"As nightfall does not come all at once," he wrote, "neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

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"What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 - 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington." -John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 24, 1815

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"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds". - - Samuel Adams

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"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
http://october2011.org/welcome

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UK: Antiwar Mass Assembly 8 October 2011: Trafalgar Square · Not signed the pledge to be there yet? Sign it now...
http://www.antiwarassembly.org/index.php/timetable

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Pakistan today is the only Muslim country with nuclear weapons. And under the pretext of fighting terrorists, this arsenal could be destroyed. The Pentagon has already developed several options for such a development. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29277.htm

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The law on the use of lethal force by executive order is specific. This assassination broke it - that creates a terrifying precedent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29275.htm

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The recent dramatic expansion of intelligence collection at the federal, state and local level raises profound civil liberties concerns regarding freedoms and protections we have long taken for granted.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29280.htm

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"There must be consequences for Palestinian and UN actions that undermine any hope for true and lasting peace," Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on September 23.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29276.htm

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Who are these people who give tea a bad name and show up at presidential debates only to behave as if they are enjoying a bear baiting exhibition?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29279.htm

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The contrasting performance between Latin republics and Euro-American empire builders is striking. The US and EU should shed their self-centered images of "successful" developed countries and outdated stereotype of Latin America as a collection of "volatile", coup prone underdeveloped countries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29281.htm

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Hundreds held by NYPD - including New York Times journalist - after attempted march across bridge ends in chaos.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29278.htm

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"Class" is used with impunity and approval only when it has that magic neutralizing adjective "middle" attached to it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29278.htm

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Will work for food will die for oil
Will kill for power and to us the spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
The working poor get to fall through the crack.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29282.htm

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Thirty-seven militants were killed in fighting with the security forces in different parts of Afghanistan, Xinhua reported Sunday.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-79720.html

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Four other ANA soldiers were wounded in the incident, Rohullah Samoon, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said.
http://tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/4075-nine-afghan-troops-killed-in-roadside-bomb-blast

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Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets of Kabul on Sunday to condemn recent shelling of border towns by Pakistan's army and accusing its powerful spy agency of involvement in the assassination of the country's ex-President Burhanuddin Rabbani.
http://cour.at/pNv3gz

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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Pakistan:
Former Afghan president Rabbani killed by Pakistani -president's office:

The office of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday that former president Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed by a Pakistani.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/10/2011102152428178377.html

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In a stern warning to Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a statement saying, "You can't keep a wild animal in your backyard and expect it to go only after your neighbour."
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/oct/021011-Hillary-Clinton-warns-Pakistan.htm

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A total of 31 soldiers were mistakenly killed Sunday when warplanes of the Yemeni air force carried out two botched air strikes against al-Qaida targets in the restive southern province of Abyan, a local army officer said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-10/02/c_131172404.htm

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Five law-enforcement members were killed and eight others were wounded in a drive-by shooting by gunmen in al-Ghab area near central Hama province, according to the official SANA news agency.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-10/02/c_131172452.htm

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Gunmen Kill 4 Citizens in al-Qadam Neighborhood in Damascus(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Members of an armed terrorist group killed on Saturday four citizens in al-Qadam neighborhood in the capital Damascus in an attempt to terrorize the inhabitants.
http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=269085

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In a blow to dissidents, Syrian forces loyal to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad regained control of the central town of Rastan after military defectors and insurgents took over the city weeks ago.
http://bit.ly/mZxPkn

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THE semblance of a civil war has begun in Homs, Syria's third-largest city, where armed protesters now call themselves revolutionaries, gun battles at times erupt every few hours, security forces and opponents carry out assassinations and rifles costing as much as $A2000 apiece flood the city from abroad.
http://www.watoday.com.au/world/civil-war-erupts-in-syrian-city-20111002-1l3ry.html

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Dissidents meeting in Turkey announce creation of council aimed at toppling President Bashar al-Assad.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/10/20111021304356990.html

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Hugo Chavez stressed on Sunday that Syria is being exposed to a foreign conspiracy led by the US and some EU countries.
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/10/02/372997.htm

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Two roadside bombs in a former Al-Qaeda stronghold north of Baghdad on Sunday killed six people, including four anti-Qaeda militiamen, a police officer and a doctor said.
http://www.brecorder.com/world/middle-east/30201-twin-blasts-north-of-baghdad-kill-six-.html

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Iraqis to Stage Demonstrations Against Continued Occupation(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A senior member of the Shiite Sadr Movement announced on Saturday that the Iraqi people are due to hold massive demonstrations in different cities of the war-torn country tomorrow to voice their strong protest at the continued occupation of their homeland by the US forces.
http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=269137

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Muslims should get united against Zionists(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Zionist regime is enemy of all Muslims and they should get united against it, Former Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said on Saturday.
http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=269084

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Fighters for Libya's new rulers have been forced to regroup on the edge of Sirte, after pro-Muammar Qadhafi snipers halted a two-week old assault on the ousted despot's hometown.
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/a8dc589e-1715-4010-a8e9-8cca2735bbd6.aspx

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People wounded indefending Libya's besieged city of Sirte are dying on the operating table because fuel for the hospital generator has run out, medical workers fleeing a worsening humanitarian crisis in the city said on Sunday.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/02/169819.html

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"The revolutionaries camping at the frontline of Sirte have given residents two-days to leave the city... this will allow for a large number of civilians to evacuate Sirte," TNC leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said
http://en.ria.ru/world/20111002/167308776.html

