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The ISM non-manufacturing index inched lower to 52.9% from 53.0% in September. The decrease was unexpected. Economists were looking the index to increase to 53.5%.

The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing gauge dropped to 50.8% last month – just slightly above a 2011 low - from 51.6% in September. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected the closely followed index to rise to 52.1%. Reading over 50% indicate more manufacturers are expanding instead of shrinking.

The Institute for Supply Management said its September services index decelerated slightly to 53.0% from 53.3% in August...

Manufacturing activity picked up a bit in September, according to a key survey released Monday that suggests a slow-growing economy that has nonetheless avoided falling into recession. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index rose to 51.6% from 50.6% in August. Economists polled by MarketWatch had anticipated an unchanged reading.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. service sector expanded at a slightly faster pace in August, but growth was spotty and prices paid for raw materials shot up, according to a survey of senior executives. The Institute for Supply Management on Tuesday said its service index rose to 53.3% in August from 52.7% in July. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch expected the index to fall to 51.0%.

The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index slowed to 50.6% from 50.9% in July, marking the worst reading since July 2009. The index extended its string of readings above 50%, which indicate expansion, to 25 months. However, economists polled by MarketWatch had expected a reading on average of 48.8% — and the 50.6% result was higher than every economist polled.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. manufacturing activity barely grew in July, according to a key index released Monday in a demonstration of an economy struggling to expand. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing gauge in July dropped 4.4 points to 50.9%, the worst reading since July 2009 and barely staying above the 50% no-change line. The index came in far below a MarketWatch-compiled economist poll of 54.3%. U.S. stocks slumped after the ISM report, with the Dow industrials DJIA recently down by 35 points.

HUGE MISS ON ISM: Manufacturing Index Collapses To 50.9 Joe Weisenthal Aug. 1, 2011, 9:55 AM The number: Huge miss. July ISM came in at just 50.9 vs. estimates of 54.5. It's also well below 55.3. The prices paid index plunged from 68 to 59.0. According to Bloomberg, it's the lowest since July 2009. Stocks are in the red. Bad news for the economy. Original post: Given the run of weak data, this will be a closely-watched one.. July ISM (a survey of manufacturing) is expected to come in at 54.5 vs. 55.3 last month. The "whisper" is probably lower....

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Activity at the nation’s manufacturing firms accelerated in June, according to a closely followed survey of top executives released Friday, data which eased fears about the health of the U.S. economy. The Institute for Supply Management manufacturing index rose to 55.3% in June higher than the 53.5% in May. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected the index to drop to 52.3%. Read economic calendar with forecasts of key indicators. Any reading over 50% indicates expansion

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector receded in May, according to a closely followed index released Wednesday. The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing gauge fell to 53.5% in May from 60.4% in April, marking the third straight decline and the biggest one-month drop since 1984. It’s also the lowest reading in one year. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had forecast the index to drop to 57.1%. Three months ago the index peaked at a seven-year high of 61.4%.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks added to losses on Wednesday after the Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing index came in weaker than expected. [Snip] Wall St had been little changed as a fresh round of proposed acquisitions offset a report on the labor market that was also below consensus expectations.

Gold has surged to a new all time high today, breaking $1450. It's now back down slightly, to around $1448. Gold's surge kicked off today on the back of this morning's weak ISM Services number, which indicated a slowdown in growth in the sector. In particular, business activity in the ISM fell from a 66.9 to a 59.7. It's likely the market is reacting to this weakening in the U.S. economy by assuming there may be another round of quantitative easing to come, hence the spike in gold.

Dear President Botstein [Bard College], cc: Board of Trustees c/o Amie McEvoy and Department of Student Activities, and posted online We understand from http://clubs.bard.edu/ism/ that the International Solidarity Movement is using Bard College facilities and Bard College’s Web site. This organization may endanger the physical safety of your students should they take part in its activities abroad. Here is the executive summary, and independently verifiable details appear below. (1) The ISM’s willfully reckless activities have already cost the life of one college student, Rachel Corrie of Olympia WA (Evergreen College). The ISM stated in context with Ms. Corrie’s death that...

