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The Democrats plan to impose a national energy tax in Congress has collapsed under the weight of public scrutiny,” said Republican Chairman Tom Price.
“ The EPA’s unilateral decision to regulate carbon dioxide would impose a de facto national energy tax on every sector of the economy.
According to the National Post blog, carbon dioxide is nothing more than the next big scam on the people and the Obama administration is trying to impose it upon North Americans and in other nations in the world.
Deloitte Forensic calls it “the white collar crime of the future.” Kroll, a business risk subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, the global professional services fi rm, calls it “a fraudster’s dream come true.”
These two global financial services firms are referring to carbon trading markets, a business that is estimated to explode from $132-billion in 2009, mostly in the European Union, to $3-trillion by 2020 as jurisdictions around the world join in carbon trading, part of the “cap and trade” system that governments are embracing.
“Attempts to create markets for tradeable CO2 are shaping up to be the next Oil-for-Food-sized fraud,” said Patricia Adams, Financial Post.
TEMPORARY WORK VISA APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED STARTING APRIL 1
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (US-CIS) announced today that it will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the fi scal year (FY) 2011 cap on April 1, 2010.
Cases will be considered accepted on the date that USCIS takes possession of a properly fi led petition with the correct fee; not the date that the petition is postmarked.
The numerical limitation on H-1B petitions for FY 2011 is 65,000.
Additionally, the first 20,000 H-1B petitions fi led on behalf of individuals who have earned a U.S. master’s degree or higher are exempt from the fi scal year cap.
USCIS will monitor the number of petitions received and will notify the public of the date on which USCIS received the necessary number of petitions to meet the H-1B cap. If needed, USCIS will ra ndomly select the number of petitions required to reach the numerical limit from the petitions received on the final receipt date. USCIS will reject cap-subject petitions that are not selected, as well as those received after the fi nal receipt date.
NEW TEACHERS’ BILL FROM SEN. GLORIA ROMERO
A bill to address California’s need for new, highly trained teachers authored by Senator Gloria Romero, Chair of the Senate Education Committee, today was approved by the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations with a 4-0 vote. The bill next moves to the Senate Education Committee.
NEED FOR NEW, HIGHLY TRAINED TEACHERS BILL PASSES
SB 956 proposes to redirect $5 million dollars of federal Workforce Investment Act funds to the California Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program (PTTP).
Since 1990, the California Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program (PTTP) has recruited school paraprofessionals—commonly referred to as classroom aides—to participate in local career ladders enabling them to become certifi ed classroom teachers in public schools. To date, the program has created 5,208 credentialed teachers.
Over the past ten years, the PTTP budget has been slashed by almost 50 percent, from a high of $11.4 million in 2000 to less than $6 million today, despite increased interest and demand for the program.
