Obama, New World Order Using Chemtrails to Spread Ebola

- Agents of the New World Order (NWO) have launched an international campaign to widen viral Ebola infection zones in Western Africa by using chemtrail spreading aircraft. After secret talks with President Obama, it was decided that a population management plan was agreed to by the two entities, both of whom have similar goals, population control through reduction. Read this to mean “enslavement” for members of the rank and file.

The Ebola virus (EBOV) causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), deadly for humans and nonhuman primates, with a death rate as high as 90%. Infection from EBOV can occur through direct contact with bodily secretions or blood from an infected individual; however evidence of aerosol transmission has been reported in laboratory conditions. It is this aspect of the virus that has been exploited by the NWO scientists.

A highly evolved strain of the deadly virus was cultivated in petri dishes by sublime scientists in secret NWO Laboratories under the most top secret of conditions.

The recent epidemic in the Western Africa nations of Sierra Leone and Liberia has killed over 3,000.- 

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Ferguson shooting a tragedy, U.N. torture panel member says

(CNN) -- The events in Ferguson, Missouri, are a "tragedy," but the U.N. Committee Against Torture "has to respect the decision" of authorities not to prosecute police Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, committee member Alessio Bruni said Friday.

Bruni spoke at a news conference about the release of a committee report that criticizes, among other things, racial profiling and excessive use of force by U.S. police.

While the report does not specifically mention the Ferguson case, it does express concern about the militarization of U.S. police departments.

The U.S. was one of eight countries getting a periodic review of compliance with the U.N. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

The other countries getting reports from the committee Friday were Sweden, Ukraine, Venezuela, Australia, Burundi, Croatia and Kazakhstan.

Much of the 16-page report that focuses on the U.S. deals with Guantanamo Bay and the treatment of detainees there, but it also includes a section on police brutality and criticizes "excessive use of force by law enforcement officials, in particular against persons belonging to certain racial and ethnic groups."

‘Shut It Down': Dozens Of Ferguson MO Protesters Interrupt Black Friday Shopping At Wal-Mart, Target

MANCHESTER, Mo. (CBS St. Louis/AP) — Demonstrators sought to catch the attention of shoppers looking for good deals on Friday, going to major retailers around the St. Louis area to speak out about a grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown.

Other Black Friday protests were planned at shopping centers around the nation, though attendance was seemingly sparse aside from in Chicago, where about 200 people gathered near the city’s popular Magnificent Mile shopping district.

Early Friday in the St. Louis suburb of Manchester, about two dozen people chanted “no justice, no peace, no racist police” and “no more Black Friday” after police moved them out of a Wal-Mart.

Officers warned the protesters risked arrest if they didn’t move at least 50 feet from the store’s entrance, then began advancing in unison until the protesters moved further into the parking lot. The mostly black group of protesters chanted in the faces of the officers — most of whom were white — as shoppers looked on.

Scores arrested as Ferguson, MO protests spread to other U.S. cities

THE JEWS!

(Reuters) - Police arrested scores of people in cities around the United States who were protesting a Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer for killing an unarmed black teenager, authorities said on Wednesday, but the town where the shooting took place was a little calmer.

Protests in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and elsewhere came on a second night of street violence in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, where policeman Darren Wilson shot to death 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9. The shooting has highlighted the often-tense nature of U.S. race relations and the strains between black communities and police.

There was less violence on the streets of Ferguson than on the previous night, as the deployment of some 2,000 National Guard troops to the area helped police prevent the rioting, looting and arson that erupted on Monday night.

Canada: Prescription heroin offered in Vancouver outside of clinical trial for 1st time

(cbc.ca) - Vancouver has become the first city in North America where prescription heroin is offered to addicts outside of a clinical trial.

For more than a year, doctors at Providence Health Care have been battling with federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose over the right to continue prescribing heroin to patients who had finished being part of a clinical research trial.

In May, the doctors won an injunction at B.C. Supreme Court, allowing them to receive prescription heroin through Health Canada and supply the drug to 120 of the severely addicted people who were previously part of the trial.

Now, doctors at the Crosstown Clinic — located in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and run by Providence Health Care — have received their first batch of prescription heroin produced in a lab in Switzerland. They were to begin dispensing the drug today.

It's the first time in North America that a clinic has been able to dispense heroin outside of a trial, a spokesman for Providence Health Care hold CBC News today.

