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I'm Not Going to Vote
And here's why
We here at the Alibi spend a good chunk of pulp every year reminding people to cast a ballot, printing voter FAQs and rallying for turnout at the polls. Troughs of ink go into printing election guides. We put a lot of research and time into interviewing politicos—as does the rest of the nation.
Reporters thrust microphones into voters' faces as they exit their polling locations. Political thugs gnash it out on news channels. Supporters chant and hold signs and eat up camera time at campaign stops.
But who never gets interviewed? The people who didn't show up. The citizens who choose, actively, not to vote. After taking phone calls and reading e-mails for weeks, I'm convinced: These people aren't lazy. They're not apathetic. They just don't believe in their government or the people running it. They've been let down, and who can blame them? To all who contacted me, thanks for going out of your way to explain yourselves.
When politicians go home at night, they should toss and turn a little over why nonvoters don't trust them enough to pull the lever.
I'm not going to vote for a couple of good (to me) reasons: Obama is too inexperienced for the job; McCain is too old and inflexible for the job.
I never care about the party they are with. I look at the person and study on their history. I have always voted that way. (My grandfather always just pulled the Democratic lever, never sure of who he was voting for. I can't do that.) And this year, I can't vote. Both these people, I'm sure, are good people but will not make good presidents. So this year I'm a nonvoter.
—Gary O'Connell
I'm not going to vote because it's just a waste of my time. A big waste of time. And why? Why should I vote, because our last few presidents have been either Skull and Bones or Masons? And it's just not even worth it any more. They can just rig it. It's all set up. Goodbye.
—Anonymous caller
The last time I voted was 1968 for George Wallace. As he said back then, "Tweedledee, Tweedledum, flip a coin, there isn't a dime's worth of difference." Plus, we have more government than we need, more damn laws than anybody can keep up with, and I think the bureaucrats are the cause of the problems and not the solutions.
So, therefore, I think they can take all that campaign money that they're spending—$27 million I think McCain got last month—and help some of these people who've been through floods and tornadoes and everything else, earthquakes, and lost everything they've got. That money would be better spent on them rather than trying to figure out whether Tweedledee's any better than Tweedledum. So I'm not going to waste my time. ...
As far as Congress, if I was to run for legislature, my platform would be to introduce legislation to stop the introduction of legislation and go back through everything they've passed in the last 20 years at least and see how much of that is probably not necessary or a waste of taxpayer money.
—Doug Walker
... They will say anything they think their audience of the moment wants to hear, and no reasonable person believes for a second that, once elected, a politician will actually keep all the promises they made during their campaign.
That aside, there is something even more sinister. It doesn't matter who you vote for. The ultimate results will be the same regardless of who wins the fabricated race. Government leaders worldwide are controlled by larger-than-life politics that operate clandestinely behind the scenes, and their will will be done, come hell or high water, guaranteed. ...
I am seriously thinking about not wasting my time in November. But, most likely, I'll do what I've always done and drag my unhappy ass to the polls, even though I should know better.
—Jim Rishe
I will not be voting for a major party candidate for president in the upcoming election. (If he is on the ballot, I will vote for Ron Paul.)
No matter who the president is, he must get his legislation through Congress. If Congress refuses to pass his legislation or if Congress drastically rewrites his legislation, the president can do virtually nothing. Even if he vetoes a bill, Congress can pass the bill over his veto.
Congress has far more power than does the president. The emphasis should be placed on the elections for members of the House of Representatives. Representatives must stand for re-election every two years, hence they are closest to the voters and are the easiest to watch, control and replace. In addition, the Constitution requires that all spending bills originate in the House, thus giving the House full control over spending. I am certain that most Americans would acknowledge that federal spending must be brought under control, and only the House of Representatives can do so. The president cannot. ...
—Steven Dapra
You might as well be voting for the other company's CEO. I'm totally disenfranchised. I think we have a bunch of authoritarians and none of them—I mean, neither of these guys—is actually talking about reducing the power of the imperial presidency. All they talk about is getting their clammy little hands on the reins.
It's like, Guys, if you really wanted votes from the people, you'd be talking about reducing this nonsense. We have no business, honestly, in either Iraq or Afghanistan. And now these guys are talking about the Iranians as though we need to start running their affairs.
Obama has not talked anything about reducing the power of the presidency itself. Nobody's talked about things like eliminating the Department of Homeland Security. Totally out of line. Every time something happens, these guys come up with another 18 freaking agencies that everyone has to pay for, whether they approve of it or not.
I remember Reagan—everybody talks about, "Oh, it's Mr. Small Government and he's going to reduce the debt." Now what happened with that guy? More government, more debt. All the stuff he talked about, he didn't mean a word of it.
And that's kind of how I feel about these guys. I just don't trust what they're saying. ... I'm almost 50 years old, and I look around me, and all I see is a constantly expanding authoritarian bureaucracy. They want to make decisions about everything in my life, whether it's the Democrats or the Republicans.
—Brian Komen
When Obama won the Democratic nomination, I decided I wasn't going to vote, because McCain and Obama—there's really not much of a choice. But now that there's a woman running with McCain, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt when I hear what her political aspirations are. I think she might even be better than Hillary. So I may vote for McCain only because of this new gal that's going to run with him. Maybe she'll bring some sense into all this politician stuff.
—Anonymous caller
Mostly because the president doesn't control the economy, and it's big business that controls the economy. So regardless of my vote for McCain or Obama, I feel that it doesn't matter because it's big business. It's McDonald's, it's GM, just all the wealthy people up there who control the actual decisions. ...
I believe that this government is a terrorist government. This is a terrorist state. We go into other countries like Nicaragua and places like that and overthrow democratic leaders. That's happened with almost every single president.
I don't feel like there's a choice. This is our pretend freedom. They fool the people by saying, "Here, you get to vote for this person or this person."
