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WASHINGTON - Even as the issue of torture appears likely to burst back onto the public agenda next week -- thanks to the much anticipated release of an internal CIA report -- one of the most progressive voices in Congress is arguing that the Obama White House has a legal obligation to investigate the Bush torture legacy.
New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, a senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told the Huffington Post that he believed that President Obama would be breaking the law if he decided to oppose launching investigation into the authorization of torture.
"If they follow the law they have no choice," Nadler said in an interview this past weekend.
The logic, for Nadler, is straightforward. As a signatory of the convention against torture, and as a result of the anti-torture act of 1996, the United States government is obligated to investigate accusations of torture when they occur in its jurisdiction.
The alternative, Nadler said, "would be violating the law. They would be not upholding the law; they would be violating it."
Nadler said that a special prosecutor should handle the task, because some of the likely subjects of such an investigation worked in the Justice Department. "There is an inherent conflict interest," said Nadler," which is why you must appoint a special prosecutor. But, again, you have no choice because that's the law."
Respected by his colleagues as one of the sharpest legal minds in Congress, Nadler has taken a leading role in pushing the Obama administration to investigate its predecessor. Beyond the legal requirements, he argues that there is a moral and political imperative - lest the precedent be set that potential illegalities go un-probed. In recent weeks, Attorney General Eric Holder has hinted that he would support a special prosecutor to look into the narrow issue of whether some interrogators exceeded their instructions. But Nadler is far from satisfied with what he's seeing from DOJ.
"[Holder] was strongly inclined to support a special prosecutor," he said. "But not for the lawyers who wrote the memos justifying the torture, and not for anybody who acted within the scope of those memos; only for some local level guy who acted beyond the scope of those memos, who waterboarded with too much water or whatever."
"You must not limit it that way," he added. "Again it would be
against the law to do it because you have got to investigate everybody
involved in torture or in a conspiracy to order torture."
But Nadler is no dupe. He recognizes that this matter is complicated by politics. He says his major concern is not whether the Obama administration sees the legal rationale for such an investigation, but rather whether it has the political fortitude for tackling such a task.
"If you start prosecuting the Bush people," Nadler said, "you know what is going to be said? What's going to be said is, this is politically motivated payback for the Clinton impeachment. That is what they are going to say."
"And you know that if you do this, there is going to be a tremendous pushback starting with Fox News and everywhere else," he added, "not on the merits but on the political motivation of the Obama administration for vengeance... Who needs that? So from a political point of view it is the last thing you want to do. From a point of view of reestablishing justice in this country, it is essential."
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Here we are arguing about what is considered torture when we should be investigating goals outlined in the "original" Project for the New American Century" as applied by the Bush Administration.
The BIG LIE, to the people, to deceive them into a war without end!
That's the BIG crime! First things First!
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NMBill August 21st, 2009 2:16 pm..............Re-investigate 911.....there will be no peace and moving ahead without a new and independent investigation. This is a must. Please support NYC CAN.
If you mean including an investigation about what and when top people in the Bush administration knew about an Al Quieda plot, and the possibility that they let it happen that is fine. but if you are hoping for some kind of conclusion that the events on Sept. 11 were all a huge lurid Bush administration plot of remote controlled planes and secretly planted explosives - well, you have good company among the gun slinging "death panel" people.
The facts are a group of radical Arabs hijacked the planes and flew them into the symbols of US imperial power, and for some pretty obvious reasons. It was indeed a horrible tragedy, but it was a fully expected consequence of US foreign policy. It is that foreign policy that needs investigation.
Totally agreed.
Plus, I think they coined (and vigorously pursued) the term "never waste a crisis" way before Rahm Emanuel ever did.
Explain Bldg. 7, pjd412, and don't give me the insane story that it was those tiny fires.
I think there is plenty of room for you over at the nearest "death panel" meeting.
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No, go here:
journalfor9/11studies.com, stj9/11.com, ae9/11truth.com, pilotsfor9/11truth.com, etc.
Go to books like, "Crossing the Rubicon," which was presented as case evidence by a former police detective, using forensics and investigation as if 9/11 were a crime, which it was.
If the truth were there, why wasn't OBL tried in absentia? Why hasn't he even been charged with this crime, even to the present day? Why haven't the confiscated DC hotel camera video tapes been released? Why was no explanation given to the fact that photographed in the Pentagon wreckage was a turbo-fanblade from an air-breathing cruise missile? Why hasn't a coherent explanation of the Unbelievable Total Lack of the survivability of the hidden massive-beam Inner-core backbone of not just one but BOTH towers addressed - if Those Giants crumpled so easily, then why isn't every steel-frame building shut down and razed as unsafe?
Why then, if the steel actually were 'melted' by the spectacular but brief and relatively harmless Hollywood-style air-blowoffs of most of the jet fuel, and then the resultant office furnishings-and-paper fires, did the towers not fall asymmetrically, as the fires were totally asymmetric as was the physical damage? Why have there been NO successful and enlightening trials of terrorists YET in this country (whatever happened to the 'terrorists' in Florida who asked their FBI handler/instigator if they could have some shoes first please?) And so on.
IF Americans were involved, most probably Bush and Cheney were not, directly; no reason for them to be, though it is tempting to read something into Bush's nonchalance the day of the attacks, sitting there as if he had been told that the plan had been executed, rather than the reported phrase that the nation was under attack... and then sitting there for seven more minutes and reading a kiddie book before someone finally decided to hustle him away as being a little TOO nonchalant... because he 'didn't want to scare the kids'... ya gotta be kidding.
No, IF Americans were involved (and it is not an established fact, just like all the other inconvenient facts, which is the problem), this would have to be done by something like a rogue CIA superblack cell. Nothing reported out of the box. Nothing evidenced as going into the box. Independent operation, no directives. All of it roped off from the politicians that had handed down the generalized clandestine initiatives (America doesn't torture... but maybe somebody does, wink, wink. And the President does not condone torture... but maybe someone will, wink, wink. And we have to work on the Dark Side... but how Dark well who knows WINK WINK. And according to PNAC if there were a new Pearl Harbor... but of some homemade kind WINK WINK. And if the Chicago Boys Gangleader Friedman thinks it would be great to perpetrate Shock Doctrine Treatment on Americans... maybe someting might will happen to dem WINK, WINK.)
And as far as keeping all this secret, well, the Manhattan Project was totally unknown to the American public at the time and the details unknown for decades, even after atomic bombs leveled whole cities, though thousands worked on the project. A 9/11 project wouldn't even need as much as a few dozen insiders, all of them silenced by their own high treason. Hey, just look at Bernie Madoff...can people keep a secret for years or what?
But the investigation of the most important single event on American soil of the past decade has been a shameful whitewash and bumsrush. I am not a 'truther'-cultist, I am a truth-searcher, as most questioners are. And the 9/11 investigation has been most obviously politically thwarted from the start, and still is. Let us investigate this major crime as a major crime, investigated by detectives not politicians, in public and in full, to wherever it may lead, as it is clear nobody now knows the full truth. Because the real opposite of the 'truthers' are the 'obstructionists'.
Excellent post Mr. Horn,
I was a pilot for many years and must tell you that there are a few disturbing accidents in the pilot community that do not add up at all.
They are:
• Colorado Springs. No evidence was ever recovered and no plausible causes ever determined. The yaw damper was eventually blamed via pressure to conclude the long running investigation, but none of us ever saw any transcripts of CVR or FDR printouts. Just a picture of a smoking crater like at the pentagon. We accepted it as: a high speed impact. But nobody reported a sonic boom in the area, which means it wasn't going fast enough to cause a supersonic crater like that. That close to the ground, with an object as big as a B737, somebody's windows should have been blown out.
