AP awarded 4 Orwells for Obama bias, Jobs data, Unemployment, Stronger job creation could help President Barack Obama’s reelection hopes??
“I am convinced that if squirrels had opposable thumbs, that based on their superior intellect, they would be overqualified to be journalists in the mainstream media”…Citizen Wells
“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.”… William Tecumseh Sherman
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed
–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into
history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the
Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present
controls the past.”…George Orwell, “1984″
Stronger job creation could help President Barack Obama’s reelection hopes.
Well duh, if we actually had stronger job creation and someone in the White House who gets it, and an honest media to report the facts, economic conditions in this country would improve and everyone would be happier.
But for the moment, we don’t.
From Breitbart August 3, 2012.
“AP: ‘STRONGER JOB CREATION COULD HELP OBAMA’S RE-ELECTION'”
“That headline is not made up, it comes from a quote from the very same Associated Press that just last week completely fabricated Mitt Romney’s Palestinian ‘gaffe’. Today the AP is spinning a rise in unemployment and a measly 165,000 jobs created as the kind of “stronger job creation” that could win Their Precious One reelection.
The writer of this nonsense is Christopher S. Rugaber and the shilling is nothing more than propaganda. Rugaber not only wrist-flicks the second uptick in unemployment in just a few month, he tries to pretend the increase is statistically meaningless.
Emphasis mine:
Stronger job creation could help President Barack Obama’s re-election hopes. Still, the unemployment rate has been above 8 percent since his first month in office — the longest stretch on record. No president since World War II has faced re-election with unemployment over 8 percent. …
The government uses two surveys to measure employment. A survey of businesses showed job gains. The unemployment rate comes from a survey of households, which showed fewer people had jobs. Economists say the business survey is more reliable.
Not that any of this surprises me, but watching the media hit new low after new low is nonetheless amusing.
In my lifetime, this is without a doubt the first time the media has ever celebrated a rise in the unemployment rate as a good thing.
Drudge was the first to find this AP story and includes the rare comment on his site:
THEY BOTH CANT BE RIGHT:
Reuters: Labor market slowed sharply after strong gains in winter, spelling trouble for Obama…
AP: Stronger job creation could help Obama’s re-election hopes…
And it’s only August.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/08/03/AP-Says-Unemployment-increase-good-for-obama
On August 3, 2012 the US Labor Department reported the following:
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 163,000 in July.
The unemployment rate is 8.3 percent.
The labor force participation rate is 63.7 percent.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
The unemployment rate rose .1 percent in July and .1 percent dropped out of the labor force. Those are large numbers of people not employed. Do the math.
On August 2, 2012 the US Labor Department reported the following:
“In the week ending July 28 the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 365,000, an increase of 8,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 357,000. The 4-week moving average was 365,500, a decrease of 2,750 from the previous week’s revised average of 368,250.”
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/current.htm
Using the 4 week moving average of 365,500 times 4, we get a general idea of jobs lost during July.
From the the US Labor Department.
“What do the unemployment insurance (UI) figures measure?
The UI figures are not produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Statistics on insured unemployment in the United States are collected as a by-product of UI programs. Workers who lose their jobs and are covered by these programs typically file claims (“initial claims”) that serve as notice that they are beginning a period of unemployment. Claimants who qualify for benefits are counted in the insured unemployment figures (as “continued claims”). Data on UI claims are maintained by the Employment and Training Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor, and are available on the Internet at: workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims.asp.
Some countries base their estimates of total unemployment on the number of persons filing claims for or receiving UI payments or the number of persons registered with government employment offices as available for work. These data are also available in the United States, but they are not used to measure total unemployment because they exclude several important groups. To begin with, not all workers are covered by UI programs. For example, self-employed workers, unpaid family workers, workers in certain not-for-profit organizations, and several other small (primarily seasonal) worker categories are not covered.
In addition, the insured unemployed exclude the following:
- Unemployed workers who have exhausted their benefits
- Unemployed workers who have not yet earned benefit rights (such as new entrants or reentrants to the labor force)
- Disqualified workers whose unemployment is considered to have resulted from their own actions rather than from economic conditions; for example, a worker discharged for misconduct on the job
- Otherwise eligible unemployed persons who do not file for benefits
Because of these and other limitations, statistics on insured unemployment cannot be used as a count of total unemployment in the United States. Indeed, during 2008, only 36 percent of the total unemployed received UI benefits. The weekly data on UI claims do have important uses, however, and provide a timely indicator on labor market conditions.”
