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Today’s Headlines
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From the FMP News Room:
08.02.2010 – Iraqi resistance forces release video of captured US war profiteer
08.02.2010 – Iran detains two CIA operatives
08.02.2010 – P.R. China denounces ICC ruling on “genocide”
08.02.2010 – Four puppet police killed in occupied Afghanistan
08.02.2010 – Iran reaffirms peaceful nuclear aims
08.02.2010 – DPRK releases detained American
08.02.2010 – Iran to begin uranium enrichment up to 20 per cent
07.02.2010 – Houthi forces launch deadly ambush on Yemeni troops
FMP News @ August 1, 2008
Recession is hurting men – not women!
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The link
If I was not already a misogynist, the recession has certainly helped me to become one. If I was already a misogynist, now I am more extreme.
I know “racial awareness” will appreciate this post!
For the first time in recorded history, women outnumber men on the nation’s payrolls.
This benchmark is bittersweet, as it comes largely at men’s expense. Because men have been losing their jobs faster than women, the downturn has at times been referred to as a “man-cession.”
Women’s new majority in the nation’s workplaces comes decades after women first began trading in their aprons for pantsuits in droves, and it reinforces expectations that women will continue on the path to pay parity.
“Important milestones remain to be achieved, but women’s surpassing 50 percent of employment is something that historians will note for years to come,” said Casey B. Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago who has been tracking the recession’s effects on both sexes.
According to seasonally unadjusted data released on Friday by the Labor Department, women held the majority of nonfarm payroll jobs in January. They also did so during February, March, November and December of last year, but the shift emerged only on Friday when the Labor Department revised its 2009 data. Women’s slender lead was highest last month, when they held 50.3 percent of the nation’s nonfarm payroll jobs in the raw numbers.
Over the last few decades, women have been steadily claiming a greater share of the nation’s payrolls. In 1964, the first year for which the government began collecting this data, less than a third of the nation’s nonfarm payroll jobs were held by women.
But it was the recession that finally pushed women into the majority.
As in previous recessions, male workers have borne the brunt of the job losses in the last two years. Since the recession began in December 2007, men have lost 7.4 million jobs on net, whereas women have lost 3.9 million jobs.
In other words, both sexes are worse off than they were before the downturn, but men have suffered more.
The types of jobs held by men and women help explain the shift. Men are more likely to work in industries like manufacturing, which rise and fall with the economic cycle. Women are more likely to work in government, health care and education, among the safest categories in a downturn. Health care employment has been among the strongest of any type during the recession.
It is also “no accident” that women pushed ahead of men during colder months, says Professor Mulligan.
Male-dominated industries are actually especially cyclical in two different ways: They are not only influenced by the business cycle, but also by the seasonal cycle. Industries like construction, which tend to employ men, get more work in warmer months.
If you adjust for these regular seasonal factors that affect the job market, women would have held just less than half of the nation’s payroll jobs in January, at 49.9 percent.
All of this means that women are likely to fall back to a minority of the nation’s payrolls again once the weather warms and the recovery gains a foothold in the labor markets. Still, the longer-term trend of stronger representation on the nation’s payrolls will most likely continue, economists say.
Metal Gear @ February 7, 2010
Obama is concealing the Extent of the Recession
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The link
Anyone who does not have everything handed on a silver plate knows this is the case!
President Obama’s repeated references to Friday’s surprising decline in the unemployment rate epitomize his utter disregard toward the intellect of our citizenry. His citation of these numbers as evidence we are “climbing out of the hole we found ourselves in” reveals an assumption on his part that the folks are incapable of figuring things out for themselves. While Obama surely isn’t the coldest beer in the fridge, he isn’t stupid enough to actually believe Americans can’t figure out this scam. No, his use of the 9.7% figure to support his position is a blatant lie. After all, his own budget plan projects unemployment will remain higher than this figure at the end of the year. Even his own economic advisor, Christina Romer contradicited the President, saying, “The monthly employment and unemployment numbers are volatile and subject to substantial revision. Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.”
The surprisingly low unemployment figure, of course, occurred as a result of an inordinately large number of job seekers dropping from the record as their unemployment benefits expire and many others have simply given up all hope of procuring employment. The government’s hiring of over a million temporary workers this year to perform the census also takes the edge off the numbers.
