Firing On All Cylinders Replaced By A Downshift
A report from Better Dwellings on Canada. “Empty homes are a unique Vancouver real estate problem. There’s been so much land speculation in the tiny city, that people are literally just buying homes to have them sit empty – sometimes for years. Actually, sometimes for decades. There are currently 4,799 homes listed for sale according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, and 463 have never been occupied. This was determined by using voluntarily identifying language from the listing agents, having said things like ‘never been occupied’ or ‘never lived in.’ The oldest place the algorithm found was a condo unit built in 1989, but ‘never lived in.’ The listing at 1235 West Broadway, Vancouver is a 1,885 sqft. condo with 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and an extensive recent renovation. It’s currently listed for $2,698,000.”
The Vancouver Sun. “The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), the federal agency mandated to detect and combat money laundering, examined about 220 real estate companies in B.C. between 2012 and mid-2016, finding 112 companies with ’significant’ levels of non-compliance and five with ‘very significant’ non-compliance, according to records obtained by Postmedia News through an access to information request.”
“In the past year, FINTRAC has ramped up scrutiny of real estate — particularly in B.C. In an operational brief this week intended for banks and real estate professionals, the agency highlighted the Canadian housing market’s vulnerability to money laundering. The 12-page FINTRAC brief also notes the ‘minimal’ filing of suspicious transaction reports in Canadian real estate, with 127 reports filed on five million sales over 10 years.”
Business in Vancouver. “What started as a local landlord reaction to high vacancy rates has now become a corporate strategy: reducing rents in Alberta multi-family properties to hold and attract tenants as the vacancy rate soars to the highest level in 25 years. Toronto’s Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (CAPREIT), which last year purchased a portfolio of 19 Metro Vancouver apartment buildings and holds more than 46,000 other rental units across the country, has reduced rents across its entire Alberta apartment portfolio ‘in order to increase occupancies and reduce turnovers,’ the trust said.”
“The big REIT is not alone among landlords cutting Calgary rents. Mark Hawkins, who owns the rental listing website RentFaster.ca, said rental reductions are now common in the city. The average rent for all Calgary properties listed on RentFaster.ca has plunged 33% from a peak of $2,137 in July 2014 to $1,426 in October 2016. ‘For landlords, it’s a very, very difficult time simply because the vacancy rates are very high,’ said Gerry Baxter, executive director of the Calgary Residential Rental Association.”
“Baxter said many landlords have considered rent reductions, especially when it’s time to renew a lease, in a bid to keep their properties occupied. ‘What I hear from many landlords is if they’ve got good tenants, you want to keep them,’ he said.”
From CBC News Edmonton. “Average housing rental prices in Edmonton have dropped 12 per cent in the past year, and it’s pushing landlords to offer creative incentives. Everything from free cable to free utilities, or a free month in exchange for signing a one-year lease, are on the table for would-be renters. According to Rentfaster.ca, there are currently 3,676 Edmonton listings on its website. Last year at this time, there were only 2,396 rental properties listed. Their vacancy rate is now between seven and eight-and-a-half per cent.”
“‘The higher end properties have been the ones hit the hardest,’ said Mark Hawkins, president of Rentfaster.ca.”
“For those renting and managing properties, the decrease in rental prices seems even worse than the statistics show. John Mclean manages more than 100 properties and says he has noticed a 20 to 25 per cent decrease in rental prices. ‘There was a time when downtown, we were renting an apartment for say, $1,250 for a one bedroom suite,’ said Mclean of Castlegate Property Management. ‘We’re now lucky if we’re getting a thousand dollars for it. They (landlords) are looking for someone that covers their costs. There’s been some cases where we’re barely covering those costs at all. It just makes it tough on both ends.’”
The Saskatoon Star Phoenix. “Remember that small but mighty prairie burg firing on all cylinders, setting growth records in population and job creation, with a booming housing market to match? That Saskatoon is gone — replaced by a city in downshift. Garnet Greer, business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 529, estimates a quarter of his membership is out of work right now. He fears it could get worse before it gets better.”
“Meanwhile, the tightening job market is leading to cutthroat competition for smaller commercial projects, according to Greer. He said out-of-province workers are coming in and working for lower pay. He could not say exactly how much lower, ‘but it is substantial,’ he said. Recent numbers confirm what the closing storefronts and proliferating ‘for rent’ signs suggest: an economic slowdown in Saskatoon.”
“The once-brisk pace of housing construction has slowed — especially for duplexes, apartments and townhouses. In its most recent housing market reports for Saskatoon and area, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation said there is ’strong evidence of overbuilding.’ In August, 546 multi-units were completed but unsold — more than twice the five-year average and three times the ten-year average. That is despite a 24 per cent drop in multi-unit starts in the first eight months of the year, from the same period last year.”
