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Tina Turner becoming Swiss citizen; hometown mayor 'surprised'
What Gerard Depardieu is to France, Tina Turner may be to the United States.
The Nutbush, Tenn. native is giving up her US passport, in favor of a Swiss one.
"I'm
very happy in Switzerland and I feel at home here. ... I cannot imagine
a better place to live," Turner told the German newspaper Blick.
Turner
has lived in the Zurich suburb of Kuesnacht since the mid-1990s. The
local Zuerichsee-Zeitung newspaper said on its website the local council
announced its decision to grant the 73-year-old Turner citizenship in
an official notice published in Friday's edition.
The decision still requires formal approval from state and federal authorities.
Turner's rep told Zuerichsee-Zeitung the singer wanted to "clarify her situation."
"Tina Turner will therefore also give back her US citizenship," she said.
Depardieu
announced he was renouncing his French citizenship because of the
country's high taxes, and he was offered Russian citizenship by
President Vladimir Putin.
When
informed of Turner's decision, the mayor of Brownsville, Tenn., the
largest town in Haywood County, of which Nutbush is an unincorporated
area, said she was "surprised."
Matherne said she was unsure how residents would react to the news of Turner’s citizenship swap.
“I think anytime a person, whether they’re world-renowned or the most meek and mild, makes the decision to change their citizenship we need to step back and think what causes that decision," Matherne said.
Tokyo Almost As Irradiated As Fukushima
We’ve documented the spread of radiation from Fukushima to Tokyo for a year and a half. See this, this, this, this, this and this. Unfortunately, as the following recent headlines from Ene News show, things are only getting worse:- Tokyo Bay cesium even higher than levels reported off Fukushima — Nearly entire sea floor contaminated by 2014
- Tokyo getting 5 times more radioactive fallout than prefectures closer to Fukushima
- Japanese Legal Expert: “Even residents of Tokyo are evacuating” — More and more people fleeing Fukushima
- People from Tokyo area report thyroid cysts and nodules — Japanese doctors laughing at patients
- Japan Scientists: Radiation dose has been “significantly increased” around Tokyo metropolitan area after Fukushima
- “Absolutely Every One” – 15 Out of 15 – Bluefin Tuna Tested In California Waters Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation
- Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America
Read original here: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/tokyo-almost-as-irradiated-as-fukushima.html
http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/01/24/tokyo-almost-as-irradiated-as-fukushima/
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Court: Obama appointments to labor panel are unconstitutional
The suit had been brought by a local business in Washington state challenging the National Labor Relations Board. Supported by dozens of Senate Republicans, the case argued the president didn't have the power to make three appointments to the NLRB.
Attorneys for the Obama administration argued that he had the authority because the Senate was in recess.
But a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia said the appointments were not valid because the Senate was not officially in recess. If the decision stands, it could invalidate hundreds of board decisions.
"Either the Senate is in session, or it is in the recess. If it has broken for three days within an ongoing session, it is not in 'the Recess,'" the panel said.
The court said the president could only fill vacancies with the recess appointment procedure if the openings arise when the Senate is in an official recess, which it defined as the break between sessions of Congress.
"Considering the text, history and structure of the Constitution, these appointments were invalid from their inception," a panel said.
Republican lawmakers lauded the decision. "Today's ruling reaffirms that the Constitution is above political party or agenda, despite what the Obama Administration seems to think," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said. "With this ruling, the D.C. Circuit has soundly rejected the Obama Administration's flimsy interpretation of the law, and will go a long way toward restoring the constitutional separation of powers."
The case is a test of the White House's authority to bypass Congress' power to block nominations.
Recess appointments have a shelf-life of two years.
The ruling is an embarrassing blow to the Obama administration and could also call into question his recess appointment of Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
White House attorneys are expected to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, but if it stands, it means hundreds of decisions issued by the board over more than a year are invalid. It also would leave the five-member labor board with just one validly appointed member, effectively shutting it down. The board is allowed to issue decisions only when it has at least three sitting members.
On Jan. 4, 2012, Obama appointed Deputy Labor Secretary Sharon Block, union lawyer Richard Griffin and NLRB counsel Terence Flynn to fill vacancies on the NLRB, giving it a full contingent for the first time in more than a year. Block and Griffin are Democrats, while Flynn is a Republican. Flynn stepped down from the board last year.
Obama also appointed Cordray on the same day.
Obama claims he acted properly because the Senate was away for the holidays on a 20-day recess. The Constitution allows for such appointments without Senate approval when Congress is in recess.
But during that time, GOP lawmakers argued, the Senate technically had stayed in session because it was gaveled in and out every few days for so-called "pro forma" sessions.
GOP lawmakers used the tactic -- as Democrats had done in the past -- specifically to prevent the president from using his recess power to install members to the labor board. The White House argued that the pro forma sessions -- some lasting less than a minute -- were a sham.
The three-judge panel, all appointed by Republican presidents, ruled that during one of those pro forma sessions on Jan. 3, the Senate officially convened its second session of the 112th Congress, as required by the Constitution.
The court's decision is a victory for Republicans and business groups that have been attacking the labor board for issuing a series of decisions and rules that make it easier for the nation's labor unions to organize new members.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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CONTRIBUTOR: BARRACUDA.
WND byReza Kahlili An explosion deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear
facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240
personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer
of the Islamic regime. The previously secret nuclear site has become a
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CONTRIBUTOR: BARRACUDA.
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byJack Cashill A WND article I wrote recently comparing the Benghazi
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CURATOR: John Rolls.
Joseph Farah * WND Does anyone else see Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi
testimony before the Senate committee for what it is – contempt of
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CONTRIBUTOR: Mac.
As the U.S. government continues to expand surveillance and monitoring
systems to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars within the
borders of the United States, a recent announcement regarding the
country’s southern air defense systems is raising eyebrows. Our southern
border is, in part, protected by the Tethered...
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3D Gun Manufacturing, Tool Manufacturing, and House Manufacturing
CONTRIBUTOR: Isis .
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seats of authority ... and when the need to be the big “I” with a lot of
little “YOUs” to look down on are removed from power … technology can
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Evidence of Economic Collapse Martial Law Preparations - Video (video)
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Gun Confiscation: What Do I Do?
CONTRIBUTOR: The Great Northern Prepper.
// // This is a major discussion topic in the prepper, pro gun and
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You will here different sides saying. “If they come to take my guns they
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CONTRIBUTOR: Mac.
Had the following comments been made on a fringe corner of the internet
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about to read comes from one of the world’s foremost philanthropists,
Jim Garrow, who has spent tens of millions of dollars of his own money
to...
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Tiny Shark Attacks Great White And Rips Out A Chunk Of Flesh
CONTRIBUTOR: BARRACUDA.
A little shark the size of a cat called cookie cutter,it has to be
without a doubt one of the toughest little sharks in the Ocean.Look what
this thing is suspected of doing to this great white shark below.He
tore out a pretty good sized chunk of flesh with those...
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