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Category Archives: Politics
Op-Ed Contributor – How to End the Great Recession – NYTimes.com
THIS promises to be the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor — most of the rest of us — are unemployed, underemployed or underwater. The Labor Department reported on Friday that just 67,000 new private-sector [...]
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Tagged Der Spiegel, Labor Day, Mergers, peak oil, Robert Reich
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FT.com / US / Society – Luxury booms while bargain retail suffers
Personal spending in the US is diverging into two distinct categories as strong growth at high-end stores contrasts with continuing difficulties for mass-market, low-price retailers.
Nearly a year after the US economy returned to growth, corporate earnings reports in recent months have provided consistent evidence of the differing fortunes. At high-end stores such as Neiman Marcus [...]
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Tagged Gelnn Beck, Great Recession, Recovery, The Poor
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Accused ‘Craigslist Killer’ Philip Markoff commits suicide in Boston jail – Local News Updates – MetroDesk – The Boston Globe
Accused “Craigslist Killer” Philip Markoff was found dead at Nashua Street Jail yesterday morning, a plastic bag tied over his head, in an apparent suicide, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said today.
Another law-enforcement official said he had been found with a cut artery.
Markoff, 24, was alone in his cell when jail officials [...]
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Tagged Craigslist Killer, Phillip Markoff, Suicide
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Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many | World news | The Observer
Richard Gaines is one of the best-known faces on Camden's Haddon Avenue. It is a rough-and-tumble street, lined with cheap businesses and boarded-up houses, and is prey to drug gangs. Gaines, 50, runs a barbershop, a hair salon and a fitness business. He works hard and is committed to his community. But Haddon Avenue is [...]
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Tagged American Empire, CAMDEN, Drug Dealer, Escalade, Great Recession
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Wyclef Jean – Haiti – President | Pras – Endorsed Opponent | Mediaite
Musician Wyclef Jean is running for President of Haiti, and the campaign has already drawn criticism from actor and activist Sean Penn.
How could this get stranger? Well Pras, formerly of The Fugees with Wyclef, has come out and endorsed…Wyclef’s rival.
MTV News interviewed Pras following his trip to Haiti to endorse Michel Martelly:
The reality is [...]
Jobless and Staying That Way – NYTimes.com
Professor Gordon doesn’t foresee a quick turnaround. But the Obama administration predicts that unemployment will drop to 8.7 percent by the end of next year, and eventually sink to 6.8 percent by the end of 2013.
To reach that level, the economy would have to add nearly 300,000 workers a month over the next three years, [...]
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Tagged Adult Conversation, New Normal
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Camden Closing Library System
CAMDEN, N.J. – New Jersey’s most impoverished city will close all three branches of its public library at year’s end unless a rescue can be pulled off.
Camden’s library board says the libraries won’t be able to afford to stay open past Dec. 31 because of budget cuts from the city government. The city had its [...]
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Tagged CAMDEN, libraries, Library at Alexandria, N.J.
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Giuliani’s Daughter Arrested for Shoplifting – NYTimes.com
Rudolph W. Giuliani’s 20-year-old daughter was arrested on Wednesday after workers in an Upper East Side cosmetics store caught her stuffing makeup worth more than $100 into her coat pocket, law enforcement officials said.
via Giuliani’s Daughter Arrested for Shoplifting – NYTimes.com.
I usually don’t comment about the fuck ups of children of celebrities and politicians, but [...]
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Tagged Caroline Giuliani, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Sephora
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Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Climb to Three-Month High – Bloomberg
More Americans than projected filed applications for unemployment insurance last week, indicating employers kept cutting staff as the recovery showed signs of slowing.
Initial jobless claims climbed by 19,000 to 479,000 in the week ended July 31, the most since April and exceeding the highest estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, Labor Department figures showed [...]
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Tagged Economists, economy, jobless rate, unemployment, Unexpected
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Editorial – Marriage Is a Constitutional Right – NYTimes.com
Until Wednesday, the thousands of same-sex couples who have married did so because a state judge or Legislature allowed them to. The nation’s most fundamental guarantees of freedom, set out in the Constitution, were not part of the equation. That has changed with the historic decision by a federal judge in California, Vaughn Walker, that [...]
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Tagged California, Garriage, Gay Marriage, Jerry Falwell, Love, Marriage, Vaughn Walker
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Oil in Gulf Poses Only Slight Risk, New U.S. Report Says – NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.
A government report finds that [...]
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Tagged 60 Minutes, Andersen Cooper, BP Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Hans Zimmer, Leslie Stahl, Live Video Feed, Long John Silvers, Matthew Simmons, Rachael Ray, Steve Kroft
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Homes keep falling into foreclosure as programs fail to help | McClatchy
WASHINGTON — More than three years into the housing crisis that helped trigger a worldwide recession, the torrid pace of home foreclosures continues to tear at the core of the American dream.
New figures Thursday from Realty-Trac showed that foreclosure activity declined over the first six months of the year in nine of the 10 large [...]
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Tagged EPCOT, Florida and California, foreclosures, Geodesic Dome, housing crisis, Ukulele
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Greek Police Confront Protesting Truck Drivers – NYTimes.com
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police used tear gas Thursday to disperse protesting fuel-truck drivers, whose strike is hurting tourism and industry, after the government issued an emergency order to force them back to work.
The scuffles occurred as some 500 drivers gathered in protest outside the transport ministry, but the incident ended quickly.
Most gas stations [...]
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Tagged Boars Head, Greece, Greek Police, Greek Truck Drivers
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As many as 6,600 Arlington graves mixed up
Estimates of the number of graves potentially affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemetery’s former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced his ouster.
via As many as 6,600 Arlington graves mixed up.
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Subtle Shift Within Fed Toward Deflation Concerns – NYTimes.com
Starting in 2007, the Fed lowered the benchmark short-term interest rate all the way to zero and pumped some $2 trillion into the economy with an array of emergency loans and purchases of government debts and mortgage bonds.
Those purchases were phased out in March, but there is now talk within the Fed of resuming them. [...]
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Tagged Brotherhood of Darkness, Dark Lords, Fear, Federal Reserve, reptillian, Winston Churchill's Dentures
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Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law – Yahoo! News
PHOENIX – A federal judge dealt a serious rebuke to Arizona’s immigration law on Wednesday when she put most of the crackdown on hold just hours before it was to take effect.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton sets up a lengthy legal battle as Arizona fights to enact the nation’s toughest-in-the-nation law. Republican [...]
Document Leak May Hurt Efforts to Build War Support – NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — The disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased pressure on President Obama to defend his military strategy as Congress prepares to deliberate financing of the Afghanistan war.
The disclosures, with their detailed account of a war faring even more poorly than two administrations had portrayed, landed at a crucial moment. Because [...]
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Tagged Afghanistan, Iraq, Julian Assange, Wikileaks
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Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert – NYTimes.com
Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports made public Sunday.
The [...]
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