Fuel Fees Take On a New Form

Fuel surcharges may be gone from your bill, but you may still be paying extra.

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[Source: SmartMoney.com - Consumer Action

BAILOUT: Government aid could save U.S. newspapers, spark debate

Connecticut lawmaker Frank Nicastro sees saving the local newspaper as his duty. But others think he and his colleagues are setting a worrisome precedent for government involvement in the U.S. press.

Nicastro represents Connecticuts 79th assembly dist...

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[Source: Ron Paul forum

Climate-change diplomacy: Fiddling with words

Global consensus on climate change is maddeningly elusive

IMAGINE that some huge rocky projectile, big enough to destroy most forms of life, was hurtling towards the earth, and it seemed that deep international co-operation offered the only hope of deflecting the lethal object. Presumably, the nations of the world would set aside all jealousies and ideological hangups, knowing that failure to act together meant doom for all.

At least in theory, most of the world’s governments now accept that climate change, if left unchecked, could become the equivalent of a deadly asteroid. But to judge by the latest, tortuous moves in climate-change diplomacy—at a two-week gathering in western Poland, which ended on December 13th—there is little sign of any mind-concentrating effect. ...

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[Source: The Economist: News analysis