The Bad News Behind a Falling Jobless Rate
Rick Newman, On Friday January 7, 2011, 12:15 pm EST
It sounds like welcome news. The unemployment rate dropped from 9.8 percent
to 9.4 percent, the sharpest one-month drop since 1998. After months of
grim news about jobs, it finally seems like
The attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a Tucson shooting
rampage that left six people dead and scores wounded should be a wake up
call about the political volatility of the country.
OK?
Invective: abusive or violent language used to attack, blame, or denounce
(Note: it would be interesting to chart the actual number of individuals
involved in auto production – per vehicle, from say 1984 when the industry
recovered from the “downturn” bookmarked as Chrysler declaring bankruptcy in
the third quarter of 1979, to today, January 2011).
WL.
It would perhaps be educational to look up the role of force in history
versus the politically incorrect concept - from the standpoint of Marxism,
the role of violence. Force is simultaneously a political power and
economic power.
Violence is not. That is to say violence is not an economic
*Statement from New Socialist Initiative (NSI), Delhi:*
*Justice for Aasia Bibi; Speedy Trial of Salman Taseer’s Killers*
History is said to be made when humanity has tried to break asunder forces
of unreason, irrationality, bigotry, intolerance and reaction which keep
reappearing in newer forms
Comrades,
Tried to send this earlier, but the email was 'put to moderation' ... don't
know why!
Some of us, in Delhi, have issued a statement on the assassination of Salman
Taseer in Pakistan. We understand that fundamentalists' 'rise' in one part
of South Asia reinforces 'rise' of
