Four out of 10 U.S. workers often or always live from paycheck to paycheck, according to a survey released Monday. Women are more likely to live paycheck to paycheck, at 47 percent, than men, at 36 percent, according to the survey conducted for CareerBuilder.com, an online job site based in Chicago. Overall, 41 percent of workers say they often or always live paycheck to paycheck, it said. Also, 41 percent of women say they do not have enough income to live comfortably, compared with 29 percent of men. U.S. government and other research reports have found that women earn about 77 cents for every dollar earned by men for comparable work. Women are also more likely to be single parents. The new survey said 19 percent of workers who earn $100,000 or more annually often or always live paycheck to paycheck.... http://www.cnn.com censor News |
Editor - 19:13:00 03-12-07 |
Report: Native American Trackers to Hunt Terrorists at Afghan Border |
An world-reknowned elite group of Native American trackers used by the U.S. Customs to hunt down Mexican drug and people smugglers reportedly is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan’s borders, where Usama bin Laden has been known to hide. The Shadow Wolves unit, recruited from tribes including the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache, which patrols a 76-mile stretch of Arizona-Mexico border, is being sent to areas along the Afghan border to teach local units the traditional method called "cutting sign" of finding and following clues on the barren landscape, London's Sunday Times reported. If these guys were so good how come these Trackers didn’t stop the Drugs or the Invasion on Americans boarder?... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258335,00.html
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Editor - 19:06:00 03-12-07 |
Officials: Trusted Belgium Bank Customer Gets Away With $28 Million in Diamonds |
A man stole $28 million worth of diamonds from an Antwerp bank where he had been a trusted customer for a year using a stolen Argentine passport, officials said Monday.Prosecutors say the suspect broke into safety deposit boxes in an ABM Amro bank in the city's diamond quarter last week. He made off with diamonds weighing 120,000 carats, police said.Police believe he may have carefully planned the robbery, becoming one of several trusted diamond traders with access to the vault. The suspect had been a regular customer at the bank for the past year, giving the name Carlos Hector Flomenbaum from Argentina.Authorities now believe that he was using a false identity because a passport in that name was stolen in Israel a few years ago.... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258339,00.html
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Editor - 19:01:00 03-12-07 |
Secret Hearings For 9/11 Suspects Start. Not even a Show Trial in the former land of the free |
Secret hearings for two suspected masterminds of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and a third terror suspect were held over the weekend at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as the military launched proceedings to determine whether 14 high-profile detainees should be prosecuted. According to U.S. Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman, hearings for Abu Faraj al-Libi and Ramzi Binalshibh were Friday, and a hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was Saturday. He said another hearing at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba was scheduled for Monday. The hearings are to determine whether the detainees should be declared "enemy combatants" who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted in a military tribunal. Mohammed, who was born in Pakistan and raised in Kuwait, is believed to have been the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks with the alleged help of Binalshibh, a Yemeni who also is suspected of being involved in a foiled plot to crash aircraft into London's Heathrow Airport. ... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/12/terror/main2558752.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_2558752
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Editor - 18:57:00 03-12-07 |
LATIN AMERICAN RESENTMENT Ruins to Be Cleansed Following Bush Visit |
A site close to the hearts of the indigenous Maya people of Guatemala is to be spiritually de-contaminated after a visit by US president George Bush. Mayan Indian priests in Guatemala have vowed to hold a cleansing ceremony following a Monday visit by US president George W. Bush to sacred ancient ruins. As part of his stopover in the tiny, Central American nation during a five-nation-tour of Latin America, Bush's itinerary has him visiting the Mayan ruins of Iximiche, some 50 kilometers west of Guatemala City. Native dances and a welcoming ceremony will greet the president when he arrives at the ruins of the former capital of the Kaqchikel Maya people. But after he leaves, Mayan leaders say that a special cleansing ceremony to restore peace and harmony will be necessary to remove negative energy left by Bush's visit.... http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,471262,00.html
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Editor - 11:53:00 03-12-07 |
Major space missions move ahead |
The European and US space agencies are moving ahead on their next major missions to explore the Solar System. Nasa has begun choosing a destination for a "flagship" robotic venture along the lines of Cassini-Huygens, which has been exploring Saturn and its moons. It is considering four targets: the Jupiter system, Jupiter's moon Europa, and Saturn's moons Enceladus and Titan. The European Space Agency has called for proposals for one flagship mission and another medium-sized mission. Europa, Titan and Enceladus are also among the destinations expected to be proposed under the European Space Agency's (Esa) "Cosmic Visions" programme of exploration. Other proposals likely to be submitted include a mission to return soil from a near-Earth asteroid. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6442827.stm
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Editor - 11:28:00 03-12-07 |
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