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Naomi Wolf's book, The End of America: A Letter Of Warning To A Young Patriot, documents the many small and large erosions of the American Constitution, freedom and democracy. Here she talks about some of the high points of her written work.

More evidence of what seemed already obvious, that fraud at a very high level is responsible for W being in office.

Fun vocabulary game that donates food to the hungry.

From Bruce Schneier, noted expert on encryption.

Who has the keys to the backdoor in Microsoft Windows Vista?

From the page: "Of course, we have no way of knowing whether the NSA knows the secret numbers that break Dual_EC-DRBG [encryption]. We have no way of knowing whether an NSA employee working on his own came up with the constants -- and has the secret numbers. We don't know if someone from NIST, or someone in the ANSI working group, has them. Maybe nobody does.

We don't know where the constants came from in the first place. We only know that whoever came up with them could have the key to this backdoor. And we know there's no way for NIST -- or anyone else -- to prove otherwise."

Insiders controlling information to the detriment of truth on one of the most widely viewed references in the world. Lovely. The facade of democratic process in action that Wikipedia tries to paint appears pretty thin. Who can you trust? Only God.

Astounding. From the article, "A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility... and worse." Twice the size of Texas!! According to the article, each of the major oceans has a similar area where floating trash collects in huge low-pressure sinks.

Inspiring. It's time the rest of Amerika had this much concern for freedom

If you haven't already seen it, it's a hoot.