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Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld is Founder and CEO of the New York-based American Center for Democracy and the Economic Warfare Institute. Dr. Ehrenfeld is an authority on economic warfare, including Weapons of Mass Effect (WME), lawfare, terror financing, disinformation, jihadist movements and corruption.
Dr. Ehrenfeld has a unique ability and an impressive track record to connecting the links between seemingly unrelated foreign and domestic event into identifiable threats to the US economy, financial, social and political systems and its national security in general.
Dr. Ehrenfeld has initiated the anti-libel tourism legislations in the United States. "Rachel's Law" passed in 2008 unanimously in New York State (New York Libel Terrorism Protection Act 2008). At least 10 other U.S. states had passed similar legislation.
The "Speech Act", Public Law 111-223: Securing and Protecting our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, passed unanimously by the U.S. Congress ans signed into law by President Obama in 2010.
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Dr. Ehrenfeld has published widely, lectured and organized international conferences/workshops and specialized briefings and wargaming in many countries and advised governments, law enforcement and the financial industry. Dr. Ehrenfeld has testified before Congressional Committees, as well as the Canadian and European Parliaments, and provided evidence on states, organizations and individuals' support and methods of funding terrorist groups also to the British Parliament, consulted government agencies such as the Department of Defense, Treasury and Homeland Security.
Fluent in several languages, she organized numerous international conferences and conducted special workshops and briefings. In addition, she led ACD's international expert team to observe election in Central Asia, North Africa and Eastern European countries. She is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Committee on the Present Danger.
Dr. Ehrenfeld was a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies, a research scholar at the New York University School of Law, and a fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Jesus College at Cambridge University. She has a Ph.D in Criminology from the Hebrew University School of Law.
She is the author of hundreds of articles, White Papers, chapters of topic expert and academic publications and several books, including:
• FUNDING EVIL: HOW TERRORISM IS FINANCED – and HOW to STOP IT (2003, 2005, 2011)
• EVIL MONEY (HarperCollins, 1992,1994)
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Jack Boureston, Senior Fellow, is nonproliferation researcher and managing director of FirstWatch International (FWI) a research consultancy in Monterey, California. Mr. Boureston has extensive experience in the assessment and characterization of technologies and national capabilities to sustain chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological technologies. He has worked with and contributed to the activities of a diverse range of organizations including Booz Allen Hamilton, CCC, DOE, DTRA, IISS, U.S. national laboratories, SIPRI, Kings College London, and SAIC among others. Mr. Boureston's work has included a systematic survey of industries, companies, and associations to develop illicit supplier profiles, and find ways of interdicting their illicit activities. He has written and published numerous articles in journals such as Jane's Intelligence Review (JIR), the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Arms Control Today (ACT); contributed chapters to IISS net assessments, and made presentations for staff in the U.S. Government, national laboratories, and at conferences. Before establishing FWI in 2002, Mr. Boureston worked with organizations such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as a safeguards information analyst and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) as a researcher and manager. He received his BA in International Relations and MA in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). Mr. Boureston also served in the U.S. Navy aboard aircraft carriers and command ships.
J. Millard Burr, Senior Fellow, worked for many years in the Department of State. In his last assignment he served as logistics advisor for the Operation Lifeline Sudan program, U.S. Agency for International Development. Dr. Burr has a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Oregon, and he has served as Special Assistant to The Geographer, U. S. Department of State. In a career that spanned more than three decades, he had numerous assignments in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. With collaborator Dr. Robert O. Collins, he is the author of four books dealing with the emergence of Islamist movements. The Terrorist Internationale is the capstone of that work.
Cory Davenport, Ph.D. is a social psychologist and Senior Researcher in the Special Projects Division of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center of Excellence based at the University of Maryland. Dr. Davenport has extensive experience in the fields of political psychology, counter-terrorism, and biodefense/biosecurity. Prior to his current position at START, Dr. Davenport was a Fellow with the Center for Biodefense, Law, and Public Policy. He also served with F Co. 51st IN (LRSC) (Airborne), 525 Military Intelligence Battalion, a HUMINT asset of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
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Col. Jonathan Dahoah Halevi, IDF (Ret.) is the director of research in the Orient Research Group Ltd. and a Board member of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs headed by Dr. Dore Gold. Mr. Halevi consults on Middle East and Arab affairs to the Wall Street Journal and is a special consultant to the Linde vs. Arab Bank lawsuit.