—Jon Garcia
So you want to know why I'm not going to vote? Because I'm a 57-year-old African-American male. And what I'd really like to say is they have 42 percent of the Black people in America in prison, and we make up 12 percent of the American population ... . As an African-American male, I don't drink. I don't smoke. I've been a vegetarian for eight years. I don't see no point in voting. We still living in bad times. He [Obama] not going to do no good for America, because he still got to deal with the KKK. If they kill him before January, the other man going to be president. I don't vote. I know a whole lot of Black people not going to vote at all for nobody.
—Anonymous caller
Well, first there's the reason why I'm not, and then there's the reason why it doesn't matter that I'm not—to me. I'm not going to vote because I was convicted on a marijuana-related felony in Virginia, and I'm on probation for it. And as long as I'm on probation for it, I'm not allowed to vote.
That's a real problem. It's a problem all over the country. In New Mexico, it's not so bad, because once I'm off probation I will again be allowed to vote. But in many states, including Virginia, you're not allowed to vote if you've ever been convicted of a felony. That means when you consider the huge proportion, for instance, of Black people who are convicted of felonies relating to things like marijuana (or whatever, it doesn't matter), they are never going to be allowed to vote. Millions of people in this country cannot vote, cannot take part.
However, in the coming election, were I able to vote, I would only vote in local elections. I would not vote in the national elections. ...
I could not accept that George Bush and Dick Cheney and Karl Rove represented Republicans. I felt like they were like some of the militant groups on the far right or the far left. I didn't see them as being actually what Republicans believed or stood for. It certainly isn't conservative.
I cannot in good conscience participate in that kind of an election now. In doing so, I'm legitimizing the kinds of things that both parties have been doing for the last 25 years or more. I'm 60-plus years old, and I watched it change. And I'm way beyond being disappointed in what the American government has become. I see the national government, to a large degree, as a criminal conspiracy. I wish the world court would hold some of our national politicians accountable.
I don't feel like the system for recording the votes is really up to a point that we can count on. The last two elections have been really close. There's a margin of error and a margin of victory, and the margin of victory has been small and I feel like the margin of error has been really large. ...
There's a lot of stuff that's out of everybody's control, and programs that aren't really that solid and hackers. There's a lot of old people that run these things, and the computers are all new to them. After the election in 2000, everybody ran out and bought computers to do the job.
Before that, there really hadn't been a lot of problems with their counting. Now with these computers, they're funky. They screw up a lot. I don't understand why everybody's so excited about this election, because it's going to be super close, and the last two elections have been pretty flaky. I'm not sure who really won, and I'm not sure why everybody wants to do that again and just hope and trust that the system is working when we don't have any evidence to suggest that it is.
Everybody's all about voting, but there's nothing that is going to guarantee that voting really even matters.
—Justin Bagley
Demographically, I was born and raised in the South; Mobile, Ala. Forty-seven years of age. I was born in 1960. I have never voted. Back when I was 9-years-old, I saw the Vietnam War, and it had a major impact on my life. I had two brothers that went to Vietnam, and fortunately, they came home. As I grew up, I began to—not as a conspiracy theorist but as a rationalist and a realist—I began to look into how the war happened and why we lost face so bad and what was the real purpose behind it.
I discovered that it was big corporate money that funded the war, and it wasn't for anything, and a lot of good people died. As I researched further in my life, in my 20s and 30s, I began to realize that there's a huge political machine in place that doesn't really care about the rest of the population. ...
There's not much that an individual—on an independent scale or on an otherwise scale—is going to do to make a difference. ... You've got the Democrats raising over $400 million to campaign. They're politically backed, if you will, by every single media outlet that there is. ...
We need real leadership, and nobody's willing to stand up to the organizations that have disenfranchised Americans.
I was told to be socially responsible. I was told to be a good businessperson. I was told to help grow the economy by being a smart entrepreneur. That's what I can do in my backyard that is proactive politically to support my local community.
—Scott Thompson
I know that I don't vote—I haven't voted in the last two years—because I know there's a lot at stake. Because of that, it makes it hard to make a decision.
The news outlets on our TVs don't give us any information. They focus on very shallow things, race and whatnot, and it's not what's most important on people's minds. They don't give us meat or substance. They don't say, "This person voted for this, this is this person's track record," and allow us to vote off of that.
A lot of us work. I work two jobs. I don't have the Internet. I can't afford it. So I can't go and look up people's voting records. Where do you go to find this information? To see what these candidates really do with their power instead of just what they say they do through little snippets of commercials?
When we can get that done, I'll vote. Because then I can vote with a good conscience and not just pick somebody based on stupid reasons.
—Anonymous caller
The reason why I don't vote is because they're all liars. And, anyway, elections count electoral votes and not popular votes. What's that guy's name who just got busted? John Edwards was going to run for president with all these moral standards, and he's cheating on his wife. They're all liars—all the way down to our local government. Anyways, you have a very nice day, and we love your magazine! Alibi rocks!
—Anonymous caller


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A busted traffic light can ruin people's day anywhere, but in Beijing, a densely peopled city known of for some of the worst traffic in the world, it can be a see-it-from-space problem.
A Beijing blogger captured video images of the Chinese capital's insane traffic quagmire, one that had cars stretching past the horizon visible from atop a tall building.
The commentary recorded by this person of the Peoples' Republic is priceless:
This is my every nightmare about the city, frightening precisely because I - and any Beijinger, really - could easily find myself stuck in that paralyzing morass of postmodernity, equipped with no salve for a spiking blood pressure except heinous imaginings of unspeakable acts to perform on sentient, suffering beings. The abyss gazes back indeed.
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The Cecilian Bank branch in Sonora was robbed at 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
An unidentified white male entered the bank and handed a teller a note demanding cash, according to Kentucky State Police. The teller complied, and the suspect left the bank on foot with an undetermined amount of cash. He was not located in the area.
