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		<title>something old, something new, something borrowed, now we&#8217;re blue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pimco&#8217;s McCulley does a rather good dissection of the shadow banking system, and aside for the conclusion that the Fed should be the ultimate controller of everything, we believe it is a worthwhile read. We obviously disagree with McCulley on his view of the Fed &#8211; the Chairman is simply far too political, incompetent (don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefaithfulskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1293739&amp;post=224&amp;subd=thefaithfulskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>take heed: the shadow war</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Shadow War&#8221; : mainstream Protestant denominations under seige Bruce Wilson print page Sat Feb 11, 2006 at 01:55:09 PM EST   New Talk To Action anthology:United Methodism Under Attack John Dorhauer&#8217;s new weekly series on Talk To Action may be unprecedented : Dorhauer&#8217;s series concerns an over two decade long campaign, by the far-right wing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefaithfulskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1293739&amp;post=227&amp;subd=thefaithfulskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>watching ohio</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Election protection in Ohio (and America) isn&#8217;t over Election Integrity by Harvey Wasserman &#124; November 18, 2008 &#8211; 9:21am by Bob Fitrakis &#38; Harvey Wasserman As the sun sets on Bush 2, it is clear that a very thin line of electoral protection preserved Barack Obama&#8217;s victory in Ohio&#8211;and the nation. And it&#8217;s no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefaithfulskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1293739&amp;post=212&amp;subd=thefaithfulskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>is the party over at AIG?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AIG Party Watch: This time a resort in Phoenix Tracy Coenen Nov 11th 2008 at 11:00AM AIG executives may not be making better business decisions while they&#8217;re asking the federal government for more money, but at least they&#8217;re getting sneakier! An ABC News investigation has revealed that a conference last week at the Pointe Hilton [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefaithfulskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1293739&amp;post=209&amp;subd=thefaithfulskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>democracy and liberty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. Benjamin Franklin, 1759<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefaithfulskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1293739&amp;post=206&amp;subd=thefaithfulskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>john mccain&#8217;s morality and self-interest record</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosa Brooks: Keating 5 ring a bell? McCain&#8217;s past collides with the present Wall Street debacle. Rosa Brooks September 25, 2008 Once upon a time, a politician took campaign contributions and favors from a friendly constituent who happened to run a savings and loan association. The contributions were generous: They came to about $200,000 in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefaithfulskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1293739&amp;post=201&amp;subd=thefaithfulskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>wall street monster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Monster That Ate Wall Street   They&#8217;re called &#8220;Off-Site Weekends&#8221;—rituals of the high-finance world in which teams of bankers gather someplace sunny to blow off steam and celebrate their successes as Masters of the Universe. Think yacht parties, bikini models, $1,000 bottles of Cristal. One 1994 trip by a group of JPMorgan bankers to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefaithfulskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1293739&amp;post=199&amp;subd=thefaithfulskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>off with his head!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[McCain Loses His Head   &#8220;Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland&#8221; Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. Channeling his inner Queen of Hearts, John McCain furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts, said Chris [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefaithfulskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1293739&amp;post=189&amp;subd=thefaithfulskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>from democracy now&#8230;w.h. manages the daily news</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[McClellan: White House Fed Talking Points to Fox News Former White House spokesperson Scott McClellan has revealed the Bush administration routinely fed talking points to several top hosts at the Rupert Murdoch-owned network Fox News. McClellan was interviewed by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. Scott McClellan: “Certainly, there were commentators and others, pundits at Fox News, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefaithfulskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1293739&amp;post=186&amp;subd=thefaithfulskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>senate vote threatens constitutional guarantees</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whistleblower: FISA ‘compromise’ advances police state agenda By Nick Langewis &#124; Sunday, 29 June 2008 Retired AT&#38;T engineer Mark Klein has condemned the Senate’s Wednesday cloture vote on the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. The bill, if passed by final vote planned for July 8, would revise the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to retroactively [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefaithfulskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1293739&amp;post=185&amp;subd=thefaithfulskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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