With all this talk about the government regulating and deregulating businesses, I am beginning to wonder how long PPL can rip off everyone and how many people in the Lehigh Valley cannot pay their electric bill on time, if pay it at all.
Is Walmart really the biggest problem in North Whitehall Township?
WASHINGTON, Mar 9 (IPS) – An international initiative that seeks to reform
how governments profit from their natural resources should not
reduce its existing standards of membership solely because
candidate countries have been reluctant or incapable of meeting
them, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9 (IPS/TerraViva) – The negative fallout from climate change is having
a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from
higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household
and care burdens.
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 9 (Tierramérica) – Climate change science has come under full-scale
attack in a last-ditch effort to delay or prevent action by the
U.S. government against global warming, experts warn.
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9 (IPS) – Male leaders fail to break the Mideast impasse.
Enter women from Israel and the Palestinian territories working
together. And… it would have been nice to say they succeeded
where the men failed.
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9 (IPS) – “What do I get from them? Nothing but
bullsh*t,” says Nupur Acharya, reflecting about how she is
treated by her husband and two grown sons on daily basis.
NEW YORK, Mar 8 (IPS) – The problem now, almost, is to find a way to relive
the peak of that economic
crisis of September 2008. The current
move back to business of old – on the
face of it anyhow – could
well turn out to be a longer-running difficulty than the
crisis
it supposedly left behind. A difficulty far greater for women
than for men.
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8 (IPS/TerraViva) – “Seven Burmese military soldiers attacked me
and three of my friends,” said Chang Chang, from the northern
Kachin State of Burma.
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8 (IPS/Terraviva) – Irina Bokova, who was elected director-general of
the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO) last September, heads the Paris-based agency at a time
when the world body has placed a high priority on gender
empowerment.