Dr. Scott MacDonald, who runs the Crosstown Clinic, said the first patients to receive prescription heroin outside of a clinical trial will be a small number of people who took part in his two research trials, and want to remain under medical care.

"It is very dangerous and life destroying to have to ingest in an alley, to use illicit heroin three, four times a day. That destroys lives. This is an alternative," he said.

Nicaragua Is Going Ahead With a Massive Canal That Will Bisect the Country

Up yours Panama!

- On December 22, Nicaragua will begin construction on a massive canal that will bisect the country. Numerous independent scientists and engineers believe that the canal will be a disaster for both the people and environment of Nicaragua, and although the company hired to build the canal promised to study its environmental and social impacts, that work won't be complete until until April 2015—four months into the project. The Nicaraguan government, though, is celebrating the project's launch: one presidential confidante is calling the canal "a Christmas present" for the country.

Since Nicaragua signed a contract in June 2013 with the Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company, scientists have been scrambling to evaluate the project's potential impacts, as Smithsonian reported in February. Last October, the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation—the world's largest scientific organization devoted to tropical ecosystems—urged the Nicaraguan government to stop construction plans until adequate studies could be carried out. Local people, many of whom will be forced to evacuate their homes, have also been protesting the canal.

Based on the studies that have been conducted, the project's likely impacts include: 

1,500 square miles of forest, wetlands and coastlines dug up or disrupted, including in 9 protected areas

Losses to endangered species such as Baird’s tapirs, spider monkeys, jaguars, harpy eagles and nesting sea turtles 

Water contamination in Lake Nicaragua, which supplies most of the country's drinking water
Violations of the Nicaraguan Constitution, which protects the land rights of indigenous and afro-descendant peoplearmers and indigenous people

Loss of hurricane-buffering mangroves, replaced by a flood-prone waterway

Earlier this month, following an international scientific workshop, a group of multi-disciplinary experts concluded: "The proposed Canal and sub-projects will provide no economic benefit to the nation if the Project ultimately proves to be economically unfeasible." The Christmas presents they're looking for are a little different—"an exhaustive cost-benefits analysis, as well as analyses of the effects on national development, human rights, and legal and national security issues."

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Russia criticizes Canada for voting against its UN resolution to combat ‘glorification of Nazism’

(nationalpost) - As a general rule, Canada is opposed to the glorification of Nazism.

At the United Nations on Friday, however, Canada voted against a resolution, brought by Russia, “combating glorification of Nazism, neo-nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.”

Canada was joined in its opposition by just two other countries, United States and Ukraine, against 115 countries in favour and 55 abstentions.

The unusual vote has prompted criticism of Canada in the Russian press, and from the Russian Foreign ministry, which called the three opposition votes “extremely regrettable.”

The motivation for the Russian resolution is thought to be related to Russia’s claims that far-right extremist groups are aligned with Ukrainian nationalists and even the Kyiv government in escalating clashes with pro-Russian separatists.

Israeli Cabinet moves to define Israel as Jewish

JERUSALEM (AP) — In a move likely to further inflame tensions with Israel's Arab citizens, the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved a bill to legally define the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

The decision, which set off a stormy debate that could bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's brittle coalition government, followed weeks of deadly Arab-Jewish violence and was denounced by critics as damaging to the country's democratic character and poorly timed at such a combustible moment.

It now heads toward a full parliamentary vote on Wednesday.

Israel has always defined itself as the "Jewish state" — a term that was contained in the country's declaration of independence in 1948. The new law seeks to codify that status as a "Basic Law," Israel's de facto constitution.

While many critics derided the measure as unnecessary, Netanyahu told his Cabinet the bill is a response to Israel's Arab critics both inside and outside Israel who question the country's right to exist.

Netanyahu has long demanded that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland as a condition of any peace deal. Both the Palestinians and their Arab Israeli brethren say such acceptance would harm the rights of Israel's more than 1.5 million Arab citizens.

The bill calls not only for recognizing Israel's Jewish character but for institutionalizing Jewish law as an inspiration for legislation and dropping Arabic as an official language.

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3-Star general who helped lead war on terror: We've lost the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan

3-star General Daniel Bolger helped to lead the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The first sentence of his new book - Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars – starts:

I am a United Sates Army general, and I lost the Global War on Terrorism. It’s like Alcoholics Anonymous; step one is admitting you have a problem. Well, I have a problem. So do my peers. And thanks to our problem, now all of America has a problem, to wit: two lost campaigns and a war gone awry.

