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#StopCISPA Contact your Senators: https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/cispa_passes/ #CISPA

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Anonymous – Message to the American People

RT @occupycali: Contact these people and tell them what you think about declaring war on Americans. Via: OSF  #NDAA  #Occupy #US #ows

Write or Call the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call#call

“If Obama does one thing for the remainder of his presidency let it be a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act – a law recently passed by the Senate currently which would place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military and which would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists.

So much for innocent until proven guilty. So much for limited government. What Americans are now facing is quite literally the end of the line. We will either uphold the freedoms baked into our Constitutional Republic, or we will scrap the entire project in the name of security as we wage, endlessly, this futile, costly, and ultimately self-defeating War on Terror.”~Read More: Forbes

The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US

Stock holdings in various corporations by members of Congress #charts #graphs

thedailyfeed:

A loophole makes it legal for members of Congress to get rich using nonpublic information to make lucrative stock trades, but a new bill wants to change that

“It should be illegal for them to trade off of this kind of information,” Alan Ziobrowski, an associate professor of business at Georgia State University, told The Daily. “There’s no reason that Congress should be able to do what corporate executives can’t.”

 Ziobrowski has analyzed tens of thousands of stock transactions made by lawmakers. Using data from the 1990s, he found that senators beat the market by 12 percent with their investments. More recent data show members of the House exceeding the market by 6 percent.

“The people who make consistently high returns in the market tend to be the ones who know something the rest of us don’t,” Ziobrowski said. 

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