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It’s Time for Occupy Dame Street to quit too - Reality check for Irish protesters and politicians needed | Irish News Blog | Blogs | IrishCentral

If people want change then they need to join together, formulate ideas and use the system to affect that change. The problem, however, is it is a lot easier to set up camp and moan from the sidelines.

Senator David Norris was the only Presidential candidate to visit the protestors. He was met with naive idealists who shouted garbage rather than put across coherent ideas, such as possible alternatives to the IMF and EU.

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1 minute ago by rufous

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Obama’s high-tech labor lies - Salon.com

A few days after the New York Times’ (embarrassingly belated and deeply flawed) article on Apple’s Chinese production facilities reignited a national discussion about offshore outsourcing, President Obama was confronted during a Google+ “hang out” about why during a brutal unemployment crisis his administration continues to support expanding the H-1B visa program that allows tech companies to annually import thousands of low-wage engineers from abroad. In his stunning answer, the president first expresses bewilderment that any American high-tech engineer could be out of work, because he says that “what industry tells me is that they don’t have enough (domestic) highly skilled engineers” and that “the word that we’re getting is that somebody (a domestic engineer) in a high-tech field should be able to find something right away.” He then goes on to insist that the H-1B program is “reserved only for those companies who say they cannot find somebody in (a) particular field” and that it shouldn’t apply to industries where “there are a lot of highly skilled American workers” looking for a job because he says his administration is focused on “encourag(ing) more American engineers to be placed” in open positions.

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Dissecting Wal-Mart's Appointment of New China Head (Video) - China Real Time Report - WSJ

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American’s largest retailer replaces its China head as it seeks to regain ground in the world’s most important growth market. Deborah Kan speaks to WSJ China News Editor Carlos Tejada about the hiring of Greg Foran, an executive with no previous China experience, and what might have precipitated the change.

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