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By Senator Harrison H. Schmitt ("This continuing series of essays considers current national issues from the viewpoint of the Founders of the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, and related correspondence of their times clearly enshrine the intent of these remarkable, knowledgeable, and courageous Americans. Through these interdependent statements, the Founders created the greatest form of republican government yet devised and provided straightforward guidance on how to preserve for our progeny their 'unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'."— HHS)
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1. NEW MEXICO DELEGATION AND THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Slams New Mexico's Congressional Delegation for Attack on Liberty and the Constitution)
Preview: The current New Mexico Congressional delegation and its Democratic Party leaders in Washington have served neither New Mexico nor the United States well in 2009. The prospects for 2010 are even worse. [Read Online]
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2. NEW MEXICO DELEGATION AND TSA UNIONIZATION (Former Senator Schmitt Accuses New Mexico Delegation of Putting Politics Ahead Of National Security)
Preview: The New Mexico Congressional Delegation now advocates giving union leadership of screeners in the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) the power to control critical decisions in a time of war. They wish to make it possible to hold America hostage to union leadership demands. So reports the Albuquerque Journal of December 31, 2009. What a way to end the year! [Read Online]
3. HEALTH CARE AND THE CONSTITUTION #1 (Former Senator Schmitt Outlines Constitutional Health Care Improvement for America)
Preview: The current Administration and Con-gressional leadership, by word and deed, believe in overriding the separation of State and Federal powers embodied in the 10th Amendment to the Constitution. They desire to eventually impose national socialist control over the health care of every American. In so doing, they would further erode American liberty and pass massive increases in national debt and future economic distress to present and future generations. [Read Online]
4. TERRORISM AND THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Ties Congressional and Presidential Dereliction in War on Terror to a Violation of Constitutional Mandates)
Preview: The Constitution of the United States of America charges the President and Congress, to "provide for the common defence." Neither entity lives up to this responsibility in spite of both the people and the Constitution being under attack by radical Islam. [Read Online]
5. COMMON DEFENSE ISSUES (Former Senator Schmitt Finds the President and Congress Commit Deadly Sins in Their Neglect of National Security)
Preview: Since the Nation's founding, the challenges of national security always have been formidable. Separately and collectively, the Constitution puts responsibility for national security squarely on the Congress and the President. Meeting modern security challenges requires both a short and long-term view of threats and a sense of urgency in addition to the "balance" advocated by the current Administration. [Read Online]
6. ECONOMY AND CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Declares Unconstitutional Actions by the President and Congress Stagnate the Economy)
Preview: The provisions of the Constitution of the United States contain everything necessary to perpetuate liberty and provide economic prosperity in the American Republic. Again, the Founders got it right— their politically myopic heirs in the 21st Century have not. [Read Online]
7. SPACE POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #1 (Former Senator Schmitt Finds New Space Policy Cedes Moon to China, Space Station to Russia, and Liberty to the Ages)
Preview: The Administration has announced a new Space Policy after a year of morale bending clouds of uncertainty. The lengthy delay, the abandonment of human exploration, and the wimpy overall thrust of the policy indicates that the Administration does not understand, or want to acknowledge, the essential role space plays in the future of the United States and of liberty. [Read Online]
8. DEBT, TAXES, AND THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Warns Of Unsustainable Consequences of Extreme National Debt and Tax Burdens)
Preview: What are these people in Washington thinking?! Do they believe the rest of us can't count? Or don't count! The national debt already stood far too high at about 40% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009. Now, the President proposes that the FY2011 budget create a total national debt of at least $14.3 trillion, or about 70% of GDP! On top of this, he calls for $2 trillion in tax increases – the surest way to further sap the strength of the economy, increase unemployment, and quickly drive debt to over 100% of GDP and the country into another Great Depression. Call this budget "the audacity of despair!" [Read Online]
9. HEALTH CARE AND THE CONSTITUTION #2 (Former Senator Schmitt Finds Healthcare Proposals Unconstitutional)
Preview: The "unalienable rights" stated in the Declaration of Independence, as described previously, include "life" as well as "liberty and the pursuit of happiness." "Life," however, implies something very different than "health." The right to life coexists with the "liberty" of individual choice of how life shall be lived in "the pursuit of happiness." The Constitution of the United States cites no right to "health." Rather, preservation of health clearly lies with the people within the activities not enumerated as functions of the Federal Government. The 10th Amendment gives the people or States control of health. [Read Online]
10. CLIMATE AND THE CONSTITUTION #1 (Former Senator Schmitt Faults Motivations for Climate Legislation, Loan Guarantees, and Regulation)
Preview: Americans should think long and hard about their children's future before giving up liberties and incomes to politicians in Washington and at the United Nations in the name of "doing something" about climate change. Given how little we actually know about climate, as well as great uncertainties in what we do know, the President, regulators, and Congress have chosen an extraordinarily dangerous path of unconstitutional usurpation of the rights of the people and the constitutionally reserved powers of the States. [Read Online]
11. LOAN GUARANTEES AND THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Questions Constitutionality of Loan Guarantees as Part of National Energy Policy)
Preview: The President and the Congress obviously are hooked on interfering in the American economy. Loan guarantees and their extreme manifestation, financial bailouts, show the extremes of this addiction. Now, the President proposes to use the authority provided by Congress to guarantee loans, rather than regulatory and tort reform, to a single power company (Southern) to build of two nuclear fission plants. [Read Online]
12. WESTERN LANDS AND THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Reviews Background of the Federal Government's Continued Western Land Grab)
Preview: A review of the history of the Western lands of the United States stands in order. Why? The Obama Administration is moving toward removing another 14 areas and over 13 million acres of federally controlled land from potential economic and national security applications. All in the name of conservation, energy production and other job, income, and revenue creating lands and their resources would be withdrawn in order to strictly limit legitimate private, public, and State use. [Read Online]
13. EDUCATION AND THE CONSTITUTION #1 (Former U. S. Senator Schmitt Blames Economic and Social Failures on Government Managed Schools)
Preview: The education system managed by State Governments and significantly controlled by federal money and regulation has failed. After World War II, our "public education system" for elementary and secondary grade levels left the control of parents and fell under selfish special interests, led by leaders of unions and social activists, that largely ignore the needs of children and the nation. This continually deteriorating situation threatens the national security of the United States and the liberty and prosperity of its citizens. [Read Online]
14. EDUCATION AND THE CONSTITUTION #2 (Former U. S. Senator Schmitt Sees Instruction in Basic Virtues Missing from Public Education)
Preview: The Nation's Founders believed that educational instruction in the basic "virtues" instilled by their Judeo-Christian heritage formed an essential foundation of the American Republic. The thousands of years of trial and error development of that heritage and human struggles to preserve it represented to them an irrefutable basis for insuring the success of both the American Experiment and its citizen's pursuit of happiness. Today, only a minority of our elected officials any longer shares this belief. [Read Online]
15. EDUCATION AND THE CONSTITUTION #3 (Former Senator Schmitt Challenges Parents and Other Citizens to Take Control of Education)
Preview: The nation's public education system fails to meet the needs of a representative democracy. Americans who recognize this fact must work to recover the nation's future before it is irrevocably lost. More tax dollars will not accomplish this recovery. Heaven knows we have tried that approach for half a century with nothing but regression to show for it. Recovery will come only with more individual and collective grassroots commitment to using common sense to truly reform how and what children are taught. [Read Online]
16. STATE OF THE UNION AND THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Outlines America's Path to National Socialism)
Preview: Americans lost two more large slices of their liberty with enactment of 2010 healthcare and financial legislation. Even given electorate's long and sad history of voluntarily, incrementally, and unconstitutionally giving up liberties to the Federal Government in exchange for personal security and insulation from personal responsibility, this loss breaks the heart: for the first time in America, liberty disappeared by political fiat and against the will of the people. [Read Online]
17. HEALTH CARE AND THE CONSTITUTION #3 (Former Senator Schmitt Advocates Specific Constitutional Challenges To Legislation Nationalizing Healthcare)
Preview: The Constitution remains America's primary defense against the usurpation of liberty called "national healthcare reform." The States must accelerate their 10th Amendment defenses against the imposition of federal regulatory mandates in areas of governance not enumerated in Article I or elsewhere in the Constitution. At the same time, individuals, businesses, and associations must challenge the constitutionality of federal jurisdiction over healthcare as well as question specific provisions in the new law. [Read Online]
18. SPACE POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #2 (Former Senator Schmitt Takes Issue with the President on Space Policy)
Preview: The President has repeated his advocacy for the abandonment of a program of deep space exploration by Americans in return for vague promises about future actions. His irrational and technically ridiculous proposals on national space policy, if agreed to by the Congress, would put the nation into a steady decline in its human space flight endeavors toward the total absence of NASA Astronauts from space within a decade. With the demise of the International Space Station in about 2020, if not sooner, America's nationally sanctioned human spaceflight activities would end. [Read Online]
19. IMMIGRATION AND THE CONSTITUTION #1 (Former Senator Schmitt Joins in Alert About the Invasion Across America's Southern Border)
Preview: The United States of America's nearly five-century foundation of liberty and prosperity includes remarkable benefits arising from the motivation and skills of immigrants. Most who have come to our shores sought new lives and carried with them the unique characteristics of both the desire to live and raise their children in "the land of the free" and the willingness to risk all to do this. The genetic and cultural amalgamation of these naturalized immigrants has reinforced that special character that uniquely distinguishes "Americans," that is, hard working, productive, inventive, generous, and quick to fight to protect freedom anywhere it is threatened, including from within. [Read Online]
20. SPACE POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #3 (Former Senator Schmitt Details Concerns About the Adminstration's Proposed Space Policies)
Preview: The President announced a "bold approach for space exploration and discovery," to quote the White House. In considering his FY2011 budget proposals for NASA, Congress rightly should ask just how "bold" is this approach versus what America requires in the intense geopolitical environment of space. In addition, Congress should ask for specifics as to why this approach would be better than the Constellation Program already approved by Congress, and whether it truly "Advances America's commitment to human spaceflight and exploration of the solar system" to again quote the White House. Congress also should question if the proposals support the primary constitutional rationale for funding NASA, that is, as a contribution to "the common Defence." [Read Online]
21. IMMIGRATION AND THE CONSTITUTION #2 (Former Senator Schmitt Emphasizes Illegal Drugs and Terrorism as Components of the Border Invasion)
Preview: Three dominate factors propel the invasion across the southwestern border of the United States: (1) normal human desires to live better, (2) the pull of illegal drug demand in the United States, and (3) Islamic radicals' hatred of the freedom of thought and action America represents. [Read Online]
22. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #1 (Former Senator Schmitt Faults President's Strange View of America's Foreign Policy Interests)
Preview: America's self-interested relations with other nations make up a fundamental component of providing for the "common Defence," as required under the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. The Founders recognized this fact in many provisions of the Constitution, both in the powers granted to Congress and in the role of the President as Commander in Chief and initiator of treaties. The President has the constitutional responsibility to set and carry out foreign policy, balanced by the power of Congress in providing funds necessary for implementation. Congress' power includes appropriating funds for the armed forces as well as the Senate's responsibility to "advise and consent" on treaties negotiated by the Executive. [Read Online]
23. COMMON DEFENSE AND THE CONSTITUTION #2 (Former Senator Schmitt Faults President's View of America)
Preview: President Obama, from all available evidence, does not grasp the very special nature of America. Maybe he missed that part of growing up as an American. Maybe he really believes that the Constitution impedes "change" rather than existing as a bulwark against tyranny and a blueprint for the governance of a free people. [Read Online]
24. SUPREMACY CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Discusses the Limit to Federal Constitutional Supremacy Over State Law)
Preview: States' Attorneys General and Governors challenging the Federal Government's constitutional power to legislate, regulate, or order executive action on healthcare, education, or other issues of clear 10th Amendment State responsibility should not concede constitutional ground on the basis of the Constitution's Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2). This Clause does not mean or im-ply that "federal law trumps state law when there is a direct conflict between laws" as stated by Virginia's Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli in an otherwise excellent Wall Street Journal Opinion Editorial (The Constitution Sets Real Limits, WSJ April 19, 2010). [Read Online]
25. EDUCATION AND THE CONSTITUTION #4 (Former Senator Schmitt Finds Lack of Private Funding of Research the Fault of Congress and Academia)
Preview: World War II changed the face of learning for those Americans who choose to enter college or university. The life and death necessities of the War period and the subsequent Cold War challenge of the Soviet Union brought unprecedented levels of defense-related federal funds into private and State-run institutions of higher learning and research. In addition to necessary federal requirements on how these dollars could and should be spent, there came increasing regulatory controls on institutional management largely unrelated to defense needs. The federal reach extends to employment, environment, internet services, institutional financial activity, financial aid and student data, campus security, and equity in athletics to name only a few areas now under the federal thumb. [Read Online]
26. GULF OIL SPILL AND GOVERNMENT (Former Senator and Astronaut Schmitt Sees No Analogy Between the Gulf Oil Spill Crisis and Apollo 13)
Preview: President Obama's Administration and its supportive media repeatedly use our 1970 Apollo 13 experience as analogous to the effort to contain and cap the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Not hardly! The rescue of Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert after an oxygen tank explosion on their spacecraft illustrates how complex technical accidents should be handled in contrast to the Gulf fiasco. Nothing in the government's response to the blowout explosion on the Deepwater Horizon and its aftermath bears any resemblance to the response to the Apollo 13 situation by the NASA of Apollo and its Mission Control team at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. [Read Online]
27. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #2 (Former Senator Schmitt Suspects Obama Agrees With Desire to End Israel as a Democracy and a Country)
Preview: Israel, the Middle East's only true democracy, only true friend of the United States, and only remaining repository of Judeo-Christian values, continues to fight for survival. As the world appears to work hand in glove with radical Islam to destroy the Israeli state and the Israeli people, the Obama Administration gives all the appearances of desiring the same end. Not only is this stance morally repugnant, it is contrary to the President's constitutional responsibility to provide for the "common Defence" of the United States. [Read Online]
28. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #2 – ADDENDUM (Former Senator Schmitt Suspects Obama Agrees With Desire to End Israel as a Democracy and a Country – Continuation)
