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ADF Bullies Put Reform At Risk
Kathryn Spurling (source 
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The latest ADF misconduct shows that misogynist behaviour is endemic. The time for rhetoric is over – sexual predators cannot be allowed to sabotage the reforms underway, writes Kathryn Spurling It is hardly headline news that male Australian army personnel were involved in unacceptable behaviour and the denigration of women. It is not news that the Australian Army had known of the allegations for almost … Continue reading
Climate change overseas likely to affect UK food supplies
Roger Harrabin, Environment analyst (source )
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Climate change abroad will have a more immediate effect on the UK than climate change at home, a report says. Supplies of many commodities including wheat could be affected by climate change Research by consultants PWC for Defra says the UK is likely to be hit by increasingly volatile prices of many commodities as the climate is disrupted. It warns that global production of some … Continue reading
The revolution’s here: Challenges to Australian politics
Mark Eggleton (source )
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Former federal minister and now senior advisor at Lazard, Lindsay Tanner, says part of the problem with Australia and our political leaders is they have never really had to think. Former federal minister and current Lazard senior advisor, Lindsay Tanner, says we’re going through a structural economic transformation in the Western world that is fundamentally more important than the Industrial Revolution. Photo: Erin Jonasson Australia … Continue reading
Posted in Australasia, Leadership, Opinion, Politics, Society
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Sack The Bosses, They’re Killing The Economy
Russell Marks (source )
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Lean times may be ahead for the economy. The worst-performing parts of the workforce may have to pay the price. Sorry management, you’ll have to go, writes Russell Marks As the national economy sinks toward recession at the prospect of an Abbott government, Australian enterprises must work harder at becoming more efficient, more productive and more profitable. The dead weight on Australian businesses must be … Continue reading
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Economy at a crossroads: coming out of the crisis
Andreas Theophanous (source )
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IN RESPONSE to the article by Mr Timothy Spyrou entitled ‘Clientelism, cronyism and also complacency’ which criticises the study entitled The Cyprus Economy at Crossroads – Coming Out of the Crisis please note the following: Mr Spyrou takes issues circumstantially and misses the broader picture. Furthermore, he elaborates on issues that I did not even refer to in my study. For example, he confuses incomes … Continue reading
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The Megalomania of Erdoğan the Magnificent
Stanley A. Weiss (source )
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LONDON -It was the first time young Turks would march on the streets of Istanbul, when it was still known as Constantinople. On a hot spring night 105 years ago, a movement of student activists, nationalists and secularists rose up against the autocratic rule of Sultan Abdulhamid II, who was the 99th caliph (or, religious leader) of Islam and 34th sultan of the 600 year-old … Continue reading
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The Need for a Anthropocentric Global Financial System
Vasilis Giavris (source )
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There is something seriously wrong with our global economic system. The unregulated free market has failed. The common good and well being of citizens has been sacrificed in favor of corporate greed and profit. Democracy is challenged by “corporatocracy” whilst the state is challenged by global financial predators. The state’s ability to control monetary, fiscal and budgetary policies has been significantly reduced since, heavily reliant … Continue reading
Posted in General, Global issues, Historical, Humanity, Leadership, More than just bread, Opinion, Society
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An Anthropocentric Manifesto for Civil Society and Globalization (1)
Nicolas Laos (source )
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Since 2008, humanity in general and the Western world in particular have become deeply aware that a peculiar crisis threatens the very foundations of the established civilization and contests old world-conceptions. In December 2012, the U.S. National Intelligence Council’s draft “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds” recognized that, even though, for much of the last fifty years, the international system remained stable, the first decade of … Continue reading
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ERT
Dean Kalimniou (source )
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“If ERT is being shut down owing to poor management, why cannot the Greek government also be shut down for the same reason?” Anonymous Greek protester. Greece’s ERT broadcaster kept broadcasting today despite the government’s attempt to shut it. The sign reads: “The revolution will not be televised.” Photograph: JOHN KOLESIDIS/REUTERS We live in Orwellian times. So says Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, when in … Continue reading
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