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Racist Texts Target Black Americans after Trump Win
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A Houston-area mother told KHOU 11 News that her daughter is just one of
the many Black Americans who received a specifically worded, racist text
message t...
Friday Photo Fun Match Game
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Pair up mug shots with each perp's alleged weapon
Examine the booking photos of five arrested individuals and align the
defendants with the respective we...
Three Speed Cameras Spraypainted In France, Germany
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[image: Sprayed speed camera in France]In Millieres, France, vigilantes on
Saturday blinded the speed camera located on the RD900, adding Nazi
insignia as ...
The Market Ticker - The Yield Curve....
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.... *is reversing. Finally.*
In fact it can be argued that it was precisely the day in September when
The Fed announced its "50 point cut" that marked ...
Fluoridation Fails America, New Report Proves
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CNN Reports: "In more recent studies, fluoride in water was linked to a
difference of decay in only about a quarter of a tooth, on average,
according to ...
Abdur Biswas (Sep 1, 1926 - Nov 3, 2017)
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Bangladeshi Statesman. He served as the 11th President of Bangladesh from
October 10, 1991 to October 9, 1996. He was educated at Dhaka University
where he...
duncan hunter, who authored H.R.6166, one version of the treasonous military commissions act, which passed the house [roll call no. 491] before it was scrapped in favor of the nearly identical S.3930 by mitch mcconnell, ends his futile, joke of a presidential bid.
MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006 -- PUBLIC LAW 109–366—OCT. 17, 2006
snip from the military commissions act: In this chapter: (1) UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANT.—(A) The term ‘unlawful enemy combatant’ means— (i) a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant (including a person who is part of the Taliban, al Qaeda, or associated forces); emphasis added
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Top legal experts and scholars are nearly unanimous that the Military Commissions Act does affect American citizens.
Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman states in the L.A. Times, "The compromise legislation....authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights."
Similarly, law Professor Marty Lederman explains: "this [subsection (ii) of the definition of 'unlawful enemy combatant']
‘‘(ii) a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense. emphasis added
means that if the Pentagon says you're an unlawful enemy combatant -- using whatever criteria they wish -- then as far as Congress, and U.S. law, is concerned, you are one, whether or not you have had any connection to 'hostilities' at all."
Professor Jonathan Turley, who teaches constitutional law at George Washington University, agrees that the bill contains no provision in which American citizens are exempt from the intent of the legislation, and outlined this during a recent appearance on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show.
OLBERMANN: "I want to start by asking you about a specific part of this act that lists one of the definitions of an unlawful enemy combatant as, quote, 'a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a combatant status review tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the president or the secretary of defense.'
"Does that not basically mean that if Mr. Bush or Mr. Rumsfeld say so, anybody in this country, citizen or not, innocent or not, can end up being an unlawful enemy combatant?"
JONATHAN TURLEY: "It certainly does. In fact, later on, it says that if you even give material support to an organization that the president deems connected to one of these groups, you too can be an enemy combatant. And the fact that he appoints this tribunal is meaningless. You know, standing behind him at the signing ceremony was his attorney general, who signed a memo that said that you could torture people, that you could do harm to them to the point of organ failure or death. So if he appoints someone like that to be attorney general, you can imagine who he's going be putting on this board."
OLBERMANN: "Does this mean that under this law, ultimately the only thing keeping you, I, or the viewer out of Gitmo is the sanity and honesty of the president of the United States?"
TURLEY: "It does. And it's a huge sea change for our democracy. The framers created a system where we did not have to rely on the good graces or good mood of the president. In fact, Madison said that he created a system essentially to be run by devils, where they could not do harm, because we didn't rely on their good motivations. Now we must. And people have no idea how significant this is. What, really, a time of shame this is for the American system. What the Congress did and what the president signed today essentially revokes over 200 years of American principles and values. ~ link
Three days and counting.
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*" I live in a crazy time" ~Anne Frank~ *
Just three days to go, and Americans are bracing for the election of a
lifetime. It's hard to believe that D...
Police Jury meets Tuesday
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The Lincoln Parish Police Jury will meet Tuesday, June 13, Lincoln Parish
Court House, 100 West Texas, third floor. Here are the meeting times and
agendas....
What gets you through
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Maybe you knew Rick Tippie as a longtime chef at Arnaud's or more recently
at Killer Poboys or Liuzza's by the Track. Back in the day, he regularly
comment...
Here Comes The Boom
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Okay sports fans, here comes the boom! My Bossier is about to start back
up! Get Ready! Here it comes! The cold hard truth! Don't hate the player!
Hate the...
Welcome to the Alexandria Postcard Collection
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Postcards are an important medium in telling stories of the past. They are
historical masterpieces, showing life at points in time.
Greetings from Alexandr...
2:45 p.m., Voluntary Evacuation Area Removed
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Voluntary Evacuation Area Removed October 7, 2016 All areas once part of
the Mandatory and Voluntary Evacuation Order from the Bayou Corne Sinkhole
has b...
brief dashcam clip of alleged sex offender arrest
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brief dashcam clip of alleged sex offender arrest
some guy on a bicycle was allegedly looking at children through binoculars
across the street from the k...
Saying goodbye to our Old House
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I never thought this day would come. We had to say goodbye to the “Big
House”, the old house, the Hynson-Ringgold house (and many other names)….
We were tr...
57th presidential inauguration 21 january 2013
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57th presidential inauguration 21 january 2013
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Part 76: Pontius Pilate Meets Jesus
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Description www.eaec.org
www.facebook.com/EuropeanAmericanEvangelisticCrusades Welcome to
Resurrection Life of Jesus Church. We are a Bible centered group ...
The Real Origins of Neocons
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*Russian Lies: Shadow of Jabotinksy*
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)
Philip Weiss reviews *They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, ...
Race, Church, and Society by Dr. Frank Smith
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Late last month, Dr. Frank Smith, author of the first history of the PCA
who is currently an RPCNA minister pastoring an inner-city mission church
in Atlan...
Last Days Lunacy and End Times Madness
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Podcast: LAST DAYS LUNACY and END TIMES MADNESS (The following commentary
is a reprint of the chapter Bible Basics 101: Last Days/End Times and The
Second ...