Summer strikes for unions

800,000 public sector workers, including school dinner ladies and council trash collectors, are going to stage a strike in the UK next month. The union, Unison, is just one of many that are threatening to stage a "summer of discontent" of strikes over the skyrocketing cost of...

This is NOT OKAY!: Thunder | Project Katy

http://this-is-not-okay.blogspot.com/2008/06/thunder-project.html             This page contains the strategy behind KATY and there are numerous strategies, legal, social and political. America sentences people to...

Hundreds swept up in mortgage fraud arrests

"By LARA JAKES JORDAN and ALAN ZIBEL, Associated Press WriterThursday, June 19, 2008""WASHINGTON (AP) --More than 400 real estate industry players have been indicted since March — including dozens over the last two days — in a Justice Department crackdown on incidents of...

This is NOT OKAY!: The Water Rises..Then It Receeds..Katrina Scams Due to Res...

http://this-is-not-okay.blogspot.com/2008/06/water-risesthen-it-receedskatrina-scams.html  June 19, 2008 – 2:02 am There are concerns tonight raised over notorious landlords in rural Illinois whom may profit greatly over congressional packages recently signed for the...

Federal gov’t may reuse toxic FEMA trailers

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Why are forecasters so often wrong? « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

"This week RBS has forecast an equity and credit crash within three months. It is unusual to get a direct warning from a major bank. Who forecast a UK housing crash last August when the sub-prime crisis hit? Nobody in my recollection and yet you could see estate agents...

Gold and silver prices to rocket as inflation grows this summer « Peter J. C...

" Now if interest rates fall, say from the present two per cent to ‘an emergency’ one per cent, then the US dollar will take yet another tumble. Gold is inversely correlated to the greenback – so it will head in the opposite direction, and upwards in value. Silver is...

David Eby's Suggestions...

Tireless advocate of Vancouver's most vulnerable, David Eby puts forward a few suggestions to address the needs of Vancouver's homeless aboriginal population."he City of Vancouver, home to B.C.'s largest off-reserve aboriginal population in the Downtown Eastside, is...

UK housing: my future scenario, it will get better eventually « Peter J. Coo...

" As a property journalist of two decades standing – with some successful property calls under my belt – it therefore seems only fair to flesh out what was a very broad-brush prediction: namely that the selling prices of houses will fall by 60 per cent in this downturn...

The Golden Collapse

Here's an article from Reason Magazine written by Matt Welch. It's about what happened after the tech crash that happened at the turn of the millenium."Despite the considerable hit that the wave of tech publication closures had on the pocketbooks of freelancers like me, it...