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Director Robert Greenwald framed his Uncovered as a serious but essentially apolitical critique of the administration’s foreign policy, spurred by his fear that the threshold for invading foreign nations had become dangerously low. The film, released in August, was greeted with mixed reviews, as some critics praised it as a convincingly muted version of Moore’s film while others perceived it as a diluted rehash...
...billion in extra funding. Labor followed up with its long-awaited tax and family policy, which promised - in line with Latham's overused slogan "ease the squeeze" - tax cuts to those on less than $A52,000 a year, rejigged family payments and an increase in the top tax-rate threshold. Two days later, as the detail of the complicated plan was still being absorbed, an explosion outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta knocked it from the front pages...
...aides say, is not to prove the Senator is better than Bush on defense but to prove he's capable. "Bush is always going to win the comparison," says a Kerry staff member. "He is the Commander in Chief. For us, this is not a comparison. It's a threshold issue...
...United Nations says the pogrom has created the worst humanitarian disaster in the world today. The World Health Organization this summer found that the death rate in Darfur was three times the emergency threshold, with hundreds dying of disease every day and tens of thousands likely to die by the end of the year. Testifying before Congress this month, Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the horrors committed in Darfur deserve the ultimate sanction. "We concluded--I concluded--that genocide has been committed in Darfur, and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility, and that genocide...
...religious groups "as such." Although Lemkin's law grew directly out of the Holocaust, it did not define genocide as the attempted extermination of an entire group. Lemkin, who lost 49 members of his family, including his parents, to the Final Solution, knew that if extermination were the threshold for a response, action would inevitably come too late...