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      Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

      Posted by theangryindian from Projectcensored

      According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran's largest private oil companies.

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    • Canada House gives green light to biofuel bill| Canada| Reuters

      Posted by MikeS from africa.reuters.com

      Mandated ethanol requirements don't always make the best sense but Canada has officially joined the trend. The Green Party sees it as simply another handout to the biofuel industry without having any real impact on climate change. The bill still has to receive Senate approval before it can become law which in Canada, is generally a formality.

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    • YouTube Fires Back At Viacom

      Posted by Jeff

      As we say in the legal profession, 'issue has been joined' in Viacom v. YouTube. In its answer to Viacom's complaint (PDF), filed Friday, YouTube says Viacom's lawsuit is intended to 'challenge... the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") that Congress enacted a decade ago to encourage the development of services like YouTube.' It goes on to say that the suit 'threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment, and political and artistic expression.'

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    • Burger King Caves!

      Posted by Shemuses

      After years of resistance, Burger King finally joined fellow fast food giants McDonalds and Yum! Brands in meeting farm worker demands for decent wages and working conditions. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Burger King announced on Friday that the fast food chain will begin paying a penny more per pound of Florida tomatoes in order to boost wages for tomato harvesters. A penny more per pound actually raises wages by 75 percent, if you can believe that. Until now, the standard rate has been about 45 cents for a 32-pound bucket.

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    • Urban Outfitters Pimps Obama, Your Love

      Posted by Shemuses

      Liberal politics and mass consumption are difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile. Gap launched its (RED) campaign while also exploiting the lives of Indian children. So it should come as quite a bore to learn that Urban Outfitters, is actually run by an evil conservative genius named Richard Hayne, who takes the 28 bucks you spend on an Obamaniac shirt and parlays it into a fatty donation to the Republican Party. Beneficiaries have included former Senator Rick Santorum. How truly ironic! Capitalism: 1, Liberals: 0.

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    marcuscrockett2 comments on:

    Why can’t NYC companies retain employees of color?

    This is why I agree with affirmative action.  Opponents say, just let business make the right decision to hire the best candidate.  Well, this is what you get when people are left to do the right thing, they intentionally or unintentionally make the wrong decision. People naturally want to be around people that look like them.  Especially businesses need help with integration, otherwise the people with the most power ethnically will continue to pass it to people that look like them. Have you ever been to an office party where everyone comes in together but the people that work together end up sitting at the same tables?  Well, the same thing occurs in all countries in all industries around the world.  Does it seem unfair to a few that do not see a level playing field when their places are taken for the sake of diversity?  Of course it does, but a few are inconvenienced for the benefit of the whole society that sees a diverse workforce which then inspires others to work hard.  The truth is that there will never be a level playing field unless it is tilted back to level to include minorities.

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    5:01 am 7/02/08
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    mozellagi2000 comments on:

    Will Canada Last?

    Sorry.. FOURTH

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    9:29 am 6/30/08
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    mozellagi2000 comments on:

    Will Canada Last?

    Jeff, Jeff, Jeff,

    First of all have you ever been to Madrid or London. Al Qaida will kill any Jew, Christian or Hindu they run across and then reload.  A border is not a good defense system for terrorism.  Second, the war and the value of the dollar have weakened us. It is just peculiar that it wasn’t Jimmy Carter who did it to us this time. Third of all the US owns the Stanley Cup (ever been to Detroit ?).  Forth where is Robert Rubin when we need him most !

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    8:58 am 6/30/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    Will Canada Last?

    I’m not sure how’d they feel about adding themselves to the top Al Qaida target list, taking on our ginormous deficit and having to wipe the floor with us on Friday nights in hockey.

    One thing I don’t understand is if America is such a great country – why our currency has lost 1/3 of its value in the past 7 years against the Canadian dollar? Anyone? Anyone? My American buck used to be worth $1.55 CDN and now it’s barely even (on a good day).

    You’re entitled to your own opinion (if you’re civil) but not your own facts.

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    11:13 pm 6/29/08
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    mozellagi2000 comments on:

    Will Canada Last?

    Ever heard of the European Union..  Its an economic agreement between countries that have a lot less in common than the US and Canada..  It just makes more sense that a junior varsity country like Canada get real and join a real one.

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    10:36 pm 6/29/08
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    Shemuses comments on:

    Will Canada Last?

    Oh my. Would be great if an American would step up and school your colonizing brother.

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    9:05 pm 6/29/08
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    mozellagi2000 comments on:

    Will Canada Last?

    Every so called country that borders the United States to the north, would have been part of the United States if we were not busy fighting the British, shares a common Western European culture and (mostly)language…. why not….

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    6:22 pm 6/29/08
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    Shemuses

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    Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.

    Vancouver


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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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    SoxFirst

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    Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.

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    theangryindian

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    “The Angryindian” is an internationally recognised Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.

    Indian Country