There are negative influences to be found all around us in this world. Some people inexplicably wait for the next negative event seemingly with bated breath, whilst others, like me, do everything in their power to repel such influences. I’m sure that you, like I, have come across people who seem to be surrounded by [...]
Posts Tagged ‘protect’
Senate Committee Okays Bill To Protect Whistleblowers
July 29th, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation to protect federal employees from being punished for blowing the whistle on waste and corruption.
The bill allows many government workers to take reprisal com…
John Kerry Teams With Discovery Channel To Protect Sharks
July 28th, 2009 |
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Senator John F. Kerry’s office announced today that he’s joining forces with the Discovery Channel to help end the illegal practice of shark finning.
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Michael Markarian: Congress Oughta Protect Otters
July 25th, 2009 |
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As a keystone species, the otters play a vitally important role in maintaining the health of California’s central coast marine ecosystem.
Responsibility to protect: An idea whose time has come—and gone?
July 23rd, 2009 |
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An idealistic effort to establish a new humanitarian principle is coming under attack at the United Nations
GARETH EVANS, a former Australian foreign minister and roving global troubleshooter, makes a bold but passionate claim on behalf of a three-word expression which (in quite large part thanks to his efforts) now belongs to the language of diplomacy: the “responsibility to protect”. In a recent book, he says there are “not many ideas that have the potential to matter more for good, not only in theory but in practice.”
Like many people who labour to ensure that mass murder will never recur, he links his personal commitment to an early formative event: in his case, a visit to Cambodia on the eve of the massacres in which up to a quarter of the population died. For others, the spur was the genocide in Rwanda, pictured above; for others still, the killing of Muslim men and boys from Srebrenica in Bosnia. …
Responsibility to protect: An idea whose time has come—and gone?
July 23rd, 2009 |
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An idealistic effort to establish a new humanitarian principle is coming under attack at the United Nations
GARETH EVANS, a former Australian foreign minister and roving global troubleshooter, makes a bold but passionate claim on behalf of a three-word expression which (in quite large part thanks to his efforts) now belongs to the language of diplomacy: the “responsibility to protect”. In a recent book, he says there are “not many ideas that have the potential to matter more for good, not only in theory but in practice.”
Like many people who labour to ensure that mass murder will never recur, he links his personal commitment to an early formative event: in his case, a visit to Cambodia on the eve of the massacres in which up to a quarter of the population died. For others, the spur was the genocide in Rwanda, pictured above; for others still, the killing of Muslim men and boys from Srebrenica in Bosnia. …
Danny Schechter: Will Protectionism Protect Our Workers?
July 15th, 2009 |
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Many in China already resent US economic bullying and blame Wall Street for selling them junk loans and infected financial products that have caused vast economic losses.