Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) questions Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at a House Financial Services Committee meeting on financial regulations today (Thursday, October 29, 2009).
Ron Paul: “…a monetary policy way too loose, lasted too long, how can the solution be speeding it up? How can you say, well, this is the real problem so we’ll double [...]

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From CrooksandLiars.com:
Rachel Maddow talks to Glenn Greenwald about Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster the health care bill if it contains a public option, Evan Bayh quickly following suit and the financial gain being made by both men and their spouses for doing so.
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Maddow: Sen. Lieberman has made it very clear that he plans [...]

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) “…it’s time to ask ourselves whether the 2 party system is truly capable of representing the American people or whether it’s become so compromised by special interests that it can’t even protect the health of our own people…”
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I think the answer to Dennis Kucinich’s question has been quite obvious [...]

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The New York Times reports that Ahmed Wali Karzai, who is the brother of Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai and an alleged opium smuggler and war profiteer, has been taking money from the CIA.
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Related:
Reports Link Karzai’s Brother To Afghanistan Heroin Trade
Brother Of Karzai Denies Links To Heroin
Have you seen the video “The Truth [...]

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Matthew Hoh, who is a former Marine, resigned from his Senior Foreign Service officer position in the Zabul province of Afghanistan, stating “I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year-old civil war”.
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