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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Women entrepreneurs, example not exception

ACTA, ESQUIRE MODELS, AND OTHER THINGS I WANT LOCKED IN MY BASEMEN

The Sims 3: Master Suite Stuff

Abraj: The two towers of Dubai

Florence + The Machine - Shake It Out

'Free Syrian Army' claims Damascus suburb after fierce fighting

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Atheist Student Gets Death Threats Over Prayer Banner

Jessica Ahlquist, the atheist student who got a prayer banner removed from her public high school, has received death threats and was called "evil" by one of her state representatives. . . read more

Abortion Doctor Assassination List, & Super Bowl Ad? Operation Rescue

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Megaupload op: Anonymous downs FBI, DoJ, music sites in biggest attack ever

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Freedom behind bars: Thousands jailed in Libya for failing to swap sides

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Strait Talking: 'Iran sanctions backfire on recession-hit West'

Iran is under increasing pressure from Western countries, which believe it might be developing a nuclear weapon. France is pushing for stricter sanctions against Iran and has urged EU countries to follow the US in freezing Iranian central bank assets and imposing an embargo on oil exports. . . read more

Milking Russia: 'Love it or love money'

RT continues with its new series of reports on foreigners who have ventured to Russia and achieved huge success here. Today we catch up with a British farmer who moved to Russia 15 years ago to milk the country's potential. John Kopiski now owns one of the country's most profitable dairy farms. . . read more

Online Marketing: Google's Zero Moment of Truth

Jeremy Arnon, Strategic Partner Development of Mobile Commerce for Google, examines a new trend in how consumers make purchase decisions. He argues that there's a new paradigm: ZMOT, or zero moment of truth.

The Lucky Country: Can't even imitate anymore

In today's Sydney Morning Herald, Greens' Senator Sarah Hanson-Young wrote a great piece about the legalisation of gay marriage in New York.

Australia having not passed the same law was put into sharp relief - by Sean Maguire

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HPD Jobs: Writing an Undeniable Cover Letter

Now to begin the tedious task of job-hunting, all excellent resumes are accompanied by a cover letter. When apply for a job you should talk to the company the way they would talk to you. Everything you receive from a business is complemented with a cover letter so why should the resume you send them be any different? Talk their talk. This is an opportunity for you to inform the reader who you are, why you are sending your resume and why they should read on - By Rebecca Scott . . read more

The World's Most Wanted Man

A few months it was easy to name the world's most wanted man, with a swift execution in Pakistan that all changed and every bad guy jostling for the top position moved up a number.

The question for today though is who, according to the FBI and Interpol, is the new number one? - by Sean Maguire

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Who Dropped the Babyboomers?

Recent reports from Leadership Management Australasia say a majority of Gen-Y don’t want to work with baby boomers, preferring to work with Gen-X or each other. With their inherent lack of imagination who can blame them? By Sean Maguire . . read more

Gen-Y aren't you working? A look at graduate opportunities

With the central plaza in Madrid still occupied by tens of thousands of young people frustrated by the lack of job opportunities and real democracy in Spain; now is perhaps the best time to analyse what the scenario is for graduates and what you can do to increase your chances of landing a job.

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Mladic arrested and Serbia gets closer to EU

By Don Reilly

It isn't a secret that Serbia is obsessed with joining the EU - this is a country that has had a psychopathic sense of itself that now wants to be seen as a normal member of a weird world.

As the man suspected of overseeing the Srebrenica Massacre is imprisoned, an unanswered question keeps confusing me: Why does Serbia want to join the EU?

This is an organisation that is at it's knees bailing out its idiotic member countries.

An organisation that is almost entirely dominated by France, Germany and the UK.

And an organisation that has no hesitancy welcoming a new member, like Poland, but then not giving it full membership privileges like free movement of people and labour.

Yep, welcome to the party, hope you're ready to pick up the tab.

Would you bother joining the EU if you were Serbia or would you keep believing the nationalist narrative that you're a victim who only needs to break free from terrible shackles to be great again? Tell us and remember....Disqus! . . read more

HPD: When you shouldn't air your Nazi sympathies

Call it the last taboo in the Western world, but unsurprisingly it seems that the airing of Nazi sympathies in public rarely goes down well.

Especially if you're German.

Lars Von Trier at Cannes made the ultimate gaffe by going on (and on) about how he understood Hitler and then finding himself in a situation where he couldn't back track from the idiocy he was spouting.

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Osama bin Laden's wasted life

And what could anyone add to the ocean of comment and opinion and conclusion and musing and snarling and vengeful remarks published and shouted about the recent death of Mr O. bin Laden, late of Abbottabad, Pakistan, shot to death in his bedroom, perhaps with his television remote in his hand, perhaps moments after he finished coloring his beard black again for a video production scheduled for the morning? by Brian Doyle . . read more

HPD: Marches for Marijuana. Legalisation to save lives?

