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• The US, UK and Ireland business news items on Friday:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  November 6th 2009: US jobless at 10.2% (official figures using latest current criteria for unemployed counted) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8346936.stm Fannie Mae asks for extra $15 Billion: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8346137.stm Extra £25 Billion pumped into UK banks to hold them up ...
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• SAB Miller Uses Brewery Waste from Alrode Brewery in South Africa to Reduce Carbon Footprint

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 609
  SAB Miller, South African grown, second largest brewer in the world has introduced anaerobic digestion to treat the waste leaving its Alrode Brewery in Gauteng, South Africa. Anaerobic fermentation of organic material produces methane, which is used to reduce the consumption of fossil fuel based energy. ...
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• SAB Miller Uses Brewery Waste from Alrode Brewery in South Africa to Reduce Carbon Footprint

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  SAB Miller, South African grown, second largest brewer in the world has introduced anaerobic digestion to treat the waste leaving its Alrode Brewery in Gauteng, South Africa. Anaerobic fermentation of organic material produces methane, which is used to reduce the consumption of fossil fuel based energy. ...
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• Obama to Tackle Currency Valuations in Asia Trip. Yawn.

  
  "Five Short Blasts" Forum — Authority: 118
    http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5A55F520091106 As reported in the above-linked Reuters article, President Obama will challenge Asian nations to “do their part” in rebalancing global trade during his trip to Asia this month, and will be especially critical of China for refusing to allow ...
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• Chamber of Commerce Endorses Carbon Tariffs?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Even though the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month is likely to yield very little , domestic shenanigans continue. The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works passed a bill on Thursday  amid controversy , and the farmers’ friends in the Senate (notably Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D. Mich) are ...
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• Unemployment Passes 10%; Obama Doubles Down On Trade War

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 432
  The new US jobless rate of 10.2% (which jumps to 17.5% when counting those discouraged from even looking) is a 26-year high. Now more than ever, we can not afford the self-destructive, union pandering of protectionism and tariffs.  Yet this President insists on pressing ahead in his ill-conceived war on free trade ...
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• Cato Podcast Exposes Anti-Poor Bias of U.S. Tariffs

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The dirty secret of the U.S. tariff code is that it is not only insanely complex but that it is biased against the poor. Our highest remaining trade barriers are imposed on goods that loom the largest in the budgets of poor and middle-income families — such as food, shoes, and clothing. Politicians and interest ...
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• Cap and Trade: A Tangled Web… A Project-Based Alternative – Part 4

  
  Green Thoughts — Authority: 106
  In the first two parts ( part 1 and part 2 ) of this post, I discussed cap and trade as well-intentioned but a fundamental misapplication of the permit trading policy framework.  I also went on to identify 11 basic elements of any climate policy regardless of instrument.  In the third part , I describe a ...
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• Cap and Trade: The Tangled Web… A More Effective Alternative – Part 3

  
  Green Thoughts — Authority: 106
  In Part 1 , I offered a critique of cap and trade in its existing implementations  and located key flaws which make it highly unlikely that it will achieve its emissions reduction goals, even if somehow it is strengthened.   In part 2 , I highlighted two problematic aspects of cap and trade and then went on to ...
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• European PV Energy incentives

  
  All Info About — Authority: 162
  The Feed-in Tariff (FIT) is an motivator devised to repay the production of renewable energy both by households and investors. Power companies are supposed to purchase back, at rates higher than the market, power coming from renewable sources; such as wind, thermal solar, photovoltaic solar, biomass, hydro and ...
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• R-Com launches per second billing plan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Mumbai, Nov 3 (IANS) Telecom operator Reliance Communications (R-Com) Tuesday announced the launch of its per second billing plan.As per the new plan, to be effective Nov 5, R-Com will offer outgoing calls at one paisa per second across all sectors sans extra charges for short-duration callers.The new offer follows ...
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• Obama on Trade: “If Germany can do it, why can’t we?”

  
  "Five Short Blasts" Forum — Authority: 118
  http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59U0N220091102 With joblessness continuing to escalate, Obama challenged his economic team on Monday to come up with a new economic growth model and turned his attention to trade and exports.  Give him credit.  Instead of swallowing the line that our trade deficit is ...
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• Problems of PV feed in tariffs

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 127
  Next April, when no doubt the United Kingdom will be distracted by the noises and excitement of a General Election, the photovoltaic industry will be hoping for a boost as a result of a new feed in tariff incentive. This incentive is very similar to the incentive that has been operating in Germany for several years, ...
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• U.S. Population Growth Rate Continues Plunge to New Record Low

  
  "Five Short Blasts" Forum — Authority: 118
  Following the announcement of 2nd quarter GDP in July and my calculation of real per capita GDP, I discovered that the population figures provided by the Census Bureau revealed a surprising drop in the quarterly growth rate of the U.S. population, falling to a record low.  This was especially significant considering ...
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• Deglobalization: curing the economic and social ills of globalization

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  Neoliberalism is founded on free trade, the concept of private business, and a minimal role of the state. It is the mental framework of globalization. It also comes with a huge social cost. To offer a comprehensive paradigm to replace neoliberal globalization is deglobalization for the developing countries. The ...
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• Woodrow Wilson Offers New Ideals for Democrats

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Attacking the Payne-Aldrich tariff as an instrument for "private interest" at the expense of "public benefit," Woodrow Wilson, the president of Princeton University, yesterday proposed a new direction for the Democratic Party.
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• Woodrow Wilson Offers New Ideals for Democrats

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 470
  Attacking the Payne-Aldrich tariff as an instrument for "private interest" at the expense of "public benefit," Woodrow Wilson, the president of Princeton University, yesterday proposed a new direction for the Democratic Party.
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• Caution. STELCO Failure detected...

  
  The Pizza Hut — Authority: 113
  ...Switch to secondary power source immediately. It looks like the suits in STELCO are finally learning of their place in the technological world. Before anyone considers "protesting" the bill hikes, one must have to look at the technology with which STELCO provided electricity to the "most congested city on Earth.". ...
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• 3 Snap Up the Satio (Sah-tee-oh)

  
  3mobilebuzz — Authority: 493
  3 have snapped up the Sony Ericsson Satio, a phone that packs a whopping 12 megapixel camera. Not only that, but this top-end handset also has a full touch screen, a range of multimedia playback options, and full HTML internet browsing capabilities. Yourserbase has a thorough set of video reviews of the ...
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• China to pursue trade case against US automakers (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 514
  AP – China has told the U.S. that it will take steps that could lead to higher tariffs on imports of autos made by GM, Chrysler and Ford. See the original post here: (AP)"> (AP)">China to pursue trade case against US automakers (AP)
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