September 23, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of legal immigrants moving to the United States dropped off after the year 2000.
According to the American Community Survey (ACS) the percentage of “Foreign Born: Entered before 2000” immigrants who responded to the survey (includes those who became U.S. citizens and those who still aren’t) was 65.3%.
The percentage of “Foreign Born: Entered 2000 or later” immigrants drops to 34.7%.
September 23, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of young adults (16-29 years of age) who’re unemployed is 44.7%, the highest since the end of World War 2.
Also, the number of households living in poverty, where the parents are younger than 25, hit 37%!
September 22, Toys R Us announced they will not hire as many holiday employees as in the past.
“It looks to me like they are preparing for lowered spending and will be very cautious about hiring people until they really know they need them.”-John Challenger, analyst
Last end of year holiday season, Toys R Us hired about 45,000 temporary employees. This year Toys R Us will be hard pressed to hire 40,000.
“I know many of you are frustrated by the lack of progress. I assure you, so am I…. There is no short cut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades. Peace is hard work.”-Barack Obama, President of the United States
No “short cut”!?! What an ass hole!!! U.S. President Barack Obama gave the Palestinians a big middle finger the other day at the United Nations!
Let see, how long have the U.S. backed Libyan rebels been fighting for their bull shit ‘liberation’? Six friggin’ months, and already Obama, and the whole world through the United Nations has officially recognized the rebel NTC as the official government of Libya! Bull shit!!!
Palestinians have been fighting Israeli oppression since the creation of Israel in 1948!!! On top of that they’ve been fighting the invasion of European Zionism since the end of World War 1!!!
World War 1 ended in 1918, for those of you who’re lacking in the history department. It was then that the British took over Palestine and began shipping English Zionist Jews from Great Britain to Palestine. By the way, it’s not just Palestinian Muslims who’re being oppressed by the Israelis, Palestinian Christians, and Palestinian Jews are being oppressed as well!
So you’re talking almost a hundred years of fighting oppression, and fighting for recognition within the international community! And the President of the United States tells the Palestinians they can’t take short cuts?!? What an ass hole!!!
“The WHO rates as ‘high’ the risk of further international spread of wild polio virus from Pakistan, particularly given the expected large-scale population movements associated with Umra and the upcoming Haj…in the coming months.”-UNWHO statement
The United Nations World Health Organization says Polio type 1 is spreading through Pakistan and China.
Wild polio virus type 1 (WPV1) is more dangerous than type 3 because it is more likely to cause paralysis and spreads more easily. The disease can affect nerves and lead to partial or full paralysis.
WHO officials are concerned that Muslims from Pakistan who’re going on Haj, to Mecca, will spread the disease to the Middle East.
Chinese health authorities have begun investigations for any further cases and launched a mass vaccination campaign in the region.
September 21, Iraqi Vice President Khudair al-Khuzaie (apparently Iraq has three VPs) said U.S. forces need to withdraw from Iraq as scheduled by the end of 2011.
Khuzaie met with the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey. Khuzaie said the United States needs to focus on “cooperation and partnership with Iraq in the fields of investments and reconstruction.”
U.S. military is supposed to withdraw completely from Iraq by the end of 2011, according to the Status of Forces Agreement signed late in 2008.
However, officials from the Obama administration are pressuring Iraqi politicians to let a small force of U.S. troops stay in Iraq beyond the deadline.
“So long as the Libyan people are being threatened, the NATO led mission to protect them will continue. And those still holding out must understand the old regime is over, and it is time to lay down your arms and join the new Libya.”-Barack Obama, President of the United States
September 21, U.S. led NATO agreed to extend their air campaign in Libya by another 90 days. Here’s the hypocrisy in Obama’s statement: He says Libyan people are threatened, well “those still holding out” are on the defensive, it’s the U.S. backed rebels that are (and have been) on the offensive. On top of that NATO has been bombing the shit out of anyone who doesn’t want to join the rebels! It looks to me that it’s the U.S. backed rebels that’re doing the threatening!
So, warmonger Obama, is NATO gonna start bombing the rebels, in earnest (they’ve already ‘accidentally’ bombed the rebels a few times)?
21 September 2011, Typhoon Roke is moving up the Pacific coastline of Japan, after coming ashore south of Tokyo at Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Sustanted winds are 144 km (89.4 miles) per hour, with gusts up to 155 km (96 miles) per hour recorded at Hachioji City, near Tokyo.
During the past 24 hours, more than 400 millimeters (15.74 inches) of rain has fallen in Tokai region and Yamanashi Prefecture, and more than 200 mm (7.87 inches) of rain fell in northeastern Japan.
At least four people have died, three are missing. More evacuation orders have been given to at least a half million more people.
The damaged nuclear plant, Fukushima Daiichi, has escaped typhoon damage from previous storms, but Roke looks like it will make a direct hit.
Roke is moving fast and should be approaching the northeastern Honshu prefecture of Fukushima. Already 200 mm of rain has fallen in Fukushima since September 20. The nuclear plant is already flooding with rain water.
Work to stop the further spread of radiation, like the steel wall around the ocean intakes, and specially treated tarps over the exploded reactor buildings, has been halted. Tokyo Electric says their workers have tied down everything they could think of that might get blown away.
TEPCo says reactor 1 and 2 have rain water pouring in from the roofs, and Reactor 6 basement is totally flooded. TEPCo officials insist that none of the radioactive water will leak out. Yeah right, how many times now have they made such promises?
Nine months later, and the radiation just keeps pouring from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Now its Mother Earth who’s to blame.
Tokyo Electric Power Company admitted that the heavy rains from typhoons and tropical storms are flooding reactor buildings, greatly increasing the chance of massive flooding of highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.
The nuclear plant is already flooding the ocean with radiation, but this would be on a massive scale.
Here’s why it’s so bad: TEPCo is already pumping 550 tons of water per day to cool three of its damaged reactors. About 80,000 tons of highly radioactive water has already accumulated in the buildings. Now add the flooding from the storms. TEPCo says it has found 200 to 500 tons of rainwater entering every day into the basements of reactor buildings.
Typhoon Roke is about to hit land, near Tokyo, but has already killed two people, and two people are missing.
A man was killed trying to fix a drain on his roof, and another man was killed when he went to look at a rising river. A 4th grade boy, and an 84 year old man are missing.
Roke’s wind and rain are causing major damage on land, even though the center of the storm is still offshore. Currently it’s near Cape Muroto in Kochi Prefecture.
In Gifu and Hyogo prefectures, an evacuation advisory covers about 110,000 people. In the southern Kyushu prefecture of Miyazaki, nearly 40,000 people have been advised to leave due to risk of mudslides.
In Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, more than one million people have been told to evacuate due to the rising water levels of the Tenpaku and Shonai rivers.