Howard Zinn And the US Current Situation

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The real news Network has put together a great series of interviews with the Famous Author of ” The History of the United States” Howard Zinn.  They all have such a stark contrast in tone compared to what we see in interviews on the MSM (either Media Spin Machine or Main Stream Media)

Check them all out here

Happy Viewing

Dirty Voting: Email from Obama Campaign

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The dirty tricks have already begun. Republicans are shamelessly
attempting to prevent eligible Obama supporters from casting a vote:

* Election officials in some swing states have been illegally purging
voter registration rolls.1
* Fox News has been spreading false allegations about ACORN, a community
group that registers low-income people to vote–laying the ground for
challenges to legitimate voter registrations.23
* In Philadelphia, right-wing operatives have distributed flyers falsely
warning that anyone with so much as an unpaid parking ticket will be
arrested if he or she attempts to vote.4
* A GOP county chair in Michigan promised to block people whose homes
are in foreclosure from voting!5

And of course, the voting machines still in use in some swing states
suffer from serious security problems, including the lack of a paper audit
trail.

The best way to keep this election from being stolen is to win so big that
the dirty tricks won’t make any difference. The Obama campaign is reaching
out to millions of voters to make sure they get to the polls.

And the BailOut a.k.a interest free loan to Wall St.

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The people still do not know what is going on and the REAL news is hard to find.

ANP:

AIG, Bail Outs, Obama & McCain Spar Economics

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Nick Timiraos reports from Elko, Nev., on the presidential race.

John McCain and Barack Obama didn’t
criticize the government’s decision to bailout insurance giant AIG, but
the two presidential hopefuls did continued to jockey Wednesday over
who would better extinguish the nation’s financial fires.

Obama mused that it had been “really interesting” to watch McCain
respond to the crisis by calling for better regulation after years in
Congress of advocating deregulation. The Democratic candidate didn’t
elaborate on his own economic policies Wednesday, but mocked his
Repubican rival, saying McCain got “a little carried away” on Tuesday
with a promise to challenge “the old boys’ network in Washington.”

“The old boys’ network?” Obama asked. “In the McCain campaign, that’s called a staff meeting.”

A McCain campaign spokesman dismissed the rhetoric as an attempt to “disguise [Obama’s] non-existent record.”

The Obama campaign has tried to link McCain to a decades-long push
to deregulate financial markets, which culminated with the 1999
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that repealed New Deal-era securities
regulations. Phil Gramm, a McCain adviser and former senator, helped lead that push, but Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who has advised Obama, helped to secure passage of the bill.

The Obama campaign, meanwhile, charged that McCain had been shaky on
AIG, rejecting a taxpayer bailout on Tuesday. McCain was asked on CNBC,
“If you were in the Fed’s position, do you let it fail?” He responded:
“I think you have to,………….

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