• TWA 800. All B747 TWA pilots I have talked to, have told me that they feel the plane was hit by a missile. Much of the evidence was destroyed. It was well documented by the Mcgraw Hill publication Aviation Week and Space Technology, that the FBI interfered with the investigation (Director Louis Free) , and for the first time in history would not allow the NTSB investigators to see or photograph any of the wreckage until after the Navy yanked it up on deck. This destroyed any hope of figuring out which pieces came off first. Many were never recovered. Fuel pump wiring in the Center Fuel tank was blamed, even though for 40 years nothing like this has ever happened to a B747 before or since. Eyewitnesses on the shore claimed they saw a smoke contrail head for the plane and hit it.
• 911. Again, no transcripts were ever made available to the pilot community. Why? With these exceptions, since the advent of CVR and FDR devices transcripts were always released if the "black boxes", which are actually orange, are recovered. But even if all those were lost, (All four flights; what are the odds?) at least ATC radar data, showing direction and speed is released. Not this time. But controllers working that day claim that a NORAD exercise was underway that simulated false targets making it impossible for ATC to know what the hell was going on. No one, has ever been able to tell me what speed and bank angle the second aircraft hit at. The video is clear, that even an experienced pilot would have had trouble hitting the building from greater than a 45 degree bank angle. If the speed was over 250 knots it would have been even harder.
We have to know those two things to access whether it was likely that it was under human control. My guess is the guy was just lucky, (from his perspective) since he almost just clipped the corner and missed the building. Massive vacancies were in the building (from the 2000 recession) and the ownership had just changed. After the 1993 near collapse, insurance companies were concerned about the payout on a teetering building that would fall like a redwood and take out ten city blocks. A guy used to post here at CD that claimed there was an "operation Godzilla" mandated by FEMA to prewire tall buildings in case they got hit and threatened large adjacent buildings if they were not expected to collapse straight down. It's logical.
We need a real investigation, starting with Salem Bin Laden, GWB's financial business partner in Abusto Energy, and then with the hundreds of transactions between H.W.Bush's Caryle Group and the Bin Laden Brothers Construction for Industry.
Otherwise, this government doesn't want us to know what happened, and we're just pissing in the wind. All of the above, is just my opinion only.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
double post
ThomasJefferson, Typical. Great Post!
'cept one thing, all you wrote ain't jus'
yer opinion sir; cuz I concurr.
pjd412 August 22nd, 2009 12:44 am.................Read David Ray Griffin's book, "Debunking 9/11 Debunking".....
1. Remote controlled planes exist. Were they involved in the WTC attacks? How should I know for sure. But maybe...it would explain the flying ace piloting that was involved in the attacks.
2. Hidden explosives. The evidence is strong and mounting that the WTC collapses were controlled demolitions. The clearest indication is WTC 7 which was not hit by any plane or damaged by large debris, but collapsed anyway into its own footprint as in a controlled demolition. Also a peer reveiwed Danish science journal published a study that found significant nano-thermite (a powerful military restricted explosive) residue in WTC debris.
Opportunity-The Bush family had tentacles that reached deeply into information about WTC security. With Cheney's, the plotters were able to be sure that there would be no air defense intercepts until it was all over.
Motive 1 - Excuse to invade Iraq. It's an historical fact that that Cheney & the Company pushed the false 9/11 - Saddam connection
Mtive 2 - Destroy Pentagon accounting records that would have shed light on the missing 3 trillion at the Pentagon= google Dov Zakheim.
Motive + Opportunity = Suspect
Arrest and Prosecute all War Criminals Now!!!
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Im for a real investigation but all of your truth books are off on
" Hidden explosives. The evidence is strong and mounting that the WTC collapses were controlled demolitions. The clearest indication is WTC 7 which was not hit by any plane or damaged by large debris, but collapsed anyway into its own footprint as in a controlled demolition."
Here is why:
number 7 was heavily damaged from the tower debris falling on it and in fact it did not fall in its foot print as the damaged back side peeled away and fell back away from the front side as in the fall in movie clip you see.
All your cult books like leave out these facts.
Ask why your sources leave out the contradictory facts to what you are claiming.
Steel frames do not have to "melt" and the way you guys keep this melt crap up the more you show ...no Show.
Engineers know that structural steel begins to fail and warp under normal loads at only 1,000 degrees. F
After the explosions of the airplanes there were no normal loads on the damaged frames trying to hold the upper ends of the towers... they were big time heavy loads on hot reduced, damaged and weakened frames getting hotter by the second.
Any one who calls these fires "little fires" is out of touch with reality.
All these false claims have been proven false and the amount of "unburned thermite" claimed to have been found in the dust seems to be more than anything else stored in the building.... thermite does not go out.
why didn't it burn?
Because there was no thermite...
If Obama does not investigate these guys, He will not get reelected, and I might get so pissed, I'll write another protest song!
See ya
Jim Glover August 22nd, 2009 3:16 pm
Im for a real investigation but all of your truth books are off on
" Hidden explosives. The evidence is strong and mounting that the WTC collapses were controlled demolitions. The clearest indication is WTC 7 which was not hit by any plane or damaged by large debris, but collapsed anyway into its own footprint as in a controlled demolition."
Here is why:
number 7 was heavily damaged from the tower debris falling on it and in fact it did not fall in its foot print as the damaged back side peeled away and fell back away from the front side as in the fall in movie clip you see.........(What movie clip?...which link?...the one below?....nothing there about WTC 7. Get it together! If you have evidence, make it easily available. If you have seen a video from the rear of WTC 7, I would sure like to see it. No one else has. And any rear view has nothing to do with the controlled demolition of this building. Even experts who did not know this was WTC 7, have said this was absolutely a controlled demolition. Witnesses heard the countdown. Silverstein said, "Pull it". The damage from the falling tower was no place near enough to bring down the building. One must remember that a steel structured building has never collapsed from fire in the history of mankind. Yet, on that dreadful day, we are supposed to believe against unbelievable odds that THREE buildings collapsed on that day due to fire that could never have exceeded 600 degrees.)
All your cult books like leave out these facts........(What facts...you have presented NONE!)
Ask why your sources leave out the contradictory facts to what you are claiming....(Same as above...you have presented NO FACTS...only the illusion of facts...c'mon, you can do better than that!)
Steel frames do not have to "melt" and the way you guys keep this melt crap up the more you show ...no Show.....................( No, they may not have to melt...AND the temperature was not even high enough to "bend" them....600 degrees..PULease! There was also NO HEAT on the bottom structure below the supposed points of impact. Those girders were constructed to easily support the entire top structure whether or not it was collapsing due to the enormous heat you propose. Heat that was so enormous, that one of the firefighters said would take ONE HOSE to extinguish.
Engineers know that structural steel begins to fail and warp under normal loads at only 1,000 degrees. F......(Even if we accept your engineers hypotheseis that the temperatures were that hot, were they hot enough to vaporize FOUR titanium engines...which would normally melt at about 5000 degrees? Would that heat also turn the 100's of thousands of tons of concrete into nano particles of dust?? Would it set vehicles on fire eight blocks away.??)
After the explosions of the airplanes there were no normal loads on the damaged frames trying to hold the upper ends of the towers... they were big time heavy loads on hot reduced, damaged and weakened frames getting hotter by the second.....................(Steel is a great conductor and wouild therefore disipate the heat thrpoughout the building....what LITTLE HEAT THERE WAS!
