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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=569819336398435&set=a.251092048271167.56433.251089648271407&type=1&theaterWow! Gov Brown (Calif.) Signs the Nullification of NDAA into law.
By Nick Hankoff on October 2, 2013 in Uncategorized 7
Assembly Bill 351, commonly called the California Liberty Preservation Act, has been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown making it statewide policy to refuse compliance with federal attempts to enforce “indefinite detention” made famous by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA). What began as a marginal issue with little legislative support has unified Californians of all persuasions and brought attention to the proper role the people and their states play in a constitutional republic.
A selection of AB 351 reads:
The United States Constitution and the California Constitution provide for various civil liberties and other individual rights for a citizen of the United States and the State of California, including the right of habeas corpus, the right to due process, the right to a speedy and public trial, and the right to be informed of criminal charges brought against him or her.
Certain provisions of federal law affirm the authority of the President of the United States to use all necessary and appropriate force to detain specified persons who engaged in terrorist activities.
This bill would prohibit an agency in the State of California, a political subdivision of this state, an employee of an agency or a political subdivision of this state, as specified, or a member of the California National Guard, on official state duty, from knowingly aiding an agency of the Armed Forces of the United States in any investigation, prosecution, or detention of a person within California pursuant to (1) Sections 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA), (2) the federal law known as the Authorization for Use of Military Force, enacted in 2001, or (3) any other federal law, except as specified, if the state agency, political subdivision, employee, or member of the California National Guard would violate the United States Constitution, the California Constitution, or any law of this state by providing that aid. The bill would also prohibit local entities from knowingly using state funds and funds allocated by the state to those local entities on and after January 1, 2013, to engage in any activity that aids an agency of the Armed Forces of the United States in the detention of any person within California for purposes of implementing Sections 1021 and 1022 of the NDAA or the federal law known as the Authorization for Use of Military Force , if that activity would violate the United States Constitution, the California Constitution, or any law of this state, as specified.
The bill’s common name is “The California Liberty Preservation Act.” California’s legislation takes things a step further than other states, which have implemented nullification legislation with regard to the NDAA.
The bill specifically states:
It is the policy of this state to refuse to provide material support for or to participate in any way with the implementation within this state of any federal law that purports to authorize indefinite detention of a person within California. (emphasis added)
This meaning of the legislation takes aim at not only the NDAA provision, but any federal law, which seeks to disregard one’s constitutional rights.
Apparently Democrats not only overextended Governmental Services, but are ruining Football!
And the Dem wussies may be behind the recently discovered "clever disguise" of San Francisco drug dealers as chess players!!
At least so says Stephen Colbert:
http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/09/26/stephen-colbert-calls-out-sfpd-on-their-market-street-chess-crackdown/
Max Keiser: Side Effects of Cameron's Ponzi Scheme
Interesting discussion between Max and Stacy on the housing bubble taking off over in the UK these days. Also a discussion with economist out of Australia "Doss"
Keiser has a one liner about the current globalization of leverage being nothing more than a pogrom against the lower and middle classes.
Remarks between Keiser and Doss include Doss' witticism "The people who mind don't matter and the people who matter don't mind."
I'm reading that the subsidies for the Health Insurance are actually tax credits which will
In some cases, have to be paid back.
This is a fascinating read:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/05/obamacare-a-deception/
I am in a situation that is actually discussed in this article -that my income fluctuates and that one year I am making a bit more than enough to survive, but then the next year could be better or worse, and the whole way this program has been devised makes it especially difficult for lower income people in that situation.
The fact that it is our GROSS income rather than our NET income also worries me quite a bit. You can certainly tell the politicans do not have the average person's interests at heart when the plans work out like this.
Coming Governmental Shut Down - What Am I Missing?
For at least the last six weeks, every single soul inside the Beltway knew about the October 1st, coming government shut down... So the President spent the better part of ten days, up on a bully pulpit, trying to get us fixated on the notion of attacking Syria... Would that bully pulpit energy energy not have been better spent on revving up American citizens and getting them to help avert the coming shut down?
On the one hand, you have possible retaliation needed for possible Sarin Gas attack. (Although experts are still debating if or if not Syrian rebels or Syrian leader was behind it.)
On the other hand, you have the full scale derailment of American society.
Which matters more to the average person?
And why is it that the Oval Office energy is not about the average American any more?
Given the unpredictability of the governmental shut down, and the fact that no one even knows the ramifications of it, I would hope that the President, (who supposedly is in tight with Jaimie Diman), would in full comprehension of the event then put the considerable weight of the bully pulpit energy out there before the public, on the issue.
Maybe you don't understand what I am saying. To explain it as well as I can, here is a clip from "The Newsroom:"
If I had been President over the last six months, or six weeks, (God help us all, should that day come about!) I think I would have been very tempted to address the nation telling them the damn Republicans were behind the sarin gas attacks, if that is what it takes to avoid this.
Is Calif Broken? New Huff Post Story suggests it is:
Although the following story focuses on Southern Calif., the same is true of many communities that are rural in nature. And of course the poverty levels would be worse, except so many people right now are taking out student loans and going back to school. Additionally many young people are enlisting in the Armed Services, with the Navy seeming to be the choice that makes so many parents happy as then the young person might avoid seeing real heavy duty action on the ground.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/southern-california-poverty_n_3957108.html?utm_hp_ref=san-francisco&ir=San%20Francisco
From the above link:
In Los Angeles County, the poverty rate also climbed 3.6 percentage points from 15.5 percent in 2008 to 19.1 percent in 2012. It rose 0.8 percentage points from 2011 to 2012, according to the Census Bureau's American Communities Survey.
