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Do you think more users in this immigration section need to read this lesson?
Over and over again we see anti-immigration people use some really disturbing sources, even after they’ve been informed of their racist/hate ties, but continue to use them. Are they misinformed? or are they wanting to spread this propaganda on purpose? If so, what’s the reason?http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/re…
Propaganda Techniques on Hate Sites
Overview:
In this lesson students learn about the propaganda techniques commonly used on Web sites that promote hatred or intolerance (hate sites). The lesson begins with a class discussion about what propaganda is and how it works, followed by a deconstruction of war posters as historical examples. The class then focuses on the role of propaganda as a persuasive tool on hate sites. For homework, students analyze printouts of Web pages from hate sites to identify the propaganda techniques that are used. In an extension activity, students learn about “logical fallacies” and how these are used by those seeking to misinform.
Images and messages that play on patriotism, pride, self-sacrifice and loyalty are common propaganda tools used by governments during times of war. These tools are effective because they appeal to basic human values and needs. Unfortunately, the success of this kind of propaganda – which pits “us” against “them” – comes at the expense of other groups who may not deserve to be stigmatized. In addition, those same strategies may be co-opted by others – such as hate-mongers – to manipulate and misinform.
On the Internet, hate propaganda is only one of the many different types of misinformation we might encounter. But there are serious, real-world consequences when people believe what hate-mongers say. (Show the “Propaganda” overhead and review and discuss terms with students.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF2mg5krIjc
Codex Alimentarius Summarized in 7 Points
There is much misinformation about Codex Alimentarius on the internet, and we have endeavoured to check our sources of information to bring you the most correct data possible. If you have any specific questions or queries you can email us at our email address here.
Codex Alimentarius is most important to understand as it will have very serious impact in longer-term, especially if the risk assessment system that it proposes to use to establish maximum allowed dosages is not changed over the coming months.
With the Codex Alimentarius Commission set to put in place international standards we could see:
The degradation and undermining of organic standards so that “organic food” can contain various chemical additives and processing aids.
Flagrant disregard of their own directive to protect consumer safety by setting standards that allow for significant residues of pesticides in foods (as much as 3275 including those that are suspected carcinogens or endocrine disrupters)
An understatement of nutritional requirements for long term optimum health of the consumers it seeks to protect by setting unnecessarily low Nutrient Reference Values
The forcing of therapeutic grade vitamins and minerals to be reclassified as drugs by default by setting very low maximum level dosages for supplements using flawed risk assessment methods
The way paved for implementation of GM food plants and GM animals by arguing that world food requirements cannot be met without global implementation of GM animals
World agricultural populations economically vulnerable to crop failures during natural disasters, droughts or floods by approving “Terminator” seeds for international trade
If we allow Codex to implement these strategies eventually:
The world population will not know what it is eating
The world population will not know why it is getting sick
The world population will not have access to information, natural nutrients or natural medicines that can make it well
Codex Use Junk Science to Declare that “Nutrients are Toxins”
The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has two committees which impact nutrition. One of them is the “Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses” (CCNFSDU). The host government for this committee is non other than the Federal Republic of Germany!
This committee is chaired by the Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a German physician who believes that nutrition has no role in health. This is the “head hauncho” for Codex nutritional policy, and he has stated that “nutrition is not relevant to health”.
In 1994, as “barking mad” as it may sound, Dr. Grossklaus has also instituted the use of toxicology (Risk Assessment) to prevent nutrients from having any therapeutic impact on humans who take supplements in the name of “Public Safety”! The science of toxicology or Risk Assessment is the current method for assessing pharmaceutical drugs and is completely absurd and unscientific to apply to nutrients.
While Risk Assessment is a legitimate science (it is a branch of toxicology), it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients! In fact, in this context, it is actually junk science. Biochemistry, the science of life processes, is the correct science for assessing nutrients. Codex Alimentarius treats nutrients as toxins, which is literally insane.
Nutrients are not toxins – they are essential for life.
http://www.healthfreedom.co.nz/codex_alimentarius.htm
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=184

