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Adsense Packages - Adsense Templates and Adsense Websites
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Instant Cash Machine is nothing but
Internet's best Free Income generating
opportunity. This Income opportunity
is offered by Google Adsense. Today
million's of people are making a handsome
income every month. There are many
webmasters (people who run their websites)
who are earning more than $50,000 every
month without any effort. Well this sounds
Fishy, but its true.
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AltaVista Debuts Translation Service - Search Engine Watch
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From The
Search Engine Report
Jan. 9, 1998
AltaVista unveiled the beta test of its new web page translation service on Dec. 9,
produced in partnership with translation software maker SYSTRAN.
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Top word processing mistakes - Bull3t's Blog
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AdSense Wordpress Themes - Google AdSense Wordpress Themes Optimized for Wordpress
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A Google AdSense ready Wordpress theme can help you because all of that experimentation has been done for you already. Ad placement, ad type, ad size and more has been optimized for maximum click-through rates. This is particularly helpful for beginner bloggers
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More About Blog Monetization
Directory of Advertising Opportunities for Bloggers5 Tips to Monetize Your BlogReview of Amazon Associates Affiliate Advertising Program
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101 Essential Blogging Resources
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more fromwww.blogtrepreneur.com
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5. Hostgator - Shared hosting at $6.95 per month
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Content Management Systems
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5. Firefox Search Status Extension - see how any and every website is performing
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Jeremy Bentham
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Provided with £90 a year by his father, Bentham
produced a series
of books on philosophy, economics and politics.
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Microsoft denies XP a last-minute reprieve
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Many OEMs, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard Co., will continue to offer the older operating system as a "downgrade" option from Windows Vista. Veghte touted that approach himself. "This is a great value, because it lets you use Windows XP on new PCs today if you need it and then make the move to ... Windows Vista when you are ready, without having to pay for an upgrade," he said in the letter.
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Articles Category: Commentary - TheArticleInsiders.com Free Article Content for Ezines, Blogs, Newsletters and Websites
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American Ideals and Values By : Gabriel
Freedom
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The New Politics By : Sam Vaknin
Politics, in all its forms, is bankrupt. The notion that we can safely and successfully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which they operate. No set of constraints, checks, and balances, is proved to work and mitigate their unconscionable acts and the pernicious effects these have on our welfare and longevity. -
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America The Narcissist By : Sam Vaknin
The majority of worldwide respondents to the last two global Pew enter surveys (in 2002 and 2006) regarded the United States as the greatest menace to world peace - far greater than the likes of Iraq or China. -
The Exclusionary Conscience By : Sam Vaknin
The self-identity of most nation-states is exclusionary and oppositional: to generate solidarity, a sense of shared community, and consensus, an ill-defined "we" is unfavorably contrasted with a fuzzy "they". While hate speech has been largely outlawed the world over, these often counterfactual dichotomies between "us" and "them" still reign supreme. -
Middle Eastern Oil Fuels Terrorism By : Stacey Moore
The vast sums of oil money pouring into the Persian Gulf, and Saudi Arabia in particular, cost us a high price in blood and terrorism.
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A Passcard is a combination of
login URL, your user name, and your password, which can be used to
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Welcome to the Earth Policy Institute, dedicated to building an environmentally sustainable economy: an "eco-economy."
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"Food security will deteriorate further unless leading countries can collectively mobilize to stabilize population, restrict the use of grain to produce automotive fuel, stabilize climate, stabilize water tables and aquifers, protect cropland, and conserve soils. Stabilizing population is not simply a matter of providing reproductive health care and family planning services. It requires a worldwide effort to eradicate poverty.
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Lester Brown, World Facing Huge New Challenge on Food Front
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Bicycles Pedaling Into the Spotlight
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Podcast of press teleconference with Lester Brown: U.S. Moving Toward Ban on New Coal-Fired Power Plants. February 14, 2008
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Podcast of press teleconference
with Lester Brown: Why Ethanol Production Will Drive World Food Prices Even Higher in 2008. January 24, 2008
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wealthandwant.com theme: Unearned Increment
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Wealth
and Want
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Unearned
Increment -
One person's unearned increment is
another's — and likely many others' — lost birthright.
Who is
entitled
to
it? All of us! How do we implement this? Land value taxation.
Mason Gaffney, correspondence (used with permission)
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Tom Denning, Baron Denning —— 维客(wiki)
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Lord Denning was a judge for 38 years before retiring at the age of 83 in 1982. Lord Denning instigated many important concepts that would become pillars of the common law and many more which would ultimately be rejected in the House of Lords (such as the doctrine of fundamental breach). He also made some famous (and infamous) decisions in his court over his long career.
