Iran Urges New 9-11 Investigation

http://www.france24.com/en/20100412-ahmadinejad-urges-ban-probe-911-attacks

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Ahmadinejad urges Ban to probe 9/11 attacks

AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, news reports said on Monday.

"The minimum expectation from your excellency is to set up an independent and trusted fact-finding group to comprehensively investigate the real factors behind September 11," Ahmadinejad said in the text of the letter
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Several times Ahmadinejad has questioned the accepted version of the Al-Qaeda strikes on New York and Washington which killed nearly 3,000 people.
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The Right Wing Clarified

We need to collectively manage our situation, as a species, or we will bring on our own extinction. This collective management is what I refer to when I say "government". The "governments" we have now are run by concentrated capital instead of by people. As a result, they are not serving the best interests of most people. The more a government is run by concentrated capital instead of by people, the more to the Right it is, by definition. This is not opinion. Fascism is the ugly side of the Right. This is not opinion either.

I really don't see anything here that is debatable. It is perplexing that so many take issue with it, but I realize that the media, which is run by concentrated capital, has for years worked very hard to get people to go against their own interests: I.E. to the Right.

Based on this, logic follows that those who support the Right are either misled, sold-out or just cynical. Robots might support the Right, but ordinary, non-wealthy human beings? It doesn't make sense.

I haven't labeled anyone here. I have patiently outlined a simple concept as carefully as I can. Logical discussion of it might get us somewhere. Justifications of hostility will not.

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Ron Paul Speaks Out Against Empire

Whole Story:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0410/ron-paul-chastises-gop-conference-conservatives-like-empire/

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Ron Paul chastises at GOP conference: Conservatives ‘like the empire’

By Andrew McLemore
Saturday, April 10th, 2010 -- 6:10 pm
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He was met with both disapproval and applause during the Southern Republican Leadership Conference for describing conservatives as hypocritical when they call for a return to Constitutional values while supporting foreign wars.

The conservatives and the liberals,
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different things. They like embassies, and they like occupation. They like the empire. They like to be in 135 countries and 700 bases.
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except for war. Let the President go to war anytime they want.’ We can do better with peace than with war.
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In a question-and-answer period after his speech, a blogger asked Paul why his supporters seemed so disinterested in the Republican Party.

"The question you should be asking," said Paul, "is, why isn't the Republican Party interested in them? We can get huge crowds with this message."

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A Necessary Function in our Current Society

One necessary function in community is guys in uniform, sometimes with guns.

When it works properly, people are prevented from hurting each other and the community is protected. Such functions should be under the oversight and supervision of the community that employs them. It is when such functions are taken out of public control and performed at a lesser degree of quality due to the extraction of profits, by private entrepreneurial firms, that such entities can become major threats to the community. Examples are the SA in 1920's/1930's Germany, and Blackwater/XE today.

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Misleading Corporate "News" Does Real Damage to the Community Once Again

Whole Story:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/04/07/4126070-context-lies-and-videotapes-the-real-acorn-story
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Context, lies and videotapes: The real Acorn story

News Type: Event — Wed Apr 7, 2010 6:54 AM EDT
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Last week, California Attorney General Jerry Brown released the results of his investigation into the Acorn sting videos by right-wing activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. The two posted videos that supposedly showed O'Keefe and Giles getting advice from Acorn workers in various state offices on running a prostitution ring involving girls who'd been snuck across the Mexican border. The uproar led Congress to cut off support for Acorn, a community organizing group that worked in poor communities, and crippled Acorn's funding operation. On April 1, Acorn shut down its field offices.
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The unedited video tapes released by the California Attorney General's office last week clear ACORN employees in California of any criminal wrongdoing.
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But the huge tide of negative publicity that followed these videotapes and the coverage they got on Fox? Was bull pucky. It was a dishonest political stunt that bears no resemblance to journalism and no resemblance to the facts. But it worked. This big organization serving poor people and registering thousands of voters and advocating for a higher minimum wage has been shut down -- means be damned, in
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More Progress in Cannabis Law

Whole Story:
http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=14766756

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BREAKING NEWS: Washington Expands Medical Marijuana Law
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Senate Bill 5798 allows additional health care professionals including naturopaths, physician’s assistants, osteopathic physicians, osteopathic physicians assistants, and advanced registered nurse practitioners to legally recommend marijuana therapy to their patients. Previously, only licensed physicians
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Why the Right Wing is a Problem.

