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Now we are all part of a global awakening that is occurring as we breathe - a new dawn.&amp;nbsp; It will not occur in the blink of an eye, but like the rising of the sun, it is a gradual light that will eventually overcome the vast darkness that plagues our beautiful planet.&amp;nbsp; We cannot be afraid of what we see when the true nature of life presents itself to us.&amp;nbsp; Like those living in Plato's cave, we are unaware of the truth.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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Each one of us has changed throughout the course of our lives.&amp;nbsp; We started as babies and developed into the body, mind, and spirit that exists now.&amp;nbsp; The one thing that has not changed, well, for most of us, is our name.&amp;nbsp; The name is the first form of control.&amp;nbsp; It is the root of the ego.&amp;nbsp; It inhibits our spiritual growth and development, harboring the godliness that lives within.&amp;nbsp; It is our first possession - the root of greed.&amp;nbsp; My name is me.&amp;nbsp; My name is mine.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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We become attached to our vision of who we our which begins as a seed, through the name.&amp;nbsp; The ego develops as we become praised and scolded.&amp;nbsp; Each of us is taught a certain set of information, a moral code, a goal standard, a way of being, and if we go against that, we are taught to feel shame and guilt.&lt;br /&gt;
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Language is another way in which human beings are controlled.&amp;nbsp; Throughout human development, language is provided as a set of rules and formulas, all as the human spirit longs to be free.&amp;nbsp; Our minds are restricted by the words that we know.&amp;nbsp; Words are merely a set of symbols linked together by a set of formulas.&amp;nbsp; Our name is a word that at first has no meaning.&amp;nbsp; Our ego is our self contrived definition of the first word we were ever given.&lt;br /&gt;
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As we progress, words begin to be linked together to form sentences, initially to describe emotions or senses perceived by the physical body.&amp;nbsp; Through development, sentences start to represent the happenings within the mind. The better we use words and sentences, the more we are praised and told that we are smart, and vice versa.&amp;nbsp; The ego develops accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
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Eventually, through a long series of conditioning we becomes me - a being made up of physical and mental material.&lt;br /&gt;
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But we the people are more than mind and body.&amp;nbsp; We are also made up of spirit.&amp;nbsp; Whether you are a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew, a Buddhist, or even an atheist, you have a spirit in search of something.&amp;nbsp; A thriving spirit that longs for freedom, for progress, for change.&amp;nbsp; We all pick our vices and battles to calm and quench this thirst.&amp;nbsp; We choose our distractions.&amp;nbsp; We allow our attention to be taken.&amp;nbsp; We give away our minds at time, and at other times sell it to the highest bidder.&amp;nbsp; Other times, we do the same with our bodies.&lt;br /&gt;
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It's sad how we have progressed as a species.&amp;nbsp; We started as a being only capable of love and fear.&amp;nbsp; We have developed a whole host of emotions related to the first two.&amp;nbsp; More often than not, fear is suppressed love.&amp;nbsp; As a child, we would run and feel the joy just in the action of it.&amp;nbsp; Eventually we ran off from our parents and were scolded to some degree.&amp;nbsp; This taught us to fear something that once brought us joy - that made us feel love.&amp;nbsp; Our spirit has been continually suppressed by similarly induced fears.&amp;nbsp; So the reality is, maybe we are all, by nature, only made up of love.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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Now, many of us cannot separate from the ego.&amp;nbsp; We will engage in minor conflict to protect our ego.&amp;nbsp; We will turn to hate and hostility as a result of our ego.&amp;nbsp; We are our ego, and the series of implanted rules, values, possessions that it holds dear, all of which are merely products of a lifelong series of conditioning.&lt;br /&gt;
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We have to move past the ego and back to the natural self, one of pure love.&amp;nbsp; We cannot allow ourselves to be drawn into hate and conflict.&amp;nbsp; We cannot give up on who we are.&lt;br /&gt;
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Some of us will read this, and although they agree with it, they will dismiss it as utopian thinking that is impractical or impossible in modern times.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I do the same thing all the time.&amp;nbsp; I am a hypocrite.&amp;nbsp; I am apathetic.&amp;nbsp; But through FugginSuggin.com, I strive for better.&amp;nbsp; FugginSuggin.com is the utopian version of "me."&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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How many of you have felt the liberated freedom of visiting a foreign country?&amp;nbsp; Walking around aimlessly with a lightness in your step and a feeling of happiness that comes from an unidentifiable source.&amp;nbsp; It is the letting go of your ego induced restrictions that gives you that feeling.&amp;nbsp; Being in a room filled with the sound of an unknown language is comforting, in it leaves you to your mind's wonderment.&amp;nbsp; We can all feel that everyday.&lt;br /&gt;
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We should never pretend to know the mysteries of the spirit and the universe.&amp;nbsp; We should strive toward love as our guiding force, knowing that there is no value in any knowledge or understanding that is sought without love as the goal.&lt;br /&gt;
