Signed, Sealed, Delivered It’s a Recession

No ifs ands or buts about it, the U.S. economy is in a recession. In February the economy lost 63,000 jobs, after losing 22,000 jobs the month before. A recession has never failed to follow two consecutive months of jobs loss. And not just construction jobs were lost—manufacturing and retail jobs disappeared as well.

Investment houses—Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley—and Warren Buffet, the sage of Omaha and the world’s most successful investor, have already declared the economy in a recession.

When the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research,…the research organization designated by the Commerce Department [Read more...]

by John Miller | www.dollarsandsense.org

Registering to Vote – What we went through to do so

It was the 31st of August in 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the country courthouse in Indianola to try to register to try to become first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by …the highway patrolmen and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time. After we had taken this test and started back to Ruleville, we was held up by the city police and the State highway patrolmen and carried back to Indianola where the bus driver was charged that day with driving a bus the wrong color. … After we paid the fine [Read More Story…]

By Fannie Lou Hamer an voting rights activist and civil rights leader | The Network Journal

From NAFTA to the SPP

Here comes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, but—what security? whose prosperity?

Which is closer to your vision of North America?

Vision A: Three interdependent countries with vibrant social movements, respect for labor rights, and environmentally sustainable economies anchored in provision of social needs and respect for cultural autonomy?

Or Vision B: An unequal alliance dominated by the United States, complete with pumped up oil and gas production, increasing militarization, corporate transnational planning groups, and guest worker programs to ensure cheap, vulnerable labor?

If your answer is Vision A, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that [Read More...]

by Katherine Sciacchitano | www.dollarsandsense.org

Obama and Clinton battle on

A bizarre debate in Pennsylvania

New York — “ULTIMATE FIGHTING”, a free-for-all of boxing, kicks and wrestling maneuvers, has made sweeping gains in American sport viewing, largely at the expense of traditional boxing. Perhaps ABC News has been taking note. The television network hosted the 21st debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton of the primary season, and the last before their important primary in Pennsylvania on April 22nd. Rather than focus on health care or Iraq, as previous debates have, the moderators [Read more…]
From Economist.com | published: 17 April 2008

Posters of Naked Women Fail to Draw Real Naked Women to Dorm Room

BRAMP, KS—A trio of posters depicting scantily clad women, hung recently in a Bramp State University dorm room, have been found to have “little to no effect” in facilitating the presence of actual naked women in that room, a Bramp State housing department study reports.

The posters, manufactured by alcoholic beverage companies as promotional items, were intended to establish a fun, party-like atmosphere, in which the presence of naked women would be suggested and encouraged. But their actual effect was “minimal if not entirely nonexistent,” the study’s findings indicate.

“The thinking was that these posters would set a tone, [Read More Story…]

Posted: by www.theonion.com | 25 September 1996