• 1998 – 2002 Head of the Palestinian Research Branch in the IDF Intelligence Unit.
• 2002 – 2003 Head of the Information Branch in the IDF Spokesperson Unit.
• 2003 – 2004 Senior Advisor for policy planning in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Halevi has written many articles for both Hebrew and English publications including "Al-Qaeda's Intellectual Legacy: New Radical Islamic Thinking Justifying the Genocide of Infidels".
Kenneth D.M. Jensen, is a foreign relations professional based in Washington, D.C. His specialties include Russia and East Europe, as well as the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.
His interest in economic warfare spans the better part of his career. He has funded (as a grantmaker) or assisted in funding seminal works on narco-terrorism and money laundering, as well as on Middle East politics and Islamic terrorism. Dr. Jensen manages the EWI Blog, available by email.
Dr. Jensen is the author or editor of fourteen books on foreign and public policy, including The Origins of the Cold War: The Novikov, Kennan, and Roberts 'Long Telegrams' of 1946. He served as Director of Grant Programs for the Institute for Educational Affairs in New York, under the direction of former Treasury Secretary Bill Simon and Irving Kristol. There, Dr. Jensen managed programs in public policy, foreign policy, jurisprudence, and the media. Later, he was a founding staff member of the United States Institute of Peace and directed its grants and research programs during his eight-year tenure. He is recently retired from the American Committees on Foreign Relations, where he served as executive director for 15 years.
Dr. Jensen is an alumnus of the University of Colorado, the University of Wisconsin, and Moscow State University (USSR). A veteran of a dozen years of college teaching in History, Political Science, and political philosophy (most lately at Kenyon College), he occasionally teaches American Foreign Policy in the Age of Terrorism at National Defense University.
Dr. Jensen is a (former) life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity.
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Leslie Lebl is principal at Lebl Associates and a writer, lecturer and consultant on political, security and military matters. She is a former Foreign Service Officer with particular expertise in European political, defense and counter-terrorism issues, radical Islam in Europe, Balkan peacekeeping, and Russian politics and economy. Her publications have appeared in the Policy Analysis series of the Cato Institute, Policy Review, Orbis, City Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Hartford Courant, EuroFuture and Atlantic Perspective. A monograph, Advancing U.S. Interests with the European Union, was published by the Atlantic Council of the United States.
A graduate of Swarthmore College (B.A. in history, 1972), Ms. Lebl received an M.A. in foreign affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1979.
Domagoj Margetic, Independent investigative journalist, publicist, columnist. Founder and Editor in chief of independent investigative web magazine Necenzurirano.com, Member of The Committee of Concerned Journalists, Internet Freedom, South East European Expert Team for Counterterrorism and fight against organized crime (ATT), and Regional Director for Croatia at the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS). Since 1997, Mr. Margetic's work focused on analyzing the transitional processes in the Balkans, especially regarding transnational organized crime, privatization and terrorism.
Ganesh Sahathevan is a researcher and reporter from Sydney, Australia who focuses on South East Asian business, economic and politics. This work has led him into research of structures that support terrorist and jihadist activities in the region,and their links to similar structures in other parts of the world. Ganesh investigated financial mismanagement in Malaysia prior to the financial crisis in the 1990s. He obtained the degrees Bachelor of Economics (majoring in Accounting), and LLB from Monash University, and LLM from the University of Sydney.
William B. Scott, ACD Senior Fellow, serves as a flight-testing and aerospace business-development consultant, and is currently writing fiction and nonfiction books.
He recently retired as the Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine, based in Colorado Springs, CO. In 22 years with Aviation Week, he also served as Senior National Editor in Washington, and in Avionics and Senior Engineering Editor positions in Los Angeles. He focused primarily on advanced aerospace and weapons technology, business, flight-testing and military operations, wrote more than 2,500 stories for the magazine, and received 17 editorial awards. He is a coauthor of three books: "Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III," its sequel, "Counterspace: The Next Hours of World War III," and "Inside the Stealth Bomber: The B-2 Story."
During a nine-year Air Force career, Scott served as aircrew on classified nuclear sampling missions; an electronics engineering officer at the National Security Agency, working space communication security programs; and an instrumentation and flight test engineer. He was also a civilian FTE/program manager and proposal group manager for three aerospace companies: General Dynamics (F-16 Full Scale Development program), Falcon Jet Corp. (Coast Guard HU-25A development and certification), and Tracor Flight Systems Inc. (Canadair Challenger development and certification, plus numerous fighter, transport and helicopter test programs).
