Very important information about the fate of our Democracy and World.

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PRAYING THAT President OBAMA LOSES THIS ONE!!!!

RE: Hedges vs. NDAA (Obama)
NDAA (Indefinite Detentions w/o evidence), Assassination Drones, and Citizens United (Corporations vs. Democracy)

Chris Hedges - "The fate of the nation, we understood, could be decided by the three judges who will rule on our lawsuit against President Barack Obama for signing into law Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)." "The act authorizes the military in Title X, Subtitle D, entitled “Counter-Terrorism,” for the first time in more than 200 years, to carry out domestic policing. With this bill, which will take effect March 3, the military can indefinitely detain without trial any U.S. citizen deemed to be a terrorist or an accessory to terrorism. And suspects can be shipped by the military to our offshore penal colony in Guantanamo Bay and kept there until “the end of hostilities.” It is a catastrophic blow to civil liberties.
I suspect the real purpose of this bill is to thwart internal, domestic movements that threaten the corporate state."

Hedges vs. Obama (The principal allegation made by the plaintiffs against the NDAA is that the vagueness of critical terms in the NDAA could be interpreted by the U.S. federal government in a way that authorizes them to label journalists and political activists who interview or support outspoken critics of the Obama administration’s policies as “covered persons,” meaning that they have given “substantial support” to terrorists or other “associated groups”. A federal court in New York has issued a permanent injunction blocking the indefinite detention powers of the NDAA but the injunction was stayed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals pending appeal by the Obama Administration.)

ALEC has Corporations dropping out and now Lawmakers are Dropping Out Too!!!

Meet the Twenty-eight Lawmakers Who Have Quit ALEC This Month

Zaid Jilani

April 26, 2012

Do You Know Which of Your Representatives are Members of ALEC?

Find out which of your Representatives are Members of ALEC.  I was surprised (I know I shouldn't be) by how many representatives are members of ALEC.  Look at this list and also find out more about Guest Speakers and others involved with ALEC here.

IS ALEC IN JEOPARDY?  COULD AMERICA REALLY BE HEADED BACK TO A BETTER DEMOCRACY?
First Coca Cola, then Pepsi, and now Kraft have decided not to continue their ALEC membership.  Hope tomorrow brings more sense to corporate America.

Kraft Drops Membership In Conservative Group ALEC

Apparently Domestic Terrorism isn't News.

Very interesting short story that apparently isn't even a story.

A chemical bomb in a Gatorade bottle was thrown into the Occupy Maine's kitchen tent. Thank God no one was hurt although it had a great potential to hurt someone really badly. The article points out that had this been a tea party activity that there would have been a media frenzy.  Apparently if the 1% is being attacked, there is a news story and of course if the alleged perpetrator was a Muslim (we know how big a story that would be.)  But since it is just the 99% being attacked and probably by a 1%er, we don't need to know that there was a terrorist attack.


Daily Kos: Occupy Wall Street: Domestic terrorism in Maine ... media is silent

United States is more economically unequal a society than either Tunisia or Egypt

Here [in the USA] the critical issue is economic inequity. According to the C.I.A.’s own ranking of countries by income inequality, the United States is more unequal a society than either Tunisia or Egypt. 

During the Bush administration, the wealthiest were just getting wealthier and the middle class was doing okay and it seems to me were thinking that they would follow the wealthy and that the economy could not go down. I would hear people talking about a housing bubble - was it? could it all crash?

How could it not? Anyway now people are gathering and demanding changes. I agree but we must remember that whether or not we at this moment are doing well or not - inequality is inequality!!!  Setting up the government to help only some is not right whether we think we can be on the beneficial side or not.

Republican: 'smaller government and more individual control' so while the rest of us are struggling to maintain our basic needs the elite can control the "small" government and structure it to benefit the wealthy that are the only ones with enough money and time to participate.

Three factoids underscore that inequality:

• The 400 wealthiest Americans have a greater combined net worth than the bottom 150 million Americans.

• The top 1 percent of Americans possess more wealth than the entire bottom 90 percent.

• In the Bush expansion from 2002 to 2007, 65 percent of economic gains went to the richest 1 percent.

America’s ‘Primal Scream’ - NYTimes.com

Israel a Democracy? Democracy means Equality for ALL, right?

Look at the Photo Below - What do you think is going on?

"This is the village of Al Arakib, a Bedouin village in the north Negev. These Israeli soldiers have just helped to demolish her home as they have done FIVE times since July!

Everyone in this photo is Israeli - EVERYONE!  

But why would they do that,  she is an Israeli citizen, too.

Important points from Israel 'declares war on its people' - Al Jazeera English by Mya Guarnieri:

The government claims that Al Arakib was abandoned and, as such, belongs to the state. According to the state, these people must be removed to make way for a forest to be planted by the Jewish National Fund.

Villagers, some of whom hold Ottoman-era deeds to the property, say that the Israeli army asked them to leave temporarily in 1951. Believing they would be able to move back, they left. It was then, they say, that the state declared Al Arakib abandoned and expropriated it.

But the Bedouin maintained a connection to the earth. They continued to cultivate the village land, harvesting olives, pomegranates, and other produce. And more than a decade ago, they rooted themselves in Al Arakib once again, building houses and families.

Just days before the village was destroyed for the first time, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, declared that "an international campaign is being waged against the definition of Israel as a Jewish state .... in the Negev, for example, if it becomes a region without a Jewish majority". Netanyahu added that such a change would be "a real threat" to the Jewish state.

Israeli activists like Amit Ramon agree.  Ramon says he feels a responsibility to stand against any injustice the government commits in his name. He has been with the village since the beginning and witnessed the first demolition, when some 1,500 police came to evacuate the 300 residents.  "They came with power like they thought the citizens would open war against them," Ramon says.  The police forcibly removed the villagers, who resisted non-violently. And then they destroyed Al Arakib.  "They ruined all the houses, they tore out the trees, they knocked over all the water tanks. There were hen cages. They ruined everything."   Ramon pauses and looks at the ground. He seems to be struggling to come to terms with the memory. "It was the end of July. It's hot here, people need to drink water. They need to drink water," he says, "and [the police] spilled all the water. They broke [the tanks] so it's impossible to use them."

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