Global warming is a serious and urgent issue that demands attention from the policy makers of the world. The upcoming climate change summit in Copenhagen in December where the leaders of the world are going to meet is an ideal place to start the process of addressing the core issues that are part of the global warming debate. It is rather befitting that Copenhagen in Denmark that is in Europe should be selected as the venue for the conference. Europe has been rather divided in its approach to the global warming issue.

While some countries in Europe have taken steps to curb the menace arising out of the environmental crisis, other countries have lagged behind in the effort to tackle the problem. Most notably, France has taken the lead in addressing the issue with tighter environmental standards for vehicles and expecting greater fuel efficiency from the new vehicles that are being manufactured.

It is noteworthy that the Euro standards for emission have been proposed first in the European countries that form part of the European Union. The EU has been at the forefront of the global efforts to tackle climate change. While the rest of the industrialized world has been found wanting in the efforts to halt the problems caused by global warming, countries like France and Netherlands have taken steps to reduce the carbon footprint.

Forests are the key to maintaining the precarious balance in the environment and hence countries should take steps to avoid deforestation. This can be done if paper is recycled since most of the paper comes from wood that is available after cutting down the forests. Further, use of CFC's or Chloro Flouro Carbons that are emitted by the home appliances like refrigerators and using Aerosols should be avoided or if that is not possible, limited.

There is an urgent need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels as well as the emissions from vehicles using petrol and diesel are one of the primary drivers for climate change. As noted above, the EU has been proactive in making tighter emission standards mandatory for vehicle makers. Further, in many of these countries, most of the power generation is by nuclear plants and Wind mills making the process of power generation clean and green.

It is high time that the developed world took steps to mitigate the effects of global warming and act decisively on the issue. Without getting into debates on who caused the problem of global warming, the leaders of the countries must focus on what needs to be done. The window for taking decisions and staving off the effects of climate change is closing and hence it is expected that Europe would show the way forward in tackling this issue. Much has been done till now, but, more is expected.

The climate change summit in Copenhagen must be used as an opportunity to ratify the Kyoto protocol on environmental standards that lays a time bound program to address climate change.

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demands because:
A) Legislation limits annual increases in nominal wages to 6%
B) the labor demand curve is downsloping
C) marginal wage cost curves lie above labor supply curves in most labor markets
D) most unions deal with monopsonists who have superior bargaining power

b

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The Truth is : Truth never exists.

Sounds obfuscating but irony of living in a real world makes it true.

So how does one go defining Truth?

A truth for you doesn't necessitate that it is a truth for a person who wants to view it as false.

Truth is subjective as well as relative! It has a start and hence has the ability to have an end as well. The dichotomy of Truth can bring out the pervasive anomalies of how things can appear different for the same context. Take for an instance, I intent to tell people that am honest person, but how do you make it a truthful description of yours? Well, your actions plays a major role here. The way you respond, the way you want to communicate can eventually lead to what people can perceive it as a global truth, at least for the life span each truth has.

Yet another dissection of properties of the truth. Since it is subject and is relative, as I would rather view it as. It has to have Time period as well. The idea of bringing about the truth in one's life is way beyond generalizing the concept of Truth.

We seek truth, a parameter or rather a factor which can get us the redemption of the feeling and the intensity to seek for a Truth.

Ambiguous statement it seems! We seek for truth, for the truth that can solace us.

Truth never really existed, it just a way of reckoning that certain things has changed or got displaced and we need to change or stay the same accordingly. Its a part of acknowledging our actions. Not just our actions, but people we are connected to as

a whole.

That speaks about relativity property of the Truth. A truth moment ago can become an appalling lie. How does that happen?

Even if you know that its a certain thing is actual description of certain thing, aka the Truth behind that. But you need to get an acknowledgment from another person to make it a subjective truth that can be apparent for the other people who would then scrutinize if it fits for the truth.

So, its about who believes its a Truth, not the other way round of self declaring it to be a true. Truth, is all about how we make other people believe, doesn't matter if it changes it definition later. At least, it was a truth for some period of time.

The bigger question to surmise upon is, how the definition of 'the Truth thing' changes in later course? People, didn't discover it was something else, and hence all these day they believed it to be truth. But now it is not.

And thats where the existence of truth gets questioned. It never existed. Now, if a truth can exist for one thing, then why doesn't it for others?

