Tag: Numbers

About Those Jobs Numbers – HotAir

Statistics are great–no matter what they say, they are easy to manipulate to create whatever impression you want.  Case in point: today’s unemployment numbers from the federal government.  On the surface the jobs numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics looked fantastic. Jobs jumped by 330,000. That’s almost enough to keep up with the […]

The great greenhouse gas numbers game

THERE is a move afoot in the western world which will permanently prevent anyone from having a new idea. It has been tried many times before, mostly successfully. It has been seen operating under the control of common-or-garden varieties of dictators, who proudly boast that 97 per cent of the population loves and agrees with […]

How the Gaza fatality numbers are faked

ONE of the most bizarre aspects of the Israel-Hamas conflict has been the way the entire mainstream media accepts without question the casualty figures from Hamas (who, of course, run the ‘Palestinian Health Ministry’ in Gaza that provide the figures). This is despite the fact that it is known that Hamas massively fabricated casualty figures […]

Numbers Are Down After High in December – HotAir

The Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) January report is out and the number of illegal immigrant apprehensions is down from the record numbers of December. Thank goodness. The previous month’s report (December) showed a record-high number of illegal immigrant apprehensions along the southern border. The January numbers dip is credited to “seasonal trends” and “enhanced enforcement […]