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October 3rd, 2008 | Comments Off
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Archive for October 3rd, 2008
Moose dies after fall from helicopter
October 3rd, 2008 | Comments Off
On Thursday, officials from the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources airlifted a moose near the town of Pictou, but the moose died before it could be placed in a trailer. The department originally gave the probable cause of death as a combination of drugs and stress. It turns out they neglected to mention something [...]
Judge releases heroin addict charged with 145 thefts
October 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment
Judge Martin Picton of Gloucester Crown Court, England, today told a 24-year-old heroin addict and compulsive burglar that his offences called for “years” in prison, but the judge decided to give the man charged with 145 separate thefts “one last big chance” and released him anyway. Serial offender Dean Weaver, 24, has stolen from homes, [...]
60 children rescued by UK’s Forced Marriage Unit
October 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment
The British Government has released figures showing that, in the past four years, about 60 children aged 15 or less—and as young as nine—have been rescued by the Forced Marriage Unit. The cases are feared to be the tip of the iceberg. They will fuel concerns, first raised earlier this year, that large numbers of [...]
Wal-Mart to stop buying cotton from Uzbekistan
October 3rd, 2008 | Comments Off
Here’s an informative news item. Not only is Wal-Mart apparently not the cold-hearted, worker-exploiting corporate behemoth of ”progressive” myth, it even has a vice president of ethical standards. Wal-Mart says it has told its suppliers to stop buying cotton from Uzbekistan, in order to try and put an end to forced child labor in cotton [...]