Why
wont
the American people listen to the warnings? David Stockman was a member
of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981, and he served as the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan
from 1981 to 1985. These days, he is running a website called Contra Corner which I highly recommend that you check out.
Stockman believes that a global debt super-cycle that has been building
for decades is now bursting, and he is convinced that the consequences for the
U.S. and for the rest of the planet will be absolutely catastrophic. His
findings are very consistent with what I have been writing about on The
Economic Collapse Blog, and if Stockman is correct the times ahead of us
are going to be exceedingly painful. (Read More....)
What
you are about to see is more evidence that the growth of poverty in the United
States is wildly out of control. It turns out that there is a tremendous
amount of suffering in the wealthiest nation on the planet, and it is getting worse
with each passing year. During this election season, politicians of all
stripes are running around telling all of us how great we are, but is that
really true? As you will see below, poverty is reaching unprecedented
levels in this country, and the middle class is steadily dying. There
arent
enough good jobs to go around, dependence on the government has never been
greater, and it is our children that are being hit the hardest. If we
have this many people living on the edge of despair now, while times are good, what are things going
to look like when our economy really starts falling apart? The following
are 21 facts about the explosive growth of poverty in America that will blow
your mind
(Read More....)
Did
you know that the United Nations intends to have biometric identification cards
in the hands of every single man, woman and child on the entire planet by the
year 2030? And did you know that a central database in Geneva,
Switzerland will be collecting data from many of these cards? Previously,
I have written about the 17 new Global Goals that the UN launched at
the end of September. Even after writing several articles about these
new Global Goals, I still dont think that most of my readers really grasp how
insidious they actually are. This new agenda truly is a template for a New World Order, and if you dig into the
sub-points for these new Global Goals you find some very alarming things. (Read More....)
Christianity is under attack from
a thousand different directions all at once, and yet many believers have turned
their guns on one another. This war among Christians seems to intensify
with each passing year, and believers are often fighting for some of the stupidest
reasons you can possibly imagine. Meanwhile, people are leaving our
churches in droves and church attendance is way down. This is especially
true of younger Americans. According to an incredible new report that was
just released by the Pew Research Center,
only 27 percent of all Millennials (U.S. adults born since 1990) attend
religious services on a weekly basis. When you go into many churches in
America on Sunday mornings, all you see are the greys, and I am not talking
about space aliens. But instead of focusing on fixing what has gone
wrong, many Christians (including a number of very prominent ministers) spend
most of their energy savagely attacking their brothers and sisters in
Christ. This is absolutely disgraceful and it needs to stop. (Read More...)
If you have a health problem, even
if it is just an imaginary one, some giant pharmaceutical company out there is
probably making a pill for it. According to shocking new research published
in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 59 percent of all U.S.
adults are on at least one prescription drug, and 15 percent of all U.S. adults
are on at least five prescription drugs. These numbers
have never been higher, and they tell us that the United States is the most
drugged nation on the entire planet. And it turns out that pushing these
drugs on the American people is extremely profitable. For instance,
Americans spent 100 billion dollars on cancer drugs alone last
year. That isnt million with an m that is billion with a b. The profits that some of these pharmaceutical
companies are making are absolutely obscene, and it is our pain and suffering
that is making them rich. (Read More...)
The stock market has been soaring,
but all of the hard economic numbers are telling us that a major global
recession is here. This is so reminiscent of what happened back in
2008. Back then, all of the fundamentals were screaming recession by the middle of that
year, but the equity markets didnt respond until later. It appears that a
similar pattern is playing out right now. The trade numbers, the
manufacturing numbers, the inventory numbers and even the GDP numbers are all
saying that a very significant economic slowdown is happening, but stock
traders havent
gotten the memo yet. In fact, stocks had an absolutely great month in
October. Of course just like in 2008, stocks will eventually catch up
with reality. It is just a matter of time. The following are 18
numbers that scream that a crippling global recession has arrived
(Read More...)
More than 25 million people live
in the vicinity of North Americas 2nd-highest volcano, and in recent weeks this
volcano has been steadily rumbling and has been spewing out massive amounts of
black smoke and ash. I have previously written about the most dangerous
mountain in the United States (Mt. Rainier), but if the volcano that I am talking about
today experiences a full-blown explosive eruption it could potentially be a
cataclysmic event beyond what most of us would dare to imagine.
Popocatepetl is an Aztec word that means smoking mountain, and it is also the name of a giant volcano that sits
approximately 50 miles away from Mexico Citys 18 million
residents. Popo, as it is called by locals, was dormant for much of
the 20th century, but it came back to life in 1994. And now all of this
unusual activity in recent weeks has many wondering if a major eruption may be
imminent. (Read More...)
