MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The BLS reports that the unemployment rate dropped from 9.7% in May to just 9.5% in June. The recovery is well under way if you’re simply looking at headlines. The fine print, however, tells a different story.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Unemployment: Worse Than it Looks
2. The Great Depression of the 21st Century: Collapse of the Real Economy
3. Stunning Rate Of (Personality) Disorders Found In American Young Adults

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. WHO finds US leads world in substance abuse as cocaine or marijuana
2. President Obama declares national emergency over swine flu pandemic, but why?
3. The Reality Of FEMA Camps And The Martial Law Apparatus

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

After years of gross mismanagement by the city’s leaders and the big three car manufacturers of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, who continued to make vehicles that Americans no longer wanted to buy, Detroit today has an unemployment rate of 28 per cent, higher even than the worst years of the Great Depression.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Wachovia, National City tumble on bailout, WaMu
2. Tensions Mount Again at al-Aqsa in Old City of Jerusalem
3. Iowa river has swamped 400 city blocks. Flooded US Midwest braces for more rain

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Worldwide, industrial mono-culture farming has displaced traditional food production and farmers, wreaking havoc on food prices and food sovereignty. This is particularly true for the global south, where land has been concentrated for crops destined for biodiesel and animal feed. In response, peasants and small farmers organized actions in more than 53 countries on October 15 for International Food Day as an initiative of Via Campesina, one of the largest independent social movement organizations, representing nearly 150 million people globally.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Capitalism, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative
2. John Kinsman: Nation’s food system nearly broke
3. Monsanto’s Bt Cotton Kills the Soil as Well as Farmers