March 2010 Blog Posts (32)

Ecuador has strengthened its ties with Iran and Iran has even opened an embassy in Quito which has concerned the U.S.

Consequently, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), based in Paris, recently listed Ecuador as not following international regulations against money laundering and financing terrorism.

However, Ecuador has several regulations that prevent terrorism from investing in it. For example, people who are depositing amounts of money over 10,000…

Tonight at 8:30 pm is Earth Hour 2010. Every year people around the world show their concern about the environment by turning their lights off for one hour. More than 50 million people from 35 countries participate and many landmarks like the CN tower in Toronto contribute as well. However, what I am wondering is whether one hour is enough.

Earth Hour does claim that the purpose of the event is not the one hour of energy saving, but the awareness that the event brings.…

here is the link to the site and please read my discussion question and reply, thanks....

http://activistjournal.com/

i think it would be cool if we could publish an online journal including anthony's works and those of students, have an editor etc. and see what it would cost to run something such as this and promote it via the U of L....

also another site that is similar which we havn't discussed (probably…

Hi,

this is informal and a quick response as i don't want to lose my thoughts but somewhere along the road of my life i was told that there is some law or act (which i am in the works of finding) unless anyone else knows it, that if a person is thirsty it is a law that a business (any store etc) must provide water for a dying or thirsty person? Has anyone else heard about this and then how does that affect the right to own water, yet if we have a law somewhere that states we…

Speaking of reprimanding and rehabilitation of the catholic priests in question: The church had a general rule that the allegations…

II. Governmental Responses

What can government do about conspiracy…

I find the most interesting thing that is coming out of the news right now is the current sexual abuse claims against the catholic church. The catholic church is being accused of covering-up and…

My views so far have gone from confusion, to anger, to despair, and now to hope. Despair as of late because I see how messed up the world is and know

that it needs a complete overhaul, but will that happen? I sometimes wonder if

it is even worth learning…

After class tonight I felt immensely compelled to dicuss the 2004 Amnesty International Report "Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to discrimination and violence against Indigenous Women in Canada". I have attached a link below for access to the report in its entirety. An updated, summary version of the report states that "[i]…

The Mexican-American war. I could post dozens of commentaries about that historical event that resulted in Mexico losing about 40% of its territory in one of the clearest (and embarrasing) examples of American imperialism.

The American army had Catholic Irish and German immigrants amongst its ranks. These…

"Two soldiers go to war. One comes back and adjusts well, leaving it all behind. The other comes home with post-traumatic stress syndrome and cannot get the faces of the dead out of his mind. Which one them is crazy?" (1)

This is the definition of war according to Merriam-Webster:

1 a (1) : a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations (2) : a period of such…

Until now, corporations only influenced politics with high-paid lobbyists and backroom deals. But today, thanks to an enlightened Supreme Court, corporations now have all the rights the founding fathers meant for us. It was their dream to build the best democracy money can buy.

That's why Murray Hill Incorporated is taking democracy's next step — running for Congress.

PR firm…