The
Dow closed above 18,000 on Monday for the first time since July. Isnt that great news?
I truly wish that it was. If the Dow actually reflected economic reality,
I could stop writing about economic collapse and start blogging about
cats or football. Unfortunately, the stock market and the economy are
moving in two completely different directions right now. Even as stock
prices soar, big corporations are defaulting on their debts at a level that we
have not seen since the last financial crisis. In fact, this wave of debt
defaults have become so dramatic that even USA
Today is reporting on it
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Over
the past 48 hours, our planet has been hit by
literally dozens of earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater, and scientists
are acknowledging that what is taking place is highly unusual. This
strange shaking began toward the end of last week when the globe was struck by five major earthquakes over
the space of just two days, and over the weekend the seismic activity just
continued to escalate. Very early on Saturday, Japans southern island of
Kyushu was hit by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, and on Saturday night a magnitude
7.8 earthquake struck off Ecuadors Pacific coast. It was the worst earthquake
that Ecuador had experienced since 1979, and it was followed by at least 163
aftershocks. Unfortunately, there are indications that what we have seen
so far may be just the beginning. (Read More....)
Those that were hoping for an economic renaissance in the United States got
some more bad news this week. It turns out that the U.S. economy is in
significantly worse shape than the experts were projecting. Retail sales
unexpectedly declined in March, total business sales have fallen again, and the
inventory to sales ratio has hit the highest level since the last financial
crisis. When you add these three classic recession signals to the 19 troubling numbers about the U.S.
economy that I wrote about last week, it paints a very disturbing
picture. Virtually all of the signs that we would expect to pop up during
the early chapters of a major economic crisis have now appeared, and yet most
Americans still appear to be clueless about what is happening. (Read More....)
Could
you imagine being kidnapped, being auctioned off like a piece of meat, and
being endlessly gang-raped every day by some of the most evil men on the entire
planet for months on end? This is what ISIS is doing to thousands upon
thousands of women in Iraq and Syria, and some of their victims are as young as
nine. The things that I am about to share with you are almost too
nightmarish for words, but it is imperative that we understand what is going
on. When ISIS conquers an area that is not Muslim, they believe that they
can do whatever they want to the women because they are infidels. So innocent young
women are being treated in some of the most horrible ways imaginable, and most
of the rest of the world looks on with indifference. But of course what
ISIS is doing is just the tip of a very big global iceberg. As you will
see below, there are tens of millions of slaves in our world today, and sexual
exploitation is involved in approximately 80 percent of those cases. (Read More....)
The
elite are fleeing major cities around the globe at a staggering rate. In
fact, the Chicago Tribune is
reporting that approximately 3,000 millionaires left the city
of Chicago alone during 2015. The same study discussed in that Chicago
Tribune article found that 7,000 millionaires left Paris,
France last year. So why is this happening? Why are thousands of
millionaires suddenly packing up and moving away from the big cities?
Could it be possible that they have many of the same concerns that preppers do about what is coming?
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At this time of the year, millions
of Americans are rushing to file their taxes at the last minute, and we are
once again reminded just how nightmarish our system of taxation has
become. I studied tax law when I was in law school, and it is one of the
most mind-numbing areas of study that you could possibly imagine. At this
point, the U.S. tax code is somewhere around 4 million words long, which is
more than four times longer than all of William Shakespeares works put
together. And even if you could somehow read the entire tax code, it is
constantly changing, and so those that prepare taxes for a living are
constantly relearning the rules. It has been said that Americans spend
more than 6 billion hours preparing their taxes each year, and
Politifact has rated this claim as true. We have a system that is as
ridiculous as it is absurd, and the truth is that we dont even need it. In
fact, the greatest period of economic growth in all of U.S. history was when there was no income
tax at all. Why anyone would want to perpetuate this tortuous system
is beyond me, and yet we keep sending politicians to Washington D.C. that just
keep making this system even more complicated and even more burdensome. (Read More....)
Mainstream
news outlets are already starting to use the phrase economic collapse to describe what is
going on in some areas of our world right now. For many Americans this
may seem a bit strange, but the truth is that the worldwide economic slowdown
that began during the second half of last year is starting to get a lot
worse. In this article, we are going to examine evidence of this from
South America, Europe, Asia and North America. Once we are done, it
should be obvious that there is absolutely no reason to be optimistic about the
direction of the global economy right now. The warnings of so many prominent
experts are now becoming a reality, and what we have witnessed so far are
just the early chapters of a crushing economic crisis that will affect every
man, woman and child in the entire world. (Read More....)
One of the epicenters of the
global financial crisis that started during the second half of last year is
Japan, and it looks like the markets in the land of the rising sun are entering
yet another period of great turmoil. The Nikkei was down another 390
points last night, and it is now down more than 1,300 points since a week
ago. Why this is so important for U.S. investors is because the Nikkei is
often an early warning indicator of where the rest of the global markets are
heading. For example, the Nikkei started crashing early last December
about a month before U.S. markets started crashing really hard in early
January. So the fact that the Nikkei has been falling very rapidly in
recent days should be a huge red flag for investors in this country. (Read More....)
Why
has the United States been hit by historic flood after historic flood in recent
months? The flooding that is pummeling the city of Houston is the 8th
historic flood in this country since the end of September. City officials
down in Houston have labeled the flooding that is currently slamming the city a life-threatening
emergency,
and they are insisting that Houston residents should avoid travel at all costs
today.
At this point, dozens of subdivisions have been flooded and major sections of
Interstate 10 and Interstate 45 are under water near downtown.
Authorities are telling us that water is getting to areas that it has never
been before, and Fire Department spokesman Jay Evans announced that the water
is already 10 to 15 feet deep in some areas. But even though some parts
of Houston have already gotten close to 20 inches of rain within the last 24
hours, there is more rain in the forecast, so this crisis is far from over. (Read More...)
