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SEND MONEY TO CHINA; BUY AT WAL-MARThttp://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/bw/bwtop.html
JIANG JINGLING BUSINESS WEEKLY - The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, says its inventory of stock produced in China is expected to hit $18 billion this year, keeping the annual growth rate of over 20% consistent over two years. The trend is expected to continue, company officials revealed
Xu Jun, Wal-Mart China's director of external affairs. . . said China is Wal-Mart's most important supplier in the world. . . Last year, the firm bought $15 billion products from China, half from direct purchasing, the other from the firm's suppliers in China. . . So far, more than 70% of the commodities sold in Wal-Mart are made in China.
ONE GROUP RESPONSIBLE FOR 99.8% OF FCC COMPLAINTShttp://www.mediaweek.com/mediaweek/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000731656
TODD SHIELDS, MEDIA WEEK - In an appearance before Congress in February, when the controversy over Janet Jackson's Super Bowl moment was at its height, Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell laid some startling statistics on U.S. senators. The number of indecency complaints had soared dramatically to more than 240,000 in the previous year, Powell said. The figure was up from roughly 14,000 in 2002, and from fewer than 350 in each of the two previous years. There was, Powell said, "a dramatic rise in public concern and outrage about what is being broadcast into their homes." What Powell did not reveal - apparently because he was unaware - was the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003 - 99.8 percent - were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group. This year, the trend has continued, and perhaps intensified. . .
The prominent role played by the PTC has raised concerns among critics of the FCC's crackdown on indecency. "It means that really a tiny minority with a very focused political agenda is trying to censor American television and radio," said Jonathan Rintels, president and executive director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media, an artists' advocacy group.
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT SEX FROM THE BUSH REGIMEhttp://www.wonkette.com/politics/hill/index.php#bill-frist-says-it-wont-happen-if-you-do-it-standing-up-026962
WONKETTE - A Congressional report of Bush administration-approved (lack of) sex education programs found that these curricula handed down such bits of wisdom as:
- A 43-day-old fetus is a "thinking person."
- HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can be spread via sweat and tears.
- Condoms fail to prevent HIV transmission as often as 31 percent of the time in heterosexual intercourse.
- Women who have an abortion "are more prone to suicide" and that as many as 10 percent of them become sterile.
Senator Bill Frist -- who is, we hear, a doctor -- set George Stephanopoulos straight yesterday on "This Week":
Stephanopoulos: You're a doctor. Do you think tears and sweat can transmit HIV
Frist: I don't know. . . I can tell you..
Stephanopoulos: You don't know?
Frist: I can tell you things like, like. . . condoms..
Stephanopoulos: You believe that tears and sweat might be able to transmit AIDS?
No wonder they let that compassionate conservatism thing slide. You can't even shed a tear for the gays without them giving you their wrath-of-God cooties. Actually, he does go on to admit that it would be "very hard" to contract HIV via tears. Guess you can't kill all those cats in the name of science without learning something.
JIANG JINGLING BUSINESS WEEKLY - The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, says its inventory of stock produced in China is expected to hit $18 billion this year, keeping the annual growth rate of over 20% consistent over two years. The trend is expected to continue, company officials revealed
Xu Jun, Wal-Mart China's director of external affairs. . . said China is Wal-Mart's most important supplier in the world. . . Last year, the firm bought $15 billion products from China, half from direct purchasing, the other from the firm's suppliers in China. . . So far, more than 70% of the commodities sold in Wal-Mart are made in China.
ONE GROUP RESPONSIBLE FOR 99.8% OF FCC COMPLAINTShttp://www.mediaweek.com/mediaweek/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000731656
TODD SHIELDS, MEDIA WEEK - In an appearance before Congress in February, when the controversy over Janet Jackson's Super Bowl moment was at its height, Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell laid some startling statistics on U.S. senators. The number of indecency complaints had soared dramatically to more than 240,000 in the previous year, Powell said. The figure was up from roughly 14,000 in 2002, and from fewer than 350 in each of the two previous years. There was, Powell said, "a dramatic rise in public concern and outrage about what is being broadcast into their homes." What Powell did not reveal - apparently because he was unaware - was the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003 - 99.8 percent - were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group. This year, the trend has continued, and perhaps intensified. . .
The prominent role played by the PTC has raised concerns among critics of the FCC's crackdown on indecency. "It means that really a tiny minority with a very focused political agenda is trying to censor American television and radio," said Jonathan Rintels, president and executive director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media, an artists' advocacy group.
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT SEX FROM THE BUSH REGIMEhttp://www.wonkette.com/politics/hill/index.php#bill-frist-says-it-wont-happen-if-you-do-it-standing-up-026962
WONKETTE - A Congressional report of Bush administration-approved (lack of) sex education programs found that these curricula handed down such bits of wisdom as:
- A 43-day-old fetus is a "thinking person."
- HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can be spread via sweat and tears.
- Condoms fail to prevent HIV transmission as often as 31 percent of the time in heterosexual intercourse.
- Women who have an abortion "are more prone to suicide" and that as many as 10 percent of them become sterile.
Senator Bill Frist -- who is, we hear, a doctor -- set George Stephanopoulos straight yesterday on "This Week":
Stephanopoulos: You're a doctor. Do you think tears and sweat can transmit HIV
Frist: I don't know. . . I can tell you..
Stephanopoulos: You don't know?
Frist: I can tell you things like, like. . . condoms..
Stephanopoulos: You believe that tears and sweat might be able to transmit AIDS?
No wonder they let that compassionate conservatism thing slide. You can't even shed a tear for the gays without them giving you their wrath-of-God cooties. Actually, he does go on to admit that it would be "very hard" to contract HIV via tears. Guess you can't kill all those cats in the name of science without learning something.
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