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    • Interpretation of the Equal Pay Act Clarified by Robert with 0views

      The Senate blocked a bill meant to change the Equal Pay Act. During a session on April 23, 2008, the Republican block of senators voted to turn down the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The act delineates the Title VII under the Equal Pay Act to clarify the statute of limitations on filing lawsuits for claims of pay discrimination. The | Article date: 2008-04-30 ...

    • Obama Popularizes Himself Among Youth Through E-marketing by tobocseo with 0views

      If Barack Obama becomes the next President of the United States of America, the country can assure that they will not fall short on one account, e-marketing. Demagogic run by Obama among the youth in the ongoing Democratic presidential primaries have stunned analysts and psephologists alike. The curiosity led the experts to pry int | Article date: 2008-04-29 ...

    • $10 a Gallon Gasoline? by Ernie Fitzpatrick with 0views

      The way the price of oil and gasoline are spiking upwards, you"d think people would be rioting in the streets. A few dozen truckers demonstrated in D.C. yesterday and there"s been calls for nationwide strikes; however, | Article date: 2008-04-29 ...

    • Sarkozy Backtracks on Human Rights Promise by Johnny Summerton with 0views

      When running for office last year, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to include the respect for human rights as a vital part of France"s foreign policy. Yet during his two-day state visit to Tunisia, he has not only failed to live up to that promise, but also left international and local human rights groups aghast as | Article date: 2008-04-29 ...

    • Puritanical Pollution by Ernie Fitzpatrick with 0views

      The religious in America as still largely hungover from the early Puritans religious binges of the 1600"s. We"re still cutting the ends off of the "proverbial hams" and we don"t know why. Most importantly we haven"t yet figured out that we don"t need to cut the ends off the ham. We need to be delivered from som | Article date: 2008-04-29 ...

    • Stay Safe by AnaLise Kaufman with 0views

      Violent Crime does not discriminate between age and race. Statistics show that FIVE MILLION women each year fall victim of crime. Everyday there are more reports of violent crime in the news and on the web. We cannot always be there to protect our families and loved ones. Until violent crime is a thing of the past, we need to protec | Article date: 2008-04-08 ...

    • What a Flaming Fiasco by Johnny Summerton with 0views

      Calm has returned to the streets of Paris after a Monday afternoon, which saw the Olympic flame chaotically make its truncated way through the French capital. What should have been a good natured celebration ahead of the sporting event of the year to be held in Beijing in August, turned into a heavily policed pantomime as protestors | Article date: 2008-04-08 ...

    • Biodegradable & Municipal Solid Waste by Kevin Rockwell with 0views

      While much of what goes into biodiesel could be considered biodegradable waste, the concept deserves its own section because of its enormous potential. As we said before, biomass happens. When the quantities were relatively low, few people considered waste management a problem people used to burn trash in their back yards, or bury, or put it out | Article date: 2008-04-07 ...

    • Hydrogen vs Ethanol, Check and Checkmate by Michael Littles with 0views

      After all the buzz about the new water for fuel technology, which actually is a concept that was first discovered more than two centuries ago, way back in 1800 as a matter of fact. I wanted to take a close look at some important facts. With all the ads and websites talking about using hydrogen Fuel abstracted from water and ethanol, | Article date: 2008-04-07 ...

    • Motivating Suicide and Ecocide by Denis Frith with 0views

      Civilization is irreversibly using up the limited tangible natural capital at a very high rate. That is the physical reality despite the failure of society, including the powerful and the seemingly knowledgeable, to recognize it. A powering down is inevitable as ecological forces impose their control on the operation of civilization. The declini | Article date: 2008-04-07 ...

    • A Hateful Act by Johnny Summerton with 0views

      The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, didn"t mince words in issuing an official statement denouncing the vandalism of 148 Moslem graves in the country"s largest First World War military cemetery this weekend. Racist and sexist abuse was painted on the graves, a pig"s head was left hanging from one of the headstones a | Article date: 2008-04-07 ...

    • Democrat"s Stalemate Bodes Well for John Mccain by James William Smith with 0views

      This should be a year that the Democratic Party sweeps to victory. The Democrats have an unpopular Republican war in Iraq to talk about. President George W. Bush is very unpopular in all the national public opinion polls. The Republican brand of less government, lower taxes, and less spending has been badly damaged during the last few years of d | Article date: 2008-04-07 ...

    • Diamond Minds, Brilliant Vision - A Sparkling Future Could Be by Derek Dashwood with 0views

      Diamonds are forever, we know. They are also carbon -lumps of coal- that rose above their station as the Queen might say. They took on heavenly airs,and they combined heat at just the right degree and shot up from the hellish core of mother earth, of the eyes of God, to us. There a diamond finds in abundance in Australia and even more in the nor | Article date: 2008-04-07 ...

    • Sacred Temples by Ernie Fitzpatrick with 0views

      We"ve placed too much emphasis on the physical, our buildings, churches, and temples. A new million dollar church is built in America while people beg for food blocks away. Billions of dollars have been spent building elaborate temples. I visited a Bahi"a community enter last week and the main focus in the entry was there massive, elab | Article date: 2008-04-06 ...

    • Yfz Ranch Rescue by Ernie Fitzpatrick with 0views

      The standoff was averted! The ambulances were sent back to the hospital empty. There will be no repeat of Waco! Law enforcement agents finally got access to an enormous temple on the grounds of the polygamist compound, but by Sunday morning they still had not found a 16-year-old girl whose initial report of abuse led to the raid. "There wer | Article date: 2008-04-06 ...

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