He is identified as a white male, in his late teens to mid-20s, 5'9", thin build, with a brown to red mustache and beard. He was last seen wearing a gray hooded zip-up jacket with a large Adidas logo on the back, dark blue jeans, brown hat and brown gloves.
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Spring: October 1 [August 1 for international applicants]
Applications are reviewed as they are received throughout the year. Therefore, complete applications received after the due dates will be considered if space is available. Candidates interested in an assistantship are especially encouraged to submit their applications by the deadline date.
Number Required: 3
From Whom: Letters of recommendation should be obtained from faculty or people in industry who are familiar with the applicant's academic and/or research aptitude.
No specific coursework is required.
All applicants must present credentials that are the equivalent of the appropriate baccalaureate degree at Temple University.
The Statement of Goals should be clearly written and well thought out. It should be approximately 1-2 pages in length.
The GRE is required. Scores of 500 each are preferred on the verbal and quantitative sections of the GRE. Occasionally, students with lower totals are accepted if undergraduate work and/or other life experiences suggest a high degree of probability of success in the graduate program.
Minimum TOEFL score or range of scores needed to be accepted:
575 paper-based, 230 computer-based, or 88 internet-based. Any student admitted with a TOEFL score below 600 on the paper-based, 250 on the computer-based, or 100 on the internet-based examination must pass an English skills course during the first semester of enrollment at Temple University. Those having taken the paper-based or computer-based test have the additional option of testing out of the English course by taking and passing the SPEAK test at Temple.
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A writing sample is required. The topic is flexible, but must be relevant to Kinesiology.
Students who enter the doctoral program with the master's degree may receive up to 30 credits of advanced standing toward the Ph.D. degree. The maximum number of advanced standing credits awarded is 30.
Number of Didactic Credits Required Beyond the Master's: 38
Required Courses:
KIN 901: Research Methods
KIN 910: Mentored Research I
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Additional required courses vary by area of concentration.
Internship: No internship is required.
Language Examination: No language examination is required.
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The preliminary examination basically requires completion of research that results in a published article in a refereed journal, with the student as first author. Specific details are available from the department.
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Time Limit for Degree Completion: 7 years
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Students are able to complete the degree program through classes offered after 4:30 p.m. Students are able to complete the degree program on a part-time basis (8 credit hours or less per semester).
Interdisciplinary study is available within the department as well as with other departments in the University.
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The majority of students find positions in academic institutions. Some students work in research and clinical settings. Training is primarily for academic and research positions at institutions of higher learning.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
US Imperialist War Crimes In Africa
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- Dr. Fallon said...
Read more here.
Why Do They Hate Us?
Even though conflict is big on television, not all wars infiltrate our consciousness. Where the United States or its (economic?) allies or (economic?) interests are not involved, war does not seem to exist for us. The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden report that on average 9 minor armed conflicts (where the number of deaths does not exceed 1000 during the course of the conflict), 12 intermediate armed conflicts (where the number of deaths exceeds 1000, but is fewer than 1000 in any given year), and 13 wars (with more than 1000 deaths a year) go on at all times somewhere in the world.
In the year 2000, war took the lives of 168,000 Africans, 65,000 Asians, 39,000 "middle-easterners," 37,000 Europeans, and 2,000 Central and South Americans. At the same time, American arms manufacturers were making it possible for war to be the "booming business" that it is. Forty of the top one hundred arms-producing companies in the world are American companies with profits totaling $664 billion dollars in 1999. Over $93 billion of that profit comes from the manufacture and sale of weapons, more than the profit of the other 60 companies combined (US$64 billion). Is this not something Americans should know about?
Meanwhile, those in the less technologically developed world who are not dying in warfare are likely to be dying of disease or starvation. While the life expectancy of the average American was about 75 years in 2001, it was 65 for the Indonesian, 64 for the Russian, 45 for the Afghan, 39 for the Zambian, and 38 for the Rwandan and the Mozambiquan. While an American baby has 99.4% of survival after birth, the infant mortality rate is 2% for the Russian, 10% for the Ethiopian, almost 15% for the Afghan, and nearly 20% for the Angolan.
And while much of the "third world" believes that we care little for their welfare, many more question our motivations even less kindly. They believe we are more interested in exploiting their natural resources for our benefit, and exploiting their people for their cheap labor.
If terrorism is evil — and it is — this is terror's recruiting station.
Read more here.
- 14 March, 2007 03:58
- Fabian said...
uhm - is it maybe the wrong photo?
I don't see anybody slapping anybody else there. He just points to the left and the two men in the background look rather interested than attacked.
- 14 March, 2007 05:05
- Hero of Mt. Paektu said...
Look closely Fabian, They were violently attacked by the rascist warmonger representative of the bushist ruling clique in the so-called white house. They are clearly being lorded over. Their only piece of toilet paper stolen along with their hats. All this while the women and children are being loaded into the awaiting trucks to be sold for bushes personal profit.
- 16 March, 2007 12:51
- Fabian said...
I just wanted to check if I provoce such an answer.
Frankly it is a waste of time to comment something here - either they are not taken serious or the get a propagandistic answer.
Most annoying though is certainly that Dr. Fallon uses the comment function as a publishing platform - a link would be enough.
It is a pity that this page doesn't contribute anything to the understanding of North Korea in the rest of the world. There could be so much more here than that. I don't know who does this blog, but it could certainly improved significantly.
- 16 March, 2007 16:57
- Hero of Mt. Paektu said...
Comrade Fabian, this progressive Korean style man-centered socialist blog only contains irrefutable facts of science, such as the many immortal feats of Dear Leader.
- 17 March, 2007 15:50
- Fabian said...
But it doesn't help any foreigners to understand North Korea. I have the impression that this blog has Koreans as a target audience despite being in English.
- 17 March, 2007 22:03
- Hero of Mt. Paektu said...
This blog is for all. Especially for people who's retinas, eardrums and kittens have not been stolen for bushes personal profit. bush=hitler.