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And it is understandable that many will eagerly dismiss an individual who talks of good and evil, of the power of love over hate.&amp;nbsp; These words are concepts that we each identify with in a certain way based on our conditioning.&amp;nbsp; No matter how the evils of organized religion have affected you, it is necessary to talk in these terms, as there is a conflict between good and evil that is occurring throughout this world, and likely, within each one of us. &lt;br /&gt;
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Strive for good.&amp;nbsp; Let go of your ego.&amp;nbsp; Embrace the moment and stay open, rather than closed.&amp;nbsp; That is what I want for myself and for all of you.&amp;nbsp; These are the baby steps necessary to shed the conditioning. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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"&lt;i&gt;Love is the only gold.&lt;/i&gt;" ~&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson"&gt;Alfred Tennyson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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We at &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;FugginSuggin.com&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; wish you the happiest of Valentine's Day.&amp;nbsp; We love you!&lt;br /&gt;
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Don't get down if you are not in a romantic relationship.&amp;nbsp; Rather, find some way to send love out into the world today.&amp;nbsp; As discussed below, Valentine's Day is just another pagan holiday modernized by religious and national institutions and embraced by the corporatocracy as a means to generate wealth and capital. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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"&lt;i&gt;The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease&lt;/i&gt;." ~&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison"&gt;Thomas Edison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;"The competent physician, before he attempts to give medicine to                the patient, makes himself acquainted not only with the disease, but                also with the habits and constitution of the sick man." ~&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero"&gt;Cicero&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;"&lt;i&gt;Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food&lt;/i&gt;." ~&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates"&gt;Hippocrates&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;"&lt;i&gt;The art of healing comes from nature and not from the physician.                Therefore, the physician must start from nature with an open mind&lt;/i&gt;." ~&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus"&gt;Paracelsus&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
"&lt;i&gt;Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results                of which taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.                Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopeia.&lt;/i&gt;" ~&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon"&gt;Napoleon Bonaparte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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"&lt;i&gt;No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government&lt;/i&gt;" ~Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334&lt;br /&gt;
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I firmly believe that a policy attack is underway against American's  right to bear arms as afforded to them by the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution"&gt;2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Although I am not a big fan of guns, I do believe that people should stand up for the right to own them and maintain that right at all cost. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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The text below comes from an email that I received today.&amp;nbsp; While the email is obviously somewhat &lt;a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Supreme-Court-Strikes-Down-Chicago-Gun-Ban--97377444.html"&gt;dated&lt;/a&gt;, the letter is still very relevant: &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;As the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_v._Chicago"&gt;Supreme Court hears arguments for and against the Chicago, IL, Gun Ban&lt;/a&gt;, here is a stellar example of a letter (written by a Marine), that places the proper perspective on what a gun means to a civilized society. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Interesting take - and one you don't hear much... Read this eloquent and profound letter and pay close attention to the last paragraph of the letter..... &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;"The Gun Is Civilization" &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;By Maj. L.  Caudill USMC (Ret) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force.  If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force.  Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception.  Reason or force, that's it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion.  Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;When I carry a  gun, you cannot deal with me by force.  You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats.  The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations.  These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society.  But, a firearm makes it easier for an armed mugger to do his job.  That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat - it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and  the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society.  A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;Then there's the  argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury.  This argument is fallacious in several ways.  Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier, works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker.  If both are armed, the field is level. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter.  It simply would not work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;When I carry a  gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone.  The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded.  I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it  enables me to be unafraid.  