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2 hours ago by Arnold Padilla

The political dimension of charter change has dominated the national agenda. But the constant driving force behind all the attempts since the last decade to modify the Constitution has been the external pressure coming mainly from the WTO, the US, the EU and Japan to create the sort of policy enviro ...

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5 hours ago by roadrage25

Half of the richest institutional entities in the world are trans-national corporations. The World Trade Organization was introduced in 1995 with the goal of reducing barriers in trade among the 140 member nations. The Organization claims that reducing the barriers in trade and ensuring the free flo ...

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17 hours ago by Procrustes

John Batchelor writes on his blog: At week’s end, Beijing speaks up and rejects the carbon tax based tariffs included in the House version of the cap and trade bill passed on Friday 26. Beijing points correctly to the fact that the tax is a WTO illegal international trade restriction. “It has always ...

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1 day ago by scoobydoom

Collapse..breeding the collapse a grey shroud to cover their breasts collapse..breeding the collapse what will dry out society’s tears? the point of true extreme has been reached and overtaken it’s seething and following us around chasing up our attempts we cannot see turning our back to reality we ...

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1 day ago by momentumfemininum

by Rachel Brinker In Hindi, chipko means, “to embrace.” The Chipko Movement in India became one of the most successful environmental activism struggles in the world. Vandana Shiva was one of the women involved in this movement, which resisted industrial forestry and logging in rural India. Local wom ...

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2 days ago by Liu Yong

From Reuters: Proposals to impose “carbon tariffs” on imported products will violate the rules of the World Trade Organization as well as the spirit of the Kyoto Protocol, China’s Ministry of Commerce said. In a statement posted on its website, the ministry said collecting carbon duties from foreign ...

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2 days ago by htm

The WTO Public Forum will take place 28 to 30 September 2009. Registration to attend the forum is now open and you can see the programme of the proposed sessions on the public forum website. Summaries of the sessions will be available soon. > > Public forum home page: http://www.wto.org/english/foru ...

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2 days ago by jnodar

Many exporters are still struggling to get the loans they need to ship their goods, World Trade Organization director-general Pascal Lamy said in a new report, requiring a greater effort on the part of the international community to make funding available. “Anecdotal evidence shows that the global m ...

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2 days ago by Jacob Katz Cogan

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 8, no. 3, July 2009) is out. Contents include: Alberto Portugal-Perez & John S. Wilson, Why trade facilitation matters to Africa Jaime Tijmes-Lhl, Consensus and majority voting in the WTO Panagiotis Delimatsis, Financial innovation and climate change: ...

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2 days ago by 陳韋綸

文／陳韋綸 「…我就是無法坐著看完。他們有絕佳的機會對台下聽眾說些道理，結果他們做了什麼？花費不可思議的精力在一個充氣雞雞和幼稚的搞笑上頭。」─游擊新聞網(Guerilla News network)，署名ubiquity。 行動者雙人組「The Yes Men」麥克‧波南諾（Mike Bonanno）與安迪‧畢裘邦（Andy Bichlbaum）的第二部紀錄片《沒問題俠客修理世界》（The Yes Men Fix the World）被觀眾比喻「帶種（球）的芭樂特」（Borat with balls）─在麗池酒店會場內，面對整排風險管理員講述「科學家要求減少70%的碳排放量以防止氣候變遷，無 ...

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