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Friday, March 12th, 2010
by Barry Grey
Global Research, March 12, 2010
World Socialist Web Site – 2010-03-11
A rash of new layoff announcements and government reports on job losses give the lie to the claims of the Obama administration and the media that the employment situation is “stabilizing.” Last Friday, the administration hailed the Labor Department’s report that US payrolls shrank by “only” 36,000 jobs in February and the official jobless rate remained at 9.7 percent as proof that its policies are working and the economy is recovering.
In fact, the so-called “recovery” is limited to the big banks and major corporations, which are profiting from trillions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts, virtually unlimited and cheap credit, and the use of mass unemployment to drive down wages and increase the exploitation of the working class. An unprecedented assault on the living standards of the vast majority of the American people is being carried out under the direction of the Obama administration, creating a social crisis without parallel since the Great Depression.
On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported that the official unemployment rate in January rose in 30 states. Sixteen states had jobless rates higher than the national average of 9.7 percent, including Michigan (14.3 percent), Nevada (13 percent), Rhode Island (12.7 percent), South Carolina (12.6 percent) and California (12.5 percent).
Unemployment in California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Washington DC rose to the highest levels since records began in 1976.
A separate Labor Department report showed that mass layoffs (50 or more positions) increased nationally in January to 1,761, leading to at least 182,261 workers losing their jobs.
On Tuesday, Chevron, the second largest US oil company, announced it will cut 2,000 jobs, or more than 3 percent of its workforce. This follows a reduction of 2,000 jobs in 2009.
Exelixis, a company in South San Francisco, said it will lay off 270 workers—40 percent of its work force.
The Minnesota Department of Human Services announced a cut of 200 full-time mental health jobs.
These are only the latest in an ongoing wave of layoffs hitting every sector of the economy. Alongside job-cutting by private corporations, hospitals and state and local governments are shedding jobs at an accelerating pace in response to gaping budget deficits.
The American Medical News web site reported 13 mass layoffs at hospitals in January affecting 995 workers. Mass hospital layoffs announced in February included over 300 workers at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan, 268 full-time jobs at Forrest Park Hospital in St. Louis, and some 900 jobs at Jackson Medical System in Miami.
This week, the CEO of the Jackson system in Miami announced plans to close two hospitals and eliminate another 4,500 jobs—37 percent of the system’s workforce.
The overall workforce at US airlines shrank 3.2 percent in January compared to a year earlier, the US Department of Transportation announced Wednesday.
Across the US, in big cities, small towns and rural areas, schools are being closed and teachers laid off, college tuition is being raised and courses cancelled, bus routes—including school buses—are being eliminated, libraries are being closed, parks, swimming pools and other recreational and cultural facilities are being mothballed.
Utility shutoffs, with the inevitable consequence of deadly house fires, home foreclosures, hunger and poverty are rising.
The Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress are doing nothing to provide serious relief for the unemployed or create new jobs to employ the jobless. They refuse to bail out cash-starved states and cities, having bailed out the banks to the tune of trillions of dollars, instead demanding that local governments carry out unprecedented attacks on basic social services.
The real attitude of Obama toward the working class was demonstrated in his public support for the mass firing of teachers in Rhode Island, after they resisted demands for longer work hours with no increase in pay. This goes hand in hand with a health care overhaul entirely focused on cutting Medicare and rationing health care for ordinary Americans, and the setting up of a bipartisan commission to prepare major and permanent cuts in entitlement programs—Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security—on which tens of millions of working people depend.
The administration and both parties reject out of hand any measures opposed by the banks and corporations—such as a public works program—to provide jobs for the unemployed. The so-called “jobs” bills working their way through Congress are nothing more than tax windfalls for business.
The assault on every aspect of life of working people is being carried out in the interests of a bankrupt system—capitalism—a system that subordinates social needs to the personal enrichment of a wealthy elite. In the US and around the world the corporate-financial elite is imposing brutal austerity measures to make the working class pay for the crisis of the profit system.
The trade unions function as adjuncts of the ruling class, devoting all their efforts to the suppression of popular opposition in return for a share in the spoils from the exploitation of the workers.
