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XUL/Migemo :: Firefox Add-ons

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Pew Research Center Reports on Election '08

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FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: today's polls

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The Way We Live Now - Redemption Politics - When Democrats Court Evangelicals - NYTimes.com

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- Consider the Declaration of Independence. It is not normally seen as an evangelical statement, despite the heroic attempts of the Christian right to claim it as such. God is mentioned four times, but obliquely, and never by name. Even so, the argument against kings derived much of its power from the vigor of Christian thought.
- John Adams, who helped edit the declaration, attributed the text to God as well as to Thomas Jefferson and expressed his wish that future Americans would celebrate the great day “by solemn acts of devotion” (along with bonfires, gunfire, the clanging of bells and other raffish pursuits of happiness).
- For most of American history, evangelicals were Democrats or their equivalents, profoundly uncomfortable near the temple of the moneychangers.
- Jefferson attracted huge numbers of voters simply because his running mate, Aaron Burr, was the grandson of the great evangelist Jonathan Edwards. In the 1920s, William Jennings Bryan was lampooned by H. L. Mencken as an ignoramus catching flies in a sweaty courthouse during the Scopes trial, but that snide dismissal overlooked Bryan’s long career as an advocate for progressive causes. F.D.R. consistently enjoyed the support of both traditional evangelicals and neo-Calvinists like Reinhold Niebuhr (enjoying new life as the writer intellectuals most like to quote without reading, after Tocqueville).
- Now and then he speaks in the ancient accents, promising to create “a kingdom right here on earth” or arguing that “our individual salvation depends on our collective salvation.” Those phrases slip by, generally unnoticed by his partisans (who are evangelical in their own way).
- Not only do they connect us to the richness of a deep American past; they might even point to the better future we’ve been waiting for since, well, forever.
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Overcoming Bias: Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People

# Prior attitude effect. Subjects who feel strongly about an issue - even when encouraged to be objective - will evaluate supportive arguments more favorably than contrary arguments.
# Disconfirmation bias. Subjects will spend more time and cognitive resources denigrating contrary arguments than supportive arguments.
# Confirmation bias. Subjects free to choose their information sources will seek out supportive rather than contrary sources.
# Attitude polarization. Exposing subjects to an apparently balanced set of pro and con arguments will exaggerate their initial polarization.
# Attitude strength effect. Subjects voicing stronger attitudes will be more prone to the above biases.
# Sophistication effect. Politically knowledgeable subjects, because they possess greater ammunition with which to counter-argue incongruent facts and arguments, will be more prone to the above biases.

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A Picture Worth A Thousand Words - Print This Story News Story - WCVB Boston

A Picture Worth A Thousand Words
Newspaper Criticized For Publishing Photo
Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist

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Rad Geek People’s Daily – Politics

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those of us who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation are men who want the crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. … This struggle may be a moral one or a physical one, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. —Frederick Douglass, abolitionist and feminist

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Z Communications

Z Magazine is a radical print and online periodical dedicated to resisting injustice, eliminating repression, and creating liberty. It addresses international relations, ecology, economics, gender, race, culture, politics, etc. 2007 is ZMag's twentieth anniversary year in print and it now also appears online for Z Sustainers.

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The Long Night by Charley Reese

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- In our time, when people are saying we must sacrifice liberty for security, that scrapping the Constitution is necessary to win the "war" against terrorism, I would suggest that you take your choice of genocides in the past 100 years and remind yourself what happens when people buy into the false proposition that the end justifies the means. People who preach that are always more interested in the means than in any end.
- The only safe environment for a human being is under a weak government with very restricted powers. Normal people don't need much to be happy – food, shelter, dignity and freedom from marauders. They need a rule of law that applies to everyone equally and at all times and in all circumstances.
- There are people living among us at this very moment capable of the cruelty so evident in the Holocaust. All they are waiting for is the opportunity. No greater opportunity exists than when a government enlists such people and says whatever you do is now justified for the sake of the "greater good."
- A government that can without trial destroy you by simply putting on a list your name or the name of an organization with which you are associated is a tyranny. A government that invades other countries and that feels free to murder people in any country it chooses is a tyranny.
- Americans are on the edge of a long night. We had better wake up and step back before it's too late.
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PROPOSING THE DISSOLUTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IF CERTAIN CONDITIONS OCCUR

