Statistics just released from the US Justice Bureau show that by the end of 2007 more than 7million men and women were under correctional supervision in the nation’s prisons, or on probation or parole. This equates to about 3.2 percent of the U.S. adult population, or one in every 31 adults, being incarcerated or under [...]
Maybe I’m a bit naive but, if we are running out of power, we have a major recession looming and loads of people need jobs, wouldn’t it make sense to throw all these components together and get unemployed people to build new power stations throughout the UK?
If it was good enough for the USA after [...]
Good Morning America, and Congratulations – you have chosen Barack Obama to be your 44th President.
In a landslide victory Americans have voted for a black Afro-American to be their Commander-in Chief for the first time, and a huge percentage of the population turned out to ensure the victory. 64% voted, a figure not seen since [...]
In a rather bizarre act guaranteed to make a nation in debt even more depressed the USA have had a National Debt Counter Clock displaying the country’s debt since 1989.
When it was introduced the debt ran to 2.7 trillion dollars. In a reflection of the dire straits we are in, the clock counter this week [...]