Anger and resistance are growing, not only in the US, but internationally. Over the past several weeks, strikes and mass protests have broken out across Europe in opposition to government austerity measures, dictated by the banks.
On March 4, tens of thousands of students and workers demonstrated in the US in opposition to education cuts. This was an initial expression of popular opposition that will grow in the coming months. If this opposition is not to be diverted and led into a blind alley, however, it requires a new perspective and program.
The basic needs of working people and youth are incompatible with the policies of the Obama administration and both political parties, and the capitalist system which they defend. The entire working class must be mobilized as an independent political force against Obama and the two-party system to reorganize society in accordance with social needs, not private profit.
On April 17 and 18, the Socialist Equality Party, its youth movement, the International Students for Social Equality, and the World Socialist Web Siteare holding an emergency conference on the social crisis and war. This conference will discuss a new socialist strategy to unify the working class against war and the assault on jobs and social programs.
We urge all workers and young people looking for a way to fight back to attend the conference. For more information and to register, click here.
Barry Grey is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Barry Grey
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18081
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
House to vote on pullout from Afghanistan 10 Mar 2010 In a test of congressional support for President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan ’strategy,’ lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution [by Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio] that would direct him to pull U.S. forces out of the war. It is the first legislative challenge by the Democratic majority Congress to U.S. involvement in the conflict since Obama ordered 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and an offensive began last month in Helmand province.
Militants Attack British Aid Agency Office 10 Mar 2010 ‘Suspected Islamist militants’ have attacked the office of a British aid agency in Pakistan killing up to five people, say reports.The militants stormed the World Vision agency in the Mansehra district, about 40 miles north of Islamabad, then opened fire. "They opened fire and also exploded hand grenades," a senior police officer said.
SC, GA soldiers killed in Iraq vehicle rollover 10 Mar 2010 Two soldiers from South Carolina and Georgia have been killed in a vehicle rollover in Iraq. The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that 25-year-old Sgt. Aaron Arthur, of Lake City and 23-year-old Spc. Lakeshia Bailey of Columbus, Ga., died Monday north of Al Kut in Iraq of injuries from the incident.
House Democrats ban earmarks for private contractors 10 Mar 2010; House Democratic leaders banned Wednesday the practice of doling out multimillion-dollar, no-bid contracts to private contractors. At a meeting of the Democratic caucus, leaders unveiled the new rule that forbids private contractors from receiving earmarks. House Appropriations Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.), whose panel issues thousands of these line-item grants each year, estimated that the fiscal 2010 budget included more than 1,000 earmarks to private companies, through which businesses reaped billions of dollars.
KBR receives $94 million contract for new hospital 09 Mar 2010 KBR Inc. said Tuesday that its building subsidiary received a $94 million contract to provide various construction services for a new hospital near Atlanta. KBR’s Building Group was awarded the contract by Piedmont Healthcare to provide pre-construction and construction services for a replacement facility for Piedmont Newnan Hospital in Newnan, Ga. [Do KBR's rapes, electrocutions and chemical burn pits come with the contract?]
Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 (A Bill) To provide for the interrogation and detention of enemy belligerents who commit hostile acts against the United States, to establish certain limitations on the prosecution of such belligerents for such acts, and for other purposes. SEC. 2. PLACEMENT OF SUSPECTED UNPRIVILEGED ENEMY BELLIGERENTS IN MILITARY CUSTODY. 3 (a) MILITARY CUSTODY REQUIREMENT. Whenever within the United States, its territories, and possessions, or outside the territorial limits of the United States, an individual is captured or otherwise comes into the custody or under the effective control of the United States who is suspected of engaging in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners through an act of terrorism, or by other means in violation of the laws of war, or of purposely and materially supporting such hostilities, and who may be an unprivileged enemy belligerent, the individual shall be placed in military custody for purposes of initial interrogation and determination of status in accordance with the provisions of this Act. SEC. 3. INTERROGATION AND DETERMINATION OF STATUS OF SUSPECTED UNPRIVILEGED ENEMY BELLIGERENTS. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERROGATION GROUPS. (1) INTERROGATIONS TO BE CONDUCTED BY HIGH-VALUE DETAINEE INTERROGATION GROUP…
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Quick action! Help Protect the Rare Spirit Bear 10 Mar 2010 Next month, a trophy hunt in British Columbia could push the elusive Spirit Bear even closer to extinction. We must speak out now to protect these rare white-coated bears, which were the inspiration for NRDC’s own logo. Tell the premier of British Columbia to cancel this senseless bear hunt. According to government estimates, only 400 Spirit Bears exist today and some experts believe the number to be far lower. Only one in ten black bears in the Spirit Bear’s rainforest habitat carry the recessive gene that will give its cubs a white coat. Yet the government of British Columbia has approved a massive hunt across 98 percent of the black bear’s range putting this rare gene in grave jeopardy. While Spirit Bears themselves are protected from hunting, Spirit Bear cubs could face starvation if their black-coated mothers are gunned down. Tell Premier Campbell to reverse course and stop the spring bear hunt. *Please sign petition.*
California state senator who opposed gay rights announces he is homosexual 10 Mar 2010 Roy Ashburn, a California state senator who has staunchly opposed gay rights has announced that he is homosexual. Mr Ashburn, a conservative Republican, came out in an interview with KERN radio. His pronouncement ends days of speculation following his arrest last week for driving under the influence of alchohol.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters!… (Holy hell! This is where I draw the line! First it’s guns and hunting and now it’s where you can and can not fish… in the waters ‘they’ polluted! I fished all my life and I’m not stopping now! Coming soon… more new Obamajobs… Fishing Police! ~ S.I.A.)
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Tue, 03/09/2010 – 3:39pm.
Internet sellers who don’t report their sales will no longer be under the radar. Starting next year, any bank or other payment settlement company that processes credit cards, debit cards, and electronic payments such as PayPal will have to issue information returns telling the IRS what merchants receive…
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Mon, 03/08/2010 – 11:22pm.
Why is the national security community treating the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration’s choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt?
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Mon, 03/08/2010 – 11:07pm.
Wall Street tycoon Pete Peterson wants to bring IMF-style economic insanity to the U.S. The scary part?… He might get away with it… In addition to mandatory private health insurance premiums, we may soon be hit with a "mandatory savings" tax and other belt-tightening measures urged by the president’s new budget task force. ~ Ellen Hodgson Brown
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Mon, 03/08/2010 – 12:45am.
Can you trust national averages? As bad as the jobless data you hear are, you have not been told the whole truth. If you think the terrible impact of America’s Great Recession is shown by an official unemployment rate of about 10 percent… think again!
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Mon, 03/08/2010 – 12:24am.
The US Supreme Court is considering what could be a landmark decision on individual gun rights. An unspoken argument is that armed citizens would make any usurper think twice before subverting the Constitution. ~ Warren Richey
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Sat, 03/06/2010 – 4:29pm.
President Obama is close to completing his socialist revolution. Since coming to power last year, he has sought relentlessly to transform America. From his days as a student radical, Mr. Obama has been obsessed with smashing the traditional free-market system. Like most leftists, he thinks capitalism is the enemy. ~ Jeffrey T. Kuhner
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Sat, 03/06/2010 – 2:44pm.
You’d think the Obama administration is busy enough controlling the banks, insurance companies and automakers, but thanks to whistleblowers at the Department of the Interior, we now learn they’re planning to increase their control over energy-rich land in the West. ~ Senator Jim DeMint – Video
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Sat, 03/06/2010 – 12:25pm.
Mark your calendars for March 18 as that is the target date President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress have set as the target date for a vote on the pro-abortion Senate health care bill. That means pro-life advocates have two weeks to contact lawmakers and urge them to vote no.
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Fri, 03/05/2010 – 10:52pm.
President Hugo Chavez is right. There is a sinister and underhanded, hidden and deceitful side to Washington’s diplomacy and the document we are about to reveal proves it. Who is in charge of the White House, President Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton and the arms and AIPAC lobbies? After reading this, there can be little doubt.
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Fri, 03/05/2010 – 10:18pm.
When the global elite had perfected their world stage by making Barry Soetoro their main star to bring down the United States of America, were they planning ObamaCare in time for Easter 2010? ~ Judi McLeod
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Fri, 03/05/2010 – 9:59pm.