Preview: The recent Foreign Policy Release in this series, concerning the importance of Israel to the long-term security interests of Americans, stands as the rationale for continued U.S. support of that country. The Release intentionally, however, did not cover serious Israeli errors committed through the years as that democracy works to preserve itself in an extraordinarily hostile world. Israel's recent attack on blockade-runners, it should be noted, was not one of those errors. All democracies make mistakes. But it is critical that democracies learn from their mistakes. [Read Online]
29. CLIMATE AND THE CONSTITUTION #2 (Former Senator Schmitt Accuses National Academy of Conflict of Interests in Study of Global Climate Change)
Preview: Extraordinarily complex natural processes underlie changes in the Earth's climate. They rep-resent decadal to millennial to epochal variations in weather patterns as nature continuously at-tempts to compensate for solar heating imbalances in and between the atmosphere, oceans, and landmasses. [Read Online]
30. CLIMATE (TEMPERATURE) AND THE CONSTITUTION #3 (Former Senator Schmitt Summarizes History of Global Temperature)
Preview: Ten thousand years of natural, post-Ice Age climate variability should give pause to those who maintain that current slow global warming and carbon dioxide increases result largely from human use of fossil fuels. Public confidence in that position also suffers from the exposure of fraudulent academic and bureaucratic behavior aimed at overriding normal processes of skeptical scientific review and debate. [Read Online]
31. CLIMATE (CARBON DIOXIDE) AND THE CONSTITUTION #4 (Former Senator Schmitt Summarizes History of Global Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide)
Preview: Given how little we actually know about climate, and particularly the bogeyman called "carbon dioxide," the President, the Environmental Protection Agency, Congress, and some ideological State governments and politically fearful corporations verge on choosing an extraordinarily dangerous path in attempting to stop natural change. The scientific rationale behind this proposed massive intrusion into American life requires more than a "consensus" of ideologically like-minded climate analysts and bureaucrats. [Read Online]
32. CLIMATE (ICE CORES) AND THE CONSTITUTION #5 (Former Senator Schmitt Summarizes the Role of Greenland and Antarctic Ice Cores in Climate Science)
Preview: Analysis of ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland play an important role in understanding the history of global temperatures and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases and aerosols. Through analysis of dust, they also provide up to 800,000-year chronologies of global scale volcanic eruptions and major trends toward desertification. Clearly, data from ice cores play a critical underlying role in the science of climate change. [Read Online]
33. CLIMATE (OCEANS) AND THE CONSTITUTION #6 (Former Senator Schmitt Summarizes Dominating Role of Oceans in Climate Change)
Preview: The scientific rationale behind the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed massive intrusion into American life in the name of fighting climate change has no scientific or constitutional justification. This hard left excursion into socialism, fully supported by the Congressional Leadership and the President, has no basis in observational science as has been discussed previously relative to climate history, temperature, and carbon dioxide. [Read Online]
34. CLIMATE (SUN) AND THE CONSTITUTION #7 (Former Senator Schmitt Summarizes the Central Role of the Sun in Climate Change)
Preview: Policy makers at the head of government in the United States and elsewhere apparently want to believe, and to have others believe, that human use of fossil fuels accelerates global warming. They pursue this quest in order to impose ever greater and clearly unconstitutional control on the economy and personal liberty in the name of a hypothetically omnipotent government. There exists no true concern by the President or Congressional Leadership about the true effects of climate change— only a poorly concealed, ideologically driven attempt to use conjured up threats of catastrophic consequences as a lever to gain authoritarian control of society. [Read Online]
35. SCIENCE POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Cites Strong Constitutional Justification for Selected Federally Funded Research)
Preview: The Founders understood the importance of science and technology in the long-term future of the United States. Without science and engineering advancement, in the face of advancement by others, America could not compete with our ideological and economic challengers. Imagine our world if Nazi Germany had atomic weapons or the former Soviet Union had nuclear submarines or reached the Moon before America. [Read Online]
36. NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE 9TH AMENDMENT (Former Senator Schmitt Highlights the 9th Amendment's Protection of Natural Rights)
Preview: The Nation's Founders recognized that a formal Constitution and Bill of Rights could not fully protect the natural rights of Americans that arise from their existence as free human beings. They therefore included a specific guarantee of those natural rights as the Bill of Rights' 9th Amendment. [Read Online]
37. CLIMATE (COSMIC RAYS) AND THE CONSTITUTION #8 (Former Senator Schmitt Summarizes the Effects of Cosmic Rays on Climate Change)
Preview: Climate change driven by the sun, constitutes a strongly competitive hypothesis to the climate modeling-political hypothesis of human-caused global warming. As many scientists have documented, the position and orientation of the Earth in its orbit around the sun and the sun's variable activity determine weather and climate. As part of this process, oceans store enormous amounts of solar energy, dwarfing by a factor of 10 the energy stored in the atmosphere. Ocean currents create climate variations over vast regions by transferring their energy around the globe over decades and centuries through a system of interconnected currents and current oscillations. [Read Online]
38. CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL AGENDA AND THE CONSTITUTION #1 (Former Senator Schmitt Urges Conservative Leadership Pressure on Obama: Phase I – Economy and Healthcare)
Preview: Conservative revolution partially swept the United States' House of Representatives and United States' Senate clean of national socialist (16) leadership on November 2nd. Now, initial actions in the House will set the framework for the elections of 2012 and for a continued restoration and rejuvenation of the American Dream. [Read Online]
39. CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL AGENDA AND THE CONSTITUTION #2 (Former Senator Schmitt Urges Conservative Leadership Pressure on Obama: Phase II – Education, Regulation, Health Security)
Preview: EDUCATION (13,14,15): Long term, no more important obligation exists for the new Congress than taking steps to rejuvenate and advance the education of young Americans. The first and only bill related to education that the new House Leadership should send to the Senate, however, totally removes the federal government from unconstitutional influence in the peoples' and States' exercise of this natural right (36) guaranteed to the people by the 9th and 10th Amendments. Although the elimination of the Department of Education constitutes a necessary first step, the direct and indirect political and administrative influences of the federal government on K-12 and advance education should all be removed. [Read Online]
40. CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL AGENDA AND THE CONSTITUTION #3 (Former Senator Schmitt Urges Conservative Pressure on Obama: Phase III – Judiciary, Climate, Immigration)
Preview: JUDICIARY: The continued packing of the American judiciary with judges that do not believe in constitutional law must stop. Senate Republicans have generally acquiesced to the Senate confirmation of Presidential nominations of federal judges, Attorneys General, and U.S. Attorneys. The new Senate Conservative Leadership must no longer agree to move any Court, Department of Justice, or U.S. Attorney nominees forward who have a record of disrespect or contempt for the Constitution. [Read Online]
41. CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL AGENDA AND THE CONSTITUTION #4 (Former Senator Schmitt Urges Conservative Pressure on Obama: Phase IV ─ Defense And Foreign Policy)
Preview: Pressure to move forward toward continued American greatness clearly must include repair and rejuvenation of the economy with a multi-faceted approach to the many challenges outlined in Phases I-III of this post-2010 Election series of suggestions for Conservatives in the 112th Congress. External threats to American liberty, however, require congressional leadership related to national security and foreign policy although these are traditional areas left to Executive Branch constitutional initiative. [Read Online]
42. MONETARY POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Challenges the 112th Congress to Take Control of Monetary Policy)
Preview: The Founders gave Congress the constitutional power in Article I, Section 8, Clause 5, "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures". The intent of this Clause clearly lay in having a stable national currency, with a defined relationship to foreign currency, and tied to a standard weight and measure of silver or gold, the universally accepted media of coinage. Clause 6 of Section 8 further emphasizes the Founders' intent to protect the value of the "Coin of the United States" by providing to the Congress the power to punish counterfeiting. [Read Online]
43. REGULATION AND THE CONSTITUTION #1 (Former Senator Schmitt Cites Constitutional Limits on Regulatory Government)
Preview: Regulatory intrusions into the social and economic fabric of America have reached crisis levels in their attack on individual and collective freedom. Recent actions by the Obama Administration in placing regulatory limits on healthcare, the Internet, the use of public lands, transportation, energy production and transmission, and financial transactions merely constitute the tip of a colossal dictatorial iceberg ahead of the American Ship of Liberty. [Read Online]
44. ENERGY AND THE CONSTITUTION #1 (Former Senator Schmitt Advocates a National Energy Plan as Constitutionally Mandated)
Preview: The constitutional mandate for a rational, scientific, and economically sound national energy plan lies in its close modern relationship to the constitutionally mandated "common defence". Dependence on foreign sources of oil, and therefore transportation fuels, limits both near and long-term national security options. That dependence also creates an economic burden to our economy that restricts the liberty of Americans and their 9th Amendment guarantee of the pursuit of happiness. [Read Online]
45. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS AND THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Finds Public Employee Collective Bargaining and Binding Arbitration Unconstitutional)
Preview: The constitutionality, as well as the common sense and fairness of collective bargaining for teachers and other public employees, has been brought to the fore by events in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and other states. Of particular note and immediate importance are attempts to balance state budgets and eliminate growing state deficits— and the protests organized to fight such efforts. In addition to supporting the public employee unions and opposing Governor Walker and the majority of legislators in the Wisconsin dispute, President Obama has made the dangerous decision to allow collective bargaining by employees of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). [Read Online]
46. SPACE POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #4 [Former Senator Schmitt Proposes Dismantling of NASA and Creation of a New, National Space Exploration Administration (NSEA)]
Preview: Is there a path forward for United States' space policy? When a new President takes office in 2013, he or she should propose to Congress that we start space policy and its administration from scratch. A new agency, the National Space Exploration Administration (NSEA), should be charged with specifically enabling America's and its partners' exploration of deep space, inherently stimulating education, technology, and national focus. The existing component parts of NASA should be spread among other agencies with the only exception being activities related to U.S. obligations to its partners in the International Space Station (ISS). [Read Online]
47. SPACE POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #5 [Former Senator Schmitt Reflects on America's Space Program: Past, Present and Future]
Preview: The 42nd Anniversary of humankind's first lunar landing by Apollo 11 on July 20, 2011, followed by the return of STS-135 on the next day, concluding the final flight of a United States Space Shuttle, places a capstone on the remarkable accomplishments of the post-Apollo generations of space engineers, builders and operators. Those of us who were in attendance at the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, felt both pride in this final accomplishment and sadness at another unnecessary, ill-conceived and excessively prolonged break in America's commitment to lead humankind in space. Pad 39A, the Vehicle Assembly Building, and the Crawler Transporter stand in the Florida sunshine as still functional but unwanted relics of past glories. [Read Online]
48. NATIONAL DEBT AND THE CONSTITUTION (Former Senator Schmitt Says Congress's Select Committee for Debt Reduction Is a Bad Idea and Questions its Constitutionality)
Preview: Among many bad ideas out of Washington over the last century, one of the worst may be the twelve-member congressional Joint Select Committee on Debt Reduction, created by the so-called "Budget Control Act of 2011". More critically, this Committee's existence as a source of federal legislation is unconstitutional. [Read Online]
49. SPACE POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #6 (America's Deep Space Vision: Settlement of the Moon and Mars versus Asteroid Visits)
Preview: America's eroding geopolitical stature, highlighted by the July 21, 2011, end to flights of the United States Space Shuttle, has reached crisis proportions. Obama Administration officials now spin the nebulous thought of Astronauts flying many months to an undetermined asteroid in 2025 as an actual "National Space Policy". On the other hand, Republican candidates for President have not yet recognized the importance of international civil space competition in the federal government's constitutional function to provide for the nation's "common defence". Candidates appear to be uninterested in having the United States lead deep space exploration, including the establishment of American settlements on the Moon; or may actually consider Obama's unfocused proposals as being credible rather than realizing that those proposals would transfer geopolitical dominance to China and control of American space transport to Russia. [Read Online]
50. ENERGY POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #2 (Obama's Anti-Keystone Pipeline Decision: The Latest in Unconstitutional Moves in Energy Policy)
Preview: Conscious and deliberate decisions by President Obama and his Administration reduce future domestic supplies of energy. These actions violate the President's constitutional mandate to "provide for the common Defence."
The withholding of approval for the development of the Keystone Pipeline to bring Canadian crude oil to refineries in the United States constitutes merely the latest in these unconstitutional moves against maintaining national security. In aggregate, Obama's restrictions on use of domestically available energy increase the Nation's vulnerability to unstable and unfriendly foreign energy sources. Simultaneously, the military and essential industries lose access to secure supplies of fuels and electricity. [Read Online]
51. CLIMATE AND THE CONSTITUTION #9 (Former Senator Schmitt Summarizes the Major Constitutional Limits on Climate Change Policy)
Preview: The Constitution of the United States of America sets clear limits on the powers of the Federal Government and permits exercise of those powers only in specifically enumerated activities that relate to providing for the "common defence", promoting the "general Welfare", and securing "the Blessings of Liberty" to all Americans and future Americans. The first ten Amendments to the Constitution, and the 14th Amendment, further limit the powers of Federal and State Governments relative to the rights of the people, leave to the people those natural rights not specifically protected, and reserve all un-enumerated powers to the States. Other Amendments expand the powers of the Federal Government but, again, only within specified limits. [Read Online]
52. HEALTHCARE AND THE CONSTITUTION #4 (Former Senator Schmitt Advocates Continued and Specific Constitutional Challenges to Obamacare's Nationalization of Healthcare)
Preview: The "Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act of 2010" (Obamacare) and many of its specific sections remain unconstitutional in spite of the recent Supreme Court decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. The Constitution is what it is; no Supreme Court decision can legitimately amend that fundamental document. The Amendment process remains as defined in Article V. Neither Article III (judicial power) nor Marbury v. Madison (Supreme Court determines constitutionality) gives the Court comparable amendment power. Nor does Article III confer the legislative power to the Court it assumes in changing an Act of Congress to read that a "penalty" is a "tax" and not a penalty. [Read Online]
53. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CONSTITUTION #4 (Former Senator Schmitt Notes the Strategic Importance of Exploration to America)
Preview: Major national milestones have occurred with the recent passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the Moon, and this month's 40th Anniversary of Apollo 17, America's last mission of exploration to that small planet. They provide an opportunity to examine how great ventures play a strategic role in the growth and survival of the United States.
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Gum Springs es un pueblo ubicado en el condado de Clark en el estado estadounidense de Arkansas. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 120 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 115,25 personas por km².

