October 2015 archive

Shantytown, Stockton, California, USA I made a visit to Stockton, California the other day and came across a jarring sight: an actual shantytown, here in America. (Click on images for a larger view.  Note: all images are Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International by chumbawamba@zerohedge) This is at the corner of S Grant …

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Spot The Defense Minister Trick question…   They all are! (from left to right): Sweden (Karin Enstrom), Norway (Ine Eriksen Søreide), Russia ( Sergei Shoigu), Netherlands (eanine Hennis-Plasschaert), Germany (Ursula von der Leyen) Bank Of Japan Disappoints The World – Leaves Monetary Policy Unchanged The last time The BoJ increased QQE it was a close …

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Embracing The Dark Side: A Short History Of The Pathological Neocon Quest For Empire Submitted by Dan Sanchez via DanSanchez.me, When Bill Kristol watches Star Wars movies, he roots for the Galactic Empire. The leading neocon recently caused a social media disturbance in the Force when he tweeted this predilection for the Dark Side following the debut of …

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And Now Trucking is Suddenly Slowing Down This comes at the totally wrong time. Trucking had been booming. 2014 had been a banner year. Capacity was squeezed, and rates were rising, so trucking companies went on a buying binge, ordering everything in the book in preparation for red-hot demand in 2015 and more banner years …

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SmartKnowledgeU: What is the Fair Value of Gold? Ounces Over Dollars As I write this article, at about 11:30AM NY time, on 27 October 2015, the probability of another banker raid in the paper gold and silver derivatives markets increases and remains elevated. Yet, every time bankers raid paper prices, if indeed this happens again …

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The Death Of Europe Submitted by Daniel Greenfield via FrontPageMag.com, How The Mohammed Reitrement Plan Will Kill Europe European leaders talk about two things these days; preserving European values by taking in Muslim migrants and integrating Muslim migrants into Europe by getting them to adopt European values. It does not occur to them that their …

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5 Questions For Bernie Sanders Supporters Authored by Derrick Broze, originally posted Op-Ed at TheAntiMedia.org, I have five simple questions for supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Before I get to them, I find it necessary to preface this with a plea for logic and respectful communication. I am going to be critical of …

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How To Stamp Out Cultural Marxism In A Single Generation Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, There are very few legitimate cultural divisions in the world. Most of them are arbitrarily created, not only by political and financial elites, but also by the useful idiots and mindless acolytes infesting the sullied halls of academia. It …

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What If They Started A War And Everyone Came? Submitted by Peter Van Buren via TomDispatch.com, What if the U.S. had not invaded Iraq in 2003? How would things be different in the Middle East today? Was Iraq, in the words of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, the "worst foreign policy blunder" in American history? Let's …

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Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Are Making Us Fat and Giving Us Diabetes We documented in 2012 that that toxic chemicals in our food, water and air our causing an epidemic of obesity … even in 6 month old infants. No matter how lazy and gluttonous adults may have become recently, 6-month-olds can’t be lazy … they can’t …

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