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LISBON TREATY POSTERS


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The Treaty of Lisbon (also known as the Reform Treaty) is a treaty that would alter how the European Union (EU) works through a series of amendments to the Treaty on European Union (TEU, Maastricht) and the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC, Rome), the latter being renamed Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) in the process. The two consolidated treaties would form the legal basis of the Union, and combined constitute most of the content of the rejected European Constitution.

The most prominent innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon are arguably the scrapping of the pillar system, reduced chances of stalemate in the EU Council through more qualified majority voting, a more powerful European Parliament through extended codecision with the EU Council, as well as new tools for more coherent policies and continuity, such as a long-term President of the European Council and a High Representative for Foreign Affairs.

The Treaty was signed on 13 December 2007 in Lisbon (given Portugal held the EU Council’s Presidency at the time), and is scheduled to be ratified in all twenty-seven Member States by the end of 2008, in time for the 2009 European elections. As of May 23, 2008, fourteen countries have finished ratification.

Due to a provision in its constitution Ireland is the only Member State set to hold a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, in addition to a parliamentary vote. An opinion poll released 16 May showed 35% intending to vote ‘yes’, 18% to vote ‘no’, and 47% were undecided.

The government parties of Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrat are in favour of the treaty, but the other government party, the Green Party, is divided on the issue. The main opposition parties of Fine Gael[96] and the Labour Party are in favour. The Sinn Féin opposition party is the only party represented in the Oireachtas that will campaign against the Lisbon Treaty.

VOTE YES


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The Treaty of Lisbon (also known as the Reform Treaty) is a treaty that would alter how the European Union (EU) works through a series of amendments to the Treaty on European Union (TEU, Maastricht) and the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC, Rome), the latter being renamed Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) in the process. The two consolidated treaties would form the legal basis of the Union, and combined constitute most of the content of the rejected European Constitution.

The most prominent innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon are arguably the scrapping of the pillar system, reduced chances of stalemate in the EU Council through more qualified majority voting, a more powerful European Parliament through extended codecision with the EU Council, as well as new tools for more coherent policies and continuity, such as a long-term President of the European Council and a High Representative for Foreign Affairs.

The Treaty was signed on 13 December 2007 in Lisbon (given Portugal held the EU Council’s Presidency at the time), and is scheduled to be ratified in all twenty-seven Member States by the end of 2008, in time for the 2009 European elections. As of May 23, 2008, fourteen countries have finished ratification.

Due to a provision in its constitution Ireland is the only Member State set to hold a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, in addition to a parliamentary vote. An opinion poll released 16 May showed 35% intending to vote ‘yes’, 18% to vote ‘no’, and 47% were undecided.

The government parties of Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrat are in favour of the treaty, but the other government party, the Green Party, is divided on the issue. The main opposition parties of Fine Gael[96] and the Labour Party are in favour. The Sinn Féin opposition party is the only party represented in the Oireachtas that will campaign against the Lisbon Treaty.

VOTE YES OR VOTE NO


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The Treaty of Lisbon (also known as the Reform Treaty) is a treaty that would alter how the European Union (EU) works through a series of amendments to the Treaty on European Union (TEU, Maastricht) and the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC, Rome), the latter being renamed Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) in the process. The two consolidated treaties would form the legal basis of the Union, and combined constitute most of the content of the rejected European Constitution.

The most prominent innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon are arguably the scrapping of the pillar system, reduced chances of stalemate in the EU Council through more qualified majority voting, a more powerful European Parliament through extended codecision with the EU Council, as well as new tools for more coherent policies and continuity, such as a long-term President of the European Council and a High Representative for Foreign Affairs.

The Treaty was signed on 13 December 2007 in Lisbon (given Portugal held the EU Council’s Presidency at the time), and is scheduled to be ratified in all twenty-seven Member States by the end of 2008, in time for the 2009 European elections. As of May 23, 2008, fourteen countries have finished ratification.

Due to a provision in its constitution Ireland is the only Member State set to hold a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, in addition to a parliamentary vote. An opinion poll released 16 May showed 35% intending to vote ‘yes’, 18% to vote ‘no’, and 47% were undecided.

The government parties of Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrat are in favour of the treaty, but the other government party, the Green Party, is divided on the issue. The main opposition parties of Fine Gael[96] and the Labour Party are in favour. The Sinn Féin opposition party is the only party represented in the Oireachtas that will campaign against the Lisbon Treaty.

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masks of identity


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Monsieur, Madame,

Votre photo (publiée dans Le Figaro du 19 juin 2009) d’une femme habillée en burqa, à côté d’un couple dont les visages ont été « voilés » numériquement, symbolise parfaitement l’incompatibilité des arguments en faveur d’une interdiction du port de la burqa en lieu public avec une autre loi, celle du droit à l’image.

En effet, la notion que le citoyen aurait des droits concernant son apparence physique (au point qu’il est jugé raisonnable d’interdire, sauf autorisation, toute reproduction ou utilisation d’une photo) se heurte aux arguments en faveur de l’interdiction de la burqa, quant à eux fondés sur la notion que l’apparence d’une personne, c’est à dire ses traits et par implication son identité, est « dans le domaine publique » et ne peut donc être caché. Ceci est le fondement des arguments qui invoquent la sécurité, l’égalité entre hommes et femmes, l’oppression sur base de genre, etc.

