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Scott Brown's US Senate race has attracted national attention. Not long after he failed to be re-elected in 2014, he moved to New Hampshire and immediately started running for one of New Hampshire'...
by TimothyHorrigan
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on Fri Jul 04, 2014 at 06:56 AM PDT
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Earlier this week, a UK newspaper, The Daily Mail, reported a notable quote from Prime Minister David Cameron. He made the extraordinary observation that the Murdoch wiretapping and police bribery ...
by leveymg
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on Sun Jul 10, 2011 at 08:26 AM PDT
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If you remember the internet meme "Smash My Stuff", you will love what the coalition government is doing in the UK.
by The BigotBasher
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on Sat Jan 29, 2011 at 06:55 PM PST
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Okay, so here's the scene from a few months ago:
Huuuuge British corporation. Blatantly in ...
by occams hatchet
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on Fri Jun 04, 2010 at 02:18 PM PDT
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Some of you may be familiar with a military procurement controversy that broke last Fall. The Army had the "temerity" to put up for bids a huge contract to supply military trucks being used in ...
by American Pie
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on Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 08:12 AM PST
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Diarist's note: Back in 2006, when I first ...
by occams hatchet
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on Fri Feb 27, 2009 at 09:49 AM PST
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This will come as no surprise to anyone who ...
by occams hatchet
182 comments
on Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 08:56 PM PDT
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A repeat from yesterday...
We had been told that 'British lives on British streets' were at risk ... If this caused another 7/7, how could we say that our investigation was more ...
by calipygian
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on Sat Feb 16, 2008 at 04:12 AM PST
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So, Bush's good friend and dearest buddy in the whole wide world, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, threatened Britain's Tony Blair with another 7/7 attack on Britain unless corruption investigations ...
by Karen Hedwig Backman
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on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 01:24 PM PST
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In case you haven’t been following this, the British Government had launched an investigation in to defense contractor ...
by calipygian
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on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 12:07 PM PST
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As reported earlier on this site by SiliconValleyBrit ...
by semiot
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on Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 05:22 AM PST
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The British newspaper The Guardian has a story describing how Saudi Prince Bandar managed to derail a British inquiry ...
by SiliconValleyBrit
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on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 10:06 PM PST
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The WaPo series on Fourthbranch Cheney has given us a template for how this de facto chief executive likes to operate. We know that he likes to operate in the shadows, valuing secrecy ...
by dday
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on Tue Jun 26, 2007 at 06:08 PM PDT
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I wish I could say I was surprised that the MSM isn't covering this story, because it displays breathtaking incidences of corruption among the U.S.'s allies, attempts at the highest levels of ...
by Alakazam
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on Sat Jun 23, 2007 at 04:54 AM PDT
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It's been nearly impossible to get any attention to the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds. We can't even get Waxman to even comment on whether he'...
by lukery
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on Mon Jun 18, 2007 at 05:08 AM PDT
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Saudi Arabia's finest, the princely Prince Bandar Bush, a man who along with Dick Cheney created Al Qaeda during the Soviet/ Afghan war in the 80's, is in trouble now: Abu Gonzales is hot on his ...
by a gnostic
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on Wed Jun 13, 2007 at 05:47 PM PDT
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Old CIA hands like Bush 41 and Robert Gates had a problem in the early 1980s. Congress had outlawed CIA funded deathsquads, assassinations, false flag operations and other methods beloved of black ...
by LondonYank
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on Wed Jun 13, 2007 at 09:36 AM PDT
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The BBC reports that Saudi Prince Bandar - known to Dubya as "Bandar Bush" - ...
by LondonYank
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on Thu Jun 07, 2007 at 01:09 AM PDT
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I just read this article on Truthout and found it to be pretty shocking and definitely thought it was worth sharing with the community here. Just when I think I cannot be shocked by what's gone on ...
by uniongal
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on Fri Dec 22, 2006 at 10:04 PM PST
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I haven’t written about the government’s decision to drop a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) corruption investigation into a huge ...
by heathlander
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on Sun Dec 17, 2006 at 12:39 PM PST
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