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President elect Barack Obama has addressed supporters in Chicago after beating John McCain to become the next US president. Below is the speech.
Obama:
Hello, Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in (…)

Islamabad—The next U.S. president must halt missile strikes on insurgent targets in northwest Pakistan or risk failure in its efforts to end militancy in the Muslim country, the prime minister warned Tuesday. Yousuf Raza Gilani said visiting U.S. Gen. David Petraeus “looked convinced” when he warned him the strikes were inflaming anti-American sentiment but that he got no guarantee the attacks would end.
Gilani’s remarks in an interview with The Associated Press underscore how shaping a (…)

Special Announcement: 2008 is Just the Beginning
The rhetoric of corporate politicians will not end after November 4th and neither will our opposition to it. There is no finish line in the struggle for justice, nor is democracy something which on...
The rhetoric of corporate politicians will not end after November 4th and neither will our opposition to it. There is no finish line in the struggle for justice, nor is democracy something which only occurs once every four years. (…)

By JOE MOWREY
Which Candidate Supports Petraeus, the Bailout, the Death Penalty, Nuclear Power, the Occupation, the Cuban Embargo...
Name That Candidate
This week came exciting news. Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yippie! The blogosphere is all atwitter. Our guy has worked hard, taken solid positions on all the most important progressive issues and managed to convince the exalted Mr. Powell to throw his support our way. Celebrations are in order. We’re one step (…)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (April 2007)
For the last 12 years, I have been telling anyone who would listen to me that we are taking huge risks and massive exposure to rare events. I isolated some areas in which people make bogus claims —epistemologically unsound. The Black Swan is a philosophy book (epistemology, philosophy of history & philosophy of science), but I used banks as a particularly worrisome case of epistemic arrogance —and (…)

HORNY OLD MEN AND FEMININE WILES
By Peter Fredson November 3, 2008
It is November and the rutting season for bull moose has begun. They will bellow, wave antlers, paw the ground, and run amuck at the first glimpse of a rival. It is their nature. Or, more aptly, it is nature’s way of reproducing their species. They can’t resist.
Although civilization has tamed human desires, it has not obliterated them. Males will still be entranced by female beauty and feminine wiles. Winks, nods, (…)

Source : "Pakistan Observer"
3 November 2008
Peshawar—Three missiles were fired on Angoor Adda from Afghanistan, however, there was no loss of life. According to foreign news agencies, the missiles were fired from Paktika province of Afghanistan in the night Saturday and Sunday.
Meanwhile, tribesmen staged a big protest in Wana against US missile attacks and violations of Pak space by US drones.
The participants chanted slogans against US and demanded to stop the killing of innocent (…)

Joe Average November 2008
The largest debt bubble in the history of mankind is on the verge of deflating and collapsing as world leaders and central bankers fly around the globe to one crisis meeting after another. No sooner is one panic quelled or some hasty band-aid fix slapped into place to stop a financial collapse, then another breaks out somewhere else. The bad news just keeps on coming; ICELAND...Bankrupt...Oct.2008 nationalises banks; turns to International Monetary Fund for help. (…)

Yasin booked under PSA, shifted to Jammu jail
Protests against Malik, Sumji’s detention
By Amin Masoodi
Source : "Kashmir Times"
SRINAGAR, Nov 1:
Continuing its crackdown against the separatist leaders, authorities today slapped Public Safety Act (PSA) on chairman JKLF, Mohammad Yasin Malik and care taker chairman, Hurriyat Conference (G), Ghulam Nabi Sumji and sent them to Amphala jail in Jammu.
Following the booking of Malik and Sumji under PSA, hundreds of people in Maisuma (…)

Democracy NOw !
October 27, 2008
With the economy the number one issue on the campaign trail, major party candidates John McCain and Barack Obama discuss their tax plans, jobs and the financial bailout on the stump. But are they really addressing the needs of the working class? A new study from the Center for the Study of Working Class Life suggests that neither McCain nor Obama have adequately spoken to the needs of one-fifth of the population—the 60 million Americans who are barely (…)