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It’s Jihad, Not Joblessness Causing Rioting by Robert Spencer HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE Why have the French riots happened? From many accounts one would think that the riots have been caused by France’s failure to implement Marxism. “The unrest,” AP explained, has highlighted the division between France’s big cities and their poor suburbs, with frustration simmering in the housing projects in areas marked by high unemployment, crime and poverty.” Others have blamed France’s failure to integrate Muslims into French society. However, this has been a policy on which both Muslims and non-Muslims in France have agreed. In her seminal Eurabia: The...

http://illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=19047OPINION -- Have you heard that our “shaky, jobless recovery” is threatening to come to a halt? That is utterly wrong, according to a whistle-blowing Ph.D. who demonstrates how employment reports, used of late as Weapons of Mass Depiction against D.C. Republicans, are misleading us.In an August 7 Chicago Tribune article, “Hiring fizzles in July,” reporter William Neikirk began, “Employers put the brakes on hiring last month, adding a scant 32,000 jobs to their payrolls, the government said Friday in a report that roiled the presidential race.” Note how the supposedly low job increase translates into... what result? Why, the...

The jobs crisis and the GOP Posted: March 10, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. President Bush and his advisers are puzzled and worried. Economic liftoff took place right on schedule in July when the tax cuts took effect. In the last six months of 2003, the economy blazed along on a growth path of 6 percent. But where are the jobs? Last week's jobs report, with hundreds of thousands giving up the search for work, and manufacturing jobs disappearing for the 43rd straight month, jolted the White House. What is going on? They're calling it a...

  Politics - Reuters Edwards Seizes on Job Numbers in Bid to Oust Bush 13 minutes ago Add Politics - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Jeremy Pelofsky BLACKSBURY, Va. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards (news - web sites) on Friday seized on the latest economic data that showed fewer jobs were created last month than expected to press his campaign to oust the Bush administration. Reuters Photo Latest headlines: · Kerry Nominations, Donations Coincided AP - 12 minutes ago · Edwards Seizes on Job Numbers in Bid to Oust BushReuters - 13 minutes ago · Kerry's Front-Runner...

<p>BATON ROUGE - Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster will end two scandal-free terms Jan. 12, leaving an eight-year legacy of clean government and improved funding and attention to public schools. But he likely will be remembered for failing to address major problems in health care and missing key economic development opportunities for a state still struggling with intense poverty and joblessness.</p>

National Suicide I Diane Alden Monday, Dec. 15, 2003 We are committing national suicide. Forget the politicians and even conservatives who are caught up the power politics in the New York-Washington nexus. They are no help. It is OUR failure as citizens of the states to address certain basic issues that have us on the ropes. Those issues include: *Reforming the judicial oligarchy even if it requires a constitutional amendment. We will lose this nation and what is left of the Bill of Rights and Constitution if we don't. In 1996, some of our very best, including men like Judge...

Unemployed in Kentucky Candidates are on shaky ground when flinging economic blame By Ryan Alessi and Jack Brammer HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU FRANKFORT - After 28 years at ATR Wire & Cable Co. in Danville, Ruth Cooley got a rude shock last February: The company was shutting down, and her $13.55-an-hour job inspecting steel tire cord was about to disappear. "They called all of us into the cafeteria, gave us a 60-day notice, and that was that. No severance pay, no more health insurance, no nothing," said the 58-year-old Cooley. She's now studying for a high school equivalency diploma and searching...

A QUICK QUIZ. What does a company bleeding red ink in the cutthroat PC industry do with spare cash that it nets from laying off its employees and outsourcing the jobs to India?* Answer: HP goes shopping! Yes, HP, that computing once-giant that appears to be busily shedding its staff as fast as the new 9500 series can print out pink slips in vividly color matched shades is on a shopping spree. And what's HP buying? Executoys of course.

Workers who Feel Discarded By BOB HERBERT [I] 've gone through a few stages of depression and frustration," said Dina Ziskin, who is 31 and lives in Brooklyn. "Why is it taking me so long? I panic a lot. I did not think it would be this difficult to find a job." "I can't tell you the number of divorces we hear about," said Janelle Razzino, who runs an executive search firm in Westwood, N.J. "The job loss in these cases was probably the final straw. Nobody needs that kind of pressure, stress, whatever." "It's like someone ran an electric...

Business: World's jobless rate reaches 180 million Copyright © 2003 AP Online By JONATHAN FOWLER, Associated Press GENEVA (January 24, 2003 7:34 a.m. EST) - The number of jobless worldwide has risen by 20 million people over the past two years and hundreds of millions more are employed but make so little money they can barely survive, the United Nations labor agency said Friday. "The world employment situation is alarming," said Claire Harasty, senior economist at the International Labor Organization, launching the 108-page Global Employment Trends report. "After two years of economic slowdown and delayed recovery we estimate that...