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Interventionism and Isolationism in Our Foreign Policy
Dr. Sarah Condor Follow on Twitter Send an email February 2, 2016
President Obama's supranationalism is not anything new in our foreign policy. What is new is his being supranationalist on the one hand and isolationist on the other. He has often defined himself as a man absolved of ideology, a pragmatist who will do whatever is necessary under the circumstances. Necessary for what? Necessary to achieve a certain goal, which, in his case, has been purely ideological. What is more, he is discordant and ambivalent to the very core. War calls for intervention: you must win the war first, then negotiate the peace. What is more, you cannot change venue. Very rarely can you choose the terrain. Has Obama ever read Sun Tzu? I do not think so. Has he read Alinsky and Mao and heard of Che? I am certain he has.
It was with President Wilson that our move to internationalism and interventionism began. Quite frankly, it was also a product of Theodore Roosevelt's and William Howard Taft's pressure, although both had fundamental disagreements with Wilson. First, Roosevelt despised Wilson as a "college president with an astute and shifty mind, a hypocritical ability to deceive plain people." His policy was "utter folly… a milk-and-water righteousness unbacked by force." Even before Lusitania, neither Roosevelt nor Taft could see any lasting peace with Germany, or even neutrality, as a wise option. Wilson, on the other hand, viewed the British policy of "starving Germans into submission" as inhumane.
You may have noticed the terms "utter folly" and "inhumane." How does "utter folly" differ from Trump's "our leadership is stupid?" The left calls us "inhumane" when we want to apply breaks on immigration. As of today, Germany is considering moving 80,000 "migrants" away, "back," because over 600 women have come up with rape and sexual assault allegations against Muslims. Back where? Most of them want to go further "north" because they think they will get more money, better food and housing – paid for by the taxpayer. Now, vis-à-vis this dire situation, should our foreign policy experts call for isolationism or interventionism? Should they practice the policy of holier-than-thou neutrality instead?
We have always been a country of individuals, mavericks, original men of substance. In his farewell address, George Washington warned us against "entangling alliances." This advice was a two-edged sword: we did not have the power to fight another war, and – we had nothing to gain by doing so. Washington left us with a lasting legacy: if you do not have the power to conquer and if you have nothing to gain, stay out of it.
Why should we intervene in Europe's refugee problem? Can we solve it? Can we gain anything by doing so? As to ISIS, can we conquer them? Then the sober pragmatist (that Obama is holding himself out to be) should say: Go ahead and do it! Then, and only then, could we negotiate from the position of power. What would George Washington do? He would stay away from EU and show the world what we mean when we draw a "red line."
The problem with both isolationism and interventionism is that they are "-isms" – that they want to see the world black-and-white. However, the world revolves in many shades, the hues of a rainbow. There is no clear-cut line separating isolationism from interventionism. In 1823, President Monroe declared a new "hands-off Europe" policy, which was isolationist toward Europe and interventionist with respect to South and Latin America. It was a good strategy, as we had won our Second War of Independence and gathered enough strength to be concerned with our national growth – industry and continental expansion. This led to predominance of isolationism, especially with rising inner tensions and ripening Civil War. A weak nation cannot fight abroad. A nation weakened by disunity cannot fight – period.
The marker of transition from what we might view as "pure isolationism" was the rising power of industry and our reaching the western frontier: in 1890, a public census declared there was no longer a "contiguous frontier" (unknown wilderness) and therefore the frontier was "closed." The impact of this realization was foreshadowed in a famous essay by Frederick Jackson Turner presented to a special meeting of the American Historical Association at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. Apart from a certain apprehension of national "claustrophobia," Turner argued that our national drive, core, competitive self and sense of growth might be severely hampered and constricted by this sudden "closure."
It is not by coincidence that many Americans began to travel abroad at this time, mainly to Europe. To name a few: Theodore Roosevelt climbed on the top of Mont Blanc and was appointed to the Royal Society of London, Henry James visited Paris after introducing a new character to the world: the brash, bold American lady who travels to Europe on her own to face the stern aristocracy and defy local "mores" (Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady), and Mark Twain carried this to new heights with his time traveler in Connecticut Yankee (of course, having already ridiculed the Americans eager to learn from scattered old stones of Italy in his Innocents Abroad)…
The first purely interventionist action came at the turn of the century: the Spanish-American War, in which we won Guantanamo. McKinley (and his "Rough Rider" Ted) was also interested in Panama and Nicaragua as well as other maritime "resorts" of strategic importance (Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines). Roosevelt's chief influence, Alfred Thayer Mahan, was born in West Point to a professor of Naval History, man who taught Grant, Lee and other great generals of the Civil War… American Pragmatism arose from the soil and is inextricably tied to the realism of power. C.S. Peirce, Chauncey Wright, William James, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead followed in the steps of George Washington, who started as a licensed surveyor in the Shenandoah and grew into the ultimate pragmatist.
True American Pragmatism has nothing to do with "hope and change" or pursuit of harmony among nations. Indeed, if President Obama, as a man with merely legal background, is unaware of the impact of the Metaphysical Club, he cannot call himself a pragmatist. In fact, the goals of his policies appear to be anti-pragmatic in that the consequences of his actions decry and contradict the requirements of reality – because they are based on beliefs, not on facts. Therefore, no matter what President Obama does, he will always wind up in a state of incomplete, incongruous, ambivalent chaos. Unity (speaking of a nation or in military terms) cannot be based on idealism, but only on reality. Divisiveness results from substituting ideas for reality, creating symbols for abstractions, making words mean more than actions.
Idealism leads to absolutism because no corrective measures in reality will impact abstractions in the ideal world. No doubt Mahan and Roosevelt hated Wilson-Bryan administration of righteousness and appeasement because of this "academic idealism" of "nation-building" and persistent shying from war at all costs. Every -ism puts blindfolds on Common Sense and points him in the direction of another -ism. Battling Isms breed nothing but contempt in a sane, rational onlooker. Pancho Villa called Woodrow Wilson an "evangelizing professor…" Theodore Roosevelt had probably more respect for Villa than for Wilson. To paraphrase Roosevelt: You cannot have peace without victory and you cannot be too proud to fight! For someone to win, someone else must lose – that is the true teaching of pragmatism.
