That was fascinating...
That was fascinating...
“El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"
oops, I dood it again. Sorry Gio!Originally posted by Gio
Watch out Chuckie ...
And Old Monk !
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Aianawa (4th November 2024), Emil El Zapato (2nd November 2024), modwiz (3rd November 2024)
A reemergence ...
Today, Voodoo remains in practice to serve others and influence life events in connection with ancestors and spirits. Rituals are usually held privately, but there are various places that will give you a reading or assist in a ritual. The Voodoo Spiritual Temple is New Orleans' only formally established voodoo temple, located across the street from Congo Square.
neworleans.com
The 'Voodoo renaissance' of New Orleans
| BBC Global
6:15 min.
Oct 30, 2024
Voodoo is experiencing something of a renaissance in New Orleans, US.
We meet voodoo priestess Manbo Jessyka and high priestess Eshé who introduce us to the practice as a way of life, and as a means of connecting to ancestors through everyday rituals and spiritual reflection.
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Aianawa (4th November 2024), Emil El Zapato (3rd November 2024), modwiz (3rd November 2024)
#Iowa 80
Truck drivers and a US election at the World’s Largest Truck Stop
Channel 4 UK
Nov 1, 2024
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have spent months zig-zagging the United States this Presidential election campaign, hoping to convince voters to back their bid for the White House.
Meanwhile America's truckers have been making crucial journeys of their own, transporting the goods, machinery and supplies that keep the US economy functioning.
As Harris and Trump went head-to-head in their one and only debate match-up we made a stop on one America’s busiest highways and visited a truck stop claiming to be the largest in the world - Iowa 80 in Walcott.
Thousands of the nearly three and a half million US truck drivers stop in Iowa every day. Men and women who work long hours and spend months on the road at a time. They stress relationships with friends and families and strain their bodies and health to keep America moving.
We hear from some of the community as they pass through Iowa 80 - where talk of the economy, immigration, trouble at the border and fears for the future of the United States dominate, ahead of the crucial presidential vote.
16:33 min.
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Aianawa (4th November 2024), Emil El Zapato (3rd November 2024), WantDisclosure (3rd November 2024)
I'm convinced no polls can be trusted. Pro Agent Orange bend them to the darkness, Pro Harris bend them in the other direction. I just saw a indicator that Iowa is trending to the light... Hallelujah, baby... yeah, right, no, yeah sure...right is wrong, left is right (correct)... woo hoo.
#Coming around again ...
What Colonial Williamsburg may teach us about politics today
CBS Sunday Morning
9:25 min.Nov 3, 2024
The living history museum of Colonial Williamsburg, in Williamsburg, Virginia, offers an enlightening portrait of life in Revolutionary-era America, while providing a vivid contrast to today's political and social conflicts. "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel goes in search of lessons from Thomas Jefferson, George and Martha Washington, and James Lafayette (an enslaved man who spied on the British for the Continental Army), to discover what the future may learn from the past.
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Aianawa (4th November 2024), Emil El Zapato (3rd November 2024)
I do believe ...
Carly Simon - Coming Around Again
Live At Grand Central
LOVE
4:55 min.
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Emil El Zapato (3rd November 2024), Wind (3rd November 2024)
hmm ...
Reference: Currently in 2024A tie in the Electoral College could have this unprecedented outcome
by Michael Bartiromo - 11/03/24
(NEXSTAR) – A tie in the Electoral College, while very unlikely, is still very much possible thanks to the even number of electoral votes (538) up for grabs in the upcoming presidential election.
If neither candidate obtains the 270 votes needed to win — i.e., each candidate gets 269 votes apiece — then the elected members of Congress would decide the winner of the presidency and vice presidency in what’s called a contingent election.
That process, in and of itself, would be “disruptive” and “problematic,” Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, previously told The Hill. But it could also result in a scenario that the American public hasn’t seen in over 200 years.
In a contingent election, the House of Representatives would meet to determine the president, with each state’s delegation allowed to cast one vote for the candidate of their choice. (Washington, D.C. would not participate.) The first candidate to receive 26 votes would then become president.
But the Senate would be tasked with electing the vice president, with each Senator allowed to cast a single vote. (Again, D.C. would not participate in contingent elections.) The first candidate with 51 votes is then declared the winner.
In a contingent election, therefore, it’s possible that the House selects a president from the majority’s preferred party, while the Senate chooses a vice president from the other. Such a scenario would be more likely if the House and Senate are controlled by different parties after the election.
For example, a tie in the electoral college after the 2024 election could theoretically result in a Trump-Walz administration, if the Republicans and Democrats manage to retain their current majorities in the House and the Senate, respectively.
Corey Brettschneider, a professor of political science at Brown University and the author of “The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It,” believes the chance of this happening in 2024 is “low.” But that’s largely because he believes there are “vulnerabilities” in the Electoral College system that could allow one candidate — Trump, he named specifically — to unethically manipulate the electoral votes before a contingent election would ever need to take place.
“The system as a whole is very precarious,” Brettschneider said. “It’s not as stable as it should be.”
If indeed a contingent election were held, and a president and vice president from different parties were chosen to serve in the same administration, there would be constant “undermining” of the other’s objectives, Brettschneider believes.
The last time that two politicians from different political parties somewhat reluctantly served in the same administration was between 1797-1801, when President John Adams (a Federalist) and Vice President Thomas Jefferson (a Democratic-Republican) held the offices.
