Archive for November, 2011

Celente robbed by a bank? Now I’ve seen it all

17/11/2011

Gerald Celente is to many nothing short of a modern day Nostradamus and true to his own predictions apparently tried to invest in gold which he was going to take physical possession of in December but in true banksters form the bank MF Global which was going to send him the gold was leveraged to the hilt in European crap paper and decided to raid it’s customers bank accounts just before they went under.

Here is the man himself telling us what happened:

“Anyone who is innocent has nothing to fear”

17/11/2011

Never thought I’d be quoting the Standard but this is one close to my heart and I could not have said it better!!!

Pop quiz, who said “Anyone who is innocent has nothing to fear”? Answer, just about every politician ever who was arguing for an increase in state powers, especially powers of surveillance. On this particular occasion it was John Key defending the powers of a newly created “customs center” to monitor and preserve comprehensive details on air passengers.

Those words might just come back to haunt Key.  His government has been busily ramping up Search and Surveillance powers and recently rammed through the Video Camera Surveillance Bill to boot.  ”Anyone who is innocent has nothing to fear” is very much the subtext. Brian Rudman in The Herald considers the recent teapot tape fiasco in this context. He pulls no punches:

Key plays risky game over taping

… Trotting off to the police on Monday full of injured innocence about a nasty cameraman recording his open invitation, “secret” meeting with Epsom Act candidate John Banks is all very well. But isn’t this the same John Key who shoved through retrospective legislation last month legalising widespread covert and unlawful videotaping by police.

… The tapes recorded police spying on a diverse range of suspects, capturing images ranging from the alleged Urewera revolutionaries through to, according to Mana Party leader Hone Harawira, speaking in Parliament, “a very high-profile politician caught during surveillance of a woman as part of a P investigation …”

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Share the info!!!

17/11/2011

If you find my info valuable please share with your friends especially with your John Key voting palls. If you have a problem with my links to the events of 911 and are scared about what friends and family will say just copy and paste.

I don’t earn money with this blog and have therefore no use for copyright issues and I feel it’s more important to get info on John Key and his financial predator friends out while we still can do something about it!!!

On the other hand if you don’t have problems with some of my links I do appreciate being mentioned as the writer of some of the stuff on this site and that you honour those I link to as the owners of their own work.

The Actual Victims Toll of 9/11

17/11/2011

“Saddam never had any weapons of mass destruction but nevertheless, with the American invasion of Iraq, the Iraqis were destined to experience what it really meant to be bombarded with such weapons.”

By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat

 

New Yorkers dumbstruck by the mysterious collapse of the towers on 9/11

It is still one of my most vivid memories ever, as I’m sure it is for many others. …The planes crashing into the towers, the hysteria and the blunders of the mainstream media, the initial silence and ineptness of the white house, and people all over the world glued to their TVs as they watched in amazement the towers of the world trade center collapse like a house of cards on September, 9, 2001.

9/11, … I knew that day that what I had just witnessed was going to haunt not only the United States but the whole world for years and years to come.

Nearly 3000 innocent people were killed in the terrorist operation most of them were Americans and as voices on the American street began to call for a swift action on part of the white house to retaliate the horrific attacks, the Bush/Chiney administration wasted no time and spared no expense, as if they had it all preplanned in advance, and before we knew it the American planes were bombing Afghanistan& Iraq- two countries that never posed any threat to the US.

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My two cents on the eviction of OWS encampments.

17/11/2011

Here are my two cents on the coordinated evictions of the OWS encampments.

I totally support any resistance to the powers that be. I am a pacifist and hate violence but we are facing an enemy who was prepared to kill its own and people from other peaceful Nations living in the US in a false flag attack to be able to go to war and kill millions of peaceful people in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia (Not to mention the “Humanitarian” bombings of Libya and the pending attacks on Sirya and Iran).

To expect to be able to protest this enemy and over throw the regime terrorising the US and much of the world in a peaceful manner is to expect Jesus to come down from the heavens and make the pain go away without having to do anything about it yourself.

