What's my problem with Conservatism? Part 01

Cliven Bundy: God Told Me To Fight 'Civil War' Against Feds
AP Posted: 08/03/2014 6:17 pm EDT Updated: 08/04/2014 10:59 am EDT

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy claims the April confrontation between the federal government and his armed supporters was part of an age-old spiritual battle between good and evil.

Bundy, a Mormon, told an Independent American Party gathering in St. George, Utah, on Saturday that God provided him personal inspiration in the showdown over cattle in Bunkerville, Nevada, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

"The Lord told me ... if (the local sheriff doesn't) take away these arms from federal agents, we the people will have to face these arms in a civil war. He said, 'This is your chance to straighten this thing up,'" Bundy said, according to The Spectrum of St. George (http://bit.ly/1pRx8nq ).

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management backed down in the standoff, citing safety concerns. Bundy's allies subsequently released the 380 cattle collected from the range during a weeklong operation.

BLM officials have said Bundy will be held accountable for his role in the standoff and they continue to pursue the matter "aggressively through the legal system." The case remains under investigation by the FBI and U.S. Justice Department.

Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie has said Bundy crossed the line when he allowed states' rights supporters, including self-proclaimed militia members, onto his property to aim guns at police.

The federal agency says Bundy owes over $1 million in fees and penalties for trespassing on federal property without a permit over 20 years. Bundy, a states' rights advocate, refuses to acknowledge federal authority on public lands.

Bundy said people from across the country rallied around him because they were "spiritually touched," and he suggested they would not have prevailed had God not been on their side.

"If the standoff with the Bundys was wrong, would the Lord have been with us?" he asked, noting no one was killed as tensions escalated. "Could those people that stood (with me) without fear and went through that spiritual experience ... have done that without the Lord being there? No, they couldn't."

About 100 to 120 people attended Saturday's gathering, and Bundy questioned why more people were not present.

"Where is all of your college students? Where's our young and where's our old? Where's our black and where's our brown?" he asked. "Where are you people? Aren't you interested in freedom and liberty?"

Other Bundy family members talked about how they fasted and prayed for the spirit of their forefathers to be with them as they prepared on horseback to defy the Bureau of Land Management's efforts to impound the cattle.

here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/03/cliven-bundy-iap-god-civil-war-_n_5646121.html

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So, let me get this straight...

1) He refused to pay taxes, which is a sin:

 Matthew 22:17-20
17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?  
18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? 
19  Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.  
20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?   
21 They say unto him, Cæsar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.

2) He lied about how long his family owned the land, which is another sin.
 (Grant it, he really might not know his own family history, but you'd have to prove that for certain. A lie is still a lie.)

3) Now he's claiming The God of All Flesh told him to fight government?



I'm just going to drop this in here real quick:

John 18:36
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

Acts 5:32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

I Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

"But..but they mean well..."

Yeah, I'll explain why I think that's complete horse feces...
in part two.

Think of this as my preview to the last email I'll write on Conservatism and Babylonian thinking.

More on Bundy:
"It turns out those ancestral rights don't go back very far..." - Chris Hayes
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/04/it-turns-out-those-ancestral-rights.html

Is the "land grab" in Nevada about Harry Reid and a Chinese firm?
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/04/is-land-grab-in-nevada-about-harry-reid.html

Welcome to the New World Order, Cliven
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/04/welcome-to-new-world-order-cliven.html

Cliven Bundy update - The Ronald Reagan Connection and Why the Feds showed up with Guns
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/04/cliven-bundy-update-ronald-reagan.html

SOURCED: cia funded companies - 08.15.2012

25 Cutting Edge Firms Funded By The CIA
Walter Hickey     | Aug. 11, 2012, 12:15 PM

It's no secret the Central Intelligence Agency has an investment firm that funds startups that could have a big impact for the Agency.

If there is a company out there doing intelligence research, it's likely that In-Q-Tel, the CIA's personal investor, either looked them up or made a check out to them.

