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The freight train known as The Beast travels from the southern Mexican town of Arriaga up to Mexico City. And every day hundreds of migrants, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras or Nicaragua, sit on top of the notorious train, often for days at a time. It is also known as the Train Of Death. Riding precariously on top of the moving containers, migrants are often maimed or killed if they fall [...] Is it any wonder that many small and medium sized businesses are moving out of California? In the recent elections, California Voters Sock It To The Rich. As the Wall Street Journal noted, some are promising businesses a better life elsewhere. Being courted must be refreshing but it is important for a company and its owners to have reasonable expectations and to budget for drilling down into California’s rules. After all, [...] If Congress does not raise the debt ceiling, the result will be no different than the Jones family deciding that they have maxed out their credit cards; and that if they continue borrowing and spending over their means, there will be significant pain to the family at best and bankruptcy at worst. The economics of government is no different. Mr. and Mrs. Jones want to be able to provide for themselves in [...] At least two people were shot at Taft High School Thursday morning. It happened at about 9 a.m. and as of 9:30, students had been evacuated to the football field and there were reports one person was in custody. Details were still sketchy at 9:45 a.m. but the Sheriff’s Department has confirmed a shooter is in custody and at least two people have been wounded. Hall Ambulance dispatched three ambulances and a [...]
As unemployment brings despair to what once was a land of prosperity, many of those who are hunting for a better life are now making some unexpected choices. Lucy Kafanov reports from Venezuela on why the country’s becoming a more attractive place to move to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmuwufSxLE&feature=player_embedded We’re on our way to Britain: A year from now up to 29m Bulgarians and Romanians will have the right to settle in Britain and claim benefits. And these gypsies in the slums of Sofia can hardly wait… Since EU borders were opened up in 2004, 1,114,368 Eastern Europeans have uprooted to live in England It’s summer in the Mediterranean. Sunseeking holidaymakers lounge on sandy beaches, glittering yachts glide into and out of quaint old harbors and packed cruise ships hop between idyllic islands.
But it’s no holiday further out at sea, where migrants float crammed together in rickety boats or cling to sinking rafts, some choking on their final breaths as they and their dreams of finding a better life in Europe perish under the [...] Editor’s note: Melinda Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (CNN) – The vast majority of women in the United States use birth control. Some of us may even consider it a minor annoyance. Sometimes we forget to take our pills. The side effects can be painful. But we put up with it because it’s so important to have the power to determine our future. I didn’t fully appreciate how much contraceptives [...] Robert Johnson When Rob Wise left the Marine Corps to join the Army a decade ago he may have looked forward to a better life, starting a family and receiving support from the people he worked for. The Marines have been known to be less than accepting of new wives and fledgling families. I’ve met more than one soldier who left the Corps for the Army after hearing that [...] A college education was once regarded as a first-class ticket to a better life. But the rising costs of higher education, the burden of student loans and a less-certain job market have left many wondering: Are too many young people going to college? We sat down with a group of education-policy experts—Sandy Baum, senior fellow at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Education and Human Development; James O’Neill, co-founder of the Thiel [...] via LA Times: After months searching for work and feeling increasingly discouraged, Natalie Cole caught a break — an offer of a part-time position at a Little Caesars Pizza shop in Compton. The manager scheduled her orientation and told her she had to pass a food safety test. She took the test — and failed. But rather than study and take it again, she shrugged it off. “I guess I am not working for a [...] What Do California And Detroit Have In Common? The American Dream When most people think of the economic decline that is happening in America, most of them think of states like California and cities like Detroit. In both cases, unemployment is rampant, government finances are a mess, and businesses and families are both leaving in droves. So what is causing this? What do California and Detroit have in common? Well, [...] by Simon Black, Sovereign Man April 13, 2012 Jim Rogers has famously commented that, if you were smart in the 18th century, you moved to France. If you were smart in the 19th century, you moved to England. If you were smart in the 20th century, you moved to the US. And if you’re smart in the 21st century, you move to Asia. It’s an absolutely true statement. Each time I’m in Asia, I’m overwhelmed at not only [...] Ever wonder how much money you’d have to make to feel content? Or think you’d be happier if you could just make a few thousand dollars more each year? The Wall Street Journal reports on a study that shows you can put a dollar figure on happiness:
The magic income: $75,000 a year. As people earn more money, their day-to-day happiness rises. Until you hit $75,000. After that, it is just more stuff, with no gain [...] Five people have been charged with intentional injury to a Chinese teenager who was so desperate to buy an iPad and iPhone that he sold his kidney for just over £2,000. The accused, from southern China, include a surgeon who removed a kidney from a 17-year-old boy in return for around 220,000 yuan – just over £20,000. Prosecutors in Chenzhou city, Hunan province, said one of the defendants received the money to [...] Did El Greco leave Greece for a better life in Spain?
The Spanish Housing Crises has 40% to 60% yet to fall looks like:
Citi’s Willem Buiter is out with a big call on Spain, and how things are going to get much worse, and how ultimately the country will need outside assistance in some way. Given that Spain is much bigger than Greece, this is a very big deal. We have the full gory [...] Internet Bubble: How hard was it not buy AOL when it was going up 50% a year? Don’t people know all bubbles end badly? From SHTFplan: Economics professor Jack Chambless of Valencia College in Florida had his sophomore students write a short essay on what the American dream means to them and what, specifically, they wanted the federal government to do to help them achieve that dream. The results demonstrate the sheer magnitude of the idiocy of a public education system dead-set on indoctrination, rather than education: I took the essays from three classes – about 180 [...] From SHTFplan: Economics professor Jack Chambless of Valencia College in Florida had his sophomore students write a short essay on what the American dream means to them and what, specifically, they wanted the federal government to do to help them achieve that dream. The results demonstrate the sheer magnitude of the idiocy of a public education system dead-set on indoctrination, rather than education: I took the essays from three classes – about 180 [...] by Simone Foxman One of your New Year’s resolutions is probably to better balance your professional life with your personal life. If not, it should be. So how do you accomplish this? Perhaps the easiest thing to do is move to a country where the locals are already very happy with their work-life balance. In October, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published the results of a survey of Work-Life Balance in its member countries. It [...] by business insider Mayor Bloomberg was on ‘Morning Joe’ this morning (part of a parade of moderate Republicans that included Chris Christie and Mitt Romney) and even more than his repeated denials that he’s not interested in running for president his views on immigration appear to seal the deal on that front. Not because they are extreme. But because the are entirely rational. And as Rick Perry learned the hard way rational views on immigration, or any views that don’t involve walls [...] by The Economic Collapse Millions of American citizens have already left the United States in search of a better life. As the economy continues to crumble and as our society slowly falls apart, millions of others are thinking about it. But moving to another country is not something to be done lightly. The reality is that there are a vast array of social, cultural, economic and safety issues to be considered. If [...] NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) A southern Arizona student and father expecting his first child has been found dead in Nogales, Mexico, with what authorities say are signs of torture. Sonora State Police say the body of 21-year-old Juan Carlos Navarro of Nogales, Ariz., was found wrapped in a blanket on a roadside in the upscale Colonia Kennedy neighborhood. The Nogales International reports Navarro had been shot once in the [...] One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. “Baka malamig doon” were among the few words she said. (“It might be cold there.”) When I arrived at the Philippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport with her, my aunt and a family friend, I was introduced to a man I’d never seen. They told [...] This market reminds me of my much earlier days. My father was a coal miner. I worked in the mine with him as a young man many years ago, before he demanded that I instead get an education. He had only gone to the fourth grade before working full-time in the mines, and he was insisting that I have a better life. After mining out a certain area (called a [...] |
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