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Politics: Corporate chiefs urge tax reform
2013-04-02 04:13:21| Air Courier - Topix.net
"We consider comprehensive tax reform with a significant corporate tax rate reduction to be a top priority for our companies and our country," wrote AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, FedEx CEO Frederick Smith and 19 others in a letter on Monday to the chairmen and ranking minority members of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance ... (more)
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Australia: Climate change politics is a values problem
2013-03-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Many climate sceptics do not trust environmentalists because they consider them "borderline communists" who want to curtail people's freedom, a leading US social scientist says. Speaking on Wednesday night, the University of Michigan's Andy Hoffman said US global warming sceptics had "a serious distrust of the political ideology behind its proponents". "The fear is that environmentalists are left-leaning, they are socialist, borderline communists, and they are using the government to try to...
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Politics and Pork Production
2013-03-15 22:03:00| National Hog Farmer
Lately it seems as though nearly every significant news story impacting agriculture has originated in close proximity to Washington, D.C. Though the sequestration fallout for the pork industry seems quiet now, hang onto your hat this summer. According to our Legislative Preview reporter Scott Shearer, this week Under Secretary of Food Safety Elisabeth Hagen told the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee that the proposed sequestration plan will, indeed, include U.S Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) meat and poultry inspectors. The plan at this point includes 11 furlough days, no more than one day a week and no more than two days per pay period, scheduled from July to September for all 8,136 meat inspectors and a number of related staff.National Hog Farmer Blog read more
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Sugar politics heat up
2013-03-14 08:50:32| Sugar Industry News
As a person who loves sugar, I think about it all the time. However, since diabetes runs in my family, most of my thoughts are about how to avoid it.
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Polar bears: politics trumps precaution every time | Damian Carrington
2013-03-07 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It all comes down, once again, to our old friend the precautionary principle. And, once again, the world has told our old friend to get stuffed. The 178 nations who make up the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species summit in Bangkok were essentially asked this question: is the future threat to polar bears from the rapid melting of sea ice by global warming so great that the additional pressure of hunting for rugs should be outlawed? The US, allied with Russia, argued yes, absolutely. They...
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