“[With] the Adams Administration, you had a president who was intent in shutting down the opposition, and a vice president who was the leader of that opposition,” said Brettschneider, adding that the administration was “a microcosm of the instability of the country as a whole.”
But Adams and Jefferson didn’t end up together because of a contingent election: At the time, the candidate with the most electoral votes became president, and the runner-up became vice president. The 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804, aimed to prevent this by overhauling the process to create a distinction between votes for the offices of president and vice president.
There’s still nothing in the Constitution that would forbid a two-party presidential ticket. Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson had belonged to different parties (Republican and Democratic) before they successfully ran for the nation’s highest offices in 1864 — though, technically, they had both aligned prior to the election under the newly created National Union party.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had also revealed in his 2018 memoir that he nearly selected Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) as his running mate in the 2008 election, and even expressed regret that he hadn’t. McCain’s advisers, he said, steered him toward Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, fearing that Lieberman’s pro-choice stance on abortion would hurt his chances.
“It was sound advice that I could reason for myself,” McCain wrote. “But my gut told me to ignore it and I wish I had.”
But even a potential McCain-Lieberman ticket would have been spearheaded by politicians who willingly chose to be running mates. A Trump-Walz administration, on the other hand, would not be built on as stable a foundation — and could result in both men trying to undermine each other, or oust the other from power.
“I don’t see it as a good thing,” said Brettschneider. “I don’t see a world where this is a good thing for American democracy.”
thehill.com
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WantDisclosure (4th November 2024)
I've always thought our system of government having the Federal, U.S. Constitution vs. the States, each having their own Constitution, plus the County level in each State is rather confusing.
And that mainstream national television news focuses us at the national level at the expense of our local level where we live.
And that the way we finance elections puts private money into politics, which brings the love of money into the picture. Not good.
Gio (4th November 2024)
No doubt it can be (especially) for those (us) who are not (usually) up on their understanding of the U.S. Constitution (s) - often confusing nuances. I remember when i finally finish university studies, I had to take a separate exam (given by the State of Illinois (dept of education) on U.S. government (and pass it) before I could graduate. Note, some states have these exams (back ended) as a requirement for receiving a (local county/state education dept) high school diploma.
State Constitutions vs. The United States Constitution
The United States Constitution defines the structure of the national government and dictates the scope and limitation of its powers. The Constitution is known as “the supreme Law of the Land” and all other laws are measured against it. The application of the articles and amendments of the Constitution comprise constitutional law.
In addition to the United States Constitution, each state has its own constitution and therefore, its own body of constitutional law as well. State constitutions resemble the federal Constitution in that they outline the state government’s structure of legislative, executive and judicial branches as well as contain a bill of rights.
But there are various ways state constitutions differ from the federal Constitution. Often, state constitutions are much longer and more detailed than the federal Constitution. State constitutions focus more on limiting rather than granting power since its general authority has already been established. As a result, the constitution of Alabama is six hundred pages long whereas the federal Constitution can be easily read in one sitting front to back.
The details in state constitutions are not particularly “constitutional” in nature. They often address topics unique to the state. The federal Constitution can only be amended through a lengthy process designed to limit changes to this fundamental document. As a result, it has only been amended seventeen times since the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791.
State constitutions are more open to amendments. Amendments can be proposed by legislature, a constitutional commission or citizens’ petition and can be accepted by referendum. For example. the constitution of Massachusetts has been amended one hundred and twenty times. The constitution of Georgia has even been replaced altogether as many as ten times.
Yes it often does, especially during national presidential running years. One has to stay focused on what is closer to home (local political issues) first - in order to have a saying (vote) on what matters most to you ... And that is what's occurring in your own backyard (local and state) elections to hopefully benefit or balance from.
Yes indeed ...
Two decades of unlimited money in politics has transformed US democracy
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Emil El Zapato (4th November 2024), WantDisclosure (4th November 2024)
A notice of noise in the data ...
Climate change will be different
PeterZeihan Short
Nov 3, 2024
9:07 min.
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And speaking of ...
More flooding hits Spain as at least 217 people confirmed dead
| BBC News
2:50 min.Nov 4, 2024
The Spanish city of Barcelona has been hit by flooding, as search and rescue efforts continue following devastating flooding around Valencia.
Spain's state meteorological agency placed parts of the Catalonia region on red alert, with cars submerged on highways and flooding at Barcelona’s El Prat airport, where many flights were cancelled.
Search teams confirmed that at least 217 people are now known to have died in the flooding which struck the Valencia region. The storm trapped many victims in vehicles on roads and in underground spaces, such as car parks, tunnels and garages.
Fiona Bruce presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Nick Beake.
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modwiz (5th November 2024)
I've just heard a statement that made me think of your thread: "The court follows Admiralty Law, which is an Illuminati construct."
Gio (5th November 2024)
Mary (if i remember your name correctly),admiralty law
noun
: The area of law that deals with ships at sea and the rights of sailors, passengers, and owners of cargo.
The branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc.
yes i do post items on international merchant shipping here, as well as many other items that catch my daily attention ... But I'll refer and leave that "Illuminati construct" stuff for you to post on one of your numerous daily threads ... Which you most probable will (at some point) here on the forum.
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Emil El Zapato (8th November 2024), modwiz (5th November 2024)
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