WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 35 million Americans received food stamps in June, up 22 percent from June 2008 and a new record as the country continued to grapple with the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The food stamp program, which helps cover the cost of groceries for one in nine Americans, has grown in step with the U.S. unemployment rate which stood at 9.4 percent in July.
The year was 1982 and America was the largest creditor nation on earth. By 2005, the U.S. was the largest debtor nation on earth. In 1980, the national debt had yet to eclipse the $1 trillion mark and had accumulated around $850 billion during the first 204 years of this republic. By 2007 or 24 years later, our debt had risen to more than $7 trillion and continues straight up.
Today, China alone purchases in excess of $1 billion… Continue
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BAGHDAD, Sept 2 (Reuters) - On Sept. 2, 2008, U.S. and Iraqi troops smashed in the doors of Iraqi journalist Ibrahim Jassam's home, shouting "freeze" and holding back snarling dogs before they hauled him off into the night in his underwear.
A year later, neither Jassam and his family nor global news agency Reuters, which employed him as a freelance TV cameraman and photographer, have been told exactly why he has been detained for all this time by U.S.… Continue
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Police use Taser on 76-year-old in a dispute about where to end procession
GLENROCK, Wyo. - Bud Grose seemed like the last person who should attract the attention of police when the 76-year-old retiree hopped on his antique tractor and rumbled through the annual parade in this small Wyoming town.
But what was supposed to be a day of fun at an end-of-summer festival ended abruptly when police shot Grose with a Taser in a dispute about where to end the parade… Continue
The Thousand Oaks Police Department is looking for a man who bit a finger off the left hand of a counter protester at a rally over health insurance reform Wednesday night. It happened around 7:30 PM at a pro health insurance reform rally at Hillcrest Drive and Lynn Road that was sponsored by Move On Dot Org. Deputies say that during the rally a group of counter protesters showed up across the street. At one point there was a disturbance and it was during that disturbance… Continue
Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, a medical ethics watchdog has alleged.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a not-for-profit group that has investigated the role of medical personnel in alleged incidents of torture at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and other US detention sites, accuses doctors of being far more involved than hitherto… Continue
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>>>>> MARKLAR: Holy crap, now THAT's funny.This should be posted six times on every web site. Radio telescopes should be beaming this into space to make first contact. Satellites should be beaming it directly into the brains of government mind control subjects. New cities and a new religion should be built around it. Also, best dance moves…
Treasury Retreats From Standoff With TARP Watchdog
By EVAN PEREZ and DEBORAH SOLOMON
WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department backed away from a standoff over the independence of the special government watchdog appointed to scrutinize how last year's $700 billion… Continue
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Cybersecurity Act Returns With a Fresh Coat of Paint
Commentary by Richard Esguerra
In April, we voiced serious concerns about the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, a bill by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME), that sought to give the federal government unprecedented power over the Internet. For months, the bill has been… Continue
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September 01, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Henry Kissinger once referred to military service people as ‘dumb, stupid animals to be used’ as tools of foreign policy. One wonders if this man of no regrets nevertheless wishes he had not vocalized what in fact has been the position of successive US governments including the present one?… Continue
Another poll released today by CNN and Opinion Research Corporation (PDF) showed opposition to the war in Afghanistan continues to rise among Americans. Last month’s release of the same poll pointed to 54% of Americans against the war, and the number has now risen to 57%.
In spite of the opposition to the war, a majority of Americans (59%) believe that the war is still winnable, though apparently many feel the cost of the hypothetical… Continue
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Save Our Rivers Society is pleased to present a new three-minute video by filmmaker Damien Gillis,which summarizes for all British Columbians the critical battle now raging over our rivers and historic public power system.
The video, entitled "BC's Watershed Election," is designed to introduce to a broader audience, across BC's multi-cultural communities, the until-recently secretive push to hand over BC's most valuable assets - our rivers and energy security - to some of the… Continue
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Gordon Campbell (Liberals, NDP, and the so many other parties have never tried to abolish NAFTA, they have helped Elite corporations continue with agreements such as TILMA, SPP, that take control of our resources and leave us high and dry.
Sold us on on our BC Ferries, our Railways, and the list goes on.
Gordon Campbell wants to privatize our rivers enabling the sale of our water and power resources to the Elite Corporations that continue to dictate their best interest.… Continue
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Increasing minimum wage still does not benefit workers, if he/she still working part time.
Another is that we will re-enegotiate with the feds the payroll tax known as employment or unemployment insurance so that business and labour are not burdened with the excessive insurance [ taxation].
Last time I checked there was $45billion in the fund.....mostly paper numbers as the government squanders our insurance on the many boondoggles we see over… Continue
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B.C. Refed candidate Dallas Hills answers our questions
Alberni Valley Times
Weighing in on the issues
1. How would you propose that the unfair balance of the responsibilities that municipalities have between infrastructure they maintain and the portion of taxes they receive be addressed? Would you support more of the gas tax going to cities and towns?
Our party represents one major concern. We need to take back our federal income tax money, that's… Continue
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The information below I sent out on mass emails and now many have researched this, I do not take all the credit, but just educating one person has led this person to do there own research and find the truth.
I read an article on a web site that a man named Doug Yurchey said this appeared inside his Outlook Express e-mailbox and much of what he wrote was my email that I mass emailed. Figure that.
DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...