Year: 2015

YardFlex

A Jamaican detainee has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department in Boston, saying it pays hundreds of persons in custody only US$1.00 a day to mop floors, scrub toilets, and perform other janitorial duties at the jail.

His lawyers are seeking $4 million in unpaid wages over the last six years.   Continue reading “Jamaican detainee in Boston suing for more pay to clean jail”

Oregon Live – by Rob Davis

Dena Reynolds called everyone she thought could help.

A helicopter last July sprayed herbicides to control weeds on a forest clearcut a few hundred feet behind her house.

Soon, fumes enveloped her home, which sits on 40 acres in Douglas County, the heart of Oregon’s timber industry. Helicopters have sprayed weed killers there more frequently than in any other Oregon county in the last decade.   Continue reading “Oregon agriculture agency blew off another complaint about helicopter spraying weed killers”

RT

The China International Payment System (CIPS) is due to kick off this year, bringing the yuan a step closer to becoming a global trading currency, as the new system will make payment transfers just as easy as in dollars and euro.

The launch is expected in September or October, depending on how tests go, a source told Reuters. Another person with direct knowledge of the matter said the goal is to start the first phase before December, Reuters reported.   Continue reading “China’s mega international payment system is ready, will launch this year – report”

Mail.com

BOSTON (AP) — Charla Nash never served in the military. She was horribly disfigured, not in combat, but in a 2009 attack by a rampaging chimpanzee. The Pentagon, though, is watching her recovery closely.

The U.S. military paid for Nash’s full face transplant in 2011 and is underwriting her follow-up treatment at a combined cost estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, in the hope that some of the things it learns can help young, seriously disfigured soldiers returning from war.   Continue reading “US military hopes to learn from victim of chimp attack”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats on Tuesday accused Senate Republicans who signed a letter to Iran’s leadership of undermining President Barack Obama in international talks aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program and preventing the need for future military conflict.

In remarks on the Senate floor, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pronounced the letter reckless, much as it would have been for U.S. lawmakers to “reach out to the Vietnamese” a generation ago. He said he hoped it would not cause the negotiations to fail, adding that an attempt to avoid a nuclear-armed Iran “is something that should not be undermined for political ambition.”   Continue reading “Democrats denounce GOP letter on Iran nuke talks”

Paul Craig Roberts

According to the payroll jobs report today (March 6) the economy created 295,000 new jobs in February, dropping the rate of unemployment to 5.5%. However, the BLS also reported that the labor force participation rate fell and the number of people not in the labor force rose by 354,000.

In other words, the unemployment rate dropped because the labor force shrunk.

If the economy was in recovery, the labor force would be growing and the labor force participation rate would be rising.   Continue reading “Another Dubious Jobs Report”

Dissident Voice – by Jan Oberg

On March 3, 2015, The Telegraph and a few other major news surces broke the quite extraordinary story that the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee – the body that decides who is awarded the Prize – former Norwegian PM Thorbjoern Jagland had been demoted; it’s the first time it has ever happened.

It was during his chairmanship the will of Alfred Nobel was ignored most systematically; e.g., by awarding the world’s allegedly most prestigious prize to President Obama, the EU and Chinese human rights (but pro-war) Liu Xiaobo.   Continue reading “The Nobel Peace Prize Watch Has Been Launched”

Global Research

An Open Letter to the Republic of Iran from a cabal of 47 U.S. senators, written in the interests of the Israel lobby in Washington, on how ‘American democracy’ actually works to satisfy the demands of a foreign state to the detriment of the elected President of the United States and the vitally important current negotiations for peace being held by Iran, Britain, the United States, Russia, China, France and Germany, in Geneva.   Continue reading “The Republican Senators Push for World War III”

Truth Voice

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is not entitled to contest the forfeiture of an estimated $67 million in frozen assets because he’s a fugitive facing extradition, a federal judge ruled. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady comes even as Dotcom continues to fight his extradition from New Zealand to the United States.

The federal government has been pursuing claims against Megaupload and Dotcom for years, charging they are engaged in an international criminal conspiracy to profit from widespread copyright infringement and launder the proceeds. Prosecutors estimate Dotcom has defrauded copyright holders out of more than $500 million.   Continue reading “Kim Dotcom Can’t Fight $67M Asset Forfeiture”

Armstrong Economics – by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, do you believe there is a conspiracy to create a one world currency to which the central banks ascribe to?

Thank you, JE

ANSWER: No. That is thrown around by the real conspiracy theorists who see everything as a giant planned plot form people who are actually in control of something. This is very Marxist from the standpoint that government is capable of manipulating society all the time. They cannot see that this does not need to be some giant conspiracy to end-up there with some one-world government. Continue reading “The One-World Currency – Not Arriving Voluntarily”

Global Research – by Shadow Government Statistics

The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers.

The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.   Continue reading “Real U.S. Unemployment Rate at 23.2%, not 5.5%”

Global Research – by Prof. James Petras

There have been times when history has played tricks with man and…has magnified the features of essentially small persons into a parody of greatness.

Rabindranath Tagore(on Benito Mussolini)  

            How is it that the ruler (Benjamin Netanyahu) of a puny country (Israel) of 8.2 million (6.2 million Jews) with the 37^th biggest economy (GDP in current prices) in the world  dictates war policy and secures the willing submission of the legislature of the largest economy and most powerful military empire in the world?   Continue reading “Netanyahu: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered The Power of Israel over the United States”

Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

On Friday, we learned that the official “unemployment rate” has fallen to 5.5 percent. Since an unemployment rate of 5 percent is considered to be “full employment” by many economists, many in the mainstream media took this as a sign that the U.S. economy has almost fully “recovered” since the last recession.  In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, some Federal Reserve officials believe that “the U.S. economy is already at full employment“.  But how can this possibly be?  It certainly does not square with reality.  Personally, I know people that have been struggling with unemployment for years and that still cannot find a decent job.  And I get emails from readers all the time that are heartbroken because they are suffering through extended periods of unemployment.  So what in the world is going on?  How can the government be telling us that we are nearly at “full employment” when so many people can’t find work?  Could it be possible that the government numbers are misleading?   Continue reading “Nearly At ‘Full Employment’? 10 Reasons Why The Unemployment Numbers Are A Massive Lie”

Last Resistance – by Philip Hodges

As with most bills, its intended purpose is not what the Georgia bill actually accomplishes. The bill was supposed to place restrictions on police no-knock raids. But what it actually does is legalize them, because technically, police no-knock raids are already illegal in Georgia. That of course doesn’t stop police from executing them however. 11Alive reported:

The Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would restrict no-knock warrants by police.   Continue reading “Georgia Bill Legalizes Police No-Knock Raids”

Biometric Update – by Stephen Mayhew

First Tech Federal Credit Union and MasterCard will introduce a pilot program later this year that enables First Tech FCU members to authorize their financial transactions via biometric identification, according to a report by Credit Union Times.

“We are extremely pleased that MasterCard has chosen to partner with First Tech to pilot new payment methods,” said Terry Rodrick, vice president of cards and payments at First Tech. “Biometrics may seem very James Bond- like but the reality is fraudsters are very clever and resourceful. Our membership is technology based so I think we have the perfect population to really kick the tires and pressure test new ways of making purchases.”   Continue reading “MasterCard, First Tech FCU to pilot biometric identification program”