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Obama Boom: Mall Vacancies at highest level since 1990

by Phantom Ace ( 10 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Headlines, Media, Misery Index, Special Report at April 8th, 2011 - 10:50 am

The greatest Economic recovery since the Alpha Centauri-Andromeda War 300,000 years ago continues to proceed a rapid pace. A new report came out showing Mall vacancies at an 21 year high. The article is laughable because it claims the economy is picking up steam! The only thing picking up steam is inflation.

Even as the economy picks up steam, many of the nation’s malls and shopping centers are suffering a hangover due to changing consumer habits and the fallout from a massive building boom.

Mall vacancies hit their highest level in at least 11 years in the first quarter, new figures from real-estate research company Reis Inc. showed. In the top 80 U.S. markets, the average vacancy rate was 9.1%, up from 8.7%.

The outlook is especially bad for strip malls and other neighborhood shopping centers. Their vacancy rate is expected to top 11.1% later this year, up from 10.9%, Reis predicts. That would be the highest level since 1990.

Ebven the Conservative leaning Wall Street Journal is promoting the mythical Obama Boom!  Empty malls are signs of an anemic economy. The growing inflation scourge is now reducing people’s purchasing powers. This emans the Malls will be full anytime soon, no matter how much the media spins it

Wall St. Journal pushes the Obama Boom lie

by Phantom Ace ( 114 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, Media, Progressives at December 27th, 2010 - 4:30 pm

The Obama Boom hype is back. After several reports of slight economic improvements the media is back to proclaiming a boom. They have become cheerleaders in the hopes that people will believe the economy is good and this will assist Obama. In fact, recent polls show Obama’s popularity increasing again due to this propaganda and the Republican surrender in the lame duck session. The most interesting media source that joined this bandwagon is the Wall Street Journal. They are normally a Conservative/Libertarian leaning publication. But lately they have become fans of the Obama economy and are pushing the idea of a boom.

As the economy gradually recovers, some big U.S. companies are cranking up their recruiting and advertising thousands of job openings, ranging from retail clerks and nurses to bank tellers and experts in cloud computing.

Many of the new jobs are in retailing, accounting, consulting, health care, telecommunications and defense-related industries, according to data collected for The Wall Street Journal by Indeed Inc., which runs one the largest employment websites. It said the number of U.S. job postings on the Internet rose to 4.7 million on Dec. 1, up from 2.7 million a year earlier. The company daily collects listings from corporate and job-posting websites, removing duplicates.

Its figures may undercount available jobs because some companies don’t post all listings online, an Indeed spokesman said. Farming, manufacturing and construction jobs tend to be under-represented in online postings, while skilled computer and mathematical jobs are overrepresented, said June Shelp, an economist and vice president for the Conference Board, a private research group.

Read the rest: Job Offers Rising as Economy Warms Up

As anyone in the real world knows this is all nonsense. There are very little jobs being added to the economy since America is getting its clock cleaned by India and China. Many people are working at lower wages or living off of their 401Ks. Why the Wall Street Journal is pushing this Obama Boom propaganda is just baffling. They are right of center yet pushing a lie to help a Progressive president. I wonder what is going on here?

Update: Now the Hill website is pushing the Obama Boom theme.

Job creation is happening at a faster rate than during previous recessions — more good news for the White House and congressional Democrats who have spent the past two years defending their policies as the economy has slowly recovered.analysis released Wednesday finds that jobs are returning faster compared with previous recessions, despite greater overall job losses across all 50 states.

A Joint Economic Committee state-by-state

[….]

While the November jobs report released by the Labor Department reflected an increase in unemployment, some economists have said it’s likely a bump in the road heading into next year, with businesses signaling their willingness to accelerate hiring in the next several months.

The media will be pushing this propaganda in an effort to have Obama re-lected in 2012. Don’t underestimate these people. They convinced Americans that the economy sucked, even when it was OK (not great like the 80’s/90’s) around 2005. Also, notice the Progressive media is not mentioning the rising oil prices and if they do, it’s now a positive. Witha  complacent media and pushover Republican elitists Boehner and McConnell, Obama is the favorite in my opinion to win 2012. They are laying the groundwork for this and don’t underestimate the Progressives.

Update III:Fox Busines also pushes the Obama Boom theme. In fact, their headline is very misleading.

Americans Feeling More Financially Secure

Sounds great until you read these key paragraphs.

Some 42% of Americans feel less financially secure now than they did a year ago, slightly improved from the same time last year where more than half felt unstable, according to a Harris Interactive poll.
[…]

Despite cautiously optimistic views, half of Americans said they plan on cutting back on their household spending in 2011. Of the money spent, roughly 41% of Americans said they will pay down debt, with 40% planning on saving more and 22% putting more toward retirement.

What is going on with Newscop? The Wall St. Journal and Fox Business have joined the Progressive lies about an Obama Boom. Why not report the truth that the economy is stagnant and America is the laughing stock of the global economy. I expected better from Fox and Journal.

Update IV:Here is a graph showing the truth about the job creation compared with other recessions.

This debunks the Hill’s story about jobs growing faster than other recessions. There is no Obama Boom people.

(Hat Tip:1389 and Iron Fist)

ESW in the WSJ

by 1389AD ( 152 Comments › )
Filed under Censorship, Europe, Free Speech, Hate Speech, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media, Political Correctness, Tranzis at November 10th, 2010 - 8:30 am

Originally published at Gates of Vienna

Reprinted with permission.

