"Many salutary policies and principles profit from open courts, as the courts themselves confess and concede: first, public confidence in the justice system benefits from openness nor secrecy, public trials not Star Chambers; second, public oversight that can expose misconduct or malfeasance in the justice system; and third, “community therapy” or the communal value of public truth-finding and accountability. A government of the people, by the people and for the people cannot tolerate secret, closed courts hiding truth, obscuring evidence, and imprisoning those who report on it."
-- Constitutional Attorney Robert Barnes
Better a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more. Ecclesiastes 4:13
Question:
Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Luke14:31
Answer:
A king who watches too much FOX TV, reads too many Marvel comics, pays attention to the New York Times, and watches too many Hollywood political thrillers.
The narrow strait is the most important chokepoint for the world's oil supply. Some 21 million barrels — or $1.2 billion worth of oil — pass through the strait every day.
Will a closed Strait hurt Iran? In terms of international oil sales, yes, but in terms of daily life, no. Iran pumps 3.5 million barrels of crude oil per day. The situation at this hour: