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By Michelle Chen

Conservative lawmakers kicked off the new legislative session with a grandiose reading of the Constitution in the House this week, and then quickly settled down to shred its most important provisions.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27231.htm

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=conservative
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=public+citizenship
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michelle+Chen
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Starmail - 11. Jan, 08:37

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In WikiLeaks Fight, U.S. Journalists Take the Fifth

A Free And Fearless Press?

By Nancy A. Youssef

The freedom of the press committee of the Overseas Press Club of America in New York City declared him "not one of us."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27230.htm

US demands IP's and other info of all 637,000 followers

Wikileaks says: Too late to unfollow; Trick used is to demand the lists, dates and IPs of all who received our twitter messages.

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/23943796899184640

Original Twitter Subpoena

637,000 Wikileaks followers are target of US gov subpoena against Twitter.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/07/twitter/subpoena.pdf

Facebook and Google under pressure over WikiLeaks

Pressure was growing for Facebook and Google to state whether they have been asked to submit data on prominent figures linked to WikiLeaks, as fresh signs emerged that a secret jury investigation will lead to an attempt to lay criminal charges against the whistleblowing website's founder.

http://ind.pn/egblO4

From Information Clearing House

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Let a thousand leaks bloom

Wikileaks WendyMcElroy.com
by Wendy McElroy

01/09/11

The ongoing torrent of released documents by WikiLeaks is an e-nightmare for the United States. WikiLeaks is the international document-leaking organization run by Julian Assange on the principle that the purpose of political secrecy is to protect the guilty. As authorities scramble frantically to silence the flow of information, technology is poised to make that task closer to impossible...

http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.3720

Bradley Manning and the rule of law

Bradley Manning Antiwar.com
by Kevin B. Zeese

01/11/11

The case of Pfc. Bradley Manning raises legal issues about his pre-trial detention, freedom of speech and the press, and proving his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Putting aside Manning?s guilt or innocence, if Bradley Manning saw the Afghan and Iraq war diaries as well as the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks, what should he have done? And what should be the proper response of government to their publication?

http://tinyurl.com/4bef4hv

Government-created climate of fear

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

01/10/11

A government can guarantee all the political liberties in the world on paper (free speech, free assembly, freedom of association), but if it succeeds in frightening the citizenry out of exercising those rights, they become meaningless. So much of what the U.S. Government has done over the last decade has been devoted to creating and strengthening this climate of fear...

http://salon.com/a/s9iIfAA

Weighing the consequences of political rhetoric

The American Prospect
by Michelle Goldberg

01/10/11

Certainly, there are crazy people across the political spectrum. But somehow, in recent decades, the vast majority of political violence in this country comes from the right and is directed at either liberals or the federal government...

http://tinyurl.com/22nn7oe

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=political+secrecy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=climate+of+fear
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=WikiLeaks
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bradley+Manning
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michelle+Goldberg
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Starmail - 11. Jan, 08:34

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Unemployment: The Cost of Economic Crisis

Starmail - 11. Jan, 08:17

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Outlaw That Speech Because it MIGHT Be a Threat

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/outlaw-speech-because-it-may-be-a-threat.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=free+speech
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Giffords
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Starmail - 11. Jan, 06:02

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What Our Constitution Permits

http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams66.1.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=/w-williams
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Starmail - 11. Jan, 05:59

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Montag, 10. Januar 2011

The American way of torture

CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn

01/09/11

Torture is now solidly installed in America?s repressive arsenal, not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and central, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians. Rituals of coercion and humiliation seep through the culture, to the extent that before Christmas American travelers began to rebel at the invasive pat-down searches, conducted by the TSA?s airport security teams...

http://counterpunch.org/cockburn01072011.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Transportation+Security+Administration
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Alexander+Cockburn
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Starmail - 10. Jan, 09:14

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The uses of political violence

Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/11/11

[T]here are two sets of laws in latter-day America: one set for the powerful, and another for the powerless. Political violence is something that the US empire encourages when it is in its interests to do so, and condemns when its interests are threatened by unauthorized free-lancers. In every case, our rulers seek to use this kind of violence as their instrument, and this operating principle is underscored by the reaction, in some quarters, to the assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords...

http://tinyurl.com/2an95mo

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Violence Is the Essence of Government
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer227.html

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
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Starmail - 10. Jan, 09:10

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U.S. Subpoenas Twitter Over WikiLeaks Supporters

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

01/09/11

Prosecutors investigating the disclosure of thousands of classified government documents by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks have gone to court to demand the Twitter account activity of several people linked to the organization, including its founder, Julian Assange, according to the group and a copy of a subpoena made public late Friday. ... In recent weeks, Justice Department officials have been seeking a legal rationale for charging Mr. Assange with criminal behavior, including whether he had solicited leaks...

http://tinyurl.com/2bmvkw9

Bradley Manning and the UCMJ dungeon

Bradley Manning On ALLiance
by James Tuttle

01/07/11

We?ve all heard it before, 'Support the Troops, because they defend our freedoms.' But do they? When I was in the U.S. Army I don?t remember any stalwart or teary moments at freedom?s defense. Typical day: coffee and calisthenics in the morning; bureaucracy and cigarettes in the afternoon; and boredom and beer in the evening. There were no discussions of what 'freedom' means or what it looks and feels like. It was a job, with a dangerous task and a boss that could legally make your life a living hell ? oh and you can?t quit...

http://tinyurl.com/2ekexrz

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=DoJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uniform+Code+of+Military+Justice
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Tuttle
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Starmail - 10. Jan, 09:04

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Recent Proof FDA Is Controlled by Big Pharma

by Attorney Jonathan Emord

A meta analysis published in the May 2007 New England Journal of Medicine associated Avandia with a 43% increased risk of heart attack. In July 2007, an FDA advisory panel with conflicts of interest voted that Avandia did increase the risk of cardiac ischemic attack in Type 2 diabetics but ultimately ruled that the drug should remain on the market. Under intense pressure from.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Emord/jonathan171.htm

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Food+and+Drug+Administration
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Starmail - 10. Jan, 08:54

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