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The 221-page bill hands Homeland Security the power to issue decrees to certain privately owned computer systems after the president declares a 'national cyberemergency.' The name of the bill has been changed to include the phrase "Internet freedom.'

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From Information Clearing House



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Popular unrest sweeping the Middle East highlights the US military's reliance on Arab regimes that offer privileged access to airfields and ports from Cairo to Qatar.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/02/19/mideast-unrest-puts-us-military-access-in-jeopardy.html


From Information Clearing House



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Sarah Van Gelder, YES! Magazine: 'The uprising that swept Tunisia, Egypt, and parts of Europe is showing signs of blossoming across the United States. In Wisconsin, public employees and their supporters are drawing the line at Governor Scott Walker's plan to eliminate collective bargaining and unilaterally cut benefits. School teachers, university students, firefighters, and others descended on the capital in the tens of thousands, and even the Superbowl champion Green Bay Packers have weighed in against the bill. Protests against similar anti-union measures are ramping up in Ohio. Meanwhile, another protest movement aimed at protecting the poor and middle class is in the works. Cities around the country are preparing for a February 26 Day of Action, 'targeting corporate tax dodgers.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/wisconsin-the-first-stop-an-american-uprising67915



Across the US, GOP Lawmakers Build States of Denial

Michael Winship, Truthout: 'In Missouri, state senator Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield) has introduced a bill that would, in the words of progressive website ThinkProgress, 'dramatically claw back' state child labor restrictions, including the prohibition on employment of children under the age of 14 and regulations on the number of hours a child may work during the day. South Dakota was contemplating - but just tabled, thank goodness - a bill that critics feared would expand the definition of justifiable homicide to include the murder of doctors who provide abortions. Idaho is debating a bill to nullify Obama's health care reform, and in Arizona, legislators are sponsoring one that would allow the state to nullify any federal law it doesn't particularly care for. I would ask what's gotten into them, but I think we all know.'

http://www.truth-out.org/across-us-gop-lawmakers-build-states-denial67914



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George Lakoff, Truthout: "Conservatives really want to change the basis of American life, to make America run according to the conservative moral worldview in all areas of life... What is saddest of all is to see Democrats helping them. Democrats help radical conservatives by accepting the deficit frame and arguing about what to cut... Democrats help conservatives by not shouting out loud over and over that it was conservative values that caused the global economic collapse: lack of regulation and a greed-is-good ethic.... Democrats help 'conservatives when they use conservative words like 'entitlements' instead of 'earnings' and speak of government as providing 'services' instead of 'necessities'... Is there hope? I see it in Wisconsin, where tens of thousands citizens see through the conservative frames and are willing to flood the streets of their capital to stand up for their rights."

http://www.truth-out.org/what-conservatives-really-want67907



Scott Walker Runs on Koch Money

Lisa Graves, PR Watch: 'A new investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy documents the big money funneled by one of the richest men in America and one of the richest corporations in the world to put controversial Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in office. Walker was elected just over three months ago on the heels of an exceptionally expensive gubernatorial race in the Badger State, fueled by groups funded by the Koch brothers, David and Charles. David Koch, the son of a radical founding member of the John Birch Society, which has long been obsessed with claims about socialism and advocated the repeal of civil rights laws, personally donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association (RGA) in June of last year. The RGA in turn spent $5 million in the race, mostly on TV ads attacking Walker's political opponent, Democratic Mayor Tom Barrett."

http://www.truth-out.org/scott-walker-runs-koch-money67916



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/18

Climate: Putting People Over Money
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/18-4

Under Legal Threat, State Department Accepts Request for Information on Lobbyist Influence
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/18-5



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Make The People Pay

Paul Craig Roberts
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A Time for Resistance

By Katrina vanden Heuvel

Wisconsin's Republican governor and Republican-dominated legislature are moving to destroy organized labor, moving to abolish democratic rights that were the essence of the New Deal, and treating working-class Americans as though they were meaningless in our country's mosaic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27514.htm



Noam Chomsky: 'Democracy Uprising' in the U.S.A.?

