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By Jack Tuckner, Esq. for Women’s Rights Blog

In NY Times today, the article “For $7.93 an Hour, It’s Worth a Trip Across a State Line” is an empirical study that proves the thesis that affluent, business folk who identity as Republicans (including our fearless leader, his coterie of wealthy, power-hungry, morally vacuous advisors and congressional [...]

By Brian Beutler
Democrats’ own Rules Commmittee chair criticizes exemption, bill architecture
WASHINGTON — A major loophole in the Democrats’ recently unveiled ethics package will allow non-profit arms of controversial lobbying organizations to fund travel excursions for members of Congress, RAW STORY has discovered.
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Sunanda K Datta-Ray has a brilliant take on modern day racism. She says, the elite Indians were always global anyway. Its the rest of us that still have not been accepted.
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WASHINGTON - Energy giant ExxonMobil borrowed tactics from the tobacco industry to raise doubt about climate change, spending US$16 million on groups that question global warming, a science watchdog group said on Wednesday.
“ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer,” Alden Meyer [...]

Over £30 million of UK aid money spent on funding body for privatisation consultants
Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID) has channelled over £30 million of its aid through an institution designed to pay consultants to push privatisation in poor countries according to a report released today (Sunday 26 November 2006) by the World Development Movement. [...]

AlterNet: Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization
The Iraq Study Group may not have a solution for how to end the war, but it does have a way for its corporate friends to make money!
By Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet.
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More than just a few rotten apples as Jobs is drawn into latest US corporate scandal
By Stephen Foley in New York
It is the scandal Wall Street can no longer dismiss as “a few bad apples”. In what amounts to systematic corruption, dozens of American companies stand accused of manipulating share options to inflate executive pay [...]

Indian State to Bypass Microsoft ‘Monopoly’ - New York Times
NEW DELHI, Aug.29 — In a new attack on multinational corporations, the Communist government in India’s southern state of Kerala is campaigning to eliminate Microsoft from use in public institutions, just weeks after it imposed a ban on Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
As part of a drive against [...]

Global Economy is a sham. The new rulers are here.

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That greatest of Capitalism’s trumpets, Japan, is one of the worst human rights abusers.
Its human rights violations include abuse of “every person’s right to humane conditions of detention, freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the right to a fair trial conforming to international laws and standards”.
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“See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this sh*t and it’s over,” Mr. Bush told Blair as he chewed on a buttered roll.

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“The Great American Boycott 2006!”
“A Day Without an Immigrant!”
“Do not work. Ask for permission or let your boss know of your absence. Do not risk your job since the law permits the employer the absolute [...]

America’s rags-to-riches dream an illusion: study on Yahoo! News
America’s rags-to-riches dream an illusion: study
By Alister BullWed Apr 26, 5:14 PM ET
America may still think of itself as the land of opportunity, but the chances of living a rags-to-riches life are a lot lower than elsewhere in the world, according to a new study published on [...]

IBM is launching 13000 job cuts worldwide, BBC reported now in a small slug.
This means 4% of its entire workforce! Now, isn’t that actually huge? Is anyone thinkin’ of unionizing against such a move? Or is it so commonplace that’s it’s normalize into our collective psyche. Or is it too scary to confront such realities?
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