It's all to ensure that the Agency remains on the forefront of tech. Not long ago, In-Q-Tel invested heavily in a company called Keyhole. Never heard of them? Maybe you know their work, a little project eventually known as Google Earth.

So, want to know what's next for technology? Keep an eye on these 25 companies:

3VR is a video surveillance company that is changing the game

Adaptx creates digital pens that speed up field data collection.

Basis Technology synthesizes the foreign chatter

Biomatrica works with preserving biological materials

Cloudera helps organizations do large-scale data storage

DSSP makes safe rockets that are controlled by electricity

FireEye is one of the most advanced cybersecurity firms out there

Gainspan makes WiFi sensors that can run for years on a AA battery

GATR technologies makes inflatable satellite antennae

The Ember corporation makes low-power wireless products

Infinite Power Solutions makes flexible, thin-film batteries

Infinite Z makes virtual-holographic simulation a reality

Looxcie makes hands free wearable video cameras.

MiserWare makes intelligent power management software

MotionDSP offers "unrivaled" video enhancement tech

Oculis Labs tackles the hacking liability that really matters

Palantir is a Peter Thiel company that is changing the game of intelligence

Perceptive Pixel makes advanced multi-touch displays, like the one on CNN

Recorded Future is a temporal analysis program

Seventh Sense is developing health monitoring products that interface with human skin

Sonitus Medical makes a hearing system that transmits sound imperceptibly through the mouth

Spotter RF makes super-powerful radars in a handheld form

Visible Technologies extracts business solutions from social media chatter

Walleye makes handheld devices that can see into and through solid objects

And that is only from their public portfolio!

the details of this list, here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/25-cutting-edge-companies-funded-by-the-central-intelligence-agency-2012-8?op=1

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Startups Backed By The CIA
Kashmir Hill, 11.22.10, 06:00 AM EST
The spy agency has a venture capital arm that is funding an array of companies developing bleeding-edge technologies.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/19/in-q-tel-cia-venture-fund-business-washington-cia.html

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In-Q-Tel: The CIA's Tax-Funded Player In Silicon Valley
09:43 am July 16, 2012
by STEVE HENN

audio and more here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/07/16/156839153/in-q-tel-the-cias-tax-funded-player-in-silicon-valley

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CIA's In-Q-Tel funds FireEye anti-botnet security firm
November 18, 2009 9:11 AM
Dean Takahashi

The CIA’s In-Q-Tel investment arm took a stake today in FireEye, which is creating an anti-malware platform for enterprises.

Milpitas, Calif.-based FireEye is working on a platform that can fight off “botnets,” which are fleets of zombie computers that have been taken over by criminal hacker rings. The technology being developed can support the “missions of the U.S. intelligence community.”

more here:
http://venturebeat.com/2009/11/18/cias-in-q-tel-funds-fireeye-anti-botnet-security-firm/

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CIA Investments Update - 08.02.2014

I sent out an email a while back: "SOURCED: cia funded companies - 08.15.2012"
This is an update.

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Top technologies the CIA thinks are hot



Through its investment firm called In-Q-Tel, the CIA funds companies, mostly start-ups, to push forward technologies  deemed useful to  government intelligence agencies.
By Ellen Mesmmer, Network World, July 30, 2014

Through its investment firm called In-Q-Tel, the CIA funds companies, mostly start-ups, to push forward technologies  deemed useful to  government intelligence agencies. Here are the latest picks to get undisclosed amounts of IQT money; and for last year’s summary of IQT picks,

check here ---> http://www.networkworld.com/article/2357893/data-center/104309-The-top-technologies-the-CIA-thinks-are-hot.html

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Before we check out this list, let's take a look at In-Q-Tel:

In-Q-Tel

In-Q-Tel of Arlington, Virginia, United States is a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability.[4]

History

Originally named Peleus and known as In-Q-It, In-Q-Tel was launched in 1999 under the direction of Gilman Louie.[4] In-Q-Tel’s mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests. Originally associated with[clarification needed] the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology, In-Q-Tel now engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA, DIA, NGA, and the wider intelligence community. In-Q-Tel concentrates on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure and materials sciences.

