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Price Inflation! What Price Inflation?

(CNSNews.com): "The average price of a pound of ground beef climbed to another record high -- $4.201 per pound -- in the United States in November, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In August 2014, the average price for a pound of all types of ground beef topped $4 for the first time, hitting $4.013, according to the BLS.  In September, the average price jumped to $4.096 per pound, and in October, the average price climbed to $4.154 per pound. In November, the average price hit the highest price ever recorded -- $4.201 per pound.  A year ago, in November 2013, the average price for a pound of ground beef was $3.477 per pound. Since then, the average price has increased 20.8 percent in one year. Five years ago, in November 2009, the average price of a pound of ground beef was $2.062, according to the BLS. The price has since climbed by $2.139 per pound, or 103.7 percent."

ABC's of Chanukah (Hanukkah)

   

Today at sunset (December 16) starts the eight-day festival known as Chanukah (Hanukkah).

The Hebrew word Chanukah (Hanukkah) means "dedication." In the 2nd century BCE (approximately 164 BCE), during the time of the Second Holy Temple, the Syrian-Greek regime of Antiochus Epiphanes sought to pull the nation of Yisrael away from the Torah to the Hellenization of the Greek culture.  Antiochus outlawed the following observances: circumcision, Shabbat, and Torah study under penalty of death.

When the Greeks challenged the nation of Yisrael to sacrifice a pig to a Greek god, a few courageous Yahudim took to the hills of Judea in open revolt against this threat to Jewish life. Led by Matitiyahu, and later his son Judah the Maccabee, this small band led guerrilla warfare against the Syrian-Greek army.

Antiochus sent thousands of well-armed troops to crush the rebellion, but after three years the Maccabees beat incredible odds and miraculously succeeded in driving the foreigners from their land. The victory was on the scale of today's Israel defeating the combined super-powers of today.

The Yahudim fighters entered Jerusalem and found the Holy Temple in shambles and desecrated with idols. The Maccabees cleansed the Temple and re-dedicated it on the 25th of Kislev (third month of the Jewish calendar). When it came time to re-light the Menorah, they searched the entire Temple, but found only one jar of pure oil bearing the seal of the High Priest. The group of Yahudim lit the Menorah anyway and were rewarded with a miracle. That small jar of oil burned for eight days, until a new supply of oil could be brought.

Chanukah (Hanukkah) is observed as a holiday for eight days, in honor of this historic victory and the miracle of the oil. This festival is mentioned in John 10:22, which our Messiah (Yahusha) observed.

Where is the Public Outrage?

"Judicial Watch announced that on September 9, 2014, it received documents from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealing that the Obama administration paid Baptist Children and Family Services (BCFS) $182,129,786 to provide “basic shelter care” to 2,400 “unaccompanied alien children” (UAC) for four months in 2014."

Let's put the $182,129,786 into proper perspective with regard to the 2,400 unaccompanied alien children.  That works out to $75,887.41 per alien child for four months, or $227,662.22 on an annualized basis.  And, what did these alien children receive for this $182 million package?  Well, free laptops, big screen TV's, $75/child per day for food, pregnancy tests, and, best of all, multicultural crayons! 

Now, I am not heartless.  I am just extremely concerned because we are spending $182 million for 2,400 unaccompanied alien children, not citizens, when in fact we have a record 2,500,000 American homeless children in the U.S. who are indeed citizens!  Where is our government's compassion for our own "homeless children?"  Where is the public outrage?   

Why is the Bureau of Labor and Statistics Distorting the Employment Numbers?

The BLS reported yesterday that the U.S. economy added 321,000 in November.  What?  How does that align itself with the "Household Survey Data?"  According to my math, we lost 270,000 jobs!  (See the following table.) 

Joseph Goebbels would be proud on how the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) distorted the truth about November's employment numbers.  (Joseph Goebbels, if you forgot, was the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. His infamous quote is so true today, which is as follows: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic, and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.")

November's Job Picture: Great If You Want Part-time Work and Are Over 55!

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