August 2003 - have debated carbon dioxide's role in global warming for over a decade, with most voices (though notably fewer within the US) calling it the biggest factor, while others call it negligible. [1] Occupation of Iraq: Americann and Iraqi officials are discussing the possibility of forming a large Iraqi militia or paramilitary force to help improve security in the country. [1] Terrorist: Terrorism group Jemaah Islamiyah has schemes, revealed in a 40-page manifesto (the Pupji book or General Guide to the Struggle of Jemaah Islamiyah), for a suicide bombing campaign designed to change Asia and the Pacific region into Islamic provinces. Jemaah Islamiyah is also shown to be a well-formed organization with a constitution, rules of operation, and leadership structure. [1] Afghanistan: Soldiers are killed in a remote region (near the town.
Capitalism - competing (and contentious) theories that developed in the 19th century, in the context of the industrial revolution, and 20th century, in the context of the Cold War, meant to justify the private ownership of capital, to explain the operation of such markets, and to guide the application or elimination of government regulation of property and markets and beliefs about the advantages of such practices. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Etymology 2 Capitalism as an economic system 3 Characteristics of Capitalist Economies 3.1 Economic Growth 3.2 Distribution of Wealth 3.3 Evolving Network Structure 3.4 Unknown/Unapproved Direction of Capitalist Economies 3.5 Unemployment/Employment 4 Criticisms of Capitalism 5 Capitalism and Imperialism 6 Capitalism as an ideology 6.6 Capitalism and political ideologies 7 Arguments for and against capitalism 8 Why does no one agree what.
Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy - Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy The Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy is a human rights organization based in Hong Kong that provides information human rights abuses in mainland China for news outlets. It is run single-handedly by Frank Lu Siqing. A municipal court document obtained by Lu claims his information center was "registered in Hong Kong by foreign hostile element Frank Lu Siqing." Lu may be able to continue his operations legally as Hong Kong is presently governed under one country, two systems. Lu has been imprisoned in mainly China twice. First in 1981 for calling for freedom of speech and again in 1989 for supporting the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement. Quote "If I don't speak up, then nobody will say anything..
Israel Defence Forces - of its GDP on defense. Defense expenditures increased dramatically after both the 1967 and 1973 wars. In 1996, the military budget reached 10.6% of GDP and represented about 21.5% of the total 1996 budget. In 1983, the United States and Israel established the Joint Political Military Group, which meets twice a year. Both the U.S. and Israel participate in joint military planning and combined exercises, and have collaborated on military research and weapons development. Military branches: IDF Ground Infantry Givati Brigade Golani Brigade Nahal Brigade ( נח"ל ) Paratroopers Brigade ( צנחנים ) SF and CT elite units (Sayeret) Armour Barak Armored Brigade (aka. 45th Armored Brigade) Sheva' Brigade (Hativa Sheva in Hebrew, aka. 7th Armored Brigade) Artillery Combat Engineering Air Warplanes Helicopter gunships Cargo planes Nun Mem - Air defence.
Gulf War - Kuwait. Furthermore, Iraq charged that it had performed a collective service for all Arabs by acting as a buffer against Iran and that therefore Kuwait and Saudi Arabia should negotiate or cancel Iraq's war debts. During the war, Iraq enjoyed good relations with the United States: the United States tilted towards supporting Iraq, despite (or perhaps because of) earlier Soviet influence in Iraq, and supplied it with weapons and economic aid (with the only aberration being the Iran-Contra affair, where some American officials secretly and illegally sold arms to Iran). Following the war, there were moves within the United States Congress to isolate Iraq diplomatically and economically over concerns about human rights violations. These moves were disowned by high-ranking US senators like Robert Dole, who told Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that.
November 2003 - 2003 November 30, 2003 Syria hands over 22 suspects to Turkey on Sunday in connection with four deadly suicide bombings in Istanbul, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. [1] According to the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, the People's Republic of China has freed three people detained on charges of posting information critical of the government on the Internet. [1] The Observer newspaper reports that a deal is imminent to repatriate British men being held in Guantanamo Bay. [1] Israeli army chief Moshe Yaalon and former heads of Shin Bet criticise Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for his unwillingness to consider the Geneva plan. [1] [1] [1] The Japanese government announces its intention to temporarily nationalize regional bank Ashikaga Bank after inspections show that it is insolvent; the cost may.
