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The war industry's victory: more tax to pay for Afghanistan
in Sox First, on November 22, 2009
... is to be fought, it’s only fair that everyone share the burden. That’s why we are offering legislation to impose a graduated surtax so that the cost of the war is not borrowed." This is extraordinar...
Glass-Steagall and the market meltdown
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
...s-Steagall Act . That's right, 10 years ago the Clinton administration abolished the Depression era legislation. Glass-Steagall was passed under the Roosevelt administration in 1933 to stop the Wall S...
Seen that? - Consumer P2P use legal in France
in Digital Music - The Future, on November 9, 2009
...oted to allow free downloads of copyright content from the Internet for private use. The translated legislation - "Authors cannot forbid the reproductions of works that are made on any format fro...
Obama dismantles post-Enron reforms
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
... internal controls, just to make sure that the company's accounting is in order. The purpose of the legislation was to restore some credibility to financial reporting and the way companies are run. T...
Seen that? - France Tightens Family Immigration
in Global Mobility Report, on November 4, 2009
... at Global Mobility Report France is considering immigration legislation that would impose new requirements, including DNA testing, French language skills, and e...
Too big to fail is too dumb
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
... The Financial Stability Improvement Act needs to be considered carefully. The problem with the legislation is that it enshrines a system where taxpayers will be funding future bailouts. But isn't...
Cap & Trade 101
in IfEnergy, on October 28, 2009
...d while the credits might be marketable (companies could sell them to each other) the current legislation looks to give the credits to companies for free (which would cap carbon emmission at current l...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
...giving dodgy securities triple-A ratings, moves are afoot to bring ratings agencies into line with legislation designed to make them collectively liable for inaccuracies. Just how that would work an...
P2P Traffic Declining Dramatically Worldwide
in P2P File Sharing, on October 16, 2009
...icted that it'd be the growth of legitimate services that would bring an end to piracy, rather than legislation and lawsuits from content providers," writes Pocket-lint's Duncan Geere . "Th...
The US Chamber of Commerce Faces a Meltdown
in Bizinformer, on October 11, 2009
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Chamber president Donohue is on the board of Union Pacific Railroad. The railroad thinks climate legislation would hurt its finances, since much of its income comes from hauling coal. Donohue's contr...
Chamber of commerce: denying and splitting
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
...ith Nike and Johnson&Johnson slating the chamber for its hard line position in climate change legislation. Utility Pacific Gas & Electric has quit the chamber and, in an interview with Po...
U.S. House Committee Passes Informed P2P User Act
in P2P File Sharing, on September 30, 2009
© cliff1066™
The U.S. House Committee on Commerce and Energy has passed the Informed P2P User Act (HR 1319) .
"The bill would make it illegal for P2P developers to make software that causes files from a computer to be inadvertently shared over a P2P network without a user's kn...
Lily Allen Quitting Music Due to File Sharing?
in P2P File Sharing, on September 28, 2009
...ng music has been and gone as far as I'm concerned, so I don't (at this point) stand to profit from legislation,'" according to Xfm .
More here from NME ... more here from GIGWISE ... mo...
With Sen. Kennedy's Death, Immigration Reform Loses a Powerful Advocate
in Global Mobility Report, on August 26, 2009
...tem that largely favored Western Europeans. And he helped to craft every major piece of immigration legislation over the last forty years.
Senator Kennedy on Immigration Reform from New Ameri...
Healthcare: the Impact on Small Business
in Bizinformer, on August 25, 2009
...The debate over healthcare (and health insurance reform) is far from over. A piece of proposed legislation, H.R. 3200, has gotten a lot of scrutiny. But there is no single, unified bill before tghe ...
6 Gorgeous Facebook Visualizations
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-24
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Coal industry forged letters in anti-climate change fight
in Sox First, on August 19, 2009
...ow the oil industry was planning a sneaky grass roots campaign to derail Obama's climate change legislation, holding "Energy Citizen" rallies with companies sending their employees out t...