Geografía
Gum Springs se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Gum Springs tiene una superficie total de 1.04 km², de la cual 1.04 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0%) 0 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 120 personas residiendo en Gum Springs. La densidad de población era de 115,25 hab./km². De los 120 habitantes, Gum Springs estaba compuesto por el 40.83% blancos, el 53.33% eran afroamericanos, el 0% eran amerindios, el 0% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 5% eran de otras razas y el 0.83% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 5% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Pueblos de Arkansas
Localidades del condado de Clark (Arkansas)

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I have to confess that the first time I heard about the Keystone XL pipeline I didn't know a thing about it. All I heard was a quick blurb on the evening news mentioning that the president might not approve it. (However, I believe this was before the election and I think he conveniently changed his mind after he was re-elected.) All the newsperson reported was that the president might not approve it. I wondered why. Wouldn't this mean jobs for us? I mean we've got thousands of miles of pipelines traversing our country. What's the big deal with this one?
For those of you who are familiar with my work you'll know that I just don't accept something at face value, in this case the comment about the president not approving the pipeline. I traveled, via my computer, to the internet and researched the Keystone XL pipeline to learn as much as I could. So what is this ruckus about the pipeline?
For those that were as asleep as I was, the pipeline will transport tar sands oil from Canada to Texas. So what are tar sands?
Tar sands (or oil sands, or, technically, bituminous sands) are an unconventional petroleum deposit containing naturally occurring mixtures of sand, clay, and water saturated with a dense and extremely viscous (thick) form of petroleum. The petroleum is technically bitumen and gets the "tar sands" name because of its similar appearance, odor and color.
Proponents argue that the pipeline would allow the U.S. to increase its energy security and reduce its dependence on foreign oil. However an independent study conducted by the Cornell ILR Global Labor Institute refers to some studies (e.g. a 2011 study by Danielle Droitsch of Pembina Institute) according to which "a good portion of the oil that will gush down the KXL pipeline will probably end up being finally consumed beyond the territorial United States." The report also states that the project will increase the heavy crude oil price in the Midwestern United States by diverting oil sands oil from the Midwest refineries to the GulfCoast and export markets.
Let's take a look at the Pegasus leak in Mayflower, AR on March 29, 2013. The Mayflower spill of tar sands oil from the pipeline occurred in a residential area and this prompted a clean-up operation that is still going on.
Remember what Charles said, "By afternoon of the same day, witnesses said they could no longer smell the oil or see it on the nearby lake. Hazmat teams were also quickly working to contain and repair contaminated areas." Well, let's see how well they've done. Charles believes the spill was cleaned up and that witnesses couldn't smell the oil or see it on the nearby lake.
Whoa, Benzene. More Benzene? Yeah, more Benzene. You see, Benzene is added to tar sands oil to make it less viscous so it flows easier through pipelines. If it wasn't for that added Benzene it would be like trying to plush the tar substance used to pave roads through a pipe…it ain't gonna happen! Benezene is harder to deal with in a spill because you can't see it, the odor can make you sick, but you can't see it. Prior to Jesse's post on May 22, local people were reporting fish kills, chemical smells, nausea and headaches. Remember what Charles said, no odor, no oil? Well, it doesn't seem that is entirely true. To top that off, according to Exxon's data, 126,000 gallons of tar sands crude oil from the pipeline spill is still unaccounted for. Wait a minute, Exxon can't find 126,000 gallons of oil?
OK, now that we know all that, what about the Keystone XL pipeline? Recently the State Department released it's Environmental Impact Report (EIR) report on the pipeline and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), April 22, 2013, commented on the report.
The EPA's letter urges the State Department to set special standards to prevent the Keystone pipeline from spilling, and to make sure any spills are rapidly contained. You see the EPA says it has learned about the additional risks of tar sands spills from a cleanup of a 2010 tar sands spill into Michigan's KalamazooRiver. On the evening of July 25, 2010, alarms indicating a leak starting going off in Enbridge's control room as soon as the pipeline burst open, but three shifts of pipeline operators misinterpreted those signals. People at the scene reported petroleum smells, but responders didn't know about the pipeline. Well, 17 hours and 19 minutes later, or in gallon speak—800,000, a local gas utility worker found the spill and notified the Enbridge control center. Is this an example of what Charles Drevna refers to in telling us how "effective and responsive the industry can be when accidents do occur"?
This cleanup has gone on nearly three years at a cost of more than $1 billion. A lot of the heavy tar sands crude sank to the bottom of the river and needs dredging…more money. Another lesson from the 2010 Michigan spill is that tar sands spills can send harmful air pollution into nearby communities.
By the way, the owner of the Michigan pipeline, Enbridge, Inc, didn't follow it's own safety rules. In 2005, Enbridge learned, from it's own contractor, that this section of the pipe was cracked and corroding with about 15,000 defects in the pipeline. But, Enbridge decided not to dig up the area and inspect the pipe. The corporate response is in the picture to the left. Five years after the report, we have the spill, and three years later, we still have an ongoing cleanup operation.
Will the State Department comply with the EPA's requests? Will the EPA watch what the State Department is doing? We'll have to see.
Will Sec. Kerry sign off on the project? Will the POTUS approve the project? My guess is "yes", to both questions. We may not deal with a pipeline break in our lifetime, but our grandchildren might and it will be nasty, very nasty!
So, the question I started with: Keystone XL Pipeline—Boom or Bust? My opinion—"bust". We'll receive little, if any, oil from the pipeline, little in the way of permanent jobs, and the greatest majority of the catastrophic environmental risks. We don't need it!
Question: In the Michigan spill—where did that $1 billion come from? Hmmm, another post maybe?


