MacCenture

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accenture has been chosen to replace CGI Federal as the lead contractor for the Obamacare enrollment website, which failed to work when it launched in October for millions of Americans shopping for health insurance, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said on Saturday.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/accenture-chosen-lead-contractor-obamacare-220550340.html?l=1

 

Accenture announced on May 26, 2009 that its Board of Directors unanimously approved changing

the company’s place of incorporation to Ireland from Bermuda and would become Accenture plc.

 

 

"Quiz Question: What is the name of the corporation which is teaching all the other corporations to evade paying their fair share of State and federal taxes? The answer is Accenture... a corporation most Americans have never heard of. This corporation used to be part of Arthur Anderson, the corrupt accounting firm which gave us the Enron scandal. In 2002, they spent a record $2 billion rebranding themselves as Accenture. But while their name changed, their business practices remain as corrupt as ever.

 

Because this is the corporation responsible for all the other corporate tax dodgers, and because corporate tax evasion is their primary business, Accenture may well be the most corrupt corporation in America. "

http://realwashingtonstatebudget.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=80

 

US Recovery Part IV: Chart Porn Edition

 

 

 

 

Wages as a percent of GDP:

Obama Says Work to End Poverty Far From Over

Note the poverty created during the Obama presidency. Hopefully he won't continue his hard work attempting to eradicate it.

 

WTF?



 

Why is this a "Discontinued Series?" It's a flat line for fifty years, goes parabolic and then the series is discontinued? Chart depicts last data points available. July 2013.

Mission Accomplished

Al-Qaeda now has a stronghold in Iraq:
BAGHDAD — Black-clad Sunni militants of Al Qaeda destroyed the Falluja police headquarters and mayor’s office, planted their flag atop other government buildings and decreed the western Iraqi city to be their new independent state on Friday in an escalating threat to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, whose forces were struggling to retake control late into the night.

Qaeda-Aligned Militants in Iraq Claim Falluja as Independent State
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/world/middleeast/fighting-in-falluja-and-ramadi.html?ref=world&_r=0

 

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rica and Other Assorted War Criminals Who Cost US Taxpayers $6 Trillion and Much More

President Bush's national security adviser said al Qaeda operatives have found refuge in Baghdad, and accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime of helping Osama bin Laden's followers develop chemical weapons.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-administration-links-iraq-al-qaeda/

The Sept. 11 commission reported yesterday that it has found no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda, challenging one of the Bush administration's main justifications for the war in Iraq.

Along with the contention that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials have often asserted that there were extensive ties between Hussein's government and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network; earlier this year, Cheney said evidence of a link was "overwhelming."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47812-2004Jun16.html

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars will together cost $4 to $6 trillion, according a new study from Harvard University's Kennedy School.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/03/28/the-total-iraq-and-afghanistan-pricetag-over-4-trillion

And Today:
BAGHDAD — Radical Sunni militants aligned with Al Qaeda threatened on Thursday to seize control of Falluja and Ramadi, two of the most important cities in Iraq, setting fire to police stations, freeing prisoners from jail and occupying mosques, as the government rushed troop reinforcements to the areas.

Dressed in black and waving the flag of Al Qaeda, the militants put out calls over mosque loudspeakers for men to join their struggle in both cities in western Anbar Province, which were important battlegrounds during the American-led war in Iraq and remain hotbeds of Sunni extremism
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/world/middleeast/Al-Qaeda-threatens-Iraqi-cities.html?hp&_r=0

 

US Economic Recovery Part III

2013 saw the pace of income growth fall to the lowest of the recovery.

The US labor force is actively shrinking:

Mortgage rates rise. Home refinancing collapses as do mortgage applications:

Housing Starts already at a lower non-population adjusted level from 1959 collapse further:

Non-defense ex-aircraft durable flatline:

The wealth effect will save us:

H/T: http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2013/12/27/facing-the-headwinds-of-2014/

Criminogenic-Producing or Intended to Produce Crime and Criminality

Bernard Madoff’s principal bank, JPMorgan Chase, has for years obstructed federal bank examiners trying to ascertain what it knew about his gigantic Ponzi scheme, an official document obtained by Newsweek shows.

The Justice Department refused in September to back up Treasury inspector general staff who wanted a  court order to enforce a subpoena, in effect shielding JPMorgan from law enforcement, the October 8 document shows.

The Justice Department told the Treasury Inspector General “that they were denying the request for enforcement of the subpoena,” which means officials “could not undertake further actions regarding this matter,” wrote Jason J. Metrick, the inspector general special-agent-in-charge.

http://www.newsweek.com/jpmorgan-doesnt-want-talk-about-bernie-madoff-225067

http://www.governmentattic.org/

 

If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices—the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths   -  we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.

Dom Hélder Câmara

UK Recovery

US Economic Recovery Part II

March 2001

Warning: Verizon commercial every five minutes

 

The US Economic Recovery

Spike in building permits that reaches the non-population adjusted figure from over fifty years ago:

There's more:

A decreasing velocity of M1 might indicate fewer short- term consumption transactions are taking place:

The problem must be the lack of inflation:

O ye of little faith.

1928 2007 2012

 

https://twitter.com/Not_Jim_Cramer

 

 

Duct Tape

Regarding the Possible Upcoming Bombing of Syria

"My credibility’s not on the line. The international community’s credibility is on the line, and America and Congress’ credibility is on the line..."

Putin Calls Kerry a Liar

Kerry also downplayed any threat from the Russian vessels.
"Their ships are kind of staying out of the way. They are not threatening that, and I don't think that would be what would happen here," Kerry said, in apparent reference to possible Russian retaliation to potential U.S. action in Syria
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-syria-crisis-usa-russia-idUSBRE98314W20130904

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a liar...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57601401/putin-calls-kerry-a-liar-on-syria/

110 lb. Iraq War Veteran Arrested for Playing Banjo in Protest of War on Syria

 

March 21 2003 - A War Began on Lies and Misinformation

 

Hello NSA. I Accidently Deleted an Email. Can You Help Me Find it?