Yahoo News notes:

Having studied military history, he says he should have known that a U.S.-led counterinsurgency in a country like Afghanistan could never work.

Now, with the rise of the Islamic State, there’s a growing choir urging the U.S. military to lead yet another ground war in Iraq.

“That would be four times biting that poison apple: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and then Iraq again,” he said.

General Bolger is right.

The U.S. previously carried out regime change in Iraq in 1963 and Afghanistan in the 1970s.

Empire after empire has broken its back trying to control Afghanistan. “One more surge” won’t do the trick.

War has bankrupted empires for 2,500 years. America is no different. Especially when countries go into debt to finance the war … instead of paying for it out of current finances.

America has fallen into the same trap … and is digging an ever-deeper hole. Full Story

Catalonia: Spanish prosecutors file referendum suit against Catalan leader Mas

Artur Mas, his deputy in Catalonia, and his education minister face prosecution in Spain for staging a non-binding referendum on Catalan independence. Charges, including abuse of power, were filed on Friday

- State prosecutors on Friday filed charges against the regional leader in Catalonia, Artur Mas, the latest chapter in the fallout from last month's symbolic independence referendum, which was conducted despite a court injunction.

Mas, his deputy Joana Ortega and the Catalan government's education minister, Irene Rigau, will face charges of civil disobedience, abuse of power, usurpation of duties, and embezzlement of public funds, the public prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Prosecutors in Madrid had confirmed on Wednesday that they would seek charges, without specifying which, after Catalan prosecutors rejected launching a suit on the issue. On Thursday, Mas said at a news conference that he found the decision "very disappointing."

"It is sad to see that when the Catalan people want to express their opinion … the reaction of the state comes from the courts and prosecutors," he said. Full Story

Walmart workers strike as report says wages so low many can't feed families

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Many Walmart workers serve as poster children for food insecurity because their low pay doesn't allow them to adequately feed their families, according to a new report.

Food insecurity isn't unending hunger, but it may cause a family to spend at least a few days a month staring in anguish at bare cupboards and an empty refrigerator.

"Walmart's Hunger Games: How America's Largest Employer and Richest Family Worsen the Hunger Crisis," was released Thursday as some Walmart workers in Cincinnati and Dayton are scheduled to go on a one-day strike. The workers are calling on the company to increase the pay of sales clerks, cashiers and other lower-level employees to $15 an hour. The action serves as a prelude to nationwide strikes scheduled for next week on Black Friday.

Walmart pays most of these workers under $9 an hour, said the report's author, Michele Simon, a public health lawyer, who says she specializes "in legal strategies to counter corporate tactics that harm the public's health."

"All the factors that are contributing to poverty in America exist among Walmart workers," she said. "Walmart is America's largest poverty incubator."

Simon said 49 million people suffer from hunger in this country, not because of unemployment, but because of low-wage work. She said as the nation's largest employer, Walmart bears much of the blame for putting business practices into place that have ultimately led to fewer working Americans being able to feed their families. Full Story

North Carolina college bans word 'freshman,' claims it causes rape

(THECOLLEGEFIX) — ELON, N.C. – Elon University has dropped the term “freshman” from its vocabulary and replaced it with “first-year,” a move made official this fall and implemented in everything from its website to orientation workshops.

The change at the small, private liberal arts college in North Carolina was done to promote inclusivity, celebrate diversity, and ensure the campus did not promote sexist stereotypes or create a hostile and unsafe environment for female students, campus officials said in interviews with The College Fix.

Leigh-Anne Royster, director of Elon’s “Inclusive Community Wellbeing,” said in an email to The College Fix that she has been told by some that they believe the term “freshman” is outdated, and that replacing “freshman” with “first year” is a “celebration of diversity.”
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Climate Change Preventing Second Coming of Jesus, Study Says

(DailyCurrant) Global warming and climate change are harming God’s creation and preventing the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, a study released this week has found.

The study, authored by respected Christian non-scientists at Liberty and Bob Jones universities, found that while God still controls the weather, humans are interfering with his work and causing global warming and climate change through sinful, destructive activities. In addition, the study found humans are also committing a sin by ignoring the deadly effects.

“The Bible states, ‘The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters,’ ” the study said. “ 'All things were created by him and for him.’ So it’s clear God would be really pissed off if we destroyed His property. After all, He created the world in six days, and He is technically renting it out to us. We know He evicted His previous tenants, the dinosaurs, as soon as humans were created.”

The study also found it will be impossible for Jesus Christ to return if nothing is done to mitigate human-induced climate change.

