Public Worker Union in NC to Allow Student Athletes to Join as State Employees Two months after a federal labor official ruled that football players at Northwestern could create the nation’s first union of college athletes, a North Carolina union for public workers will allow scholarship stude[...]
Archive for May 21st, 2014
China: Vietnam fights agianst the hegemon
Vietnam bites back at China Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said his government was considering various “defense options” against China, including legal action, following the deployment of a Chinese oil rig to disputed waters in the South China Sea. Full Article | Video[...]
May 21st, 2014 - 7:16 am § in Misc.
Can Swedes be Chocolate?
‘Swedishness must be split from being white’ Sweden needs a new story better equipped to deal with and include today’s demographic diversity and create a new Swedishness that is separate from whiteness, write representatives from the Multicultural Centre in Botkyrka near Stockholm.[...]
May 21st, 2014 - 4:57 am § in America
Buchenwald 46: How Robert’s Pictures Were Made
A Mystery Is Solved Gotha Germany, Until recently I had no idea how my father had found the chemicals he used to develop the film. Then, reading about this town near Buchenwald, I found the answer. Gotha was liberated before Buchenwald. On April 4, 1945, elements of the United States Army’s [...]
May 21st, 2014 - 4:51 am § in America
Buying The Vote: Why do we still need parties?
In The Social Network movie, Justin Timberlake plays Sean Parker, the 34-year-old co-founder of Napster, The character tells Mark Zuckerberg that he needs to think big if he wants Facebook to succeed, “a million dollars isn’t cool You know what is cool?” Now Sean Parker has an[...]
Life Changing
Over the past few months I have gone back and forth about how I feel about a fifteen dollar minimum wage for Seattle employees. On one end I ask why those of us that do not make fifteen dollars an hour chose to work for businesses that pay less than that? I have come to […][...]