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News & UpdatesMay 15, 2013 Media organizations slam Justice Dept. over secret gathering of AP phone recordsSource: Washington PostMore than four dozen media organizations joined forces Tuesday to sharply rebuke the Justice Department for secretly gathering the phone records of Associated Press journalists, calling on the department to promptly return the... May 15, 2013 Budget Office Cuts Estimate of Nation’s 2013 Deficit by 24%Source: NY TimesWASHINGTON — Since the recession ended four years ago, the federal budget deficit has topped $1 trillion every year. But now the government’s annual deficit is shrinking far faster than anyone in Washington expected, and perhaps... May 15, 2013 Will ‘Resilience’ Replace Sustainability?
Source: Triple Pundit
Last week, the wine-making town of Sebastopol became the second California city after Lancaster to require that solar panels be installed in all new building construction. Among the driving forces for Sebastopol’s solar are local... May 15, 2013 Justice Department, IRS scandals challenge Obama’s civil liberties credibilitySource: Washington PostPresident Obama, a former constitutional law lecturer who came to office pledging renewed respect for civil liberties, is today running an administration at odds with his résumé and preelection promises. May 15, 2013 U.S. Report on I.R.S. Audits Cites Failures in Management
Source: NY Times
WASHINGTON — An inspector general’s report on the investigation of the Internal Revenue Service’s effort to single out conservative groups for special scrutiny blamed ineffective management at the agency for failing to rein in... May 14, 2013 Proposed US Cyber-Crime Law Increases Pressure On ChinaTechWeekEurope - The US government dialled up its war of words with China over cyber-espionage last week, with a Pentagon report clearly placing blame on the Chinese government for sanctioning information theft and legislators... May 14, 2013 Germany's Merkel eyes tougher carbon targetsSydney Morning Herald - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she's confident that European Union member states can agree to more ambitious climate protection targets. Germany is in talks with EU member states including Poland... May 14, 2013 Phone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S.Source: NY TimesWASHINGTON — Federal investigators secretly seized two months of phone records for reporters and editors of The Associated Press in what the news organization said Monday was a “serious interference with A.P.’s constitutional... May 14, 2013 EU seeks to unleash crackdown on tax evasionSource: AFPBRUSSELS — European finance ministers on Tuesday bid to unlock a trillion-euro annual crackdown on tax evasion, under pressure from EU leaders looking for new measures to boost job creation and growth at their Brussels summit... May 14, 2013 China Crossing The Rubicon As Reform Agenda Moves Forward
Source: Forbes
Is the Chinese government actually shrinking? That’s impossible for me to measure from here, but from what new Premier Li Keqiang is saying, the government is at least moving increasingly out of the way of businesses. The central... |
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