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• Your Senator spent what?

  
  FinanceTechNews.com — Authority: 131
  Ever wonder how your elected representatives spend their allowances? You know, the money we taxpayers give them to staff and run their operations? Well, for the first time ever you can access this info online — instead of having to schlep to wherever the mammoth books containing these records were kept in the ...
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• Reproach the bench

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  State judges are using taxpayer money to buy everything from spa trips to self-portraits to electronics, The Post has learned. On Nov. 1, New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman doubled the expense allowances for his judges to $10,000 a year each. But the special compensation -- which now costs $12.6 million annually ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Members of Congress Benefits

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 506
    Members of Congress decide how much of our paycheck we get to keep and how we pay for our retirement. Though most of us have been cut back to shorter hours or lost jobs and benefits, not to mention our 401k taking a beating, Senators and Representatives pension plans were protected and they gave themselves a pay ...
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• Zimbabwe Congo Soldier Widow Demands US$26 000 From Army

  
  Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog — Authority: 140
  A soldier lies dead in the DRC last year when fighting erupted again. Zimbabwe had since left and the United Nations had moved in peace keepers. But there are still some Zimbabwean skeletons in the DRC, those of soldiers who died there and were never recovered. Their widows have been denied the allowances due to those ...
  5 days ago

• “Lebanon… [a] security risk and nobody ever goes there…”

  
  Lebanon News: Under Rug Swept — Authority: 421
  What would have been some mundane topic about Kenyan public servants receiving higher travel allowances when visiting foreign countries has turned into Beirut/Baghdad bashing by the Tom Odege, the secretary-general of the Union of Kenya Civil Servants: Apart from Iraq or Lebanon which are security risks and nobody ...
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• Orwellian or Green? Carbon Taxes on Individuals

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Livescience.com | The Dutch government wants to tax residents for every mile they drive to cut down on carbon dioxide emissions. The new green tax would replace taxes on the sales and ownership of autos, AFP reports. “Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometers ...
  1 week ago

• Mrs Expenses Ann Keen facing further questions about parliamentary allowance

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Ann Keen is understood to have received £12000 for the cost of an office at her home.
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• Giveaways: Fight Over Carbon-Emission Permits Comes to Senate

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Blogs.wsj.com | More fun and games as the Senate grapples with the climate bill. The latest twist: Senators from coal-dependent states are pushing hard to ease the pain for power companies that rely on coal. At issue is one of the things that sparked most of the horse-trading when the House wrote ...
  1 week ago

• Control Through Climate Change: Everyone in UK could be given a personal ‘carbon allowance’

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 148
  From Telegraph UK Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. It would involve people being issued with a unique number which they would hand over when purchasing ...
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• Carbon Reduction Commitment struggle for firms

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Nebusiness.co.uk | HUNDREDS of firms could face an administrative nightmare next year when the Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment comes into force. A simulation of how the new legislation will impact on 30 North-east companies which volunteered to take part in a One North East sponsored ...
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• Carbon budgets are ‘fair’ says Lord Smith

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Telegraph.co.uk | Lord Smith of Finsbury, the Chairman of the Environment Agency (EA), said introducing a “personal carbon allowances” in the next 20 years could help the UK meet ambitious climate change targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions. He said it was the most fair way of rationing ...
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• Businesses Tap into Social Networking Site to Strategize Away Carbon Emissions

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Solveclimate.com | Executives at a big electronics firm were in a quandary. With the sluggish economy, they were shipping fewer items, but they still had the same delivery contracts, meaning they were sending out trucks half-empty and needlessly burning fuel. Seeking a greener solution, they did ...
  2 weeks ago

• Opinion: Coming Soon: Individual Carbon Credits?

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Spectator.org | You’d better not have a big carbon print in Great Britain. If some of the enviros get their way, you will have to pay more every time you exceed your government carbon allotment. Reports the Daily Telegraph: Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon ...
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• Lawsuit Filed Against Ban On Compensating Bone Marrow Doners

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Gina GomezNov.16, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Individuals who are ready to donate their bone marrows might just receive some compensation in future if a lawsuit that filed recently becomes successful in bringing an end to the ban which presently makes paying donors illegal. The lawsuit has been filed by the Institute for ...
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• Environment boss wants to put carbon tax on driving, heating and holidays

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Dailymail.co.uk | Drivers, households and holidaymakers should be hit with a carbon tax to tackle global warming, the head of the Environment Agency will say today. Lord Smith, the former culture secretary, wants to see personal carbon allowances for individuals to cut greenhouse gases by ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recession may lead to Lower Carbon Prices

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  The United Nations summit on climate change may prove to be a landmark event that historians will use to mark the moment when the world got serious about carbon emissions.  Leading up the even in December, which will take place in Copenhagen , there have been protests, rallies, meetings atop mountains, as various ...
  3 weeks ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 weeks ago

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