April 25, 2010

1.  Since there were no planes on 9/11, there obviously were no pilots, so this is obviously the right result:

“ After 9 Years, 9/11 Wrongly Accused Pilot Wins Compensation | 911Blogger.com“

http://www.911blogger.com/node/23243

2.  “18 veterans commit suicide each day

Troubling new data show there are an average of 950 suicide attempts each month by veterans who are receiving some type of treatment from the Veterans Affairs Department.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/04/military_veterans_suicide_042210w/

3.   You could start by stop training them to kill:

“Fort Campbell tries to stop soldier suicides”

http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/04/24/fort-campbell-tries-to-stop-soldier-suicides/

4.  “Unemployment for Those Who Earn $150,000 or More is Only 3%, While Unemployment for the Poor is 31%

The study – published in February – notes that the poor are suffering Depression levels of unemployment:

Workers in the lowest income decile faced a Great Depression type unemployment rate of nearly 31% while those in the second lowest income decile had an unemployment rate slightly below 20% …. Unemployment rates fell steadily and steeply across the ten income deciles. Workers in the top two deciles of the income distribution faced unemployment rates of only 4.0 and 3.2 percent respectively, the equivalent of full employment. The relative size of the gap in unemployment rates between workers in the bottom and top income deciles was close to ten to one. Clearly, these two groups of workers occupy radically different types of labor markets in the U.S.

The study is subtitled “A Truly Great Depression Among the Nation’s Low Income Workers Amidst Full Employment Among the Most Affluent”.

Arianna Huffington, commenting on the study, pointed out that it if were the high-earners suffering 31 percent unemployment, the media would be discussing unemployment non-stop. But because it is the poor who are suffering Depression-level unemployment, they largely ignore it.”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/unemployment-for-those-who-earn-150000.html

5.  “More than 50% of US Government Spending Goes to the Military”

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18852

6.  “For $10 Billion of “Promises” Haiti Surrenders its Sovereignty

This “better” Haiti envisions some 25,000 farmers providing Coca-Cola with mangos for a new Odwalla brand drink, 100,000 workers assembling clothing and electronics for the U.S. market in sweatshops under HOPE II legislation, and thousands more finding jobs as guides, waiters, cleaners and drivers when Haiti becomes a new tourist destination.”

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18847