I do believe that unless we face up to the true nature of the events of 911 and realise that the world we live in is ruled by truly evil people and that peaceful resistance will only work if the real 99% en masse refuses to further cooperate with these people we are doomed and that millions upon millions of people will die in horrible violent eruptions of murderous rage and frustration as people begin to realise how far we have come in the global fascist empire that is silently but inexorably being wrapped around us and ours to terrorise and enslave and kill.

Gordon Duff Connects John Key to the international Money cartel and global shadow banking

16/11/2011

On the Vinny Eastwood show I had the chance to put some questions about Merrill Lynch, John Key and his connection to the international money Mafia to  Gordon Duff. He not only solidly connected John Key to the derivatives trade but also to the international shadow banking world. (More on that later)

John Key throws a wobbly!

16/11/2011

It appears that while he feels it’s OK to spy on us judging by the draconian laws they pushed through under urgency it is not so OK to demand the same kind of openness when our dear leader  speaks in what is demonstrably a political piece of theatre. During a press conference John Key stormed out after journalists keep asking about the tape.

Live on Vinny Eastwood show with Gordon Duff 12-1 pm

16/11/2011

Gordon Duff is one on my heroes. He is the senior editor of Veterans today and a banking wistle blower! Vinny will be hosting the show and I hope I will be able to ask some questions as to John Key and his complicity in the banking debacle!!!

Max Keiser, Stacy Herbert on Banksters and how Merrill Lynch got in the Derivatives business

16/11/2011

In 1995 Bankers trust bank in which John Key learned his (derivatives) trade collapsed. It turned out that they had sold dodgy derivatives to Proctor & Gamble and some other big wigs who didn’t take to kindly to being ripped of by their banksters.

Unlucky for the bank some tapes which were made of all conversations were leaked to the press and it turned out that the ripping of was so systemic that they even had a word for it: ROF or Rip Of Factor.

When the bank collapsed in the aftermath of the court case and the loss of confidence the bank suffered John Key was head hunted by Merrill Lynch to help them set up their Bond and Derivatives  department. John describes this moment as follows in the now deleted online pages of his Unauthorised Biography as follows: Then the shit hit the fan and I said,”Right I’m out of here”.

Here is what Financial pundit Max Keiser has to say about the early years (seventies and eighties as the Derivatives trade started as early as that and not as John Key proclaims after he left the banking world) of Merrill Lynch and Derivatives.

Spot on: Balancing power & deceit!

15/11/2011

The criminalisation of freedom of speech or why “Conspiracy theorists” are dangerous!

15/11/2011

According to a new article in the Independent “Conspiracy theories” are like a virus and what is worse they are running rampant. To be infected by them turns you into a conspiracy theory spewing zombie and this happens because the virus is spreading on the internet!

In fact according to the writer 86%of the US population believe that 911 was an inside job!

Now for those of you coming to this site a little longer it must ber clear that I am one of those 86%. I have a serious problem with the official Conspiracy theory namely that 19% young Saudi males with box cutters could hijack 4 planes and fly two of them into the twin towers collapsing three steel reinforced buildings in free fall speed into their own foot print. For one it breaks all the laws of Physics and that is impossible. I am also firmly in favour of a new and independent investigation into the events of that day.

I also have question about the assassination of JF Kennedy and funnily enough that only cam about after I underwent the extra ordinarily painful process I now call my awakening. To become aware of the truly evil events of 911 and the impossibility of the official CT is contrary to what the writer of the article proposes a painful and long process rather than a simple instant conversion after hearing some vague Conspiracy theories. It takes study, analysis and convincing arguments to even want to consider your government could be so vile as to kill its own citizens in order to go to war.

What is more it is very, very hard work to convince other people to take a look at the material you’ve been studying. It means social isolation and a terrifying loneliness for many who have chosen the path of truth.

It is most definetly not the quikest path to making a lot of cool friends.

So why write about the spreading truth about how our leaders are manipulating us as if it is compatible with the sometimes outlandish theories (which by the way is how all science starts. You see something that you can’t explain, develop a theory and set about proving it with scientific data) writers of hit pieces like these always feel is necessary?

Well, Goebels once said that if you tell a lie big enough people will believe it and it takes on average 10 years before people have the courage to question the big lie.

