Robin Quivers, Brainwashed

April 4th, 2013

Robin Quivers isn’t a journalist, reporter, or even a newswoman really. However, she has been doing a news segment on the Howard Stern Show for decades. So, we can say that she is, at least, informed about current events. Now, look at this incredible statement she made on March 26, 2013 about immigrants:

“It’s not like they’re coming and taking your job at IBM.”

And Robin was pretty emphatic (click the play button):

Not only is Robin’s statement wrong, but it is quite literally the exact opposite of the truth. It’s very likely that more American citizens have been kicked out of their jobs at IBM by immigrants than at any other company. It’s hard to say for sure because the pogrom against American IT workers has always been hushed-up to the greatest extend possible. Discussion is not permitted in the corporate media.

But it is big business. The profits from liquidating middle-class jobs in favor of cheap labor at IBM are so huge that even Warren Buffett had to come and wet his beak. And it’s not just IT workers; IBM is sending Minnesota factory jobs down to Mexico.

It’s a slaughter at IBM, and Robin has no clue because she is a victim of the corporate media’s “brainwashing by omission” – a mind-control technique that I explain in my book. It’s an amazing thing to see: an operation of epic scale, mowing down the American middle class like so many blades of grass. And yet, even our “news” people are oblivious.

Readers in Space

April 1st, 2013

My food-stamps page is getting a surge of traffic from Google+ this afternoon, and some of my readers are in space! Take a look at this screenshot from Google Analytics Real-Time:

Space Station

I don’t think there are 41 people on the Space Station, so perhaps it has been capture by aliens whose first order of business is to read my blog. Seems plausible.

More likely, it’s a bug in Google Analytics Real-Time, which at a minimum has a gigantic memory leak. Leave it running, and look at your memory usage and you will see what I mean. Or just wait a couple of hours for it to crash.

Well, it is April 1st, so I suppose it’s just Google having a little fun.

Update: right around the time I posted this, Google fixed the memory leak, so now you can leave Google Analytics Real-Time running without having to reboot it every couple of hours.

Ben Carson Has Been Anointed

March 31st, 2013

Dr. Benjamin Carson went viral recently after he criticized Obamacare while President Obama was sitting just a few feet away. Republicans fell in love immediately, drooling over the prospect of finally getting a share of the black vote if Carson were to enter politics.

The reason I say that he has been anointed is because of the way Larry Kudlow reacted to Carson in the video below. Recently, Kudlow has been campaigning against the minimum wage. He is “outraged” at the appalling unemployment rate in the black community. And his solution is to eliminate the minimum wage, because as everybody knows, the way to help poor people is to slash their wages. Of course, as a high-ranking member of the Oligarchy, Kudlow’s solution to pretty much every problem is austerity for the small people.

So, as he interviewed Carson, Kudlow brought up the subject (at the 2:30 mark in the video.) But Carson didn’t have the Kudlow Catechism down, and gave the wrong answer. Instead of austerity, he recommended spending more money on education. I was thinking, “Duck Ben! Kudlow is going to blow your head off!” But instead, Kudlow genuflected. I could hardly believe it. Kudlow didn’t show such deference even for Mitt Romney in the heat of the 2012 presidential campaign. In fact, Kudlow slammed both Romney and Ryan to the concrete during the convention.

Carson could easily raise money for a presidential run. The Republicans are already worshiping him. But Carson is a bit naive. When discussing the 30% high-school drop-out rate (at 3:30), he says:

“This is the Information Age, the age of technology. There’s just no way we can afford to lose 30% of our individuals.”

But we can, and quite easily. That’s the whole point of our mass-immigration policy: to replace us lazy, stupid, uneducated American citizens with “magical” immigrants who can do everything better than we can. The Oligarchy has been ruthlessly replacing black workers with immigrants on a mass scale for decades now. Note to Carson: catch a clue.

Kudlow thinks that lower wages will encourage employers to hire more blacks. But even if it did, where would they live? Who can pay the rent on Chinese-style wages of $2 per hour? New York City already has a huge homeless problem because of high rents. Perhaps Kudlow would have them live in cages, as they do in the libertarian Shangri-La of Hong Kong. I am not exaggerating, I wrote about the cage people in my book.

It’s All Your Fault

March 30th, 2013

Thomas L. Friedman’s job at the New York Times is to make you feel like being kicked out of the middle class is your fault. From this column:

“…median incomes are falling, inequality is rising and high unemployment remains persistent. How to adapt? It will require more individual initiative.”

See? It’s your fault for being lazy. It’s got nothing to do with the globalization- and mass-immigration policies that Friedman pushes.

The Left acts like “tax cuts for the rich” are the only driver of inequality. And that’s what I call The Big Lie of the Left. By championing off-shoring and mass-immigration, the Left is equally culpable along with the Right for the pulverization of the middle class.