CNBC’s Rick Santelli emphasized that the commonly-used U3 numbers are being grossly manipulated in an effort to hide the depth of this recession. He explained on Friday how the Obama administration has lowered the total number of jobs supposedly available in the marketplace, taking the 136 million figure down to 129 million. Thus, the percentage of employed per available jobs rises and the U3 number magically goes down.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provides far more data on actual unemployment than is ever reported by the mainstream media. The U6, which includes the U3 totals plus those who have given up plus part-time and temporary workers plus marginally attached workers, provides a much broader and more reliable measure of actual unemployment. The U6 doesn’t require any math or massaging of the numbers. It simply represents the data from the BLS in the least manipulable manner. Incidentally, the U6 has risen every month since Obama took office – and currently sits at around 18 percent.
The President got his headlines on Friday. We lost 20,000 more jobs in January and added a million more unemployed from last year. But the U3 mysteriously shrinks to 9.7% and Obama has the temerity to proclaim we are “climbing out of the hole”. This was a foolish mistake. Jobs have not been created (nor saved) and will not be in the foreseeable future. These false hopes shamefully advanced by the administration will only result in heightened frustrations down the road.
Metal Gear @ February 7, 2010
Turning away from Israel
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I attempted to build links with Kahanists but their arrogance and paranoia has driven me away. I would like the support of Jews, but if they will not support me, I have no problem with a little bit of “friendly purging.”
Let it be known that I am indifferent to the plight of religious Jews (but supportive of Jewish third positionists), and nothing is stopping me from forming other alliances. I’m not “obligated” to defend Kahanists.
Metal Gear @ February 7, 2010
Massive revision will show recession was even worse
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — On Friday, the government’s official data on U.S. employment will be updated to reflect what everyone already feels: In terms of job losses, this has been the worst recession since the end of the World War II more than 60 years ago.
Instead of job losses of 7.2 million as currently reported, it’ll be more like 8.1 million lost jobs, if the annual benchmark revision of payrolls through March 2009 comes in as had been estimated four months ago by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Most of the extra jobs lost — numbering a projected 824,000 — came in the first quarter of 2009, adding to the 2.07 million that have already been reported, the government has forecast.
What’s more, the employment picture will likely look even worse after next year’s revision, which will cover payrolls data running from April 2009 through March 2010.
The revisions to the establishment survey will be a “doozie,” said Michael Gregory, economist for BMO Capital Markets.
After the revision, payrolls will have fallen 5.9% from the peak in December 2007 to December 2009, easily beating the post-World War II record decline of 5.2% set in 1948-49, he said. By comparison, payrolls fell by about 18% during the Great Depression.
Most commentators have already incorporated the payroll revision into their thinking. The Obama administration,Congress, the Federal Reserve and the private-sector have all recognized that more than 8 million jobs have been lost — but the fact of the report could still come as a shock to some investors on Friday, when the revisions will be reported as part of the employment report for January.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch are expecting payrolls to grow by a seasonally adjusted 25,000 in January, what would be just the second increase since the recession began 25 months earlier. The revision will not affect the nation’s unemployment rate, which is derived from a separate survey of households. Read our complete economic calendar and consensus forecast.
Economists are expecting the official unemployment rate to remain at a seasonally adjusted 10% on the month. The broader unemployment rate, which also includes discouraged workers as well as underemployment, should be steady at 17.3%, economists said.
Not a shockerDespite what you may have read, the payroll revision isn’t a secret. It was first reported in October, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that the benchmark revision to the establishment survey would total an incredible negative 824,000 from April 2008 through March 2009. The actual revision will be announced on Friday.
Each year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revises earlier estimates, based on monthly samples of hundreds of thousands of businesses, to incorporate information from tax records. The big issue for the revisions: How close the government was when it guessed how many new businesses would open and how many would close down?
From 2003 to 2007, the government’s guesses were pretty good, averaging about 0.2% of payrolls. But in 2008, the BLS “birth-death” model fell apart with a 0.6% miss.
It turned out that the number of jobs created by new firms was much less than expected.
The government adopted the birth-death model to make its monthly estimates more accurate. The monthly payroll count is based on a representative survey of businesses, but the BLS cannot survey new businesses immediately because it doesn’t know they exist.
It would, in other words, miss a lot of job creation if it didn’t have a way of estimating how many new companies have been formed.
Similarly, it also cannot be sure whether a business that didn’t respond to the survey is still in operation or just not returning the form. Statisticians at the BLS have to estimate how many firms go out of business.
Ultimately, new businesses show up in the tax records. And businesses that went out of business are excised from those records. Then, the government can check how close its estimates were to the actual payroll tax records.
