Backside lights for Delhi elephants

[Nottingham]

Backside lights for Delhi elephants
Thursday, July 24, 2003 Posted: 8:53 PM EDT (0053 GMT)


NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Elephants in India's capital have begun wearing reflectors on their backsides to avoid being hit by cars.

About 30 elephants are used for commercial work in New Delhi, such as clearing felled trees.

The work is done at night to avoid traffic disruptions. But their dark skin makes them difficult to see on the city's often dimly lit streets, creating the risk of accident.

Now reflectors are being attached to ropes hanging near the elephant's tail and thighs so they can be seen from behind, N.V.K Ashraf of the Wildlife Trust of India said.

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http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=03426859e7f456c7

:bounce: I'm sorry I wonder if Bush knows what end is which on the Elephant! I find it incredible our High Tech jobs are going to this nation! LOL!!!

[Maple]

1. If the only news you heard from the US

was about a rodeo, wouldn't you wonder how America had any high tech jobs?

[Nottingham]

2. Maple you are so right!

:bounce:

[I AM SPARTACUS]

3. IBM's "offshoring" sure smells like a rodeo does...

and will buck-off 3 million high-tech jobs in the US...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=26947&mesg_id=26947&listing_type=search

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I.B.M's top employee relations executives said that three million service jobs were expected to shift to foreign workers by 2015 and that I.B.M. should move some of its jobs now done in the United States, including software design jobs, to India and other countries.

"Our competitors are doing it and we have to do it," Tom Lynch, I.B.M.'s director for global employee relations, said in the call. A recording was provided to The New York Times recently by the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, a Seattle-based group seeking to unionize high- technology workers. The group said it had received the recording — which was made by I.B.M. and later placed in digital form on an internal company Web site — from an I.B.M. employee upset about the plans.
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[Nottingham]

4. Hey Guys I saw on CNN a Republican going Buy American for Military

This was for our National Security
Brought up instances where Switzerland didn't deliver the weapons ordered.

They said Rummsfeld was Pissed and Bush was gonna be asked to Veto

I think this is gonna be an interesting issue but hell if I can find a article on it! :bounce: Was on CNN tonite!

Anybody else see it a Republican from California and a Dem sponsoring it!:bounce:

[NYC]

5. I didn't see it, but I'm glad to hear it.

Esp. with military supplies. Suppose the manufacturer favors the other side of the war? Seems foolish to me.

But, it also seems foolish to me to send our jobs to foreign countries. That's very unAmerican.

[I AM SPARTACUS]

7. LINKS...

http://www.iht.com/articles/103702.html
Budget fight pits hawk against the Pentagon

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there is considerable dismay, and some outright consternation, over sweeping "buy American" provisions that Hunter inserted into the House version of legislation authorizing the coming year's Pentagon budget. Countries that failed to help the United States in the Iraq war, he argues, should not enjoy the spoils of American military contracts.

That view has set Hunter on a collision course with his many friends at the Pentagon and among American military contractors who buy everything from microprocessors to jet engines and airplane wings overseas. Hunter's proposal would cut back sharply on the foreign content allowed in American military goods. It also includes a laundry list of items - from fuses to machine tools to airplane tires - that only American companies could supply.

Opposition to Hunter is so fierce that the defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has said he will recommend that President George W. Bush veto the entire $400 billion 2004 Pentagon budget if Hunter does not back down. According to a White House statement, Hunter's proposals are "burdensome, counterproductive and have the potential to degrade U.S. military capabilities."
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from Wednesday, August 29, 2001
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/08/29/loc_kentuckians.html

McKEE — A law that requires the U.S. military to buy American equipment is keeping U.S. companies, including three in eastern Kentucky, in business. The law, called the Berry Amendment, protects jobs by requiring the military to buy its uniforms, textiles, shoes and canvas from U.S. companies. But critics warn that the law drives up the price of some products.

In McKee, a town of about 1,000 that has lost textile jobs during the last decade, Specialty Defense Systems is making a special backpack for the Marines. The company has had military contracts for about six years. “It helps the whole county,” Mayor Dwight K. Bishop said. The workers make Modular Lightweight Load-Carrying Equipment — lightweight hiking gear that Marines call MOLLEs. Workers, who make on average $7 an hour, sew about 1,000 of them a week.

“It gives you a great sense of national pride. It makes you proud to be an American,” said Charles Smith, 24, a plant employee. But critics say the military could save money by letting the international marketplace compete for the contracts.

[Nottingham]

9. I Am Spartacus thats it! Awesome thanks!

The point was Switzerland didn't allow shipments for grenades and a certain special part for bombs which made our arsenals useless for those missiles

:bounce:
Plus its our tax dollars shouldn't they support our workers too

:bounce:

[alaine]

6. Heyyyyyyy...Whatever happened to just say no?

Corporate peer pressure? Ha? I was watching C-span today and one of the Democratic senators pointed out the hypocrisy in the free trade agreement with Singapore that puts a lot of emphasis on protecting intellectual property but very little on protecting the rights and safety of workers. : (

[Nottingham]

8. So right Alaine! The point made by was Our Tax Dollars are going

Over Seas and when Iraq War happened the parts couldn't be had.
Its a National Security Issue! And our Money

Rummsfeld didn't like the idea and was gonna ask Bush to veto it

But I think anything doing with National Security should be Made in American that means Software programming too

:bounce:

[Maple]

10. It's called 'protectionism'

and brings on Depressions.

[Nottingham]

11. Wait aminute Maple we are in one already! LOL!!

Its called National Security! :bounce:

It only pertains to the industries for National Security!

[Maple]

12. A Depression has

25% unemployment.

Your national security requirements have long been made all around the world. It isn't recent.

You get the best products for the least amount of money.

The idea is to prevent $500 hammers or ashtrays.

[Nottingham]

15. We Never were in a War that Nobody liked us and Ilegal before

That makes a difference! And we have been in a Recession for three Freakin years not! Its ugly! :bounce:

[Maple]

18. Actually

you've been in many wars that were illegal and disliked.

You were just perhaps unaware of it.

Protectionism makes a recession worse, not better.

People stop investing in your country then, or buying your bonds, and more jobs disappear.

You need to open up more, not shut the doors.

[Nottingham]

13. Hey Maple! Did you see the thread Immigrations Phony

Thats in Canada its interesting its about the Israeli Russian Mafia

just a heads up if ya see it! I'm watchin out for my Canadian buddy!

LOL!!

[Maple]

14. Yeah I saw it

The Russian Jews are welcome here.

The Mounties will fix the Mafia.

[Nottingham]

16. Kewl! Thats Great!

I wish we had Mounties! We have Ashcroft! :crazy:

[Nottingham]

17. What Happen to your Maple Leaf! I do like your Avatar very kewl!

But the Maple leaf was soooo RED!! :bounce:

[Maple]

19. Yes, a bit much

I thought.

And of course a secret invasion...should remain secret. ;-)

[Nottingham]

20. Gotcha! Your Secret is safe with me!

You always have great comments! :bounce:

[Maple]

21. LOL I'm glad YOU think so

I've been called a Freeper several times in the last few days just for trying to tell people what globalization is like outside the US.