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2013: EXPECT A RAFT OF NEW ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS

Obama’s Environmental Regulation
During his first term, President Obama was widely critized for the number of new regulations which were introduced. Critics attacked the President for introducing regulations that were hampering business and costing jobs.

However, the President is set to introduce even more regulation in 2013. A report released by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Minority Committee, has listed many more Enterprise Prevention Agenda regulations to be passed this year. The reported entitled “A Look Ahead to EPA Regulations for 2013: Numerous Obama EPA Rules Placed on Hold Until After the Election Spell Doom For Jobs and Economic Growth” numerates additional restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions, tougher water guidelines and tightening of the ozone standard. The report explains that these measures would push up taxes for businesses and individuals, as well as cost jobs.

Many environmental groups had hoped Obama would have done more in his first term to help green issues, but President Obama’s former climate czar Carol Browner told several green groups not to worry because “President Obama has a big green ‘to-do’ list for 2013 so they’ll get what they want.”

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SENATE-PASSED DEAL MEANS HIGHER TAX ON 77% OF HOUSEHOLDS

The budget deal passed by the U.S. Senate today would raise taxes on 77.1 percent of U.S. households, mostly because of the expiration of a payroll tax cut, according to preliminary estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington.
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Dawn breaks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Photo: Jay Mallin/Bloomberg
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Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, talks about negotiations between U.S. lawmakers over the so-called fiscal cliff of $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to start at midnight. Norquist speaks with Erik Schatzker on the Bloomberg Television special “America’s Fiscal Debate.” (Source: Bloomberg)
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Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Jim Rickards, senior managing director at Tangent Capital Partners, and Stanley Crouch, chief investment officer at Aegis Capital, talk with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller about the impact of the fiscal cliff on the U.S. economy. They speak on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Rewind.” (Source: Bloomberg)
More than 80 percent of households with incomes between $50,000 and $200,000 would pay higher taxes. Among the households facing higher taxes, the average increase would be $1,635, the policy center said. A 2 percent payroll tax cut, enacted during the economic slowdown, is being allowed to expire as of yesterday.

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DALAI LAMA COMING TO NEW ORLEANS IN 2013 FOR POST-KATRINA WORK

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The Dalai Lama and an entourage of Tibetan monks are heading to New Orleans in May 2013 in a rally of support for communities still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
The 77-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner is expected to make at least two public speeches while he’s in the city on May 16-18.

The visit of the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader will be sponsored by Tulane University’s School of Social Work. Additional details of the visit will be released at a news conference at 10:30 a.m. Monday.

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DALAI LAMA TO VISIT PORTLAND IN 2013

by Frank Mungeam, KGW.com Staff
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 5:29 PM
Updated Thursday, Nov 15 at 9:44 AM
PORTLAND – The Dalai Lama will visit Portland in May 2013 for a series of public talks and discussions.
His Holiness, now 77, has events scheduled over the course of three days from May 9 to 11. The tentative schedule includes a public talk on Saturday, May 11 as well as a symposium and several panel discussions with spiritual, environmental and scientific leaders.
Maitripa College is hosting the visit, and several of the events are being held in conjunction with the University of Portland.
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CRAIGSLIST SPERM DONOR FORCED TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT TO LESBIAN COUPLE – DESPITE GIVING UP PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE BABY BEFORE SHE WAS BORN

Angela Bauer, 40, and partner Jennifer Schreiner, 34, placed ad in 2009.
Donor William Marotta relinquished financial responsibility for child,
Kansas state ordered Mr Marotta to pay after lesbian couple applied
for welfare.

A sperm donor has been ordered to pay child support for the biological daughter he fathered to a lesbian couple who found him via Craigslist.
Angela Bauer, 40, and partner Jennifer Schreiner, 34, placed an ad on the site three years ago for a donor which was answered by William Marotta.
‘We are foster and adoptive parents and now we desire to share a pregnancy and birth together,’ Bauer wrote in the online posting.

