Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 18:31
Even
as the fearmongering over the debt ceiling hits proportions not seen since 2011
(when however it was the 20% drop in the market that catalyzed a resolution in
the final minutes - a scenario likely to be repeated again), some banks are
taking things more seriously, and being well-aware that when it comes to banks,
any initial panic merely perpetuates more panic, have taken some radical steps.
The FT
reports that "two of the country’s 10 biggest banks said they were
putting into place a “playbook” used in August 2011 when the government last
came close to breaching the debt ceiling. One senior executive said his bank was delivering 20-30 per cent more
cash than usual in case panicked customers tried to withdraw funds en masse.
Banks are also holding daily emergency meetings to discuss other steps,
including possible free overdrafts for customers reliant on social security
payments from the government.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 18:05
Youth
unemployment around the world is dreadfully high and rising. An entire
generation is now coming of age without being able to leave the nest or have
any prospect of earning a decent wage in their home country. Young people in particular get the sharp
end of the stick - they’re the last to be hired, the first to be fired,
the first to be sent off to fight and die in foreign lands, and the first to
have their benefits cut; and if they’re ever lucky enough to find meaningful
employment, they can count on working their entire lives to pay down the debts
of previous generations through higher and higher taxes. But when it comes time
to collect... finally... those benefits won’t be there for them. Case in point:
the British government has
just announced a new push to eliminate benefits for young people. And this is
just step 1.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 17:26
Dramatic
footage in this Fox News video.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 17:15
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 17:03
"We
may well have had a big, big rally in the U.S. stock market, but it's not based on reality.
I would encourage investors to
know you're in a fool's paradise, be careful, and when people start singing
praises, say, 'I've
been to this party before, and I know know it's time to leave.'"
-Jim Rogers
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 16:13
Stocks have fallen for 9
of the last 11 days since the Un-Taper and the S&P has falen 3.7% from its
highs. Volume today was
above average (as we note CBOE SPY options volume set an all-time record
yesterday) and thanks to a 1% or so rally off the lows on the back of a
restatement that Speaker Boehner doesn't want to see carnage, the S&P managed
to scramble back above the 50DMA. A late-day collapse (what no VIX pumpathon
today?) closed us below that crucial level for the first time in a month. VIX
rose 1 vol to 17.6% by the close (off its highs). Treasuries rallied in general (but the 30Y
ended the day unch as the curve steepened notably). The USD
fell some more (-0.65% on the week) as JPY and EUR strength didn't help
but gold and silver closed unch, oil and copper down 1%.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 15:32
The
situation in DC is fluid, but here is the most coherent narrative so far from
NBC Washington DC: "A woman opened fire near the U.S. Capitol after trying
to ram her car into the White House gates Thursday afternoon; she was then
shot. A U.S. Capitol Police officer was injured in the event, though it is not
clear that the officer was shot. The incident began at about 2:30 p.m. at the
White House gates at 15th and E streets, NBC News confirmed. The driver tried
to ram the gates but failed, and then was pursued by Secret Service. She bailed
out of her car near the Capitol building and began shooting, NBC News' Pete
Williams reported. Some reports said that as many as 10 to 15 rounds were
fired. The injured officer was airlifted to an area hospital. The U.S. Capitol
building was on lockdown after the shooting, though that lockdown has now been
lifted. Parts of Pennsylvania Avenue are still closed." According to Fox
reports the woman was 18 years old and there also a child in the car. The child
is said to be unhurt.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/03/2013
- 15:31
It would appear that the almost $1bn capital
raise secondary that JCPenney successfully completed last week - inspite of the
lies - has done absolutely nothing to resolve market fears as JCP 5Y CDS surges 80bps to 1280bps
(equivalent), a record high (and 1Y protection at 1210bps) and the stock price
falls another 3.6% to $8.40 - the lowest since 1982. Just as Goldman
had warned, liquidity remains a major concern and anyone who had bought the
protection made up their losses on the stock they bought from Goldman on the
secondary. The credit markets imply around a 25% chance of default within
the year and 70% within 5 years.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 14:27
U.S. CAPITOL POLICE HAVE
REPORTS OF SHOTS FIRED AT 2ND ST AND CONSTITUTION AVENUE N.E., SEVERAL INJURED
FEMALE SUSPECT REPORTED
DEAD ON SCENE AT US CAPITAL:
SOURCE
CAPITOL SHOOTING STARTED
WHEN WOMAN TRIED TO RAM GATE AT WHITE HOUSE, THEN FLED. WAS SHOT WHILE TRYING
TO HIT OFFICER. CBS.
CHILD FOUND UNHURT IN CAR
OF SUSPECT, ABC TWEETS
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 14:10
When it comes to Central Banks, there
are doves and hawks - though in recent times, the two have become confused as
to just what they think. However, it is becoming clear that in spite of their
incessant need to print money (liquidity) into existence to maintain the status
quo, some (but not all) are realizing there are very real costs to this
insanity. Compare:
- ECB - *COEURE: LIQUIDITY INTERVENTION CAN INTERFERE WITH PRICE
STABILITY
- ECB - *COEURE SAYS CRISIS SUPPORT CAN LATER HAVE "PERVERSE
EFFECTS", GENERATE MORAL HAZARD
and
- FED - *WILLIAMS SEES UNCONVENTIONAL STIMULUS FOR NEXT FEW YEARS
- FED - *FED ZERO-RATE MOVE DIDN'T COMPROMISE POLICY
It seems central bankers believe what
they want to believe.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 13:41
If
4% of voters broke away from dysfunction and voted for independents, that
"vital few" would influence 64% of all voters. Next election, join
the 4% who will eventually influence the 64%. Voting for incumbents is like not voting at
all: either way, you're throwing away your vote.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 13:14
The US government is shut down, which
means only essential spending is permitted. So what does the US government, or
rather its Central Intelligence Agency decide to spend precious,
mission-critical taxpayer money on? Why arming the Qatari-supported Al-Qaeda
"rebels" in Syria of course. WaPo
reports that the CIA is
expanding a clandestine effort to train opposition fighters in Syria amid
concern that moderate, U.S.-backed militias are rapidly losing ground in the
country’s civil war, U.S. officials said.... “It’s basic
infantry training,” the former U.S. intelligence official said. “How to have some discipline hitting a
target, how to reload a magazine, how to clear a room. They’re not marching.
