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Honorable Sri Srinivasan, US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit I write about a case that recently came before you, Hodge v Talkin, on appeal fro...

Here is a frame that I was not crazy about- The notion that smoke comes from the transmission system is silly of course, but what is the...

Predominantly black

Jobless recovery is not a recovery if you are unemployed. It is more of the same.

1. Text of the proposed law here . 2. Summary of the provisions of that law are here . .....This is on the website for "Think Outside...

Why is it that GMOs are generally regarded as safe (GRAS) but one passenger on an airplane carrying one bag that does not belong to him is ...

And the article at the Rutherford Institute .

The United States exports neo-colonialism. The internet exports democracy, mostly through cell phones.

The CIA are not lawful combatants. Footnote 44

Event took place January 2012. The film did not win an award.

View of the front of the K of C building, 1050 Fredrick Rd. The draft board was on the second floor.

You can be held up by a robber with a gun who threatens to kill you if you don't comply, or you can be held up by a system that threaten...

From Enformable From national administration to administration, corporations have run roughshod and those who are supposed to protect us ...

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To prevent the destruction of the entire world, we must obliterate China now. R2P.

Be Here Now Now Deleted Should 'a been he'e yeste'day, shou'nt ya.

for the NYS draft Energy Plan at the UB Center for Tomorrow. Lots of fluff. You would think that you could say something informative in fi...

1. Appoint judges 2. Involve judges in plea barganing 3. Tell juries about nullification 4. Sequester juries 5. Fix prosecutorial immuni...

For the October 2013 demonstration at Hancock Air Force Base. 1. After the verdict , the defendants head off to jail on an 15 day sentence...

On Terror Tuesdays, president Obama goes down a list and selects persons to be killed. Then someone sends that information out to his assas...

As a pin cushion.

God promised a land to Abraham, and he delivered on that promise. Then Absalom raised the taxes, and the northern kingdom revolted, becoming...

Unfortunately, this looks like a misconception on my part. The text says "eastward", not "due east". But at least it...

For example, Saturn has plenty, as does water. And the sun. Nor will we ever run out of coal or oil or natural gas. Or energy - for exampl...

A tax upon wealth, upon the wealthy. This provision was eliminated in the Constitution. ----- Article VIII. All charges of war , and all ot...

The 1903 lease documents have no clauses that give a termination date for the lease. The motivation for the lease is the protection of Cuba,...

The larger the police force, the less you need the consent of the majority, and the easier it is to go with minority rule. Points along th...

The red area is 200 The blue area is the product of the final digits. So, for example, 13 * 17 = 200 + 21 ----- The same picture can be ...

August 28, 1963 I HAVE A DREAM That someday soon we will be allowed to do this again. 36 CFR 7.96(g)(3)(ii)(B) The Lincoln Memorial, ....

View Larger Map Engine found ~200 ft short of the crash site. Did it come off prior to the crash? No, the engine was found at Highland and...

The prosecution wants to introduce the pay rates of various military grades. Why? They want to say Bradley stole something, and the somethin...

The phrase can be paraphrased as If the speech creates the possibility that it might result in effective opposition to government policy, i...

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"The United States shall exercise complete jurisdiction and control" over Guantanamo Does this mean that the US can do anything i...

The US claims to occupy the Naval Base subject to a valid lease. That's a big one, for surely even the Americans can see that a lease gr...

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On December 12, 1903, control of Guantanamo Bay was handed over to the United States, on the Kearsarge. At noon, the Cuban flag was lowere...

Would the Government of Cuba be willing to consider leasing Guantanamo Bay to the US for a Naval Station? This may seem like a foolish ques...

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Via No More Guantanamos , Nancy Talanian, Dir One of the Uyghurs, who was released to Palau, left for Turkey to be with his wife. Who knew ...

If a soldier kills a civilian , or two , it is lawful combat. If a civilian kills a soldier, it is unlawful combat. This is called asymmetri...

In ten years of war, how can it be that we have taken no prisoners? Is not each person taken by the military a prisoner of war, or assumed t...

The lease limits the US to military use of the Bay. Since there are no coal fueled ships remaining in the US Navy, the US has ceased to used...

A navy is not simply a collection of ships or fighting vessels. It is a process of activities ranging from securing those vessels, raising c...

MP Colonel Michael Bumgarner, of his pride in Guantanamo . Look inside, searching for "anyone anywhere", and scroll down.

Not Hawaii, Guam, Diego Garcia? Not Pul-e-Charkhi Prison ? The Russians had prisons you know. After the First Gulf War, where POWs we...

Naval Station: A harbor that is home to a fleet. Coaling Station: A harbor where ships can take on coal for fuel. ---- No other enterpr...

and no other . ------ A POW camp is not a Naval Station, and constructing a POW camp at Guantanamo is not necessary to fit Guantanamo Bay...