A decade of Jezz Age, the Roaring Twenties, flapper and art deco followed World War I. This was marked by business growth, lower taxes, tariffs (under Harding) and support of all private enterprise. As President Coolidge famously said: "The Business of America is Business." It is not by coincidence that we heard this repeated after World War II by Engine Charlie (US Secretary of Defense to Eisenhower): "What is good for General Motors is good for America." Harding-Coolidge-Hoover sequence was a "swing" back to isolationism, which meant conservatism and home values. The depression years also required special economic measures which did not give much room or leeway to any deep concern with what was going on abroad.
However, regardless of the economic situation at home, it would have been impossible to stay completely neutral in World War II – just as it had been in World War I. Wilson may have won his second term on the banner of the jingle that "he kept us out of war" (similar policy contributed to F.D.R.'s third re-election in 1940) but there is no such thing as "complete neutrality." Even in the tradition of "international concert of peace" and a "community of power" (Wilson's terms) there were bound to arise "entangling alliances" out of sheer necessity.
It was through the acid tests of world wars that the United States emerged as the "Arsenal of Democracy." This term had been coined at the end of the Great War, referring to Wilson's internationalism, but it did not become well known until the Land-Lease Act during F.D.R.'s administration, when the world requested help – and help we did: Great Britain, France… but also China and Russia gleaned significant aid from US. John Winthrop's "City upon a Hill" metaphor, which originally referred to us as a group of the brave chosen to be "tested" under the watchful eye of the rest of humanity, acquired a new meaning: we were a beacon to the rest of the world, a shining example worth admiration and imitation, whose purpose it was to go abroad spreading democracy.
America's charitable effort in helping other nations has since been looked down upon as both a naïve effort based on misunderstanding of local conditions, and a self-serving desire to appropriate and expand – an indirect result or repercussion of the "closing" of our frontier. No doubt, Frederick Jackson Turner had had a similar phenomenon in mind in 1893. It is contrary to our naval-military experience (Mahan) and also to what the Father of our Country had warned us against: entangling alliances. Our efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya… have been doomed to failure. The only legacy we take away is that of blame. In Europe, they say we go everywhere "for oil." In China and Russia, they see us as "land grabbing" and "greedy," no matter what we do.
We do not help other nations because it would make us stronger militarily nor do we go around the world "nation-building" with an eye on oil wells. We do it because we are good-natured people with strong Judeo-Christian values, morally stable and sturdy. What makes us strong is not what we have but who we are, how we got to be where we are. Trump speaks our minds when he says: "So what if Russia does the job for us?" We are tired of world's ingratitude for our fallen heroes, for our efforts and energy expanding in teaching others how to be better.
The Swedes gave Obama Nobel Peace Prize. They gave one to Wilson too. So we go abroad to help the world and our Commander-in-Chief gets a medal from a committee of socialist fogies totally abstracted from reality… I grew up looking up to the United States, the Land of the American Dream, thinking: it is a universal dream, alive everywhere… for it has always been the engine in my chest, spurring me on. Today, many people do not see the forest for the trees. The American Dream is a very definite pragmatic road out of serfdom, the untrodden path of a maverick who cannot be uprooted from reality.
F.D.R. found it virtually impossible to persuade the citizens of the United States, who had barely recovered from the Great Depression, to support more than covert aid and intervention – until Pearl Harbor. Just like on 9/11/2001, it took a massive attack on the mainland to mobilize the American interventionist psyche. War is always in part a matter of revenge. The other part is conquest. Trump is powerful because we know if another Bay of Pigs came, he would not blink first, and if there was another 9/11, he would not hesitate to fire the missiles of revenge at the enemy.
Since F.D.R., we went to Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan… all either hell-holes of nationalism or tribal primitivism. We could not understand their habits, customs, culture, we only deemed it not compliant with ours. Modern push for diversity is accompanied by the supranationalist push for "equality." What President Obama does not understand is that you cannot have your cake and eat it too: you cannot dictate supranationalism and Wilson-like world order on the one hand while staying apart, perhaps aloof, fully "non-interventionist" on the other. What is more, just like in our internal politics – when Congress is silent on a change in law requested by the President – silence speaks volumes in foreign policy. The aged motto of Von Clausewitz that "war is continuation of politics by other means" should be borne in mind when politicians cannot agree on a plan of action.
Dr. Sarah Condor
Sarah P. Condor-Fisher, Ph.D., Esq., LL.M. grew up in communist Czechoslovakia. When she was 17, she was apprehended crossing the border, cross-interrogated by the Secret Police (KGB) and jailed. She studied MA in philosophy at University College London, she holds BA and MA in English and Ph.D. in American Literature and Literary Criticism. She is also a practicing California attorney with her own law firm. Dr. Condor-Fisher published over 50 books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry. She is also a former Olympic swimmer, USMS National Breaststroke Champion, Miss World and Miss USA in natural bodybuilding (INBA).
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GrainGrowers has announced it will support 30 local farming system groups and grower groups across Australia in 2018-19 under its Partnership Opportunity Program.
GrainGrowers Western Region (SA) Regional Coordinator David Evans said that each year GrainGrowers partners with farming system groups and grower groups in order to support them in conducting field trials which address local agronomic issues and a range of industry development work and training.
"We recognise the important role farming system groups and grower groups play in delivering local trials,research and other activities directly aimed at improving grain growers' bottom lines," said Mr Evans.
"Aligned with the activities, these groups also provide a great pathway for GrainGrowers to connect with grain farmers directly and ensure our policies are focussed on the issues that matter to their business.
"This year we have also assisted several groups who are running programs and events specifically targeted at women involved in cropping businesses. These include basic agronomy, business and office management, workplace health and safety, and networking activities.
GrainGrowers Western Region (WA) Regional Coordinator Alan Meldrum said that for many years GrainGrowers had provided support to regional grower groups across Australia. "Grower groups are producing some amazing results in research trials and demonstrating the worth of new agronomic techniques and technology across the diverse grain growing regions across Australia," said Mr Meldrum.
