John F. Kennedy on the Issues. Civil rights. Drugs. Intelligence. Law. Middle East. Muslim. Russia. Asia. War. Washington DC - federal gov't. Ignorance - learning about issues. Economic. Issue of privacy and rights. Secret Societies or Groups with an Agenda. Conspiracies, etc. Futurism. The New World - Interactive. Balkanization of the internet. Repeat after me: Edward Snowden is not the story.
The story is what he has revealed about the hidden wiring of our networked world. This insight seems to have escaped most of the world's mainstream media, for reasons that escape me but would not have surprised Evelyn Waugh, whose contempt for journalists was one of his few endearing characteristics. The obvious explanations are: incorrigible ignorance; the imperative to personalise stories; or gullibility in swallowing US government spin, which brands Snowden as a spy rather than a whistleblower. In a way, it doesn't matter why the media lost the scent. What matters is that they did. Topix: Your town. Your news. Your take.
Daytoendimpunity. NCSL Home (laws and issues) Consolidated Fund Act. A Consolidated Fund Act is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed to allow, like an Appropriation Act, the Treasury to issue funds out of the Consolidated Fund.[1] The typical structure of such an Act begins with the long title, which defines which financial years the Act applies to.
This is followed by the preamble, which is different from the normal British public general Act of Parliament preamble in that it includes additional text before the normal preamble:[citation needed] "Whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled have resolved to authorise the use of resources and the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply which they have granted to Her Majesty in this Session of Parliament:— Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—"
ANNUAL REVIEW OF POPULATION LAW. US Navy ‘Shaping Events’ in South China Sea.