Polk Place;Wounded Warriors for Freedom and Military Order of the Purple Heart 3rd Annual Golf – Video

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The Warriors for Freedom and Military Order of the Purple Heart Golf Invitational supports the men and women that defend our freedoms through their service to our nation. The tournament is...

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Le Chambon: How A Jewish Refugee became a Freedom Fighter in WWII – Video

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Walter Jaye, born Walter Jakubowski in 1925 in Berlin, talks about his time in the Huguenot community of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in France. He found shelter there during World War II after his...

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Freedom of Information Act amendments set to be blocked in Senate, nation could lose appeal rights

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Australians could be left with no appeal rights against government secrecy by the end of this year with the Senate set to block crucial changes to the Freedom of Information Act.

The act urgently needs amendment after the Government's surprise May budget decision to cut funding for the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) by the end of this year.

Under the current FOI Act, appeals have to be lodged with the OAIC. However, the Government's amendment will allow challenges to go direct to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).

But the Greens have decided not to support the amendment and the ABC understands both the Opposition and Palmer United Party (PUP) are also looking to block passage of the amendment in the Senate.

With only three sitting weeks for the Senate remaining and without cross-bench support, failure to amend the FOI Act will mean Australians will be without any appeal options against decisions to keep information secret for the first time since the FOI Act was introduced in 1982.

FOI laws provide a legal right of access to government information and recognise that politicians control information and tend to hide political and policy failures, mismanagement and corruption from voters.

Under the then-Labor government's reform of the FOI Act in 2010, an Australian Information Commissioner was created aimed at improving government transparency and openness.

But the OAIC was taking up to 220 days before even looking at an appeal, leaving applicants facing lengthy delays.

The OAIC also made decisions allowing increased government secrecy which also damaged support for the agency.

A spokesman for the Attorney-General George Brandis said the 2010 reforms had "created an unnecessarily complex system" with multiple levels of external merits review for FOI matters.

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This Achievement/Trophy is a pain in the ass, so just to let you know it will take you some time to get this trophy, to get this reward you must kill 4 people with Eugene the RC car. before...

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Serbia exploits least natural resources in region

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ZAGREB -- Serbia exploits the least amount of natural resources in the Western Balkans, where the biggest demand on the environment comes from Slovenia.

Serbia exploits the least amount of natural resources in the Western Balkans, where the biggest demand on the environment comes from Slovenia, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says in its latest report.

Using a benchmark system of per capita ecological footprints, showing the impact of human demand on nature, WWF lists Croatia as having the least sustainable footprint in the Balkans (1.86) which means that it consumes almost twice what the eco-system can provide.

The Living Planet report for 2014 says that Bosnia-Herzegovinas footprint is 1.46 and only Serbia, whose footprint is 1.43, exploits fewer natural resources, but still too much to make Earths eco-system sustainable.

While Serbias demand on the environment is identical to the global average, Slovenias is much higher, a footprint of 2.64, and Macedonias footprint is 1.7.

The survey, conducted every two years, shows that the worlds ecological footprint continues to grow and that the Humanity currently needs the regenerative capacity of 1.5 Earths to provide the ecological goods and services it uses each year.

The report lists Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Denmark, Belgium, Trinidad and Tobago, Singapore, the United States, Bahrain and Sweden as 10 countries with the greatest per capita ecological footprint.

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