If you do not want to help. Please do not post. I am asking for input on this assignment. I will post the answers to the questions that I have finished. Again, do not post if you do not want to help me.
Here are the questions.
1. Can a monopoly exist in a small town and give an example?
2. Why does the marginal revenue curve lie below the average revenue curve for a monopolist?
3. How do economists predict the rate of output for a monopoly? Is this the same when the monopoly uses price discrimination?
4. Can a monopoly make an economic loss in the long-run?
5. If a cartel like OPEC restricts the output of member nations to less than they are capable of producing with their existing levels of capital equipment, does the social cost of a monopoly increase? Explain.
6. What are the key characteristics of a monopolistically competitive industry and what is an example from reality other than the ones in Chapter 26?
7. What are the key characteristics of oligopoly?
8. Why is there only one model in economics to predict firm behavior in competition, monopoly, and monopolistic competition, but more than one in oligopoly?
9. What does strategic behavior mean with respect to oligopoly firms?
10. How can firms deter market entry by potential rivals?
11. Why do we want to have the government regulate natural monopolies?
12. What are the main reasons that government regulates businesses?
13. What theories explain the behavior of regulators?
14. What are the short- and long-run effects of deregulation?
15. Given that the foundations of antitrust reflect a history of increasingly specific provisions, what are the difficulties with enforcing it?
16. Explain why the marginal revenue product curve represent a firm’s demand for labor.
17. What factors influence the price (i.e., wage) elasticity of demand for labor and why?
18. How are equilibrium wage rates determined in a competitive labor market for perfectly competitive firms?
19. Assume that perfect competitive firms are bought up and consolidated into one firm by a monopolist. If the labor market is competitive, what happens to the wage rate and why?
20. Why is the market demand curve for labor not just a simple horizontal summation of individual marginal revenue product curves?
21. Did the American labor movement ever have political problems?
22. Discuss the goals and strategies of labor unions in the context of a mining town with one large coal mine as the dominant employer of labor.
23. What effects have labor unions had on wages and productivity and why?
24. What is the current status of labor unions in the United States and what will likely occur in the future?
Here are my answers until this point.
1.Yes, because a monopoly exists when there is only one firm in a particular market for a specific good. A firm like this is called a monopolist. A monopolist has market power and control. This means that the firm’s actions can have a real influence on the price of a specific good. An example of this would be if in a small town there is only one well with no other source of water. The owner of the well has a monopoly on water.
2.Because the monopolist faces the industry demand curve which is by definition downward sloping its choice regarding how much to produce is not the same as for a perfect competitor.
3.Because output is set at the point in which marginal revenue equals marginal cost. Yes because a monopolist is able to charge different people different prices and a firm usually engages this in order to increase profits that are unrelated to differences in marginal cost.
4.*Can a monopoly make an economic loss in the long-run?*?????????
5.*If a cartel like OPEC restricts the output of member nations to less than they are capable of producing with their existing levels of capital equipment, does the social cost of a monopoly increase? Explain.*???????????
6.Monopolistic competition is defined as a market situation in which a large number of firms produce similar but not identical products. Entry into the industry is also relatively easy. So the key characteristics are a significant number of sellers in a highly competitive market, differentiated products, sales promotion and advertising, and easy entry of new firms in the long run. Examples include the markets for restaurants, lunch meant, cereal, clothing and some service industries in large cities.
7.An oligopoly is defined as a market structure in which there are very few sellers. Each seller knows that the other sellers will react to its changes in prices, quantities, and qualities. Therefore it is characterized by having a small number of independent firms that constitute the entire market.
8.The number of models is relative to the amount of firms engaged in the market. The reason competition, monopoly, and monopolistic competition only have one model is because there is only one firm. Where as in an oligopoly there can be multiple models dependin

A school counselor recently informed me that she routinely sees kids as early as 3rd-5th grade who describe their greatest source of stress as grades, standardized tests, and what college they’re going to get into. (!) I was floored that kids that young have such things on their radar at all.
Does your child in that age range already care about standardized tests and colleges? Do they worry about grades?
What are your personal strategies for balancing reasonable expectations for best effort with avoiding undue pressure on your kids? Does anyone else think it’s madness to have our kids worrying about such things when they can barely divide two numbers or write legible cursive?

