How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett of Bloomberg

Seeded on Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:17 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

But we now know that many of the senators who protected Fannie and Freddie, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd, have received mind-boggling levels of financial support from them over the years.

business, wall-street, freddie-mac, election, clinton, democrats, fannie-mae, finance, republicans, aig

American Arrested as Nuclear Spy for Israel

Seeded on Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:34 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

The United States arrested an 84-year-old American on Tuesday suspected of giving Israel secrets on nuclear weapons, fighter jets and missiles in the 1980s, in a case linked to the Jonathan Pollard spy scandal that rocked U.S.-Israeli relations.

israel, espionage, america, politics

Newsviners: What is your area of expertise?

Sun Apr 6, 2008 2:13 PM EDT

As my first article on Newsvine (been a poster for nearly a year now, but never bothered to write/seed anything of my own until now) I thought I would attempt to get some background on the contributing members of the community.

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