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A Senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature or parliament. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: Senatus), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: senex meaning "the elder" or "the old one") and therefore allegedly wiser and more experienced members of the society or ruling class.
Thus, the literal meaning of the word "senate" is: Assembly of Elders.
Many countries have an assembly named a senate, composed of senators who may be elected, appointed, have inherited the title, or gained membership by other methods, depending on the country. Modern senates typically serve to provide a chamber of "sober second thought" to consider legislation passed by a lower house, whose members are usually elected.
The modern word senate is derived from the [Latin] word senātus (senate), which comes from senex, “old man”. The members or legislators of a senate are called senators. The Latin word senator was adopted into English with no change in spelling. Its meaning is derived from a very ancient form of social organization, in which advisory or decision-making powers are reserved for the eldest men. For the same reason, the word senate is correctly used when referring to any powerful authority characteristically composed by the eldest members of a community, as a deliberative body of a faculty in an institution of higher learning is often called a senate. This form adaptation was used to show the power of those in body and for the decision-making process to be thorough, which could take a long period of time. The original senate was the Roman Senate, which lasted until 580 (various efforts to revive it were made in Medieval Rome). In the Eastern Roman Empire, the Byzantine Senate continued until the Fourth Crusade, circa 1202–1204.
James Brien Comey, Jr. (born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer. He is the seventh and current Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He was the United States Deputy Attorney General, serving in President George W. Bush's administration. As Deputy Attorney General, Comey was the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and ran the day-to-day operations of the Department, serving in that office from December 2003 through August 2005. He was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York prior to becoming Deputy Attorney General.
In December 2003, as Deputy Attorney General, Comey appointed the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, close friend and former colleague Patrick Fitzgerald, as Special Counsel to head the CIA leak grand jury investigation after Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself. In August 2005, Comey left the DOJ and he became General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin. In 2010, he became General Counsel at Bridgewater Associates. In early 2013, he left Bridgewater to become Senior Research Scholar and Hertog Fellow on National Security Law at Columbia Law School. He also joined the London-based board of directors of HSBC Holdings.
Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was an American politician and a leader in the conservative movement. He was elected five times as a Republican to the United States Senate from North Carolina. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001 he had a major voice in foreign policy. Helms helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, focusing on Ronald Reagan's quest for the White House as well as helping many local and regional candidates.
Helms was the longest-serving popularly elected Senator in North Carolina's history. He was widely credited with shifting the one-party state into a competitive two-party state. He successfully advocated that conservatives move to the Republican Party because the national Democratic Party was too liberal for them. The Helms-controlled National Congressional Club's state-of-the-art direct mail operation raised millions of dollars for Helms and other conservative candidates, allowing Helms to outspend his opponents in most of his campaigns. Helms was the most stridently conservative politician of the post-1960s era, especially in opposition to federal intervention into what he considered state affairs (including legislating integration via the Civil Rights Act and enforcing suffrage through the Voting Rights Act).
Anahit Misak Kasparian (Armenian: Անահիտ Միսաք Գասպարեան, pronounced [ɑnɑˈhid miˈsɑkʰ kʰɑsbɑˈɾjɑn]; born July 7 1986) is an American political pundit and the co-host and producer for the online news show The Young Turks. Kasparian began working as a fill-in producer for The Young Turks in 2007, and is now co-host of the main show and host of The Point on the TYT Network. She also appeared on the TV version of the show that aired on Current TV.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Kasparian is the daughter of Armenian immigrant parents and was raised in the Reseda community of the San Fernando Valley. Kasparian graduated from Valley Alternative Magnet High School of Van Nuys in 2004 and California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts, Journalism (BAJ).
Kasparian was an assistant producer with CBS Radio news stations in Los Angeles, first with KFWB and then KNX. She has also worked with AOL News, YouTube, TidalTv and On Point. After becoming a fill-in host in April 2007, Kasparian became the producer and co-host with Cenk Uygur of the progressive talk radio on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and internet show/TV show The Young Turks. Kasparian says that young people are interested in news, but "they see network anchors as simply folks who read tele-prompters." She co-hosted TYT University, a show focused on issues faced by university students for some years, and now hosts another TYT Network show, The Point. Kasparian is an agnostic atheist.
The Young Turks (TYT) is an online American liberal/progressive political and social commentary program hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian; the show has an associated network of online shows and is owned by a company of the same name (The Young Turks LLC). TYT was founded in 2002 by Uygur as a talkshow on Sirius Satellite Radio.
