//////////////////////////////////////// oAnth at scoop.it on Wednesday, 2012-02-15
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cf. also oAnth's chosen entries from scoop.it at soup.io - http://02mydafsoup-01.soup.io/tag/tag_scoopit via http://www.scoop.it/t/manually-by-oanth-from-my-scoop-it-contacts [new]
for mostly administrative purposes of online activities and in favour of its locally based storage feature - Evernote:
All different kinds of videos to find at oAnth - soup.io - from the latest on backwards: http://02mydafsoup-01.soup.io/?type=video
original URL -- http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/berufsleben/0,1518,813654,00.html
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KarriereSPIEGEL: Wie müsste so eine Reform aussehen?
Sattelberger: Es geht nicht nur um inhaltliche Reform in Forschung und Lehre, sondern auch beim Personal sowie in Führung und Steuerung einer Schule. Dazu gehört beispielsweise die Frage, ob Professoren zwar ausgezeichnete Fachleute sind, aber mit unmoralischen Handlungskonzepten hantieren, ob Fakultätsmitglieder wie streunende Katzen auf der Suche nach lukrativen Beratungsaufträgen sind. Die Finanzkrise hat ja aufgezeigt, welche inzestuösen Vernetzungen es zwischen Investmentbanken und Professoren führender US-Schulen gab, die auf der Gehaltsliste von Banken standen. Es geht auch darum, nach welchen Kriterien Professoren rekrutiert und befördert werden - spielen da Charakter und soziale Kompetenz auch eine Rolle, oder zählen nur die theoretischen Veröffentlichungen in erstklassigen Journalen? Gibt es einen Code of Conduct, einen Verhaltenskodex? Und hat die Schule einen funktionierenden Beirat? Oft sind Beiräte keine Kontrolleure, sondern werden nur als Geldbeschaffer und Aushängeschilder für die Schule instrumentalisiert. Institutionelle Reformen halte ich für wesentlich schwieriger und wichtiger als die inhaltlich-fachliche Reform.
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Sviatoslav Richter in Kiev, 1959 - Beethoven Sonata No.12, Op.26; No.7, Op.10/3 & Bagatelles
yt-video permalink - http://youtu.be/QEWFPVMELQU
*** Beethoven Sonata No.12, Op.26 ***
00:00 - Andante con variazioni
*** Bagatelles ***
18:44 - Op.33 No.3
*** Beethoven Sonata No.3, Op.10 No.3 ***
37:43 - Presto
a) Where In The Tunnel Are We? – By Ehsani | Syria comment - 2012-01-31
Why is the Syrian opposition so divided? Here are some of the main divisions running through Syrian society:
Sunni versus Alawi
Welcome to the cocktail of the new Syrian revolution.
I returned home to Syria two weeks ago. Many of my friends were surprised that I would make the long trip at this time of gathering war. For two weeks, I traveled (flew) between Aleppo and Damascus. I talked to rich and poor: bankers, taxi drivers, young protestors from Idlib, rank and file army soldiers stationed in Homs, senior Alawi officers, Christian and tribal Sunni families. I did my best to get a comprehensive view of what people were thinking and how they saw the future. In what follows, I will present a raw interview-type account of three different encounters that I had. Two were with Taxi drivers. One with a soldier. Even though I had my own car and someone to drive me around, I preferred the taxis to get a better feel.
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original URL -- http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Syriacomment/~3/QJeAJiLE0dE/
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b) A Short History of Modern Syria Hamid Dabashi traces the rise of the Assad regime From: TheRealNews
podcast: http://www.podcast.sf.tv/Podcasts/Sternstunde-Philosophie
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On Sunday January 22, Barbara Bleisch interviews Professor Axel Honneth in "Schweizer Fernsehen" (SF)
"Axel Honneth: Der Kampf um Anerkennung"
Der Frankfurter Philosoph Axel Honneth ist einer der wichtigsten lebenden Vertreter der Kritischen Theorie, die in den 1930er Jahren von Horkheimer und Adorno begründet wurde. Während die Kritische Theorie unter dem Eindruck des Nationalsozialismus ein düsteres Bild der Zukunft zeichnete, ist Axel Honneth zuversichtlicher. In seinem neusten Buch «Das Recht der Freiheit» behauptet er gar, unsere Welt werde immer gerechter, da die Menschen nicht müde werden, Unrecht anzuprangern und Anerkennung einzufordern. Der Kampf um Anerkennung wird damit für Honneth zum ethischen Fortschrittsmotor – er verändert unser politisches System, unsere Arbeitswelten und letztlich auch unsere Liebesbeziehungen zum Guten hin.
