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What are some advantages of having the same US constitution for over 200 years?

Question by Chris: What are some advantages of having the same US constitution for over 200 years?
Might sound a little silly, but what are some of the pros and cons to having the same United States constitution that we still have today?

And why do you think the constitution has been able to last thing long?

Best answer:

Answer by Jamei
doffy

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9/11 Anniversary: Ten Years of Lies

Ten years ago I was a freshman in college sitting in a physics classroom. I watched the 9/11 attacks on TV with my professors and classmates. When we first saw the towers go down, our initial conclusion was that they had been blown up. I left campus that day with a friend and drove out to the country expecting a scene like the movie “Red Dawn” to unfold. When nothing happened I went back to my normal way of student life and never thought about or questioned what I saw on TV that day until 4 years later when I watched a documentary about the attacks which piques my interest. I began my research as a skeptic with scientific training and background, but soon began to uncover overwhelming evidence of a larger conspiracy. I decided to devote all my time towards uncovering and exposing the truth in order to bring justice to the thousands who lost their lives that tragic day. This video is a compilation of all the best evidence I have found in the past 6 years of research I have done into 9/11. My aim is to encourage viewers to support the victim’s families plea for a new investigation of 9/11 and give them the specific areas and people who I feel should be investigated most. Thanks, please comment below if you would like additional sources and research material for topics covered in this video. John Oneil (Able Danger) flight training: 1. Four hijackers’ ID’d as al-Qaeda before 9/11, officer says www.usatoday.com 2. 9/11 Commission’s Staff Rejected Report on Early
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Vietnam activists ‘jailed up to 8 years’

Vietnam activists ‘jailed up to 8 years’
A Vietnam court has jailed seven activists agitating for land rights and religious freedom for up to eight years, a US-based group said, in the latest of a series of verdicts against dissidents.
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Jonathan signs FoI Bill into law
ABUJA – AS promised by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Ima Niboro that his principal would assent to the Freedom of Information Bill, FoI, as soon he receives the document from the National Assembly, President Goodluck Jonathan had since, Saturday, signed the bill into law.
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Can Strauss-Kahn buy his way to freedom?
He has bought himself freedom on bail and secured a luxury townhouse in Manhattan where he must drum his fingers until trial. But Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief accused of sexual assault, is busy investing in something more vital: the crack defence team he hopes will keep him out of prison for good.
Read more on Independent

Why has NASA still not handed over the Freedom of Information climate data requested years ago?

Question by Richie: Why has NASA still not handed over the Freedom of Information climate data requested years ago?
The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data.

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s.

“I assume that what is there is highly damaging,” Mr. Horner said. “These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this.”

The numbers matter. Under pressure in 2007, NASA recalculated its data and found that 1934, not 1998, was the hottest year in its records for the contiguous 48 states. NASA later changed that data again, and now 1998 and 2006 are tied for first, with 1934 slightly cooler.

The data has still not been handed over, what has NASA got to hide?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/03/researcher-says-nasa-hiding-climate-data/

Best answer:

Answer by mintie_boy
Having worked for a State Government in Western Australia I can tell you that FOI requests took about 6 months to even be looked at.

That is in a state with a little over 2 million people. NASA services a population of over 250 million people. How many FOI’s do you think they receive everyday? (My tiny state agency received in excess of 2 a day … now imagine servicing 125 times the population). So are they hiding or is it just due process, and this requester is not at the top of the list (sour grapes)?

Also data has to be recalculated because the standards applied in the past wouldn’t necessary meet standards now required. This is done for many “old” measurements, not just temperature. The Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) has had to do a similar process.

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