"Even through 2012, the L.A. County economy was struggling to recover and ... more Los Angeles County households fell below the poverty line as a result of the lingering effects of the Great Recession," said Robert Kleinhenz, chief economist of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.
"You've got people who fundamentally are going to have a more difficult time putting food on their table for their family members, who are not going to be able to get the health care they should have otherwise gotten."
San Bernardino County, which was particularly hard-hit by the recession, fared worse as the poverty rate rose 6 percentage points from 14.4 percent in 2008 to 20.4 percent in 2012. The rate rose 1.1 percentage point from 2011 to 2012.
Imprisoned pot user asks Holder "What about us?"
http://www.ladybud.com/2013/09/18/holder-say-it-like-you-mean-it-federal-prisoner-eddy-lepp-on-holders-legalization-statement/Convicted pot user Eddy Lepp asks Eric Holder the hard question, which amounts to, "What about us?"
From an article about Lepp (Link first line of this post above):
"What the over all cost of this false War on Drugs will be can only be guessed at now. It will be many many years in the future before we can look back and gauge the true cost in pain and suffering to the fabric of this once great nation.
"As my Darling wife Linda points out every once in a while, “Eddy, you’re not the only damn one in prison, so am I.”
“Eddy, you’re not the only damn one in prison, so am I.”
"Sadly, she is just one of hundreds of thousands sitting at home in prison. When will the government quit using its citizens as fodder to keep their cash cow alive and well? Because, that really is the sole purpose of the War on Drugs, to allow the government to steal left and right at the taxpayer’s expense."
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I also liked this comment from one GREENAID:
GREENAIDcpsladybud1:
The War on Drugs allows the funding of countless wars, takeovers, and overthrows of any weaker country the government chooses to interfere with. Regardless of the right or wrong of it.
The CIA and the DEA are thought of by many, if not all, to be the two biggest drug dealers in the world, just ask Ollie North.
We must ask ourselves just how serious Holder and his boss Obama are. Do they really wish to end this un-winnable senseless war? If so I and many others in here believe it is time to put it in writing and release all of us being held for non-violent marijuana crimes.
The lies have gone on for years it is time for real change. We as a nation have reached and surpassed the tipping point. It is time we stand up and insist they finally do something real, not just talk. Please get involved not just with the War on Drugs but take time to look at the rest of the mess.
While the rhetoric is a step in the right direction, we all deserve real change, and I hope for it every day I serve this ten-year sentence.
I cannot remember ever having had a discussion topic I put up locked
Until today.
I put up an important topic for consideration. Note that the following link --
this link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023680657
is not about a conspiracy theory. It is about two facts:
Fact One) comets, space debris, asteroids, space junk, including satellites that are no longer being used and that are falling apart, are all objects that exist beyond our atmosphere, and can fall into our atmosphere and then can impact earth.
Fact Two: The Air Force run, Space Control and Space Surveillance Center is going to be shut down due to sequestration efforts from the Republicans.
Here is the link to the existence of this program: http://www.stratcom.mil/factsheets/USSTRATCOM_Space_Control_and_Space_Surveillance/
You can go and read about it there.
When the USSTRATCOM space control and surveillance center is made non-operational, due to the budget constraint crazy crowd that now has so much power in the Congress, there is a potential for a huge problem.
Basically, once this center quits operating,there will no longer be a direct connection between the military and the top astronomers who have a day to day understanding of what it is that is impacting our atmosphere. You can have as many fine independent astronomers as you want, but most of them would find it difficult to get through to the top Big Wigs at the Pentagon, to let them know that "incoming" at 4 o'clock is just part of a meteor that is burning up.
It may be unlikely that this affects us today, or next week, or even next year. But it is still likely that once this center goes down, we could be in big trouble.
So why was thi s link shut down? Not a conspiracy, not about guns, not about Israel, or Palestine,. etc.
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Will Comet Ison coming though the asteroid belt, shove us to Defcon Two or One?
For those of you who are following the travels of Comet Ison, you may have noticed how this comet impacted several asteroids over the last two days. The comet hit many asteroids, and some of those were able to go on and enter our atmosphere. Those asteroids went on to hit our planet. (Most were about the size of a baseball, or smaller.)
The heavenly activities of Comet Ison are going to continue, and if initial science reports are to be believed, the results will end up being more spectacular as time goes on.
The next twelve months are critical in terms of the interplay between the comet, the asteroids it deflects into our atmosphere, and all of that.
Big Problem for earthlings and other sentient life that occupy the planet - on account of sequestration, the Air Force Space Surveillance Center is scheduled to shut down, just as the spectacular asteroid activity is heating up.
Now please note: my concern is not that a huge asteroid is about to get deflected into our atmosphere and hit the planet, obliterating all life. The projected sizes of the asteroids that might be "doomed" to enter our atmosphere are not a problem.
What is a problem is that without such a Surveillance Center up and operating, and with tension still existing between the USA and Russia, do we want to risk not having the safety advantages of the surveillance center?
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