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"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to danger."

-- Hermann Göring, from The Nuremburg Diaries

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Latest Issues

• Internet Neutrality
• 2006 Mohammed Image Riots

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Frequently Updated

• Quantifying Political Ideologies
• oil dependence
• George W. Bush and his administration
• Global Warming
• Snippets: links to be filed

Who Woulda Thunk

• 2006-01-30 Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases
• 2006-01-24 Democrats and Republicans Both Adept at Ignoring Facts, Study Finds (alt)

Not So Great

• 2006-05-15 Internet Neutrality is now an article
• 2006-01-24 The Broadband Battle: Round I: mega-media corporations are working to control what content you view, which services you use online, and whether others can see the content you create.
• 2005-12-29 FBI targeting US activist activities as 'domestic terrorism': it was inevitable, right?
• 2005-10-09 Keep your U.N. off my Internet

Topics for Discussion

• 2005-10-21 New section: Frequently Arising Questions: ask questions, find answers
• 2005-10-01 Governmental Brainstorming
• 2005-09-27 Wanted Articles
• 2005-09-23 2005-09-15 DOJ reply to Howard Dean
• 2005-09-18 Prediction Registry
• 2005-09-06 Thoughts on Red vs. Blue

Current Outrage

• 2005-10-04 Florida's new "shoot first" law
• 2005-09-01 Response to Hurricane Katrina
• 2005-06-23 High court OKs personal property seizures

Bizarre

• 2005-06-25 Gas Guzzling Pride

Shifting Sands

• 2005-06-23 Flag-burning amendment approved by House: if this isn't intended as a measure to stifle protest, then what does it serve?

Latest Links

• 2005-11-22 Religious Tolerance: much discussion and research
• 2005-06-11 WikiTution: first example I've seen of an attempt to use a Wiki to improve government
• 2005-06-09 Marc Perkel: some interesting links, though the text is a bit dated
• 2005-06-03 The Downing Street Memo

Related Projects

• MorePerfect (wiki, forum, and blog): collaboration on laws and public policy
• Campaigns Wikia: most similar project yet (found 2006-07-06)
• Wikocracy: "This is a test to see what happens when everyone can write and revise the law."
• news article about projects with similar intent (but a slightly different approach) to this one
• dKosopedia: "a collaborative project of the DailyKos community to build a political encyclopedia"
• World Citizen at WikiCities
• Activism Wiki at WikiCities (still very small as of 2005-04-07)
• The Ideal Government Project
• OurCampaigns: "collaborative political website"