They’re learning basic infantry procedures." So let's get
this straight: 800,000 non-essential workers are furloughed, but the CIA, in
its infinite wisdom, is now, when the government is shut down, doubling down on
spending to make sure Al-Qaeda insurgents have even more lethal training (for
that inevitable moment when they turn on their sponsor as they tend to do), and
even better weapons?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 13:12
Update: Boehner spox
says Boehner "has always said the US will not default on its debt but cuts
and reforms" also needed. In other words, nothing new in what appears to
be a planted NYT piece designed to reduce Boehner's leverage.
Take the following report from the
New York Times with an epic grain of salt, although for the time being, the
following unsourced post in the NYT has pushed stocks off their lows.
"With a budget deal still elusive and a deadline approaching on raising
the debt ceiling, Speaker John A. Boehner has told colleagues that he is
determined to prevent a federal default and is willing to pass a measure
through a combination of Republican and Democratic votes, according to one
House Republican"... Would the anonymous lawmaker happen to be Peter King,
one wonders?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 12:42
What would the world be without Tom
Stolper FX recos? Very confusing, with no sure money to be made, and without
anyone to fade, that's what. Which is why we are happy to bring the Goldman
muppet slayer's latest FX "recommendation" In short: "We recommend going short $/JPY at current
levels of about 97.30 for a tactical target of 94.00, with a stop on a close
above 98.80." In even shorter: Goldman is now buying
USDJPY from its clients. The only question we have: will the length of time
before Stolper is once again Stolpered out be measured in days, or
hours?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/03/2013 - 12:32
Presented with a stunned level of
WTFness... the Obamacare Help-Line -
available 24/7 is 1-800-318-2596 as we have been told a number of times by the
President... it seems someone did not do their due diligence on
what that telephone number's mnemomic is...
1-800-F U-CKYO
Indeed, Mr. President, 1-800-318-2596 to you too.
All of this whining and crying
about a "government shutdown" is a total joke. You see, there
really is very little reason why this "government shutdown" cannot
continue indefinitely because almost everything is still running. 63
percent of all federal workers are still working, and 85 percent of all
government activities are still being funded during this
"shutdown". Yes, the Obama administration has been making a big
show of taking down government websites and blocking off the World War II
Memorial, but overall business in Washington D.C. is being conducted pretty
much as usual. It turns out that the definition of "essential
personnel" has expanded so much over the years that almost everyone is
considered "essential" at this point. In fact, this shutdown is
such a non-event that even referring to it as a "partial government
shutdown" would really be overstating what is actually happening.
The following are 36 facts which prove that almost everything is still running
during this government shutdown... (Read More....)
#1 According to U.S. Senator Rand Paul, 85 percent of all government activities
are actually being funded during this "government shutdown".
#2 Approximately 1,350,000
"essential" federal employees will continue to work during this
"government shutdown".
#3 Overall, 63 percent of the federal workforce will
continue to work during this "government shutdown".
#4 The U.S. Postal Service will continue to deliver our mail.
#5 U.S. military personnel will remain on duty and will continue to
get paid.
#6 Social Security recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#7 Medicare recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#8 Medicaid recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#9 Food stamp recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#10 Those on unemployment will continue to get their benefits.
#11 Federal retirees will continue to get their pensions.
#12 The federal school lunch program has enough money to go through at least the
end of this month.
#13 Public schools all over the country will continue to stay open.
#14 Almost all federal law enforcement officials will continue working.
#15 The Federal Reserve will remain "completely functional".
#16 The Supreme Court will continue to operate normally
and federal courts have enough money to keep going for at least two weeks.
#17 TSA employees will continue to molest travelers at our airports.
#18 Air traffic controllers will continue to monitor traffic at our airports.
#19 Hopelessly outmanned border patrol agents will
continue to try to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
#20 Visas and passports will continue to be issued
by the State Department.
#21 The Veterans Administration will continue to offer substandard medical
services, and it will be able to continue processing benefit payments at least for now.
#22 The Obama administration apparently has plenty of money to spend on
closing open-air memorials that are usually open to the public 24 hours a day.
#23 The Department of Defense announced the awarding of
94 new contracts worth a combined
total of more than 5 billion dollars on September 30th - the day right before
the "government shutdown".
#24 The "government shutdown" has not
prevented the new two
billion dollar NSA spy center from opening up.
#25 Federal prisons will continue to operate normally.
#26 Amtrak trains will continue to run.
#27 The Patent and Trademark Office will be open.
#28 The Consumer Product Safety Commission will
continue to issue product recalls if the products "create
an immediate threat to the safety of human life".
#29 The National Weather Service and the National
Hurricane Center will continue
to track weather patterns.
#30 If the federal government needs to respond to a
natural disaster, this "shutdown" will not affect that.
#31 NASA will continue to support the Mars Rover and the two
American astronauts up on the International Space Station.
#32 All city employees of the D.C. government have been deemed
"essential" and will continue to go to work.
#33 Even though the Obamacare exchanges are not working properly,
people will still be able to access them.
#34 The IRS will continue to collect taxes, but it will be
suspending punitive audits of conservative organizations.
#35 Barack Obama will continue to get paid for the
full duration of this "shutdown".
#36 The U.S. Congress will continue to get paid for the
full duration of this "shutdown".
