Notes from the Surf
More powerful than a locomotive: Wally Wallington Building Stonehenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0
Doesn't fit the nerd profile.
Objects in mirror
http://i.imgur.com/CQ9Lb.png
Or why I drive like a maniac...
Food Ad Tricks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUjz_eiIX8k
I have to put on my face before getting eaten.
Cooperation and Human Nature
http://jasecon.wik.is/Analysis/Cooperation_and_Human_Nature
"when I help you play your role either through physical help or by informing you of something useful, I am helping myself, as your success in your role is critical to our overall success."
Wal-Mart pays largest wage-and-hour class-action settlement in Massachusetts history
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/12/03/wal_mart_will_pay_40m_to_workers/?page=full
"The class-action lawsuit, filed in 2001, accused the retailer of denying workers rest and meal breaks, refusing to pay overtime, and manipulating time cards to lower employees’ pay... Wal-Mart has denied the allegations, but in December, the merchant agreed to pay up to $640 million to settle 63 federal and state class-action wage-and-hour lawsuits."
Jobless professionals vie for holiday sales work
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iJYzedtrVgKSCA60m24-vQkX1maQD9CE3U6O0
"You'll find Wall Street stock brokers and small business owners trying to find temporary retail jobs during the holidays," said Ellen Davis, vice president of the National Retail Federation.
A Cloud Still Hangs Over Bhopal
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/opinion/03mehta.html?ref=opinion
Warren Anderson, the Union Carbide chief executive at the time of the gas leak, lives in luxurious exile in the Hamptons, even though there’s an international arrest warrant out for him for culpable homicide... a 2006 letter from Andrew Liveris, the chief executive, to India’s ambassador to the United States asked for guarantees that Dow would not be held liable for the cleanup, and thanked him for his “efforts to ensure that we have the appropriate investment climate.”
Honduran elections exposed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O_0uJqoVtI
A high ranking official at the election tribunal told me off camera that the president of the tribunal, Saul Escobar, on the night of the election, announced the number out of nowhere. When I asked the official to say that on camera, they responded, "Do you really want me to get shot?" "the electoral process is being run by the same assassins of our people... the only glass breaking we observed that day was done by the police themselves"
Greece: Police raid on anarchist social centre in Athens
http://libcom.org/news/police-raid-anarchist-social-centre-athens-05122009
"the Minister of Public Order has held meetings with the owners of major stations and journals giving them directions on how to broadcast news in the following days." "At least three people were run over on purpose by motorcycle police at today’s demonstration. One woman is in critical condition." Pic.
Nepal: 4 Landless, 1 Riot Police Killed After "Highway Turned Into Battlefield"
http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=12527
Locals said the policeman was thrashed to death after police shot Narendra BK dead... Around 10,000 families have gathered at the forest area... "We were happy to learn that we were being given land. But we faced such misfortune," Lahur, an elderly woman, said after policemen burnt down her huts along with her clothes and other articles.