- 18 March, 2007 14:17
- Matt said...
I think this blog is hilarious!
Long live Dear Leader.
- 19 March, 2007 06:36
- Dr. Fallon said...
Read more here.
Edwards : Poverty Causes Terrorism
Let's end it.
Edwards isn't going nearly far enough with this proposal, but it's the first sensible rhetoric I've heard from a candidate for President of the United States in a long, long time.
Seeking to link poverty in other countries to the United States' national security, Edwards argued that militant extremists in nations torn apart by poverty and civil war have replaced government educational systems and are teaching young people to hate the United States.
"When you understand that, it suddenly becomes clear: Global poverty is not just a moral issue for the United States – it is a national security issue for the United States," he said at Saint Anselm College.
What he's talking about spending is a pittance and won't do a whole lot to alleviate global poverty or check the spread of anti-American hatred. But it is better than nothing.
Edwards called for spending $3 billion a year to extend primary education to millions of children in developing countries. Combating terrorism should begin in classrooms, not battlefields, he said.
His plan also includes $600 million a year for health care initiatives, including a worldwide summit on clean drinking water and sanitation and a six-fold increase in funding for clean water programs.
Getting to the root of global poverty will require increasing both political and economic opportunities for the poor, he said, at a cost of about $1.4 billion. And it will require one person to oversee those efforts, he said.
You can keep telling yourself -- if you choose -- that the US occupation of Iraq is a "central front in the war on terror." Why Afghanistan was not the central front in the so-called "war on terror" in the eyes of this administration is a puzzle. But then again, so is the fact that a brutal dictator, Pervez Musharraf, is one of our allies. But this war has cost us an average of $100,000,000,000.00 each of the last four years, and we are in greater danger of being the victims of terror attacks now than we were four years ago.
Many on the right will say that Edwards' plan -- or any plan for that matter that has government spending on welfare rather than warfare -- won't work. I say we're crazy if we don't try it. And worse: if we are serious about fighting a war on terror, a real war on real terror, then it would be immoral to ignore global poverty.
Read more here.
- 19 March, 2007 14:39
The evil bushist despots are the most blood thirsty devils in history of Jap occupied Darfur. But fear not, Dear Leader shall defeat the evil cat abusers in Darfur.
- 21 March, 2007 13:40
- Beth said...
He slapped them to draw blood to feed teh evil blood-drinking Joooz!!!1!
- 03 April, 2007 23:52


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Permanent Injunction Against Indefinite Military Detention in NDAA Issued by Federal Judge
UPDATE: Less than twenty-four hours later, as expected, Obama Justice Department files appeal to federal judge's ruling.
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A federal judge issued a ruling on September 12 that permanently enjoined a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that was signed by President Barack Obama codifying indefinite military detention into United State law last year. She found that the writers, journalists and activists who were plaintiffs in the lawsuit had demonstrated actual and reasonably that their First Amendment-protected activities could subject them to indefinite military detention and ruled the public had a greater interest in preserving the First Amendment and due process rights than allowing law enforcement to have this tool.
Judge Katherine B. Forrest, a judge appointed by Obama, had already issued a temporary injunction against Section 1021 of the NDAA. That section authorized the President to "use all necessary and appropriate force pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), including "the authority of the Armed Forces of the United States to detain covered persons." The section said a "covered person" was "a person who was part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces." Persons detained could be held without trial "under the law of war" until the "end of hostilities authorized by the AUMF."
Journalist Chris Hedges, Occupy London co-founder Kai Wargalla, WL Central writer and US Day of Rage founder Alexa O'Brien, and Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir demonstrated in court during the trial that they were able to prove the provision could result in an "imminent and particularized, invasion of legally-protected interests." In her 112-page ruling, the judge wrote, "Hedges, O'Brien, Wargalla, and Jonsdottir all testified to facts showing a chilling of their written, oral or associational activities. That is actual injury." (For more specific details on the plaintiffs' back stories, go here.)
Forrest concluded the plaintiffs had demonstrated monetary damages would not "redress the injury" and "considering the balance of hardships between the plaintiffs and government, injunctive relief" was warranted and "the public interest would not be disserved by the issuance of an injunction." She also found the government had been "unable to provide this Court with any assurance" that these writers, journalists or activists' activities would not subject them to military detention, as laid out in section 1021.
What she stated was remarkable: Hedges, Wargalla, O'Brien and Jonsdottir had "already been harmed" and would continue to be harmed if this section of the NDAA was enforced.
The judge did not stop there. Her permanent injunction systematically deconstructed the provision picking up on the core of the argument against the government in the case—that "substantially supported," "directly supported," and "associated forces" were vague or lacked specificity. She determined these terms did not appear in any prior case law and that "the respective meanings of the terms at issue" are unknown but "the penalty of running afoul of it is severe."
She also stated:
…A key question throughout these proceedings has been, however, precisely what the statute means–what and whose activities it is meant to cover. That is no small question bandied about amongst lawyers and a judge steeped in arcane questions of constitutional law; it is a question of defining an individual's core liberties. The due process rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment require that an individual understand what conduct might subject him or her to criminal or civil penalties. Here, the stakes get no higher: indefinite military detention–potential detention during a war on terrorism that is not expected to end in the foreseeable future, if ever. The Constitution requires specificity–and that specificity is absent from § 1021(b)(2)…
This is profound. Since the September 11th attacks government has sought to claim powers that infringe upon liberties and do so without explanation on the mere basis that if government did explain what was being done they might reveal methods or techniques being used to defeat alleged terrorists. Judges have given great deference to the Executive Branch and allowed it to invoke the state secrets privilege to avoid accountability and justice for any crimes committed in the "war on terrorism." But here, a federal judge is preemptively blocking a national security law before the government really has any opportunity to employ it on the basis that the government drew it up poorly and failed to properly define what could lead someone to be subject to indefinite military detention. Moreover, the judge is insinuating and suggesting throughout that the government would be able to use this power of preventive detention in an Orwellian manner and so she must intervene.