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#ui
The AP, Associated Press, is awarded 4 Orwells for their pro Obama bias and attempt to misrepresent the unemployment situation with the jobs added. The reason the AP did not receive 5 Orwells is because they included the unemployment rate.
Citizen WElls 
“AP: ‘STRONGER JOB CREATION COULD HELP OBAMA’S RE-ELECTION’”
“That headline is not made up, it comes from a quote from the very same Associated Press that just last week completely fabricated Mitt Romney’s Palestinian ‘gaffe’. Today the AP is spinning a rise in unemployment and a measly 165,000 jobs created as the kind of “stronger job creation” that could win Their Precious One reelection.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, these people are liars.
Jonah, thanks for the Allen West videos on last thread.
I laughed hard when West was asked if Obama was the worst President ever, and he said, “Jimmy Carter is pretty happy about now”. lol
Birthday Golf for Obama
9:06 AM, Aug 4, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
President Obama will spend his 51 birthday golfing. From the pool report:
President Obama kicked off the celebration of his birthday today by hitting the links.
POTUS motorcade departed the White House at 8:23 a.m. and arrived Andrews Air Force Base at 8:47 a.m.
No word yet on who is playing with the president.
According to CBS reporter Mark Knoller it’s Obama’s 104 round as president.
Obama: Negative ratings in 37 states, but king of DC
August 4, 2012
Byron York
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Everybody………
We need to never lose site of the fact that when the left tells a story it is a story in which UP is DOWN. Where the liberal left is concerned the snotnosed “overeducated wordsmiths” are all carbon copies of each other. They are all pre programmed and cannot easily be reprogrammed. Their programming is deliberately designed to pass only information that is twisted 180 degrees. To the liberals that is the truth. Their regiments include the entire criminal sector, the DERANGED, and the Socialist Marxist lunatics. Their intent is the complete and utter destruction of Christian America. They do this by PERVERTING a WEAK MINDED SOCIETY. That is to say these are people actually ENJOY their various perversions to such an extent that it becomes a drug to their minds,and at which point “NOTHING ELSE MATTERS” EXCEPT THEIR SICK DEVIANT ENJOYMENT……AGAIN,and AGAIN,and AGAIN.
Bob Strauss………..
When we learn that Soetoro is NO LONGER POPULAR IN 57 STATES we can then look upon our efforts as SUCCESSFUL.
…..in my comment 8:25PM
I typed SITE. This should be SIGHT. Sorry. Nothing quite like proofreading AFTER THE FACT!
oldsalt79 | August 4, 2012 at 8:29 pm |
Bob Strauss………..
When we learn that Soetoro is NO LONGER POPULAR IN 57 STATES we can then look upon our efforts as SUCCESSFUL.
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oldsalt79,
We’re working on it.
Bob Strauss………
In the golfing comment, can you clarify if somebody is playing with the POTUS, or is somebody PLAYING …,WITH the POTUS? I imagine I’ll just have to TAKE A GUESS.
oldsalt79 | August 4, 2012 at 8:41 pm |
Bob Strauss………
In the golfing comment, can you clarify if somebody is playing with the POTUS, or is somebody PLAYING …,WITH the POTUS? I imagine I’ll just have to TAKE A GUESS.
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oldsalt, either way the usurper is a disgusting POS.
“HOLDER TO BE SLAPPED WITH FAST & FURIOUS LAWSUIT DURING AUGUST RECESS”
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
Aug 03, 2012 12:41 PM EST
“Congress may be heading out for recess today but that isn’t stopping the House Republicans from moving forward with a civil contempt of Congress lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder.
“We’ll be filing a civil case during the break,” Issa told NBC, “We will expect a day in court before a federal judge, which we have a 100 percent chance that the judge will hold that these documents should be delivered.”
The lawsuit will be reviewed by a judge who will assess whether Holder has an obligation to comply with a 22-part Congressional subpoena that was issue in October 2011. The judge will also review whether President Obama’s assertion of executive privilige surrounding Fast and Furious documents was warranted.
“The idea that you would withhold based on some executive privilege the documents related to a cover up of a crime is absurd, but that’s the claim that the attorney general is hiding behind,” Issa said.
“We’re seeking a remedy and the remedy is an order to compel,” Issa said. “Nixon didn’t respond to Congress, he responded to federal judges, ultimately the Supreme Court, ordering that he had no such privilege to cover up the tapes. And these are no different than the Nixon tapes, we’re asking for documents related to a cover up of lying to Congress.”
Continue Reading Here: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/08/03/holder_to_be_slapped_with_fast_and_furious_lawsuit_during_august_recess
Starla……….