Any one who calls these fires "little fires" is out of touch with reality.....................(Then, I guess the fireman (chief, I believe) that was on the scene did not know of what he spoke.....it's all on tape and has been replayed a million times)
All these false claims have been proven false and the amount of "unburned thermite" claimed to have been found in the dust seems to be more than anything else stored in the building.... thermite does not go out...........(What claims?....what have you proven?
why didn't it burn?
Because there was no thermite...
If Obama does not investigate these guys, He will not get reelected, and I might get so pissed, I'll write another protest so.................
((If you are truly interested in finding the truth for yourself, there is no need to be an engineer...the facts and research are readily available on many sites and on myriad DVDs. Even if you accept the pancake theory (which is total hogwash and has been disproved hundreds of ways and hundreds of times) you would still have a rubble piles tens of stories high. The concrete and everything else (bodies, desks, chairs, fixtures, TITANIUM ENGINES et al) would not have disintegrated in to nano particles of dust. Vehicles almost a half mile away would not have caught fire in strange patterns. Explosions witnessed in the basement BEFORE the buildings collapsed would not have occurred (recorded on seismograph readings). The truth is on it's way and cannot be stopped. And remember that in the history of mankind, steel structured buildings have never collapsed from fire...NEVER...and on that fateful day, three huge buildings came down from very short and small fires. WTC 7 was NOT hit by any plane.))
Free DVDs from the 911dvdproject.com
Other valuable sites that will lead you to many more and some excellent books:
911sharethetruth.com And please support NYC CAN
See ya!
Wow, you sound like an advertisement.
just this one site
will show photos of many things that you think I am wrong on.
It is such a cliche this "And remember that in the history of mankind, steel structured buildings have never collapsed from fire...NEVER...and on that fateful day, three huge buildings came down from very short and small fires. WTC 7 was NOT hit by any plane.))"
Ya failed to mention none of the steel structured buildings that did not collapse were first hit by jet airliners and when the towers fell, the debris destroyed every building in the complex which is not too foot printy for me.
so tell me what this site prints about the Debunking and than you can debunk the debunkers on.
but I want proof that you got proof of anything that you can prove that proves what you are trying to convince me of.
So Maybe you can tell me what happened.
I saw all this fire and smoke commin outta huge holes an your gonna tell me they were little fires... there was more smoke visible than fire but the fire was a burnin and it was bending the beams a glowin according to the firemen in the helicopter observing the fire.
So Just the facts please... and questions don't quite equal facts.
Give up Jim, the loonies will go their graves believing in their nutty theory.
I am a civil engineer, and the most obvious evidence debunking their nonsense is simply that, when reviewing movies of the collapses, which clearly initiated at the floors where the impact and fire occurred, look absolutely, positively, NOTHING like any kind of building demolition using explosives, and everything like a progressive collapse. It is like someone pointing at a Cessna 150 and insisting that it is a Airbus A380. Well, yes, they are both airplanes, but otherwise are completely dissimilar. Same with the manner that these building collapsed, versus a explosive demolition.
And then ther is the Building 7 nonsense. Even if, for arguing, the collapse of Building 7 was enigmatic, (it wasn't) it is completely irrelevant to the other irrefutable facts. It is like dismissing an otherwise rick-solid case against a bank robber, because one of his accessory's has an alibi.
pjd412 August 22nd, 2009 11:07 pm...........Why not try to debate without your childish personal attacks.
If someone does not believe in what you believe, that does not make them loonie. It simply makes them someone with a different opinion.
Beliefs that have no roots in physical reality are not opinions. Saying the earth's sky is yellow is not an opinion.
So now you're a civil engineer are you? How many professions could one screen name posses?
Answer this civil engineer:
What was the original specification of the world trade center? What was it designed to be able to absorb? ANSWER: an impact of a B707 just as nuclear containment building were from the 50's. Next question Mr engineer: Are the B707 weights the same weight class as a B757? Are they same fuel loads? I'll let you answer this one, because I suspect you don't know and are going to get the answer wrong.
What are the odds of two buildings, both designed to absorb and burn the fuel out of that class of airliner, failing to meet their design specification?
What are the odds that both of them, would fail symmetrically even though the impact on the south tower hit on the corner where the remaining fuselage exited the building (clear from one video I watched.)
What are the odds, that an insurance company would pick up the phone to FEMA and voice concern that adjacent buildings might go down if the failure occurred on one side first and the thing tipped over like a giant falling redwood tree taking out ten city blocks?
Would you scramble a team to blow the building to save the lives in the adjacent buildings?
I would.
p.s. Not only would I have done that, but after the near collapse in 1993, I would have planned for this eventuality and pre wired all tall buildings in accordance with prudent FEMA contingencies.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
The odds are good when the building was not designed for airline hits plus catastrophic explosions and fire, and the design specifications were on paper but the cost cutting corners were in the rubble.
the Empire state building was made to take a hit and fire but the towers were not.
Even if you would have wired all tall buildings does not prove anything except your weirdness and you are no Thomas Jefferson.
Jim Glover August 22nd, 2009 6:08 pm..........Wow, you sound like an advertisement. .......(Cut the crap...just deal with the facts on all the sites I gave you. You are responding in generalizations. I've given you specifics. Here's another one about the Pentagon.....which says it is mathematically and physically impossible for that flight 77 to have hit the pentagon without disintegrating....please respond to this.....
just this one site
will show photos of many things that you think I am wrong on.......(I refer you to David Ray Griffin's "Debunking 9/11 Debunking".
It is such a cliche this "And remember that in the history of mankind, steel structured buildings have never collapsed from fire...NEVER...and on that fateful day, three huge buildings came down from very short and small fires. WTC 7 was NOT hit by any plane.))".......(.It may have become a cliche, but that does not dismiss it as fact. Stick to the facts and please stop the diversionary remarks. )
Ya failed to mention none of the steel structured buildings that did not collapse were first hit by jet airliners and when the towers fell, the debris destroyed every building in the complex which is not too foot printy for me..........(I thought you said the fires destroyed the towers. Now, you are saying the impact destroyed the towers...which is it? The towers were built to withstand the impact of several airliners.
so tell me what this site prints about the Debunking and than you can debunk the debunkers on..........(What site?...Be specific!)
but I want proof that you got proof of anything that you can prove that proves what you are trying to convince me of..(What the hell are you saying. Again, stop the crap and stick to the facts.....
So Maybe you can tell me what happened.............(Do the research if you are interested in finding the truth instead of the lies of the official story. I did.) I've given you all the info. I am not here for you to pick MY brain. Do the work.
I saw all this fire and smoke commin outta huge holes an your gonna tell me they were little fires... there was more smoke visible than fire but the fire was a burnin and it was bending the beams a glowin according to the firemen in the helicopter observing the fire. .........(More smoke than fire...an oxygen starved situation, which means the temps could get no where near the degrees necessary to melt or compromise the steel. I did not say they were little fires...the chief did. If the fire was so hot, how could that woman standing in the opening stand the heat? Ever see that picture? Ever see the pics of the huge steel girders cut diagonally...only could be done with thermite or thermate.)
So Just the facts please... and questions don't quite equal facts...(.Nonsense...I've given you plenty of facts and there are many more on the sites. Do the research, read the sites...answer the FACTS I have presented.)
You have stated that you want a re-investigation of 9/11. You must have some doubt about the official story.
Since you suggested we "cut the crap".
You have not given me any facts and I don't think David Ray Griffin is an expert in the subject or science. He is into religion. That is his expert field of study and it shows.
You say:
"(I thought you said the fires destroyed the towers. Now, you are saying the impact destroyed the towers...which is it? The towers were built to withstand the impact of several airliners."