Almost 36 million people live in modern slavery - report

(BBC) - Nearly 36 million people worldwide, or 0.5% of the world's population, live as slaves, a survey by anti-slavery campaign group Walk Free says.

The group's Global Slavery Index says India has the most slaves overall and Mauritania has the highest percentage.

The total is 20% higher than for 2013 because of better methodology.

The report defines slaves as people subject to forced labour, debt bondage, trafficking, sexual exploitation for money and forced or servile marriage.

It uses slavery in a modern sense of the term, rather than as a reference to the broadly outlawed traditional practice where people were held in bondage and treated as another person's property.

The Global Slavery Index's estimate is higher than other attempts to quantify modern slavery. In 2012, the International Labour Organisation estimated that almost 21 million people were victims of forced labour.

Conspiracy Watch: Canada’s quiet coup: PM Harper Installed By CIA

You can't make this shit up..

And this is the proof! Harper says Canada will contribute to poor countries’ climate change fund.

Stephen Harper said Sunday that Canada is preparing to make a contribution to a UN fund that helps poor countries cope with the impact of climate change, a move that follows a $3-billion donation from the United States. He did not specify an amount.

The prime minister, speaking at the end of Group of 20 leaders’ summit in Australia, again lauded the recent deal between China and the United States to cut greenhouse gas emissions but gave no indication he would commit to bigger reductions on behalf of Canada.

Oil prices likely to fall further, says IEA

(BBC.com) - Oil prices are likely to continue falling well into 2015, the International Energy Agency has said.

The IEA, a consultancy to 29 countries, said weak demand and the US shale gas boom meant crude's recent fall below $80 a barrel was not over.

On Friday, Brent crude, one of the major price benchmarks, traded at $78.13 a barrel, near a four-year low.

"It is increasingly clear that we have begun a new chapter in the history of the oil markets," the IEA said.

"Barring any new supply problems, downward price pressures could build further in the first half of 2015." Full Story

UN encourages travel to 'vibrant' Ebola-hit West Africa

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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN's Ebola czar on Wednesday encouraged tourists to visit West Africa, saying Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea were "vibrant and alive" and that contact with infected people was largely avoidable.

"I want to encourage everybody to maintain travel, tourism even to places that have Ebola. There is just no reason not to go to Freetown, Monrovia, Conakry," David Nabarro, the UN coordinator on Ebola, told the UN Economic and Social Council.

"These are cities which have got fabulous places for tourism. They are unfortunately not very full at the moment."

The world's worst outbreak of Ebola has left around 5,000 dead and 13,000 seriously ill, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

"These countries are vibrant and alive," Nabarro said. "It is not appropriate to say 'Do not travel there because there is Ebola.'"

"If you are going to get Ebola, you will get it through being in direct contact with somebody and that is mostly avoidable," he added.

Nabarro confirmed that the latest data points to a slowing of the outbreak, with fewer cases appearing each week, but he said there were parts of Liberia and Sierra Leone where "transmission is still fierce."

The United Nations have repeatedly urged airlines to maintain flights to the three Ebola-hit countries to allow desperately-needed teams of doctors, nurses and health workers to travel there.

Liberia's Ambassador to the United Nations welcomed signs of a decline in the spread of the virus, but urged caution.

"The disease is unpredictable and one infection can have a cascading effect," said Ambassador Marjon Kamara.

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US: Walmart Workers Stage First-Ever Sit-In Strike

(thinkprogress) -  Workers at a Los Angeles (California) Walmart began the first sit-down strike in the company’s history at around 2 p.m. on Thursday. The strike is to protest their low wages and a culture of retaliation at the company. The protestors have been chanting “Stand Up, Live Better! Sit Down, Live Better!” and covering their mouths with tape to symbolize efforts to silence protestors, according to a press release from OurWalmart. Community members are also planning to join the protest later in the evening.

The protestors are asking to be paid a living wage of $15 an hour and to be given consistent, full-time hours. “I’m sitting down on strike today to protest Walmart’s illegal fear tactics and to send a message to management and the Waltons that they can’t continue to silence us and dismiss the growing calls for $15 an hour and full-time work that workers are raising across the country,” Kiana Howard, one of the strikers, said in the press release. Workers have also been raising concerns about understaffing.

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Related: Walmart workers plan Black Friday protests over wages

Brave New WalMart: Wave of Black Friday protests expected to flood Walmarts

U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency

(Reuters) - Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said on Wednesday, adding he would discuss the issue in Washington next week.

