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Stuff like this is posted too.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2008
Bankruptcy Filings Surge 29%
Bankruptcy filings surged 29% in the 12 months that ended June 30, according to government figures released today.
Total filings rose to 967,831 from 751,056 a year earlier.
Business filings jumped more than 41% to 33,822 from 23,889 in the year-ago period. Personal filings totaled 934,009, up 28% from last year.
The data also showed that filings for Chapter 7 rose 36% to 615,748 in the 12 months that ended June 30.
Chapter 13 filings, which requires debtors to pay back their debts over time, rose 17% to 344,421 from 294,693 a year earlier.
Filings for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which is designed for corporations or partnerships, rose more than 30% to 7,293.
We should see how long it takes to get into the mainstream press.
I have been reading this site for years.
It just provides links and some are iffy. A lot of them are true though, just not in the U.S mainstream press.
We are about 17th for freedom of the press.
The Paris-based Reporters without Borders issued its first ever ranking of press freedom in countries around the world. The rankings are based on surveys of journalists, researchers and legal experts about a range of press freedom violations, such as murders of journalists, state censorship, etc.
The United States ranks 17th, behind Canada (5th), most of Western Europe, and Costa Rica (15th)
The Middle East fares poorly, with no Arab country among the top 50 (Lebanon is 56th). Egypt comes in at 101, Saudi Arabia at 125, and Iraq at 130. Israel comes in at 92.
Scandinavia scores extremely well, with all 5 countries (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark) coming in the top 10.
Believe what you want, it really doesn't matter to me.
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