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The flipping of Wentworth simply marks a process that was happening
anyway. Our two major parties morphed long ago. The Labor Party now
represents the rich and the welfare dependent. The Liberals represent
the Deplorable worker and what’s left of the Middle Class and there
aren’t many of those in the seat of Wentworth. Turnbull was the perfect
fit for the seat as it transited from being a safe Co
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For anyone hoping to make their mark in the world of horror movies,
you'd think a Stephen King adaption would pretty much be the holy grail.
For some students at Blaenau Gwent Film Academy in Wales, UK, though,
it's a reality. SEE ALSO: 13 of the best Stephen King short stories
you've never read The Academy recently signed a contract to adapt
"Stationary Bike", a short story featured in King's co
When you're really proud of something, sometimes you've just gotta
shout about it. That's exactly what Jamie Lee Curtis rightfully did when
her movie smashed three, yes THREE, box office records. SEE ALSO: 13
horror movies for beginners you can stream right now Per Variety,
Halloween earned $77.5 million (£59.49 million) in its opening weekend
and "obliterated the franchise record opening of $26
The
900-year-old trinket was unearthed at the site of a Viking farmstead in
Iceland's Thjorsardalur valley. Thor and Odin might be best known for
thei...
Borrowing from President Donald Trump's self-description as the " King
of Debt ", Forbe's Derek Newton, over the summer, dubbed U.S. Secretary
of Education Betsy DeVos as the "Queen of Debt". DeVos is the
billionaire sister of Erik Prince, founder of the murderous private
mercenary firm, Blackwater, Inc. Like the President, whose foreign
policy decisions are compromised by his conflicting foreign
Via:
Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he had alerted the
military and federal border authorities that a U.S.-bound migrant
caravan from Central America was a national emergency, and that the
United States would begin curtailing aid to the region. Trump, in a
series of posts on Twitter, gave no other details about […]
Massive
chunks of hail and torrential rain battered Rome when a freak storm
struck on Sunday evening. The adverse weather blanketed streets with icy
chunks and trapped many drivers in their cars in the city's eastern
neighbourhoods. Some drivers abandoned their cars in the middle of
streets that became flowing rivers of ice and were pictured slowly
making their way through hail-covered streets. El
Massive
chunks of hail and torrential rain battered Rome when a freak storm
struck on Sunday evening. The adverse weather blanketed streets with icy
chunks and trapped many drivers in their cars in the city's eastern
neighbourhoods. Some drivers abandoned their cars in the middle of
streets that became flowing rivers of ice and were pictured slowly
making their way through hail-covered streets. El
Joachim Rønneberg, who has died aged 99, led team that blew up heavy
water factory Norway is mourning the saboteur Joachim Rønneberg, who led
a five-man team that daringly blew up a factory producing heavy water,
depriving Nazi Germany of a key ingredient it could have used to make
nuclear weapons. The prime minister, Erna Solberg, said Rønneberg, who
died on Sunday at 99, was “one of our finest
Given all the abuse people of color face, it’s shameful for the media to lecture citizens for raising their voices
Archaeologists say the 23-metre vessel has lain undisturbed for more
than 2,400 years Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the
world’s oldest intact shipwreck at the bottom of the Black Sea where it
appears to have lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years. The 23-metre
(75ft) vessel, thought to be ancient Greek, was discovered with its
mast, rudders and rowing benches all present a
“Fox & Friends” asked a panel of independent voters on immigrant caravan — and got some surprising answers
science
And what we can do about it -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
And what we can do about it -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Salty
water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to
support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth
billions of years ago, researchers reported Monday.
A
new structure in human cells has been discovered. The structure is a
new type of protein complex that the cell uses to attach to its
surroundings and proves to play a key part in cell division.
Elevated
concentrations of strontium, an element associated with oil and gas
wastewaters, have accumulated in the shells of freshwater mussels
downstream from fracking wastewater disposal sites, according to
researchers from Penn State and Union College.
