The Netanyahu Disaster
Benjamin Netanyahu believes he has just one job, and that is to stop Iran from getting hold of nuclear weapons. He might argue that this description of his mission as Israels prime minister is too limiting, though such an argument would not be.
UN Security Council undemocratic, must include Africas voice
Africa must have a voice in the UN Security Council, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said.. voice: Uhuru Kenyatta. President Uhuru Kenyatta officially opens the meeting of foreign ministers of the Committee of Ten (C-10) on the United Nations Security Council Reform at Kempinsky Hotel in Nairobi on November 17, 2014. PHOTO | PSCU. Conflict, disease, famine and natural disaster are constantly profiled as African, normal and undeserving serious global attention.
The Green New Deal - Paula Bradshaw For Congress
On top of all that, the big energy corporations are not in the business or extracting oil and natural gas in order to keep prices down for American consumers or to provide ���energy security��� for the United States. They are in the.. As explained in part I, global climate change is already costing us dearly, and the human and economic costs of disasters, forest fires, floods, droughts and food shortages will become staggering if we fail to take dramatic action. Second, we still��.
American Nuclear Power Was Doomed Even Before Japan.
During his post-earthquake press conference Friday, Obama reiterated his pro-nuclear stance, saying that the U.S. would, by 2035, be getting 80 percent of its electricity from clean energy��� which he described as wind and solar and. Combine low natural-gas prices���which, by the way, are perhaps the only bright spot in an otherwise bleak commodities market)���and the high cost of a big new reactor, say, a Westinghouse AP1000, which may cost $5 billion to $7��.
In praise of Mr. Netanyahus political theater
In a brazen diplomatic affront to President Obama, Israels Prime Minister Netanyahu denounced the Presidents negotiations with Iran before a packed audience of the US Congress on March 3. Obama dismissed the speech as political ���theater��� while over .
Pakistans IDP Problem
According to the FATA Disaster Management Authority (FDMA), 87,778 North Waziristan families have been registered and verified as displaced. Reports have. Last summer, fake marriage certificates were for sale, for a price of $50. Since marriage .
Haiti policy statement for President Obama and Congress
Haiti is suffering famine, the repercussions of the 2004 U.S.-supported coup detat and the ravages of the greatest natural disaster in remembered history, three times greater than the Katrina damage... To grant Haitians TPS, end the U.N. military occupation, assist Haiti with poverty reduction, domestic agricultural investments and community policing, and cancel unfair debt to international financial institutions ��� all those initiatives would support stability and��.
Is Ebola the New Powder Keg?
But researchers do know a great deal about how other destabilizing forces that often accompany or mirror the devastation of disease ��� economic shocks, food protests, or natural disasters ��� could lead to civil war. Here, there may be clues as to what.
Sustaining Afghanistans Economy
By M.F. MoonzajerM.F. Moonzajer is a former intern for the United Nations Secretariat in Bonn, Germany, an International Development Research Center of Canada scholar, the current editor of the International Scientific Journal of Issues, Research and.
Dont look away now, the climate crisis needs you | Naomi.
. can solve it. In the first, an extract taken from the Introduction to THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING by Naomi Klein, the author argues that if we treat climate change as the crisis it is, we dont just have the potential to avert disaster but could improve society in the process.. So said Canadian college student Anjali Appadurai, as she stared down the assembled government negotiators at the 2011 United Nations climate conference in Durban, South Africa. She was not��.
Remarks by National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice Keynote
Remarks by National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice ���The Strength of American Leadership, the Power of Collective Action��� Keynote Address at the Center for a New American Security Annual Conference Washington, DC
Dont look away now, the climate crisis needs you
A voice came over the intercom: would the passengers of Flight 3935, scheduled to depart Washington DC, for Charleston, South Carolina, kindly collect their carry-on luggage and get off the plane. They went. There they saw something unusual: the.
Major Change Is Needed If the IPCC Hopes to Survive by.
Rajendra Pachauri, left, chairman of the IPCC, along with Orgunlade Davidson, center, and Bert Metz, the co-chairmen of the IPCC Working Group III, at a 2007 press conference in Bangkok. With all of these troubles. In its 2007 report, the IPCC included a graph that showed a smoothed line representing increasing global temperatures since 1970 on top of a smoothed line showing the increasing costs of weather-related disasters. The implication of the graph is not��.
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NPRs Eyder Peralta on Islamic State cruelty against children: ���In a report released on Wednesday, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said it had received reports of several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings.
BP Oil Disaster: Who is Responsible? - The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast examines disgraced BP CEO Tony Hayward and five other key players���and their role in the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.. If this scenario pans out, Republicans can be expected to raise hell, framing the issue as the White House requesting a U.N. vote before Congress has had a chance to weigh in. But not everyone believes... Shes been a valuable voice both on air and in our newsroom, and we wish her all the best.���.
Political Challenges Today : Perspectives and tasks for SR
At the Labour Party conference (2014), they pledged to raise the minimum wage to ��8.00 by 2020, to repeal the Health and Social Care Act, to raise ��2.5bn for the NHS from a mansion tax, to repeal the bedroom tax, to freeze energy prices and a ban on.