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring

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- when or if the President of the United States, the Congress of the United
  States or any other federal agent or agency declares the Constitution of the United
  States to be suspended or abolished, if the President or any other federal entity
  attempts to institute martial law or its equivalent without an official declaration in
  one or more of the states without the consent of that state or if any federal order
  attempts to make it unlawful for individual Americans to own firearms or to confiscate
  firearms, the State of Arizona, when joined by thirty-four of the other fifty states,
  declares as follows: that the states resume all state powers delegated by the
  Constitution of the United States and assume total sovereignty; that the states re-ratify
  and re-establish the present Constitution of the United States as the charter for the
  formation of a new federal government, to be followed by the election of a new Congress
  and President and the reorganization of a new judiciary, similarly following the
  precedent and procedures of the founding fathers; that individual members of the military
  return to their respective states and report to the Governor until a new President is
  elected;
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The Evangelical Manifesto

An Evangelical Manifesto is an open declaration of who Evangelicals are and what they stand for. It has been drafted and published by a representative group of Evangelical leaders who do not claim to speak for all Evangelicals, but who invite all other Evangelicals to stand with them and help clarify what Evangelical means in light of “confusions within and the consternation without” the movement.

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THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TORTURE MEMO SCANDAL

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5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed

A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects.

Oh, we're not talking about the occasional psychopath who turns up. No, we're talking about you.

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"American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America" Amy Goodman interviews Chris Hedges

A new book by Chris Hedges called "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America" investigates the highly organized and well-funded "dominionist movement." The book investigates their agenda, examines the movement's origins and motivations and uncovers its ideological underpinnings. "American Fascists" argues that dominionism seeks absolute power in a Christian state. According to Hedges, the movement bears a strong resemblance to the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and '30s.

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Salon.com | Wright's theology not "new or radical"

Black religion expert Jonathan Walton on black liberation theology's roots in slavery, MLK Jr.'s "God damn America moment" and what Jeremiah Wright has in common with Gennifer Flowers.

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- Luke 4:18 -- "Preach the Gospel to the poor, heal the brokenhearted, set the captives free, offer sight to the blind and liberate those who are oppressed" is one verse that is central to the black theology of liberation. Another one is Matthew 25:40 -- "As you have done unto the least of these, you have done it unto me."
- white supremacy is akin to what the New Testament refers to as "principalities and powers."
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Deseret News | 9/11 theorist not curtailing his research

some other group, in addition to al-Qaida, likely contributed to the collapses

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Fascism watch

"All effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand."
Adolf Hitler

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The Christian Right and the Rise of American Fascism by Chris Hedges

