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Post by mdub on May 22, 2011 23:09:05 GMT -6
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Post by mdub on May 17, 2011 0:06:14 GMT -6
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Post by mdub on May 16, 2011 23:45:17 GMT -6
GB, Do you have any proof that they actually killed him, other than the claims of an administration that has lied to us about everything else? They can't even get their story straight. First he was armed with and Ak and there was a firefight, then he was unarmed and there was no firefight. First he used his wife as a shield, then he didn't. The last story I read is that they took him outside and shot him. Then, they quickly disposed of the body at sea, in accordance with Muslim law or tradition. This is nonsense! Muslims require the body to be washed and buried with the head facing Mecca. Dumping the body into the water is not considered a burial at all. And why is the US military showing that much respect to the man who is allegedly responsible for killing 3000 Americans? We didn't do this for Sadam and his sons, nor do we do this for the innocent civilians we routinely kill with drones. Then there is the ever changing story about the WH photo of them watching the raid. The next day, Leon Panetta said that the Seals had their video off, so there was no video and the photo must have been staged. Then, he reversed himself a few days ago and said that the video was on. They put out a photo of him dead, which was proven to be a hoax, then backpeddaled and said they never released it, someone else did. They put out videos claiming they were from 2010, which were released in 2007, and were even older than that. At least the Bush admin would tell one lie and stick with it. There were also reports that I was reading for years that said he suffered from Marfan's syndrome and was on dialiys for failing kidneys while being treated at a US hospital in Dubai ten years ago. www.infowars.com/top-us-government-insider-bin-laden-died-in-2001-911-a-false-flag/
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Post by mdub on May 16, 2011 23:07:52 GMT -6
The birth certificate is an obvious fake. The text does not match, there are multiple layers, and there is no seal. Look at the left side - it looks like someone put a book on a printer and made a copy. If you download it into Adobe, it will show all of the different layers and how it was doctored.
Perhaps they made an obvious fake to create more controversy and get people talking about it, instead of the more important issues.
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Post by mdub on May 7, 2011 23:18:18 GMT -6
Aren't you proud to be and American? We don't have the Bill Of Right anymore. We had to give that up to protect ourselves from terrorists. But we do have junk food, porn, fantasy football, and prescription drugs. Isn't life good?
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Post by mdub on May 7, 2011 23:06:11 GMT -6
I think the McDonald's jobs are for the next few months, not April....
The seasonally unadjusted data showed a whopping gain 1,169,000 jobs. They are clearly making this up. It is all due to the B/D model, which is used to manipulate the seasonally unadjusted data, which is not headline data.
In any case, all these statistics are lies. The government is cranking up the propaganda as the economy increases it's rate of collapse.
I occasionally read the San Francisco Chronicle. The interesting thing is that comments show that noone believes the economic data hoax but everyone believes the Bin Laden hoax. But that's a different topic...
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Post by mdub on Apr 29, 2011 18:42:01 GMT -6
Good prediction, Jeff. Feel free to blow your own horn:)
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Post by mdub on Apr 28, 2011 23:29:31 GMT -6
Just thought it was amazing they would put out such an obvious fake.
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Post by mdub on Apr 28, 2011 21:12:03 GMT -6
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Post by mdub on Apr 24, 2011 1:35:45 GMT -6
Yes, walt, you're right. And there are always 2 lame excuses:
"I didn't want to waste my vote" by voting for a candidate like a Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich that are not corrupt and offer positive change. For some reason, voting for mainstream candidates who only serve special interests is not considered "wasting your vote".
"I'm no gonna vote for someone that doesn't have a chance." The only reason they "don't have a chance" is because of the sheep-like mentality of the public in refusing to vote for anyone other than Dems or Repubs. If people broke away from that mentality and voted for candidates outside the mainstream, real change would occur.
