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Yes, Castro jailed 75 independent journalists and others in an April sweep - that is the monster in him.
Indeed, the emergence of international criminal tribunals suggests that accountability for crimes against international law ought to be a matter addressed by independent courts, not by the unilateral exercise of military power.
The CCP and the government have not wiped out all independent thought.
These countries need an independent commercial policy to provide greater protection than the EU offers to their domestic agricultural sectors, which in both cases can never be efficient, owing to mountainous terrain.
In Denver, for example, local stations took in $6.5 million to air nearly 5,000 ads paid for by the 2012 presidential candidates’ political action committees (ostensibly independent fund-raising groups that shield their donors’ identity).
Her response to Trump’s victory was eloquent and powerful: “Germany and America are connected by values of democracy, freedom, and respect for the law and the dignity of man, independent of origin, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political views.”
Not only do the remarks of French leaders about recreating a multi-polar world arouse alarm, but recent public opinion polls show a decline in the popularity of the US among Europeans and a desire for more independent policies.
At the same time, they fail to grasp that their economies are too closely interconnected for independent economic policy to work.
Presiding over this microcosm of Europe was a double-throned Emperor-King and twin parliaments representing the largely independent Austrian and Hungarian halves of the realm.
Second, due in part to internal nationalist crises, the empire found it increasingly difficult to chart a unified, independent course in international affairs.
No one is sure of turnout (official numbers are unreliable), but independent observers estimate that as many as two thirds of voters stayed home.
Independent work and micro-entrepreneurship are a third source of gainful employment, often supported by government lending schemes.
A more fundamental point is that Russia in the 1990s evinced little concern about the expansion of European economic and security structures into the Soviet Union’s former satellites in Central and Eastern Europe, or even into newly independent former Soviet republics.
Many believe that aggregate CO2 emissions are the result of independent decisions in individual countries.
Unfortunately, this view is too good to be true, because one country’s emissions are not independent from those of another.
The Office of Budget Responsibility, the independent agency set up by Osborne to assess the government’s macroeconomic performance, has just concluded that austerity reduced GDP growth by 2% from 2010 to 2012, bringing the cumulative cost of austerity since 2010 to 5% of GDP.
Here, it seems clear that UNMO’s political interests have been allowed to dictate that the country’s key opposition leader should be tried on charges that no real democracy that embraces the rule of law would even consider leveling, and convicted on evidence that no truly independent court would accept.
In my work, expectations – or so-called animal spirits – are a new and independent fundamental that determines the steady-state unemployment rate.
Trump will also be checked by the American political system’s separation of powers, relatively independent government agencies such as the Fed, and a free and vibrant press.
On August 21, Germany’s foreign minister, Heiko Maas, urged Europe to establish payment channels that are independent of the US.
So, there are many more than just two modern cases (though they are not all entirely independent, because they are somewhat bunched in time).
Thus, costs associated with giving up an independent monetary policy and a flexible exchange rate would not be significant.
And, indeed, Putin has been pretending to take the doping allegations seriously, even asking the Russian Olympic Committee to create an independent anti-doping agency.
By contrast, euroization so far has required a fair degree of prior fiscal consolidation, a credible and independent monetary policy, reasonably competitive financial institutions, and flexible labor markets.
Premature euroization would keep interest rates low, but it could create a large gap between an imprudently low official inflation risk premium and the inflation risk premium that would be set by an independent monetary policy with floating exchange rates.
Given the short-term net costs of premature euroization, the most compelling alternative is an independent monetary policy based on direct inflation targeting (DIT).
The oil and gas industry portrayed the reports it commissioned from Bernstein, who once worked at the Hawaiian Electric Company, and Montgomery, a former deputy assistant secretary for policy in the US Department of Energy, as factual, independent, and products of genuine economic debate.
This, the SNP’s leaders argue, would allow an independent Scotland to remain part of Europe, even as England, Wales, and Northern Ireland set out on their own.
Similarly, whereas BP has been using a release figure of 800 tons per day From Deepwater Horizon, estimates by independent experts are many times higher.
Monetary policymakers, the argument goes, should be independent from the political system, because, when elections near, politicians will likely pressure them to “buy” temporarily higher employment at the cost of permanently higher inflation.
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