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		<title>Bill Maher &#8211; Obama Must Be More Like George Bush</title>
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		<title>EMERGENCY &#8211; YouTube DELETING ACCOUNTS Imposing Mass Censorship NOW at the request of US Government (S1959)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA180 &#8211; Emergency Bulletin:
YouTube Makes Sen. Lieberman Happy With New Anti-Terrorism Guidelines
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_YouTube_Makes_Sen_Lieberman_Happy_With_New_Anti_Terrorism_Guidelines_24367.html
___________________
UPDATE:
Who is Senator Joe Lieberman?
Joe Lieberman is a Neo-Con pretending to be a Democrat pretending to be a Republican. 
Its all there in your face &#8211; RIGHT IN HIS VOTING RECORD!
Peace Action West &#8211; Middle East Peace &#8211; desires to get out of Iraq [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rDI4Po4R5tg/2.jpg" align="left">USA180 &#8211; Emergency Bulletin:</p>
<p>YouTube Makes Sen. Lieberman Happy With New Anti-Terrorism Guidelines</p>
<p>http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_YouTube_Makes_Sen_Lieberman_Happy_With_New_Anti_Terrorism_Guidelines_24367.html</p>
<p>___________________<br />
UPDATE:<br />
Who is Senator Joe Lieberman?</p>
<p>Joe Lieberman is a Neo-Con pretending to be a Democrat pretending to be a Republican. </p>
<p>Its all there in your face &#8211; RIGHT IN HIS VOTING RECORD!</p>
<p>Peace Action West &#8211; Middle East Peace &#8211; desires to get out of Iraq -grade of 0</p>
<p>ACLU -grade of 43<br />
Tax Reform &#8211; 5<br />
Taxpayers Union &#8211; F<br />
Gun Owners Of America &#8211; F<br />
USA Engage &#8211; C</p>
<p>&#8220;USA*ENGAGE has lead a campaign to inform policy-makers, opinion-leaders, and the public about the counterproductive nature of unilateral sanctions&#8230;&#8221;<br />
-VoteSmart<br />
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org</p>
<p>does THIS really look like a guy that wants to END THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM? </p>
<p>Protects Civil Rights? &#8211; when convenient<br />
Get rid of the Central Banks &#8211; NO<br />
Get rid of your GUN &#8211; YES<br />
Impose and take unilateral action &#8211; YES<br />
(THIS LEADS TO TERRORISM)</p>
<p>I am going to give my rights to THIS GUY?<br />
Hell no!<br />
________________<br />
UPDATE:</p>
<p>Let me make this PERFECTLY CLEAR.  We have to SAVE GOOGLE!!!   Google protected our information against Viacom who wanted to know who all of us were and EVERYTHING we watched on YT &#8211;  If Google falls right now we are ALL in trouble.  They have DATA ON EVERY PERSON ON THE PLANET.  If Google can be FORCED by the US Government and Joseph Lieberman to restrict our rights under the US Constitution and selectively preempt the First Amendment AGAINST THEIR WILL &#8211; We are ALREADY LOST.</p>
<p>We MUST stop thinking of ourselves as having different issues and different approaches.  We need to UNITE while there is still time to do so. YouTube is ready to FALL.  This is BIGGER than just moving your videos A LOT BIGGER!</p>
<p>What we MUST do is look at the voting records.  ATTACK these people with solid indisputable FACT not conjecture, theory or ociation.  We BETTER do it fast because this thing is speeding up &#8211; make no mistake about it.</p>
<p>Here is where you get that FACT:</p>
<p>WHO VOTED FOR AND AGAINST THE 1ST AMENDMENT IN CONGRESS (6 PEOPLE VOTED FOR IT &#8211; I CAN TELL YOU THAT)?<br />
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2007-993</p>
<p>WHY IS THIS BILL S1959 NOW IN A COMMITTEE BARACK OBAMA IS IN AND NO ONE SAYS A WORD?<br />
http://www.opensecrets.org/cmteprofiles/profiles.php?cmteid=S14&amp;cmte=SGOV&amp;congno=110</p>
<p>WHAT IS LIEBERMAN&#8217;S POSITION ON THE ISSUES?<br />
http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=53278<br />
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=53278</p>
<p>HOW IS LIEBERMAN FUNDED?http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00000616&amp;cycle=2008</p>
<p>IF YOU ARE STILL NOT CONVINCED WE ARE IN CRISIS GO HERE:<br />
http://www.usa180.org</p>
<p>NOW SPEND YOUR TIME AND MONEY DOING SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE IN! &#8211; HELP us wake up the 80-90 percent of the people sleeping:<br />
http://www.usa180.org/playball</p>
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YouTube is being FORCED by the federal government to impose this censorship</p>
