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Global Report - 29-October-2008
http://www.instablogs.com/ Foreigners laid off in Japanese downturn Foreigners who are among the first laborers in Japan to lose their jobs as the global financial crisis eats into demand for cars, trucks and motorcycles. The layoffs are the first evidence that the mushrooming economic meltdown in the United States and elsewhere which is shaking the Japanese labor market. At the core of the trend are hard times for the Japanese car industry. No. 1 producer Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan, Japan's third-largest automaker too is cutting back on domestic production. Most vulnerable to layoffs are the foreign workers who meet Japan's labor shortage as the country ages. Foreigners are often hired through temporary employment agencies, so they can be easily fired. They live in company housing, so they lose their apartments when they lose their jobs. There hasn't been a marked increase in homelessness, but anecdotes of foreigners having to move in with friends or relatives abound. Some foreign laborers have already abandoned Japan amid mounting troubles. Nepal's Child Soldiers Maoist child soldiers in Nepal are facing tough problems in terms o their reintegration with their respective families. Many of these child soldiers are struggling as civilians - having lost the power they once had as feared rebels and paying the price for their stance during the 10 year civil war. Almost 3,000 child soldiers, who have been confirmed as underage by the UN, are still living in Maoist camps across the country, with the former rebels afraid they will be re-recruited by other armed groups if they are released. There are specifically concerns that they might join other armed groups and there are people who, even if they came very late into the cantonments, have had some degree of physical and even military training there. Although UNICEF and other children's organisations have started working with child soldiers, both inside and outside the camps, to facilitate their return home. The process, however, is expected to be a tedious one. Child poverty in Britain Britain has one of the worst rates of child poverty in the industrialized world which is "shaming" this country. Around 3.6 million children, 28 per cent of the total, are living in poverty despite efforts by the Government to tackle the problem. It is appalling that in Britain in 2005 there are children whose parents cannot afford even the basic necessities others take for granted, such as a warm winter coat and three meals a day. We are seeing a new determination to tackle poverty but it is vital that we keep up the pressure on the Government to stick to its pledge to eradicate poverty by 2020. Poverty shames a relatively wealthy country like ours and we have a duty to stamp it out. It is shameful that poverty is still the greatest single threat to the well-being of children and families in the UK. India's no to refugees Refugees are the last thing India wants at this hour. Our country is already flooded with migrants and refugees from neighboring countries. India's porous borders allow all and sundry to escape lives full of destitution on account of war or poverty back home. Such influx has raised domestic problems within India. Our neighbors never get tired of exerting their political, social and economic sovereignty, their indisputable right to resolve the issues within their boundaries without any external interference. Good, they should. At the same time they must remember that right and responsibilities go hand in hand. If they cannot fulfill their responsibility of ensuring their safety they have no right to object to statements that arise from countries which are at risk of getting affected by their internal problems. It must understand that we cannot and will not provide for the refugee influx. To prevent that is the only option before Sri Lankans. http://www.instablogs.com/ More»
Nationalize the Oil Companies
High priced gasoline and diesel with 60 – 80% increases over a span of a few months has been generated by global market speculators providing an illusory justification used by the oil companies in their astronomical rise in retail prices. Through their daily bidding up of the cost per barrel of oil from around $50 dollars per barrel in late 2003 to above $127 dollars per barrel on May 16, 2008 global market speculators are contributing to a well orchestrated market manipulation originating firs
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Temporary Timecards
Jeff Burnett, Labor Finders International CEO, discusses the challenges as an industrial labor staffing agency, especially in this economy.
[Video] Workers turning to temporary staffing firms for employment
With the Florida jobless rate at almost 7 percent, companies like Able Body Labor are finding more people looking for temporary employment to make ends meet.