A primary characteristic of right wing groups and individuals is corruption. This is why many on the Right are referred to as "sell-outs". Willful ignorance is one aspect of corruption. Variable Allegiance is another. The cynicism that pervades the Right Wing is an example of corruption of Spirit. In order for our species to succeed, we must overcome corruption.

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More Anti-American Sentiment coming from the Repugnant Cons

Whole Story:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0404/kyl-threatens-filibuster-supreme-court/

It's an American Thing: Rooting for the Underdog. Some corruptionists have forgotten that:

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There is not yet a vacancy on the Supreme Court but the second-ranking Republican in the Senate is already planning a strategy of opposing President Barack Obama's potential nominee.

Jon Kyl (R-Az) told Fox News' Chris Wallace that Republicans are prepared to fight a nominee who might stick up for the little guy, a position he called "overly ideological."

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CIA using Disinformation Here and Abroad to muster popular support for War

From
http://www.truthout.org/cia-red-cell-document-proves-rule-part-i58202
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CIA Seeks to Influence Opinion on Wars

Wednesday 31 March 2010

by: Daan de Wit | DeepJournal

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Patrick Hoesly, CIA)

The CIA recommendations for influencing the European public into continuing their support for the mission in Afghanistan is receiving a lot of attention both in The Netherlands and beyond. But in a military conflict, war is only one stage of the struggle. The biggest struggle is for the hearts and minds of the public at large. What's
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or the NATO-led ISAF mission'. The drafters of the CIA Red Cell report fear that the public's apathy could turn into hostility if the fighting this summer - which according to forecasts could be bloody - results in a lot of casualties. This could lead to the problem of politicians listening to the voice of the electorate, such as what happened in The Netherlands. Because of this the authors of the report feel that it is
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it had become the strategy of intelligence services to actively manipulate public perception. In England there is the Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations under the Ministry of Defence. For their 'InfoOps' - information operations
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On America Davies writes: 'The Pentagon has now designated "information operations" as its fifth "core competency", alongside land, sea, air and special forces. Since October 2006, every brigade, division and corps in the US military has had its own "psyop" element producing output for local media.' For the domestic media and thereby often the global media, the Pentagon deploys a 'media Trojan Horse', as The New York Times put it in 2008. After issuing a Freedom of Information request, the paper discovered in 2008 that the Pentagon was the unseen hand behind many of the military analysts in the media that continuously informed the American public over the war in Iraq.

Page 19: 'In May of 2007 it became known that President Bush had signed a document making it possible for the CIA to carry out 'black' propaganda and disinformation campaigns in order to destabilize the regime in Tehran, and America deployed the terrorist groups Jundullah and Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK), among others, for military action and acts of sabotage.'

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An aside for Tea Party victims, many of whom support Ron Paul's anti-war stance: The MEK is the Marxist / Islamist terrorist organization that was lobbied for by Dick Armey when he worked for DLA Piper.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5698/the_enemy_of_my_enemy
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As chairman of FreedomWorks, the group credited with mobilizing the Tea Party movement, Armey is the movement’s de facto leader.
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Seeing how the CIA has influenced our own "press" here in support of a war in Iraq, what's with all the right wing hate that's being stirred up in that same "press" now? Just wondering.
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Petition to let federal legislators know you want Human Beings to run our Government.. NOT Corporations.

Whole Story and Petition:
http://www.dscc.org/petition?petition_KEY=236&track=SEM-G-S-scotus-finance

This petition should get high numbers because it's DSCC. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. I'm not declaring my allegiance to this party or any other, here, but it's a good way to get our "it's 'We the People', NOT 'We the Corporations'" message heard by large numbers.