It seems impossible to many people that any businesses at all are formed during recessions. That’s just not so.
Even at the depth of the recession in the first quarter of 2009, 1.1 million jobs were created at new establishments. At the same time, however, 1.4 million jobs were lost at companies that closed their doors.
Rex Nutting is Washington bureau chief of MarketWatch.
I concur. And I have nothing but hate for older privileged workers who coasted through it and then make arrogant moral judgments about younger workers who graduated at the wrong time. The nerve of these arrogant pricks! To point the finger at me, and tell me that I should be working harder, when they already had it made going into the recession and never were in any danger of losing their jobs.
I can honestly say that once the recession ends, I will substantially purge people from my social network who I label as arrogant bourgeoisie assholes. And that purge will include flesh, blood and former friends. I cannot wait to be liberated from this whole situations that has just dragged ON and ON!
I also hate people who work in the healthcare field. These people are parasites with no understanding of the business process, and no understanding of what a downturn can do to someone who is targeting opportunities outside of the healthcare field.
Metal Gear @ February 4, 2010
Khmer Rouge as model dictatorship for the Middle East Nations
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This is just a “theory” and not a call to action!
A dictatorship modeled off of Pol Pot’s khmer rouge could really rewrite the religious culture of the middle east, and then allow it to progress technologically after its original period of purification.
And don’t forget that pol pot was a nationalist!
Metal Gear @ February 4, 2010
Social Nationalist Comrades in Syria Point out Blair’s plan to attack Saddam pre-911
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The Translated Link from Arabic
Agencies – Media sources said that former Prime Minister Tony Blair lied to the investigation committee on the Iraq war when he claimed that attention to topple former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began after the attacks atheist ten of September. And removed the newspaper “The Independent” British unveiling of the document did not receive the Commission of Inquiry into the Iraq war, confirms that the government of Tony Blair made secret plans to drum up support for the establishment of an internal coup against Saddam Hussein two years before the invasion of Iraq. The newspaper “The Independent” The British Foreign Office officials drafted a plan called “contract with the people,” suggested to the dissidents in Iraq that toppling Saddam would receive support from Britain, also pledged to provide aid and debt cancellation of oil contracts and the provision of commercial transactions as soon as the ouster The newspaper “has been the completion of the plan, titled” Confidential – for the eyes of the British and U.S. “in the June 11, 2001, and approved by the cabinet of ministers.” The document said Britain would “want to deal with Iraq that respects the rights of its people and live in peace with its neighbors and abide by international law and the right of the Iraqi people to live in a society based on rule of law, free from repression, torture and arbitrary arrest, and that respects human rights, freedom and prosperity the economy. The document said “those who wish to be published a call for change in Iraq deserve our support. We look forward to the day when Iraq who is due to join the international community, will receive a new system to reschedule debt and aid from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund aid package and trade of the European Union.” Mr Blair said during his testimony before the commission last week that serious attention to the overthrow of Saddam breed only after ten atheist attacks of September, which changed from “a risk”. For his part, “said Ed Duffy, spokesman for the Liberal Democrats in foreign affairs, said the document questioned the validity of the certificate made by Blair should have been published before hearing his testimony on Friday. “The plan to support the Iraqis who seek to topple Saddam may be less harmful, and that was without a doubt the most legitimate what happened. However, it appears that Blair had always intended to change the system since the early and before the atheist of September.” “It seems, however, that veil of secrecy was lifted from the documents is crucial, which stop an obstacle to question Blair and other people.” In addition, newspaper “The Guardian” The Commission of Inquiry Celkot Blair will call again to make further submissions before it. She said Blair would be questioned in public and in secret after the committee expressed concern that his testimony on the legality of the invasion are contrary to those made by the former British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith.
This article focuses on Blair, but it is clear that Bush was trying to downplay the Afghanistan war, and switch to Iraq, even though a stronger case can be made against Afghanistan than against Iraq. Iraq is secular and never attacked USA. It was back stabbed. Afghanistan is theocratic and could be accused of Al-Qaeda collaboration. Yet Bush wanted to get the focus off of Afghanistan and onto Iraq.
The motives are ulterior! Profit and gain!
Metal Gear @ February 2, 2010
31st Anniversary of Islamic Revolution Commemorated
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FMP News @ February 2, 2010
A live translation of the Ba’ath and Social Nationalist party Websites!
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Ba’athist link
Social Nationalist link
Excellent!
Metal Gear @ February 2, 2010