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ACT NOW - Tell Congress It's Time to Reform the Patriot Act!
US Politics & Gov't (tags: patriot act reform, abuse, bush, cheney, crime, corruption, terrorism, freedoms, ethics )

David
- 5 hours ago - secure.aclu.org

President Bush signed the Patriot Act into law in 2001, and this alarming and unconstitutional legislation has severely undermined American freedom. It is time to rein in the out-of-control government powers embedded in the Patriot Act. ACT NOW!

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Fort Hood Shootings Suspect Alive; 12 Dead - The Man Who Knew Too Much? - Death Before Dishonoring Himself?
US Politics & Gov't (tags: war, terrorism, crime, abuse, americans, dishonesty, propaganda, lies, ethics )

David
- 15 hours ago - cnn.com

A solider suspected of fatally shooting 12 and wounding 31 at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday is not dead as previously reported by the military. Hasan was scheduled to be deployed to Iraq "and appeared to be upset about that," Do you blame him for that?

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How Goldman Secretly Bet on the U.S. Housing Crash
US Politics & Gov't (tags: goldman sachs, crime, abuse, dishonesty, cover-up, lies, ethics )

David
- 18 hours ago - mcclatchydc.com

In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would occur (To their advantage!)

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Tell Congress It's Time to Reform the Patriot Act!- Take Action
US Politics & Gov't (tags: bush, bushadministration, Petition, constitution, ethics, freedoms, government, obama, politics, u.s. )

Daphna
- 1 day ago - secure.aclu.org

Every day since President Bush signed the Patriot Act into law in 2001, this alarming and unconstitutional legislation has severely undermined American freedom. The Patriot Act has been in effect for too long. Don't let another day go by without sending

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Reject the CORPORATE OPTION for National Health Care
US Politics & Gov't (tags: congress, healthcare, healthcare, obama, ethics, private insurance, single payer, HR 676 )

Jill
- 1 day ago - opednews.com

Fourteen Reasons to Reject Corporate Options for Health Care 1) Private insurers are businesses. As sych, they must grow. Their inclusion in any national program almost guarantees endless cuts in service, and endless hikes in costs to the public.

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Shut Down This Murderous Racket: Change We Need and Crave
US Politics & Gov't (tags: abuse, healthcare, healthcare, obama, democrats, ethics, congress, dishonesty, propaganda, single payer, single payer healthcare, Medicare For All, HR 676 )

Jill
- 1 day ago - dissidentvoice.org

Al Capone is awake in his grave in awe at the criminal racket promulgated by the health care industry: a murderous multi-billion dollar industry that keeps the world's Superpower in the sociological Stone Age. A recent study upped the figure of Americans

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House Votes to Speed Up Credit Card Reform
US Politics & Gov't (tags: politics, congress, credit card abuses, dishonesty, ethics, government, GoodNews )

Cal
- 2 days ago - money.cnn.com

Effective date for provisions would move to Dec. 1 from next February and August.

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Take Action- Make History By Urging Your House Member to Vote YES on Health Reform
US Politics & Gov't (tags: americans, Petition, congress, ethics, government, healthcare, obama, usa )

Daphna
- 2 days ago - secure.consumersunion.org

We are on the brink of an historic moment - getting all American access to affordable, reliable health coverage! Make history by urging your House member to vote YES on health reform. A vote could come as early as FRIDAY - send an email right

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Opium, Rape and the American Way - News You Won't Find on CNN or Fox News
US Politics & Gov't (tags: war, usa, terrorism, abuse, troops, crime, cover-up, military, human rights, civil liberties, ethics )

David
- 2 days ago - informationclearinghouse.info

War turns the moral order upside down and abolishes all discussions of human rights. War banishes the just and the decent to the margins of society. And the weapons of war do not separate the innocent and the damned.

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Take Action-Equality Can't Wait Tell Your Legislators To Pass ENDA (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act)
US Politics & Gov't (tags: americans, congress, ethics, freedoms, government, news, usa, constitution )

Daphna
- 2 days ago - change.org

Right on the heels of the historic passage of federal hate crimes legislation, things are really heating up around the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The Senate is holding hearings on ENDA this week, but our contacts on Capitol Hill have

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Election Results Suggest Religious Right Remains Force To Contend With, Says Americans United
US Politics & Gov't (tags: Religious Right, republicans, government, ethics, elections, candidates )

Tierney
- 3 days ago - au.org

Election results in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and Maine serve as a reminder that the Religious Right remains an influential force in political life, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

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Take Action- Tell Secretary Gates Not to Stand in the Way of Accountability!
US Politics & Gov't (tags: petition, usa, obama, military, government, ethics, dishonesty, corruption, congress, constitution, americans, bushadministration, politics )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - secure.aclu.org

The president recently signed into law legislation that gives the Defense Department the authority to suppress evidence of its own misconduct. The amendment in the Homeland Security appropriations bill, which allows the DOD to exempt certain

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Condemn American Physicians Who Collaborated With the Bush Administration's Torture Policy
US Politics & Gov't (tags: petition, usa, war, politics, lies, government, ethics, dishonesty, corruption, bushadministration, americans, abuse )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - change.org

Please sign this petition and urge your elected officials to pressure the medical profession in the United States to take a serious stand against the use of torture. Some American physicians without ethics were guilty of collaboration with t

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Hillary Finally Doffs Her Burqa - Why We Like Seeing Our Strong Women Get Tough - a Woman of Intelligence, or Just Plain Silly?.
US Politics & Gov't (tags: Hillary, NOT the President, Clinton, usa, war, terrorism, female eunuch, power crazy woman, politics, abuse, crime, ethics )

David
- 6 days ago - thedailybeast.com

Hillarys sharp words on Thursday when she told a bunch of Pakistani journalists that she found it "hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they [al Qaeda] are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to". War no more?

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Pakistanis to Clinton: "War on Terror Is Not Our War, Your Presence in the Region Is Not Good for Peace" - Yankee Go Home!
US Politics & Gov't (tags: Hillary Clinton, US interference, terrorism, war, murder, occupation?, drones, usa, politics, ethics )

David
- 7 days ago - mcclatchydc.com

After three days of encounters with America-bashing Pakistanis -- who rejected her contention that the U.S. and Pakistan face a common enemy -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that "we're not getting through."...Hillary is delirious???

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Election Results Suggest Religious Right Remains Force To Contend With, Says Americans United

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How Goldman Secretly Bet on the U.S. Housing Crash

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Tell Congress It's Time to Reform the Patriot Act!- Take Action

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Shut Down This Murderous Racket: Change We Need and Crave

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