself inside a home in an upscale San Fernando Valley neighborhood, police said.
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]]> An unemployed financial advisor apparently despondent over his troubles shot and killed his wife, his mother-in-law and three children before taking his own life in a gated community in the northwest San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles police said today.
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]]> Tools so any person that has owes money to the bank or credit card institutions to bring their cases to the courts thus protecting from any foreclosure and lost of any asset you have. Plus, only 3% of the money is tangible (bills and coins), all the rest
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]]> HURRAY!! Updated Monday, October 6, 2008 at 3:28 p.m.ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The federal government will designate "critical habitat" for polar bears in the ocean off Alaska's coast, a decision that could add restrictions to future offshore petroleum explor
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]]> Using a fan to circulate air seemed to lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome in a study of nearly 500 babies, researchers reported Monday.

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]]> John McCain's new coziness with Big Oil is in many respects just a replay of his old coziness with Charles Keating. In both cases, money and access bought influence.
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]]> Updated Monday, October 6, 2008 at 4:51 p.m. ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says she's an open book regarding an abuse-of-power investigation. Apparently her staff doesn't feel the same way.
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]]> At noon today, the Obama campaign released a 13-minute Web video dedicated to exploring McCain's role in the S&L scandal that eventually enveloped five senators (four Democrats and McCain) a.k.a. the "Keating Five." Video and Article~


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]]> A brief expose that shows why John McCain's failed philosophy and poor judgment are a recipe for deepening the economic crisis.
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]]> Shut-offs have been running 17 percent higher than last year among customers of New York state's major utilities, and 22 percent higher in economically hard-hit Michigan
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]]> ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A book published by the U.S. Geological Survey reports that 99 percent of glaciers in Alaska are thinning or in retreat, especially at lower elevations.
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]]> The Keating Five connections are very troubling for what they mean today -- both on economic philosophy and on McCain's willingness to get cozy with special interests.
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]]> The largest group of atheists and agnostics in the United States is suing President George W. Bush, the governor of Wisconsin and other officials over a federal law designating a National Day of Prayer.
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]]> ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Six Alaska lawmakers filed an emergency appeal Friday asking the state's Supreme Court to halt an investigation into abuse-of-power allegations against Gov. Sarah Palin before the findings are released next week.


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]]> Palin is in the driver's seat and plans to stay there. Her take-no-prisoners nasty streak and extreme right wing views have found kindred spirits now that she's fully staffed up with veterans of Bush.
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]]> Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who bucked conventional wisdom to find a virus that causes cervical cancer were awarded the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday.
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]]> 'Native Americans are in danger of becoming an endangered species'

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]]> We are excited to inform you that we are currently putting together efforts to bring a caravan of work crews that will be converging from across the country to support residents
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BOSTON -- A rare adult blue whale was spotted over the weekend 15 miles off Gloucester during a research cruise.

Researchers at the Whale Center of New England said that they were startled to find the whale on Sunday
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]]> As a spreading financial crisis threatens to deepen the economic recession in the United States, the news of an unprecedented $700-billion bailout package reverberated through the corridors of the United Nations last week as over 100 world leaders gathere
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]]> While the Bush regime was rewarding 700 billion dollars to the thieves responsible for the financial pillage, we completed another week of daily protests

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]]> It's time to shed light on the way U.S. companies in charge of oil, gas, and mining operations in developing countries are spending their money, according to testimony at two Capitol Hill hearings Wednesday.
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]]> Sea otters are a keystone species, filling such an important niche in ocean communities that without them, entire ecosystems can collapse. Scientists are finding, however, that sea otters can have even further reaching effects that extend to terrestrial c
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]]> EESA greatly expands Treasury and Federal Reserve powers...Ignored is their criminal fraud. The harmful fallout to many millions, and the fact that $700 billion (now $850 billion) is a down payment with trillions more to come...Mainstreet beware! 10/6/08
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]]> Sen. Barack Obama on Sunday charged that Sen. John McCain's campaign is launching "Swift boat-style attacks" on him instead of addressing the country's problems.
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]]> One of the world's smallest seals - the Caspian - has joined a growing list of mammal species in danger of extinction.
October 2008. Scientists from the University of Leeds have documented the disastrous decline of the seal - a species found only in the
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]]> The PA State Senate is poised to vote on House Bill 2525 to impose stricter laws against dog abuse. If you are a PA resident, please use the form below to send an email to all 50 senators urging them to pass the bill.
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]]> Hansen et al.“If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,” the paper states, “CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm”
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]]> Barack Obama is keeping a strong Gallup Poll lead over John McCain. Obama leads 50-43 percent in Sunday's results. So much for the "Palin bump" from the vice presidential debate
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]]> Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good."Our results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the team led by Jan Schipper of the International Unio
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