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POPSUniversal Nightmare? July 14th, 2009 Are you willing to pay for universal health care? The penalty for employers would be much higher -- 8 percent of a worker's wages -- with an exemption for small businesses. Business groups are strongly opposing an employer requirement. The House plan lacked total cost figures. House leaders want to quickly move the legislation through three committees and to a floor vote before the congressional recess in August. President Obama is pressing the House and Senate to vote this summer on the bill.
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POPSGore & Ban Ki-Moon Push CEOs to Back Climate Change Deal 
"During negotiations, developed countries always hope that a future China may do much better and greater efforts on addressing climate change issues," he said. Rajendra K. Pachauri, head of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Gore, said already "we are perhaps at the upper range" of predicted higher temperatures this century. "We have a very short window of opportunity," he said. "If we want to limit temperature increase to about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), then emissions globally must peak by 2015." Connie Hedegaard, Denmark's climate minister, told The Associated Press the best solution is global limits on pollution blamed for global warming instead of a tax on carbon dioxide and other warming gases. "I would hope that they would sort of agree that some kind of cap and trade will be the most efficient tool to achieve what science tells us what we must achieve," she said.
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POPSBush Defends Saudi Friends on Oil Output In this article he paints their decline to increase oil output as an increase, and increase which was prior to his visit. This was a politically motivated visit and photo-op for a forgone conclusion. Bush's own experience with his own Arbusto oil company--with a bin Laden for a partner--means that he understood in advance that his visit would make no difference. Calling on increasing refinery capacity when the oil companies have deliberately reduced theirs to increase efficiency and profits, as well as pretending that an increase in domestic production would bring down price, is hypocritical and inaccurate. Presently refineries profits are declining. The decline of the dollar and war-fears on the trading market has led to the increase in price per barrel.
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POPSBush Calls On Business Leaders To Create 500,000 Shitty Jobs "I can make it possible for up to 50 people in the American Southwest to be mucking out grease traps by this time next week," said Rudy Maleska, president of SouthwasteCo, a Tucson, AZ, industrial-waste-removal service. "Whatever I can do to help my country, count me in."
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POPS2008: A Turning Point in the Fight Against Poverty
Bill Gates, Bono, Queen Rania, Gordon Brown, Ban Ki-Moon, Klaus Schwab, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and John Chambers issue joint statement at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. To those who are most vulnerable to climate change and those who suffer the most grinding poverty: Let 2008 be the year of the bottom billion! More than 2,500 participants from 88 countries are in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. World. Also, business leaders from 1,000 of the foremost companies from around the world and across all economic sectors attended the meeting. Since 2000, there has been some vital progress in the fight against poverty: • 3 million more children survive every year • 2 million people now receive AIDs treatment • There are 41 million more children in school • 2 million lives are saved every year by immunization • Polio, leprosy and neonatal tetanus are on the verge of elimination • African economies have been growing at 6% for the
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POPS630 Thousand Execs Control 2/3 of World's Workforce On line and Continuing education programs such as those provided by the Enoch Olinga College (ENOCIS) play an important roles in ongoing training and development of the world's top executives. * Nearly half have streamed or watched a broadband video from computer in the last month * A third have read a blog in the last month, but only 5% have actually contributed. * Nearly a quarter have downloaded a podcast in the last month These three points are the typical deliver system of the ENOCIS learning program. www.enocis.org
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