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An international political strategy for Ford Australia workers
The pending shutdown of Ford Australia's operations is part of a vast restructuring of the international auto industry that is devastating the jobs, wages and conditions of car workers around the world. It raises the necessity for the working class to respond with its own global political strategy, based on a socialist and internationalist perspective, in defence of its independent ...
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The well-styled world of Chromeo’s Dave Macklovitch
The frontman of New York-based musical outfit Chromeo, Dave 1, also known as David Macklovitch, is as well-known in style circles for his spot-on sartorial approach as he is for his band's electro-funk beats.This week, the Montreal musician cemented his tastemaker status with the launch of a capsule collection that he co-designed with the Canadian men's e-tailer Frank & ...
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Google to develop wireless in third world
Google is developing wireless internet systems to deploy in South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to give web access to one billion more people, a report ...
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SOFAZ Executive Director takes part at 6th EITI Global Conference
A delegation headed by the Chairman of the National EITI Committee, a member of the EITI International Board and the Executive Director of the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan Shahmar Movsumov is participating at the 6th EITI Global Conference in Sydney. Various issues, including re-election of the EITI Board, achievements on EITI implementation in different countries and election ...
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Bridging differences between the West and the Muslim world seeing past religion and through culture
One among too many who have turned ignorance into hatred, Islamophobic Anders Behring Breivik killed over 70 people through terror attacks in 2011 in Norway. From the ...
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Lebanese singer Razan introduces dubstep to the Arab World with new video
Who would have thought that scandalous Razan would be the one introducing dubstep to the Arab world? The Lebanese bombshell Razan Moghrabi had been trying to lay low ...
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Pete McMartin Gregor Robertson and Rob Ford — a tale of two itineraries
After an abstemious and early start to the day, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson announces the Engaged City Task Force to encourage citizen involvement in city hall. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, meanwhile, is still waking ...
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Photos Recent bridge collapses around the world
Rescue workers at the site where a bridge under construction collapsed in Trondheim, Norway, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. One person is confirmed killed in the accident, and one person still ...
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China sees wider role for private business
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang reacts at the end of a press conference after the signing ceremony of several agreements between Switzerland and China, in Kehrsatz near Bern, Switzerland, Friday, May 24, 2013. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in Switzerland to seal a free trade pact with the Alpine nation ? the first comprehensive agreement his country has reached with a major western economy. Li ...
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RMB to become one top 3 global trade currencies HSBCs Flint
The RMB, or Chinese yuan, would be able to become one of the top three global traded currencies in volumn term by the end of 2015, said Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC Holdings plc, in London Friday."The RMB is increasingly the part of nomal day-to-day business for anyone trading or investing in China," said Flint at the Annual General Meeting (AGM)."Every international business ...
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Microsoft Reveals The Xbox One
Microsoft promises the Xbox One will be more than just a game console, but a "living room" with a TV tuner and cable box. Users will be able to switch between watching TV and gaming instantly through the Kinect ...
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Worlds tallest structure with down-to-earth purpose
Futurists who have been predicting "exponential growth" in mankind's technological development might just give a "we told you so" shrug on hearing the news that the world's next tallest building will only take six or seven months to construct. The rest of us can only marvel. The "future" seems to be coming so fast that in some places it appears to be ...
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Global march challenges Monsantos dominance LIVE UPDATES
The March Against Monsanto will see hundreds of thousands in 40 countries unite to challenge biotechnology corporations and protest against genetically modified foods, which despite bans in some countries due to health hazards remain legal in many others. 3:00 GMT: Watch RT's Anastasia Churkina report on the upcoming global ...
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Toronto’s mayor Rob Ford denies taking crack
Rob Ford has denied accusations of drug use, breaking a week-long silence over a raging media storm surrounding a video that allegedly shows him partaking of ...
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B.C.’s tourism industry bloodied by recession but unbowed
Tourists pose in front of the Tantalus range mountains at a scenic spot along the Sky-To-Sky Highway north of Sqamish. Tourism accounts for about 126,700 direct jobs in British Columbia, and in 2011, the industry generated $13.4 billion in revenue, an increase of 1.4 per cent from the previous ...
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Social responsibility key to aviation industrys success HNA chairman
One of the most successful Chinese businessmen of their generation, the co-founder and chairman of the HNA Group loves to be in the limelight these days not because of vanity but rather for his social responsibility in sharing his ...
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World Bank Pledges to Listen with Heart and Soul to Indigenous Peoples But Intergovernmental Organizations Permanent Forum Members Sceptical
told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today, as meeting participants scrutinized the expressed commitments and project portfolios launched and supervised by global and regional financial ...
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Worlds largest Lego model unveiled in NY
The world's largest Lego model, a replica of a Star Wars spacecraft, has been unveiled in New York's Times Square.It took 32 builders 17,000 hours and five million Lego bricks to build the one-to-one-scale replica of a Star Wars X-Wing starfighter, which was three metres tall and 13 metres long.The model, which weighs more than 20,000 kilograms, was built in a Lego Model Shop in the ...
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Video Rob Ford scandal not over Toronto city councillors
From "satisfied" to "he should resign," Toronto city councillors had mixed reactions to Mayor Rob Ford's official statement regarding accusations he smoked crack cocaine. Ford broke his silence Friday, denying crack ...
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Daughter of World War II hero steps forward to claim medals
Michele McKenzie spent years wondering about a part of her father's life that he seemed to want to forget: his experience during World War II.On Friday, McKenzie learned that a piece of that story had turned up in a Goodwill store in Chesterfield. A Goodwill employee discovered a shadow box filled with World War II medals that once belonged to Marine Sgt. James Joseph McKenzie, who died in ...
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DealBook Obama Nominates 2 Senate Aides for S.E.C. Posts
Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, naming two Senate aides to senior posts at the Wall Street regulatory agency. The nominees to the five-member agency are Kara M. Stein, a Democrat, and Michael Piwowar, a Republican. If confirmed by the Senate, they will succeed commissioners whose terms are set to ...
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UW softball advances to College World Series
Huskies advanced to the College World Series for the 11th time. Previous appearances: 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2003 2004 2007 2009 2010 Runners-up in 1996 and 1999. National champion in ...
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Apple controversy underlines need for more debate on corporate tax
Apple senior executives Peter Oppenheimer, Timothy Cook and Phillip Bullock being sworn in before this week's US Senate hearings during which Ireland was dubbed a "tax haven". Photograph: Daniel Rosenbaum/the New York ...
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Rob Ford video questions linger after denial
Now that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has formally denied to allegations of crack cocaine use, it's just Ford's word versus his accusers', unless the video surfaces. "I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict," Ford told reporters Friday. "As for a video: I cannot comment on a video I've never seen or does not exist." The video purportedly shows him ...
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Opinion Cracking wise on Rob Ford a different view
In February 2007, after Britney Spears spent the weekend shaving her head and getting photographed in the act by paparazzi, late night host Craig Ferguson stepped in front of the camera and delivered one of the most compelling and unique monologues I've ever seen.He spoke into the awkward silence of a confused studio audience and, before telling his own story of addiction, he wondered if a ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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