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  • WHAT’S NEW?
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    Every morning I turn on TV to see what is happening in the world. I keep doing this despite the fact that I rarely learn what is really happening. Let me explain.
    At the beginning of the “news hour” there are 5 to 7 advertisements for toilet deodorants, toothpaste, soft-drinks, suppositories, male enhancement pills, cars new and used, and self-promotional ads for the news services. Then the “anchors” come on, exchange pleasantries, mention the latest movie or (…)

  • Consuming New York
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    There must me 10,000 clothing designers within a five-block radius of Madison Square Garden, in Manhattan’s Garment District. Yet, the New York Knickerbockers, who play in MSG, have the ugliest uniforms in the National Basketball Association. They are drab white rags with screaming, loud orange numbers. It looks like the same design firm that created the lovely uniforms for the Lincoln Tunnel traffic cops made them.
    Attention! Would someone please create new uniforms for (…)

  • Democratic Senators Cave on Bankruptcy Bill
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matthew Rothschild
    On March 11, the U.S. Senate passed the bankruptcy bill that will fill the coffers of the credit card companies while bleeding consumers dry.
    The bill passed by a whopping 74 to 25 margin, with eighteen Democratic Senators going over to the dark side.
    Here are the spineless 18:
    Max Baucus, Montana.
    Evan Bayh, Indiana.
    Joe Biden, Delaware.
    Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico.
    Robert Byrd, West Virginia.
    Thomas Carper, Delaware.
    Kent Conrad, North Dakota. (…)

  • Each day about 13,500 people worldwide die from smoking-related diseases.
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Smoking gets own ’Kyoto treaty’
    By Nick Triggle
    By 2020 the mortality rate will have doubled - the equivalent of 10 million a year.
    To tackle the rise, which is expected to be felt hardest in developing countries, the World Health Organization’s tobacco control treaty comes into force on Sunday.
    It is regarded as smoking’s answer to the Kyoto agreement - only with teeth.
    Ratified by 57 countries, including the UK, the document sets out a programme to reduce the number of people (…)

  • Please boycott all US goods and services
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Donna Bravo
    Dear World Neighbor,
    I am a US citizen asking you, Please boycott all US goods and services until the Bush/Cheney administration withdraws from Iraq and renounces its policy of military aggression against sovereign nations of its choosing. With financial bankruptcy, the US Congress and the other half of the US electorate will be more willing to, at minimum, question and possibly decrease the power of the re-elected Bush/Cheney administration.
    Yes, I need you to stop (…)

  • European consumers ignore most famous US brands
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Market specialists believe that the reduction of sales in Europe might last for quite a long period of time
    The US government is suffering losses not only in Iraq. Cult American brands such as Marlboro, Coca-Cola, MsDonald’s, Ford and others are currently experiencing a decline on the European market, particularly in Germany in France.
    According to the results of the third quarter of this year, American companies have found themselves in a rather unpleasant situation. Car makers Ford and (…)