Corrigin Farm Improvement Group, Far East Ag Research Group, Ravensthorpe Agriculture Initiative Network, West Midlands Group, Liebe Group, Northern Agri Group, Stirlings to Coast Farmers, Facey Group, Women in Farming Enterprises, Merredin and Districts Farm Improvement Group, Southern DIRT, Mingenew-Irwin Group, South East Premium Wheat Growers Association, Lakes Information and Farming Technology, and WANTFA.
Hart Field Site Group, Lowbank and Districts Ag Bureau, Buckleboo Farm Improvement Group, Northern Sustainable Soils, South Australian No Till Farming Association (SANTFA), Upper North Farming Systems, MacKillop Farm Management Group and Southern Australian Durum Growers Association.
Birchip Cropping Group, Mallee Sustainable Farming and Southern Farming Systems.
Irrigated Cropping Council, Central West Farming Systems, FarmLink Research Limited and Riverine Plains.
More information visit GrainGrowers website.
GrainGrowers Regional Coordinator David Evans with Simon Mildren from Southern Australian Durum Growers Association, SA.
Facey Group, WA with GrainGrowers Regional Coordinator Alan Meldrum.


Welcome to NewsDirect411: Senator Dino Melaye Handcuffed On Hospital Bed.
Senator Dino Melaye Handcuffed On Hospital Bed.
Visitors have been prevented from seeing the senator who jumped out from a moving police vehicle on Tuesday in a bid to escape.
The police re-arrested Melaye at the Zankli Hospital on Tuesday evening and transferred him to the current hospital where he was being dehumanised.
The police had in a statement from the Force Headquarters, issued by Jimoh Moshood on Tuesday evening, said at about 12.00hrs of Tuesday, Melaye while in lawful custody of the Nigeria Police Force personnel and being taken for arraignment in Federal High Court Lokoja from Abuja, escaped from lawful custody when hoodlums and miscreants in Two (2) Toyota Hilux Vehicles blocked the Police vehicle conveying him around Area 1 Round About, Abuja.
Moshood said in the process, the Senator jumped out of the Police vehicle through the window and was rescued from the Police men by hoodlums and miscreants to an unknown destination.
"The Police team re-enforced and trailed Senator Dino Melaye to Zankli Hospital, Abuja where he was re-arrested. The Senator would be arraigned in court without further delay.
"Meanwhile, one of the Toyota Hilux vehicles used by the hoodlums and miscreants in aiding the escape of the Senator has been recovered by the Police investigation team.
"The Inspector General of Police has therefore directed a thorough investigation into the circumstances leading to the rescue and escape of Senator Dino Melaye from lawful custody," he said.


"Americans' Knowledge of the U.S. Constitution"
Would Overruling Roe v. Wade Make Abortion Illegal?
New York, May 29, 2002 � Almost two-thirds of Americans think Karl Marx�s maxim, �From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs� was or could have been written by the framers and included in the Constitution, according to a nationwide survey commissioned by Columbia Law School.
�That result is troubling for a constitutional democracy in which popular consent underwrites the government�s legitimacy,� said Columbia Law Professor Michael Dorf, who wrote a column offering his interpretation of the survey on Findlaw.com.
The American public fared better in answer to other questions on the survey, with a majority knowing the president may not suspend the Bill of Rights during a time of crisis, Supreme Court justices serve for life terms, and persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens and residents of the states in which they reside.


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UPDATES on COVID-19 and Alabama Schools
Mark Dixon March 23, 2020
There is no doubt coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused both uncertainty and change to routine in recent weeks. A+ is committed to being a resource during this dynamic time. We've compiled a list of things that we know about Alabama education during COVID-19, things that are still to be determined, and extra resources you may need. We will continue to update this list as new information becomes available. The most recent updates are listed first.
Starting today, Monday, April 6, 2020, Alabama's K-12 students are completing the 2019-2020 through distance learning. Schools are utilizing either virtual remote learning resources or take-home packets to continue instruction through June 5, 2020.
Here are two new updates:
Districts have the option to declare high school seniors as graduates if they were in "good academic standing" prior to school closures, State Superintendent Eric Mackey announced on April 1, 2020. Many districts have already announced that their seniors are graduates. Click here to learn more.
To assist with the shift to online and distance learning for educators and students, A+ Education Partnership has compiled a One-Stop Shop for helpful resources for Alabama's teachers. We know teachers are being inundated with resources, so we've filtered them to provide just the ones you need–like the Alabama State Department of Education's resources, ACORE resources (developed by Alabama teachers), virtual learning resources, and more. Click here to access them.
Welcome "back" students and educators! As more resources and information become available, we will continue to share them.
On Thursday, March 26, 2020, at 4 p.m., Governor Kay Ivey and State Superintendent Eric Mackey held a joint press conference with State Health Officer Scott Harris to announce the state's decision on further school closures as COVID-19 cases increase in the state. The press conference was brief, and officials said that more information regarding these decisions would be sent to local superintendents tomorrow, Friday, March 27, 2020.
Here's what we know:
Schools are still closed through April 6th. On April 6th, schools will remain closed, but students will resume their schooling from home for the rest of the school year. This means that students will continue to learn with the support of teachers, but will do so remotely using various at-home learning methods. Local systems have the flexibility to extend the school year until June 5th if they need to make up for lost instruction.
The Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) is working with local superintendents to create a plan that will ensure all students are able to receive instruction at home. These methods include online and distance learning, "take-home packets," Alabama Public Library System resources, and Alabama Public Television, as stated by State Superintendent Eric Mackey. The ALSDE has identified critical learning targets for schools to focus on with students in order for seniors to graduate and for K-11 students to move to the next grade.
Spring extracurricular activities, including sports and band, are cancelled for the remainder of the school year. Local districts may decide to hold prom and graduation ceremonies later in the summer once the curve has flattened.
Officials did not mention whether or not the 2020-2021 school year might start earlier than originally planned to address lost time in the classroom.
