Bubbles are always obvious … in retrospect. Here’s one you might not see coming. The Car Bubble. People are taking out eight-year car loans. This is – or ought to be – alarming. The automotive equivalent of the zero-down, no-doc, adjustable rate mortgage on a $500,000 McMansion circa 2004. You know – just before the housing bubble popped. New car loans used to be 36 months (three years) and then 48 months (four years). Back when the economy was sane. Today, the typical new car loan is 72 months (six years). This is almost double the formerly typical length of a … Continue reading

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The first rule of bureaucratic crisis management is: “Find someone else to blame.” This is true even in agencies as small as the Adams County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Ryan Zollman would have an insuperable conflict of interest were he to conduct the official inquiry into the November 1st killing of Jack Yantis. He could have avoided that conflict by firing the deputies, charging them as private citizens, and then turning the evidence over to a special prosecutor. This would have provoked trouble with the Fraternal Order of Police and precipitated a grievance with the Idaho State Industrial Commission, but it … Continue reading

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James Woolsey, former director of the CIA, said in an interview about the Paris attacks that IS has rapidly expanded from about 30,000  to about 150,000. CIA “numbers” are very dicey and political. But everything indicates that the Islamic Caliphate is growing extremely rapidly at its core[s] and with new affiliates over thousands of miles in the E.U., North Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan. This explosive, possibly exponential growth, is part of the exponential growth of Muslim Holy Warriors in general against U.S. and European imperialist attacks of all forms on Islam. This vast explosion of Muslim Holy Warriors is … Continue reading

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It seems like everyone wants to REDUCE CHOLESTEROL.  There are some great natural ways to do this, but everyone is unique – so what works for one, may not work for another.  Cholesterol is necessary for many body functions, meaning that you don’t want to reduce it completely, but you don’t want unhealthy levels either. DIET is the best place to start.  Eliminate foods full of unhealthy transfatty acids and hydrogenated oils which tend to increase cholesterol. HIGH CHOLESTEROL and HIGH TRIGLYCERIDES are symptos of either insulin resistance or diabete.   This means you are eating too much sugar or … Continue reading

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My mother died on Sunday night, November 8. We had known this was likely. She would have been 98 next month. She lived across the country from me. I must now make arrangements at a distance. Her memory has been gone for several months. She did not recognize me earlier this year. It is not Alzheimer’s. Her memory has just stopped functioning properly over the last five years. The elder of her church and I are now planning the arrangements. I want the following: 1. Immediate burial 2. Memorial service held at her church whenever the four families can coordinate … Continue reading

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The 5,000-year-old Kültepe tablets: The kiln tablets, considered the earliest written documentation of life in Anatolia, were unearthed during archaeological excavations on the Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum mound in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri. Was this the documentation of kings and conquerors, the glories of an ancient warlord? “The Kültepe tablets are completely owned by the private sector, private individuals. The content of the tablets is 99 percent commercial. They are not official state documents; they are the archive of free traders. In this term, they are the earliest private sector documents. Therefore, the tablets feature the feelings of traders at that … Continue reading

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The Fracas at the University of Missouri by Prof. Walter E. Block I had a dream the other night, that I was president of Loyola University, and faced with the challenges that confronted Tim Wolfe, the now ex-president of the University of Missouri. But don’t get worried: I have no intention of taking up any such office; it would interfere with my research, writing and publication. In any case, I am not sure Loyola is quite ready for a Jewish atheist as its leader. In any case, what would I do if I were in Mr. Wolfe’s shoes?  Here are … Continue reading

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May I read you a few lines from Tolstoy’s War and Peace? When Boris entered the room, Prince Andrey was listening to an old general, wearing his decorations, who was reporting something to Prince Andrey, with an expression of soldierly servility on his purple face. “Alright. Please wait!” he said to the general, speaking in Russian with the French accent which he used when he spoke with contempt. The moment he noticed Boris he stopped listening to the general who trotted imploringly after him and begged to be heard, while Prince Andrey turned to Boris with a cheerful smile and … Continue reading