Scott is a six-time Royal Aeronautical Society "Journalist of the Year" finalist. He won the Society's 1998 Lockheed Martin Award for the "Best Defense Submission," and received both the 2006 and 2007 Messier-Dowty awards for "Best Airshow Submission." He also was part of an Aviation Week team that won a 2004 Neal Award for its coverage of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. A Neal award is the business-to-business magazine equivalent of a newspaper Pulitzer Prize.
Scott is a Flight Test Engineer (FTE) graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (Masters equivalent) and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University-Sacramento.
Nancy Korbin, , Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin is a psychoanalyst with a PhD in Aljamía (Old Spanish in Arabic script) who became a counter terrorist expert. She has done prison interviews, in particular of Somalis in Minneapolis, MN. She is a graduate of the Human Terrain Program, Leavenworth Kansas and was slated for deployment to Afghanistan. She is author of 'The Banality of Suicide Terrorism, ' also in Hebrew. Two other books are forthcoming Global Terrorism and Intimate Connections: Cracking the Code and The Psychoanalytic Maternal Cameo for Terrorism — the Boston Marathon Attack and the Chechens. She immigrated to Israel in 2010 and lives in Tel Aviv.
Lee Kaplan is an investigative journalist who regularly exposes anti-American and anti-Israeli indoctrination on college campuses, as well as the activities of the International Solidarity Movement. Kaplan heads of the non-profit DAFKA.org website and its StoptheISM.com subsidiary, and is contributing writer at Frontpagemag.com and a regular columnist at the educational watchdog Israelcampus.com and the IsraelNationalNews.com.
Robert Zubrin, President of Pioneer Astronautics – aerospace R&D company in Lakewood, Colorado. He is also the founder and President of the Mars Society, an international organization dedicated to furthering the exploration and settlement of Mars by both public and private means. Formerly a Staff Engineer at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, he holds a Masters degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington. Zubrin is the inventor of several unique concepts for space propulsion and exploration, the author of over 200 published technical and non-technical papers in the field, and the inventor of nine US patents. Zubrin is known internationally as one of the most creative engineers working in the aerospace industry today, and he and his work have been subject of much favorable press coverage in The Economist, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the London Times, The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, Newsweek, Air and Space Smithsonian, Popular Science, Space News, and many other publications, and he has appeared on the Discovery Channel, CNN, NPR, and the BBC. He is a Fellow of the Center for Security Policy and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.
In addition to his many technical publications, Dr. Zubrin is the author of eight books, including The Case for Mars: How We Shall Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, published by Simon and Schuster's Free Press Division in Oct. 1996, Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization, published by Tarcher Putnam in Aug. 1999, Mars on Earth: Adventures of Space Pioneers in the High Arctic, published by Tarcher Penguin in Sept. 2003, Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil, published by Prometheus Books in November 2007, the humorous How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surving and Thriving on the Red Planet, published by Random House in December 2008, and Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudoscientsts, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism published by Encounter Books in February 2012. He is a contributing editor to The New Atlantis, and a frequent columnist writing on space and energy policy in online publications including National Review and Pajamas Media.
Since founding Pioneer Astronautics in January 1996, Dr. Zubrin has served as the Principal Investigator of numerous research and development efforts in areas including spacecraft and launch vehicle propulsion systems, Mars and Lunar in-situ resource utilization technology, EVA life support and propulsion, and robotic exploration systems. He has also demonstrated new methods for producing or using liquid fuels on Earth offering significant potential for enhancing the energy security of the West. In the area of public policy, Zubrin has been very active in promoting programs, such as the Open Fuel Standard that would weaken the power of the Islamist-led OPEC cartel internationally.
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US Marines fighting in Afghanistan have been banned from farting in order to avoid upsetting the local population, it has been reported. The Marine Corps Times has the scoop: Audible farting has been banned for some Marines downrange [slang roughly meaning 'in the warzone'] because it offends the Afghans ... So, for all Marines …
" Perhaps the fact of the author being an 11-year navy man and holder of the Royal Marines' commando qualification"
Ouch after 11 years of no pants that's gotta chafe.
.gov wont let them use their best weapon. shameless
It has all been agreed
The Geneva convention strictly forbids chemical warfare.
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"I fart in your general direction..."
/coat ... The one with the Beano in the pocket.
Latest headline:
Marine explodes from trying to hold in a fart
actually only one hand, the left.