Donor: William Marotta, pictured, answered an ad placed on Craigslist by Angela Bauer, and her partner Jennifer Schreiner looking for a sperm donor

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HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES CALLED HYPOCRITES ON GUN CONTROL OUTREACH


Amanda Peet and other celebrities are shown in the “Demand a Plan” PSA and using firearms in films in a new response video – see below. Several big-name Hollywood stars appear in a new anti-gun public service YouTube video calling for Americans to demand that their elected officials come up with a strategy to curb gun violence.

In the video, celebs like Cameron Diaz, Paul Rudd, and Chris Rock read the names of the sites of the most horrific gun massacres, before calling on viewers to “demand a plan” to stop mass shootings. But now a new video called “Demand a Plan – Demand Celebrities Go F Themselves” has been created, that highlights the gun violence many of these same stars have taken part in in their movies and television shows.

The “Demand Celebrities” response video intersperses the original PSA with scenes of gun violence in movies starring the celebrities mentioned above, plus Jeremy Renner, Reese Witherspoon, Jamie Foxx, and others. For example, Jamie Foxx lists “Columbine” during the original PSA, after which the response video runs a montage of extreme gun violence from several of Foxxs movies. The response video closes with the message: “Hollywood is a culture of violence” along with slurs at the actors themselves. Warning, the violence is extremely graphic and may be NSFW and is not suitable for all audiences.

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AMERICA HEADS OVER THE CLIFF

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Democrats and Republicans failed to vote on a deal to stop America falling over the fiscal cliff. The $607 billion of tax hikes and spending cuts take effect at midnight.

President Obama said that a deal had been within sight.

It is believed Congress will meet again Tuesday and come up with a deal to reverse the tax hikes and spending cuts, before any serious damage is done.

However, if they fail, it is widely predicted the fiscal cliff will plunge America back into recession, and the global economy into turmoil.

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AS FISCAL CLIFF FAST APPROACHES STILL NO DEAL

As the fiscal cliff deadline fast approaches there are still significant differences between law makers on Capitol Hill. It had been hoped that negotiators would have a deal ready to be voted on over the weekend, but this failed to materialize.

Democrats were unhappy about Republican plans to change the way benefits are calculated, leading to a gradual reduction in benefit payments; whereas Republicans were angered that the President’s plans appeared to use increased tax hikes in new spending plans.

“The biggest obstacle we face is that President Obama and Majority Leader Reid continue to insist on new taxes that will be used to fund more new spending, not for meaningful deficit reduction,” said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.

If a deal is not ready to be voted on, the President has told Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid to present a bare bones plan to be voted on. This will see tax increases on families making more than $250,000 and extend unemployment insurance.

Wall Street traders are bracing themselves for volatility in the markets as the uncertainty increases.

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WITH THE STRONGEST GUN LAWS IN THE COUNTRY 446 SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN SHOT IN CHICAGO SO FAR THIS YEAR! THE MEDIA SAYS NOTHING! WHERE ARE THE TEARS?

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FACTS ARE FACTS ! WAKE UP !!

The cesspool known as Chicago probably has the toughest gun laws in the country, yet despite all the shootings, murders, and bloodshed, you never hear a peep about this from the corrupt state run media.

In Chicago, there have been 446 school age children shot in this leftist utopia run by Rahm Emanuel; the same city that produced Obama, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, etc. 62 school aged children have actually been killed by crazed nuts in Chicago so far this year with almost two weeks to go. So why isn’t this news worthy?

Is it because it would embarrass those anti second amendment nuts who brag about Chicago’s tough gun laws? Is it because most of the kids who were shot and killed were minorities? Or is it because the corrupt media doesn’t want to show Chicago in a bad light? Amazingly, no Obama crocodile tears either.

For those of you too dense to get the point of this, it’s to make the point about gun laws. No matter how tough the gun laws are, the crazed, nut jobs will find a way to get them and if they so chose, use them. No draconian law can stop this, no matter how well intentioned the law is.

This is really just about leftists grabbing power from citizens and taking away their constitutional rights of self defense.

The killing is caused by the moral decay of the citizens of our country. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people!