Invest in the Manufacturing Sector and Create 5 Million New Green Jobs
* Invest in our Next Generation Innovators and Job Creators: Obama will create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to identify and invest in the most compelling advanced manufacturing strategies. The Fund will have a peer-review selection and award process based on the Michigan 21st Century Jobs Fund, a state-level initiative that has awarded over $125 million to Michigan businesses with the most innovative proposals to create new products and new jobs in the state.
* Double Funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership: The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) works with manufacturers across the country to improve efficiency, implement new technology and strengthen company growth. This highly-successful program has engaged in more than 350,000 projects across the country and in 2006 alone, helped create and protect over 50,000 jobs. But despite this success, funding for MEP has been slashed by the Bush administration. Barack Obama will double funding for the MEP so its training centers can continue to bolster the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers.
* Invest In A Clean Energy Economy And Create 5 Million New Green Jobs: Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial scale renewable energy, invest in low emissions coal plants, and begin transition to a new digital electricity grid. The plan will also invest in America’s highly-skilled manufacturing workforce and manufacturing centers to ensure that American workers have the skills and tools they need to pioneer the first wave of green technologies that will be in high demand throughout the world.
* Create New Job Training Programs for Clean Technologies: The Obama plan will increase funding for federal workforce training programs and direct these programs to incorporate green technologies training, such as advanced manufacturing and weatherization training, into their efforts to help Americans find and retain stable, high-paying jobs. Obama will also create an energy-focused youth jobs program to invest in disconnected and disadvantaged youth.
* Boost the Renewable Energy Sector and Create New Jobs: The Obama plan will create new federal policies, and expand existing ones, that have been proven to create new American jobs. Obama will create a federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) that will require 25 percent of American electricity be derived from renewable sources by 2025, which has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs on its own. Obama will also extend the Production Tax Credit, a credit used successfully by American farmers and investors to increase renewable energy production and create new local jobs.
New Jobs Through National Infrastructure Investment
Barack Obama believes that it is critically important for the United States to rebuild its national transportation infrastructure – its highways, bridges, roads, ports, air, and train systems – to strengthen user safety, bolster our long-term competitiveness and ensure our economy continues to grow.
* Create a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank: Barack Obama will address the infrastructure challenge by creating a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank to expand and enhance, not supplant, existing federal transportation investments. This independent entity will be directed to invest in our nation’s most challenging transportation infrastructure needs. The Bank will receive an infusion of federal money, $60 billion over 10 years, to provide financing to transportation infrastructure projects across the nation. These projects will create up to two million new direct and indirect jobs per year and stimulate approximately $35 billion per year in new economic activity.
Technology, Innovation and Creating Jobs
Barack Obama will increase federal support for research, technology and innovation for companies and universities so that American families can lead the world in creating new advanced jobs and products.
* Invest in the Sciences: Barack Obama supports doubling federal funding for basic research and changing the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology. This will foster home-grown innovation, help ensure the competitiveness of US technology-based businesses, and ensure that 21st century jobs can and will grow in America.
* Make the Research and Development Tax Credit Permanent: Barack Obama wants investments in a skilled research and development workforce and technology infrastructure to be supported here in America so that American workers and communities will benefit. Obama wants to make the Research and Development tax credit permanent so that firms can rely on it when maki

This new century has brought about new market strategies. Companies operate in places where they can make a fast buck. Globalization has given “carte blanche” to any company willing to relocate in any country where production costs are cheaper (including employees’ salaries). To portray any of these two candidates as the saviors of the middle class is to fall into the trap and the old belief of the past that America can determine its own future, when now it cleary depends on foreign sources to get its raw materials. America is a nation that imports from all over the world. If those products are not delivered to the US because there are strikes going on in the exporting country, the effect will be felt in American pockets. This interdependence or interconnection is making the economic structure of our society more fragile. Terrorists can easily blackmail Western democracies with the price of oil. Do you honestly think this can be solved by a simple national Presidential election?

