AllGov – News – Largest Dutch Pension Fund Pulls Investments in Walmart over Poor Labor Practices.

ABP’s decision was four years in the making, having first warned Walmart about its labor practices in 2008. The fund had invested 1 million in the retailer as of June 2011.
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France: Iran faces high risk of military strike. Russia practices Iranian reprisal

Sept. 9-26, the Russian army, joined by Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, deployed 12,000 troops in a huge combined military exercise code-named Center-2011 which simulated an Iranian attack on Caspian oil fields operated by American firms in reprisal for a US strike against Iranian nuclear sites.
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