Sounds as though the GARROTE about HOLDER’S neck is beginning to draw tighter. There is also another GARROTE hanging nearby. I wonder who that one is for?
Okay, So How Do You Want to Play This? “Bozo’s Second Term Transformation Plan”
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2734278%3ATopic%3A391903&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic
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The above is too long to post here, but I tell you folks, this is an article that we all need to read and digest. Scroll down to the real meat of it, where it says,
“From John Porter
To: Americans Everywhere”
and “Obama’s Second Term Transformation Plans”
If we have ideas about concentrating on electing a Repub Senate and House because we don’t like Romney, we must realize that Bummer knows it would be impossible to get veto-proof bodies, because there will always be at least 145 Dems in the House and 34 in the Senate in agreement with him. That’s why he has to be voted OUT.
(quote)
The overwhelming majority of Americans do not understand that Obama’s first term was *dedicated to putting in place executive power* to enable him and the administration to fulfill the campaign promise of “transforming America ” in his second term regardless of which political party controls Congress. That is why his re-election team is virtually ignoring the plight of incumbent or prospective Democratic Party office holders.
The most significant accomplishment of Obama’s first term is to make Congress irrelevant. Under the myopic and blindly loyal leadership of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats have succeeded in creating an imperial and, in a second term, a potential dictatorial presidency.
During the first two years of the Obama administration when the Democrats overwhelming controlled both Houses of Congress and the media was in an Obama worshipping stupor, a *myriad of laws were passed and actions taken which transferred* virtually unlimited power to the executive branch.
(There’s more, much more, and it is well written and easy to grasp.)
Jonah,
-sigh-
I need to bring this forward pertaining to Allen West. Jonah, while you continuously make statements that reasons to have Allen West as a V.P candidate – based on his race, I again disagree. It is not I that appears to be biased, rather it is you. The Liberal Democrats/Socialists utilize the strategy of voting based on “race” as policy, which is what you are doing.
For example, you say, ” choosing Allen West” will take away from the Black Votes”, and “Black Pastors against” Obama, and on, and on. You are pandering. Pure and simple.
The same was done by the leftist when introducing Obama on the political stage. Vote Black, because he’s black. As you said ” can you imagine how many votes Allen West can take from the blacks”. That is pandering…
If you wish to state what Allen West is to bring to the table of his economical plans, international treaty layouts for the future, domestic transition between Private and Public sector benefits with taxation, amongst a host of other problems; then present it. The just vote for Allen West because he is Black and will take away from an Obama Black vote, just doesn’t get it; Again, that is pandering.
Present your case. Personally I think he is a loose cannon.
Cabby,
The Republican Congress members have allowed Obama to get away with treason and high crimes against America and we the people. Their answer to that is simply to vote.
Quite silly actually…. But that is the best they say they can do. In the Private sector, all would be in a federal prison.
I had a wonderful legal college professor decades ago that broke down my course of Business Legal Ethics. He said and I quote: (I have never forgotten this) If congress passes a law that exempts them, but requires private citizens to do jail time, then you know its unconstitutional.
Pretty simple….
Government Silently Positions for Martial Law as Financial Collapse Arrives in America
http://12160.info/profiles/blog/show?id=2649739%3ABlogPost%3A939086&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post
Alex Jones: Banksters Officially Gaining Dictatorial Powers
Uploaded by LibertyArchives2 on Feb 2, 2011
Alex Jones Asked People To Please Share This Article With All American Citizen’s In The USA To Read…..
“OBAMA REGULATORY REFORM PLAN OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHES BANKING DICTATORSHIP IN UNITED STATES”
“MOVE TO HAND PRIVATELY-OWNED FEDERAL RESERVE COMPLETE REGULATORY POWER OVER ENTIRE U.S. ECONOMY HERALDS NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT”
Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, June 18, 2009
“[…] Obama’s plan to give the privately-owned and unaccountable Federal Reserve complete regulatory oversight across the entire U.S. economy, which is likely to be enacted before the end of the year, will officially herald the beginning of a new form of government in the United States – an ultra-powerful banking dictatorship controlled by a small gaggle of shadowy and corrupt elitists.
The new rules would see the Fed given the authority to “regulate” any company whose activity it believes could threaten the economy and the markets.
This goes a step further than the centrally planned economies of the Soviet Union or Communist China, in that the Federal Reserve is not even accountable to the U.S. government, it is a private entity that according to former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, is accountable to nobody but the banking families that own it.
