The Nu World Order
Zerohedge has a nice concise look into how claims have been consistently revised upward so when the print does come in, it looks like it beat expectations. This is blatant manipulation and pathetic really.
Here’s the full article which goes into more depth. Must read.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/same-trick-different-week-initial-claims-decline-following-revision-deficit-surge-pushes-q1-gdp
Great read. John provides an excellent analysis of Obama’s “say one thing, do another” mentality and how this current announcement is obvious posturing by the President. It’s a typical election cycle move to steal votes.
Here’s an excerpt:
Unlike virtually every mainstream media commentator or political talking head I don’t care about Obama embracing gay marriage.
Now I know that a lot of people on the left — disappointed by his banker-friendly, PATRIOT Act-renewing, indefinite-detention-enabling, American-citizen-assassinating regime — are searching for any reason to vote for him, and plausible reason to defend his record. That’s the nature of tribal politics — “anti-war” Democrats will happily protest the Bush war machine, but they seem quiet when Obama is the one using drone strikes to assassinate American citizens without trial. I don’t like Mitt Romney either, but that’s not the point.
Even for those in favour of gay marriage, let’s not forget that Obama is capable of doing absolutely zero to change the law. Want to introduce a Federal law allowing homosexual couples to marry? Good luck getting it through the Republican Congress.
I’m in favour of consenting adults being able to do whatever they like with each other, but the fact that the current push for gay marriage is supported by Lloyd Blankfein and Goldman Sachs makes me very suspicious (does he want to sell securitised gay marriage debt?).
It just seems like an easy issue for Obama to posture on, while trampling the Constitution into the dirt.
When it comes to civil liberties, Obama has always talked a good game, and then acted more authoritarian than Bush. He talked about an end to the abuses of the Bush years and an open and transparent government, yet extended the Fourth-Amendment-shredding Patriot Act, empowered the TSA to produce naked body scans and engage in humiliatingly sexual pat-downs, signed indefinite detention of American citizens into law, claimed and exercised the power to assassinate American citizens without trial, and aggressively prosecuted whistleblowers. Under his watch the U.S. army even produced a document planning for the reeducation of political activists in internment camps. Reeducation camps? In America? And some on the left are still crowing that talking about being in favour of gay marriage makes him “pro-civil liberties”? Is this a joke?
Full article:
http://azizonomics.com/2012/05/10/obama-embraces-gay-marriage/
update: It seems the propaganda machine has started up. Apparently, Mitt Romney is a homophobe. I’m sure none of you are surprised by that considering his Mormon faith. What is surprising is how this is announced a day after Obama’s support of Gay marriage.
http://www.businessinsider.com/report-mitt-romney-taunted-and-harrased-a-homosexual-student-at-school-2012-5