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[Net Impact Boston] NIBbles: The State of Sustainable and Responsible Investing « Net ...: Kinder - “Turn off the TV.” (It was then quickly agreed upon amongst seemingly everyone in the room that John Stewart filleting Jim Cramer in an interview was a genuinely satisfying moment”¦Mr. Kinder commented that it’s interesting John Stewart is the one to provide us this voice, but he’s the only guy out there telling the truth.) Mr.

[Financial news] Annual Result Highlights for The Co-operative Financial Services ...: During the second half of 2008 the Bank consulted its customers on a new mandate for The Co-operative Bank Ethical Policy with over 80,000 responding. Following an overwhelming mandate from customers the Bank will now decline finance for fuels with particularly high global warming potential, cluster bombs or activities that involve the exploitation of great apes.

[Yale Environment 360] A Reporter's Field Notes on The Coverage of Climate Change by ...: Kolbert talks about the loss of life in the Australian bush fires as though its obviously due to climate change, whereas the reality is that those deaths were due to ridiculous green policies to "protect the environment". We've had worse droughts before, in 1900 and 1914 the Murray river actually ceased flowing altogether, and we now have one poor fellow trying to recoup the $100000 fine he wa given for chopping down the eucalyptus surrounding the house on his bush property.

[Political Punch] White House Denies Charge By Attorney that Administration ...: Tapper reported, “A leading bankruptcy attorney representing hedge funds and money managers told ABC News Saturday that Steve Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration’s Auto Industry Task Force, threatened one of the firms.” After Tapper reported it, Drudge linked to his story and helped give it further amplification:

[Climate Progress] Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Must read from Hansen: Stop the ...: You have to be in it for the long term, that’s true of any investment. I’m sure there were folks who thought our relatives were crazy for buying up a bunch of swampland during the Devonian between Paris, Texas and Albuquerque but look at all the oil they’ve pulled out of it in the last hundred years.

[Firedoglake] Firedoglake » The Pecora Committee in Context: Going Forward: We certainly need an investigation and the forensics will reveal the flaws in the system of finance and “investments” gone awry by less then ethical players on Wall Street. But I feel the problem which needs to be ..... We and the rest of the world have already missed the boat on preventing significant change to the world's climate, this even with the current worldwide downturn. And cap and trade is a step back from a carbon tax. Such a tax would be direct and hit the big ...

[Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston - Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent] Dangerous climate change: Lessons from the recent history of the ...: After months of furious lobbying from key industries, including LNG, cement and steel, the Government will offer significant changes to its original formula offering wider compensation to trade-exposed emissions-intensive industries to ameliorate corporate concern about jobs and investment moving offshore.

[ClimateChangeCorp - News] Interview with Bob Elton, BC Hydro CEO - A 100-year thinker ...: While Elton offers warm words for Canada’s enlightened approach to its indigenous peoples, he notes there is still a long way to go. He says: “We still have a lot to learn … we are increasingly getting parts of it right, but the inequalities are not really diminishing.”

[Comments for Margot Wallström's Blog] Margot Wallström's Blog » Blog Archive » EU public consultation on ...: sviluppo rurale e infrastrutture se vai a veder tutti i bandi della regione SICILIA relativi al 2007/2013 datato 08/08/2008 sono già tutti scaduti al 05/2008 e anche prima, come mai loro danno le informazioni solo il 08/08/2008? come possiamo fare a presentare un progetto per avviare una piccola impresa giovanile vogliamo sapere dove possiamo presentare il progetto e se ci sono dei moduli da riempire grazie, rispondere all’indirizzo e-mail rquattrocchi@alice.it

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - Peston's Picks: Treasury wants to cut pensions tax break: Of course many less ethical and more profit motivated companies, are happy to cut costs by cancelling their Employees Pension Schemes (look how many are now closed to new members of staff), and of course to give their Directors big bonuses as an incentive for so doing.

[Matthew Taylor's blog] After email-gate, a last chance to get real? : Matthew Taylor's blog: There is a documented tendency in political journalism over the last two decades to focus ever more on the political game at the expense of exploring the issues behind the contest for power. Away from the froth there are important debates emerging between the centre left and right, not just on economic policy but on the role of the state, family policy and Britain’s relationship with Europe.

[Money Hospital] Budget 2009: the diagnosis!: What Britain needs is government that makes responsable economic decisions for the long run and the British public need to be better informed and demanding, but at the same time accept that even when times are good, government continue to keep tight control in order to ensure stability in the future. I think we also need more wealth generation in the form of manufacturing and not just rely on service industries which are expected to produce wealth out of thin air.

[BBC Blog Network] BBC - Mark Mardell's Euroblog: Symbolic Strasbourg: This morning I was watching BBC 24Hour News and its European On The Record programme had a group of MEPs talking about and answering questions on the effectiveness and policies of the EU Parliament: Not one MEP (a Brit, Spaniard, Greek and others) addressed the issue of a UK/England Referendum and not one mentioned the Israeli-Palestinian issue although they did touch on Foreign Affairs and International Treaty obligations: So, the 60,000,000 British Citizens, 2nd largest contributors to the EU, and 2nd largest population count for nothing in the upcoming election, but, the MEPs all had views on further extension/integration to the East!

[Piers Akerman] Rudd tangled up in inconvenient truths | Daily Telegraph Piers ...: Akerman, unlike the vast majority of real illegal immigrants that come to Australia, nearly all of those that arrive as boatpeople are actually true asylum seekers; that is to say they are genuine refugees who have every right to seek refuge in any country of their choosing - including Australia - regardless of where they come from.

[Hillary Is 44] Hillary Is 44 » Blog Archive » Weak Obama, Strong Tea: New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been investigating whether payments to middle men by private equity firms including Quadrangle constituted improper kickbacks in exchange for investments from the pension fudn, which is worth $122 billion.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Could this be Labour's best ...: The tax would in gross terms deliver some £7 billion but the Government has estimated that the rich will respond to the tax by working less, retiring earlier, emigrating,contributing more to their pensions or using other tax avoidance schemes. The net effect of which will reduce the tax take to £2.4 billion, according to the Treasury’s own estimates.

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