This
year, 64 percent of all Americans will
celebrate Halloween, but I will not be one of them. For me, it is a
wretched, horrible holiday that celebrates the darkest side of humanity, and it
is deeply rooted in ancient pagan traditions that would get people thrown in
prison if they attempted to duplicate them today. With each passing year,
the sexually suggestive costumes being marketed to our young girls become even
skankier, the horror movies become darker and even more demonic, and the number
of Americans that participate in occult ceremonies just continues to grow. In fact, it
has been estimated that the number of self-identified witches in the United
States is doubling every 30 months.
Those that are deeply into the occult take this holiday very seriously, and the
dark forces that they are dealing with are very real. So no, I dont want anything to do
with this festival of death. In no particular order, the following are 18
reasons why I dont celebrate Halloween
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First it was wildfires, then it
was unprecedented flooding, and now it is earthquakes. In the past two
weeks alone, more than 400 earthquakes have shaken San Ramon a small city that sits
approximately 45 miles east of San Francisco. Never before have so many
earthquakes been recorded in that area in such a short span of time.
Standing alone, that earthquake swarm may not mean that much. But when
you stand back and look at all of the unusual events that have been happening
since late September, a very disturbing picture begins to emerge. (Read More...)
What we eat is literally killing
us. A stunning new report from the World
Health Organization has concluded that there is clear scientific evidence
that eating processed meat causes cancer. In particular, the WHO
specifically mentioned processed pork products such as bacon, sausages and hot
dogs. Of course for those of us that have been investigating these things
for a long time, this doesnt exactly come as a shock. The alternative
health community has been talking about the evidence that pork causes cancer
for decades. But for the WHO to come out and say these things publicly is
a really big deal. (Read More...)
Have
the elite warned us that November 3rd and November 5th will be particularly
important dates? The Economist has very close ties to the Rothschild
banking dynasty of Europe, and it has been a well-known mouthpiece for the
global elite for decades. That is why all of the weird imagery that was
used on the cover of the January 2015 issue made so many headlines when it
first came out. The elite often like to foreshadow what they intend to do
in advance, and many were trying to decipher what many of the cryptic symbols
might mean. For those that have not seen it yet, here is the full cover
(Read More...)
Have
you noticed that the United States and Russia are heading in two very different
directions? United behind a very strong leader with an 89.9 percent
approval rating, Russia is stunning the world with the efficiency with
which it is striking ISIS in Syria. Of course Vladimir Putin is far from
perfect, and there are real questions about what Russias true motives in Syria
and elsewhere are, but this is a leader and a country that have shown that they
can get things done. In the U.S., on the other hand, we are being led by
a weak, ineffective con man in the White House that has just a 45.3 percent approval
rating. Under Obama, the federal government seems to be inept at just
about everything, and this is especially true when it comes to foreign policy. (Read More...)
This
week, Barack Obama sent a guided missile destroyer into disputed waters in the
South China Sea to see if the Chinese would start shooting at it. Yes, this is
what he actually did. Fortunately for us, the Chinese backed down and did not
follow through on their threats to take military action. Instead, the Chinese
have chosen to respond with very angry words. The Chinese ambassador to the
United States, Cui Tiankai, says that what Obama did was a
very serious provocation, politically and militarily. And as you will see
below, a state-run newspaper stated that China is not frightened to
fight a war with the US in the region. So why in the world would Obama provoke the Chinese
like this? Yes, the Chinese claims in the South China Sea are questionable. But
there are other ways to resolve things like this. My friend Rick Wiles began
his radio broadcast yesterday by suggesting that these kinds of actions show
that Barack Obama has become mentally unstable, and I would have to
agree. You dont risk military confrontations that could potentially spark
World War III unless you have a really good reason to do so. (Read More....)
When
someone is right over and over and over, eventually people start paying
attention. Personally, I have learned to tune out the forecasts of most economic experts out there. As an
attorney, I was trained to be skeptical, and I have found that most forecasts
about what the financial markets are going to do are not worth the paper they
are printed on. However, once in a while something comes along that really
gets my attention. Over the past few days, I have seen a number of
references to the remarkable forecasts of Bo Polny of Gold 2020 Forecast. In recent months he
has correctly predicted that U.S. stocks would begin to drop in July, that
there would be a huge plunge in August and that that the month of September
would be rather uneventful. Now he is saying that he expects November to be a complete
meltdown on the U.S. and world markets. Just because he has been right in the past
does not guarantee that he will be correct this time around, but lots of people
(like me) are starting to pay attention. (Read More....)