U.S.military to patrol Internet

WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) — The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web.
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Dodd And Feingold Will Filibuster Telecom Immunity

Two Senators willing to stand for the Bill of Rights, surely there are more. Please call yours.
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Food Shortages, Prices Hit California Food Banks as Schools

Turning dozens of hungry children away from a free meals program wasn’t how Vince Harper wanted to start the summer. Some food banks say they are having trouble meeting demand because of a 59 percent drop in goods provided by the federal government.
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Obama Has Edge on Key Election Issues

Americans see Barack Obama as better able than John McCain to handle energy issues and the economy, the two most important election issues in the public’s eyes, according to a recent Gallup survey.
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Joel Angeles on leave since Romney - Strickland fundraiser brawl

In what appears more show than punishment, Audra Strickland put her chief of staff, Joel Angeles, on a one month unpaid leave of absence.  See Ventura County Star.
Readers will remember that Joel Angeles was described as shoving anti-tobacco donation protestors that were located on the sidewalk in front of the Hyatt in Westlake Village.  The [...]

General Accuses White House of War Crimes

The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability. And, as Seymour M. Hersh reported in the New Yorker, he was rewarded for his honesty by being forced into retirement.
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The Bush Payoff for Big Oil: Huge No-Bid Contracts in Iraq

Four Western oil companies are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service the country’s largest fields, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.
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Monday Late Nite - Fear of a Unionized Planet

Monday Late Nite - Fear of a Unionized Planet
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Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income?

Yet he worries about being “overgenerous” to our troops. He just built a new lake to fish on one of his many properties.
McCain campaign strategist Mark Salter said Monday night that McCain was technically disabled. “Tortured for his country — that is how he acquired his disability,” Salter said.
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The Daily Green News Feed

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Ralph Nader Talks about U.S. Corporate Fascism

Ralph Nader continued his tour of the West Coast recently in Oakland, CA. Nader declared that the United States is running under a corporate fascist economic system. “We’re living in a country whose democracy is beyond the breaking point. The extent of corporate control has developed into corporate fascism,”Nader said.
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56% Americans say immigrants work harder at low-paying jobs

With immigration reform less of an issue with gas prices and economic troubles on people’s minds, a study released by Pew Research Center says that Blacks, Whites and Hispanics believe immigrants work harder than Whites and Blacks. Since 1986 less Whites believe immigrants work harder than Blacks, only 55%, while more Blacks, 64%, think it’s [...]