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Apr
3
2012

  • "The IMF has become quite smart lately in the sense that they don't impose direct conditionality in order to give money," Adly says. "They ask the government to design the program and they have to accept it so they can release the tranches. So it is indirect conditionality because they won't give you the money unless they approve of the plan."
Feb
27
2012

  • Bon Appétit announced last week that it had implemented the most sweeping anti-cruelty policy in the food service industry. By 2015, all of the pork the company buys will come from farmers who do not confine their sows in two-by-seven-foot gestation crates. Similarly, all of its "liquid" eggs that come to its kitchens pre-cracked and in containers will be from cage-free hens, as its in-shell eggs do now. Veal from crated calves will disappear from Bon Appétit menus, as will the small amount of foie gras it serves.
  • A few years ago, I witnessed the domino effect of Bauccio's big fork in the Florida tomato industry. Because of heinous labor abuses in the fields, Bon Appétit told the state's growers that it would simply stop buying Florida tomatoes until it could find a producer whose labor practices were transparently fair.
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Feb
21
2012

  • one year after the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak, nothing has changed on the economic front in Egypt
  • n the “revolution budget,” education spending dropped from 3.5 to 3.2 percent of GNP
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  • 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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Feb
20
2012

  • What’s so notable here isn’t merely that the U.S. and Israel are engaged in the very practices which the U.S. annually and flamboyantly condemns as “human rights abuses” when done by others. It’s that these abuses have now been going on for so long in the two countries, are so entrenched, that they have been absorbed into the political landscape as barely noticed accoutrements. They have become completely normalized — not just legally and politically but culturally – to the point where they are scarcely controversial.
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