Creepy Nationwide Network Of Spy Cameras Will Transform America Into An Orwellian Prison Camp

"You are being watched.  The government has a secret system - a machine - that spies on you every hour of every day."  That is how each episode of "Person of Interest" on CBS begins.  Most Americans that have watched the show just assume that such a surveillance network is completely fictional and that the government would never watch us like that.  Sadly, most Americans are wrong.  Shocking new details have emerged this week which prove that a creepy nationwide network of spy cameras is being rolled out across the United States.  Reportedly, these new spy cameras are "more accurate than modern facial recognition technology", and every few seconds they send back data from cities and major landmarks all over the United States to a centralized processing center where it is analyzed.  The authorities believe that the world has become such a dangerous place that the only way to keep us all safe is to watch what everyone does all the time.  But the truth is that instead of "saving America", all of these repressive surveillance (Read More....)

17 Signs That You Better Start Preparing For A Nightmarish Global Food Crisis

A nightmarish global food crisis is coming.  Even though about a billion people around the planet currently live on the edge of starvation, those of us that live in the wealthy western nations still have more than enough food to eat.  But it will not always be that way.  With each passing year, the global population goes up while global supplies of fresh water go down.  And you need lots of water to grow food.  The "breadbaskets" of the world, the United States and Russia, are currently experiencing horrible droughts that scientists tell us are part of a long-term trend.  In fact, some are projecting that the United States will soon see the return of Dust Bowl conditions.  So what will the rest of the world do when the topsoil in the heartland of the biggest food exporter on the globe dries up and blows away?  Just remember what happened back in 2007 and 2008.  Food prices rose rapidly and it sparked massive food riots in more than two dozen different nations.  So what will things look like when there is a very serious shortage of food around the globe?

On Thursday, the price of corn hit another brand new record high of $8.28 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade.

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11 Signs That The U.S. Health Care System Is Heading Straight Down The Toilet

I wish I had some good news for you.  But I don't.  The U.S. health care system is a complete and total disaster and it is going to get a lot worse in the years ahead.  Even before Obamacare it was projected that we were going to be facing a shortage of more than 100,000 doctors by the year 2025, and now hundreds of thousands more doctors are thinking of leaving the profession because of Obamacare.  Also thanks to Obamacare, health care costs and health insurance premiums are rising faster than ever and yet the level of care continues to decline.  Our health care system is now totally dominated by government bureaucrats, health insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations.  The truth is that the entire industry has become a giant money making scam, and the American people are being squeezed for every last penny.  We spend far more for health care than anyone else in the world, and the results are pathetic at best.

The following are 11 signs that the U.S. health care system is heading straight down the toilet....

#1 The Coming Doctor Shortage

The U.S. health care system is facing a critical shortage of doctors in the years ahead.

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This Drought Is Killing Millions Of Fish And Is Rapidly Drying Up The Mighty Mississippi

All over the United States, rivers, lakes and streams are drying up and are becoming much warmer than usual.  As a result, millions of fish have already died and millions more will probably die by the end of the summer.  In addition, transportation along the mighty Mississippi and other major rivers has been significantly slowed down.  Incredibly, more than 3,000 high temperature records have been broken over the last month alone, and the U.S. is enduring the worst drought that it has seen since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.  More than half of the entire continental United States has been declared to be a "disaster area" by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the price of corn has hit a brand new record high.  Farmers and ranchers all over America are being absolutely crushed by this crisis.  (Read More....)

What Barack Obama Said To Michael Phelps

The following is a joke that was sent to me the other day.  I am not certain who the original author is, but it is quite funny.  I think that it demonstrates the kind of mentality that Barack Obama and the other socialists in the government have right now....

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After winning his latest gold medal, Michael Phelps got a call from Barack Obama.  But it wasn't a call of congratulations.  Rather, it was to remind him that he did not do it by himself....

"If you won a gold medal, you didn’t do that alone. There was a long line of government workers, food stamp recipients and drug addicts that swam those practice laps for you, and allowed you to get where you are."

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Deflation or Hyperinflation

One economic theory states that we can never have deflation in a long term economy. For prices to deflate would be contrary to the built-in safeguards put forth by the government agencies. The main cause of a deflation would have to be a massive withdrawal of money from the banking system. As long as the money is insured, that is unlikely to happen. I tend to agree with that theory. It is unlikely that prices will go down long term as long as people have confidence in having their money in the banks.

One of the safeguards put into effect in the 30s depended on the negotiation of wages. No one group of wages, but all American Manufacturing was based on Union wages. Inflation and wage increases went hand in hand all through the 50s and to some extent through the 60s. Nonunion people normally could do a “me too” on the backs of Union worker's negotiations. If a Union member negotiated a contract for $10 an hour plus benefits, companies tended to pay the nonunion worker just a little less. But to remain competitive in attracting people, they had to match the wages fairly close.

In that kind of atmosphere it was natural for more and more money to be printed as wages increased at a rate of at least 4.5 percent per year. You can go to almost any book on Finance and Appraisal in the Real Estate Industry for a practical guide (Read More....)