Obama’s regulatory “reform” plan is nothing less than a green light for the complete and total takeover of the United States by a private banking cartel that will usurp the power of existing regulatory bodies, who are now being blamed for the financial crisis in order that their status can be abolished and their roles handed over to the all-powerful Fed.
According to an Associated Press report today, Democratic leaders have committed to enacting the plan before the end of the year and Republicans in both the House and Senate have indicated that they won’t stand in the way of the overhaul.
“The final plan….is expected to sidestep most jurisdictional disputes and simply impose across the board standards to be applied by all financial regulators, according to administration and industry sources, ” reports the Washington Times.
In other words, the Fed, which is already totally unaccountable to Congress, is to be placed in complete control of the entirety of the U.S. financial system, to do as it wishes without repercussion.
As the LA Times reports, the government, in conjunction with the private Federal Reserve, would effectively have the clout to simply seize and take over any company it desires.”
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Alex Jones: Banksters Officially Gaining Dictatorial Powers
Uploaded by LibertyArchives2 on Feb 2, 2011
Alex Jones Asked People To Please Share This Article With All American Citizen’s In The USA To Read…..
“OBAMA REGULATORY REFORM PLAN OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHES BANKING DICTATORSHIP IN UNITED STATES”
“MOVE TO HAND PRIVATELY-OWNED FEDERAL RESERVE COMPLETE REGULATORY POWER OVER ENTIRE U.S. ECONOMY HERALDS NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT”
Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Con’t 2 of 3
“In order to appease those opposed to the plan, such as Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, the Obama administration has agreed to create a “watchdog” council of regulators to “advise the Fed”.
However, as former chairman Alan Greenspan has most recently pointed out, given that the Fed is an independent entity, and therefore accountable to no one, it will have the power to simply reject and overrule any advice it is offered.
Pointing out the flagrant conflict of interest in empowering the Federal Reserve to essentially regulate itself, Professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin Robert Auerbach writes, “The Federal Reserve has massive conflicts of interest that make it ill suited for its present regulatory functions and certainly for an expanded regulatory reach. The officials leading the Fed today preside over an organization that is run in substantial part by the bankers they regulate. Bank regulation begins at its 12 district Federal Reserve Banks, each governed by a nine-member board of directors, two-thirds of whom are elected by the bankers in the district.”
As economic author Nomi Prins highlights, Obama’s plan does nothing whatsoever to fix the excesses of financial institutions blamed for the financial collapse, it only ensures their continued operation and an expansion of the practices that contributed to the economic crisis in the first place.
“The ‘sweeping overhaul’ of the financial system detailed by Geithner on behalf of the Obama administration does not overhaul the system at all,” writes Prins, “giving the Fed a bigger role, creating a ‘council of regulators’ to oversee the existing oversight bodies and allowing the biggest Wall Street players to maintain their status, leaves the system intact.”
“The Federal Reserve is not a fully public entity. It has amassed a set of $7.87 trillion worth of facilities and other entities through which it has lavished cheap loans in return for questionable collateral from the banking system. It has kept the true nature of these transactions a secret despite numerous FOIA requests. And, it has actively promoted the creation of bigger institutions in a chaotic environment, rather than putting the brakes on the creation of these giants,” concludes Prins.
Proof that the agenda of implementing overt financial dictatorship is being carefully coordinated can be seen in the fact that an almost identical scheme is also being set up in the United Kingdom, where “The governor of the Bank of England has called for greater powers to allow it to fulfil its new role of promoting financial stability,” according to a BBC report.
Just as in the U.S., King is calling for traditional independent regulatory bodies to be all but abolished and replaced by the Bank of England itself, which just like the Federal Reserve is a private outfit with no accountability to the government whatsoever.”
Obama Regulatory Reform Plan Officially Establishes Banking Dictatorship In United States
The mainstream media, for the most part, has reported the oversight plan as a much needed regulatory crackdown on those responsible for the financial crisis. However, the details of the plan constitute almost exactly what lobbyists for leading bankers have been pushing for over the past few weeks.
“All derivatives contracts will be subject to regulation and all derivatives dealers subject to supervision,” Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said at a Time Warner Economic Summit in New York on Monday, also noting “When you have too many people involved, there’s an accountability problem.”
===> As we reported earlier this month, heads of nine of the biggest banks in the derivatives market, including JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America, secretly lobbied to keep derivatives under Federal Reserve “oversight” and away from real scrutiny.” <===
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“OBAMA REGULATORY REFORM PLAN OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHES BANKING DICTATORSHIP IN UNITED STATES”
“MOVE TO HAND PRIVATELY-OWNED FEDERAL RESERVE COMPLETE REGULATORY POWER OVER ENTIRE U.S. ECONOMY HERALDS NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT”
Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Con’t 3 of 3
“As reported by The New York Times, they all met secretly to discuss how to use the lax regulation and institutional secrecy of the NY Fed to shield their credit-default swaps business from prying eyes and attempts at regulation.