On another note, did anyone else read the 'Post anonymously' option as 'fart anonymously'? and instantly check it.
That's because...
....they don't have easy access to anything to clean themselves with, so the left hand is used instead.
I don't know the details of how they manage to prepare food, I can't imagine it's done one-handed, but it's the reason for the convention that you don't eat with your left hand.
Studies have shown that faecal bacteria on the skin die at a considerable rate, so after a short time the risk of infection is low.
"but it's the reason for the convention that you don't eat with your left hand."
Some bloke down the pub (which puts him at the same veracity level as a Twitter post on the BBC "news") told me that part of the rationale behind certain countries' penchant for amputating the left hand was because of this. Without a left hand you must use your right for (ahem) abluting, and nobody would share a meal with you.
As you were, Sergeant Major.
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"They wipe their asses with their hands"
Strictly speaking, most people do, just with something in the way.
"This is my rifle, this is my bum...."
"...one is for killing, the other is for fun."
Just step outside
US forces announced they have not invaded Pakistan, it's simply that an entire armoured division had to step outside of Afghanistan to blow-off
This is not a title
So, if they failed to follow this directive would it result in a dishonorable discharge?
Alright, alright I'm leaving.
A real LOL
Sheer brilliance! :)
You should be proud of that one(No not referring to a fart), But the joke. lol
..didn't know that blankets could talk.
"because it offends the Afghans"
You would think a military publication would know to use the proper demonym.
That is the correct demonym
Afghans = people of Afghanistan. Were you thinking of Afghanis? That's the currency.
pardon me, i've just passed wind
I thought Afghans were a species of dog?
Shirley the people of Afghanistan would be Afghanistani's, in the same way a person from Pakistan is a Pakistani ??
It's Afghans. The same word is used for the people and some things that come from the country, including blankets and a breed of dog.
Afghanis are currency.
(Trust me on this, I've been there)
The suffix -stan is a Persian word for place or land (IIRC). So Tajiks come from Tajikistan, Uzbeks come from Uzbekistan, etc etc. Pakistan is actually a modern construction, based on the first letters of the provinces of Pakistan, and is a backronym meaning "land of the pure". You can't use the first part to refer to the people because (1) racist twats have turned it into a term of abuse, and (2) it doesn't accurately refer to an ethnic group, just the nationality.
So what about
So what about this... I'm from England and i'm English, could they be Afghanish in that respect?
List of countries,
Please, where they are allowed to fart "proudly" publicly.
With more than 11 years of experience I know it can be very difficult some times, even abroad.
In a list of crazy patent applications there was one which collected that surplus energy and helped to
warm the house. Nice drawings. Fairly difficult solution for one who keeps turning around and around
during the night.
PS. I sometimes wonder if there is anything the Afghans are not advised to do.
trouser-coughs 'could upset the locals
And cause them to issue a jarhead jihad or maybe a fartwa?
I know.. the door's over there..
So we're over there risking lives and their worried about offending the locals with a fart? In the immortal words of the Nasty Frenchman, "I FART in your general direction". <French accent>
I thought they got the name from the practice of putting their heads in Mason Jars. Those that didn't fit were obviously overqualified.
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One bag of corks, stand-issue.
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What a load of guff!
i would be in sooo much trouble if i was in afghanistan..
Jarhead is ok...
I think devil dog is more entertaining, though. And, of course the perhaps too obvious "bullet sponge" is always a great way to identify them, after all, the purpose of US Marines is to eliminate the enemy's ammunition stores, generally by absorbing as much of it as possible, so the Army can roll in and not have to worry about armed opposition.
Biological wrongness
The average uman bean farts 13 time a day. It is considered medically unsafe to hold them in.
Usual moniker (flame) + fart = explosion.
You Sure?
You sure it's 13 times a day and not an hour, Damn I better go see a doc!
You Sure?
You sure it's 13 times an hour, not 13 times a minute?
You may have been down to Lympstone
But you aren't the real McCoy.
The locals have nothing better to complain about?
Nice to know things are going so swimmingly over there.
<-- They probably don't like beer, either.
Of course not...
...beer leads to farting after all.
Hmm, flammable symbol, but not biohazard.
Bring on them beans! F! Yeah! Woo!
Beans Beans the magical fruit
The more we eat the more we toot
The more we toot the better we feel
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@ Saganhill
"So we're over there risking lives "
Yeah, mostly by shooting local inhabitants who can't get their heads around the idea of another foreign army on their soil.
