U.S. unemployment soars to 9.6% after economy loses 54,000 jobs
Daily Mail Friday, September 3, 2010 The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 9.6 per cent in August, official figures released today have shown.
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U.S. unemployment soars to 9.6% after economy loses 54,000 jobs
Group Attacks Google Privacy, Schmidt with Times Square Ad
Chloe Albanesius PC Mag Friday, September 3, 2010 Just in time for the holiday weekend, a California-based consumer group has purchased space on a Times Square jumbotron to display a video that attacks Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his company’s privacy policies. The effort is part of Consumer Watchdog’s “Don’t Track Me” campaign, which is pushing Congress to pass legislation that would create a list of consumers who do not want Internet companies tracking their online activities – much like the “do not call” list bans unsolicited telemarketing calls. “We’re satirizing Schmidt in the most highly-trafficked public square in the nation to make the public aware of how out of touch Schmidt and Google are when it comes to our privacy rights,” Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, said in a statement.
Policewoman Who Warned Of “Beat Whitey Night” Reassigned
DANIEL P. FINNEY Des Moines Register Friday, September 3, 2010 Des Moines Police Chief Judy Bradshaw reassigned her department’s spokeswoman Thursday, two weeks after Sgt. Lori Lavorato said it was “very possible” fights near the Iowa State Fairgrounds had racial overtones
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120 Days to Go Until the Largest Tax Hikes in History
Ryan Ellis ATR.org Friday, September 3, 2010 In just 120 days, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011: First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011: Personal income tax rates will rise . The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise. Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as higher marginal tax rates. The full list of marginal rate hikes is below: – The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15% – The 25% bracket rises to 28% – The 28% bracket rises to 31% – The 33% bracket rises to 36% – The 35% bracket rises to 39.6% Higher taxes on marriage and family. The “marriage penalty” (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income. The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child. The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level. The dependent care tax credit will be cut. The return of the Death Tax.
Conspiracy Theories Spread Violence, Claims Government Propagandist
Demos member who authored report calling for conspiracy websites to be infiltrated in order to “increase trust in government” tries to belittle online backlash, but only serves to reinforce the fact that Demos is a PR firm for the British state Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, September 3, 2010 One of the authors of a report which called for the authorities to infiltrate conspiracy websites in a bid to “increase trust in the government” has responded to an online backlash by claiming conspiracy theories, and not the government, are responsible for spreading lies and distrust which ultimately lead to violence. As we highlighted on Monday , a report published by the UK think tank Demos called The Power of Unreason encouraged the government to “fight back” against conspiracy theories by infiltrating websites in an effort to restore confidence in the state and discredit evidence of government complicity in the 7/7 and 9/11 terror attacks.
The True Cost of the War
Paul Craig Roberts Prison Planet.com Friday, September 3, 2010 Obama’s “end of Iraq war” speech must have shattered any remaining belief in him. Forced to appease both his supporters and the warmonger right-wing, who denounce him as a Muslim and a Marxist, Obama resorted to Orwellian DoubleSpeak. He could only announce an end to the war by praising the president who started it and the troops who fought it. Yet, as most earthlings, if not Americans, surely know by now, the war was based on a lie and on intentional deception.
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Environmental terrorism: Alive, well and dangerous
William D. Zeranski American Thinker Friday, September 3, 2010 “Environmental Doom or the Human Race is Bad to Have Around” should have been the title of James J.
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Discovery Gunman James Lee’s Sordid Past as a Human Smuggler
RUSSELL GOLDMAN, LEE FERRAN, PIERRE THOMAS and JASON RYAN ABC News Friday, September 3, 2010 James Lee, the bomb-laden gunman who was killed by police in the lobby of the Discovery Channel, was once convicted and imprisoned for smuggling illegal immigrants into the country from Mexico. The revelation that Lee had once smuggled illegals contrasts sharply with a hate-filled manifesto he left behind in which he describes illegal immigrants as “disgusting filth” and their children as “anchor baby filth.” As his smuggling history came to light, new details emerged about Lee’s deadly confrontation with police on Wednesday.