Gov’t Advertises for Nearly 2,600 New Jobs Since Sequestration

With Office of Management and Budget fact sheets in hand, President Obama warned of dire cutbacks and consequences should sequestration go into effect March 1.

The cuts happened, White House tours have been halted, and the administration swears it’s not overreacting to the bare-bones budget directive.

But in the days since the hammer of sequestration fell, the federal government is hiring anew.

A search tonight of the USA Jobs federal employment website, filtered [...]

Why You Might Only Be Able to Get Part-Time Work in 2013

Robert Wenzel 
economicpolicyjournal.com
December 3, 2012

Operators of small businesses are going to be cutting full time employees throughout 2013 to under 50, to stay under the Obamacare tax.

Here’s the thinking of one small business owner:

Here is what I am doing for the rest of the year — working with every manager in my company so that as of January 1, 2013, none of our employees are working more than 28 hours a week.   I think [...]

October Surprise? 8 Shocking Rumors That Could Change The Outcome Of The Election

By Michael

This is proving to be one of the tightest presidential elections in U.S. history, and with less than two weeks to go even a minor scandal could completely change the outcome of the race.  Now is the perfect time for an October surprise.  If I was an operative for either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, now would be the time to unleash any big secret that you were still [...]

STRIKING TEACHERS BEGIN TO TURN ON PRESIDENT

UPDATED 09/11/12 – 5:34 p.m.

CHICAGO (CBS) – The Chicago teachers’ strike appeared likely to enter a third day, as Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis told a large crowd of teachers downtown that it’s “lunacy” to think a deal will be reached by the end of the day Tuesday.

Both sides were back at the negotiating table Tuesday morning to try to hammer out a deal. Efforts to do so failed Monday [...]

ROMNEY: President ‘Has Tried To Substitute Government For Free People’

(CNN) – Mitt Romney continued to hammer President Barack Obama over the president’s controversial remark about business owners, arguing Wednesday that the president’s administration has been chipping away at economic freedoms.

“It is free men and women that drive our economy. Freedom is what makes America work. And President Obama, bless his heart, has tried to substitute government for free people–and it has not worked, and it will never work,” Romney said [...]

Three surprising reasons to be bullish on stocks now

From The Stock Sage:

Quite simply, there are a lot of positive signs out there for equity bulls.

Last Thursday morning, if one were to have scripted a bullish scenario for how the next four trading sessions would play out, I don’t think anyone could have come up with a better sequence of events than that which we have experienced: Hammer reversal on Thursday, powerful broad-based rally on Friday, low volume pause/pullback [...]

City of Clearwater bans sitting and lying in public

CLEARWATER — This city could soon outlaw a harrowing crime: sitting.

Sitting or lying down on sidewalks or other public rights of way on Clearwater Beach, downtown or in the East Gateway neighborhood could mean a $500 fine, 60 days in jail or both.

The sitting ban is among a flurry of new ordinances the City Council will consider Monday as part of its crackdown on homeless people.

The council also could drop [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Moody’s Downgrades 28 Spanish Banks By 1-4 Notches

Moody’s cuts long-term debt and deposit ratings for 28 Spanish banks between one and four notches. The move comes in the wake of this month’s downgrade of the country’s sovereign debt. The only banks rated above the sovereign: Banco Santander (SAN) and Santander Consumer Finance, for diversification and sufficient Tier 1 capital.

via Zerohedge:

The long anticipated downgrade of the recently bailed out Spanish banking sector has arrived. Moody’s just brought the [...]

Obama: “The situation in Europe is not simply a debt crisis.”

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

President Barack Obama is giving a speech on the U.S. economy and the European debt crisis, urging Congress to take up his “to-do list” and the Jobs Act he proposed in September.

Obama will hit on Congressional Republicans for not moving on his proposals. The speech came a week after a dismal May jobs report gave Republican challenger Mitt Romney and other Republicans chances to hammer [...]