I urge you be counted by doing this petition.
http://www.dscc.org/petition?petition_KEY=236&track=SEM-G-S-scotus-finance


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We Need to Reduce The HATE Going Around

Whole Story:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0327/patriot-hate-groups-grew-244-2009/

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‘Patriot’ hate groups grew by 244% in 2009

By Andrew McLemore
Saturday, March 27th, 2010 -- 6:25 pm
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Hatred is getting a lot of press this week as reports of violent harassment against Congressional Democrats continue to surface. It began last weekend with Tea Party activists
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But new research shows the Tea Party may be the nice guys amid soaring numbers of hate groups.

An "astonishing" 363 anti-government or "Patriot" groups appeared in 2009, with the totals going from 149 groups to 512, according to a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

That's a 244 percent increase in one year. Many of the "Patriot" groups are militias. Before 2009, there were 42. Now, there are 127. Hate groups overall stayed at a record high of nearly 1,000
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Individuals associated with the Patriot movement during its 1990s heyday produced an enormous amount of violence, most dramatically the Oklahoma City bombing that left 168 people dead.

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Democratic leaders and many political commentators have said the GOP is not only refusing to condemn recent hate crimes as they should, but encouraging it to gain political leverage.

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Chip Berlet, a veteran analyst of the American radical right, wrote earlier this year that the US is "in the midst of one of the most significant right-wing populist rebellions in history."

"We see around us a series of overlapping social and political movements populated by people [who are] angry, resentful, and full of anxiety. They are raging against the machinery of the federal bureaucracy and liberal government programs and policies including health care, reform of immigration and labor laws, abortion, and gay marriage."

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Repugnant Cons Block Jobless Bill Again

Whole Story:
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/26/headlines#7

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support for community colleges and historically black schools.

GOP Blocks Jobless Benefits Bill

For the second time in a month, a Republican lawmaker has singlehandedly blocked a vote on a stopgap jobless benefits bill. With Congress in recess for two weeks, this could mean that on April 5 a host of popular provisions could expire, including unemployment insurance and COBRA benefits for the jobless. Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn blocked the measure last night. Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky blocked passage of a similar extension in February.

Obama to Announce New Program to Help Homeowners

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We can use the FCC (among other resources) to Reduce Domestic Terrorism

This one is Actionable. Stand and be Counted at the following "Whole Story" web address:
http://www.stopdomesticterror.com/

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Stop Domestic Terror

Update: DOJ Vows Action On Hate Crimes. It appears that our campaign, letters and emails to the DOJ have gotten the attention they deserve. On December 22, 2009, the DOJ announced that it was making hate crimes “a top priority.” Let’s keep the pressure on so DOJ keeps its promise.

Recently, there has been an explosion in threats and acts of domestic terrorism. The majority of these can be traced to groups and individuals who do not accept the results of our recent election or the laws enacted or proposed by those who have been elected. They seek to undermine the democratic process through threats, intimidation, and even outright murder. They can't accept the legitimacy of the President, or a woman's legal right to make choices about her own medical care, or an immigrant's right to be treated humanely under the law, so they carry out acts that are antithetical to American democracy, American values, and both civil and human rights.

The fringe element that makes up those who commit these acts of terror is frequently exploited by a continuous wave of rightwing media advocating violence, either directly or indirectly, and by commentators amplifying the talking points of extremist religious leaders and extremist political leaders. This fringe is incited on our public airwaves, and urged to take matters into their own hands, with the underlying belief that the Bible and/or U.S. Constitution justify using ‘whatever means’ are necessary to oppose what they believe to be immoral laws.

We are taking a stand against this dangerous trend towards the incitement of lawlessness and violence. We strongly believe in the First Amendment right of free expression and discourse, even when that expression is abhorrent and not in line with our own beliefs. However, the First Amendment does not protect debate where one side includes the threat or act of violence.

We have written a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder outlining our concerns and requesting that he act quickly to address this wave of domestic terrorism. A copy of the letter is here with the exhibits A-F here:

Exhibit A-Pet for Inquiry (FCC Letter)
Exhibit B-Letter to NTIA (NTIA Letter)
Exhibit C-Armed Revolution (Armed Revolution Website)
Exhibit D-Tiller Report (Op Rescue Tiller Baby Killer)
Exhibit E-talk radio(Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio)
Exhibit F-Frank Schaeffer letter (Schaeffer Letter to Holder)

Specifically, we are taking the following steps to address this dangerous trend toward extremism.

