883 articles on "government"

Cities, States and Others Step up Action on Climate Change, Despite Federal Reluctance

Last year, Pentagon defense adviser Andrew Marshall issued a harsh warning of the consequences of climate change: mass chaos, national security crises and food shortages. If climate change occurs abruptly, the report declared, there could be a catast...

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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 Fault In Self-Government: The Self

With each succeeding poll measuring Americans' trust in institutions the elements of government sink to new lows. As we move toward the 2010 mid-term elections we are seeing a groundswell of anti-incumbent fever. Something is wrong; something is...

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Losing a Friend Over Stupidity

I just lost a friend because he disagreed with my point of view on these five high school students who were booted from school for wearing American flags on "Cinco de Mayo." And it's not that I disagreed with him, really. I said that I thought i...

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Innovations to Drive Japanese Fuel Cell Market

Japanese government has recognized the fuel cell and hydrogen technology to be one of the most important R&D areas in order to build low-carbon society in the world. In order to commercialize fuel cell and hydrogen technologies as well as to create n...

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Leadership and Perception

Leaders lead and followers follow, right? What if, as a leader, you believed you were leading but no one was following? What if your employees believed they were being led but in reality there was no leadership? We like to believe we are effective an...

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The West Should Step Out Of The United Nations

U.N. requested a cease-fire, without making the distinction between attackers and defenders. Palestine was partitioned in an Israeli State, a Palestinian State and Jerusalem was internationalized. In the end, the aggressors were rewarded. - In Octo...

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Kashmir Terrorism: Origin and Growth

Broadly speaking, when justice and right are denied to a person over a longer period of time, the person is left with two options: bear the situation patiently, or the reaction is anguish, and that reaction, in the process culminates into terrorism. ...

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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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