Craig and Cindy Corrie's quest for media attention and globe-trotting instead of justice for daughter Rachel"There's not a lot of money in revenge." --Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride...The death of Rachel Corrie has certainly given her parents the opportunity for worldwide travel to places like Argentina, as well as to Israel and many American cities where they are the center of media attention. If they sought genuine justice against those who were most directly responsible for their daughter's death, as any person of honor would do, these travel and media opportunities would dry up pretty quickly. The media has...

Regional Fed Surveys Suggest Imminent ISM Manufacturing Drop Calculated Risk Sep. 16, 2010, 4:44 PM Note: Usually I don't watch this very closely, but right I'm looking for signs of a slowdown in manufacturing. Eventually a watched pot does boil ... By request - now that the Empire State and Philly Fed manufacturing surveys for September have been released - here is an update to the graph I posted last month:For this graph I averaged the New York and Philly Fed surveys (dashed green, through September), and averaged five surveys including New York, Philly, Richmond, Dallas and Kansas City (blue,...

OAKLAND, Calif. – Hundreds of protesters condemning Israel's recent raid on an international flotilla bound for Gaza are picketing at the Port of Oakland, where an Israeli ship is due to arrive. The demonstrators gathered Sunday to prevent the incoming ship from being unloaded. The dock's day shift of longshoremen agreed to not cross the picket line. Meanwhile Sunday, Israel said it will immediately allow all goods into Gaza except weapons and items deemed to have a military use under its decision to ease its three-year-old blockade of the Palestinian territory. Israeli officials had decided last week to ease the...

Does the International Solidarity Movement's role in Rachel Corrie's training and supervision make it liable for her death?We are not an attorney and cannot give legal advice, but laws against manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide are fairly straightforward. If A acts in a manner that a reasonable person would know to pose a danger to B (e.g. driving while drunk, playing "chicken" with a motor vehicle, celebratory gunfire or other reckless behavior with a firearm), and such action results in B's death, then A is guilty of manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide. An employer who directs an employee to do...

A news release from the Corrie family after yesterday's court session in Haifa notes testimony that Rachel Corrie "arrived dead at the hospital." If she was already dead, why were doctors at An Najah Hospital "treating" her ? [Photos of Corrie at An Najar are posted on the blog] As I have reported before, ISM Media Coordinator in 2003, Michael Shaik stated definitively both to me and in other media:" An ambulance rushed her to A-Najar hospital where she died." So--let's get this straight. Your daughter repeatedly kneels in front of an Israeli military bulldozer on a demolition mission; she...

The International Solidarity Movement knowingly and willfully endangered Rachel Corrie's life Deceased peace activist Rachel Corrie deserves justice, but her parents Craig and Cindy are looking for it in the wrong place: an Israeli courtroom. They are also calling as witnesses members of the organization whose recklessness (or worse) caused their daughter's death. The indicated link defines reckless endangerment as, a crime consisting of acts that create a substantial risk of serious physical injury to another person. The accused person isn't required to intend the resulting or potential harm, but must have acted in a way that showed a disregard...

International Solidarity Movement's highest priority was to take pictures of her death WANTED: Young, attractive, idealistic female college student to star in a movie about Zionazi oppression of the downtrodden Palestinian people. Acting skills are not particularly important because "if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice" (George Rishmawi, International Solidarity Movement leader). We cannot prove that the International Solidarity Movement actually recruited Rachel Corrie with the intention of making her the star in a snuff film but, when the opportunity to do so arose, the ISM...

Jerusalem (CNN) -- A 23-year-old American activist stands in front of an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza. The bulldozer drives over her, crushing her to death. These are the facts. Rachel Corrie, along with colleagues from the International Solidarity Movement, was trying to prevent Israel from bulldozing homes in Rafah, close to the Egyptian border. Her activism cost her her life in March 2003. A colleague said at the time, "Many times the bulldozer came up to us and buried us with dirt, but they always stopped." Corrie's parents want to know the truth about their daughter's death, whether the killing...