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Government of the United States - United States This article is about the national government of the United States. For information about the state and local governments, see: Politics of the United States and the individual state entries. The government of the United States, established by the Constitution, is a federal republic of 50 states. The national government consists of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The head of the executive branch is the President of the United States of America. The legislative branch consists of the United States Congress, while the Supreme Court of the United States is the head of the judicial branch. The legal system of the United States is based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Legislative branch 2.
December 2002 - Afghan/Pakistani border, in Paktia Province, Afghanistan. One US soldier is wounded by gunfire, and several Pakistani soldiers are killed when US air support arrives. The border in this region is poorly demarcated. [1]. Three missiles from US helicopter gunships strike a madrassa owned by former Taliban official Maulana Muhammad Hassan, according to the ANI news agency. The first trial of a member of the Russian military for human rights violations in Chechnya concludes controversially, with Col. Yuri Budanov found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital for further evaluation and treatment. Budanov was charged with murder and abduction after being accused of raping and strangling Heda Kungayeva, an 18 year old Chechen girl whom Budanov contends was a rebel sniper. [1] December 30, 2002 The Israeli.
December 2003 - the European Commission. [1] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces a ban on the sale of dietary supplement ephedra, citing "an unreasonable risk of illness or injury" from the use of the drug. [1] U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himself and his office from the CIA leak scandal, in which the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, was leaked by Washington insiders. Democratic political leaders had been calling for Ashcroft's recusal. [1] The man who was convicted of breaking into mainland China cable television networks and broadcasting footage of the banned Falun Gong reportedly dies in prison. Falun Gong and the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy claim he was beaten.[1] December 29, 2003 Papal Nuncio to Burundi, Irish-born Archbishop Michael Courtney, is killed in.
Democratic Kampuchea - black-clad troops told the residents that they would move only about "two or three kilometers" outside the city and would return in "two or three days." Other witnesses report being told that the evacuation was because of the threat of an American bombing and that they did not have to lock their houses since the Khmer Rouge would "take care of everything" until they returned. The roads out of the city were clogged with evacuees. Phnom Penh--the population of which, numbering 2.5 million people, included as many as 1.5 million wartime refugees living with relatives or in shantytowns around the urban center--was soon emptied. Similar evacuations occurred at Batdambang, Kampong Cham, Siemreab, Kampong Thum, and the country's other towns and cities. There were no exceptions to the evacuation. Even Phnom Penh's.
Sexual revolution - considered unsuitable for discussion, such as oral sex, orgasm, and homosexuality, were openly talked about. Some historians argue that the sexual revolution was not a complete break from earlier Western sexual attitudes but rather a liberalization after a conservative period that only existed between the 1930s and 1950s. They note that the Cold War sparked a socially conformist identity which tended to be self-conscious of its appearance to the outside world. Within the United States, this conformism took on puritanical overtones which contradicted natural or even, ironically, culture-established human sexual behaviours. It was this period of Cold War puritanism, some say, that logically led to a cultural rebellion in the form of the "sexual revolution." The extent to which the sexual revolution involved major changes in sexual behaviour, however, is questionable..
Politics of Hong Kong - 3 Right of Abode 4 Basic Law Article 23 5 Political Information 5.1 Region name: 5.2 Data code: 5.3 Dependency status: 5.4 Government type: 5.5 Administrative divisions: 5.6 Independence: 5.7 National holiday: 5.8 Constitution: 5.9 Legal system: 5.10 Suffrage: 5.11 Executive branch: 5.12 Legislative branch: 5.13 Judicial branch: 5.14 Political parties and leaders: 5.15 Political pressure groups and leaders: 5.16 International organization participation: 5.17 Flag description: 6 External Links Background On July 1, 1997, the People's Republic of China (PRC) was handed sovereignty over Hong Kong, ending more than 150 years of British colonial control. Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the PRC with a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs. According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration (1984) and the Basic Law--Hong.
