Undernews: October 1, 2013

Monday, 7 October 2013, 12:01 pm
Column: Undernews

Undernews: October 1, 2013

Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it

THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW

NSA storing everything millions do on Web for a year

14th Amendment allows president to raise debt ceiling

Even economists don't like the debt ceiling

How American Jews define themsleves

Head Start and other victims of the shutdown

Government workers can't check their emails

The real Hillary Clinton: The Pellicano connection
Memorial service time and place to be announced
Hillary Clinton documentary killed after pressure from Clintonistas
NSA changing countries' rules about Internet
Court rules suit against Google spying on email can go forward

North Carolina students to get banned book for free

Ray Charles is now on a Forever stamp

FBI keeping people on No Fly list just to strong arm them

Copyright cartel corrupting kindergarten

California okays hemp farming when feds do

Yale University police jail Brazilian reporter for doing her job (and Yale thinks that's just fine)

Where John Boehner got the idea
Ghostbusters Containment Unit Shutdown
(Via Chad Swain)

Infrequently asked questions
Punk Patriot - If the Government is shut down, does that mean the NSA isn't tracking this post?

Polls
72% of Americans oppose shutdown due to healthcare debate

Word
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. - Robert Orben

Pocket paradigms
The question of whether we should give up our citizenship in favor of customerhood or being a taxpayer has never made it to the ballot. It doesn't have to. Like much political change these days, the idea has grown more by osmosis than by choice, the product of a "shared vision" among the elite, dutifully disseminated by a media that has lost much of its capacity for skepticism..- Sam Smith

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