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Russia Makes Serious Threats

Russian bombers buzz US military targets, fly near US mainland; & threats to aim rockers at Europe.

President Putin on Thursday repeated his threat to aim Russian rockets at former Soviet satellite states if U.S. missile defense facilities are deployed there.

"Our experts consider that this system threatens our national security; we are obligated to react to this."

The next day Russia Bombers buzzed above US Aircraft carrier in the Pacific (picture, below) details.

Privately, U.S. officials have acknowledged that they are concerned about Moscow's increasingly adversarial stance, but making no mention of US plans to put missile bases on Russia's border.

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Worried Bankers Seek to Shift Financial Risk to Uncle Sam

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The banking industry is trying to convince the federal government to assume some of the risk of their bad subprime loans.

Proposals include widening the scope of FHA-insured loans and/or making it easier for banks to write off unpaid loans as tax breaks and asking for immunity from civil lawsuits from investors who hold mortgage-backed securities.

Cheap low-rate credit given to banks is not being passed on to homeowners nor consumers, small businesses, etc. In fact, some home loans, car loans, and credit card rates have gone up. details

USA Elections Near Critical Showdown

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Obama wins 'Potomac primaries' clean sweep: Leads in all delegate counts. Also wins in Wisconsin & Hawaii:
10 victories in a row.

Obama's victories put him ahead even in counts that include super delegates. ..
“This is the new American majority. This is what change looks like,” Obama said in a speech to an audience of thousands in Madison, Wisconsin, after his crushing victories in Maryland, Virginia and D.C.

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This Week's Top Election Stories & Events

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Note: This delegate count is immediately updated after every new primary election. Next primary voting March 4th in Ohio, Texas and Vermont; Ohio & Texas having a significant number of delegates and these two states considered a "must win," for Hillary Clinton.

More complete candidate coverage here and here.

House Votes to Issue Contempt Citations
Refuses Grant of Immunity in Surveillance Act.
House Republicans Walk Out in Staged Protest.

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Bush Urges House to Pass Surveillance Bill 'Immediately' or America will be in danger.

Surveillance Bill is a sweeping measure that would expand the government's clandestine surveillance powers and approving immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with intelligence agencies.
House Republicans walk out of session, demanding immunity and because the Democratic controlled House voted Thursday to issue contempt citations against the White House chief of staff and a former White House counsel for refusing to cooperate in an investigation into the mass firings of federal prosecutors.

Media and Clinton's Increase
Political Attacks on Obama

Headlines in Boston Herald reads:
"Blustering Bubba blasts Barack for babbling baloney."

Latest Clinton strategy, picked up by media, claims that Hillary has 'solutions,' and Obama only fancy speeches and empty promises, details of Clinton Claims.

Bomb in Syria Kills Militant Sought as Terrorist
Israel claims to fears reprisal after Hezbollah chief killed, while increasing Gaza assaults. Israel put its embassies and other interests abroad on high alert and reinforced troops on the Lebanese border on Thursday after the assassination of Hezbollah's top guerrilla commander. Syria and others condemns air attack inside it's country. Hezbollah and others accused Israel of killing Imad Moughniyah with a car bomb in Damascus on Tuesday. The Israeli government rejected the charge, although its Mossad spy service had long regarded Moughniyah as a "terrorist mastermind".	Mr. Mugniyah, 45, was suspected of planning the 1983 bombings of the American Embassy and a Marine Baracks in Beirut; the hijacking of a T.W.A. jetliner in 1985; and a series of high-profile kidnappings in the 1980s, the death of over 100 Jews in Buenos Aires. Some say he was a terrorist; others say he was a resistence fighter, fighting against invasion of his country.
	Hezbollah leader claims this air strike in Syria is act of "open full-fledged war."
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This Weeks 'Comic Surprise'
"I Got a Crush on Obama," by Obama Girl

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