Literaturtipps:
- Das Recht der Freiheit. Grundriss einer demokratischen Sittlichkeit. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2011. 
On SOPA, PIPA, ACTA & Twitter censorship
Articles, links, videos, audios and statements in EN, DE & FR
by Anonymous - netzpolitik.org - radar.oreilly.com - globalvoicesonline.org - - laquadrature.net - et al.
also available via RSS-feed: http://02mydafsoup-01.soup.io/rss/tag/compil_SopaPipa
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Important dates for ACTA in the European Parliament:
(Please note, all dates may be changed)
via
- ACTA: Note from Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament : politics at URL http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ow1v5/acta_note_from_marietje_schaake_member_of_the/ 
- NEW since 2011-10-20: There has been opened meanwhile a new soup.io group account
with articles, videos and photographs, which is continuously updated by members of the soup.io community and via RSS. The account is up to now (2012-02-01) actualized on a daily basis.
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- NYC General Assembly - http://nycga.cc/ The Official Website of the GA at #OccupyWallStreet
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Posted on September 30, 2011 by NYCGA http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-the-occupation-of-new-york-city/ This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on september 29, 2011 Translations: French, Slovak, Spanish, German, Italian
- An always inspiring source of informations provides also Diaspora* by public (open) entries via hash tag #occupywallstreet. In DE - Zitate vom Tage - 20120127 - zum Verhältnnis der sogenannten Volksparteien in Deutschland zu Marktkonformität & Verfassungsschutz | zitiert aus den Nachdenkseiten.de & Telepolis (heise.de)
“Systems of representation have become consumer objects; they function almost according to the throwaway logic of fads and tissues” Lipovetsky Philosophical moments on the network should all be read carefully through the mirror of the above proposition.
via http://driftwork.tumblr.com/post/16057576558/systems-of-representation-have-become-consumer
original URL - http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Woche-Freie-Software-gegen-die-Entmuendigung-der-Anwender-1417513.html
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Auf dem 28C3 warnte Cory Doctorow in seinem Vortrag vor dem "kommenden Krieg gegen universelle Computer" (deutsche Transkription von Christian Wöhrl). Nach Doctorows Ansicht besteht ein massives wirtschaftliches Interesse daran, universelle Computer, die jede beliebige Software ausführen können, abzuschaffen – so, wie sich derzeit die Unterhaltungsindustrie Computer wünscht, auf denen man Filme, Musik, Bücher und Zeitschriften zwar konsumieren, aber nicht kopieren und weitergeben kann. Angesichts der fortschreitenden Computerisierung aller Lebensbereiche, spekuliert der Blogger, sei der derzeitige Kampf ums Copyright nur der Beginn einer langen Auseinandersetzung um universelle Computer. Die aktuellen Entwicklungen, die sich im Kontext der Einführung von Windows 8 und der UEFI-Funktion Secure Boot im PC-Markt abzeichnen, lassen diese Befürchtungen durchaus berechtigt erscheinen. Mit Secure Boot, für ARM-Rechner mit Windows 8 verbindlich vorgeschrieben und auch für die x86-Welt auf der Agenda, könnte die Zeit zu Ende gehen, wo der Eigentümer eines PC selbst entscheiden kann, welches Betriebssystem und welche Software er auf seinem Rechner laufen lässt.
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original URL -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/16/academic-publishers-enemies-science/print
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This is the moment academic publishers gave up all pretence of being on the side of scientists. Their rhetoric has traditionally been of partnering with scientists, but the truth is that for some time now scientific publishers have been anti-science and anti-publication. The Research Works Act, introduced in the US Congress on 16 December, amounts to a declaration of war by the publishers.
The USA's main funding agency for health-related research is the National Institutes of Health, with a $30bn annual budget. The NIH has a public access policy that says taxpayer-funded research must be freely accessible online. This means that members of the public, having paid once to have the research done, don't have to pay for it again when they read it – a wholly reasonable policy, and one with enormous humanitarian implications because it means the results of medical research are made freely available around the world.
A similar policy is now being adopted in the UK. On page 76 of the policy document Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth the government states that it is "committed to ensuring that publicly funded research should be accessible free of charge". All of this is great for the progress of science, which has always been based on the free flow of ideas, the sharing of data, and standing on the shoulders of giants.