The Young Turks claims to be "the world's largest online news show"; YouTube video views for the TYT Network stood at a total of 2 billion as of July 2014. The show offers internet-only video content via their YouTube channel, which in April 2012 averaged 750,000 views a day, and by November 2014 over 1,400,000 views a day. The Young Turks also have a network of other affiliated shows on separate YouTube channels, known collectively as the TYT Network.
From 2011 to 2013 a second show, called The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur aired on Current TV. After Current TV was acquired by Al Jazeera America, the TV show was discontinued.
The Young Turks as a show began when Cenk Uygur started a talk show similar to a public-access television cable-TV show he had done previously called The Young Turk. With the help of friend Ben Mankiewicz (with whom he had previously worked), his childhood friend Dave Koller, and Jill Pike, he began The Young Turks as a radio show in 2002 on Sirius Satellite Radio. The show's name derives from the English-language phrase "Young Turk", meaning a reformist or rebellious member of an institution, movement, or political party.
Actors: Mark Strano (actor), Charles B. Unger (editor), Travis Dixon (actor), Charles B. Unger (director), Charles B. Unger (writer), Vanessa Gomez (actress), Paula R. Unger (writer), Paula R. Unger (producer), Marisa Sullivan (actress), Will Ahrens (actor), Dominique Vance (actor), Allison Mosier (actress), Alexis Berger (actor), Leia McVicker (actress), Joe Hutchinson (composer),
Plot: The Punky Pets begin their first six, city, rock and roll tour across the United States. The story starts as these eight musicians, all crammed together in a small van, haphazardly drive through Washington D.C. They call each other horrible names, criticize their past criminal records and make overt sexist remarks. Because they're distracted, they get lost and drive right into the Republican National Convention. They are out of gas and money! Turf tries to siphon gas out of a car but it gives him bad stomach problems. Things get worse when the other four Pets are hauled away by the police. The surviving Pets bump into a very important person, who is misbehaving. Hope comes in the form of an incriminating photo.
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Music, Short,Actors: John Rothman (actor), Chaz Smith (actor), John McConnell (actor), Johnny Otto (actor), Elton LeBlanc (actor), Rufus Sewell (actor), Anthony Mackie (actor), Rex Harsin (actor), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), Jay Oliver (actor), Edrick Browne (actor), Dominic Cooper (actor), Elton LeBlanc (actor), Alan Tudyk (actor), Logan Douglas Smith (actor),
Plot: At the age of 9, Abraham Lincoln witnesses his mother being killed by a vampire, Jack Barts. Some 10 years later, he unsuccessfully tries to eliminate Barts but in the process makes the acquaintance of Henry Sturgess who teaches him how to fight and what is required to kill a vampire. The quid pro quo is that Abe will kill only those vampires that Henry directs him to. Abe relocates to Springfield where he gets a job as a store clerk while he studies the law and kills vampires by night. He also meets and eventually marries the pretty Mary Todd. Many years later as President of the United States, he comes to realize that vampires are fighting with the Confederate forces. As a result he mounts his own campaign to defeat them.
Keywords: 3-dimensional, 35-star-american-flag, action-hero, actress-shares-first-name-with-character, african-american, ambush, anti-hero, assistant, axe, axe-fightActors: Lindsay MacAdam (producer), Kirk Shaw (producer), Daamen J. Krall (actor), Kevin Pollak (actor), Robert LaSardo (actor), Emmanuelle Chriqui (actress), Alan C. Peterson (actor), Alistair Abell (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Jon Cryer (actor), James Denton (actor), Laurence Fishburne (actor), Zak Santiago (actor), Doran Chandler (miscellaneous crew), Robert K. Lambert (editor),
Plot: Jimmy, a business-like young man, enters a room where a man, the accountant for a shadowy drug lord, is shackled. Over the next week, Jimmy systematically tortures the accountant, demanding information about missing funds. The accountant denies any knowledge. In flashbacks to six months before, we see Jimmy's joining a group of the drug lord's enforcers, surviving brutal hazing, getting his first assignment, and keeping his cool. We also learn that Jimmy has another identity, friends in high places, and a girlfriend unhappy about both his work and his changing personality. Can Jimmy hold on to his humanity as he carries out increasingly nightmarish orders?
