The Canadian government has announced it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, making it the first nation to do so. The move was expected, as the country declared four years ago that it did not intend to meet its existing commitments, and its annual emissions have risen by about once third [...]
Tag: Government
December 13, 2011
November 26, 2011
MF Global’s Jon Corzine may decide silence is golden
Jon Corzine’s career seems to turn in circles. The former Goldman Sachs boss moved into politics as governor of New Jersey, then back into finance, now he’s heading back to Washington. Sadly for the former New Jersey governor his return to Capitol Hill will be made in less than auspicious circumstances. Next month, the House [...]
November 22, 2011
July 30, 2011
The Black Swans of Politics: (I am proud to be one of those Black Swans…)
From the LewRockwell Blog: I remember once arguing with an honest young atheist, who was very much shocked at my disputing some of the assumptions which were absolute sanctities to him (such as the quite unproved proposition of the independence of matter and the quite improbable proposition of its power to originate mind), and he [...]
July 1, 2011
$1B in Unwanted Coins Languish in Federal Reserve
The United States Federal Reserve’s coffers are bulging with $1 billion worth of unwanted $1 coins that cost $300 million to produce, and it could produce a billion more $1 coins by 2016, according to an investigation by National Public Radio (NPR). The Fed’s three attempts to popularize the use of $1 coins dates to [...]
July 1, 2011
Synagogue Bomb Plotters Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Three men convicted of plotting to blow up New York synagogues and to fire heat-seeking missiles at U.S. military planes were sentenced to 25 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan handed down punishments today against James Cromitie, 45, Onta Williams, 35, and David Williams, 30, who were found guilty in October [...]
June 30, 2011
June 30, 2011
Blackwater killer gets 30 months, Newburgh 4 get 25 years
Before a federal court room this week, US Attorney Neil MacBride was rather blunt about what actions a former Blackwater security guard undertook while working in Afghanistan in 2009. “Justin Cannon opened fire with an AK-47 at the rear of a retreating vehicle and took the life of an innocent Afghan,” is all he needed [...]
June 29, 2011
June 29, 2011
Congress Can Now Skype
Now that security concerns are resolved, members of the U.S. House of Representatives will be using online video-chatting devices, Skype and ooVoo, Politico reports. An announcement sent this Tuesday morning via snail mail from House Administration Committee Chairman Dan Lungren (R-Calif) to his colleagues said: “During a time when Congress must do more with less, [...]
June 29, 2011
NM Blaze Threatening Nuclear Lab, Sparking Fires
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Firefighters worked through the night hoping to put out spot fires erupting ahead of a wildfire in the mountains above the northern New Mexico town that is home to a government nuclear laboratory. “That’s the biggest threat we have right now to homes in the community,” Deputy Los Alamos County Fire [...]
June 28, 2011
Calif. Democrats Find Budget Deal
(Updates with Brown comment in third paragraph.) June 27 (Bloomberg) — California Governor Jerry Brown dropped his plan to extend expiring taxes to close a budget deficit and will back a new proposal based on $4 billion in higher-than-forecast revenue, additional spending cuts and a tax initiative requiring voter approval next year. The agreement between [...]
June 28, 2011
June 28, 2011
Recession Forces States to Rethink Tourism Funding
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Like a business trying to sell a product, Washington state has for years attracted visitors by promoting stunning images of some of the nation’s most majestic scenery — from the snowcapped peaks of the Cascades to the rainforests and thundering waterfalls of the Olympic Peninsula. That marketing is now coming to [...]