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...weeks ago, Gaddafi submitted a proposal to the U.N. to abolish Switzerland and divide it up along linguistic lines, giving parts of the country to Germany, France and Italy. Although the motion was thrown out because it violates the U.N. Charter, which states that no member country can threaten the existence of another, some Swiss leaders are still concerned that Libya could use its yearlong presidency of the U.N. General Assembly, which began on Sept. 15, to keep up Gaddafi's vitriolic attacks on their country. (See the top 10 U.N. General Assembly moments...
...results came in later that night, it became clear that the CDU and CSU parties had actually picked up only one extra seat, while the SPD had claimed four. Even though confusing situations such as this sometimes arise, the major parties resisted moves in July to reform (in essence, abolish) the extra-seat rule, which Germany's Constitutional Court has demanded happen by 2011 at the latest. (See pictures of the Berlin Wall...
...movement to abolish the Swiss military as a whole was based on an economic assessment: The costs of operating such a vigilant and locally prepared defense system when the apparent external threats seem so low are quite high...
...President Obama pledged in his campaign to abolish the disparity between penalties for powder and crack cocaine. Attorney General Holder called it "simply wrong" in a speech in Memphis last month. In April, Ricardo H. Hinojosa, the Sentencing Commission's acting chair, said there is "no justification for the current statutory penalty scheme" for cocaine, a position the commission first took in 1995. Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress now agree that crack sentencing rules need to be fixed; and this may be the year that Congress finally heeds the commission. A bill creating parity between crack and powder cleared...
...members. Far from it. After thanking Bernanke in his opening remarks, Bachus - the ranking Republican on the committee - went on to complain that the Fed had taken on too much authority and should restrict itself in the future to setting monetary policy. Texas Republican Ron Paul, whose calls to abolish the Fed have gotten more attention lately than they used to, claimed that "the Federal Reserve, in collaboration with giant banks, has created the greatest financial crisis ever seen...