Why it’s time for our home-grown stars to really shine.
The News Review:
- Why it’s time for our home-grown stars to really shine.
- African chicken farmers hit by Western imports
- Virtues of ethanol look good to Florida.
- Exporter on the scent of success
- Soft money flood should float Doyle’s boat
- Latinos Not Happy About Immigration Reform?
- It’s an unfair market, Sepp.
Why it’s time for our home-grown stars to really shine.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 17, 2005
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African chicken farmers hit by Western imports
The Independent – Independent – Dec 17, 2005
“Trade rules and subsidies are the hub of the problem, but ask the elegant female poultry farmer what she expects from this week’s WTO talks in Hong Kong and she simply shrugs her shoulders. A recent study by the British charity Oxfam found that imported frozen chicken parts were on sale in Senegalese supermarkets for almost a third of the price of local poultry. And even at street markets, fresh home-grown chickens were still considerably more expensive than the imported meat that is often left to defrost in the sun, posing health problems as well as economic woes. So how does local meat end up being priced out of the market by cuts that have to travel to another continent? Although chicken production does not receive any direct EU subsidies, the grains that feed European chickens do, and feed is the main expense for any poultry farmer. Take away these subsidies and the final cost of producing poultry rises exponentially, campaigners say. “It’s not dumping in the classic definition. It’s disguised dumping, if you like,” explained Lamine Ndiaye, who co-ordinates Oxfam’s trade campaign in west Africa.
Virtues of ethanol look good to Florida.
Free with registration – St. Petersburg Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 17, 2005
17–MIAMI — Long overlooked as an important source of renewable energy, ethanol appears poised to become Florida’s favored new transportation fuel as part of the state’s future energy strategy. The alcohol-based fuel, which can be made from agricultural crops and wood, emerged this week as the potential big winner at the governor’s state Energy Forum in Tallahassee. Rising energy costs and huge population growth in the state are leading the state to explore emerging technologies for cleaner, home-grown "biofuels. " "They (Florida officials) now see ethanol as a real component in the energy solution for the state," said Dr. Anthony Senagore of the Tampa Bay Area Ethanol Consortium, who was invited to the forum as a panelist. "I’m confident it’s going to take off. " An Ohio surgeon and president of a Bartow brandy distillery, Senagore is one of a small but growing band of ethanol advocates in and around Tampa who have been pressing for greater state.
Exporter on the scent of success
NEWS.com.au – Dec 17, 2005
article-tools –> By CORTLAN BENNETT December 17, 2005 10:00pm IF proof was ever needed that sustainability pays, then WA’s booming sandalwood industry is it. With exports worth more than $20 million a year, our home-grown product doesn’t even rank with the world’s best. Yet Bibra Lake firm Wescorp International, through its subsidiaries Wescorp Sandalwood, Wescorp Pacific Sandalwood and New Mountain Sandalwood, processes more than 60 per cent of the world’s supply. Wescorp chairman Tim Coakley says the Indian and Asia-Pacific varieties are superior because of their high oil content. So why is everyone – from famous European perfume houses to Asia’s traditional incense-makers – knocking on our sandalwood door?
The answer is two-fold, according to Mr Coakley: marketing and sustainability.
Soft money flood should float Doyle’s boat
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Dec 17, 2005
Jim Doyle big bucks but can’t because of the state’s ban on corporate donations?
Well, that’s what soft money is all about, as the first-term Democratic governor gratefully found out in 2002. And the spigot is already flowing to one key Democratic soft-money account for next year’s contest. Records show that Wisconsin firms – including utilities, tribes and a smattering of big businesses – have given more than $264,000 to the Democratic Governors Association between January 2003 and June. Sure, that’s about a third of the $725,000 that Wisconsin tribes dropped on the Democrats in the 11th hour of the 2002 election, but, hey, it’s a pretty decent start. That sum doesn’t include out-of-state corporate giants, like Maximus, Georgia Pacific and Waste Management, that do significant business here. By contrast, no firms based here gave a dime to the group just five years ago, when then-Gov… The group, of course, is free to spend that money on its own or can give it to other groups backing Doyle’s re-election. It’s not unusual for the association to pour a six-figure sum into a state. And it can expect to receive more home-grown Wisconsin money as long as a Democrat lives in the mansion. One political insider said the corporate cash tends to follow the party in power. “It’s a natural thing for the tide to rise and fall, depending who is in the governor’s office,” the insider said. “If you look at the 16 years (before Doyle), it was high tide for the Republicans. “It’s just cyclical.
Latinos Not Happy About Immigration Reform?
American Daily – Dec 17, 2005
We make our own citizen criminals perform restitution, and we can make them pay for sheriffs’ fees and such when they are arrested. Even when an American citizen is innocent, they are forced to pay fees and costs associated with being arrested. Why should foreign criminals be treated better than our own home grown miscreants?
I think actions like this will cause anxiety in American criminals and should be addressed immediately by massive protests and empty ideology! Our own American criminals must be appalled that foreign criminals are treated better. Think of the emotional damage we can do to our Red White and Blue citizens who broke the law. How the depression must settle to the bottoms of their hearts as they pick litter off the roads and wipe gang symbols off of walls, knowing their foreign counterparts are ducking the law and have to live with the anxiety of hiding from the police. Restitution for illegal deeds, payment according to their homeland scales, excessively huge fines for anyone hiring these criminals. All great beginnings for stemming the tide of those who do not even have respect for our nation and its’ laws that they nonchalantly walk through our borders and act as if nothing is out of whack.
It’s an unfair market, Sepp.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 17, 2005
And after spouting hot air for all these years, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has finally done it. What Blatter (pictured) is advocating is a reduction in the number of overseas players employed by English clubs. The FIFA boss wants English clubs to.