Full time employment as a percentage of population hit 50.92% in June 2023.
In June 2022 the figure was 50.64%.
The average for 1H2023 is 50.12, which compares favorably with full year 2022 at 50.1.
135.86 million full-time is a new record high.
Friday, July 7, 2023
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
All you need to know about the hottest day ever
Tuesday’s global average temperature was calculated by a model . . . to estimate daily average temperatures starting in 1979.
“This is our ‘best guess’ of what the surface temperature at each point on earth was yesterday,” [Paolo Ceppi] said.
WaPo, of course.
Meanwhile, back in the real world of actual measurement, the highest maximum at KGRR so far in 2023 was 91 degrees F, on three days in June.
And the hottest 4th of July was way back in 1911. Yesterday made it to 89.
Maximum temperature observed has been in decline here for decades.
CNN doesn't report that this shop in Nantes, France, was targeted by the rioters because it traffics in Catholic and patriotic French goods
Lying by omission is the specialty of the media.
You might call it another form of canceling.
They don't care about the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Your first obligation is never to pay for such "news". Your second obligation is to boycott its advertizers.
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Monday, July 3, 2023
Rival Republicans (and a Democrat gay mayor too busy babysitting to do his Biden job) LOL, polling 2.4% and too low to count
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was criticized Sunday by two rival Republican presidential candidates and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for a video taking aim at former President Trump's previous support for the LGBTQ community. ... former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ... former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), who joined the Republican presidential primary race last month . . ..
Sunday, July 2, 2023
Republican group of homosexuals: Log Cabin Republicans, Richard Grenell, and the man formerly known as Bruce Jenner
It's now homophobic to point out, accurately, that Donald Trump did more than any other Republican to support pride month, say Log Cabin Republicans.
Saturday, July 1, 2023
Friday, June 30, 2023
Core PCE inflation in the United States remains elevated at 4.6% yoy in May 2023, services at 5.3%
The Federal Funds Rate at 5.07% is ineffective. It should be double that.
Supremes rule government cannot compel speech which violates beliefs about same-sex marriages, ruling should set precedent against pronoun requirements
SIDES WITH WEB DESIGNER WHO REFUSES TO DO GAY SITES...
Phillips’ lawyer, Kristen Waggoner, of the Alliance Defending Freedom, also brought the most recent case to the court. On Friday, she said the Supreme Court was right to reaffirm that the government cannot compel people to say things they do not believe. “Disagreement isn’t discrimination, and the government can’t mislabel speech as discrimination to censor it,” she said in a statement.
Supremes rule against racist admission policies at Harvard and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion, which all five of his fellow conservative justices joined in.
Thursday, June 29, 2023
The recession is delayed, again
1Q2023 GDP, third estimate: +2.0% annualized rate
Nominal: $26.5298 trillion
Nominal change yoy 1Q: 7.23%
Real: $20.2828 trillion
Real change yoy 1Q: 1.80%
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
The biggest turd at the Department of Justice is Merrick Garland
When Obama nominated that guy for the Supreme Court, it was like throwing a Molotov Cocktail at it.
The federal prosecutor tasked with investigating Hunter Biden told at least six witnesses last year that he lacked authority to charge the first son outside Delaware and was denied special counsel status, according to an IRS whistleblower — and now the House Judiciary Committee wants to talk to them.
Delaware US Attorney David Weiss made the shocking disclosure at an Oct. 7, 2022, meeting with top IRS and FBI officials — contradicting sworn testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland, IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley told the House Ways and Means Committee last month. ...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans
will launch an impeachment inquiry into Garland if Shapley’s account is
corroborated.
More.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
The NPEIS qualification exam
Create a word from the letters NPEIS to see what career you are most qualified for.
A. Spine.
Congratulations. Your career path is Doctor of medicine.
B. Pines.
Not too bad. You will become a tree surgeon.
C. Snipe.
Sorry Charlie. Prepare to lie regularly for a politician in the pages of a cheap tabloid newspaper.
D. Penis.
You, sir, are headed to Navy flight school.
Monday, June 26, 2023
Democrats begin Election 2024 leading with the lie that gun violence is the number one cause of death among children
The CDC says otherwise.
Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death among US children aged 1-17 years since 1999, totaling 126,650. Among those the number one cause is motor vehicle traffic accidents, totaling 67,884. Number two is drowning accidents, at 19,062. In eighth place is firearm accidents, totaling 2,265.
The second leading cause of death is childhood cancer, totaling 36,312.
The third leading cause of death is homicide, totaling 31,690. Among those the number one cause is firearms, totaling 19,306.
The fourth leading cause of death is suicide, totaling 26,653. Among those the number one cause is suicide by suffocation, totaling 12,890. The number two cause is suicide by firearm, totaling 10,934. Believe it, or not.
If you total firearm accidents, firearm homicides, and firearm suicides over the last 22 years for Americans aged 1-17 you still get only 32,505, a distant third place behind motor vehicle traffic accidents and cancer.
Meanwhile Democrats champion abortion on demand, which has killed untold millions upon millions of children since 1973, for which guns is just the smokescreen.
OPEC expects global oil demand to rise to 110 million barrels per day by 2045
Reported here.
2022 global production averaged 80.6 million barrels per day on one accounting.
OPEC must think the 2022 figure closer to 90 million bpd since it projects growth in demand of 23%.
According to this, crude oil remained the top primary energy source in the world at 31.2% in 2020, followed by coal at 27.2%, and natural gas at 24.7%.
71% of China's primary energy is derived from coal. China is the world's number one emitter of so-called greenhouse gases.
