“The last time the government reported exactly zero jobs added in a month was in February 1945.”-CNN
“We expected a weak report, and what we got was even weaker…” and “It’s still a skunk and it still stinks.”-Patrick O’Keefe, economic researcher at J.H. Cohn
The United States Department of Labor says Corporate America has let the […] Continue Reading…
Typhoon Talas is coming ashore between Shikoku and Hiroshima. Heavy rain, flooding and landslides being reported from Tokyo area, and several hundreds of miles north east to the island of Hokkaido.
Rain warnings for the hardest hit areas: Tokai (Nagoya) and Kinki (Osaka, Kobe, & Kyoto), may get drenched with 800mm (31 inches) of rain […] Continue Reading…
August 31, a Philadelphia police officer was charged with raping a woman after offering her a lift, while he was on duty.
Instead of driving her to her destination he allegedly raped her in the back of the police car, then dropped her off at a bus station. The woman reported the crime […] Continue Reading…
According to a report by Agrimoney, Argentina has replaced the U.S. as the main supplier of corn to Colombia, and probably in the near future Canada will do the same with wheat.
U.S. corn exports to Columbia have crashed: In 2007 the U.S. supplied 96% of Columbia’s corn. In 2010, the United States supplied a […] Continue Reading…
“No, things don’t work that way. The TNC has reassured us regarding African workers in Libya. We will wait and see.”- Jean Ping, African Union Chairperson
The AU is refusing to recognize the U.S. supported Libyan rebel TNC. Partly because the African Union was never consulted regarding UN resolutions against Libya, and NATO attacks on […] Continue Reading…
“In attempting to combat crimes attributed to terrorists, countless further crimes have been committed in the course of the U.S.-led ‘global war on terror’. Many of those crimes have been carefully and deliberately covered up.”-Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe’s Rights Commissioner
Europe’s Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg, said Europe is “deeply complicit” in […] Continue Reading…
“But we have seen instances in which employers are explicitly saying we don’t want to take a look at folks who’ve been unemployed. Well, that makes absolutely no sense, and I know there’s legislation that I’m supportive of that says you cannot discriminate against folks because they’ve been unemployed, particularly when […] Continue Reading…
In Japan some of the fastest selling books are how to books that show you how to get out’a town in case of a natural disaster.
The 9.0 quake of March 11 was the motivator for such books. Even though Tokyo was at least a hundred miles from the epicenter of the quake, the public […] Continue Reading…