the big 5 stories:

#1 - "Audit the Fed" Builds Support in Senate

The grassroots measure to give the private-owned Federal Reserve its first audit ever is building bipartisan support in the Senate. The bill, started in the House and championed by Reps. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Alan Grayson (D-FL), has gain a sponsor in Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and garnered possible advocates like Sanders is joined by four Republicans of varying politics: John McCain (AR), Jim DeMint (SC), David Vitter (LA) and Sam Brownback (KS).

If Democrats in the Senate back the measure, it would have at least 63 votes, but Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) is opposed and has argued against a broad audit. Dodd, a lame-duck who is leaving due to a conflict of interest scandal involving the financial firms he oversees, may be compromised and his opposition has not changed the public momentum for the audit.

Sen. Sanders has stated, "Let's not equate independence with secrecy. We cannot let the Fed operate in secrecy any longer. There is simply too much money at stake." Full Story

#2 - Rep. Calls for Federal Non-Cooperation with AZ Immigration Law

Outrage is growing over the passage of a controversial new measure in Arizona that forces police officers to determine the immigration status of someone they suspect of being an undocumented immigrant. We speak with Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), who is urging federal non-cooperation with the new law and is calling for a targeted economic boycott of Arizona. We also speak with Sunita Patel, an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is filing a lawsuit demanding records related to ICE’s little known “Secure Communities” program. Full Story

RELATED: Mexico issues travel alert for Mexican citizens in Arizona

#3 - Manuel Noriega, from US Friend to Foe

(Democracy Now): The US has extradited the former Panamanian president and CIA asset Manuel Noriega to France to face trial on money laundering charges. Noriega has been jailed in Miami since 1990 after his overthrow in the US invasion of Panama that killed up to 3,000 people. Noriega’s drug trafficking sentence ended two years ago, but he’s remained in jail while fighting France’s extradition request. Noriega’s attorney, Frank Rubino, criticized the US for failing to inform him of Noriega’s extradition.

Before Saddam Hussein there was Manuel Noriega. Like Saddam, Noriega enjoyed US support until he turned into a wayward ally, then an embarrassment, and finally an "imminent danger" who had to be overthrown.

Noriega was recruited as a CIA informant while studying at a military academy in Peru. He received intelligence and counterintelligence training at the School of the Americas at Fort Gulick, Panama, in 1967, as well as a course in psychological operations at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He was to remain on the CIA payroll until February 1988. Full Story

#4 - Obama Will Not Comment on Debt Until After Elections

A possible Obama Austerity plan will be revealed after the mid-terms elections and a lame-duck session of Congress may pass the law and take the heat.

The President has commissioned a debt panel and is keeping his plans secret for the next 7 months. "I'm not going to say what's in, I'm not going to say what's out," Obama said as his National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform held its first meeting. Eventually we, the public, will be allowed to know about the fiscal state of our nation. And then the President will scapegoat the Congress to implement his "difficult political decisions." Full Story

#5 - Bank Oligarchy: 60% of US is Owned by Them

Today financial power is being concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals. In fact, the six biggest banks in the United States now possess assets equivalent to 60 percent of America's gross national product. Back in the 1990s that figure was less than 20 percent. These six banks - Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo - literally dictate what goes on in the U.S. banking industry. Full Story

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*Ninth Circuit OKs Huge Class in Wal-Mart Gender Discrimination Case

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*Wall Street Reform: A Big Flop for the Big Lie Strategy?

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...now auditing the Fed


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*Ali Lohan: teen girl or old Greek guy?

*Just when Hollywood made you cynical: Scarlett Johansson is actually a good role model...

*...and then Christina Aguilera advocates shooting someone for coughing (VIDEO)

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Warrent Used to Raid Journalist's Home Possibly Invalid

Welcome to Steve Jobs' police state. Literally. California, enamored by Apple hype, sanctioned a possibly unconstitutional police raid on a journalist. Below is Wired's account of the events. Is Jobs worse than Gates at this point? Is it time for an Apple boycott?

Police raided the house of an editor for Gizmodo on Friday and seized computers and other equipment. The raid was part of an investigation into the leak of a prototype iPhone that the site obtained for a blockbuster story last week. Now, a legal expert has raised questions about the legality of the warrant used in the raid.

On Friday, officers from California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team in San Mateo, California, appeared at the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen while he was not there and broke open the front door.

Chen and his wife discovered the officers when they returned from dinner around 9:45 that evening. According to an account he posted online, Chen noticed his garage door was partly open, and when he tried to open it completely, officers came out and told him they had a warrant to search the premises. The warrant had been signed just hours earlier, at 7:00 p.m., by a San Mateo County Superior Court judge. It allowed the police to search Chen, his residence and any vehicle in his control.

The officers were in the process of cataloging the items they had already taken from the premises and told Chen they had been in his home a “few hours already.” According to California law, a search warrant may be served between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. unless otherwise authorized.

The officers told Chen he could request reimbursement for the damage to his front door.

Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said Chen is protected from a warrant by both state and federal laws.

The federal Privacy Protection Act prohibits the government from seizing materials from journalists and others who possess material for the purpose of communicating to the public. The government cannot seize material from the journalist even if it’s investigating whether the person who possesses the material committed a crime. Full Story


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The Daily P.P. Awards
Predictive programming - when TV tells you how it's gonna be

Monday night's award goes to CSI: Miami (episode "Count Me Out") on CBS. The entire CSI franchise is anathema to civil liberties and science. But that is well-worn territory.

This rerun, originally aired in December, was about catching a meth dealer who murdered a Census taker. The episode only briefly touches on any anti-government sentiment inherent with such a topic but two subtle moments in the episode plant a seed that all Americans may be criminals.

Detective Calleigh Duquesne expresses the dangers for government employees like the Census taker because of "all of the anti-government people out there." Later in the episode a charcter, who was upset that police were on her property unlawfully and that taxes are too high, was arrested for falsely imprisoning her maid.

The nearly-subliminal message: those who disagree with government are dangerous. A recent poll showed that almost 80 percent of American do not trust the government. Are 4 out of 5 of us now suspects?

also:
*School district that spied on children in their bedrooms has a friend in federal judge

*China demands that companies spy on citizens

*Poll: More people using government web sites

*Android's rising popularity may make it next iPhone

*Media Wages War on Single Black Women

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James Cameron Advocates for Indigenous Struggles

On the heels of his record-setting Hollywood blockbuster Avatar, the film director James Cameron is taking on a new role as an activist, allying himself with indigenous struggles he says mirror the plot of his film. In Avatar, an indigenous species called the Na’vi resists the private military force of a powerful corporation bent on exploiting their planet’s valuable minerals.

Democracy Now! producer Aaron Maté caught up with James Cameron to discuss Avatar, Cameron’s opposition to the Belo Monte in Brazil, last week’s peoples’ climate summit in Bolivia, and his reaction to seeing Avatar embraced by indigenous people worldwide, from the Amazon to the Occupied Territories. Full Story


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