Exxon Mobil lobbies on climate change
in Sox First, on August 2, 2009
... and gas industry. We can expect lobbying by Big Oil to continue to increase as more climate change legislation comes up....
Russia vs. Skype
in The VoIP Weblog, on July 27, 2009
...ve.
"A Russian business lobby and members of Parliament are in the early stages of drafting legislation that could limit or even ban the use of voice over Internet phone companies like Skype,&q...
First SOX clawback
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
...cers to reimburse the company bonuses and stock profits following a fraud. The rationale behind the legislation is that they were running the company when misleading information was being put out. An...
MFA on Obama's Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 16, 2009
...e Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Baker highlights how the Administration's proposed legislation would:
* eliminate the private adviser exception in the Investment Advisers Act and req...
Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
...dge to make more exotic mortgages work for them. It'd be a shame, the editorial argues, to pass legislation that would discourage reputable mortgage lenders from offering innovative new lending pr...
Europe Gets Universal Phone Charger Standard and I am Jealous
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 30, 2009
...ce the Californians catch wind of this news, they will jump on board and start pushing for similar legislation in the US. I, for one, would love to see the same standard. Now if I could simply figure ...
Directors warned about greenwash
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
...mpanies to detail a strategic analysis, regulatory risks from potential and upcoming climate change legislation, physical risks and greenhouse gas emissions. The draft framework is open to public con...
Digital Britain on Filesharing
in P2P File Sharing, on June 21, 2009
...neral of the ISP Association , said the group was pleased the government had ruled out introducing legislation to force internet companies to disconnect persistent users of illicit P2P file-sharing.&...
Securing pharma supply chain: Is now the right time?
in Supplychainer, on June 19, 2009
...he right strategy? Or the companies should focus on minimum requirements imposed by governments and legislation organizations and postpone more investment to the future. What do you think? (I myslef w...
Climate change impacts
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...ically loaded and as Kate Sheppard writes in Grist , it's designed to rally support behind the legislation. "Sources close to the process affirmed that Tuesday's release is part of a coo...
Climate change and business costs
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
...enhouse gas emission disclosures. The greenhouse gas disclosures from most companies is inadequate. Legislation will change that....
No More Hydrogen Cars?
in IfEnergy, on May 22, 2009
...There's been a lot of nergy legislation news in the past couple of weeks. But TreeHugger pointed out one chunk of news that didn't get much coverage. Federal support funding for hydrogen ca...
Will credit card bill stall mortgage foreclosures?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 20, 2009
...ig one: Customers penalized by higher interest rates because they missed a payment will, if the new legislation becomes law, have the chance to return to their lower interest rate again after six mont...
3 Strikes is in for France
in Digital Music - The Future, on May 14, 2009
...nd your out" copyright law in France has come into play. It's a seriously idiotic piece of legislation that brings copyright infringement to the foreground of governmental law, rather than ci...
Fox says no to Obama
in Sox First, on April 29, 2009
So Fox has announced it won't screen Barack Obama's prime time news conference and will instead screen the scheduled drama Lie To Me. Variety magazine says it's a matter of economics. It's financially based, and not political, it says. Still, it is the first time a network h...
California: Black Cars to be Banned Because they Work Harder than Other Cars?
in carzz.org, on March 26, 2009
...ve seen it all. California has officially lost its law-making mind. They're set to try to pass legislation that will ban black cars . That's right... Black cars.
Why? Because black ca...
Climate change deniers on the increase
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
...uzzle reporter Suzanne Goldenberg points out, the sceptics are getting together in response to the legislation of Obama and Congress to rein in greenhouse gases. "Unlike Obama, who owed his vict...
H.R.875 Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
in Do you like to cook?, on March 12, 2009
... © Gavin Anderson
I just stumbled on some pretty interesting disturbing legislation coming out of the Congress of the United States. The bill is HR 875 and it's labeled as the Food Safety ...
Network Neutrality: The FCC Faces Off with Comcast
in Web 2.0, on January 24, 2009
...of net neutrality issues over the last year and at least two industry watchdog groups are after it. Legislation on net neutrality has died in Congress twice; the Democrats and the GOP come down on sep...