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Q: How can I center the input box in my coded calculator? I'm trying to code a little basic calculator in Tkinter using Python 3.7.2. Nothing too special, but I keep running into the same problem: I cannot for the love of Jesus move the input bar so that it is above ALL the input buttons / the first row. I tried putting it in the different columns or using other versions of the code like geometry but absolutely nothing has worked. I also posed the question on the (german) Q&A-Site Gutefrage but there don't seem to be many programmers / the answers were a little bit unclear. Any ideas on how to do this?
Here's my code (WIP):
from random import *
from math import *

def insert_1():
    text.insert(END, "1")
def insert_2():
    text.insert(END, "2")
def insert_3():
    text.insert(END, "3")
def insert_4():
    text.insert(END, "4")
def insert_5():
    text.insert(END, "5")
def insert_6():
    text.insert(END, "6")
def insert_7():
    text.insert(END, "7")
def insert_8():
    text.insert(END, "8")
def insert_9():
    text.insert(END, "9")
def insert_plus():
    text.insert(END, "+")
def insert_minus():
    text.insert(END, "-")
def insert_divide():
    text.insert(END, ":")
def insert_multiply():
    text.insert(END, "*")
def insert_ac():
    text.delete(0.0, END)
def insert_equals():
    text.delete(0.0, END)
    text.insert(END, "Calculating...")