We will provide additional updates as soon as we receive them.
POSTED MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2020
As of Monday, March 23, 2020, Alabama's schools are officially closed for two and a half weeks to help mitigate the spread of the virus. Education officials are facing tough decisions as they attempt to balance the health and safety of Alabama's students and teachers with the need for students to receive adequate instructional time.
Schools are currently closed until Monday, April 6th. As of right now, students are expected to be back in their classrooms in two weeks. Watch this week for any updates from the state.
Alabama will not give its annual state assessments to students this year. Results of these standardized tests are used to measure student progress and are a factor in each school's annual report card. Therefore, schools will keep their report card grades from the 2018-2019 school year. These changes will NOT affect students' grades in the classroom. Click here to read more about this.
Many schools are still providing meals to students. Check out this list of schools that are still feeding students breakfast and lunch, compiled by al.com's Trish Crain. She is updating this list daily. If your school or district is missing, you can email her at [email protected].
Education officials are prioritizing helping seniors graduate. State Superintendent Eric Mackey announced that allowing current seniors to graduate from high school is a top priority, and he urged parents not to worry. Click here to read more.
The Alabama State Department of Education has compiled a list of their resources for schools. This list contains correspondence to superintendents from State Superintendent Eric Mackey along with other resources. It is also being updated as the situation progresses. Click here to read it.
Advanced Placement (AP) tests will be given online. According to College Board, tests will be offered in 45-minute online exams, and students will have two date options to take each test later this spring. Our A+ College Ready team is working to adjust to this change and provide support for teachers and students.
The Alabama Best Practices Center will continue to offer professional learning for network members online. If you are a member of Key Leaders Network (KLN) or Powerful Conversations Network (PCN), click here to join our virtual sessions through Google Classrooms. ABPC will continue to update network members as more online learning opportunities become available.
Here's what is still to be determined:
The Alabama State Superintendent, Dr. Eric Mackey, has formed a task force to advise him on a variety of challenges, including but not limited to the following:
School scheduling and any closures for the rest of this year, summer school options, and impacts on the next school year
Online learning capability and options for students
How students will graduate or move to the next grade
The spread of the pandemic is changing daily, as are the recommendations from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH), and the U.S. Department of Education. State Education Officials are in communication with these entities to determine any additional school closures.
In addition to this information, the Alabama State Department of Education has created two new email addresses for parents and educators to get their questions answered. Parents can use [email protected] and educators can use [email protected] to contact the department with their questions about schools and coronavirus.
As this situation changes, A+ Education Partnership will disseminate information as it is received, as well as at-home learning resources for students daily via social media. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn. We will also continue sending our weekly education news round-up, The Gist, every Friday morning with updates from the previous week. Click here to sign up.
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Incl. Fedde le Grand… Roger Sanchez… Tom Novy… Stefano Noferini….
David Penn… any many many other coooool tunes.
Right in time before the Ibiza season starts we are proud to present the fourth edition of the "In Touch With Ibiza" compilation series. The double cd "In Touch With Ibiza - Club Edition Part 4" was mixed and compiled by Plastik Funk.
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On "In Touch with Ibiza - Club Edition Part 4" Plastik Funk mix altogether 32 peaktime house tracks.
CD1 features tracks and remixes by Belocca, Soneec, Chris Lauer & Canard, Lissat & Voltaxx, Jesse Voorn and Paul Gardner. Current, energetic club hits by Nouveau Yorican, Morris T vs Robytek, Housemates and DJ Jeroenski are on this silver disc.
Furthermore the tracks "Disco's Revenge" by Stefano Noferini and "Autosave" by Fedde le Grand & Patric la Funk are on CD1. Of course you can also find a Plastik Funk production on this cd: Plastik Funk & Paul Gardner - We Make The Sound (Plastik Funk Mix).
Just killers, no fillers! Plastik Funk mix tracks and remixes by Alex Kenji & Federico Scavo, Kid Chris, Kid Massive & Mc Flipside, Syke N Sugarstarr and Redroche vs. Armstrong.
The Spanish veteran David Penn is on the disc with his new single "Ocean Drive" and his co-production with Rober Gaez "El Chamaco".
Roger Sanchez´s hit single "2gether" is on board in the DJ Chus & Robbie Taylor remix, as well as the Chocolate Puma remix of "Umbungo" by The Beatthiefs.
Also on this disc you will find Plastik Funk productions. The Plastik Funk remix of Tom Novy´s "Now or Never" and the Plastik Funk co-production with Stefano Noferini "Need".
With "In Touch with Ibiza - Club Edition Part 4" moments of joy and euphoria are guaranteed, even if you won´t spend your summer on the balearic island!
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The Last Great Herd
The herd's importance
The land they depend on
A history of protection
What changed in 2017
Evidence supporting protection
Threat of oil and gas development
Gwich'in and allied groups sue…
Gwich'in and allied groups sue Trump for illegal lease program in Arctic Refuge
On August 24, 2020 Trustees for Alaska filed a lawsuit against recent Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program decisions.
Some key notes included below:
Plaintiffs: Gwich'in Steering Committee, Alaska Wilderness League, Alaska Wildlife Alliance, CPAWS Yukon, Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental America, Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges, National Wildlife Federation, National Wildlife Refuge Association, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and Wilderness Watch.
Defendants: Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
The lawsuit charges the defendants failed to comply with the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Wilderness Act and Administrative Procedure Act in completing the Environmental Impact Statement process, signing the Record of Decision and issuing the Biological Opinion.
Plaintiffs bring this action to invalidate BLM's unlawful Final Environmental Impact Statement and Record Of Decision, BLM's ANILCA Section 810 Final Evaluation, and FWS's deficient Biological Opinion, and any related or subsequent decisions based on those documents.
Full complaint is available here.
