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House. they swamped congressional switchboard was a quarter of a million phone calls. they wrangled meetings with more than 200 representatives. and what blew everybodys mind at the time was not that they got hundreds of thousands of people to sign this pet addition, essentially taking president clintons side in this fight back in 1998. what blew everybodys mind, the amazing thing that everybody thought was so incredible about it was that they did this thing using the computer machine. here is h...

Thought was so incredible about it was that they did this thing using the computer machine. here is how the "washington post" led its story about the "censure and move on" campaign. the story was written february 1st, 1999. how can there be such a phenomenon as electronic political activism? what is so active about clicking a mouse button when sending an e-mail or logging on to a website? but with $13 million and more than 650,000 volunteer hours pledged to censure and move on, the realm of poli...

>> theres a lot of outrage. theres a lot of, i wont say theres a lot of drinking. theres a lot of late nights. theres a lot of fighting. >> is it a democratic process or does ring swoop in and say -- >> its a benign autocracy. it starts democratic and eventually our editor. >> do they hear the list is coming and say i want in? >> sure. we get nominations from everywhere. winner of the poll was anonymous. a group of internet activists who didnt get on the list. >> do you ever have to pull someone...

Wolf? >> chris lawrence at the pentagon. at least 11 people are dead and 100 are injured after a massive explosion at a subway station. demetris medvedev is calling it a terrorist attack. also, held at gunpoint and interrogated for hours, youre going to want to hear what happened to our own cnn team investigating internet activists in bahrain. also, president obama may be trying to redefine the term liberal. were digging deeper. and frozen in time one month ago. were going inside japans ...

Freedoms and a more representative government. >> shepard: critics comments like that will just get more iranian protesters killed, thats according to the critics. earlier today on "studio b." one iranian american activist argued those words are exactly what the protesters need. >> i have talked to people inside iran. they want the worlds support. i can tell you that definitively. they want the world support. they want the president of the united states to support them. they want words of suppor...

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Companies, for branson out in new mexico who wants to fly tourist ins a year up on short two-hour flights to weightlessness, its time for us to start doing those things, he said, so that nasa can get on with doing what it does best. he said to me, he said, look, if i was in this to make a lot of money, i wouldnt be doing space flights because its still a very risky proposition to see how many customers are ultimately going to be out there, whether its for branson at $200,000 a flight, or whether...