Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Similarly, a wise NATO policy should always make sure that NATO-Russia security cooperation is always stronger than Russia-China security cooperation. By the same token, and given the always-possible energy Finlandization of Europe, a wise NATO policy should make sure that the NATO-Russia Council always remains one step ahead of the EU-Russia Permanent Council.19
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Message to EPA"You Have Done Enough" Let Them Know Your Thoughts
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very much enjoyed will let you know when it hits the Mission Beach
The Securities and Exchange Commission prepares to relax some of the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate accounting rules.
It's tough to have a tea party these days. Regulations and permits were not a part of the first one. The good folks from MillionTeaBags.org ought to know. They dropped by CEI on April 15 with a problem. The Park Service told them that while they had a perfectly legal permit to demonstrate in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, that day, they hadn't specifically asked if they could display the one million bags of tea they had trucked in.
One common refrain, however, was that this is just a start. We're told we need to do more. How much more? What can we do to parlay this "monumental success" into the solution the president spoke of? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said this in Paris:
Personally, I prefer Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts
Also important is the remarkably symbolic involvement of the host of the Kyoto talks, Japan, as a founding member.
> >> placed to do it. Either way, it should work with people at Cape Town,
"New Source Review" (NSR) refers to a permitting program whose basic requirements were established in 1977 as Parts C and D of Title 1 of the Clean Air Act.1 The purpose of the program "is to ensure that when new sources are built or existing sources undergo major modifications: (1) air quality improves if the change occurs where the air currently does not meet federal air quality standards; and (2) air quality is not significantly degraded where the air currently meets federal standards."2 The NSR program attempts to achieve its mission by requiring best available control technology (BACT) or lowest achievable emissions rate (LAER) technology be installed when new units are built or when major modifications are made to existing plants that would lead to a significant increase in emissions.
Obama caves on promise, Internet to be regulated by FCC
Nasser al-Kidwa, Yasser Arafat's nephew, member of Fatah's governing central committee, and for many years the quite able Palestine Liberation Organization representative to the United Nations, was equally vehement: "We lost elections because we failed to deliver on promises to our people. We failed to deliver a Palestinian state. We failed to deliver independence. The overwhelming majority of people would definitely support a reasonable settlement that offers peace, that offers a better life."
The regime's apparent concessions help it play for time on sanctions, about which AEI scholars Bolton, Danielle Pletka, and Paul Wolfowitz have written extensively. In congressional testimony, Pletka said tough sanctions could be a means to persuade "Iran's leaders to consider serious negotiations with the international community." In a recent op-ed, Bolton says, "we must ask whether the harm will be sufficient to dissuade Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons. Objectively, there is no reason to believe that it will." Wolfowitz writes that "normally, even the toughest sanctions would be unlikely to persuade Tehran to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons. . . . However, circumstances in Iran are no longer normal." He argues that tough economic sanctions could be used, along with other forms of support, to push for regime change in Iran. He urges the United States to do "what we can to support the forces of reform in Iran, both symbolically and practically. . . . That means the toughest possible sanctions, and soon. Time is running out." Pletka says sanctions "are not a silver bullet, and they may not deliver an end to the Iranian nuclear program." On the Enterprise Blog, she recently suggested that the administration take "French lessons" from French president Nicholas Sarkozy, whose government has been out in front of the United States in urging a hard-edged approach to Iran. Bolton argues that "adapting tougher sanctions is simply another detour away from the hard decisions on whether to accept a nuclear Iran or support using force to prevent it."
Fayyad has gone further in security cooperation with Israel than any previous Palestinian figure, an approach that he defends as beneficial to both societies: "Security is not only an Israeli need; it is equally a Palestinian need. And given the distances between us, it's a small neighborhood, and a rough one at that. Security is a shared interest, definitely."
In the forests of India, something exciting is going on. Villagers are regaining property taken from them when the British colonial authorities nationalized their forests. Just as exciting, in urban Kenya and elsewhere, people are doing away with the need for banks by exchanging and saving their money digitally. All over the world, poor people are discovering the blessings of bottom-up capitalism.
GROUPS FIGHT CARBON TAX IN WASHINGTON STATE, NO MONEY FOR THEM
on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 at 10:21 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
In our system of government, the president is traditionally afforded much more latitude for discretion and unilateral authority in dealing with national security issues than we permit him in other arenas. This, I think, is quite proper. Precisely for this reason, however, decent people should start to squirm when expressions of frustration with the inability of our democratic process to reach the "correct" conclusion on key public policy issues come to coexist with assertions that matters such as childhood obesity, climate change, health care, education policy, and government debt are "national security" challenges. We should be wary when our government approaches that intellectual frontier. As the old mariners' maps used to put it, there be dragons.