We can all see that the buildings stood for a while after the crash but the fires built up and could not be extinguished no matter how much you distort it.
You guys always cherry pick apart a statement and that is your crap.
You "thought", that is the problem you did not read correctly what I said. It was the fires that warped the beams including the weakened, and already damaged beams from the huge impact and explosiions. They go together no matter how you try to make it all one or the other. It is you guys who try to make it only a "little fire', you take a comment out of context and a single picture of an impact or exit explosion hole where some poor person was somehow able to get to, does not indicate the temperature of the beams and raging fire inside the towers. If i remember that photo the wind was blowing the smoke and fire away from that person by the hole. Tell the firemen who were there that it was a "little fire".
Most fires in big buildings well give off more smoke than fire but that does not mean the fire was not hot. More crap from YOU.
I gave you the site to debunk.
It takes all your crazy theories and puts them up to the light of reason and science, not religion which is the real expertise of David Ray Griffin, not science or fires.
Yes, I have a doubt about the official story. I doubt that the Bush was not aware that a suicide plane attack was in the works because many intel agencies knew and Bush called off the FBI from investigating the Saudi connections to the hijackers just before 9/11. Bush was planning on attacking Afghanistan for oil pipelines at the time.
The truth movement largely doesn't even believe there were hijackers so that gets Bush off the hook and puts him in your fantasy.
This article is about investigating Bush.
If by some miracle there is an investigation, if I was defending Bush you guys with your crazy theories would be the first witnesses i would call and the case would be dismissed from lack of any real evidence.
Bush would be off the hook. The best way to ruin a case is to bring sensational charges which have no proof.
I am familiar with all your charges and the demolition ones are false.
So are you prepared to testify under oath about what you are charging here?
Every cover-up needs these distractions to succeed and you are doin a swell job.
the alternative would be violating the law. this is news?
Nope. A "senior democrat" recognizing it publicly - now that's news!
This kind of public recognition and acknowledgement creates a motivation to prosecute - both the bushAdmin torturers and perhaps eventually 0.
I don't much like my next door neighbor, and I suspect he may be a terrorist. So tonight I'm going to torture and kill him.
I don't have to worry about facing prosecution. When they catch me I'll tell them it all happened in the past, and that we should only look to the future.
That's right, I'll call it "The Obama Defense."
In California we can't afford prisons anyway. Shouldn't the "forward looking" Obama Defense be reason enough to shut them down completely?
Thank GOD...
It will be to wait and see how far it goes.
If it isn't done, we won't have a moral leg to stand on on anything. We 50 somethings grew up with one total constant...nazis torture, barbaric inhumane governments torture, WE don't torture. It's a line you don't cross.
Amen, and damned straight, OnceAgain!
And 7 years ago, it was the 50 somethings (and slightly older) in the Bush administration that gleefully crossed that line. Some people of your generation didn't get that memo.
-- But Nadler is no dupe. --
Now why is this sentence here? Why is there the supposed need for the author to write this and then have to explain why Mr. Nadler is no 'dupe'? This is either sloppy writing or something more invidious.
"But Nadler is a realist" would say the same thing and not have any negative connotations, only positive.
The real crime was not sterilizing the Bush and Walkers beginning with Prescott's generation, what a better world it would have been.
Now all we can do is wonder what vermin with those names waits for its time to come.
perhaps a career change is in the making for. it goes like
this- push cart vendor in the dc area working between doj and
the whitehouse. product in demand? BALLS! GOT EM BY THE SET
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need some focus group feed back here. what do you all think?
"From a point of view of reestablishing justice in this country, it is essential."
Yes, and from a moral point of view, it is also essential.
But justice and morality no longer seem to matter to the power elite who run this country.
You said it, Ed! If they don't indict and charge them with war crimes (not to mention crimes against the constitution, and for lying to the American people and the world) they owe every tyrant and war criminal ever prosecuted pardons, and/or apologies. The Lies and acts of Bush, Cheney, Rove and Ashcroft; to name a few, are as evil and wrong as any dictator or tyrant in modern times
Mr. Stein is in all seriousness entertaining the notion that Obama has political fortitude. Must be something wrong with that man Stein.
And when, exactly, has Obama, since winning the election, shown any regard for the law?
Talk is cheap, Mr. Nadler. Where's the action?
JUSTICE!.....It's that simple....JUSTICE......InternationaL and domestic laws have been broken. If you cannot live up to your OATH OF OFFICE, step down and let someone with COURAGE take the helm, Mr. Obama. This is not a choice because of political overtones.....IT IS MANDATORY THE LAW BE ENFORCED.
500,000 unnecessary deaths in Iraq some very backward, picky, over sensitve radicals might just possibly find a crime in that USA made hell.
Afghanistan is going the way of Iraq or worse,( less resources to rebound with and much longer warfare) might be a crime in those untold number of dead civilians and dead nationalist freedom fighters.
correct. as i do believe many others have noted many times during the last 8 years, the Nuremberg judges did declare that unprovoked invasion of other countries is the ultimate war crime.
this is certainly the case in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Obama is not stupid. He has crafted everything from running his campaign to his presidency today. He chose Holder to head up the justice dept because Holder worked at a Washington DC law firm that represented GWBush in the Rove missing email case. He defended the RNC against many suits like the phone jammbing case in New Hampshire.
Upon entering his presidency Obama chose Holder because he knew that it was very unlikely unless pushed he would go after the last administration. Obama said "look to the future" and I am passing this to dead end Holder.
However the spirit of justice that statue with the scales is blind folded. She is blind folded so that she can not see if the prosecuted is rich or poor, black or white, holds power or has none. Without the equality of justice and we are so very close to that even without this issue then the rule of law fails.
Obama not seeking prosecution of crime as is his sworn duty is braking the law and braking the back of the spirit of justice casting out the rule of law and replacing it with president as King. He may wish he was on the field with Martin Luther King but as we know by now he is not even in the same league.Will we allow him to be the other kind of King?
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Heck, no one should obey the law, no one should pay their bills, every one should cheat and get as much as they can get no matter who you screw especially if it is the government ( taxpayer citizens) since that is the example our officials set. Excellent anarchy and chaos-just what the system needs to recover, make a 5 year plan and be able to anticipate the rules of the road ahead. Labour is in the same boat-they should know what to expect from experience by now-the shaft and few job opportunities. I feel more secure already.
Give credit to Nadler for spelling out the "reality" that political considerations and anticipated public reactions TRUMP the national interest, the rule of law and justice. Nadler was in a position during the last Congress when "torture" was in the public domain along with numerous other violations of the Constitution by the Bush administration to move for an impeachment investigation. He did not -- and in my one conversation with the Congressman [January 2008 in NH], he seemed not to be knowledgeable about impeachment. Nadler apparently wants Obama to move -- I believe he is still in a postion as a member of the House Committee on Justice to do more than he is doing.
Herb Hoffman
Yeah, like I know this guy, he murdered someone a few months ago. But hey, that's in the past and we must look forward. We can't be bothered by the 'rule of law' and other responsibilities.
Obama is a hypocrite just like previous Presidents.
Come on guys. Yea, I voted for Bush twice, and now wish I could have a do-over. I think he is going to go down in history as the most inept president in history. But I do not believe that we should be expending efforts to nail him for past bad decisions, and crush the CIA and FBI in the process. Bush bounced back from 9/11 in the best way he could. Let's bury this thing and move on to bigger and better things. Bush will get his due, but let's not be vindictive to the detriment of the country.
jlohman August 21st, 2009 5:41 pm..............Bush is a genocidal murderer. This is not vindictiveness. This is JUSTICE. The entire Bush criminal family is a pox on this earth. The CIA needs to be crushed. The FBI has some hopes. Tell your "moving on story" to the victims of the Bush regime....especially the tortured children and future victims of the use of DU in the ME.
