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Ironically, the American plan is taking shape even before the US takes any action to reduce its own emissions, inviting
charges
of hypocrisy, violation of international law, and threatening a major trade war.
Clearly, the way is now open for US-Libya relations to move forward in the same way that the release of a group of Bulgarian nurses, who were jailed in Libya on
charges
of deliberately infecting Libyan children with AIDS, unblocked European Union-Libya relations.
The proceedings lasted a total of 30 hours from the time the lower house officially announced its
charges
to the inauguration of Lugo’s successor, former Vice President Federico Franco.
It is no coincidence that a land conflict provided the fodder for the trumped-up impeachment
charges
against Lugo.
One case is an attempt to force Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s administration to reopen proceedings in a Swiss court that were examining
charges
of money-laundering and misuse of public funds by President Asif Ali Zardari.
Moreover, even though his emails have been hacked and published, and the government has searched his home and confiscated his computers and phones, there are no convincing
charges
against him – except for the obviously politically motivated cases.
Uribe criticizes Santos – through up to 40 tweets per day to his more than one million followers – for repudiating his “democratic security” stance, for the growth of the “Bacrim” (petty-crime gangs), for appeasing Colombia’s two hostile neighbors, Venezuela and Ecuador, and for prosecuting some of his aides on corruption
charges.
Berlusconi’s worries, instead, have more to do with a possible criminal verdict by the Constitutional Court on corruption charges, and a related ban from public office.
In 1923, more than 100 Chinese judges, prosecutors, and clerks resigned en masse to protest trumped-up corruption
charges
against the then-finance minister.
The verdict would lend credibility to other
charges
of criminality, such as the bombing of four Russian apartment blocks in 1999 and the murders of several investigative journalists.
But few developing countries are in a position to establish such monopoly positions, so the dumping
charges
are mostly bogus.
Not only has the term become a shorthand way to malign an entire industry; autocrats are invoking it as an excuse to jail reporters and justify censorship, often on trumped-up
charges
of supporting terrorism.
Nearly three-quarters of the 262 journalists in prison around the world are being held on anti-state charges, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ most recent survey.
In 2002, two of those followers mustered the courage to press
charges.
A sitting senator has, for the first time, been arrested on corruption
charges.
Throughout the trial, Bo flatly denied most of the corruption charges, often professed ignorance of the facts, and claimed to be unable to recall any details of the matters in question.
The Chinese government has also begun a ferocious crackdown on social media, arresting prominent activists on dubious
charges.
After Picuti made the
charges
public in June 2010, Alan Leshner, Executive Publisher of Science, sent an open letter of protest to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on behalf of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The basis of the
charges
is not that they didn’t predict the earthquake.
Iran, in turn,
charges
that America is stalling on settling cases at the Hague that would release hundreds of millions of dollars in Iranian assets frozen since the 1979-80 hostage ordeal.
Perhaps the most well-known recent example has been the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman’s campaign against the economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, in which he moved quickly from criticism of an error in one of their papers to
charges
about their commitment to academic transparency.
John Paul II undoubtedly keeps a distance from liberal economic ideas and the liberal state, which he often
charges
with permissiveness and moral relativism.
And Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s wealthiest man, spent ten years in prison on trumped-up fraud and embezzlement
charges
after funding Putin’s opponents.
Long-standing
charges
of currency manipulation provide the proverbial smoking gun that US politicians – of both parties – believe justifies the imposition of steep tariffs on China’s exports to the US (which totaled $365 billion in 2010).
At the same time, the US government should come clean with the American public about
charges
of Chinese currency manipulation and unfair trade practices.
Her second term in office (1993-96) was longer and better, but her government again fell early, owing to
charges
of mismanagement and corruption.
These systematic reviews have shown that for-profit hospital care leads to higher death rates than not-for-profit care, despite higher
charges
to third-party payers.
Such
charges
are likely to be hurled at governments even when they are not true, though all too often they are.
The World Bank, in its efforts to support democracy and good governance, must insist on the highest standards of due process:
charges
of corruption should be treated seriously, and the evidence turned over to national authorities for use in open, transparent, and independent proceedings.
Two months before the S&ED, the US Department of Justice indicted five officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on 31 counts of
charges
ranging from computer fraud and hacking to identity theft and economic espionage.
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