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NewsTrust - Politics - Most Recent Stories: News Copyright (c) 2008 NewsTrust en-us Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:37:15 -0800 http://newstrust.net/images/logos/newstrust-logo_20px.gif NewsTrust http://newstrust.net/subjects/politics/top_stories/news?timespan=1 http://newstrust.net/subjects/politics/top_stories/news?timespan=1 NewsTrust helps people find good journalism online. We rate the news based on quality, not just popularity. Our social news network features top-rated stories from hundreds of mainstream and independent sources. Find out more at http://newstrust.net/ How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/451058 http://newstrust.net/stories/451058 <span><a href="/sources/alternet">AlterNet</a> - By Yasha Levine - Nov. 24 (Investigative Report) - A group of water oligarchs in California have engineered a disastrous deregulation and privatization scheme. And they've pulled in hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars without causing much public outrage.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/451058">4.4 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/451058">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/451058">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Environment Water Money and Politics Lieberman's Stand: No Public Option Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/448960 http://newstrust.net/stories/448960 <span><a href="/sources/wall_street_journal">Wall Street Journal</a> - Nov. 24 (News Analysis) - The Connecticut senator says any public option will compel him to block a final vote on the health bill. His objection, he says, is based on fiscal risk.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/448960">Not rated yet</a> - <a href="/stories/448960">See Info »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/448960">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Health Care U.S. Congress U.S. Senate Democratic Party Some businesses waste more than £1m a year on excess energy, carbon trading trial finds Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450429 http://newstrust.net/stories/450429 <span>yorkshirepost.co.uk - By Tom Palmer - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - A PIONEERING carbon trading programme in Yorkshire has revealed some businesses are wasting more than a £1m a year on excess energy and would face six figure fines under future legislation.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450429">3.0 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450429">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450429">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Energy Pollution Climate Change The Cost of Dying Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/449709 http://newstrust.net/stories/449709 <span><a href="/sources/cbs_news">CBS News</a> - By Steve Kroft - Nov. 23 (Special Report) - Every medical study ever conducted has concluded that 100 percent of all Americans will eventually die. This comes as no great surprise, but the amount of money being spent at the very end of people's lives probably will. Last year, Medicare paid $50 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients' lives - that's more than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Education. And it has been estimated that 20 to 30 percent of these medical expenditures may have had no meaningful impact. Most of the bills are paid for by the federal government with few or no questions asked. You might think this would be an obvious thing for Congress and the president to address as they try to reform health care. But what used to be a bipartisan issue has become a politically explosive one - a perfect example of the costs that threaten to bankrupt the country and how hard it's going to be to rein them in</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/449709">4.1 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/449709">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/449709">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Health Care U.S. Economy Medicare Rising sea levels threaten Caribbean region - Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/446416 http://newstrust.net/stories/446416 <span><a href="/sources/los_angeles_times">Los Angeles Times</a> - By Chris Kraul - Nov. 23 (News) - The effect of climate change is anything but hypothetical to retired Colombian naval officer German Alfonso. Just ask him about the time his neighborhood in this historic coastal city became an island.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/446416">3.7 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/446416">See Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/446416">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Climate Change Single Payer Activists to Congress: Defeat Democratic Health Bill Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/448186 http://newstrust.net/stories/448186 <span><a href="/sources/common_dreams">Common Dreams</a> - By Russell Mokhiber - Nov. 23 (News Report) - The Democratic health care bill is a massive bailout of the private health insurance industry. It is convoluted and complicated. And it should be defeated.That's the take of a number of leading single payer activists.They will hold a press conference the day before Thanksgiving. And call on Congress to defeat the more than 2,000 page bill. Start from scratch. And pass single payer, Medicare for all, national health insurance.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/448186">3.5 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/448186">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/448186">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Health Care Should We Laugh? Cry? Both? Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/445949 http://newstrust.net/stories/445949 <span><a href="/sources/new_republic">New Republic</a> - By Jonathan Cohn - Nov. 23 (News Analysis) - The ritual is becoming familiar. Health care reform passes a major political hurdle. And progressives don?t know whether to laugh or cry. Last time, the occasion was a vote in the House of Representatives. Health care reform passed by the slimmest of margins, but not before conservative Democrats had extracted a major concession on abortion rights. This time, it was a vote in the Senate--not on whether to pass a bill, but whether to begin debating one. This measure, too, passed by the slimmest of margins, but not before conservative Democrats and one notorious independent made clear they were prepared to shut things down later if legislation includes a public insurance option. It?s no fun to watch this unfold. And yet this is the exactly the sort of drama you should expect for the next few weeks, as the Senate deliberations play out. The bill Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced last week is not everything it could be--not by a long shot. And progressives will try their ...</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/445949">3.4 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/445949">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/445949">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Health Care U.S. Congress Democratic Party Republican Party Sarah Palin's Going Rogue going great guns at the tills Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/446988 http://newstrust.net/stories/446988 <span><a href="/sources/the_guardian">The Guardian</a> - By Alison Flood - Nov. 23 (Other) - Former vice-presidential candidate?s memoir racks up 300,000 sales on its first day in shops Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, has become one of the bestselling non-fiction books in history after it sold 300,000 copies in its first day on sale. Palin's publisher HarperCollins told American press that Going Rogue has proved so popular it has been forced to print an extra 300,000 books after an initial print run of 1.5m, with about 300,000 sold on 17 November – its day of publication – alone. Going Rogue is currently sitting at the top of Amazon.com?s bestseller list, ahead of Stephenie Meyer, Dan Brown and Stephen King. Palin's first-day sales are behind Bill Clinton?s, whose 2004 memoir My Life sold 400,000 in its first 24 hours, but ahead of Hillary Clinton's, whose autobiography Living History broke records when it was published in 2003, selling 200,000 copies on publication day. The figures are nonetheless a long way behind fiction sales</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/446988">2.5 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/446988">See Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/446988">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Sarah Palin Books Weighing Jobs and Deficit Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/445531 http://newstrust.net/stories/445531 <span><a href="/sources/wall_street_journal">Wall Street Journal</a> - By Elizabeth Williamson - Nov. 23 (News Report) - The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit, administration officials said. There is as yet no agreement within the White House or in Congress on how to try to curb the U.S. jobless rate. But the differences in opinion suggest that rifts could emerge among Democrats as they wrestle with how to beat back the highest unemployment rate in a generation.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/445531">3.0 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/445531">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/445531">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Jobs U.S. White House Obey wants 'war surtax' to fund Afghan effort - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/447801 http://newstrust.net/stories/447801 <span><a href="/sources/the_hill">The Hill</a> - By Michael O'Brien - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Any troop increase for Afghanistan should come with a "war surtax" on high income Americans, a top House chairman said Monday. Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, warned that if President Barack Obama decides to send additional troops to Afghanistan, it should be funded with the new tax."If we have to pay for the healthcare bill, we should pay for the war as well," Obey told ABC News in an interview.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/447801">3.5 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/447801">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/447801">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Money and Politics Taxes War Extremes back climate experts' warnings Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/446402 http://newstrust.net/stories/446402 <span>theaustralian.com.au - By Jared Owens, Lanai Vasek - Nov. 23 (News) - IT was a weekend of extremes. Melbourne copped a month's worth of rain in just 17 hours, NSW grappled with "catastrophic" bushfire conditions and record November temperatures -- and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong linked the unpredictable weather patterns to the effects of global warming.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/446402">2.8 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/446402">See Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/446402">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Climate Change