Click, Click of the Totalitarian Economic Society
Time clicking, click, click, slipping past each second moving incrementally towards a minute then an hour after an eternity of drifting through innumerable minutes. One day at a time we drift across towards the close of another week. Month after month succumbs to a year and then many more years evaporate under the passage of our lives drifting imperceptibly within the steady decline of our great nation. Where not to be blamed for not noticing the cracks, worn paint, crumbling roads, graffiti fi
Immigration Law Makes Getting into the United States the Hardest Part
Immigration law is confusing at its best and ridiculously complex at its worst. However, if you are planning on coming to the United States as a temporary worker, you will need to apply for a nonimmigrant visa. Rather than run the risk of applying for the wrong category or trying to work without getting a visa at all, it’s best to consult with attorneys who know what they are doing. Highly trained in the complexities of immigration law, they will be able to help you through the application proc
How the Federal Reserve Violates the US Constitution 3
WHAT'S WRONG WITH A LITTLE DEBT? There is a kind of fascinating appeal to this theory. It gives those who expound it an aura of intellectualism, the appearance of being able to grasp a complex economic principle that is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. And, for the less academically minded, it offers the comfort of at least sounding moderate. After all, what's wrong with a little debt, prudently used and intelligently managed? The answer is nothing, provided the debt is based on an honest transaction. There is plenty wrong with it if it is "based upon fraud". An honest transaction is one in which a borrower pays an agreed upon sum in return for the temporary use of a lender's asset. That asset could be anything of tangible value. If it were an automobile, for example, then the borrower would pay "rent." If it is money, then the rent is called "interest." Either way, the concept is the same. When we go to a lender -- either a bank or a private party -- and receive a loan of money, we are willing to pay interest on the loan in recognition of the fact that the money we are borrowing is an asset which we want to use. It seems only fair to pay a rental fee for that asset to the person who owns it. It is not easy to acquire an automobile, and it is not easy to acquire money -- real money, that is. If the money we are borrowing was earned by someone's labor and talent, they are fully entitled to receive interest on it. But what are we to think of money that is created by the mere stroke of a pen or the click of a computer key? Why should anyone collect a rental fee on that? When banks place credits into your checking account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend. Even the money that non-indebted depositors have placed with them was originally created out of nothing in response to someone else's loan. So what entitles the banks to collect rent on nothing? It is immaterial that men everywhere are forced by law to accept these nothing certificates in exchange for real goods and services. We are talking here, not about what is legal, but what is moral. As Thomas Jefferson observed at the time of his protracted battle against central banking in the United States, "No one has a natural right to the trade of money lender, but he who has money to lend."
Effervescent Propaganda
Just read the script word for word don’t embellish with any tinge of reality – we really don’t want to convey anything but pleasant generalizations. Remember the key word happiness; just be pleasant and happy when broadcasting our story. Make certain that we find a few fools that have been totally brainwashed into believing that change is good, realism is destructive, compliance is equivalent to adjustment, and equity is a euphemism for socialism. Once we located 1 or 2 of these blissfully pl
http://www.instablogs.com/ Foreigners laid off in Japanese downturn Foreigners who are among the first laborers in Japan to lose their jobs as the global financial crisis eats into demand for cars, trucks and motorcycles. The layoffs are the first evidence that the mushrooming economic meltdown in the United States and elsewhere which is shaking the Japanese labor market. At the core of the trend are hard times for the Japanese car industry. No. 1 producer Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan, Japan's third-largest automaker too is cutting back on domestic production. Most vulnerable to layoffs are the foreign workers who meet Japan's labor shortage as the country ages. Foreigners are often hired through temporary employment agencies, so they can be easily fired. They live in company housing, so they lose their apartments when they lose their jobs. There hasn't been a marked increase in homelessness, but anecdotes of foreigners having to move in with friends or relatives abound. Some foreign laborers have already abandoned Japan amid mounting troubles. Nepal's Child Soldiers Maoist child soldiers in Nepal are facing tough problems in terms o their reintegration with their respective families. Many of these child soldiers are struggling as civilians - having lost the power they once had as feared rebels and paying the price for their stance during the 10 year civil war. Almost 3,000 child soldiers, who have been confirmed as underage by the UN, are still living in Maoist camps across the country, with the former rebels afraid they will be re-recruited by other armed groups if they are released. There are specifically concerns that they might join other armed groups and there are people who, even if they came very late into the cantonments, have had some degree of physical and even military training there. Although UNICEF and other children's organisations have started working with child soldiers, both inside and outside the camps, to facilitate their return home. The process, however, is expected to be a tedious one. Child poverty in Britain Britain has one of the worst rates of child poverty in the industrialized world which is "shaming" this country. Around 3.6 million children, 28 per cent of the total, are living in poverty despite efforts by the Government to tackle the problem. It is appalling that in Britain in 2005 there are children whose parents cannot afford even the basic necessities others take for granted, such as a warm winter coat and three meals a day. We are seeing a new determination to tackle poverty but it is vital that we keep up the pressure on the Government to stick to its pledge to eradicate poverty by 2020. Poverty shames a relatively wealthy country like ours and we have a duty to stamp it out. It is shameful that poverty is still the greatest single threat to the well-being of children and families in the UK. India's no to refugees Refugees are the last thing India wants at this hour. Our country is already flooded with migrants and refugees from neighboring countries. India's porous borders allow all and sundry to escape lives full of destitution on account of war or poverty back home. Such influx has raised domestic problems within India. Our neighbors never get tired of exerting their political, social and economic sovereignty, their indisputable right to resolve the issues within their boundaries without any external interference. Good, they should. At the same time they must remember that right and responsibilities go hand in hand. If they cannot fulfill their responsibility of ensuring their safety they have no right to object to statements that arise from countries which are at risk of getting affected by their internal problems. It must understand that we cannot and will not provide for the refugee influx. To prevent that is the only option before Sri Lankans. http://www.instablogs.com/ More»
Nationalize the Oil Companies
High priced gasoline and diesel with 60 – 80% increases over a span of a few months has been generated by global market speculators providing an illusory justification used by the oil companies in their astronomical rise in retail prices. Through their daily bidding up of the cost per barrel of oil from around $50 dollars per barrel in late 2003 to above $127 dollars per barrel on May 16, 2008 global market speculators are contributing to a well orchestrated market manipulation originating firs
Wal-Mart's Failure to Protect Its Workers: An Unfortunate Symbol - Huffington Post
 ABC News | Wal-Mart's Failure to Protect Its Workers: An Unfortunate Symbol Huffington Post, NY - To make matters worse, Wal-Mart store management's compensation is based on bonus systems that encourage cutting labor costs, resulting in more temporary ... Video: Police: Crowd at Wal-Mart 'recipe for Disaster' Wal-Mart Worker’s Death Seen As Reason to Embrace the Union Agenda Wal-Mart Worker Dies in Stampede at New York Store (Update3) |
Yudof Grants Funds to UC Labor Programs Following State Cuts - The ...