I have a PhD, which stands for Doctor of Philosophy -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
_________ Daily Sabah Footage shows Saudis burning documents day after
Khashoggi’s disappearance Footage obtained by Turkish broadcaster A
Haber late Monday showed Saudi consular personnel burning documents a
day after Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance. BREAKING — Footage obtained
by Turkish broadcaster A Haber shows two men burning documents at the
Saudi Consulate in Istanbul a day […]
_________ Haaretz ‘Bring Me the Head of the Dog’: How the Top MBS Aide
Behind Khashoggi’s Murder Ran the Killing via Skype He ran social media
for Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. He masterminded the arrest of hundreds
of his country’s elite. He detained a Lebanese prime minister. And,
according to two intelligence sources, he ran […]
Both Trump and Kushner have shown no sign of moral responsibility in
the Middle East since the beginning of the Trump administration.
Terrorism is terrorism if and only if Kushner, Trump, Israel, and the
Saudis approve.
There is no US economy without planes and bombs. Those who suggested
otherwise, men like Ross Perot or Bobby Kennedy had to be pushed aside
for the ravings of Trump and Bush (43) or the delusional machinations of
Dick Nixon.
The controversial White Helmets rescue group has been praised in the
Western media as heroes, and derided by the Syrian government as
‘al-Qaeda’s civil defense’ network. But is there a middle ground between
such polarizing views? A Sputnik correspondent got an unprecedented
inside look into the group’s operations in southern Syria. A few months
ago, […]
Saudi Boycotters exhibit hypocritical attitudes since they never
boycott Israel for its ongoing genocidal crimes against Palestinians
Ellen and her friend, former NFL pro Jon Dorenbos, surprised Ben
Hartranft, a 20-year-old, high-functioning man with autism. Not only is
Ben a huge fan of Jon and his former team the Eagles, Ben is also an
Ambassador for the Philadelphia Eagles Autism Challenge, which raises
money to support autism research. Thanks to Shutterfly, Ellen and Jon
were able to help Ben’s fundraising efforts through a
leahgalant.com Instagram:@leah.galant Death Metal Grandma follows the
story of 96 year old Holocaust survivor, former WW2 spy and famous
songwriter Inge Ginsberg as she decides to pursue a new career: Death
Metal. Featuring: Inge Ginsberg, Pedro daSilva and Lucia Caruso Directed
and Edited by : Leah Galant Produced by: Clifford Miu, Elizabeth
Pauker, Sean Weiner, Christine Wexler and Linhan Zhang
By late 2019, Disney has promised to launch its own online streaming
service, further complicating the options for viewers who just want to
watch their favorite films and TV online. The competition between
streaming services has been great for consumers, so far. Outlets like
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Shudder, and Filmstruck have been
ramping up content and giving us a lot for very little
Ellen chatted with Sarah Silverman about her Emmy-nominated TV show, "I
Love You America," in which she connects with "unlike-minded people."
For the current political climate, Sarah gave some advice on how to find
common ground with people who you strongly disagree with.
#SarahSilverman #TheEllenShow #ILoveYouAmerica From: TheEllenShow
Some vulnerable species of water snakes are disappearing due to
overfishing in the world’s most biodiverse lake—the Tonle Sap, in
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Written, Edit and Directed: Kristofski Director of Photography: Zack
Spiger Opening scene Director of Photography: Charlie Sarroff Music and
Sound Design: Nicolas Snyder Featuring: Matthew Correia Rainey Qualley
Fabianne Therese Matt Taylor Kirin J Callinan memory.is/ Cast:
Kristofski
The Corbett Report
As
predicted, the IPCC has released their hot air report on 1.5C of global
warming and the lamestream fake news lying establishment lapdog media
is hyping it as the end of the world as we know it...unless you pay the
globalists more money to atone for your carbon sins, of course. This
week on #PropagandaWatch James breaks down the latest propaganda push
for carbon eugenics and what it means for th
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James Corbett joins Jim Goddard for his bi-monthly appearance on
HoweStreet.com. This time they discuss the IMF's attempts to put the
crypto genie back in the central bank bottle; drug money and the
banksters; the latest on the trade war; and the strange, sudden interest
of the lamestream media in the sins of
Imagine
you're a high school student doing a homework assignment on the Federal
Reserve. You go to YouTube and type in "Federal Reserve" in the search
bar and find "Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal
Reserve." The horror! Luckily, you don't have to worry about that,
because now that MSNBC and Mother Jones have ganged up, it's being
scrubbed from the search results! Welcome to the w
Jim Steele was the Director of the Sierra Nevada Field Campus of San
Francisco State University from 1985 to 2009. Having taught courses on
plants, natural sciences, bird banding and bird identification, his
research into the causes of the declines in local bird populations led
him to the understanding that natural climate cycles and landscape
changes were causing disruptions of wildlife populati
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James Corbett joins Dr. Joanne Conaway on The Power Hour to discuss how
technology is spying on you in the digital age.