9/11 was a false flag, so there was little to bounce back from.
Support NYC CAN for a re-investigation of 9/11.
I know I am wasting my time here, since you voted for Bush twice. Are you sure you are on the right website?
This is typical of former Bush voters, even when they see a thin beam of light years after it's too late to matter. It wasn't "bad decisions" Bush made that defrauded the country into invading Iraq. They were very deliberate, calculated lies meant to divide the country and create an opening for Bush as dictator, and they worked because millions like jlohman drank the kool-aid. Prosecuting this war criminal for heinous crimes against humanity has nothing to do with being vindictive. Failing to prosecute will only lead to the further detriment of the country, if you're really interested in the country's welfare. Ignoring 8 years of lies, deceit, chicanery and illegality cannot help but dig us deeper into the moral cesspool the Bush-Cheney years waterboarded the entire world into. But it's apparent you lack the basic moral equipment to detect this, having voted TWICE for this consummate idiot.
In addition to 500,000 dead Iraqis and 3 or 4 thousand dead Americans, and an ancient country in ruins with the intention to wipe out their history and culture...signing thousands of deregulations turning a blind eye to corporations and Wall Street leaving the country in financial ruin, not to mention torture, rendition, etc. etc.
...oh yes, let's just move on...let bygones be bygones...geeez.... what are you doing on CD after voting for Bush not only once, but twice...you are part of the problem and one of those neanderthals the rest of the world shakes their head in disbelief of so much ignorance ...
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Materials 2013, 6(3), 1061-1071; doi:10.3390/ma6031061
Quinacridone-Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Polymers for Organic Field-Effect Transistors
1 Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8527, Japan 2 RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Abstract: Incorporation of pigment or dye molecules as building units is of great interest in the development of semiconducting polymers, due to their strong intermolecular interactions arising from the strong local dipoles in the unit structure, which would facilitate the charge transport property. In this paper, semiconducting polymers based on well-known pigments, namely, quinacridone and diketopyrrolopyrrole, are synthesized and characterized. The π-stacking distances are found to be 3.5–3.8 Å, which is fairly narrow for semiconducting polymers, indicating that they possess strong intermolecular interactions. Interestingly, polymer orientation is influenced by the composition of alkyl side chains. While the edge-on orientation is observed when the linear alkyl groups are introduced for all the side chains, the face-on orientation is observed when the branched alkyl groups are introduced either in the quinacridone or diketopyrrolopyrrole unit. It is found that the electronic structure of the present polymers is mostly affected by that of the diketopyrrolopyrrole unit, as evidenced by the absorption spectra and computation. Although the field-effect mobility of the polymers is modest, i.e., in the order of 10−4–10−3 cm2/Vs, these findings could be important information for the development of semiconducting polymers.
Keywords: semiconducting polymers; pigment; quinacridone; diketopyrrolopyrrole; organic field-effect transistors
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Washington, D.C., April 2, 2012 – 150 years ago in 1862, amidst the bloodiest war in our nation's history, the Lincoln administration had the foresight to pass two historic pieces of legislation: the Pacific Railway Act and the Homestead Act. The first opened up the American West for potential settlers by encouraging railroads to build from coast to coast. The second offered title to 160 acres of land to anyone who was willing to homestead and farm it for five years. Together, after the war, these acts resulted in an explosion of economic growth of the young nation, and the opening of vast new resources for America and the world.
But half a century after the first human went into space, that new frontier remains barren, despite the wealth of potential resources available. Current international policy actively discourages the settlement of space.
Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute [2] released a new study by Adjunct Scholar Rand Simberg [3]: Homesteading the Final Frontier: A Practical Proposal for Securing Property Rights in Space [4]. Simberg argues that the U.S. should recognize transferable off-planet land claims under conditions such as those outlined by the proposed Space Settlement Prize Act, which Simberg renames the Space Homesteading Act.
A legal private property regime for real estate on the Moon, Mars, and asteroids could usher in a new era of space exploration at little or no cost to the U.S. government. As the study explains, space is rich in valuable resources. But without off-planet property rights, investors have little incentive to fund space transportation or development. Simberg proposes that the U.S. begin to recognize off-planet land claims of claimants who
A) establish human settlements on the Moon, Mars, or other bodies in the solar system;
B) provide affordable commercial transportation between the settlement and Earth; and
C) offer land for sale.
These claim rights would transform human perception of space. Currently, the international community treats outer space as an off-limits scientific preserve instead of what it could be: a frontier of possibilities for exploration, resource development, and human settlement.
Many legal scholars claim that both the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) and the 1979 Moon Treaty outlaw private property claims in space. Simberg argues that the Outer Space Treaty only precludes land claims by sovereign nations---not by individuals or corporations. He also argues that the U.S. should repudiate the Moon Treaty (to which it is not a signatory), which does explicitly outlaw such claims.
Advocates of the expansion of property rights off-planet have commended Simberg for releasing a study that draws attention to the issue and provokes much-needed debate.
"Property rights are at the core of personal freedoms," said Gary C. Hudson, President of the Space Studies Institute. "There's no reason to believe that they are any less important off the Earth than they are here on Earth."
Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Policy at the Reason Foundation, said, "Ten or fifteen years ago, private-enterprise space travel was still the stuff of science fiction, so property rights in space was a non-issue. That is no longer the case, and we'd better start getting serious about such property rights if we're serious about opening the space frontier."
Terry C. Savage, member of the Board of Directors of the National Space Society, said, "With his proposal to solve the critical problem of establishing property rights in space, Rand Simberg has produced an extensively researched...and entirely readable...explanation of the history and underlying issues involved, followed by a simple, elegant solution. Anyone who understands the importance of humanity leaving the Earth should read and support this proposal, as I do."
Mr. Simberg will present his study at a Capitol Hill briefing on Thursday, April 5th at 11 a.m. at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2325. See here [5] for more information on the briefing and to RSVP.
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Fire investigators concluded that someone torched south Macons Reaching Souls Cathedral of Praise Apostolic Church on Bethesda Avenue early Monday.
Cotton, an accelerant detection canine from the State Fire Marshals Office, walked through the rubble Tuesday morning and alerted his handler.
Investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have been working with the Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioners Office and the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department to determine the cause of the blaze that tore through the sanctuary building.
The investigators suspected arson Monday and brought the canine in to be sure.
The dog did basically confirm our findings and we will rule it as arson, said Morgan Fisher, the resident agent in charge of the ATFs Macon office.
A news conference is set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the fire department headquarters, Fisher said.
Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner Ralph Hudgens office also confirmed arson in a Tuesday news release.
The marshals dog is trained to detect hydrocarbons in up to 30 different kinds of ignitable liquids, said Bruce Gourley, Cottons handler.
Samples can be sent to a lab for confirmation of the chemicals, which could occur naturally in substances such as carpet glue, he said.
When he alerts, then we have to eliminate whether its supposed to be there or not, Gourley said.
Investigators met at the site at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and put up posters requesting information leading to the arrest and conviction of a person responsible for arson.
Early Monday, flames tore through the roof of the main building and its brick walls buckled in the intense heat.
The fire spread to an adjoining social hall and damaged the rear of that building.
Investigators combed through debris for much of the day Monday and firefighters guarded the scene until all the evidence could be collected.
They released the property at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
The congregations pastor, Onslow Ross, is serving a federal sentence on 54 counts of various financial crimes involving the misuse of a $389,000 insurance check.
