But while governments have generally not resorted to blatant protectionist measures of the kind that characterised the interwar years – the notorious Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the US, for example, which slapped import taxes on more than 20,000 types of foreign goods – Evenett says they have often used quieter ways of giving domestic firms an unfair advantage.
From Appalachia to Illinois to Black Mesa in Arizona to Montana and the 20 coal-mined states, a health and humanitarian crisis from the lethal fallout of decades of mining continues to rage under the auspices of flawed regulatory measures, blatant disregard for civil rights, and media indifference.
"This measure has been taken without paying attention to the political development and the use of experts, and is a blatant example of unjust measures in an unjust time," the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Abbas Araqchi, said in remarks reported by the semiofficial Fars News Agency.
During the debate, Governor Desha personally lobbied legislators to support the measure, a blatant violation of the rules of the House.The next day the measure passed in the House by a vote of 54 43.
The N.R.A. mobilized, calling the measure "a blatant violation of Americans' Fifth Amendment rights" in an alert to its members.
His chief strategist Steven Bannon used to run Breitbart, which publishes some of the worst climate denial imaginable (sometimes combined with blatant misogyny for good measure).
But Steve Elliott, president of Grassfire.org, a conservative Web site whose members mobilized against the June bill, sent out an alert last week calling the student measure a "blatant deception on the part of the Senate to get a massive amnesty passed".
"These challenges include poor vision, a lack of focus and direction, mixed messaging, a flawed evaluation system, a misguided reliance on statistical analysis to measure performance, blatant favoritism, and a dispirited and demoralized staff," McMorris said in an e-mail message.
It called the Israeli measure "a blatant violation of international humanitarian law" and "a cruel punishment".
Our laws are so lax and even absurd — not only those about gun ownership but about where one can carry and whom one can shoot — that even just dealing with the blatant loopholes and most extreme measures will be a start.
