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In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
 Artist Shop News
James will join us to discuss his latest project, Mullmuzzler, slated to be released on Magna Carta http://www.artist-shop.com/magna in late August.
James La Brie, vocalist for Dream Theater and his recent solo project, Mullmuzzler, will be joining The Artist Shop and Talk City on Wednesday, September 8 at 9pm eastern/6pm pacific.
James LaBrie has seen stunning commercial and critical success throughout the '90's with his band, Dream Theater, that pantheon of progressive rock, this past decade.
www.infoclub.com.np /entertain/music/gallery/reviews/news.htm

  
 Tuma's Toons at Liberty For All - Online Magazine
One gets the queasy feeling that once official Washington has finished off what is left of the Constitution, they will revive the Inquisition and go after the Magna Carta next.
This abrogation of human liberty probably never would have happened under Gore, had there been a President Gore, because talk radio and the FOX News Channel would have provided large-scale political dissent that we do not have today.
The mavens of talk radio are now silent about civil liberties, and seem only interested in discussing the joyful topic of going to war in the Mideast again, and killing more fleeing Iraqi soldiers.
www.libertyforall.net /2002/archive/sept29/ugly-truth.html   (2183 words)

  
 chronicle12
Viscount Carlisle is correct about Magna Carta and the 40-day grace period.
After much talk, they ruled that the earls of Shrewsbury and Wiltshire and Viscount Beaumont should face charges in full trial before a jury of their peers.
Viscount Grey and Lord Cromwell should be confirmed in their titles.
freespace.virgin.net /sheldon.stevens/chronicle12.html   (2183 words)

  
 Let's Talk 2000: February 15, 1997
Magna Carta dates from the thirteenth century, not the eighteenth." He adds that "the rule of Islamic law -- the Shari'a -- operates, wherever and however it is enforced, to the exclusion of practices based on Enlightenment values," and, he also adds, "Islamic fundamentalists...are also addicted to what the decadent West describes as terrorism."
An early and influential indication of this approach to the millennium is a small book entitled On the Eve of the Millennium, published recently by the distinguished Irish statesman and writer Conor Cruise O'Brien, in which he offers an intriguing mix of sparkling wisdom and frightening ignorance.
They reflect the belief that the Enlightenment in Europe was the defining moment of modern history, and the intellectual and ideological pivot around which we should assess the past, celebrate the present, and chart our passage into the future.
www.jaygary.com /talk2000/lt970215.htm   (3099 words)

  
 Right call, wrong time Samizdata.net
Yet perhaps what is needed is not a codified Constitution, but another Magna Carta: an articulation of the traditional rights of citizens that must be observed by the Crown and its government.
So many ill-informed Brits seem to think that a constitution is something only the Americans have; an impression which is probably driven home by the fact that they so often hear Americans citing and arguing about their constitution while, here in the UK, such talk dropped off the radar of debate years ago.
Any constitution that is carved out under the current hegemonic ideology is highly likely to greatly resemble the kind of monstrosity that the European Union is currently trying to foist on Europe.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/005166.html   (3099 words)

  
 chronicle12
Viscount Carlisle is correct about Magna Carta and the 40-day grace period.
After much talk, they ruled that the earls of Shrewsbury and Wiltshire and Viscount Beaumont should face charges in full trial before a jury of their peers.
Viscount Grey and Lord Cromwell should be confirmed in their titles.
freespace.virgin.net /sheldon.stevens/chronicle12.html   (3099 words)

  
 The Joe Hill LTD Project
Joe was there in 1215 AD, 600 years before his execution in the valley of salt, when on the plains of north Umbria, England, King John agreed to bind himself and his heirs to the rule of law with the document we call the Magna Carta.
I am sure that they did not talk about blowing more than 2 million on bad management decisions.
Joe Hill was there when the Great Society was born and and weeps as he witnesses its destruction again because of greed and bad decisions that ignore the social contract.
joehill_1915.blogspot.com   (12958 words)

  
 Yew
Alan Meredith has shown, to the satisfaction of many historians, that this was the place were the historical Magna Carta was signed after 9 days of talk between King John and the Barons of England, who had many complaints about the way the country was run.
The Totteridge Yew in Herefordshire was measured in 1677 by Sir John Cullum as having a girth of 26 ft at 3 ft from the ground.
The fact that these practices had to take place in deep secrecy must have contributed to many fatalities, because it was difficult to spread knowledge and experience in a climate, where ending an unwanted pregnancy was still a mortal sin.
www.the-tree.org.uk /BritishTrees/yew.htm   (12958 words)

  
 Yew
Alan Meredith has shown, to the satisfaction of many historians, that this was the place were the historical Magna Carta was signed after 9 days of talk between King John and the Barons of England, who had many complaints about the way the country was run.
A few have fallen in the great storms we have experienced, but the majority were victims of 'progress' and had to make way for new developments or 'tidy-ness'.
It is native from Scandinavia all the way down to North Africa and from Britain eastwards to Asia minor, Syria, Iran, the Caucasus and the Himalayas.
www.the-tree.org.uk /BritishTrees/yew.htm   (12958 words)

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