The race for Jim Bunning’s Kentucky Senate seat is on — and former presidential candidate Ron Paul’s son Rand is a contender for the Republican nomination.
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Fri, 03/05/2010 – 2:17pm.
Microsoft founder and one of the world’s wealthiest men, Bill Gates, projects an image of a benign philanthropist using his billions via his (tax exempt) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to tackle diseases, solve food shortages in Africa and alleviate poverty. In a recent conference in California, Gates reveals a less public agenda of his philanthropy-population reduction, otherwise known as eugenics.
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Thu, 03/04/2010 – 9:51pm.
Based on the new DSM-V, children who don’t fit in as dumbed-down, average kids will be flagged as diseased and could be cognitively castrated by whatever psychiatric drugs are necessary to bring them down to the level of all the other kids. Why have exceptional children when they can fit in better as "average!" ~ Mike Adams
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Thu, 03/04/2010 – 7:35pm.
A measure to give some 57 million elderly people, veterans and persons with disabilities a $250 check was rejected by the Senate on Wednesday, a setback for the powerful seniors’ lobby.
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Thu, 03/04/2010 – 7:14pm.
The clock ticking toward midnight in the well orchestrated Fall of America is Nancy Pelosi’s shining hour… Rational people may ponder how Pelosi can urge Democrats to vote for ObamaCare even if it means the end of their careers. ~ Judi McLeod
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Thu, 03/04/2010 – 5:07pm.
I spent another afternoon in disbelief, reading over a dozen emails regarding Congress’ improper use of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). They misappropriated the act to pull Ephedra from the market. And now they’re trying to oust vitamin E! ~ Dr. Mark Wiley
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Thu, 03/04/2010 – 10:11am.
A string of electoral defeats and the great unpopularity of ObamaCare can’t stop Democrats from their self-appointed rendezvous with liberal destiny—ramming a bill through Congress on a narrow partisan vote…
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Thu, 03/04/2010 – 4:44am.
What would you say if you were told that airplanes were regularly spraying toxic aerosols in the skies above every major region of the world? That is exactly what a group of protestors were claiming outside of the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting that was held in San Diego from February 18-22, 2010…
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Thu, 03/04/2010 – 4:26am.
A high court majority reviewing a handgun ban in Chicago indicates that it sees the right to ‘bear arms’ as national in scope, and can be used to strike down some state and local gun regulations.
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Thu, 03/04/2010 – 3:53am.
The November challenger to longtime Congressman Ron Paul for the U.S. District 14 seat will have to wait for a runoff next month that likely will include the Galena Park police chief who lives in Brazoria.
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Thu, 03/04/2010 – 3:21am.
New reports from the Kremlin today are reporting that FSB raids of Interior Ministry offices ordered by President Medvedev have discovered a chilling plot to “blast” at least 5 major American cities with the deadly Anthrax bacterium on or near their upcoming 4th of July celebrations that commemorates their Nations 1776 declaration of independence from Great Britain.
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Wed, 03/03/2010 – 11:42pm.
A prototype camera phone application that enables the user to find names and numbers of complete strangers has been labelled a ’stalker’s dream’… ~ Video
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Wed, 03/03/2010 – 6:57pm.
Doctors on the NHS front line who refuse vaccinations against common infections risk losing their right to practice under a new appraisal system… (How about we demand these control freaks prove to the people that they have been vaccinated… so they don’t infect us? ‘They’ ALL should be randomly drug tested as well! Subject ‘them’ to the same crap ‘they’ try to force on us! ~ S.I.A.)
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Wed, 03/03/2010 – 6:43pm.
In a chilling speech to Russian defence experts yesterday, Prime Minister Putin ordered the buildup of strategic weapons and warned that the growing threat of the expansion of American Communism is endangering the entire World and bringing the Motherland closer to war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis…
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Wed, 03/03/2010 – 12:52am.
Our world’s expanding technological horizons draw ever-bigger numbers into household usage—witness "giga" and "tera." So a group of scientists at UC Davis figure they’d head the next one off early…
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Wed, 03/03/2010 – 12:21am.
