Social Issues

Women were given tents and sleeping bags when they were released from a British prison with nowhere to go due to a shortage of accommodation The disclosure was made following an inspection into HMP Bronzefield in West London. The watchdog report said two women were given tents while sleeping bags had also been handed out amid a shortage in available housing. In the six months prior to the inspection, 103 had left with no fixed address, according to the report from HM Inspectorate of Prisons.

China has condemned the United States’ Human Rights record at home and abroad in an annual report released on Thursday. U.S. politics is corrupted by money and nepotism, with numerous wars in the Middle East providing a glimpse of how the U.S. government views “lives in other countries as worthless,” according to the scathing Chinese Human Rights report.

We have toi congratulate Argentina, and its minister of the economy Alfonso Prat-Gay, for being the first country to not only admit its economic data has been a completey fraud, but that it lied about it for years.

• ARGENTINA IS NO LONGER LYING ABOUT ITS STATISTICS: PRAT-GAY
• ARGENTINE STATS AGENCY WAS `USED TO LIE OBSCENELY': PRAT-GAY

We wonder when China and the U.S. will catch up to the Latin American country, and admit the same.

Having risen along with weakness in broad market surveys (ISM, PMI, NFIB) throughout January, initial jobless claims have plunged twice since (despite the same surveys getting worse) breaking down to 253k in the last week - the lowest since 1973!

Makes perfect sense...

Sometimes you just have to laugh.

Ever have your identity stolen?  Know anyone who has? Well, if your Social Security number is being illegally used by an illegal immigrant to illegally file illegal tax returns, the IRS will not only ‘look the other way’ but, according to the IRS Commissioner, they will ‘encourage this activity,’ as long as you’re an illegal immigrant. Washingtonexaminer.com reports: IRS Commissioner John Koskinen made the statement in response to a question from Sen.