Around the world over the weekend there were hundreds of marches organised to promote the legalisation of marijuana. They were no more strong and pertinent than in Mexico where the question of the legalisation (or the decriminalisation) of cannabis is intimately linked to the burgeoning drug trade - by Sean Maguire . . read more

Killin' Osama the unarmed

So it turns out that Osama, the world's most wanted outlaw, wasn't treated to a fair fight by his cowboy vanquishers. No siree. No ten paces at noon or nothing, a plain and simple cold blooded killin'. Seems kind of weird to me - by Sean Maguire . . read more

Abbott says "sink or swim, or do both"

Tony Abbott has released a radical plan to combat the asylum seeker crisis by proposing to send all boats, regardless of their seaworthiness, back to Indonesia.

Abbott in a prepared statement said, "I was inspired by Split Enz."

"The band tell a story, entitled ‘Six Months on a Leaky Boat,' of a man who survived a full half a year on a sinking vessel."

"If we can replicate that achievement there shouldn't be a problem."

The UNCHR has hit back at the proposal saying it breeches international law.

A UN representative said, "We would expect Mr. Abbott to follow the long-held precedent of giving us the asylum seekers to wallow for decades in refugee camps without any chance of resettlement."

"That is the law after all."

Is it such a gamble? From The Outsider

The dithering about whether or not to bring in limitations on how much you can lose on the pokies is just another example of Australian government policy waiting for a leader. Think about smoking. It took until the late 'eighties for governments to grasp the nettle and begin to clamp down on people's freedom to smoke (and kill themselves – if not others). Twenty five years later you wonder why legislation was so slow to come in for a policy that today looks like a no-brainer. Most habitual smokers, like myself, secretly welcomed preventative legislation and I have no doubt that people hooked on the pokies will welcome the social changes that are so long overdue.

State of the Union - From the Outsider

The latest conversation between Julia Gillard and Bob Hawke about the role of the Unions in the Australian Labor Party emphasises how far distant is the current PM from the realities of politics in Australia. We are fed up with the factioneering of power by an antediluvian set of inflexible idealogues who know nothing about the new politics being born by social media and the rise of pluralistic democracy. The Occupy movement is part of this new reality. A ‘fourth way’ if you like, some 15 years after New Labour in the UK dumped the Union ticket and went for the social inclusion of the ‘third way’. Politics ain’t what it used to be and it is the Gillards of this world who are blind-sided to where the bread is now being buttered.

Protecting the Press

Stephen Myles

When the details of Peter Roebucks death emerged the same conclusion seemed to be drawn but no one really put down the words on paper. Older relatively wealthy man, connections to an orphanage in South Africa, being investigated by Sex Crimes police over allegations, jumps out of window. If you add a, b and c together you manage to arrive at the same conclusion.

Two important things must be considered in relation to the developments. Peter Roebuck was and will remain regarded as a great sports journalist, insightful and well-worded. This does not change whether or not he enjoyed molesting young underprivileged men.

The media has decided to more or less hold a respectful distance from the matter, this is a good thing, but would they show the same restraint was he not a community member? More often than not the major media outlets of the western world are more than eager to publicly condemn an individual well before the true facts have emerged, hypocrisy is an accepted norm of modern society but appears particularly infuriating when present in our newspapers and news programs.

All that happens now is we sit and wait, to see whether Peter Roebuck and the allegations slide into irrelevance or are determined and outlined by his peers when the true facts emerge.

Tell em they're Dreamin!

By Simon Moore

Qantas unveiled the new Dreamliner 787 to a media conference at Sydney Airport today. Rather than focussing on the new Boeing’s carbon fibre wings; what they really need to do is get their head out of the clouds and wake up to face the music.

The shape of Air-travel is once again on a rapid shift with the introduction of longer and cheaper budget flight options and the growing awareness of the environmental cost of flight. Qantas only set themselves further behind with the public relations nightmare created by their recent flight groundings that caused disruptions to over 68,000 passengers. There is now an effort of goodwill with extra frequent flyer points being handed out over the next few weeks, but it appears to be a case of too little, too late.

Qantas must reassert themselves in the midst of a myriad of problems that have arisen over the last three years. Strikes, Groundings and technical issues have severely damaged the airlines reputation and this is reflected in the shift of customer loyalty with importance placed on cost and reliability. The ending of negotiations with the pilots union is November 21 and it is fast approaching, If Qantas have any chance of restoring consumer confidence in the short term then this negotiation deadline must be met

We Are The 99% from The Outsider

It's worth reflecting as we follow the Wall Street occupation and similar spontaneous events round the world that the recent grounding of Qantas by its CEO is yet another example of the contestable behaviour of the 1%. The right to seek supply from the cheapest provider is not absolute. And nor are the financial interests of shareholders. Exactly what did the Australian government deem to be its role when given notice of the grounding it did nothing. If our democracies create political power in favour of the 1% then the process is not democratic.

4 more years

By Simon Moore

In 2003 George Gregan famously called out to the allblacks, four more years as they delivered the decisive blow to the New Zealand World Cup dreams.

Now the crowds at Eden Park threw that stinging sniping comment right back at the Australians as the All Blacks ran in a convincing performance to claim a finals berth that almost guarantees the win against a poor French outfit.

Nevertheless the four more years comment is interesting. In reality revenge can come shortly, Australian supporters do not despair, it may be 4 more years until another crack at the William Webb Ellis trophy, but it is less than 12 months till we can attempt to win back the Bledisloe cup.

But for now we must be satisfied supporting our cousins against the French as the All Blacks cruise on home.

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