Keywords: bed, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, break-up, candy-bar, cell-phone, chinese-food, coffee, coffin, corpse, crowbarActors: Harvey Keitel (actor), Trevor Rabin (actor), Bruce Greenwood (actor), Forbes KB (actor), Michael McCafferty (actor), Gino Picciano (actor), Guillaume Gallienne (actor), Brent Briscoe (actor), Larry Cedar (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Ed Harris (actor), Nicolas Cage (actor), Scali Delpeyrat (actor), Gary Sievers (actor), Nicholas Rich (actor),
Plot: During a lecture about John Wilkes Booth and Thomas Gates, Ben Gates and his father Patrick are surprised by Mitch Wilkinson. He claims that their ancestor was a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln based on the missing page of Booth's diary that he possesses. The outraged Ben decides to prove the honor of his ancestor. Together with his wife, Abigail, and his best friend, the writer Riley Poole, they head to France, England and Washington to collect clues. But Mitch Wilkinson is secretly following their every move.
Keywords: 1860s, 19th-century, 2000s, 21st-century, abduction, abyss, american-flag, amputee, assassination, backpackActors: Jon Polito (actor), David Rasche (actor), Ryan Phillippe (actor), Gordon Clapp (actor), Robert Patrick (actor), Neal McDonough (actor), Barry Pepper (actor), David Clennon (actor), Adam Beach (actor), Len Cariou (actor), Silas Weir Mitchell (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Jean-Paul Chreky (actor), Mark Thomason (actor), John Slattery (actor),
Plot: In 1945, the Marines attack twelve thousand Japaneses protecting the twenty square kilometers of the sacred Iwo Jima island in a very violent battle. When they reach the Mount Suribachi and six soldiers raise their flag on the top, the picture becomes a symbol in a post Great Depression America. The government brings the three survivors to America to raise funds for war, bringing hope to desolate people, and making the three men heroes of the war. However, the traumatized trio has difficulty dealing with the image built by their superiors, sharing the heroism with their mates.
Keywords: 1940s, airplane, alcoholism, ambush, american-flag, american-indian, american-indian-reservation, arizona, arlington-virginia, armadaActors: Martin Roach (actor), Joe Pingue (actor), Arnold Pinnock (actor), David Paymer (actor), Jamie Foxx (actor), Neil Crone (actor), Jason Jones (actor), Shawn Lawrence (actor), Paul Calderon (actor), David Morse (actor), John 'Frenchie' Berger (actor), Mike Epps (actor), Jamie Kennedy (actor), John 'Frenchie' Berger (miscellaneous crew), Mark Mancina (composer),
Plot: In New York, Alvin Sanders is a small-time thief who's just been hauled in for stealing a bunch of prawns (shrimp) from a local restaurant. He ends up in a cell with John Jaster, one half of a high-tech criminal team that's just stolen $42,000,000 worth of gold from the Federal Reserve. Realizing that he could die at any moment from his worsening heart condition, Jaster tells Alvin to relay a cryptic message to his wife about the whereabouts of the hidden gold. Alvin doesn't know exactly what the message means, and Edgar Clenteen, the U.S. Treasury investigator working the case, hopes it will lead to the gold or Jaster's partner Bristol, but it does neither. Eighteen months later, Jaster is dead, and both Clenteen and Bristol are still looking for that gold. Clenteen decides to secretly plant a tracking device in Alvin's jaw, release him from prison, and then let the word out that he knows where the gold is hidden. Knowing that Bristol is probably watching their every move, Clenteen hopes Alvin will act as the bait that'll lure Bristol in. To the dismay of Clenteen and his colleagues, agents Wooly, Blum, Boyle, and Walsh, who are tracking Alvin's every word and move, Alvin immediately gets into trouble, although he decides to go straight once he learns that while he was in prison, his girlfriend Lisa Hill gave birth to their son. Even so, run-ins with his criminal brother, Stevie Sanders and Stevie's two partners, Ramundo and Julio, puts Alvin in danger of being locked up again, which threatens to mess up Clenteen's plan. What will happen when Alvin realizes that he's being used as bait to nail Bristol?
