806 articles related to "government"

Canadian Military Missions Since WW2

Canadian Military Missions Since The End Of The Second World War 1947 - South Korea. United Nations Temporary Commission in Korea (UNTCOK). 2 soldiers acted as observer elections. 1947-1948. 1949 - Kashmir. United Nations Military Observer Group ...

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Government's Quandry - to Ban or Regulate Online Gambling

Ever since the first online casinos started taking bets in 1997, governments around the world have had to consider how they are going to deal with the internet gambling phenomenon. And while legislative approaches adopted by different countries have ...

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Worse than tsunami, trade protectionism hurts third world citizens

by Dr. Eric SchansbergLibertarian Writers' Bureauhttp://www.writersbureau.orgLast Thursday, I was heartened to read the news that my church, Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, KY, had collected $732,000 from its members (beyond its weekly...

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The Gold Standard Revisited

It has been nearly 40 years since Richard Nixon ended the direct convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold, putting an end to the international gold-dollar standard established by the Bretton Woods Agreements following World War II. In the pinch of t...

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Won't Medicare Pay for Our Long Term Care?

Fact: Medicare is NOT DESIGNED to cover long term care. It was designed primarily to help with 'short term' rehabilitation. "How much WILL the government actually pay?" Medicare does not pay for long term care expenses. Medicare does cove...

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Election 2006: The Illusion Of Choice

Many people think that when they go to the polls on election day that they have a choice of who they can vote for. But do they? As it stands today, we have Republican and Democrats protecting their position of power in the political landscape by snuf...

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The Energy Crisis : Headlines in the 60's and 70's

All the rage in the revolutionary years of the 1960's and 1970's were the smaller, more compact vehicles. It's the time during which we saw the first emergence of awareness of our planet, what we were doing to it and the dawn of enviro...

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Still Another Look At Global Warming

David Stipp of Fortune has referred to climate change as "the mother of all national security issues (2004)." I see no reason to disagree, since as explained in my new textbook (2007), a peaking of global oil production in the near future could be la...

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As The Illinois Economic Death Spiral Begins, Can The Federal Government Be Far Behind?

Interesting but sad reading from a recent Associated Press report. The article reported that the state of Illinois has now reached the desperation phase of its economic malaise: - The state has not paid many of its bills for months due to shortfall ...

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BP Oil Spill, Are You Kidding Me? Put a Plug in It Already!

BP's oil spill in the Gulf is out of control, and after viewing the new digital CNN video of the recently cut well cap, it's obvious to a plumber, and most blue collar tradesmen, their engineers are also miserably incapable of even slowing ...

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