Former CIA director George Tenet says,

    We [the CIA] decided to use our limited dollars to leverage technology developed elsewhere. In 1999 we chartered ... In-Q-Tel. ... While we pay the bills, In-Q-Tel is independent of CIA. CIA identifies pressing problems, and In-Q-Tel provides the technology to address them. The In-Q-Tel alliance has put the Agency back at the leading edge of technology ... This ... collaboration ... enabled CIA to take advantage of the technology that Las Vegas uses to identify corrupt card players and apply it to link analysis for terrorists [cf. the parallel data-mining effort by the SOCOM-DIA operation Able Danger ], and to adapt the technology that online booksellers use and convert it to scour millions of pages of documents looking for unexpected results.[5]

In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.[6] The stocks were a result of Google’s acquisition of Keyhole, the CIA funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth.

As of August 2006,[dated info] In-Q-Tel had reviewed more than 5,800 business plans, invested some $150 million in more than 90 companies, and delivered more than 130 technology solutions to the intelligence community.[4][7] In 2005 it was said to be funded with about $37 million a year from the CIA.[8][dated info]

Former board members include Norman Augustine, William Perry, Anita K. Jones and Gilman Louie.

Investments:

Many companies listed on In-Q-Tel's investment website page[9] are secret. In-Q-Tel functions partially in public; however, what products it has and how they are used is strictly secret.[8] According to the Washington Post, "virtually any U.S. entrepreneur, inventor or research scientist working on ways to analyze data has probably received a phone call from In-Q-Tel or at least been Googled by its staff of technology-watchers."[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Investments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

June 2001 In-Q-Tel Board Members:

Lee A. Ault, III, Former Chairman and CEO, Telecredit, Inc. (Chairman)
http://www.nndb.com/people/521/000170011/

Norman R. Augustine, Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_R._Augustine

John Seely Brown, Former Director, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seely_Brown

Michael Crow, Executive Vice Provost and Professor of Science and Technology Policy, Columbia University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_M._Crow

Stephen Friedman, Senior Principal, MMC Capital Inc.; Retired Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Friedman_%28PFIAB%29

Paul G. Kaminski, Chairman and CEO, Technovation, Inc.; Senior Partner, Global Technology Partners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G._Kaminski

Jeong Kim, President, Optical Networking Group, Lucent Technologies, Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeong_H._Kim

Alex Mandl, ASM Investments, LLC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_J._Mandl

John N. McMahon, Former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence; Former President and CEO, Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._McMahon

Dr. William J. Perry, Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Perry

more here:
https://www.iqt.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/BENS-Report.pdf

Dr. Anita K. Jones --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_K._Jones
2010:
"Currently a member of the Board of Directors of Science Applications International Corporation and ATS Corporation and a trustee of In-Q-Tel, Professor Jones was a founder and vice president of Tartan Laboratories, a director of BBN Technologies, a trustee of MITRE Corporation, and a member of the provost’s advisory board for MIT Lincoln Laboratories."
http://www.nae.edu/55347.aspx

Gilman Louie --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilman_Louie
"Gilman Louie is a Partner. He is the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security by connecting the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. intelligence community with venture-backed entrepreneurial companies."
http://www.alsop-louie.com/team/gilman-louie/

read more on In-Q-Tel here:
https://www.iqt.org/about-iqt/

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The updated list:

Apigee
http://apigee.com/about/

GoalZero
http://www.goalzero.com/

HyTrust
www.hytrust.com/

Narrative Science
http://www.narrativescience.com/

NerVve Technologies
http://www.nervvetechnologies.com/about/

OpenGeo (now Boundless)
http://boundlessgeo.com/press-release/opengeo-now-boundless/

Paxata
http://www.paxata.com/

Protonex
http://www.protonex.com/

Pure Storage
http://www.purestorage.com/

RedOwl Analytics
http://redowlanalytics.com/

Socrata
http://www.socrata.com/

Weather Analytics
http://www.weatheranalytics.com/wa/

Vorbeck Materials Corp.
http://www.vorbeck.com/

list found here:
http://www.itworld.com/slideshow/160604/top-technologies-cia-thinks-are-hot-429338

Dow Jones Industrial Drops 300+ Points - Is that all that's happening in this market?

