NEWSMAX / AP: Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream. Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and […]
Month: July 2013
USA Today: “U.S. roads, bridges are decaying despite stimulus influx”
According to an article published in USA Today, the condition of only 30% of Pennsylvania road is rated “good”; 43% “fair” and 27% “poor.”; 24% of the state’s bridges are considered “deficient.”
Europe should let go of hopeless causes
FINANCIAL TIMES Column: …America matches this toughness with love. In the US, taking a risk and failing is not the end: there is honour in getting back up. Bankruptcy offers a new chance, and the culturally favoured response is to keep fighting. American economic dynamism owes much to this forgiving attitude to risk-taking. Europeans regard […]
US economy takes Olympic leap to add 3% to GDP
FINANCIAL TIMES: US economic history will be rewritten this week, as the most far-reaching methodological changes in years will add the equivalent of a country the size of Belgium to output in the world’s largest economy. The most important change by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, to be announced on Wednesday, will be to start […]
Spanish Train Driver Francisco Garzon Charged With 79 Counts Of Homicide
HUFFINGTON POST / REUTERS: The driver of a Spanish high-speed train that derailed and killed 79 people was released pending trial on charges of reckless homicide, a judge ruled on Sunday night… Examining Magistrate Luis Alaez formally charged Garzon with “79 counts of homicide and numerous offences of bodily harm, all of them committed through […]
Trayvon Martin, O.J. Simpson and the Remedy for Injustice
The important thing to remember here is that Stand Your Ground laws aren’t the result of grassroots activism sparked by an expanded desire for citizen self-defense. They are a national product pushed by allies of the gun lobby.
China’s curious limited version of democracy
TORONTO STAR Column: Plans for constructing a nuclear processing plant in China’s Guangdong province have been shelved after demonstrations earlier this month. The people spoke and the authorities caved in. The demonstrators engaged in nothing more than what the organizers called “an innocent stroll.” Yet they defeated a project that would have provided enough fuel […]
How the Corbett Administration is diverting state funds to bail out Harrisburg
For months observers of Harrisburg’s bond debt crisis have wondered what incentives could possibly be offered to bond insurer Assured Guaranty Municipal (AGM) to get the firm to go along with a bailout deal and not drive Pennsylvania’s debt-sodden capital city into bankruptcy court.
Worries Mount as Syria Lures West’s Muslims
NEW YORK TIMES: A rising number of radicalized young Muslims with Western passports are traveling to Syria to fight with the rebels against the government of Bashar al-Assad, raising fears among American and European intelligence officials of a new terrorist threat when the fighters return home. More Westerners are now fighting in Syria than fought […]
World War II responsible for loss of full time jobs
An article in the Lancaster Sunday News entitled “Trend raises concerns about full-time work with benefits” reports: “Between 2009 and 2013, the number of temporary jobs available in Lancaster County grew by 50 percent. That’s four times the national average, and large enough to rank Lancaster ninth among the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the nation for its share of temporary jobs.”
LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS
First of all, what does LGH consider “true cost of care”? They have set rates that way overcharge those without insurance while offering say 25% discount to the Amish and greater discounts to health insurance companies.
Pursuing justice in a forgotten land
LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS Column: …When my congregation [Reform Jewish Shaarai Shomayim] first began doing what we call “Mitzvah Trips,” we went to the Katrina-devastated Gulf Coast. The work was hard but gratifying.
Israel to release 104 Palestinian prisoners
ALJAZEERA: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said that Israel will free 104 Palestinian prisoners to coincide with the resumption of long-stalled peace talks. “I agreed to free 104 Palestinians in stages, after the start of negotiations and according to progress,” he wrote on his official Facebook page on Saturday evening. Israel’s cabinet is expected to […]
1,000 detainees escape from Al-Kuifiya prison near eastern Libyan city
ALJAZEERA: …”Special forces called in as reinforcements were given orders not to fire at the prisoners.”… The official said most of the escapees were common law detainees, including nationals of other African states. “But some of them were detainees in cases linked to the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi,” he said.. (more)