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August 16, 2013

When The Country Is Broke

August 13, 2013

Rutherford Institute Offers Assistance to Snowden Family

Posted: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:41 PM EST
Updated: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:41 PM EST
The Rutherford Institute
Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC — The Rutherford Institute has offered its full and complete assistance to attorney Bruce Fein and the Snowden family as they confront the United States government's accusations that Edward Snowden violated the Espionage Act by publicly releasing classified information about the National Security Agency's (NSA) expansive spying powers. Fein, who serves on the Board of Directors for The Rutherford Institute, will accompany Lon Snowden, father of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, to Russia ... Attorney Bruce Fein has had a long career in Washington, serving as a former Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States, an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation, a lecturer at the Brookings Institute and an adjunct professor at George Washington University ...

http://www.nbc29.com/story/23125572/rutherford-institute-offers-assistance-to-snowden-family

August 13, 2013

You're kind of a one trick pony, aren't you?

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023450134#post60

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023437266#post92

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023435563#post84

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023435563#post18

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023432081#post1

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023430062#post14

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023425589#post2

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014559504#post114

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023423946#post39

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023423946#post35

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023422546#post46

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023422546#post45

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023422231#post66

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023386577#post9

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023386350#post1

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023385598#post7

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023370593#post1

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023368645#post97

Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023366786#post12






August 13, 2013

N.C. sued soon after voter ID bill signed into law

By Phil Hirschkorn
CBS News
August 12, 2013, 8:47 PM

... Rosanell Eaton, a 92-year-old black woman from Louisburg, N.C., and registered to vote since the 1940s, is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed Monday in the Middle District of North Carolina by the NAACP and the Advancement Project.

"Mrs. Eaton, who was born at home, has a current North Carolina driver's license, but the name on her certified birth certificate does not match the name on her driver's license or the name on her voter registration card," the lawsuit said. "Mrs. Eaton will incur substantial time and expense to correct her identification documents to match her voter registration record in order to meet the new requirements."

The lawsuit seeks relief under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans voting procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, and under the 14th and 15th amendments of the Constitution. The recent Supreme Court ruling limited reviews under formulas in Sections 4 and 5 of the VRA.

Beyond the ID requirements, the new North Carolina law reduces the number of days for early voting from 17 to 10, even though 61 percent of state voters cast ballots early in 2012. McCrory said the law calls for the total early voting hours to remain the same by asking county board of elections to increase the number of early voting sites and hours open each day ...


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57598224/lawsuits-hit-n.c-as-soon-as-voter-id-bill-signed-into-law/

August 9, 2013

please mr president

August 9, 2013

joe worker (the cradle will rock)

listen
here's a story
not much fun and not much glory
low class
low down
the thing you never care to see until there is a showdown
here it is
i'll make it snappy
are you ready?
everybody happy?

joe worker gets gypped
for no good reason just gypped
from the start until the finish comes
they feed him out of garbage cans
they breed him in the slums

joe worker will go
to shops where stuff is on show
he'll look at the meat
he'll look at the bread
and too little to eat
sort of goes to the head
one big question
inside me cries
how many fakers
peace undertakers
paid strike-breakers
how many toiling ailing dying piled up bodies
brother
does it take
to make you wise? ...


August 9, 2013

talkin about a revolution

don't you know talkin about a revolution sounds
like a whisper ...

while they're standing in the welfare lines
crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
wasting time in the unemployment lines
sitting around waiting for a promotion ...

poor people gonna rise up and get their share
poor people gonna rise up and take what's theirs

don't you know you better run run run...
August 9, 2013

Birmingham Sunday

Come round by my side and I'll sing you a song
I'll sing it so softly it'll do no one wrong
On Birmingham Sunday the blood ran like wine
And the choir kept singing of freedom ...


August 8, 2013

The Ballad Of Springhill

In the town of Spring Hill Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine
There's blood on the coal and miners lie
In the roads that never saw sun nor sky ...

In the town of Spring Hill you don't sleep easy
Often the Earth will tremble and roll
When the Earth is restless, miners die
Bone and blood is the price of coal ...

Eight days passed and some were rescued
Leaving the dead to lie alone
All their lives they dug their graves
Two miles of earth for a marking stone




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