| Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Tamil Nadu Co-operative Milk Producers Federation workers demonstrated at Sathuvachari in Vellore on January 21 for a 14-point charter of demands. Their demands included the immediate implementation of an order issued by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam state government in 1998 giving permanency to 100 casual workers and for promotions on a seniority basis to employees with more than 20 years service. The workers are members of the All Trade Unions Federation of the Vellore and Tiruvannamalai Districts Cooperative Milk Producers Union. Indian communication workers protest privatisation plans Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) employees demonstrated outside company offices in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin in the state of Tamil Nadu on January 21.
BabyUniverse Completes Board of Directors
DENVER, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BabyUniverse, Inc. (NASDAQ: KIDS) , a leading eCommerce, eContent and new media company that provides comprehensive online resources for growing families, today announced its new board of directors. The new members include: Lauren Krueger, Edward Ulbrich, John Schaefer, Frank Rosales and Pam Abrams. "Our new board members bring a wealth of knowledge and a broad new perspective to BabyUniverse," said John Textor, Chairman of the Board of Directors for BabyUniverse. "With experience in retail, digital media, advertising, and parenting content, they provide great depth in our core areas: eContent and eCommerce." To reinforce its commitment to families, BabyUniverse is changing its name to The Parent Company. The change is expected to take effect in 30 days.
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Bronx Tales was one of our favorite movies and we always thought the dude was a class actor and we've been trying to work with him for a while now," explains Shawn. "I met Keenen a while ago and told him that his movies are very funny and smart and I'd love to be in one. I do a lot of serious, heavy movies. If I'm going to be in a comedy, I wanted it to be a smart comedy with a really good director," comments Palminteri. "I trust Keenen and for an actor that's really everything. He's got truly great instincts. I also wanted to do this film because I know my son, who's 10 years old, is gonna love it." Palminteri portrays the crime boss who has commissioned Calvin and Percy P to steal the Queen's Diamond and he is impatient to take possession of it. "The character is a heavy, which I've played before.
China: Due for a Reality Check
Waste disposal and pollution will grow into bigger and bigger problems, as the landscape sprouts more factories and industrial complexes. Some Beijing officials, as well as those at local levels—the country has 41,636 townships—have a stronger interest in winning business than they do in preserving the environment. A significant number are undoubtedly in bed with the factories seeking building permits and other privileges. Yes, the Chinese government is good about assuring its foreign trading partners of its ecologically sound policies, but enforcement ranges from tricky to impossible. Communist officials in localities have great power. A mayor who likes the idea of a new tool-and-die factory can make it happen with relatively few checks and balances. And no Chinese official at any level seems capable of stopping the intellectual-property theft.
Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina
They want to ensure that Bush, in Monday's State of the Union address, can accuse Senate Democrats of failing to act on FISA, and thus attack and mock them as being weak on national security and causing the Terrorists to be able to Slaughter Us All. And, rather pitifully, some Democrats are shocked -- so very upset -- that, yet again, their demonstrated willingness to give the Republicans everything they demanded has not prompted a Good, Nice, Courteous Response. "We did everything you told us to do. Why are you being so mean and unfair?" That sad posture is what led even Jay Rockefeller apparently to announce that he will vote against cloture on his own bill. Worse, even if Democrats prevent the Republicans' cloture vote on Monday, that will mean we'll just be right back to where we were before that happened: with a series of votes that will almost certainly end in the Senate with some form of retroactive immunity and vastly expanded warrantless eavesdropping powers.
James Petras: Deadly Embrace: Zion-power and War (Part I)
Explanations for the US attack on Iraq range from military-political pretexts to accounts focusing on geopolitical and economic interests. The original official explanation was the now discredited claim that Saddam Hussein possessed chemical, biological and other weapons of mass destructions (WMD), which threatened the US, Israel and the Middle East. Subsequent to the US military occupation, when no WMD were discovered, Washington justified the invasion and occupation by citing the removal of a dictator and the establishment of a prosperous democracy in the Arab world. The imposition of a colonial puppet regime, propped up by an imperial occupation force of over 200,000 troops and irregular death squads, which have killed close to a million Iraqi civilians, forced over 4 million into exile and impoverished over 95% of the population, puts the lie to that line of argument.
Chubb Introduces a Group Personal Excess Liability Insurance Program
WARREN, N.J., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has introduced a group personal excess liability insurance program in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The program, which soon will be rolled out in Connecticut and then elsewhere around the nation, may be offered through corporate employee benefit programs, as well as to the members of family offices, law, accounting and other professional firms. The program provides a cost effective way for an individual to purchase an excess personal liability policy with limits up to $50 million. Personal excess, sometimes referred to as umbrella insurance, affords additional liability protection beyond the coverage included in automobile and homeowners policies. "There continues to be a large untapped market for personal excess liability insurance.
On the last day of Florida's most intense Republican primary campaign ...
If Romney wins, McCain will endure fundraising strains as the race spreads into 19 states voting Feb. 5.Romney, who has tapped into his personal fortune, has outspent his rivals with roughly $5 million in television advertising in Florida.''McCain's campaign has been running like the movie business, where your current movie funds your next movie,'' said political advertising tracker Evan Tracey of TNS Media Intelligence. ``He's kind of living hand to mouth, which could be a big advantage for Romney.''Romney, who has tried to appease voters' concerns about the economy by portraying himself as a corporate turnaround artist, flew by charter plane Monday to rallies in six cities in roughly 12 hours.He started out at sunrise at a West Palm Beach gas station, a backdrop chosen to highlight his opposition to carbon emissions limits that McCain is sponsoring with Connecticut Sen.
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