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Saturday, February 7, 2004
If you want to understand what really went on with the CIA, Iraq, WMDs, and the Bush Administration read (or reread) Seymour Hersh's "The Stovepipe" in The New Yorker. [John Robb's Weblog]
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>WSJ. The unemployment rate fell to 5.6%, a two-year low, in January from 5.7% in December. But nonfarm employers boosted payrolls by only 112,000. That is well below the 150,000 to 200,000 jobs needed to keep up with population growth. Even more are needed to put back to work the millions of people who have lost their jobs in recent years. So why is the unemployment rate falling? The labor force is shrinking as people move into the long-term unemployed. They are still there, and many vote. This points to a bigger problem. It was common to pick up a book in the eighties (and even earlier) and find smart writers pointing to the coming boom in information service jobs. I don't see that type of forward thinking today as information service jobs are under pressure. What's next? I don't buy into the idea that inward looking jobs (just selling to Americans) are the wave of the future. We need something we can sell to the rest of the world. One inadvertant strategy (that may be in process) is that we plunge the world in chaos and sell them corporate mercenary services, weapons, and more. [John Robb's Weblog] comments < 9:42:07 AM
>Scientists Win Latest Ruling in Kennewick Man Case [Scientific American] comments < 7:53:00 AM
>Cuban group drives a '59 Buick half way to Florida. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 7:52:00 AM
>Free Microsoft "Security" Posters - from Microsoft! Really! [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] comments < 7:50:42 AM
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