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WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America in the 1980s.

The U.S. Council for World Freedom also aided rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua. That landed the group in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair and in legal trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, which revoked the charitable organization's tax exemption.

The council created by retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub was the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. source- The Associated Press

One of McCains best buddies is a convicted terrorist of sorts. G Gordon Liddy, one of the Watergate burglars, who during the 1972 Republican convention, suggested kidnapping anti war protestors to keep them from protesting.

Then there's the Keaking 5 scandal.

And there are wacko preachers who have backed McCain, like Hagee and others.

Also, one of McCains big backers is Ralph Reed. You remember him. The phony religious leader with his racist agenda. He should have gone to jail along with Abramhoff.

They conspired to bilk hundreds of $$millions from tax payers and indian tribes. What really makes Reed a worm of a man is that he does all this evil in the name of religion.

Sarah Palin has been involved with and her husband was a member of an Alaskan seperatist group whose leader has loudly proclaimed how much he hates America.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/10/palin...

Can you imagine the hullabaloo if either Obama or his wife Michelle had actually been a member of a radical group like McCain and Palin have been?

By comparison, the Bill Ayers story is a non issue.

as described here. http://blog.cleveland.com/pdopinion/2008/10/pallin...

Obama hardly knew Ayers, he happened to be on the same community board, and met him maybe 6 times in 6 years.

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http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008...

Over the past days, many of us have received invitations to a conference called "The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change" in New York. At first sight this may look like a scientific conference - especially to those who are not familiar with the activities of the Heartland Institute, a front group for the fossil fuel industry that is sponsoring the conference. A number of things reveal that this is no ordinary scientific meeting: Normal scientific conferences have the goal of discussing ideas and data in order to advance scientific understanding. Not this one.

they are offering $1,000 to those willing to give a talk. This reminds us of the American Enterprise Institute last year offering a honorarium of $10,000 for articles by scientists disputing anthropogenic climate change. So this appear to be the current market prices for calling global warming into question: $1000 for a lecture and $10,000 for a written paper.

These are from an older report, I'd say the numbers would be worse by now. This is how trickle down economics works.

From the Albion Monitor at http://www.monitor.net/monitor/10-9-95/angry.html

"And what it says is that the United States of America today has by far the most unequal distribution of wealth in the entire industrialized world. And the article says that:

Recent studies show that rather than being an egalitarian society, the United States has become the most economically stratified of industrialized nations. Even class societies like Britain, which inherited large differences in income and wealth over centuries, going back to their feudal past, now have greater economic equality than in the United States."

figures from 1989 show the wealthiest 1 percent of American households, with $2.3 million, own nearly 40 percent of the Nation's wealth, which is more wealth than the bottom 90 percent."

From a 1996 article by Jenny B. Wahl

Based on the studies reviewed, our best-guess estimate of the subsidies received

by petroleum each year is $84 billion per year

US Defense Department spending allocated to safeguard the worlds’ petroleum resources total some $55 to $96.3 billion per year.