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Is Patriotism in America "Love of People" or "Love of Profit" or Both?
YLTO-Eric's comment, July 7, 2012 1:29 PM
Thats weird, none of those definitions are in the dictionary. Seems a bit like feel good socialist propaganda presented as a knee jerk reaction to the "Tea Partiers" to me. I thought this was a fact based solution oriented website.
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Daniel Ellsberg, the man who released the Pentagon papers, says the FISA court is a sham and warrantless wiretapping, which has being going on for years befo...
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Only one proposal promises relief for millions of students whose loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent this July—Sen.
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Professor and activist Lawrence Lessig tells Bill that government should be utilizing technology to protect our liberties as much as it does to invade our privacy.
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Professor Lessig of Havard always has a great take on how to improve our world. Here is his opinion on how to maintain our privacy. Delete the scoop?
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Virtually no one should be surprised to learn that climate talks currently underway in Bonn, Germany -- the latest venue for the decades-old and largely fruitless pursuit of international agreement on global warming action -- are descending into...
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The cliff is approaching but everybody's looking backward. Hmm-m-m-m. Delete the scoop?
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Abortion opponents are chipping away at reproductive rights from all angles — and one particularly insidious attack on women’s health is currently advancing in states across the country. Delete the scoop?
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There are plenty of people working in the media who don't have much use for whistleblowers--and they've been having a field day going after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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This is a good collection of pundit views of Mr. Snowden.While they rail in their hate or love of him I wonder, based on what he and Mr. Greenwald have already stated regarding the amount of material taken and that ONLY non dangerous material will be released, where or what will hapeen to it when this is over? I could say more but Ill wait for this to play out. My best guess now, he won't be back, nor will that missing information. I do suspect his former employer has a better reason to go after him than our government ever will. Delete the scoop?
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If you care at all about war and peace, press freedom, whistleblowers' rights and the public's right to know what the government is doing, the trial of Bradley Manning is of enormous consequence. I...
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While I have no problem with journalist reporting on virtually anything, I have a problem with leakers.Yes, they may have good moral reasons for what they do but having had a secret clearence, I fully understand its responsibilities and requirements. If I were to violate the terms of it I fully expect to be punished. In Mr Mannings case, as with myself, you are also covered under the Uniformed Code of Miltitary Justice. If I didn't understand that, I shouldn't be in uniform. Given the fact that less then 1% of the population serves in miltary service I understand that they can see him as a hero. Having worn a uniform and served my country, voluntarily, commitiing the type of crime he commited would probably get me 20 years maximum. I know he had other options even if he didn't. What I will give him credit for is that at least he owned up to it. Delete the scoop?
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An in-depth look at how the IRS was treating conservative and Tea Party groups — and a look at what it's supposed to do.
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The IRS does have a duty to look at claims for Social Welfare tax free request. for validity. This is how it should work. Delete the scoop?
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Lawmakers are beginning to call out the fact that social welfare groups should not be subsidized by the American taxpayers if they are violating the law with political activity.
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This is really interesting and long over due. There is almost no mention in popular mass media of this Senator's take on the IRS situation. NOT one of the people in this hearing explained what social welfare efforts the Tea Party performs or promotes awareness of in order to receive a tax exception for being a social welfare organization..That seems like a worthy question. I had no idea it was a social welfare organization until this IRS thing came up and thought of this ONLY as a political movement from the get go to support, promote and endorse so called TEA PARTY politicians and agenda.
I have never known them to let me know of a natural disaster relief effort they started or animals they are protecting, or working conditions or child welfare they are trying to improve or even so much as a coat or food drive for storm victims.
Matter of fact the main message I get from the TEA PARTY is fix your own problems and don’t ask for any of my hard earned money to help others through social welfare programs. Is that not the main message other people hear from this group? Please let us know what social welfare efforts they are engaged in other than to fight having social welfare. 
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June 10, 12:52 PM
would you really call it backfiring if all political organizations lost their tax exempt status? I'd call that progress! And take away the religious organizations status as well please. The sole purpose of 99% of all political and religious groups are exactly the same; for a small number of people to control a large number of people and, most importantly, their wealth and resources. As such, virtually ALL political and religious groups are "for profit" organizations.
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Men are just as smart as women. Women in the real world have generally been the smarter sex. Inasmuch as it is still a male dominated society on paper, women allow most outcomes.