In May 2005, the former main sanctuary buildings roof collapsed and the frame for a new building went up.
In U.S. District Court in Macon in June 2008, Ross was sentenced to 130 months in prison for forging a CB&T Bank signature, depositing the check into a new Security Bank account and writing cashiers checks to businesses and members of Ross family.
A woman who answered the churchs phone Monday said she could not comment on the fire and hung up.
The Telegraph left a phone message Tuesday morning seeking comment about the congregations plans, but the call was not immediately returned.
Anyone with information about the fire is urged to call the Arson Hotline at (800) 282-5804.
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Big Phillies fans here at the Italian Market's Sarcone's — during the season, treat yourself to a "J-Roll" (turkey/salami/pepperoni/peppers/provolone) or a "Chooch" (classic South Philly roast pork with sharp provolone).
Phenomenal sandwiches in the Italian Market. The bread is outstanding, and they don't skimp on anything. There isn't really room to sit, though, and the drink and chips options are limited.
The best cold sandwiches in town. My fav, the Old Fashioned Italian, is an Italian hoagie, but fancied up.
They are so many great sandwiches in here, I really love going in here and taking a very long breaks. I like hanging in here and having coffee with their sandwiches.
Best Hoagies in the City! – 'nuff said - my favorite is the turkey. The bread is fantastic too - just be sure to get there before they run out - yes, they are THAT popular!
the hoagies you dream about – the best hoagie you will ever have- lots to chose from, all delicious.
don't wait all day to get your hoagie- they often run out of bread.
Good Eats – Sarcone's is known throughout Philadelphia as one of the top delis in the city. Expect a great sandwich on their famous bread, piled high with meats and cheeses.
Come early, or you'll likely miss out on the chicken cutlet, pork, roast beef, etc.
You can also go down the street to Sarcone's Bakery and pick up all of your fresh bread for the week.
A bakery that gives you this day your daily bread--and then fills it with the best of the Italian Market. – In Short
Meat and cheese slicers flank a sandwich assembly line. While sandwich builders construct, the foreman takes orders at the cashier. Sarcone's bread is famous in Philly: it's soft, dense and chewy--perfect for sopping up flavors exuded from sandwiches doused in vinegar, oil and dried herbs. The menu calls them hoagies, but these local delicacies aren't your typical corner-store subs. Try hefty combinations that go by names like "the Booch:" roast beef, asparagus, sharp provolone.
best hoagie ever – If you ever get to Philly, this is the spot for hoagies. Period. You'd be hard-pressed to find a better one elsewhere. My personal favorite is the Sarcone Special. Proscuitto, sharp provolone, roasted red peppers, garlic, olive oil and vinegar. The best.
Gut busting value – A giant sandwich of yummy delicious Italian goodness on an excellent roll - these sandwiches are huge. Usually you can get a good two meals out of it and it's so tasty! Recommend calling ahead - or if you risk the wait, at least you can perch on the stoop and watch the afternoon go by.
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Hey, our friend Dan Moore from Microsoft is here to check in with old NAMM friends, spread the word about Vista, and overall, help make Microsoft easier for developers to work with…in his words:
I had the pleasure of enjoying my first NAMM in nine years not having to demo anything, sell anything, yell over the din of guitar amps and control room monitors…and yet my voice is still shot! To make things more fun, I was joined by two NAMM first-timers and they soaked it all up. Overall we had a great time, walked the floor and reached out to our partners, listened to what our partners need from Microsoft, and eventually will turn that feedback into a tighter worknig relationship between Microsoft and the audio/music development community.
After developing recording and computer audio products for Mackie for last eight years of my life, I really enjoyed having an objective perspective on the needs and wants of our partners as it applies to the Windows platform. I feel incredibly lucky to be in a position where I can apply the years of experience in pro audio to bear on what I perceive to be some of the biggest undiscovered business opportunities we have yet to realize.
There are so many compelling stories to tell around creativity and technology, and NAMM is great place to capture those. With Vista hitting the streets shortly, there will undoubtedly be more. I was amazed when I first learned about the new audio stack in Vista, the fact it was completely re-written to be more efficient, powerful, and reliable, and overall easier with which to work for the audio/music developer community. The launch of the Crossfader web site (http://www.crossfader.com) at CES provides a channel to tell those user stories, and highlight some of the great video content our partners have been doing for years.
Overall you get to the larger goal by hitting the smaller goals along the way. Having a presence and visibility at NAMM, reaching out to the partner community, and building these relationships was a necessary first step in reaching the larger goal of bringing the audio/music communtiy closer to what Microsoft has to offer. I am incredibly proud and grateful to be a part of that effort.
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We got all kinds of weather this morning - rain off and on (pouring at times) and now it is sunny, cool and breezy. Weird - you never know what to expect here in New England, it is ever changing. I am getting a lot done this morning and I should be in good shape by the time I head to NYC. I went out and grabbed a sandwich for lunch because we are little low on food here - I chose a hummus, field greens and feta wrap. Much to my surprise it was pretty light on the feta and packed with veggies - including some roasted red peppers, onions and tomatoes. Probably a little low on protein so I'll be looking for a snack later but it hit the spot for lunch!
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The Memorial Art Gallery is a premier wedding and celebration destination that is equally well suited for business meetings or conferences in Rochester. Whether you are dining with us or enjoying Tapas with Max at the Gallery, you can be confident that you will be satisfied both inside and out. Beginning in May, we will have some exciting new spaces that offer intimate settings for special meetings and corporate events as well as new menus for catering.
Our everyday lunch and weekend brunch service will change on April 29, 2014.
Beginning April 29 we will no longer serve regular weekday lunches or weekend brunches.
The Gallery will offer brunch from 10 am to 3 pm on these special weekends:
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Microsoft's (MSFT) decision to start making its own machines, in competition with its own OEMs, and Google's (GOOG) decision to buy Motorola and start doing the same shows both are following Apple's (AAPL) well-trod path -- to the detriment of Intel (INTC).
CNET is out today with a piece about Apple's process, which in the case of the iPhone 5 starts with a custom chip design based on ARM Holdings' (ARMH) architecture. The story notes that all this began at Apple's own chip design house, PA Semi, which actually finished its design in 2010. The story adds that the company plans to move toward a two-year process for new designs, following Intel's own chip-making pace.
The difference between what is being done now and what was done before is basic, and goes beyond the relative technical merits of ARM and Intel. Apple designed its own chip around the device, then produced it through a hired foundry. Intel, by contrast, makes one basic design based on the anticipated capacity of its own foundry.
While the Intel process starts at the foundry, moves to the design bench and then on to the final chip -- which has to be used in many different devices in order to succeed -- Apple started by designing a chip around its device, then moved that design to foundries with whom it has an exclusive relationship. This gives Apple chip-level control of forms and features that no rival hardware maker can match.
This is what Microsoft is moving toward with its Surface tablet and Xbox game machines. It's what Google is doing with the former Motorola unit. Start with the device, design a chip around that device, then go and get that chip produced at a foundry. It's not build a foundry, design a chip around the foundry's capabilities, then mass market that chip to all hardware makers.
Intel is in bigger trouble than anyone realizes. The company needs to offer design services to customize its offerings for each customer, and transform its production process so that it revolves around customer designs rather than mass marketed products -- or it needs to start building its own hardware. It has yet to demonstrate full capability along either path.


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Charleston Moves is studying a proposal to ban skateboards within a large area of downtown.
Since we actively advocate self-propelled locomotion, this ban is a non-starter for us.
Of course there are skateboarders, like many bicyclists and motorists, who don't always behave safely on our streets.
