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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)

British soldiers forced to take loans to eat
LONDON: Many soldiers in the British army are living in poverty, and some of them are so poor that they are unable to eat and are forced to rely on emergency food voucher schemes set up by the ministry of defence, claims a damning and highly sensitive internal [...]

Posted by bosskitty May 12th, 2008 | Tags: British Veterans, neglect, poverty, US Veterans, veterans | Category: Mismanagement, Povery, War Cost, War on Terror, military, veterans, veterans benefits, victims | Comments (3)

Iran moving into the big league
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s three-nation tour of Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India and the welter of agreements and understandings reached between Tehran and these governments serve notice beyond the mere issue of energy security and Iran’s expanding role in the sub-continent’s energy market; rather, these [...]

Posted by bosskitty May 4th, 2008 | Tags: Ahmadinejad, consequences, economics, global community, global economy | Tagged: Economic Cooperation Organizat, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), IAEA, India, Iran, Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline (IPI), Pakistan, Politics, Russia, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Silk Road, Third World, World Economy, WTO | Category: Ahmadinejad, American Voters, Arab Nations, China, Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), Euro-Asia Continent, Foreign Policy, Global Economy, Global Power, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Human Rights, IAEA, IPI Pipeline, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Malaysia, Oil, Pakistan, Politics, Povery, Power Shift, Putin, Russia, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Sino-Russian, South East Asia, Trade policy, United Arab Emirates, War Cost, World Order, alliance, changing planet, critical resources, diplomacy, economics, markets, threat | Leave a comment

 
The devil is in the details
Once a rebate is decided on, the IRS could start mailing out checks by the end of June since the agency is now in the middle of the 2007 tax-filing season, said Jason Furman, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The IRS, however, [...]

Posted by bosskitty January 21st, 2008 | Category: Bush, Povery, Tax Dollars, Tax Relief, US Treasury, recession, taxpayers | Comments (5)

The Quakers have a wonderful website, AFSC.ORG , that keeps tally of the dollars being flushed down the war toilet. They have posted alternative directions this enormous amount of money could be better spent. This country contains well over 300 Million souls. The quality of life is rapidly being thrown in two [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 23rd, 2007 | Category: 1984, Accountability, Anti-War, Armageddon, Black Ops, Bush, CHIPS, Children, Clean Energy, Collateral, Corruption, Crooks, Dollars, EPA, Education, Excuses, FDA, FEMA, Health Care, Hypocracy, Immigration, Mercenaries, Oil, Oversight, Povery, SCHIPS, Tax Dollars, US Treasury, War, War Contractors, War Cost, Waste, arrogance, budget, civil liberties, displaced persons, economics, executive privilege, fraud, infrastructure, negligence, no-bid contract, profiteers, resonsibility, troops, veterans benefits | Comments (6)

Gangs Spreading In The Military
CBS Story
Evidence of gang culture and gang activity in the military is increasing so much an FBI report calls it “a threat to law enforcement and national security.” The signs are chilling: Marines in gang attire on Paris Island; paratroopers flashing gang hand signs at a nightclub near Ft. Bragg; infantrymen [...]

Posted by bosskitty July 29th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Casualties, Collateral, Gangs, Iraq, Law, PTSD, Povery, Racism, Soldiers, VA, War Cost, criminal, mental health, military, resonsibility, veterans | Comments (6)

Boy here’s a letter to president incompent that will surley fall on blind eyes and deaf ears.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Senator John Edwards today sent a letter to President Bush challenging the president to join him on a tour of places in America that are too often ignored and to talk to Americans [...]

Posted by nytexan July 20th, 2007 | Category: America, Bush, Edwards, Headlines, Poor, Povery | Comments (1)