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Years of unending news stories on U.S. government programs of surveillance, rendition and torture have apparently chilled the speech of even top business executives in the United States.

<p>Good News! Non-farm payrolls increase by 165,000 and the unemployment rate declined to 7.5%.</p> <p>Bad News! It had to be helped by a 193,000 increase due to the BLS Birth/Death adjustment. That is a net LOSS of 28,000 jobs! And 9.55 million Americans have given up looking for work. Not to mention 89,936,000 NOT in the labor force.</p>

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The latest grim data on unemployment has dealt a new blow to President Barack Obama as he struggles to maintain his party's majority in Congress in November elections. Obama, who has been hurt by the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, has been scrambling to highlight his economic management in helping lift the US economy out of its worst slump in decades. But the latest data released Friday showed the recovery is sputtering: A Labor Department report showed 131,000 jobs were lost in July and the unemployment rate remained stuck at 9.5 percent, .. The private sector created...

Barack Obama catered another all you can eat buffet of distortions topped with homegrown lies this past week. The question is: To whom is he lying? Who could possibly be left to listen? What character flaw would allow anyone to continue to listen, much less accept? What could possibly be sustaining this regime's core of chicanery built upon a sententious cycle of deceit and prevarication by Barack Obama? Another week in the books for Obama, another series of questions from the peanut gallery.

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