The Wake Up Project

Unemployment numbers belie the announced recovery, credit card interest still killing consumers, market changes the balance over manipulation, economic recovery not possible without a manufacturing base, dollar abandoned worldwide, a second downturn is forecast This past week the BLS released the September unemployment statistics and they worsened as usual, as America enjoys its recovery. * Those unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force was 5.4%. * Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the labor force was 6.8%. * Total unemployed, as a percentage of the civilian labor force, the official unemployment rate, 9.8%. * Discouraged workers 10.2%. * Total unemployed plus discharged workers, plus marginally attached workers 11.1%. * Total unemployed as a percent of the civilian labor force 17%. If the birth/death ratio is removed, U-6 is in reality 21.3% total US unemployment. The estimate is that 824,000, more jobs m...

Police Brutality in Pittsburgh after the G20 Pittsburgh's G-20 Summit Protest March 2:30PM 9/24 09/24/09 01:09PM Police fire tear gas at G20 protesters An unpermitted anti-capitalist protest march towards the G20 summit in Pittsburgh has turned violent today, with police firing tear gas after protesters barricaded the street. With authorities braced for trouble on the eve of the summit of industrialised nations, officers ordered several hundred protesters from a group calling itself the G20 Project Resistance to stop their planned march, which they said was not sanctioned by the city. According to news agency reports, officers made their announcement over a loudspeaker telling people to leave or face arrest or “other police action.” However protesters are reported to have responded to the demands with violence, overturning six rubbish bins that were barricading the street and rolling them towards police. Some protesters are also reported to be using pa...

by Larry Edelson on September 18, 2009 This week, we’ve examined three powerful forces now arrayed against the U.S. dollar … * President Obama and Fed Chief Bernanke are not only refusing to defend the dollar, they are intentionally causing its demise with out-of-control spending and money-printing. Their motives are clear: Gutting the greenback’s value is the ONLY way they can ever hope to service our massive debt. * Foreign governments, central banks, financial institutions and investors are slashing their dollar investments. In some cases, they are dumping dollars to insulate themselves from the greenback’s head-long plunge. And by doing so, they’re causing the dollar’s decline to accelerate. * The United Nations and the G-7 plus China, France, India, Russia, Brazil and others are already laying plans to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency — and by doing so, will crush what little international demand remains for the greenback and...