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Iraqi Oil Workers Set to Strike

Unread postby roccman » Wed 09 May 2007, 20:21:16

This should be interesting...

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/51632/
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Re: Iraqi Oil Workers Set to Strike

Unread postby Twilight » Wed 09 May 2007, 20:23:46

Is that a spoof? Its credibility is hard to judge when it's on a blog and not a newswire.
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Re: Iraqi Oil Workers Set to Strike

Unread postby roccman » Wed 09 May 2007, 20:50:41

http://www.handsoffiraqioil.org/

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/6567

http://ww4report.com/node/2161

All related to the same issue...strike of Iraqis in protest of oil law.

My research has shown that at least 2 (1 day strikes) have previously occured.

Not sure why one would think this is a spoof if not on MSM??
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Re: Iraqi Oil Workers Set to Strike

Unread postby Newsseeker » Thu 10 May 2007, 08:29:11

What a clusterf@#k! Sucks to be you!
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Re: Iraqi Oil Workers Set to Strike

Unread postby Twilight » Thu 10 May 2007, 14:01:06

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'N')ot sure why one would think this is a spoof if not on MSM??

I found it funny and potentially satirical. I could imagine myself or someone else writing something like that if in a pissy mood.
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Re: Iraqi Oil Workers Set to Strike

Unread postby ChadP » Thu 10 May 2007, 17:18:01

If things keep going the way they are, I could see the Iraqis striking just like MEND does in Nigeria...
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Re: Iraqi Oil Workers Set to Strike

Unread postby Twilight » Thu 10 May 2007, 20:06:26

They've been doing that since the invasion. It's actually where the Nigerians got the idea.
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Re: Iraqi Oil Workers Set to Strike

Unread postby roccman » Thu 10 May 2007, 20:37:23

Read somewhere today strike postponed till 5.14.

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Unread postby mlit » Fri 08 Jun 2007, 10:58:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')hinese officials offer several reasons for the high pig prices. The cost of animal feed has risen by one-quarter in the last year, partly because more corn is being made into ethanol and partly because more prosperous workers are eating more meat, which requires more animal feed.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'â')€śPeople tend to underestimate the deflationary impact over the last 10 years” from Chinese exports, said Michael R. P. Smith, the chief executive of HSBC’s Asian operations. “It has got to the limit: you’ve had wage inflation, you’ve got rising natural resource prices. There’s just no more give.”

Rise in China’s Pork Prices Signals End to Cheap Output
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Re: Peak Pork

Unread postby Tanada » Sun 17 Jun 2007, 17:37:12

What the heck, I am alergic to the porkers anyhow. Has anyone done a study on using the leftover mash from Ethanol plants as fish food for those farm raised catfish/tilapia/salmon? Now that sounds like a tasty alternative, and the protien and natural oils are much better for you.
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Re: Peak Pork

Unread postby Terran » Sat 14 Jul 2007, 23:41:45

http://www.wnbc.com/news/13670957/detail.html

Explains why they are using cardboard instead of pork for filling buns. Yup this is chinese food made out of cardboard. I would be pretty tipped off to find out that my food is made out of cardboard. Well at least you get you serving of fiber.
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Re: Peak Pork

Unread postby mekrob » Sun 15 Jul 2007, 06:57:56

Best news in a long time. :-D
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Re: Peak Pork

Unread postby master_rb » Sun 15 Jul 2007, 15:08:17

how is this the best news? i like meat a lot, unless you have problems with it
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Re: Peak Pork

Unread postby Plantagenet » Sun 15 Jul 2007, 15:19:24

Muslims have a religous taboo against eating pork, but there is no rule against eating cardboard.
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Re: Peak Pork

Unread postby PrairieMule » Mon 16 Jul 2007, 09:07:18

I don't have any hard stats but I know in the American Sothwest, we have an explosive problem with feral pigs. Often a farmer/rancher trap them, pumped with antibiotics, then taken to market.

Think about that while bite down on that Jimmie Dean breakfast sandwich.
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Re: Peak Pork

Unread postby OilIsMastery » Mon 16 Jul 2007, 09:25:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'M')uslims have a religous taboo against eating pork, but there is no rule against eating cardboard.

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