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t r u t h o u t | RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio: "Is Your Vote Safe?"
There is some real doubt as to whose votes will actually get to count in the November 2008 federal elections. It's worth reading the whole interview. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com...
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http://www.truthout.org/article/rfk-jr-and-mike-papantonio-is-your-vote-safe
Voter Suppression Wiki Home - Voter Suppression Wiki
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fvotersuppressionwiki.wetpaint.com%2F%3Ft%3Danon
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http://votersuppressionwiki.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
Russian judge: sexual harrassment is good because it produces children
Glad I'm not a Russian woman, is all I can say.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2470310/Sexual-harrassment-okay-as-i...
Only 8% of Guantánamo detainees alleged to be al-Qaeda...
... and 55% are "not alleged to have engaged in any hostile act" against the US. 95% were turned in by bounty hunters seeking rewards, not captured on the battlefield. How is this justifi...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/opinion/22herbert.html?ex=1374465600&en=440ea9f2970deca0&e...
Pre-RNC raids: so who hates freedom now?
Doesn't look like any evidence has been uncovered thus far of intent to commit anything beyond non-violent protests. Kind of an unnerving story if you ask me, but, hey, it's a post-9/11 w...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/us/politics/30arrests.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=122010498...
Ohio GOP plans to challenge voters on the basis of home foreclosures
The Ohio Republican Party is stationing volunteer "election challengers" at polling places around the state and arming them with a list of foreclosed homes. Anyone on the list who tries t...
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http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote
The return of COINTELPRO: spying on dissenters in the name of freedom
A truly creepy story. An anti-death-penalty activist (and sportswriter) describes how his group was infiltrated by an undercover agent who described members as "anarchist" and "socialist,...
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http://ny.metro.us/metro/blog/my_view/entry/In_the_eye_of_homeland_security/13075.html
"Fusion centers": another step on the road to the "total surveillance society"
A "fusion center" is a domestic intelligence-gathering facility which involves police, federal agencies, the military, and in some cases also private contractors in gathering as much data...
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http://www.progressive.org/node/6685
DHS: Federal border agents can "detain" your computer indefinitely, without cause
Federal security agents can confiscate anyone's laptop or any information storage device (including any and all papers you're travelling with), share the contents with any third party the...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/2008/08/01/laptops.html
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms
Published in the Saturday Evening Post on four consecutive weeks in February and March, 1943.
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http://www.bilderberg.org/fight4.jpg
CENSORED NEWS: Longest Walk Powwow May 10
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http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2008/05/longest-walk-powwow-may-10.html
2 Lodi residents refused entry back into U.S.
Two U.S. citizens are denied reentry into the U.S. from Pakistan unless they agree to FBI interrogations in Pakistan first. Move called "unprecedented."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/26/LODI.TMP
Oxford University Press: Not a Suicide Pact: Richard A. Posner
Richard Posner's new book arguing for the restriction of civil rights in conditions of "national emergency."
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http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/ConstitutionalLaw/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4M...
Welcome to the World League of Despots!
No comment. Really, the whole thing is worth a read.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1891457,00.html
Olbermann on the military commissions act [3]
Olbermann does it again ... A "special investigation" on the topic: "What is Habeas Corpus, and why does it hate America?" Luckily, we no longer have to worry about Habeas Corpus messing ...
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http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/8167/olbermannvideoqq4.png
Olbermann on the military commissions act
Olbermann does it again ... A "special investigation" on the topic: "What is Habeas Corpus, and why does it hate America?" Luckily, we no longer have to worry about Habeas Corpus messing ...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUzUljH8EHU
Olberman on the military tribunals act
Olberman's take on the suspension of habeas corpus.
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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/18/countdown-special-comment-death-of-habeas-corpus-yo...
Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act; is FBI acting legally? [9]
The FBI disregards legal provisions exempting libraries from the scope of National Security Letters. Good thing we got the ALA looking out for us though.
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http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=news&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&...
Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act; is FBI acting legally?
The FBI disregards legal provisions exempting libraries from the scope of National Security Letters. Good thing we got the ALA looking out for us though.
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http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/civilliberties/theusapatriotact/usapatriotact.htm
Habeas corpus -- who needs it?, say Republicans
Romney and Giuliani were asked how they felt about claiming Presidential authority to detain American citizens without charge or judicial review (which is unconstitutional). Romney says h...
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/01/romney_giuliani/index.html
Downtown business district bans outdoor photography
Silver Spring, Md., where I spent a lot of time as a kid, now has a "revitalized" downtown area, where, as it turns out, you are not allowed to take photographs. Why? The main business st...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062002354.html
Women forcibly ejected from Santorum book-signing receive settlement
Back in August 2005, four women at a book-signing by then-Sen. Santorum were overheard by members of his staff discussing their disagreement with Santorum's policies. At the staffers' req...
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http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070627/NEWS/70627042
Is an end to capital punishment possible?
Today was the international Day against the Death Penalty. Worldwide, more countries are placing moratoria on executions. Only "25 countries carried out executions in 2006," and "91% [we...
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=ENGPOL300242007
A first-person account of CIA imprisonment
This is perhaps the most stomach-turning report I've read since the news about Dilawar broke (in case you've forgotten, that was the taxi driver who was gradually beaten to death in U.S. ...
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/14/bashmilah