If 86% of people in the US believe that 911 was not a job from 19 hapless Saudi’s with box cutters guided by a maniac in an Afghan cave but that it was done by a much more sinister group of people which engineered the events to wage war on entire continents and the 10 year are up as of 911 2011 they have to work really hard to stop this from backfiring becasue if people realise that their leaders are prepared to sacrifice their own citizens for private gain the jig is up.

What better way to make all of us simply asking questions look like violent nut cases and try to marginalise those of us asking question. That way they can lock us away as enemy combatants without trial and disappear us. Maybe not just yet but in the very near future when the OWM meets 911 truth and the two merge!!!

Key takes on NZ paper over secret recording

15/11/2011

I would love to see this go to court!

Two high profile politicians organise a publicity stunt in order to get one of them elected and they do so in an open public place with it seems plenty of ears on the space even after all journo’s are removed. According to this photo they are not alone. This means in my opinion that they have given up their right to privacy and can not expect their conversation to be in the realm of private communication.

Added to that they have a public function and they meet within the realm of this public function. The fourth estate has the duty (not that you would know from the subservience they have shown John Key) to inform the citizenry of the comings and goings of their leaders and what they say. The secrecy John Key is in direct contradiction to his calls for more transparency and as such deserves close attention form NZ’ journo’s. I say let’s go to a judge and fight for openness in government

10 Reasons Bank of America Is the Most Hated Bank in America

15/11/2011

The Bank of America, the bank in which John Key has millions worth of shares, plays a big role in the destabilisation of the entire global banking system. It is considered to be one of the too big to fail banks and as such received billions of Bail out money in 2008.

It also bought Merrill Lynch in which John Key had millions of dollars of shares and which was so loaded up with derivatives it collapsed when the first financial crisis erupted. The amount of Derivatives held by Merrill Lynch was a staggering $ 75 trillion. We know this because recently they moved these derivatives out of their investment branch into a commercial arm of their banking consortium basically expecting the US citizens to pay for these wanton gambles. To make this astronomic sum more understandable the entire GDP of the US last year was approximately $ 14 trillion. This is one of the reasons why it is safe to say the BofA is one of the most hated banks in the US and it would also be safe to say that John Key’s shares in this banks are a huge conflict of interest. Here are 9 more reasons why BofA is the most hated bank in the US today:

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There is no shortage of hatred for the biggest banks. Indeed, the Occupy Wall Street movement is leading a national revolution against these byzantine, powerful Goliaths for the economic devastation they have caused. This makes it difficult to choose the worst of the bunch. That said, a strong case can be made that Bank of America deserves the title of the nation’s most despised bank.

Here are ten reasons to take your money out of Bank of America – and park it at a credit union or community bank near you. (And yes, that may be near impossible if you have a mortgage with them, as refinancing away from any big bank nowadays is a nightmare.)

1. B of A rejects the right of customers to protest. When two Occupy Santa Cruz protesters in California marched into a local Bank of America to close their accounts, the response was, “You cannot be a protester and a customer at the same time,” followed by a threat to call the police if the women didn’t leave. (The attending officer  later reiterated the bank manager’s message.) Meanwhile, the fact that Bank of America charges a fee for closing an account prompted Rep. Brad Miller (D-North Carolina), who resides in Bank of America’s headquarters state, to introduce a bill to protect customers from such fees.

2. To recoup ongoing losses from its stupendously dumb acquisitions of Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch, B of A pillages its customers. Thus, despite massive public outrage, the $5 debit usage fee for customers with less than a $5,000 balance and no mortgage with the bank will begin in 2012. B of A was the first large bank to confirm it would charge this fee, which is the highest in current discourse among the banks.

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The Crash course or why the system is collapsing

15/11/2011

Over the last couple of weeks I have seen a huge increase in readers what’s more most of them seem to be from New Zealand. The numbers are not super spectacular but for a one person blog on the controversial subjects of geopolitics, international finance and 911 to have an average of between 80 to a 100 new readers a day and have no trolling comments to speak of that is incredibly positive.

I realise that not everybody is a financial specialist ( I would not call myself one except I read about it for about six hours everyday giving me a bit of an edge) and I thought that I would link today to a course which taught me a lot about the financial system and why the collapse we are witnessing is inevitable and unstoppable.