Just want to add several more conditions that define a banana republic that exist or are developing in America:
5. Massive trade deficits and dependence on foreign manufacturing. The US mainly exports raw materials and soybeans.
6. Lack of a high-tech economy. Opportunities are scarce for college graduates. The jobs are either outsourced or filled with H1B or L1 guest workers.
7. Growing police state. This is happening very quickly here, as the Bill of Rights has been virtually decimated. The last to go will be the first and second amendments. The Washington Post ran several articles on how Homeland Security is keeping records on returning veterans, gun owners, civil libertarians, 911 truthers, and Ron Paul supporters.
8. Huge income inequality between rich and poor. The US now has the worst income inequality in the developed world.
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Post by mdub on Apr 20, 2011 18:38:19 GMT -6
I can't believe investors need a credit rating agnecy to tell them that US debt is junk. The only way the US can pay back its creditors is through inflation.
The Fed is keeping rates artificially low by buying up Teasuries....
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Post by mdub on Apr 20, 2011 18:20:30 GMT -6
I'm kinda surprised east Texas is burning. I guess it's just before the humidity knicks in. When I lived in DC I couldn't remember one fire even though there are forests everywhere. It's just too humid....
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Post by mdub on Apr 18, 2011 19:09:11 GMT -6
I think this generation of Americans are the most pathetic people in history. What happened to us? Is it the flouride they put in the water or the addiction to pop culture that is making people so indifferent to every important event?
If Americans were as sad 50 years ago as they are today, blacks would still be 2nd class citizens in the South and we would still be working 80 hours a week in sweatshops. The only reason we don't have those things anymore is that past generations were willing to stick their necks out for what they believe in.
I expect America to be a 3rd world police state by 2015.
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Post by mdub on Apr 14, 2011 21:18:20 GMT -6
Mine is bolted down to the foundation because it's small enough to carry.
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Post by mdub on Apr 14, 2011 18:54:32 GMT -6
I have a safe in my mom's closet where I keep my gold, silver, and her jewelry. If the gov't can molest your kids at airports, then nothing else they do will surprise me.... Here are a few videos of 6 and 8 year olds bieng given "enhanced pat downs" by TSA goons. How do parents tolerate this? We are well on the wat to becoming a 3rd world police state. www.infowars.com/tsa-gropes-8-year-old-boy-in-front-of-outraged-mother/
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Post by mdub on Apr 8, 2011 15:40:19 GMT -6
ULC, are you a physician?
I was looking for any data on monthly seasonal adjustments, but can't find any....
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Post by mdub on Apr 7, 2011 21:40:48 GMT -6
In an attempt to find any evidence of the government's claimed 230 K private sector job growth in March, I came across this article. The biggest gain by far is McDonald's which is adding 50 K mostly minimum wage jobs. "Defense" contractors, Wal Mart, Kohl's, and a few tech companies plan to hire a few hundred workers. I can't find any evidence of the claimed 17 k manufacturing jobs, or the 17 k Paramedic and EMT jobs that were supposedly added. I have an EMT certificate and have been looking for months, and it's pretty dry.... www.thestreet.com/story/10968897/8/hiring-heats-up-companies-hiring-in-2011.html#
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Post by mdub on Apr 7, 2011 20:50:06 GMT -6
For March, the US had a whopping deficit of 925 billion! "At the same time, the Treasury paid out a total of $1.1187 trillion. When the $65.898 billion in tax refunds is deducted from that, the Treasury paid a net of $1.0528 trillion in federal expenses for March. That $1.0528 trillion in spending for March equaled 8.2 times the $128.179 in net federal tax revenue for the month." www.cnsnews.com/news/article/march-madness-feds-spent-more-eight-time#
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Post by mdub on Apr 3, 2011 15:27:34 GMT -6
I seriously doubt that the economy added 212,000 jobs. This is likely the result of unrealistic seasonal adjustments. Seasonal adjustments are assumptions the BLS makes about job growth because it’s “that time of year”.