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Good Question! The same question could be ask if all of us will continue to vote for those that diminish our environment and health, unity, ability to have privacy protected and make our own choices on many things including education. The ability to vote well comes with strings attached. Individual citizens must stay well and broadly informed on history, science and general knowledge, humanity, cultures and current events as they unfold not only locally but internationally for the bigger picture to be clear in today's world. What is happening one place, curiously is happening in various degrees all over the globe and not just at home. We need all of our many different points of views to see what is occuring more fully. Engaging the populations will end the forced education because people engaged with their world, life and the many people involved in all that become hungrey for knowlegde and that is what always motives learning in a way threats and testing will never match. The need to know, curiousity and passion always trump for motivating learning. Knowlegde and understanding lead to better judgement in voting and all other matters. Delete the scoop?
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by JENNIFER STEINHAUER, New York Times Senator Roy Blunt sat silently for nearly an hour as his colleagues on the Armed Services Committee questioned one military leader after another on Tuesday about what they were doing to address the problem of sexual assault in the military, and then assessed their responses: “Stunningly bad.”
“Discipline is the heart of the military culture, and trust is its soul,” said Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan and the chairman of the committee. “The plague of sexual assault erodes both the heart and the soul.” Senators from both parties pressed the leaders, at times using strong language, about why, decades after the full integration of women into the military, the problem seems to have worsened. Senator John McCain, an Delete the scoop?
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President Obama's signature healthcare law will increase the number of self-employed Americans by making it easier for them to obtain health coverage, according to new research . The Urban Institute predicted that the number of self-employed U.
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Lawrence Lessig and Bill Moyers explore how we can protect our privacy when Big Government and Big Business morph into Big Brother.
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I'm not at all surprised to find myself in complete Agreement with Mr. Lessig, I read Republic, Lost. I draw on it to point out that corporations, not government agencies, are the source of this survaillence. Their size and profits have grown immensley. So, who do they support politically under Citizens United? Citizens, Wake Up, please. Delete the scoop?
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One might think this is upside down. My, how far government has fallen. Great job guys! Delete the scoop?
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The first of a three-part series examining the history of the US surveillance network, its origins in the SHAMROCK project. For 30 years, NSA clandestinely spied on Americas with the help of corporations.
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Great History lesson in how we got our world-wide surveillance network. 
Nomad 's comment,
June 15, 5:19 AM
Thanks for including my post. The second part will be ready for Monday and, for me, at least, the information seems much more shocking than anything Snowden or Greenwald has offered.
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This article is an indication that there needs to be a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen for all these shows and a public service announcement on radio. Watch with skepticism. Delete the scoop?
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Reconciling the left and right wing of politics is the only way forward by Tony Miall The adversarial ‘left and right wing’ approach to politics is fast approaching its used-by date. The problem is that it is being revealed as impotent whe...
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If you took stock of America in the early 21st century and thought about how to create the best governing system possible, you would certainly start with uti...
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Here is a starting a point discussion about how to proceed toward a more participative government. Delete the scoop?
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WASHINGTON — The U.S.director of national intelligence late Thursday confirmed the existence of a secret program in which the government has tapped into the central servers of nine leading Internet companies to search for data potentially linked to...
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What I'm finding curious about this leak is formitable and the fact that no one really cares not suprising. The capture of phone numbers, with its added attributes and internet information is no problem for most U.S. citizens. No, Big Brother is not watching your every move. However, this info is made available to state and local governments for law enforcement. More important, to me, rogue IT employees of a private company, can make a fortune selling their access to it. The fix; government employees. The problem, corporate contributions to politicians to get these very lucrative contracts the hire people with minimal education (easier to control) and make big profits. The smoke screen is Big Government is the problem. Delete the scoop?
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The best way to beat the ever-prevalent right vs left agenda is to find the things that bring us together in one common purpose and unite around that. Delete the scoop?
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Revelations that the federal government is collecting massive amounts of data about telephone calls and Internet traffic has some people nervous that George Orwell's vision of Big Brother constantly watching them has come true.
