The US workforce shrank by 652,000 in June, one of the sharpest contractions ever. The rate of hourly earnings fell 0.1pc. Wages are flirting with deflation.
“The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession,” said Robert Reich, former US labour secretary. “All the booster rockets for getting us beyond it are failing.”
“Home [...]

by David Breland
April 20 has become a holiday for some Americans. The date, more commonly known as “4/20,” has only one tradition, and it centers on gathering to smoke marijuana.
The stigma of a plant, which proponents declare as medicine and opponents consider illicit and of no value, is finding itself squarely in the middle of [...]

[WARNING: this list contains images that may offend] This is a list of secret projects that have since been found to be true in light of released (either officially, or unofficially) documents. Some have long been the source of conspiracy theories while others have been accepted by the mainstream as real. In no particular order:
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Churchill [...]

Masonic conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories involving Freemasonry; hundreds of such conspiracy theories have been described since the late 1700s. Generally, these theories fall into three distinct categories: political (usually involving allegations of control of government, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom), religious (usually involving allegations of anti-Christian or Satanic beliefs or [...]

A man walks into a bar, notices a very large jar on the counter, and sees that it’s filled to the brim with $10 bills. He guesses there must be at least ten thousand dollars in it.
He approaches the bartender and asks,
“What’s with the money in the jar?”
“Well…, you pay $10, and if you [...]

Discover this 90/10 Principle.
It will change your life (or atleast the way you react to situations).
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WHAT IS THIS PRINCIPLE?
10% of life is made up of what happens to you…
90% of life is decided by how you react.
WHAT THAT THIS MEAN?
We really have NO control over the 10% of what happens to us.
The 90% is different.
YOU [...]

Despite several high profile attempts to blow up airplanes, and heightened security measures and hassles at the airports, more Americans are flying than ever before. And it’s not just in the skies: ridership aboard America’s Amtrak rail service is also rising.
This year, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration will spend $1 billion on security, twice [...]

Gay and lesbian state workers in Virginia are no longer specifically protected against discrimination, thanks to a little-noticed change made by new Gov. Bob McDonnell.
McDonnell (R) on Feb. 5 signed an executive order that prohibits discrimination “on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, political affiliation, or against otherwise qualified persons with [...]

Four women, two of them well into middle age, were discussing funeral plans for a friend when an Atlanta police officer told them to move.
Three did but one asked “why.” In answer to her question, Minnie Carey, then 61, was handcuffed, put into a paddy wagon and taken to jail, where she was held [...]

Today, Color of Change and StopBeck.com announced that the United Kingdom has forcefully rejected Fox News host Glenn Beck. In fact, the UK broadcast of his show “was forced to run without any advertisements” for five days in a row as of yesterday. Additionally, 103 companies have agreed to stop their ads from appearing on [...]