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| Mike Gravel: I took a risk so that Americans knew what our government did in Vietnam. Today's elected representatives should do the same for Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 1971, I entered the full text of the top-secret Pentagon Papers -- a history of how the US became mired in the swamp of the Vietnam War -- into the Congressional Record, even as the Federal Bureau of Investigation was hunting for Daniel Ellsburg (who gave the papers to the NY Times) & Richard Nixon and his DOJ were filing injunctions against newspapers to prevent their publication. Subsequent case law affirmed that members of Congress may reveal any government "secret" to the public without fear of prosecution because of the "Speech and Debate" clause of the constitution, from which members derive their duty to inform the people about the actions of their government.
It's time for some member of congress to do the same |
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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