<p>Listen up people, they are implementing parts of S1959 &#8211; The Homegrown Terrorism Act &#8211; It HAS NOT PASSED THE SENATE.  The language is the same.  It&#8217;s &#8220;Force or Violence&#8221; to promote a religious, social or political belief.  Under this law if you stop someone on the street and hand them a Bible you can be considered a TERRORIST.  If you advocate action against a corporation or the government you can be considered a TERRORIST.</p>
<p>If we don&#8217;t stop this here at YouTube and raise a HUGE CONCERN right now &#8211; they will pass S1959.  They will rationalize that we will ACCEPT the censorship and go further.  While the request of Senator Lieberman SEEMS reasonable the bill itself has so many holes that you could interpret it MANY different ways.  There are videos on this &#8211; I suggest you watch them or go to http://www.USA180.org and look at our analysis of the bill itself.  We have to act NOW and get this message EVERYWHERE.  Create your own video. ACT!</p>
<p>Quoting article:</p>
<p>&#8220;In May this year, Sen. Joseph Lieberman demanded YouTube to block videos depicting assinations, death of US soldiers, as well as weapon training and speeches that encourage violence and could be used as a tool to create homegrown terrorists.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>U.S. Sudan Talks Senator John Kerry s Visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry will lead a congressional delegation to Sudan&#8217;s Darfur region, and will hold talks with senior members of the Sudanese government.    [John Kerry, U.S. Senator]: &#8220;It&#8217;s a pleasure for me to be in Sudan and I am looking forward to some very [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/THWlsJsiaj4/2.jpg" align="left">As chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry will lead a congressional delegation to Sudan&#8217;s Darfur region, and will hold talks with senior members of the Sudanese government.    [John Kerry, U.S. Senator]: &#8220;It&#8217;s a pleasure for me to be in Sudan and I am looking forward to some very in-depth discussions. There are obviously some very important issues for us to begin to talk about. Now it&#8217;s my opportunity, representing the Congress of the United States Senate to be here to engage on humanitarian issues and obviously issues pertaining to the conflict that has so seriously pulled at the country over these last years. We are all very hopeful that we can make progress on these issues, I think everybody will benefit from that.&#8221;   Washington has had tense relations with the Islamist government of Bashir, who came to power in Africa&#8217;s largest country in a 1989 coup.    The United States imposed economic sanctions on Sudan in 1997 and labeled it a state sponsor of terrorism.   Ties were strained further by the conflict in Darfur, which both Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush have called genocide, a description Sudan&#8217;s government rejects</p>
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		<title>March on Washington Opening Day of Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Can&#8217;t Wait, Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace, Code Pink are marching on Washinton on January 4th to demand George W. Bush be impeached and that the war be stopped.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/g_ReDQSg8PU/2.jpg" align="left">World Can&#8217;t Wait, Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace, Code Pink are marching on Washinton on January 4th to demand George W. Bush be impeached and that the war be stopped.</p>
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		<title>The guy from Boston ranting about congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guy from Boston ranting about stats on the U.S. Congress
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		<title>CONGRESS 2008: George Lilly, R, candidate for District 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Lilly, R, tells Rocky Mountain News readers why he should get their vote for the 1st Congressional District.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6TWamV1RHuA/2.jpg" align="left">George Lilly, R, tells Rocky Mountain News readers why he should get their vote for the 1st Congressional District.</p>
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		<title>Workers Allege ACORN actively campaigned for Senate candidate Claire McCaskill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACORN workers allege that they were instructed to tell people to vote for U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill while registering voters in support of the proposed minimum wage increase.
