Monday, 28 June 2010 06:05 'Romania plans to raise value-added tax (VAT) to 24% in an effort to curb the country's deficit, the prime minister has said. Emil Boc said the 5% rise was an attempt to guarantee a $20bn International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan. The move comes after Romania's top court ruled out plans to cut pensions, prompting the IMF to delay key talks.' Read more: Romania Plans Big VAT Rise to Secure IMF Bail-out Funds Monday, 28 June 2010 05:58 'Plans to give David Cameron’s ‘vanity photographer’ a £35,000-a-year Whitehall post paid for by taxpayers were attacked by Labour last night. Professional photographer Andrew Parsons is currently paid by Tory HQ to provide intimate pictures of the Prime Minister and other Cabinet Ministers working inside No 10. But The Mail on Sunday has learnt that Downing Street aides have discussed the possibility of a permanent job in Government for him so he is always available to photograph the Prime Minister. Labour MP Paul Flynn said: ‘There would be public outrage if, at a time when the poor and low-paid are under the lash because of the Coalition’s spending cutbacks, Mr Cameron puts what is in effect a vanity photographer on the payroll. Read more: Storm at Cameron Plan to Get His 'Vanity Photographer' a Job on the Public Payroll Monday, 28 June 2010 05:53 'Australia's new prime minister, Julia Gillard, today moved to revive a stalled carbon trading scheme, pledging more consultation with industry and voters to win support for an issue that has divided the nation. Gillard, in her first comments to the media after former prime minister Kevin Rudd stepped down earlier on Thursday, said she believed in climate change, backed renewable energy and that the nation needed a price on carbon emissions. But she also said emissions trading laws would lead to a significant structural shift in the resources-rich nation and they needed to be explained properly to the community.' Read more: Gillard Bids to Revive Australia's Stalled Carbon Trading Scheme Monday, 28 June 2010 05:26 'Toronto is right now in the midst of a massive government / media propaganda fraud. As events unfold, it is becoming increasingly clear that the 'Black Bloc' are undercover police operatives engaged in purposeful provocations to eclipse and invalidate legitimate G20 citizen protest by starting a riot. Government agents have been caught doing this before in Canada.' Read more: The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Undercover Police Engaged in Purposeful Provocation Monday, 28 June 2010 05:17 'Senate Democrats gave up efforts to extend unemployment benefits for millions of jobless workers after the third vote on overcoming a Republican filibuster failed. The final vote Thursday was 57 to 41, three votes short of the 60 necessary to cut off debate, with one Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, joining a unanimous Republican opposition.' Monday, 28 June 2010 04:23 'The official story of Dr David Kelly is that he took his own life in an Oxfordshire wood by overdosing on painkillers and cutting his left wrist with a pruning knife. He was said to be devastated after being unmasked as the source of the BBC’s claim that the Government had 'sexed up’ the case for war in Iraq. A subsequent official inquiry led by Lord Hutton into the circumstances leading to the death came to the unequivocal conclusion that Kelly committed suicide. Yet suspicions of foul play still hang heavy over the death of the weapons expert whose body was found seven years ago next month in one of the most notorious episodes of Tony Blair’s premiership.'
Monday, 28 June 2010
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