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• Copyright, Climate, the Chamber of Commerce, and ACTA: a few more connections

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 130
  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has made a good deal of intellectual property news recently, given their copyright and trademark lawsuit against the Yes Men for the latter’s fake press conference and website, in which they impersonated the Chamber and claimed that it was reversing its position on climate change ...
  23 hours ago

• Advocates Renew Calls for Transparency in ACTA process

  
  PolicyBeta — Authority: 490
  CDT and other advocates sent a letter to President Obama today once again urging greater transparency as the US negotiates a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA ). While the administration has permitted some advocates (including my colleague David Sohn) to review the US-authored Internet portion of the ...
  4 days ago

• Roundup on new ACTA leak stories

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 130
  Just a quick note on some of the recently-surfaced news on ACTA ’s Internet provisions. Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa has some details and analysis here ; IDG/PC World has a good summary here And EFF has additional in-depth analysis and discussion here .
  6 days ago

• Is the Honduran Political Crisis Over?

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 765
  The United States has agreed to recognize the results of this month’s election.  Ousted President Zelaya will be allowed to return to Honduras, and the legislature will vote on whether to allow him to serve out the remaining three months of his term, albeit without control over the military. Meanwhile, it seems ...
  1 week ago

• Malaysia: worrying more about Beyonce’s cleavage than corruption and recession

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  After several postponements, Beyonce’s Kuala Lumpur concert has been finally cancelled. The country asserts that its Muslim rules will be disrespected by the pop singer’s skimpy stage outfits and raunchy stage antics. It’s not the first time that the country figures in global headlines for some controversial ...
  1 week ago

• Corruption And The Rust Belt

  
  Pittsburgh Arts - Digging Pitt — Authority: 430
  Rust Wire asks what role corruption plays in depressing local economies. It refers to this 2007 piece by Transparency International. "According to economist Sanjeev Gupta, national corruption lowers economic growth and per-capital income, despite the argument that a certain amount of corruption can “grease the ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACTA Remains Closed: The Difference Between Inclusion and Transparency.

  
  Public Knowledge - Blogging, Events, and Action Alerts — Authority: 130
  A number of blogs and websites have picked up the story of how the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) continues to keep ACTA out of the public eye, even as it rolls towards its next round of negotiations in early November. The big story of last week was how drafts of one particular ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pakistan parliament to examine 37 Musharraf-era ordinances

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Islamabad, Oct 19 (IANS) Pakistan’s National Assembly is to meet Nov 2 to examine 37 ordinances promulgated by former president Pervez Musharraf, including the one granting immunity to politicians, military officers and bureaucrats charged with corruption, media reports said Monday.Key among these is the National ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hasina talks against corruption, but party men aren’t listening

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Dhaka, Oct 18 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called corruption “the biggest barrier to poverty eradication”, but her warnings to political colleagues have gone unheeded, media reports said.District level officials have sent in reports that a section of the Awami League leaders are ‘grabbing’ ...
  3 weeks ago

• MPs’ expenses need independent oversight

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 573
  Independent oversight is needed to implement and control rules over MPs’ expenses  an expert on political corruption says. New Zealand is one of the least corrupt nations in the world, but MPs are in danger of maintaining a perception of impropriety by insisting on controlling the rules surrounding expenses ...
  4 weeks ago

• What Does the State Department Not Want Us to Know about Honduras?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina recently traveled to Honduras and found—no surprise—a peaceful country and broad support for the ouster of President Zelaya among members of civil society, the supreme court, political parties and others. In an op-ed in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal , DeMint ...
  4 weeks ago

• Release the Koh Memorandum on Honduras

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 765
  James Kirchik, writing in a recent issue of The New Republic , ponders the Administration continued insistence that there was a “coup” in Honduras.  He concludes: In the immediate wake of Honduras’s constitutional crisis, it was understandable that the administration, caught by surprise, might jump the gun ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tourism - the great white hope of Georgia

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 814
  Having just returned from my summer holidays in Spain and France, my mind is on tourism and how often it is expected to be a magical balm to heal economic hurt.In Asturias in northern Spain I came across a gorgeous protected natural park. In flicking through the literature about the park, I noted the observation [...]
  8 weeks ago

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