  As Catholics, it comes as no surprise to us that the human brain is hard-wired for religion. We believe in a God who created us in His image so that we would come to know and love Him. But for Enlightenment thinkers, who had committed themselves to the "liberation" of human thought from the shackles of religious dogma, the news would not have been welcome at all.   If political society, as Hobbes wrote, abhors a vacuum, the same is true of religious belief. One cannot destroy without creating something else in its place. The new society or...

Dec. 3, 2009, 10:57 a.m. EST Services side of economy contracting again ISM non-manufacturing index falls to 48.7% By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The service sectors of the U.S. economy contracted in November after two months of expansion, the Institute for Supply Management said Thursday. The ISM's non-manufacturing index fell to 48.7% from 50.6% in October. Readings under 50% indicate more firms said business was worsening than said it was improving. Read the full report. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch were expecting the index to rise to 51.5%. See our complete Economic Calendar and forecasts for this week's data....

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Manufacturing sector expands; pending home sales up more than expectedNEW YORK - The U.S. manufacturing sector grew in August for the first time in 19 months, adding to evidence that the recession is ending. The better-than-expected reading Tuesday by the Institute for Supply Management showed the highest number for its manufacturing index since June 2007. New customer orders jumped to a level not seen since late 2004. And in another sign of an improving economy, a gauge of future U.S. home sales rose more than expected in July to the highest point in more than two years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB6p5QPVhPI&feature=popular The toons in Washington could learn A LOT from this cartoon. The cartoon will make you almost jump out of your seat with shock near the end. My jaw hit the floor.

Hate speeach at SFSU - [the Arab Muslim fascism of 'Free Palestine'] Hate Speech At San Francisco State University February 24, 2009 ...SFSU...the General Union of Palestinian Students, have continually been at the center of a succession of riots, protests, and anti-Israel, anti-American hate-fests and counter-protests at which radical speakers regularly, and with unbridled invective, denounce and demonize Jews, Zionists, Israel, Republicans, and America. Most notorious, for example, was the Muslim student-sponsored, pro-Palestinian April 2002 demonstration that included odious flyers and posters depicting a dead Palestinian baby on a soup-can label imprinted with the words "Palestinian Children Meat, slaughtered according...

1948 cartoon. Watching it feels like it was made yesterday.

 Israel VS Genocide Israel VS Islamo Arab campaign of Genocide.Attempted Genocide From the Start [1] Israel has always faced (radical) Arab genocide, To fully understand current conflicts in the Middle East, history must be recalled. [2] It exist a common phrase: 'If the Jews would just lay down their weapons there would be no more Israel' [3]. Table of Contents 1 1920s 2 1967 3 Current 4 Radical Islam (as a whole) 4.1 Al Qaeda 4.2 Hezbollah 4.3 The Muslim Brotherhood 4.4 Ahmadinejad 5 Mainstream [Palestinian & other] Arabs 5.1 Genocidal Agenda under 'Pro Palestinian' propaganda 1920s The first Arab...

U.S. manufacturing's descent was a little less steep in January, a key survey reported Monday, while consumers saved rather than spent amid the worst recession in a quarter century.The Institute for Supply Management's factory activity index rose to 35.6 last month, up from a 28-year low of 32.9 in December. But it's the 12th straight month below the break-even 50 level."The readings went from bad to worse to horrible to horrendous, and January's improvement means we're back to horrible," said Wachovia analyst Mark Vitner.  The new orders index jumped 11.1 points from December's record-low 23.1. But the ISM's jobs index...

Now it's official -- sort of. The United States is in decline. The National Intelligence Council has warned in its latest report that the United States will decline as an economic and political world power over the next 20 years. The NIC (NASDAQ:EGOV) report is the first major U.S. government document on national strategy to appear since the Wall Street financial crisis began in September. But it does far more than simply note the crisis' existence. It warns that the ensuing economic crisis now sweeping the entire world is just the first part of a far vaster process -- a...

