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Nations Challenge EU Climate Plan

October 15th, 2008

Eight eastern and central European countries have challenged the EU’s climate change package, which France wants to get adopted before next year.
The eight EU members want CO2 emission targets revised in light of “serious economic and financial uncertainties”.
Later Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi said he would veto the plan, saying Italian businesses could not absorb the [...]

House Democrats Contemplate Abolishing 401(k) Tax Breaks

October 12th, 2008

Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3 trillion 401(k) system, including the elimination of most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks that 401(k) investors receive.
House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Income [...]

U.S. Army Troops To Serve As U.S. Policemen?

October 1st, 2008

According to the Army Times (dated Tuesday, September 30, 2008), “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT [Brigade Combat Team] will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.”
The [...]