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Unemployment data manipulated: True figures show nearly 102 million working-age Americans jobless


RT
Mon, 05 May 2014 08:27 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Chip Somodevilla
A woman stands in line with some of the 1,500 people seeking employment during a job fair at the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, DC
Although the US unemployment rate has declined, more and more Americans are choosing to opt out of the labor market altogether and no longer even figure in the employment data.

Efforts by the Obama administration to dress up the employment picture are a bit like attempting to stuff a circus elephant into a ballerina costume. As Washington trumpets last month's drop in the unemployment rate (6.3 percent), it has quietly moved more than 988,000 Americans into the "not participating in the labor force" column.

If you add the current number of Americans without a job (9.75 million) to the number of US citizens not in the labor force (92.02), you come up with 101.77 million working age Americans who do not have work, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Now compare that figure to April 2000, when 5.48 million Americans were unemployed and 69.27 million Americans were not participating in the labor market. The number of Americans 14 years ago without work was 74.75 million. That means that the number of working age Americans without a job has risen by 27 million since the year 2000. However Washington wishes to fudge data that is bad news for the Obama administration.
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More police officers have died from 9/11-related illnesses than on the scene at Ground Zero


RT
Wed, 07 May 2014 08:06 UTC
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© Reuters / Peter Morgan
A police car sits amid rubble near the base of the destroyed World Trade Center towers in New York on September 11, 2001.
More police officers have now died as a result of illnesses blamed on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks than the number of cops killed during the actual event as the tragedy unfolded 12-and-a-half years ago.

On Tuesday this week, 20 new names were added to the New York State Police Officers' Memorial in Albany, NY, including 13 individuals who died in recent years due to 9/11-related illnesses. The Associated Press reported that authorities attribute those 13 deaths to cancers caused by rescue and recovery efforts in Lower Manhattan after the World Trade Center collapsed more than a decade ago.

All told, the memorial in the New York state capital now contains the names of 71 officers who died due to 9/11-related illnesses. The actual terrorist attack itself claimed the lives of 60 cops, and nearly 3,000 civilians.

"I live near the World Trade Center. I inhaled the toxic smoke that permeated every square inch of lower Manhattan," New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said at Tuesday's ceremony, the AP reported. "I know how nobly and heroically the NYPD carried out their duties on that tragic September day and the terrible days that followed."
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Medieval Saudi Court sentences web manager to 10 yrs. in jail, 1000 lashes


Fars News
Thu, 08 May 2014 06:37 UTC
Raif Badawi
© Unknown
Raif Badawi, who started the "Free Saudi Liberals" website was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1000 lashes. Free speech is not something that is appreciated in Saudi Arabia, the great US ally.
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced the editor of an internet forum founded to discuss the role of Wahhabis' ruling in the conservative kingdom to 10 years in jail and 1000 lashes, Saudi media reported.

Raif Badawi, who started the "Free Saudi Liberals" website, was originally sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes in July last year, but an appeals court overturned the sentence and ordered a retrial, Al-Alam reported.

Apart from imposing a stiffer sentence on Badawi in his retrial, the judge at the criminal court in the Red Sea City of Jeddah also fined him one million riyals ($285,000). Badawi's website has been closed since his first trial.

His lawyers said Wednesday's sentence was too harsh, although the prosecutor had demanded a harsher penalty, news website Sabq reported.

The prosecution had demanded that Badawi be tried for apostasy, a charge which carries the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. The judge in last year's trial had dismissed the apostasy charges.

Badawi was arrested in June 2012 and charged with cyber crime and disobeying his father - a crime in Saudi Arabia.

His website included articles that were critical of senior religious figures such as Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, according to Human Rights Watch.

Comment: Neither Obama or Kerry or their recent visits to Saudi Arabia mentioned human rights, because Saudi Arabia is our great ally and are helping us bring tyranny democracy to the Middle East.

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Odessa tragedy survivor tells how 'many people were strangled after escaping the fire'


RT
Thu, 08 May 2014 03:33 UTC
Odessa survivor
© RT
Tatyana Ivananko, Odessa massacre survivor
Radicals set the building with innocent people inside on fire in Odessa, then strangled the survivors and finished them with bats, while police did nothing to prevent the bloodshed. That's the scary picture a survivor of the massacre told RT.

"First of all, nobody expected such cruelty, and secondly, it was too late to escape," Tatyana Ivananko told RT's correspondent Alexey Yaroshevsky about the Odessa tragedy on May 2, after which at least 46 people died in flames, when radicals set ablaze the local House of Trade Unions with anti-government protesters trapped inside.

According to the witness, pro-autonomy activists wanted to hide from the radicals by barricading themselves in the building.

"On our way up the stairs, we were taking plywood sheets inside so that we could block the doors and prevent them from getting into the building," she says.

Comment: So most of the so-called independent experts will come from the US. How can that be independent? There are numerous examples of these enquiries, that serve only to whitewash unsavoury events and justify the agenda of the PTB.

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U.S. Navy system admin hacked 220,000 sailors from inside nuclear carrier


RT
Thu, 08 May 2014 03:20 UTC
Hacking computer
© Reuters/Kacper Pempel
A former systems administrator who worked for the US Navy's nuclear reactor department is accused of infiltrating government networks using the Navy's own computers and posting links to the materials he found on Twitter.

