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It’s an extraordinary rip-off. The racist BNP has copied so many features for its new website from the website of America’s first black President. (via CentreRight: The BNP have stolen BarackObama.com)

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Even though he proudly pays himself more in a year than most of us could ever dream of — $68m in 2007 alone, a record for any Wall Street CEO, to add to the more than $500m of Goldman stock he owns — he insists he’s still “a blue-collar guy”.

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So, it’s business as usual, then, regardless of whether it makes most people howl at the moon with rage? Goldman Sachs, this pillar of the free market, breeder of super-citizens, object of envy and awe will go on raking it in, getting richer than God? An impish grin spreads across Blankfein’s face. Call him a fat cat who mocks the public. Call him wicked. Call him what you will. He is, he says, just a banker “doing God’s work”

(via I’m doing ‘God’s work’. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs - Times Online)

“This generation is really challenging the gender norms we grew up with,” said Diane Ehrensaft, an Oakland psychologist who writes about gender. “A lot of youths say they won’t be bound by boys having to wear this or girls wearing that. For them, gender is a creative playing field.” Adults, she added, “become the gender police through dress codes.” (via High Schools Struggle When Gender Bends the Dress Code - NYTimes.com)

Walmart is trying really hard to win the Latino dollar. Last year, Walmart was the number 3 advertiser in Spanish-Language Media in the U.S. Earlier this year they started opening ‘Supermercados de Walmart’, stores with a “new lay-out, signing and product assortment designed to make them even more relevant to local Hispanic customers.”

And just in time for Dia de los Muertos, the Lady de Guadalupe coffin: Made of Superior Grade 18-gauge steel, Lady de Guadalupe’s exterior is hand-painted by experienced craftsman in an exquisite slate blue metallic color, complemented with individual appliqués of the Lady de Guadalupe. (via It’s Official: Walmart Is Trying Too Hard to Win Latinos. Lady de Guadalupe Coffins, Anyone? | RaceWire)

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