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This is an Interesting article. It does not make me sympathetic to allowing my government or industries to spy on me and on my dime at that. Nor does it help me understand the concept of these groups are spying on me to keep secrets that are so important "to me" I am not allow to know them and if I were to spy to find these important secrets of mine, I would likely be caught and sent to jail. The article does a fairly good job of showing the conflict between privacy and protection. We all really need to give this some serious thought and not just accept this data collection and spying as inevitable because at these very, early stages the opportunity for abuse seems to scream out already. Who watches the watcher to make sure that doesn’t happen? The mere idea is enough to tape up every mouth and visionary or innovative thought in the world. The ability is tremendous for governments and participating industries the globe over to silence those that get in their way before anyone hears their voice or offers competition. Only they will have that power to watch and collect all this data and those citizens that attempt to use the same power towards governments or industries are already being locked up.Excerpt: What would have surprised Orwell, he says, was not that governments are collecting huge amounts of data about individuals, but that private actors are as well.Even if it didn't turn out that the federal government has a direct pipeline into Verizon, Google, Yahoo and other such companies, those companies would control huge amounts of information about Americans on their own.And it's not just the corporations performing surveillance. What Orwell calls the "proles" in his novel — the average citizens who help the state keep an eye on everybody — are also tracking and documenting each other's movements in real life these days.With the advent of smartphones and widespread surveillance cameras, no conversation or movement in the public sphere can be considered private. Further curator insight:Talk about money and power and politics and mix this into it... not a pretty picture. This is certainly not something we should sit back with a wait and see attitude about. We seemed to have done that already before we even knew about this had grown to such a grand scale. It might be time to use a post office and landlines where there must still be warrants issued to tape into. Limit our zeal for online everything...shopping and all else. Buy nothing and eat nothing that wasn't local, pay only in cash and refuse to give any numbers to do transactions for anything. Hold regular town hall meetings and if reps want to know what’s happening they must show up like everyone else. Also we might need to be every picky who we send to the state houses, or national ones and make sure they work ONLY for the citizens and keep us informed with all details. We need to locally decide who to write in on ballots on a local basis rather than vote on corporate sponsored offerings for representatives to represent us.
Party Recon's comment,
June 10, 12:30 PM
Repeal The Patriot Act, FISA, and NDAA. I would rather live in fear of my enemy than my government.
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Current TV contributor Jacki Schechner reports on a recently released NBC/WSJ poll that shows that approval ratings for the Affordable Care Act have dropped ...
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Here is one of the first looks at an actual state rate for the state pool of insurers in California and the rates they have come up with for a 40 year old single male. Delete the scoop?
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14 July 1994. Former member Webster Tarpley gives a class on 2,000 years of rule by Oligarchy, both its headquarters, which has existed within the empires of...
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by CARL GIBSON Keeping our nation divided as right vs left is an agenda supported by both Fox News and MSNBC. The media and the politicians both profit from Americans believing they should hate their fellow Americans. And oddly enough, the one thing that unites the traditional “right” and “left” in this country is our hatred for those same media organizations and politicians that make money by regularly lying to us. The best way to beat them is to find the things that bring us together in one common purpose and unite around that. An article in the Atlantic last week talked about how the dominant liberal narrative is broken. The argument that government is inherently good and is necessary to provide things like Social Security, Medicare and national parks has some truth to it, and worked well for both parties in the mid-twentieth century. Democrats and Republicans from FDR to Eisenhower won landslide elections using the good-government narrative. But now that our government is captive to corporations and their lobbyists like the US Chamber of Commerce, Americans of all ideological leanings are united in the belief that our current government, as it stands, is completely out of touch and needs radical change from outside the political system to do it. MORE Via Michael Charney 
Monica S Mcfeeters's curator insight,
June 5, 10:22 AM
Please take a few minutes to read through this and follow the also relevant links.
Excerpt from the 1st link in blue, which by the way rings so true:
"Instead of dismissing Tea Partiers as a bunch of redneck hicks, liberals should tell them they are half right -- the government all too often is not serving the people -- but have the wrong address for their very justified anger. It should be directed at the special interests that have captured and perverted the government rather than at the government itself, which can readily serve good or nefarious purposes. This narrative speaks both to the liberals who seek reform and major segments of the angry masses. (Indeed, polls show that 21 percent of Occupy Wall Street supporters self-identify as "conservative" and one of 10 Americans support both the Tea Party and OWS)."
Party Recon's comment,
June 11, 11:10 AM
Agreed Monica. Here is the same idea in sound-bite form. "Hey Tea Partiers. We don't need small government, we just need GOOD government."
As for abolishing left v right, this ancient and inaccurate scale of measure should have been replaced with the two-dimensional transpartisan matrix ages ago. You can learn about this much more accurate and meaningful way to graph out and compare political philosophies here (http://www.partyrecon.org/?p=501). 
Marianne Richards Castiglia's comment,
June 11, 1:01 PM
Michael This is BRILLIANT! First time I've been to this website and look forward to reading more. The only thing I see that I don't like is their tab "Faux News" because it goes against what the article is saying. In any case I have shared, posted and emailed this article to everyone and all social media I belong to and who I can think of. I have bookmarked it to remind myself when I start to buy into the message they are pushing at us that works to tear us all apart. Great job and let's all try to do better for each other and our country.
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People Over Politics' Matthew "Mad Matter" Benzion delivers a poetic civics lesson to activists in Miami, Florida on May 25, 2013. Visit People Over Politics...
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