The Housing Bubble

the sky is falling!

The Ogga Bugga factor is at a high pitch. Must be time for a false flag.

The US and Europe?!?!

I thought those people hated Fiji and Brazil! What possibly could have gone wrong?

It’s nice to be born to “progressive” parents.

By the way, there are two types of “progressives.”

The most common type: The poseurs who want you to think they must have money, great sex, and privileges because they are “progressive.”

The other type is very uncommon but they are all rich, have all the sex they want, and all the privileges.

The common bond in all them is the narcissism and their lust for adoration/worship by as many people as possible.

Chelsea Clinton: I tried to care about money but couldn’t

BY LESLIE LARSON
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Monday, June 23, 2014, 9:36 AM

Hillary Clinton insists she isn’t “well-off” and now daughter Chelsea, according to a recent interview, claims she couldn’t care less about money.

“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” she told Fast Company in an interview that ran in the magazine’s May edition, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family’s philanthropic foundation.

Comparing her experience to the average millennial, the 34-year-old former first daughter defended jumping around to different careers — from consulting to a hedge fund to academia to journalism — before finding her true calling working with her parents.

“It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents? I’ve tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents … it’s a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work, both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make,” she continued about her reluctant status as a boomerang kid.

The Clinton name likely opened doors for the political heiress, including an eye-popping $600,000 annual salary for an irregular stint as an NBC special correspondent, but Chelsea insists her work speaks for itself.

“I will just always work harder (than anybody else) and hopefully perform better,” said Clinton, who along with former banker husband Marc Mezvinsky, purchased a $10.5-million Gramercy Park apartment in 2013. “And hopefully, over time, I preempt and erase whatever expectations people have of me not having a good work ethic, or not being smart, or not being motivated.”

The comments, while not new, have nonetheless garnered a new round of attention in recent days after her mom and likely 2016 candidate, Hillary, was criticized for remarks suggesting she exited the White House “dead broke” and wasn’t “truly well off” despite millions of dollars in public speaking earnings.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/chelsea-clinton-care-money-article-1.1840138#ixzz3BtRS93ZL

Kind of reminds you of her mom’s “beginner’s luck” in the commodities futures market, doesn’t it?

Hillary Clinton Futures Trades Detailed
By Charles R. Babcock
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 27, 1994; Page A01

Hillary Rodham Clinton was allowed to order 10 cattle futures contracts, normally a $12,000 investment, in her first commodity trade in 1978 although she had only $1,000 in her account at the time, according to trade records the White House released yesterday.

The computerized records of her trades, which the White House obtained from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, show for the first time how she was able to turn her initial investment into $6,300 overnight. In about 10 months of trading, she made nearly $100,000, relying heavily on advice from her friend James B. Blair, an experienced futures trader.

The new records also raise the possibility that some of her profits — as much as $40,000 – came from larger trades ordered by someone else and then shifted to her account, Leo Melamed, a former chairman of the Merc who reviewed the records for the White House, said in an interview. He said the discrepancies in Clinton’s records also could have been caused by human error.

Even allocated trades would not necessarily have benefited Clinton, Melamed added. “I have no reason to change my original assessment. Mrs. Clinton violated no rules in the course of her transactions,” he said.

Lisa Caputo, Clinton’s spokeswoman, said the documents were released yesterday “to give as complete a picture as possible” of her trades. She said Clinton had never before seen them.

Blair, who urged Clinton to enter the high-risk futures market and ordered most of her trades, said in a recent interview that he “talked her into” her first futures trade in October 1978 before paperwork on her account was completed. It was liquidated quickly, he recalled, because “it was bigger than she wanted and required more money.”
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People do not long for vinyl. They long for the quality music that was written and performed when vinyl was the primary music media. Simple as that. Put out some decent music and quit with the Biebersheit, and nobody will care what the platform is.

How you draw your conclusions cracks me up, Ray.

I hope you’re wrong, but I doubt you are.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to declare its formation at the upcoming NATO summit in Wales on September 4th ??

And Putin just reminded everyone today that Russia has Nuclear weapons….

Good morning to you, Region X.

THE COVERT ORIGINS OF ISIS

August 29, 2014

SOURCE: SCG NEWS

The Islamic militant group ISIS, formerly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and recently rebranded as the so called Islamic State, is the stuff of nightmares. They are ruthless, fanatical, killers, on a mission, and that mission is to wipe out anyone and everyone, from any religion or belief system and to impose Shari’ah law. The mass executions, beheadings and even crucifixions that they are committing as they work towards this goal are flaunted like badges of pride, video taped and uploaded for the whole world to see. This is the new face of evil.

Would it interest you to know who helped these psychopaths rise to power? Would it interest you to know who armed them, funded them and trained them? Would it interest you to know why?

This story makes more sense if we start in the middle, so we’ll begin with the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

The Libyan revolution was Obama’s first major foreign intervention. It was portrayed as an extension of the Arab Spring, and NATO involvement was framed in humanitarian terms.

