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...does not have a tropp shortage; it has misdeployed the troops. The thousands of active-duty U.S. service members sitting on their duffs in Europe and Japan far exceed any alleged shortage in Iraq. If the slow-moving, bureaucratic Pentagon would take the obvious step and redeploy some of these troops, there would be no talk of a shortage...
...India. The announcement sparked a furor; Newcastle City Council had given Lloyds subsidies to set up the call center two years previously. UNIFI, the union representing about 15,000 of Lloyds' 70,000 staff, called for a strike ballot, and after several months of negotiations, the bank agreed to redeploy people in other jobs where possible. Those laid off when the call center closes next month will get a $3,600 payment toward retraining. It's a model that the union would like to extend across financial service firms in Britain. "Our priority is to avoid compulsory redundancies," says...
...hope to further an understanding of what queer people share in common, if anything,” they wrote. “[Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer (LGBTQ) people] seek to claim the menacing nature of the term and redeploy its power for their own program...
...inventing the technological building blocks of new social connections. For example, Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs—organized in the same way as flash mobs, but with more serious intentions—details how these active technologies helped Philippine and Seattle protesters redeploy themselves on the fly. Peter Ackerman, an expert who studies the non-violent overthrow of repressive governments, believes that high-tech concepts like smart mobs offer potentially powerful frameworks for political resistance, because the process of organizing takes place under the radar of their governmental opponents and is therefore harder to suppress...
...last week 101st soldiers were patrolling the streets of Baghdad and the Iraqi Army had ceased to exist. But some things never change. The end of the week found staff planners preparing to move North to secure Kirkuk, continue to occupy Baghdad, patrol all of southern Iraq, and redeploy back to the United States. No one knows what the final mission will be, but there will surely be a plan for it. And if there isn't they can make it up as they go along...