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Flattus wrote: It's funny to watch Cons attempt to portray this disaster in Iraq as Obama's issue. Sorry, no sale. Thinking Americans know whose war this is. But it's not surprising to see you run from it.From Ron Paul's column today, referring to Necons:"They cannot admit they were wrong about the invasion being a ‘cakewalk’ that would pay for itself, so they want to blame last week's events on the 2011 US withdrawal from Iraq. But the trouble started with the 2003 invasion itself, not the 2011 troop withdrawal. Anyone who understands cause and effect should understand this."-- Welcome Our...

The media will no doubt trumpet the new 7.8% unemployment rate as evidence that Obama’s policies are working. Unfortunately the new 7.8% figure is a political fraud. The numbers don’t add up. The government claims 114,000 jobs were added last month, which isn’t all that great of a number. This resulted in a 0.3% drop in unemployment? That isn’t believable in the least. The ranks of the unemployed decreased by 456,000 last month. Well wait a minute, how does that figure decrease by so much when only 114,000 new jobs were created? The government is tossing 340,000+ people out of...

The number of people seeking work in Germany rose by 44,000 last month to about 4.46 million, the Federal Labour Office has reported citing seasonally adjusted figures. The figure is roughly in line with analysts' predictions. The underlying, unadjusted figures showed a decrease of 112,700 to slightly under the 4.5 million barrier at 4.495 million, making a rate of 10.8 percent against 11.1 percent for March. However, that fall is deceptive, as much of it can be put down to seasonal factors such as the construction sector hiring more workers after the usually slower winter months. The April figure was...