Keywords: animated-title-sequence, audio-surveillance, bare-chested-male-bondage, betrayal, bomb, booby-trap, boxing, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brooklyn-bridge, brother-brother-relationshipActors: Larry Dolgin (actor), Laura Gemser (actress), Joe D'Amato (writer), Michele Soavi (writer), Joe D'Amato (director), Charles Borromel (actor), George Eastman (writer), Giuseppe Marrocco (actor), David Brandon (actor), Michele Soavi (actor), Gabriele Tinti (actor), Nadine Roussial (actress), Carlo Maria Cordio (composer), Bruno Alias (actor), Luciano Bartoli (actor),
Plot: The deranged Roman emperor Gainus 'Caligula' (Little Boots) Caesar (12-41 A.D.) rules Rome with an iron fist and has anyone tortured and executed for even the slightest insubordination. Mostly set during the last year of his reign, as Caligula loses support due to his brutal and crazed excess, a young Moor woman, named Miriam, becomes his lover while plotting to kill him to avenge the murder of a friend which Caligula was responsible for. But Miriam is torn between her personal vendetta against Caligula and her own personal feelings towards him despite his madness and debauched lifestyle of orgies and bloody torture murders.
Keywords: ancient-rome, bestiality, blood, caligula, character-name-in-title, gore, hardcore, horse, horse-penis, independent-filmActors: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (composer), Nando Angelini (actor), Roldano Lupi (actor), Tullio Altamura (actor), Massimo Serato (actor), Fortunato Arena (actor), Gianni Baghino (actor), Antonietta Zita (editor), Attilio Dottesio (actor), Franco Fantasia (actor), Giorgio Ferroni (director), Philippe Hersent (actor), Maria Pia Conte (actress), Elio Micheli (costume designer), Gabriele Antonini (actor),
Plot: In ancient Rome, the people finally oust their despised king, Tarquinius, and declare the city a republic. Tarquinius makes an alliance with the Etruscan king, Porsenna, to take back power in Rome, but a Roman general, the heroic Mucius, sets out to stop him.
Keywords: ambush, ancient-rome, archer, assassination-attempt, battle, blood, burnt-hand, combat, coward, daggerActors: Harold Miller (actor), Burgess Meredith (actor), Charles Laughton (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Will Geer (actor), Peter Lawford (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Edward Andrews (actor), Lew Ayres (actor), Malcolm Atterbury (actor), Eddie Baker (actor), George DeNormand (actor), Henry Fonda (actor), Walter Pidgeon (actor), Don Murray (actor),
Plot: Robert Leffingwell is the president's candidate for Secretary of State. Prior to his approval, he must first go through a Senate investigation to determine if he's qualified. Leading the Senate committee is idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, who soon finds himself unprepared for the political dirt that's revealed, including Leffingwell's past affiliations with a Communist organization. When Leffingwell testifies about his political leanings, he proves his innocence. Later, however, Anderson learns that he lied under oath and even asks the president to withdraw Leffingwell for consideration, especially after the young senator begins receiving blackmail threats about a skeleton in his own closet.
Keywords: airplane, airport, american-politics, ampersand-in-title, anonymous-telephone-call, banquet, based-on-novel, bisexual, blackmail, closeted-homosexualActors: Harry Carter (actor), Charles Cane (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), James Bush (actor), George Anderson (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), Francis X. Bushman (actor), Felix Basch (actor), Jack Baxley (actor), Sidney Blackmer (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Griff Barnett (actor), Frederick Burton (actor), Ken Christy (actor),
Plot: The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.
Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, ambassador, american-football, armistice-day-1918, baltimore-maryland, baseball, blackface, character-name-in-titleAn affluent family man's ambition for a senatorial position is threatened by his only child who is bent on ruining his electoral exercise. Find out more.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, of the Select Committee on Intelligence, discusses James Comey's hearing and his veracity, Jeff Sessions, the so-called 'tapes' of conversations between James Comey and President Donald Trump. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful political commentary and informed perspectives. Reaching more than 95 million households worldwide, MSNBC offers a full schedule of live news coverage, political opinions and award-winning documentary programming -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Connect with MSNBC Online Visit msnbc.com: http://on.msnbc.com/Readmsnbc Find MSNBC on Facebook: http://on.msnbc.com/Likemsnbc Follow MSNBC on Twitter: http://on.msnbc.com/Follo...
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand took on a bold tone when speaking at the Personal Democracy Forum at New York University.