Congress Intros Nanotech Safety Bill
in Nanotechbuzz, on January 18, 2009
...hows that lawmakers recognize both nanotechnology's enormous promise and possible problems. The legislation reflects mounting Congressional interest in understanding potential risks in order to pr...
Hedging the bets
in Sox First, on January 14, 2009
...heStreet.Com says it probably won't go over the top. There will be changes. Like, for example, legislation making it easier to sue hedge funds and even legislation restoring so-called "aidin...
Reshaping governance: interview with Lord Michael Hastings
in Sox First, on January 10, 2009
...ng to happen now is that the financial services regulatory bodies are going to beefed up by further legislation. They are going to have much more thought and insight into the financial investment tren...
Fixing broken boards
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
...ew version of Sarbanes-Oxley. "The Enron case resulted in the rushed passage of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, a process that took just 31 days and considered only limited input from the business co...
Britain is a laggard on bribery
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
...p reiterates its previous 2003, 2005 and 2007 recommendations that the UK enact new foreign bribery legislation at the earliest possible date. The Group also strongly regrets the uncertainty about the...
One Version of How the Meltdown Happened
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...r poor and Black people had immense political clout. Under President Bill Clinton, they passed legislation that called on banks to be required to lend to non credit worthy borrowers. The laws, inc...
Mixed messages on the economy
in The CIO Weblog, on October 3, 2008
...to see members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate come together to pass this important legislation. I particularly appreciate the support of the Members of the Washington State delegation...
"Bailout" news may not be good for bootstrappers
in BootStrapMe, on October 2, 2008
...ockphoto , Lilli Day
As a revised version of Monday's failed Wall Street "bailout" legislation passes the Senate and is now being evaluated by members in the House here in the U.S., i...
Bailout politics
in Sox First, on October 2, 2008
... issue. More on the giveaways from the Los Angeles Times . What's clear is that this piece of legislation, thrown together quickly with lots of arm twisting, will not save global markets. The pa...
If Obama Wins...
in China Venture News, on September 30, 2008
...nese currency situation, we're probably looking at a trade war. Democrats have promised to back legislation that would define currency manipulation as an illegal subsidy. The Chinese would probabl...
Barney Frank Presses Government On Internet Gaming
in The Gambling Weblog, on September 25, 2008
Barney Frank is still waging the war against the repressive United States government on behalf of adult Americans who demand the restoration of their freedom to use discretionary income as they wish.
Frank's recent attempt to overthrow the stifling, and unclear tenets of the, "Unla...
UIGEA Getting Clarified, New Law Introduced
in Internet Poker, on August 6, 2008
... More confusing internet gambling legislation is on the way, according to an article at Pokernews.com that covers the newest attempt by the United States government to clarify just what is, and is...
PCAOB to get smashed?
in Sox First, on July 16, 2008
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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the centerpiece of the sarbanes-oxley legislation , is under serious legal threat, reports Bloomberg's Jane Bryant Quinn . The legal chal...
Clueless on environmental risk
in Sox First, on July 9, 2008
...are a lack of certainty about the impact of environmental liabilities and about the future scope of legislation.
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Government controlled storage
in On Storage, on July 5, 2008
... there was just ONE people table?
Too far off? Let's just take a look at the P2P file-sharing legislation going on in the UK. It is government stepping in to help control storage and network band...
Downrevolution.net shut down by Italian police.
in P2P File Sharing, on July 4, 2008
... desire to make file-sharing leagal in the near future? Got to clean up the mess before laying down legislation. Don't you? ...
Who will control your computers?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 30, 2008
...the failed 2002 effort to pass the uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, a piece of legislation under the auspices of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) which would have given software ...
No SOX relief in sight
in Sox First, on June 24, 2008
...is in full swing, and the US economy in deep strife, regulators are unlikely to start unwinding the legislation. Looks likes it's here to stay for some time....
Hands-free-driving = Free Bluetooth gadgets
in The Wireless Weblog, on June 18, 2008
...ee cigarettes available. Oh wait, the tobacco industry probably had enough money to get rid of any legislation that outlawed smoking while driving....