Over the past week, our planet has
been hit by large
earthquake after large earthquake, and according to Volcano Discovery there are 38 volcanoes
around the world that are erupting right now. We have seen a dramatic
spike in global seismic activity that is unlike anything that we have seen in
ages, and that is why what is going on at Yellowstone is so incredibly
alarming. Geologists tell us that a full-blown eruption of the
Yellowstone supervolcano would have up to 2,000 times the power of the Mount
St. Helens volcanic eruption of 1980, and approximately two-thirds of the
country would immediately become uninhabitable. As you will see below, there
are signs that something big is getting ready to happen at Yellowstone, and if
it does erupt all of our lives will be permanently changed forever. (Read More...)
Why is the crust of the Earth
shaking so violently all of a sudden? Over the past 48 hours, there have
been five major earthquakes globally, and one prominent seismologist has
declared that catastrophic mega earthquakes could be on the
way. In fact, seismologist Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado has
made headlines all over the world by warning that current conditions might
trigger at least four earthquakes greater than 8.0 in magnitude. If his projections
are accurate, our planet could be on the precipice of a wave of natural
disasters unlike anything that any of us have ever experienced before. (Read More...)
Should public facilities continue
to offer separate bathrooms for men and women? In 2016, this has become a
political hot
potato
that is causing emotions to run high on both sides of the debate. Many
liberals consider the push for gender-neutral bathrooms to be on the cutting
edge of the civil rights movement in the United States. Meanwhile, many
conservatives consider separate bathrooms for men and women to be a matter of
basic moral decency. What both sides of the debate can agree on is that
this is an issue that is not going away any time soon. Gender-neutral
bathrooms are popping up in public places all over America, and the Obama
administration has even installed one in the White House.
Unfortunately, these gender-neutral bathrooms can have some very serious
unintended consequences as you will see below. (Read More...)
The Temple of Baal is NOT coming
to Times Square in New York City next month. This is great news, and it
represents an incredible victory for Christians in the United States. As
you will see below, the New York Times, Snopes and a whole host of other mainstream news sources
reported last month that everything was on track for reproductions of the giant
48-foot-tall arch that stood in front of the Temple of Baal in Palmyra, Syria
to be put up simultaneously in Times Square in New York City and Trafalgar
Square in London during the month of April. But now that will not be
happening. The only arch that will be going up will be in Trafalgar
Square, and it wont be the one from the Temple of Baal. Instead,
the Institute for Digital Archaeology has changed plans and will be putting up
a reproduction of the Arch of Triumph which the Romans originally built in
Palmyra and that has nothing to do with Baal. So why has there been such
a dramatic change in plans? (Read More...)
Is America a better place today
than it was back in 1956? Of course many Americans living right now
couldnt
even imagine a world without cell phones, Facebook or cable television, but was
life really so bad back then? 60 years ago, families would actually spend
time on their front porches and people would actually have dinner with their
neighbors. 60 years ago, cars were still cars, football was still
football and it still meant something to be an American. In our country
today, it is considered odd to greet someone as they are walking down the
street, and if someone tries to be helpful it is usually because they want
something from you. But things were very different in the middle of the
last century. Men aspired to be gentlemen and women aspired to be ladies,
and nobody had ever heard of bling, sexting or twerking. Of course life was far from perfect, but
people actually had standards and they tried to live up to them. (Read More...)
Over
the past ten years, approximately five
million people have moved away from the state of California, and as you
will see in this article this mass exodus appears to be accelerating. So
exactly why is this happening? Once upon a time, it seemed like almost
everyone wanted to live in California. The nearly endless sunshine, the
incredible weather, the pristine beaches and a booming economy motivated
millions of young Americans to move out there to pursue the California Dream. In fact, in the
early nineties I actually explored the idea of moving out there myself.
But now the California Dream has become a nightmare. Californians are
being taxed to death, traffic in the major cities is absolutely horrific,
violent crime and gang activity are on the rise, millions of illegal immigrants
are putting an incredible strain on social support systems, and the
ultra-liberal government in Sacramento seems to have gone completely
insane. In addition, the state faces constant threats from earthquakes,
wildfires, droughts and mudslides, so it is quite understandable why so many
people feel motivated to leave and never come back. (Read More...)
David Wilkerson was a legendary
preacher that truly did hear from God, and a remarkable prophecy that he gave
about 40 years ago is coming to pass right now. After watching a video on our new YouTube channel, a viewer
mentioned that something that my wife and I were talking about sounded exactly
like something that David Wilkerson had said close to 40 years ago. I was
skeptical at first, but I checked it out. And it turned out that this
viewer was exactly correct. Without even knowing it, for years I have
been preaching virtually the exact same message that David Wilkerson prophesied
nearly four decades ago, and today this prophecy is being fulfilled right in
front of our eyes. (Read More...)
Is
it just a coincidence that reproductions of the 48-foot-tall arch that stood in
front of the Temple of Baal in Palmyra, Syria are going to be put up in
Times Square in New York City and in Trafalgar Square in London exactly 13
days before Baals biggest day of the year? In the occult world,
13 is the number of rebellion, and these arches are going to be put on display
precisely 13 days prior to the major occult holiday of Beltane on May
1st. In a previous article, I explained that the chief
god of ancient Babylon named Marduk eventually came to be known as Baal or Bel which both mean Lord. As worship of
this ancient deity spread all over the globe, sometimes this language was
retained, and this is definitely true when it comes to Bel-tane or Baal-tein. Beltane can be
translated as Baal fire, and even many Wiccans acknowledge that this
festival has origins which can be traced all the way back to the Baal worship
of the ancient Middle East. For example, the following comes directly
from the website of a Wiccan named Lady Bridget
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