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Breaking: Unemployment Rate Reaches 18-Year-Low
In an early morning tweet, President Donald Trump touted the upcoming payroll numbers before their release. Unafraid of jinxing himself, Trump tweeted out that he was looking forward to seeing the employment numbers this weekend.
As of last month’s job report, unemployment had fallen to 3.9 percent, below what economists consider “full employment.” For the first time in recorded history, there’s at least one job opening for every person seeking a job
With unemployment so low, newly added employment is mainly accommodating population growth, though the size of the labor force remains at a historic low, so there’s still some untapped potential there (to bring people discouraged during the Obama years back into the labor force).
According to the just-released May 2018 jobs report, the economy added 223,000 jobs in May, reducing the unemployment rate to 3.8 percent. Broken down by race and gender, the unemployment rate is 3.5 percent for Whites, 5.9 percent for blacks 2.1 percent for Asians, and 4.9 percent for Hispanics, which are among the lowest rates on record for each group. The biggest employment gains were in retail, healthcare, and construction.
There are now 6.1 million unemployed persons (out of a labor force of over 155 million), and as previously mentioned, just as many job openings to accommodate them.
There are countless signs that the economy is heating up. Low-end employers such as Starbucks, McDonald’s, Chipotle, and Walmart have recently rolled out benefits that would make it possible for their employees to receive close to a free college education, and there would’ve been little incentive for them to do so if competition for workers wasn’t becoming increasingly more difficult.
Heck – even the 30-year-old who made national headlines last month for being sued to move out of his parents’ house was offered a job at a local franchise with a $1,101 bonus. Clearly, there’s a shortage of labor brewing, and the next benefit we’ll see for workers as a result is higher wages.
Atlanta Fed Boosts Second Quarter GDP Forecast to 4.8%
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty ImagesThe U.S. economy is expanding at a 4.8 percent annualized rate in the second quarter, the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow forecast model showed on Friday.
The forecast has been climbing higher following the release of a series of good economic data. On May 25, the measure foresaw four percent GDP growth. This rose to 4.7 percent Thursday and ticked even higher on Friday following the better than expected jobs report for May.
The Atlanta Fed forecasts a big boost in private sector fixed investment, which includes capital investment in machinery, land, buildings, vehicles, and technology. Earlier, the Atlanta Fed saw this growing at 4.6 percent. But following the release Friday of a construction spending report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Manufacturing ISM Report On Business from the Institute for Supply Management, this was upgraded to 5.4 percent growth.
Consumer spending is expected to grow at a 4.6 percent rate, up from 3.4 percent prior to the Friday data releases.
Pedophile Who Threatened To Kill President Now Running For Congress Thanks To Terry McAuliffe
An admitted pedophile who served 16 months in federal prison for threatening to assassinate the president of the United States is now running for Congress thanks to former Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
Nathan Larson is an independent candidate in Virginia who admitted to HuffPost that he’s a pedophile who bragged in blog posts about raping his ex-wife and fantasized online about having sex with young children.
Larson is also a convicted felon who wouldn’t be eligible to run for office in Virginia had McAuliffe not restored Larson’s rights to vote and run for office in 2016.
Larson was sentenced to 16 months in prison in October 2009 for threatening to kill the president.
“I am writing to inform you that in the near future, I will kill the President of the United States of America,” Larson wrote in a Sept. 2008 email to the Secret Service. He then “laid out the reasons why he intended to kill the president and how he intended to carry out the assassination,” the Denver Post reported at the time of his conviction.
Anyone convicted of a felony in Virginia automatically loses the rights to vote and run for office. But McAuliffe restored those rights to tens of thousands of convicted felons in August 2016. And that included Larson, HuffPost first noted on Thursday.
Larson admitted to running a rape-obsessed pedophilia fantasy website, according to HuffPost. Larson claimed online that he had raped his ex-wife and “repeatedly expressed a desire to have sex with infants and children, including his own daughter,” HuffPost reported.