REDD in the news: 8-14 November 2014 | REDD-Monitor
UNFCCC press release, 8 December 2014 | At the UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, a group of five countries has taken steps towards improved national and global forest action... By Bruno Vander Velde, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 8 December 2014 | Paul Polman, Unilevers CEO, said natural disasters ��� many linked to climate change ��� cost his multinational consumer-goods corporation $300 million annually, and that left unchecked ���climate change has��.
Gourley responds: Would limited goals really have improved our chances? And.
By Thomas E. RicksThomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. February 6, 2015; facebook twitter google-plus reddit email. Gourley responds: Would .
Pakistans IDP Problem
According to the FATA Disaster Management Authority (FDMA), 87,778 North Waziristan families have been registered and verified as displaced. Reports have. Last summer, fake marriage certificates were for sale, for a price of $50. Since marriage .
Leader: At last, some wisdom on global warming | Comment.
Delegates at a United Nations conference in Bali last week reached a last-minute agreement on tackling climate change.. But once the disastrous consequences of inaction are taken into account - natural disasters; refugee crises; food shortages - it becomes clear that, aside from the moral imperative, there is a huge competitive edge available to the.. The editorial is wrong to suggest that China and India should take the same weight of blame as the US does.
Obamacare program costs $50000 for every American who gets health insurance
If theyre right, Obamacares per-person cost would be even higher. President Barack Obama pledged to members of Congress in 2009, as his signature insurance overhaul law was being hotly debated, that the plan Im proposing will cost around $900.
Key Obamacare Official Stepping Down
But Tavenners many defenders, inside and outside the administration, point to the obstacles she faced -- including a bureaucracy not up to the task of developing such a website and enormous political pressure, sometimes from Republicans in Congress.
Haiti in Crisis - The Daily Beast
But the costs will be significant. Click Below to View. Even in the face of persistent natural disasters, Haiti is trudging along on the right course. That kind of.. U.S. sanctions. If this scenario pans out, Republicans can be expected to raise hell, framing the issue as the White House requesting a U.N. vote before Congress has had a chance to weigh in... And with my voice, with my ability to build relationships with amazing people, speak to amazing people. Call Elon��.
Summary of the Third International Conference on SIDS.
The 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, brought the special case of small islands and coastal areas to international attention when it adopted Agenda 21, a programme of. The priority areas are climate change and sea-level rise, natural and environmental disasters, management of wastes, coastal and marine resources, freshwater resources, land resources, energy resources, tourism resources,��.
Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya.
Mindful of the risks and costs of military action, we are naturally reluctant to use force to solve the worlds many challenges.. And so at my direction, America led an effort with our allies at the United Nations Security Council to pass a historic resolution that authorized a no-fly zone to stop the regimes attacks from the air, and further authorized all necessary measures to.. And no decision weighs on me more than when to deploy our men and women in uniform.
General Elections Countdown: Nigeria at the Existential Crossroads of History
It is not all that complicated: When I emigrated to the US and was confronted with the high costs of higher education running into tens of thousands of dollars that required a student loan albeit guaranteed by the US government with monthly interests.
All Is Not Lost in Afghanistan
Life expectancy has gone up from 47 years to 62, the highest gain in a decade ever recorded by the United Nations. Infant and maternal mortality have. This is not 1842; unspeakable disaster is not just around the corner. Could it all fall apart? Of.
Big Brother Doesnt Have to Be a Bully
With it, imagery useful for everything from predicting humanitarian crises to directing rescue efforts during natural disasters could be sanitized and made available to the world. But in the days of President Ronald Reagan, there was no interest in.
International Conference Says World Security Depends on.
World leaders from 40 countries, including Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, attended the conference on Thursday in London focusing on stabilizing and rebuilding Somalia after decades of war. The conference. In addition to the violence, the Somali people have endured bouts of natural disasters, including famine, drought and floods. The U.S.. The UN estimates that over 360,000 refugees reside in Dadaab.
The Great Global Warming Swindle!!! | SOLO - Sense of Life.
As the film spells out for us: Man-made global warming is no ordinary theory. It is presented in the media as having the stamp of authority of an impressive international organisation. The UNs intergovernmental panel on climate change or IPCC... It is always a bad sign when a UN conference ends on time: if anything substantive is at stake, these unwieldy gatherings of 190 governments invariably overrun, only reaching resolution in the early hours of the morning.
The Afterparade: No Breakthroughs ��� And Thats Just Fine
Expectations for the Obama-Modi meeting this week, therefore, outstripped unforgiving realities: The leaders (one theory ran) would sign an accord on climate change as far-reaching as the one reached just two months earlier by Obama and Chinese.
No pause, but much disruption, in the worlds warming, U.N..
The French meteorologist, who has headed the WMO since 2004, acknowledged that naturally occurring phenomena such as volcanic eruptions or El Ni��o and La Ni��a events have always contributed to frame our climate, influenced temperatures or caused. And in an interview with Voice of America, Jarraud observed that since 2001, the first year of this Century, the coldest year that we have observed since 2001 is actually warmer than any year before 1998..