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POPSCarbon Tax- UNCONSTITUTIONAL This new French carbon tax was scheduled to go into law on Jan1, 2010. The tax was steep: 17 euros per ton of carbon dioxide (USD $24.40). In a stunning move, and surely a blow to warmists everywhere, the tax has been found unconstitutional and thrown out. Originally found here (Google Translation).
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POPSUrgent! Canadians Need Your Help I sent the e-mail to the PM, but I would like some input from my Canadian clipper friends before I sign the petition, if in fact, the petition is not limited to Canadian citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------ Wherever you are in the world, please send your thoughts on Bill C-6 and the government’s attempts to eliminate Canadians’ health rights and constitutional freedoms directly to Prime Minister Stephen Harper pm@pm.gc.ca Also, lawyer Shawn Buckley has drafted a fairer Charter of Health Freedoms to replace the regressive and undemocratic Bill C-6. Please sign it and ask everyone you know to sign it: charterofhealthfreedom.org For more information about Bill C-6, visit: nhppa.org/
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POPSRepublican Attorneys General in 13 States Threaten Lawsuit Over Health Care
The 60-39 vote marked the third time in as many days Democrats posted a supermajority needed to advance the legislation. The letter was signed by top prosecutors in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington state. All are Republicans, and McMaster and the attorneys general of Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania are running for governor in their respective states. Last week, McMaster said he was leading several other attorneys general in an inquiry into the constitutionality of the estimated $100 million deal he has dubbed the "Cornhusker Kickback." Republican U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint of South Carolina raised questions about the legislation, which they said was amended to win Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson's support. "Because this provision has serious implications for the country and the future of our nation's legislative process .....
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POPSIt's a wonderful life working for the government The policy aim, Democrats say, was to maintain public services and aid. The political aim, although Democrats don't say so, was to maintain public-sector jobs -- and the flow of union dues to the public employees unions that represent almost 40 percent of public-sector workers. Those unions in turn have contributed generously to Democrats. Services Employee International Union head Andy Stern, the most frequent nongovernment visitor to the Obama White House, has boasted that his union steered $60 million to Democrats in the 2008 cycle. The total union contribution to Democrats has been estimated at $400 million.
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POPSRussia May Send Spacecraft to Asteroid Tunguska's piece of comet that detonated over Siberia in the early 1900's was estimated to be only One hundred feet across. How is a spacecraft going to move this rock with an impact--sustained ion-pulse rocket engines?? They'll just make it hit earth on 2029....I had hoped to live longer than this..
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POPSSHUN MEAT says UN Climate Chief 70% of arable land and more emissions than all the transport systems in the world - just so people can eat dead animals.. do you feel happy about that? ..unhappy enough to give up bacon? I doubt it, but go on -feel free to surprise me, and yourself!
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POPSDigging Out The storm prompted our Governor to declare a state of emergency in West Virginia on Saturday. I was on the road with a crew from 9 to 5 in charge of snow removal and one of my clients actually measured the snow for me--20 inches worth of it. The interchanges were horrible at one point with abandoned cars and trucks everywhere.
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POPSCap and Tax Fraud What is good for Europe is good for America. This type of fraud is coming our way compliments of our congress.
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POPSIranian Forces Take Over Iraq Oil Well; Army Captain Accused of Murder Army Capt. Carl Bjork From Evergreen Accused of Premeditated Murder by Incarcerated Iraqi Insurgents The field is about 500 metres (yards) from an Iranian border fort and about 1 kilometre from an Iraqi border fort, US Colonel Peter Newell said, adding that it falls on the Iraqi side of a border agreed between the two countries. There are five other similar fields that also fall into disputed territory, he said. Play Video: Evergreen Soldier May Face Murder Charges In Iraq CBS DENVER; http://bit.ly/5i0zTr
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POPSU.N. Bodies Want Up to $60 Billion to Monitor ... Everything to bring their domestic climate observation systems up to speed. That could bring the high estimate of the additional cost of the five year effort to more than $60 billion. The report emphasizes that all cost estimates are "provisional." The cost analysis section of the report " which appears in the executive summary, but not in the main report itself " is discreetly silent about who will hand over all the money, especially the part to be spent in the developing world, but by implication, the money is intended to come from developed countries. The vast surveillance network will also have other uses than purely scientific ones. Its ability to measure changes in land use and their effects will tie into elements of a global climate deal that envisage trading cash for efforts to prevent deforestation in poorer countries " which, in turn, may tie into a lucrative international system of trading "carbon offsets" in a cap-and-trade system. It will also aid in assessing disaster rel
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POPS10 Million Could Lose Employer Coverage Under Senate Health Bill, CBO Says It comes in the middle of a heated debate in the Senate over whether and how the government should enter the market with its own insurance plan. "If you like what you have you can't keep it," the Senate Republican office said in an e-mail highlighting the CBO report and keying off the president's refrain. Though some of those who lose their coverage would be eligible for government subsidies to buy insurance, some would not, according to the CBO. For instance, a family of four making more than $88,000 would not qualify for subsidies and could face even higher premiums in the private market. http://bit.ly/5afKcA
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