Generally, we believe that skateboarders should obey the same rules that bikes and cars must, and...
we believe we need to focus on traffic calming and complete streets as a smart choice for city council... that means: more 4-way stops; crossing "square dances"; very limited one way streets, and none with two lanes; a downtown, city-wide speed of 25mph unless otherwise posted ..... (We even think that non-motorized transportation should have priority. After all, these streets pre-date the automobile.)
Meantime, we're gathering info on how boarders are regulated in other cities in hopes that we can suggest a constructive alternative.
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April 23, 2014
February 24, 2013
Dozens gathered at the Carver Recreation Center at the Jefferson School for a celebration of Black History Month.
A list of speakers and singers honoring some of the men and women who contributed to the civil rights movement.
Many also took away a new understanding of those who helped make history during slavery.
"We all should know about our ancestors where we come from, where everything started. We should know that it wasn't as easy as it is now as it was yesterday," said Van Johnson from Charlottesville Park and Recreation.
The event also featured photo exhibits of influential African-Americans.
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Caroline Gear has been at the International Language Institute of Massachusetts located in Northampton, MA since 1986 as teacher, administrator and teacher trainer. She has been the Director of Programs at the school since 1989. Caroline is a co-developer and co-facilitator for an on-line hybrid course "Rethinking Supervision" and New Hampshire's Adult Basic Education ESOL Certificate Program. She is a Trainer of Trainers for the SIT Graduate Institute's TESOL Certificate Course. Caroline has written articles on assessment and evaluation and presented in the area of teacher training and supervision both regionally and nationally. She continues to teach ESOL and Spanish to various adult populations. Caroline has lived and worked in Peru, Mexico and Spain and has a Masters in Spanish Literature from Michigan State University. She has served as secretary on the Executive Board of Directors for AAIEP (American Association of Intensive English Programs). She is currently serving on the Executive Board of the Northampton International Rotary Club and is the ELTA (English Language Training and Administration) network leader for NAFSA's Recruitment, Admissions and Preparation KC.
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Onion ring a ding ding – By far one of the best places to buy onion rings. Recommend the french dip....yummy :)Nice place to take a business client. A bit on the busy side during the lunch rush, but service is great and people are friendly.
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FORTUNE -- I missed this legal curio when it was filed back in Sept. 2012 by an amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the case of U.S.A. v. Apple et al. But it caught the eye of both the New York Times' Media Decoder blog and the legal website Above the Law, and it was rediscovered this week by one of the regulars at Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board.
The attached page is one of five submitted by Bob Kohn, the chairman of a company called Royalty Share and a fierce critic of the Department of Justice's proposed settlement of the e-book antitrust case. Finding it difficult to cut his 93-page argument to the five page limit imposed by the court, he hit on the idea of letting pictures paint 5,000 words.
This is old news. Kohn filed his graphic brief before all the publishers had settled and nine months before Apple took it to the bench trial that it lost in a Manhattan federal court last July.
But the timing of its rediscovery is fortuitous. Apple's appeal of that ruling is getting closer and the magistrate who made it -- U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote -- was back in the news this week when the Wall Street Journal called for her removal from the case.
I've copied the rest of the pages below the fold. Anyone familiar with the story of Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) and the beleaguered book publishers will recognize the arguments. The underlying legal issues haven't changed.
See also: Apple e-book trial: The view from the hard benches.
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Live Services for Moodle integrates into the Moodle framework and gives your classroom quick access to Windows Live Mail, Calendar, Messenger, Alerts, and Bing search. Once installed by your Moodle site administrator, your Moodle front page will have a list of available Live Services features in the right sidebar. Following a sign in with your Windows Live ID, you can start virtually collaborating with your classroom like never before.
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The Thing Is, I'm Undocumented
This is Oumou Troure. She's an all-American girl who grew up in Boston and loves the Celtics, playing the saxophone, and window-shopping on Newbury Street. She's also one of the 65,000 kids in the U.S. who graduate high school each year but aren't legal residents. So even though she's been accepted to college, she can't get a loan to pay for it. She can't get a job to support herself, either. When she tells me this, I step closer, ignoring my parents' constant warnings to never talk about what I'm about to say — you can never tell who's listening. "I know what you're going through," I whisper.
It's Senior Grant Night at Boston Arts Academy, the city's only public high school for the performing and visual arts. Squirming in blazers and ties, the students stand in front of display boards and laptops, part of the presentations they've put together for arts programs they're proposing to lead in city neighborhoods. Imagine a science fair without the science. Professionals from the community wander the classroom, evaluating the proposals.
Oumou Troure is rocking back and forth in kitten heels. Her display is bare-bones, some printouts pasted to a board, and she doesn't look at the three of us judges as she explains her project, a combination jazz concert and storytelling event that involves undocumented teen immigrants talking about what life is like without papers. Oumou tells us that she'd like for her project to raise awareness about the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The proposed federal law, she says, would create a pathway to legal status for unauthorized immigrants who've been living in the U.S. for years after they were brought here as children. Suddenly, Oumou falters and brushes tears from her face. "The thing is," she says, wiping the tears on her pants,"I'm undocumented myself."
We listen, captivated, as she tells us that she was born in Cape Verde in 1994 and lived there with her father while her mother traveled back and forth to the U.S. Her mother left the islands for good in 2000, sending for Oumou a year later, when she was seven. Oumou came to the States on a nonimmigrant visa for temporary visitors and began living life as an American. Virtually indistinguishable from a citizen, she pledged allegiance to the flag at school, made friends, and dreamed of having a career and buying a house. When her visa expired in 2006, she hardly noticed. Her life was here now.
But now at 18, after a decade in the country, Oumou is coming to understand exactly what it means to be here without documentation. It's November, and in seven months she'll graduate. When she does, she will be one of the 65,000 undocumented students who earn high school diplomas every year in the U.S. Lacking citizenship or legal residency, Oumou won't be able to access federal financial aid for college, and she'll be barred from joining the military or even working to support herself.
Oumou tells us that the DREAM Act would give individuals like her eligibility for conditional permanent resident status, a first step toward citizenship and everything that it provides. But there's no telling when or if the act will actually pass and become law. Oumou says she has no idea how she'll pay for college, but she's going to fill out the applications anyway. It's only autumn. Maybe something will change in the next year.
One of my fellow judges leans in and touches Oumou's hand. "You've inspired us," she says, promising to donate money to an immigration-advocacy organization. When the woman asks what else she can do to help, I want to suggest that she can pay Oumou's college tuition while we all wait and see what happens with the DREAM Act. But I don't. As the others move on, I step closer to Oumou, ignoring my parents' constant warning to never talk about what I'm about to say. You never know who is listening. "I know what you're going through," I whisper. "When I was a high school student, I was undocumented, too."
"Really?" Oumou exclaims. "You?"
Yes, me. I was a teenager when I learned from my successful physician parents that I was actually an "illegal alien." America was the only country I knew, yet it turned out that I had no legal right to remain within its borders. It was a painful period, a time I haven't thought about, much less spoken of, in years. I've had no reason to.
I tell Oumou to maintain hope, maybe the DREAM Act will pass. If it does, she won't have to fear being detained every time she leaves home. She'll get a Social Security number, a driver's license, a bank account. She'll be able to legally work and pay for higher education with financial aid. If it doesn't pass, though, I know what she knows — that she's probably screwed. Estimates are that just 5 to 10 percent of undocumented high school graduates attend college. Many end up working under the table in the cash economy. I know this. But it's one thing to read statistics about undocumented youth and another to stand across from a wide-eyed high school student caught in this predicament. "You'll be fine," I assure her.