Nicholas Paul Knight, 27, was allegedly the leading member of a blackhat hacker group, along with Daniel Trenton Krueger, 20, that called itself Team Digi7al. The group, according to court papers obtained by The Register, was a "criminal association organized to hack protected computers, steal sensitive and private information, make unauthorized public disclosures of that stolen...information and commit various others crimes related to its hacking activities."

Prosecutors say the pair, with help from other members of Team Digi7al, hacked the Navy's SWM database, which held information about 220,000 Navy sailors. Others alleged targets included the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a military mapping agency, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a government-run developer that build the atomic bombs dropped during World War II.

Knight, a Virginia native, has been portrayed as the group's ringleader in part because of the prosecution's claim that he attacked a Navy database during while on active duty serving aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, one of the Navy's ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

"Knight called himself a 'nuclear black hat' who fought for the people of the United States, not the government," prosecutors said, adding that Knight said he led the hack "out of boredom" while another said they did so because it was "fun, and we can."
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New app to enable the impoverished to benefit from the excess greed of the rich by buying their food scraps before they toss it

Alison Spiegel
The Huffington Post
Thu, 01 May 2014 21:13 UTC
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"Good food is a terrible thing to waste." So reads the opening quote on PareUp's website. PareUp is a new app that aims to connect consumers to restaurants and food shops with excess food. Before retailers throw away food, they alert PareUp users and offer the extra food at a discounted price.

In a country that wastes between 30 and 40 percent of its food, PareUp is an app that is sorely needed.

PareUp is the brainchild of Margaret Tung, Jason Chen and Anuj Jhunjhunwala. The founders identified the common issue of throwing away unused food at home, and wanted to help chronic food wasters make good use of food doomed for the trash. They realized the worst offenders, restaurants and food stores, were also the best targets for change. What if restaurants could profit off excess food by selling it instead of throwing it away? Wouldn't consumers be interested in food sold at discounted prices? Thus PareUp was founded and an app is set to launch by the end of the summer.
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New details emerging into disturbing dead animals case in Nevada County

Jennifer Kastner
JRN.com
Wed, 07 May 2014 18:13 UTC

New information is emerging into the bizarre case involving dead animals found in a vacant Pahrump home.

Investigators are now saying the dogs were carefully wrapped up and placed in an unplugged refrigerator outside.

Whoever is responsible for the disturbing act is still on the loose.

The behavior really worries animal control. If that suspect is capable of doing that to pets, what could they do to the human population?

Action News finally got some paperwork from animal control on Wednesday, showing they have been called out the home half a dozen times before this all blew up last Friday when the dogs were found in the fridge.
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NYPD sued for raiding dead man's apartment at least 12 times, trying to arrest him


RT
Tue, 06 May 2014 20:07 UTC
NYPD
© Reuters/Gary Hershorn
The New York Police Department keeps raiding a man's apartment, thinking they have him dead-to-rights with an arrest warrant. Except the man has been dead since 2006. Now his widow is suing the NYPD to get them to stop.

Karen Fennell says NYPD officers have raided her Brooklyn apartment at least a dozen times since her husband, James Jordan Sr., died, including four times already this year. The raids were happening so frequently that Fennell was "forced to take the extraordinary step of affixing James E. Jordan's Death Certificate on their front door indicating that James E. Jordan passed away in March 2006," the lawsuit says.

But still, the raids did not stop.

"On virtually each and every occasion that defendant officers unlawfully entered into the plaintiffs' home, they proceeded to perform a warrantless search of the said home," the suit continued.

"I tell them over and over, 'James isn't here! He's dead! It's that simple. What's so difficult to understand about that?' " Fennell told the New York Post. But the cops still enter and ransack the house. "They tell me to be quiet or they'll lock me up. So they go through my entire house, turning out drawers, looking in closets, harassing my children and asking them terrible questions."

"I can't hide anyone in my apartment. It's not big enough for that," she said. "But they keep coming and insisting that he's in my house."
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UK child mortality rate one of the highest in Western Europe


RT
Sun, 04 May 2014 17:24 UTC
baby incubator
© AFP/Gabriel Bouys
Britain has one of the highest mortality rates in Western Europe for children under five, new research has revealed. Experts say factors like poverty, deprivation and smoking during pregnancy contributed to the premature deaths of 3,000 children in 2012.

Infants born in Great Britain are more likely to die before their fifth birthday than any other country in Western Europe, apart from Malta, according to a study by the University of Washington and published in the Lancet journal.

The study calculates the mortality rate at 4.9 deaths for every 1,000 births in the UK, which is 25 percent higher than the Western European average. The study's authors said they were surprised that a developed country that had pioneered a public health system had higher rates than poorer countries like Greece and Cyprus.

The UK's mortality rate is comparable with those of Poland and Serbia.
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33% of French willing to work on Sundays


The Connexion
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:46 UTC
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© Thelocal.fr
More than a third of French employees would be prepared to work on Sundays if the law was changed, a survey has said.

A total 33% said they would be willing to give up some of their Sundays in return for double pay. More than half (58%) said they would be prepared to work additional hours during the week if necessary.

Although that figure is down on a previous survey, the results of the study boost the case for foreign minister Laurent Fabius, who has called for shops to open on Sundays to boost tourism.

Tourism employs 7% of the total workforce in France, Mr Fabius told RTL, stressing the importance of the industry to the French economy.
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