Category: News September 9, 2020
U.S. BLM publishes Scoping Report for Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program
U.S. House of Representatives passes Build Back Better Act with provision to restore protections to the Coastal Plain
AIDEA sues Biden Administration over Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Actions
Website looks at 88 Energy and their interest in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
WWF Releases Report Evaluating The Economics of Oil Development in The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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As NYC's housing market continues to boom, there are a few top real estate developers that stand out above the rest in terms of the sheer amount of square footage currently being added to their already impressive portfolios. JDS Development Group is among the top development companies with nearly 1,000 units undergoing construction throughout the five boroughs totaling 1.31 million square feet of residential projects coming to fruition by 2017, including an 800-unit rental building at 626 First Avenue. These numbers do not include Walker Tower's 53 units.


On Monday 9th October 2017, MEP Claude Moraes (Chair of LIBE Committee, S&D, UK), ARDI (European Parliament Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup co-hosted the conference "End of a fruitful dialogue - Impact of Brexit on Equality and Anti-Discrimination in the EU & UK".
The UK and the EU efforts to establish efficient non-discrimination law that allows all individuals an equal and fair prospect to access opportunities in our societies are deeply intertwined. The recent decision of the UK to leave the EU will challenge the fruitful dialogue between the UK, the EU, national courts, the CJEU and governments of Member States.
The UK has traditionally played a forerunner role in shaping anti-discrimination policies in Europe. The absence of the UK in the EU institutions will impact the development of new anti-discrimination laws and efficient implementation of current legislation.
On the other hand, the Brexit referendum campaign was marked by racist hate speech and xenophobic political discourse. And Brexit is likely to mean that the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the jurisdictions of the CJEU will no longer apply to the UK.
Time to highlight challenges, raise awareness, discuss ways forward and identify partnerships among civil society and institutions!
The Storify of the conference is available here.


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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen 3
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SCOTTISH CHRONICLE.
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April 1.- Mr J. Sheet of Staffordshire, who ness of the Spring, neither hastens nor redied very lately, was said to be the only re- tards the harvest : maining soldier of those employed under Seed-time commenced on Harvest commenced for General Wolfe at the siege of Quebec. But
the north banks of the each of these years on
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Augast 31st. and energy. His name is William Wilson. 1804, March 12th, September 11th. Although employed in the field of Quebec, 1805, March 19th, September 5th. he properly belonged to some of the ships 1806, March 24th, September 6th. of war, and, owing to that circumstance, it 1807, March 26th, September 7th. seems he never had any pension from Go. 1808, March 7th,
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1809, March 9th, September 13th. On Tuesday, the 17th March, William 1810, March 27th, September 12th. Napier Milliken, Esq. of Milliken, was 1811, March 18th, September 10th. served heir male general of Archibald, third 1812, April 3d. September 25th. Lord Napier of Merchieston, Bart. of Nova 1813, March 18th, September 4th. Scotia, great grandson of the inventor of 1814, March 28th,
September 6th. logarithms.
1815, March 21st, September 12th. On Tuesday, in consequence of presenta- 1816, March 26th, September 14th. tions by the Crown, the Senate of the Un. 1817, March 18th, September 22d. iversity of Glasgow admitted Dr Thomas 3-On Friday se'nnight, about 12 o'clock Thomson, Professor of Chemistry, and Dr at night, John Brodie, a young man from Robert Graham, Professor of Botany. Dunkeld, accompanied by a woman of the
Daring Robbery. Friday night, about name of Margaret Robertson, from the panine o'clock, Peter Muir, Whitburn carrier, rish of Auchtergavin, came to the house of was attacked by three fellows about a mile Allan Jamieson, St John's Street, Perth, for beyond Toll-cross, near Glasgow, and rob- the purpose of being married, and remained bed of about £200. Two of them seized there for the night, Jamieson having told him and threw him on the ground, where them that he would get a clergyman to they held him, while the third mounted his marry them next day for 30s. A clergycart, and took from a basket a great coat, man was accordingly procured, in the perin which the money was deposited. The son of John M.Diarmid, a corporal on the villains did not take his watch.
Staff of the Perthshire Militia, who, being As Mr Walter Armstrong, jun. a respecto dressed in black clothes, went through the able merchant in New Castletown, Rox. ceremony in due form, from the Common burghshire, was returning from Bellingham Prayer Book, and received 5s. for his serfair, on the evening of the 18th ult. he un. vices from the bride. After the ceremony, fortunately lost his life near Falstone, in at- the party regaled themselves plentifully at tempting to ford the river Tyne, which was the bride's expense; and having spent all much swollen by the melting of snow near its the money she had brought with her, a
Strict search has been made for the mounting to 30s. they stripped her of her body, but hitherto without success. Mr pelisse, to pay for 16s. worth of more spirits, Armstrong has left a widow and two child and then kicked and turned her out of doors. ren to lament his untimely end. The me. By the vigilance of the sitting Magistrates, lancholy event has also occasioned universal Jamieson and M.Diarmid were committed regret among an extensive circle of friends. to jail on Monday, and Brodie on Tuesday,
April 2.- The Climate. As the seed-time to answer for this disgraceful outrage. this year has been much later than ordinary, 6.-Clydesdale Road. At a respectable it may be satisfactory to know, from the fol. meeting which took place at Hamilton on the lowing statement, that the earlinesss or late. 4th instant, for the purpose of promoting
source.
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this important undertaking, the subscrip- Maclauchlan, who seems to be the leader of tion was raised to upwards of £10,000 ; and this set of young thieves, is perfectly callous such measures have been adopted as must and regardless. Their practice was to go ere long ensure the command of funds ade- about the environs of the city to see where quate to the completion of a road, which clothes were left in areas and greens, and bids fair to be one of the most useful and then come back in the evenings and carry beautiful in the united empire, while it them off. The things stolen were generally promises ulterior communications and im- carried to the house of one Johnston, in the provements of great national importance.- Calton, where they were left, but neither Operations will, we are informed, forthwith sold nor pawned, a trifling sum being given commence, and contracts be advertised for for each article, and sometimes a little bread making and repairing the most needful parts and cheese. Johnston and his wife are in of the projected line.
