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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the unemployment rate fell from 7.0% to 6.7%. Clearly, this decline in unemployment was not caused by the reported 74,000 jobs gain. The unemployment rate fell, because Americans unable to find jobs ceased looking for employment and, thereby, ceased to be counted as unemployed.
Obama's promise zones provide a way for big business to slip the chains of "onerous" regulations and restore, what many CEO's believe to be the Natural Order; that is, a Darwinian, dog-eat-dog world where only the strongest and most cunning survive. This is a world in which Obama has done quite well. Obama calls these promise zones. We think corporate plantations is a more fitting moniker.
Anyone who can apply logical thinking to the current Governor Christie bridge scandal must come to some very negative conclusions. These negate any support by independents for Christie.
By Pat Elder
High School Military Testing Data Now Available Data on military testing in high schools has just been released by the Pentagon.
Article examines how Christie's history as a federal prosecutor shapes his decisions.
NIDA's pursuit of a bio treatment for addictions and alcoholism is not only stupid and cruel, it wastes money that could be spent on diseases that can't be treated with a cup of coffee in a church basement.
The surveillance state is also making the U.S. into a banana republic, as the burgeoning military-intelligence apparatus becomes more powerful relative to our elected officials, including the President. It's not just our privacy that is disappearing because of the abuses that Snowden exposed -- it's the foundations of a democratic society.
Kerry and his Zionist advisors already identify with the Israeli demand for recognition as a Jewish State or, worse, the State of the Jewish People (who were not even consulted). The Palestinian side is unable to accept this. If the negotiations come to naught on this point, Netanyahu will have achieved his real aim: to abort the negotiations in a way that will enable him to blame the Palestinians.
"Nuclear Savage" is a recent documentary that explores American nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, 1946-1958, and particularly the secret Project 4.1: an American experiment in exposing Pacific Islanders to overdoses of radiation -- deliberate human radiation poisoning -- just to get better data on this method of maiming and killing people. Public broadcasting has kept this story off the air since 2011.
This guy is and has always been a Partisan Bully.
Some Thoughts on Guns by one of my favorite songwriters:
The over-the-top excesses of the Stratton-Oakmont investment firm amount to a send-up of the American Way of Life in general. At one point the film's main protagonist, Jordan Belfort correctly makes Scorsese's point, "Stratton-Oakmont is America" he proclaims. By this Belfort means his firm represents a vehicle of salvation for the poor. The film's narrative and Pope Francis' "Evangelii Gaudium" suggest otherwise.
This article is satirical view of how critics have missed Vermont's Single-Payer Healthcare reform, possibly because they just do not understand it. The U.S. is in the bottom of the list of industrialized nations for providing for healthcare yet it spends the most money in the world on this vital service. Clearly the models we have been chasing are failing.
Rebuttal of recent article in the San Fransisco Chronical regarding breast cancer and its causes. The article does not cover any environmental or dietary causes, or anything at all that patients could do to protect themselves. I list the rest of the known causatory factors and what you can do.
This article points out how the removal of progressive radio programming, by Clear channel Communications, is meant to protect their big-money interests as we approach the 2014 midterm elections.
Australia is so hot its Bureau of Meteorology issued a special statement documenting the "highly significant" heat wave, even worse than last year's, with record-breaking 122 degree readings that necessitated adding new colors to its weather maps. It's so hot a new website, Scorcher, has been set up to track the heat wave. And walls of wildfires deemed "catastrophic" are decimating the countryside, having already hit a nuclear research facility containing two reactors. And up to 100,000 bats have fallen dead from the sky, and parrots, kangaroos and other wildlife are collapsing and dying from the heat, and the country's new conservative climate-change-denying prime minister has remained strangely mute...
The Obama administration is granting the consulting firm Accenture a contract worth between $90 million and $100 million for maintenance of the federal Obamacare website HealthCare.gov, two sources familiar with the contract told CBS News.
we aren't going to let the NSA ruin the Internet. Inspired by the memory of Aaron, fueled by our victory against SOPA, EFF is joining forces with a coalition of liberty-defending organizations to fight back against NSA spying.
