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[The "D" Spot] Why Detroit needs Barack Obama: Support Regional Innovation Clusters: Thriving innovation clusters across the country like the North Carolina Research Triangle Park and Nashville’s thriving entertainment cluster prove that local stakeholders can successfully come together and help reshape their local economies.  Barack Obama and Joe Biden will create a federal program to support “innovation clusters” - regional centers of innovation and next-generation industries.  This innovation clusters program will provide $200 million in planning and matching grants for regional business, government and university leaders to collaborate on leveraging a region’s existing assets - from transportation infrastructure to universities - to enhance long-term regional growth.

[Sacred Space in Time] African American-ness and Barack Obama: Self versus Other on the ...: It has been revealed recently that Obama also has Cherokee ancestry, and that his European ancestry also includes Scottish and Irish strains as well as his East African-Kenyan ancestry, which makes Barack Obama officially tri-racial, a status shared by a significant proportion of the overall African-American population of not only the United States, but the Carribbean and Rimland regions of Central and South America, as well. By self-identifying as African-American, Obama is not only claiming a racial affiliation with individuals enslaved in Africa and brought to the Americas for labor, he is also claiming a cultural affiliation with the broad swath of syncretic social systems that have coalesced all across this continent, reflecting a dynamic and ongoing process of acculturation, as African, European and American cultural memes merge and meld inextricibly in the Crucible of Difference and Graduated Accretion that we alternately call a Melting Pot or Tossed Salad, depending upon our perceived position or status within the aforementioned System of Social Learning.

[EZ READING MONEY MATTERS] World Markets Go Insane With Joy--America Commits Economic Suicide: Since all of the trade rivals destroying the US industrial base got a promise from Bush and Paulson that the US will NOT try to change trade flows or stop the flood of imports, ALL world stock market are soaring on the hopes of lending to Americans at 0% interest while we buy more stuff, kill more of our own industrial base and spend our way into the cellar.

[Steve's Everything Las Vegas] Everything Las Vegas # 678: According to Internet reports, betting on the 2008 White House race is up considerably up over the 2004 Prez election and according to the same reports, that election was the most wagered non-sports event in history. I'm not sure the last fact can be supported since Presidential betting used to be a big deal in the 1800s and into the 20th century, but it shows that you can actually vote with your wallet.

[1read's Weblog] THE WORLD today!: People are tired of McCain’s negativity and bellicose and no faire game manner, showing a better but no great performance and Obama impressed again demonstrating statesman capacity, conciliatory qualities, leadership, knowledge and judgement, showing polls that also the final round 3 in debates went by a large margin to Obama, giving CNN 58% to Obama and 33% to McCain, while CBS Poll watch favors Obama with 53%, thinking 22% McCain did a better job. In the only Vice Presidential debate on October 2 according to CNN and CBS News instant poll Biden came out as winner with 51% against 36% for Palin, respectively 46% for Biden to 21% for Palin. McCain’s erratic and unpredictable campaign, impregnated by the Bush Administration’s unpopularity, is running out of time, making people nervous, feeling that the Republican candidate is not any more a safe choice, and what seems to be its last resource increased its offensive attacks against Obama, as even more voters are inclined to trust the Democratic candidate. Changing his failing strategy McCain promised to treat Obama with respect and with less than three weeks to go until the Presidential election it looks more like a tactical move presenting himself now as the leader needed to resolve critical issues in difficult economic times.

[Political Virgin] The Result of Rhetoric: Fear and Violence From The Far-Right Wing: Traditional White Supremacists have admittedly lost much of their power in recent years, but they’re still out there, and have been issueing threats against Obama since the primary.  And while conservatives mocked the threat against Obama during the convention as ‘not-credible’, and laughed about it, I don’t find white supremacists with guns and a bullet proof vest who admitted they’

[Michael J Gaynor] Blame Obama’s ACORN for the Financial Crisis: Representative Mel Watt (D-NC) added ”˜I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get .

[Evil Thoughts] Tidbits: In particular, the Arizonan griped about rules that limit the ability of insurance companies to sell policies across state lines. Obama explained why the rules matter.

[1read's Weblog] THE WORLD today!: People are tired of McCain’s negativity and bellicose and no faire game manner and Obama impressed demonstrating statesman capacity, conciliatory qualities and leadership, showing polls that also round 2 in debates went to Obama, .

[Palashbiswaskl's Weblog] Bankex Surges in India with Chetia Assurances as Global Economy is ...: His lessons for India during the Asian crisis suggested during his visit to the country was adequately capitalising banks, closing down weak ones and leaving the convertibility programme where it is.

[Marketplace of Ideas Blog] What to do: If commentary were limited to the four-week production cycle of our printed edition, I’d have to start with something like “What was that?” and then worry that events would obsolesce my printed words as soon as they came off the printing press.

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