Let's take a step back and look at the numbers as a whole, not just the Dow Jones number.

Job losses caused by the Great Recession

July 2009 – 339,000 jobs lost
June 2010 - 167,000 jobs lost
July 2011 - 96,000 jobs created
July 2012 - 181,000 jobs created

more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_losses_caused_by_the_Great_Recession

Let's see the difference:

Jobs gained in 2014:

113,000 jobs in January:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/07/news/economy/january-jobs-report/

175,000 jobs in February:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/07/news/economy/february-jobs-report/

192,000 jobs in March:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/04/investing/march-jobs-report/

288,000 jobs in April:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/02/investing/april-jobs-report/

217,000 jobs in May:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/06/investing/may-jobs-report/

288,000 jobs in June:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/03/investing/june-jobs-report/

209,000 jobs in July:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/01/investing/premarkets/

Details for July 2014 Jobs Numbers:

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 209,000 in July, the same as its average
monthly gain over the prior 12 months. In July, employment grew in professional and
business services, manufacturing, retail trade, and construction.

read the report here:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

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2008-2013 GDP:

4/12/2013 @ 8:01AM
The Worst Four Years Of GDP Growth In History: Yes, We Should Be Worried

By J.T. Young

It is time America stopped talking about the recovery and started worrying about the economy.   As the four-year anniversary since the economy last shrank approaches, we should focus on its subpar growth.  It is time to ask what impact government has had on the economy over the short- and long-term.

America’s economy has not shrunk since Q2 of 2009.  Yet, if the Congressional Budget Office’s estimates of just 1.4% real GDP growth this year prove true, America will have experienced its worst four consecutive growth years of GDP in the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ data going back to 1930.

Looking at the economy in 10-year increments starting from 1948 (when declines from wartime spending had ended), averaging GDP’s annual growth percentage shows the following:

    1948-57: 3.80%
    1958-67: 4.28%
    1968-77: 3.18%
    1978-87: 3.15%
    1988-97: 3.05%
    1998-2007: 2.99%
    2008-2013: 0.73%

Even if 2008 (-0.3%) and 2009’s (-3.1%) negative annual GDP percentages are dropped (something undone for the other periods) and only the 2010-13 period is averaged, the result is just 1.95% – still over a full percentage point below the previous decade’s.

more here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/04/12/the-worst-four-years-of-gdp-growth-in-history-yes-we-should-be-worried/

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2014 GDP:

U.S. Second Quarter Advance Gross Domestic Product (Text)
By Chris Middleton Jul 30, 2014 7:55 AM CT

Following is the text of the Gross Domestic Product report from the Commerce Department.

Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 4.0 percent in the second quarter of 2014, according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased 2.1 percent (revised).

The Bureau emphasized that the second-quarter advance estimate released today is based on source data that are incomplete or subject to further revision by the source agency (see the box on page 3 and “Comparisons of Revisions to GDP” on page 10). The “second” estimate for the second quarter, based on more complete data, will be released on August 28, 2014.

The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures (PCE), private inventory investment, exports, nonresidential fixed investment, state and local government spending, and residential fixed investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

more here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-30/u-s-second-quarter-advance-gross-domestic-product-text-.html

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Dollar Posts Best Month in More Than a Year on Jobs
By Andrea Wong Jul 31, 2014 4:12 PM CT   

The dollar rose, extending its biggest monthly gain in more than a year, as unemployment claims fell to the lowest since 2006 before a jobs report forecast to show a sixth month of 200,000-plus gains.

The yen and Swiss franc advanced against most of their 16 major peers on haven demand after Argentina defaulted on its debt. That nation’s peso fell. The U.S. currency climbed versus all of its major counterparts in July as signs of a strengthening labor market boosted predictions for higher Federal Reserve interest rates. India’s rupee weakened on concern capital inflows to emerging markets will slow as the Fed cuts bond purchases.

