By Terence P. Jeffrey: Seventy-three percent of the new civilian jobs created in the United
States over the last five months are in government, according to
official data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In June, a total of 142,415,000 people were employed in the U.S,
according to the BLS, including 19,938,000 who were employed by federal,
state and local governments.
By November, according to data BLS released today, the total number of people employed had climbed to 143,262,000, an overall increase of 847,000 in the six months since June.
In the same five-month period since June, the number of people employed by government increased by 621,000 to 20,559,000.
These 621,000 new government jobs created in the last five months
equal 73.3 percent of the 847,000 new jobs created overall. Source
Cory Doctorow: Having been promised a chance to meet with the delegates at the
secretive Trans Pacific Partnership treaty meeting in New Zealand, a
representatives from nonprofit public interest groups around the world
flew to Auckland. Once they arrived, the TPP announced that they would
be granted 15 minutes, total, for all of the groups to make a statement.
TPP is a sweeping copyright treaty, a kind of ACTA on steroids, being
conducted without any public scrutiny or input -- only governments and
giant corporations are welcome in the negotiating room. It has profound
implications for the future of medicine, Internet regulation, and
privacy and surveillance.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is one of the groups that sent a
representative to Auckland. They've published an open letter signed by
the public interest coalition protesting their shabby treatment at the
hands of TPP's administrators.
Academics, experts, consumer groups, Internet freedom organizations,
libraries, educational institutions, patients and access to medicines
groups have flown a long way from around the world to Auckland, New
Zealand, to engage with delegates in the 15th round of Trans-Pacific
Partnership negotiations.
For the first time, however, we have been locked out of the entire
venue, except for a single day out of the 10 days of negotiations.
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert look at how Hollywood accounting has turned the global financial system into one in which money and wealth melt like so much congealed snow. And so from Pontiac, Michigan to the Australian outback, zero percent interest rates and jobs that never materialize are the new normal. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine about banksters who can't recall a single thing about their crimes, including everything from Libor rigging to defrauding monoline insurers. Source
RT: New legislation in Washington state went into effect this week that
legalizes for the first time in ages the possession of marijuana.
Federal law still says otherwise, though, setting up the Justice
Department to make some serious determinations.
Even as smoking up became protected by state law in Washington
starting Thursday, coast-to-coast prohibition as provided by a
long-standing federal ruling remains on the books. For marijuana
advocates in the Pacific Northwest, the lifting of the ban is a pretty
big victory. That doesn’t mean that the Justice Department has ruled out
an intervention, though.
Since voters in Washington and Colorado
opted on Election Day to legalize small amounts of marijuana for
recreational use, the Department of Justice has been relatively quiet
over how it will handle what is likely to become a heated debate
regarding states’ rights. In an article published by The New York Times
this week, reporter Charlie Savage says senior White House and Justice
Department officials are already attempting to tackle how to handle the
new marijuana laws, and are amid deliberations right now that will
determine when, where and how national law enforcement can intervene.
Max interviews Greg Hunter from usawatchdog.com. He talks about the post
US election economic statistics including the latest jobs and
manufacturing numbers. Greg is the producer and creator of Greg Hunter's
USAWatchdog.com. The site's slogan is "analyzing the news to give you a
clear picture of what's really going on." The site will keep an eye on
the government, your financial interests and cut through the media spin. Source
RT: Chicago Public Schools are facing a lawsuit after a 15-year-old boy
said he was strip-searched at a high school while a security guard
allegedly touched his genitals in search of drugs.
The boy came home crying, embarrassed and distraught that he was
stripped naked in front of two security guards, a Chicago police officer
and a female assistant principal.
The boy and his parents
recalled the incident at Taft High School in an interview with CBS News.
The student said that while the boy was serving his in-school
suspension, the security guards, police officer and assistant principal
took him out of the room and brought him to a bathroom. In response to
an anonymous tip that the boy had drugs on him, the security guards
searched the boy while he was held against the wall of a bathroom stall
with his back to the guards.
“He searched me with my clothes
on. Then he told me to remove my belt. As I undid my belt he pulled my
pants and underwear down to my knees,” the boy told CBS.
“He started grabbing and searching my privates,” the boy added.
An outcry of British Jews against Israeli tyranny. That was the title of
the protest held by dozens of anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews outside the
Israeli embassy in London. They got together in a unified stand to condemn the Zionist regime and its mistreatment of Judaism and religious Jews. Source
By Eileen Dublin: In war there are winners and losers and then there are the big time
financial winners who gain by providing ‘solutions’ to the destruction
and chaos that war imposes. The latest austerity missiles launched from
Dail Eireann (Irish Parliament) on behalf of the banksters have landed
directly on the lives of men, women, children, the elderly, disabled and the
general coping classes. According to Stephen Donnelly Independent TD 3.5
Bn of austerity will transfer into the pockets of the banksters,
particlularly the IRBC, (the company created to wind down the assets and
liabilities of the former Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide
Building Society). That’s a good chunk of the 5BN euros the government
are planning to gift them this year on the promissory note.
