As the Global Times is an offshoot of the Chinese Communist party's official newspaper, the People's Daily, we can assume its blunt diagnosis reflects the governmental view.
More than 20 years after it was abolished, Margaret Thatcher's poll tax remains the locus classicus for domestic political miscalculation and the yardstick by which all other UK governmental policy ineptitudes are still judged.
The African Union and most southern African nations have generally been supportive of the vote, but sharp criticism has come from non-governmental groups and western governments including Britain.
Mora runs the environmentalist non-governmental organisation Őkotárs in Budapest, which acts as the intermediary distributor of money from Norway's generous aid programme for civil society projects in central and eastern Europe.
A collaboration with local NGO the Zeitz Foundation, the school was funded by the Guernsey Overseas Aid Commission, a non-governmental body based in the Channel Islands specialising in grant aid to charities with projects in the developing world.
In the wake of the Dvorkovich emails leak, the Russian parliament has been discussing legislation to make sending official information through non-governmental email services a crime.
Speaking to the conference, Geer described the removal of links to oneself as like moving to a new town or changing one's name: "a definition of privacy that turns on whether you do or do not retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself, a right which I will remind you is routinely granted but to those who have especially helped governmental causes [such as] witness protection".
I know a great deal about how jobs are created, how they come and how they go, and I think Rick has spent most of life in the governmental sector," he said.
"The EIS process has involved consultation with a significant number of stakeholders including elected representatives, federal and state government agencies as well as non-governmental agencies, local councils, Indigenous representatives, the private sector, public organisations and local residents," he said.
In the other, backed up by a handful of non-governmental organisations and activists, plus a small but growing group of members of the public, is Christensen, head of the Tax Justice Network (TJN).
"Unfortunately, some NGOs [non-governmental organisations] have chosen very aggressive confrontational tactics that are not based on science or law or enforcement".