The Rules of Exposition
I
wrote one the other day for my econ blog . The topic was "demand
deposits". Reviewing it the next day, I paused to double-check the
definition of the term. Google says a deposit of money that can be
withdrawn without prior notice. You know, like your checking account.
Among the results, I found a link to What is the difference between a
checking account, a demand deposit account, and a NOW (nego
A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
I am rooting like mad for British Columbians to vote in favour of
switching our voting system to proportional representation when the
referendum gets underway Oct. 22. But I'm nothing if not a realist, and
thus quite worried that people's resistance to change - especially when
it requires taking time to understand something that appears dull and
technical on the surface - will doom yet another ra
Amused Cynicism
Theresa May is planning a festival of Brexit after we leave the EU. Attractions on offer include these:
The FT reports that Britain is being offered a worse open skies deal
with America than it already has as a member of the EU: The US is
offering Britain a worse “open skies” deal after Brexit than it had as
an EU member, in a negotiating stance that would badly hit the
transatlantic operating rights of British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.
British and American negotiators met secretly in January fo
Do vaccines cause autism? No, but autism causes vaccines :
A3 Newsletter: Important Hearing This Week for Angola Prisoner Vincent
Simmons After a relatively quiet Summer, now Fall is starting out with a
bang. Last week, King and Albert made their first presentation of the
new season in Montgomery, Alabama for a group of Norwegian lawmakers on a
fact-finding mission about the U.S. criminal justice system. As part of
their trip to Montgomery, they visited
FREE PLANET
just watch, in wonder...
really Balthus inspiration? wow, did I really just call it that,
Commending Killatory? That would appear to be the new accidental name
for Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatori from Harvill Press just
released in hardback. Remember, I've been Haruki Murakami's #1 fan for
like donkey's years. Well, this is a bit of an exaggeration, "I like the
way he writes softly-surreal dip-in anecdotal fiction
I
watched the forthcoming videos NOT with an eye to proving the
Creationist agenda (dated by adding the ages of the parents of parents
in the Bible) but of some great interstellar catastrophe involving our
best sun as the Egyptians called the brown-dwarf Saturn , a star where
the plasma sheath extends out way beyond its surface under less electric
pressure than the high electric pressure of our Su
I've
been asking the people who run the Electric Universe and are involved
in the Thunderbolts Project for an alternative timeline for planet
Earth, as we call it. According to their concept of how galaxies, stars
and planets form, and based on observations noted down in mythology of
an alien electric sky and its gods, Earth might not be the
slow-accretion slow-sedimentation slow-evolution rock th
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The ABC Chopper 7 footage has recently been added to Youtube by
WTCFOIAVideos. The fireball doesn't appear on the replay although the
explosion can be seen at the very beginning. View on Youtube for more
information. ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
The Truth, these days seems to be debatable, even when discussing age
old facts, such as the solar system, With all of the new technology
available to us, we see it used as an argument for such ignorant
concepts as a "flat Earth". No wonder that we now see a comic book
villain as the leader of the US, with an unbelievable mixture of
religion, politics, and criminal behavior. Soon there will be no
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Fox 5 News breaking news on 911 This is a screen capture of a fade out
transition from the morning show to the breaking news This is a clip
from Fox 5 News at 8:52 am on September 11, 2001. Although reported as
breaking news it is clearly edited and has a fade in transition between
their morning show and the news coverage. of the World Trade Center
disaster. They show that the footage is courtesy
Greg Mankiw's Blog
Support for free trade seems to be rising: Source . Click on graphic to enlarge.