Forrest added it was impossible to understand the "scope" of this provision without key terms being defined. The government was unable or unwilling to provide definitions. The government expended little energy or resources in trying to provide the court with definitions. They did not take the vagueness seriously at all or think the judge would care that they had no interest in defining these terms, which were primarily responsible for the plaintiffs bringing a lawsuit against the government. She determined the "statute's vagueness" fell short of "what due process requires."
She eloquently outlined how this provision violated Americans' right to due process:
…Constitutional guarantees require that criminal statutes carry an array of due process protections. If it did not, then § 1021 must be interpreted as follows: Congress has declared that the U.S. is involved in a war on terror that reaches into territorial boundaries of the United States. The President is authorized to use all necessary force against anyone he deems involved in activities supporting enemy combatants, and therefore criminal laws and due process are suspended for any acts falling within the broad purview of what might constitute "substantially" or "directly supporting" terrorist organizations. If this is what Congress in fact intended by § 1021(b)(2), no doubt it goes too far. Although § 1021(b)(2) does not, strictly speaking, suspend the writ of habeas corpus, it eliminates all other constitutionally-required due process (indeed, leaving only the writ)…
Essentially, the judge found it had hollowed out an American's right to due process. That alone is extraordinary, and even more extraordinary is the fact that a federal judge read into this law, made such an astute conclusion, and accepted the government might violate the due process of citizens if allowed to use this provision.
She also concluded the provision the government was defending in court could be used to target First Amendment activities. The government had not agreed or anywhere argued that activities protected by the First Amendment could not subject a person to indefinite military detention. They apparently wanted to keep options open in case they wanted to imprison someone in the future and all they had to support detention was speech. Forrest noted:
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides for greater protection: it prohibits Congress from passing any law abridging speech and associational rights. To the extent that § 1021(b)(2) purports to encompass protected First Amendment activities, it is unconstitutionally overbroad.
The government had claimed throughout that the section of the NDAA was an "affirmation" of the AUMF, a position entirely illogical and not accepted by the judge. To this the judge stated in her ruling it had a "broader scope" and "directly" referred to the law of war.
No evidence had been put forth by the government indicating it needed the provision for "law enforcement efforts." It had put itself in a tenuous position by claiming the NDAA provision simply "reaffirmed" the AUMF, because if that was so, then why was it necessary for the provision to be part of law?
The Government already has ample authorization to pursue those actually involved in the attacks on September 11, 2001, and it has a host of criminal statutes…that it can use to prosecute those who engage in a variety of activities that endanger lives or constitute terrorism. According to the Government, § 1021 is merely a reaffirmation of the AUMF–a position with which the Court disagrees. If, however, the Government is taken at its word, then enjoining its ability to enforce § 1021(b)(2) removes no tools from the Government's arsenal.
The government did not present evidence that there was a practical purpose to having the power to subject US citizens to indefinite military detention. The writers, journalists and activists had, however, shown how the law would impact their First Amendment and due process rights. Therefore the judge was obligated to permanently enjoin the law and urge Congress to fix the statute or examine whether this provision was ever needed at all. She stated, "Military detention based on allegations of 'substantially supporting" or 'directly supporting' the Taliban, al-Qaeda or associated forces is not encompassed within the AUMF and is enjoined by this Order," and "no detention" under the provision would be permitted.
In conclusion, this decision makes clear the preventive detention codified into law was purely an expansion of unchecked and authoritarian executive power. It demonstrates how the country is in a new phase of the "war on terrorism," a dangerous phase that requires vigilance by citizens, like the filing of preemptive lawsuits, in order to stop the government from manufacturing new laws that further redefine civil liberties and universal rights that are granted to all Americans by the Constitution.
The government has reached the boundaries yet refuses to let those boundaries, such as rights laid out in the Constitution, constrain it. It seeks to make innovations of law that will match the totalitarian state which has been under construction for the past decade. The law is behind and in order to not have to wholly disregard it, lawyers have to redefine accepted concepts of law like due process in order to—as the Obama 2012 presidential campaign might say—move forward. (America is already redefining due process through a kill list that gives the president the power to extrajudicially assassinate any "terror suspects" abroad, whether they be US citizens or not.)
Writers, journalists, activists and other citizens must anticipate that they might be warrantlessly wiretapped because it is now legal, and in order to stop government, they must force government to define what gives it the power to violate someone's privacy. They must anticipate what might lead the government to add them to a "No-Fly" list, because the government will not make public the criteria. They must file challenges in court to the addition of people to "kill lists" when they have reason to believe they have been added or when they believe they themselves could be added. This is because the national security state has no opposition from either major political party in the United States, the Congress no longer functions as a check on the Executive Branch, and the press yawns or gives government the benefit of the doubt each time it decides to expand the scope of its power to control people and undermine liberty.
A tremendous victory was won but Obama's Justice Department will appeal the permanent injunction. They'll defend their right to pass and implement Kafkaesque expansions of executive power. The lawsuit will likely be heard by a judge who is much more deferential to power than Forrest because most judges, unlike Forrest, have abdicated their duty to question and properly challenge how the government employs its national security policies. Nonetheless, it cannot be overstated: the plaintiffs in this case won when few thought they had any chance of winning and that proves that sometimes the most effective acts of resistance are acts that people engage in because they understand they have a moral obligation to take a stand regardless of how the system might be stacked against them.


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Enter a world, do some mental mapping, make notes of places to go back to, sweep from one end to the other collecting everything.
I think he meant that YL worlds fills less vertical space? In BK, sure, you could go anywhere, but there were some obstacles. In Mumbo's Mountain, you have the... mountain. In Treasure Grove you had these rock walls, Clanker's Cavern was divided into sections, Freezy Peak had a big Snowman in the center of everything plus some walls here and there, Click Clock Wood had a big tree... you know the drill.