“Data out of the U.S. has been pretty upbeat, nonfarm payroll tomorrow could potentially have a strong impact on the dollar as well,” Eric Viloria, a strategist at Wells Fargo & Co. in New York, said in a phone interview. Viloria recommends investors resist buying the dollar as “we won’t see the dollar to really strengthen until a rate hike from the Fed is more imminent.”

The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index, which tracks the U.S. currency against 10 major counterparts, rose a sixth day, adding 0.1 percent to 1,021.93 at 5 p.m. New York time. It climbed 1.9 percent in July, its biggest monthly gain since May 2013, to wipe out a 1.6 percent first-half loss,

The dollar rose 0.1 percent to $1.3390 per euro after appreciating to $1.3367 yesterday, the strongest since Nov. 12. Its 2.2 percent advance this month is the most since February 2013. The U.S. currency was little changed at 102.80 yen, while the euro was little changed at 137.65 yen.

more here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-31/dollar-heads-for-longest-yen-gains-since-2001-after-gdp.html

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I'm not saying the market will never crash, because it will some day take a huge dive.

I'm saying, setting dates and making predictions is pointless, because the Jesuits can tell the bankers to crash the market at any time.

Think about it.

Dow Jones Industrial Drops 300+ Points

Dow Jones plunges over 300 points, erasing gains for July

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by  Tom Huddleston, Jr.  @tjhuddle  JULY 31, 2014, 2:02 PM EDT



Leading market indexes lose all their gains for the month of July.

Geopolitical worries weighed on investors Thursday, driving the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 300 points, leading a market retreat that left the blue-chip index down for the entire month of July.

In addition to the Dow’s sharp drop, the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq both fell 2% in afternoon trading. Both the Dow and the S&P 500 finished July down slightly, erasing all gains from a month that saw the Dow cross the 17,000-point mark for the first time ever and hit multiple record highs.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX), known as the “fear index,” rose some 27%, hitting a multi-month high.

Contributing to the market’s retreat: news late Wednesday that Argentina’s credit rating has been downgraded to selective default by Standard & Poor’s. The country’s second default in 13 years sent its Merval stock index plummeting Thursday afternoon.

There are also lingering questions over how the latest round of sanctions on Russia issued by the U.S. and Europe will affect the global economy, including the energy markets. Exxon Mobil  XOM -4.17% , which has a multi-billion dollar partnership with Russian company Rosneft, saw its stock drop 4% on Thursday.

more here:
http://fortune.com/2014/07/31/stock-markets-down-july-close/

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7/31/2014 @ 8:37AM
The U.S. Jobs Report: American Jobs May Finally Be On The Rebound

Jeff DeAngelis , Northwestern Mutual

Jeff DeAngelis is the chief investment officer of Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company.

It’s the kind of economic news many have been looking for: The monthly jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the U.S. economy added 288,000 nonfarm jobs in June. It was the fifth straight month of gains above 200,000—a run unmatched since the period of September 1999 to January 2000. At the same time, the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent, the lowest level since September 2008.

Job creation was widespread across sectors, and there were few signs of inflationary pressures, suggesting that the economy is transitioning to a faster pace of growth. This helped to lift the stock market to new highs. In early July, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 17,000 threshold for the first time. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index also recorded a new high, as did the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which had its best outing since the go-go days of 2000.

No One Is Arguing That All Is Well, However
While the number of people out of work for more than six months has slowly chipped downward, long-term unemployment remains high. In addition, the number of Americans employed part time for economic reasons, either because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find full-time work, increased by 275,000 in June to 7.5 million. This may be better than prolonged joblessness, but it’s not a path to sufficiency, let alone prosperity.

Meanwhile, wages—another key benchmark of labor-market health—haven’t increased significantly for most workers. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings for all employees rose by just 2 percent, aligning closely with consumer-price inflation but doing little to aid economic growth. These slow-to-grow wages suggest that employers don’t yet feel compelled to raise wages—or to scale back their required qualifications—in order to attract workers.

