Hotspring 44
06-20-2012, 11:11 AM
I was listening to a radio show on KZYX & Z (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZYX) (Mendocino County station based in Philo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo,_California)) and herd about a website called: “Shadow Government Statistics” during an interview of Ted Rall. (FYI, Shadow Government Statistics is not Ted Rall’s website (https://www.rall.com/rallblog/)).
BTW, KZYX (https://www.kzyx.org/pages/kzyx_schedule2.html) has 2 live streaming speeds that can be listened to;
Low speed (Dial-Up or if you want to use a lower bit rate) @: https://kzyx.mcn.org:4000/kzyxliveD.m3u,
High speed @: https://kzyx.mcn.org:4000/kzyxlive.m3u
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The Ted Rall (https://www.rall.com/rallblog/faq/about) interview was an interesting conversation; mostly about the “The Book of Obama: How We Got From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt (https://www.rall.com/rallblog/books/polemics/book-of-obama)” that he wrote that just came out.
The website intro to the book:
"How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tonedeaf. In The Book of Obama Rall revisits the rapid rise and dizzying fall of Obama–and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements–and draws a startling conclusion: We the People weren’t lied to. We lied to ourselves, both about Obama and the two-party system. We voted when we ought to have revolted."
Shadow Government Statistics Home Page (https://www.shadowstats.com/):
Some of what it has on the Home Page:
"John Williams’ Shadow Government Statistics" is an electronic newsletter service that exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic and financial conditions, net of financial-market and political hype.
And:
“Beyond the SGS Newsletter subscription services, which provide access to all material including Commentaries and databases for the SGS Alternate Data, significant material is provided free of charge to the public on this Web-site, including a Primer Series on key economic reporting, opened back-issues of the newsletter and Special Reports, and an expanding library of charts monitoring official data, as well as graphs of our own Alternate estimates.”
On the Shadow Government Statistics website there are: Charts of Historical Alternate Data for the U.S. GDP, CPI, M3 & Employment (https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data) that give another perspective on what the economics are in more accurate terms than what:shitstorm: the Government, mass media, or the RW “Think Tanks” have been relentlessly spewing at us.
BTW, KZYX (https://www.kzyx.org/pages/kzyx_schedule2.html) has 2 live streaming speeds that can be listened to;
Low speed (Dial-Up or if you want to use a lower bit rate) @: https://kzyx.mcn.org:4000/kzyxliveD.m3u,
High speed @: https://kzyx.mcn.org:4000/kzyxlive.m3u
No archives:tear:.
The Ted Rall (https://www.rall.com/rallblog/faq/about) interview was an interesting conversation; mostly about the “The Book of Obama: How We Got From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt (https://www.rall.com/rallblog/books/polemics/book-of-obama)” that he wrote that just came out.
The website intro to the book:
"How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tonedeaf. In The Book of Obama Rall revisits the rapid rise and dizzying fall of Obama–and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements–and draws a startling conclusion: We the People weren’t lied to. We lied to ourselves, both about Obama and the two-party system. We voted when we ought to have revolted."
Shadow Government Statistics Home Page (https://www.shadowstats.com/):
Some of what it has on the Home Page:
"John Williams’ Shadow Government Statistics" is an electronic newsletter service that exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic and financial conditions, net of financial-market and political hype.
And:
“Beyond the SGS Newsletter subscription services, which provide access to all material including Commentaries and databases for the SGS Alternate Data, significant material is provided free of charge to the public on this Web-site, including a Primer Series on key economic reporting, opened back-issues of the newsletter and Special Reports, and an expanding library of charts monitoring official data, as well as graphs of our own Alternate estimates.”
On the Shadow Government Statistics website there are: Charts of Historical Alternate Data for the U.S. GDP, CPI, M3 & Employment (https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data) that give another perspective on what the economics are in more accurate terms than what:shitstorm: the Government, mass media, or the RW “Think Tanks” have been relentlessly spewing at us.