Monday, November 08, 2010

Elisabeth's Voice (small)One of our readers just sent us excerpts from an article by Nina Shea and Paul Marshall in the Wall Street Journal about the growing threat to free speech in Europe. The authors focus mainly on Geert Wilders, of course, but they refer to other victims of “hate speech” prosecutions and Islamic lawfare, such as Philippe Val, Jussi Halla-aho, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brigitte Bardot, and… Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff.

They even spelled Elisabeth’s name right, except for omitting the hyphen.

This is a major breakthrough for the American MSM. As far as I know, this is the first time that either Elisabeth or Jussi has seen the light of day in a major American media outlet.

The article is behind a subscription firewall, so I will post only some brief excerpts here:

We Need to Talk About Islam

Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders was threatened with criminal punishment for hate speech from the moment his anti-Koran film Fitna hit the internet in March 2008. Last month, a Dutch judicial oversight body ordered that he be tried anew after finding that judges in the first round of court proceedings appeared to be biased. Even if Mr. Wilders is ultimately acquitted, as his prosecutors themselves urge, he will have already been punished by years of costly and tiring legal wrangling.

But the greatest threat posed by this case is not to a lone Dutch firebrand, but to Europeans at large, whose fundamental freedoms of speech and religion are being steadily undermined. Those trying to repress these individual rights in the name of sensitivity are gaining ground with each case that upholds the state’s power to regulate the content of speech on Islam. Since Mr. Wilders’ defense does not challenge the legitimacy of hate-speech laws per se, but instead points to the specific facts of his case, even his acquittal would not alter this encroachment on core Western rights.

Religious hate-speech is not clearly defined in the Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe. Council of Europe standards emphasize the subjectivity of the offense, stating that, with respect to religion, “there is no right to offend,” that “gratuitously offensive” speech is not protected, and that there exists a new “right of citizens not to be insulted in their religious feelings.” In an attempt to carve out protections for political speech and social commentary, the Council distinguishes between speech that insults Muslims, which it forbids, and that which insults Islam or would be considered blasphemous, which it permits.

Mr. Wilders argues that his film and his other criticisms entail only the latter…

[…]

Former actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has been convicted and fined in five separate French cases for intemperate comments about Muslims, many focusing on animal cruelty in halal slaughter practices. In Austria, Elisabeth Sabaditsch Wolff is currently on trial for her lecture before an anti-immigration political party criticizing Muslim practices she observed abroad. For her, Geert Wilders, Brigitte Bardot, and others, their unease about Muslim immigration reflects their negative views of Islam itself.

Yes, it would be nice if the article also mentioned Gregorius Nekschot, Lionheart, Dahn Pettersson, Tomashot, Paul Belien, and all the other European citizens who have been persecuted for speaking out about Islam and Multiculturalism. But this is a good start.

Readers who have a subscription should go over to the Wall Street Journal and read the rest.

Update: A reader sends these useful instructions for accessing the entire article:

You can read the WSJ article by entering the URL in Google’s search box. The search returns the article in question on WSJ website; click that. It will fully load the article, because you are being referred from Google.

I just tried it, and he’s right: you can read the complete text, and even see the photo of Geert Wilders.


Previous posts about the hate speech case against Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff:

2009 Dec 5 Fighting a Hate Speech Charge in Austria
11 Heckling the Counterjihad
14 Whose Law?
17 Defaming the Muslims of Pinkafeld
2010 Mar 11 A Mother and an Activist
20 An Austrian “Hate School”
22 Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff at the Freedom Defense Initiative
29 Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff and the Wiener Akademikerbund
Sep 9 “Islam is a Political Ideology Disguised as a Religion”
16 “Justice Must Not Be Made the Handmaiden of Sharia”

The Reverend Wright Issue

by Phantom Ace Comments Off on The Reverend Wright Issue
Filed under Barack Obama, Election 2008 at September 20th, 2008 - 3:26 pm

At the Wall Street Journal, Laura Meckler writes that the McCain campaign is getting ready to open a can of Reverend Jeremiah Wright: ‘Attack by Association’ Viewed as Fair Game by McCain Camp.

Don’t be shocked if you see the McCain campaign pull the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright out of mothballs in new attacks against one-time parishioner, Barack Obama.

McCain advisers say that they see “attack by association” as fair game now, arguing that Obama’s campaign has been using that technique to go after McCain. In particular, the Obama campaign has hammered McCain on the stump and in TV ads on the number of one-time lobbyists working for his campaign. (The McCain campaign is also angry about a Spanish-language TV ad that ties McCain to Rush Limbaugh on immigration, without ever saying that McCain took on Limbaugh and others to fight for comprehensive immigration reform.)

“They played it one way, we played it another way,” said one of McCain’s top advisers, Mark Salter. “Now we’re both going to play it the same way.”

If you’re not a fan of Obama, you’re probably thinking, “It’s about time.” It doesn’t take Nostradamus to predict that Obama’s fans will shriek, “Guilt by association!” and claim that Obama’s relationship with Wright was nothing special.

But they’re going to have to explain this speech by Obama from June 5, 2007 at Hampton University, lavishing praise on Rev. Wright in a way that makes it very clear that Obama was a close personal friend.

This close friend of Barack Obama also joined Louis Farrakhan on a trip to Libya and met with Muammar Gaddafi in 1984, right around the time Obama would have first met Rev. Wright. Has anyone ever asked Obama for his opinion about that trip?

(Hat tip:Charles the Obama supporter@LGF)