New Labour exploits myths about immigration
The News Review:
- New Labour exploits myths about immigration
- “Victory gardens” triumph on your plate
- US film studios too powerful, says Scorsese
- No clots for Abbott bioabsorbable stent at nine months
- Cahill backs Arnold for job
New Labour exploits myths about immigration
Socialistworker.co.uk - May 22, 2007
“[Overseas nurses] are not newly qualified,” it reports. “On average they have 14 years of experience and specialist skills. It is unrealistic to assume that newly qualified home grown nurses will be able to fulfil those kinds of roles. ”The government and its friends are also quick to blame immigration for a decline in living standards for workers. Earlier this year Lord Turner, a former head of the bosses’ CBI organisation, warned Tony Blair that migrants were pushing down wages of those at the lower end of the scale, because they were willing to work unlawfully for below the minimum wage. Like others who have made similar claims, Lord Turner provided no evidence to back this statement. Nevertheless it is true that bosses, particularly those in the hotel, cleaning, catering and construction industries, are always looking for ways to use unregulated workers (of whatever origin) to reduce costs.
“Victory gardens” triumph on your plate
Denver Post - May 22, 2007
Burpee’s sales have been growing at up to 10 percent a year. “When we face retirement or a slowdown in our lives, one of the time-based activities that is rewarding is gardening,” he says. Doiron became a convert to home-grown foods while living in Belgium during the 1990s. There he became acquainted with so-called slow food (the antithesis of fast food culture), as well as the French protest against “La Malbouffe,” or bad food. When he and his family moved in 2001 to the same Maine neighborhood where he’d grown up, Doiron noticed how few backyard gardens there were. He made it his mission to get more people to plant more gardens and prepare the food themselves. Besides growing a smorgasbord of foods in his yard, Doiron holds neighborhood garden parties and has created an International Kitchen Gardener Day, to be celebrated the fourth Sunday of each August.
US film studios too powerful, says Scorsese
Ireland Online - May 22, 2007
“He added: “One of the key reasons why I tried to pull this together is that coming from a working class background in New York, my parents were not educated, they were not in the habit of reading books, I sought all my education from films. “Foreign films on TV introduced so many different cultures to me. “He said of the importance of saving home-grown film: “When we influence each other that creates a new kind of cinema, once we begin to understand, have less a feeling of strangeness towards other cultures but a feeling of familiarity with other cultures, this can hopefully bring about greater political understanding. “Even if we get it to the cinema the younger people will come to see these pictures. “For every 100 films only 10 will be found and maybe finished. “It’s also about the ability of the labs to work.
No clots for Abbott bioabsorbable stent at nine months
MarketWatch - May 22, 2007
, and the other half when approval comes in Japan. Abbott acquired Xience through its portion of the Guidant acquisition in April last year, a fortuitous deal for Abbott because the company’s home-grown ZoMaxx stent program was later dropped amid poor trial data. Xience went on sale in Europe and the Asia Pacific region last year. Abbott continues to target submitting its Xience application with the U. Food and Drug Administration in the second quarter this year and hopes for U.
Cahill backs Arnold for job
The Age - May 22, 2007
Cahillhopes Australia can win the Asian Cup for Arnold, who took chargein the interim after Dutch maestro Guus Hiddink left following lastyear’s World Cup campaign. FFA chairman Frank Lowy has made itknown Asian success is required for Arnold, 43, to keep his job. “Arnie, he’s Australian, home-grown, he has great man managementskills with the players. Definitely I want him long term,” Cahillsaid. “It’ll be good to really do something special in this AsianCup because it will close a lot of people’s mouths. ” Cahill isrecovering from a fractured metatarsal in his left foot, and isconfident he will be fit for Australia’s opening match on July8. Real clings to top spotSPAIN Real Madrid has held on to the top of thePrimera Liga after a last-gasp 3-2 win over Recreativo Huelva.