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...California may be the best example to illustrate why the stimulus package will be "slow acting". It has among the highest unemployment rates. The infrastructure programs available for California would include broadband expansion, IT enhancement, and energy grid enlargement. The regulatory environment in California has always been strict. Almost all the federal government stimulus packages will require approval, likely from multiple bureaucracies in this state. This alone means that the economic crisis in the Golden State cannot be mitigated in any serious way until well into...
...targeted assassinations. If Iraqi tanks entering Kuwait resulted in a quick U.S. intervention, why is it so far-fetched to chastise Israel similarly? This rogue nation even possesses nuclear weapons. Why is the world doing nothing about this? Apart from the U.S., global public opinion is firmly behind strict censure of Israel. Hopefully the new regime in Washington can march more in step with world views on this subject. Peter East, URANGAN, QLD., AUSTRALIA...
...landmark Socialist law, and ignored the fact most companies and workers don't want to change the 35-hour arrangement," says Eric Heyer, an economist and deputy director of the French Economic Observatory in Paris. "And by allowing companies to calculate employee time worked on a yearly rather than strict weekly basis as the previous law required, the 35-hour law provides businesses with badly needed flexibility to adapt to evolving activity at lower cost...
SENTENCED Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, 41, received three years in prison in Thailand for breaking strict lèse-majesté laws after insulting the Thai King in a self-published novel...
...Supreme Court has taken a dangerous decision by allowing evidence obtained illegally to be used in a trial. For a democracy to flourish, no one can be above the law. We would rather have police procedures follow strict and clear rules in order to ensure citizens’ rights and privacy than catch the occasional extra criminal...