Click here to read my column in Sunday's NY Times .
Christine Lagarde Appoints Gita Gopinath as IMF Chief Economist . A great choice.
I
will be talking at the annual conference of the National Economics
Teaching Association, to be held October 25-26, 2018, in Phoenix,
Arizona. If you are interested in learning more about the meeting, click
here for more information.
Left I on the News
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) --
Oct. 19, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *After
journalist vanishes, focus shifts to young prince’s ‘dark’ and bullying
side https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) --
Oct. 12, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: Susan Collins
Consents
https://www.wsj.com/articles/susan-collins-consents-1538780948?mod=hp_opin_pos1
A strong contender for most disgust
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) --
Oct. 5, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: The Big Hack: How
China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-c
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) --
Sept. 28, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *Trump at the
U.N.: Undiplomatic? This Time, Aides Fear the Opposite
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/trump-united-nations-
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. Worst, Most Misleading & Funniest Headlines (WMMFH) --
Sept. 21, 2018 CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *No, Trump
Doesn't Have an 'Anti-Palestinian Agenda'
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/14/no_trump_doesnt_have_an_anti-p
Schools Matter
Until I read this post below by Alison McDowell, I had not considered
the international corporate benefit of operating an army of industrial
robots from afar. But why shouldn't globalized business take advantage
of this brave new world: producers like China and India can keep
factories operating where the air is too toxic or too hot for humans to
breathe; Silicon Valley can stay busy generating t
Following the terrorist plots in 2001 that brought down the World Trade
Center, left the Pentagon smoldering, and killed thousands of people,
the U. S. government acted swiftly to put in place measures to target
and take out the terrorists who masterminded and enabled the mass
destruction. Now if we had prior knowledge of an even more devastating
plan to wreak havoc worldwide, this time a plan to
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
So
I received this email: Ms. Ballman; I happened to come across your
article from 2011 regarding 10 Workplace Rights You Think you Have – But
Don’t. As both an attorney and a HR/Payroll consultant, your article is
either outdated, specific to Florida, or just completely inaccurate. I
would urge you to do your research and correct the artcle. If you would
be open to discuss the areas of your artic
I
see scenarios where employees leave work early for entirely sane
reasons. For instance: They are threatened by a coworker or customer and
feel unsafe They are so upset by a confrontation with management or a
coworker that they are crying They are sexually harassed They are called
racial, ethnic, or other discriminatory names Yet in each of these
circumstances, I also see employers claim the empl
People
come to me and say, “I was forced to quit.” Huh? How did the employer
do that? Gun to head? Torture devices? Kidnapped loved one? Because your
employer can’t make you quit. Quitting is entirely, 100%, up to you.
