[GE, we bring regulatory hell to life?] Regulation Aids the Large & Established | Coyote Blog

I have written many times about how regulation tends to help the large and well established competitors against smaller companies and potential future market entrants. Larger companies have the size to pay compliance costs and the political muscle to sway regulation in their direction and co-opt regulatory bodies. The tobacco settlement, ostensibly aimed at “big tobacco” has done nothing but cement the market leadership of the top brands. This is why you see some large companies jumping on board cap and trade or health care reform — for example, Waxman-Markey contains rules that give a particular advantage to certain GE lighting technologies on which it holds patents.

Obama's Trip A Mission To [Show that He Allegedly Believes in The Greatest Scientific Fraud of All Time]

WASHINGTON – Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father’s birthplace.

Jim Hoagland - Global Warming [Hoax]: Preparing for a Sea Change - washingtonpost.com

VENICE -- Europe will be wrangled for the next six months by a lanky, no-nonsense Swede named Carl Bildt. His country chairs this semester's cascade of European Union summits, procedural debates and other gabfests. As Sweden's foreign minister, it is Bildt's job to make sense of it all -- a task akin to herding not cats but eels.
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"In the long term, the opening of the Arctic will be bad news for the pirates in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific," Bildt told me, citing studies predicting that transit time for American and European rescue naval forces -- as well as commercial shipping -- to those areas can be cut by a third or half as polar sea lanes open.

"But of course it is also bad news for people who live in the Maldives" and other areas that face submergence by rising oceans, he continued. "We are entering a new era of climate-related diplomacy."