McAuliffe originally issued a blanket clemency order affecting 200,000 felons in April 2016. The state Supreme Court struck down McAuliffe’s order in July 2016, ruling that the governor’s blanket amnesty order exceeded his legal authority.
McAuliffe announced one month later that he was restoring the rights of 13,000 felons. The vice-chair of Virginia’s Board of Elections later told TheDCNF in Nov. 2016 that the true number of felons granted clemency was actually between 50,000 and 60,000. McAuliffe’s term ended in 2018.
McAuliffe is widely thought to be positioning himself for a presidential campaign in 2020.
Andrew McCarthy: If the FBI spied on a mosque for the same reasons they spied on Trump campaign…
By Larry O'Connor - The Washington Times
Andrew McCarthy: If the FBI spied on a mosque for the same reasons they spied on Trump campaign…
By Larry O'Connor - The Washington Times
From left, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sit together in the front row before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Andrew C. McCarthy has been one of the most important voices analyzing the Spygate story from the very beginning. His byline at National Review has been essential reading and his arguments regarding how the FBI and DOJ have operated in this escapade versus what the law, the Constitution and Justice Department protocols dictate have been factual and unassailable.
He appeared on my radio program on WMAL in Washington DC Thursday to refute Trey Gowdy and James Clapper’s argument that the Trump campaign was not actually investigated and there was nothing improper about the use of surveillance against President Obama’s political opponent during the 2016 campaign.
He was able to lay out an important and compelling argument as to why, despite all of the backtracking and excuses, the Spygate scandal is a very serious constitutional issue.
McCarthy: The use of an informant to the extent that they said there’s a tight protocol and all that stuff … I must tell you I was a prosecutor for 20 years, and I had national security cases and pretty high level organized crime cases, there’s a lot about using informants that’s the wild west, it’s really not all that regulated and a lot of it has to do with common sense. So if there’s certain situations where it’s perfectly appropriate and it’s the best thing to do to use an informant and there there are other situations where it is really inappropriate to use an informant even though it’s not illegal. And just to be more concrete about it, if you remember the big arguments that we had over the Patriot Act for all these years…
O’Connor: Sure
McCarthy: There were many provisions in the Patriot Act that said, this or that government tactic can’t be used if the reason for using it is First Amendment protected activity.
What that means is, for example, let’s say I, as a national security counter-terrorism prosecutor, I’m concerned about a mosque. And I don’t really have any reason to think that there are jihadist activity going on in there or there is incitement, but there is a bunch of Muslims in a room that they are calling a mosque. So I get an informant and I say, ‘I want you to go in there and listen and report back to me about what’s going on’.
Now, there’s nothing illegal about me using an informant, there’s no privacy interest that somebody has in being protected from speaking with somebody who can report what they said back to the government, but I imagine that people would be pretty angry if they knew the only reason I put an informant in a mosque was because there were Muslims in there. You know, they would say, ‘You need more’.
And if I came back and said, ‘But look, I complied with all of the very important protocols we have in dealing with informants’, they’d look at me like I had three heads and they’d say, ‘This was not an appropriate circumstance to use a government spy to inquire about what was going on in a location because you’re infringing on people’s First Amendment right’.
Now we have an important protocol in this country that you do not, as the incumbent administration, use the awesome powers that you were given under counterintelligence law and even the criminal law to investigate and harass your political opposition. The fact that using an informant doesn’t infringe on anybody’s rights to privacy, under those circumstances, is kind of beside the point.
The reason that we have that standard, or the reason we have that norm, is because we don’t want our law enforcement and intelligence enmeshed in our politics unnecessarily and we want our politics to proceed without the heavy hand of the incumbent administration being able to use that to political advantage. I mean that’s common sense.
BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT PLUNGES TO RECORD LOW, GAP BETWEEN WHITE, BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT SMALLEST IN HISTORY
Benny Johnson | Reporter At Large
Benny Johnson | Reporter At Large
Friday’s economic numbers were very good for America.
