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...problem is, it won't be enough. As ambitious as Obama's campaign promises were - at least compared to his predecessor's - the future state of global energy will demand government policies with a much longer reach, according to alternative-energy leaders. The International Energy Agency's (IEA) annual World Energy Outlook, released Nov. 12, projects that global energy demand will increase by 45% between 2006 and 2030 - and that $26 trillion in power-supply investments will be necessary simply to meet those needs. Barring radical changes in our energy policy - beyond what Obama has pledged - greenhouse gas emissions will...
...rituals are more futile than the "housecleaning" of Mexico's police forces. So deep, broad and brazen is cop corruption south of the border that removing it makes eradicating rats from landfills look easy. Mexico stages quasi-annual purges of officers high and low - last year it was 284 federal police commanders - and yet every year the nation seems to find itself with an even more criminal constabulary. This year's scandals, however, are especially appalling...
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...difficult to overstate the influence in Obamaland of CAP, a group with roughly $25 million in annual funding from mostly anonymous individuals, corporations and unions. Podesta himself is leading Obama's transition effort, holding press conferences to speak for the President-elect, with an operation beneath him filled with CAP alum. The transition's operations director, the general counsel and the co-director all have come over from similar jobs at the think tank. At least six other CAP alums or board members, including Daschle and former EPA Commissioner Carol Browner, continue to advise the transition or campaign on matters...
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