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Trawler owners, their families and fishing representative organizations from across the country have taken part in a protest in Dublin city over quota cuts, the impact of Brexit and the European Union Common Fisheries Policy. A flotilla of 55 trawlers from all around the coast gathered at the entrance to Dublin Port before dawn and traveled up the River Liffey in convoy through the East Link Toll Bridge to Sir John Rodgerson’s Quay. It is the second such protest in recent weeks. In May, a flotilla of trawlers from the south, southwest and southeast of the country traveled to Cork...

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid helped steer billions of federal tax dollars to companies supporting a green energy group run by two of his former staff members and a current campaign operative.The Nevada Democrat pushed for millions of dollars in grants and billions more in federal loan guarantees for corporations that donated to the Clean Energy Project, a nonprofit founded by a pair of former staffers with close ties to both Reid and to a major Democratic PAC associated with the senator, Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon reported.One such company, California-based Fulcrum Bioenergy, received a hefty federal grant...

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President Barack Obama needs to go further than criticizing millionaires and oil companies. He needs to propose an industrial policy. In his June 29 news conference, Obama was right to come out against tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, corporate jet owners and oil and gas companies. What is passing as the free market is a system of giveaways to those who don't need it -- the richest Americans, corporations that relocate jobs overseas and banks that are "too big to fail," yet have failed the economy with their predatory practices. With more than 10 million jobs lost to the...

There is a reason why America and the Roman Empire became the greatest superpowers of their times and why its people became wealthy... Freedom. The American people, much like those of Early Rome had the freedom to innovate, go about their business and earn an honest living with extremely little government intervention. In Early days we did not have to worry about Communist government controls or regulations telling us how to run our lives. Because we had a freedom to run our businesses and our lives the way WE felt was best, our economy flourished. The people had a right...

The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, and the Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Industry, together with their counterparts from the United States and Mexico, today released the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Report to the three North American leaders. The report outlines progress of collaborative initiatives between Canada, the United States and Mexico in such vital areas as security, the economy, transportation, the environment, and public health. "This report to Prime Minister Harper, President Bush, and President Fox marks the significant progress...

May 11, 2005 5:20 PM Putin demands foreign investment curbs By Douglas Busvine MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's government on Wednesday to draft legislation to secure national control over strategic areas of the economy by curbing foreign investment. The Kremlin press service said Putin wanted a bill readied by November 1 on limiting foreign investment in the areas of national security, infrastructure, defence, natural monopolies and strategic natural resources. Putin's move came after celebrations in Moscow to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two were overshadowed by criticism from U.S. President George W....