University of California President Mark Yudof approved $4 million in temporary funding for labor centers and labor education programs at UC Berkeley and UCLA last week after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed funding for the same ...
Temporary Timecards
Jeff Burnett, Labor Finders International CEO, discusses the challenges as an industrial labor staffing agency, especially in this economy.
[Video] Workers turning to temporary staffing firms for employment
With the Florida jobless rate at almost 7 percent, companies like Able Body Labor are finding more people looking for temporary employment to make ends meet.
Click, Click of the Totalitarian Economic Society
Time clicking, click, click, slipping past each second moving incrementally towards a minute then an hour after an eternity of drifting through innumerable minutes. One day at a time we drift across towards the close of another week. Month after month succumbs to a year and then many more years evaporate under the passage of our lives drifting imperceptibly within the steady decline of our great nation. Where not to be blamed for not noticing the cracks, worn paint, crumbling roads, graffiti fi
Immigration Law Makes Getting into the United States the Hardest Part
Immigration law is confusing at its best and ridiculously complex at its worst. However, if you are planning on coming to the United States as a temporary worker, you will need to apply for a nonimmigrant visa. Rather than run the risk of applying for the wrong category or trying to work without getting a visa at all, it’s best to consult with attorneys who know what they are doing. Highly trained in the complexities of immigration law, they will be able to help you through the application proc
How the Federal Reserve Violates the US Constitution 3
WHAT'S WRONG WITH A LITTLE DEBT? There is a kind of fascinating appeal to this theory. It gives those who expound it an aura of intellectualism, the appearance of being able to grasp a complex economic principle that is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. And, for the less academically minded, it offers the comfort of at least sounding moderate. After all, what's wrong with a little debt, prudently used and intelligently managed? The answer is nothing, provided the debt is based on an honest transaction. There is plenty wrong with it if it is "based upon fraud". An honest transaction is one in which a borrower pays an agreed upon sum in return for the temporary use of a lender's asset. That asset could be anything of tangible value. If it were an automobile, for example, then the borrower would pay "rent." If it is money, then the rent is called "interest." Either way, the concept is the same. When we go to a lender -- either a bank or a private party -- and receive a loan of money, we are willing to pay interest on the loan in recognition of the fact that the money we are borrowing is an asset which we want to use. It seems only fair to pay a rental fee for that asset to the person who owns it. It is not easy to acquire an automobile, and it is not easy to acquire money -- real money, that is. If the money we are borrowing was earned by someone's labor and talent, they are fully entitled to receive interest on it. But what are we to think of money that is created by the mere stroke of a pen or the click of a computer key? Why should anyone collect a rental fee on that? When banks place credits into your checking account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend. Even the money that non-indebted depositors have placed with them was originally created out of nothing in response to someone else's loan. So what entitles the banks to collect rent on nothing? It is immaterial that men everywhere are forced by law to accept these nothing certificates in exchange for real goods and services. We are talking here, not about what is legal, but what is moral. As Thomas Jefferson observed at the time of his protracted battle against central banking in the United States, "No one has a natural right to the trade of money lender, but he who has money to lend."
Effervescent Propaganda
Just read the script word for word don’t embellish with any tinge of reality – we really don’t want to convey anything but pleasant generalizations. Remember the key word happiness; just be pleasant and happy when broadcasting our story. Make certain that we find a few fools that have been totally brainwashed into believing that change is good, realism is destructive, compliance is equivalent to adjustment, and equity is a euphemism for socialism. Once we located 1 or 2 of these blissfully pl