806 articles related to "government"

The Bitch! A Weekly Review of UK News

Well darlings, The new Flamingo has opened here in Blackpool - and what can I say? For someone who makes money from using words, they almost fail me. As a privileged and grateful VIP guest on the opening night I can tell you that it's like step...

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1984 is the definitive book of the 20th century

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell George Orwell's dystopian classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, has been voted as the book t...

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Book Review: The Bottomless Well: Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy

For anyone who has any interest in energy, its cost, future and the political debate over this precious resource- The Bottomless Well is a must read. This book is an intriguing insight to the other side of what most of us have been led to believe on ...

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Assessing the Adequacy of the Urban Economic Development Process

Commenting on the problems of assessing the adequacy of the urban economic development process, Beauregard (1993) has noted that: “More so than such policy arenas as income maintenance, nuclear deterrence or intergovernmental aid, that of economic ...

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Hero of the Quarter - Part II

Many Americans are still familiar, even today, with the devastating worldwide conflicts of the last century, titanic events whose resonance even today affect the worldwide balance of power. Consider, for instance, the situation on the Korean peninsul...

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The Bitch is Back! UK News Review

Well Darlings, Just when you thought it was safe to scratch your XXXX in public - I'm back! And what a notable time you've had whilst I've been away, haven't you? I see Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was named as Britain&apo...

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Economic Sacred Cows Are Out of Milk

No matter which decade you went to college you probably took econ. As David Brooks of The New York Times writes, "economics was the queen of the social sciences." Psychology, sociology, history and anthropology were "easier", not quite so solid. No l...

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United Fruit Company in Guatemala - US Invasion For A Bunch of Bananas

Many people are aware of the 'Banana Republics' in the bad old days of Latin America; countries in which international corporations had so much power and influence that the government would be a puppet for foreign corporate interests. In 19...

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Gay Rights Are Civil Rights

Our biggest tragedy as a country was the enslavement of Black people who were stolen from their native lands and forced into slavery. In order to end this tyranny, courageous people risked their own lives in what has become known as the Civil Rights ...

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Cuba Can Teach Us About Healthcare

As we excitedly wait for film maker Michael Moore's new masterpiece,"Sicko," I decided to do some research on Cuba's healthcare system. "Sicko" spotlights the negligent U.S. healthcare system. In a brilliant example of contrast, Moore take...

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