Source: AFP
Nearly 40 million people lived in poverty in the United States last year as the recession forced the first significant rise in the US poverty rate in five years, the US Census Bureau said in a report Thursday.
The official poverty rate in 2008 was 13.2 percent, up from 12.5 percent in 2007, according to [...]
Homeless in New Orleans…prisoners in Gaza
Marcy Newman, body on the line
August 30, 2009
jordan flaherty, who is one of my favorite journalists has covered, and continues to cover, the man-made disaster that is new orleans after hurricane katrina has a new article marking the four year anniversary, [...]
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NEW YORK — New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city and head to Georgia or anywhere else they want to go. It’s part of a Bloomberg administration program to keep the homeless out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family. More than [...]
by Joe Kishore
World Socialist Web Site – 2009-06-20
Humanity will achieve the dubious distinction this year of having more than 1 billion members of its species living in hunger for the first time in history.
The number of undernourished is estimated to soar by about 100 million over last year, to 1.02 billion, according to [...]
An Interesting Holohoax Anecdote
Positive Affirmation of What I Already Know About the Hollowco$t
Brandon Dean
WizardofOswald.com
May 28th, 2009
the remains of ethnic German victims of the Polish pogroms before WWII. if you don’t know what that means, LOOK IT UP.
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One of the people I work with is a kid about 20, who’s grown up living in his German [...]
Mises Daily by Mark Brandly | Posted on 5/26/2009 12:00:00 AM
The release of the 2009 Social Security Trustees Report indicates that the current economic crisis has negatively impacted the Social Security budget. It’s now projected that by 2016 Social Security spending will exceed revenues. According to the report, the financial condition of the Social [...]
The Coming Crisis: White Collar Homelessness
by Shannon Moriarty
Published February 10, 2009 @ 10:14AM PST
Last month, unemployment rates surged to 7.6 percent. As the jobless population becomes older and more educated, many are ending up with no car, no job prospects, no health insurance, and – before long – no home. Will [...]
Brandon Dean
WizardofOswald.com
January 4th, 2009
In the late Seventies and early Eighties, there was a punk band from England called Crass. The angriest, most rebellious thing I’d ever heard as a teenager was their song entitled “Don’t Tell Me You Care.” Applied to any atrocious act, it fits any of the times we’ve known well. Those of [...]
At the end of 2008, there are three consumer marketplaces that are experiencing record sales volumes—firearms, precious metals, and emergency storage food. Crisis preparedness is increasingly the theme for those seeking a refuge for their money and comfort from their concerns.
Minneapolis (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 6, 2008 – Gun dealers all over the United States are [...]
Obama Win Will Not Change Rigged Economy
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, Nov 4, [...]
Following on from genetic engineering, nanotechnology represents the latest high technology attempt to infiltrate our food supply. Senior scientists have warned that nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the scale of atoms and molecules, introduces serious new risks to human and environmental health. Yet in the absence of public debate, or oversight from regulators, unlabelled [...]
Riots and other forms of civil unrest have already broken out around the world in response to a global grain shortage and surging food prices.
According to data from the World Food Program and the early warning and global information system of the Food and Agricultural Organization, street protests and rioting over high food prices [...]
I am watching the debate on CSPAN over HR 1424 the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.” As you can imagine there is empty rhetoric on both sides of the issue and there is bi-partisan support and opposition. If anything, it’s a little more interesting than usual.
Rep Gary Miller (R-Ca), in a rare lapse of guarded “poli-speak” [...]
It’s wait and see after Bush signs rescue plan
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 18 minutes ago
WASHINGTON – After two weeks of anguishing debate, Congress has passed and President Bush signed a massive plan to save the financial industry and the economy at large from an unthinkable free fall. Now, the world holds [...]
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) lectures Ben “Bilderberg” Bernanke on the flaws of the bailout plan and the hazard of the attempt to fix prices versus letting them correct naturally in the free market at the Congressional Hearing today.
Paul told Bernanke, “The lack of understanding the depression is one of our problems … in the [...]
In a change from the original proposal sent to Capitol Hill, foreign-based banks with big U.S. operations could qualify for the Treasury Department’s mortgage bailout, according to the fine print of an administration statement Saturday night.
The theory, according to a participant in the negotiations, is that if the goal is to solve a liquidity crisis, [...]
Oil, it’s the lifeblood of our society. It’s given us the freedom and wealth we have today. It’s given us automobiles and machinery and greased the wheels of the industrial revolution. It made old Jed a millionaire. But oil’s in trouble, the price is up and everyone thinks they understand it. But what if the [...]
Last week, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had just announced record losses, and so had most reporting corporations. Unemployment was mounting, the foreclosure crisis was deepening, state budgets were in shambles, and massive bailouts were everywhere. Investors had every reason to expect the dollar and the stock market to plummet, and gold and oil to [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Think you’re feeling pain at the gas pump? Consider the residents of Lime Village, Alaska, an isolated Denaina Athabascan Indian community where gasoline prices have hit $8.55 a gallon.
The price is severely curtailing movement around the interior Alaska village, where four-wheelers are sitting idle, said Ursula Graham, administrator for the Lime [...]
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Some Democratic Leaders say Impeachment is off the table.
So, let us set a new table for our nation, upon which we place the Constitution and where we demand that all those who have taken an oath to defend it .. keep their promise and protect our nation from the threat within.
Please go to kucinich.us now [...]
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