Truth is a relative entity to the other Truths. We can call it a Truth, since it appears the way it is at least for some point of time, and it makes few people to believe that it really does. It's relative meaning to our existence can only help you to get it deemed as a truth. So, doesn't it solve the quagmire of what is a Truth?

Confused? Ya, exactly... thats the Truth.

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Do you have any revoutionary Philosophical ideas?

What I mean by revolutionary is something that would necessarily change or challenge any of the existing ideas being taught in the Philosophy department.

Others have explored the cogito quite extensively already. Nietszche, for example, argued that there is doubt, therefore there is something. A simplified version.
In response to your challenge, one cannot doubt that one doubts because the conception meant by the theory is one in which a premise is denied. If no premise is denied, then you cannot deny the premise that you doubt. A fuller explanation of doubt is unnecessary, so long as it includes that as part of it's conception, it is sufficient as the premise of the cogito and it is self-proving.

Ideas that are new or change the scope of an area of philosophy aren't that uncommon, if you have a narrow enough area. My senior thesis argued that the two most prominent theories on the philosophy of time, presentism and eternalism, both need to be modified in light of proven statements in physics, and once that is done, there is relatively little to distinguish the two.
Interesting consequences of this include:
An argument that P OR Not P is not always a true schema, especially in the future tense
A perspectivist view of ontology
A perspectivist view of mereology (this is less a consequence as it is a separate compatible theory of mine)
A physicalist argument for free will
Others too, but those are my favorites.

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Being a vast country, the different areas of India have given their own color to this ancient classical tradition. Some of the acknowledged classical styles include Kuchipudi of Andhra Pradesh, Bharatnatyam of Tamil Nadu, Odissi from Orissa, Kathakali of Kerala, Kathak from Pakistan and north India, and Manipuri of Northeast India. There are some other styles like Mohiniaattam from Kerala and Sattriya from Assam. All these classical dancing styles have a strong regional connection. However, none of them can be called the representative of the entire subcontinent.

Kuchipudi: This Indian dance form is from the state of Andhra Pradesh. It has derived its name from a small village of Krishna district, where the resident Brahmins practice this traditional dance form. The movements of this form are rounded, scintillating and quicksilver, and fleet-footed. It is performed with classical Carnatic music. The specialty of Kuchipudi is Tarangam, where the dancers perform upon a brass plate, placing their feet upon its raised edges.

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Odissi: This classical dance form existed from the traditions of Nartaki, a dance that took place in royal courts; Mahari, who were Orissan devadasis at the temple of Jagganath, Puri; and Gotipua, where young boys were dressed as girls. This dance consists of Mangalacharan, Battu Nrutya, Moksha, Pallavi, Abhinaya, and Dashavataar.

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in the film pursuit of happiness, what principals of economics are covered?

my economics class is watching pursuit of happiness and (like every other person in my class) im too lazy to figure it out for myself lol

The utility function will represent the happiness of the consumers.
The profit maximization will represent the happiness of the producers.
The hedonic theory will determine the price of happiness, if it's not for good in the market.

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The Luciferians are the inner cabal of the Vatican according to Malachi Martin (And have been for a long time as I have demonstrated in other books.). They created that fiction about 'for the good of mankind' which led to Salvation after Jesus was crucified. They have grown rich beyond their wildest imaginations as the benefits of special dispensations and confessionals have poured in to their coffers. They have been given large amounts of the land as well as special tax status that their Divine Kings share.

Chopra wrote about Merlin as an analogy of sorts; but Merlin (Who prophesized Joan of Arc for one.) may well have been a name of the advisor/sorcerer to a Arthurian Merovingian king that archaeology shows did live on Cadbury Hill. The Royal Stuart and Merovingian group when joined in social engineering efforts like religion or The Royal Society are the Hibernians. I think Arthur of the real legend was from a far earlier time; but the creation of the Grail fiction by the Hibernian who founded the Cistercian Order is a Luciferian myth. This is Bernard of Clairvaux and later we have another well known occultist participating with the Borgias/De Medicis in the founding of the Jesuits by the Alumbrados (bringers of light). The Hibernian involved with the Borgias/De Medicis in the founding of the Jesuits was Nostradamus. Bernard was a double agent in the 'play both ends against the middle' game they play. He sat on the Inquisitor Panels and yet helped Chrétien de Troyes write a Parsifal tale. But if Nostradamus had a "stone' to see the future as we see on the cover of books about him; who else in their number had this awesome tool? Let us consider the words of John Dominic Crossan of De Paul University for some historical insight into Divination.

