FTR #652 Palin by Comparison

Sarah Palin’s polit­i­cal resume and her­itage is gen­uinely fright­en­ing: Alaskan seces­sion­ist party, mili­tias and Iran­ian mullahs.

FTR #646 Georgia on Everybody’s Mind

” . . . McCain adviser (and for­mer Geor­gian lob­by­ist) Randy Scheunemann’s efforts on behalf of the Project for a New Amer­i­can Cen­tury and the Iraq war . . . ”

Dave Emory to speak in Santa Monica about the upcoming election

Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 18, 7pm, at Uni­tar­ian Uni­ver­sal­ist Com­mu­nity Church, 1260 18th Street (18th at Ari­zona Avenue) Santa Mon­ica, CA 90404

McCain aide lobbied for republic of Georgia

by Pete Yost­San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle
WASHINGTON — John McCain’s chief foreign-policy adviser and his busi­ness part­ner lob­bied the sen­a­tor or his staff on 49 occa­sions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars by the gov­ern­ment of the for­mer Soviet repub­lic of Geor­gia.
The pay­ments raise eth­i­cal ques­tions about the inter­sec­tion of [...]

Georgia war is a neocon election ploy

by Robert ScheerCre­ators Syn­di­cate, Inc.
Is it pos­si­ble that this time the Octo­ber sur­prise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave lit­tle Geor­gia strug­gling for its sur­vival from the grasp of the Russ­ian bear was stoked to influ­ence the U.S. pres­i­den­tial elec­tion?
Before you dis­miss that pos­si­bil­ity, con­sider the role of one Randy Scheunemann, [...]

FTR #637 Catching Up with Daniel Hopsicker

Avi­a­tion and its unreg­u­lated use in CIA drug traf­fick­ing; Saudi 9/11 evac plane used by McCain cam­paign; plane crash killed Venezue­lan exec­u­tive of Smart­matic, par­ent com­pany of Sequoia Vot­ing Sys­tems; links to Hugo Chavez; Guyanese pilot linked to Mohamed Atta and the 9/11 hijackers.

FTR #633 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Mus­lim Brotherhood-Al-Taqwa link to Berlus­coni; Eliot Spitzer scan­dal viewed in com­par­i­son to Pal­frey mur­der case; pan-Turkist move­ment link to shoot­ing of the pope.

Senior McCain Advisor Helped Arrange Rev. Moon Coronation

Filed by Nick Juliano
The Raw Sto­ryA bizarre Capi­tol Hill cer­e­mony a few years ago in which the eccen­tric con­ser­v­a­tive pub­lisher the Rev. Sun Myung Moon declared him­self the Sec­ond Com­ing was orga­nized with help from a senior adviser to John McCain’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign.Adver­tise­ment
Char­lie Black, a Wash­ing­ton lob­by­ist and McCain con­fi­dant, lent his name to the [...]

Oberweis urged to drop his bid

by Robert NovakCHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Impor­tant Illi­nois Repub­li­cans are urg­ing dairy mogul Jim Ober­weis, who lost the dis­trict pre­vi­ously held by Speaker J. Den­nis Hastert, to drop out of the com­pe­ti­tion for a full term. How­ever, it is unlikely Ober­weis would con­sider step­ping aside.
Ober­weis, who had lost three pre­vi­ous bids for statewide office, won nom­i­na­tions to fill the [...]

Is Brownback Bringing Opus Dei Into The Senate?

by Bob Geigerhttp://www.democrats.com/node/9220

The United States Sen­ate is often called “the great­est delib­er­a­tive body in the world” which usu­ally raises the bar on the tenor and intel­lec­tual con­tent of speeches given on the floor and for the offi­cial record.
Not so for Sen­a­tor Sam Brown­back (R-KS) who took to the Sen­ate floor last week to deliver [...]