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Four Weeks Of Deja Vu Propaganda
For everyone who wants to see a simple yet explicit example of how the BLS' relentless propaganda courtesy of perpetual prior "adjustments" trickles down in terms of media propaganda, here it is.
All of this would be great... if only the March 15th original number of 351,000 wasn't lower than the April 5th pre-revision number of 357,000, and which next week will be revised to 361,000!
In the meantime, everyone gets that warm and fuzzy feel: after all Bloomberg itself, which prepared the above reports, just told us its consumer comfort index just soard from -34.7 to -31.4, the highest since 2008. And nobody would ever think of manipulating public opinion now would they?
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You will be pounded into submission.
if they tell a lie long enough.....
X.Inf.capt
"if they tell a lie long enough....."
they'll start believing it themselves...
They (technically) tell the truth. People just can't UNDERSTAND what they're told.
NEW jobless claims.....NEW.
That means the number of people STILL LOSING THEIR JOBS is only now starting to slow......after 4 years!
And that could be ONLY because everyone has already lost their job. (that could, without having to close the company's doors)
broken, beat, and scarred.
h/t james hetfield.
coulda thrown in bloodied, thrashed, sodomized, eyesocket fu*c*ed, and a few other verbs but it wouldn't rhyme as well
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Fewer and fewer people can qualify for unemployment since they work parttime and/or are selfemployed. Its Federal income tax collections and the number of people on food stamps which are real indicators of the economic health. Tax collections are lower than last year and a record number are on food stamps. So the BLS/Bloomberg fluff stats are BS.
Wow.
must....get....the...employment.....number....below....8%.....
election year...
bitchez
OK, so then theyre going with NOT going with QE, and deciding to go rainbow skittles and unicorn 'all is well economy has recovered' route...alright Ben run with that!
If only Bush would start looking for a job...
7.*% is still pretty shitty, and I personally don't believe that Wall St. cares whether Obama or Romney is selected. Although, to temper that belief, there is an "unpredictability" element to Obama if he gets 4 more years and doesn't have to worry about re-election.
ObaMao is already running around saying he dont need no congress, and he dont need no damn US Supreme Court...geez imagine this tyrant if he didnt need to worry about re-election? THIS is him with his good face on? Sheesh!
Exactly right.
...at all costs; wait, they just bought 450mm hollow points. Quick, hide. Oh, that won't work, they've got heat seeking bullets. We're screwed!
propaganda
bitchez
Yahoo's headline reads " Jobless Claims Near a 4 Year Low"
while CNBC says, "US has full employment, happy days, Hope & Change really worked, 4 more years for Bumma & Biden... now over to Liesman"
"Thanks Beccy, yes in a new totally independent poll just in Bumma & Biden just reached 99% approval ratings amongst Joe Public, happy days, 4 more years for Bumma & Biden"
Saddam Hussein won his last election with close to 100% of the vote!
Algos & mouthbreathers love it!
Come on in retail, the waters FINE! Nevermind those triangular fins! We need someone to sell to so we can plunge this crap market so hurry and buy, retail!
Joe Retail after jumping in.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HR3JtqIfTiE/SsFxwcKXDYI/AAAAAAAABGY/5D5Id8vOIy...
FUCK Bernanke, Fuck him, Fuck him, Fuck him.
I'd rather not...he's really not my type. Now if you said strip him naked and drag him through the streets I might partake.
Do you notice a pattern in the articles...They must recycle the same template. Those reporters must have a really boring job, regurgitating the same story using the same template. And they went to college for this?
It's Winston Smith. He's getting annoyed.
This is state of mainstream "journalism" today which in actuality is nothing more than regurgitating government press releases as "news".
Smash your TV into submission.
They have no choice.
Advertisers inform them that the reason they buy advertising IS TO SELL PRODUCT. If your news content depresses sales, then the advertising on that media vehicle is ineffective and THE ADVERTISER WILL NOT BUY.
Do you really think journalistic integrity trumps funding?
+1 for making a very good point! News is not about informing the populace; it is about selling useless shit to the 'consumer' - the fat, lazy, uneducated, consumer. As long as citizens are content to consume, as opposed to produce, this will not change.
And similarly, the government and the media HAVE to talk up the economy, otherwise it will sink into the abyss immediately.
And they, like most folks, are about putting this thing off as long as possible.
I havent watched the media in ages, its too disgusting, I just see whatever they show of it here and other internet sources.
