DETROIT, Dec. 21, 2009Ford Offers Buyouts to All Factory WorkersAutomaker Also Offering Hourly Workers Early Retirement Packages in Effort to Slash Factory Work Force
(AP) Ford Motor Co. says it is offering buyout and early retirement incentives to all of its 41,000 U.S. hourly workers to further reduce its factory work force. Company spokesman Mark Truby said Ford still has too many factory workers for its current sales levels.
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The largest single lump of gold ever discovered on our planet was found in Australia. It was the Holterman Nugget, and it was found in Hill End in NSW on 19 October, 1872. The whole nugget weighed 235.1 kg, and contained 93.3 kg of pure gold. (Strictly speaking, the Holterman Nugget was not really a nugget, but a mass of gold found in a reef.)
Many of the world's large gold nuggets have come out of Australia - the Hand of Faith (27.2 kg), the Welcome Stranger (73.4 kg), and the Welcome (69. 9 k… Continue
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Can Canada be trusted?
In the midst of what turned out to be a bogus espionage scare over commemorative coins, senior Pentagon officials in Washington, D.C., speculated whether Canadians — widely considered to be among the United States' closest allies — might be "bad guys" involved in the spy caper.
"Who knows?" one official wrote in secret emails obtained this week by The Associated Press.
In sensational warnings that circulated publicly in late 2006 and early 2007, the Pentagon's Defence S… Continue
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For most of us, social networking sites are just for fun - checking what our friends are doing, organising our weekends or playing games when the boss is not looking. But the stakes for users of sites like Facebook and Twitter are set to increase dramatically tomorrow, as the US government launches a competition that offers cunning web users the chance to win thousands of dollars.
In a nine-… Continue
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OTTAWA -- The so-far tepid economic recovery in North America might have taken its first big step forward in November, according to jobs data for the month released Friday in Canada and the United States that surpassed expectations by the widest of margins.
In Canada, the economy generated 79,100 jobs in the month, compared to 10,000 that economists anticipated and a reversal of last month's loss of 43,200 jobs. As a result, the unemployment dropped to 8.5% from 8.6%.
The November job gain was… Continue
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http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=5230
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
On November 30, 2009, the Bloomington Herald-Times made the following announcement:
“This week, HeraldTimesOnline.com will launch its new gun permit database. You’ll be able to search gun permit records by county, city or town and street."
The Herald-Times has begun receiving calls and emails, and their response is a defiant defense of their online… Continue
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* By Kim Zetter Email Author
* December 1, 2009 |
* 3:30 pm |
* Categories: Cover-Ups, Surveillance, privacy
Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?
That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of J… Continue
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Bankers from Rothschild have been appointed to help restructure Dubai World with a mandate to dispose of some of the stricken conglomerate's famous assets.By Louise Armitstead and Richard Spencer in Dubai
Published: 12:01AM GMT 28 Nov 2009
Paul Reynolds, head of Rothschild's advisory operations in the Middle East, was this week asked to work for the Dubai government's chief restructuring officer alongside Aidan Birkett of Deloitte, who was appointed on Wednesday.
The team is ta… Continue
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907681.eceThe Sunday Times gains unprecedented access to the world's most powerful, and most secretive, investment bankJohn Arlidge
Number 85 Broad Street, a dull, rust-coloured office block in lower Manhattan, doesn’t look like a place to stop and stare, and that’s just the way the people who work there like it. The… Continue
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Today the White House stepped up its attack on Fox News, announcing that the network would no longer be able to conduct interviews with officials as a member of the Press Pool. The Pool is a five-member group consisting of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC organized by the White House Correspondents Association. Its membership is not subject to oversig… Continue
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THE DEATH OF LIBERTY: THE FINAL SCENE UNFOLDS
By Greg Evensen
July 29, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
When police investigators begin amassing evidence at a crime scene, the bits and pieces of the puzzle begin to take shape. Usually, with several trained men and women working together to come up with an answer, the intent and actions of the perpetrator are almost always revealed.
Since my core training and experience over many years was as a state level enforcement officer, I have worked crime sc… Continue
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Feds swarming garage sales and church bazaars?
August 21, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/21/feds-swarming-garage-sales-and-church-bazaars/
When our founders created the federal government, I’m pretty sure they didn’t anticipate having its power reach into their carriage houses. Thanks to a particularly asinine piece of legislation called the Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act, though, we now have federal inspectors threatening… Continue
Boy Killed By Anal Penetrating Chair
A 14 year old Chinese boy was killed after his chair exploded into his rectum. Metal from the chair caused internal bleeding and sadly lead to his death.
Bravely, the fatally injured boy managed to ring his father despite being in horrific pain.
This is the first fatality caused by a chair exploding.
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Hey all.....thank you to the people who participated in last saturdays broadcast on ubroadcast. The software did not work properly and we were limited to 20 listeners...so that kinda sucked. But it was a lesson learned about what kind of platform seems to be important to us a group.
So Tweek and I are in the process of setting up 12160 accounts on 2 different platforms. One is stickam.com and the other is… Continue
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ZURICH (Dow Jones)--Swiss agrochemicals company Syngenta AG (SYT) said Thursday, it's going to buy the hybrid sunflower seed operations from U.S. rival Monsanto Co. (MON) for $160 million on a cash and debt-free basis.
MAIN FACTS:
-The asset deal includes germplasm, development and breeding of hybrid sunflower seeds.
-The business recorded sales of $75 million in the 2008 fiscal year and has leading positions in key markets.
-Syngenta's sunflower seeds busin… Continue
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Stephen Quayle, author of Breathe No Evil, a primer for understanding bioterrorism, and the former editor and publisher of Survival Quest and Security and Survival Chronicles, monthly newsletters which dealt with perilous events and how to prepare for them.
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So... you may have heard the buzz around the site about us starting a radio station for the 12.160 MHz network...and hopefully gain new listeners as we grow, but for now we're just thinking of starting small. We've taken the first steps in initiating this plan and set up a Chip-In donation widget because we're going to need money to purchase the software for setting up a radio station. James is going to set up a P.O. Box for those who would like to mail a donation.… Continue
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