Here is a link to the Crash course from Cris Martensen a Finance specialist who made the course. The course is a series of video’s and explains in no uncertain terms why the system is mathematically bound to implode. My personal favourite is video three about the exponential growth of the money supply and I’ll let you decide for yourself where on the curve we are currently residing.

 

Excellent!!! National Party billboards targeted

14/11/2011

May I suggest another sticker text: John Key: Wall street banker!

Seven hundred National Party billboards across the country were altered by activists in a co-ordinated operation overnight.

The activists fixed new slogans over the billboards which say: “The Rich Deserve More” and “Drill it! Mine It! Sell it!”

An un-named organiser of the operation told The Aucklander National needs to be more honest in its campaign, and the new slogans reflect the truth which it says National is neglecting to mention.

“We decided to help the National Party spell out its plans in ways that every voter can understand. They believe in increasing the deficit by giving the rich tax cuts, then selling state assets to reduce the deficit they just created, drilling oil wells along our coastline, and digging up forests for low grade coal.  We want to make sure voters know that.

“Over 50 people have been improving National’s billboards in Auckland, Wellington, Gisborne, Whakatane, Napier, Hastings, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Kapiti Coast, Nelson, Marlborough, Motueka, Golden Bay, Christchurch and Dunedin.

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Lucas Papademos, Mario Monti….. John Key?

14/11/2011

In Greece Lucas Papademos a banker aligned with the international ruling elite has taken over in Greece in what can only be described as an undemocratic coup and the same has happened (As I called it last week) in Italy with the appointment of Mario Monti who appears to be an active international advisor to Goldman Sachs and member of the Bilderberg group.

This is nothing short of the realisation of the Global bankers rule Rockefeller spoke of in his speech in 1991:

We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
-David Rockefeller, Bilderberger meeting, 1991

In light of these developments it is I fear not to much to assume that John Key whose interests in the BofA are in the millions and who has met with Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke when last visiting the US will attempt to do the same here as the “Austerity” starts to bite when the banks call in the billions he has borrowed in the last three years.

So you read it here first. When the international financial situation worsens Either John Key or one of his banking buddies will take over NZ in a “Soft” coup!!!

Fukushima, tarantulas or where does the mysterious Cecium come from in Europe

13/11/2011

Update: Here is some more really worrying news about nuclear reactors in general

For those of you who haven’t heard of Fukushima here is the low down: After the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan four, that is FOUR complete meltdowns took place in the nuclear power plant at the coast of Fukushima. Contrary to what they would have you believe these have not been contained and they are still spewing nuclear pollution into the air every frigging day.

Never the less the IAEA would have you believe that the mysterious levels of radio active cecium in Europe are caused by the Tarantula nebula. I kid you not!

Corruption on the rise in New Zealand

12/11/2011

Monkey see is monkey do and the secrecy and old boys networking of the National party seems to have found some following.

4% of people admitted to having paid a bribe and 73% of Kiwi’s believing that corruption was on the rise and the amount of complaints about judges is sky rocketing.

John Key endorses John Banks or how a bigoted racist middle aged male Pakeha brings out the venality of John Key!

12/11/2011

You will judge them by their friends and this is the guy John Key had tea with to get him elected.

Is our PM stifling dissent?

12/11/2011

On Facebook this morning appeared a post of a gentleman who was told that John Key had been involved in his arrest for posts he had made on FB. I hope to be able to post more on this as the story develops.

Why did Gadaffi have to die?

12/11/2011

It remains unclear exactly why or how the Gadhafi regime went from “a model” and an “important ally” to the next target for regime change in a period of just a few years. But after claims of “genocide” as the justification for NATO intervention were disputed by experts, several other theories have been floated. Oil, of course, has been mentioned frequently — Libya is Africa‘s largest oil producer. But one possible reason in particular for Gadhafi’s fall from grace has gained significant traction among analysts and segments of the non-Western media: central banking and the global monetary system.

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Here is Max Keiser talking about how Goldman Sachs robbed the Lybians of their money.

Who said Gaddafi had to go?