calculator = Tk()

text = Text(calculator, width=20, height=1)
bu1 = Button(calculator, text="1", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_1)
bu2 = Button(calculator, text="2", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_2)
bu3 = Button(calculator, text="3", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_3)
bu4 = Button(calculator, text="4", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_4)
bu5 = Button(calculator, text="5", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_5)
bu6 = Button(calculator, text="6", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_6)
bu7 = Button(calculator, text="7", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_7)
bu8 = Button(calculator, text="8", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_8)
bu9 = Button(calculator, text="9", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_9)
bu_ac = Button(calculator, text="AC", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_ac)
bu_plus = Button(calculator, text="+", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_plus)
bu_minus = Button(calculator, text="-", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_minus)
bu_divide = Button(calculator, text=":", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_divide)
bu_multiply = Button(calculator, text="x", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_multiply)
bu_equals = Button(calculator, text="=", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_equals)

text.grid(row=1)
bu1.grid(row=2, column=1)
bu2.grid(row=2, column=2)
bu3.grid(row=2, column=3)
bu4.grid(row=3, column=1)
bu5.grid(row=3, column=2)
bu6.grid(row=3, column=3)
bu7.grid(row=4, column=1)
bu8.grid(row=4, column=2)
bu9.grid(row=4, column=3)
bu_plus.grid(row=2, column=4)
bu_minus.grid(row=3, column=4)
bu_divide.grid(row=4, column=4)
bu_multiply.grid(row=2, column=5)
bu_ac.grid(row=3, column=5)
bu_equals.grid(row=4, column=5)```

A: You can create two separate frames and put one in the top of the other
I created the fc and fc2 and put the fc on top of the fc2
from random import *
from math import *
from tkinter import *

def insert_1():
    text.insert(END, "1")
def insert_2():
    text.insert(END, "2")
def insert_3():
    text.insert(END, "3")
def insert_4():
    text.insert(END, "4")
def insert_5():
    text.insert(END, "5")
def insert_6():
    text.insert(END, "6")
def insert_7():
    text.insert(END, "7")
def insert_8():
    text.insert(END, "8")
def insert_9():
    text.insert(END, "9")
def insert_plus():
    text.insert(END, "+")
def insert_minus():
    text.insert(END, "-")
def insert_divide():
    text.insert(END, ":")
def insert_multiply():
    text.insert(END, "*")
def insert_ac():
    text.delete(0.0, END)
def insert_equals():
    text.delete(0.0, END)
    text.insert(END, "Calculating...")

calculator = Tk()
fc = Frame(calculator)
fc.grid(row=1)
fc2  = Frame(calculator)
fc2.grid(row = 2)
text = Text(fc, width=20, height=1)
bu1 = Button(fc2, text="1", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_1)
bu2 = Button(fc2, text="2", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_2)
bu3 = Button(fc2, text="3", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_3)
bu4 = Button(fc2, text="4", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_4)
bu5 = Button(fc2, text="5", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_5)
bu6 = Button(fc2, text="6", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_6)
bu7 = Button(fc2, text="7", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_7)
bu8 = Button(fc2, text="8", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_8)
bu9 = Button(fc2, text="9", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_9)
bu_ac = Button(fc2, text="AC", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_ac)
bu_plus = Button(fc2, text="+", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_plus)
bu_minus = Button(fc2, text="-", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_minus)
bu_divide = Button(fc2, text=":", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_divide)
bu_multiply = Button(fc2, text="x", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_multiply)
bu_equals = Button(fc2, text="=", activeforeground="white", activebackground="grey", command=insert_equals)

text.grid(row = 1)
bu1.grid(row=2, column=1)
bu2.grid(row=2, column=2)
bu3.grid(row=2, column=3)
bu4.grid(row=3, column=1)
bu5.grid(row=3, column=2)
bu6.grid(row=3, column=3)
bu7.grid(row=4, column=1)
bu8.grid(row=4, column=2)
bu9.grid(row=4, column=3)
bu_plus.grid(row=2, column=4)
bu_minus.grid(row=3, column=4)
bu_divide.grid(row=4, column=4)
bu_multiply.grid(row=2, column=5)
bu_ac.grid(row=3, column=5)
bu_equals.grid(row=4, column=5)

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package org.apache.commons.geometry.core.partitioning.bsp;

import org.apache.commons.geometry.core.Point;
import org.apache.commons.geometry.core.partitioning.bsp.AbstractBSPTree.AbstractNode;

/** Class containing the basic algorithm for merging two {@link AbstractBSPTree}
 * instances. Subclasses must override the
 * {@link #mergeLeaf(AbstractBSPTree.AbstractNode, AbstractBSPTree.AbstractNode)} method
 * to implement the merging logic for their particular use case. The remainder of the
 * algorithm is independent of the use case.
 *
 *
This class does not expose any public methods so that subclasses can present their own
 * public API, tailored to the specific types being worked with. In particular, most subclasses
 * will want to restrict the tree types used with the algorithm, which is difficult to implement
 * cleanly at this level.

 *
 *
This class maintains state during the merging process and is therefore
 * not thread-safe.

 * @param
 Point implementation type
 * @param <N> BSP tree node implementation type
 */
public abstract class AbstractBSPTreeMergeOperator {

    /** The tree that the merge operation output will be written to. All existing content
     * in this tree is overwritten.
     */
    private AbstractBSPTree
 outputTree;

    /** Set the tree used as output for this instance.
     * @param outputTree the tree used as output for this instance
     */
    protected void setOutputTree(final AbstractBSPTree
 outputTree) {
        this.outputTree = outputTree;
    }

    /** Get the tree used as output for this instance.
     * @return the tree used as output for this instance
     */
    protected AbstractBSPTree
 getOutputTree() {
        return outputTree;
    }

    /** Perform a merge operation with the two input trees and store the result in the output tree. The
     * output tree may be one of the input trees, in which case, the tree is modified in place.
     * @param input1 first input tree
     * @param input2 second input tree
     * @param output output tree all previous content in this tree is overwritten
     */
    protected void performMerge(final AbstractBSPTree
 input1, final AbstractBSPTree
 input2,
            final AbstractBSPTree
 output) {

        setOutputTree(output);

        final N root1 = input1.getRoot();
        final N root2 = input2.getRoot();

        final N outputRoot = performMergeRecursive(root1, root2);

        getOutputTree().setRoot(outputRoot);
    }

    /** Recursively merge two nodes.
     * @param node1 node from the first input tree
     * @param node2 node from the second input tree
     * @return a merged node
     */
    private N performMergeRecursive(final N node1, final N node2) {

        if (node1.isLeaf() || node2.isLeaf()) {
            // delegate to the mergeLeaf method if we can no longer continue
            // merging recursively
            final N merged = mergeLeaf(node1, node2);

            // copy the merged node to the output if needed (in case mergeLeaf
            // returned one of the input nodes directly)
            return outputTree.importSubtree(merged);
        } else {
            final N partitioned = outputTree.splitSubtree(node2, node1.getCut());

            final N minus = performMergeRecursive(node1.getMinus(), partitioned.getMinus());

            final N plus = performMergeRecursive(node1.getPlus(), partitioned.getPlus());

            final N outputNode = outputTree.copyNode(node1);
            outputNode.setSubtree(node1.getCut(), minus, plus);

            return outputNode;
        }
    }

    /** Create a new node in the output tree. The node is associated with the output tree but
     * is not attached to a parent node.
     * @return a new node associated with the output tree but not yet attached to a parent
     */
    protected N outputNode() {
        return outputTree.createNode();
    }

    /** Place the subtree rooted at the given input node into the output tree. The subtree
     * is copied if needed.
     * @param node the root of the subtree to copy
     * @return a subtree in the output tree
     */
    protected N outputSubtree(final N node) {
        return outputTree.importSubtree(node);
    }

    /** Merge a leaf node from one input with a subtree from another.
     *
When this method is called, one or both of the given nodes will be a leaf node.
     * This method is expected to return a node representing the merger of the two given
     * nodes. The way that the returned node is determined defines the overall behavior of
     * the merge operation.
     *

     *
The return value can be one of the two input nodes or a completely different one.