The seasonally unadjusted data shows a whopping increase of 916,000 jobs. This is all due to the birth/death model, which added the same amount. No sane economist can beileve this data. If it were true, companies would be hiring thousands of people and the media would be hyping it. But all we hear about are layoffs. It’s interesting that the BLS has data for mass layoffs but nothing for mass hirings.
Hate to sound like a broken record, but the BLS needs to back this data up by stating the companies that are hiring, where they are hiring, how many they are hiring, and compare it to the companies that are firing. The net result should be approximately equal to the monthly job gain/loss.
How can these job numbers be reconciled with the fact that, as you mentioned, food stamp useage is going up, local bank failures are increasing, foreclosures are up, housing prices are down, and personal bankruptcy filings are up? In a real recovery, all of these things would be moving in the opposite direction.
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Post by mdub on Mar 24, 2011 19:13:42 GMT -6
As usual, this is "unexpected".
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Post by mdub on Mar 24, 2011 18:08:14 GMT -6
DOes anyone know of any good charities thru whuch do donate to the victims of the tsunami? I heard that groups like Red Cross pocket most of the money. Thanks.
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Post by mdub on Mar 19, 2011 21:39:05 GMT -6
In the last 4 years, the population of those 16+ has increased only 150,000 (according to the BLS.) During that time, the US population increased 12 million. Are we supposed to believe that 99% of population growth was of those under 16?
The labor force increased by 18 mil. in the 80s and 90s, yet only by 9 mil. last decade. A normal population growth rate would give an unemployment rate of 14%. Add in another 7% underemployed and the u7 figure is about 21%.
Mish sites the household data. The payroll data shows no net job growth since Feb. 2000. Most, if not all, of those 192,000 jobs are due to unrealistic seasonal adjustmants. Also, the birth/death adjustment for Feb. was 816,000 jobs. This is total BS.
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Post by mdub on Mar 9, 2011 0:52:44 GMT -6
On of the few people who got how things work. Contains a few F words.
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Post by mdub on Mar 9, 2011 0:21:32 GMT -6
You all made valid points. Some things I would like to add -
I think the gov't is just making this stuff up because it's desperate to show that we are in a recovery. The birth/death adjustment for Feb. says there were 816K new jobs. If this were the case there would be mass hirings everywhere and the media would be hyping it.
The BLS needs to back this up by stating the companies that are hiring Americans, because I sure can't find any. For instance, the category "Ambulatory Healthcare Services" supposedly adds 10-20K jobs a month, but in every N.Cal county there are 100s of applicants but noone is hiring. A nationwide search I did shows that ambulance companies and hospitals are hiring only a few EMTs. This is mostly due to the budget crisis of states and counties.
The BLS publishes statistics on mass layoffs, but nothing on mass hirings. Last month there were 1534, up slightly from the previous month. A Google search for mass hirings reveals only Google's hiring of 5K people worldwide (mostly foreigners).
Lastly, I came across something interesting a few days ago. In the 80s and 90s, the labor force grew by about 18 mil. people. But last decade, it grew by only 9.4 mil, and barely grew at all in the last 4 years. In the last 4 years, the US population grew by about 12 mil., but the gov't says that the working age population grew by only 113K. Adding another 9 mil. to the count would give us a normal growth total of 162,189,000 people in the labor force, while there are 139,573,000 employed. This would give us an unemployment rate of 14%, not 8.9%.
This is not an honest mistake, the gov't is doing this on purpose to understate unemployment.
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Post by mdub on Mar 2, 2011 23:14:37 GMT -6
The BLS says that there were 152K new jobs in manufacturing last year. It's much easier to believe that US manufacturers added 152K jobs in China. It's interesting that these optimistic articles never mention which companies are hiring. Even if that's true, it would take 40 years at this pace to regain the 6 mil. lost jobs of the last 13 years. Today, the BLS had an article on mass layoffs, Jan. being higher than Dec. www.bls.gov/ So where are the mass hirings in this alleged recovery? I was fortunate to get a 6 month contract at Keiser in Nor CA. Half the floor is IT, and everyone is an Indian national, except myself. They also do most business analysis, accounting and finance. Americans are hired as temps to do customer-facing jobs, like receptionist, sales, and project management. Despite no net private sector job growth in nearly 12 years, our corrupt gov't continues to approve heavy amounts of h1B visas (85K this year). Even the Soviet gov't cared more about its people than does ours.