11/11/2011

Hugh Roberts

So Gaddafi is dead and Nato has fought a war in North Africa for the first time since the FLN defeated France in 1962. The Arab world’s one and only State of the Masses, the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya, has ended badly. In contrast to the bloodless coup of 1 September 1969 that overthrew King Idris and brought Gaddafi and his colleagues to power, the combined rebellion/civil war/ Nato bombing campaign to protect civilians has occasioned several thousand (5000? 10,000? 25,000?) deaths, many thousands of injured and hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, as well as massive damage to infrastructure. What if anything has Libya got in exchange for all the death and destruction that have been visited on it over the past seven and a half months?

The overthrow of Gaddafi & Co was far from being a straightforward revolution against tyranny, but the West’s latest military intervention can’t be debunked as being simply about oil. Presented by the National Transitional Council (NTC) and cheered on by the Western media as an integral part of the Arab Spring, and thus supposedly of a kind with the upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt, the Libyan drama is rather an addition to the list of Western or Western-backed wars against hostile, ‘defiant’, insufficiently ‘compliant’, or ‘rogue’ regimes: Afghanistan I (v. the Communist regime, 1979-92), Iraq I (1990-91), the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (over Kosovo, 1999), Afghanistan II (v. the Taliban regime, 2001) and Iraq II (2003), to which we might, with qualifications, add the military interventions in Panama (1989-90), Sierra Leone (2000) and the Ivory Coast (2011). An older series of events we might bear in mind includes the Bay of Pigs (1961), the intervention by Western mercenaries in the Congo (1964), the British-assisted palace coup in Oman in 1970 and – last but not least – three abortive plots, farmed out to David Stirling and sundry other mercenaries under the initially benevolent eye of Western intelligence services, to overthrow the Gaddafi regime between 1971 and 1973 in an episode known as the Hilton Assignment.

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Selling our commons to enrich the few at the cost of our environment

11/11/2011

It appears that National has decided to bribe farmers and fishers with the proceeds of selling our assets. The Canterbury farmers can dip into a fund to irrigate their land polluting our environment for which we all will pay and the fishery people can start fish farms and oyster farms when National scraps any legal obstacles to what is another incredibly destructive way of farming.

147 Corporation rule the world or why the 1% are the worst destroyers!

11/11/2011

Something funny happened when a Swiss research group wanted to do some research on Psychopaths and they needed to have a control group. As it happened the control group were financial traders such as our Prime Minister John Key. Turns out the traders scored way higher on the psychopathy scale then the ones being researched!

Around about the same time another group of Swiss researcher managed to scientifically confirm that only 147 big companies control the world.

Of those companies the first 50 or so are banks and number 10 on that list is Merrill Lynch. That is the bank John Key made his dosh in as a trader and in fat rose all the way to the top as the manager of debt, (as in derivatives now collapsing the world)

So if traders are far more destructive than Psychopaths and if rising to the top in that world means you have to be the biggest badass of them all what does that tell you about John Key? Here is the check list for Psychopathy. It suits him to the teeth down to the strip clubs John “had” to visit during his tenure as a Wall street banker. Remember his nickname was the Smiling Assassin!

No wonder Monbiot has to come to the conclusion that those very few named the 1% really are the greatest destroyers!

Repost: The creature of Jekkyl Island

11/11/2011

This is an excellent lecture by Edward G Griffin, who predicted in March 2008 before John Key was elected that he would sell this country and throw in his mother with the deal based on the info that he had been a Wall street banker and closely aligned to the Creature of Jekkyl Island: the Federal Reserve of New York.

Comments: I love em!

11/11/2011

To those of you who comment on this blog: I love you all and hope you will keep on doing so. If I don’t respond or respond late it is because events are happening so fast I have to concentrate on giving you the latest news. I read about a hundred publications a day in order to do so so please forgive me for being tardy in responding!

Money as debt 1 or how money is created!

11/11/2011

For those of you new to this site and I am glad to say you are finding me at ever increasing numbers (the last count was 84 new readers per day over the last 30 days and most of you New Zealanders)  for which I am very grateful as it seems that NZ is waking up in record numbers judging by the drop in the polls for National here is a video about money creation.

The video is called Money as debt and it is a very clear and concise animation about the history of our banking system and how money is created and the inevitable horrible end of the system. Please share this again with as many people as you can!