D’où la situation absurde que la loi permettrait, sans autorisation des personnes concernées, la publication d’une photo d’une femme habillée en burqa, tandis que les deux piétons pris dans cette même photo sont protégés par (ou bien, dirait-on, soumis à) une « burqa juridique » en forme de masque numérique !

En fin de compte il faudra choisir entre ces deux interprétations opposées de la personne, son apparence et son image…

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Dear Sir (or Madame, as the case may be),

Your photograph of a woman dressed in a burqa (Le Figaro 19 Juin 2009) next to a couple whose faces have been digitally "veiled" encapsulates perfectly the incompatibility of the arguments put forward in favour of a ban on the wearing of the burqa in public places with another law, that of the "droit à l’image".

In fact, the idea that a citizen might have rights over his or her physical appearance (to the point that it is deemed reasonable to prohibit any unauthorised reproduction or use of a photograph) clashes with the arguments in favour of banning the burqa, which are in turn based on the idea that a person’s appearance, i.e., his or her features and by implication identity, is "in the public domain", and should not therefore be concealed. This is the basis of those arguments that invoke security, equality between men and women, gender-based oppression etc.

Hence the absurd situation that the law permits, without obtaining authorisation from the persons concerned, the publication of a photograph of a women dressed in a burqa, while the two passers-by appearing in the same photograph are protected (or should we say subjected to) a "legal burqa" in the form of a digitally applied mask!

At the end of the day a choice will have to be made between these two conflicting interpretations of the person, his rights and his image…

Yours etc.

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Notes: This dark uniform maybe belongs to the Philadelphia Quakers.

Source: The A.G. Spalding Baseball Collection (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

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Suspected Terrorist


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Guilty until proven innocent, without access to legal counsel or other forms of due process commonly associated with Habeus Corpus.

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Ame-yoko: Pachinko


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A pachinko parlor near the Ueno Ame-yoko shopping area in Tokyo, Japan. Pachinko is everywhere. For those who don’t know what pachinko is, it is basically a legal form of gambling. Instead of earning money, which would be illegal, you can gamble these little metal ball bearings in order to win more ball bearings. Those can then be exchanged for goods, or coupons… Which can be exchanged for cash. Complicated? Not really once you get the hang of it.

Mitch Gold


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Social Media


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Social media is a legal form of wiretapping.

Żoliborz: Felińskiego


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PARKING WITH REAR TO WINDOWS PROHIBITED

Many of Warsaw’s residential buildings display this warning, presumably because residents of street-side low-level apartments don’t want the exhaust going in through their windows. A justified request, though what baffles me is why it has to take the grammatical and legal form of a prohibition. Personally, I tend to believe in the effectiveness of carrots over sticks and it seems that a sign that said THANK YOU FOR PARKING WITH FRONT TOWARD WINDOWS ONLY would have more built-in kindness and possibly also more potential for eliciting cooperative behavior. Better to thank people in advance than to issue directives. Soft, pro-change manipulation always goes down smoother than being told what one isn’t allowed to do.

I’m reminded of another residential oddity that always gets my attention when I visit my sister in her Nowe Miasto apartment. A second buzzer has been installed outside a new gate in front of a courtyard that spans four different four-story buildings. Magda’s apartment number now has to be preceded by a 2 when dialing from this exterior intercom panel. But the instructions don’t say to press a two first. Rather, one is to "add 200" to the apartment number itself. Arithmetic takes precedence over direct and simple communication, and a re-emigré’s heart utters extra beats for a forlorn American logic.

I’ve been keeping these two observations to myself for several years now. It is wonderful to have found a forum for this sort of drivel.

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Legal research


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I used to practice law, but hated it, so I abandoned the profession after several miserable and frustrating years. However, I did enjoy the intellectual side of the law, and found my most satisfying moments during the hours I would spend in the law library doing research, wading through piles of books as I looked up statutes and case law in order to resolve some thorny legal issue. But that was one of the very few things I enjoyed about practicing law, and I am grateful beyond measure that that part of my life is now over.

During my lunch hour today, I went to the Superior Court Law Library with camera in hand, and decided to take some pictures under available light — in this case, sunlight streaming through a window — using a legal text, my glasses, and my fountain pen as props. I wanted to have some fun with it, too, so I pulled this particular volume off the shelf and opened it to one of the more amusing case-law decisions in recent memory: United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and his Staff, 54 FRD 282 (E. D. Pa. 1971). In this case, a judge in a United States District Court denied leave to the plaintiff to proceed "in forma pauperis" — that is, without paying the filing fees — in a lawsuit the plaintiff had filed against Satan. That’s right — the devil, Beelzebub, that fellow. In a tongue-in-cheek memorandum that the judge or his clerk must have had oodles of fun writing, the court noted that Satan was a "foreign prince," as such without standing to be sued in an American court, and that the plaintiff, in the paperwork he had submitted when he filed the case, had failed to include the required form of instructions to enable the United States Marshal to serve process on the defendant.

For a time, I had fantasies about someday serving on the U. S. Supreme Court, and finding a way to cite this case as precedent for one of my own decisions.

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