Abortion:Exclusive: Obama's lost law review article...The six-page summary, tucked into the third volume of the year's Harvard Law Review, considers the charged, if peripheral, question of whether fetuses should be able to file lawsuits against their mothers. Obama's answer, like most courts': No. He wrote approvingly of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that the unborn cannot sue their mothers for negligence, and he suggested that allowing fetuses to sue would violate the mother's rights and could, perversely, cause her to take more risks with her pregnancy...
They calculate that they can reflect 3.7 Wm-2 back into space via this Twomey effect. I have no grounds to doubt that, but would it be better to try to harness that energy thus cooling the oceans and generating energy at the same time?
I think solutions that address more than one problem are better than such one sided approaches.
Floating superstructures / solar farms along the equator could generate massive amounts of electricity and utuilize the surface of the ocean to everyone's net benefit.
The JTF-CS was the ones running the Live Fly exercises on 9/11/2001.
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Didn't you get the memo? Corporations run this country now, not people. The Government and politicians only pander to us at election time to perpetuate the illusion of a democracy.
What makes me laugh when I see posts SUPPORTING an all out assault on our freedoms, is that they don't realize that by defending the assualt, they are supporting forfeiture of their own rights.
But then I realize I shouldn't get all worked up over the US Government doing this, I need to get worked up over my fellow Citizens who are letting this happen by not voicing Outrage.
Our current Laws, and Judical system (Thanks to the last couple SCOTUS appointments) give the executive branch so much power that they can dismantle our sacred rights.
Fascism Anyone? Laurence W. Britt The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 23, Number 2. Free Inquiry readers may pause to read the "Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles" on the inside cover of the magazine. To a secular humanist, these principles seem so logical, so right, so crucial. Yet, there is one archetypal political philosophy that is anathema to almost all of these principles. It is fascism. And fascism's principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for. The cliché that people and nations learn from history is not only overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history, or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm.
We are two-and-a-half generations removed from the horrors of Nazi Germany, although constant reminders jog the consciousness. German and Italian fascism form the historical models that define this twisted political worldview. Although they no longer exist, this worldview and the characteristics of these models have been imitated by protofascist regimes at various times in the twentieth century. Both the original German and Italian models and the later protofascist regimes show remarkably similar characteristics. Although many scholars question any direct connection among these regimes, few can dispute their visual similarities.
Beyond the visual, even a cursory study of these fascist and protofascist regimes reveals the absolutely striking convergence of their modus operandi. This, of course, is not a revelation to the informed political observer, but it is sometimes useful in the interests of perspective to restate obvious facts and in so doing shed needed light on current circumstances.
For the purpose of this perspective, I will consider the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Papadopoulos's Greece, Pinochet's Chile, and Suharto's Indonesia. To be sure, they constitute a mixed bag of national identities, cultures, developmental levels, and history. But they all followed the fascist or protofascist model in obtaining, expanding, and maintaining power. Further, all these regimes have been overthrown, so a more or less complete picture of their basic characteristics and abuses is possible.
Analysis of these seven regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. These basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity.
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. From the prominent displays of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins, the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy, was always obvious. Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common themes in expressing this nationalism. It was usually coupled with a suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights. The regimes themselves viewed human rights as of little value and a hindrance to realizing the objectives of the ruling elite. Through clever use of propaganda, the population was brought to accept these human rights abuses by marginalizing, even demonizing, those being targeted. When abuse was egregious, the tactic was to use secrecy, denial, and disinformation.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The most significant common thread among these regimes was the use of scapegoating as a means to divert the people's attention from other problems, to shift blame for failures, and to channel frustration in controlled directions. The methods of choice--relentless propaganda and disinformation--were usually effective. Often the regimes would incite "spontaneous" acts against the target scapegoats, usually communists, socialists, liberals
If you think Photoshop has poor ergonomics, then I don't think you know how to use it.
Having a steep learning curve is one thing, but usability once the fundemental skills are known is another.
Photoshop as it is now, works in the same way as Keyboard/Mouse FPS do. The secert is in the keyboard shortcuts, and with that the ability to program keys/functions.
Also when using photoshop on a regular basis, the use of actions (then mapped to a shortcut) makes it even more powerful and extremely fast.
If you are using the menus/fly outs to accomplish most of your tasks in PS then your learning is incomplete.
as far as the analogy, in either case, the fire does not cause the steel/iron structure to collapse.
If you are still in doubt, and you are curious ignore WTC1, WTC2. WTC7 is the building that was not hit by a plane, and yet it collapsed into its own foot print.
