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CounterPunch.org

The new law expands the list of pretexts to include "natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition" -- and such a "condition" is not defined or limited.

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Bits.blogs.NYTimes.com

Internet civil rights organizations oppose network-level filtering, arguing that it amounts to Big Brother monitoring of free speech, and that such filtering could block the use of material that may fall under fair-use legal provisions.

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CounterPunch.org

Who will be on the "extremist beliefs" list? The answer is: civil libertarians, critics of Israel, 9/11 skeptics, critics of the administration's wars and foreign policies, critics of the administration's use of....

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Guardian

The executive order governing surveillance may not be the only one that Bush has modified without revealing he has done so.

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Free Talk Live

Activist and actor Russell Means joins Free Talk Live to discuss the Lakota Nation's withdrawal from the United States. [Link goes to .mp3]

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AFP

The Lakota Indians have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a d

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The New York Times

“What he saw was decisive evidence that within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans’ phone usage.”

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Rawstory.com

Turley emphasized. That one rule is, you can't go outside the rules." Once the executive ceases to respect the authority of the legislative branch, everything else is thrown into doubt.

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From 1659 to 1681, the celebration of Christmas was actually outlawed in Boston. Anyone exhibiting the Christmas spirit was fined five shillings. By contrast, in the Jamestown settlement, Captain John Smith reported that Christmas was enjoyed by all

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AfterDowningStreet.org

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

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Newsroom America-New Zealand

"America is coming apart, decomposing, and...the likelihood of her survival as one nation...is improbable -- and impossible if America continues on her current course," Mr. Buchanan writes.

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