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Jordanian workers protest in Amman

Jordanian workers protest in the capital, Amman, calling on the government to improve working conditions in the kingdom. (Reuters)To commemorate the International Worker’s day, independent trade unions organized a march in Amman on Thursday demanding more rights for Jordanian workers.

Almost one hundred protesters from 11 independent unions participated in the march, which was held the day after the international holiday due to the government’s decision to postpone the holiday by one day, creating a three day weekend.

Sameer Bustami, Head of the Drivers Independent union, said the protest was to urge the government to safeguard the rights of Jordanian workers,
”Our march today is to convey our frustration at the lack of rights for workers, rights which are in the law and the constitution and are in accordance with international agreements. These rights are not implemented at all, and our march is to demand these legitimate rights,” he said.

Bustami added that their two main requests are to provide all workers with social security and healthcare.

The issue of women in the workforce was also addressed by the protesters.

Samah Massanat, head of the country’s Unemployment Association, said Jordanian women are taking a backseat in the workforce due to competition from foreign workers,
”The percentage of female employment in the private sector used to be at 13%, but now I believe this has dropped to two or three percent. This is a result of the competition imposed by refugee labor which entered easily into the country’s workforce.” said Massanat….read the rest here

Public Shaming: The Definitive "People Who Thought Chechnya was the Czech Republic" Collection

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Two brothers from Chechnya. That was the official word early morning on Friday April 19th, 2013 as to who were behind the Boston marathon bombings. “Chechens.”

So, naturally, who do some brilliant citizens of the United States of America blame? The CZECH REPUBLIC, of course!

Here are those…

I know I won’t get a lot of fanfare for saying this, but I’m going to say it anyway. The sooner this country collapses and disappears into the annals of history, the better. One of these days these kids will wake up and find themselves in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, because they were too stupid to observe basic foreign policy etiquette. Either that or they’ll find themselves on the receiving end of some other country’s drone army. And guess what, that’ll be fine by me. This country is a doomed clusterfuck anyway.

The same motive for anti-US ‘terrorism’ is cited over and over

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News reports purporting to describe what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told US interrogators should, for several reasons, be taken with a huge grain of salt. The sources for this information are anonymous, they work for the US government, the statements were obtained with no lawyer present and no Miranda warnings given, and Tsarnaev is “grievously wounded”, presumably quite medicated, and barely able to speak. That the motives for these attacks are still unclear has been acknowledged even by Alan Dershowitz last week (“It’s not even clear under the federal terrorism statute that this qualifies as an act of terrorism”) and Jeffrey Goldberg on Friday (“it is not yet clear, despite preliminary indications, that these men were, in fact, motivated by radical Islam”).

Those caveats to the side, the reports about what motivated the Boston suspects are entirely unsurprising and, by now, quite familiar:….read the rest here.

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