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...Quite simply, it is because a substantial proportion of the British people do not want to be in the E.U. The cause of this opposition lies in the increasing disempowerment of both the British individual and the British state. Moreover, the British taxpayer has to pay a very substantial amount of money to the E.U. each year, an organization that cannot, will not or dare not, tell us how it is all spent. Elliott makes the point that the U.S. wants Britain to be central to European policy; that's all very well, but it is increasingly clear that this...
...explain why this opposition exists. Quite simply, it exists because a substantial proportion of the British people do not want to be in the E.U. They see the increasing disempowerment of both the British individual and the British state. Moreover, the British taxpayer has to pay a substantial amount of money to the E.U. each year, to an organization that cannot, will not or dares not tell us how it is all spent. C.S. Lewis, Derby, England
...region are officially plentiful, according to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) that keeps track of them, talk to anyone in General Santos and you'll hear otherwise. Supplies of fresh, local skipjack dropped 50% last year, says Miguel Lamberte, the port's manager. This August, the amount of both frozen and fresh skipjack being unloaded was at an all-time low, he says. "And it's still going down...
...number of lives which will be lost and the disproportionate amount of life quality loss will be suffered by people in the more impoverished parts of the world,” said Nicholas C. Hayes ’08, who runs a religious environmental activist group at MIT. “This is a justice issue that we as a Church and we as a country and we as a species face...
...There are special interests that set aside enormous amounts of money every year for the purpose of feeding the political system, I’m talking about a serious defamation of American Democracy,” Gore said. “When the special interests want to stop reform movements in Congress, they have an enormous and unhealthy amount of power...