custody for this offence. 7.-On Tuesday, Mary Hutcheson, aged The first anniversary of the Edinburgh 24 years, a native of Tyron, charged with Society of Highlanders, was celebrated on fraud, was committed to Glasgow Jail. The Thursday last, in the British Hotel, Prince's folly on the one hand, and the duplicity on Street. The meeting was numerous and rethe other, which are developed in this case, spectable. The members and visitants apare sufficiently singular. The prisoner ac- peared in the full Highland dress of their knowledges that about four years ago she respective clans. The evening passed away began to tell fortunes by reading cups. She in the utmost harmony. The laudable purwas in the habit of giving information to poses that drew the members together as a people who had lost property by theft or society, glowed in every bosom, and broke otherways. Her art only enabled her to forth in every sentiment ;-these purposes give a description of the persons of the thieves, are to keep alive the language, dress, and not being able to tell their names.
customs of their ancestors, their funds being vant girl, it seems, began about a year ago principally devoted to benevolent objects. to call on this woman for the purpose of Many loyal and patriotic toasts were given, getting her destinies unfolded. In read and songs sung, in the Gaelic language, aping the cups she told the simpleton that she propriate to the occasion; and the company was to receive some money, concealed in a broke up at a late hour, singularly gratified corner of her master's room ; and in order with such an opportunity of recalling feelings to show her where to look for it, she went connected with "Tir na'm beaun, na'w to the house along with the girl, and laid gleaun, agus, na'n gaisga ch." down some money in the place where the On Tuesday forenoon, a meeting of the promised sum was to be got. So complete members of the Trades House, Glasgow, was the ascendency which she had over this in consequence of a requisition to the Con. young woman, that in the course of three vener, took the question of Burgh Reform weeks she got from her sums to the amount into consideration. After considerable dis. of £27, assuring her that when the money cussion, it was agreed to postpone the farpromised was found it would be increased ther consideration of the question till the twenty fold. For the purpose of so increas- Lord Advocate should bring forward his ing, it was pretended to be deposited, the bill relating to this subject in Parliament. ceremony of doing which was not a little At this meeting the Convener exhibited an imposing. It was laid down in presence of abstract which he had taken from the Chamthe girl; and Mary, after telling her to re- berlain's books of the city's funds, which tire,
read several passages of scripture, and appeared to be in a very flourishing and prayed. She has also defrauded a man,
prosperous condition. who employed her fortune-telling powers, Commission of the General Assembly of of several pounds. To a blind person she the Church of Scotland.- Thursday the promised to give sight, received a consider- Commission of the General Assembly, conable sum as the reward of her promise ; and voked by a circular letter from several memto a person affected with deafness she was bers, met here in the Assembly Aisle. Afto restore hearing. These are understood ter the meeting had been opened in the usual to be only a few of her tricks. She main- form, by the Rev. Dr Gibb, moderator, and tains that the servant's money will be re- the authority by which it was called had turned when the time of its rising comes. been read, Dr David Ritchie shortly stated
8.-On Tuesday, the Sheriff-substitute sit- the urgent necessity of having the proposed ting in the Police-office, sentenced James legislative measure of the increase of churchMaclauchlan, Adam Macdonald, Alexander es extended to Scotland. Macmillan, John Mackenzie, and Grace Dr Nicol then read a printed report of Macmillan, to be confined in Bridewell the speech of the Chancellor of the Exche. sixty days each, for various acts of theft. quer on the subject, and from this inferred, This is another gang of the juvenile depre- that it was only necessary to draw up a dators with which this town and neighbour- strong case of the very destitute state of hood has been so much infested. The old- many parts of Scotland of religious instrucest does not exceed thirteen, and the girl is tion, to obtain the concurrence of Governnot ten years of age, but all of them have ment for the requisite extension of the bill been repeatedly in Bridewell for theft to this part of the island.
Dr Irvine of Little Dunkeld, in a short should be appointed to draw up a memoribut most interesting speech, stated, that it al, to be submitted to the consideration of was consistent with his personal knowledge, the commission, of which committee Dr that there were parishes in the Highlands Inglis was to be a member, and his sketch of 60 miles long by 40 broad, with only one to be adopted as the basis of the memorial place of worship, and that he had met with
to government. persons of 60 and 70 years of age, who had 9.-On Saturday last, as a merchant in only once, in the course of their lives, Sanquhar was coming to Dumfries on busi. heard a sermon. That the ignorance of the ness, he was attacked by three stout looking people in many places was consequently ex- Irishmen, who knocked him down, and treme. They were, therefore, the ready dragged him a considerable way into a wood dupes of the Missionaries of any superstj. near Closeburn, where, after striking and tious or fanatical creed with which they hap- kicking him in a barbarous manner, they pened to come in contact. That there had searched his pockets in the expectation of very recently arisen in the Highlands of finding a sum of money which he was going Perthshire a new sect, denominated Free- to pay away in Dumfries; but were disapmen, who professed open hostilities to all pointed, as he had it concealed in a private existing denominations of Christians. In pocket next to his shirt. It is thought the other parts the Catholics were gaining ground villains were alarmed by the noise of some in a most alarming degree; and though the people who were working in the wood, for Missionaries sent out by the Church of Scot- they ran off abruptly, after giving the merland were very useful, yet their influence chant a few more kicks, which rendered him was necessarily of a far inferior description insensible for a considerable length of time, to that of established clergymen; and the and it was with much difficulty that he could want of accommodation was such, that he find his way out of the wood. himself, when employed in that service, A man, charged with murder, has been had usually preached under a tree, or a rock, committed to Dumbarton jail. The followin a cave, or a barn.
ing are said to be the particulars of the case : James Grant, Esq. writer to the signet, -That on Friday, the deceased, called Bor. mentioned some striking instances of the rowman, having approached the spot in the success of the Catholic Missionaries for the muir of Dumbarton where some men were want of established churches.--Among o- engaged in smuggling, they at first gave thers, he instanced one particular district, of him whisky, which he drank in large quan. very considerable extent and population, tities. They then stripped him naked, and, where, at the close of the 17th century, having rubbed his body with whisky, they there was not a single Catholic; but being set him on fire, and tortured him in the destitute of the ministry of a regular pro- manner of the American Indians. testant clergyman, a catholic priest from vived only 24 hours. Two men, who are Ireland had landed in it, and in the course not yet apprehended, are said to be impliof half a century, the whole population, cated. The deceased has left a wife and six with scarcely an exception, were re-con- children. It is reported that he became obverted back to the Catholic superstition. noxious to the smugglers, as they suspected
Dr Nicoll then moved, that the house him of being a spy. should appoint a committee to draw up a 11. In the neighbourhood of Perth, and strong case to be transmitted to Govern- in Strathearn, the oat-seed is just comment, and to take into consideration what mencing. In the higher districts, the ground would be the best means for supplying the has been covered with snow for the greater deficiency of churches.