It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force.  It removes force from the equation.  And that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act !! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;By Maj. L.  Caudill USMC (Ret.) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;So the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced !! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is worth remembering, and sharing with others....... right? &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to the &lt;a href="http://www.ustr.gov/acta" target="_blank"&gt;Office of the United States Trade Representative website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ustr.gov/webfm_send/3094" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://www.ustr.gov/webfm_send/3094" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a groundbreaking  initiative by key trading partners to strengthen the international legal  framework for effectively combating global proliferation of  commercial-scale counterfeiting and piracy. In addition to calling for  strong legal frameworks, the agreement also includes innovative  provisions to deepen international cooperation and to promote strong  intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement practices. Together,  these provisions will help to support American jobs in innovative and  creative industries against intellectual property theft.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
In reality, this &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/23/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you-meet-acta/"&gt;international agreement is meant to establish an international framework for intellectual property rights&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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According to one anti-ACTA website, &lt;a href="http://www.stopacta.info/about"&gt;StopActa.info&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
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Share this post and alert your friends and neighbors that the fight for Internet freedom has only just begun.&amp;nbsp; Join the Stop ACTA Facebook page.&amp;nbsp; Stand up, speak out, and share your knowledge with the world.&amp;nbsp; Keep the Internet free!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;Don't you kid yourself to think that voting is the means for making your voice heard.&amp;nbsp; Elections &lt;a href="http://www.martintruther.com/RPG_Election_Fraud.htm" target="_blank"&gt;can be, and certainly have been, rigged&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Don't be naive.&lt;br /&gt;
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Likely due to action by &lt;a href="https://www.cdt.org/report/list-organizations-and-individuals-opposing-sopa"&gt;a broad and bipartisan coalition of Internet users, companies, and organizations&lt;/a&gt;,         the U.S. House of Representatives has &lt;a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/164876/2012/01/us_lawmakers_flip_their_positions_on_sopa_pipa.html" target="_blank"&gt;reportedly put the brakes&lt;/a&gt; on         &lt;a href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/show" title="SOPA - H.R.3261: Stop Online Piracy Act - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress"&gt;SOPA&lt;/a&gt;, for now. &amp;nbsp; SOPA would allegedly use Internet         censorship to combat overseas copyright infringement.          Even &lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/14/obama-administration-responds-we-people-petitions-sopa-and-online-piracy" title="Obama Administration Responds to We the People Petitions on SOPA and Online Piracy | The White House"&gt;President Obama's White House has joined the opposition&lt;/a&gt;, although I guarantee that he would, &lt;a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/01/01/Obama-reluctantly-signs-defense-bill/UPI-68851325422709/?spt=hs&amp;amp;or=tn" target="_blank"&gt;"reluctantly" sign&lt;/a&gt; either bill into law if passed, &lt;a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-money-president-obama-katzenberg-weinstein-248880" target="_blank"&gt;especially in light of Obama's connection to the entertainment industry&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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Despite floundering SOPA support, the Senate is &lt;a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/pipa%E2%80%99s-january-24th-vote-and-how-filibuster-w" title="PIPA January 24th vote | Public Knowledge"&gt;continuing to move forward&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; with its equally dangerous version of the bill, called          &lt;a href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s968/show" title="S.968: PROTECT IP Act of 2011 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress"&gt;PIPA, the Protect-IP Act&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; PIPA is the rewrite of last year's controversial &lt;a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-3804" target="_blank"&gt;Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act&lt;/a&gt;, which was &lt;a href="http://www.fugginsuggin.com/2010/09/censorship-you-are-fuggin-suggin.html" target="_blank"&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.fugginsuggin.com/2011/01/power-of-controlling-internet.html" target="_blank"&gt;numerous times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.fugginsuggin.com/2010/11/black-fridays-fugginsuggin-rundown.html" target="_blank"&gt;on this site&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mybigfatcubanfamily.com/.a/6a00d8341c89e653ef0162ffc52752970d-500wi" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.mybigfatcubanfamily.com/.a/6a00d8341c89e653ef0162ffc52752970d-500wi" width="189" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;As written, PIPA would result in our government &lt;a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-secret-behind-sopa.html" target="_blank"&gt;importing censorship and surveillance techniques pioneered        by countries like China and Iran&lt;/a&gt;, and reversing longstanding U.S. policy on         Internet freedom.&amp;nbsp; This would be an outright betrayal to U.S. First Amendment values and would only result in&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;further &lt;/i&gt;damaging our         already blemished standing around the world.