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The White House considers making matters worse.

"Somethings got to get Iraq out of the news now that Anna Nicole Smith is still dead."

White House tracking markets after big drop

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The White House said on Tuesday it was monitoring movements in the financial markets, after a sharp decline in stocks in the United States and around the globe.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto declined to comment on whether any discussions were planned with the president's financial working group.

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One of the biggest threats to the future of our democracy is a lack of faith in our elections. And unfortunately it is very easy to have no faith in the results if elections are determined by unsecure bug-riddled paperless computer kiosks that cannot be audited.

So take action:

MoveOn.org Political Action: Ban Paperless Voting

A new bill in Congress would ban paperless voting. It's got enough support to pass, but time is short. This week, the Democratic leadership is deciding what Congress will take up next. If they don't put voting on the agenda, there simply won't be time to make the change by the 2008 presidential election. Sign this petition to ask the Democratic leaders in Congress to ban paperless voting before it's too late.

Another threat to our democracy is something you probably haven't thought of:

Net Neutrality

Actually the fact that we don't have laws protecting Net Neutraility is the threat.

The idea is that the big telecoms could change the system so that the access you have to your site could improve with a higher payment. The danger of them being allowed to do this is that it could easily morph from a toll to extortion.

In Canada a website was set up by a union about their grievences with a telecom company they were in the midst of a strike with. That telecom stopped all access to that site of traffic that went through their lines.

Already you'll probably never see NBC News having an expose of a scandal involving GE's military contracts.

Do you want a future that you can never read anything on the internet that AT&T or Verizon doesn't approve of?

Save The Internet.




If we don't have a free interent - information will no longer be free.

And the truth will set you free, but not if you can't get to it.

The internet can remake our democracy - make it more transparent.

We can find out where our politicians get their money: Open Secrets.

Open Secrets let's you track who is getting what money. For example: you have a Representative that is a big supporter of ethanol, but you live in an urban area and he otherwise shows no interest in green issues. Check Open Secerts and you'll probably see a lot of checks coming from Archer Daniels Midland to your representatives campiagn funds.

Information has power - it needs to be available.

Here's another example: Open Congress

OpenCongress brings together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind each bill.

Net Neutrality is finally getting traction:

Neutrality On the Net Gets High '08 Profile

Unlike their Republican counterparts, every major Democratic presidential candidate has endorsed net neutrality. The move keeps them in good standing with powerful grass-roots groups, such as MoveOn.org, and costs them little in return -- perhaps a bit of space on campaign Web sites to promote a matter that comparatively few voters might explore.

Net neutrality is a principle that bars Internet providers, primarily phone and cable companies, from charging higher rates to Web-based firms in return for giving their content priority treatment on the pathways to consumers. Without such restrictions, proponents say, a user might find it time-consuming, or even impossible, to call up a favorite site that carriers have relegated to slower lanes for economic or even philosophical reasons.

Note to Republicans - Net Neutrality is good for the economy. Thousands of internet firms that will burst onto the scene in the coming years can only come to existence if the internet remains neutral.

So if you don't believe in healthy competition (which is the main ingrediant to a healthy capitalist economic system) that go ahead and support the big telecom companies.

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Here's an overlooked national security issue.

Economic security.

If doing the right thing never seems to be the type of thing Washington is interested in doing. Than there are politically viable missions that have a "right thing" result.

One thing is making sure America is safe from the type of economic disparity that has threaten democracies and governments over and over again in the past.

Its not about helping the poor - its about protecting our free capitalist society. Help the poor - for your own good.

You see there could be trouble brewing.

U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty

The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen.

A McClatchy Newspapers analysis of 2005 census figures, the latest available, found that nearly 16 million Americans are living in deep or severe poverty. A family of four with two children and an annual income of less than $9,903 - half the federal poverty line - was considered severely poor in 2005. So were individuals who made less than $5,080 a year.

The McClatchy analysis found that the number of severely poor Americans grew by 26 percent from 2000 to 2005.

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Bush Doesn't Mess Around

He just messes everything up

Thanks to Bush's inaction on the global environmental stage - the fight against global warming has not been waged - expediting the climate changes that will bring on more severe and dangerous weather in the years and decades to come.

But in Bush fasion, he hasn't stopped there. He's made sure we have less ability to actually deal with natural disasters as well.

Governors worry about Iraq's toll on Guard

The governors said they were closely monitoring deployment of their troops, worn-out equipment and how ready they would be for domestic emergencies.

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