Of course not everything is operating
normally during this government shutdown. Government parks are
closed. The EPA and the Department of Energy have almost totally closed
up shop. But overall, most Americans are not going to notice much of a
difference.
And perhaps now is a good time for
the American people to evaluate whether or not they actually need a gigantic
federal government that wastes enormous mountains of our money.
For example, our federal government
recently spent $98,670 to construct a single outhouse in
Alaska.
That is more than a lot of Americans
pay for their entire houses.
For many more examples like this,
please see my previous article entitled "The
Waste List: 66 Crazy Ways That The U.S. Government Is Wasting Your Hard-Earned
Money".
It is about time that Washington D.C.
started experiencing some of the "belt-tightening" that the rest of
the country has been going through. For far too long, the fatcats in D.C.
have been living in an alternate reality where they have been able to live the
high life at our expense. A recent blog post by Daniel Greenfield discussed how this
shutdown is going to affect the alternate reality that the Obamas have been
living in...
The government shutdown has forced Obama to make do with only a quarter
of his 1,701 person staff. That would leave 436 “vital” employees. The 90
people who look after his living quarters would be slashed to 15 to “provide
minimum maintenance and support”.
Buckingham Palace, which is twelve times the size of the White House
and has its own clockmaker, only has an 800 person staff. King Harald V of
Norway and his court make do with 152 staffers. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
gets by with 203.
On Twitter, Michelle Obama announced that she is unable to Tweet on her
own without the aid of all of her sixteen assistants; many of whom take home
six figure salaries. There are more directors, associate directors and deputy
associate directors on Michelle Obama’s staff than there were in George
Washington’s entire administration.
Presidents have fought wars and made peace, explored and annexed vast
territories and built a nation out of a handful of colonies with fewer senior
staffers than are needed to handle Michelle Obama’s Twitter account.
Oh the humanity! Will Michelle
Obama ever tweet again? And how will the White House continue to function
without at least one projectionist
on duty at the White House 24 hours a day?
No wonder Barack Obama is so upset
about this shutdown.
In the end, this shutdown could turn
out to be very good for America. We have a government that is wildly out
of control and that desperately needs to be reigned in.
During the Obama administration,
federal debt held by the public has risen by 90 percent, and overall federal
government spending has risen by a whopping 317 percent since 1990.
So is it really a bad thing that the
federal government has been forced to cut back for a little while?
Our politicians can whine and cry all
they want. They won't be getting any sympathy from me.
CRAZY
Woman
tries to ram car into White House barricade...
Believed
to Have History of Mental Illness...
Suspect
pursued to Capitol...
20-car
police chase...
Small
child recovered from vehicle...
SENATOR:
'I didn't get my Marine sword down to do battle, but I was ready to'...
Rangel
Blames Republicans...
DEMS
UNLEASHED: Angry name calling, bombastic insults, rhetorical bullying...
Congressman
assaulted outside Capitol...
'Jihad'...
SIGN
UP: 1-800-FUCKYO...
$175
monthly premium for a young, healthy student?
'WORSE
TODAY THAN YESTERDAY'...
Insurance
Manager: 'We Have Yet To Have Someone Successfully Register'...
WH:
We 'Don't Have that Data'...
TV
Station Can't Find Anyone Who Signed Up...
WASHPOST
seeks public's assistance in search...
Some
state websites see less than 1% signup rates...
Louisiana:
Zero Enroll?
CA
says 5M hits; actual number 645K...
Feds
shut down D-Day beaches, cemetery in Normandy...
Barrycades:
Try to Close Privately Owned Mount Vernon...
Philly
tavern frequented by Founding Fathers shuttered...
Lodge
with 12 rooms closes on Cape Cod...
Monuments,
memorials stayed open during last shutdown...
Grocery
stores on Army bases closed, Obama's golf course open...
Kit Daniels |
Security officers confiscate cameras.
Infowars.com |
Capitol police executed a woman who attempted to flee a checkpoint, and the
media celebrated it.
Paul Joseph Watson
| From the country that not so long ago faced down the imminent threat of
nuclear war.
Julie Wilson |
Young woman in solitary confinement tells Infowars she was scared.
Kit Daniels |
Top comments are critical of health law.
Steve Watson | Chairman of House
Intelligence Committee responds “I can help you with that.”
Kurt Nimmo |
Secretive agency has used natural disaster as a cover for decades.
Paul Joseph Watson
| “Deliberate effort by Obama to hurt the public.”
IRS
targeted Dr. Ben Carson after Prayer Breakfast speech
Washington Times
| World-renowned neurosurgeon thinks there’s a slight chance it could be a
coincidence.
Government Shutdown? 36 Facts Which Prove That Almost Everything
Is Still Running
Michael Snyder | All of this whining
and crying about a “government shutdown” is a total joke.
The Real Crisis Is Not The Government Shutdown
Paul Craig Roberts | The inability of
the media and politicians to focus on the real issues never ceases to amaze.
Adan Salazar |
…but don’t worry, they’re not doing it anymore.
Paul Joseph Watson
| How can Americans even begin to understand Obamacare or the government shut
down?
Steve Watson | Chairman of House
Intelligence Committee responds “I can help you with that.”
Infowars.com |
Footage streamed live in Utah.
Kit Daniels |
Top comments are critical of health law.
The Daily Caller
| Need health insurance? The Obama administration has you covered. Simply dial
1-800-FUCKYO to reach the next available health-care provider.
Forget
The Debt Ceiling, The Dow Just Breached 15,000 (To The Downside)
Zero Hedge October 3, 2013 The Dow is
down for the 9th day of the last 11 since the exuberant […]
Obamacare phones offered to health insurance buyers
Daily Caller | Say hello to Obamacare
phones.
MORGAN STANLEY: ‘The Government Of The United States Is Not Going
To Default’
Business Insider | There’s not much
good to be said about the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, which was triggered
by Congress’ inability to come to a budget deal.
