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Timeline of job losses at link. It's interesting to watch it county by county. http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

"The General Assembly today adopted... a moratorium on executions to be established in all States that still maintain the death penalty..." United Nations. "From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death... I feel... obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed." Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, appointed by President Nixon and author of the Roe v Wade decision. "I cannot say it more eloquently than Justice Blackmun... I must act... today I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates... I will sleep well knowing I made the right decision."...

"We're seeing the natural consequences of unbridled corporate power to reduce wages and benefits. That's why people are working two jobs and still cannot afford food." - Karen Nussbaum, a director with the AFL-CIO, as quoted by CNN in 2004. Source: Dr. Mark J. Perry, Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, from his web site, Carpe Diem. Hoven's Index for September 23, 2009 Percentage of households classified as "poor" by the Census Bureau who have a color television: 97%. Percent of poor with air conditioning: 76%. Percent of poor who have cable or satellite TV: 62%. Percent of...

The Great Depression, the Carter Stagflation, and the Bush-Obama Downturn all follow a pattern that is striking: The economic peaks are separated by almost exactly 35 years. There are also suggestive patterns in politics, military affairs, and technology, all of which are tied into the repeating pattern. Perhaps we can use this to see where we are and where we will go financially, politically, and technologically.

U.S., China Seek Healthier Relationship By MARK GONGLOFF MARCH 13, 2009 AHEAD OF THE TAPE Wall Street Journal Us Trade Deficit with China going down ? LOOK AGAIN.

Robert Reich's controversial comment about white male construction workers stirs up tangible anger.

AFRICAN AMERICANS, INDEPENDENTS, DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS COMPLETELY AGREE, COMPLETELY DISAGREE... Looking at the reaction of a MediaCurves focus group of 709 viewers to Sen. Barack Obama's race speech in which he took on the issue of his controversial pastor, Rev. Jeremiah C. Wright, it's once again interesting to see the racial divide in how the speech was received. It's the same racial split Obama so deftly described in his speech. Blacks who took part of the survey had higher levels of agreement with Obama than non-blacks. And Democrats had more favorable impressions of the snippets of the speech they were shown...