For the First Time in a Long Time, Many Believe This Could Finally Change.
June’s job gains were not just in well-paid white-collar professions; most were in the middle tier of jobs that enable workers to gain a foothold in the middle class. For example, manufacturing companies hired 16,000 workers in June, with all of the increase in durable goods manufacturing; transportation companies added 17,000 employees, up from an average of 11,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months; and health care employment increased by 21,000. The increases have helped boost Americans’ optimism in their job prospects going forward.

Gallup, for example, found recently that 35 percent of Americans say now is a good time to find a quality job, up 7 percentage points from last month. In fact, this is the most optimistic Americans have been about the job market since the starting point of the Great Recession. Equally significant is that job optimism has increased among all major demographic groups Gallup tracks. In July, young Americans, wealthier Americans, democrats and those with advanced degrees were the most optimistic about finding a job. Even so, the greatest gains in Gallup’s recent poll were seen in how lower-earning, less educated workers see their job prospects.

Better Times Ahead?
While the 35 percent now calling it a good time to find a quality job may not seem very high, Americans’ improving view of the job market is one more sign that better times may lie ahead. If the economy continues to add jobs at the current pace, many economists believe we can reach pre-recession employment levels in the not-so-distant future. And with more Americans back in the workforce, this could be the catalyst that finally pushes wages higher. In the end, that’ll be good news for all of us because real wage growth is the basis for economic growth.

more here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/northwesternmutual/2014/07/31/the-u-s-jobs-report-american-jobs-may-finally-be-on-the-rebound/

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Early July Jobs Numbers:

US COMPANIES ADD FEWER JOBS THAN EXPECTED
SAM RO  
JUL. 30, 2014, 8:15 AM   

U.S. companies added just 218,000 new private jobs in July, says ADP.
This was a bit lighter than the 230,000 expected by economists.

This is down from the 281,000 added in June.

"The July employment gain was softer than June, but remains consistent with a steadily improving job market," said Moody's Analytics' Mark Zandi. "At the current pace of job growth unemployment will quickly decline. Layoffs are still receding and hiring and job openings are picking up. If current trends continue, the economy will return to full employment by late 2016.”

Good producing companies added 16,000 jobs while services providers added 202,000.

Small businesses (1-49 employees) were responsible for 84,000 of those jobs.

Despite the miss, Wall Street remains optimistic.

"We’re not too concerned that July’s rise in the ADP was smaller than June’s 281,000 increase," said Capital Economics' Paul Dales. "Changes in employment always bounce around from one month to the next. The main point is that job growth improved in the first half of the year and appears to have remained strong going into the second half."
"In the context of the strength in employment growth since the start of the year, this report points to further payrolls gains of 215K to 235K in July, which will mark the 6th consecutive months of jobs growth in excess of 200K," said TD Securities' Millan Mulraine. "This will be further confirmation of the sustained pick-up in the labor market, and it will provide further confidence to the Fed in the sustainability of the economic recovery."

The BLS's official July jobs report comes out at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday. Economists are looking for 231,000 new nonfarm payrolls driven by 230,000 private payrolls.

here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/adp-employment-report-2014-7

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10:26 am ET | Jul 31, 2014
What to Watch for in Friday’s July Jobs Report

By  BEN LEUBSDORF
The first half of 2014 saw the U.S. economy’s strongest stretch of hiring since early 2006. The jobless rate fell to 6.1% in June from 7.5% a year earlier, its fastest one-year decline since October 1984, and nonfarm employers added a seasonally adjusted 288,000 jobs.

Can hiring keep up its strong pace in the second half of the year? We’ll get our first clue Friday at 8:30 a.m. EDT, when the Labor Department releases its jobs report for July. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expect payrolls to rise by 230,000 and the unemployment rate to remain at 6.1%.

Where’s The Hiring?

Output Versus Jobs

In, Out and on the Fence

Where’s Wage Growth?