If anyone needed any more proof that the “Obama Healthcare Summit” was a sham, Nancy Pelosi gave them all the proof they needed on the Sunday talk shows… ~ Sher Zieve
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Tue, 03/02/2010 – 9:44pm.
Historical background… the establishment of capitalist supremacy… Richard K. Moore
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Tue, 03/02/2010 – 9:02pm.
Part 1… Preparing the way for a new social order… ~ Richard K. Moore
Submitted by SadInAmerica on Tue, 03/02/2010 – 9:01pm.
KnowTheLies.com – The Truth is Hidden in Plain View…
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Dylan Avery and Corey Rowe Confront Trash ABC News "Journalist" posted 03/08/2010, 9:15 PM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Resistance]
ABC News "journalist" goes on a soundbite fishing expedition and gets exposed for the fraud that he is.
Note how he slithers away once he gets his pathetic little soundbites. These phony journalists are the scum of the earth.
Obama czar’s shocking communist connections posted 03/08/2010, 9:15 PM (WorldNetDaily)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
 John Holdren, President Obama’s "science czar," served on the board of editors of a magazine whose personnel were accused of providing vital nuclear information that helped the Soviet Union build an atom bomb.
The magazine, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has a long history of employing socialist and communist sympathizers, including during the time of Holdren’s employment in 1984, reports the New Zeal blog.
Holdren is assistant to the president for science a… (more)
All in a days work!
Dissenters To Be Detained As “Enemy Belligerents”? posted 03/08/2010, 9:14 PM (Prison Planet)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Since the establishment media is convinced that tea party members, 9/11 truthers, libertarians, Ron Paul supporters, and basically anyone with a dissenting political opinion is a likely domestic terrorist, they should be celebrating the fact that a new bill would allow the government to detain such people as “enemy belligerents” indefinitely and without trial based on their “suspected activity”.
The “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010,” … (more)
A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully posted 03/08/2010, 9:14 PM (The Atlantic)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Why is the national security community treating the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration’s choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt? A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity. Read t… (more)
Students Throw Cotton Balls, Are Arrested for Felony Hate Crime posted 03/08/2010, 9:12 PM (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Two students at the University of Missouri-Columbia were suspended Wednesday after their arrests in a case of cotton balls thrown across the lawn of the campus black-culture center.
Campus police on Tuesday evening arrested the students, one of whom is from the St. Louis area, on suspicion of a felony hate crime. The two were released on bond, and charges were pending.
The incident happened early Friday at the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, near the middle of c… (more)
Rep. Massa Blast Dems: He Was Set Up…Hoyer Lied…May Rescind Resignation posted 03/08/2010, 9:12 PM (Naked Emperor News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
"When I voted against the cap and trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff to the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn’t heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983," Massa said. "And I gave it … (more)
Update: Massa Will Resign Monday as Planned…
Massa: Rahm Emanuel "Would Sell His Own Mother" For Votes posted 03/08/2010, 9:12 PM (RealClearPolitics)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
"Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn, Rep. Eric Ma (0 Comments)
Eric Massa: Democrats ousted me over health care posted 03/08/2010, 9:12 PM (Politico)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) says the House ethics committee is investigating him for inappropriate comments he made to a male staffer on New Year’s Eve — and that he’s the victim of a power play by Democratic leaders who want him out of Congress because he’s a "no" vote on health care reform.
"Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill," Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. "And this administration and … (more)
Detailing Harassment, Massa Claims Democratic Conspiracy Forced Exit posted 03/08/2010, 9:12 PM (City Hall News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
In his final weekly radio show on Sunday morning, Rep. Eric Massa for the first time detailed the events he believes led to the sexual harassment complaint against him that prompted his resignation from Congress, announced on Friday, but effective Monday afternoon. Massa, a Democrat, also accused House Democratic leadership of conspiring to remove him from office ahead of the reconciliation votes on health care, given his vote against the legislation when it went before the House last November.<… (more)
Troopers raid popular bars for unlicensed beers posted 03/08/2010, 9:10 PM (Philadelphia Daily News)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
IT WAS ELIOT NESS and the Untouchables, as played by the Keystone Kops.