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- Christian fundamentalists now
  hold a majority of seats in 36 percent of all Republican Party
  state committees, or 18 of 50 states, along with large minorities
  in 81 percent of the rest of the states. Forty-five Senators and
  186 members of the House of Representatives earned between an
  80 to100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential
  Christian Right advocacy groups - The Christian Coalition, Eagle
  Forum, and Family Resource Council.
- Bush may turn out to be a transition figure,
  our version of Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck used "values"
  to energize his base at the end of the 19 th century and launched
  "Kulturkampt", the word from which we get "culture
  wars," against Catholics and Jews. Bismarck 's attacks split
  the country, made the discrediting of whole segments of the society
  an acceptable part of the civil discourse and paved the way for
  the more virulent racism of the Nazis. This, I suspect, will be
  George Bush's contribution to our democracy.
- The Reconstructionist movement, founded
  in 1973
- 1,600 page three-volume work, Institutes of Biblical
  Law
- an ideology that advocated
  violence to create the Christian state
- The world
  was to be subdued and ruled by a Christian United States.
- Promise Keepers
- These leaders believe that God has selected them
  to battle the forces of evil, embodied in "secular humanism,"
  to create a Christian nation.
- One of the most enlightening books that
  exposes the ultimate goals of movement is America's Providential
  History
- The book denounces
  income tax as "idolatry," property tax as "theft"
  and calls for an abolish of inheritance taxes in the chapter entitled
  Christian Economics. The loss of such tax revenues will bring
  about the withering away of the federal government and the empowerment
  of the authoritarian church
- Dominionists have to operate, for now,
  in the contaminated environment of the secular, liberal state.
  They have learned, therefore, to speak in code. The code they
  use is the key to understanding the dichotomy of the movement,
  one that has a public and a private face. In this they are no
  different from the vanguard, as described by Lenin, or the Islamic
  terrorists who shave off their beards, adopt western dress and
  watch pay-for-view pornographic movies in their hotel rooms the
  night before hijacking a plane for a suicide attack.
- The Christian Right finds its ideological
  justification in a narrow segment of the Gospel, in particular
  the letters of the Apostle Paul, especially the story of Paul's
  conversion on the road to Damascus in the Book of Acts. It draws
  heavily from the book of Revelations and the Gospel of John. These
  books share an apocalyptic theology. The Book of Revelations is
  the only time in the Gospels where Jesus sanctions violence, offering
  up a vision of Christ as the head of a great and murderous army
  of heavenly avengers.
- These books rarely speak about Christ's
  message of love, forgiveness and compassion. They focus on the
  doom and destruction that will befall unbelievers and the urgent
  need for personal salvation. The world is divided between good
  and evil, between those who act as agents of God and those who
  act as agents of Satan. The Jesus of the other three Gospels,
  the Jesus who turned the other cheek and embraced his enemies,
  an idea that was radical and startling in the ancient Roman world,
  is purged in the narrative selected by the Christian Right.
- The cult of masculinity pervades the ideology.
- This image of Christ as warrior is appealing
  to many within the movement. The loss of manufacturing jobs, lack
  of affordable health care, negligible opportunities for education
  and poor job security has left many millions of Americans locked
  out. This ideology is attractive because it offers them the hope
  of power and revenge. It sanctifies their rage. It stokes the
  paranoia about the outside world maintained through bizarre conspiracy
  theories, many on display in Pat Robertson's book The New World
  Order .
- Only by reintegrating the working
  class into society through job creation, access to good education
  and health care can the Christian Right be effectively blunted.
- "Any teaching of peace prior to [Christ's]
  return is heresy."
- the 9 th chapter of the Book of Revelations where four angels
  "which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released
  to slay the third part of men." The march towards global
  war, even nuclear war, is not to be feared but welcomed as the
  harbinger of the Second Coming. And leading the avenging armies
  is an angry, violent Messiah who dooms millions of non-believers
  to a horrible and painful death.
- The movement seeks the imprint of law
  and science. It must discredit the rational disciplines that are
  the pillars of the Enlightenment to abolish the liberal polity
  of the Enlightenment. This corruption of science and law is vital
  in promoting the doctrine.
- Facts become interchangeable with opinions. An understanding of
  reality is not to be based on the elaborate gathering of facts
  and evidence. The ideology alone is true.
- "What convinces masses are not facts,"
  Hannah Arendt wrote in Origins of Totalitarianism, "and
  not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system
  which they are presumably part. Repetition, somewhat overrated
  in importance because of the common belief in the "masses"
  inferior capacity to grasp and remember, is important because
  it convinces them of consistency in time."
- watch closely what the
  Christian Right did to homosexuals. He has seen how the Nazis
  had used "values" to launch state repression of opponents.
- The attacks on homosexuals handed to the foot soldiers
  of the Christian Right an easy target. It gave them a taste of
  victory. It made them feel empowered.
- All debates with the Christian Right are
  useless. We cannot reach this movement. It does not want a dialogue.
  It cares nothing for rational thought and discussion. It is not
  mollified because John Kerry prays or Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday
  School. These naive attempts to reach out to a movement bent on
  our destruction, to prove to them that we too have "values,"
  would be humorous if the stakes were not so deadly. They hate
  us. They hate the liberal, enlightened world formed by the Constitution.
  Our opinions do not count.
- The spark that could set it ablaze may
  be lying in the hands of an Islamic terrorist cell, in the hands
  of the ideological twins of the Christian Right. Another catastrophic
  terrorist attack could be our Reichstag fire, the excuse used
  to begin the accelerated dismantling of our open society. The
  ideology of the Christian Right is not one of love and compassion,
  the central theme of Christ's message, but of violence and hatred.
  It has a strong appeal to many in our society, but it is also
  aided by our complacency.
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American Police State

Bush's Conspiracy to Create an American Police State

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Chycho.com - Analysis and discussion about the world we live in.

Taxi to the Dark Side (1:06:00)
“An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.”

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