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Politics and Culture - November 2007

Valenica Climate Change Conference

November 22nd 2007 05:27
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met last week in Valenica, Spain with delegations from about 140 nations to draft a report that increases pressure on countries which omit the most greenhouse gases. The U.S. and China rank first and second respectively as the nations which omit the most greenhouse gases.

The IPCC, established in 1988 by the UN Environmental Program and the World Meteorological Organization, is the authority on climate change


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Oil Spills in Two Continents

November 21st 2007 03:07
Americans and Russians will be cleaning up oil, the black sticky substance that shines in water and contaminates wildlife, for years to come. Oil spills occurred in the San Francisco Bay and the Black Sea within four days of each other. On November 7, 2007 58,000 gallons of oil spilled into the San Francisco Bay after an 810 foot long ship hit the Bay Bridge during heavy fog. The pilot of the ship, Capt. John Cota said he immediately notified the Coast Guard of the spill, but clean-up crews did not respond for at least an hour and a half.

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen announced on November 14 that the Coast Guard began reviewing its response to the oil spill. The review will examine the effectiveness of the San Francisco Bay-area response plan, the interagency area contingency plan (ISPR), and how the plan works with federal and state plans


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House Res to Impeach Cheney Survives

November 7th 2007 07:19
A House measure to impeach Vice-President Dick Cheney survived being tabled on November 6, 2007. Introduced on April 24, 2007 by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, House Resolution 333 calls for Cheney to be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors."

The term "high crimes and misdemeanors" is little understood by most Americans. The phrase appears in Article Two Section Four of the Constitution, and denotes a "grave and immediate offense against the state," according to former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, who sat in on the House impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. Alexander Hamilton referred to impeachable offenses as "those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust


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The Rouse of Success in Iraq

November 4th 2007 02:07
“By taking the fight to the enemy in Iraq, we will defeat the terrorists there so we do not have to face them in the United States,” President George W. Bush said during his speech at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.

Linking Iraq to a possible terrorist attack in the U.S. is similar to the remarks made by Bush during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. In a March 18 letter from Bush to the Congress Bush declared using “armed forces against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries” taking actions necessary against terrorists “including those nations, organizations or person who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.”
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Constitutional War Powers Resolution

November 2nd 2007 04:03
The House Joint Resolution 53, introduced on September 25, 2007, would restore constitutional checks and balances in war decisions. Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC), Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), Ron Paul (R-TX), and Bill Delahunt (D-MA) sponsored the bill.

Reps. Jones, Gilchrest, Paul, and Delahunt held a press conference about the resolution on October 25, 2007


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