More than a dozen armed State Police officers conducted simultaneous raids last week on three popular Philadelphia bars known for their wide beer selections. The cops confiscated hundreds of bottles of expensive ales and lagers, now in State Police custody at an undisclosed location.
The alleged offense: Although the bar owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors … (more)
God I feel safe.
Fake Al Qaeda Actors EXPOSED! Adam Gadahn & Yousef al-Khattab posted 03/08/2010, 9:10 PM (YouTube)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fakealqaeda.html<>… (more)
The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste posted 03/08/2010, 9:10 PM (TomDispatch)
[Category: Commentary]
Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve the United States as its 44th president, ordinary people and their leaders around the globe have been celebrating our nation’s "triumph over race." Obama’s election has been touted as the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow, the bookend placed on the history of racial caste in America.
Obama’s mere presence in the Oval Office is offered as proof that "the land of the free" has finally mad… (more)
Failed Banks May Get Pension-Fund Backing as FDIC Seeks Cash posted 03/08/2010, 9:08 PM (Bloomberg)
[Category: Economy]
March 8 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is trying to encourage public retirement funds that control more than $2 trillion to buy all or part of failed lenders, taking a more direct role in propping up the banking system, said people briefed on the matter.
Direct investments may allow funds such as those in Oregon, New Jersey and California to cut fees for private-equity managers, and the agency to get better prices for distressed assets, the people said. They d… (more)
IRS to Track Online Sellers’ Payment Transactions Beginning Next Year posted 03/08/2010, 9:08 PM (Auction Bytes)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Internet sellers who don’t report their sales will no longer be under the radar. Starting next year, any bank or other payment settlement company that processes credit cards, debit cards, and electronic payments such as PayPal will have to issue information returns telling the IRS what merchants receive. The new returns are Form 1099-K, Merchant Card and Third-Party Payments.
Purpose of Reporting
The IRS believes that many online sellers fail to report thei… (more)
Obama administration plans to close International Labor Comparisons office posted 03/08/2010, 9:08 PM (Washington Post)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Like a scorekeeper for the world, a tiny unit within the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks globalization’s winners and losers, and the results are not always pretty for the United States. Manufacturing jobs here, for example, have fallen faster since 1979 than in Canada, Germany or Japan. Compensation for those jobs dropped here in 2008 but jumped in South Korea and Australia.
Soon, however, Americans may be spared the demoralization in these numbers: The White House wants to shut… (more)
5 ways your TV is slowly killing you posted 03/08/2010, 9:07 PM (MSNBC)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 You’ve accepted the idea that TV makes you dumber. You know there are lots of more edifying things you could be doing with your time than cheering on the contestants on "Survivor."
And unless you’re working out to an exercise video, you know those hours sprawled out in front of the screen are going to make you fatter — not to mention the impact of all that junk food you’ve been tempted to scarf down during the commercial breaks.
But you’ll be surprised to learn the … (more)
Court to decide if vaccine makers can be sued posted 03/08/2010, 9:06 PM (Reuters)
[Category: Brave New World]
(Reuters) – The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether a federal law protects vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits in state court seeking damages for alleged design defects.
The high court agreed to hear a Pennsylvania case involving a lawsuit by the parents of a child who suffered seizures after her third dose of a diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine. They sued the vaccine manufacturer, Wyeth, which Pfizer Inc purchased last year.
Pfizer sh… (more)
IMF suggests how to raise climate change funds posted 03/08/2010, 9:06 PM (Associated Press)
[Category: Geopolitics]
NAIROBI, Kenya — The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world’s governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change, a rare step for an organization that normally does not develop environmental policies.
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the Fund is concerned about the huge amount of funding needed and the effect that will have on the global economy. He added that the proposal may help efforts to reac… (more)
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Tags: abuse, Boeing, California, case, catholic bishops, Chile, china, congressional pay, Fags, Georg Ratzinger, german catholics, God, Hates, HEALTH, House, Iran, iran sanctions, Israel, israel palestine peace, Man, marijuana possession, Marja, nation world, Nigeria, Obama, Raw Story, sex, short term memory, UK, US, West The Posted in research | No Comments »
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