The peacekeepers are now also building a "standing justice and corrections element" to go with the semi-permanent police force a permanent strike force to establish courts and prisons in nations where peacekeepers are stationed.
on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 at 6:01 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
The reality, then, is that Kyoto is doomed and it is its greatest champion, the European Union, which is destined to reveal this to the world. Tony Blair cannot be ignorant of this. When the G8 comes to meet, do not be surprised if the leaders discuss other ways of combating global warming rather than the targets and commitments approach of Kyoto. Technology, energy efficiency and scientific research will probably all be mentioned, along with further tentative steps down the road to nuclear power (if the Greens allow that particular method).
Friedman declares that "our one-party democracy is worse" than the Chinese model.
Many domestic import terminals are petitioning the government to convert their facilities for exports. So far, the administration has approved exports to nations with which the US has a trade agreement, but only one of about fifteen facility applications to export LNG to non-free trade countriesCheniere Energy's Sabine Pass facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. However, even in the case of Sabine Pass, final approval has been held up by the opposition by anti-fracking environmental groups, led by the Sierra Club, and in anticipation of the now-released DOE impact study.
A more turbulent schism developed in the 1970s, when the antiwar and antiestablishment liberal wing led by Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern fought the establishment of Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and Richard Daley, with a bloody confrontation in Chicago in 1968, McGovern's short-lived triumph in 1972, and a resurgent liberal movement in the Watergate elections of 1974. The liberal wing resisted many of the policies of Jimmy Carter; the liberal challenge of Edward M. Kennedy to Carter in 1980 helped to doom his reelection chances. But more consecutive presidential losses in 1980, 1984, and 1988 by liberals Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis moved the party in a more pragmatic direction with the Clinton eraBill Clinton having been a moderate governor of Arkansas and the leader of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council.
David Shorr is a career-long analyst and commentator on national security affairs and U.S. foreign policy. He blogs at DemocracyArsenal.org.
Hoover Institution Press today released Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order by Ken Anderson. In this book, Anderson examines the relationship between the United States and the United Nations and analyzes their interaction on issues including security, human rights, and development. Anderson scrutinizes key functions of the UN and, importantly, lays out principles that address the crucial question of whether, when, and to what degree the US should work with the UN.
Following the announcement, several heads of Canadian oil companies strongly criticized Prime Minister Jean Chretien for his decision. Gwyn Morgan, chief executive of EnCana Inc., North America's largest independent energy company, wrote a strongly worded, eight-page letter to Chretien, which said that "signing the Kyoto Protocol would go down in history as one of the most damaging international agreements ever signed by a Canadian Prime Minister."
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Organizations whom we expect to tell the truth keep telling us that "climate change is one of the biggest global security threats of the 21st century." This was a recent statement by "world leaders" like the G7, a group of finance ministers and central bank governors of seven advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. On April 17 they adopted a report about the "threat" put together by think tanks that included the European Union Institute for Security Studies and the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
Mitchieville is the funniest blog in Canada, if not the entire western spiral arm of the galaxy. I know this because the mayor himself has written this fact on the back of a photoshopped picture he sent me of him holding a gun to my head. You can vote for the Mayor here .
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry I. Miller on the regulatory obstacles to developing a bird flu vaccine:
Potential nuclear operators can apply for an optional "early site permit" from the NRC to address preliminary safety and environmental issues at a particular site. Such permits would be good for 10 to 20 years, allowing companies flexibility. Two potential projects- Exelon's Clinton in Illinois and Entergy's Grand Gulf in Mississippi- have won early site permits from the NRC after application periods lasted over three years. Two other projects continue to wait.
"The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has borrowed a populist Democratic theme for its latest round of attack ads, featuring red flags, menacing-sounding songs, and Asian calligraphy fonts to accuse vulnerable House incumbents are outsourcing jobs to you-know-where."
XIAN, China ? Congress should not waste time debating a comprehensive climate change legislation in the coming year.
House to Obama on Nuke Waste: No Yucca, no deal
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Instead hes concerned about its effect on the hearts and minds of American college students. (That one goes back to Vietnam, where the U.S. campaign to win hearts and minds was a failure.)
"On the other hand, Virginia spends big money on advertising to entice people to wager on the games it runs, the Mega Millions and Pick 3 of the state lottery."
