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Camp Lejeune Historic Water Update

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Adopt-A-Minefield

Actiongroupe Landmine-Germany

Albanian Mine Action Executive

Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition

Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action

Bosnia and Herzegovinia Mine Action Centre

Cambodian Mine Action Centre

Canandian International Demining Corps

Chilean National Demining Commission

Clear Path International

National Ostrich Day

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Modern War-Siapam
NO HEALTHCARE,
NO DISABILITY,
NO LIFE INSURANCE,
NO HEAD STONE,
NO MEDALS,
NO TRAINING,
NO PROTECTION,
& NO THANKS

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Anthony Leiserowitz' reseach at Yale

Just a few weeks prior to the 2008 elections, we conducted a nationally representative survey of 2,164 American adults aged 18+. This was a period of heightened political interest and discussion, due to the historic campaigns of then Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. Among many other questions, we asked respondents how often they watch or listen to six of the major political commentators in the media today: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity & Alan Colmes, Bill O’Reilly, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Keith Olberman.

What follows is an analysis of the size, political leanings, demographic characteristics, values and attitudes of each “nation” of political talk within the United States. Please note that there is some overlap between these different audiences, with some Americans who tune in to more than one commentator. We have also compared the characteristics of each audience to the much larger proportion of the public (57%) who do not watch or listen to any of these commentators.

Feel free to contact the leadership of the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and tell them to support and defend the Constitution. Cover the bases:

● The usurpation of war powers by the Executive Branch and the abdication of war powers by the U.S. Congress

● The erosion of civil rights and constitutionally guaranteed freedoms

● The rule of law and the accountability of government officials

● The misuse of the fictional corporate person to interfere with government for and by the People

NOTE: Some Representatives block the use of webmail by non-constituents. If so, look at the Representatives' home page for alternate means of contacting them such as e-mail addresses, street addresses and telephone numbers. Be sure you address your communication using the Representatives' party titles - Chair, Secretary, Deputy Whip, et cetera.

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■ = Leadership positions

◆ HOUSE DEMOCRATS

■ Speaker of the House

Feel free to contact the leadership of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate and tell them to support and defend the Constitution. Cover the bases:

● The usurpation of war powers by the Executive Branch and the abdication of war powers by the U.S. Congress

● The erosion of civil rights and constitutionally guaranteed freedoms

● The rule of law and the accountability of government officials

● The misuse of the fictional corporate person to interfere with government for and by the People

NOTE: Some Senators block the use of webmail by non-constituents. If so, look at the Senators' home page for alternate means of contacting them such as e-mail addresses, street addresses and telephone numbers. Be sure you address your communication using the Senators' party titles - Chair, Secretary, Deputy Whip, et cetera.

◆ = Organizations
■ = Leadership positions

◆ SENATE DEMOCRATS

Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies

Before Christ

c. 2050 BC King Bilalama formulated the Eshnunna law code.
1848-1806 BC Hammurabi ruled Babylon with a law code.
c. 1275 BC Moses led Hebrew slaves out of Egypt.
742-697 BC Isaiah and Micah prophesied in Israel and Judah.
c. 700 BC Parshva taught nonviolence in India.
682 BC Athenian kingship was reduced to annual election.
628-551 BC Zarathushtra taught a new religion in Persia.
627-580 BC Jeremiah prophesied in Judah.
594 BC Solon was elected archon and revised laws for Athens.
551-479 BC Confucius taught humanistic ethics.
545 BC Heang Seu organized a peace conference at Song.
531-510 BC Pythagoras taught at Crotona.
528-483 BC Buddha taught in India.
c. 520 BC Lao-zi wrote Dao De Jing in China.

Buck Stops Here

Outer Space Treaty

Green=signed and ratified
Yellow=signed only

RULE OF LAW: STAR WARS or OUTER SPACE TREATY

The Outer Space Treaty (the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies) opened for signature in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. The treaty entered into force on the part of the U.S. on 27 January 1967. Ninety-eight States have ratified, and an additional twenty-seven have signed the Outer Space Treaty (as of 1 January 2008). For further information, see the Treaty Status Index.

Buh-bye, Bush

The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on this day, 23 January 1933.

Forty-three days more would just have been too much.

"Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin."

General of the Army

Forty- eight years ago. 48. Just shy of two score and ten. Almost half a century...

“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address to the Nation, 17 January 1961

Forty-eight years ago Dwight D. Eisenhower, President, Commander-in-Chief, 5-star or General of the Army, of which there have only been five in the history of the United States, presciently warns the citizenry of the threat of a “military-industrial complex”

Who hasn’t heard that? Yet only eight years earlier Eisenhower had said much the same in his Chance for Peace Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 16,1953. Who has heard of that speech?

You should listen to it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

17 January 1961:

Forty-eight years ago Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth President of the United States delivers his farewell address to the nation warning of the threat of the “Military-Industrial Complex”.

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The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 14, 1638 OS . The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. It has the features of a written constitution, and is considered by some as the first written Constitution of modern time, and thus earned Connecticut its nickname of The Constitution State.

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Eau Claire Inaugural

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Doug Wilder

13 Januray 1990 - L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American politician and was the first African American to be elected as governor of a U.S. state, and the second to serve as governor. The first African American governor in the U.S. state was P. B. S. Pinchback, who was not elected, but became Governor of Louisiana on December 9, 1872 upon the removal of his predecessor from office. Deval Patrick, the Governor of Massachusetts, is the second African American to be elected governor, and became the third African American governor overall. Ascending from the office of Lieutenant Governor, Wilder was elected to succeed Baliles on November 8, 1989, defeating Republican Marshall Coleman by a spread of less than half a percent. Wilder served as Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. His most recent office was Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, which he held from 2005 to 2009.
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12 January 1971: The Harrisburg Seven, members of a religious antiwar group led by Philip Berrigan, are indicted for conspiracy. According to a government informer, the group was planning to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.

Common Sense

Common Sense by Thomas Paine is first published on January 10, 1776.

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■ Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Ella T. Grasso

January 8, 1975 – December 31, 1980
Ella T. Grasso becomes the first elected "in her own right" woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state. Previous women governors had been the wife or widow of a male governor. She was also the first woman to be the Governor of Connecticut.