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When horrible events happen, people want to know why. Why was a random group of people targeted to have their innocent day destroyed by violence and terror? Why did the culprit choose that group of victims, that day on the calendar, that specific location? And who? Who was the mastermind behind the event? Who were the members of the group that perpetrated the horror? This is always followed by the speculation that things are not as they have been presented to us.  Most people in the preparedness world have a very valid mistrust of the corporate-sponsored mainstream media. We look to … Continue reading

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All words had to start somewhere. Through the careful work of historical linguists and lexicographers, we can usually trace a word, if not to its ultimate origin, at least pretty far back in time. We know that the word water, for example, goes back to an old Germanic source by comparing it with words from other Germanic languages: Dutch water, German Wasser, Old Icelandic vatr. We know the word fruit came to English from French because we first have evidence of its use during the period when the French Normans ruled England. Sometimes, after much searching and analyzing, no satisfying … Continue reading

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The United States and Europe have been given a wake-up call by the barbaric terrorist assault in Paris. Multiple leading voices are now demanding that Obama’s insane regime- change policy in Syria—that, as in Iraq and Libya earlier, is unleashing chaos around the world—must be ended immediately, so that the world can unite against the ISIS scourge.

President Putin said Saturday: “It is clear, that to effectively fight this evil we need real joint efforts by the entire international community.”

Former NATO Commander Adm. James Stavridis told Foreign Policy that France could expect NATO to invoke Article 5, authorizing a NATO response to the attack, with the “fundamental purpose” of the NATO mission to “defeat the Islamic State in Syria and destroy the infrastructure it has created there.” Most importantly, the Admiral added: “Russia should be invited to participate alongside NATO and other coalition members against the Islamic State.”

In Vienna on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov led a broad coalition of nations in calling for a ceasefire in Syria, with an 18-month time frame for elections. President Assad is not excluded from the process.

On Sunday, Presidents Obama and Putin spoke on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Turkey, where a White House official told Reuters that “President Obama and President Putin agreed on the need for a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition, which would be preceded by UN-mediated negotiations between the Syrian opposition and regime as well as a ceasefire.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche said from Germany on Sunday that Americans must understand that “nothing will be the same in Europe after this.” The intentional targetting of normal life—concerts, sports events, restaurants—shows that everyone is vulnerable, not only in France, but across Europe. She reported that high-level European sources know that U.S. and British intelligence forces have been openly supporting the terrorists, both through the Saudis and directly, as former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency chief Gen. Michael Flynn has already exposed.

She pointed to the fact that in January, on the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, former U.S. Senator Bob Graham told a press conference that if the classified 28 pages of the congressional 9/11 report had been released, that Paris attack would not have happened. The 28 pages documented the Saudi role in funding the 9/11 attack on the United States. Now, Mrs. LaRouche said, we must re-focus our efforts to release this damning evidence now, showing that Obama is in an open alliance with the terrorists in order to achieve his criminal regime- change policies.

Lyndon LaRouche’s friend, Sen. Mike Gravel, has issued a cover letter to a legal document which demonstrates that his victory in the Supreme Court in 1971—when the Court ruled that his release of the classified Pentagon Papers into the congressional proceedings was legal under the Constitution— applied to the 28 pages, and any Member of Congress could read them into the Congressional Record. LaRouche has mandated a full mobilization of his organization over the coming days to release this document to every member of Congress, the press, and all citizens.

LaRouche emphasized that Obama is now the most hated figure in the world, and that the United States is not and will not be trusted as long as he remains in the presidency.

Kit Daniels | Soros-backed activists angry because the public is more concerned about Paris attacks than “safe spaces”

Soros-backed activists angry because the public is more concerned about Paris attacks than “safe spaces.”

“Paris Changes Everything,” Say Merkel’s German Political Allies Paul Craig Roberts In my recent writings I have explained the many agendas served by the false flag Paris attack. I also predicted that other countries would follow France’s lead in closing their borders, thus dispossessing the dissenting political parties of their issue and preserving the political…

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