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Full Fed Audit Amendment Voted Down in Senate. Washington, D.C., May

11, 2010 - the U.S. Senate voted 62 to 37 against an amendment to allow greater transparency at the Federal Reserve

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This amendment was introduced to counter a weaker amendment that would have required only a one time audit just of Fed emergency programs. The new amendment was similar to the original H.R. 1207 audit bill introduced by Congressman Ron Paul and added to the House financial reform package.

"The Sanders Amendment is no substitute for a complete and thorough audit of the Fed," said John Tate, President of Campaign for Liberty. "With this vote, we now have a record of those who really want transparency and those who only pay lip-service to it while upholding the status quo.""

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sat15may10

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0514/republicans-remove-free-speech-materials/

Republicans search schoolroom, remove pro-labor teaching materials

Teachers at a middle school in Portland, Maine, are upset with attendees of a Republican convention who rifled through teachers' materials in a classroom they were using and reportedly stole materials from the room, replacing it with GOP slogans.

Officials from the Maine Republican Party quickly apologized this week after local news sources reported on an incident at Portland's King Middle School. Eighth-grade social studies teacher Paul Clifford returned to his classroom following a meeting of the Knox County Republican caucus there to find that his teachers' materials had been rifled through and a poster outlining the history of the US labor movement was missing, replaced with a bumper sticker that reads, "Working People Vote Republican," reports the Portland Press-Herald.

What's more, according to the Bangor Daily News, the Republican operatives also rifled through a closed cardboard box containing copies of the US Constitution, donated by the American Civil Liberties Union. And Clifford found a note nearby that stated, "A Republican was here. What gives you the right to propagandize impressionable kids?"

[Republicans] were apparently displeased with artwork in the room -- in particular, says Clifford, a series of collages that students had created over the last ten years as part of a recurring project on freedom of speech.

"And one of the collages had a picture of George Bush standing at a podium, and he had no eyes, and it says 'I can see evil' and it shows him throwing all these different things into a trash can, like the word 'peace' and these types of things," Clifford says.

MPBN also reports that school officials received anonymous complaints about the nature of the materials found in the classroom.

The Daily News reports that the particular contingent of Maine Republicans that used Clifford's

would lead a surprise campaign to replace the generic Republican Party platform with a new--and much more controversial--platform embodying many of the positions espoused by Tea Party activists....

On Wednesday, Maine Republican Party Executive Director Christie-Lee McNally apologized to faculty and students at the school.

"The King Middle School was kind enough to allow the Maine Republican Party to use their facilities, and we are deeply concerned about the lack of respect shown to the faculty," McNally said in a statement. "The Maine Republican Party does not condone the destruction of property nor does it encourage the lack of tolerance that these people demonstrated."

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0513/gulf-oil-gusher-ten-times-worse-prior-estimates/

the Gulf of Mexico, National Public Radio is claiming the growing ecological disaster is actually ten times worse than previously estimated, saying the rushing torrent of oil pouring into the ocean is equivalent to one Exxon-Valdez spill every four days.

That's more than 70,000 barrels a day -- when the U.S. Coast Guard had placed the figure at a seemingly modest 5,000 barrels a day.

The Deepwater Horizon well has been jetting oil unabated for just short of one month at time of this

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/

Loveable Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called his first few thousand users "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data, published IM transcripts show. Facebook hasn't disputed the authenticity of the transcript.

Zuckerberg was chatting with an unnamed friend, apparently in early 2004. Business

The founder was then 19, and he may have been joking. But humour tells you a lot. Some

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0516/chomsky-denied-entry-israel/

Noam Chomsky denied entry into Israel: report

Famed academic and political dissident Noam Chomsky was detained for three hours by Israeli border guards before being denied entry into the country on

that a border guard said Chomsky had "written things that the Israeli government didn't like."

"I suggested [the interrogator try to] find any government in the world that likes anything I say," Chomsky said, as quoted at Ha'aretz.

According to the Jerusalem Post, "some sources say [Chomsky] was told unofficially there was an order from on high to turn him back because of his political views."

Chomsky, a renowned linguistics expert who teaches at MIT, has been an outspoken critic of Israeli foreign policy and US policy towards Israel for years. In 2006, during the Israel-Lebanon war, Chomsky called Israel's bombing of Beirut "a serious breach of international law" for which "there is no legal justification."

Chomsky has long labeled himself as a "libertarian socialist" or "anarcho-syndicalist," a form of anarchism. In academic circles, he is widely considered one of the founding father of modern linguistics.

His political books, including Manufacturing Consent and Necessary Illusions, have been slammed by critics as being "subversive" and hailed by supporters as important works deconstructing the political structure of American society.

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