&amp;nbsp; In addition, the bill would threaten our job-creating innovators,         and undermining Internet security for everyone.&amp;nbsp; Many sites would be forced to shut down, without being afforded any degree of due process, including this one and &lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/034682_SOPA_online_piracy_protest.html" target="_blank"&gt;many other &lt;i&gt;alternative&lt;/i&gt; news&lt;/a&gt; and information sites.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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Despite the online and real life protests of these fascist bills, the long &lt;a href="http://theoriesofconspiracy.com/2011/11/list-of-major-companies-supporting-sopa.htm" target="_blank"&gt;list of supporters contain&lt;/a&gt; some of the &lt;a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s" target="_blank"&gt;top lobbying powers in the United States&lt;/a&gt; and some of the biggest names in industry.&amp;nbsp; It's evident that these bills were spearheaded by the entertainment industry, and now with the vast array of support, there is no way that the Internet, as we know is, will continue for much longer.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.compfixer.net/cblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/censor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="137" src="http://www.compfixer.net/cblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/censor.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Today is a day for &lt;a href="http://sopastrike.com/" title="SOPA STRIKE - Largest online protest in history - January 18 - blackout your site"&gt;action across the Internet&lt;/a&gt;.         Learn about these destructive and offensive bills. Tell your Senator what you think.&amp;nbsp;         Congress needs to hear from you.&amp;nbsp; Tell your friends.&amp;nbsp; Email strangers.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100210345757211" target="_blank"&gt;Post on Zuckerberg's wall&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Do whatever you can, and make sure you are doing your part in the fight against censorship.&amp;nbsp; The more mediums that the Powers That Be control, the easier it is for them to manipulate information and dominate the masses.&amp;nbsp; We've allowed them to take too much from us already.&amp;nbsp; Let's hold on to &lt;i&gt;our&lt;/i&gt; free Internet.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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"&lt;span class="body"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Censorship is never over for those who have  experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the  individual who has suffered it, forever.&lt;/i&gt;" ~Noam Chomsky&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7391007911489338266-2981816228019061826?l=www.fugginsuggin.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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First developed in 1891, &lt;a href="http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/newscience/oncompounds/bisphenola/bpauses.htm" target="_blank"&gt;bisphenol A came into use as a synthetic estrogen&lt;/a&gt; in the 1930s. Later, chemists discovered that, combined with  phosgene (used during World War I as a toxic gas) and other compounds,  BPA yielded the clear, polycarbonate plastic of shatter-resistant  headlights, eyeglass lenses, DVDs and baby bottles.&lt;br /&gt;
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In recent years,&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=just-how-harmful-are-bisphenol-a-plastics" target="_blank"&gt;many scientists around the globe have linked BPA&lt;/a&gt; to a myriad of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Health_effects" target="_blank"&gt;health effects&lt;/a&gt; in rodents: mammary and prostate cancer, genital defects in males, early onset of puberty in females, obesity, and even behavior problems such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Regulatory bodies have &lt;a href="http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/42858807.html" target="_blank"&gt;determined safety levels&lt;/a&gt; for humans, but those safety levels are &lt;a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2009/11/10/study-questions-safety-of-canned-foods/" target="_blank"&gt;currently being questioned&lt;/a&gt; or under review as a result of new scientific studies.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BeCylhsN3KQ/TfYXf2enybI/AAAAAAAADSU/SUfOF2c-OeA/s1600/BPA+-+Baby+Bottle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BeCylhsN3KQ/TfYXf2enybI/AAAAAAAADSU/SUfOF2c-OeA/s200/BPA+-+Baby+Bottle.jpg" width="133" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In a study released by &lt;a href="http://www.consumerreports.org/health/healthy-living/health-safety/bpa/overview/bisphenol-a-ov.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Consumer Reports&lt;/a&gt;,  canned soup, tuna, juice and green beans have all been found to contain  potentially dangerous levels of bisphenol A.&amp;nbsp; This is just one of hundreds of scientific,  peer-reviewed studies that have suggested health risks from exposure to BPA, including increased incidence of diabetes,  cardiovascular disease, liver disorders, breast cancer and abnormal  reproductive organ development, &lt;a href="http://www.consumerreports.org/health/healthy-living/health-safety/bpa/overview/bisphenol-a-ov.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Consumer Reports said&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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Don't trust the government to regulate industry for the greater good of human safety.&amp;nbsp; You must do your own research and review and decide for yourself.&amp;nbsp; Spread the word.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/style&gt;"&lt;i&gt;Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the
doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even
before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial
hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century
forward, blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only
nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe its indigenous
population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade.
Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse
for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore
all exalt it.&lt;/i&gt;" ~Martin Luther King Jr., &lt;a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=6LQQa3Aa27gC&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Why We Can't Wait&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_im_suing_barack_obama_20120116/" target="_blank"&gt;Why I’m Suing Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Posted on Jan 16, 2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;By Chris Hedges&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr align="left"&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption"&gt;&lt;span class="photocredit" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;AP / Dusan Vranic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="photocaption" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Detainees pray at the U.S. military detention facility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="photocaption" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;known as Camp Bucca in Iraq in this 2009 photo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force as embedded in the latest version of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by the president Dec. 31.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;The act authorizes the military in Title X, Subtitle D, entitled “Counter-Terrorism,” for the first time in more than 200 years, to carry out domestic policing. With this bill, which will take effect March 3, the military can indefinitely detain without trial any U.S. citizen deemed to be a terrorist or an accessory to terrorism. And suspects can be shipped by the military to our offshore penal colony in Guantanamo Bay and kept there until “the end of hostilities.” It is a catastrophic blow to civil liberties. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;I spent many years in countries where the military had the power to arrest and detain citizens without charge. I have been in some of these jails. I have friends and colleagues who have “disappeared” into military gulags. I know the consequences of granting sweeping and unrestricted policing power to the armed forces of any nation. And while my battle may be quixotic, it is one that has to be fought if we are to have any hope of pulling this country back from corporate fascism.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Section 1031 of the bill defines a “covered person”—one subject to detention—as “a person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;The bill, however, does not define the terms “substantially supported,” “directly supported” or “associated forces.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;I met regularly with leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza. I used to visit Palestine Liberation Organization leaders, including Yasser Arafat and Abu Jihad, in Tunis when they were branded international terrorists. I have spent time with the Revolutionary Guard in Iran and was in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey with fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. All these entities were or are labeled as terrorist organizations by the U.S. government. What would this bill have meant if it had been in place when I and other Americans traveled in the 1980s with armed units of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua or the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front guerrillas in El Salvador? What would it have meant for those of us who were with the southern insurgents during the civil war in Yemen or the rebels in the southern Sudan? I have had dinner more times than I can count with people whom this country brands as terrorists. But that does not make me one. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Once a group is deemed to be a terrorist organization, whether it is a Palestinian charity or an element of the Uighur independence movement, the military can under this bill pick up a U.S. citizen who supported charities associated with the group or unwittingly sent money or medical supplies to front groups. We have already seen the persecution and closure of Islamic charity organizations in the United States that supported the Palestinians. Now the members of these organizations can be treated like card-carrying “terrorists” and sent to Guantanamo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;But I suspect the real purpose of this bill is to thwart internal, domestic movements that threaten the corporate state. The definition of a terrorist is already so amorphous under the Patriot Act that there are probably a few million Americans who qualify to be investigated if not locked up. Consider the arcane criteria that can make you a suspect in our new military-corporate state. The Department of Justice considers you worth investigating if you are missing a few fingers, if you have weatherproof ammunition, if you own guns or if you have hoarded more than seven days of food in your house. Adding a few of the obstructionist tactics of the Occupy movement to this list would be a seamless process. On the whim of the military, a suspected “terrorist” who also happens to be a U.S. citizen can suffer extraordinary rendition—being kidnapped and then left to rot in one of our black sites “until the end of hostilities.” Since this is an endless war that will be a very long stay.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;This demented “war on terror” is as undefined and vague as such a conflict is in any totalitarian state. Dissent is increasingly equated in this country with treason. Enemies supposedly lurk in every organization that does not chant the patriotic mantras provided to it by the state. And this bill feeds a mounting state paranoia. It expands our permanent war to every spot on the globe. It erases fundamental constitutional liberties. It means we can no longer use the word “democracy” to describe our political system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;The supine and gutless Democratic Party, which would have feigned outrage if George W. Bush had put this into law, appears willing, once again, to grant Obama a pass. But I won’t. What he has done is unforgivable, unconstitutional and exceedingly dangerous. The threat and reach of al-Qaida—which I spent a year covering for The New York Times in Europe and the Middle East—are marginal, despite the attacks of 9/11. The terrorist group poses no existential threat to the nation. It has been so disrupted and broken that it can barely function. Osama bin Laden was gunned down by commandos and his body dumped into the sea. Even the Pentagon says the organization is crippled. So why, a decade after the start of the so-called war on terror, do these draconian measures need to be implemented? Why do U.S. citizens now need to be specifically singled out for military detention and denial of due process when under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force the president can apparently find the legal cover to serve as judge, jury and executioner to assassinate U.S. citizens, as he did in the killing of the cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen? Why is this bill necessary when the government routinely ignores our Fifth Amendment rights—“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law”—as well as our First Amendment right of free speech? How much more power do they need to fight “terrorism”?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Fear is the psychological weapon of choice for totalitarian systems of power. Make the people afraid. Get them to surrender their rights in the name of national security. And then finish off the few who aren’t afraid enough. If this law is not revoked we will be no different from any sordid military dictatorship. Its implementation will be a huge leap forward for the corporate oligarchs who plan to continue to plunder the nation and use state and military security to cow the population into submission.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;The oddest part of this legislation is that the FBI, the CIA, the director of national intelligence, the Pentagon and the attorney general didn’t support it. FBI Director Robert Mueller said he feared the bill would actually impede the bureau’s ability to investigate terrorism because it would be harder to win cooperation from suspects held by the military. “The possibility looms that we will lose opportunities to obtain cooperation from the persons in the past that we’ve been fairly successful in gaining,” he told Congress.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;But it passed anyway. And I suspect it passed because the corporations, seeing the unrest in the streets, knowing that things are about to get much worse, worrying that the Occupy movement will expand, do not trust the police to protect them. They want to be able to call in the Army. And now they can.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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For the the &lt;a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_im_suing_barack_obama_20120116/" target="_blank"&gt;full article&lt;/a&gt; go to TruthDig.com&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"&lt;i&gt;A lie cannot live&lt;/i&gt;."&amp;nbsp; ~Dr. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." target="_blank"&gt;Martin Luther King Jr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is no honor.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Honoring the humanitarian efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. starts with continuing his quest for universal equality. &lt;br /&gt;
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Dr. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Pepper" target="_blank"&gt;William Pepper&lt;/a&gt;, attorney at law and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Pepper#Martin_Luther_King_cases" target="_blank"&gt;one time confidant&lt;/a&gt; to the late MLK, &lt;a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKactOstate.html" target="_blank"&gt;attempted to expose the truth behind the King's assassination&lt;/a&gt; for over two decades.&amp;nbsp; With the support of Dr. King's family, William Pepper gave his all to try and bring the truth to light.&amp;nbsp; In &lt;a href="http://william%20pepper%20and%20martin%20luther%20king/" target="_blank"&gt;his book&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Act of State&lt;/i&gt;, Pepper details the "execution" of Dr. King.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I've communicated with Dr. Pepper on numerous instances.&amp;nbsp; He believes that the only way to ever get to the truth is to spread the information already out there to as many people as possible.&amp;nbsp; Research the efforts of Dr. Pepper, and check out the documentary below on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.&lt;br /&gt;
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Do not &lt;a href="http://www.thegrio.com/specials/building-the-dream/recounting-history-without-traumatizing-kids.php" target="_blank"&gt;sugar coat the truth for the children&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; They need to learn at an early age to question the information offered to them by the system of indoctrination.&amp;nbsp; You do no justice to them by being another bullshitter. &lt;br /&gt;
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Hey - all of you sitting on your asses and rooting for over-sized and  over-padded men to run back and forth across a rectangular field, let it be  known that Football Fuggin Suggs!!!!&amp;nbsp; Why does it fuggin sugg?&amp;nbsp; Well, for starters, there are far too many commercial breaks, the amount of time spent on action is far less than the time spent on inaction, and oh did I mention the constant over celebration?!?&amp;nbsp; These players will celebrate any small gain, block or tackle, huh?&amp;nbsp; And the number one reason that football suggs is the overzealous fans.&amp;nbsp; You have learned far too much watching these NFL players celebrate meaningless feats of athleticism.&amp;nbsp; Man, I cannot stand this game.&amp;nbsp; Football, you are fuggin suggin.&amp;nbsp; Enjoy everybody, and no, I am not watching "the game."&lt;br /&gt;
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