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The Magna Carta Society Parliamentry Limits
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Ironically, it seems that the power
parliament has most interest in exercising nowadays is
the manufacture of criminals, by making more and more
conduct illegal, regardless of the effect on our
essential rights guaranteed under common law. If
government, any government, "believes it can do as
it wishes without the constraint of a constitution which
is enforceable then no-one and nothing is safe."
These are the views of a lawyer who has made a special
study of the EU’s corpus juris proposals.
"A government above the law is a menace to be
defeated"
Lord Scarman
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Parliament cannot do as it wishes.
There are a great many things parliament cannot do. It
cannot sit for more than five years, it cannot permit
anyone not elected to speak in its chamber, nor anyone
who has not sworn an oath of allegiance, it cannot
dissolve itself and it cannot legitimately depose The
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"No prerogative may be
recognised that is contrary to Magna Carta or any other
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Thus, we argue, while sovereigns
have, over the centuries, at times devolved the royal
prerogative to sign treaties to plenipotentiaries to act
on their behalf, such devolved power is strictly
limited, and cannot be used to remove the freedoms and
liberties of the people by imposing foreign government
and foreign law on them.
In other words, the signatories to
the European Communities Act 1972 exceeded their powers
under the royal prerogative.
We further argue that the subsequent
claims made by government ministers and officials that
European law is "supreme" in the UK is wholly
ill-founded. At least one lawyer has suggested that
anyone making such a claim is either ignorant, or lying,
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Blackstone pointed out that English
law was superior to that of other nations because
liberty under the law was the purpose of the
constitution:
"A right of every Englishman is
that of applying to the Courts of Justice for redress of
injuries. Since the law in England is the supreme
arbiter of every man’s life, liberty and property,
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Justice has not been tested in the courts on this point
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An attempt was made to bring these
and other matters to court in 1971 by Raymond Blackburn
who challenged the government’s right to join the
common market on the grounds that it could only do so by
surrendering sovereignty. A year later, Ross McWhirter
invoked the Bill of Rights to show that the government
did not have authority to give away the right and
liberties of the people. Tragically, he was assassinated
before the matter was decided. His brother Norris made a
similar attempt to question the legality of the
Maastricht Treaty in 1993. Summonses were issued against
the then Foreign Secretary for treason. The Attorney
General used a purported power to take over the case and
then drop it as "not in the public interest".
Yet the Bill of Rights prohibits "suspending laws
or the operation of laws". His action was also
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Lord Denning added:
"When the Attorney General comes…and
tells us that he has a prerogative by which he alone can
say whether the criminal law can be enforced in these
courts or not - then I say he has no such prerogative.
He has no prerogative to suspend or dispense with the
laws of England. If he does not give his consent, then
any citizen of the land - any one of the public who is
adversely affected - can come to this court and ask that
the law be enforced."
This judgement was overturned in the
House of Lords on the grounds that Mr Gouriet did
not have the necessary locus standi. Within a
year, Lord Denning had helped introduce new rules which
now permit an application to the courts even if the
applicant can demonstrate no more than ‘sufficient
interest’.
Lord Hailsham later described Mr
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"The house as a whole may
therefore be reassured that there is no question of this
bill (The European Communities Bill 1972) making a
thousand years of British law subservient to the Code
Napoleon".
Mr.
Geoffrey Rippon, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
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"Our sovereignty cannot be
bartered away by the Solicitor General, or even by the
Prime Minister, because it is not theirs to give. I
speak not only of the sovereignty of this house, but
also of the higher sovereignty of the British
people".
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Which brings us to the
trustworthiness and honesty of the elected
representatives of the people, to whom they have a duty
of care. Furthermore, a government which has introduced
in less than three years a score of bills and Acts of
Parliament which deal with various aspects of the
constitution needs to be reminded that they have no
right to exceed the powers vested in them. We, the
people, own the rights to our own property - in this
case Britain.
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English common law cannot be made superior to Strasbourg | openDemocracy
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I completely disagree. Strasbourg law only takes precedence through the HRA 1998. If Parliament explicitly legislated to place UK common law over Strasbourg law, then judges would almost certainly follow this, as per Lord Denning in Macarthys vs Smith, or, more recently, Laws LJ (obiter) in Thoburn v Sunderland City Council.
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NB as a gloss on my previous comment, in Macarthys, Lord Denning said (though back in 1979) that if Parliament legislated to repeal the ECA 1972, leave the EU and no longer follow ECJ law (which is far more strongly constituted here than ECHR law), English judges would be bound to follow this.
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For what does it matter if our constitution is not "precise and democratically created", when one of its core tenents is that no man may overturn an Act of Parliament?