I like porn better, they are disgusting too but they are more honest compare to the corporate media.
+1000
Same as you dog.... except once or twice a week I stop and visit my parents. They always have their TV on. My dad does pretty good at filtering the BS. He won't go on the Internet. He thinks it's hogwash mostly (MSM influence). I finally turned him onto some Oildrum articles and a few other blogs.... he's slowly changing his views. I fear my mother is hopeless, although she did express that she was thinking of voting Ron Paul
What ya gonna do, Bernank? Do you want your CRISIS and money printing? Or do you want the 'all is well rainbow unicorns and skittles'? Which is it going to be, because you cant have it both ways!
And that is how fake journalists document the fake recovery.
Anyone with a scintilla of ethics and appreciation for journalism would have written "Truth in government statistics decreases to lowest level in 4 years."
So which are they going with? 'Recovery' and all is well? This unicorns and skittles 'economy recovered' shit? Or does Ben want his CRISIS to appear for the money printing everyone is screaming for? And no one can tell me he can have it both ways!
He better decide real fast because the window is sliding shut!
Government statistics reaches lowest truthiness since April 2008
Why is the QE trade turned on today?
Because things today are back to 'better than expected'?
Oh, wait...
Because no one is allowed to be short this market except them. It's a stealth short ban, same effect, no hysteria.
Because the workforce has shrunk so much these numbers are BS anyway. If we adjusted for this decline in the workforce participation rate these numbers would be back into the 400Ks.
If you count cardboard boxes, new housing starts are soaring.
And tents....remember the medias line about housings 'tent-up demand'. L.L. Bean leading the housing recovery....nice tents.
"Best time ever to buy a house," I hear the NAR say now....and yesterday...and last year...and year before.,....et cetera....
Whats the point in the elaborate scheme to fool the monkeys? They dont even have any money.
Pure cruelty to animals.
Not very profitable though.
Kool aide bananas, baby!
BLS?? .....well I know what the B and S stands for; but it's the L that's confusing me!! Help anyone?
Buy physical gold and silver!!
Lies.
tnx SDO....now it's all clear. Then their title ought to read BS & L...now that just about fits the whole gov't! Gr8
L aka LIE
alx
stopped reading/watching blumberg ages ago,,
pure Soviet sty;e propaganda..
++ not much white people here, mostly asian/jews as if
we live in S.Asia, and capital is TelAviv
alx
I remember back when Bloomberg was actually pretty spot-on financial reporting....now just a Pravda govt blowhorn, like all the rest.
....so 1 month total new unemployed -/+ 1.3 million...1 month "new" jobs created 200k ??
what am i missing here?.... i might need a liitle more expensive re-education....
I've been asking myself the same question for a few years now. Losing 1+ million jobs a month, and creating 200K, and the unemployment rate stays the same or goes down. I guess it must be the new math or something, but I just can't make it add up.
I was just in this conversation with my folks the other day, pointing out their rosy jobs data they were going on about cant even remotely be true after losing 1 million jobs a month for a couple years, we get a few +200,000 and we're back to normal?
They just looked at me like I must be an alien and said 'Well, its right here, in the newspaper'.
My folks, too. "It was on the news (CBS, ABC)"...so it must be true. They're in their early 90's, but still quite viable. I can't convince them otherwise. It's like when I was 13 and didn't believe everything they said - even though back then most of it was correct and true. Shoe's on the other foot now and I get the feeling this is God's way of getting even with my doubting mind back then...
I lost my father on September 18, 2008. I find it ironic, for lack of a better word, that I lost my dad on the day that the financial world imploded. He and I had lively discussions about politics, the economy, the markets, etc. I can only wonder at the discussions we might have had about all that has transpired in the last 3 plus years. I miss him, but my forehead probably has fewer scars than if he was still among us. We agreed on a lot of things, but we disagreed on plenty, and we're both stubborn as hell so the "debates" could on occassion become heated. But he always made me use my brain and offered perspectives than I had not considered previously. I miss him these days more than ever.
My sympathies WonderDawg. Nearly lost my Dad 6 mo ago to near fatal heart attack. Only pure luck saved him. Cant imagine what it'd be like w/o him.
Thanks, in4mayshun. I'm grateful I had a good father. Luck of the draw, I guess, but I had great parents. Best wishes to your family, and hopefully your dad will be around for years to come.