THE FAKE "PEACE" - PRO 'PALESTINIAN' MOVEMENT, AN INTERGARL PART OF ENABLERS OF GENOCIDE PEACE, the real peace and even the term 'peace' - another casualty of the Arab Muslim Palestinian WAR!The Islamo Arabs know all too well how soft a typical Jewish heart is, by playing on the 'Jewish guilt' how "poor" their conditions are [despite of the real cause being themselves and its self destructive cult of hatred and Jihad, allocating all resources for anti-Israel propaganda rather than advancing in life, rejecting any change in its education of 'death cult'], they have been successful in gathering many Jews to...

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Caroline Glick: Israel's Enemies Calling Israel's bluff Our World: Calling Israel's bluff Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 1, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1220186502793&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Hamas and its international collaborators have a new plan. To forcibly end Israel's embargo of Gaza's seacoast, they intend to operate a "ferry" service that will sail from Cyprus to Gaza every couple of weeks. The plan was announced on Friday by American Hamas collaborator Paul Larudee. Larudee and 32 other Hamas collaborators from North America and Europe disguised themselves as "peace activists" last week as they ran the gauntlet of Israel's naval...

Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

'TERROR ISM' - Palestinian Terror Thugs masked in "peace" clothing - ISM, Peace Group or Terrorist Front ISM, Peace Group or Terrorist Front ISM, Peace Group or Terrorist Front Or is it a front for rejectionist Palestinian terrorists? The answer is the latter. The ISM is the propaganda wing for Palestinian terrorism. ... http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/33824.html

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has arrested 13 suspected members of an Islamic militant group with links to Zacarias Moussaoui, the Frenchman on trial for the September 11 attacks on the United States, Bernama news agency said on Friday. The suspects, belonging to a wing of a group the authorities call Kumpulan Militan Malaysia (KMM), had connections with Moussaoui when he was in Malaysia between September 4 and 15 and again on October 5 in 2000, the state-run news agency quoted Inspector-General of Police Norian Mai as saying. "They were arrested because they are believed to be carrying out activities ...

...an article has appeared on the ISM affiliated website Electronic Intifada (EI) by one of its co-founders, Ali Abunimah, in which Abumimah recounts his close past working relationship with Obama prior to the presidential campaign and how Abunimah believes Obama is merely giving lip service to the Jewish community to get elected, and that once in office he will work for the Palestinian cause. Abunimah lists himself and is mentioned in subsequent Obama articles in the mainstream press merely as a “Palestinian activist.” Abunimah insists that Obama will “come around” once elected. But Ali Abunimah is more than just some...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) - Israeli guards beat five demonstrators, including one dressed as Father Christmas, during a protest on Friday against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank, organisers said. About 50 Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists attended the rally in the village of Um Salomona, near Bethlehem, the Biblical birthplace of Jesus that is preparing to celebrate Christmas. Israeli border guards armed with truncheons briefly detained one activist and beat another five during the rally, the organisers told AFP, adding that one was wearing a Santa Claus costume. An Israeli army spokesman said there had been disorder...

Egyptian soldiers clashed with Bedouin protestors in Rafiah on Monday night. The protestors were demonstrating against the Egyptian army’s plan to destroy their homes, which are located within 150 meters of the border between Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula. Eyewitnesses reported that several of the protestors were wounded. Some were shot by soldiers, they said, while others were injured by tear gas.

'Stop the ISM' (International Solidarity Movement) Founder Wins Case Against Web Stalker Lee Kaplan went after a deranged internet stalker and won his Day in Court. Notice that Kaplan’s stalker is running a web site on Blogspot—because Google (owner of Blogspot) explicitly refuses to do anything about these kinds of creeps. If you’re a hate-filled stalker type who likes to threaten and libel the target of your obsession, Google wants your business.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street fell Monday after data showed U.S. manufacturing was more sluggish than expected, a further sign that the economy continues to grow at a slower pace. Stocks briefly had opened higher but fell sharply lower after the Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index slipped more than economists projected in March. The index moved to a reading of 50.9 last month, compared to an expected reading of 52.0. However, keeping stocks afloat was a number of big acquisitions were announced before the market opened. Among them was private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &...