My point is that in Kazooie the game kind of force you to go betweeen different pathes. The YL first world felt like a single giant path with stuff spreaded across the map.
But I'm not complaining about this and I just got into the second world, which feels more different.
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These ID cards, which have a banking component, are aimed at granting cardholders access to city services, regardless of federal or green card status. They will also allow card holders to open bank accounts, which is especially important to people who are undocumented and who typically use check cashing agencies that charge higher interest fees.
Cards will eventually be issued at approved locations, which haven't yet been determined.
The card will roll out in 60 to 90 days, and will cost $10 for minors and senior citizens. It will be $15 for adults. Original estimates projected that 30,000 cards would be issued in the first year, and are not expected to either cost the city any money or add to the city coffers.
All Oakland residents will be eligible for a card after they present proof of identity and proof of residence. Foreigners could present either a passport or a consulate ID.
Oakland police also will accept these cards as valid forms of identification.
"We think these cards will really help in terms of public safety," said Claudia Burgos, an aide to Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente, who has been pitching this idea with now Mayor Jean Quan since 2009. "A lot of people don't want to talk to police because they don't have ID. This will change that."
In addition to the police component and being able to bank at mainstream institutions, other community leaders had rallied for this issue as one of human rights, allowing undocumented immigrants a way to prove their identity and become more engaged in civic life. Detractors have long said the cards will increase illegal immigration.
The contract for the debit-cards is between the University National Bank of St. Paul, Minn., and SF Global Group of Venice, Los Angeles County, which are responsible for the card's operations.
Based on Oakland's plan, the nearby East Bay city of Richmond began the process last summer of also trying to grant municipal ID cards. In 2007, San Francisco issued city ID cards, but it is considered a county, not a city, and there is no debit card function to the identification. New Haven, Conn., was the first city in the country to adopt a municipal card, but it also did not have the banking component.


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Ample evidence contradicts Murdoch's claim that "we are not anti-immigrant on Fox News"
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News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, a proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, said at a House subcommittee hearing recently that Fox News, which News Corp. owns, is not "anti-immigrant." In fact, Fox News routinely polarizes and degrades the debate over immigration issues with outright falsehoods, fearmongering, and outrageous rhetoric that is hostile to immigrants.
Murdoch -- with a straight face -- tells Congress Fox News is "not anti-immigrant"
Murdoch: "We are not anti-immigrant on Fox News." At a September 30 House subcommittee hearing on the Role of Immigration in Strengthening America's Economy, Murdoch testified in support of comprehensive immigration reform, endorsing a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. Rep. Maxine Waters noted the disconnect between Murdoch's "basically descent proposal talking about the advantage of immigrants to our economy" and "what I hear on Fox." Murdoch replied: "We are home to all views on Fox. If you wish to come and state these views, we'd love to have you on Fox News," and insisted, "We don't censor that or take any particular line at all. We are not anti-immigrant on Fox News."
The reality: Fox News coverage of immigration issues is reliably hostile to immigrants
Fox News attacked Labor Department efforts to prevent exploitation of unauthorized workers. Fox News denounced Labor Secretary Hilda Solis' campaign informing vulnerable workers, including the undocumented, about the wage standards to which they are entitled. The Labor Department's policy of enforcing labor laws without regard to immigration status long predates the Obama administration; moreover, the enforcement of labor laws is widely seen -- even by those who advocate for greater restrictions on immigration -- as a key to discouraging employers from hiring unauthorized workers. Among the Fox News hosts who attacked the program were Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity, and Greta Van Susteren.
Fox joined assault on 14th Amendment. Fox News has repeatedly used the derogatory term "anchor babies" to refer to children born in the United States to immigrants who are in the country illegally. Following discussions among Republicans of altering birthright citizenship to exclude the children of unauthorized immigrants, Fox & Friends' Doocy said, "Maybe it's time to go ahead and re-examine" the 14th Amendment, which co-host Clayton Morris called the "anchor baby amendment." Co-host Gretchen Carlson has also described the 14th Amendment as the one that allows "illegals" born in the United States to become citizens. Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor hosted conservative pundit Ann Coulter to falsely claim that the 14th Amendment was intended solely for African-Americans and not for the children of immigrants. In fact, the Senate debate from 1866 shows that Congress explicitly recognized that the citizenship clause would apply to the children of Chinese immigrants, who at the time were excluded from naturalization.
Fox News hosts routinely describe unauthorized immigrants using the loaded term "illegals." In multiple instances, including on its purportedly objective news programs, Fox has described unauthorized immigrants using the term "illegals," which has been denounced by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association, and the National Association of Black Journalists as a term that can "skew the debate." On the May 21 edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson even went as far as to equate all Mexicans living in the United States with "illegals."
Fox defended Arizona's immigration law with litany of falsehoods. Numerous Fox News figures misrepresented the Arizona immigration law to make it seem less controversial or distorted the situation in Arizona in defense of the law. These falsehoods included the claim that the law prohibits officers from considering race when enforcing the law; the claim that the law only applies to those who are committing a crime; the claim that prior to the law, police in Arizona could not ask about the immigration status of those committing crimes; the claim that crime has risen in Phoenix; and the claim that Phoenix has the second-highest number of kidnappings in the world. Fox News also repeatedly reported that the federal government was boycotting Arizona. In fact, none of these claims was true.
Fox brings members of extremist anti-immigrant groups into mainstream. Fox News has repeatedly played host to Michelle Dallacroce, founder of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens. On the May 19, 2006, edition of Your World, Dallacroce claimed that the children of unauthorized immigrants "dumb down the American children and overpopulate our schools." On May 14, 2010, Fox & Friends also featured Phil Kent of the American Immigration Control Foundation. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League have flagged the organization as a group with ties to white supremacists that "sells, at a low cost, publications authored by racists and anti-immigrant figures who routinely demonize immigrants."