     * @param node1 node from the first input tree
     * @param node2 node from the second input tree
     * @return node representing the merger of the two input nodes
     */
    protected abstract N mergeLeaf(N node1, N node2);
}

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I fall into that place where everything is music.
Thoughts of God cheer up the body, mind and spirit. Names of God soothe the nerves. Love of God bestows peace and joy. Knowledge of God breaks the fetters of Karma.
What has your ancient culture to tell about youth and student life? Your ancient culture has divided man's life into four stages and given them the name 'Ashrama'.
Four Ashramas—what is this Ashrama Dharma? In each stage there are certain ideals and principles laid down, and that is the Dharma of that particular Ashrama. The fourth—the last Ashrama is Sannyasa Ashrama. At the end of life, the individual should take Sannyasa. The third Ashrama is Vana prastha Ashrama. After having fulfilled the duties of the second Ashrama, one must retire and turn the attention to higher things.
The second Ashrama is Grihastha Ashrama, the stage of the householder. It means marriage, having a wife, children, doing Udyoga, professional duties, social duties, dom estic duties to his own Parivar—his mother and father and relatives. The second Ashrama is Grihastha Ashrama. What is the first? It is the Ashrama in which you are living. It is called Brahmacharya Ashrama.
What is Brahmacharya? Brahmacharya has got two meanings. The real meaning is that Charya or that conduct of life which ultimately leads you to Brahma Jnana (knowledge of Brahman) or Brahma-Sakshatkar. That is Brahmacharya. The pattern of living or the way of living and acting will bestow upon you Brahma Jnana, Brahma-Sakshatkar. Secondly Brahmancharya means a life of self-control, control of all the senses, all impure desires, control of anger and passion. It means self control. This is Brahmacharya. It means not merely remaining unmarried. That is not the proper definition. It means the first stage of life that is youth.
based upon virtue, your life will be full of wrong deeds, and in Vanaprastha Ashrama you will become a miserable person, and your whole life will become a failure.
It meant Naitika Vidya (moral science), Naitika Shikshana or Dharmic Vidya. It also meant Adhyatma Vidya (Self knowledge). You have to learn Bhautika Vidya (material knowledge) in order to have Udyoga (business) and be indepe ndent, earning income and be able to support your wife and children when you enter the second Ashram, the Grihastha Ashrama. But if you want to live a noble life and get a good name in society, you must know what Dharma is, what Niti (ethics) is. So study Manu Dharmashastra, Yajnavalkya Smriti, the science of right conduct.You must also learn Naitika Shiksha (moraleducation).
Each student must know the Srimad Bhagavad Gita by heart, and you must learn a little Sanskrit. The Gita contains the essence of Adhyatma Vidya (spiritual knowledge). Your whole Sanskriti is based upon knowledge, the knowledge of the Vedas. Your Dharma is called Vedic Dharma, and the real name of your religion is Sanatana Dharma or Vaidic Dharma, which means Dharma based upon Vedas and the wisdom of Vedas contained in the Upanishad. The essence of the Upanishads is given in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita—containing only 700 Slokas. If you learn by heart one Sloka every day, in two years the whole Gita will be at your command. If you are more eager, if you learn by heart one Sloka in the morning and one Sloka in the evening, then in one year you will know the entire eighteen chapters or 700 Slokas by heart. In the Gita is the essence of the Upanishads—the essence of your Adhyatma Vidya—spiritual wisdom. So to attain wisdom, to attain knowledge—secular knowledge, ethical knowledge and spiritual knowledge is one of the primary duties of students in the Brahmacharya Ashrama.
Thirdly, the last most important thing is development of a noble character. Once this age passes, you cannot change your character, because in young age, you are like bricks which have not yet been put inside the kiln. The clay is still soft; you can alter the shape. You can put upon it any Chhap (imprint). You can mould it. You can change it. But once you have put a brick inside the kiln and it becomes hard, then you cannot change it. If you try to alter the shape, it will break. So whatever you want to do, do it in this stage. When a plant is tender, it can be turned in any direction. When it becomes a big tree you cannot bend it. It will break. So in this age, you can mould your character, you can make your behaviour, you can make your Swabhava (nature) in any way you want. But if you wake up too late and then try to change it, you find that you cannot. Your nature has become hard, crystalised. Therefore, now is the time when you can give any shape.
Remember the greatest disease of human society is selfishness. Arrogance and anger is not a sign of strength. Try to learn this. As a sign of self-control always be humble, simple and unselfish. Let your character shine with selflessness. Let it be endowed with simplicity, humility and forgiveness. Study 'Sure Ways of Success in Life' by Swami Sivananda and 'Self-Indulgence vs. Self Restraint' by Gandhiji. Let self-help, moderate living and character be your motto. Be an ideal student.
Why do people do bad things if they already know what is right and what is wrong? Because of lack of will. We know what is wrong but we don't have the will power to stay away from that. How can one develop the will? By discipline and by regular practice. You develop that will by doing little, little, little things. Don't start with a big job that you cannot easily do; if you fail, you will lose confidence. Accomplishing small things will improve your self-confidence. You will be happy, "Oh, I did it." Then one day, even the biggest thing will be the easiest thing for you.
Will means application of the mind. Training the mind. Making the mind work in a positive way. It's achieved slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly. It's easy to say, "Oh, I'm not made for that. It's too much for me. Not everyone can do that." Such excuses are self-delusion. Without will, we cannot achieve anything.
A few days ago I was chatting to a friend about duality and the lights where going off in her head as she saw the order and balance in her life. Then she asked how to manifest what she wants. I started talking about JD's approach when I caught myself and realised that I just don't have confidence in that approach anymore.
More and more I see people like water in a river – complicated, fluid beings – and I am looking to the masters of the East who understand this vastly complex situation for their wise guidance.
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Лични сат је врста мањег часовника који се носи особа, најчешће око ручног зглоба или у џепу. Поред показивања тачног времена, може садржати многе друге могућности као што су приказивање читавог датума, штоперица, аларм итд. Ручни сат је такође модни додатак, предмет друштвеног представљања и престижа. Драги су од злата, титанијума, украшени су као накит и подложни су променама у моди. Неке од најпознатијих марки ручних сатова су Ролекс, Касио, Фестина, Своч, Тисо, Фосил и други.

Сатови су напредовали у 17. веку од сатова на опружни погон, који су се појавили већ у 14. веку. Током већег дела своје историје сат је био механички уређај, вођен сатним механизмом, погоњен намотавањем главне опруге и мерећи време осцилујућим балансним точком. Они се називају механичким сатовима. Шездесетих година изумљен је електронски кварцни сат који се напаја батеријом и мери време вибрационим кварцним кристалом. До 1980-их кварцни сат заузимао је већи део тржишта од механичког сата. Историјски се ово назива кварцном револуцијом. Напреци из 2010. обухватају паметне сатове, који су сложени електронски уређаји слични рачунару, дизајнирани за ношење на зглобу. Они углавном укључују функције мерења времена, мада је то само мали подскуп функција паметног сата.

Генерално, модерни сатови често приказују дан, датум, месец и годину. У механичким сатовима понекад су укључене разне додатне функције које се називају "компликацијама", као што су прикази месечевих фаза и различите врсте турбилона. Већина електронских кварцних сатова, с друге стране, укључује временске карактеристике као што су тајмери, хронографи и функције аларма. Штавише, неки модерни сатови (попут паметних сатова) чак садрже калкулаторе, ГПС и Блутут технологију, или имају могућности праћења откуцаја срца, а неки од њих користе технологију радио сата да би редовно кориговали време.

У данашње време већина сатова на тржишту који су јефтини или имају умерене цене, користе се углавном за мерење времена и имају кварцни механизам. Међутим, скупи колекционарски сатови, вредновани више због сложене израде, естетске привлачности и гламурозног дизајна, него због једноставног мерења времена, често имају традиционалне механичке механизме, иако су мање тачни и скупљи од електронских. Од 2018. године најскупљи сат који је икад продат на аукцији био је Патек Филип Хенри Грејвс суперкомпликација, који је најкомпликованији механички сат на свету до 1989. године, продат за 24 милиона америчких долара (-{CHF}- 23.237.000) у Женеви 11. новембра 2014. Од децембра 2019. године, најскупљи сат који је икад продат на аукцији (и који је ручни сат) је Патек Филип Грандмастер Чајм реф. 6300А-010, чија коначна цена је била 31,19 милиона америчких долара (-{CHF}- 31.000.000) у Женеви 9. новембра 2019.

Џепни сат

Џепни сат је направљен да се носи у џепу, за разлику од ручног сата, који се ноди на ручном зглобу.

Они су били најчешћи тип сатова од њиховог развоја у 16. веку, док ручни сатови нису постали популарни након Првог светског рата током којег је војска користила прелазни дизајн, рововске сатове. Џепни сатови углавном имају причвршћени ланац који омогућава причвршћивање на прслук, ревер или омчу на појасу и спречава падање. Сатови су такође били постављани на кратку кожну траку или каиш, када би дугачки ланац био гломазан или би могао да ухвати ствари. Овај дизајн такође може пружити заштитни поклопац преко лица сата. Женски сатови су обично били овог облика, са траком која је више била украсна него заштитна. Ланци су често били украшени сребрним или емајлираним привеском, често носећи грб неког клуба или друштва. На ланцима сатова такође су се појавиле практичне справе попут кључа за навијање сата, вестне футроле или резача цигара, мада обично у претерано украшеном стилу. Такође су чести причвршћивачи, дизајнирани да се провуку кроз отвор дугмета и носе у јакни или прслуку. Ова врста је често повезана са и названа по кондуктерима возова.

