- Talking Points Memo | Pundit Patrol – So, what do the pundits say?
- Daily Kos: State of the Nation: Three Times is Enemy Action – This is not the first time McCain and the GOP have crashed an economy…
- Reading Between the Extremes of Obama Campaign v. Michigan GOP – ProPublica – Outrage over a news story that reported a seemingly heartless plan by Michigan Republicans to use home-foreclosure lists to challenge the residency status of voters escalated last week into the first hot-button lawsuit of the election. Accusations got ugly. American Lawyer suggested it could be this election's Florida 2000 or Ohio 2004.
Posts Tagged: Enron
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Sep 08
Daily Links for September 25th
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Oct 07
Daily Links
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If Mozilo [Countrywide's CEO] says “no one saw [the housing subprime crisis] coming”, than why has he been unloading his options this past year?
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Lazy journalists and the “call it *” meme…
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Feb 07
Sins of the Past: Afghanistan, the CIA, the Mi-24 ‘Hind’ Attack Helicopter, and the US-made Stinger Missle
I was reading about the flurry of US helicopter downings in Iraq, which echoes back to Afghanistan in an earlier time – namely the USSR occupation that preceeded the fall of the Soviet Union. I conducted a quick search, looking for US justification from the CIA, stating that by providing Stinger (shoulder-launched) anti-air missles, killing as many as ten soldiers per chopper (currently, about 5.5% of US fatalities are due to helicopter crashes, with only 91 of 172 (2.9%) due to hostile-fire, as sourced from iCasualties), and taking one of the most effective of the Soviets weapons, the Mi-24 Hind Attack Helicopter, out of the theater, would demoralize the Soviets and defeat them in Afghanistan. Instead, I found a tale that encompasses the CIA, the White Houses of Carter and Reagan, a Congressman, several nations, such as Pakistan, Italy, Israel, Saudi Arabia, among others, the Soviets, and the Afghan mujhahadeen.
