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Just a month ago, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was completing a bizarre run from 6,800 to 8,800, following the monster decline from 14,000 less than a year ago. Aside from the obvious “dead cat bounce” phenomenon, the market (helped, of course, by the omnipresent PPT) was aglow with dreams of “green shoots of economic recovery”, a propagandist platform created by a combination of Washington, Wall Street, and scheming media outlets such as CNBC. There was no real evidence of such a recovery (even in “massaged” government figures), other than that the freefall of economic activity that commenced last autumn had started to slow to a more normalized decline, hardly what I would call reason for excitement. And given the major bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler that have occurred since then, as well as continued... [read full story]
Canwest News ServiceNovember 26, 2009 Photograph by: Brett Gundlock, National Post TORONTO — Top officials at the Toronto Humane Society and its board of directors have been charged in an ongoing investigation into animal...
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Chandraneru Chandrakanthan who had spent three days in Thailand meeting Eezham Tamils who had sought refugee with Thailand UNCHR authorities said that nearly 4000 of them are facing...
A two day national forum on orphans and vulnerable children, organised by world initiative for orphans (WIO), is currently underway at Paradise Suites Hotel. The forum started on Monday 23rd November 2009, with the theme...
From Staff Reports Dalton Daily Citizen The preliminary unadjusted unemployment rate in the metro Dalton area rose to 12.9 percent in October, up six-tenths of one percentage point from a revised 12.3 percent in September, the...
