http://www.newscloud.com/section/american Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:25:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us http://www.newscloud.com/read/McCain_Backer_s_Firm_Pleaded_Guilty_To_Funding_Terrorist_Group_In The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Bloombergcom_Worldwide June 24 (Bloomberg) -- The world's biggest financial firms may lose as many as 175,000 jobs by this time next year as Citigroup Inc. and other banks shed workers amid slowing revenue and billions in writedowns, executive recruiters say.

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But a virtual who's who of familiar right wing social conservative organizations have also converged on California and are making the overturning of the California court decision a priority. "There are a number of national religious right groups that are lending their resources to this effort," said Peter Montgomery, spokesperson at the People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group based in Washington DC.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/why_does_Chris_Matthews_keep_saying_AfricanAmericans_aren_t_regular_people The past several months have brought a congealing conventional wisdom among many reporters and pundits that MSNBC is lurching to the left. It is perhaps unsurprising that this story line would emerge. It is, however, nonsense. Why is the story line unsurprising? Quite simply, several of its most prominent advocates have a clear interest in MSNBC being seen as liberal.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Black_lawmakers_emotional_about_Obama_s_success Rep. John Lewis D-Ga. was about to enter his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday afternoon when a tourist from Miami rushed up to him. "I was watching Barack last night, and I just kept thinking, 'What would Dr. King think?'" the tourist, Larry Ellery, told Lewis expectantly.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Halliburton_Charged_with_Selling_Nuclear_Technologies_to_Iran According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran's largest private oil companies.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Rachael_Ray_ad_pulled_as_pundit_sees_terror_link_Food_Inc_msnbccom Dunkin' Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Inteligentaindigena_Indigenismo_Real_Truth_Online_Vincent_Bugliosi_Wants_Bush_Charged_with_Murder Vincent Bugliosi - who in the early 1970s successfully prosecuted Charles Manson for the murder of Sharon Tate and six others - lays out his case against Bush in The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (Perseus Books, 2008)

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/American_Website_Reviews_Contemporary_Welsh_Literature At last an attempt is being made by the Welsh ex-pat community to promote the wealth of contemporary Welsh literary talent on the American market.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Activist_wants_Bush_arrested_on_arrival Minneapolis activist will ask that President Bush be tried for war crimes. Ed Felien wants Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to convene a grand jury.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Black_Accountability_Project_DNC_Color_Divide "AAPP says: Karen Brooks of The Dallas Morning News is reporting on the problems involving the selection of Democratic National Convention bloggers. Check out the link to her article below. Ms. Brooks provides a great overview on the issues involving the Democratic Party and how they are treating black bloggers. I know Native Americans and the Angry Indian must be wondering why Native Americans seem to be excluded by the DNC as well."

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Senate_Moves_Forward_on_Orwellian_Bill n the wake of Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins\\\\\\' (R-ME) alarmist report, "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorism Threat," the Senate may be moving towards passage of the Orwellian "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" (S. 1959).

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Luis_Posada_Carriles_Terrorist_Enjoys_A_ComingOut_in_Miami the man being honored by 500 fellow Cuban Americans at a sold-out gala was Luis Posada Carriles, the former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges and under a deportation order for illegally entering the United States three years ago.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Conservatives_Happier_Than_Liberals Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Hawiians_occupy_Iolani_Palace Around Seventy members and supporters from the "the Hawaiian Kingdom Government" occupied the grounds of Iolani Palace on Wednesday, saying the grounds are the property of the "Hawaiian Kingdom." They locked all the gates and barred government workers and the public from entering the area.

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