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Target Tokyo (on 2015-07-31) Press Release Today, Friday 31 July 2015, 9am CEST, WikiLeaks publishes "Target Tokyo", 35 Top Secret NSA targets in Japan including the Japanese cabinet and Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, together with intercepts relating to US-Japan relations, trade negotiations and sensitive climate change strategy. The list indicates that NSA spying on Japanese conglomerates, government officials, ministries and senior advisers extends back at least as far as the first administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which lasted from September 2006 until September 2007. Today's publication also contains NSA reports from intercepts of senior Japanese government officials. The reports demonstrate the depth of US surveillance of the Japanese government, indicating that intelligence was gathered and processed from numerous Japanese government ministries and offices. Japan has been a close historical ally of the United States since the end of World War II.
Free Images: Where To Find Royalty Free Stock Photos For Your Blog - Mini-Guide, Part 1 Full text | The health impacts of globalisation: a conceptual framework Figure 3 shows that the impact of globalisation on each proximal health determinant is mediated by changes in several distal factors (Figure 3; arrows 5–12). The most important relationships will be discussed in more detail below. It is important to note that health policies and health-related policies can have an influence on all proximal factors (Figure 3; arrow 5). Health services Health services are increasingly influenced by globalisation-induced changes in health care policy (Figure 3; arrow 5), economic development and trade (Figure 3: arrow 6), and knowledge (Figure 3; arrow 7), but also by migration (3: arrow 7). Although the WHO aims to assist governments to strengthen health services, government involvement in health care policies has been decreasing and, subsequently, medical institutions are more and more confronted with the neoliberal economic model. The increasing trade in health services can have profound implications for provision of proper health care. Lifestyle Food
Tunisian national dialogue quartet wins 2015 Nobel peace prize A disparate coalition of Tunisian unionists, employers, lawyers and human rights activists has won the 2015 Nobel peace prize for helping to prevent the Jasmine revolution from descending into chaos like the uprisings in other Arab spring countries. The Tunisian national dialogue quartet was given the award by the Norwegian Nobel committee, beating an array of high-powered nominees including Angela Merkel, the pope, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif. Reading the citation, the new committee chair, Kaci Kullmann Five, said the Tunisian coalition had helped bring the country back from the brink of civil war in 2013, and had made a “decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy”. Houcine Abassi, the secretary general of one of the member organisations, the Tunisian General Labour Union, said he was overwhelmed by the prize. He added: “We have to save our country from terrorism and from economic crisis.
From The Wilderness: Information on Peak Oil, Sustainablility, and the events surrounding 9/11 213 A nudge in the right direction? How we can harness behavioural economics - The Drum Opinion Posted At worst, the Government's new "nudge" unit that puts behavioural economics into practice could backfire badly. But if used well it could underpin an entire deregulation program, writes Chris Berg. The Turnbull Government last week announced the formation of a behavioural economics unit inside the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet. The unit has a real title (Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government) but everyone is calling it the "nudge" unit, after the book Nudge, by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. The nudge unit could backfire badly or be incredibly good. The idea behind behavioural economics is to bring psychology back into economics. For instance, we tend to rationalise our opinions, looking for evidence to confirm pre-existing views rather than threaten them. These quirks are, strictly speaking, cognitive errors. Behavioural economists overstate the novelty of these findings. All very interesting. Other ATO nudges are less impressive.
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