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Influence-peddling WhatsApp message to Chicoms from Hunter Biden in July 2017 came from his father's guest house in Delaware
Byron York, here:
Hunter Biden wanted something from Zhao — it appears it was a payment of some sort — and he wanted it immediately. "I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled," Hunter Biden wrote. "Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father."
Shapley said the IRS team discovered the message in August 2020. Even for people who questioned the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop — and we now know the FBI had verified its authenticity in December 2019 — the WhatsApp message was worth investigating. "In August 2020, we got the results back from an iCloud search warrant," Shapley said. "Unlike the laptop, these came to the investigative team from a third-party record keeper and included a set of messages. The messages included material we clearly needed to follow up on."
No kidding. The July 30, 2017, WhatsApp message was the clearest evidence ever
that Joe Biden, then the former vice president, knew about his son's
business dealings. Now, maybe Hunter Biden was lying in the message.
Maybe his father wasn't in the room. Maybe there's some other
explanation. What was clear was that the WhatsApp message was evidence
that needed to be investigated. But Shapley and the other IRS
investigators soon ran into a brick wall at the Justice Department.
The IRS team wanted to execute a search warrant at the guest house and Joe Biden's house in Delaware, where Hunter Biden was staying at the time of the message. In discussions with the Justice Department, they were told that there was more than enough probable cause to get a warrant but that "optics" were a problem. A Justice Department official told them, in Shapley's words, that "a lot of evidence in our investigation would be found in the guest house of former Vice President Biden but said there is no way we will get that approved."
IRS team investigating Hunter Biden's alleged crimes never investigated the Ukraine-Burisma bribes allegations
Jerry Dunleavy, here:
Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian owner of Burisma, was the "foreign national" involved in the alleged "criminal bribery scheme" aimed at shaking an alleged investigation into Burisma by then-Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, according to sources familiar with the FBI record who described its contents to the Washington Examiner.
The sources said Zlochevsky said he believed it would be difficult to unravel the alleged bribery scheme for at least 10 years because of the number of bank accounts involved.
Amid the threat of being held in contempt of Congress, FBI Director Christopher Wray allowed members of the GOP-led House Oversight Committee to review an FD-1023 form this month that contained redacted versions of the allegations from the paid FBI informant.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, repeatedly claimed following a late May FBI briefing that Barr and his “hand-picked prosecutor” — Scott Brady, then the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania — ended the investigation into the bribery claims in 2020. But Barr quickly said that is false.
“It’s not true,” Barr soon told multiple outlets in early June. “It wasn’t closed down. On the contrary, it was sent to Delaware for further investigation.”...
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) also revealed this month that a less redacted version of the form he has viewed says Zlochevsky claimed to have 17 recordings of his conversations with Joe Biden and Hunter Biden (two of the former and 15 of the latter) as an "insurance policy."
Zlochevsky’s alleged reference to Joe Biden as the “big guy” appears independent of the apparent reference to the now-president as the “big guy” by a Hunter Biden business associate during negotiations with Chinese intelligence-linked businessmen. The China-related reference occurred in a May 2017 email not made public until October 2020.
Shapley said that Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf instructed FBI and IRS investigators not to ask witnesses about “dad” (Joe Biden) or about “the big guy.”
Hunter Biden reached a plea deal on federal charges related to tax crimes and the illegal purchase of a handgun, Weiss’s office revealed in a court filing on Tuesday.
The IRS whistleblower claims detailing the politicization and slow-walking of the Justice Department investigation were made public on Thursday, including allegations that Weiss had sought special counsel status from the DOJ and sought to file charges in California and in the nation’s capital but was repeatedly denied. The whistleblowers also pointed to new apparent links between Joe Biden and his son’s China deals and that the FBI authenticated Hunter Biden’s laptop by November 2019.
I don't know but I'm guessing her initials are Lesley Wolf
The question remains who within the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office
withheld the FD-1023 from Shapley and his team when Barr had directed
that the CHS’s reporting be sent there for further investigation.
Further, Barr has recently confirmed
the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office was briefed on the detailed
allegations contained in the FD-1023, following then-U.S. Attorney Scott
Brady’s conclusion that the CHS’s reporting did not appear to be
misinformation. ...
Every indication suggests it was the FD-1023 that the FBI HQ’s team falsely labeled disinformation, which raises the specter that individuals in the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office were colluding with FBI HQ to protect the Biden family. It is now up to Sen. Chuck Grassley’s whistleblower to close the circle.
More.
Friday, June 23, 2023
IRS whistleblower says FBI confirmed authenticity of Hunter Biden laptop in November 2019, almost one year before New York Post laptop story
“In October 2019, the FBI became aware that a repair shop had a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden and that the laptop might contain evidence of a crime. The FBI verified its authenticity in November of 2019 by matching the device number against Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud ID,” Shapley said.
The laptop’s contents linked Joe Biden to his son’s dealings, including in China and Ukraine — contradicting his public claims he never discussed business with his son Hunter or brother James Biden.
Despite the FBI’s internal corroboration, 51 former US intelligence agency leaders signed a pre-election letter saying that the laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” ...
But behind the scenes, “when the FBI took possession of the device in December 2019, they notified the IRS that it likely contained evidence of tax crimes,” Shapley said.
Shapley, who has worked at the tax agency for 14 years, supervised a 12-person team that determined Hunter Biden had failed to pay $2.2 million on $8.3 million in income earned between 2014 and 2019 from foreign countries where his father held sway as vice president, such as China, Romania and Ukraine.
The case was resolved Tuesday with the announcement of a probation-only plea deal with the first son, despite investigators attempting to recommend felonies, Shapley and another IRS whistleblower told the committee.
On October 19, 2020 — the same date the “spies who lie” letter was fed to Politico — Shapley said he emailed Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf to tell her: “We need to talk about the computer.”
More.
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