Residents of Oregon, Alaska, and the U.S. capital voted this month to allow the use of marijuana, boosting the legalization movement as cannabis usage is increasingly recognized by the American mainstream.

"I don't see how (the new laws) can be compatible with existing conventions," Yury Fedotov, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), told reporters.

Asked whether there was anything the UNODC could do about it, Fedotov said he would raise the problem next week with the U.S. State Department and other U.N. agencies.

Does Hanukkah wannabe Christmas?

(foxnews.com) NEW YORK – Christmas has Elf on the Shelf. Now Hanukkah has Mensch on a Bench — not to mention Maccabee on the Mantel.

Christmas has gingerbread houses; Manischewitz sells Chanukah House kits, using cookie dough with blue-and-white icing.

These are just a few of the Hanukkah-themed products inspired by Christmas traditions and toys. Pinterest and Etsy are loaded with blue-and-white Hanukkah crafts like wreaths and stockings. There are Hanukkah greeting cards, cookie cutters, and even tree ornaments shaped like the three symbols — Stars of David, menorahs and dreidels — that scream "Hanukkah!" amid a sea of holiday merchandise adorned with Christmas trees and Santas.

You can also buy a US$285, 6-foot Menorah Tree, shaped like a candelabra, with pine garlands wrapped around each of the menorah's nine candle-holders.

Some may say "Oy vey!" to all this kitschy retooling of Christmas stuff for Jewish consumers. But others, like Rabbi Evan Moffic of Congregation Solel in suburban Chicago, ask, "Why not?" Full Story

Florida 'race war' planner sentenced to six months

(via yahoonews) ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida man accused of training members of a white supremacist group for a "race war" at a heavily fortified compound near Orlando and Walt Disney World was sentenced on Monday to six months in jail, according to court records.

Marcus Faella, 41, was convicted earlier this year on two counts of paramilitary training. Authorities in central Florida called him the ringleader of a group they broke up in 2012, saying at the time it intended to kill Jews, immigrants and other minorities.

He was a member of the American Front, prosecutors said, describing the group as a nationwide, military-style, skinhead organization modeled on Britain's whites-only National Front.

At his sentencing, Faella was given credit for 61 days he had already served in jail, court records show. He also will serve two years of community control, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Full Story

Ebola outbreak in Texas officially over

(Washington Post) The place where Ebola first surfaced in the United States is officially clear of the disease, as the last hospital worker being monitored for potential exposure to the virus was declared no longer at risk Friday.

The news marked the end of a nearly six-week saga in Dallas, where Thomas Duncan, a Liberian man who had flown to Texas before showing symptoms of the disease, was diagnosed Sept. 30. He died eight days later at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas hospital.

Duncan’s case, along with the infection of two nurses who treated him, caused headlines and hysteria over the prospect of a broader Ebola outbreak in the country. It also prompted the Obama administration and state officials to put in place new restrictions for anyone entering the United States from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa.

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Powerful ocean storm blasts Alaska's Aleutian Islands, will chill much of US mainland

(foxnews) - ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Near hurricane-strength winds blasted parts of Alaska's Aleutian Islands as the remnants of Typhoon Nuri moved through the remote region hundreds of miles from the mainland.

Sustained winds of 70 mph and gusts up to 96 mph were recorded Friday morning on Shemya Island, where 120 people had locked themselves indoors to wait out the storm.

The island is home to the U.S. military's Eareckson Air Station, which serves mainly as an early warning radar installation. Acting manager Don Llewellyn said no one was going outside, but people can see light poles waving.

But toward evening, the winds had eased enough to allow personnel to get outside and check for any storm damage, said Tommie Baker, public affairs officer for the Alaskan Command. Full Story

US: Minimum Wage Increases Approved By Voters In Four ‘Red’ States

(inquisitr) - Minimum wage workers, and some who are working at just above the current minimum wage, in five states will soon see an increase in their pay. In Tuesday’s election, voters sent a mixed message in some areas of the country. They elected Republicans, who are largely opposed to an increase in the minimum wage, but told those Republicans they want a higher minimum wage at the state level.

NBC News reports that about 420,000 workers in Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota will see increases in their paychecks thanks to the vote. In addition to those states, a non-binding referendum calling for a higher minimum wage was passed in Illinois. The interesting thing about those states is that in every one except Alaska, where votes are still being counted, Republican governors won election or re-election. Voters also sent Republican senators to Washington in Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota, as well as Republican majorities in the U.S. House delegations from each of those states except for Illinois.

