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Nashville pumps dry after panic about rumor of no gas (CNN)
(CNN) -- Call it a self-fulfilling prophecy: An estimated three-fourths of gas stations in the Nashville, Tennessee, area ran dry Friday, victim of an apparent rumor that the city was running out of ...
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Vice President Dick Cheney's Incredible and Deadly Lie (John W. Dean)
By Deceiving a Congressional Leader, Cheney Sent Us to War on False Pretenses and Violated the Separation of Powers, as Well as the Criminal Law
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Welcome To The Final Stages Of The Coup (Larisa Alexandrovna)
(Huffington Post) -- In 2000, the long fought for and long admired democracy of the United States of America began a slow and steady decline toward fascism -- a Bush family tradition -- with the ...
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Paulson's $700 Billion Bank Rescue Seeks 'Absolute Control' For Treasury (Fitzgerald & Brinsley)
(Bloomberg) -- The Bush administration sought unchecked power from Congress to buy $700 billion in bad mortgage investments from financial companies in what would be an unprecedented government ...
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Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle (William Greider)
Financial-market wise guys, who had been seized with fear, are suddenly drunk with hope. They are rallying explosively because they think they have successfully stampeded Washington into accepting ...
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Congressional Leaders Stunned by Warnings (David Herszenhorn)
WASHINGTON — It was a room full of people who rarely hold their tongues. But as the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, laid out the potentially devastating ramifications of the financial crisis before ...
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Sue Them, Jail Them, Make Them Pay for Meltdown (Ann Woolner)
Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- As it stands, the rest of us will be paying much money over a long time for the greed and bad judgment of those who melted down the economy.
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Stocks Soar Worldwide on Bank Bailout, Curb on Short Sales (Sarah Jones and Elizabeth Stanton)
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks surged in the biggest two-day global rally in history as the government announced plans to purge banks of bad assets and crack down on speculators who drove down shares of ...
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Iran In The Crosshairs (Jeremy R. Hammond)
(World News Trust) -- The IAEA's latest report on Iran's nuclear program was circulated to the Board of Governors this week. It has not been released to the general public, but it is widely being ...
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EFF Sues NSA, Bush & Cheney In Effort To Stop Illegal Surveillance (EFF)
New Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Domestic Spying
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