Even more random links
- Griffiths Energy fined $10.35-million in bribery case; Calgary CEO says company ‘blew the whistle’ on themselves
- Now to see whether or not honesty pays off for the company. That said it's easier to blow the whistle on yourself when the people involved aren't around anymore ("...all of [Griffith's] directors and senior executives have changed since the time of the offence.")
- Indonesian Ulema in favour of female circumcision: a "human right"
- This appears to be the main body of Islamic scholars in the country which also contains the world's largest population of Muslims. "The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) is in favour of female circumcision ... that, although it can not be considered mandatory, it is still 'morally recommended.'" Again, male and female circumcision are practiced for more or less the same reasons and possess more or less the same risks and problems.
- Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi talk Jerusalem, recipes and passports
- "The best-selling authors and leading London chefs have brought Jerusalem's cuisine to the world, but are left with a bitter aftertaste about Israel." Primarily this seems to be passport troubles at the Israeli Embassy in London for the one who's an Arab Israeli rather than a Jewish Israeli. I'm pretty willing to believe that official policy and treatment on the ground can differ.
- Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks to Factory Jobs
- "Jobs go begging in factories while many educated young workers are unemployed or underemployed. A national survey of urban residents, released this winter by a Chinese university, showed that among people in their early 20s, those with a college degree were four times as likely to be unemployed as those with only an elementary school education." The situation in the West doesn't seem all that different in its overemphasis on college education.