Reform FISA vote tonight. Show support for Sen. Progressives

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Tuesday November 18, 2014 · 10:57 AM PST

2014/11/18 · 10:57

I just received an email from Sen. Hirono on reforming FISA. "Today, the Senate will vote to stop the National Security Agency from collecting the phone records of millions of Americans."
As Progressives we need to show our support when our Progressive Senators actually try and pass legislation we agree with and ardently desire. Please sign the petition to pass the USA Freedom Act:
http://www.reformfisa.com

Reform FISA
The time is here. Tuesday evening, the full Senate will vote on whether to proceed to vote on the USA FREEDOM Act.

I signed it. If anything it is a start in reclaiming lost civil liberties.

This bill represents what the New York Times referred to as "a breakthrough in the struggle against the growth of government surveillance power." If passed, it will:

•End the overly broad data collection program by the NSA;

•Increase transparency of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court decision-making;

•Reform the FISA Court by appointing a special panel of civil liberties and privacy advocates to the court;

•Protect Americans' communications collected under FISA;

•Allow companies to disclose information regarding FISA requests, and;

•Impose new and stricter sunsets on surveillance authorities.

It’s absolutely crucial that we pass this bill now, before the next Congress convenes. Will you call on the Senate to pass this bill?

Signed by:

Sen. Martin Heinrich
Sen. Mazie Hirono (HI)
Sen. Patrick Leahy (VT)
Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY)
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)

It is time to End the military aid to Israel

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Thursday July 24, 2014 · 1:48 PM PDT

2014/07/24 · 13:48

Each year the US gives Israel $3.1 Billion in military assistance. There are 2 money streams: $800 million of this $3.1 billion enables Israel to buy arms from its own manufacturing within its borders. The balance of $2.3 billion military aid is for Israel to buy American made arms here in the USA. Got that? You and I are not only subsidizing the atrocities in Gaza, but we are enriching the Military-Industrial Complex here at home. What a sweet deal.
Israel keeps electing right wing governments due their extremist religious groups. And I have no doubt there are liberal citizens within Israel who are ashamed of what their government is doing--we here in the US felt the same when we invaded and occupied Iraq. But it is time to do more than express 'concern' about the slaughter happening in Gaza that we are underwriting. We need to call our Senators and Representatives and demand our military aid to Israel be suspended. I would request that this $3.1 billion be re-directed to the rebuilding of Gaza.
The numbers come from David Corn: How America Finances the Destruction in Gaza—and the Cleanup.
http://www.motherjones.com/...

Chief Petty Officer forced to listen to Rush onboard ship

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Monday March 12, 2012 · 1:36 PM PDT

2012/03/12 · 13:36

Just off the phone to Senator Dan Inouye's (HI) office and was told a previous caller had also requested rush be taken off the air of the AFN. The previous caller is mother to a Chief Petty Officer onboard a ship where rush is broadcast each morning thru the PA system. The CPO is female and is forced to listen to his crap. Do this Chief a favor and help remove rush from the air. No doubt there are thousand like her whose ears and brains are tortured each morning, who unlike us, cannot change the station. Sign the petition to take rush off the air of the Armed Forces Network. We only have until April 3 to reach 25,000 signature. We need less than 4000 signatures.

By signing the petition you will be exercising your 1st amendment right to petition the government. It forces the White House to address the issue publicly on whether rush should or should not be a voice our Armed Forces members hear each morning.
Sen Inouye is Chairman of the Defense Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee. I know the woman i talked to in his office was sympathetic to my request to remove rush.

Participate in Democracy: sign the petition after a few easy steps:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/...

Read the 14th Amendment to the American People, President Obama

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Thursday July 21, 2011 · 2:34 PM PDT

2011/07/21 · 14:34

You proved you tried to negotiate with the GOP. We see it. Now act like the leader we want you to be. Do a prime time news conference. Read the 14th Amendment. Explain that the Constitution forbids not paying the bills. People will understand that. Explain that you tried to reach an agreement, that you compromised perhaps too much and that the other side still would not budge from a position that would end in economic disaster. You have no choice. Eliminate the debt ceiling by executive order. If the GOP wants to object and run to the Supreme Court, let them. Section 4 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:

Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was passed by Congress on June 13, 1866 during Reconstruction, thus the references to the Civil War.

The majority of Americans will be thankful the economic crisis is averted. The rabid reactionaries will foam at the mouth and continue to act crazy. It is time to fight back President Obama. Make us proud.

Executive Orders from Wikipedia:

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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 2:15 PM PDT

2010/11/03 · 14:15

It was a great night to be a Democrat in Hawaii last night. The cheers and high-fives at Neil Abercrombie Headquarters on Ala Moana Blvd nearly brought tears to my eyes when the first print out was announced. Eight years of Republican ruin was over. Both of our Congresspersons, Mazie Hirono and Colleen Hanabusa, held insurmountable leads despite a huge influx of mainland rovian republican money.

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Saturday October 13, 2007 · 12:47 PM PDT

2007/10/13 · 12:47

The economy is booming. For the top 1%. This is the same top 1% bush calls his "base". Yes the same top 1% that owns most of the the military-industrial complex, big oil, the traditional media that sold the americans the occupation of iraq and the ones that received 50% of the tax cut when bush stormed the white house in 2001. the same top 1% continues to blossom per our own IRS via Reuters and Yahoo news yesterday:

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Wednesday May 09, 2007 · 8:51 PM PDT

2007/05/09 · 20:51

Tuesday a majority of the Iraqi parliment signed a petition calling for the United States to end the occupation of their country. It was non-binding, but it has the power to force the speaker to bring up a binding resolution. 144 called for the US to set up a timetable for withdrawal.
You can read the details in an Alternet news article at

http://www.alternet.org/...
titled "Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation".
By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland

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Wednesday March 28, 2007 · 12:17 AM PDT

2007/03/28 · 00:17

American conservatism has opened the door and let the Texas crime syndicate take over the executive branch of government. American conservatism has also let the foxes of multi-national corporations run the hen house of regulatory agencies designed to protect American citizens. I recently remarked to a friend that we now have a form of American fascism.

Fascism: a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

But on further thought I decided we don’t have fascism in America yet, notwithstanding bush’s early dreams of being a dictator. In fascism, the dictator controls the corporations. But in America, the corporations control our government and so we have fascism’s cousin, oligarchy: government by the rich and for the rich. Quoting from Who Rules America, by sociologist G. William Domhoff:

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