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Sign On Form

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Chomsky says Hold your Nose and Vote for the "Healthcare" Bill

Whole Story:
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/noam-chomsky-health-bill/

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Chomsky: Health bill sustains the system’s core ills

By Sahil Kapur
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 -- 10:17 am

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In an interview with Raw Story, world-renowned scholar and political critic Noam Chomsky reluctantly called the bill a mildly positive step, but cautioned that it wouldn’t fix the fundamental problems with the nation's troubled system.

"The United States’ health care system is so dysfunctional it has about twice the costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes," Chomsky told Raw Story. "This bill continues with that."

The decades-long critic of corporate power alleged that premiums won't stop rising as the package is designed in no small part to funnel money into the pockets of the health care industry. "The bill gives away a lot to insurance companies and big pharmaceutical corporations," he said.

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The legislation forbids government from negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies or permitting the importation of drugs. Nor does it provide competition to private insurers, an oligopolistic industry that will maintain its impunity from antitrust laws. But despite this, Chomsky, an advocate for a single-payer system, said killing the bill wasn't a better solution.

"If I were in Congress," he said, "I’d probably hold my nose and vote for it, because the alternative of not passing it is worse, bad as this bill is. Unfortunately, that’s the reality."

"If it fails, it wouldn’t put even limited constraints on insurance companies," he explained, noting that the bill takes "at least has some steps towards barring the withholding of policies from people with prior disabilities." The consumer protections from dodgy insurance practices are among the bill's most popular components.

The mandate to purchase insurance has been a central qualm of progressives and conservatives opposed to the effort. Chomsky, while admitting it’s a boon to insurance companies, called it a "step toward universality," asserting that "without some kind of mandatory coverage, nothing is going to work at all."

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor added that it’s a damning referendum on American democracy that one of the most highly supported components of the effort nationally, the public insurance option, was jettisoned. He partly blamed the media for refusing to stress how favorably it’s viewed by the populace.

"It didn't have 'political support,' just the support of the majority of the population," Chomsky quipped, "which apparently is not political support in our dysfunctional democracy."

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"There should be headlines explaining why, for decades, what's been called politically impossible is what most of the public has wanted," Chomsky said. "There should be headlines explaining what that means about the political system and the media."

Chomsky: I would have 'held my nose' to pass health care

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Immigration 2-Facedness.

Whole Story:
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/200000-protesters-dc-immigration-reform/

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200,000 protesters in DC for immigration reform

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, March 21st, 2010 -- 4:21 pm

Raids before rally aimed to 'intimidate' marchers, claims activist

In Monday's Washington Post, staff writer David Montgomery explores how immigration raids have cast a shadow on such events.

Weeks ago, as Gustavo Torres, executive director of the Latino and immigration advocacy and assistance organization, CASA de Maryland, was set to shake President Obama's hand, he was alerted to multiple raids back home.

It was just after midday, Thursday, March 11, and it seemed like an auspicious moment for Torres, executive director of CASA of Maryland, and a dozen other immigrant-rights leaders granted the 75-minute presidential audience. The president reaffirmed his commitment to reforming the broken immigration system. And the advocates looked forward to flexing the movement's grass-roots muscles during the upcoming march on the Mall.

Torres's job in the meeting was to raise the subject of workplace raids, which he believes sweep up people whose only crime was crossing the border in search of work. The Obama administration has significantly reduced the number of workplace raids, but most immigrants removed through all enforcement measures continue to be non-criminals.

Focus on people who've committed crimes, Torres urged the president, according to participants. Obama replied that he must enforce existing law, but he directed Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to meet with the leaders to discuss ways to lessen the impact on hardworking immigrants.

Torres received an urgent text message alerting him that "[p]olice vans, unmarked SUVs and squad cars had wheeled into the driveways and parking lots of two restaurants, an office and several residences in Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties. Dozens of ICE agents and local police surrounded the properties and secured the exits."

"At the raided locations, 28 men and one woman from Guatemala, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Bangladesh were detained," the Post article continues. "So far, none has been charged with a crime. All are suspected of 'administrative' violations of immigration law. All but six were released by Friday. The six are those who have prior immigration violations. The fates of the others will be decided by immigration officials in coming weeks."

