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Can you join me this Monday, March 15th at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time, for an urgent conversation about passing strong clean energy and climate legislation in 2010?
A bipartisan group of Senators is close to announcing a bill that may be our best hope for kickstarting a clean energy revolution and beginning to solve the climate crisis -- but big oil, big coal and their allies in Congress are kicking into high gear to strip it of any meaning or power.
That's why I'm hosting a live strategy conference call on Monday just for Repower America supporters. You are critical to this fight, so I hope you will join me as I outline our upcoming efforts to push for strong legislation this year -- and discuss how you can get involved and make a difference.
RSVP by the deadline on Sunday to join me at 7:30 p.m. ET on Monday, March 15th for a live conference call about our 2010 Senate strategy.

http://cpaf.repoweramerica.org/page/s/agtelenoit

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Health Reform Myths

By Paul Krugman

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/opinion/12krugman.html

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Senate Parliamentarian: President Must Sign Health Care Bill Into Law Before Budget Fixes Begin

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/daveharding/CXfH

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Sanders: Obama Has Tragically Lost the Youth, Antagonized Unions

by Sam Stein

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/11-4

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Obama sabotages himself with fake "pragmatism"

Glenn Greenwald

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/09/poll/index.html

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Was "Jihad Jane" a Real Terrorist Threat? Or a Mentally Unstable Loner?

By Liliana Segura AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/rights/146009/was_%22jihad_jane%22_a_real_terrorist_threat_or_a_mentally_unstable_loner

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Bring Democracy to our Food System
Sign the petition to Break the Monopolies!

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/t/5946/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=7048

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When Are You Dead? Science Just Made the Work of Religion a Bit More Difficult

By Arri Eisen

http://www.alternet.org/belief/146007/when_are_you_dead_science_just_made_the_work_of_religion_a_bit_more_difficult

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**************Closer to ‘home’ items…(Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky area)

Have a few minutes to do some rapid responding today?

Your progressive voice is needed! Please check out your local paper’s website for an item or two that motivates you…

Here at the Enquirer…the following offer some possibilities..

http://news.cincinnati.com/opinion

===========or, perhaps there’s something on the ‘news’ page?

Politics & Government

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS

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Why Not Ohio? Oregon's solar future could hinge on copying Germany

By Dennis Spisak

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/dennisspisak/CXf3

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Video: Wayne Pacelle, President of The Humane Society of the United States Speaks About Ohioans for Humane Farms.

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/daveharding/CXfZ

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Confused about the politically correct …who’s what on terrorism????

The Difference Between a Terrorist and Someone Who Flies a Plane Into a Building

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_difference_between_a_terrorist_and_someone_who_flies_a_plane_into_a_bui/

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You don’t say….

Behind Obama's wavering on terror trials, critics see politics

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/11/90231/behind-obamas-wavering-on-terror.html

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House Afghanistan Debate: What Kucinich Accomplished
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/11-11

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War in a Box

by Norman Solomon

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/11-1

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Why America Should Apologize

by Connor Boyack

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/boyack2.1.1.html

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The Rogue Nation
By Philip Girald

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24968.htm

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, is a contributing editor to The American Conservative and a fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance.

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Israel’s Lobby Imposes Crippling Sanctions on America — Again

by Grant Smith,

http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2010/03/11/israels-lobby-imposes-crippling-sanctions-on-america-again/

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Taboo Thwarts Candor on Israel/Iran

by Ray McGovern

http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2010/03/11/taboo-thwarts-candor-on-israeliran/

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from and about ‘over there’

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Obama Pledges U.S. Aid to Haiti
Jeff Zeleny, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/world/americas/11prexy.html

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Greek Rioters Clash With Police as 10,000 Protesters Take to the Streets

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/11-6

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Complaints Persist As US Frees Afghan Detainees
Kay Johnson, Associated Press,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031100507.html

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In Kabul, hopelessness weighs on job hunters
Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times,
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-afghan-jobless11-2010mar11,0,4330089.story

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RETHINK AFGHANISTANl (we can’t give up)

The military-industrial complex has a well-oiled message machine. Just look at our latest video: despite killing more civilians in Marjah, Afghanistan, than the insurgents, the Pentagon is furiously spinning Operation Moshtarak as a move to "protect the people."
We're working to counteract their message machine every day, especially when it comes to the bloody, costly Afghanistan war. But, we need your help.

Can you forward this video to three of your friends?
On Facebook, we're taking the Pentagon on directly. Right now, the Defense Department has 22,157 fans. We have 14,440. We're throwing down the gauntlet: we want to beat them.

If you're on Facebook, please become our fan and suggest us to your friends.
As we move closer to this year's fight on war funding, we need all of you with us. Bring your friends.
Sincerely, Derrick Crowe, Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Foundation team

http://rethinkafghanistan.com/videos.php

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Ayad Allawi accuses Nouri al-Maliki's group of fraud in bid to retain power

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7058578.ece

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Professor Cole today

Maliki ahead in Key Shiite Privinces

http://www.juancole.com/

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The Nuclear Double Standard

by Charles V. Peña,

http://original.antiwar.com/pena/2010/03/11/the-nuclear-double-standard/