Oped News - May 13, 2006. WaPo's Bogus Poll on NSA Spying

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May 13, 2006 6:09 AM

OpEdNews; WaPo's Bogus Poll on NSA Spying

 

 

 

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Savid Sirota on CNN

Last night, for the first time, I saw David Sirota on CNN, with Lou

Dobbs. He did great. He should be a regular there.

 

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Dobbs asked about the poll showing that 63% of people are okay with

the latest NSA spying disclosures. David replied that they asked the

wrong question and should have asked if people approved spying without

court approved warrants. This thoroughly disconcerted Dobbs. I can't

wait to see him on as a pundit again.

 

 

have a great one,

 

Rob Kall

 

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By Hobie Morris

The Angry Musings Of A Simple Country Man

Unjust tax assessments in the town of Brookfield, New York, are

driving out low income families and allowing more affluent ventures to

take their place. The elderly, and hard working small family farmers

are disproportionatley affected in a scarcely veiled attempt to

depopulate the area.

 

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Bush Uses FDA To Shield Big Pharma From Lawsuits

 

 

By Jim Bush

Rotten To The Core

 

 

By Barbara Tutor

Why Domestic Spying Is A Violation Of Civil Liberties

As a systems analyst I pondered the purpose of the reported NSA spy

project. Since complete electronic data on suspected Al Qaeda

terrorists is being collected from both domestic and overseas messages

as a separate project, there would be little value in an exhaustive

domestic data collection on all telephone calls. For what other

purposes could this data be used?

 

By James Richard Brett

Communicating Liberalism

Frustrated ranting is no cure for corruption.

 

By Randy Aronov

Silent Protester At Rumsfeld Speech Comes Forward

While one man questioned and berated Rumsfeld, another stood silently,

in the audience, with his back turned to him. I am that man.

 

By Paul S. Cilwa

How Big Is Too Big?

Even if you like George W. Bush and don't believe he would ever misuse

information of this sort, can you guarantee the next president will be

as noble? Or the one after that? Information like this is a weapon,

and weapons are made to be fired. It's only a matter of time before

some president gives into temptation and uses this, the most

comprehensive blackmail database of all time.

 

By Tedbohne

WHAT WILL WE TELL OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN?

Why aren't we ending the reign of the criminal Bush?

 

By Denis Wright

The Money Pit: Diebold Vs. America

Georgia's Democratic Gubernatorial frontrunner , Cathy Cox was the

Secretary of State who made her state the first to go 100% electronic

voting. She should be ashamed of herself and her relationship with

Diebold.

 

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W Post Slants Poll To Make It Appear Americans Support Domestic Spying

the Washington Post loaded a poll so that it would appear that

Americans support illegal domestic spying.

 

By JGideon

'Daily Voting News' For May 12, 2006

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Rove And Fitzgerald Play Monopoly

 

 

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Some say he is overqualified for this new position but who wants to

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Critical Security Alert: Three-level Security Flaws Found In Diebold

Touch-screens

Several vulnerabilities are described in this report. One of them,

however, seems to enable a malicious person to compromise the

equipment even years before actually using the exploit, possibly

leaving the voting terminal incurably compromised. (Ed. note: Yikes!)

 

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Nation Building, Obama Style

Thursday, speaking to the Emily's List PAC, Illinois Democratic

Senator, Barack Obama, asked whether Democrats are prepared to engage

in nation building.

 

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Moody, senior vice president for FOX News.

 

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Capital knows neither loyalty or nationality. Its sole motivation is

to maximize profits and to concentrate wealth. Capital is responsible

for the class warfare that has utterly destroyed America and taken us

through war after war. The only cure is revolution that takes place in

the streets. Revolution does not occur at the ballot box. We have only

ourselves.

 

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Letter To The Editor

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this issue.

 

By Black Box Voting

Triple Protection For Election 2006

Three actions you can take to protect Election 2006 starting NOW. This

is especially timely with the almost daily revelations of extreme

unreliability and vulnerability of the electronic voting mechanisms.

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Bush Beats Out Nixon: Least Liked President Ever

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A Constitutional Crisis In The Making

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With Friends Like These…

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leadership has decided on a strategy of " finding common ground. " This

strategy could also be called outright capitulation to the theocratic

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They're Listening

 

 

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To Peace Or Not To Peace

We have strong words for war but our language for peace is passive and

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What's Really Going On With Snoop-o-Gate!

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you can imagine. It involves a concatenation of drugs, astro-porn, and

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destruction, that commands the attention of other nations and allows

the U.S. to dominate the international agenda?

 

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California is invoking emergency procedures.

 

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and its power.

 

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Political Humor

 

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right to appeal as part of the agreement.

 

 

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