Police State USA : G20 protesters blasted by sonic cannon: US police spark outrage by using wartime acoustic weapon to disperse G20 protesters in Pittsburgh U.S. debate on health care is a warning to Canadians: I'm inclined to believe the fierce resistance to health-care reform in the United States is the work of a small fringe. The other possibility is that there's something deep in the psyche of Americans that drives them to defend to the death their right to deny health care to millions of their fellow citizens. U.S. job seekers exceed openings by record ratio: Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in 2000. According to the Labor Department’s latest numbers, from July, only 2.4 million full-time permanent jobs were open, with 14.5 million people officially unemployed. 35 Million Americans on Food Stamps: 12 Percent of U.S. Population on Food Stamps Highest Since Records Kept in 1969. Top 1% got 2/3 of all U.S. income gains - 2002-07: Gap between top 1% and bottom 90% now worse than at any time since 1928.
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
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