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Restore Habeas Corpus - Act Now!

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Awhile back, the creatures in Congress thought that it was no big deal to take away our basic rights, such as the right to being told what we're charged with if we're arrested, and not being detained indefinitely.

A new bill has been introduced, the "Habeas Corpus Restoration Act" which promises to restore these basic rights that were taken away. Do your political representatives support this law? You might be surprised.

UPDATE: Thanks for doing your part! It really helped. What? You didn't contact your representative? Well that explains why the measure failed.

By the way, if you think there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats, think again. Every single Democrat supported restoring Habeas Corpus. All but six republicans (Hagel (R-NE) Lugar (R-IN) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Sununu (R-NH)) voted against it. All politicians may be slime, but the Democrats clearly seem to have a little more respect for the Constitution and citizens' rights - Let's NOT FORGET THIS COME ELECTION TIME!

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University of FL Student Tasered At Kerry Q&A

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During a political rally at the University of Florida, an excited student apparently abused his two minute allotment of freedom to ask John Kerry several questions about why he conceded the election early, why he doesn't impeach bush, and whether he is a member of skull and bones. The stunt got the student wrestled to the ground, tasered and arrested by no less than five cops. Yay Freedom(tm)!

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Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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[Psychology]
Alfonso Cuarón, director of Children of Men, and Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, present a short film from Klein's book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, chronicling how a government uses fear to impose an unbridaled level of free market capitalism that benefits their sponsors at the expense of human rights.

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Private Banking Files Are Private, Unless Bush Says Otherwise

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European banks have been bastions of privacy for quite some time. Swiss banks are of course the most famous, but banking privacy laws are pretty strict throughout western Europe (unlike in America, where Equifax knows more about your checkbook than you do). In possible violation of those laws, however, a Belgian banking consortium opened up their files to the CIA, and it may cost them--but not if the President has anything to say about it.

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Help Defend The Government And The Government'll Make You Suffer

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Many times, the only people who know about acts of government agency or private company fraud are the people who work for those entities. When they gather up enough evidence and courage, they step forward and become whistleblowers. For this brave action in service to their country, they get to watch their lives be ruined.

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Freedom's Watch...Watching Out for Who?

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There's a new organization out there called "Freedom's Watch." (Useful rule of thumb: if a law or an organization contains happy buzzwords--freedom, patriot, America--look very carefully to see if what they're promoting is in any way related to those words. "Clean Skies Initiative," anyone? It doesn't sound like a bill loosening the restrictions on air pollution, does it?

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All New US Passports Will Include Hidden RFID Chips

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Starting in 2008 all U.S. Passports will have an RFID chip hidden within them, allowing your personal information to be read secretly through the air without you even knowing. Can you do anything about that? Maybe.

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Passed: "Protect America Act" Pisses On Constitution

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If you e-mail or phone or otherwise contact anyone outside of the United States, you'll be pleased to know that now Congress has given Bush the power to tap your conversations without any court order.

Oh Wait, get this.. it's called "The Protect America Act."

The Senate bowed to White House pressure last night and passed a Republican plan for overhauling the federal government’s terrorist surveillance laws, approving changes that would temporarily give U.S. spy agencies expanded power to eavesdrop on foreign suspects without a due process.

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Bush Is Freezing My Assets Off!

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When it comes to actions taken by this administration, timing is everything. From making appointments when the Congress is away on vacation to releasing bad news when it will be least noticed by the mainstream media, they're pretty clever about it. For instance, if George W. had issued his last executive order before we invaded Iraq in 2003 then the Secretary of the Treasury would be forced to freeze all of his assets.

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US Wants Your Religion, Politics, Sexual Pref To Enter Country

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Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions, and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US authorities when the European Commission agrees to a new system of checking passengers.

The EC is in the final stages of agreeing a new Passenger Name Record system with the US which will allow American officials to access detailed biographical information about passengers entering international airports.

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How Bush Will Run The US After Another Disaster Is Super Secret

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Apparently there's a new presidential directive which outlines the structure of the government in the event of another 9/11-type attack. Unfortunately this new plan by the White House is so secret, they won't even let members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee see the plan!

