Obama gives Patriot Act another year with no privacy protections
Andrew McLemore Raw Story Feb 28, 2010 If the Patriot Act hadn’t been approved for another year, Sunday would have looked much different.
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Obama gives Patriot Act another year with no privacy protections
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Is America Becoming A Police State?
Chuck Baldwin Feb 27, 2010 There is a classic story about how no one had been able to capture a herd of wild hogs that was rooting up crops from numerous farms.
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Is America Becoming A Police State?
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Many leading scientists tell the EPA to think again
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Kucinich jeers: Congress is ‘complicit’ in violating Americans’ constitutional rights
Stephen C. Webster Raw Story Friday, February 26th, 2010 In the wake of congressional Democrats’ reauthorization and extension of the USA Patriot Act, few elected Democrats have been as vocal about the post-9/11 security measures as they were during the Bush administration
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Kucinich jeers: Congress is ‘complicit’ in violating Americans’ constitutional rights
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More Evidence that the Fed Sent Money to Iraq
Washington’s Blog Friday, February 26th, 2010 Yesterday, I quoted an economist with the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee for eleven years who assisted with oversight of the Federal Reserve to show that there might be some basis for Ron Paul’s questions to Ben Bernanke about the Federal Reserve’s alleged shipment of money to Iraq.
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More Evidence that the Fed Sent Money to Iraq
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Senate votes to renew Patriot Act
JAKE SHERMAN POLITICO Thursday, February 25th, 2010 The Senate Wednesday evening passed a one-year extension to the Patriot Act, a Bush-era homeland security law that has been much maligned by Democrats but described by Republicans as key to the war on terror. Several key components of the law are set to expire Sunday, including wire-tapping, surveillance and seizure provisions.
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Code Pink protester: Blackwater official threatened to kill me
David Edwards Raw Story Thursday, February 25th, 2010 A Code Pink protester claimed a high-ranking Blackwater official threatened his life during a break of a Senate Armed Services hearing focused on the military contractor’s actions in Afghanistan.
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Non-Violent Resistance Is the Way
Jake Towne Campaign For Liberty Monday, February 22nd, 2010 “Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.” – Gandhi “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” – Gandhi These are just two of the many lessons it appears that Joseph Stack, aged 53, never learned. For those unaware, Mr.
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