Gold And Silver Spike, Recover All Shutdown Losses As Stocks
Tumble
Zero Hedge | Odd
that the mainstream media is not discussing the 4% spike in precious metals
this morning as vociferously as they discussed the imminent demise of gold and
silver yesterday.
DR FeKYLL AND MR HYPe
Posted by :
williambanzai7
Post date:
09/30/2013 - 9.30.2013 in Nutshell...
DR
FeKYLL AND MR HYPe
Submitted by williambanzai7 on
09/30/2013 11:45 -0400
.
Mark Hulbert Market
overvalued, CFOs say Commentary: Chief financial officer survey on stock
valuations is worrisome for these reasons. { The reality is that for quite some
time, valuation in any meaningful sense has become largely irrelevant; and,
manipulation in favor of the ‘compliant cheerleaders/propagandists’ (buffet, et
als) for this great american fraud and embrace of decline has become the rule
and not the exception. In fact, I’m surprised that the market hasn’t tanked
30-40% with the shutdown, so interconnected/dependent it’s become with
government induced contraindicated QE/welfare and a ‘hands-off approach’ to the
huge inflated ‘churn-and-earn hot potato paper fraud’ called wall street. The
‘so-called sell the sizzle’ tech sector also has become as preposterous as in
the dot-com bust days. }
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/02/2013 - 22:10
Just two
weeks ago we explained how when there is only one driving factor for market
performance and "too-many coat-tail clinging asset managers chasing too
few real alpha opportunities" then problems can arise. Critically, we
showed the correlation between
the S&P 500 and hedge fund returns has never been higher
and is approaching 1. So it is refreshing that the Treasury Department agrees
in a recent report that this "herding into popular assets" by
asset managers could pose a threat to the US financial system.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/01/2013 - 17:04
To suggest that the United States is not
the richest country in the
world, or that the government could default, is tantamount to blasphemy.
It doesn’t matter that every objective scrap of evidence points to the
inevitable conclusion that the US government is going to have to default on its
obligations. The hubris and arrogance
here is amazing. And it just goes to show that if you just repeat something
over and over again, people will believe it... no matter how absurd. This
is the basic premise behind propaganda. Start with an idea. Inundate the
population through constant repetition. And soon it becomes the unquestionable
truth.
SoRRY...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on
10/01/2013 13:32 -0400
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VETS STORM DC MEMORIAL...
WAR
VETERANS THREATENED WITH ARREST...
REPORT:
WH rejected visit request...
PAUL:
'Goons' blocked landmark...
BARRYCADES:
Park Service workers erect fences...
More
guards than at Benghazi...
NPS says Obama admin ordered closure...
Reid
blames Republicans...
RNC
offers to pay to keep open...
'WHY
WOULD WE WANT TO' HELP ONE KID WITH CANCER?
Some
Obamacare state websites see less than 1% signup rates...
Louisiana:
Zero Enroll?
Debt
Held by Public Up 90% Since Jan '09...
BLINK:
Reid offers to talk tax reform if GOP ends federal shutdown...
FEEL
THE PAIN: IRS collecting money, not sending refunds during shutdown...
Just
6.6% of EPA employees deemed 'essential'...
9
out of 10 IRS workers sent home...
But
1,350,000 still on the job...
NPS Orders Closure
of Park that Receives No Federal Funding...
No
more golf for Obama?!
TV
network stories blame GOP 21-0... { Yeah, that ‘access/government welfare/fear thing’ is tough to
shake … I’m inclined to believe WOODWARD:
'On the president's head'... }
Karen
Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department
of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact, when she was fired for
blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position
of Senior Counsel. She was in a unique position to see exactly how the
global elite rule the world, and the information that she is now revealing to
the public is absolutely stunning. According to Hudes, the elite use a
very tight core of financial institutions and mega-corporations to dominate the
planet. The goal is control. They want all of us enslaved to debt,
they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our
politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into
their campaigns. Since the elite also own all of the big media companies,
the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something
fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works. (Read More....)
FLASH:
Senate Kills Bill to Fund Gov't...
DEMS VOTE TO KEEP TAX ON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT...
House
GOP: Eliminate subsidies for Congress!
REQUIRE
ADMINISTRATION TO SIGN UP!
CORN:
Will Obama get very mad?
Even
in shutdown, Feds get overtime, comp time, 'Sunday pay'...
Kerry
still going on Tokyo/Bali trip...
Congressman
Shows Obamacare Exchanges Crash Minutes After Launch
Senate
Rejects House Proposal to Avoid Shutdown Hours Before Deadline
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/01/2013 - 15:23
While the recent surge in the Baltic
Dry Index was headlined as 'proof' that the global recovery was 'on', China is
back, and every retiree should BTFATH, we
recently noted, all was not at all it seems on the surface of this data.
Fast forward a few days and we have had 2 China PMI misses (notably
disappointing relative to their Flash prints) and now the Baltic Dry has plunged by its most in 11 months
over the last 4 days. Of course, we've seen these kind of ramps
and dumps before in the Baltic Dry - though it is odd that we don't hear
the cheerleaders as the price collapses.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/01/2013 - 14:57
We already
noted the apparently 'transitory' weakness in GM's numbers and huge surge
in channel-stuffing; but now the full numbers are in and it is not pretty. The annualized domestic vehicles sales
collapsed (by the most in 29 months) to 11.66 million - it's lowest in 11
months - missing expectations by the most since January 2009.
Stone McCarthy offers some hope that this does not signal "peak
autos" for this cycle as they note, "it would appear that sales
for September were pulled into August due to the extra selling days for August,
stemming from the manner in which the Labor Day weekend fell on the calendar
this year. Recall that August sales were firmer relative to expectations and
now we have September being weaker."