Torres charged that the timing looked like an attempt to "intimidate" the marchers.

Meanwhile, administration officials used back channels to try to convince advocates that the timing was coincidental. They characterized these raids as fitting the administration's policy of targeting alleged criminal violators, including employers.

"It was part of an ongoing criminal investigation into worker exploitation," said a federal law enforcement official who declined to be identified in order to discuss
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A D**K Wrapped in the Flag

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War Protest in DC has larger attendance than Teabaggers, but MUCH LESS PRESS COVERAGE

Whole Story:
http://blogs.alternet.org/rossl/2010/03/21/1000s-march-on-capitol-against-healthcare-on-white-house-for-peace-guess-which-is-covered-more/

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1000s march on capitol against healthcare, on White House for peace. Guess which is covered more…

Everyone seems to know that the tea party “movement” had a rally on the steps

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MSNBC estimates that somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 tea party people showed up at the capitol building. Yet the low end of the estimates for the number of people who showed up at the peace demonstration (including myself) is about 2,500, and the high end is about 10,000. Where’s our moment on Meet the Press? Where’s our article in the New York Times?

If you ever needed proof that the tea party “movement” is not really a movement but a few people newly interested in politics magnified one thousand times by a lazy, irresponsibly press, this is it. Two rallies in DC yesterday. One was for peace, one was for stopping the health care bill. One was put together by the ANSWER Coalition and other antiwar groups. One was put together by the tea party people and their friends in high places. One had as many as 2,000 people attend. One had as many as 10,000 people attend. Yet the smaller tea party protest had a much higher profile in the news than the march for peace!

The peace movement is a real grassroots movement that exists Without the wmagnifying glass of the corporate media to exaggerate the impact of it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t benefit the Washington Post to admit that the reason the march stopped in front of their building was not actually their “editorial board’s positions on the wars,” but their reporting which – in its substance and topics which are covered – is completely biased in favor of a corporatist, echo chamber view of reality. Maybe that’s the reason why there was a speaker from Project Censored.

As for what happened at the protest, starting at about noon there were speakers on a platform that had been set up in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House. When I arrived, I spoke to Mike Gravel for a bit, although he did not give a speech. Famous personalities like Cindy Sheehan and Ralph Nader spoke, as well as prominent people in the antiwar movement like Kevin Zeese, along with some lesser known people, like a group of high school students.

At one point, the Raging Grannies got up and sang a song in honor of the late Granny D. I couldn’t find a video of it, but here’s an equally entertaining and poignant song about the Citizens United ruling:

Some speakers were veterans – one of Korea, a few of Afghanistan and Iraq, including one who burnt a flag while saying, “This is what I think of this country!” – and some were mothers who have had their children killed in the line of duty. One representative of labor spoke, and a few representatives of the Arab and Muslim communities spoke. There was a strong socialist presence at the rally (maybe

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Monday and saw plenty of people my age there. The largest age group was probably those same people who have been showing up at these events since the ’60s. Some see that as a sign of desperation, that they still have to show up forty

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we can, if we need to, take comfort in the words of those great radicals Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.

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constraints…They had to back down…Iraq’s a horror story, but it could’ve been a lot worse. So, yes, citizen protest can do something…we know that from this and many other examples. When there’s no protest and no attention, the power just goes wild. Like in Cambodia, Northern Laos.
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China, Tariffs, Exchange Rates

Whole Story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032101111.html

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China warns U.S. that 'trade war' will hurt Americans even more

TOO PrintWashington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, March 21, 2010; 1:53 PM

BEIJING -- China's minister of commerce warned that United States on Sunday that if it launches a "trade war" against China by leveling punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, the United States would suffer the most.

Minister Chen Deming also said what he termed was the U.S. government's "obsession" with China's exchange rate could not be seriously addressed until the U.S. government stopped blocking the export of high-tech products, such as supercomputers and satellites, to China.

"If some congressman insist on labeling China as a currency manipulator and slap punitive tariffs on

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Chen said the best way for the United States to increase its exports to China would be to relax restrictions on the export of high-technology and dual use goods to China. Since 1989, when China launched a crackdown on student-led protests around Tiananmen Square, the United States has limited some exports to China. Chen said those limits amounted to billions of a dollars a year of potential exports to China.