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Blowing in the wind
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Blowing in the wind
Sunday April 27 2008, 1:02am
If our city commission can find $1.6 million to spend on windmills, why not put that money to real sustainable growth in our community? That amount of money, if available, could be used for incubator loans for say, four new businesses, as loans of $400,000 to each new business to help them get started.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) in Women: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment on MedicineNet.com
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Gonorrheal
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Treatment should always include medication that will
treat chlamydia (such as azithromycin or doxycycline) as well as gonorrhea, because gonorrhea and chlamydia commonly
exist together in the same person.
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Drug Treatment of Common STDs: Part I. Herpes, Syphilis, Urethritis, Chlamydia and Gonorrhea - October 1, 1999 - American Academy of Family Physicians
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Highly effective single-dose oral therapies are now available for most
common curable STDs. Single-dose regimens may be used for the treatment of
chancroid, nongonococcal urethritis, uncomplicated gonococcal infections,
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mproved therapies are now available for the treatment of genital
herpes and human papillomavirus (HPV) infections. New regimens have been
approved for the use of acyclovir (Zovirax) in the treatment of genital herpes.
In addition, two new antiviral agents, valacyclovir (Valtrex) and famciclovir
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A new testing method for the diagnosis of chlamydial infections
employs an extremely accurate urine test that can easily be incorporated into
screening programs. Hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccines are now recommended
for all sexually active adolescents and young adults.
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Daily Kos: Making A More Perfect Constitution
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But nowhere amidst their posturing has there been a call for changing the system itself; no one seems to see that maybe it’s the Constitution, not just the Congress, that needs to be cleaned up.
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In the 220 years since the Constitution was written, the United States has undergone a great transformation. The 13 original states
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But what we haven't seen is major Constitutional reform. There have only been 17 amendments (the first 10 must be considered a part of the original document),
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Thomas Jefferson insisted that, "No society can make a perpetual Constitution...The earth belongs always to the living generation."
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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design. The Founders devised a political system that separated the powers of government, placed mutual checks on the powers each branch held, and ensured certain civil and human rights. Any new Constitutional initiatives must steer clear of infringing upon these bedrock principles of American government.
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Global : Ideas : Bank - Government by jury (a paper)
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the accelerating collapse of electoral participation. In 1960 the US presidential TV debates were watched by 60% of American TV-owning households. By 2000, fewer than 30% were tuned in.
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This trend is worrying for those who uphold the western democratic model as the best political system ever devised.
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people are losing faith in their own ability to influence political outcomes.
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the public have discovered that voting changes nothing
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The parties could not create manifestos that appealed to an electorate faced with a range of complex and interconnected issues. The voter in the polling booth is faced not with the option “should we have nuclear weapons?”, but “which of these several arbitrary packages of policies, promises and people you don’t know do you wish to condone?” Political parties have problems creating political messages that the public can identify with, and the public have problems identifying what the political parties stand for. In the USA the Democratic Party were criticized for failing to come up with a telling campaign slogan in the mid term 2002 elections, but it can be assumed that if there were one open to them they would have used it.
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In the USA the 1948 Democratic and Republican platforms were less than 3,000 words in length. By the 1980s, they had exceeded 20,000 words.The public have come to expect promises, but they have also come to disbelieve them.
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Party politics has led to the rise of the career politician, who depends for his position not just on the public’s votes but on his party, big business, special interest groups, the civil service and the media.
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The Democrats and New Labour tend to be browbeaten by unions (in particular public employees and teachers unions); women's, civil rights, and gay lobbies; senior citizens; welfare advocates; the entertainment industry; and trial lawyers.
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The Republicans and Conservatives are pushed about by corporations, especially in the energy and military contracting sectors, evangelical Christians, wealthy investors, gun owners, and the conservative media.
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the Bush regime has become the highest-spending US government of all time,
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The most powerful interest group of all though is big business, which bankrolls the mainstream parties by contributions to their funds.
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The result of these developments is that the political systems of the western democracies are no longer truly democratic. Voters feel marginalised and even disenfranchised by a corrupt political climate in which money, power and status count more than votes.
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Alternatives exist of course. Marxism/socialism is currently in political exile, as are fascistic/autocratic solutions offered in the past by the extreme political right.
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My starting point in searching for another solution was that it should provide competent, honest government free from abuses and corruption.
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The initial model I thought of in terms of public involvement was that of the court jury. The jury system is tried and tested over centuries of use, and its essential features are well known.
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That is not to say that party politics will not continue. We would still need the counsels for defence and prosecution, or rather the rival policy options
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The public would be represented much more truly by this system than by so-called ‘representative democracy’, which is dying a death because it simply does not represent the public at all.
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