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Monday, February 18, 2008
Corruption - a problems of those (ethnically) others
It's true, isn't it? We hear the words corruption, tax evasion, theft, many people think immediately 'third world'. And, to be fair, there's a fair share of all of that in developing countries, BUT, us developed world whities are also not doing really badly on that front. Germany, that beacon of decency and honesty, has just been hit by a gigantic tax evasion scandal in the vicinity of about 4 billion Euro. Orchestrated by very wealthy business leaders (including, for instance, the boss of logistics company Deutsche Post) and aided and abetted by that funny financial outfit Liechtenstein (the European equivalent to Caribbean tax havens for tax evaders), in effect these richest of the rich in Germany stole billions of Euros from other tax payers. Not just a problem of the developing world then, it seems...
Ethical Progress on the Abortion Care Frontiers on the African Continent
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The Jamaican national broadsheet The Gleaner published during the last two weeks columns by one of its columnists, Ian Boyne, attacking athe...
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The Canadian Society of Transplantation tells on its website a story that is a mirror image of what is happening all over the w...
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The Supreme Court of the United States of America has overridden 50 years of legal precedent and reversed constitutional protections [i] fo...