Original way to protest: Palestinians, peace activists hold demonstration at West Bank roadblock, dress up as native-Americans in bid to get message through to visiting US secretary of state Ynet Published: 01.14.07, 19:50 Some 100 Palestinians and peace activists launched a one-month campaign at the West Bank Sunday, titled '30 days against the roadblocks'. Inspired by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to the area, some of the protesters chose to convey their message in an original way and dressed up as native-Americans. At about 11 a.m. the protesters gathered at the Hawara roadblock south of Nablus, and held...

The demand came into Israel's Foreign Ministry from the Swedish ambassador in Tel Aviv demanding an explanation. A Swedish ISM activist, a woman named Tove Johansson, was struck in the face by those nasty settlers in Hebron. Johansson, 19, was in Hebron demonstrating with the ISM through one of its "Christian peacemaker" groups. She chose to be there during an international Shabaton bringing Jews from all over the world to celebrate Judaism in King David's former capital. Johansson was armed with a video camera. The ISM likes to film Jewish settlers off guard, like when the settlers chase Arabs off...

As a front group for Palestinian terrorists, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) sends young people from all over the world to the training fields of the West Bank and Gaza to learn from terrorists and to aid them logistically. Stop the ISM has now obtained photographs of ISM leaders and organizers holding AK-47 assault rifles. Unfortunately, neither U.S. Homeland Security nor the Israeli security agencies have to date regarded the ISM as a serious threat. Some of these ISM people in these photos managed to escape; nevertheless, arrests have been made, and more are forthcoming. In April 2003, Israel's Ministry...

ISM sending "human shields" to Lebanon to aid Hezbollah By Lee Kaplan Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Adam Shapiro, one of the founders of the International Solidarity Movement, has resurfaced after a long hiatus and has teamed up with Northern California ISM’s Leader, Paul LaRudee, to create a program for ISM "activists" to act as human shields for Hezbollah in Lebanon. The ISM has acted as human shields for Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PFLP in the West Bank and Gaza for the last four years, according to Shapiro’s wife and ISM co-founder, Huwaida Arraf. LaRudee was recently caught by Israeli...

International Solidarity Movement, Electronic Intifada, Boycotting Israel Since I started my column here at Canada Free Press it seems the Palestinian propaganda movement, which also likes to call itself the International Solidarity Movement, is upset with me. After all, a movement that likes to tell the world it is a "peace and human rights" movement out for "social justice," but then works to steal foreign aid money and to aid terrorists to murder women and children can get very upset when it is exposed to the light of day. They are so upset with me that no less than five...

British jury rules peace activist Ton Hurndall unlawfully, deliberately killed in Gaza Strip by IDF sergeant; coroner calls on British attorney general to seek war crime charges against five Israeli officers who issued orders allowing soldier to shoot An inquest jury in London ruled Monday that British peace activist Tom Hurndall had been unlawfully killed and deliberately shot on April 2003 by IDF Sergeant Taysir Hayb "with the intention of killing him," under the command of five other officers. The British attorney general was called on to seek war crimes charges against the five Israeli officers. Sergeant Hayb was already...

Manufacturing Activity Expands in March at Slower Rate, Research Group Says NEW YORK -- The manufacturing sector expanded again in March but at a slower rate, a private research group reported Monday, evidence of a still-strong economy. The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index was 55.2 last month compared with 56.7 in February. Readings above 50 indicate the sector is expanding; those below 50 indicate manufacturing activity is shrinking. Economists had projected a reading of 57.7. "The first quarter is now complete, and the ISM data indicates that it was a good quarter for U.S. manufacturing," said Norbert...

Palestinian Pol Slain on Eve of Vote By ALI DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writer Tue Jan 24, 9:15 AM ET NABLUS, West Bank - Palestinian gunmen linked to the ruling Fatah movement killed one of their party leaders Tuesday, increasing tensions on the eve of parliamentary balloting and raising doubts about a new pledge by armed groups in the West Bank and Gaza to hold their fire during the vote. Opinion polls have shown Fatah and Hamas in a close race ahead of Wednesday's election and both sides have said they might form a coalition government. Candidates were banned from campaigning...