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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: JULY 2008 - Bureau of Labor Statistics
The unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend down in July (-51,000), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Employment continued to fall in construction, manufacturing, and several service-providing industries, while health [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 1st, 2008 | Tags: American Voters, Corporate corruption, criminal, displaced persons, economy, great depression, homeless, job loss, Labor Statistics, lifestyle, outsourcing, stocks, unemployed, Wall Street | Category: Accountability, American Voters, Bush administration, Business, Corporate Corruption, Democracy In Action, Federal Cutbacks, Hypocracy, Labor Laws, Mismanagement, Politics, Povery, Tax Dollars, Wall Street, consequences, consumerism, depression, disparity, displaced persons, drugs, economic stimulus, economy, fiscal responsibility, food pantries, foreclosures, furlough, mental health, pay cuts, responsibility, taxpayers, unemployment | Comments (2)

Medicare: Thousands of Medicare Providers Abuse the Federal Tax System
F.D.A. Issues Strictest Warning on Diabetes Drugs
As America ages, the GREED factor related to Health Care grows exponentially. Services provided are watered down and cost is inflated to squeeze every penny out of the US Taxpayer. Health Care is no longer the realm of [...]

Posted by bosskitty June 21st, 2008 | Tags: Avandia, Big Pharma, Corporate corruption, FDA, Health Care, Medical System, Politics, Tim Russert | Category: Accountability, Big Pharma, Corporate Corruption, FDA, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Hypocracy, National, Oversight, Politics, Public Health, Scandal, Tim Russert, Whistleblower, abuse, cover up, manufacturers, marketing, pharmaceuticals, profiteers | Leave a comment

US paying allies to fight war in Iraq
NEW DELHI: The tale of massive fraud and embezzlement of millions of dollars by the US military in its operations in Iraq continues. Testifying before the US Congress Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on 22 May, Mary Ugone, deputy inspector general of accounts in the [...]

Posted by bosskitty May 30th, 2008 | Tags: fraud, Iraq, Mary Ugone, Tax Dollars, US Congress Committee on Oversight, Waxman | Category: Civilian Army, Congressional Oversight, Contractors, Corporate Corruption, Iraq, Mary Ugone, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, War Cost, Waxman | Leave a comment

Bush: economy not in recession, in slowdown
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Tuesday said the U.S. economy was not in a recession but was experiencing a slowdown.
“We’re not in a recession, we’re in a slowdown,” Bush said at a news conference at the end of a two-day summit [...]

Posted by bosskitty April 22nd, 2008 | Tags: , Bush, economy. recession, Iraq, Middle East, NAFTA, Oil, OPEC, Saudi Arabia, slowdown | Category: Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Corporate Corruption, Deception, Democracy In Action, Middle East, NAFTA, OPEC, Oil, budget, economy, recession | Comments (1)

It used to be oil for food. Now, its oil substitute OR food. Super Powers are focusing on a dying concept. Cheap energy the old fashioned way is no longer viable.

Posted by bosskitty April 13th, 2008 | Category: Corporate Corruption, Environment, Foreign Policy, Global Economy, Global Power, Global Warming, Health, Human Rights, Mismanagement, Oil, Oversight, Planet, Politics, Power Shift, Public Health, Statistics, War Cost, Waste, World Health, World Order, contradictions, critical resources, economics, energy, fiscal responsibility, food, global community, hunger, jobless, negligence, oil-for-food, poverty, recession, refugees, renewable energy, unemployment | Leave a comment

Bhutto was key to US plan
Benazir Bhutto was central to American hopes of broadening out Pakistan’s government from the figure of General Musharraf. Washington helped engineer the political deal that saw her return and now it has seen that lead to disaster, with the loss of one of the key figures [...]

Posted by bosskitty December 28th, 2007 | Category: Bhutto, Britain, Corporate Corruption, Dillusion, Europe, Foreign Policy, Fundamentalist, Governance, Holy War, Human Rights, Hypocracy, Ignorance, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Jihad, Middle East, Musharraf, Nuclear, Pakistan, Politics, Propaganda, Proxy War, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South East Asia, Taliban, Trade policy, United States, War, World Order, alternative energy, changing planet, civil war, consequences, contradictions, covert, critical resources, diplomacy, disinformation, disparity, economics, empire, energy, global community, illegal arms, incompetence, nation building, policy, power grab, profiteers, terrorists | Comments (2)

Guest post by Len Hart of The Existentialist Cowboy
A shadowy cabal of international “oil traders” have seized control of the world’s markets and the price of oil. That’s not the opinion of a crazed “conspiracy theorist”. It is the informed opinion of an expert market analyst interviewed by the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine.
As oil reached [...]

Posted by nytexan November 28th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Cheney, Corporate Corruption, Iraq, Len Hart, Middle East, Oil, economy, energy | Leave a comment

Oscar Wyatt Jr., 83, founder and former chairman of Coastal Corp. enters Manhattan federal court in the second week of his trial in this October file photo. LOUIS LANZANO: AP
Texas Oilman Handed Year Prison Term
NEW YORK (AP) — Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr. was sentenced to a year in prison Tuesday for his [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 27th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Cheney, Coastal Corp, Corporate Corruption, Crooks, Houston, Hypocracy, Iraq, Law, Oil, Oscar Wyatt Jr, Texas Crooks, United Nations, betrayal, collaborators, consequences, contradictions, cover up, crimes, lies, oil-for-food, profiteers | Comments (2)

Cheney: No bailouts, no tax hikes…more oil

The vice president wields considerable power on economic policy. In a Fortune exclusive, the free-market fan weighs in on the credit crisis and his biggest fear. more
• Cheney’s brain trust
• Dick Cheney does the economy
Vice President Dick Cheney wields considerable power on economic policy. In a Fortune exclusive, the [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 26th, 2007 | Category: Cheney, Clean Energy, Corporate Corruption, Deception, Environment, Favored Firms, Mafia, Oil, Tax Dollars, alternative energy, arrogance, brain trust, budget, climate change, consequences, consumers, critical resources, economics, economy, energy, extortion, infrastructure, markets, recession, risk, taxpayers | Comments (1)