The NIST report claims damage to the front of the building, but has not shown one shred of evidence supporting this. There is NYPD Heli photos from all sides of WTC7 except the one they claim had the most damage. It claims the S and SW Corner sustained massive damage, and yet the building still feel neatly into its foot print.
If you expect to find revealing truth, I suggest looking very carefully at the flash that is present in multiple videos and multiple angles, of the second plane hitting the towers. The importance of that "flash" is something that cannot be underestimated. It cannot be a reflection as it is seen from multiple angles.
If you observe the debris ejected from all three sides of that tower at the point of detonation, you will notice the entrance hole fireball behavior is radically different. This is because of the "Concrete Dust" being ejected from the hole. This is not something that should happen if conservation of momentum has anything to do with it. The Pulverization and ejection out of the entrance hole, of the concrete flooring can only be explained by explosives at the trusses, directly under the 4" light-concrete floors.
Why would that be done, inorder to insure the plane entered completely into the towers and detonated. The planes behavior at the time of impact is strange in that no appriciable amount of decceleration is observed, which supports the explosive "flash".
You state that you have doubts, I think you have fears.
funny watching the sheeple try to cling on to the last whispers of what they think happened over the Bush Presidency...
Psychologists describe the resistance to ideas that threaten our sense of security as "cognitive dissonance", which can occur when, for example, a mother discovers evidence her husband has been molesting their daughter.
-- James H. Fetzer, PhD Philosophy and Cognitive Science
I saw the 767 fly into the building and it was fully loaded with fuel, so how do you explain somebody being able to stand there next to the impact?
The walked to the edge and looked out the gapping hole in the Tower.
Where did the 200,000 pounds of jet fuel disappear to?
It burned in the fireball, and during the first 10-15 minutes of the fire in the towers. After that it was pretty much gone, much like lighter fluid. But the office contents kept burning, but at much much lower temperatures.
Loose Change is flawed in many of its claims. But the 9/11 Truth Movement is not Loose Change, that's just a video after all. Its appeal is its presenters are 20ish and the sound track appeals to the younger set. The truth lies in the boring research of hundreds of dedicated professionals, phhysicists, engineers, etc. that have put forward well reasoned theories, and peer reviewed papers. Its not so interesting, I agree, but life isn't like "24" you watch on your couch.
Ultimately, though, there's no reason to waste your time wondering if the government actually did the atrocities of 9/11 or if several decades of destructive US foreign policy and fanatical Islam together motivated the attacks. What's more important is how we respond as a country to 1) make sure that the US puts an end to decades of horrors perpetrated in yours and my name and 2) that in our pursuit of revenge for wrongs, we do not give up the freedoms and liberty which used to so clearly define this country.
Kerosine in optimal conditions can reach very high temperatures, hot enough to seriously weaken steel. But the jet fuel fires were not optimal, and a majority of the fuel was burned up in that massive fireball as witnessed by damn near everyone on the planet. The remaining fuel would not stay pooled on the floors and burn until collapse, most estimate 10 minutes tops. So the office contents must have been the main fuel source, nothing major, after all when you burn wood in a wood burning stove, the stove doesn't collapse into a flaming heap. And to have reality intrude just a bit more into the scenario, steel will tend to transfer heat away inorder to equalize temperature (the 0th law of thermodynamics), which means it would take a considerable amound of time to heat the steel to the point of failure.
The Government's engineers tossed around 3 different theories before creating this "Pancake" Theory of global collapse (brand new btw), and that had to be later revised by the NIST report, to isolate the failure to the trusses, there by pulling the perimeter panels (3 floors x 3 windows) and the core columns (47 massive H beams). But even this has been debunked.
You don't have to believe ANY of the alternate conspiracies... not one, all you have to do is prove the Government's Conspiracy, which as of today, no one has been able to do... Then you must consider an alternate theory that better explains what was obeserved on that day in our history.
If you don't feel it is important to know which version of reality is a lie, and which is the truth, that's fine, some of us have the courage to know the truth.
This just goes to show how selfish the common american is, they will tolerate a illegal war, tolerate torture of enemies of the state. Then when they realize the very rights of others that are being trampled are their own, then they wise up.
Wake Up People... The US is turning into a fascist state.
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Really? I see it as capitalism with a conscious.
mod up please
Abortion : Exclusive: Obama's lost law review article ...The six-page summary, tucked into the third volume of the year's Harvard Law Review, considers the charged, if peripheral, question of whether fetuses should be able to file lawsuits against their mothers. Obama's answer, like most courts': No. He wrote approvingly of an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that the unborn cannot sue their mothers for negligence, and he suggested that allowing fetuses to sue would violate the mother's rights and could, perversely, cause her to take more risks with her pregnancy...