But what's good for science isn't necessarily good for science publishers, whose interests have drifted far out of alignment with ours. Under the old model, publishers become the owners of the papers they publish, holding the copyright and selling copies around the world – a useful service in pre-internet days. But now that it's a trivial undertaking to make a paper globally available, there is no reason why scientists need yield copyright to publishers.
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original URL - http://www.nonfiction.fr/article-5361-identite_s_juive_s_dans_lantiquite.htm
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Recueil organisé d’articles qui met en lumière la façon dont l’Antiquité méditerranéenne a perçu le judaïsme et comment ce dernier s’y est intégré. Parmi les différentes enquêtes que mène l’auteur, la première cible les premières représentations que les Grecs se font des Juifs. C’est à la fin du IVème siècle avant notre ère qu’on trouve trace d’une rencontre entre les Juifs et les Grecs. La première désignation qu’utilisent les Grecs pour parler les Juifs est celle de " peuple de philosophes nés " - qui donne son titre à l’ouvrage. Cette première mention des Juifs chez un Grec, en l’occurrence Théophraste, dérive du fait que cet auteur met au centre de ce qu’il connaît du judaïsme leur monothéisme... |
original URL at http://worldedness.tumblr.com/post/15663805084/but-as-was-already-said-the-decomposition-of
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"But as was already said, the decomposition of society may be seen especially in the disappearance of significations, the almost complete evanescence of values. And the latter is, in the end, threatening to the very survival of the system. When, as is the case in all Western societies, it is openly proclaimed (and in France the glory goes to the Socialists for having done what the Right dared not do) that the sole value is money, profit, that the sublime ideal of social life is to enrich yourself, is it conceivable that a society can continue to function and reproduce itself on this basis alone? If that is the case, public servants ought to ask for and accept baksheeshes for doing their work, judges ought to put their decisions up for auction, teachers ought to grant good grades to the children whose parents slip them a check, and the rest accordingly. I wrote almost fifteen years ago about this, that the only thing stopping people today is fear of penal sanctions. But why would those who administrate these sanctions themselves be incorruptible? Who will guard the guardians? The generalized corruption one can observe today in the contemporary politico- economic system is not peripheral or anecdotal; it has become a structural, a systemic trait of the society in which we live.
In truth, we are touching here upon a fundamental factor, one that the great political thinkers of the past knew and that the alleged political philosophers of today, bad sociologists and poor theoreticians, splendidly ignore: the intimate solidarity between a social regime and the anthropological type (or the spectrum of such types) needed to make it function. For the most part, capitalism has inherited these anthropological types from previous historical periods: the incorruptible judge, the Weberian civil servant, the teacher devoted to his task, the worker whose work was, in spite of everything, a source of pride. Such personalities are becoming inconceivable in the contemporary age: it is not clear why today they would be reproduced, who would reproduce them, and in the name of what they would function.
Even the anthropological type that is a specific and proper creation of capitalism, the Schumpeterian entrepreneur (who combines technical inventiveness with an ability to round up capital, organize a business firm, explore, penetrate, and create markets), is in the process of disappearing. That type is being replaced by managerial bureaucracies and speculators. Here again, all these factors are conspiring with one another. Why struggle so hard to produce and to sell at a time when a successful killing in the exchange rate markets on Wall Street in New York or elsewhere can bring you 500 million dollars in a few minutes? The amounts at stake each week in speculation are on the order of the GNP of the United States for a year. The result is to put a drain on the most entrepreneurial elements, drawing them toward these kinds of activity which are completely parasitic from the point of view of the capitalist system itself.
If one puts all these factors together and takes into account, moreover, the irreversible destruction of the terrestrial environment which capitalist expansion (itself a necessary condition for social peace) necessary entails, one can and one should ask oneself how much longer the system will be able to function."
— Excerpt from Cornelius Castoriadis’ “The Rising Tide of Insignificance (The Big Sleep)” (pp. 136-8 from the online edition of the book, which was translated from the French and edited anonymously as a public service). [ http://www.notbored.org/RTI.pdf ]
Eine kleine Zusammenstellung von Blog-, Radio- und Videobeiträgen zu Alexander Kluges 80. Jubiläum. 
