"Hundreds of millions of dollars are pouring into advertisements for and against candidates — without a trace of where the dollars are coming from. They’re laundered through a handful of groups. Fred Malek, whom you may remember as deputy director of Richard Nixon’s notorious Committee to Reelect the President (dubbed Creep in the Watergate scandal), is running one of them. Republican operative Karl Rove runs another. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a third."
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Favorite: Memo exposes secret list of conservative donors plotting campaign against Democrats, climate change | Raw Story - http://www.mixx.com/stories...
A secret memorandum and invitation to an under-the-radar meeting of conservative minds has been leaked to the liberal blog ThinkProgress, and the list has been reprinted by Raw Story below, in an effort to highlight and focus on the names of the particip
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Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote. It is distinguished from political campaigning in that campaigning attempts to change likely voting behavior
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<br/>Keith talks with Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi about the Koch brothers, Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street, Tea Party, FOX News, Glenn Beck & the Supreme Cou...
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A study from the Mobilesplease blog has shown that a lot of mobile users cannot resist using their time on the toilet for calling, texting and playing games on their phone.
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There are millions of apps out there and with the iPhone App Store and growing by the day, but these are the 15 weirdest, most meaningless or actually damn funny that you can install
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"Recycling electronics has gotten much easier and more convenient in recent years. To keep lead and heavy metals from batteries and other electronic components out of the environment, consumers are urged to use one of the many free programs that will collect and recycle your computer."
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"Things change slowly if at all in Rome. But the not-so-coincidental similarities in the cardinals’ respective paths to the red hats, eventually to the conclave, and perhaps even to the papacy itself, make for a cautionary tale well worth the listen."
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At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months
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"Listen up my fellow Americans. Did you know that historically, only four out of ten registered voters vote in mid-term elections ? It's true, and this year since lots of people are disappointedm the figures are set to look even worse."
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It's no secret that many doctors get paid by pharmaceutical companies to talk to other docs; about general conditions, research trends or specific drugs; or to provide expertise for company research....
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<br/>This clip shows Austin James of American Majority training tea party activists on guerrilla internet tactics to "control the online dialogue". The ...
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<br/>The replica of a Phoenician ship from 600BC has arrived home in western Syria after a two-year voyage circumnavigating the coast of Africa.
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Recent update of SEO Doctor, a free SEO audit tool for Firefox, was a very important release as now the add-on features the most comprehensive set of on-site optimization tools found in any extension, paid or free.
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“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” -Anne Bradstreet
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<br/>Utrecht constantly being watched by surveillance cameras. The surveillance camera seems to constitute a real plague in the center, a pest that feeds on our privacy. To symbolize this development we place camera birds: urban birds with camera heads.
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