Рана референца на џепни сат налази се у писму италијанског часовничара Бартоломеја Манфредија из новембра 1462. године Маркечезу ди Мантови Федерико Гонзага, где му нуди "џепни сат" бољи од оног који припада војводи од Модена. Крајем 15. века, опружни сатови су се појавили у Италији и Немачкој. Петер Хенлајн, мајстор бравар из Нирнберга, редовно је производио џепне сатове до 1526. године. Након тога, производња џепних сатова се раширила по остатку Европе током 16. века. Рани сатови имали су само сатну казаљку, минутна казаљка се појавила крајем 17. века. Прве америчке џепне сатове са машински израђеним деловима произвео је Хенри Питкин са својим братом током касних 1830-их.

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Сатови су еволуирали од преносних опружних сатова, који су се први пут појавили у Европи у 15. веку. Сатови се нису широко носили у џеповима све до 17. века. Један извештај наводи да енглеска реч "watch" потиче од староенглеске речи -{woecce}-, што је значило "чувар", јер су је градски стражари користили да прате своје смене на послу. Један други извор наводи да је тај термин потекао од морнара из 17. века, који су користили нове механизме за одређивање дужине својих бродских стража (дежурства).

Велики скок у прецизности догодио се 1657. године додавањем балансне опруге на точак за уравнотежење, што је био споран изум у то време и од тада између Роберта Хука и Кристијана Хајгенса. Ова иновација је изузетно повећала тачност сатова, смањивши грешку са можда неколико сати дневно на свега десетак минута дневно, што је резултирало додавањем минутне казаљке на лице сата око 1680. године у Британији и 1700. у Француској.

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 Beckett, Edmund, A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells, 1903, from Project Gutenberg
 Berner, G.A., Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology, Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH 1961–2012
 Daniels, George, Watchmaking, London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1981 (reprinted 15 June 2011)
 De Carle, Donald, (Illustrations by E. A. Ayres), Practical Watch Repairing, 3rd edition, New York : Skyhorse Pub.. . Significant information on watches, their history, and inner workings.
 Denn, Mark, "The Tourbillon and How It Works", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, June 2010, IEEE Control Systems Society, DOI 10.1109/MCS.2010.936291.
 Grafton, Edward, Horology, a popular sketch of clock and watch making, London: Aylett and Jones, 1849

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 -{UK patent GB218487, Improvements relating to wrist watches, 1923 patent resulting from John Harwood's invention of a practical self-winding watch mechanism.}-

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What does kindness look like? It wears a mask.
Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling has an important favor to ask of the American people.
Michael J. Dowling is President and Chief Executive Officer of Northwell Health, New York's largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, more than 700 outpatient locations, $12 billion in annual revenue and 68,000+ employees. One of health care's most-influential executives, Mr. Dowling has received numerous awards, including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, an honorary degree from the prestigious Queen's University Belfast and his selection as the Grand Marshal of the 2017 St. Patrick's Day Parade in NYC. He also serves as chair of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
MICHAEL DOWLING: Hi, I'm Mike Dowling. I am the president and CEO of Northwell Health, a very large health system that has seen more COVID patients than anybody else in the United States. We've seen extraordinary illness. We've seen people saved, and we've seen a lot of people die.
By wearing a mask, you can save lives. You can make our job easier, and you can demonstrate humanity to your community and your friends. It's one of the most important things you can do right now. So, please do it.
Michael Dowling is president and CEO of Northwell Health, the largest health care system in New York state. In this PSA, speaking as someone whose company has seen more COVID-19 patients than any other in the country, Dowling implores Americans to wear masks—not only for their own health, but for the health of those around them.
The CDC reports that there have been close to 7.9 million cases of coronavirus reported in the United States since January. Around 216,000 people have died from the virus so far with hundreds more added to the tally every day. Several labs around the world are working on solutions, but there is currently no vaccine for COVID-19.
The most basic thing that everyone can do to help slow the spread is to practice social distancing, wash your hands, and to wear a mask. The CDC recommends that everyone ages two and up wear a mask that is two or more layers of material and that covers the nose, mouth, and chin. Gaiters and face shields have been shown to be less effective at blocking droplets. Homemade face coverings are acceptable, but wearers should make sure they are constructed out of the proper materials and that they are washed between uses. Wearing a mask is the most important thing you can do to save lives in your community.
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David Kadison of Vineyard Haven celebrates after having the winning key to a new car.
Bluefish Lead the Way at Derby Awards Ceremony
Steve Myrick
Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 5:35pm
Big bluefish were the key to the key ceremony at the Martha's Vineyard Bass and Bluefish Derby, as the anglers who landed the biggest bluefish from shore and from a boat were the ones who were standing beside the grand prizes after a dramatic awards ceremony Sunday.
David Kadison of Vineyard Haven chose the key that popped open a padlock to win a Suburu Forrester SUV from Clay Suburu, and Paul Hoffman of West Tisbury chose the key that won him a new center console fishing boat from Cape Codder Boats.
"This feels really good," said Mr. Kadison, a familiar name on the derby leader boards each year, moments after winning the SUV. "Like a weight off my shoulders."
Paul Hoffman took home a new boat for his 13.08 pound bluefish caught from shore. — Timothy Johnson
Mr. Kadison often fishes with this three children, but it was his wife who was the first person he thanked.
"Our wedding anniversary is October 11," he said. "I miss it every year. She doesn't divorce me, I don't know why. I have to thank my whole family. It feels so good."
Later, standing next to his new vehicle outside the tent at Farm Neck Golf Club where the awards ceremony was held, Mr. Kadison said it was an unexpected catch that earned him top spot on the leader board with an 18.49 pound bluefish.
"I was actually fishing for bonito at the time, wasn't thinking of bluefish," Mr. Kadison said. "That's the way it worked out that day. Got it to the boat, as soon as I saw how big it was, I got my gaff, I didn't try bothering to net it. It was a good one."
Paul Hoffman was equally ecstatic when his key turned the lock open.
John Custer offers a tribute to Maryanne Jerome, wife of Ed Jerome. — Timothy Johnson
"Unbelievable," Mr. Hoffman said. "It's an amazing event, it's an amazing time. It brings this Island together in a way that nothing else does."
Mr. Hoffman weighed in his 13.08 pound bluefish caught from shore early in the tournament. He said he has fished the derby for the past six years, and landing on the leader board turned out to be a little different experience than he expected.
"Historically, it's a 15 pound fish that wins," he said. "I was a nervous wreck for three weeks. I've always dreamed of being on the board, then I was just miserable for three weeks, until it held."
The other grand leaders at the end of the annual fishing tournament were: boat striped bass, Stephen Pietruska, 39.20 pounds; shore striped bass, Ollie Becker, 37.69; pounds; boat bonito, Raymond Cabot, 11.75 pounds; shore bonito, Stephen Swayer Jr., 6.76 pounds; boat false albacore, Gary Look, 15.75 pounds; and shore false albacore, Ken Zaiatz, 12.85 pounds.
The derby awards ceremony was interspersed with emotional remembrances of Ed Jerome, the long time derby president who died unexpectedly in the second week of the five week tournament.
Farm Neck was packed for popular derby awards ceremony. — Timothy Johnson
The derby committee offered a touching tribute to Mr. Jerome's widow Maryanne, who sat in the front row for the ceremony.
Former derby chairman John Custer recalled the days in 1986 when the derby was at a low point and Mr. Jerome stepped in.
"I don't think it's overstating it to say that we might not be here today, in fact the derby might not be here today, if not for Ed Jerome," Mr. Custer said.
At first mention of Mr. Jerome's name, the standing room only crowd offered a sustained round of applause. "In 1986, Ed was part of a group that literally saved the derby," Mr. Custer continued. "There was a group, but Ed was clearly the leader. It's now our collective responsibility to maintain and preserve this amazing event. Ed's work over decades put the derby in this strong position."
The next generation is now - Dill Kleeman is at the podium. — Timothy Johnson
Joe El-Deiry, in his first year as derby chairman, also offered a tribute to Mr. Jerome, remembering the awful day when word of his death spread among the derby committee.
"We held a meeting and shared memories of our friend," Mr. El-Deiry said. "We agreed the best way to move forward was to make this a great derby, one that Ed would be proud of. We were encouraged to get back out on the water. It was what Ed would want, people said. It was not easy at first, but it became quite healing."
A record 3,541 anglers signed up to fish the derby this year. Collectively they weighed in 1,406 fish, weight 13,594.03 pounds over the five week event
Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby
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What a great fishing contest. It is historic, legendary and inspirational. It is the fabric of a wonderful Island place. And hats off to the people who make it happen every year. God Bless Ed Jerome.
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I generally just make note of the stripper weights, can't remember all the categories, but it seems the winning fish be 2lbs+/- smaller than previous years suggests to me the bottom line is more smaller fish every year.
October 16, 2018 - 10:02am
Derby Heads for Home; Last Weigh-In Saturday
A record number of fishermen signed up for the 73rd Martha's Vineyard Bass and Bluefish Derby....
A Night at the Derby Weigh Station
Stories are reeled in every day at derby headquarters at the foot of Main street on the Edgartown...
Weighing In!
Fish and more fish! That was the burden of the report from derby headquarters on Saturday noon.
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From Lobsterville to Squibnocket, Cape Pogue to Tisbury Great Pond, Fishermen Pick Their Favorite Spots
If there was ever a favorite fishing spot on the Vineyard, Lobsterville is it.
Scientific Research Is Aided by High Volume of Fish Brought to Derby Weigh-in Station for Examination
The annual fall fishing derby offers the scientific community an ideal platform for monitoring the...
Fifty Years of Big Fish and Good Fellowship
There are few possessions that last 50 years on the Vineyard waterfront.