The numbers reveal that the U.S. economy is booming and many key indicators of economic health are trending in the right direction. According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate is 3.8 percent, the lowest in nearly two decades.
223,000 jobs were created and the May increase in payroll was bullish, surprising economists, according to NPR. However, the most historic data points seem to be centered around black unemployment. The unemployment rate for African-Americans plunged to 5.9 percent in May. That is a record low. Interestingly, the gap between white ad black unemployment has shrunk to the smallest since these numbers have been recorded. The white unemployment (3.5%) and black unemployment (5.9%) is the smallest gap since the release of these numbers, beginning in the early 1970s.
Daniel Dale ✔@ddale8Black unemployment, Trump's favourite of these numbers, is down to 5.9%, a big drop from 6.6% in April (this data can be noisy). The white rate is 3.5%. That's the smallest gap ever recorded between the two since the government started releasing the racial data in the '70s.
Michael Ahrens@michael_ahrens
The gap between the black unemployment rate (5.9%) and the white unemployment rate (3.5%) is the smallest in recorded history. (The government started releasing data by race in the 1970s.) https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1002528833512312832 …
9:01 AM - Jun 1, 2018
The unemployment rate for black Americans hit a new record low of 5.9%
Early Friday morning, Trump sent a tweet saying “Looking forward to seeing the employment numbers at 8:30 this morning.”
Dick Morris: Trump Brings on Pax Americana with Sanctions and Diplomacy
Alex Brandon, Associated PressModern financial and secondary sanctions are the financial equivalent of papal excommunication during medieval times. We now have a really viable alternative to war in our sanctions policies.
The global unity of the financial system has spawned an instrument more effective than bombs and guns: financial exile from the global banking and trade systems.
Since most regimes that we oppose and want to topple — from Iran to Venezuela to North Korea — are, at some level, criminal, the imposition of sanctions blocks these countries and their dictators, personally, from making money which is, in many cases, their ultimate goal. Just as the church says that the spread of religion globally creates one body, so the spread of the financial and banking systems has also created a financial corpus from which exclusion is particularly painful.
As we see North Korea hurrying back to the conference table, Venezuela teetering on the edge of collapse, and Iran putting up with the indignities Trump heaps upon them to salvage the nuclear deal, we can really appreciate the severity and gravity of these sanctions.
Trump has refined a tool for global peace and freedom that may well prove more important than any military buildup.
And, even as Europeans are pushing appeasement, the Trump Administration is stiffening its demands on Iran.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, citing Iran’s continued efforts to build nuclear heavy water reactors (that can lead to plutonium nuclear weapons), demands that it close its nuclear reactors. “Iran must stop enrichment and never pursue plutonium reprocessing,” Pompeo said. “This includes closing its heavy water reactor.”
In fact, word is now emerging that President Obama actually secretly used taxpayer dollars to purchase heavy water from Iran to keep its supplies below the levels allowed in the treaty.
The impact of the Iranian sanctions on Europe is particularly dramatic. Even though Paris, London, and Berlin do not want to back out of the nuclear deal, their major companies and multinational corporations are being forced, by economic reality, to go along with the renewed U.S. sanctions. The secondary sanctions — that block companies from doing business with Iran from conducting commercial relations with companies or people in the U.S. — are forcing them to go along with Washington, albeit kicking and screaming.
In the years after World War II, many Americans assumed that we could lower defense spending and keep power and peace under the nuclear umbrella. President Eisenhower, in particular, embraced this view. President Kennedy disabused America of this notion as the Russian nuclear capability grew to equal ours.
But now, the dominant power of the United States and the interdependence of global finance have created a new era where financial and diplomatic power may become predominant. When the “soft” power in which Europeans say they believe, is combined with effective sanctions — and the willingness to maintain them — it can sweep all before it.
Dick Morris is a former adviser to President Bill Clinton as well as a political author, pollster, and consultant. His most recent book, “Rogue Spooks,” was written with his wife, Eileen McGann.
