90 Miles From Tyranny

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Math Puzzle: Tried And True

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Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents will gather at Victoria Park on Wednesday, as they do every June 4, for a candlelight vigil to honor those killed in 1989 at Tiananmen Square. It’s an annual ritual of defiance against Beijing, and this year the crowds will be larger and more militant than ever. It’s not just that this year marks the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. It’s the future that has Hong Kong on edge.

Human Carbon Dioxide Emissions - Should You Be Worried?

Fossil fuels are responsible for less than one half of one percent and possibly as low as one tenth of one percent of all carbon emissions. The ocean is the number one carbon emitter, and natural land emission is number two. Was this information easy to find? No. The dishonesty of the radical leftist websites that attempt to create climate hysteria will not put it as plainly as this. Obfuscation is their goal. They will publish the numbers in oddly disparate places as to create barricades to the truth.

Carbon is not a pollutant, carbon is the elixir of life. In the 20th century, Star Trek's Enterprise went off in search for carbon based life forms; In the 21st century, anti-enterprise low life carbon based life forms boldly go where no deadly socialist has gone before.

California Naval Base, Becomes Refuge for Hundreds Of Illegal Alien Children As Deluge Of Children Continues

These "Dreamers" are our economic nightmare.
(note: this article calls these children "migrants", these are not migrants, they are illegal aliens)

PORT HUENEME, CALIF. — Hundreds of migrant children will be sheltered at a naval facility in California amid a spike in the number of minors caught crossing the border alone, authorities said Tuesday.

A 42,000-square-foot building in Port Hueneme previously used to house naval reservists before they deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan will be used as a temporary shelter, said Vance Vasquez, a spokesman for Naval Base Ventura County.

The facility, which has bed space for 570 people, was remodeled in 2007 and is equipped with showers, bathrooms and recreation spaces for TV watching and games. It has been closed for more than a year, Vasquez said.

Federal officials say children could start arriving as soon as this week at the facility 60 miles west of Los Angeles.

The government is also housing migrant children at a military base in Texas. Officials estimate as many as 60,000 children, mostly from Central America, could be caught at the border this year, which would be a nearly 10-fold increase since 2011.

Rampant crime and poverty across Central America and a desire to reunite with parents or other relatives are thought to be driving many of the young migrants. While the children face deportation proceedings if they are caught in the U.S., many have been able to win permission from an immigration judge to stay.

Children will be flown to the Port Hueneme site from other shelters while being cleared for transfer to sponsors, said Laura Goulding, a spokeswoman for the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Health and Human Services Department. They will receive English language instruction, arts and crafts activities, and recreation at the shelter, she said.

Goulding said most children are expected to remain at the base less than the average stay of 35 days.

It was not immediately clear what would happen to the children’s deportation cases once they are transferred to Port Hueneme. A message was left for the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

MIAMI — The U.S. military is preparing for another war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay.

Pentagon officials say charges have been approved against an alleged senior member of al-Qaida for offenses that include planning roadside bombing attacks against U.S. and allied troops and civilians in Afghanistan.

Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi has been held at the U.S. base in Cuba since April 2007 and has been classified by the Defense Department as a “high-value” detainee.

A Pentagon statement Tuesday lists war crimes charges that include terrorism, murder of protected persons and attacking civilians. He faces up to life in prison on all but one of the charges.

A military lawyer appointed to represent him did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Two other war crimes cases are in pretrial stage.

(Flashback)
(NEWSER) – U.S. officials revealed yesterday they have Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, widely considered the architect of the 7/7 London transit attacks, in custody at Guantanamo Bay. The CIA nabbed al-Hadi as he tried to enter Iraq last year, and the announcement suggests—the Times reports—that he's been in a "ghost prison" since.

Intelligence analysts say Abd al-Hadi has captained al-Qaeda's operations in the U.K., including the 2005 attacks that killed 52 passengers on London's bus and tube. The Brits would like to talk to him, but may be stymied by American officials, who consider the former bin Laden confidant and Saddam general a "high-value detainee."