When considering bed bugs and disease, the prevalent medical position is they do carry disease organisms, but they are not known to transmit disease. While some sources claim that bed bugs are to blame for the spread of leprosy, Q-fever, oriental sores and brucellosis, these cases are poorly documented.
However, secondary infection may result if someone fails to keep the bites clean and disinfected, leading to swelling and bleeding of the bites. Infections are more likely to develop in children, those with suppressed immune systems and the elderly, especially those who are bedridden and unable to walk. Also, some people bitten by bed bugs have experienced allergic reactions that require medical attention, especially when exposed to numerous bites.
The greatest risk posed by bed bugs is the irritation of bites or the psychological concerns resulting in lack of sleep and stress. Bed bug bites do not typically become visible until a day or more after the insect's feeding, if at all, since some people never react to being bitten. In extreme reactions, large welts can appear. These welts gradually reduce in size, becoming small, red marks.
Bed bug bites can cause itching and may also result in swelling or blister-like skin inflammations. It is important to note that other non-bed-bug sources can result in skin irritations as well.
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Ragnar Alexander Stare (24 November 1884 – 30 June 1964) was a Swedish sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he won the silver medal as member of the Swedish team in the team small-bore rifle competition. He also participated in the individual small-bore rifle event but his exact place is unknown.

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ANNAPOLIS, MD – The Maryland Department of Agriculture held its annual Tree Lighting Ceremony this afternoon. Each year the department displays a Maryland-grown tree outside its headquarters to encourage residents to support our state's Christmas tree farmers by buying locally grown, fresh-cut holiday trees, rather than purchasing artificial trees or trees grown out of state. To showcase its support, the department is displaying a 14-foot Maryland-grown Norway spruce at its headquarters in Annapolis throughout the holiday season.
Ken and Barbara Willets of E&E Trees in Frederick County donated the Norway spruce that stands tall outside the agency. The Willets are also members of the Maryland Christmas Tree Association (MCTA), an association of growers and retailers with nearly 100 members across the state.
Decorations for the tree include dried gourds that were hand-painted by the students of the Annapolis High School Art Club and the National Art Honor Society. Pat and Cindy Hochmuth of Pat's Produce & Gourds in Wicomico County supplied 70 dried gourds for the art project. During the ceremony, apple cranberry cookies, baked fresh by the students of the Annapolis High School Culinary Club, were handed out to attendees. Catoctin Mountain Orchard in Frederick County provided the apples used in the cookie recipe.
Maryland farmers offer some of the freshest holiday trees available, including the popular Fraser fir and Canaan fir as well as the Douglas fir, Concolor fir, Scotch pine, White pine, and Blue spruce. According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture for Maryland, there are more than 170 Christmas tree growers in the state with nearly 2,200 acres in production. In Maryland, Carroll County has the greatest number of cut Christmas tree farms with 20. Anne Arundel, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, and Montgomery round out the top six counties for Christmas tree production. There are about 15,000 Christmas tree growers in the U.S., and more than 100,000 people employed full or part time in the industry.
Not only do real trees look and smell amazing, they are also a renewable and recyclable resource that keep unwanted waste out of our landfills. Artificial trees are often petroleum based, imported from overseas, and do not biodegrade, so they eventually end up laying in landfills forever. In contrast, real Christmas trees can be recycled at the end of the holiday season, often chipped into mulch that returns important nutrients to the earth.
While growing, Christmas trees absorb carbon dioxide and other gases and emit fresh oxygen. When growing in an open area, a 3-inch diameter Douglas fir can reduce atmospheric carbon by 23 pounds and intercept 102 gallons of storm water runoff per year.
Buying locally grown trees, including choose-and-cut trees, supports family-owned farms and businesses, preserves farmland, and protects the environment. To find a Christmas tree farm near you, visit www.marylandsbest.net. For more information about the benefits of purchasing a Maryland-grown tree, please check out the Maryland Christmas Tree Association's website at www.marylandchristmastrees.org.
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WOFX (980 AM) announced this morning that it will carry Boston Red Sox games rather than the New York Mets next season.
The annoucement was made at 10 a.m. during Rodger Wyland's "Big Board Sports" program.
TROY — Fox Sports 980 and the Red Sox Radio Network have entered into a partnership to broadcast Boston games to fans in the Capital Region starting in 2012. The deal runs for three years, guaranteeing the Red Sox Nation can enjoy games locally on the radio through the 2014 season.
"We are excited about the addition of the Red Sox to our super roster of play-by-play programming on FOX Sports 980," said Kristen Delaney, V.P./Regional Market Manager with Clear Channel Albany. "With the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park this season and the fresh start with Bobby Valentine as skipper, there's no better time to bring the tradition of the Red Sox closer to fans in the Capital Region".
All spring training, regular season and postseason games are included in the agreement. The Red Sox will christen a new spring training facility in Ft. Myers, Florida, in March. Boston opens the regular season Thursday, April 5, against the American League Central Champion Detroit Tigers, and AL MVP and Cy Young winner Justin Verlander. The first home stand for the Red Sox begins on Friday, April 13, against the Tampa Bay Rays.


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Imagine being 2-3 years old (most occur in children under the age of 2). Having a condition only 4 per million children have. A condition that causes tumors to grow along the nervous system outside of the brain.
Picture having test after test run, in dark and scary rooms with loud and frightening machines.
It seems that every grown-up you see want to hurt you with a needle to get blood.
Then you sit in a big chair in front of a big desk, while your mom and dad cry.
And then suddenly more hospital visits. You start to recognize that you are driving to a place that scares you and you begin to cry even before you arrive.
And suddenly there is a weird thing on your chest. But they seem to be able to get blood out of it so no more horrible pokes.
And then then the nurses start giving you "medicine" to make you "feel better".
But you don't feel better. You feel tired and sick to your stomach.
You have to wear a mask everywhere you go and you can't do the things you used to be able to do.
You feel like you never get to be at home anymore.
You can't sleep through the night anymore, because either you wake up sick or someone wakes you up to "get blood", or "take vitals" whatever that means.
Its not all bad I suppose, You get ANY food you like cause all the grown ups seem to be very worried about how much you eat. You get to watch lots of tv. You get to meet famous people and have lots of grownups tell you how cute you are. You get to see clowns and dogs, make music and be the nurse's helper.


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KNOWING TOO MUCH
December 3, 2013 Geopolitics101 1 Comment
Paul Walker was no stranger to conspiracy. He had a film about it. But unlike his friends in the industry, he never walked away from his duty to help those that really need it. He passed away while his Reach Out Worldwide is doing rescue and relief efforts in my country after HAARP-induced Hainan flattened all villages in its path on November 8th.
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But like John F. Kennedy who sought to change the world with the power vested in him, Walker suffered the same fate as the former had – death by assassination.
Paul Walker: Murdered For Digging Too Deep?
By Susan Duclos
Conspiracy forums have posed an interesting theory on Paul Walker's untimely death from a car crash on Saturday, where they tie it in, and call it murder to prevent Walker, who was part of the Phillipine relief effort, from exposing "a conspiracy to supply victims of Typhon Haiyan with a prototype permanent birth control drug hidden in medicinal supplies and food aid." Another theory is that Walker discovered dirty money in the Philippines disaster relief and that it "would make sense because he owned a company that specialized in rapid disaster relief."
Via the first thread over at GLP:
Paul Walker and his friend were killed shortly after they discovered a conspiracy to supply victims of Typhon Haiyan with a prototype permanent birth control drug hidden in medicinal supplies and food aid. They had a damning recording and they were on their way to rendezvous with an ally who would have helped them get in touch with the right people. Turns out they were betrayed and someone rigged their car's breaks to malfunction after a certain speed.
Now that the loose end has been tied up, and the recording destroyed, the people responsible have nothing to fear as this will become another "conspiracy theory" no one will take seriously.
Via the second thread:
"Now here is another thread with a conspiracy on a possible motive here. Apparently, Paul Walker had discovered dirty money in the Philippines disaster relief and that would make sense because he owned a company that specialized in rapid disaster relief. "
Did Walker dig to deep into corruption or was it an Illuminati Death?
Then we have the massive damage to the car, the two videos below show the same car Paul Walker was killed in that had also been involved in an ultra high speed crash with fatalities and then the video of the aerial view of Walker's car after the fatal crash.
The exemplar:
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Walker's Crash:
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RIP, Paul
In behalf of my countrymen who have benefited from your kindness, Thank you very much, Paul. You'll never be forgotten.
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