Monthly Archives: May 2009
MORE Chinese Goods Unsafe For Children
Parents angered by ‘unsafe’ kids clothes in Guangdong Most of the children’s clothing made in Guangdong is unsafe, with some garments containing an excessive amount of chemicals. Tests conducted by the provincial quality and technology supervision administration found just 53.5 … Continue reading
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World’s Biggest Retailer Wal-Mart Closes Up Shop
had you going there? funny this didn’t make big news in the US back in 2006, but fyi this is how it’s done. World’s Biggest Retailer Wal-Mart Closes Up Shop in Germany 7/28/06 Retailing giant Wal-Mart is bidding Auf Wiedersehen … Continue reading
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US Hates Blind People
USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people’s access to written material by Cory Doctorow Right now, in Geneva, at the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, history is being made. For the first time in … Continue reading
wikipedia turns into dickipedia
Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates. Closing out the … Continue reading
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Single Payer Health Care
health care
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Corporate Personhood
Avoiding Corporate Liability Once upon a time early in the 19th century, corporations came into existence by state legislatures approving charters, which were granted for a limited period of time and for limited purposes. These corporations – producing textiles and … Continue reading
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Waterboard the Fed?
To my knowledge, no one has proposed waterboarding the US Federal Reserve. But the hostile reaction of much of the country’s political leadership to suggestions that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit the Federal Reserve Board might lead people to … Continue reading
Memorial Day
On War . . On Freedom
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Remove You From Google
Remove Your Face, House, Car from Google Street View Google Street View can easily photograph your face, house, car, license plate etc. and display it across the world which may raise privacy concerns. But it is easy to remove such … Continue reading
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Internet Pirates
Pro-internet piracy party on course for EU seats The Pirate Party, a single-issue Swedish group that campaigns to encourage internet copyright infringement, is on course to win several seats in the European parliament. The pro-file-sharing party is Sweden’s third biggest … Continue reading
Union Busters
Starbucks Hates American Workers starbucks health insurance scam Is this is where corporations want to drive the US?
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Larry v. MrDiety
Coming to a You Tube theater near you
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US Doesn’t Torture or Bomb or Kill People
How to get your message across through humor
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