The fact that the CIA was actively working to help the Libyan rebels topple Gaddafi was no secret, nor were the airstrikes that Obama ordered against the Libyan government.However, little was said about the identity or the ideological leanings of these Libyan rebels. Not surprising, considering the fact that the leader of the Libyan rebels later admitted that his fighters included Al-Qaeda linked jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq.

These jihadist militants from Iraq were part of what national security analysts commonly referred to as Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Remember Al-Qaeda in Iraq was ISIS before it was rebranded.

With the assistance of U.S. and NATO intelligence and air support, the Libyan rebels captured Gaddafi and summarily executed him in the street, all the while enthusiastically chanting “Allah Akbar”. For many of those who had bought the official line about how these rebels were freedom fighters aiming to establish a liberal democracy in Libya, this was the beginning of the end of their illusions.

Prior to the U.S. and NATO backed intervention, Libya had the highest standard of living of any country in Africa. This according to the U.N.’s Human Development Index rankings for 2010.However in the years following the coup, the country descended into chaos, with extremism and violence running rampant. Libya is now widely regarded as failed state (of course those who were naive enough to buy into the propaganda leading up to the war get defensive when this is said).

Now after Gaddafi was overthrown, the Libyan armories were looted, and massive quantities of weapons were sent by the Libyan rebels to Syria. The weapons, which included anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles were smuggled into Syria through Turkey, a NATO ally. The times of Londonreported on the arrival of the shipment on September 14th, 2012. (Secondary confirmation in this NYT article) This was just three days after Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi. Chris Stevens had served as the U.S. government’s liaison to the Libyan rebels since April of 2011.

While a great deal media attention has focused on the fact that the State Department did not provide adequate security at the consulate, and was slow to send assistance when the attack started, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh released an article in April of 2014 which exposed a classified agreement between the CIA, Turkey and the Syrian rebels to create what was referred to as a “rat line”. The “rat line” was covert network used to channel weapons and ammunition from Libya, through southern turkey and across the Syrian border. Funding was provided by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

With Stevens dead any direct U.S. involvement in that arms shipment was buried, and Washington would continue to claim that they had not sent heavy weaponry into Syria.

It was at this time that jihadist fighters from Libya began flooding into Syria as well. And not just low level militants. Many were experienced commanders who had fought in multiple theaters.

The U.S. and its allies were now fully focused on taking down Assad’s government in Syria. As in Libya this regime change was to be framed in terms of human rights, and now overt support began to supplement the backdoor channels. The growing jihadist presence was swept under the rug and covered up.

However as the rebels gained strength, the reports of war crimes and atrocities that they were committing began to create a bit of a public relations problem for Washington. It then became standard policy to insist that U.S. support was only being given to what they referred to as”moderate” rebel forces.

This distinction, however, had no basis in reality.
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By the way, this also explains why Washington then decided to target Russia next.
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Though Obama plays the role of a weak, indecisive, liberal president, and while pundits from the right have had a lot of fun with that image, this is just a facade. Some presidents, like George W. Bush, rely primarily on overt military aggression. Obama gets the same job done, but he prefers covert means. Not really surprising considering the fact that Zbigniew Brzezinski was his mentor.

http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Covert_Origins_of_ISIS/37596/0/38/38/Y/M.html - 65k -

This is all fear-mongering. “They’re coming to America!” I am not scared one bit. They can’t come here and behead people. They rely upon the lawlessness of the lands they inhabit.

cold here like the ice age of 1980

Meanwhile, another volcanic eruption spews tons of volcanic debris into the atmosphere, negating all of the environmental improvements that we’ve (the whole world) have been able to muster.

“Papua New Guinea’s Rabaul caldera deposited ash and dust on local houses and fields, and amateur video showed an ominous scene. There’ve so far been no reports of injuries or deaths, but in 1994, an eruption destroyed the local town. Qantas has diverted some flights to avoid the area.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/08/29/holuhraun_b_r_arbunga_rabaul_iceland_eruption_isn_t_as_dangerous_as_papua.html

It’s wonderful to have a clean environment but in the end, the sun and the earth itself control our climate. Environmental scientists and people like Al Gore/Tom Steyer are mainly concerned with lining their pockets with money.

Welcome to 1990.

Perhaps we are in stages of deflation and this is just the beginning ??

That is the elephant in the room at the FED…World markets are suggesting that it is already taking hold in many economies..When you see Germany with a negative interest rate that right there is a giant red warning sign…Thats why I think rate hikes for us is farther out than what is being suggested…Rate hikes here would send the rest of the world economies into turmoil..It would send some into a depression…If rate hikes don’t happen in 2015 then they are likely not going to happen until after the 2016 election…

Ah, the infallible Fed argument again. Greenspan would never let house prices fall, we were told. Let’s put Goldman Sachs bankers in charge of entire countries, like Greece and Italy. They can’t fail. Central bankers can defy gravity, turn lead into gold. Keep the faith Al.

‘German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has bad news for anyone hoping the European Central Bank will ride to the rescue of the ailing euro region.’

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-29/germany-to-europe-help-isn-t-on-the-way?cmpid=yhoo