"Ask many of these candidates about climate change, one of the defining threats of our time, and they'll say: 'I'm not a scientist.' Well, then, why don't they start listening to those who are? "They pledge to wipe out tough rules on Wall Street, rather than rein in the banks that are still too risky, courting future failures in a case that can only be considered mass amnesia.
Trying to Define 'Threat' But while the public statements of the Bush administration have not played well in much of the world, many analysts see deeper causes for the rift that has opened.
But is there a viable threat from a 2 1/2 -inch pocketknife — if we define threat as a potential terrorist attack that could bring down an airplane, or allow a cockpit to be breached and an airplane commandeered, as on Sept. 11?
Perhaps most important, he argues that American moral authority is the country's most prized asset and has been squandered by the Bush administration's arrogation of the unilateral right to define threats and use force.
Critics of the legislation say the imminent law gives Canadian spies sweeping new powers to investigate and disrupt broadly defined threats to public safety, with language that makes no distinction between terrorist plots and legitimate political protests and demonstrations.
Moreover, under its own internal service regulations, the army is empowered still to "defend both the Turkish Fatherland and the Turkish Republic" from vaguely defined threats " if necessary, by force".
There are expanded sections detailing how Twitter handles selling and squatting on usernames, for example, rewrites of how it defines threats of violence, harassment, abuse, hateful conduct, exposure of private information, and other topics.
The NSA has interpreted the FAA as offering free rein to define threats, identify targets, and monitor people, platforms, and infrastructure with little regard for probable cause or proportionality.
Others were angered by the use of dogs in Chinese cuisine, vaguely defined threats to the internet, and organised religion.
Others were angered by the use of dogs in Chinese cuisine, vaguely defined threats to the internet, and organized religion.
