MUST WATCH! IMPORTANT NDAA VIDEO! TAKE ACTION NOW! (National Defense Authorization Act) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012[1] is a United States federal law which besides other provisions specifies the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense. The bill passed the U.S. House on December 14, 2011, the U.S. Senate on December 15, 2011, and was signed into United States law on December 31, 2011, by President Barack Obama.[2][3] The most controversial provisions to receive wide attention were contained in subsections 1021–1022 of Title X, Subtitle D, entitled "Counter-Terrorism", authorizing the indefinite military detention of persons the government suspects of involvement in terrorism, including U.S. citizens arrested on American soil.
Indefinite detention without trial: Section 1021[edit] Requirement for military custody: Section 1022[edit] During debate on the senate floor, Levin stated that "Administration officials reviewed the draft language for this provision and recommended additional changes. The vote[edit] Brave New World. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.[1] In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer listed Brave New World number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time",[2] and the novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.[3] Title[edit] O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't. Translations of the title often allude to similar expressions used in domestic works of literature in an attempt to capture the same irony: the French edition of the work is entitled Le Meilleur des mondes ("The Best of All Worlds"), an allusion to an expression used by the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz[6] and satirised in Candide, Ou l'Optimisme by Voltaire (1759).
Background[edit] Huxley said that Brave New World was inspired by the utopian novels of H. Plot[edit] The Introduction (Chapters 1–6)[edit] Bread and circuses. "Bread and circuses" (or bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is metonymic for a superficial means of appeasement. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy, but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace,[1] as an offered "palliative.
" Juvenal decried it as a simplistic motivation of common people.[2][3][4] The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of civic duty amongst the concerns of the commoner. Rome[edit] This phrase originates from Rome in Satire X of the Roman satirist and poet Juvenal (circa A.D. 100). In context, the Latin metaphor panem et circenses (bread and circuses) identifies the only remaining cares of a new Roman populace which cares not for its historical birthright of political involvement.
See also[edit] Notes[edit] Sources[edit] Potter, D. and D. Further reading[edit] Famous Quotes on Banking. THE HISTORY OF MONEY Abraham Lincoln's Greenback Dollar. Occupy Wall Street’s good, bad and ugly - David Weidner's Writing on the Wall. By David Weidner, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Occupy Wall Street has gone from unseen to the place to be seen. Lech Walesa is coming. Kanye West has gone downtown. Even Willie Nelson is voicing his support in a video with his daughter. Read related commentary on OWS’s famous problem.
Occupy protests enter fifth week Occupy Wall Street protests, now in their fifth week, spawn demonstrations in more than 80 countries. Given Willie’s brushes with the law for smoking pot and not paying taxes, the protest might want to find another endorsement from the music industry. Ted Nugent, anyone? Kidding aside, the once media-starved Occupy Wall Street is generating a bazillion headlines a day. But there’s also the unseemly side: the violence, the litter, the misdirected angst and challenges. More troubling was the fact it was just bad form. And so it goes. Good: Crowds are swelling. Bad: The traffic is terrible. Reuters Good: Calls to reinstate Glass-Steagall Bad: Never going to happen. Occupy Chicago Clarifies Its Mission. Protesters in downtown Chicago, often criticized for being haphazard and unfocused, have taken steps to make their mission clearer. Members of Occupy Chicago, one of many spinoffs of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, listed 12 demands to help resolve the nation’s economic crisis and bring relief to the “99 percent” of Americans who are not among the wealthy elite.
The protesters so far have little direct political influence, but some say the demonstrations could help change public discourse about the current economic crisis, just as the tea party movement gained influence. “This is an opportunity for the progressive forces in the United States and the president to tap into that same anger that the right wing has been tapping into,” said Michael Mezey, political science professor at DePaul University.
Much like its New York counterpart, Occupy Chicago proclaims to be leaderless, nonpartisan and reliant on group consensus. However they proceed, the “occupiers” face challenges. How many people die from poverty each year. Occupy movement goes global - in pictures | World news. The Zeitgeist Film Series Gateway | Zeitgeist: The Movie, Zeitgeist: Addendum, Zeitgeist Moving Forward. Occupy Wall Street protesters raising the right questions. Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but as the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations gain more traction, we may finally have to address the grotesque economic injustice that has grown so stark in the last few decades. Lech Walesa, one of the great heroes of our time, has announced that he is coming to Wall Street to support the protestors, though no date is set yet.
That’s a big deal, because Walesa is a lot harder to dismiss than a 20-something kid. And today, Time magazine released a poll showing that most Americans, 54 percent, approve of the protestors. That’s twice the portion that approve of the Tea Party. As the movement builds, we are bound to hear more of the criticisms: These kids don’t have a full platform. Some of them are dirty, disorderly, disrespectful. All true, but so what? Here’s a great interactive graphic that tells the story. What is shows is no surprise.
Play with the interactive graphic a bit, and you can see that it was not always like this in America. Related coverage: #OWS #OCT15 CITI BANK ARRESTS. "Occupy" protests go global, turn violent. A protestor hurls a cannister during clashes in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia ROME - Italian police fired tear gas and water cannons Saturday in Rome as violent protesters turned a demonstration against corporate greed into a riot, smashing shop and bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles. The protest in the Italian capital, which left dozens injured, was part of the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations against capitalism and austerity measures that went global Saturday. Tens of thousands nicknamed "the indignant" marched in major cities across Europe, as protests that began in New York linked up with long-running demonstrations against government cost-cutting and failed financial policies in Europe.
Special section: The "Occupy" movementDoes "Occupy" movement need to get specific? Heavy smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group broke away from the main demonstration and wreaked havoc in streets close to the Colosseum. In the city's St.