REAL ID Act Passes; More Lies; Going Down Low

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REAL ID Act Passes; More Lies; Going Down Low

Wed, 11 May 2005 03:00:00 -0700

 

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Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed the Emergency

Supplemental Appropriations bill, an $82 billion package

that the Pentagon says will keep the war functioning until

September. Most of that money will go to the Iraq war --

armor, ammunition, death benefits for families of soldiers

killed in combat. But piggy-backed onto the bill -- which was

a sure-thing to pass -- was a section called the REAL ID Act,

a set of anti-immigrant proposals that includes encouraging

bounty hunters to seek out undocumented immigrants, making

asylum seekers get proof from their own government that

they are being persecuted, and imposing new rules on

driver's license processing -- putting us on the path to

having a national ID. It's the license issue that Bruce

Schneier picks up on, noting that not only is it a further

encroachment on our rapidly diminishing civil liberties,

but just how easily the system will be exploited.

 

NATIONAL INSECURITY CARDS

Bruce Schneier, Schneier.com

The biggest problem with a national ID program is that it

just doesn't work -- and will likely make us far less safe.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/21977/

 

HARVESTING CHAOS

Jason Mark, AlterNet

Farmers in the U.S. and around the world are likely to face

serious challenges in the coming decades as new kinds of

weather test their ability to bring us the food we all

depend on.

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21964/

 

THEY LIED TO US

Molly Ivins, AlterNet

I thought it was time we moved past the now unhelpful, " How

did we get into this mess? " However, I cannot let this

astounding Downing Street memo go unmentioned.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21976/

 

IT AIN'T ALL ABOUT THE DOWN LOW

Celina R. De Leon, WireTap

Youth health educators and activists go beyond the juicy

headlines of closeted lives in black communities and look

at the many factors behind the rising HIV epidemic among

women of color.

http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/21962/

 

HOW TO END THE WAR

Naomi Klein, In These Times

We need to offer a detailed and responsible exit strategy in

order to draw the majority of Americans who oppose the war

into the antiwar movement.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21980/

More War on Iraq: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/

 

MILLION DOLLAR BOOMER

F.X. Feeney, LA Weekly

Crash marks the powerful debut of Paul Haggis as a director,

fresh on the heels of his triumph as the screenwriter behind

the Oscar-sweeping Million Dollar Baby.

http://www.alternet.org/movies/21979/

More Movie Mix: http://www.alternet.org/movies/

 

NATIONALISM'S PSYCHOTIC SIDE

Robert Scheer, AlterNet

Even decent people can be swept along by barbarism when a

nation gets sick.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21975/

 

 

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