Posts Tagged ‘debt ceiling’

Jobs Report, Murdoch and Unions, etc.

(1) BLS July Jobs Report: The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Employment Situation Summary today, and it is pretty dismal. Total non-farm payroll employment rose by a mere 117,000. Though the unemployment rate went down ever so slightly, in fact the percentage of people employed is at a new low, according to Dean Baker ...Read more.

Satan Sandwich; Boeing; Meteorologists

(1) Debt Deal as a “Satan Sandwich”: As Vishay Prashad reports in a good article on the debt “crisis” and deal in Counterpunch, Emanuel Cleaver, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the deal to lift the debt-ceiling a “sugar-coated Satan Sandwich.”  Indeed. (We know what he really wanted to call it.) We just posted ...Read more.

Debt Ceiling, Prisoners, Norway, etc.

(1) Fortress Europe and Europeans Against Multiculturalism: A couple of links relevant to the atrocious attack last Friday in Norway, which is clearly the tip of an iceberg:  The first, Fortress Europe:  A Deadly Exodus, documents the more than 14,000 refugees who have died trying to enter Europe since 1988.  There’s an interactive map listing ...Read more.

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