1,031,631 Legal Immigrants in 2012

March 24th, 2013

With all the media coverage of an imminent immigration deal in Congress, you would think that the latest stats from DHS would get more publicity. But they won’t; it is a forbidden topic in the corporate media.

But that doesn’t change the fact that 1,031,631 legal immigrants came into the USA in 2012. And we are on pace to set another all-time record for the decade of the 2010s. See the charts on my immigration page.

While the last jobs report delivered an upside surprise, the black unemployment rate remained unchanged at an appalling 13.8%. Why wouldn’t our black president help a brother out and ease back on the immigration a bit? Answer: because Obama is just another in a long-line of neo-liberal presidents. “Black” and “Democratic” are just marketing angles. Obama has done nothing whatsoever to change the immigration policy:

Immigration-Bush-Obama

So, if you are black and unemployed, there is a good chance that you will never work again – ever. No matter what color the president is. The number of people clutching their resumes in line at job interviews is just going get longer and longer. And if you are over 50 years old, just forget about it. In fact, move to a civilized nation, like Canada or Australia. A place that isn’t trying to be the next China with a massive population and rock-bottom wages.

Russia’s Role in the American Civil War

March 13th, 2013

The great thing about U.S. history is that there are so many fascinating things to learn. Why is that? Because quite a lot of events have been falsified or tossed down the memory hole for propaganda purposes. For example, I have been alive for 53 years, have read numerous books about the Civil War, watched all the movies, and never once did I come across the fact that Russian war ships patrolled our coasts during 1863-1864. From Wikipedia:

“In 1863, during the American Civil War, the Russian Navy’s Atlantic and Pacific Fleets wintered in the American ports of New York and San Francisco respectively. Some historians credit this visit as a major factor in deterring France and England from entering the war on the Confederate side.”

A special educational DVD of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln will be sent to all middle schools and high schools in the USA. Of course, the film does not mention the Russians. True, Lincoln had a narrow focus, but in real life President Lincoln sent his wife to New York City to greet the Russians, who were the toast of the town.

In the near future, I expect this tidbit of history will remain in the memory hole. Russia has lots of oil reserves that it refuses to sell to our oil companies and will likely be demonized until it agrees to be carpetbagged.

Further reading: The Bilateral Effect of the Visit of the Russian Fleet in 1863.

Think the Earth Revolves Around the Sun?

March 13th, 2013

Guess again. It’s a little more complicated than that:

Food Stamps Hit New Record: 47,791,996

March 9th, 2013

The latest data released from the USDA yesterday shows a record 47,791,996 people on food stamps (click chart to enlarge):

Food-Stamps-Monthly

Also, the percentage of the population on food stamps hit a record high in 2012 at 14.83%. See the fifth chart down on my Food Stamps page. You might think that our policy of mass legal immigration would dilute that percentage, but that is not so. Obviously, our economy cannot absorb a million fresh bodies per year.

Virginia’s FeedMore food bank provided 15 million meals last year, and is still having trouble meeting the demand – even with so many people already on food stamps. See this blog for the story.

Nailed It: Jobs Blow Out

March 9th, 2013

On Friday, the BLS reported that the economy created 236,000 jobs in February. Having predicted only 171,000 jobs, economists were surprised. However, my subscribers at The Daily Jobs Update were not because on Tuesday night, I sent them this chart (click to enlarge):

3-Year

The chart plots the growth-rate of federal withholding-tax collections – the money withheld from paychecks. The “second derivative” of the data, the slope of the chart, was clearly slanted upward since January. So, the economy was gaining momentum. The Daily Jobs Update is not free, but if you want free data, just head over the Zero Edge and stay bearish until your wife takes away your trading account.

How good is 236,000 jobs? Well, it’s better than a sharp stick in the eye. But after we deduct 100,000 or so for population growth, perhaps another 100,000 for mass legal immigration, and god-only-knows how many thousands of more jobs offshored, its no surprise the that number of people on food stamps has hit a record high. See the next post.

Warren Buffett Sucks the Blood of Minnesota

March 8th, 2013

Last week, IBM announced that it is moving manufacturing jobs from its huge Rochester, Minnesota facility to Guadalajara, Mexico. Industry analysts think about 2,500-3,000 jobs will be lost. IBM didn’t say how much they will pay their new factory workers in Mexico, but if they pay anywhere near the prevailing rate, it will be far lower than what they have been paying in Minnesota.

Profits will surge, of course, and a nice chunk of those dividends will be paid out to America’s jolly old grandpa, Warren Buffett, who is a large shareholder. Buffett is famous for “not understanding technology” but he seems to understand carpetbagging technology just fine.

The facility which made servers, and hardware to run big-data and cloud systems, is one mile long, and about half the size of the Pentagon. How long before it is shuttered?

Read more in: Warren Buffett’s Plan to Destroy America.