Ralph Steiner Mechanical Principles 1930
youtube permalink 
orignial URL: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/news/rss/the_great_beyond/~3/5EBOBiRQRgg/little-ice-age-was-caused-by-volcanism.html
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Some of the iconic winter landscapes by Pieter Bruegel the Elder are more than just fine examples of sixteenth-century Dutch art. Paintings such as Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow (1565) also serve as vivid evidence for the ‘Little Ice Age’, a period of cold climate conditions and glacier advances in Europe and elsewhere that lasted from the late Middle Ages until the nineteenth century.
There has been quite some debate over the years about the precise onset and the physical causes of this extended cold spell, with one school of thought favouring low solar activity during the ‘Maunder Minimum’ and another the cooling effect of big volcanic eruptions.
A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters may put the solar-trigger hypothesis at rest. Gifford Miller of the University of Colorado in Boulder and his colleagues suggest that the Little Ice Age began abruptly between 1275 and 1300 AD following four large sulfur-rich explosive eruptions, most likely in the tropics, over a mere 50-year period.
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original URL -- http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/7603
Victor Ginsburgh
English is the dominant language of the Internet, business, and world trade. Do we need another? This column applies an economist’s rationale to the question.
// oAnth:
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Worldwide, English is indeed the language that is most often used in international contacts and trade. But it is not the only one, as shown by Jacques Melitz (2008) who uses two measures of linguistic distances between trading partners and tries to estimate their effect. ‘Open-circuit communication’ (OCC) demands that the language be either official or widely spoken (at least 20% of the population knows the language). Spanish, for instance, will be an OCC between Bolivia (where 44% of the population knows Spanish) and Mexico (88%). A ‘direct communication’ (DC) language is any language common (that is, spoken by at least 4% in each country) in a pair of countries. In short, Melitz suggests distinguishing between two channels through which the trade-enhancing effect may take place: OCCs that depend on translation (which can be produced as long as there are enough people who can provide it in both countries) and DCs (which enable traders to communicate directly). He finds that ‘direct communication’ has the largest positive effect on trades: A 10% increase in the probability that two citizens, one in country A, the other in B, speak the same language increases their trades by 10%. Other European OCCs also contribute, but somewhat less. However, and interestingly enough, Melitz also shows that English as an OCC is no more effective than other European languages in promoting trade.
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original URL - http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36208/1.html
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Was aber versteht man unter einer goldenen Mitte? Nun, die goldene Mitte impliziert zwar einen Kompromiss, aber es handelt sich deswegen keineswegs um ein Mittelmaß.
Vielmehr symbolisiert die goldene Mitte als besondere Form das Beste; ein Optimum, welches sich durch Vielseitigkeit auszeichnet und gerade dadurch eine Komplexitätssteigerung erreicht. Dieses althergebrachte Paradigma der goldenen Mitte ist der Dreh- und Angelpunkt der Aristotelischen Philosophie. Hinter dem Paradigma der Aristotelischen Mitte verbirgt sich schließlich - und das ist eine wichtige Erkenntnis meiner Untersuchung - ein syllogistisch organisierter Entwicklungsgedanke, in dem jeder Prozess - und dazu zählt natürlich auch der Erkenntnisprozess - als Prozess der Mitte erscheint.
Der rote Faden ist dann insofern aufzufinden, als man auf die zur Mitte hin gerichteten Strukturen achtet, welche das gesamte Werk dialektisch organisieren. Aristoteles geht ja von einem Kontinuum aus, welches durch eine Dreigliedrigkeit des Ganzen gekennzeichnet ist, und zwar dergestalt, dass die jeweils gegenüberliegenden Pole stets durch eine Mitte im Sinne eines tertium comparationis verbunden sind.
Um den Aufbau der Aristotelischen Philosophie erfassen zu können, müssen wir uns natürlich zunächst die Frage stellen: Was hat Aristoteles mit seiner wissenschaftlichen Vorgehensweise eigentlich untersucht? Die Antwort darauf ist im Grunde genommen recht einfach: Das Hauptthema der Aristotelischen Philosophie ist ohne Zweifel die Bewegung. Allerdings müssen wir uns an dieser Stelle vergegenwärtigen, dass mit dem griechischen Begriff Bewegung nicht nur eine einfache Ortsbewegung gemeint ist, sondern Bewegung in einem umfassenden Sinne.
Genauer gesagt, es geht um die systematische Analyse ganz unterschiedlicher Bewegungsformen, um Prozesse respektive Entwicklungen. Meiner Meinung nach hat diesen Sachverhalt besonders gut der klassische Philologe Martin Hose erfasst, der das Aristotelische System als eine Bewegungsphysik auf allen Ebenen des Seins umschreibt.