6/7/17 Senate Intelligence Committee
Watch Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) shutdown Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) during a recent Russia hearing. Ana Kasparian, Francis Maxwell and Brett Erlich, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. https://tytnetwork.com/join/ Read more here: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/gop-panel-chairman-scolds-kamala-harris-about-courtesy-after-she-grills-deputy-ag-on-russia-probe/ "Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) was scolded by a Republican committee chairman as she grilled law enforcement and intelligence officials on the Russia probe. The California Democrat sought assurances from deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein that he would allow special counsel Robert Mueller to fully and independently investigate possible Trump campaign collusion with Ru...
Senator Elizabeth Warren's two round of questions for Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf at the September 20, 2016 Senate Banking Committee hearing entitled: "An Examination of Wells Fargo’s Unauthorized Accounts and the Regulatory Response." For more information on the hearing, click here: http://www.banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=B80F9B81-4331-4F95-91BC-718288EC9DA0
Sen. Martin Heinrich questions Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, claiming the members of the intel community filibuster better than most of his colleagues.
Sub for more: http://nnn.is/the_new_media | Leah Barkoukis for TownHall reports, Sen. James Risch questioned former FBI Director James Comey Thursday, focusing on President Trump’s statement that he hoped for a certain outcome with regard to the investigation into his former national security adviser Michael Flynn. ENTER TO WIN THE NOBLE GOLD GIVEAWAY! How? Visit http://Patreon.com/NextNews Pledge $20 minimum One lucky Next News Patron will be randomly selected by Noble Gold Investments on July 3rd. Winner receives 1 five ounce 999 silver coin from the United States Mint. Got Kids or Grandkids? Take a break at our new Kids Channel: (( SUBSCRIBE )) http://bit.ly/sub-to-Banchi-Brothers See the report here: https://youtu.be/ZskLLOKC0wU Read More/Source/Credit(FAIR USE): https://townhall....
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From Director David Zucker "Call Me Senator." A super funny but sad look at Barbara Boxer and her distaste for our Military.
My final project at Shenkar School of Design and Engineering, illustration department. A short tale about politicians, seats and struggles in a Parliament far-far away. Project created with Flash and edited with After effects. Done with the kind help and instruction of Itamar Daube. Additional work at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cohzach/
A rare glimpse into the way press photographers cover the politicians of the United States Congress and the problems they face. Leading political photographers in Washington talk about the perills of the 24/7 news cycle and the increasingly sparce access. "It's the genesis of the image as much as the ontological image itself that matters."- Dr. Kerric Harvey, Media Anthropologist at GWU.
The Vaxxed team went to the Capitol in Sacramento to meet and talk to senators. We had a couple of scheduled talks, and we tried to meet a few more senators. When we went into the office of Senator Pan, all we wanted to do is ask him if he was available to talk to us. While we were talking to his secretary he snuck out a back door. One of us noticed, and Del sprang out to try to follow him. But he runs fast!!
"Don't miss 'Senator No'... a fascinating account filled with detail [and] interesting revelations." - Jack Betts, The Charlotte Observer "a fascinating and sometimes complex portrait" - Danny Hooley, The News & Observer “No American politician is more controversial, beloved in some quarters and hated in others, than Jesse Helms," wrote The Almanac of American Politics as the conservative North Carolina Republican neared the end of his 30-year U.S. Senate career. From the moment he arrived in Washington in 1973, Helms began injecting hot-button issues into American politics. His notorious political action committee became the largest in the nation with its pioneering use of direct mail and negative television ads. The "New Right" movement he spearheaded played a leading role in mob...
Connecticut Annual Benefit Dinner - October 17, 2012
David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend, November 16, 2013 - Palm Beach, Florida.
Help Senator Golden and Freelancers Union pass the Freelancer Payment Protection Act, so all workers can get paid for their work (and pay for their coffee): www.freelancersunion.org/advocacy When clients don't pay, it's hard to take care of your basic needs: rent, groceries, the electricity bill, coffee . . . Special thanks to Senator Martin Golden, the great people at Brooklyn Roasting Company, Sal Scott, and Oren Weichselbaum.
Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam outlines the Greens position on the proposed mandatory internet filter for Australian Internet Service Providers.
"i am birth - i am death
i'm an elusive symbol
for eternal come and go
for come and go
i have come - i have gone
i have shown you moira
and her restless re-creation
your own re-creation"
"never, no never the day will go down on me
within knowing him by my side
sothis, o sothis, don't pass me again
before i know how to heal