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And don't expect that China will simply do without these goods, he added. "We're a nation of 1.3 billion people. We graduated 7 million university students a year. We'll either make it ourselves or buy it from somewhere else."
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But if the United States does decide to slap tariffs on China, Chen said, American companies, which account for more than 60 percent of China's exports to the United States, would surely be hurt the most.

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Tea Party Bigots Shout Slurs at Congressmen

Whole Story:
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/20/1826369/tea-party-protesters-hurl-racial.html

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Tea party protesters hurl racial insults at Georgia Rep. John Lewis

By WILLIAM DOUGLAS

McClatchy Newspapers

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Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health-care reform bill, shouted "nigger" Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.

The protesters also shouted obscenities at other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, lawmakers said.

"They were shouting, sort of harassing," Lewis said. "But, it's OK, I've faced this before. It reminded me of the '60s. It was a lot of downright hate and anger and people being downright mean."

Lewis said he was leaving the Cannon office building across from the Capitol when protesters shouted "Kill the bill, kill the bill," Lewis said.

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Protestors also used a slur as they confronted Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., an openly gay member of Congress. A writer for Huffington Post said the crowd called Frank a "faggot."

Frank told the Boston Globe that the incident happened as he was walking from the Longworth House office building to the Rayburn House office building, both a short distance from the Capitol. Frank said the crowd consisted of a couple hundred of people and that they referred to him as "homo."

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"People out there today, on the whole, were really hateful," Frank said. "The leaders of this movement have a responsibility to speak out more."

Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Capitol on Saturday as the House Democratic leadership worked to gather enough votes to enact a health-care overhaul proposal that has become the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's domestic agenda. Most were affiliated with so-called tea party organizations that originally sprang up during last summer's protests of the health-care proposals.

Heated debate has surrounded what role race plays in the motivations of the tea party demonstrators. During protests last summer, demonstrators displayed a poster depicting Obama as an African witch doctor complete with headdress, above the words "OBAMACARE coming to a clinic near you." Former President Jimmy Carter asserted in September that racism was a major factor behind the hostility that Obama's proposals had faced.

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House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., said Saturday's ugliness underscored for him that the health-care overhaul isn't the only motivation for many protesters.

"I heard people saying things today I've not heard since March 15th, 1960, when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus," Clyburn said. "This is incredible, shocking to me."

He added, "A lot of us have said for a long time that none of this is about health care at all. It's about extending a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful."

(McClatchy's James Rosen contributed to this report.)

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Help Get Super-Fast Internet In St. Petersburg

Whole story at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Downtown-St-Pete-wants-the-Google-Fiber-Experiment/397940030785?ref=nf#!/pages/Downtown-St-Pete-wants-the-Google-Fiber-Experiment/397940030785?v=info&ref=nf

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Downtown St Pete wants the Google Fiber Experiment

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businesses have unparalleled access to an internet connection so powerful they're able to make daily life more efficient, just by residing here. Where, instead of waiting minutes or hours for a file to download or a video to load, it would occur in seconds, allowing technology to take us places we've never even imagined before. With Google's Fiber Experiment, this is all completely possible.

Currently, Google is looking for communities to test ultra-high speed broadband networks across the country. The network would deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home/business connections.

As you can imagine, it would present fantastic opportunities to a community like St Petersburg! It could:

* Attract businesses to our community
* Improve the quality of life for our citizens
* Improve our schools, health care system and government agencies

This type of technology has the power to put Downtown St Petersburg on the global map!


How You Can Help:

1. Join this Facebook Group!
2. Submit a nomination form: http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options
3. Record a video testimonial (dates and locations to be announced)
4. Email your City Council person or County Commissioner urging them to submit a government nomination:
5. Tell your friends - post it, blog it, tweet it, email it, YouTube it, say it - do whatever you can to help us get the word out!

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to get 20,000 fans by March 26, 2010 to show Google Broadband we are the city that wants the Google Fiber Experiment!. The jobs, new technologies, buzz it will create in invaluable to Downtown St Petersburg

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