Fox News attacks Hispanic civil rights group NCLR. On the February 26, 2009, edition of his Fox News show, Hannity falsely claimed that the National Council of La Raza "has called for Mexico to annex southwestern states." In response, the president of NCLR demanded an "immediate on-air correction." Glenn Beck has also equated NCLR to "neo-Nazis" and said the group is "a danger to society."
Fox host claimed "illegals" in U.S. have "that sense of entitlement" that murderous drug lords have in Mexico. On July 8, Fox & Friends hosted Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu who stated that Mexican drug lords "kill police chiefs or police officers in broad daylight -- mayors, judges." Carlson stated in response: "Right. Well, some would say that a lot of the illegals have that sense of entitlement here because they've been allowed to have that sense of entitlement here."
Fox aired absurd estimate that "2,158 killed by illegals every year." On May 6, Fox & Friends displayed an on-screen graphic promoting an estimate that "2,158 killed by illegals every year," from Family Security Matters, an organization with a long history of attacking immigrants. That statistic was derived from the completely baseless assumption that the rate at which "illegal aliens" murder in the United States is consistent with murder rates from the immigrant's home country. Actual studies have found that immigrants in general are less likely to be incarcerated and that there is no evidence that undocumented immigrants commit a disproportionate amount of crime. On the May 14 edition of Fox News' On the Record, contributor Sarah Palin also pushed the myth that "border states" are being "inundated" by violent immigrants.
Fox hosted Republican sheriff who supports AZ immigration law 18 separate times. Between mid-April and July 15, Fox News hosted Babeu, who also appears in several campaign ads for Sen. John McCain, for 18 separate live interviews. During his appearances, Babeu touted the harsh Arizona immigration law, criticized the Obama administration, and decried the border-related crime and violence that he says is overwhelming the state. In fact, crime in Arizona has been falling for a decade, with a significant drop in 2009. Two other Arizona sheriffs, Tony Estrada and Ralph Ogden, who had expressed concerns about the new law in Arizona, told Media Matters that Fox had not invited them on to comment during the same period.
Fox News frequently calls immigration reform "amnesty." Fox News figures and the Fox Nation website often refer to immigration reform proposals as "amnesty." For instance, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Catholic leaders to support immigration reform, Fox News claimed that Pelosi had told clergy to "preach amnesty." Purportedly straight news figures William La Jeunesse and Megyn Kelly have also referred to immigration reform as "amnesty." A Pew research poll has shown that a proposal described as "providing amnesty" draws less support than an identical proposal that is described as "providing a way for citizenship" for unlawful immigrants.
O'Reilly: Immigration's reform "unintended consequences" include making America less white. On the May 17, 2007, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly said he reluctantly supported an immigration bill then under debate, but added that there would be "unintended consequences." "[T]he landscape of America will absolutely change," he said, citing a Census report which found that "[a]bout 1-in-every-3 U.S. residents was part of a group other than single-race non-Hispanic white." O'Reilly had previously voiced concerns over shifting racial demographics in the United States, suggesting, on April 12, 2006, that the "hidden agenda" of the immigrant rights movement was to bring about "the browning of America."
O'Reilly: "Most Americans" don't want "poor Mexican people ... changing the tempo of the whole neighborhood." On the July 30, 2007, edition of his Fox News show, O'Reilly asserted that, "despite the heated rhetoric" regarding immigration, "most Americans ... don't want to hurt any poor Mexican people. ... [T]hey want to know who they are. They want to know where they are, what they're doing. They don't want them clustering in neighborhoods and changing the tempo of the whole neighborhood."
John Gibson told viewers to "make more babies" in response to high Hispanic birth rate. On the April 4, 2006, edition of Fox News' The Big Story, John Gibson said he was suspicious that "open immigration groups" like the NCLR favor "the so-called reconquista," which Gibson described as the "retaking of old Mexico territories, which are now part of the United States, by pure birth rate." On the May 11, 2006, edition of The Big Story, Gibson said that "half of the kids in this country under five years old are minorities" and exhorted viewers to "[do] your duty. Make more babies":
GIBSON: Now, it's time for "My Word." Do your duty. Make more babies. That's a lesson drawn out of two interesting stories over the last couple of days.
First, a story yesterday that half of the kids in this country under five years old are minorities. By far, the greatest number are Hispanic. You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic. Why is that? Well, Hispanics are having more kids than others. Notably, the ones Hispanics call "gabachos" -- white people -- are having fewer.
Now, in this country, European ancestry people, white people, are having kids at the rate that does sustain the population. It grows a bit. That compares to Europe where the birth rate is in the negative zone. They are not having enough babies to sustain their population. Consequently, they are inviting in more and more immigrants every year to take care of things and those immigrants are having way more babies than the native population, hence Eurabia.
Malkin: "[T]he vast majority of mainstream Hispanic politicians" believe that "the American Southwest belongs to Mexico." Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin claimed on the March 30, 2006, edition of The O'Reilly Factor that Latinos protesting a bill aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration believe in "reconquista," or the theory that "the American Southwest belongs to Mexico." Malkin added that "the intellectual underpinnings of reconquista are embraced by the vast majority of mainstream Hispanic politicians."
Asman on immigration protests: "[I]s this the perfect time to round up these lawbreakers and ship them out?" On the April 10, 2006, edition of Your World, guest host David Asman teased an upcoming segment on protests against proposed immigration reform by wondering aloud: "With so many illegals hitting the streets, is this the perfect time to round up these lawbreakers and ship them out?" On the April 3, 2006, edition of Fox & Friends, guest Erich Muller mocked the protests by pretending he was going to have a "pro-illegal murder and illegal car thieves rally." He said, "[H]opefully, none of the cops will come arrest us." Doocy replied: "Yeah, you wouldn't want to round them up right then, when they're saying, 'Hey, I'm right here.' "
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Today: Gilead's expensive, breakthrough hepatitis drug gives a huge boost to profits and revenues. Also: Facebook stock moves to record highs after earnings.