The 50 year blockade of Cuba violates international law, says everyone except Palau, Israel, and the United states. Every tort has a remed...

Hear, hear . They will welcome us with flowers.

The February 1903 lease agreement for Guantanamo states that the United States is allowed "generally to do any and all things necessa...

1903 Article III : "That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservatio...

As United States Admiral La Rocque’s Center for Defense Information has observed, “It is clearly unnecessary militarily”. Indeed, in the mo...

With the abrogation in 1934 of the May 1903 Treaty of Relations, Cuba became free to enter into military arrangements with any nation for th...

The USA may prevent Cuban vessels from access to the ports in the Bay of Guantanamo, at its sole discretion, without that action being consi...

The USA may use the property at Guantanamo only as a naval station. The lease agreement states that the purpose of the lease is to help the...

The May Treaty , article I, states "I. That the government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty or other compact with any foreign...

If the Constitution does not apply in full at Guantanamo, then on what basis do we decide which parts do apply and which parts don't app...

There are three documents at the Yale Law School, Avalon project, that seem to contain the mutual obligations of the USA and Cuba as regards...

The assumption since King John, since 1215, is that responsible authorities need a reason, a rationale, for jailing a person. King John, a t...

The so-called "settlers" drive through Palestine on expressways . The Palestinians do not have expressways; they have only local ...

A trial is political if it protects the interests of the powerful . The government says that there are no political trials, since that clai...

People spoke about the ongoing hunger strike of Samer Issawi . People in the West Bank are released in Gaza, making it impossible for them t...

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Here are some prominent people who believe that the first amendment protects the commercial press; protects a business enterprise: Huff Post...

Israel, with the approval of the US, plans to strangle Palestine. To death.

No, I'm not gay. I don't literally mean fuck the men. No, I am not advocating raping the women either, although a lot of women in t...

1951, Completes class at the School of the Americas. 1954, participates in the coup of Arbenz. 1970, named Chief of Staff of the Army of G...

Zero-Dark-Thirty, although it is a work of fiction, may cross the line of advocating "immanent lawless action". Torture is an ongo...

At the small port.

A three hour crossing, but it's all downhill from here.

Or "May one shout fire in a crowded theatre"?

Starting at 11:00. The UN starts a/the cholera epidemic in Haiti

citation Replacing all the energy currently being used with renewables will not be "enough". The demand for energy will contin...

From Easter Island. That would explain a lot.

Restore the retirement age to 65.

Yes, get the mercury out. Now.

China has used the dollar as its currency for years. Q: Who is in the basement of the fed pumping out more greenbacks, as QE1, QE2, QE3? A:...

Don't nod. Maybe look away, distracted.

in the Burgess Shale , for natural gas.

Everywhere .

They HATE us for our FREEdom

All the carbon and twice the oxygen goes into the air. For every train of coal three trainloads of CO2 For every mountain, three.

1. Methane burns to release energy, creating water and CO 2 .     So gas is clean er , not clean.     Clean er than what? Clean er t...

or the new New Jersey. "beautiful piece of country and turned it into this huge trash dump". GasLand

In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is a difference. This explains how fracking contaminates well water.

Near large amounts of cash, the truth bends.

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.

We need 1. Activated watchdog agencies 2. Comprehensive, online , open records with maps 3. Unconditional clean water guarantee 4. Un...

The holy dollar, here .

A sign of water well contamination with fracking fluid ?

The latest "must have" kitchen appliance. video

The Halliburton loophole, click to enlarge. 2005 Energy Act, pdf page 102 Drillers do not want to be subject to the Safe Drinking Water A...

In mythology, Circe was a powerful witch who, with the help of herbs, muttering incantations, or praying to her gods, could turn men into ...

1. Air pollution 2. Water pollution 3. Land destruction 4. Corruption of government 1. Air Pollution &nbsp*&nbsp The fracking ...

What does the superfund demonstrate? That when there is short term money to be made that leaves long term problems, the government hasn...

To get a fire started, you need fuel, oxygen, and heat. How did these three things get together, or rather where? One guess, the condensat...

Moving from fixed-benefit to fixed-contribution.

Natural gas is methane. The material that comes up the well bore is shale oil and gas: gas and liquid. Some gas is vented, and some liquid...

Let's finish cleaning up West Valley before we jump into fracking. What's the rush? The gas isn't going anywhere.

vendor It is true that with horizontal drilling, you can choose where to locate the drill rig, so that rigs do not need to be "in your...

vendor In conventional drilling, &nbsp - The gas has migrated from an oily shale strata &nbsp - to a porous sandstone reservoi...

on the streets of other people's cities. Obama, referring to Aurora Colorado

Other than invade the Middle East. And CFLs.

Q: What does the Constitution mean when it says the President is the Commander In Chief? A: It means that he is in charge of the armed force...

McVee says he was motivated by Waco.

Simple demonstration in Buffalo. The Peace Center joins Women in Black on Elmwood .

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