Abuse, abandon, betray, hunt, race, raid, battle, divide, slam, chop, shot, arrest, protest, lose, hanged, kill
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| AUSTRALIA |
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| CHINA |
China will take a harder
line against virtual currencies beginning this year, one of the nation's top
economic regulators said Thursday. And the country plans to release its own
cryptocurrency, revealed Fan Yifei, a vice governor at the People's Bank of
China, the country's central bank. Beijing would join the governments of Venezuela and Iran in the state-backed cryptocurrency
realm. [POLITICO's Morning Cybersecurity, March 30, 2018]
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| MALAYSIA |
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| CAMBODIA |
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| THE PHILIPPINES |
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| SAUDI ARABIA |
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| COLOMBIA |
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| COSTA RICA |
NOT SO RICH
A COAST: The top
headlines out of the recent Costa Rican election were that the Central American
country had easily elected a backer of gay marriage as president. But that
38-year old president-elect, Carlos Alvarado, also has a lot of work to
do to clean up
Costa Rica's finances, after the big three credit raters handed San Jose four
downgrades in five years. Bloomberg: Alvarado has "pledged to introduce
'fiscal rules' that limit the government's ability to run up debt, and to pass
a package of tax and spending measures." But outside analysts are
skeptical that Alvarado will be able to push through new tax increases.[ POLITICO's
Morning Tax, April 3, 2018]
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CZECH REPUBLIC
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| THE NETHERLANDS |
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| RUSSIA |
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| SPAIN |
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| UNITED KINGDOM |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND |
What movement means: The view from
Brussels hasn’t changed since December. Either Northern Ireland remains in the
customs union and aligned with EU regulation on the movement of goods, or the
U.K. as a whole enters a customs union with the EU after it leaves (Michel
Barnier re-started pushing that solution this week). Unless, of course, there suddenly appears a
magical or technical way to hide a border that must exist to avoid a big fat
hole in the EU’s internal market.[ POLITICO Brussels Playbook,
April 13, 2018]
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Calm has prevailed in Northern
Ireland since the historic Good Friday agreement was signed 20 years ago this
week, ending the violence known as “The Troubles,” which claimed more
than 3,000 lives from 1968 to 1998. But political stability remains
elusive: Belfast hasn’t had a governing executive since January 2017, while
social, political and religious divides persist among the population. Now,
Brexit threatens to undo the celebrated peace accord, in part because it
could re-establish border controls between the EU’s Republic of Ireland and the British north. [OZY PRESIDENTIAL BRIEF, April 14, 2018]
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| GREAT BRITAIN |
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VATICAN
CITY
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| CANADA |
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| MEXICO |
Our fight to save the vaquita — the world’s most endangered
marine mammal — has been non-stop.
Scientists have pressured the Mexican government to effectively ban massive gillnets used to catch Mexican shrimp and other seafood that can injure or drown vaquitas. Supporters like you have called on U.S. retailers to stop carrying Mexican shrimp. And last year, our legal team formally petitioned the U.S. government to ban vaquita-harming imports.
But with fewer than 30 vaquitas now remaining and their population shrinking by half every year, this endangered porpoise has come too close to extinction for us not to take the next step.
So NRDC is suing the Trump administration for failing to follow federal law and ban Mexican shrimp and other seafood caught with gillnets that entangle and drown the small porpoise.
But with the vaquita’s survival on the line, we have to keep up the fight on other fronts as well.
Don’t wait for a court to decide. You can help protect the vaquita by committing to boycott shrimp from Mexico now.
Your
choices as a consumer can have a real impact. Last year, thanks to pressure
from people like you, Trader Joe’s committed to stop carrying Mexican shrimp —
an important victory in our fight to protect the vaquita porpoise.
Now, we must keep the pressure building — in and out of court — until we’ve ensured full protection for the vaquita. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action to save the vaquita now.
Thank you for all that you do.
Sincerely,
Rhea Suh
President, NRDC [April 15, 2018]
Now, we must keep the pressure building — in and out of court — until we’ve ensured full protection for the vaquita. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Take action to save the vaquita now.
Thank you for all that you do.
Sincerely,
Rhea Suh
President, NRDC [April 15, 2018]
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