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Bad News from the U.S. Labor Market.

Unemployment rate jumped to 5,1% (from 4,8%) . The rate can be rose to 5,5% by the end of the year.

1. Services : -13,000
2. Privat service-sector: -5,000
3. Business and professional-services companies: -35,000
4. Retail: -12,400
5. Temporary employment: -21,000
6. Manufacturing companies: -48,000
7. Auto employment: -24,000

The Number of people who stopped looking for work because they don't think they would find it (discouraged workers) rose to 401.000 in March.

"Finance and accounting, IT, engineering, scientific, legal - all have gone from very strong growth in 2007 to flat or even strong declines" Mr.Giliam.

In the first three months of 2008, the U.S. economy lost 232,000 jobs.

The Wall Street Journal.

"Drugs are cool"

„Nichuja Sibie...“

... means in russian „What the f*ck is that?!“ + “Wow!!”.

Since somebody uploaded the video with the capturing of the driver in Sankt-Petersburg, wich was under the drugs (police stopped him, because he was dancing by the driving), that expression got a second meaning. Today “Nichuja Sibie” is a nickname of the captured guy. People call him so, because he was repeating this words the most of the time by the arresting. On the end of the video he told once “OPA!!” (means “oops”) and “Param Pam Pam”.

Mr. Nichuja Sibie became famous and not only in RuNet (russian internet).
Dj Lvov (a famous dj in Russia) took this words and created techno-chaos soundtrack to the video.
The Broadcast “Maximum” from NTV (Russian channel ) made report about the life and family of Mr. NS with the interview of his wife.

I hope this example will motivate people not to take the drugs.
Because, as we can see, it’s so easy to became “famous” and be the object of jokes as absolutely stupid idiot.

1. Video with the capture
2. OST Dj Lvov
3. Broadcast "Maximum"


p.S. the guy's real name is Dmitry

Ilyas Shurpaev (journalist)

R.I.P.

He was killed in Moscow on 21.03.2008.

There are a few versions about the reasons for this murder.
The main one is his blog (rus.), where he was criticizing (ironically) some aspects of the “daily life“ in Russia.

In his last message (blog)  he wrote about the “black list” of the journalists (taboo for them to work for the newspaper), wich was published for the workers of some dag(h)estanian newspaper (his ex-employer). It was a “surprise” for Ilyas to find his name there, because policy wasn’t his profile. Usually he was writing articles about his trips.

Pic from : http://www.ural.ru/

Top 5 Bad News (4+1) 24.03.-30.03.2008

1. ENERGY-EUROPE: Nuclear Power Debate Heats Up. (Inter Press Service)
2. U.S. assistant secretary of state Rosemary DiCarlo: Washington will support Kosovo's desire to become UN member (Interfax)
3. Bank of China books $1.3 billion subprime allowance (Reuters)
4. Medvedev warns against NATO membership for Ukraine, Georgia (Xinhua)
5. -see the last post-

Tibet

Last Friday I was in Dresden (Germany) and took this picture downtown. That stuff is the work of some guy,who was standing there and asking people to give their vote for one of the answers. The question was: "Tibet's Crisis. What should the german olympic team do in this case?"

1-st post = greeting + describtion

hi, 

BNIB (bad news information board) - doesn't mean collecting the most horrible news (like: "1000 deaths because of the train crash" or "nuclear holocaust, no one will survive" ). To find the most interesting (bad) news and make them more useful , such that we can have warning signals for the future (short analysis and implications), is the point of this blog.


mfG Davidovsky.