Discuss the cause and effects of global
warming on the Bahamas then offer viable solutions
Global warming, what does it mean? Global warming is often referred to as “the greenhouse effect”. Both imply the absorption of energy radiated from earth’s surface by carbon dioxide and other gasses in the atmosphere. Global warming threatens the whole world. Though it has had little noticeable impact on the world so far, its potential impact could be disastrous which is why global warming has become an issue ever present in the media and for governments. There are many causes such as greenhouse effect through the burning of fossil fuels, the rise in sea level, and pollution. You have heard that for every cause, there is an effect; well, the effects for us are. Agricultural practices, climate change, and the economic consequences and the solutions are renewable energy the Bahamas need to announce target for reduction for emission
There are many causes of the greenhouse effect. The most common greenhouse gas is Carbon dioxide. The Bahamas depend solely they are released by the burning of fossil fuels; which is a major leading cause of concern for the Bahamas. These emissions can be seen when you start your car on a cold early morning and the muffler smokes. Also, the more cars sit for a long period of time on the road the more CO2 is admitted into the air. It can be seen in the form of smoke in the heavily populated cities like New Providence and Grand Bahama. Many things contribute to global warming. Such things are industries, transportation, electricity used, waste produced, and agriculture. The greenhouse is very vital to our being. Without the greenhouse effect, the earth would not be warm enough for the human race to live. But if the greenhouse effect becomes stronger, it could make the earth warmer than usual. Even a little extra warming may cause problems for humans, plants, and animals to carry on everyday life.
Another cause for global warming is the rise in see level; most of our islands is in 5ft of mean sea level. The Bahamas being a low-line area; it is likely that the fresh water ponds will be severally affect in some islands of the Bahamas. There are many well fields in some of the islands of the Bahamas, which will become contaminated due to the rise in sea level; this spells disaster for those islands whose water is pumped from well fields meanly Andros and Grand Bahama. Paragraph 6 of Climate Change in the Caribbean by Larry smith states that, “Indications are that some fresh water marshes in the Bahamas have already become brackish, which may be attributed to rising sea levels. And it is known that well fields on Andros and Grand Bahama have been badly affected by storm surge in the past five years. Scientist are fervently trying to find ways to counter act the effects that the rising waters are causing, which includes island and beach erosion. Evidence of the public’s ignorance of the inevitable impact of Sea Level Rising is shown in the millions of people that are flocking to the coast. Rising sea levels, winds, and currents are constantly eroding beaches, and in fact whole islands are disappearing.
First, air pollution causes a great deal of health problems. Wanting clean air is a good reason because air that is polluted can damage human health. Indeed, the air pollution causes numerous diseases and increase health problems like the asthma or breathing problems; thus this is a real concern! Some persons cannot live in a big city because of the high rate of air pollution in it. However, our health is not the only to be threatened, our environment is threatened too. Indeed, the air pollution causes some disorders on the environment. Bahamians have another source of pollution; Cruise ships in the Bahamas produce enormous quantities of unwanted gases and fumes. This makes it a major contributor of pollution in the islands. For instance, a cruise ship that calls upon the Bahamas spent one day in Nassau harbour or a few days at other developed islands. “Most cruise ship uses about 300 tonnes of fuel per day at sea, and significant amounts while in harbour”. {English 119 booklet Paragraph. 7}
The Bahamas is a very low- line country; the highest point being 206 ft above sea level; thus, this make this makes the Bahamas vulnerable to the effect of climate change and higher temperatures and even an increase flooding due to heavier rains; this will result in more malaria, dengue and other tropical diseases. As former Best Commission advisor John Hammerton said recently, Given that most of the Bahamas is a low-line coastal zone subject to storm surge and sea level rise, we should be anticipating the possible impacts of climate change and developing strategies to protect our habitats and landscapes based on the predications.” Climate change could also have a serve effect on natural disasters. There might be more frequent and intense hurricanes and storm

Challenge #1
McDonald’s has a lot of competitors in China, especially the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and Mom and Pop food stands. When McDonald’s first opened their store in China in 1990, their rival, KFC, had already been there for three years. It is estimated that 1.900 KFC stores established in China, which is more than twice the amount of McDonald’s. Besides KFC, McDonald’s has other competitors in China like the Mom and Pop food stands. These businesses are usually owned by the same family for many generations in a single location and their food is traditional, convenient and cheap. Hence, to conquer the fast food market, McDonald’s must attain new strategies.
Challenge #2
The sanitation in China is another major issue for McDonald’s. Since China is considered a developing country, their food safety is still a nightmarish problem where corruption is rampant and safe food handling is not always practiced. Moreover, McDonald’s is one of the major food sponsors of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and they want to provide tourists meals that are made in a hygienic environment. Therefore, their second challenge would be acquiring cleanliness in their restaurants.
Solution #1
To deal with the first situation, a possible solution would be adding values to the products. First of all, the concept of value adding is to allow a business to sell its products for more than its production costs, thereby earning the business a profit. Since a lot of Chinese is unfamiliar with the new products, hamburgers and French fries for instance, McDonald’s can thus alter its recipes to change the flavor of the food. In the article McDonald’s has a big appetite in China, it mentioned about creating a new sandwich using Szechuan (a province in China) pepper to season. Moreover, the quality of service plays a major role in McDonald’s businesses too. Not a lot of fast food restaurants provide additional services. For example, drive-through and queue up services. Some customers are accompanied with cars, and drive-through allows them to purchase meals without leaving their cars, thus it’s more convenient. Since people that are still queuing for food orders may find it irritating to wait, Mc Donald’s should hire workers to assist the customers to preorder, so it can increase the efficiency of providing meals.
Solution #2
Nevertheless, food safety is also the other concern McDonald’s have. During the production process, unhygienic food is not tolerated. To diminish the possibility of getting it, McDonald’s can hire specialists to monitor its production process as well as food quality controls. Furthermore, McDonald’s should import their goods through reliable sources so that they can guarantee that their customers are having a hygienic meal. For example, ingredients for producing hamburgers such as buns, beef and tomatoes should be imported from trusted factories. The article also suggests that the McDonald’s stores have hand washing stations and hand sanitizers right out in the main restaurant. With these kinds of invention, customers can wash their hands before enjoying their meals. Furthermore, employees should wear hairnets to prevent hair from contaminating the food because the hairstyling products they put on their hair may contain chemicals that are harmful to human bodies. Employees should also wear masks to cover their mouth at all times because sometimes they would accidentally spit on the food while talking.

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