within the American government. The U.S. Secretary of Health‚ Tommy Thompson‚ received $50‚000 in donations from Monsanto during his winning campaign for Wisconsin’s governor. Mitt Romney has taken $4‚075‚531 in campaign contributions from America agribusinesses‚ while Barack Obama has taken $1‚377‚503 from these interests. As you can see‚ both candidates are in bed with agribusiness corporations to some degree. Individuals who work for the industry go to work for the government‚ make public regulations
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1 Pre-Spanish Era 2 The natives of La Trinidad were generally Ibaloys who trace their ancestry to the Kalanguya Tribe (forest people) of Tinek‚ Ifugao who‚ due to the need to survive in a less hostile environment in different waves and paths of migration‚ followed mountain ranges or the course of rivers and then finding a suitable environment‚ usually along the river or an open clearing‚ settled in Kabayan‚ Itogon‚ Tuba‚ Atok‚ Kafagway (Baguio) and La Trinidad. Finding earlier settlers in those
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REVENUE GENERATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS IN NIGERIA. A CASE STUDY OF OBAFEMI/OWODE LOCAL GOVERNMENT Submitted by DAIRO ISAAC KUNLE Dept. Of Economics‚ University of Ibadan RESEARCH PROPOSAL INTRODUCTION Local governments are potentially very important for Nigeria as they play a significant role in generating revenue and encouraging civil involvement‚ as well as creating a visible link between taxes and service delivery. The increasing cost of running government coupled with dwindling revenue
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REVENUE GENERATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION Local governments operate at the grassroots and are expected to provide services to their stakeholders. In a federal system like Nigeria‚ local governments are close to the people and hence could effectively alter socioeconomic and political conditions within their jurisdictions. Apart from providing and maintaining basic infrastructures‚ local governments can complement the economic activities of other levels of government. This of course depends
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Country Reports on Local Government Systems: Philippines Philippines _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY 1.1 Socio-economic profile The Philippines is an archipelago of 7‚100 islands‚ with a land area of 30 million hectares. As of the last census in May 2002‚ the population was 76‚498‚735 with an annual growth rate of 2.36 per cent. Given this population growth rate the country is expected to
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GOVERNMENT SUPPORT IN TREATMENT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE IN THE PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINE CHEMICAL AND HAZARDOUS WASTE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (CHWEMP) Juan Miguel Fuentes‚ Ninette Ramirez** and Enrique Linsangan*** *President‚ Environmental Practitioners Association **Environmental Specialist‚ Environmental Practitioners Association ***Director for Operations‚ Bureau of Fire Protection – Department of Interior and Local Government I. Introduction The Chemical and Hazardous Waste Emergency
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Spanish Colonization Early Spanish expeditions Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines in 1521. The Philippine islands first came to the attention of Europeans with the Spanish expedition around the world led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521. Magellan landed on the island of Cebu‚ claiming the lands for Spain and naming them Islas de San Lazaro. He set up friendly relations with some of the local chieftains and converted some of them to Roman Catholicism. However‚ Magellan
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This film did a great job describing an issue that media is portraying to women and men. Women are taught to have this perfect body and view themselves as a sexual object and men are taught to be in power and control women. The film stated that teenagers spend a lot of time watching movies‚ watching T.V‚ hearing music‚ reading magazines‚ constantly on social media and this equals to about 10 hours a day learning information about how a women or men need to be in order to be accepted by society. People
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Philippine Women’s University CDCEC - Tarlac SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: ITS IMPACT TO THE ECONOMY OF TARLAC CITY Submitted to: Serwin Tolenada Instructor Submitted by: Ma. Ever S. Ignacio BS - Tourism Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Tourism is known as one of the major contributors to the global economy delivering 10.9% of world Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1996 (UNWTO 2003). It offers economic benefits to industrialized and developing countries
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In her novella Anthem‚ Ayn Rand describes a futuristic society in which the concept of self‚ even the pronoun “I”‚ has been eliminated. Members of this society are expected to submit to a barrage of rules. Ostensibly‚ these rules are set in place to help the society function as a unit; in reality‚ they serve only to subjugate its members‚ to keep them downtrodden and unable to resist their circumstances. From the time they are children‚ these people learn the holiness of “we”—that the only good
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