"I will?" she asks.
We exchange contact information. "Keep in touch," I say. "If there's anything you need…."
Oumou grasps my business card, jumping up and down as if she's just won the lottery. She hugs me. I'm not really sure what's going on. Has she misinterpreted my empathy for some kind of promise, a commitment to help?
I move on to the next student presentation, but I'm distracted. I glance at Oumou. She's chatting loudly with friends, and a judge finally shushes them quiet. Later, as I walk out the school's glass doors, I recall the anticipation I'd felt during senior year. While I didn't know which colleges would accept me, I knew for sure I'd be going. But what would happen to Oumou?


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The following is part of a series of On Leadership profiles exploring the best leadership traits of each of the candidates in the GOP field. Our intention is to provide a debater's argument for each of the Republican hopeful's leadership strengths rather than examine the pros and cons of his overall leadership style. Click here for a full introduction to the series and links to the other candidates' pieces.
Newt Gingrich gets a lot of credit for his smarts. Read almost anything about the professor-turned-politician, and his intellect comes up time and again. The former Speaker of the House is noted for his interest in everything from space exploration to zoology. He frequently gets called the GOP's "idea man"—full of bold, if sometimes zany, ideas.


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New NASA discovery reveals mystery beneath Arctic ice (+video)
New NASA discovery: Researchers funded by NASA were surprised to discover phytoplankton blooms flourishing under thick layers of Arctic ice, upending preconceptions about Arctic ecosystems.
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However, it remains unclear whether such fertility could have unexpected downsides for life in the Arctic, researchers said.
The single-celled organisms in question are known as phytoplankton, which possess the green pigment chlorophyll just as plants do, helping them live off sunlight. They are vital to life in the seas, serving as the basic food source for many ocean animals. Indeed, they are key to life on Earth — they account for about half of the total oxygen produced by all plant life.
Phytoplankton blooms spring up in the Arctic during the summer, when the sun is constantly above the horizon. Scientists have largely assumed that the growth and amount of phytoplankton was negligible in waters beneath the ice there, although there were hints of phytoplankton blooms under the ice in the Barents and Beaufort seas and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
"As someone who has been studying polar marine ecosystems for 25 years, I had always thought that the idea of under-ice phytoplankton blooms was nonsense," said researcher Kevin Arrigo, a biological oceanographer at Stanford University in California. "There is simply not enough light getting through the ice into the ocean for them to grow."
As it turns out, phytoplankton not only flourishes under thick layers of ice, but grows in numbers about four times higher under the ice than in the open water.
"The idea that phytoplankton can not only bloom under 3-foot-thick ice but that they can reach numbers that put their open-water counterparts to shame was a complete surprise," Arrigo told OurAmazingPlanet. "It means we have to rethink many of our ideas about how the Arctic Ocean ecosystems function."
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Arrigo and his colleagues were in the Arctic on the ICESCAPE cruise — ICESCAPE standing for Impacts of Climate on EcoSystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment — to study how ocean life was responding to recent declines in sea ice levels.
"Most of the difficulties in conducting the research were related to bashing through the ice to get to our study areas," Arrigo said. "In one instance, it took our icebreaker, the USCGC Healy, more than eight hours to go three ship lengths. We were surrounded by sea ice more than 15 feet [4.5 meters] thick and I thought we would never get out." [Images: Icebreaker in Action]
"As the ship moved from the open water into the ice pack, the instrument that tells us how much phytoplankton are in the water started to produce very high numbers," Arrigo said. "I thought this was odd since there shouldn't be phytoplankton under the ice. I actually feared that our instrument was malfunctioning."
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I've noticed that you haven't mentioned many details about where you live, or much about your daily life, like most other blogs do. Just curious. - R.K. in Alabama
JWR Replies: I try not to clutter my blog with daily minutiae. Since SurvivalBlog is intended to be educational, I try to stick to the preparedness issues at hand, as much as possible. That means downplaying politics and minimizing posts with detailed descriptions of what I'm eating, the eccentricities of our pets, my favorite music, and so forth. There are plenty of other blogs out there in the blogosphere for that.
To maintain our family's privacy, we are forced to be very circumspect. For OPSEC reasons, I never post pictures of my family members, our vehicles, our house, our livestock, or our ranch. In past years, we had some undesirable contacts with stalkers, so we were forced to go "down periscope." Given the nature of my blog, this heightened privacy posture is a must, for our personal safety. But here is what I can tell you about our lives, in a nutshell:
We live year-round at a ranch west of the Rockies, inside the American Redoubt.
The ranch is less than 100 acres, but it is surrounded by public land. This provides the ultimate "big backyard" for hunting and cutting firewood. To heat our home, we burn mainly Red Fir and Western Larch. (The latter is commonly called Tamarack, although technically it isn't.) On the ranch and within just a couple of miles of it, there is truly a lifetime supply of both varieties--either dead-fallen or dead-standing.
The ranch is fully fenced and cross-fenced. About half of it is sub-irrigated and provides excellent pasture. We raise dairy cattle and small livestock, we keep poultry, we have dozens of fruit and nut trees, and we have a very large fenced garden with extra-tall posts for our deer fence. The majority of my time is spent writing, editing and ranch chores, but I assist my wife with her dairying, cheese, butter and yogurt making, as well as dehydrating, freezing, and canning the bounty from our land. The majority of my wife's time is spent homeschooling our kids. We homeschool using the classical model.
Our ranch is nearly 30 miles from the nearest town. That can be inconvenient, at times. The area is quite scenic, but we live at fairly low elevation so we enjoy a reasonably-long growing season. A river passes through the back end of the property.
We have a three year stored food supply that could easily be extended to serve us for much longer when supplemented with butchered livestock, wild game, wild huckleberries, and our garden produce.
We don't live in a bunker or in any sort of multi-family compound. Nor do we live at the idealized level of self-sufficiency and preparedness that is portrayed in my novels.
We faithfully attend a local Christian church that maintains Reformed distinctives. Our church supports a large number of missionaries. We also independently help support a Christian mission school in rural Zambia.
Two years ago, just a year after the untimely passing of my wife Linda ("The Memsahib"), I married a lovely young outdoorsy widow, who in the blog is called "Avalanche Lily." She had been widowed for several years, and already had children of her own. Our family is now quite large with children ranging from grade school age to college age. All of our children have been and will continue to be exclusively home schooled through the 12th grade.
We don't own a television, nor do we want one. We enjoy an eclectic mix of music, primarily via iTunes. We have a nearly a dozen shortwave radios, many of which are transformerless AC-DC All-American Five designs. (International shortwave listening has been one of my passions since I was in junior high school.) One nice thing about our locale is that we are in an electromagnetic quiet zone. This makes for outstanding shortwave and AM DXing.
At the ranch we primarily use MURS band radios for intrusion detection (with a Dakota Alert), our everyday chores, hiking, horseback riding, and hunting. We also have 2 meter, 6 meter, and HF rigs. Several family members are licensed ham radio operators, but you won't find us in any of the ham callsign databases like QRZ.com.
For our privacy, I selected a Vonage telephone number with a 510 prefix. That is a prefix normally associated with Northern California. That phone prefix often confuses mass media reporters and my consulting clients. (We don't live in California.)
Also for our privacy, we have our mail forwarded from a post office box in Moyie Springs, Idaho. We don't live anywhere near there. This address is often a source of confusion. I regularly get e-mails from readers, mentioning that they will be "passing through" Moyie Springs, and saying that they'd like to meet me for lunch or dinner. That would be a very long drive for me!
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