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New Australian law to make Muslims lift veils
by darthfader ini for one think this law is a good thing.
unfortunately, the muslim women are pinched in the middle of an abusive and oppressive religion and the law.
i say instead of fine the woman, find her husband or "paternal figure" and fine him.
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Target workers at New York store reject union
by darthfader ininteresting article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110618/bs_nm/us_target_union.
chicago (reuters) workers at a target corp discount store in new york voted to reject union representation in what would have been the first unionized target store in the country, while union officials vowed to press for another election.. .
employees at the valley stream, new york, store voted against union affiliation, 137-85, target said in a statement released saturday.
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Why a millionaire wants autoworkers to take a pay cut
by darthfader ininteresting article.
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/why-millionaire-wants-autoworkers-pay-cut-160603932.html.
the former head of the obama administration's auto task force says he should have pushed the united auto workers for steeper sacrifices in the general motors bailout, including wage cuts.
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What? Jail time for troubled Russian rocket scientists?
by darthfader inmaybe not jail time, but this seems to be pretty heavy handed to me.... medvedev threatens criminal penalties for space officials.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1111/28medvedev/.
medvedev told reporters financial, disciplinary, or criminal charges could be used to punish those responsible for a series of rocket crashes and space blunders.. speaking to russian journalists saturday, medevedev said the failures have dealt a "serious blow to our competitiveness," according to a transcript of the question-and-answer session posted on the kremlin's website.. earlier this month, russia's $165 million phobos-grunt mars probe was stranded in earth orbit.
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Doing the right thing for Animals
by darthfader inin light of all the bad things happening to animals this past week, i thought i'd post something positive.... .
anchorage, alaska (ap) an anchorage endodontist performed a root canal on a big tooth in a very big patient a full-grown siberian tiger.. dr. doug luiten worked on 300-pound kunali measuring nearly 7 feet from backside to nose thursday at the alaska zoo.. "it's the longest tooth i've ever worked on," luiten said of more than three-inch (8 centimeter) canine.. the zoo had to order some special instruments to accommodate the longer tooth, and even had to modify those during the root canal.. http://news.yahoo.com/alaska-dentist-performs-root-canal-tiger-080352907.html.
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Mike Daisey goes after Apple, the late Steve Jobs (high tech MFG in China)
by darthfader ininteresting article on the conditions for high tech manufacturing in china:.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mike-daisey-goes-after-apple-apf-2036183637.html?x=0&.v=1#mwpphu-container.
new york (ap) -- normally, the launch of a new apple device such as the iphone 4s would make mike daisey salivate.
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What's next an Al-Qaeda Magazine? Nope... that's already here...
by darthfader inhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110330/ts_yblog_thecutline/al-qaeda-magazines-latest-issue-covers-middle-east-revolution.
much to the dismay of anti-terrorism agents and peace-loving human beings, al-qaeda of the arabian peninsula's controversial english-language magazine inspire is still going strong.... inspire, which regularly includes tips on how to blow up americans, debuted last july.
but it caught the attention of the counterterrorism community in the fall.
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Second Nature
by darthfader inin light if the current political climate i thought these lyrics were appropriate... a memo to a higher office.
open letter to the powers that be.
to a god, a king, a head of state.
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Another interesting video: Talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson
by darthfader inmodern schools in the us (at a minimum) are like factories.. i never thought about that in spite of being "educated" that way.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdzfcdgpl4u.
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Brought Up To Believe
by darthfader ini (being a fanatical rush fan [the the band not the "big guy"]) just got my hands on a copy of their latest (two song) release called caravan and bu2b.
bu2b (brought up to believe).
i was brought up to believe.