According to the British International Centre of Prison Studies, the United States is truly number one, in locking up its people: As of 2009, 743 people out of every 100,000 in the U.S. were being imprisoned. That’s far higher than so called repressive communist China at 120 per 100,000.
Why so many people being locked […] Continue Reading…
On September 2, PBS’s News Hour interviewed Mark Zandi, lead economist with Moody’s Analytics. His normally optimistic tone has become quite pessimistic, in fact he’s now saying that any U.S. economic recovery will take a long time, specifically when it comes to jobs.
Regarding unemployment caused by government layoffs: “The government, state, local, federal, is […] Continue Reading…
The Associated Press reported on August 31, that “…$60 billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade through lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and payoffs to warlords and insurgents…”
According to a 2009 update of a study by the Political […] Continue Reading…
Several Chicago media sources have been reporting about six and seven years old students who are being handcuffed for hours, and told they will never see their parents again.
Allegedly the Chicago Public Schools officials decided they needed their school police officers to get tough on the Carver Primary School students. The kids were handcuffed […] Continue Reading…
The following is the official Cuban declaration against U.S. led NATO activities in Libya, loosely translated from Spanish:
“The Foreign Ministry has withdrawn its diplomatic staff in Libya, where foreign intervention and military aggression of NATO have exacerbated the conflict and the Libyan people have impeded progress towards a negotiated and peaceful solution, in the […] Continue Reading…
“We cannot remain indifferent to the way Resolutions Number 1970 and 1973 of the UN Security Council are being fulfilled. The attaining of the main goal, proclaimed by the UN Security Council, should be started, which is the protection of the civilian population.”-Antonio Patriota, Brazilian Foreign Minister
September 4, the countries with […] Continue Reading…
NHK reported 9 people dead and more than 30 others missing. Russian media reporting more than 20 dead and 50 missing. Canadian media, citing Reuters, reporting at least 17 dead.
The south western portion of the big island of Honshu, and the island Shikoku, suffered major flooding and landslides. Many homes were hit, or swept […] Continue Reading…
As the nuclear disaster continues in Japan, more tea leaves have been found with extremely high levels of cesium.
The Japanese health ministry says radioactive cesium has been detected in harvested tea leaves in Chiba and Saitama prefectures, near Tokyo (about 297km or 185 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant).
One type of tea from […] Continue Reading…
“Without the revival of Fukushima, there will be no revival of Japan.”-Noda Yoshihiko, Prime Minister of Japan
The new Japanese Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko, said there will be no recovery for Japan, without the recovery of Fukushima Prefecture.
Hello, Fukushima is contaminated with radiation! The Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant is still out of control! Latest cesium […] Continue Reading…
“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…