Source: Rense.com (Privacy Journal.com)

Starting this year, Americans will have to get government approval to travel by air. As Privacy Journal revealed last fall, henceforth “Permission Now Needed to Travel Within U.S.” Getting a reservation and checking-in for air travel will soon require Transportation Security Administration authorization. That permission is by no means assured: For example, if your name matches a “no-fly” list, even mistakenly, you can be denied the right to a reserve a seat on a flight. If your name is on a “selectee” list, you and your possessions will be searched more thoroughly before you can board. What is going on here?

All travelers will need government OK in order to board a flight, or take a cruise. What the government can allow one day, it can forbid the next.

Protecting air safety is essential, but professional screening at airports already provides for it. Giving the TSA as an official agency the additional authority to decide who gets to go where reaches beyond safety into overextended governmental power. This newly minted “Secure Flight” rule fundamentally imbalances long-standing citizens’ rights both to travel and to be left alone. Continue reading →

Source: McClatchy

WASHINGTON — Delinquency and foreclosure rates for U.S. mortgages continued to rise in the second quarter, with loans to the most qualified borrowers going bust at an unnerving clip, especially in hard-hit states such as Florida and California.

The numbers reported Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association show clearly that rising job losses are worsening the nation’s housing troubles and threaten the Obama administration’s efforts to keep owners from losing their homes.

The quarterly National Delinquency Survey showed that almost one in 10 homeowners with a mortgage was at least one payment late, and thus delinquent, while another 4 percent had entered the foreclosure process on their loan. Continue reading →

Source: Carpe Diem

Manufacturing employment in the U.S. peaked in June 1979 with 19,553,000 jobs (data here), and by July of this year manufacturing employment had fallen to 11,817,000, the lowest level of manufacturing jobs since April 1941 (see chart above).

As a percent of the total labor force, manufacturing employment fell below 9% in July (see chart below), the lowest level in BLS history (back to 1939).

Prison Planet.com broke this story weeks ago. This is a video that talks about a summit for the swine flu. Did you even know that there was such a thing?

(Youtube) The first INTERNATIONAL Swine Flu Conference finishes today 21st August. As Jesse Woodrow states in this video, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY MENTION OF THIS ON ANY NEWS NETWORK. PLEASE go to google news…
The first INTERNATIONAL Swine Flu Conference finishes today 21st August. As Jesse Woodrow states in this video, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY MENTION OF THIS ON ANY NEWS NETWORK.
PLEASE go to google news and type in “Swine Flu Conference” You would think it would be the top news article.
IT ISN’T EVEN MENTIONED !! WHY NOT? Continue reading →

Source: Toronto Star

IMF sees slow growth, tax hikes soon

OTTAWA–The International Monetary Fund says most countries will need to raise taxes to pay off the trillions of dollars they spent fighting the global recession.

IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard says in an article to be published today that governments acted properly in ramping up spending to stop the worst slump since World War II.

Soon, he says, nearly all countries will have to raise taxes to pay the recovery bill. Continue reading →