The famous warning by George Santayana that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is particularly relevant today. With the fall of the Iraqi city of Fallujah to al Qaeda forces a powerful symbol of the war has been desecrated. There are renewed calls for amped up U.S. involvement using the old German "stabbed in the back" argument that worked so well in igniting a nation's funeral pyre.
After 13 years, it's time to stop calling for Nader to apologize for what George Bush, particularly when Bill Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama are not called upon to apologize for what they've done.
Disputing Obama's claims to another American century.
By Franklin Lamb
Pressures Mount for a Palestinian-Hezbollah War in Lebanon The Sunni and the Shia, just as with the Palestinians and Hezbollah, need each other for many reasons, including confronting growing Islamophobia, anti-Arab hate propaganda, and the deepening and broadening apartheid occupation of Palestine.
By Jonathan Maxwell
Despite Scandal, Chris Christie Can Still Become President in 2016 Chris Christie is now engulfed in scandal. However, almost certainly, the clamor will die out, and he will be as strong as ever. In other words, Hillary Clinton will have to work long and hard to defeat him in the 2016 Presidential Election, and all that still may not be enough to defeat one of the most popular politicians in the nation.
Financial and monetary reporter Bill Still broadens his coverage of TPP to include the new Trans Atlantic Trade Agreement, thereby making the New World Order of Trade complete, and completely opposed to human rights and freedom everywhere.
Residents of nine counties in West Virginia have been told not to use or drink their water after a chemical used by the coal industry spilled into the Elk River on Thursday. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency as more than 100,000 customers, or 300,000 people, are without safe drinking water. "Don't make baby formula," said West Virginia American Water Company president Jeff McIntyre. "Don't brush your teeth. Don't shower. Toilet flushing only." The chemical, 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol (MCHM), is used to wash coal of impurities and spilled from a tank at Freedom Industries into the river.
As politicians continue to grapple over income equality in the nation, a new report shows that the majority of lawmakers on Capitol Hill are worth at least $1 million. The Center for Responsible Politics found that of the 534 current member of Congress, more than half (268 to be precise) had an average net worth of $1 million or more in 2012.
Christie's decision to oust Stepien and another top adviser implicated in the burgeoning scandal over George Washington Bridge lane closures demonstrated the blunt force that Christie is willing to use to contain a crisis, even if it means exiling members of his innermost circle. It also showed how personal politics is for the governor. Christie expressed far more anger Thursday about his aides lying to him than about how they abused their power to cause days of traffic jams.
By John Grant
Thanks to George Bush, Talks With Iran Make Sense Whose to blame for the current horrors in Iraq, Presidents Bush or Obama? The Obama administration is hardly an anti-war activist's dream, but its recent decision not to bomb Syria and its efforts to negotiate with Iran are good things. It's all about what Thomas Ricks meant when he talked about continuing to eat "the fruit of a poisoned tree." Latest Articles
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Just a harmless poem.
Lee Baca is only a small part of the corruption in Los Angeles County. The people of Los Angeles County should not be fooled to believe that the federal government has any intention of protecting their Human, Constitutional, and Civil Rights. The core of the corruption in Los Angeles County is in the corrupt judges of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Believe it or not, the Cosmos is with us! The stories in the heavens are pretty similar to the stories that are playing out here on Earth. And why not? If the physicists are right, we're all One in the dance of energy. This week's Full Moon in Cancer makes us aware of what we need to feel nurtured, to feel happy. Doesn't the Declaration of Independence promise us, 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'?
It seems safe to say, we've all heard about this alleged economic Recovery underway, a recovery where Wall Street flies and the homeless die, where children cry where the unemployed need not apply. This recovery, this austerity, takes on a Stalinized quality, of "promise zones" and five-year plans.
The drop in hours is ominous, although one month's data should also be considered with caution. With an upward revision to last month's data, job growth for the last three months has averaged a respectable 172,000. Wage growth continues to be weak. The average hourly wage increased at a 1.68 percent annual rate over the last quarter, down very slightly from a 1.77 percent rate over the last year.
After a century of progress, are things different in the United States?
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President Obama will deliver his highly anticipated speech on reforms to the National Security Agency on Jan 17, White House press secretary Jay Carney said. Carney did not elaborate on what the president will say when he lays out his vision for changes to the NSA's vast surveillance activities, in the wake of the disclosures from documents stolen by former government contractor Edward Snowden.
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