The world's worst pollution problems
"Blacksmith Institute in collaboration with Green Cross Switzerland issued a Top Ten list of the world’s most dangerous pollution problems. The report names pollution as one of the leading contributing factors to death and disability in the world and highlights the disproportionate effects on the health of children." from website
US presidential elections 2008
Political Party Platforms
Gop moves to the right, just read the Platform 2008
CALL:
Senator John McCain: (202) 224-2235
Senator Barack Obama: (202) 224-2854
WRITE:
Senator John McCain:
241 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Fax: (202) 228-2862
Senator Barack Obama:
713 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Fax: (202) 228-4260
truth-o-meter
http://uselectionatlas.org/
http://www.multied.com/elections/
It is obvious that the bush admin invaded the wrong country, started a war under false pretenses. Meanwhile the terrorist threat coming out of afghanistan is being neglected, and handled poorly by an inept administration. It will have bitter consequences for us all. (Dr. wayne gahan, CU, 02-06-2008))
Here is a must read report on the situation in Afghanistan.
"Manley Panel on Afghanistan: The Senlis Council’s Analysis
Report
25 JANUARY 2008
The Manley Panel’s report includes an extensive list of essential policy changes which address the full spectrum of issues facing Canada’s mission in Afghanistan: Canada should stay in Afghanistan until the job is done; more troops are needed from our NATO allies; Poppy for Medicine projects should be implemented as part of a coherent counter-narcotics policy; CIDA should be revamped; and the Kandahar hospital should be refurbished and renovated as a signature Canadian project. Although the Panel is not as clear on action items to deal with the Taliban and Al Qaeda bases in Pakistan as they could have been, their report does recognise the insurgent safe havens in Pakistan as a critical problem. " (website)
The Global Corruption Report 2007
The USA Electoral Process
Primaries, caucuses, punch card ballots, hanging (pregnant)
chads, provisional ballots, popular vote, electoral college, battleground
states, Help America Vote Act, campaign finance laws, electronic voting machines
with no print out option, voter rolls flawed, 20,000 lawyers on standby: the US
system is a mess, confusing at times, but by all means it's outdated, flawed,
outright stupid, chaotic to say the least. It's a shame that the "superpower" (declining?) USA, a
technically rather sophisticated nation has such an antiquated electoral system.
A reform is more than overdue. Shame on America, that four years after the
Florida debacle, the same machine type is used in Ohio and other states.
USA- a country with the most powerful army but a very primitive electoral system
- what does that tell us? (Wayne Gahan, CU) PS:
HINT: India has a very sophisticated system, and it's a so called developing
country: http://www.indian-elections.com/electoralsystem/
Coleman, Kevin J., Joseph E. Cantor and Thomas H. Neale
Presidential Elections in the United States: A Primer. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 2000, 53pp. http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/22616.pdf
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/
US elections 2004
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/election04/homepage.htm
http://www.debates.org/
http://www.globalvote2004.org/
Electoral Vote Calculator - http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/ev/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6327343/
OSCE report on 2004 election in the USA
http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2004/11/3779_en.pdf
US elections 2000 -- http://www.library.ubc.ca/poli/compartno.html#2000
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html
http://www.fairvote.org/
http://www.electiononline.org/
Center for Responsive Politics
http://www.opensecrets.org/home
Center for the American Woman and Politics
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp
Center for Voting and Democracy
http://www.fairvote.org/
Committee for the Study of the American Electorate
http://gspm.org/csae
Democratic National Committee
http://democrats.org/index.html
Federal & State Election Resources
http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup25.htm
League of Women Voters
http://www.lwv.org
Politics1 - Presidency2004
http://www.politics1.com/p2004.htm
Project Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org
Republican National Committee
http://rnc.org
U.S. Federal Election Commission
http://www.fec.gov
Foreign Press Centers Campaign 2004 Web Links
http://www.fpc.gov/c9752.htm
Democracy and Human Rights Electronic Journal Issues of
Democracy: Fair and Free Elections, September 1996
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0996/ijde/ijde0996.htm
http://www.outragedmoderates.org/
Thad
Anderson a Law student at St. John's School of Law in Queens writes : "During
the last four years, the Bush administration's policies have gone against
everything I’ve ever learned about how America is supposed to work: as a
political science major, as an Eagle Scout, and as a member of a family that has
lived in the American South since before the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution were signed"
Most interesting is the Download For Democracy campaign, "which uses peer-to-peer
networking to give Americans a fast, free, and easy way to access over
600 government documents."
Mercer Human Resource Consulting : World-wide quality of
life survey; personal safety rankings http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml?idContent=1084615
American Indian Tribal Directory - U.S. Federally
Recognized Tribes
Arab Human Development Report 2002 (June
2002) - a UN study detailing achievement and stagnation in 22
Arab countries (280 million people) since the 1970s.
CIA Worldfactbook (current version)
Royal Genealogies, Denis R. Reid
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
Official Government Web Pages by Country
International Agencies and Information on the Web
Foreign Governments
Foreign Government Resources on the Net
Governments on the WWW
Address Directory For The Politicians Of The World
Current Leaders Worldwide
Heads of Government list by country
National Anthems of the World
Flags of the World
World Flag Database
Directory Of The World's Embassies and Consulates
Governments on the WWW: Representations in Foreign Countries
Information Resources: Embassies World Wide
The Electronic Embassy
The Embassy Web
Institut Français de Micropatrologie
French Micropatrological Institute
Parliamentary Procedure
Tying
It All Together
