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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (48966)	3/30/2006 12:11:07 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 116555

minimum wage is a joke. perhaps some places in large cities or farming country they pay min wage.. maybe they use it for those on commission , it is base for draw if not commission. i went out for gas and one station has eight signs out along the street for help.. they just cannot get enough help.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (48966)	3/30/2006 12:42:56 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Is America facing an economic disaster? Stephen Sackur talks to America's Auditor-in-Chief, David Walker. play it news.bbc.co.uk

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (48966)	3/30/2006 1:11:19 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

FBI AS GESTAPO: OPPRESSING THE KURDS OF HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA The following is something that has not hit the media at all, other than a story in the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record that simply repeated FBI propaganda about this awful case. Harrisonburg, Virginia happens to have one of the largest enclaves of Iraqi Kurdish population in the US. They all came in the late 1990s to flee from Saddam Hussein's regime after working for pro-US NGOs and having their lives threatened. They applauded at the fall of Saddam. However, four of them have been arrested for transferring funds to their families and charitable organizations in Iraqi Kurdistan without a license, a felony offense under the Patriot Act and the act to keep Cubans from sending money to their relatives in Cuba. One has been convicted in a trial in which most of the evidence was not allowed and in which the FBI suggested that the defendant was a terrorist. These people were cowed into not talking to the media, and now they are all in deep trouble. Their homes have been raided, their money seized, even things like medical insurance cards (with one wife pregnant), applications for citizenship are off, they are facing deportation, and so on. They were assigned a Croatian translator for the court. There is a serious string of outrages associated with this with no coverage by any serious media. The FBI agent in charge even told them, "I know you are not the bad guys, but too much paperwork has gone forward on this." maxspeak.org