Articles by Guy Adams
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Slash and Burn: Brazil Shreds Laws Protecting Its Rainforests
Guy Adams – The Independent,
30 May 2011
The new bill relaxes laws on the deforestation of hilltops and the amount of vegetation farmers must preserve. Partial amnesties will also be offered for previous fines.
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Guy Adams – The Independent,
21 Feb 2011
The giant oil corporation has been fined $8.6bn for an environmental disaster that has been called ‘the Amazon’s Chernobyl’. But guess what? It may end up paying nothing.
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Guy Adams in Los Angeles – The Independent,
10 Jan 2011
The White House has instructed every US government department and agency to create “insider threat” programmes that will ferret out disgruntled or untrustworthy employees who might be tempted to leak the sort of state secrets recently made public by the website WikiLeaks. A 13-page memo detailing the new policy urges senior civil servants to beef up cyber security and hire teams of psychiatrists and sociologists who can “detect behavioural changes”. They will then monitor the moods and attitudes of staff who are allowed to access classified information.
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Guy Adams,
30 Oct 2008
The streetcars are being renamed and the red carpets rolled out in the Castro district of San Francisco for the world premiere of Milk, the latest film to break Hollywood’s long-running taboo over homosexuality. A roar of approval greeted Sean Penn and Josh Brolin as they swept past several hundred people who had gathered on […]
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