You have three main missions in afghanistan marines.
Don't offend the locals trying to kill you
Guard the poppys
Guard the lithium
Any questions? That's why your there.
They wont be offended if..
.. they fart to the tune of the afghan national anthem.
What are we feeding our Marines anyway?
What is in these MREs anyway to give our men affluent gas anyway? It is the fault of the company making these meals. The military's health experts will have to redo the MREs recipes to minimize gas.
lawks a lor!!
Negligent discharge anyone?
Well done
Usually cant be bothered commenting,Rather just read everyone elses but some of you have really excelled this time.
Just had to log in and post a comment on the quality of the jokes/replies, AWESOME!
Made my day,Given a thumbs up to some of the comments.
A Lewis article? Check! Nothing pushing Septic kit over home-built Brit stuff? Check! NO, I must be wrong, let me read it for a fouth time.
Honestly, I was expecting something along the lines of USMC guff being both more efficeintly produced and more effective than standard Brit farts, and that the MoD should be buying Yank baked beans for the compo rations, etc, etc......
Shoot 'em, but don't fart at 'em.
WHATEVER you do!
Political correctness gone mad (Daily Mail, etc...)
A culture that has few problems with pedophilia, hard drug use and treats it's women like third class donkeys. They THEY have a problem with foreigners farting?
The armed forces currently have one of the most stressful jobs on the planet. I wouldn't begrudge them the occasional swear or chatting about young laydees. But farting? Its insane.
So face shooting fine, farting bad. Got it. What wil the offence seekers find next? Offensive numbers of ears perhaps?
In other news ...
Behaving impolitely sometimes causes offence.
Well, whoda thunkit?
Being unaware of this simple fact is the root cause of most of the world's problems. In one form or another.
Always use a strip of velcro in your uniform...
just in case... should they ask "what was that" you just pull a strip of velcro and place it back.
We all know the pressure is variable and the valve has a less than perfect seal and/or variable timing settings as well...
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Well if the locals were trying to blow me up or shoot me, I suspect I'd be doing a lot more than just blowing air biscuits
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Recreating the camp fire scene from blazing saddles could get you hung there... Good to know
Listen up Jarheads
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Can anybody clarify whether PF contribution to be deducted on overtime I feel there is no deduction of PF on overtime Please clear my doubts Thanks friends s.s.kumar
aparna khairnar - Member Since: Sep 2008
Hi PF is two side employer & employee EPF EMPLOYERS 12% + EMPLOYEES 3.67% on the basic & ESIC is calulated on the Gross salary
ajay_shekar - Member Since: Jan 2009
Hi, I hope Ms Sujata gave u clear picture as PF is applicable only to Basic + DA and ESIC is deducted on Gross Salary . Definately PF is not decuctible on OT. Cheers, Ajay
Vinmind - Member Since: Jul 2006
Dear All,
Yes Provident Fund is a contribution by the employee and equal contribution by the employer subject to the Statute, Basic Earning, Voluntary Contribution of employee and Employer.
The statutory deduction depends on the Basic Earn which is 12 % for the employee and equal contribution by the employer, thus now the contribution so decuted i.e 24% is depsoited in 12% (Emp Contribution) + 8.33% (Employer Contribution) in Employee PF account and the rest amount in Pension Fund. In any case employee basis is more than Rs. 6500/- than the Pension Contribution will be mac ceiling to 541 only and the left amount will be deposited in Employee PF account with his Contribution of 12% and 8.33%.
Hope the same is clear.
It has been made quite clear that PF is recovered on Basic wages and DA,
But I have come to know in some cases E.O ( Enforcement Officer ) are forcing to deposit PF on OT, where Employer has has paid more than 50 Hours of OT in a quarter.
It is still doubtful whether to deposit PF on OT or not??????
Can any body clear this???
Beenair - Member Since: Dec 2007
Hi All,We calculate OT as below -(Basic + HRA + Adhoc Allow) x 2 x No.of OT hrsIf PF is calculated on Basic then, I believe PF must be applicable on OT also.Request seniors to pls clarify.Regards,Beena
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Monica Nagar - Member Since: Jul 2008
Hi a small query- say if the quartely overtime is more than 50 hrs then? Will the PF on OT will be applicable? Regards Monica
As it is well known and so far as my knowledge says PF is applicable on normal wages (Basic+DA) only. But we are being framed and asked by PF Authorities to deposit the Contribution on OT Wages also, both Employees/ Employers share in arrears with Interest and Damages.. They are framing us under Sec 7A, Evasion of wages.