The Fed is Watching

The Fed, in its policy statement Wednesday, acknowledged that the labor market is improving though it also noted that “a range of labor market indicators suggests that there remains significant underutilization of labor resources.” Fed officials will closely examine Friday’s jobs reports for signs of a tightening labor market – a rise in wage growth, a broad drop in unemployment – or signs of continued slack, such as a persistently low labor force participation rate. Either, or both, would feed into the Fed’s ongoing debate about when to begin raising interest rates, which have been pinned near zero since December 2008.

details, here:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/07/31/what-to-watch-for-in-fridays-july-jobs-report/

Amazon.com Just Disrupted the 3D printing Landscape

This is interesting, Amazon.com is now printing things on demand for people to buy.


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Amazon launches 3-D printing store
By James O'Toole  @jtotoole July 29, 2014: 11:22 AM ET



NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
The future of retail: manufactured by a 3-D printer, delivered by drone.

That's the sci-fi scenario Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) is inching closer to with the launch this week of its 3-D Printing Store, which offers shoppers over 200 products, including toys, jewelry and home decorations.

 The items are produced via 3-D printer, and can be customized by size, color, material or with personal text and images. A "personalization widget" lets you play around with different designs and preview your purchase before you buy.

"The introduction of our 3-D Printed Products store suggests the beginnings of a shift in online retail - that manufacturing can be more nimble to provide an immersive customer experience," Petra Schindler-Carter, Amazon's director for marketplace sales, said in a statement.

In launching the store, Amazon signed on 3-D-printing productions firms including Cincinnati-based 3DLT and Brooklyn's Mixee Labs. Mixee co-founder Nancy Liang said the new marketplace "has the potential to become the app store for the physical world."
more here:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/29/technology/innovationnation/amazon-3d-printing/

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 Jeremiah 9:13-14
13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them

This world is going to do whatever their mind comes up with.
After all, it is Babylon.

The Gold Standard - 07.27.2014

Thought this was interesting, considering how wrong the July 1st predictions were dead wrong.



Looming Financial Crisis? - 06.24.2014
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/06/looming-financial-crisis-06242014.html

Looming Financial Crisis? UPDATE - Where's your Gold now? 07.14.2014
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/07/looming-financial-crisis-update-wheres.html

July 24, 2014, 2:20 p.m. EDT
Gold settles below $1,300 as solid earnings pour in
Analyst: Near-term potential for safe-haven demand is sticking around
By Sue Chang and Shawn Langlois, MarketWatch



SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold fell for a third-straight session on Thursday to settle below $1,300 for the first time in over a month as investors continue to focus on equities during this mostly upbeat earnings season.

Gold for August delivery GCQ4 +1.37%   declined $13.90, or 1.1%, to $1,290.80 an ounce. September silver SIU4 +1.86%   was hit even harder, down 58 cents, or 2.8%, to $20.42 an ounce.

On Wednesday, gold fell just fractionally, as bullish corporate news jousted with rising geopolitical tensions.

Gold also grappled with mixed economic data with weekly jobless claims better than projected as the number of people claiming benefits fell to the lowest level since February 2006 while the pace of new home sales in June hit a three-month low.

ANZ Research analyst Victor Thianpiriya said Russia will likely continue to tweak gold prices.

“For prices, we continue to expect gold to come under pressure this year, while keeping in mind the near-term potential for further ‘safe-haven’ demand,” he said.

Elsewhere in metals trading, October platinum PLV4 +0.64%   shed $13, or 0.9%, to $1,473.70 an ounce, while September palladium PAU4 +1.10%   lost $3.35, or 0.4%, to $870.95 an ounce. High-grade copper for September delivery HGU4 -0.57%   tacked on 6 cents, or 1.9%, to $3.27 a pound.

more here:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-dips-again-as-solid-earnings-pour-in-2014-07-24

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Look back at 2011:

gold, predictions, and the real agenda - 2013 - 12.31.2013
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/03/gold-predictions-and-real-agenda-2013.html

Further reading:

Who predicted the Financial Crisis of 2008?
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/06/who-predicted-financial-crisis-of-2008.html