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Hopes that low interest and higher spending would halt slide Some 12 percent of minors held in government custody are sexually abused, and in some facilities the rate reaches a stunning one in three children, says a report released Thursday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Mexico: Sex Slaves (Part I)
Smugglers bring thousands of young women from Mexico into the U.S. and force them to provide sexual services for perverted gringos with plenty of disposable cash. The transaction signals a cannibal capitalism, hardcore neoliberalism, that both countries share in dog-eat-dog cultures.
Killing Organizers in Honduras The bodies of slain activists are piling up in Honduras. While it’s being kept quiet in most Honduran and international media, the rage is building among a dedicated network of friends spreading the word quickly with the tragic announcement of each compañero/a. Now that the world heard from mainstream news outlets such as the New York Times of a ‘clean and fair’ election on Nov. 29 (orchestrated by the US–supported junta currently in power), the violence has increased even faster than feared.
At least 47 people are killed and 100 injured in fighting in the Somali town of Dhuusa Marreeb, a human rights worker says.
Everyone knows that the too big to fails and their dishonest and footsy-playing regulators and politicians are largely responsible for trashing the economy. MAINSTREAM NEWS: ANOTHER DEPRESSION IS LIKELY
My comment: Additional news flash – – we’re already there. What we don’t know will hurt us, and quite possibly on a more devastating scale than any Qaeda attack. Americans must be told the full story of how Wall Street gamed and inflated the housing bubble,made out like bandits, and then left millions of households in ruin. Ponzi Scheme: The Federal Reserve Bought Approximately 80 Percent Of U.S. Treasury Securities Issued In 2009
Venezuela devalues bolivar by 50% Chavez attempts to boost economy and stimulate exports.
Lord committee calls for more checks on use of nanomaterials in food and the dangers posed to the human body
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Besides wondering how long their product labels are in Dagestan, a lesson to Canada about the population of Alberta speaking 12 official languages and bunched in less than half its space.
Going prorogue Did Canada’s prime minister suspend parliament to shut down investigations into the torture of Afghan detainees?
Here we are again. A year after Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper prorogued parliament in order to save his political skin from a potential minority coalition, he has chosen to suspend it again.
In parallel with the escalation of the war in South Asia – – counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and drone missile attacks in Pakistan – – the United States and its NATO allies have laid the groundwork for increased naval, air and ground operations in the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden. Israel’s Barak getting death threats, official says
Israel has come under increasing international pressure, particularly from the United States, to halt all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank …
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said Horizon Bank had approximately $1.3 billion in total assets and $1.1 billion in total deposits as Sept. 30.
Those entering the workforce now will likely make less and save more – – not just in the short term but for the rest of their lives.
401k/IRA Screw Job Coming? Now this is a guaranteed rape job.
In a short conversation this noontime that CNBC apparently has omitted from their archives (Why’s that folks?) Rick Santelli was talking about a potential to effectively force money into the Treasury market. Million Dollar Man ~ How much does each U.S. soldier in Afghanistan cost?
HOW TO MOVE YOUR MONEY TO A COMMUNITY BANK (VIDEO + PRINTED ASSISTANCE) My comment: For about 8 years, I have been ranting about the need to do this. I’m glad that mainstream news has finally caught up with me.
GOP Governor Drives a Southern Economy Off a Cliff Alabama voters consistently have sided with business interests. What do they have to show for it? One of the nation’s worst economies.
The massive stock-market rally in the past nine months is mostly due to secret government buying of stock-index futures, a respected stock-market analyst said Tuesday. This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is often most unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.
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