Politics of Albania - Parties and Leaders 5 International Organization Participation 6 Administrative Divisions 7 Diplomatic Representation 7.4 In the US 7.5 From the US 8 Miscellaneous Data and Information 9 Reference 10 External Links Government Principal Government Officials (From the Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments as of December 31, 2002 with minor corrections'') President: Alfred Moisiu Prime Minister: Fatos Nano Deputy Prime Minister: Ermelinda Meksi Minister of Agriculture: Agron Duka Minister of Culture, Youth, & Sports: Arta Dade Minister of Defense: Pandeli Majko Minister of Education & Science: Luan Memushi Minister of Energy and Industry: Viktor Doda Minister of Environment: Lufter Xhuveli Minister of Finance: Kastriot Islami Minister of Foreign Affairs: Luan Hajdaraga (acting) Minister of Economy: Arben Malaj Minister of Health: Mustafa Xhani Minister of Justice: Spiro Peçi Minister.
Nanotechnology - These small tools would be used to develop and operate a next generation of one-hundredth-scale machine tools, and so forth. As the sizes get smaller, it would be necessary to redesign some tools because the relative strength of various forces would change. Gravity would become less important, surface tension would become more important, van der Waals attraction would become important, etc. Feynman mentioned these scaling issues during his talk. The feasibility of his proposal has never been effectively refuted. The term nanotechnology was first used by K. Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. In the fourth chapter, Drexler introduces self-replication (see also Von Neumann machine), another powerful premise of nanotechnology. Cells build copies of themselves in order to reproduce, and human-designed molecular robots.
Worldwide green parties - differences between generic green parties and Green Parties in a narrower sense and tells about the history and values of the green parties and green movements. For information about a specific Green party, see the links at the end of the article or the List of Green party issues. While the generic term "green party" can be used by anyone, there are a number of loosely-affiliated but nonetheless formally organized political parties and political movements based on the Four Pillars of the Green Party to which the term is especially applicable. These are called Green Parties (capitalized) in the rest of this article. Greens generally view grassroots democracy, pacifism, and social justice causes - especially those related to the plight of indigenous peoples - as inherently related to ecology and human.
Modern world - technology and culture which transformed the "Old World" into the Modern or New World, culminating in the Nuclear Age, the Sexual Revolution, the Information Age and finally a Leisure Age. The years 1500 - 1750 are in rough outline the times of the Early Modern Period being the years following the European Renaissance. The modern world was basically shaped by three great Revolutions: The American Revolution of 1776. The French Revolution of 1789. The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. These events in turn sowed the seeds for: The Russian Revolution of 1917 and contributed to the great wars of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, such as: The American Revolutionary War The Napoleonic Wars in Europe, and ultimately; The First World War (1914 - 1918).
Libertarian socialism - the two. Others feel that the two are symbiotic, and that the liberty of the individual guarantees the harmony of the society and vice-versa. All the critiques that anarchists develop are based on principles of decentralization of power and authority. So, while anarchists have a critique of capitalism similar to Marxism, the basis for opposition to capitalism is that it leads to concentration of power (in the form of wealth). This critique highlights the distinction between libertarian socialists and Libertarians: libertarian socialists advocate freedom while denying, to a greater or lesser extent, the legitimacy of private property. Libertarians, by contrast, believe that liberty is impossible without the protection of private property. Anti-capitalism Libertarian socialists oppose "illegitimate" authority and social hierarchy -- some believe that all authority and hierarchy is illegitimate. They.
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Human rights violations in Iraq - Human rights violations in Iraq Countless reports of human rights violations have emerged from Iraq, notwithstanding the Saddam Hussein Iraqi government prohibiting the establishment of independent human rights organizations within the country and rarely permitted foreign human rights watchers inside. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Saddam Hussein 1979-2003 1.1 Other Documented Violations 2 British Occupation of Iraq 3 External Links Saddam Hussein 1979-2003 Human rights organizations have documented government approved executions, acts of torture, and rape for decades since Saddam Hussein came to power in 1979 until his fall in 2003. In 2002, a resolution sponsored by the European Union was adopted by the Commission for Human Rights, which stated that there had been no improvement in the human rights crisis in Iraq. The statement condemned.
