11 days ago by Allison Bricker

During the campaign, President-Elect Obama promised voters that if elected, he would get right to work on getting government to “fix” the environment. You know, much in the same way that the government has “fixed” education, retirement, poverty, drug use, housing, etcetera. However, as they say, the ...

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12 days ago by digitaleconomy

History seems to be in the making. The British Prime Minister is on the forefront of digital economic globalization that sees the current turmoil in the world economy offers a chance to build a “new global order” based on cooperation and opportunity. Mr Brown summarized his approach as international ...

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12 days ago by Diana Scimone

File this under "good news." (Hat tip, Season of Light.) Today the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) launched a new awareness campaign in conjunction with the International Task Force for the Protection of Children in Tourism. It's all to help raise the profile of exploited and trafficked children ...

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12 days ago by rogerhollander

Posted on Nov 6, 2008 By William Pfaff Since the triumph of Barack Obama, nearly every medium of news and political comment in the United States and abroad has carried a compendium of “challenges” and dangers facing the next president. Yet when these challenges are examined, they nearly all turn out ...

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12 days ago by childsoldierrelief

The New York Times reported (in early November) that a “militia in eastern Congo recently recruited dozens of children to become soldiers… and some of these children may now be fighting on the front lines.” Tragically, according to the report, the children had been recruited at a school and “many of ...

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12 days ago by dajjal

The preliminary draft is in five Microsoft Word files linked at the bottom of this page. Click this link to read Section 5, a target rich environment from which I have excerpted some of the most egregious clauses. Reaffirms that any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethni ...

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12 days ago by rss title sexytrips.com

By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com 10 November 2008 Hospitality Lawyer -- What does the Financial Crisis mean for vacation ownership and projects?

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12 days ago by xperiencedskeptic

The proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact removes language authorizing Iraq to ask U.S. soldiers to stay beyond 2011 and bans cross-border attacks from Iraqi soil, according to a copy of the draft obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The latest draft, sent Thursday to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, ...

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12 days ago by Eric

Australia had been a big ally of Israel in the United Nations, but that came to an end with a recent vote. The UN proposes two annual resolutions regarding Israel, which in itself seems biased. The resolutions say that Israel should remove settlements in the "occupied" territories and that the Genev ...

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12 days ago by digitaleconomy

International hullabaloo from UK, France, and Germany for a new international financial architecture moved the G7 Finance Ministers into action. US president George Bush has snubbed the U.N. proposal to host an international summit, instead promoting an G8 summit of key leaders in Washington D.C. on ...

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