A War on Women

The United States House of Representatives has launched the most dangerous legislative assault on women's health ever:



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• Bought and Paid for Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin has threatened to send the National Guard to disrupt protests of Wisconsin public workers.  People aren't happy with Mr. Walker. Members of the Super Bowl champions, the community-owned, non-profit Green Bay Packers, have released a statement in support of Wisconsin's workers (h/t Stephanie):

We know that it is teamwork on and off the field that makes the Packers and Wisconsin great. As a publicly owned team we wouldn’t have been able to win the Super Bowl without the support of our fans. It is the same dedication of our public workers every day that makes Wisconsin run. They are the teachers, nurses and child care workers who take care of us and our families. But now in an unprecedented political attack Governor Walker is trying to take away their right to have a voice and bargain at work. The right to negotiate wages and benefits is a fundamental underpinning of our middle class. When workers join together it serves as a check on corporate power and helps ALL workers by raising community standards. Wisconsin’s long standing tradition of allowing public sector workers to have a voice on the job has worked for the state since the 1930s. It has created greater consistency in the relationship between labor and management and a shared approach to public work. These public workers are Wisconsin’s champions every single day and we urge the Governor and the State Legislature to not take away their rights.

• Wikileaks statement on Washington efforts to obtain the account information of Twitter users:

This is an outrageous attack by the Obama administration on the privacy and free speech rights of Twitter's customers - many of them American citizens. More shocking, at this time, is that it amounts to an attack on the right to freedom of association, a freedom that the people of Tunisia and Egypt, for example, spurred on by the information released by Wikileaks, have found so valuable.

• Twitter is supposedly fighting the subpoena to release their users' information.  It is believed Google and Facebook have already released their users' information to the government without objection.
• Bill Moyers on why some Americans don't want the truth, and why we must be exposed to it, even if it hurts.
• The guy the Bush Administration used to claim that Iraq had WMDs, admits he was lying.  Anyone who was paying attention back in 2002 knew "Curveball" was spouting a bunch of bullshit, but our news media failed to get that info to the masses. 
• Protests intensify in Algeria, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen.  Protests spread to Iraq.