A look at global currency unions

Here is a nice concise look at the various monetary unions already in place as well as those currently slated for implementation with timelines. Check it out...

NORTHCOM joins CANADACOM

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Nice trick.

A provision mysteriously tucked into the Military Commission Act (MCA) just before it passed through Congress and was signed by President Bush on October 17, 2006 , redefines torture, removing the harshest, most controversial techniques from the definition of war crimes, and exempts the perpetrators—both interrogators and their bosses—from prosecution for such offences dating back to November 1997.

Joanne Mariner of Human Rights Watch adds..... read more

NORTHCOM

“Federal Plans for Implementing Expanded Martial Law Authority” are to be executed via the recently created domestic military command, the Northern Command or NORTHCOM. “One key USNORTHCOM planning assumption,” says Lowenberg, “is that the President will invoke the new Martial Law powers if he concludes state and/or local authorities no longer possess either the capability or the will to maintain order.” In fact, this “highly subjective assumption,” as Lowenberg puts it, has been in the works for some time now. According to the General, the “US Northern Command has been engaged for some time in deliberative planning for implementation of Section 1076 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization. The formal NORTHCOM CONPLAN 2502-05 was approved by Secretary of Defense Gates on March 15, 2007,”...................


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The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, which was quietly signed by Bush on October 17, 2006

“Military Commissions Act of 2006” Public Law 109-366, 109th Congress. See

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