Healthcare Legislation
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 13, 2008
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I recommend small business owners head over to the Congressional website and take a look at the legislation. Like any legislation there is good and bad points so find out how this would affect ...
Tightening the rules for ethical investment
in Sox First, on May 21, 2008
... A new paper from Canadian legal academic Benjamin Richardson says what's needed is a mix of legislation, changing directors' fiduciary duties which forces them to invest in the best intere...
Goodbye to an Era: Robert Mondavi
in Celebrate Wine, on May 17, 2008
...r, Baron Philippe de Rothschild to produce the premium Opus One and was largely responsible for the legislation that protected the Valley's vineyards and restricted real estate and commercial deve...
Eshoo and Cannon Propose Family-Friendly U.S. Wireless Network
in The Wireless Weblog, on April 21, 2008
...uot;70% of the spectrum auctioned went to only two carriers. While the auction required under this legislation is open to anyone, it is my hope that the bold conditions of requiring free, family frien...
谷歌公关，言多必失
in Wangtam, on 2008-04-13
...ct Congress by email, and Compare your Voting Record with your Representatives...
ATV Size Restrictions Based on Child's Age Instead of Size and Experience
in Under My Helmet, on April 8, 2008
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Children grow and learn at different paces. Blanket legislation that does not take size and experience into consideration is dangerous, irresponsible and unfair
As all three of my regular readers...
Complimentary Educational Webinar Series on Alternative Investments
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 3, 2008
...le to businesses. He uses his knowledge of the market to analyze the current players, review future legislation and delve into emerging opportunities.
Triple Point recently announced Commodity XL fo...
Personal Responsibility?
in Under My Helmet, on April 2, 2008
...lmet LAWS don't do any good.
Ok, look... the bottom line is this: I'm not advocating more legislation. We've got plenty. But for people like Jeff Hennie, Vice-President of Government Aff...
Will VoIP Providers Be Given Equal Access to 911?
in The VoIP Weblog, on March 29, 2008
...e for emergency communications.
I guess it will be big news when the President actuallys signs legislation.
Photo © richardmasoner
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Protestaufruf der Tierhilfe Hoffnung: Rumänienhunde
in pfotenundfell, on 17.03.08
Es gibt einen neuen Aufruf in Sachen rumänischer Hunde und Katzen der Tierhilfe Hoffnung . Nachdem in Rumänien ein neues Tierschutzgesetz schon fast beschlossen war, scheint dieses nun doch noch gekippt werden zu sollen - ein Rückfall in düstere Zeiten?
"Wie wir in einer Aussendung zu Weihnac...
Subprime's parallels with Enron and WorldCom: Michael Oxley and Paul Sarbanes
in Sox First, on March 16, 2008
...rush in with another knee-jerk overreaction to a crisis that creates a new set of problems. And any legislation would have trouble dealing with the fact that the root causes of all this credit turmoil...
微软即将推出服务器版 Windows Live OneCare
in M2 十字街口, on 2008-03-03
Joe Wilcox 发布了一篇 关于已经计划推出的服务器版 Windows Live OneCare 的文章。OneCare 是微软的安全套装，和桌面版本一样，服务器版将会包括服务器反病毒功能，与 Small Business Server 和 Server 2008 捆绑，还有一年 Exchange 的 Forefront 订阅。Joe 指出：
New Bill May End Two-Year Contract Policy
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on February 27, 2008
... will hold a hearing today for Wireless Consumer Protection bill (warning: pdf file), a proposed legislation which would force wireless carriers to offer their services even without entering into l...
Utah Action Alert: SB 181
in Under My Helmet, on February 12, 2008
...ss to certain areas.
Utah Shared Access Alliance
USA-ALL supports the purpose of this legislation, and we would like to see this bill progress through the senate and on into the house. P...
Fund supermarkets in Spain
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 12, 2008
...eration. The report analyzes both the current and possible future trends of the industry.
Spanish legislation has recently made provisions for two new fund classes available to retail investors, exc...
