Unemployment at 5-Year High as U.S. Loses 84,000 Jobs
The Job Losses Were Higher Than Economists Expected
Sept. 5, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled economy is inflicting on workers and businesses alike.
The Labor Department’s report, released Friday, showed the increasing toll the housing, credit and financial crises are taking on the economy.
The report was sure to rattle Wall Street again. All the major stock indexes tumbled into bear territory Thursday as investors lost hope of a late-year recovery.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=5733848&page=1
$100 fill-ups arrive at gas pumps
updated 8:53 p.m. EDT, Wed April 23, 2008
COALINGA, California (CNN) – Noel Bosse and Ken Davis watch as the numbers keep spinning at the gas pump — 70 bucks, 80 bucks. Gulp, guzzle, then it stops: $101 for about 25 gallons.
BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions
Page last updated at 17:25 GMT, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 18:25 UK
A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.
McCain: We’ll Look Back On Iraq As An Academic Argument
Jason Linkins
The Huffingto Post
April 16, 2008 12:13 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/mccain-well-look-back-on_n_96979.html
Cheney And Halliburton Hold Title – Top Earners In Iraq
World Prout Assembly
By Evelyn Pringle
31 March, 2006
Countercurrents.orgThere has never been an investigation into Cheney’s involvement in awarding Halliburton no-bid contracts making the company the number one war profiteerer in Iraq. Apparently people have forgotten about the March 5, 2003 e-mail between the Army Corps of Engineers and a Pentagon employee that stated the contract “has been coordinated w VP’s office…”
http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2006/03/cheney_and_hall.html
Cheney Promises Georgia 1 Billion More Indebtedness to USA
the International Institute of Nonviolence
News&Opinion
By: Rev. Jermano
by djermano | September 3, 2008 at 09:36 pm |
Republican VP Dick Cheney is on his rounds to do more in destroying creditability of the USA by going to Georgia and promising 1 billion in aid after Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili waged war on innocent civilians in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Just where is Dick getting this 1 billion from? Most assuredly from the American taxpayers. The phoney war on terror has cost American tax payers its highest debt in US history…
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/cheney-promises-georgia-1-billion-more-indebtedness-usa-0
US ‘to modernise Polish military’
BBC NEWS
Last Updated: Monday, 10 March 2008, 17:22 GMT
The US has agreed to help modernise Poland’s military as part of a deal to base 10 missile defence interceptors on Polish soil.
President George W Bush made the promise during talks with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Washington…
Are WE there yet??
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