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January 31, 2007 |
U.S. DOT urges privatization of highways, infrastructure
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Monday, Jan. 8, 2007 - The U.S. Department of Transportation is eager to assist states in leasing and selling off their roads and infrastructure to private investors.
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced Monday, Jan. 8, that the departme |
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January 31, 2007 |
Bush nominates Macquarie official as counsel for DOT
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President Bush has announced that he intends to appoint an official with toll-road investor Macquarie to be the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
David James Gribbin, IV, of Virginia is currently the division director for M |
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January 30, 2007 |
Bush Directive Increases Sway on Regulation
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy. |
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January 28, 2007 |
Global court to decide on launching first trial
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) will decide on Monday whether there is enough evidence to try a Congolese militiaman for using children as soldiers in what would be the new court's first trial.
A decision to confirm ch |
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January 28, 2007 |
The Ethanol Love-fest Will Not Last
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So, Bush wants massive new ethanol subsidies. He wants 35 billion gallons of "renewable and alternative fuels" -- the vast bulk of which will be corn ethanol -- online by 2017.
Right now, there's basically no opposition to this push. It's got supp |
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January 26, 2007 |
House resolution opposes North American Union
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Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., has introduced a House resolution expressing congressional opposition to construction of a NAFTA Super Highway System or entry into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada. |
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January 25, 2007 |
Ambassador warns of careful implementation measures
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TORONTO, Ont. -- Careful implementation of cross-border initiatives is the key to continued economic prosperity between Canada and the US, urged Canada’s Ambassador to the US.
Michael Wilson, in a speech to the Empire Club of Canada, talked about |
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January 25, 2007 |
Topple trade, travel barriers: McLellan
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EDMONTON -- Former deputy prime minister Anne McLellan says trade and travel barriers within North America must be toppled - and she admits that's an about-face from the Liberal line she used to talk. |
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January 24, 2007 |
Corporate Rights Deal to Make Us April Fools
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y now most Tyee readers will have heard of TILMA, the corporate rights agreement signed by Gordon Campbell and Ralph Klein in April of last year. The agreement -- the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement -- was first pitched as a deal that |
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January 23, 2007 |
Corporate Control of the Media
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omorrow night President Bush will give his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. Last weekend, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders gave what could be described as an alternate State of the Union before thousands gathered in Memphi |
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