Taxing maternity benefit and cutting children’s allowance hit women
really hard and imposing a property tax on families already struggling
in negative equity with unsustainable mortgages is a tipping point into
chaotic personal default. The brazen imbalance where increases in social insurance tax comes to exactly the same amount for a person
earning 25, 000 euros as for a person earning 175,000 euros is jaw
dropping in it’s arrogance towards ordinary folk.
To me the most puzzling of all are the cluster bombs of cuts to home
help services, respite care ( which these days goes towards paying
rising utility costs) and to housing modification grants given to home
carers who care for disabled/elderly relatives in their own homes. In
life’s impermanence anyone of us could get sick or have an accident that
could leave us in need of full time care from a loved one. The basic
allowance of 188 euro per week that home carers receive is well
documented to save the state millions per annum, When you consider that
it costs the state circa 50,000 PA to keep someone in a private care
home.
One study shows that carers who work 24/7 for 365 days each year cost
the state about 4cent per hour.
Pastor Lindsey Williams (states the obvious and claims he has inside information) unveils the truth behind the elite plan for humanity and this planet... THE NEXT 4 YEARS Source
By Brandon Smith : Being forced to endure and survive a catastrophic macro event like a
monetary or social collapse is perhaps one of the worst experiences I
could imagine. Such a crisis leads to just about every crime and
inhuman action in existence, and, the time required for a culture to
right itself and rebuild is severely protracted. A hurricane or
earthquake or tidal wave; these calamities are short lived and easy in
comparison. The point is, as survivalists who are preparing to make an
economic end-game scenario as “comfortable” to live through as we can,
it is incumbent upon us to consider the kind of company we keep during
the gambit. Some allies will make that mad world bearable; others will
bring the madness to your doorstep
Many preppers are aware of the
dangers inherent in our progressively deteriorating nation.
Unfortunately, some of them are completely unaware of the dangers
inherent within themselves. Building a solid community of people to
rely on during a collapse is absolutely essential, and the larger the
group of liberty minded neighbors the better. But, if certain ground
rules are not established from the very beginning, a rainbow of personal
issues and character flaws could very well destroy years of effort.
Care must be taken by all parties involved to ensure that internal
conflicts remain at a minimum, and when they do arise, that each person
is wise enough to resolve issues in an adult manner.
I hate to
say it, but you will inevitably run into some folks that are beyond
compromise and beyond hope. Working with them is like pulling
teeth…shark’s teeth…from your jugular. Here are just a handful of
powder keg personalities that will make the apocalypse more than a
living hell for you and your friends if they manage to latch onto or
take leadership in your survival watch…
By Gerardo Coco: We face one of the deepest crises
in history. A prognosis for the economic future requires a deepening of
the concepts of inflation and deflation. Without understanding their
dynamic relationship and their implications is difficult to predict how
things might unfold. The economic future depends on the interplay of
both these forces. From the point of view of their final effects,
inflation and deflation are, respectively, the devaluation and
revaluation of the currency unit. The quantity theory of money developed
in 1912 by the American economist Irving Fisher asserts that an
increase in the money supply, all other things been equal, results in a
proportional increase in the price level [1]. If the circulation of
money signifies the aggregate amount of its transfers against goods, its
increase must result in a price increase of all the goods. The theory
must be viewed through the lens of the law of supply and demand: if
money is abundant and goods are scarce, their prices increase and
currency depreciates. Inflation rises when the monetary aggregate
expands faster than goods. Conversely, if money is scarce, prices fall
and the opposite, deflation, occurs. In this case the monetary aggregate
shrinks faster than goods and as prices decrease money appreciates.
Inflation is a political phenomenon because monetary aggregates are
not determined by market forces but are planned by central banks in
agreement with governments. It is in fact connected with the monetary
expansion to fund their deficits. Inflation raises the demand for goods
and decreases the demand for money; it increases aggregate spending and
money velocity as the ratio between GDP and the amount of money in
circulation which expresses the rapidity with which the monetary unit is
spent and re-spent until it remains in existence.
There is no such things as demand-pull inflation or cost-push
inflation. Provided that the quantity of money does not increase, if
cost or demand for some goods changes, demand for other goods must
necessarily adjust, leaving unchanged the amount of spending and the
money aggregate in the economic system. If some people spend more,
others have to spend less, thus leaving the purchasing power unaltered.
The cause of inflation is nothing but money manipulation.