They calculate that they can reflect 3.7 Wm-2 back into space via this Twomey effect. I have no grounds to doubt that, but would it be better to try to harness that energy thus cooling the oceans and generating energy at the same time?
I think solutions that address more than one problem are better than such one sided approaches.
Floating superstructures / solar farms along the equator could generate massive amounts of electricity and utuilize the surface of the ocean to everyone's net benefit.
Why would you want to?? Really! What a waste that would be.
And they just completed Ardent Sentry, a drill where 4 simultaneous catastrophes occur in the US/North America... May 10-16.
Ardent Sentry
And the Command and Control Structure of the JTF-CS
The JTF-CS was the ones running the Live Fly exercises on 9/11/2001.
Didn't you get the memo? Corporations run this country now, not people. The Government and politicians only pander to us at election time to perpetuate the illusion of a democracy.
This keeps us docile and complacent.
And the sad part is, it has worked.
Globalization has one real goal, to commoditize the work force. We are just part of a balance sheet.
What makes me laugh when I see posts SUPPORTING an all out assault on our freedoms, is that they don't realize that by defending the assualt, they are supporting forfeiture of their own rights.
But then I realize I shouldn't get all worked up over the US Government doing this, I need to get worked up over my fellow Citizens who are letting this happen by not voicing Outrage.
Our current Laws, and Judical system (Thanks to the last couple SCOTUS appointments) give the executive branch so much power that they can dismantle our sacred rights.
This isn't a hypothetical, its happening now.
Wake up people.
He didn't say it, you did.
Perhaps you should be a CNN pundent.
Fascism Anyone?
Laurence W. Britt
The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 23, Number 2.
Free Inquiry readers may pause to read the "Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles" on the inside cover of the magazine. To a secular humanist, these principles seem so logical, so right, so crucial. Yet, there is one archetypal political philosophy that is anathema to almost all of these principles. It is fascism. And fascism's principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for. The cliché that people and nations learn from history is not only overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history, or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm.
We are two-and-a-half generations removed from the horrors of Nazi Germany, although constant reminders jog the consciousness. German and Italian fascism form the historical models that define this twisted political worldview. Although they no longer exist, this worldview and the characteristics of these models have been imitated by protofascist regimes at various times in the twentieth century. Both the original German and Italian models and the later protofascist regimes show remarkably similar characteristics. Although many scholars question any direct connection among these regimes, few can dispute their visual similarities.
Beyond the visual, even a cursory study of these fascist and protofascist regimes reveals the absolutely striking convergence of their modus operandi. This, of course, is not a revelation to the informed political observer, but it is sometimes useful in the interests of perspective to restate obvious facts and in so doing shed needed light on current circumstances.
For the purpose of this perspective, I will consider the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Papadopoulos's Greece, Pinochet's Chile, and Suharto's Indonesia. To be sure, they constitute a mixed bag of national identities, cultures, developmental levels, and history. But they all followed the fascist or protofascist model in obtaining, expanding, and maintaining power. Further, all these regimes have been overthrown, so a more or less complete picture of their basic characteristics and abuses is possible.
Analysis of these seven regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. These basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity.
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. From the prominent displays of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins, the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy, was always obvious. Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common themes in expressing this nationalism. It was usually coupled with a suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights. The regimes themselves viewed human rights as of little value and a hindrance to realizing the objectives of the ruling elite. Through clever use of propaganda, the population was brought to accept these human rights abuses by marginalizing, even demonizing, those being targeted. When abuse was egregious, the tactic was to use secrecy, denial, and disinformation.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The most significant common thread among these regimes was the use of scapegoating as a means to divert the people's attention from other problems, to shift blame for failures, and to channel frustration in controlled directions. The methods of choice--relentless propaganda and disinformation--were usually effective. Often the regimes would incite "spontaneous" acts against the target scapegoats, usually communists, socialists, liberals
Except when hijacked jetliners are whizzing around the country unchecked.
there is one that came close, I fogot the name of the movie but one name was etched in my mind.
Chaank Heavy Industries
Chaank
We often hear that children are reflections of their parents. Perhaps the same could be said for school systems?
I think the general tone in Government is, fuck the constitution and let them try to fight to keep their rights.
Even the Congress isn't immune.
If you think Photoshop has poor ergonomics, then I don't think you know how to use it.
Having a steep learning curve is one thing, but usability once the fundemental skills are known is another.
Photoshop as it is now, works in the same way as Keyboard/Mouse FPS do. The secert is in the keyboard shortcuts, and with that the ability to program keys/functions.
Also when using photoshop on a regular basis, the use of actions (then mapped to a shortcut) makes it even more powerful and extremely fast.
If you are using the menus/fly outs to accomplish most of your tasks in PS then your learning is incomplete.