Louisiana Tyranny: Fascism Raises It’s Hammer Against Ron Paul

Infowars.com
Thursday, June 7, 2012

Derrin McBreen reports the latest on Ron Paul’s ongoing campaign.

The Truth About Europe: There Is No Solution

Raul Ilargi Mendoz, The Automatic Earth

I like that title, The Truth About Europe: There Is No Solution. But I don’t think it can all be summed up, the reasons why I mean, in one article. So I think I’ll make it a running series. Still, whatever data we can look at, past, present and future, none of it will make an essential difference. The title stands: There Is No Solution For [...]

Teens forced to kill 50 yo man in self-defence while looking for candy and ice tea

SANFORD, Fla. —

Two men were arrested in Sanford on attempted murder charges after trying to kill another man with a hammer, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday.

Deputies said Julius Bender, 18, and Yahaziel Israel, 19, were charged with attempted homicide, burglary with assault or battery, and armed burglary.

Investigators said Bender and Israel beat a 50-year-old man with a hammer inside his vehicle and then took him into the woods near [...]

FRANK TO HARVARD GRADS: ‘You Can Call Me A F*g’ — Unless ‘You’re In The Banking Industry’

While speaking to Harvard Graduates this week Barney Frank took time to hammer a woman who challenged him at a town hall two years ago over his ideology. He then went on to explain that legislation he was promoting would not prevent pastors from speaking their views at the pulpit. “You can still call me a fag,” Frank said and cited that at the time he was chair of the [...]

65million years in the making… $1.5 million under the hammer: But was the auctioning of T-Rex’s cousin legal, or was the skeleton stolen?

A nearly intact skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar – a cousin of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex – has been sold at auction for $1.05million – but controversy rumbles on about the legality of the sale.

The auction, held in New York on Sunday, has been disputed by the Mongolian government, which has questioned whether the dinosaur was obtained legally.

The dinosaur was found in the Gobi desert – but it is unknown [...]

FLASH: Greek Banks Cut Off?

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=206047

FLASH: Greek Banks Cut Off?

Flash off the rumor mill, unconfirmed — it appears the Greek banks were just cut off by the ECB.

If this is true then this is the latest “Gun up the nose” game by the Germans and ECB, and is almost-certain, in this political climate, to blow up their face (and quite possibly with shooting involved on the part of the Greeks too.)

This instantly hit the Euro [...]

Is this the most boring experiment ever? Scientists watch drops of pitch form – and there have been eight in 75 years

Experiment began in 1927 to prove pitch is a liquid
In 75 years, just EIGHT drops have fallen
The rate is slowing, and last drop fell 12 years ago
Current custodian has watched since 60s – but has missed all five drops that have fallen
Drop ‘could’ fall this year, but 2013 ‘is a better bet’

It’s the world’s longest-running experiment – and the very, very patient scientists in charge are waiting for a single [...]

Family end up living in the middle of a main road after refusing to move out of their home for developers

A property owner has ended living in the middle of a new main road after she refused to move out when developers started construction.

Hong Chunqin, 75, and her husband Kung, who live in the two dilapidated buildings with their two sons, had initially agreed to sell the property in Taizhou, in east China’s Zhejiang province and accepted £8,000 in compensation.

But then she changed her mind and refunded the money once work on [...]

Warning: U.S. Heading For Financial Trouble

U.S. Heading For Financial Trouble

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/60minutes/main2528226.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;1

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Bernanke’s Failed CNBC Predictions

http://dailybail.com/home/a-movement-by-the-people-to-prevent-the-reappointment-of-the.html

Eliot Spitzer: “The Federal Reserve Is A Ponzi Scheme” (Inside The Fed’s Secret Pile Of Trash With Ratigan, Spitzer & Toure

http://dailybail.com/home/eliot-spitzer-the-federal-reserve-is-a-ponzi-scheme-inside-t.html

Marvin Barth Says QE2 Won’t Fix `Underlying Problems’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYkvuqHXD-U

9 Reasons Why Quantitative Easing Is Bad For The U.S. Economy

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/9-reasons-why-quantitative-easing-is-bad-for-the-u-s-economy

The Hammer Gets Hit By A Tree

http://dailybail.com/home/the-hammer-gets-hit-by-a-tree.html

Quantitative Easing Explained

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k

Housing, the most manipulated market in the world

http://www.newworldparty.org/2011/04/housing-most-manipulated-market-in.html

The American Dream By The Provocateur Network

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWH5TlbloU

Punk Economics: Lesson 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDFgtb0by4E&feature=channel

U.S. [...]