Italy: I’m calling it today: the loan sharks will take over!!!

11/11/2011

This time I don’t need Zero hedge to call it. It is just so blatant it is sickening. Belusconi is out. Enter Mario Monti!

Who is Marion Monti? Read this and weep!

Bilderberger, European chair of the Trilateral commission Specialist in the workings of banks in a monopoly. I kid you not and again while Berlusconi pushed for early elections, he is appointed in a blatant takeover of yet another sovereign state in Europe. God help the people of Italy!

Who is next?

Spain and Portugal are way over due but France is the most likely to collapse. The difference being that President Sarkozy is already well and truly in the pockets of his Money masters.

Greece, I called it two weeks ago; The loan sharks are in control!

11/11/2011

Update: Here is a detailed profile of L Papademos showing his intimate connections with the Financial elite taking over the Eurozone countries.

Truth be told it was the author of Zero hedge who really did but I choose to go with him as he is an amazing source of on the ball global finance manipulation information.

The global bankster Mafia has succeeded to take over another country: Greece.

With the appointment of L Papademos Greece has lost its autonomy and is no longer a sovereign state as in a democratic sovereign state elections would be called if a government fell over important issues. Papademos is a banker and has ties to the Federal reserve and the ECB (European central banks). If I believed in a God I would pray: God help the people of Greece!

15 Statistics Which Prove That The U.S. Economy Is In Much Worse Shape Than Most Americans Think

10/11/2011

Fifteen statistics to absolutely scare the bejesus out of everyone with a brain:

Yes, most Americans realize that the economy is not doing well right now, but most of them also believe that this is just a “temporary” downturn.  The mainstream media tells us over and over that a “recovery” has either already begun or that one is right around the corner.  Sadly, the truth is that the U.S. economy is in much worse shape than most Americans think.  Yes, there will be economic “peaks and valleys” as we move along, but it is absolutely imperative that all of us understand that we are in the middle of a long-term economic decline that has been caused by decades of horrendous decisions.  Thousands of businesses and millions of jobs have left the country and they aren’t coming back.  Last year, 23 manufacturing facilities a day were shut down in the United States and we have lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.  Without enough good jobs to go around, millions of American families have lost their homes and millions of American families have been pushed into poverty.  Less good jobs also means that there are less people to pay the taxes we need to keep government services going.  Government debt at the local, state and federal levels has exploded as the tax base has dwindled.  We have become a nation that is very good at consuming wealth but that is not very good at creating wealth.  Just “tweaking” a couple of things here or there is not going to get our economy back “on track”.  We need fundamental changes to the way that we are doing things, and there are currently no signs that this kind of change is going to happen any time soon.

But many Americans don’t even realize what is happening.  As I wrote about recently, Americans are increasingly being segregated by income.  If you live in a “good neighborhood”, there is a decent chance that you might not know anyone that is having financial problems right now.  If you live in a “bad neighborhood”, it might feel like you are living in the middle of the Great Depression.

We live such insulated lives today.  We all get into our cars, go to work, get back into our cars, drive to the store, get back into our cars and drive home.  For most of us, interactions with other human beings are fairly limited.  Our perception of what is going on “in the real world” is greatly shaped by what the mainstream media tells us.

And the mainstream is constantly telling us that everything is going to be okay.

But is that the truth?

The following are 14 statistics which prove that the U.S. economy is in much worse shape than most Americans think….

#1 According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, America has lost an average of 15 manufacturing facilities a day over the last 10 years.

#2 Sadly, it looks like this trend is picking up momentum.  During 2010, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities a day closed down in the United States.

#3 Since 2001, the U.S. has lost a total of more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities.

#4 There are way too few jobs and this is leaving a lot of people out in the cold.  The average amount of time that a worker stays unemployed in the United States is now a whopping 39 weeks.

#5 Only 48 percent of all unemployed Americans are currently getting unemployment checks from the government.  Early last year, that number was at 75 percent.

#6 There doesn’t seem to be much hope that the job market will improve significantly any time soon.  One recent survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plans to hire any more workers.

#7 Without enough good jobs to go around, millions of Americans are losing their homes.  Over the past four years, more than 100,000 homes in Las Vegas alone have been lost to foreclosure.

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