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POPSMcCain Passive/Aggressive on Race Make no mistake, referring to Obama as "different", "unknown" and "not trustworthy" is a direct appeal to the people of the deep south to atavistic racial fears. The issue of race in the south is convoluted and murky. In cosmopolitan centers, like Atlanta, it's hidden and insidious. Half an hour outside Atlanta it's blatant and expressed. McCain, when he deems it advantageous to do so, stokes these fears and hatreds repeatedly. I must say, John Lewis is my congressman. On this issue, he is spot on with his analysis.
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POPSwww.eff.org EFF is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world.
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POPSSarah Palin, Alaska Independence, & Copyright Infringement Are you for f * ckin' real? This guy wants to secede from the US but then he expects us to give a sh*t about his video? Take the matter up with the country of Alaska. Have them file a suit against someone in another country and see how far you get. Turn in your passport, your birth rights, your American flags, your federal subsidies, and your federally protected civil rights. You can have back what you paid into Social Security as of today. Sorry, past taxes non-refundable, but the good news is we won't be asking you to pay taxes in 2009, or ever again. I think it's high time we start seeing other people. Alaska and Palin got your back now. Good luck, buddy.
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POPSPre Spinning a Palin Loss Wouldn't it be nice if once, just once, somebody actually surprised us? The more I look at our political system the more I need anti-depressants.
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POPSFierce fight over Arizona anti-gay amendment Arizona failed to ban same-sex marriage in 2006, so now they are trying again. The religious right is out full-time trying to rev up the hatred of gays and lesbians in order to make sure we do not acquire the same civil rights every other citizen possesses. There is good reason to believe this vote will fail again, but just for the record, Senator McCain is fully in favour of this ban on gays having equal rights. Any gays out there planning to vote for McCain, puhleeze think again.
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POPSVeep Debate Moderator Writing Book on Obama Yes, it is going to be that fawning. Ifill profiles” three other prominent (liberal) politicians on their success. Note I said liberal. Aside from token mentions of Colin Powell, the excludes Codi Rice, Clarence Thomas, j. C. Watts, Michael Steele Alan Keyes, and other prominent conservatives. The book focuses on how African-Americans on the political left have benefited from the civil rights movement. As near as I can tell that translates to celebrating a presidential candidate who is the product of affirmative action while dismissing African-Americans on the political right as…what? Sell outs? Anyway, the media does not even make a pretense of non-bias, do they? If you think this should not stand, e-mail: Janet H. Brown, Executive Director of the Debates Commission: jb@debates.org and let her know. I did. YouTube vid :49
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POPSPresident Obama Yes, if he will do this during his campaign, imagine what he will try to do during his presidency.
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POPSOur Living Constitution Like it or not....we have what is called a "Living Constitution", where Court decisions are made that are based on today's national and international events!
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POPSHaving Their Cake and Eating It Too From the article: "Let's imagine that the Alliance Defense Fund and its clerical clients were to persuade the Supreme Court to overturn the Johnson amendment's ban on political endorsements from the pulpit. At that point, what would prevent wealthy ideologues from making tax-exempt contributions to sympathetic pastors' churches for the express purpose of engaging in partisan electioneering? For that matter, what would prevent ambitious pastors from soliciting just such contributions and then using them to bind like-minded ministers into powerful political machines?"
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POPSPictures: “Lego Block” Prison Cells Readied In Utah I'd hate to speculate the purpose of these, but the way things are going I wouldn't doubt they are for civil unrest.. If you researched the last RNC you will know that they arrested any un-embedded reporters such as Amy Goodman and crew on bogus charges, but they were among a few people that were arrested by POLICE < in all black uniforms with no ID just POLICE! It is said that the POLICE used in such a violation of our rights will be blackwater types from foreign nations.
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POPS"World needs a vacation from USA" He called for immediate technology transfer from the West to the Third World, to allow development based on clean technology — stressing the need to “reject intellectual property rights”. funds should not be distributed through the World Bank, which was trying to regain legitimacy by portraying itself as a “climate bank” while continuing to push fossil-fuel-driven development. Confronting global poverty and climate change means confronting US power. “I don’t think the world needs US leadership”, he said. “They should be more humble.” Whether the US achieves its goals “is where we, as civil society come in”, Bello said, suggesting that, by making intervention costly for the US, civil society could encourage a “new US isolationism”. The struggle is, he stressed, global. “The world needs a vacation from the messaianism of the US … A few decades of a self-absorbed US would be very good for the world.”
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POPShttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/17/18539316.php On September 17th, Jack and Wes were arrested at a gathering in Parking Lot #4 alongside the Santa Cruz Farmer's Market. According to reports published on Santa Cruz Indymedia, police initially went after and arrested Jack, a Food Not Bombs volunteer.
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POPSMore Evidence of Sanctified Civil Liberty Violations
Border Agents are now allowed to search you and your car and belongings without evidence or suspicion of wrong doing. They can make copies of anything you have in your possession including laptops, cell phones, personal papers, diaries, date books, etc. What they do with this information ends up on government databases to be added to your very own file which, of course, you cannot access but every law enforcement agency across the country can, with or without a valid reason. If citizens were not aware that there are unethical individuals in law enforcement and scattered throughout the government who can access these files, and if we did not know that files get ‘lost’, and if we were not aware that computer files get hacked into, why would we worry? But these things have all become reality and pervasive. First Amendment rights are one of the last protections we Americans have against this government becoming a Fascist state. And since George W Bush was first elected, his gan
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POPSACLU Helping Felons Vote: With Registration Deadline Fast Approaching Lewis is pushing for automatic restoration -- so that rights are restored upon completion of incarceration or supervision. ''There are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people in the state whose rights have been restored and they may not know it,'' Howard Simon, executive director of the Florida branch of the ACLU, said Monday. ''Everyone who can vote should vote,'' said Benjamin Burton, executive director of Miami Coalition for the Homeless and The League of Women Voters. The ACLU estimates that 115,000 people have had their voting rights restored but only 9,000 have registered. ''People leaving prison will be our neighbors,'' said Brad Brown, vice president of the Miami Dade chapter of the NAACP. ``The very first step to being integrated is that right to vote. That is the first step to being a good neighbor and forming strong communities.'
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POPSSudan establishes more committees for Darfur Ocampo filed 10 charges: three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and two of murder. It was only this week that the ICC judges began consideration of the evidence submitted before making a decision which may take from a few weeks to several months. Sabdarat said in the new decree that the mandate of the additional committees will include “receiving citizens complaints, facilitate meetings of victims and witnesses with the prosecutor, preliminary assessment of material damages, foster national reconciliation, blood money”. Moreover the committees can utilize the expertise of additional advisers after consultation with the Justice Minister. The special prosecutor is supposed to report monthly on the progress of his work. However nothing has emerged yet on the findings of his mission.
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