Legendary vulture investor Ross: The “greatest bubble” is about to burst, the crisis stage is imminent.

 

Billionaire vulture investor Wilbur Ross told CNBC:

I think the greatest bubble that is about to burst is the 10-year and longer Treasury, because the idea that inflation is gone forever and for all time, and therefore these artificially low rates can last, is silly.

There is absolutely no reason to own long-term Treasury securities. Interest rates are heading up across the yield curve short-term rates and long-term rates.

When CNBC notices the problem, [...]

BERNANKE LIES THROUGH HIS TEETH… INDIA SCORES BIG IN SILVER

What an interesting week.  I wish I was a FLY on the WALL at these Greek default meetings.  I can imagine the banker boys are having the same amount of stress (or even more) that they were when everything was falling apart in 2007.

Some of you already know this, but it was quite interesting that SILVER made a new 7 month high in India the very same day it got [...]

TF Metals Report: Gold & Silver Looking Good; Caution Warranted

So, there you have it. The technocrats of Europe have spun up a deal to prolong the illusion that all might one day be well. This was expected simply because a default cannot be allowed for the reasons we laid out yesterday. The fiat currency reaction has been muted but the metals are rallying, regardless, due to the money creation that will be the end result of this latest “bailout”.

I’ll [...]

Bernanke’s Failed CNBC Predictions

http://dailybail.com/home/a-movement-by-the-people-to-prevent-the-reappointment-of-the.html

Eliot Spitzer: “The Federal Reserve Is A Ponzi Scheme” (Inside The Fed’s Secret Pile Of Trash With Ratigan, Spitzer & Toure

http://dailybail.com/home/eliot-spitzer-the-federal-reserve-is-a-ponzi-scheme-inside-t.html

Marvin Barth Says QE2 Won’t Fix `Underlying Problems’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYkvuqHXD-U

9 Reasons Why Quantitative Easing Is Bad For The U.S. Economy

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/9-reasons-why-quantitative-easing-is-bad-for-the-u-s-economy

The Hammer Gets Hit By A Tree

http://dailybail.com/home/the-hammer-gets-hit-by-a-tree.html

Quantitative Easing Explained

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k

Housing, the most manipulated market in the world

http://www.newworldparty.org/2011/04/housing-most-manipulated-market-in.html

The American Dream By The Provocateur Network

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWH5TlbloU

U.S. National Debt Clock

http://www.usdebtclock.org
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Cops: Woman attacked husband with hammer because he was watching ‘JUDGE JUDY’

A Florida woman who reportedly became incensed while watching TV’s Judge Judy was arrested Sunday after she allegedly struck her husband on the head with a hammer.

Janet Knowles, 62, was charged with aggravated battery following the bizarre 10:30 AM incident at a residence in Jupiter. Knowles, seen in the above mug shot, is locked up in the Palm Beach County jail in lieu of $10,000 bond.

Read more: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/battery/judge-judy-spurs-attack-758941

UPDATE: Postal Service puts 5-month pause on closings

(Reuters) – The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to a five-month moratorium on closures of post offices and processing facilities while lawmakers hammer out legislation to overhaul the cash-strapped mail carrier, a group of U.S. senators said on Tuesday.

The Postal Service was studying about 3,700 money-losing post offices for possible closure starting in February 2012, and considering closing hundreds of processing centers in April.

The senators said USPS officials agreed to [...]