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
10/01/2013 - 14:34
"Obamacare is a
disaster," is the
jumping-off point for David Stockman's latest tirade against the "greatest
expansion to the welfare state in the last 80 years," that was rammed
through congress on a totally partisan vote. In this brief Bloomberg TV clip,
Stockman "understands why the Republicans are willing to hold up
government if they have to," as there is growing intensity of partisanship
and resentment that can only bode ill for debt ceiling discussions... "The Republicans have to take a
stand."
There is an all-out effort to
demonize gun owners in the United States today. Those that own guns are
repeatedly portrayed as being uneducated, mentally deficient racists in the
mainstream media. No evidence is ever produced to actually back up those
claims. Gun owners regularly make lists of “potential terrorists” in official government
documents, and many government officials openly regard them as
ultra-paranoid “conspiracy nuts” that are a serious threat to national
security. Of course the truth is that gun owners are actually among the
most law-abiding and patriotic people in the entire nation, but that doesn’t
really fit with the radical gun control agenda of the progressive elite.
In order to move their agenda forward, they must make gun owners look bad, and
they will go to ridiculous extremes in order to achieve that goal. And to
a certain extent, it is working. As you will see below, some large
financial companies no longer want to conduct business with gun owners, and
just the sight of a gun is enough to get people freaking out and calling the
police in many communities in America today. (Read More.....)
Government
Has Shut Down 18 Times Since 1976 Posted by :
George Washington Post date:
10/01/2013 - Not the End of the World
What
are human workers going to do when super-intelligent robots and computers are
better than us at doing everything?
That is one of the questions that a new study by Dr. Carl Frey and Dr.
Michael Osborne of Oxford University sought to address, and what they concluded
was that 47 percent of all U.S. jobs could be automated within the next 20
years. Considering the fact that the percentage of the U.S. population
that is employed is already far lower than it was a decade ago,
it is frightening to think that tens of millions more jobs could disappear due
to technological advances over the next couple of decades. I have written
extensively about how we are already losing millions of
jobs to super cheap labor on the other side of the globe. What are middle
class families going to do as technology also takes away huge numbers of our jobs
at an ever increasing pace? We live during a period of history when
knowledge is increasing an an exponential rate. In the past, when human
workers were displaced by technology it also created new kinds of jobs that the
world had never seen before. But what happens when the day arrives when
computers and robots can do almost everything more cheaply and more efficiently
than humans can? (Read More....)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
09/30/2013 - 17:52
US
companies are warning about Q3 earnings at the second highest level since 2001,
with estimates well below what they were just three short months ago. Of
course, the US equity markets don't care - having rallied aggressively in the
face of this collapse; lubricated by multiple-expanding QE and rev. repo. As Reuters
reports, companies
issuing negative outlooks outnumber positive ones by 5.2-to-1,
the most negative since the 6.3-to-1 ratio in the second quarter, when however
the "second half recovery" (which has been once again indefinitely
delayed, perhaps to the third half?) was said would take place momentarily and
lead to another mythical rebound. Industrials, Materials, and Tech top the list
for negative pre-announcements.
Marc Faber Warns “We Have Reached The Endgame Of Monetary Policy”
Zero Hedge | “One day this whole
credit bubble will be deflated very badly – you are going to experience a
complete implosion of all asset prices and the credit system…”
State
and Local Taxes at All Time Highs
Lew Rockwell Blog | I thought
Republicans on the state and local levels were more “conservative” than those
on the national level?
You
are about to read some of the most shocking quotes that Barack Obama has ever
uttered in public. A few of these have been widely circulated, but most
of them are very obscure. Even though he claims to be a Christian,
throughout his political career Obama has repeatedly attacked traditional
Biblical Christianity and he has a very long history of
anti-Christian actions. In public speeches he has repeatedly cast doubt
on the Bible, he has repeatedly stated that he does not believe that Jesus is
necessary for salvation, and he has consistently said that he believes that all
“people of faith” believe in the same God. At the same time, Obama has
always referred to Muhammed as “the Prophet”, he has always expressed great
love and respect for Islam, and he has even removed all references
to Islam from terror training materials used by federal government
agencies. So what in the world does “the leader of the free world”
actually believe? Read the quotes below and (Read More....)
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam
#1 “The future must not belong
to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”
#2 “The sweetest sound I know is
the Muslim call to prayer”
#3 “We will convey our deep
appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries
to shape the world — including in my own country.”
#4 “As a student of history, I
also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
#5 “Islam has a proud tradition
of tolerance.”
#6 “Islam has always been part
of America”
#7 “we will encourage more
Americans to study in Muslim communities”
#8 “These
rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in
advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”
#9 “America and Islam are not
exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share
common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all
human beings.”
#10 “I made clear that America
is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”
#11 “Islam is not part of the
problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting
peace.”
#12 “So I
have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was
first revealed”
#13 “In ancient times and in
our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and
education.”
#14 “throughout history, Islam
has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious
tolerance and racial equality.”
#15 “Ramadan is a celebration of
a faith known for great diversity and racial equality”
#16 “The Holy Koran tells us,
‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into
nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”
#17 “I
look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White
House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”
#18 “We’ve seen those results
in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to
lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build
some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our
universe.”
#19 “That experience guides my
conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what
Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as
president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam
wherever they appear.”
#20 “I also know that Islam has
always been a part of America’s story.”
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity
#1
“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
#2 “We do not consider ourselves a Christian
nation.”
#3 “Which
passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with
Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an
abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your
child if he strays from the faith?”
#4 “Even
those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural
edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in
Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more
culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”
#5 “The
American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of
Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage
nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious
leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they
should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”
#6 From Obama’s book, The
Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to have the state deny American
citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as
hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they
love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that
considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than
the Sermon on the Mount.”
#7 Obama’s
response when asked what his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with
my values.”