"Magic as Religious Banditry

Recall from earlier how Eric Hobsbawm's concept of the Robin Hood element in social banditry was severely criticized by Anton Blok. Blok was, I argued, superficially correct but profoundly wrong. Bandits may seldom rob the rich and give to the poor and even more seldom rob the rich to give to the poor, but the validity and perdurance of the Robin Hood mystique is based firmly on the fact that they do rob the monopoly of violence from the rich and distribute it to the poor, and, more significantly, they rob aristocratic and structural violence of the veneer of morality under which it operates. They force the question: what is the moral difference between a gang and an army, a peasant bandit on the make and an imperial entrepreneur on the throne.

I propose now that magic is to religion as banditry is to politics. As banditry challenges the ultimate legitimacy of political power, so magic challenges that of spiritual power. Magic and religion can be mutually distinguished, in the ancient world or in the modern one, by political and prescriptive definitions but not by substantive, descriptive, or neutral descriptions." (3)

He could have added that the illegitimate offspring who seek to return to the state of power in their father or grandfather's time as in the case of Hitler often over-achieve. In Napoleon's case he may have sought the legendary Tuscan noble position of many centuries earlier. Some will even say I have a genetic pre-disposition to grandeur because I am a 'bastard' of THE Bruce. But I am a BRD of the language of the Birds and it seems to have helped me understand the lesser codes of Green Languages.

"Divination is one of man's oldest spiritual technologies, its origins lost in the shift from neolithic hunter-gatherers to settled agriculturalists. As the shaman developed into the priest, divination, along with all forms of spiritism, became codified into mythology. From a framework of mythic events and divination - literally readings of the divine - came language, which evolved over time into written forms based on the original symbolic elements. In turn, these symbolic elements became the focus of divinatory practices of their own, creating sub-sets of meaning within common words and phrases. From this intentional ambiguity arose the possibility of an initiate's language, a language of the birds, or, as it was expressed by the medieval initiates, the Green Language.

Although we can point to the Green Language {Of the Hibernians including Swift, Carlyle, and many Great Scots.}in works as diverse as Midsummer Night's Dream and The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencruz, Nostradamus' quatrains, 18th century alchemical texts and surrealist manifestos, few authors have bothered to explain it. One who did was Fulcanelli, the enigmatic 20th century alchemist and philosopher, in his masterpiece The Mystery of the Cathedrals, published in Paris in 1926. Here we have an authentic, although mysterious, voice of authority; one that was both master of the Green Language itself, and a master of the subjects usually hidden within it." (4)

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How do you know who your friends are?

I have to do an essay about this question from a Greek philosopher, Aristotle. Can you help me how you consider people as your friends. Like in the essay, i have to show that i agree or disagree with Aristotle's philosophy of friendship.

An acquaintance is someone you walk by and say hello to. A friend is someone you can ask to do you a favor and they will do it without questioning what is in it for them.

What is truth? Free thinking philosophy!

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While training in chiropractic research, Cleveland Chiropractic College, you can see. University is the oldest non-profit chiropractic in the world, and almost a century of experience in medical training in the art and science of chiropractic. Cleveland Chiropractic has campuses in Los Angeles, California and Kansas City, MO. Cleveland offers PhD Chiropractic and a Bachelor of Science degree in human biology, offering students a solid foundation of knowledge and skills for professional practice chiropractic.

Another excellent choice would be New York Chiropractic College, a nationally known doctor of chiropractic program and university programs two master's degree in acupuncture. The interest in natural healing is becoming more leaps, making a career in chiropractic health can be more satisfying that choice, and students from New York Chiropractic College mastered with practice, integrating theory with practice and work closely collaboration with professional experience. New York offers a progressive curriculum that chiropractic can help you establish a successful career and rewarding as a chiropractor.

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Have you ever noticed when dealing with minority groups or human groupings or various categories that the names people wish to be called keep changing. Obviously some one who is a moron does not wish to be called a blithering idiot. And mentally challenged sound rather bizarre so what do you call them? Beats me. But what if someone is handicapped, then they wish to be called physically challenged, but beware as soon as you get use to that they will want to be called something else.

Then there is the other group in society, which often feels outcaste. What do you call a gay person, transvestite or lesbian? Which one do you call a queer, or are you politically correctly allowed to use that word? Well I do not ever use the word Queer, so I am not sure its exact definition? It brings to me images of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or an extremely eccentric Homosexual like let's say Elton John, Sigfried and Roy or Liberachi?

Fact is it is okay to call some one a queer who fits a certain category, such as a transsexual, they are fine with being called a queer, but they do not wish to be called a gay or a mere homosexual you see? So, if you did not know the answer to that one, you failed the test. Now then are you sure you will know a queer when you see one if you are out at a bar and had a few drinks? Ah, that is the question one may really wish to know in all this isn't it? Consider all this in 2006.

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Now that I'm not going to church, how should I bring up the fact to my Catholic father?

My father is very religious, and his mental stability might depend on this (though I'm not sure). Although I'm not his only son, I know he would be disappointed at the least to see I haven't been going to church anymore. He's aware that I've been "struggling with my faith", though he is very non-confrontational and probably believes that I'm still quite faithful. The reality is that I have serious doubts. To those who would reply that I should see a priest: I have been there. The only thing I can be certain of is there is no certainty when it comes to spiritual matters, but that's something for the philosophy forums, not this one.

You're an adult. If he can't accept that you are an adult and make your own choices in life then you have more problems than just the church thing.

Remind him God gave us free will to choose and it is not mans job to take that free will away.

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Foreigners, particularly Westerners know little about India, its people, the customs and culture of this vast country - second only to China by way of population figure, but bigger in land area. Even those who have studied about India may not know the in-depth details of the diverse cultures prevailing among Indian people, living in the northern and southern States - bifurcated by languages in 1956.

This being a very wide subject for stuffing inside this limited space, an attempt is being made here to bring forth at least the differences in cultures of people of North India and South India, but it should be remembered that as an Indian, all the people of India, irrespective of regional and territorial barriers, have several aspects in common.

The virtues one can find among all Indians are - Faith in God - whether it is one of the many Hindu Gods, Allah or Jesus; respect to elders of the family; traditional values of life preserved for generations and preached to children when they are kids; shunning evil deeds and beholding good deeds fearing justice by destiny; forbearance of life's challenges with courage and simplicity.

True - India is plagued by poverty, illiteracy and superstitions leading to castism etc., but the binding factor from Kashmir in the North end to Kanyakumari in the South end is unity in diversity, when the nation faces any peril like war or foreign invasion. And this has been proved beyond doubt many times before.

On the cultural aspect, broadly the country can be divided into North India - those States falling north of Vindhya Hills running in the centre horizontally and those falling south of it. Excepting States of Andhra Pradesh; Karnataka; Tamilnadu and Kerala, all other States are considered North India.

Language is the predominant divider here. All North Indian States generally speak Hindi, the National Language, and its derivatives like Bhojpuri, Urdu, Gujarathi, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya and the like. Again, the basis for Hindi is the ancient language (but now extinct) Sanskrit.

South Indian States speak the derivatives of the ancient language Tamil (which is the official language of Tamilnadu) such as Telugu (Andhra Pradesh), Kannada (Karnataka), and Malayalam (Kerala).

But in all the States of India, English is used as the common language and is also recognized as the official language of India. Thanks to 300 years of British Rule, Indian Schools, Colleges and Universities are teaching for generations, impeccable British English. Indians speak and write good and chaste English as taught by text books - not the slang used by native British people by repeated usage in conversations. So any foreigner with English knowledge can comfortably tour all over India.

Ancient India, prior to Independence from British Rule, was largely scattered as separate Kingdoms and Indian history shows many rulers including great Muslim Emperors like Baber. The whole country had its capital - mostly Delhi - in North India for these native as well as alien rulers. Inevitably the cultures of North India were greatly impacted by Muslim rulers and Emperors.

But South India was comparatively peaceful during invasions, blood-shed wars and turmoil, even at the time of separation of Pakistan from India. This explains the flourishing of fine arts in whole of South India, especially Tamilnadu, with peace and harmony prevailing for centuries.

Even today each Indian State is identified in this background for diverse cultures. Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Maharashtra for their bravery. West Bengal for its literary works, emotional poets like Rabindranath Tagore, simple lifestyles following communism. Orissa for its sculptures and mountain tribal lives. Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar for density in population, poverty, illiteracy and ignorance.

Food habits differ only in two ways - whole of North Indian people eating wheat and its products as main course and South Indians would not miss rice and its derivatives for anything. As for vegetarianism, the South Indians are up-front although non-veg items are taken, but not as popular as North Indian varieties.

