Being fat is bad for you, while slimmer people are happier and healthier. Everyone knows that. Just ask Jamie Oliver, who this week revealed that he’d shed two stone by cutting back on meat and consuming a “rainbow” of vegetables. He’s in better shape than any food-obsessed father-of-four has any right to be, and he can’t stop smiling. On the flip side, there are currently more headlines about how the NHS is groaning under the weight of Britain’s obesity epidemic than most of us have had hot dinners. And yet, every once in a while, along comes a snippet of … Continue reading

BREAKING NEWS: Perhaps no economic pronouncement in history has been anticipated, discussed, predicted, dissected, and reported like the Federal Reserve’s momentous decision today not to raise interest rates. The outpouring of relief witnessed today by the financial press is nothing short of cathartic. Fear and anxiety, built up over months, is replaced by relief, even euphoria. This is not to say the hype is unwarranted. On the contrary, the decision to raise interest rates even just 25 basis points would have represented nothing less than the end of an era, as one Bank of American analyst described (courtesy of Zerohedge): … Continue reading

One uneducated visit to your dentist can have devastating effects on your health! 80% of disease symptoms are caused by problems in the mouth, and millions are exposed to disease-promoting dental procedures every day! Unfortunately, this is information that doesn’t get the attention it deserves… until now. My friend Jonathan Landsman of NaturalHealth365.com has been educating the public on the health benefits of an organic diet with high-quality supplementation and healthy lifestyle habits. Now, he’s gotten together with the brightest minds in natural health and healing and organized the Holistic Oral Health Summit, a free, online series that runs from … Continue reading

NOT THIS AGAIN. Yet another incident with passengers taking their carry-on bags during an evacuation. This time it happened in Las Vegas, after a British Airways 777 caught fire during its takeoff roll. I cannot overemphasize how appallingly unsafe this is. Luggage slows people down and severely impedes their access to the aisles and exits, and it turns the escape slides into a deadly slalom. This time it’s particularly striking, because while most evacuations are precautionary, this one was a full-blown emergency. The airplane was on fire. If that isn’t reason enough to leave your things and get the fuck … Continue reading

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!”  So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and  Republican candidates for president. How silly.  It seems the Russians have sent six tanks to Syria, some medium artillery and a bunch of military technicians to two bases on Syria’s coast near Latakia.   According to Republican warmongers, the wicked Soviets…ooops, sorry, Russians…are intervening militarily in the five-year old Syrian War and planning new bases in the strategic Mideast nation. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.  The United States has about 800 bases and military installations around the … Continue reading

The biggest shocker in today’s Fed announcement is not that the Fed did not hike: that was telegraphed far away. It is highlighted on  the chart below in red: for the first time ever, one FOMC predicts negative rates in 2015 and 2016. Was it permadove Kocherlakota: probably not, he is out next year…   In retrospect, this too should come as no surprise: over the weekend we asked if “Yellen About To Shock Everyone: Goldman Says The “Fed Should Think About Easing.” The lack of a hike was not a shock, but the negative dot, oh yes. And earlier … Continue reading

It’s a warm, dry afternoon in the mountains of Coto de Caza, a gated community located an hour’s drive south-east of Los Angeles, and Major General William Lyon is showing me a used car. “It’s wonderful to drive,” he says. “As though it were new.” Parked in front of us is a well-pampered Mercedes-Benz: clean, low mileage, plenty of room in the back. Chromed and polished to a mirror shine, the car wears a shade of blue so dark it reads as black from a distance – and one needs to step back a distance to see the car anyway, … Continue reading

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Wall Street is totally bankrupt, and it’s coming down very fast now. The only solutions are pre-emptive ones that start from the re-installation of Franklin Roosevelt’s Glass-Steagall law. BUT, if you don’t present the overall solution as starting from the overall concept of Franklin Roosevelt’s total, overall solution, and working down from there,— then you’ll just wind up with chaos.

On a closely related question: Not only do we have to completely wipe out Wall Street, and have the government step in. We also have to establish real valuations, as against the current, and false, money-valuations. Then, we proceed from there, through the first difficult steps of reconstruction, and onwards into a self-sustaining and self-accelerating physical-economic recovery, and into a new era for mankind.

Wall Street is about to blow sky-high. Now we have to go back, in effect, to the beginning of the Twentieth Century, before the imposition of the money system, the system which was premised first of all on the great crime of President William McKinley’s 1901 assassination. By now, we have reached the point under this money system, where there is no way whatsoever to measure true, intrinsic values. Now, Franklin Roosevelt’s entire concept, as a totality, must be brought into play to have any hope of a solution.

At the same time, Russia has taken the initiative in Syria, and is pushing through a solution to the catastrophe Obama has inflicted on that country and more generally. More and more, the whole world supports what Putin is doing there,— including many forces in the U.S. Absent this Russian initiative, Syria and Iraq would fail totally. Indeed, all of Obama’s policies can produce nothing but failure. His influence must be totally blocked; unless Obama is induced to back down, he will destroy everything. Obama is an ugly loser. Nothing must be done to encourage Obama; everything must be done to support Putin’s leadership. Obama can only be allowed, at most, to make token gestures with no effect.

Look: The major European countries have turned against Obama’s policy. Russia is leading the world against Obama’s policy. Therefore, there’s no need for Obama’s approval. When you have Europe and Russia, there’s no need for Obama’s OK; he’s almost stymied. Now, what we need is the 25th Amendment to finish off his baleful influence altogether.

The Federal Reserve has just announced that its target for the federal funds rate will be kept at 0%.  It has now been at 0% since December 16, 2008. I stated as far back as 2010 (and often since) that

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