#8 “If all it took was someone
proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was
all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would
they.”
#9 “This is something that I’m
sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the
difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some
level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There’s the belief,
certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their
personal savior that they’re going to hell.”
#10 “I find it hard to believe
that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can’t
imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never
interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That’s
just not part of my religious makeup.”
#11 “I don’t presume to have
knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the
reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my
faith and my values is a good thing.”
#12 “I’ve said this before, and
I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not
believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I
know … I do not believe she went to hell.”
#13 “Those opposed to abortion
cannot simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some
principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”
#14 On his
support for civil unions for gay couples: “If people find that controversial
then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.”
#15 “You got into these small
towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs
have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell
through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each
successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna
regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter,
they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or
anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their
frustrations.”
#16 “In our household, the
Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of
Greek and Norse and African mythology”
#17 “On Easter or Christmas
Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist
temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient
Hawaiian burial sites.”
#18 “we have Jews, Muslims,
Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that
we have to revere and respect as much as our own”
#19 “All of us have a
responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and
Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of
the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when
Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and
a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in
the story of Isra — (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus,
and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)”
#20 “I
believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that
there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”
About the author: Michael
T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller entitled “The
Beginning Of The End” is now available on Amazon.com.
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Over the past couple of days, we
have witnessed some absolutely horrific examples of Islamic terror groups
specifically targeting Christians and those from other non-Muslim
religions. Sadly, this is not a new phenomenon. Radical Islamic
jihadists are constantly attacking churches and slaughtering Christians all
over the planet. The recent events in Pakistan, Kenya and Egypt may have
taken this persecution to a new level, but this is just the continuation of a
trend that has been building for years. Unfortunately, Barack Obama does
not seem too concerned about Islamic terrorism. In fact, he specifically
directed that “all references to Islam” be
removed from terrorism training materials that the federal government
uses. If that wasn’t bad enough, now Obama is actually supplying weapons
to the radical jihadist rebels that want to take over Syria, and he appears to
be very ready to use the U.S. military to attack the Assad regime directly if
“negotiations” with the Syrian government fail. In essence, Obama wants
the United States to be allies with psychotic jihadists that have the exact
same radical philosophy that those who are killing Christians in Pakistan,
Kenya and Egypt have. (Read More.....)
NSA
Central to U.S. Assassination Program Posted by:
George Washington Post date:
09/29/2013 - Intelligence Agencies Central In
Assassination Programs Carried out Without Oversight
Spy Agencies Are Doing WHAT? Posted by: George Washington Post date: 09/23/2013 - New Revelations Are Breaking Every Day
Revelations about the breathtaking scope of government
spying are coming so fast that it's time for an updated roundup:
The government
is spying on essentially everything
we do. It is not just
"metadata" ... although that is enough
to destroy your privacy
The government
has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend
that "everything"
is relevant ... so it spies on everyone. For example, the NSA
"oversight" court believes the mere
claim that terrorists use the phone system is enough to show that all phone
records are relevant
NSA
whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word
It's not just
the NSA ... Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS – concerned only with domestic
issues - spy on Americans as well. The Drug Enforcement Administration has
had direct access to AT&T phone records for 25
years
The information
gained through spying is shared
with federal,
state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty
crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally
"launder" the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend
that they got the information in a more legitimate way ... and to hide
that from defense attorneys and judges
The Department
of Health and Human Services will also have access to vast
quantities of sensitive federal data on Americans as part of Obamacare
(here's the underlying Government Accountability Office report)
The NSA not
only shares our information with other American agencies, it
also gives personal, sensitive unfiltered information on Americans to Israel and
other
foreign nations
And it's not
only governments. Private contractors can also view
all of your data (and the government isn’t
keeping track of which contractors see your data and which don’t). And
because background
checks regarding some contractors are falsified, it is hard to know the
types of people that might have your information. Indeed, private
contractors are involved in spying on behalf of governments world-wide
It's not just
your computer and your phone. It is well-documented that the government may be
spying on us through cars
and buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners and
drones, through our smart meters, and in many other ways
Top
counter-terror experts say that the government’s mass spying doesn't keep us safe
Indeed, they
say that mass spying actually hurts U.S.
counter-terror efforts (more here
and here)
They say we
can, instead, keep
everyone safe without violating the Constitution ... more cheaply and efficiently
than the current system
There is no real oversight
by Congress, the courts, or the
executive branch of government. And see this and this.
Indeed, most Congress
members had no
idea what the NSA is doing. Even staunch defenders of the NSA -
and congress
members on the intelligence oversight committees - now say they've
been kept in
the dark
A Federal judge
who was on the secret spying court for 3 years says
that it's a kangaroo
court
Even the current
judges on the secret spying court now admit that they're
out of the loop and powerless to exercise real oversight.
When these
judges raised concerns about NSA spying, the Justice Department completely ignored
them
A former U.S. president
says that the spying program shows that we no
longer have a functioning democracy
The chairs of the
9/11 Commission say that NSA
spying has gone way too far
Top
constitutional experts say that Obama and Bush are worse
than Nixon ... and the Stasi East Germans
While the
government initially claimed that mass surveillance on Americans prevented more
than 50 terror attacks, the NSA’s deputy director John Inglis walked that
position back all the way to saying that – at
the most
– one (1)
plot might
have been disrupted by the bulk phone records collection alone. In other words,
the NSA can't prove that stopped any terror attacks. The government greatly
exaggerated an alleged recent terror plot for political purposes (and
promoted the fearmongering of serial liars). The argument that recent
terror warnings show that NSA spying is necessary is so weak that American
counter-terrorism experts have slammed it as "crazy
pants"
You're much
more likely to be killed by brain-eating amoeba,
lightning or a toddler than by terrorism. Even President Obama
admits that you're
much less likely to be killed by terrorists than a car accident. So the
government has resorted to lamer
and lamer excuses
to try to justify mass surveillance
Experts say
that the
spying program is illegal, and is exactly the kind of
thing which King
George imposed on the American colonists ... which led to the Revolutionary War
A Harvard law
school professor - and director of the Berkman Center for Internet &
Society at Harvard University - says:
"The NSA has mounted a systematic
campaign against the foundations of American power: constitutional checks and
balances, technological leadership, and market entrepreneurship. The NSA scandal is no longer about
privacy, or a particular violation of constitutional or legislative
obligations. The American body politic is suffering a severe
case of auto-immune disease: our defense system is attacking other critical
systems of our body".