THE LIST OF 62 SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN MURDERED IN 2012
18 YEARS OLD- 15
17 YEARS OLD- 16
16 YEARS OLD- 16
15 YEARS OLD- 6
14 YEARS OLD- 4
13 YEARS OLD- 2
12 YEARS OLD- 1
7 YEARS OLD- 1
6 YEARS OLD- 1

THE LIST OF 446 SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN SHOT IN 2012
18 year old- 110
17 year old- 99
16 year old- 89
15 year old- 62
14 year old- 39
13 year old- 21
12 year old- 10
11 year old- 2
10 year old- 3
9 year old- 1
7 year old- 3
6 year old- 2
5 year old- 1
4 year old- 1
3 year old- 1
1 year old- 2
All this in a city where guns are banned and you are not allowed to even own a gun!

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OLIVER STONE TO RT: ‘US HAS BECOME AN ORWELLIAN STATE’


Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law.

“Obama was a great hope for change”

RT: It took both of you almost five years to produce this series. And in it you have a chapter called Obama: Management of a Wounded Empire. You give a harsh critique of the Obama administration. What in your eyes has been the most troubling aspect of his presidency, Oliver?

Oliver Stone: I think under the disguise of sheep’s clothing he has been a wolf. That because of the nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him, people forgave him a lot. He was a great hope for change. The color of his skin, the upbringing, the internationalism, the globalism, seemed all evident. And he is an intelligent man. He has taken all the Bush changes he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them. That is what is sad. So we are going into the second administration that is living outside the law and does not respect the law and foundations of our system and he is a constitutional lawyer, you know. Without the law, it is the law of the jungle.  Nuremburg existed for a reason and there was a reason to have trials, there is a reason for due process – ‘habeas corpus’ as they call it in the United States.

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HOMICIDE RATES IN CANADA RISE 7%, FIREARM DEATHS AT LOWEST LEVEL IN ALMOST 50 YEARS AS KILLERS FAVOUR THE BLADE !

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“The rate of firearm homicides per 100,000 population has generally been declining since the mid-1970s and, in 2011, reached its lowest point in almost 50 years.”

The Canadian murder weapon of choice is now the blade.

“An increase in stabbings accounted for virtually the entire increase in homicides in 2011,” the federal data agency said.

It said there were 39 more stabbings in 2011 compared to 2010. Overall, stabbings accounted for 35 per cent of homicides, firearms for 27 per cent, beatings for 22 per cent and strangulation for seven per cent.

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FRENCH COURT REJECTS 75 PERCENT MILLIONAIRES’ TAX

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By Emile Picy and Catherine Bremer

PARIS | Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:25am EST

(Reuters) – France’s Constitutional Council on Saturday rejected a 75 percent upper income tax rate to be introduced in 2013 in a setback to Socialist President Francois Hollande’s push to make the rich contribute more to cutting the public deficit.

The Council ruled that the planned 75 percent tax on annual income above 1 million euros ($1.32 million) – a flagship measure of Hollande’selection campaign – was unfair in the way it would be applied to different households.

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the government would redraft the upper tax rate proposal to answer the Council’s concerns and resubmit it in a new budget law, meaning Saturday’s decision could only amount to a temporary political blow.

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MANHATTAN NY SUBWAY DEATH 2ND FATAL SHOVE IN A MONTH

By MARC SANTORA and SARAH MASLIN NIR

Queens NY, Sunando Sen was pushed to his death on Thursday night, in what witnesses said was an unprovoked attack.

The Bangladesh passport of Mr. Sen, 46. He opened a copying business this year on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Mr. Suman said Mr. Sen was proud when he had saved enough money to open the business, New Amsterdam Copy.

A woman approaching from behind who had been sitting on a bench and who had been heard mumbling to herself. The woman pushed him into the path of a No. 7 train roaring into the 40th Street-Lowery Street subway station in Sunnyside. Mr. Sen was crushed under the train.

Onlookers screamed, the woman fled the station down two flights of stairs.

The seemingly unprovoked attack, the second time this month that a man was thrown to his death on the subway tracks, stirred some of the deepest fears of New Yorkers.

“When a murder happens in New York, it can often be dismissed as being in someone else’s backyard,” said Gene Russianoff, staff lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, a rider advocacy group. “The subway is everyone’s backyard.”

Why is the weird death toll climbing in NY ever since Hurricane Sandy? What else was contained in that storm?

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