Es handelt sich also um ein gigantisches interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt. Daraus ergibt sich bereits folgender wichtige Zusammenhang: Aristoteles beschäftigt sich mit dem gesamten Sein im Sinne einer Unendlichkeit, welche er als ein Kontinuum mit medialen Strukturen erfasst. Es wäre daher schon ein schwieriges Vorhaben, die Gedanken des Aristoteles erklären zu wollen, ohne dabei die darin angelegten medialen Strukturen zu berücksichtigen.
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Richard Wolff: Replace Capitalism - talk from 2012-01-24 ( ~95 min) | offene Ablage: nothing to hide
Permalink -yt-video:
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Economics Professor Richard Wolff details the problems of capitalism and urges our recognizing its obsolescence and replacing it with institutions that truly serve the people.
cf also:
- Richard Wolff, Q and A after Replacing Capitalism talk - youtube permalink:
original URL - http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/go/blog-post/arl-releases-code-of-best-practices-in-fair-use-for-academic-and-research-libraries
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ARL Releases Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. The Code was developed in partnership with the Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law at American University. Winston Tabb, Johns Hopkins University Dean of University Libraries and Museums and President of ARL, said, “This document is a testament to the collective wisdom of academic and research librarians, who have asserted careful and considered approaches to some very difficult situations that we all face every day.” 
Please, go by the given link in the entry title to the postings by oAnth at soup.io ;
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Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011–2012 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [ https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Egyptian_parliamentary_election,_2011%E2%80%932012 ]
An early parliamentary election will be held in Egypt from November 2011 onwards, following the revolution which ousted President Hosni Mubarak, after which the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces dissolved the parliament of Egypt. Originally, the election was assumed to be held in September, but this was postponed.
The election will take place on the following dates:
- first stage: 28 November, run-off on 5 December; - second stage: 14 December, run-off on 21 December; - third stage: 3 January, run-off on 10 January. - Shura Council elections are to follow on 22 January 2012.
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compilation (linked via title line of this entry) composed of articles, videos, photographs from Wikipedia, Globalvoices, Sandmonkey Blog, The Real News, et al. about the situation around the coming elections in December 2011 and January 2012.
Prime minister to accuse court of unnecessarily overturning judgments reached in credible national courts
[oAnth - sic!]
original URL - http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/jan/25/david-cameron-reform-european-court
original URL at the Berkman Center - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/01/reich
Tuesday, Janary 17, 2012
The explosion of open education content resources and freely available collaboration and media production platforms represents one of the most exciting emerging trends in education. These tools create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to design and personalize curriculum and to give students opportunities to collaborate, publish, and take responsibility for their own learning. Many education technology and open education advocates hope that the widespread availability of free resources and platforms will disproportionately benefit disadvantaged students, by making technology resources broadly available that were once only available to affluent students. It is possible, however, that affluent schools and students have a greater capacity to take up new innovations, even free ones, and so new tools and resources that appear in the ecology of education will widen rather than ameliorate digital divides. In this presentation, we will examine evidence for both the "tech as equalizer" and "tech as accelerator of digital divides" hypotheses, and we will examine technology innovations and interventions that specifically target learners with the most needs. A lively discussion will follow to consider how educators, technologists, and policymakers can address issues of educational digital inequalities in their work. [...]
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// oAnth: The first 30 min are mostly of interest 
Otto Mueller, (1874-1930) stehender Akt in Baum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Mueller
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original URL - http://fangsanalsatanvacation.tumblr.com/post/15710778402 
Compilation on the NDAA (articles, links & video interviews) via link provided in the title line of this entry.
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The bill would allow federal officials to take these steps based on suspicions only, without having to demonstrate to any judicial official that there is solid evidence to justify their actions. No reasonable proof will any longer be required for the government to suspend an American citizen’s constitutional rights. Detentions can follow mere membership, past or present, in “suspect organizations.” Government agents would have unchecked authority to arrest, interrogate, and indefinitely detain law-abiding citizens if accused of potentially posing a threat to “national security.” Further, military personnel anywhere in the world would be authorized to seize U.S. citizens without due process. As Senator Lindsay Graham put it, under this Act the U.S. homeland is considered a “battlefield.”
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quote from:
Obama and the final destruction of the constitution - https://xenophilius.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/obama-and-the-final-destruction |
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