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18 hours ago ago from Political Prisoners in Thailand
It is a busy news day, and PPT hopes that readers will click back through the stories we are posting. The Nation has a rash of quite bizarre op-eds and reports in its 10 December issue, with the op-ed writers being more frenzied in their anti-red shirt tales than usual. In this post, though, we half wonder if there is a tiny connection between two of their stories. The first, widely-reported story, is of Thai Airways International ...
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17 hours ago ago from The Widmann Blog
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2 hours ago ago from University of Waterloo Sustainability Project
The following is the speech delivered by Sylvia Wachira, from the Clean Energy and Safe Environment Initiative during the 4th meeting for the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) on December 10: I am speaking as a member of the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance and Climate Justice Now! Africa stands on the frontline of climate change. It is a cruel irony indeed that a people ...
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14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
This one struck a cord with readers. I asked for solutions, and got many. I want to thank all my readers. Most readers pointed out that without special interest groups, "bribing" our elected officials is the main problem. One pointed out bribery is one of the "high crimes" mentioned in Article 2, Section 4 of our constitution: Article 2, Section 4. It proscribes immediate expulsion from office, and criminal prosecution, for both "high ...
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