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Free Speech is Killing Our Children!

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The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee passed a bill today that would allow the FCC (the great and powerful Oz of this country's communication infrastructure and content) to fine broadcasters for "slip of the tongue" expletives. Well shit.

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Bush "Anti-Protester" Manual Discovered

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[Activists]
A lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union has uncovered a manual from the Bush Administration detailing its tactics for suppressing protests at presidential appearances. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two people from Colorado who were forcibly removed from a presidential "Town Hall Meeting" because their car had a bumper sticker that said, "No more blood for oil." They have obtained a copy of the "Presidential Advance Manual," which details tactics "to stop a demonstrator from getting into the event." A section titled "Preventing Demonstrators" advises event organizers to recruit local Republicans into "Rally Squads" whose "task is to use their signs and banners as shields between the demonstrators and the main press platform. If the demonstrators are yelling, rally squads can begin and lead supportive chants to drown out the protestors [sic] (USA! USA! USA!) As a last resort, security should remove the protestors from the event site."

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Bush Blindsided By Socially-Conscious High School Students

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[Edumakashun]
While meeting with a group of high school seniors from the Presidential Scholars program in the East Room of the White House, President Bush received an unexpected surprise: a letter signed by 50 of them urging Bush to halt "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States.

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Courts Tell Prez: You're Not Above the Constitution

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President George W. Bush's broad assertions of power in his war on terrorism are under assault by U.S. judges who have rejected his indefinite imprisonment of enemy combatants and the domestic spying program.

A pair of recent rulings, one from military judges and the other from a U.S. appeals court, delivered new legal setbacks for Bush's tactics in dealing with terrorism suspects held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or in the United States.

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Administration Tries Out New Talking Points On Russert-Bot

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[Beating Dead Horses]
This week we get a double-sneak peak: of both the upcoming September talking points Bush will be pushing, and a leaked video of the Iraq Abassador trying them out on version 2.0 of the Tim Russert Robot. Let's have a look...

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The Department of Homeland Stupidity

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The Department of Homeland Security, the new government meta-agency tasked with keeping our entire country safe from terrorist attacks both foreign and domestic, has come up with one humdinger of an idea. Having apparently run out of ideas on how to predict the next terrorist attack, they are turning to a group of people who are experts at making stuff up. When you're the government agency looking for some ideas about the future of terror, who do you turn to? Science fiction writers, of course.

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George W. Bush Becomes Dictator During Next "Catastrophe"

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In what the mainstream media has largely ignored, President Bush signed an executive order on May 9th effectively making Congress and the rest of government obsolete in the event of another attack or national catastrophe. Bush basically becomes a dictator, in complete charge of the U.S. government.

Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility “for ensuring constitutional government.” The definition of a "catastrophe" is quite vague as well, and certainly another Katrina or perhaps even some minor attack at a location that disrupts some utility service would trigger Bush's super governmental powers and render Congress useless (assuming anyone thought they were useful in the first place).

He laid this all out in a document entitled "National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51" and "Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20."

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www.FIXELECTIONS.com

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You've probably not heard of the company Smartech. They are the company responsible for hosting the now-infamous gbw43.com e-mail accounts used by White House staffers to violate the Presidential Records Act. They are also responsible for subsequently "losing" thousands of said e-mails. They host a remarkable array of conservative internet domains--republicanvictoryteam.org, rnc.org, georgebush.com, speakergingrich.com (not a lot of folks banging down the door for THAT one). But back on the eve of the 2004 election, Smartech was responsible for hosting another, more important website.

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Princeton Law Professor Added To Terrorist Watch List

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A top Constitutional scholar from Princeton (and a retired Marine Colonel) who gave a speech that slammed Bush's executive overreach has been added to the TSA's terrorist watch list. "I was denied a boarding pass because I was on the Terrorist Watch list," he said. When he asked why, the clerk asked if he had been at any peace marches. "We ban a lot of those people."

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