* While originating as an agro-ecological design theory, permaculture has developed a large international following. This permaculture community continues to expand on the original ideas, integrating a range of ideas of alternative culture , through a network of publications, permaculture gardens, intentional communities , training programs, and internet forums. In this way, permaculture has become both a design system and a culture of rewilding the human species. So now you know. ( source )
"A U.S. federal appeals court has denied a request by the Winklevoss twins to release them from their settlement with Facebook over their allegations that Mark Zuckerberg improperly appropriated their idea for the social networking site."
The NSR program may have reflected state-of-the-art thinking on air pollution regulation when it was adopted 25 years ago, but considerable thought since then has been given to finding better ways to reduce emissions and protect the environment. It should hardly be a surprise that NSR could be based on obsolete ideas and techniques.
Rivera and the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), which represented 175 hospitals and nursing homes in the city, began working together almost as soon as he became president. The partnership took concrete form with the creation of the joint Healthcare Education Project, which now forms the cornerstone of New York's "medical industrial complex": the coalition of unions, providers, and advocates that keep health-care costs high by promoting "institution-focused care" over less expensive home- and community-based options.
Now legislation is moving to give the president trade promotion authority, without which the Obama administration will be unable to complete the ongoing negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
This was, said James Murray, disgracefully confected outrage over Ed Milibands foreign policy speech, as though Ed Milibands speech wasnt the self-same confected outrage and worse, confected outrage from a man who actively supported the intervention and failed to ask questions of the Government in the following four years, in spite of weekly opportunities to put such questions to the Prime Minister directly. And even worse, this criticism came from the leader of a party whose own record of poor judgement has left hundreds of thousands dead across the world under the doctrine of humanitarian intervention.
Maine Superior Court rules against state agency
Heading into the Guadalajara meeting, numerous questions have been raised. Now that Bush is gone, will the controversial SPP continue at all? Given summit fatigue and domestic priorities, do these leaders really need another annual meeting on their calendar? And in Washington, there is the question: Do we need to devote a whole summit to just Canada and Mexico?
conservative columnist David Brooks, from one of the Democratic Party's deepest
A Border Collie puppy came into our lives on Sunday 11th August 1996 rather sooner than expected. Wed agreed to buy him for 50 a couple of days earlier after we saw him at Rabbit Farm in Criccieth, North Wales. When we went to see him again on Sunday, we were told that we could take him away there and then, so we did. There we were with a new puppy on a Sunday with no food, bowls, or lead and there were few shops open. I remember that he cried all the way during the car journey back to our touring caravan that we kept at my in-laws sea-side home in Dinas Dinlle. We left him with our two children and went off to purchase the essential items.
Did the newly elected president treat the first 100 days as beginning the day
The governor's chief energy adviser, Steve Walz, says the Kaine administration has taken no position on whether reversing the ban makes sense. "That's why we wanted to see the results of the study, to help us make a determination."
America needs a new approach on immigration. The amnesty-only approach of the 1980s failed, while the "get tough" attitude simply seems to be driving more newcomers into the shadows. The new approach should focus on reducing government barriers -- and government handouts -- to immigrants. That is a hope that all aspiring immigrants, conservatives, and indeed even liberals could and should unite around. Virginia is not a border state; perhaps this means it is well-placed to lead the way.
The CFACT team is continuing to make inroads with the people of Peru, just as it did with the people of Poland last year. CFACT continues to create strong bonds of friendship with people in all parts of the world who are ready to join the fight to promote freedom and progress. We are excited as our organization becomes increasingly international in reach and scope.
George W. Bush's economic programfocused on tax cuts and (somewhat) restrained spendinghas come under criticism from many quarters. The strangest critique, however, came even before the President took office. "I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency," said Sarah Jessica Parker, actress and budding policy analyst. "I'm worried about the kind of cuts he might make in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including people in my own family who depend on certain things from the government."
Protocol amending the agreement of November 16 and 18, 1993. Signed at Washington and Mexico City November 25 and 26, 2002; Entered into force August 6, 2004. With appendices.
then get out a strategy called "escalate and exit' inside the White House." While the president was keenly interested in whatever progress an enhanced nato operation could attain, he was also leery of letting it drag out for years on
According to the Wall Street Journal, a White House letter to House Speaker John Boehner inadvertently acknowledged that EPA alone is still working on new regulations that the agency itself calculates will impose $105 billion in additional regulatory burdens and compliance costs. Win or lose in November, the Administration will likely impose these and other postponed rules after the elections. We, our children and grandchildren will pay for them in countless ways.
