Building a new headquarters cater-cornered to where the World Trade Center once stood qualified the firm to sell $1 billion of tax-free Liberty Bonds and get about $49 million of job-grant funds, tax exemptions and energy discounts.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Taxpayers Help Goldman Reach Height of Profit in New Skyscraper
Building a new headquarters cater-cornered to where the World Trade Center once stood qualified the firm to sell $1 billion of tax-free Liberty Bonds and get about $49 million of job-grant funds, tax exemptions and energy discounts.
Chavez accuses U.S. of sending spy plane into Venezuela's airspace
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/21/content_12681901.htm
The U.S. military sent the unmanned spy plane to Venezuela for espionage, he said.
Last May, Chavez declared that a U.S. patrol plane violated Venezuela's airspace, though the United States said the patrol plane had "mistakenly entered" Venezuela's airspace because of "navigation problem."
Troops Face Prison If They Get Pregnant
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1237333/Serving-U-S-troops-face-prison-fall-pregnant-active.html
Usual US Army policy is to send pregnant soldiers home from combat zones within 14 days.
But Major General Anthony Cucolo, who runs US operations in northern Iraq, issued the new orders because he said he was losing too many women with critical skills.
He needed the threat of court martial and jail time as an extra deterrent, he said.
Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend
Yahoo News - Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend
PARIS (AFP) – Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.
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Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/18/370719.aspx
Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band.
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