This video report comes from http://www.pubdef.net, a non-partisan political website based in the City of St. Louis, MO.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/oJ6SrZODbHg/2.jpg" align="left">ACORN workers allege that they were instructed to tell people to vote for U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill while registering voters in support of the proposed minimum wage increase.</p>
<p>This video report comes from http://www.pubdef.net, a non-partisan political website based in the City of St. Louis, MO.</p>
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		<title>Internal CCP Conflicts Made Xinjiang Riots Worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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The cadre said that early on July 5th, head of the Central Political and Legislative Committee Zhou Yongkang [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zj5anpAWSdY/2.jpg" align="left">Boxun.com is an online news and commentary forum that sometimes carries leaks from Chinese political circles. Late last month the site carried a report from an unnamed high-level cadre who retired from the Communist Party&#8217;s 17th National Congress.</p>
<p>The cadre said that early on July 5th, head of the Central Political and Legislative Committee Zhou Yongkang received news of growing unrest in Chinas Xinjiang region. This was many hours before the peaceful protests turned violent that afternoon.</p>
<p>But Zhou is considered to be part of Jiang Zemin&#8217;s Shanghai Gang—one faction of an internal conflict inside the Communist Party that pits Jiang against his successor, Party leader Hu Jintao. So Zhou didn&#8217;t pass the news of the Xinjiang unrest to Hu. And thats why Hu left the country as planned that day to attend the G8 summit in Italy. The cadre says the protests were allowed to get worse in order to embarrass Hu.</p>
<p>&#8220;Maybe it was only a small-scale protest, maybe the march was a peaceful expression of frustration, the cadre writes here. But amidst the power struggle for control of the Communist Party, this was nurtured into a big event, and so many people were killed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Political commentators have weighed into the argument. Respected democracy campaigner Wei Jingsheng says military police stationed outside Urumqi took several hours to respond to the unrest.</p>
<p>[Wei Jingsheng, Democracy Campaigner]:</p>
<p>&#8220;Why was it only four or five hours after the incident started that the military police intervened? Why werent the military police outside the city allowed to enter the city in advance? This shows who is really behind the scenes.</p>
<p>Finally it was Xinjiang Party Secretary Wang Lequan, a man personally promoted by Jiang Zemin, who ordered the armed police force to suppress the protestors. Hundreds of people were killed in the riots over the course of several days.</p>
<p>Hu Jintao was forced to interrupt his overseas trip and hurry back to China on July 8th to personally deal with the situation.</p>
<p>But then on July 13th, another incident: State media unexpectedly published news that police had shot and killed twelve Uighur residents that month. It was a rare admission of police brutality that could only have happened with permission from the top. The cadre says the man responsible for the report was another supporter of Jiang Zemins Shanghai Gang: Li Changchun—the Party&#8217;s propaganda chief. And this report caused Hu Jintao even more embarrassment.</p>
<p>Recently, Hu has been putting pressure on the Shanghai Gang. It comes as the Shanghai Gang is trying to ensure that Jiangs ally, Vice President Xi Jinping, takes over after Hu leaves office, according to a report by Boxun News.</p>
<p>And the Shanghai Gang has faced its own embarrassment with other numerous large-scale outbreaks of unrest across China earlier this year—including the protests in Shishou that brought tens of thousands of angry citizens into the streets. Outbreaks like these call into question the ability of Zhou Yongkang to maintain law and order.</p>
<p>Several of Zhous allies—key members of the Shanghai Gang—are now being investigated for corruption under the direction of Hu Jintao.</p>
<p>It is widely speculated that the next target is Zhou Yongkang himself.</p>
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