Can any one help us in this matter. How OT is being calculated as Evasion of wages? Can you help in citing any Rules where it is stated that NO PF Contribution is applicable on OT.
Harminder Singh
Can you cite any Rule. As we are directly affected on this clause,
we are being asked to deposit PF on OT Wages with arrears Employees/ Employers share, and are framed Under Sec 7A for Evasion Of Wages. I will be thankful for the early response.
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Summary: Yamada Denki is set to pack up after facing "obstructive behavior" from local firms, and boycotts from anti-Japanese sentiments due to recently escalated territorial disputes.
Japan's leading electronics appliance store Yamada Denki has left Nanjing after opening its store for a year, due to tensions over the disputed Senkaku or Diaoyu Islands, and "obstructive behavior" from rival companies and price wars.
The Asahi Shimbun reported Yamada Denki had planned to shutter the 20,000 square-meter electric appliance shop in Nanjing at the end of May, later postponing the closure by two weeks to offer after-sale services. It had initially planned to use its store as a springboard into nearby Shanghai.
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The company reportedly also had difficulty stocking products made by Chinese manufacturer. According to Jun Okatomo, vice president of the company, there were "obstructive behavior" by companies with large volumes of sales in local areas which showed Chinese retailers have prevented Yamada Denki form purchasing Chinese makers' products.
The choice of location also worked against it being located in the city where the 1937 Nanking Massacre took place, hence more prone to anti-Japanese sentiments than other parts of China.
"I have not felt like shopping here since September last year [when the Japanese government officially acquired the Senkaku/Diaoyu Island deed titles from private ownership]," a 45-year-old Chinese man, who visited the shop in early May for a close-out sale, told the Japanese publication.
China's five major retailers, including the nation's top two companies, had stores within a few dozen meters of the Yamda Denki shop. When the Japanese store offered a "price matching" service there as it does in Japan, it found itself involved in a fierce price-cutting war.
Industry watchers previously told ZDNet Asia companies caught up in politically-charged incidents leading to product boycotts should stay out of it, but grassroots engagement and swift action will also help in crisis management.
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Very nice spec and can't fault your choice of trim and colour
Personally I wouldn't (and didn't) bother with adaptive and main beam assist. The former as I can't see when it would ever be useful if you already have xenons, the latter as they simply can't work well enough to be any use IMO, e.g. pedestrians, cyclists, cars in front of you but too far away to be detected
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HUD looks cool but it gets some negative feedback because of the lack of customisation and because you get nav directions in the dash anyway which is sufficient. Get it if you can afford it though as it will impress!
If you have an iPhone then definitely get BMW Apps, more for future proofing than anything else. It has huge potential
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But if fans are seeking an answer from Bieber, they may not like the one TMZ source allege he has given: Lil Twist isn't going anywhere.
Despite pleas from other members of his entourage, Bieber has no plans to evict either Lil Twist or Lil Za from his mansion. Nor will he forbid them from driving around in his expensive cars.
Both Twist and Za played roles in almost every Bieber scandal over the past few months, from getting high to drinking sizzurp to speeding around the neighborhood to peeing in mop buckets.
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they're likely lovers
He can't have it both ways. Selena made him promise to straighten up as a condition to get back together. The ONLY way to do that is change his habits & who he hangs out with. He can support both of them without living with them BUT not unless they straighten up too. Frankly I don't think JB can do it. He's too stuck on himself & if he REALLY cared about Selena he wouldn't have been such a dickhead while they were together OR after they split. He would have done EVERYTHING he could to keep her happy & make sure they both had successful careers AND maintained a good image & been a good role model all at the same time.
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They're likely lovers
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Benito Mussolini was a "progressive", just like someone else we know. If Democrats could grant Dear Leader Barack Hussein the kind of dictatorial powers comrade Fidel has, we all know they´d do it in a millisecond. It´s that dratted Constitution standing in their way all the time...Happy Dependence Day, "progressives"! May your emotional dependence on the beneficent compassion of Dear Leader Barack Hussein last your entire lives!
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Why does US law apply outside of US borders in te first place? Where in the constitution does it say thats OK? If someone is in a foreign nation, they should be subject to that nation´s laws regardless of their citizenship.This wrong has been around for a long time but is still wrong.
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