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06
Jul
2009
Basic Rights Taken For Granted.  

2 hours ago by modernityblog

I am indebted to AVPS for reminding me about the Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets campaign. For far too long have we taken for granted those limited rights that we have to picket and take part in industrial action, and the case of the Shrewsbury 24 just shows what lengths a Tory government will go ...

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05
Jul
2009
Movie Quote of the Day (Karl Malden in “On the Waterfront,” On ...  

3 hours ago by MikeT

Father Pete Barry ( played by Karl Malden): “Some people think the Crucifixion only took place on Calvary. Well, they better wise up!”— On the Waterfront (1954), screenplay by Budd Schulberg, directed by Elia Kazan The American Express commercials that Karl Malden made for two decades might have ear ...

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Untitled  

6 hours ago by Ravenmn

New PosterThis one took a lot of work, in part because I'm not a good artist. I'm a good assembler. Making the truck image was not an easy task. It started out looking like a really bad cartoon. I think I managed to avoid that and to make it a big more abstract. You'll let me know if I failed, I'm s ...

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The flights you should take domestically  

10 hours ago by lucky

As many of you may have guessed by the title, I’m talking about aircraft with longhaul configurations that fly domestically. They can be a great way to upgrade into a premium cabin, and best of all upgrades are often easier due to the large size of the cabin. The ride isn’t necessarily bad in coach ...

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Union greed.  

20 hours ago by homeboy

THE Rudd Government has urged unions to restrain pay claims after employers expressed alarm at a push for gains of up to 6 per cent. Alarmed? If I were an employer I would be sending these union idiots packing! The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union will seek to use the new workplace laws starti ...

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Telstra poised for major job cuts: unions  

21 hours ago by cfdmarket

( CFD.net.au – Contract for Difference, Share, Forex, ETFs, Commodities Traders) – Unions say hundreds of Telstra workers are about to lose their jobs as part of the company’s ongoing redundancy program. The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union says Telstra has informed unions in the last w ...

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Maggots invest Christie Park*  

1 day ago by Joanne

*Or, save the maggots! Union workers and local residents have lost the battle to keep insecticides out of Christie Park: …Lawyers representing the city spent most of the day in Ontario Superior Court Saturday seeking the order, which area residents oppose because of health concerns… ( . . . ) …Toron ...

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04
Jul
2009
California Politics, it’s not just the budget  

1 day ago by Patrick Sperry

More than thirty years ago I left my birth state because things like no work, huge taxes, and what I considered to be corruption in favor of special interest groups was destroying what once was a very decent place to live, and raise a family. Those special interest groups played the race card, the u ...

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Publishing school results  

1 day ago by A Teacher

Kiwiblog has a couple of debates going on about the reaction to the prospect of “league tables” being published listing school results in national assessments. I’ve gone over my opinion there, so I’ll just briefly summarize it here: 1. I don’t think there is any valid reason to keep the results hidd ...

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More Union Stupidity!  

1 day ago by homeboy

New law to cover foreign ships JULIA Gillard has moved to extend the federal workplace laws to foreign-owned “permit” ships operating off the Australian coast, in a victory for the maritime union. Ms Gillard wrote this week that the government intended to extend the application of the Fair Work Act ...

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