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[Rector's Ramblings] Britain’s largest retailer Tesco will today come under fire over 7p an hour garment workers in Bangladesh as shareholders prepare to hail the company’s record £3 billion profits at its annual meeting.
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[The Himalayan Beacon] RAPE FOR PROFIT - Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India's ...: In both Nepal and India, women who were or had been sex workers were hesitant to speak with researchers and reluctant to discuss their experiences except in the most general of terms, fearing reprisals from pimps, police and brothel owners, and the social stigma surrounding prostitution. Although most women with whom we spoke had some idea that forcible trafficking was illegal, and some had even attempted to make complaints against their traffickers after they returned to Nepal, few knew much about the legal process, or had been kept informed about the progress of their cases.
[Snarkmarket] Snarkmarket: Society/Culture: Most of the panelists were former soldiers talking about the ethical dilemmas of their work. The moderator was Charles Ogletree, a professor at Harvard Law School, who moved from panelist to panelist asking increasingly difficult questions in the law school's famous Socratic style.
[Friends of BJP -- Because India Deserves Better] Phase 4 Trends : Friends of BJP ” Because India Deserves Better: 15. That it is further prayed that a writ, order, direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent authorities in particular Archaeological Survey of India to open the locked-up upper and lower portions of the 4 storeyed building of Taj Mahal with numbers of rooms, to remove all bricked up walls build later and look into room therein, to investigate scientifically and certify which of those or both cenotaphs are fake to look for a subterrance storey below the river bank ground level, to look into after removing the room-entrance directly beneath the basement cenotaph-chamber. by removing the brick and lime barricade flocking the doorway, to look for important historical evidence such as idols and inscriptions hidden inside the Shahjahans orders.Recitiation of name in the west-flank building be banned because that building is part of a temple complex.The water in the 7 storeyed well, inside the tower near the so-called mosque, be drained to for drained to look for historical evidence (such as Court jewels idols and inscription jettisoned when Shahjahans troops stormed the premises to plunder the Shiv Shrine).Free entry on Fridays should be discontinued to prevent loss of revenue to the Government .
[Jihad Watch] Jihad Watch: Negative Perception Of Islam Increasing: These apologists consist of both Muslims, and of a new breed of non-Muslim "scholar" of Islam who tends to know nothing, or at least to say very little, about Islam itself, and to concentrate on such tangential and essentially trivial matters, in the larger scheme of things, as "the construction of Palestinian identity" and other matters having to do with camouflaging, through careful re-interpretation and sleight of word, the Arab Muslim Jihad against Israel (what is called here the Lesser Jihad) as a conflict of "two nationalims." Islam itself is discussed as a collection of rituals of worship, with heavy concentration on the non-threatening aspects of the Qur'an, highly selective quotation from the Qur'an and misinterpretation of the meaning even of those phrases as, for example, that "there is no compulsion in religion" and that other one, favored by Bush of Washington and Boubakeur of the Paris mosque, 5.532 (about "he who kills a man, it is as if he has killed the whole world" etc. -- a phrase taken from Judaism, but without the additional phrase added in the Qur'an, 5.533, that changes the entire meaning.
[Comments for Casaubon's Book] Casaubon's Book » Blog Archive » We Regret to Inform You”¦: Yield increases fell back steadily, with more and more investment of energy (and higher costs for poor farmers trying to keep yields up). Yield increases, which had been at 6% annually from the 1960s through the 1990s fell to 1-2%, against rapidly rising demand.
folio: Certainly one will find far more Muslim speakers at the moment capable of consistently delivering spiritually enriching speeches in Urdu or Arabic than in English. And since in many places the number of worshippers likely to be moved by these speakers outnumbers those who will be moved by English, they still have their place.
[AMPONTAN] This just in-journalists are still clueless about Japan « AMPONTAN: 5)The author try to mix three different things,Japan is not doing better than others in global economic crisis,she doesn’t like Japan as much as China,China should be focused as America’s main partner in China.But she used rhetric that America and China has more in common while Japan and America different.It buggs any Japanese since Americans always preach in the name of common universal value and at the same time criticize Japan for the lack of multiculturalism aspect within the society.Like Krugman,some people should learn to stop giving free advice to the society they don’t know very well or at least wait until they have more clear idea on what they are talking about.
[The Hill's Blog Briefing Room] The Hill's Blog Briefing Room » DeLay: 'Unless Obama Proves Me ...: I hope all of the Republican Kool-Aid drinkers who are beating their breasts, and rending their garments here will enjoy evey delicious moment of the resurgence of ethical, populist Progressive politics, in an earnest effort to repair the damage that the Neo-Con Know-Nothings have wrought upon our country…and the world.
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