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Feb
23
2012

  • Collateral damage from Canada's booming oilsands sector may be irreversible, posing a "significant environmental and financial risk to the province of Alberta," says a secret memorandum prepared for the federal government's top bureaucrat.
  • "While the industry has taken steps to reduce emissions, the shift from mining to in situ production, which is almost three times as emissions intensive as mining, is resulting in a continued acceleration of emissions from this sector," said the memo.
Feb
21
2012

  • described the protocol as "Orwellian".

     
     

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    The information is so tightly controlled that the public is left in the dark”

     End Quote  Professor Andrew Weaver  University of Victoria  

    The protocol states: "Just as we have one department we should have one voice. Interviews sometimes present surprises to ministers and senior management. Media relations will work with staff on how best to deal with the call (an interview request from a journalist). This should include asking the programme expert to respond with approved lines."

  • The protocol states: "Just as we have one department we should have one voice. Interviews sometimes present surprises to ministers and senior management. Media relations will work with staff on how best to deal with the call (an interview request from a journalist). This should include asking the programme expert to respond with approved lines."
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Jan
29
2012

  • Apart from gross incompetence, the army’s actions have another explanation: reassertion of a “deep state” that was badly bruised during the January uprising and took some time to regain its footing. While the army may be the bedrock of the post-1952 Egyptian state, the country’s array of security agencies crosses the boundaries between civilian and military. The Ministry of Interior’s agencies were particularly battered by the uprising and the fall of the ex-minister, Habib al-‘Adli, who had amassed unmatched clout in his long years on the job. It is not clear who controls the Ministry today, but it is almost certain that the police veteran in charge when the wintertime clashes broke out, Mansour al-‘Isawi, was not master of his own house.
  • he inner mechanisms of the SCAF’s decision-making, its dependence on intelligence agencies that have their own agenda and the likelihood that the generals are not all on the same wavelength must be factored in.

  • time becomes in every sense this thing you serve.
  • In other words, there’s the scientific taste for reducing men to numbers and the slave owners’ urge to reduce blacks to brutes
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Jan
28
2012

  • .حيث اشارت الدعوى الى أن قرار رئيس مجلس الوزراء السابق أحمد نظيف والخاص بمنح اعضاء مجلس ادارة الصندوق حصة بلغت حصة من عوائد استثمار الصندوق بنسبة تقدر 2,5 بالمئة
  • المبلغ التي تطالبت به عائشة عبد الهادي يقدر 200 الف جنية وهو جزء خاص بمستحقاتها والتي لم تصرف لها عن عام 2010
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Jan
20
2012

  • Florida Republicans
  • ey have introduced SB 2036 and SB 2038 to do just that. The measures would allow the state government to privatize prisons in secret and would also allow the government to secretly outsource the work of other state agencies
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Jan
17
2012

  • What liberals have never understood about Obama is that he practices a show-don’t-tell, long-game form of domestic politics.
  • I realized that to understand Obama, you have to take the long view. Because he does.
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Nov
29
2011

refutation of naomi wolf's piece in the guardian re: eviction of occupies being coordinated at highest level of govt.

www.economist.com/...occupy-wall-street-2
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