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May 26th 2008
Bahraini liberals have responded to the growing power of religious parties by organizing themselves to campaign through civil society in order to defend basic personal freedoms from being legislated away Bahrain is a generally flat and arid archipelago consisting of a low desert plain rising gently to a low central escarpment in the Persian Gulf east of Saudi Arabia Bahrain has been proposed to be at list part of Dilmun a land mentioned by Mesopotamian...read more May 26th 2008
There were no Catholics in our town before JFK If there were none of the kids in my gang knew about them It was rumored that they had a church in town somewhere behind the local A P but I never found it I was already in my teens before I saw my first real life Catholic He didn't look much different than me but my mother acted like I had spoken to the anti-Christ...read more May 25th 2008
We all know our Earth is in serious trouble If there is one person who can really turn around things in our country it is the president With elections round the corner and a line-up of presidential candidates don't all of us want to know who truly supports the green movement Here's a run down on the top candidates and their perspective of the environment Hillary Clinton She has been known for citing serious environmental...read more May 25th 2008
This surely cannot be a good time for any new bod in government to try and prove himself A recession is threatening the world over and all leaders are being held responsible but take a closer look This has to be one of the hardest jobs on earth and we all need to remember that although the buck stops firmly with the leaders they are only human and we all need to do our bit...read more May 22nd 2008
The deregulation of an industry only happens once but in the case of energy electric and natural gas services it is a slow-release process migrating from state to state Energy deregulation revolves around the concept of allowing competition into the market place giving consumers a choice of electricity and or natural gas suppliers The billion energy industry has been referred to as the last great government-sanctioned monopoly To break it down simply up until a...read more May 22nd 2008
This is the rather muddled tale of the public holiday that disappeared from the French calendar four years ago when it became a quasi-working day But lo and behold and hallelujah everything s back to normal at last and lundi Pentec te or Whit Monday is once again a day off Up until it always was Whit Monday was Whit Monday clear and simple and nobody worked just for a change But the seeds of...read more May 22nd 2008
World audit in their th Democracy Audit of the Millennium announce that out of countries audited all those with a million or more population The opportunity to cast a vote can be quite meaningless unless there are transparently honest elections with genuine voter choice of parties and people We are confident that all of those countries listed in our First and Second Divisions conduct themselves in exactly that way In the Third Division we could...read more May 21st 2008
It is always funny to me when I read about things that have ballooned into a major controversy Recnelty I read that the University of South Carolina is embroiled in a controversy over its promotion of birth control in the form of you guessed it condoms It seems that the Office of Sexual Health and Violence Prevention at the university is pushing the university to install vending machines that will offer easy access birth control...read more May 21st 2008
Sex education in American schools and especially the teaching of safe sex and contraceptives in sex education classes is a heavily debated matter in the USA This debate is centered mainly on whether sex education should focus solely on teaching kids to practice abstinence or whether things like birth control should be taught about as well This is a matter of great concern in the U S right now as America has the highest teen...read more May 21st 2008
In this essay I outline Five futures for Pakistan the Pendulum continues forever Collapse Joining Chindia the Great Game and a South Asian Confederation The most familiar and likely are based on the pendulum of rule by the military and rule by landlord politicians However what is needed is to move from the more likely and less desirable futures to a process of anticipatory democracy where the citizens of Pakistan consider create and commit to...read more May 18th 2008
Knowledge is power Presently the voters have taken an active role in choosing our next president A leading factor is if the candidate can bring out change Voters will benefit greatly by understanding the powers of the presidency The most familiar power of the president is the president's power as Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces The president has the power to deploy the military even if there is no war and can establish military governments...read more May 18th 2008
With record numbers of new registered voters the signal is clear that they want to take part in picking our next president With this interest is the need to know more about the powers of the presidency The power to make appointments is an area that has caused U S citizens to get involved The Constitution gives the President the power with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint ambassadors other public ministers...read more May 18th 2008
This election period the voters know and want to know much more about the presidency and whether that candidate can actually make changes Voters will benefit greatly by understanding the powers of the presidency During the Bush administration most citizens have become familiar with the president's power of Executive Privilege which is the power to refuse to disclose information The famous Watergate break-in and cover-up faced rare constitutional issues President Nixon claimed executive privilege when...read more May 18th 2008
With the record numbers of newly registered voters the signal is clear that the voters want to take part in picking our next president With this interest there is a new wave of discussions on the role of the executive branch of office Many wonder if the promises of the presidential candidates about health care fixing the economy social security and the Iraq war can be achieved An understanding of the powers of the president...read more May 17th 2008
Chinese antiques civilization evolved very separately from influences from the west until modern times and those were more of warships and gunboat diplomacy by the west to intrude itself into commerce of the Orient The west has much to feel shame about in it's treatment of China as does Japan and for which China never ceases to remind all guilty parties This has become such an ingrained self defence mechanism that China continues to use...read more |
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