By Democracy Now!

Noam Chomsky on Wisconsin's Resistance to Assault on Public Sector, the Obama-Sanctioned Crackdown on Activists, and the Distorted Legacy of Ronald Reagan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27506.htm



Public Worker Protests Spread From Wisconsin to Ohio

In Columbus Ohio, about 3,800 state workers, teachers and other public employees came to the statehouse for a committee hearing. President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohioan, argued over whether the bills are 'an assault on unions.'

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=a6jskX_gPvVc



WI Governor's Fake Budget Crisis: Gave Tax Breaks to Wal-Mart to Further Real Agenda -- Union Busting

I have been attending the rallies, watching the coverage, reading the blogs and comments and come to the conclusion that most people don't know the true horror of this bill.

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Boehner: 'So Be It' If Federal Workers Are Laid Off

House Speaker John Boehner expressed little sympathy Tuesday for federal workers who lose their jobs as the result of Republican budget cutting.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/02/15/boehner-so-be-it-if-us-workers-are-laid-off/


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Volunteers of America

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Did you hear about the uprising? Not the one in Tunisia, or Egypt. No not the one in Libya, though what has been happening there is certainly riveting. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in several cities, defying the forty-year rule of Muammar el-Qaddafi under threat of death. Not the similar one in Bahrain, where several died and many more were injured. Not the similar one in Yemen, which has been going on for more than seven days. Not the really interesting one in Iran, which has been a long time coming, and which prompted the ruling elite to call for the immediate murder of anyone and everyone who is not down with the sickness. Not the one in Iraq, which involved a demand from the city of Baghdad for one billion dollars from the United States of America, to pay for the damage done to the city from the war."

http://www.truth-out.org/volunteers-of-america67884



Democratic Senators Leave State to Stall Bill as Mass Protests Continue

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "In a continuing attempt to stall a vote on the anti-union bill proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, the 14 Democratic senators have left the state with state troopers dispatched by Republican Senate leaders on their heels. Without at least one additional senator in the chamber, the GOP does not have the majority quorom to vote on the bill, which has been called the biggest assault on worker's rights in Wisconsin and would effectively strip collective bargaining rights from most public-sector unions. Wisconsin was the first state in the nation to give all public-sector workers bargaining rights in 1959."

http://www.truth-out.org/democratic-senators-leave-state-stall-bill-mass-protests-continue67905



Why Do They Hate Social Security?

Joe Conason, Truthout: "Among the mysteries of modern politics in America is why so many of our leading pundits and politicians persistently seek to undermine Social Security, that enduring and successful emblem of active government. In the current atmosphere of budgetary panic, self-proclaimed 'centrists' are joining with ideologues of the right in yet another campaign against the program - and yet again they are misinforming the public about its purposes, costs and prospects."

http://www.truth-out.org/joe-conason-why-do-they-hate-social-security67889



Waist Deep in the Washington Quagmire

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "Here's the latest news from Congress, in case you've been in Afghanistan for the last couple of weeks. A debate about slashing the federal budget is now upon us, while fears of a possible government shutdown as spring approaches are on the rise. The Republican leadership of the House of Representatives originally picked $40 billion as its target figure for cuts to the as-yet-not-enacted 2011 budget. That was the gauntlet it threw down to the Obama administration, only to find its own proposal slashed to bits by the freshman class of that body's conservative majority.They insisted on adhering to a Republican Pledge to America vow to cut $100 billion from the budget."

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Democrats with Backbone Cheered by Wisconsin Workers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/18

Ed Schultz Talks with John Nichols about the Wisconsin Protests
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/18

'First Amendment Remedies': How Wisconsin Workers Grabbed the Constitution Back From the Right-Wing Royalists
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/18-7

Across the US, GOP Lawmakers Build States of Denial
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