SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE COMPLETES CONFERENCE OF
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013

WASHINGTON -- Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Armed Services Committee,
announced today that the committee has completed its conference of the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2013. The bill authorizes funding for the
Department of Defense (DOD) and the national security programs of the Department of Energy
(DOE).

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The President’s budget request for national defense discretionary programs within the
jurisdiction of the Committee on Armed Services for fiscal year 2013 was $631.6 billion and was
in three parts:

$525.3 billion for the base budget of the DOD;

$88.5 billion for overseas contingency operations (OCO), which funds the war in Afghanistan; and

$17.8 billion for national security programs in the DOE and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.

The conference report authorizes $633.3 billion for national defense programs. The
conference report authorizes $2.1 billion more than was requested for the base budget of DOD
and the amount requested ($88.5 billion) for OCO. The conference report authorizes $395.0
million less than the requested level of funding for national security programs of the DOE.

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http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/press/releases/upload/NDAA-FY13-Conference-Press-Release-2.pdf

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." --Diderot

(http://thinkexist.com/quotation/men_will_never_be_free_until_the_last_king_is/174752.html)

pg. 96, “Les Éleuthéromanes”

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ANTISTROPHE.

J'en atteste les temps; j'en appelle à tout âge;
Jamais au public avantage
L'homme n'a franchement sacrifié ses droits;
S'il osait de son cœur n'écouter que la voix,
Changeant tout à coup de langage,
Il nous dirait, comme l'hôte des bois:
La nature n'a fait ni serviteur ni maître;
Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois.
Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois.

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(http://books.google.com/books?id=20cHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA96#v=onepage&q&f=true)

J'en atteste les temps; j'en appelle à tout âge;
I of them attest the times; I of them appeal to all age;
I display the times; I appeal to the age

Jamais au public avantage
Never to the public advantages
The public never has the advantage

L'homme n'a franchement sacrifié ses droits;
The man not has clearly sacrificed his rights;
Certainly, mankind has not sacrificed his rights;

S'il osait de son cœur n'écouter que la voix,
If he dared of his heart not to hear but that the voice,
If mankind dared but to listen to the voice of his heart,

Changeant tout à coup de langage,
changing all at a blow of language,
changing suddenly the language,

Il nous dirait, comme l'hôte des bois:
He to us would say, as the host of the woods:
He would say to us, as he would to the animals of the woods:

La nature n'a fait ni serviteur ni maître;
The nature not has made neither servant nor master;
Nature created neither servant nor master;

Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois.
I not see neither to give nor receive of law.
I seek neither to rule nor to serve.

Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
And his hands would weave the entrails of the priest,
And his hands would weave the entrails of the priest,

Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois.
To the lack of a cord for to strangle the kings.
For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings.

"Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre."