It is moral to state aloud what you are, it is moral to be consistent in affirming your own beliefs, it is moral to think in the long run, it is moral to affirm your own identity. It is moral to have the courage to say you are different from the others, even if the others represent, for the time being, the majority.The Deep Water Horizon ecological catastrophe continues. The new estimates, published in the New York Times issue of June 11th show that the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are being polluted with 25,000-30,000 barrels per day, which means that every 8 to 10 days the waters of the Gulf receive an equivalent quantity of ...
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The decision of Romania’s Supreme Council for National Defense according to which the media was deemed to be a “vulnerability” and a threat to “national security” caused negative reactions in the foreign media. On Tuesday, July 13th France 24 broadcasted a report entitled “The Romanian Government Battles against Journalists” (http://www.france24.com/en/20100713-romanian-government-battles-against-journalists). The report ends with the ...
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“The mother of all fools is always pregnant” (Romanian proverb) Maybe there’s no other saying that best describes the act of the Romanian Parliament last Tuesday of unanimously approving the amendments to the Pension Law which reduced the VAT to 5% for basic foodstuff and excluded all the pensions under 2,000 RON from being taxed. ...
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