Chris Rock giddy for 2nd Obama term: ‘He’s going to do some gangsta sh*t’

Some celebrities may have soured a bit on President Barack Obama, but not Chris Rock. The comedian and actor told fellow comedian Marc Maron on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast that he’s “fine with the president,” if only because he understands that the president has to keep his most aggressive policies on the back burner until he earns a second term.

“There’s a f——— art to the first term because you’re [...]

Sick System Reboot: Portugal sinks in euro quicksand

The European Central Bank has called on national governments to now do their part to ease the debt burden. Jean-Claude Trichet spoke ahead of a key meeting of world finance ministers, who are gathering in Paris to hammer out solutions to the crisis. The Fitch agency has also downgraded Spain’s rating, as well as the creditworthness of several UK and Swiss banks. And Portugal [...]

High Costs to Start Farming Only for Conventional Farming

These high cost to start farming articles describe conventional (chemical) commodity farming.  Not the farming we need anymore of.

If you can afford a small house in town, then you can afford a small house in the country with enough acres to start raising vegetables, flowers, cattle, chickens, etc for little more than the cost of the land.

In Cody Holmes’ book Ranching Fulltime on 3 Hours a [...]

GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block

WASHINGTON (AP) — News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes.

Impossible, right? GOP lawmakers are so virulently anti-tax, surely they will fight to prevent a payroll tax increase on virtually every wage-earner starting Jan. 1, right?

Apparently not.

Many of the same Republicans who fought hammer-and-tong to keep the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts from expiring on schedule are now saying a different “temporary” [...]

COPS: Teen kills parents, throws house party

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A Florida teenager is accused of killing his parents and then throwing a house party inside their Port St. Lucie home.Police said 17-year-old Tyler Hadley used a hammer to kill Blake and Mary-Jo Hadley on Saturday.Police went to the home at 371 Northeast Grandeur Ave. early Sunday morning after getting an anonymous tip that a teenager had murdered his parents and that [...]

TSA admits ‘bad judgement’ in patting down disabled man

A Detroit father said agents with the Transportation Security Administration singled out his special-needs son for a pat-down while the family was headed to Disney World, MyFoxDetroit.com reported, an incident that the TSA admitted was a “case of bad judgment.”

David Mandy said agents at Detroit Metro Airport took his son Drew, 29, and asked him about the padding underneath his pants, which turned out to be [...]

TSA agents take 6″ plastic hammer from mentally disabled man

ROMULUS, Mich. (WJBK) – The Mandy family says they were on their way to the happiest place on earth (Disney), but had to go through hell to get there.

“I realize they’re trying to keep people safe, but come on, does he look like a terrorist?” said Dr. David Mandy.

The family was going through security when two TSA agents singled Drew Mandy out for a special [...]

The Market Is Hurting For A Squirting

From Nic Lenoir of ICAP

The Market Is Hurting For A Squirting

Was this the latest case of buy the rumor and sell the news after QE 2.0 proved to be pretty much the lows in yields (for now at least)? The market started the day bright eyed and bushy tailed after last night’s announcement by Washington that a tax deal is close: Republicans win, Democrats win, [...]

Low inflation my ass, who makes the decision to raise wages?

by outpatient

Who benefits from investing in rising commodity prices? Could it be the Fed’s actions don’t help anyone other than those who are already very very wealthy, at the expense of those who are rank and file workers and mid-level folks? The situation only gets worse for all those not at the top, despite the fact that the Fed covers QE2 by making reference to struggling middle-class homeowners?

Why [...]

Meredith Whitney predicting a drop in housing prices and shrinking trading revenues will decimate Q4 earnings.

Look for states to suffer a collapse similar to the banking industry implosion of 2008 as crippling deficits come back to haunt them, outspoken analyst Meredith Whitney said Tuesday (video). Whitney, famous for calling the financial sector crisis, warned banks aren’t out of the woods yet, predicting a sharp drop in housing prices and shrinking trading revenues will decimate Q4 earnings.

“The similarities between the states [...]