The entire of South India consists of most Hindu temples in the country, including the monumental Tanjore Bragadeeswar Temple located in Tamilnadu, largest in size of Temple Towers.

For South Indian culture alone one can write volumes.

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Now that the national election in the Philippines is brewing which is to be held in May of this year, an advocacy group which called themselves as Eco Waste Coalition has a plea to the more than 50 million Filipino voters before they make their final choices for the candidates running for public office.

Their plea to the Filipino electorate is to vote for candidates who will stand up for mother nature and those who "green championed" and who genuinely promote environmental conservation, protection for the common good and building ecological communities that are devoid of trash and pollution.

To assist the Philippine electorate in making "green" political choices on election day, the Eco Waste Coalition released its guide and checklist to the Filipino voters known as the "Ten Commandments On How To Choose Green Candidates". This provide a useful guidance and insight on what to seek from candidates in terms of their environmental track record and platform.

In their quest of choosing the next ecological leaders who can apparently leave a green legacy to its people and country. The following are the Eco group's environmental "Ten Commandments":

1) Thou shall not vote for candidates using the 4 G's to win: Gins, Goons, Gold and Garbage. Vote for the candidates for the essential M's: Malinis (Clean), Maayos (Orderly), Matipid (Thriftiness), Mapanindigan (Principled), Marangal (Honorable), Mapayapa (Peaceful), Makatao (Pro-People), Makalikasan (Pro-Nature) and Maka-Diyos (Godly).

Moreover, support candidates known for their simple, pro-people and ecological lifestyles.

2) Thou shall not support candidates who nail, staple, strap or plaster campaign materials on defenseless trees and other restricted sites. Vote for candidates who love and plant trees, use the least amount of campaign materials and abide by the campaign rules.

3) Thou shall not pick candidates who use smoke belching vehicles that contribute the worsening air quality. Go for candidates on bicycles rather than those who come in convoy of cars. Vote for those who use fewer vehicles in motorcades to reduce fuel consumption and car emissions.

4) Thou shall not fall for candidates who make beautiful speeches about their love of the people and the environment but fail to match their words with deeds. Check if the candidates is engaged in any environmental advocacy or project. Avoid choosing candidates who have financial interest in any polluting and environmentally destructive business.

5) Thou shall not select candidates who profess to protect the environment but are mute on what they intend to do. Ask the candidates on how they intend to serve the interest of the environment. Vote for those who will work earnestly to heal and protect the environment.

6) Thou shall not choose candidates who are hooked up to outmoded "hakot-tambak-sunog" (haul-dump-burn) and fail to shut down illegal dumps. Vote for those who segregate their discards at home, in the work place and who support ecological, low cost and community driven alternative to dumps, landfill and incinerators.

7) Thou shall not vote for candidates who ignore the health, environmental, socio economic and human rights concerns against 'sanitary' landfills, 'waste to energy' dams and similar infrastructure plans. Vote for candidates who assert the people basic needs and not to the dictates of the World Bank and other international funding institutions.

Thou shall not elect candidates who want to build big dams and allow mining, logging and other extractive industries to rape the land and abuse human rights, especially the rights of the indigenous people. Vote for those who take the cudgels for the human as well as the non human victims, such as trees, plants and wildlife of environmentally damaging human activities.

9) Thou shall not back candidates who will not take action against the health and safety threats of genetically modified crops and food products. Vote for the candidates who will advanced the people's right to safe and healthy food as well as food production systems that nurture the earth.

10) Thou shall not vote for the candidates who refuse to acknowledge global warming and vote for candidates who see the need for preventive and precautionary actions to stop climate change. Go for candidates who oppose new coal power projects and support community made utilities using renewable energy sources.

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Are canadians embarrassed having the most oppressed indigenous people in the industrialised world?

Canada's indigenous people are the most oppressed in the Western world. They have the lowest life expectancy, lowest income and education, and highest suicide rates of any indigenous people in the industrialised world. In the USA, on the other hand, the native people there, although the poorest in the USA, are the best off of all indigenous people in the world, even better off than the laplanders in Norway, who are dying off. We canadians should be disgusted with our self-righteous lies about our virtuousness... I am!

Not really if your comparing things u should compare how the majority of people in the U.S are living below the poverty line and in canada this certainly is not the case also that some americans are ridiculously ignorant of what is happening in outside of the U.S and have no desire to find out

Really comparing the U.S like that to canada is ridiculous the U.s has so many things wrong with it and canada is the far superior country

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