Some GOP legislators contend U.S. not at risk for default if debt ceiling not raised:
"A fake boycott from a place that sells fake beef."
on Saturday, June 18th, 2011 at 3:01 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
Kerry, the unnamed advocacy group spokesman, and others have let the cat out of the bag. They are saying in effect, Give us an energy bill, any energy bill,we want to snooker you with it to get cap-and-trade. Wellconferenceany energybill passed by the Senate with Waxman-Markey in a lame duck session, and neither you nor the American people will be able to stop us. Hah!
The company was working with the Environment Agency and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service "to minimise the risk of this happening again", he added .
More importantly,the endangerment finding prerequisite to establishing GHG emissions standards for new motor vehicleswould be precedential for similar endangerment findings under other CAA provisions,includingCAA Sec. 108, the cornerstone of the NAAQS program.
"Georgia's Valdosta State University has updated its network with software that can pinpoint students who use P2P software. The university is committed to stop file-sharing on its network even if that results in prison sentences for students. Offenders will be disciplined by the school and then handed over to the police, the university has announced."
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Leaving no doubt which side of the fence those friends and allies stood on, the letter said, "On June 20, in Washington, DC, we will announce a campaign that will specifically focus on communicating to those Americans across the country that supported your election in 2012."
Thankfully for West Virginia, clean coal technology is at the heart of these solutions. And I don't intend to allow deliberate misinformation to undermine our push for major national investments in the clean coal research and facilities that can help solve this problem.
after the election, or starting at noon on Jan. 20? Smart presidents who squeeze
(Margaret Wente har helt rtt i detta. Stormedia var som vanligt helt ovetande om hur utsikterna infr Kpenhamn sg ut realpolitiskt sett. Och inte ville de veta ngot heller. Istllet eldades hysterin infr Kpenhamn upp till euforiska niver: Nu skulle ntligen den absolut ndvndiga globala och bindande verenskommelsen att minska koldioxidutslppen ske! Alla var optimistiska, fick vi hra frn TV, radio och storstadstidningarna. I sjlva verket var utgngen relativt uppenbar redan flera mnader fre mtet. Den hr artikeln fick jag slutligen in i Barometern efter att flera ointresserade och oinitierade debattredaktrer i SvD och DN gjort tummen ned. Glasbubbla ngon?)
The ACESA provisions on technology forcing should be reviewed in light of the findings of a recent conference on climate and technology conducted at Stanford University. Among these findings attendees agreed: "The single greatest impediment to an R&D; program that is directed at achieving a commercial objective is that it will be distorted to deliver subsidies to favored firms, industries, and other organized interests. The best institutional protections for minimizing these distortions are multi-year appropriations, agency independence in making grants, use of peer review with clear criteria for project selection, and payments based on progress and outputs rather than cost recovery."
Now that Congress has passed thanks to the peeling off of a bare minimum of Senate Republicans and President Obama has signed a financial regulatory bill with a massive scope and untold costs, and a bill extending unemployment benefits without paying for them, he and the Democratic leadership have two more big items to rush through before Congress's August recess. They are a bill that will ostensibly help small business and the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan. While Congress is claiming it wants to help small business, confirming Kagan could mean great harm to business owners crippled by costly regulation. Based on her writings and her arguments as Obama's solicitor general (which is all we have to go on, since she has never served on the bench), not only is Kagan likely to rule against constitutional challenges to Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and other onerous laws, but she is also likely to do what she can to make it nearly impossible for smaller "regulated firms," as she calls them, to have their day in court in the first place.
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TERI also recently announced participation in a glacier program involving Iceland and Ohio State. Representing TERI in the project was Syed Hasnain ... the source of the original 2035 claim. The Ohio State representatives were not named (Lonnie Thompson is the director of the Byrd Center.)
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on Monday, November 8th, 2010 at 6:19 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
Standing with Giants: A Collection of Public Health Essays in Memory of Dr. Beth Whelan, A. Alan Moghissi and Gilbert Ross, eds., American Council on Science and Health, 2016, 212 pages, ISBN-10: 0991005562, ISBN-13: 978-0991005567; $10.95 on Amazon.com.
On campuses, free expression is limited to boxing-ring-sized free speech zones. Conservative speakers are banned from university events, or shouted down if they do appear. The Universities of Michigan and Maryland tried to ban American Sniper because a couple hundred students out of 27,000 objected. Oberlin and Georgetown students railed that Christina Hoff Sommers mere presence required trigger warnings, caused them distress and discomfort, and constituted violence against women.