The Lead: Gilead's breakthrough hepatitis drug boosts sales
Gilead Sciences needed only six months to top its 2013 sales total and racked up more profits in just the second quarter than it did all of last year, thanks to its breakthrough hepatitis C drug that can cost up to $1,000 a pill.
The Foster City biotech giant reported Wednesday that it compiled $3.66 billion in net income during the second quarter on sales of $6.53 billion, after posting profits of $3.08 billion on sales of $11.2 billion for the 2013 calendar year. The gains can almost entirely be attributed to Sovaldi, the anti-hepatitis C drug that hit the market at the end of last year and produced $3.48 billion in sales during the quarter after totaling $2.27 billion in sales in its debut quarter.
The bulk of the sales were in the United States, which swallowed $3 billion worth of the drugs, and Gilead expects to expand availability to other countries, thus also adding to its revenues.
"Since December's launch, Sovaldi has been prescribed for more than 80,000 patients in the U.S. and Europe, underscoring the medical community's recognition of the benefits of this product," Gilead CEO John C. Martin said in Wednesday's news release. "We look forward to making Sovaldi available in additional countries."
Sovaldi has added to the billions Gilead makes from drugs for HIV and AIDS, which accounted for slightly more than $2.5 billion in sales in the quarter, up from $2.3 billion in the year-ago quarter. Gilead also received good news from the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, with the approval of a drug that will be used in specific blood cancers and cost $7,200 per month, a discount from the $8.200 charged by Silicon Valley rival Pharmacyclics for its drugs aimed at the same ailments. Like Sovaldi, the FDA classified it as a "breakthrough" drug, speeding its approval.
"(We) are now focused on making this medicine available to patients as expeditiously as possible," Martin said.
Gilead has faced heat for the cost of Sovaldi, which can reach as high as $84,000 for a full cycle, but president and chief operating officer John Milligan on Wednesday defended the company, which acquired the drug in an $11 billion merger.
"The value of a cure, I tend to think, is underestimated in terms of the overall advantage that the health care system receives from it," he said in Wednesday's conference call, later adding, "Sovaldi was priced appropriately based on the benefit that it provides today."
Martin backed up Milligan's statement during the call, saying that recent research shows that hepatitis C patients in the U.S. can run through as much as $42,000 a year in treatment for the disease without a cure, a cost that would repeat until a patient dies from the ravages of the illness.
Gilead stock recorded an all-time closing high of $90.34 Wednesday, and declined slightly in immediate after-hours trading, dipping lower than $90.
SV150 market report: Facebook heads to record highs after earnings
Wall Street experienced uneven trading Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling while the SV150 and Nasdaq indexes gained ahead of a raft of tech earnings reports in the afternoon.
Facebook joined Gilead in blowing away forecasts for its earnings Wednesday, and the Menlo Park social network reached its highest stock prices yet in after-hours trading. Facebook reported net income of $791 million, or 30 cents a share, on revenues of $2.9 billion, gains of more than 135 percent for profits and 61 percent for sales from a year ago. The company's ad business has been booming, with Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg revealing that the company now has 1.5 million advertising customers. "We're seeing our existing advertisers spend more and we're seeing new people come on to the platform," Sandberg told Reuters. Facebook stock closed with a 2.9 percent increase at $71.29, then blew past its intraday record price of $72.59 in late trading, topping $75.
In other SV150 earnings reports: Varian Medical reported net income of $92.7 million, or 89 cents a share, on revenues of $778.5 million; Polycom earned $9 million, or 6 cents a share, on revenues of $332 million; Linear Technology earned $129.7 million, or 53 cents a share, on sales of $365.4 million; Infinera managed to produce previously elusive profits, reporting net income of $4.8 million, or 4 cents a share, on sales of $165.4 million; Fortinet announced net income of $6.1 million, or 4 cents a share, on sales of $184.1 million; and Natus Medical earned $7.7 million, or 24 cents a share, on sales of $86.3 million.
Apple reached its highest prices since 2012 after its earnings report revealed declining iPad sales but growth for the iPhone and Mac; the Cupertino company's shares rose 2.6 percent to $97.19 as analysts continued to clamor for big new products by the end of the year. Other companies that joined Apple in Tuesday's gaggle of Silicon Valley earnings reports were not as fortunate: Juniper Networks dropped 9.6 percent to $22.43, Electronic Arts declined 6.2 percent to $36.04, VMware dropped 1.6 percent to $94.52, and Xilinx plummeted 14.3 percent to $41.26. The only SV150 company to join Apple in post-earnings gains Wednesday was Intuitive Surgical, the Sunnyvale surgical robotics firm that rocketed 17.7 percent higher to $461.63 after its new system showed strong early sales.
Up: LinkedIn, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Tesla, eBay, Splunk, Gilead, Pandora, Zynga
Down: Juniper, EA, GoPro, Applied Materials, Nvidia, VMware, AMD, Cisco, SunPower, Intel, Netflix
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 9.63, or 0.62 percent, to 1,553.26
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 17.68, or 0.4 percent, to 4,473.7
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Down 26.91, or 0.16 percent, to 17,086.63
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 3.48, or 0.18 percent, to 1,987.01
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Robert Sterne is a casting director and actor. He has worked with HBO on the series Rome and John Adams. He was a casting associate for the Red Riding miniseries (which starred Sean Bean). He was the casting director for the British comedies Free Agents, Threesome and Friday Night Dinner and a casting associate for the drama miniseries The Crimson Petal and the White, Any Human Heart and The Devil's Whore.
He is a casting director for Game of Thrones, along with Nina Gold. He also guest stars as the Royal Steward in King's Landing.
Robert Sterne won the Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series 2015 Emmy Award for Season 5 of Game of Thrones.[1]
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