part of the month, and spring ploughing is Dr Anderson stated, upon the authority far in arrears. It may be stated as someof a correspondent in the Highlands, that thing new in the annals of meteorology, the most imminent evil was the spread of the that ground could not be ploughed, for Catholic religion ; and, therefore he was of snow, so late as the 28th of March, within opinion, that the mere erection of churches a mile of the Carse of Gowrie. An unbroken is not sufficient, but that new parishes should sheet of snow covered the Grampian Hills be formed, and proper provision made for throughout the greater part of the month, the officiating clergy.
destructive to the hopes of the Highland Dr Inglis read a memorial, pointing out, shepherd, whose flocks must be perishing in a very forcible manner, the extreme im- for want of food at the approach of the portance of increasing the number of church. lambing season. es in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands 13.-Scotch Burghs. In the House of and manufacturing districts. He mentioned, Commons, on Friday, the Lord Advocate as extraordinary instances of the dispropor- rose for the purpose of moving for leave to tion between the population and the esta- bring in a Bill to regulate the funds of the blished religious accommodation, the pa- Royal Scotch Burghs, Hitherto the magirish of St Cuthbert's at Edinburgh, and strates of those burghs had given in their that of the Barony at Glasgow, each of them accounts to the Court of Exchequer in Scotcontaining fully forty thousand inhabitants, land, without any check on their proceedwith only one established church.
ings; he should therefore propose, that these It was at last agreed, that a committee accounts should be produced to the bur
He sur
gesses before they were brought before the appearance, who, ringing the bell, and not Court of Exchequer ; but as this might not finding it answered immediately, took from be entirely effectual in preventing abuses, his pocket a bunch of keys, and very delia power was to be given to five burgesses, berately opened the door and went in; but to make representations on the subject to some of the family coming home in the the Court of Exchequer. He then moved mean time, he made a very precipitate refor leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the treat, without waiting to answer interrogamode of accounting for the common good tories, or being able to carry any thing off. and revenue of the royal burghs, and comp- 17.Lately, as a lame man was carried trolling their expenditure. »
about from door to door, in the High Street, Lord A. Hamilton approved of the Bill, Glasgow, in a hand-barrow, begging, he arso far as it went. The burghs had, for rived at the door of a Scottish cloth-shop, more than thirty years, been asking the when the boys began to teaze him. He boon, but it had been perseveringly and in- laid about him stoutly with a cudgel, till variably denied, till many of them were re- the alarm was given that the police were duced to bankruptcy. But the bill did not coming, upon which he started nimbly up do away with the self-election of the magi- from his carriage, which he shouldered, and strates, which had led to the dissipation of ran off with it so quickly, that he could not their funds. The corruption of those burghs be overtaken. We are credibly informed, had gone on from year to year, till it was that scarcely an hour elapsed before he was admitted by judges that various statutes had again at his trade in the Bridgegate. fallen into desuetude.
18.-Circuit Court, Stirling. This day The Lord Advocate said, the Bill was the Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened sufficiently wide to cure all the grievances here by the Right Hon. Lord'Pitmilly. complained of, as to the mismanagement of Peter Robertson, portioner of Corntown, the funds ; but it certainly was not intend- in the parish of Logie, and county of Stired, like some of the measures proposed by ling, was put to the bar, accused of murder, the Noble Lord, as a mere stalking-horse in so far as he, upon the 9th day of March for parliamentary reform.
1818, did, within his dwelling house at After some conversation between the Corntown, wickedly and feloniously bereave Learned Lord and Sir J. Newport, on the of life and did murder Elizabeth Robertson, principle of the Scotch law, according to his daughter, by inflicting a severe blow which statutes might go into desuetude, the upon her head with a pair of tongs, whereby motion was agreed to. The Bill was in the said Elizabeth Robertson was mortally mediately brought in, read a first time, and wounded ; did languish until the morning ordered to be read a second time this day of the 10th day of the said month of March, three weeks.
when she expired. 14.--Among the many benevolent insti. This was a most distressing case. The tutions which have adorned the British pannel having quarrelled with Margaret character within the last twenty years, there Malcolm, his servant, for having allowed is not one which so entirely meets the ap- one of his children to go to a dancing-school probation of the philosophical mind, or one ball against his express orders, in the heat so absolutely free from objections to the po- of passion he seized upon a pair of tongs, litical economist, as that of saving banks. seemingly for the purpose of throwing at The very purest eleemosynary charities offer the said Margaret Malcolm ; but (as rather a bonus, more or less, to idleness, and sap appeared from the evidence) which he threw to a certain degree that spirit of independ from him as a foolish expression of rage, ence, which becomes no order of the people when they struck the forehead of his little so well as the inferior and labouring class; favourite daughter, of eight years of age, and make a breach in that principle of self- and fractured her skull. reliance, which is the firmest support of the Mr Maconochie, Advocate-Depute, chargsocial system, and which, once broken in ed the Jury very ably on the part of the upon, soon becomes a total ruin. Of the Crown; and Mr Jeffrey, in a most ingeni. saving banks, all we need say in commenda- ous speech on the part of the pannel ; and tion is, that their effects are the very oppo. Lord Pitmilly having summed up the evisite of these; that they cherish industry, dence, the Jury found the pannel guilty of teach prudence, give security and increase culpable homicide. to the fruits of honourable exertion, encour- Lord Pitmilly, after a suitable admoni. age moral habits, and reward a youth of la- tion, sentenced the pannel to six months bour with an old age of comfort.
imprisonment in the jail of Stirling. The operations of the Monkland Canal 23.-A new fever hospital has been esta. having rendered it necessary to remove the blished at Queensberry House, in the Canold Martyr's stone at the west end of the ongate, by the Managers of the Infirmary, Canal Basin, the proprietors have very at a great expense, as the present hospital handsomely erected a new one, with the could not admit all the patients who applied. same inscription.