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The BBC's Jonathan Head reports on the streams of civilians that are fleeing the besieged Libyan city of Sirte, ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15144220

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Human Rights Watch called on Libya's new rulers to stop armed groups from rounding up suspected Moammar Gadhafi supporters and abusing them, saying Friday that some detainees reporting beatings and electric shocks had the scars to prove it.
http://bo.st/nM9RJo

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Tensions are rising in Tripoli as increasingly frustrated residents call on hundreds of armed Libyan fighters who stayed in the city after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi to leave.
http://bit.ly/pDf4XJ

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U.S. officials have met members of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt's biggest Islamist group whose role has grown since U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
http://news.yahoo.com/u-met-egypt-islamists-u-diplomat-094907978.html

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Representatives of American Jewry Tuesday handed Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein a petition signed by over 100,000 American Jews, calling on the U.S. to veto a Palestinian Authority (PA) request for UN recognition as a state.
http://articles.boston.com/2011-09-30/news/30230147_1_prisoner-abuse-detainees-national-transitional-council

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By effectively freezing $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority, Congress members are surpasssing the efforts of hard-line Israeli politicians.
http://bit.ly/rcwWJa

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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Jamil Mizher said Friday the "deception and stalling" of Hamas and Fatah to reconcile was no longer acceptable.
http://palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=77a5b7f6cb6a819901edeb45f5d5a8d6&mode=details

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A Palestinian Authority ministry and national research institute released a joint study Thursday which estimates that the Israeli occupation cost the Palestinian economy around $7 billion in 2010.
http://palestinechronicle.com/news.php?id=9ea2e38c6059d0f24aae304b6e435162&mode=details

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They are not allowed to use electricity or operate machinery on the Sabbath
http://bit.ly/o0oE6F

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Can a municipality force you to put your lawn mower away because it's a religious holiday? That's what the town of Hampstead (MontreaLl is trying to do with a no-noise by-law that says you can't use a lawn mower during Rosh Hashanah, today and tomorrow, and Yom Kippur, October 8th
http://baltimorejewishlife.com/news/news-detail.php?SECTION_ID=3&ARTICLE_ID=9666

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The State Department issued a worldwide travel alert on Saturday warning of the possibility of attacks in response to the murder of two US citizens by the CIA.
http://reut.rs/qon2Yc

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Cheney, Harman Defend Murder Of US Citizens in Yemen: -

The U.S. was justified in sending a drone aircraft into Yemen to kill U.S.-born Anwar al-Awlaki, an alledged al-Qaeda recruiter and propagandist, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic ex-Representative Jane Harman said.
http://buswk.co/ngBsrE

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"It may require our military in Mexico working in concert with them to kill these drug cartels and to keep them off of our border and to destroy their networks. I don't know all the scenarios that are out there but I think it is very important that we work with them, to keep that country from failing."
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/rick-perry-says-drug-war-may-require-our-military-in-mexico/

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Canada's dollar depreciated by the most since October 2008 as concern the global economy is sinking back into recession spurred a haven rally in the U.S. currency and dimmed the outlook for commodity prices.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-01/canada-dollar-drop-is-largest-in-almost-three-years-on-economy.html

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Since the beginning of the global financial crisis in 2008, developing and developed countries lost 20 million jobs. By the end of next year additional 20 million jobs could be lost.
http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/29-09-2011/119184-unemployment-0/

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Enormous anti-austerity rallies shake crisis-stricken Portugal, with organizers estimating an attendance of at least 130,000 in Lisbon and 50,000 in Porto.
http://roarmag.org/2011/10/100000-rally-against-austerity-in-portugal-in-pictures/

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Hundreds held by NYPD - including New York Times journalist - after attempted march across bridge ends in chaos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/02/occupy-wall-street-protesters-brooklyn-bridge

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Police have arrested two dozen protesters for trespassing during a demonstration against Bank of America's foreclosure practices at the banking giant's offices in downtown Boston.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2044107/Dozens-arrested-foreclosure-protesters-target-Bank-America.html

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Roseanne Barr shares her solution for dealing with the rich and how the banks could repay the money the U.S. government bailed them out with in 2008.
http://bit.ly/p8G37u

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US media blackout of protest is shameful: China Daily: :

One of the best-kept secrets in the United States over the past two weeks seems to be the protest on and near Wall Street in New York.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-09/30/content_13823311.htm

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Keith and Matt Taibbi discuss how the current Occupy Wall Street protest could sprout a much larger movement for reform. Taibbi also compares the media coverage of this protest to the coverage of the tea party.
http://bit.ly/qkHGyk

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"Right now, and a lot of people don't know this, you have six financial institutions, the largest six banks in the country, who control sixty percent of the assets of the United States of America. After we bail them out, because they were too big to fail, three out of the four largest financial institutions actually became bigger."
http://dailybail.com/home/bernie-sanders-with-keith-olbermann-wall-street-protests-are.html

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In a letter to Associate U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perrelli and Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, Harris said the agreement would allow "too few...homeowners to stay in their homes" and shield banks from further investigations.
http://bit.ly/oPXEbT

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 Demonstrators show their intentions by setting up makeshift camps, pharmacies... and even a library
http://bit.ly/qPyvW2

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Bankers: Home prices are unlikely to recover before 2020 and mortgage defaults will persist for years, says a survey of bank risk managers out Friday.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44735283

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Tom Feeley