Just because your boss or HR comes to you and says you have to resign,
doesn’t mean you should. My usual advice is never, ever submit your
resignation, no matter how much they deman
Florida
has a real chance to turn the governorship and some legislative seats
blue this year. Because Florida is one of the worst states for employees
in the nation, a change in leadership means an opportunity to change
some of the worst anti-employee laws. And in my opinion the worst of the
anti-employee Florida laws is our noncompete law. Massachusetts, after
years of wrangling, finally passed a
The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage
I have posted the following comment to an American Thinker article on
"Being Human and the Abuse of Science", which sets belief in God above
science: The problem is, all of our religions grew out of previous
history, which personalized God, and thus put God in a too-small box of
man's own making. The most obvious problem with this, of course, is the
proliferation of man-made "Gods", which led to
I have submitted the following comment to the fabius maximus site, in
response to an article on alienation: Large-scale, or mass, alienation
is due to a general incompetence on the part of the "experts",
particularly in science and religion. Or to make a long story short, too
long nurturing of false dogmas in the underlying assumptions of a
civilization or society. The primary false dogma of mode
The Ergosphere
Over
at Green Car Congress, "Scottish Scientist" gushes about P2G: Power to
Gas (P2G) is best for (solar, wind etc.) farm-scale energy storage for
most farms where there is no possibility of farm-scale pumped hydro. P2G
is excellent for mopping up all the surplus farm power because any
energy which P2G can store is an efficiency gain compared to the 100%
loss of all curtailed generation. Grid
The High-fat Hep C Diet
An RCT paper claiming to show harmful effects of a low-carb diet passed
briefly over the internet on the weekend before being shot down in
flames. The title is: Long‐term health effects of the three major diets
under self‐management with advice, yields high adherence and equal
weight loss, but very different long‐term cardiovascular health effects
as measured by myocardial perfusion imaging and s
The Straight Goods
The Emma Jackson Story Written by Grant G Something going on around
here...... Emma Jackson , who is she, I don't know but boy oh boy is she
needed, especially the message she voices.. Ten Years .....according to
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) that's how much
time citizens of planet earth have to stop using the worst of the worst
fossils fuels, that includes fracking and tars
Kogas, one of the 5 corporations involved in LNG Canada's Kitimat
project.... Kogas has a 5% stake in the project......Kogas revealed
today how much their 5% stake is going to cost them.. The number
is.....$660 million dollars....that's 5% of the terminal cost.... 5% is
1/20th of 100%...... 5% times 20 equals...... $13.2 Billion dollars....
__________ SEOUL, Oct 12 (Reuters) - South Korea’s state
Written by Grant G Time for a Straight Goods look at the LNG Canada
deal.... Justin Trudeau and the stranger known as John Horgan were quick
to plant their faces in as many smiling photo-ops possible...all taking
credit for "Canada's largest ever private sector investment" .. Funny
stuff indeed....The project itself got federal approval many years ago
under Stephen Harper, the project received ta
thwap's schoolyard
So, plodding dullard, pants-pissing coward, anti-democratic doofus,
brazen hypocrite, overall incompetent, stephen harper has (in a
desperate attempt to appear relevant) farted out a book of sorts. It's
called I'm Really Stupid Now (or something). In it, he apparently says
that something he calls the global free-market economy has produced
winners and losers and that these fucking losers are turn
I once watched a documentary about Berlin in the interwar period. "City
of Sex" was the title I believe. I was interested because Weimar Berlin
was also a hot-spot of artistic creativity: Dada (brought in by the
German ex-pats who created it in Zurich during WWI, Expressionism,
Bauhaus, Brecht, Gross, the cabarets, etc., etc .,). Also, I was
interested in just how those stodgy old-folks from the
So, yeah. Easy answers. Achievement without effort. This desire for
maximum output with minimum input is hard-wired into us. Being able to
figure out the simplest way to achieve one's goals is a survival
mechanism. But sometime's evolutionary traits can backfire. Especially
when one lives within a self-reinforcing protective bubble of
information. The climate change deniers, the anti-vaxxers, rig
What Is Sustainable
I was intrigued when our book group selected Dancing in the Streets by
Barbara Ehrenreich. It’s a history of collective joy and ecstatic ritual
— stuff that’s pretty rare in the land of the glowing screen people.