Sibel Edmonds tried it your way... and got fired.
Then she testified in front of the 9/11 commision.
Then Ascroft retroactively classified her testimony and gagged her.
Now if she leaks the info, she goes to prison.
as far as the analogy, in either case, the fire does not cause the steel/iron structure to collapse.
If you are still in doubt, and you are curious ignore WTC1, WTC2. WTC7 is the building that was not hit by a plane, and yet it collapsed into its own foot print.
The NIST report claims damage to the front of the building, but has not shown one shred of evidence supporting this. There is NYPD Heli photos from all sides of WTC7 except the one they claim had the most damage. It claims the S and SW Corner sustained massive damage, and yet the building still feel neatly into its foot print.
If you expect to find revealing truth, I suggest looking very carefully at the flash that is present in multiple videos and multiple angles, of the second plane hitting the towers. The importance of that "flash" is something that cannot be underestimated. It cannot be a reflection as it is seen from multiple angles.
If you observe the debris ejected from all three sides of that tower at the point of detonation, you will notice the entrance hole fireball behavior is radically different. This is because of the "Concrete Dust" being ejected from the hole. This is not something that should happen if conservation of momentum has anything to do with it. The Pulverization and ejection out of the entrance hole, of the concrete flooring can only be explained by explosives at the trusses, directly under the 4" light-concrete floors.
Why would that be done, inorder to insure the plane entered completely into the towers and detonated. The planes behavior at the time of impact is strange in that no appriciable amount of decceleration is observed, which supports the explosive "flash".
You state that you have doubts, I think you have fears.
Well THANK GOD for leakers...
When the authorities are corrupt, the people need leakers to keep them informed of this corruption.
-- James H. Fetzer, PhD Philosophy and Cognitive Science
I saw the 767 fly into the building and it was fully loaded with fuel, so how do you explain somebody being able to stand there next to the impact?
The walked to the edge and looked out the gapping hole in the Tower.
Where did the 200,000 pounds of jet fuel disappear to?
It burned in the fireball, and during the first 10-15 minutes of the fire in the towers. After that it was pretty much gone, much like lighter fluid. But the office contents kept burning, but at much much lower temperatures.
Any more real questions?
The Government claims there is nothing "interesting" on the black boxes at the pentagon...
We Have a Winner!!!
Loose Change is flawed in many of its claims. But the 9/11 Truth Movement is not Loose Change, that's just a video after all. Its appeal is its presenters are 20ish and the sound track appeals to the younger set. The truth lies in the boring research of hundreds of dedicated professionals, phhysicists, engineers, etc. that have put forward well reasoned theories, and peer reviewed papers. Its not so interesting, I agree, but life isn't like "24" you watch on your couch.
Ultimately, though, there's no reason to waste your time wondering if the government actually did the atrocities of 9/11 or if several decades of destructive US foreign policy and fanatical Islam together motivated the attacks. What's more important is how we respond as a country to 1) make sure that the US puts an end to decades of horrors perpetrated in yours and my name and 2) that in our pursuit of revenge for wrongs, we do not give up the freedoms and liberty which used to so clearly define this country.
Kerosine in optimal conditions can reach very high temperatures, hot enough to seriously weaken steel. But the jet fuel fires were not optimal, and a majority of the fuel was burned up in that massive fireball as witnessed by damn near everyone on the planet. The remaining fuel would not stay pooled on the floors and burn until collapse, most estimate 10 minutes tops. So the office contents must have been the main fuel source, nothing major, after all when you burn wood in a wood burning stove, the stove doesn't collapse into a flaming heap.
And to have reality intrude just a bit more into the scenario, steel will tend to transfer heat away inorder to equalize temperature (the 0th law of thermodynamics), which means it would take a considerable amound of time to heat the steel to the point of failure.
The Government's engineers tossed around 3 different theories before creating this "Pancake" Theory of global collapse (brand new btw), and that had to be later revised by the NIST report, to isolate the failure to the trusses, there by pulling the perimeter panels (3 floors x 3 windows) and the core columns (47 massive H beams). But even this has been debunked.
You don't have to believe ANY of the alternate conspiracies... not one, all you have to do is prove the Government's Conspiracy, which as of today, no one has been able to do... Then you must consider an alternate theory that better explains what was obeserved on that day in our history.
If you don't feel it is important to know which version of reality is a lie, and which is the truth, that's fine, some of us have the courage to know the truth.
This just goes to show how selfish the common american is, they will tolerate a illegal war, tolerate torture of enemies of the state. Then when they realize the very rights of others that are being trampled are their own, then they wise up.
Wake Up People... The US is turning into a fascist state.