My sympathies as well. But as you know yourself, WD, your father has a legacy that lives on:
You.
Be well.
"Your folks" is the key word. The older boomers are the ones who still slavishly watch and believe the MSM, both on TV and newspapers. They are the ones who largely believe the narrative they are being fed. Part of that is because that demographic either has jobs or has retired and desperately wants the ponzi to continue so they can continue to receive their "promised" benefits. There is much more skepticism amongst people under the age of 35, because they are largely unemployed or under-employed. They see more of what the reality is.
The answer: "Propaganda", ISBN 978-0-9703125-9-4, by Edward Bernays, 168 pgs
Just press play.
Goebbels would be proud.
How many fingers Winston?
Have the chocolate allotments increased?
They better start handing out free vodka like the Soviets used to do to keep everyone drunk.
It is much cheaper to manufacture Zoloft
Yes they have, from 10 grams to 5.
They increased the chocolate allotment from 1 OZ to 14 grams
Double Plus Good Eh?
I bought a box of ice bars the other day. I hadn't bought any for about 8 months or so. The price was about the same as I remember, the box was the same size as always. I got home and opened the box only to find out that the bars themselves had shrunk by about 1/5. I think I'm getting the idea of how the soviet people felt......
I believe that these are the same people that wrote the president's "punch abobe their weight" speech.
Hey I got a friend who quotes the USA TODAY as a source to rebut the claims of me and others here on Zh that know its all smoke and mirrors and the shit HAS, not will hit the fan...he states, "yeah ya'll doomers said it was comin 4 years ago, but "the man" (read:the Fed) still keepin it goin...Dow still13k, dollar still king...."
Comments.......
None. He doesn't want to hear the truth, he wants to be reassured. What will you do when he's starving and at your doorstep because he knows you were prepared and probably have some food?
Thats what I tell all the smug know-it-all deniers and debunkers, 'Fine you go believe what you want, but remember dont come around here later thinking Im going to hand you food and a gun, just keep that in the back of your brain if you can call it a brain'.
i believe absolutely nothing and no one....i no longer even believe the sky is blue.......its much easier this way
The public is developing an "Attitude Problem"
Buy the fucking peaks, Sheep!
I think thats all this is about, a last gasp push to try to get retail to buy the top off the bankers hands.
That is true to some extent but the bigger reason is that for most who still listen to the MSM worldwide, the stock market and bond market (low rates,) are the last 2 games in town. If one of them falls, the financial empire has no clothes.
Nothing will change unless one or both of these markets are compromised and panic sets in.
Good news = bullish
Bad news = bullish (it could be worse!)
Neutral news = bullish (at least it's not bad!)
OK I'm fine with that if thats the course Bernanke has decided on, no QE and let the markets slide, try to keep some control just with govt/media propaganda. ALLrightey then Ben!
Morbo: Morbo will now introduce tonight's candidates... PUNY HUMAN NUMBER ONE, PUNY HUMAN NUMBER TWO, and Morbo's good friend, Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon's Head: Hello Morbo, how's the family?
Morbo: Belligerent and numerous.
Richard Nixon's Head: Good man. Nixon's pro-war and pro-family
Form has replaced substance in most things in our society, from social interactions to reality and substance. To expect otherwise is folly. If it looks good, it is good. Couple this with most under 40 years of age not knowing any better, is it any suprise that news is managed and fed to the masses?
All of this positive data is aimed at the sweet spot of those who are still employed, have a predictable income stream (either single or family,) of $75k and above, some assets in 401k accounts that have doubled in the last 3 years and still believe in the two party political system to fix problems and plan for their future. If this belief is lost then all is lost.
If your job has been eliminated, you are close to forclosure, young and just entering the workforce or are part of 25% lowest income group all you will get is warm and fuzzy platitudes. It sound terrible to even contemplate, but other than your daily living needs, you have been written off by the financial consumption machine.
This is not just happening in the US. Look at Europe, as well as parts of Asia and the Middle East.
Tell the retailers ""want they want to hear"""...let ALL those sheep buy >>>while """The Fat Cats are shorting this bull (shit) run"""""
Tell the retailers ""want they want to hear"""...let ALL those sheep buy >>>while """The Fat Cats are shorting this bull (shit) run"""""
Hilarious.
Bloomberg. A name you can trust.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Lather, rinse, repeat, Lather, rinse, repeat.
They should be sued for false reporting
Thanks Tyler, for putting it together so distinctly!