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• The Exploitation of Guestworkers in the United States

  
  CJO's Avenger212 — Authority: 124
  By M.H. – one of my excellent students “Human history is the chronicle of class struggle, those in power using society’s resources to benefit themselves and to oppress those beneath them – and of opposed groups trying to overcome domination.” (Henslin 2009) This quote from Henslin’s book, ...
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• The Chilcot Inquiry – Heard of It?

  
  CJO's Avenger212 — Authority: 124
  By Rowan Wolf Have you heard of the Chilcot Inquiry? If you are in the U.S., the answer is likely “No”. The Chilcot Inquiry – also known as “ The Iraq Inquiry ” – is the UK’s investigation into the events that led to and followed from the invasion of Iraq. The Chair of the investigation is Sir John ...
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• Ella Fitzgerald Version 2

  
  Hallidd's Weblog — Authority: 413
  My second choice for an illustration for a piece on Ella Fitzgerald.
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• MILEY CYRUS LANDS IN LONDON

  
  GOSSIP, CELEBRITY NEWS — Authority: 164
  Making a activate crossways the pond, Miley prince was patterned incoming at Heathrow International Airport in London, England today (December 15). The “Hannah Montana” actress looked to be a taste cool as she prefabricated her opening from the terminal, relying on her friends to ready her warm Read the example ...
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• Jack Donaghy’s Vatenné Tie

  
  Gladys Santiago — Authority: 103
  Jack Donaghy enjoys the finer things in life, so it’s no wonder he shops at Vatenné, a luxury clothing store that sells $500 neckties. Vatenné is another addition to fictional 30 Rock brands that highlight the absurdity of consumer culture and place characters into specific class brackets. In “Secret Santa,” ...
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• Sorry, Sandy Cohen, but you have officially been overthrown as...

  
  Hi, I'm Zack — Authority: 136
  Sorry, Sandy Cohen, but you have officially been overthrown as my hypothetical moral compass. From now on whenever I have any problem, I will ask myself: WWCETD.
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• I blame Willy Wonka for the rise of bad corporate governance

  
  When Falls the Coliseum — Authority: 483
  Some films you can just watch over and over again.   You’re not sure why, because they are not necessarily the best films ever made.   But clearly there is something that resonates.   One of these films for me is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory .   Perhaps because it always seems to be on cable, or ...
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• Following the Money Trail: Telecoms and ISPs Feed the Secret State’s Surveillance Machine

  
  CJO's Avenger212 — Authority: 124
  By Tom Burghardt of Anti-Fascist Calling “Follow the money.” And why not. As the interface between state and private criminality, following the money trail is oxygen and combustible fuel for rooting out corruption in high places: indelible signs left behind like toxic tracks by our sociopathic masters. ...
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• Literally little towns —SATURDAY Dec. 12 2009— Moniker for fictional baseballer Roy Hobbs / Darkness personified / Historic base pirates Caribbean

  
  Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle — Authority: 425
  Constructor: Karen M. Tracey Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: none Word of the Day: EREBUS (22A: Darkness personified) — In Greek mythology , Erebus (pronounced /ˈɛrəbəs/ ), also Erebos or Erebes ( Ancient Greek : Ἔρεβος , "deep darkness or shadow"), was the son of a ...
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• The Hypocrisy of Al-Demoqratia

  
  CJO's Avenger212 — Authority: 124
  By Ramzy Baroud So this is how democracy works? In 2004, France banned headscarves and school principals chased after young “defiant” Muslim girls who continued to cover their heads in school. Now, following a national referendum, Switzerland has banned the construction of minarets, because minarets also somehow ...
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• Cactus Blindness: Its Causes and Treatment

  
  Plants are the Strangest People — Authority: 129
  Its time to admit my shameful secret: I have cactus blindness.Cactus blindness is one of a number of widespread horticultural learning deficiencies (HLD), resembling (and often overlapping with) other HLDs like fern blindness, shrub blindness (I am also considerably shrub-blind, by the way), and palm blindness. ...
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• The War On Non-Christmas Heads to Farmville

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 487
  The “ War On Christmas ” phrase is really a misnomer. The organized mounting of active complaints when any government or business entity makes anything other than a declaration of “Christmas” is really a War On Non-Christmas, an attempt to push all celebrations but Christian celebrations out of the public ...
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• Children’s TV shows carry questionable political themes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 9 (IANS) Programmes for children on TV can carry underlying political themes that may surprise parents.After analysing 23 episodes of Thomas and Friends, a show about a train, his friends and their adventures on a fictional island, Shauna Wilton, political scientist and assistant professor, University ...
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• Children’s telly shows have questionable political themes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): Children’s shows on TV can carry underlying political themes that may surprise parents, according to research by the University of Alberta’s Augustana Campus.In the study, political scientist Shauna Wilton and colleagues analysed 23 episodes of ‘Thomas and Friends’- a show about a ...
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• Billie Holiday 3rd version

  
  Hallidd's Weblog — Authority: 413
  The third version of my Billie Holiday piece
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• An Equal Stillness – Francesca Kay

  
  Farm Lane Books Blog Farm Lane Books Blog — Authority: 126
  Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, 2009 An Equal Stillness is the biography of a fictional artist. It is a simple book about the life of a painter, her family and her passion for art. Unfortunately this book just wasn’t for me - I’m not a big art lover and rarely read biographies. If this had ...
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• The LA That Was and the LA That Will Never Be

  
  Los Angeles Metblogs — Authority: 478
  Photo used with Matt Loques permission I think LA would pretty much be a perfect city if it weren’t for the cars and the air quality (I work in Chatsworth–cough, cough). So Matt Logue’s Empty LA (via Urban Daddy ) comes across like porn to me–something approaching post-apocalyptic porn, admittedly, but ...
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• meet TV’s assistant of the year

  
  save the assistants — Authority: 123
  Receptionist Pam Beesly of “The Office” was recently crowned “Employee of the Year” by Us Weekly. Well, more specifically, it was Pam’s portrayer, Jenna Fischer. She was one the honorees on Us’ “Hot Hollywood” list, along with American Idol Kris Allen (”Victor of the Year”), The Soup’s Joel ...
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• Life Lessons Learned From Dr. Frasier Crane

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
      One of the characters is a loveable dog named Eddie. Another is a yellow, green and brown chair from the 1950s. What, youve never watched an episode of Frasier, the hit NBC comedy that aired from 1993 to 2004, possibly the finest piece of television ever made? How could you miss out on the glory of ...
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• Madonna and Martin Bormann

  
  Hallidd's Weblog — Authority: 413
  The whole ‘Madonna’ series of paintings in Christian art has been fascinating. She is at the core of what it means to be human. And what it means to be good. She gave birth to the Christ. What if it  had been Martin Bormann, Hitler’s secretary?
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