The top
counter-terrorism Czar under Clinton and Bush says that revealing
NSA spying programs does not harm national security
The
feds are considering prosecuting the owner of a private email company -
who shut down his business rather than turning over records to the NSA - for
refusing to fork over the information and keep quiet. This is a little like
trying to throw someone in jail because he's died and is no longer paying taxes
Whistleblowers
on illegal spying have no "legal"
way to get the information out
Spying
started before
9/11 ... and various
excuses have been used to spy on Americans over the years
Governments and
big corporations are doing everything they can to
destroy
anonymity
Mass spying creates
an easy mark for
hackers.
Indeed, the Pentagon
now sees the collection of "big data" as a "national
security threat" ... but the NSA is the biggest data collector on the
planet, and thus provides a tempting mother lode of information for foreign
hackers
Mass
surveillance by the NSA directly
harms internet companies, Silicon Valley, California … and the entire U.S. economy.
For example, Facebook lost 11
millions users as of April mainly due to privacy concerns (and that was before
the Snowden revelations). And see these reports from Boingboing and the Guardian
IT
and security
professionals are quite
concerned about government spying
Some people make
a lot of
money off of mass spying. But the government isn't
using the spying program to stop the worst
types of lawlessness
The NSA spying
program is unambiguously being used for industrial espionage, by spying on large
foreign corporations, and the biggest financial
payments
systems such as VISA and Swift. Indeed, in a slide leaked
by Edward Snowden, "economic"
was one of the main justifications for spying
The top U.S.
spy's justifications for such financial spying is not
very reassuring:
"We collect this information for many important
reasons: for one, it could provide the United States and our allies early
warning of international financial crises which could negatively impact the
global economy. It also could provide insight
into other countries' economic policy or behavior which could affect global
markets."
Top financial
experts say that the NSA and other intelligence agencies are using the
information to profit
from this inside information
The Wall Street
Journal reported that the NSA spies on Americans’ credit card transactions.
Many other agencies are doing the same. In fact, virtually all U.S. intelligence
agencies – including the CIA and NSA – are going to spy on Americans’
finances. The IRS will also be spying on
Americans’ shopping
records, travel, social interactions, health records and files from other
government investigators
Polls show that
the public doesn’t believe the NSA … and thinks that the
government has gone way too far in the name of
terrorism
While leaker
Edward Snowden is treated as a traitor by the fatcats and elites, he is considered
a hero
by the American public. Members of the Executive,
Legislative and Judicial branches of government have all praised
the debate on spying which Snowden's leaks started
The heads of
the intelligence services have repeatedly
been caught lying
about spying. And even liberal publications are starting to say that Obama
has been intentionally lying about spying. The government claimed that most
spying programs ended in 2011, when - in fact - they were expanded
that year
Obama says
he'll rein in spying ... but his words
and deeds indicate that he won't. Indeed, Obama appointed
the fox to guard
the chicken coop. No wonder only
11% of Americans trust Obama to actually do anything to rein in spying
A huge majority
of Americans wants the director of intelligence - Clapper - prosecuted for perjury.
One of the chairs of the 9/11 Commission agrees
While the Obama
administration is spying on everyone in the country – it is at the same time
the most secretive administration ever (background). That’s despite Obama saying
he’s running the most transparent
administration ever
The NSA treats
the American people with contempt. For
example, Spiegel notes:
"The authors of the [NSA slides] draw a comparison
with "1984," ... revealing the agency's current view of smartphones
and their users. "Who knew in 1984 that this would be Big Brother …"
the authors ask, in reference to a photo of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. And commenting
on photos of enthusiastic Apple customers and iPhone users, the NSA writes:
"… and the zombies would be paying customers?
Worse, the
intelligence agencies often view normal, true-blue Americans as potential
terrorists
(and see
this)
A Congressman noted
that - even if a mass surveillance program is started
for good purposes - it will inevitably turn
into a witch
hunt
There are
indications that the spy agencies aren't just passively gathering information,
but are actively
using it in mischievous ways
Surveillance
can be used to frame you
if someone in government happens to take a dislike to you
Government
spying has always
focused on crushing dissent … not on keeping us safe
An NSA
whistleblower says that the
NSA is spying on – and blackmailing – top government officials and military
officers (and see
this)
High-level US
government officials have warned
for 40 years that mass surveillance would lead to tyranny in America
A top NSA
whistleblower says that the only way to fix things is to fire all
of the corrupt government officials who let it happen. As the polls above
show, the American public is starting to wake up to that fact
NSA DIRECTOR ADMITS:
...
Collecting data from social networks
...
Testing U.S. cellphone tracking
...
Releasing 'misleading' numbers on terror plots foiled by snooping
NJ
property taxes up 13% under Christie...
Obama
applauds mayoral candidate's vow to hike taxes in NYC...
CNN:
3 alleged Kenya attackers from USA...
Raises
concerns in U.S....
Gunmen
executed non-Muslims after asking them to name Prophet Mohammed's mother...
Deep cuts at
agency responsible for investigating health-care fraud...
Secret
American Subculture of Putin-Worshippers... { Secret … I doubt it … I
believe the Russia/Putin ‘miracle’ is worthy of praise and world class global
recognition as such! }
Movement
grows to repeal Obamacare 'exemption' for Congress...