The banks formed a lobby– the CDS Dealers Consortium– only weeks after accepting TARP funds in October 2008 to protect its interests. Heading this effort was Edward Rosen, who previously helped fend off derivatives regulation. Rosen wrote and circulated a “confidential memo” to the Treasury Department and leaders on Capital Hill, making their agenda clear, the Times reported.
Rosen and his backers propose that derivatives be “traded in privately managed clearinghouses, with less disclosure,” according to the Times. The clearinghouse of choice for the big banks in Rosen’s CDS Consortium is ICE U.S. Trust, which is in turned regulated only by the Federal Reserve system.
So the upshot of all this is that the bankers get what they want, are allowed to carry on as they were, while at the same time the fractional reserve banking system and the federal government are both greatly expanded and empowered, and the compliant corporate media ludicrously tells us that a strict crackdown is underway.
This kind of activity is exactly what some leading representatives have warned of in recent weeks.
A fortnight ago, the Democratic Chairman of the Agriculture Committee, Collin Peterson, announced to the press that “The banks run the place,” in reference to the US Congress.
While Peterson is also pushing for legislation to regulate derivatives trading, his proposed bill would limit derivatives trading to public exchanges, rather than private clearinghouses, which are managed by banks.
Peterson’s warning mirrors that of Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, who just a few weeks before uttered the same rarely acknowledged truth.
“And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created — are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place,” Durbin said.
===> How simultaneously dangerous and ridiculous it is that the Federal Reserve is given more authority to oversee the economy. This is the same privately run entity that refused to comply with congressional demands for transparency and disclose the destination of trillions dollars in bailout funds. It is the same privately owned entity that has withheld internal memos, in spite of freedom of information act requests. It is the same private entity, run for the most part by European banking elites, that has arrogantly refused to tell Senators and Congressmen which banks were in receipt of government loans. The government is ready to hand over everything to a monolithic private corporation and a gaggle of bastard banker offspring, that have gobbled up an amount close to the entire GDP of the country in taxpayers’ money and figuratively stuck the middle finger up regarding questions over where that money has gone. <===
It can be no more apparent than at this time that legislation to audit, repeal and eventually end the Federal Reserve, must be supported by Americans if they want to see their children and their grandchildren grow up without indentured debt and entrenched servitude to a fascistic marriage of private banks and hugely inflated government."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-regulatory-reform-plan-officially-establishes-banking-dictatorship-in-united-states.html
This is great…….this need to go viral if you missed it……..
This week, Dr. Paul chaired a subcommittee to explore the possibilities for parallel currencies in the united States. A spokesperson from the American Open Currency Standard apparently decided to bring a gun to a knife fight, and he unloaded a full clip of truth to be entered into the records of the tax feeders. Thank you Dr. Paul for inviting someone to speak who isn’t afraid to look the beast in the eye and explain what time it is.
Must watch video……..
Greatest Truth Told To Congress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14fl2hVHI7Q&feature=player_embedded
American Open Currency website…… http://www.opencurrency.com/
This one is interesting too by Gordon Duff……
Obama: Pardon Sieglman – Arrest Fuller in Alabama…Political Murder Spree by GOP
Gov. Mel Carnahan, the dead man that beat Ashcroft. He would have faced kangaroo justice like Siegleman were he not murdered.
Former Governor Railroaded by Crooked Judge and Karl Rove
by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Complete article here……..
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/08/04/obama-pardon-for-sieglman-arrest-for-fuller-in-alabama-in-political-murder-spree-by-gop/
Quote of the Century? Millennium ? THIS SAYS IT ALL!!!!!!!
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.” People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.”
– Cicero ,55 BC
So,evidently we’ve learned nothing in the past 2,067 years.
Just finished reading the Amateur by Edward Klein. Could have been better researched, no mention of the eligibility issue. He lost me when he called bho brave for giving the order to kill obl. Save your money.
Pat 1789,
Thanks for the heads up. I do have the book, but for some reason not too eager to start it……probably because I’ve heard inklings of the same things you have informed us of. Klein’s assessment of bho bravery is hogwash, isn’t it? From other sources we have read that Valerie Jarrett is the one who ran the show as far as bho was concerned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8RDWltHxRc&feature=player_detailpage