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French government pledges revised ultra-rich tax model
Francois Hollande and his allies must now seek a revised upper income tax rate for the wealthiest in France, after an initial version was ruled unconstitutional. The tax was among Hollande's key campaign pledges.
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Report: Saudis shopping for more German heavy weapons
Major German newspaper Bild has reported that Saudi Arabia is seeking 30 new German armored transport vehicles. The government's weapons export policies have come under heavy media scrutiny of late.
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Obama warns Congress not to leap off 'fiscal cliff'
US President Barack Obama has said in his weekly address that he's still hopeful of a 2013 budget deal. With just two days to go, however, he warned Congress not to push the delays over the cliff's edge.
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29 December 2012

 Best of the Moment

America's Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff

Michael Hudson | Michael Hudson | 28 December 2012

"We are experiencing the end of a myth about what free markets really are. They are not free if they are to pay rent-extractors rather than producers to cover the actual costs of production" Comments

Getting Home

Anuradha Roy | Main Point | 26 December 2012

Women in India's capital are routinely groped, harassed, leered at. The government is indifferent, uninterested. Victims are blamed. Written in light of the gang-rape of a female student in Delhi, who has now died Comments

In An Economy Not So Far, Far Away

Izabella Kaminska | FT | 27 December 2012

"It is not that technology is stagnating, but that monopoly interests are sabotaging progress and efficiency. Because not doing so could lead to the sort of abundance that might make it impossible to monetise anything" (Free reg/$) Comments

Look Out, He's Got A Phone!

Charles Mann | Vanity Fair | 19 December 2012

Murder by smartphone: Hack the victim's pacemaker. "You don’t have to know anything about medical devices’ software to attack them remotely. You simply call them repeatedly, waking them up so many times they exhaust their batteries" Comments

London’s 'White Flight' Deserves Attention

David Goodhart | FT | 26 December 2012

Interesting, if slightly stilted, probing into London's demographic shift. "White British" no longer a majority, due to immigration and "white flight". Does the latter have causes other than racism? Does it need a policy response? Comments

The Hundred Best Lists Of All Time

Gary Belsky | New Yorker | 27 December 2012

Number four: The Ten Commandments. Number three: Craigslist. Number two: The Bill Of Rights. Number one — no, check it out for yourself, and enjoy the rest. The New Yorker gets its McSweeney's on for the holiday season Comments

Cheat Sheet - Fiscal Cliff: Republicans’ Moment of Truth

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Today: 6 Charged in Indian Gang Rape , Maine Issues First Gay-Marriage Licenses , France’s Top Tax Rate Nixed
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December 29, 2012
Fiscal Cliff

We’re going to learn a lot about the post-election GOP this weekend—and whether they plan to work with President Obama in his second term, writes The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky. Plus Daniel Gross on Wall Street’s fiscal yawn, Matthew Zeitlin on the “dairy cliff,” and more coverage of the race to avert an economic crisis.

Justice

Police in India charged six men with murder on Saturday, just hours after their alleged victim, a woman who was gang raped and beaten on a New Dehli bus, died. The crime, which took place December 16, resulted in the woman being hospitalized in New Dehli and eventually being moved to a specialized facility in Singapore, where she died of organ failure. The men face the death penalty if convicted. The event sparked protests across India, where citizens began rallying almost daily for greater protection of women, awareness of sexual violence, and police vigilance of sexual crimes.

I Do

Here come the grooms! After years of fighting for the right to wed, same-sex couples in Maine finally got their chance just after midnight Saturday morning, when the city of Portland, the state's largest, began issuing marriage licenses. After waiting in line with more than a dozen other couples, Steven Bridges and Michael Snell became the state's first gay couple to legally wed, six years after their private commitment ceremony. The Maine legislature had approved same-sex marriage before, but three years ago it was overturned by referendum—an act that was itself overturned by another referendum last month.

No New Taxes

Guess France has its own version of Grover Norquist. France's constitutional council ruled against a new tax rate for top earners on Saturday, citing "equality before public burdens.” The tax, which was a flagship policy of Socialist President François Hollande, introduced a top income tax rate of 75 percent for those earning over a million euros. But the policy angered the country's business community and its wealthiest citizens because it applied to individuals, not households: if one member of a household earned over the limit but another had no income, that household would fall under the tax, but if both members earned 900,000 euros individually, it would not. The council has also rejected all new methods for calculating such a tax.

Scrambling for Answers

A woman pushed a man to his death on New York’s subway tracks Thursday and then fled, leaving authorities with nothing but questions, chief among them how the city treats the mentally ill. The Daily Beast’s Michael Daly reports.


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