'Could they be more out
of touch?'
OBAMA:
Republicans 'trying to mess with me'...
'We
are not some Banana Republic'... { Au contraire … http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm }
13
shot in mass shooting at Chicago park...
3-year-old
boy shot in face...
CA
Dem wishes death upon Ted Cruz staffer's children...
17,679
things the federal government has done since sequestration...
There is a reason why every
fiat currency in the history of the world has eventually failed. At some
point, those issuing fiat currencies always find themselves giving in to the
temptation to wildly print more money. Sometimes, the motivation for
doing this is good. When an economy is really struggling, those that have
been entrusted with the management of that economy can easily fall for the lie
that things would be better if people just had "more money".
Today, the Federal Reserve finds itself faced with a scenario that is very
similar to what the Weimar Republic was facing nearly 100 years ago. Like
the Weimar Republic, the U.S. economy is also struggling and like the Weimar
Republic, the U.S. government is absolutely drowning in debt.
Unfortunately, the Federal Reserve has decided to adopt the same solution that
the Weimar Republic chose. The Federal Reserve is recklessly printing
money out of thin air, and in the short-term some positive things have come out
of it. But quantitative easing worked for the Weimar Republic for a
little while too. At first, more money caused economic activity to
increase and unemployment was low. But all of that money printing
destroyed faith in German currency and in the German financial system and
ultimately Germany experienced an economic meltdown that the world is still
talking about today. This is the path that the Federal Reserve is taking America down, but
most Americans have absolutely no idea what is happening. (Read More....)
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 09/19/2013 - 09:38
Reflecting
on exactly what was said yesterday, Duquesne's Stanley Druckenmiller is
initially perplexed as Bernanke explained 'financial conditions' - not interest
rates - have prompted the decision to forestall any taper. His confusion is
that financial conditions are actually slightly better than they were in June
and "a stock market at
an all-time high would suggest we don't have a problem with financial
conditions." While he dismisses surveys, the big-money was
betting that they were going to taper as is clear from the moves in gold,
bonds, and stocks; and it appears the Fed "lost their nerve." In
fact, Druck continues, the
Fed "blew it... they had a freebie," they could have
started the process to "get us off the dope." This action, or
inaction, he warns "is going to make it so much harder for the next
Chairman to start the process." In fact, he concludes, that from beginning to end - once markets adjust
from these subsidized prices - that the wealth effect of QE will have been
negative not positive.
McCain's
self-defeating Pravda op-ed can only help Putin Washington Post (blog) - by
Max Fisher Senator
John McCain, a frequent critic of the Kremlin, responded to Russian
President Vladimir Putin's New York Times op-ed
with his own, ...
{ How laughable to hear of
‘never-saw-a-war-he-didn’t-like’ neo-con mccain try to lecture the historically
formidable Vladimir Putin on the ‘rule of law’. What parallel universe is
senile mccain operating in? ( I’m going to even give ‘songbird’ mccain a pass
on his violation of military code while a POW so criticized by his fellow
POWs).The law is something that I know a lot about; from intense study and
direct experience, while mccain can’t possibly say the same. After all, there
are indeed a plethora of rules of law in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt
america. The problem is, in venal america, they are not meaningful rules of law
as applied to some and not others (him and his et als in the latter category).
Wow! Talk about out of touch … or maybe he’s just used to such
drivel/propaganda being lapped up by the dumbed down american masses! See http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm for
reality! }
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The photo of an Asian giant hornet
posted above was taken by blogger
Kurt Bell, and as you can see, these Asian giant hornets are
freakishly huge. They are also extremely aggressive and they are not
afraid to attack people at all. And as you will read about below, getting
stung by one of them is exceedingly painful. If they only attacked humans
once in a while, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. Unfortunately, Asian
giant hornets appear to be multiplying rapidly and they have killed dozens of
people in China in recent months. But most Americans are not going to get
too concerned about a plague of giant hornets on the other side of the
planet. Well, what if I told you that Asian giant hornets are now
spreading like wildfire in this country and attacking people all over the
United States? Would I have your attention then? Because that is
precisely what is happening.
The recent giant hornet attacks in
China have made headlines all over the (Read More....)
Right
now, the ground underneath Yellowstone National Park is rising at a record
rate. In fact, it is rising at the rate of about three inches per
year. The reason why this is such a concern is because underneath the
park sits the Yellowstone supervolcano – the largest volcano in North
America. Scientists tell us that it is inevitable that it will erupt
again one day, and when it does the devastation will be almost
unimaginable. A full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would
dump a 10 foot deep layer of volcanic ash up to 1,000 miles away, and it would
render much of the United States uninhabitable. When most Americans think
of Yellowstone, they tend to conjure up images of Yogi Bear and “Old Faithful”,
but the truth is that sleeping underneath Yellowstone is a volcanic beast that
could destroy our nation in a single day and now that beast is starting to wake
up. (Read More.....)
Are you ready for bone chilling cold this winter?
The Old Farmer’s Almanac and other weather forecasters that rely on solar
activity as a factor in their weather forecasts are projecting that this
upcoming winter will be bitterly cold. Solar activity is at a 100 year
low, and even though we were supposed to be in the midst of a solar maximum
this year, our sun has been eerily quiet. So precisely what in the world
is going on? There have been other periods throughout history when solar
activity has been extraordinarily quiet, and those times have corresponded with
periods of extreme cold. For example, the “Maunder Minimum” which
stretched from 1645 to 1715 corresponded with the most bitterly cold period
that the earth experienced in the last 1000 years. So could we be heading
toward another “mini-ice age”? That is a question that some scientists
are now beginning to ask.
Clearly, something unusual is happening with our
sun. The following is from a Universe Today article that was posted back in (Read More....)
