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• America has become a reeducation camp

  
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  DOJ on ‘Gays’: ‘Silence Will be Interpreted as Disapproval’ Under President Obama, “justice” is anything but blind. Neither is it deaf. In fact, based on recent revelations, it appears to be watching your every move and listening to your every word. Still, if you happen to be a federal employee, ...
  3 days ago

• Series on tax: Part 2b – let’s experiment with explanations

  
  TVHE — Authority: 136
  In the second part of my series on taxation I wrote about distortion and burden .  But I’m not sure whether my description about wedges and how people respond to prices was necessarily clear enough for a non-economist audience.  So I’m going to experiment with some other ways of articulating what I mean – ...
  4 days ago

• Report to the Human Rights council on declining minority languages

  
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  In a report by Rita Izsak to the United Nations Human Rights Council in April, she cited various historical and other factors that are causing a decline in minority languages. International laws covering the rights to speak a minority language that she cited include: the International Covenant on Civil and Political ...
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• Study: 30 Percent of Flyers Have Left On Their Electronic Devices

  
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  Ever reach into your pocket at the end of a long flight to turn on your phone, when you realize it was on all along? You’re not alone. A study released Thursday found that 30 percent of U.S.airplane passengers have accidentally left a personal electronic device while on a plane. According to the “Portable more » ...
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• "Debt Without Drowning" by Paul De Grauwe

  
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  Since the 1970’s, economists have warned that a monetary union could not be sustained without a fiscal union. But the eurozone’s leaders have not heeded their advice – and the consequences are becoming increasingly apparent. Europe now faces a difficult choice: either fix this fundamental design flaw and move ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trade sanctions against Iran affect publishers

  
  Elsevier Connect: News and Insight for the Global Scientific Research Community — Authority: 138
  Elsevier explains legal issues to its editors and works with publishers and research community to ‘pursue ‘balance in the law’
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• Ending rights, supporting rights - What’s best for the future of immigration policy?

  
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  The coalition government wants less rights and less migration. Employers hint at less rights but want more migration. And others, including the European Commission, say rights are just what is needed to encourage people to migrate in security. Confused? You need not be.... Just one day after ...
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• San Francisco: Issue an Impact-Rated Muni Bond in Energy Efficiency

  
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  In light of San Franciscos Board of Supervisors resolution to divest from fossil fuels, students of Presidio Graduate School call for its issuance of the nations first impact-rated municipal bond for energy efficiency. The post San Francisco: Issue an Impact-Rated Muni Bond in Energy Efficiency appeared first on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are Small Business Owners the New Left?

  
  Small Business Labs — Authority: 132
  Thats the claim of The Nations article Meet the New Left: Small Business Owners.   Key quote from the article on what you will hear if you listen closely to small business owners:  "you will hear jarring expressions of distinctly liberal opinions. And they express salty disgust for the US Chamber of Commerce and ...
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• Queens Speech signals a new Immigration Bill is on its way

  
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  Today we learned that Government is preparing a new Immigration Bill - despite ministers acknowledgement that much of the detail behind the headlines is still missing...
  2 weeks ago

• UKIP has an advantage that is not based on concrete policy proposals

  
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  The aftermath of the UKIP surge in the polls in the local elections has led to a lot of soul searching in mainstream politics. To the detriment of the Conservative Party whilst also hacking away at both the support of the Labour and Liberal Democrats parties, UKIP emerged as the third most popular party in Britain ...
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• Yamba and other Clarence Valley towns to be connect to the National Broadband Network by 2016

  
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  Federal Labors NBN plan promises broadband speeds of 100 megabits per second by 2021 and Yamba at the mouth of the Clarence River on the NSW North Coast should be connected by 2016. According to Federal Labor MP Janelle Saffin,  20,700homes and businesses across the Page electorate will have an NBN ...
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• Analysis of the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013

  
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  Congressional Budget Office https://opencrs.com/document/R42991/ This report analyzes the provisions of the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013. In general, these provisions amend the Stafford Act [the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act] with a stated goal of improving the ...
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• H.R. 739, Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery Act of 2013

  
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  Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44118 [Summary]   As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on April 24, 2013 H.R. 739 would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop, no later than one year after the bill’s enactment, a management plan for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obamacare train wreck and you

  
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  Commentary I left at Hot Air on Harry Reid suddenly realizing that the Obamacare system he helped to connive into being isnt solvent, needs way more cash and wont do what it was purported as its actual points of being... but it is a sinkhole of cash that is vast and black in the budget.  Just like SSA and the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Abbott and Hockey condemn National Disability Insurance Scheme to limbo if Coalition wins government

  
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  This was Australian Federal Opposition Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey writing to concerned citizens in June 2013: Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott at a press conference on 30 March 2013: I t would appear that neither of these Coalition politicians want to see the National ...
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• Series on tax: Part 1 – why?

  
  TVHE — Authority: 136
  Huzzah, I am writing about tax on Rates Blog.  In Part 1 I ask “ why do we tax “. I get onto other issues later – in fact, this will be a five article series.  Here all I do is combine the idea of “government spending” and “paying for government spending”, and give a little wink to ideas such as ...
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• THE DILEMMA FOR PENSIONERS AND WHAT GOVERNMENT CAN DO ABOUT IT

  
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  One hundred and four years ago and thanks to a Welsh Chancellor of the Exchequer, the British Government granted the first pensions to its citizens who, when David Lloyd George was in charge of the nations finances, had to be men of ‘good character’ over the age of 70 who had not been in the workhouse. Since ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Role of Tropical Forests in Climate-Change Mitigation

  
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  Belfer Center, Kennedy School , Harvard University. (Policy Brief) / by Donna Lee http://hvrd.me/XZjtkl Forests can play a significant role in helping to avoid dangerous climate change, and a global agreement under the UNFCCC would be uniquely placed to support efforts in this regard. The rising global demand for ...
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• The Rise of the Underground Economy

  
  Small Business Labs — Authority: 132
  Last year we suggested growth in the underground economy is likely a key reason workforce participation has fallen so much in the U.S.  Others are starting to also suggest this.  Noted author James Surowieckis New Yorker article The Underground Recovery  points out: Ordinary Americans have gone underground, ...
  4 weeks ago

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