Rising Anti-Semitism in Europe Sounds a Warning to a New Generation
Rising Anti-Semitism in Europe Sounds a Warning to a New Generation
Suzanne Fields
Pupils abound, but they often do not limit their curiosity to what their teachers teach them. The history of the Holocaust is a kaleidoscope of fact and opinion dispensed among different generations, and rigorous discussion and debate is always a strong disinfectant to apply to both misinformation and disinformation. Updates are required.
In our own time of hyper partisan anger and resentment, when everyone seems to be mad at somebody, there's a resurgence of anger at the Jews in Europe. Physical assaults on Jews average twice a week in France; Jews in Germany worry about open anti-Semitism among migrants and refugees from Syria and Iraq; a new libel law in Poland prohibits attribution of, responsibility for or complicity in the Holocaust to Poland; synagogues in Sweden were targeted for vandalism after the United States announced it would relocate its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem; and English Jews demonstrated in London against anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party.
Against this backdrop of unrest there's a new examination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's reaction to the persecution of European Jews in the years leading to World War II. He argued that the Allies had to focus totally on war strategy before rescuing Jews. The history of that time taught that Americans weren't aware of the dimensions of the destruction of the Jews until after the war was over. That's not true.
A new exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington shows just how much Americans, including President Roosevelt, knew about what was happening to European Jews and when it was happening, and argues by implication that more could have been done to save Jewish lives. Nazi atrocities were in fact widely reported during the 1930s, and the immigration of Jews was in fact suppressed when legal immigration could have let in many more. The New York Times, though owned by Jews, particularly suppressed coverage of what was happening.
The Immigration Act of 1924 allowed a maximum of 25,957 German visas annually, and only 1,241 were issued in 1933, when many Jews were trying to flee. By 1939, on the eve of war, many Jews had been waiting for 11 years.
President Roosevelt called an international conference in France in July 1938 to find countries to take in Jewish refugees, but this might have been intended to deflect attention from the unfilled American quotas. The conference produced nothing of substance except exposure of American hypocrisy. Alex Ross, writing in The New Yorker, recalls that the German Foreign Office "found it 'astounding' that other countries would decry Germany's treatment of Jews and then decline to admit them." The Germans were brazen in their bigotry, but the failure of so many so-called "sympathetic" countries to accept Jews was fairly brazen, too.
In 1939, legislation to admit 20,000 Jewish children to the United States never made it through Congress. Fear of spies, communists and economic insecurity abetted by isolationist attitudes was part of it, but anti-Semitism rooted in public and private attitudes diminished incentives for saving Jewish lives. Breckinridge Long, then an assistant secretary of state, routinely denied visas to Jews and testified falsely to Congress to prevent rescue of European Jews. Fake news was deadly then, too.
The Jewish Voice From Germany, a quarterly newspaper published in English in Berlin, asks, when there are no witnesses left to tell their harrowing tales, will "the genocide ... be purely consigned to history or will the Shoah play a crucial role in future society?" It's not an academic question.
New attention focuses on a site in the affluent suburb southwest of Berlin Wannsee, where the Reich Security Main Office Director Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most notorious Nazi leaders, invited 15 high-level officials to a conference at a villa in January 1942 and state agencies worked out how to ensure the deportation and mass killings of Jews in Nazi-occupied countries. Moral hideousness hid behind bureaucratic correctness in the killing protocols assigned to specific government agencies.
How these perpetrators were protected by their bureaucratic cover is described in "Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators," a book published by the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial Site to accompany an exhibition, which discusses the chilling details of the division of labor and responsibility. The dehumanizing directives of the "Final Solution" are interspersed with dramatic portraits of aging survivors by photographer Luigi Toscano, giving brutality a human face. The photographer, who exhibited his photographs on the National Mall in Washington, calls his project "Lest We Forget."
When history's pupils continue to ask the right questions and not flinch from the pain of the answers, memories might even improve with age. For the sake of rising generations, we must all pray so.
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