Studying humankind’s long transition from wild and free to
robo-consumers, it’s easy to perceive gradually advancing emotional
decay. Cultures slid further away from intimate connections
[Note: This is the second sample from my rough draft of a far from
finished new book, Wild Free & Happy . I don’t plan on reviewing
more books for a while. My blog is home to reviews of 196 books, and you
are very welcome to explore them. The Search field on the right side
will find words in the full contents of all rants and reviews, if you
are interested in specific authors, titles, or subjects
[Note: I’m going to be posting a series of rough draft sections from
the book I’m working on. The plan is two per month. My blog is also home
to reviews of 196 books, and more than a dozen of my rants. Feel free
to wander.] Introduction I’ve been waking up with the ravens lately,
around 5:30. They celebrate each new day with enthusiasm, jabbering
joyfully in the treetops. Then they take wing and
Moving from the GTA to the north island is going to cost a lot more
than I thought. And I'm struck by my huge privilege in being able to do
this. Let's just label all these moving posts #FirstWorldProblems and
get it over with. When we moved from New York City to the Toronto area,
we hired a big, professional moving outfit. It was a very complicated
move involving a critically ill dog, a one-way
We
are moving west for several reasons. One is a lifestyle change. I've
adjusted to living in the sprawling suburbs, and while we living in a
(rental) house, it was nice. But for the last 2-1/2 years we've been
living in an apartment. A nice apartment, and a large one, but what's
the point of the surburbs if you don't have a backyard? Soon we will
have a big yard, a deck -- and the ocean very near
2018 Red Sox To-Do List ✔ Win the division with unprecedented number of
wins. ✔ Beat the Yankees in the ALDS. ✔ Beat the Astros in the ALCS. __
Win the World Series. __ Mookie Betts wins American League MVP award.
I
recently read these somewhat old, but still relevant, letters to the
New York Times Book Review. Cost of the Crash To the Editor: In his
review of “Crashed,” by Adam Tooze (Aug. 12) , Fareed Zakaria asserts
that “the rescue worked better than almost anyone imagined.” He notes
there was no “double-dip recession” and growth returned “slowly but
surely.” But this misses what was the major criticism
I
got a job! We are moving to Port Hardy, BC ! Port what now? Yes, we are
moving to a tiny, remote town in the "north island" -- the northern end
of Vancouver Island -- a town of 5,000 people. Nearby Port McNeill
counts 2,600 residents, and the third town in the region, Port Alice ,
is a village of less than 1,000. And we are thanking whatever it is we
atheists thank, because we're actually alread
We are moving to Vancouver Island! As soon as I find a good library job
there -- which may be very soon -- we are giving notice, packing up,
and driving across this beautiful country in a little car with a big dog
in the back seat. Why are we moving there? Short answer: because we
want to. The full answer is multifaceted. I've always wanted to
experience life in a small town. The question always
WWF - Latest News
LONDON, 12 October 2018 - Global leaders have acknowledged the need to
take urgent collective action to combat the illegal wildlife trade (IWT)
at the the fourth global conference on IWT. This now needs to be
matched by action. Hosted by the UK government in London, the conference
emphasised the need to tackle IWT as a serious organised crime, work
collaboratively with new partners, and redouble
LONDON, 12 October - Global leaders have acknowledged the need to take
urgent collective action to combat the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) at
the the fourth global conference on IWT. This now needs to be matched by
action. Hosted by the UK government in London, the conference
emphasised the need to tackle IWT as a serious organised crime, work
collaboratively with new partners, and redouble effor
5 October 2018, Rosa Khutor, Russian Federation: The 70 th meeting of
the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) concluded today. The
global spotlight now turns to the 18 th meeting of the Conference of
Parties in Colombo, Sri Lanka in May 2019, where the bulk of the
decisions and outcomes of this meeting will be confirmed
02 October 2018, Rosa Khutor, Russian Federation : Parties to the
Standing Committee to the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES), have clearly and
firmly stated that Japan is in violation of the convention. Japan has
been catching sei whales, allegedly for purposes of scientific research,
and selling the meat and blubber in domestic retail market
Today's decision allowing countries complicit in the illegal ivory
trade to withdraw from the National Ivory Action Plans (NIAPs) process
deals a severe blow to international elephant conservation efforts 01
October 2018, Rosa Khutor, Russian Federation : The 70th meeting of the
Standing Committee to the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) got o
Governments, International Organisations and Civil Society meet in
Russia to make key decisions on wildlife trade 01 October 2018, Rosa
Khutor, Russian Federation : The Standing Committee of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora
(CITES) today opened for the 70t
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