Into this new hospital a great number of 16.- Sunday, a house in Northumber. patients have also been admitted. land Street, Edinburgh, during Divine Upon Sunday forenoon, while the family Service, was entered by a person of decent were at church, a house in the Gallowgate, a little above Claythorn Street, was broken of employment, but had not been successinto, by forcing through the lath roof of ful; and is now on his return to Edin. the adjoining close, and descending by a burgh. The respectability of his personal hatchway into the house, where the villains appearance, and the manner in which his (supposed to be boys, from the size of the feelings are affected by the contemplation of hole by which they entered.) broke open a his present condition, leave little room to chest of drawers, and took therefrom two doubt the truth of his statement. twenty shilling notes and about one pound 27.-Dumfries. At the Circuit Court on in silver ; amongst the silver were three Friday last, a boy, or rather a child, of the South Sea shillings*; also, a box contain- name of John Wilson, was indicted for ing two gold rings, one set with hair and stealing a pocket-book containing £7 in the other with mock diamonds; a gold notes and 4s. in silver, from the shop of brooch, and a quantity of confections from Jonah Nicholson, grocer, High Street, so the shop window. It is supposed the thieves far back as October 1817. This, in fact, were scared, as a number of other articles appeared to be the youngest prisoner we were left in a state ready to be carried off. ever recollect to have seen in a court of jus
26.- Queensberry Leases. This impor- tice, and when he took his place at the bar, tant case, which involves a great part of the surprise and pity were pictured in the counimmense personal property of the late Duke tenance of every beholder. At first he of Queensberry, amounting to upwards of seemed quite composed, but he had no £1,200,000, is again brought under the re- sooner looked round on the formidable array view of the House of Lords, by the appeal of the bench and the bar, than he hung of the Duke of Buccleugh against the judg- down his head, and began to cry very bit. ment of the Court of Session, confirming terly. Having confessed his crime, the the leases granted on the Queensberry es- jury unanimously recommended him to tate. The case for the appellant was open- mercy; and after a suitable admonition ed by the Lord Advocate, followed by the from the bench, he was sentenced to eightSolicitor-General (Sir W. Giffard). Sir S. een months imprisonment in the jail and Romilly, who appeared as counsel for the bridewell of Dumfries, to the latter of which trustees under the Duke of Queensberry's places he is to be transferred as soon as it will, made a most able and eloquent speech; is ready for his reception. The manner in and' next day Mr Cranstoun, one of the in which this boy spent the money he had most eminent counsel of the Edinburgh stolen, is another proof of the necessity of a Bar, spoke on the same side. The House good example on the part of parents, and was more than usually crowded with the evinces how readily even mere children Gentlemen of the long robe from Westmin- mimic the vices of their elders. It appeared ster Hall, to hear the luminous argument that the whole £7, 4s. was spent in the of that distinguished advocate. The final course of a few days, in taverns, or rather, decision of this case is most anxiously look- as the Lord Justice Clerk justly termed ed for by the legatees of the late Duke. It them, low tippling houses, by this boy, and has now been nearly twelve years in de- a few of his companions who were in the pendance.
secret, and with whom he had shared the Last Friday afternoon, a man was observ- booty. His lordship here commented, with ed lying at the side of the Dundee road, a becoming zeal, on the degraded character of little to the westward of Arbroath. On ap- those publicans, who could open their doors proaching him, it was found that he was in to such juvenile customers, and exchange a state of insensibility. Medical assistance their poison for money, which, they must was therefore procured ; and he was convey- have been well aware, had been either pil. ed to a public-house in the town to be taken fered from the boys' parents, or obtained by care of. It is suspected that he had taken means still more criminal. poison, as a phial containing a small quan- John Lissens, who had formerly been in tity of laudanum was found upon him. In the army and navy, was next brought to the his pocket were several recommendatory let- bar, accused
robbing Thomas Rule, canters to and from respectable people in Glas- dlemaker.—He pleaded Not Guilty. gow, with a few pawnbroker's receipts for Thomas Rule, sworn--is a tallow chand. a gold watch and sundry articles of wearing ler, and resides near Inchbonny, near Jedapparel, which he had pledged. All the burgh : left home in August last in quest of money in his possession amounted only to work: went to Newcastle and Leeds, and 7d. Through the kind attention of the was unsuccessful : returned to Knarsburgh Magistrates in providing medical and other and Carlisle, which last place he was emattendance, the unfortunate man has been ployed by Joseph Monkhead for one week, again placed in a state of convalescence, and and received 18s. of wages : returning to is likely soon to recover. The account which Scotland, he arrived at Longtown on the he gives of himself is, that he is a native of 13th September, where he got a pint of the United States ; was an officer in the beer: proceeded on the road to Langholm, French army under Bonaparte ; had been and met with the pannel at the bridge on recommended to a situation in Glasgow, of the Langholm side of the town: pannel rose which he had been disappointed ; had pro- from the end of the bridge, where he was ceeded from Glasgow to Aberdeen in quest sitting, and asked witness what road he was VOL. III.


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The Nanda Devi National Park and Valley of Flowers National Parks is an UNESCO World Heritage Site in Uttarakhand, India. It possesses of two core areas about 20 km apart, made up by the Nanda Devi National Park and the Valley of Flowers National Park, plus an encompassing Combined Buffer Zone.

In 1988 the site was inscribed as Nanda Devi National Park (India). In 2005 it was expanded to encompass the Valley of Flowers National Park and a larger buffer zone and it was renamed to Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks.

The areas of the site are
  - Nanda Devi National Park core area
  - Valley of Flowers National Park core area
  - Buffer zone

References

1988 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Protected areas established in 1988
World Heritage Sites in India
NANDA DEVI

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