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Post by mdub on Feb 14, 2011 1:57:57 GMT -6
To me it was obvious the War on Terror and the "Patriot" Act was a hoax. The biggest terrorists in the world are the governments of America, Brittain and Israel and the military industrial complex. Muslims are simlpy reacting to our aggression and control of their governments thru puppet dictators like Mubarak and others.
I recently read and article in the Washington Post where the governemnt admits that they are keeping tabs on Americans who support candidates like Ron Paul, Bob Barr, etc., who belong to anti-war groups, and people who oppose Israeli and US foreign policy.
We have parts of southern Arizona that are controlled by Mexican drug kingpins and kidnappers. Arizona has been pleading with DC to do something, but nothing happens. But they'll molest your kids at airports and say it's for national security. And from what I've read, the naked body scanners they use cannot even detect the powder that was in the alleged bomb that was the very reason for these machines.
These machines are there for 2 reasons - 1. To get Americans used to a police state and 2. To make money. Former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff has a consulting firm whose biggest client is the company that makes these machines(Rapiscan).
Americans need to wake up to what's really going on.
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Post by mdub on Feb 8, 2011 19:16:35 GMT -6
I bet there are far more than 4 appicants per job. I appled for EMT positions in all Bay Area counties and the HR people told me there were hundreds of applicants, but no open positions. Just despereate people waiting for work. And this is supposed to be one of the biggest growing occupatiuons. The fact that job openings aren't increasing proves that seasonal adjustments are propaganda that the gov't uses to create phony jobs. The seasonally unadjusted figure for Jan. 11 showed a whopping net loss of 2.9 mil. jobs, mostly thru B/D model revisions. MGB Information Services sums it up best - "Total jobs increased by only 36k in Jan and avg. weekly wages rose just 0.06%, likely less than inflation. The official jobless rate fell to 9.0% as unprecedented dropouts continued. Counted labor force now is less than in Jan 2008 in first sustained 3-yr decline. The unemployment rate would be 14.0% now if the labor force was growing normally. Revisions to the job count back to 2006 cut earlier estimates for Dec by -483k. There are now fewer private sector jobs than in April 1999 -- an historic, near 12-year decline with severe consequences." www.mbginfosvcs.com/No economist in their right mind can say that a pathetic net loss of private sector jobs in the last 12 years is anything short of total disaster.
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Post by mdub on Feb 6, 2011 23:43:15 GMT -6
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Post by mdub on Jan 28, 2011 1:03:28 GMT -6
Walt, what are you doing for work? I was in a similar position. I lost my full time IT job in '03 and could only find 2-3 month contracts. I retrained last spring to be an EMT, but HR said every county has several hundred applicants and no open positions. Just today I got a 3 month IT contract. I make about as much as I made 7 years ago. Employers don't realize how competitive the job market is now, or they would be offering these jobs at $20/hr and people would be lining up.
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Post by mdub on Jan 12, 2011 19:44:43 GMT -6
Historically, a president's poll numbers improve when the economy gets better (i.e. lots of well-paying jobs). But not even the most brainwashed American today believes that things are looking up. I have no idea what is causing his numbers to go up. It's clearly not growing support from Republicans or Independents. Comments in liberal websites like HuffingtonPost and FiredogLake show that many on the left are unhappy.
I read that in the 90s they manipulated the unemployment rate by decreasing the number of inner city residents polled, where the unemployment rate is always higher.
Perhaps pollsters are increasing the number of registered Democrats being polled as a percentage of the general population.
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