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US: Use of word 'Negro' removed from new Army reg

(kens5.com) - Less than 24 hours after it came to light, the Army has removed the word "negro" from its regulation governing the policies and responsibilities of command.

The term was used in a section of AR 600-20, which covers "Army Command Policy," about how to describe black or African-American troops.

"The U.S. Army fully recognized, and promptly acted, to remove outdated language in Army Regulation 600-20 as soon as it was brought to our attention," said Lt. Col. Alayne Conway, an Army spokeswoman, in a statement Thursday. "The Army takes pride in sustaining a culture where all personnel are treated with dignity and respect."

50 percent of American full time workers make less than $28,031 a year

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The Social Security Administration has just released wage statistics for 2013, and the numbers are startling.

Last year, 50 percent of all American workers made less than $28,031, and 39 percent of all American workers made less than $20,000. If you worked a full-time job at $10 an hour all year long with two weeks off, you would make $20,000. So the fact that 39 percent of all workers made less than that amount is rather telling. This is more evidence of the declining quality of the jobs in this country. In many homes in America today, both parents are working multiple jobs in a desperate attempt to make ends meet. Our paychecks are stagnant while the cost of living just continues to soar. And the jobs that are being added to the economy pay a lot less than the jobs lost in the last recession. In fact, it has been estimated that the jobs that have been created since the last recession pay an average of 23 percent less than the jobs that were lost. We are witnessing the slow-motion destruction of the middle class, and very few of our leaders seem to care.

Shocker: US: Judge strikes Kansas ban on 'gay' marriage

DEMOCRACY!

KANSAS CITY Kan. (Reuters) – A Kansas ban on same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution and must be overturned, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree granted a preliminary injunction on behalf of same-sex couples who had challenged the state’s ban on gay marriage and put the ruling on hold until Nov. 11 to give Kansas an opportunity to appeal.

The decision, if upheld, would add to more than a dozen states where same-sex marriage has become legal since the U.S. Supreme Court said on Oct. 6 that it would not review recent U.S. appeals court decisions that struck down state bans.
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Related: Missouri ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, court rules

W.H.O. Assails Delay in Ebola Vaccine

(nytimes) - The leader of the World Health Organization criticized the drug industry on Monday, saying that the drive for profit was one reason no vaccine had yet been found for Ebola.

In a speech at a regional conference in Cotonou, Benin, Dr. Margaret Chan, the director general of the W.H.O., also denounced the glaring absence of effective public health systems in the worst-affected countries.

At least 13,567 people are known to have contracted the Ebola virus in the latest outbreak, and 4,951 have died, according to the latest data on the W.H.O. website, which was updated on Friday. All but a few of the cases have been in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Dr. Chan said her organization had long warned of the consequences of greed in drug development and of neglect in public health. Full Story

Dakotas celebrating 125th birthdays on same day; still not clear which was first to the Union

COEXIST

BISMARCK, North Dakota — North Dakota and South Dakota are celebrating their 125th birthdays on Sunday, and there's still a question over which one actually joined the Union first.

It's one of many lingering issues between the twin states, which have been locked in a geographic sibling rivalry since the Territorial Days.

North Dakota and South Dakota were both granted statehood on Nov. 2, 1889, by President Benjamin Harrison. Newspaper accounts from the time and historians say that, faced with the dilemma of which Dakota statehood paper he'd sign first, Harrison had them shuffled and all but the signature lines in the documents covered.

"It's my understanding that not even he knew which one he signed first," said Mark Halvorson, a historian with the North Dakota State Historical Society.

Some scholars believe the alphabet may have decided the issue, with "n'' preceding "s." North Dakota was admitted as the 39th state and South Dakota as the 40th.

While North Dakota relishes in beating its southern neighbor, South Dakota State Historical Society Director Jay Vogt joked that "they really shouldn't be 39th because we're far more important."

Work makes you free: 11 Americans die at work everyday

(Marketwatch) Not only is your job irritating and stress-inducing, it might be deadly — even if you work behind a desk.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in recent years, an average of 11 Americans die on the job every single day and another roughly 50,000 die annually because of illnesses they contracted on the job — meaning that working kills roughly 54,000 Americans every year (and injures millions more).

“These numbers are unacceptable to all of us, because as a nation we no longer accept the premise that injuries and fatalities are just part of the cost of doing business,” a DOL article from Monday read.
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