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Archive for ‘October, 2009’

Eurostar cleaners threaten strike

Eurostar cleaners threaten strike

Cleaners are against the use of fingerprints to clock in staff members

Cleaners on Eurostar trains have threatened a fresh series of strikes, over jobs and the use of fingerprints to clock in staff.
Members of Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have been in talks with cleaning contractor Carlisle Group.
The staff at London’s St [...]

A rattlesnake the size of a python captured in St. Johns County

A rattlesnake the size of a python captured in St. Johns County

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Giant Rattlesnake Slithers Its Way Into St. Augustine Townhouse Community
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The trappers who caught and killed a giant rattlesnake in St. Johns County said the snake was 7 feet 3 inches long.Experts said it’s one of the biggest rattlesnakes they’ve ever seen.The rattlesnake slithered its way into [...]

Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters Lawn

Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters Lawn

A group of civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders were arrested Tuesday morning while digging up the lawn to plant industrial hemp seeds at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
David Bronner, the president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, a more than 60-year-old company that does tens of millions of dollars of business annually, was [...]

New Google Logo Celebrates The Barcode

New Google Logo Celebrates The Barcode

Google’s new logo is a barcode which, as far as we can tell, says “Google.” Today is the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted, No. 2,612,994 (pdf), on October 7, 1952. The original patent [...]

Yahoo vigorously denies charges that it turned over user names to Iran

Yahoo vigorously denies charges that it turned over user names to Iran

Oct. 9, 9:18 am PST — Ed note from Larry Dignan: I’m ending this back and forth now. This story, which derived from a blog post in Iran, has turned into a he said-Yahoo said go-round. Yahoo has denied the charges that it has turned over names to Iran and called the allegations completely false. [...]

Muslim group calls for burka ban in Canada

Muslim group calls for burka ban in Canada

Posted: October 07, 2009, 7:27 PM by National Post
By Charles Lewis, National Post

A Canadian Muslim group is calling on Ottawa to ban the wearing of the burka in public, saying the argument that the right to wear it is protected by the Charter’s guarantee of freedom of religion is false.
“The burka has absolutely no place [...]

U.S. Envoy Protests Violence in Guinea

U.S. Envoy Protests Violence in Guinea

By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: October 6, 2009
CONAKRY, Guinea — The obama administration has injected itself into the crisis in Guinea, taking the unusual step of sending a senior diplomat to protest the mass killings and rapes here last week.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for “appropriate actions” against a military government that she said “cannot [...]

Beck DESTROYED after efforts to get rid of site parodying him.

Beck DESTROYED after efforts to get rid of site parodying him.

by The Erratic Synapse
Share this on Twitter – Beck DESTROYED after efforts to get rid of site parodying him. //
Tue Oct 06, 2009 at 08:24:43 AM PDT

I’m sure people have seen the parody site about how Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990 by now. What you [...]

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