“Chris Guerette, CEO of the Saskatoon & Region Home Builders Association, acknowledged ‘the industry just overshot a bit’ and predicted it will take a couple of years for multi-units ‘to clear.’ She attributed the weakened demand to falling commodity prices making people more cautious about home purchases.”
‘They (landlords) are looking for someone that covers their costs. There’s been some cases where we’re barely covering those costs at all.’
And we all know what comes next.
The answer is D.Fault.
Not giving it away?
I spoke with a lady yesterday who wants to sell her home but is having a difficult time with reality. She thinks it is worth more than what Mr. Market says and gets very offended with realtors she’s spoken to who have given her market estimates less than what she thinks her house should sell for.
This is what happens when the market has been distorted for so long. The bubble has, in itself, been part of the whole fake news phenomenon.
Interesting you mention the Fake News. I was just reading an article decrying other governments’ “disinformation” campaigns. I contrasted that to our media. And I discovered the difference:
1) Other countries’ disinformation campaigns will a) make stuff up out of whole cloths and b) create a narrative by cherry-picking data (i.e. ignoring data points which don’t support the narrative and emphasizing data points which do support the narrative).
2) The US mainstream media doesn’t make (usually) stuff up out of whole cloth, but it most assuredly creates a narrative by cherry-picking data.
The end result of both practices is the same: the news consumer does not get an accurate picture of reality.
I wholeheartedly disagree. The US mainstream media is peddling pure fiction, as evidenced by the campaign coverage.
When the DNC gets its permanent Democratic majority, you, sir, are headed for the Gulag for Irredeemable Deplorables. See you on the chain gang!
‘Fresh data from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver revealed a massive 38.8 per cent year-over-year decline in home sales last month, a development that has provoked anxiety among observers wary of the effects of a recently-implemented foreign buyers’ tax and far-reaching changes to federal mortgage rules.’
‘Experts warned that the combination of the tax and the regulatory revisions might prove too much for the Vancouver market, which is already exposed to major housing risks due to overheating and overvaluation.’
“[Vancouver] is in a full-blown correction,” David Madani of Capital Economics told CBC News. “Introducing [the new rules] now, the risk is that this could be the trigger or catalyst that everyone fears the most.”
‘The analyst hastened to add, however, that this correction should be attributed to the credit cycle that led to record-low interest rates and a heavily leveraged client base, rather than to the foreign buyers’ tax.’
“Anything that reduces the amount of credit available to purchase a home will slow the market down,” Madani explained. “So the housing mess that’s been created over the past decades or so, it’s not just about low interest rates, it’s about the increased leverage in the system.”
‘These sentiments echoed those of Dominion Lending Centres’ Dustan Woodhouse, who earlier this month stated that the regulatory revisions burdened middle-class would-be home buyers unnecessarily.’
“It is also worth noting that previous to Oct 17, 2016 the income required for this same purchase price was ~$88,000.00 per year. In other words an experienced police officer, teacher, nurse, or firefighter could pretty much pull that $597,000.00 purchase off on their own income.”
‘Woodhouse argued that instead of getting at the root of the price growth problem, the new rules only succeeded in penalizing would-be buyers who have stable verified income streams, exemplary credit scores, and no consumer debt loads.’
“They [will need to] get themselves a $20,000 raise before they buy what they could have bought. Exactly what so many before them have bought, and what just ~0.30% of CDN’s ever stop making payments on.”
“So the housing mess that’s been created over the past decades or so, it’s not just about low interest rates, it’s about the increased leverage in the system.”
^^^THIS.
“when u grossly overpay for an asset because you can finance it, here is your sign.”
And now for something from the Arctic Monkeys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T9mRgjXu18
The oligarchs who have spent billions capturing every mainstream media outlet and formulating The Narrative must be foaming with rage at seeing the awake and aware getting their news and information from “right wing” (i.e. truth-telling) websites.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/11/19/breitbart-news-hits-300-million-pageviews-45-million-uniques-last-31-days/
Oligarchs narrative is six syllables ZOMG
NPR real journalists can’t control the narrative when it airs live:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/11/19/npr-pollak-interview-no-live-interviews-right/
Remember, it is not the content of the narrative, it is control of the narrative that matters most. The narrative, once scripted, must be controlled.
“NPR listeners were apparently outraged that anyone from Breitbart News had been given an opportunity to defend the website and its chairman.”
Real people are starting to get sick of the ‘Alarmed and Anxious’ Special Snowflakes outrage.
Several people told me this week they were not happy with the results of the 2012 Presidential election (a couple had voted for Obama in 08) but they went to work not to riot.
Soros didn’t write them any checks, evidently.
Cracker - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5woFxnekqo8&list=RD5woFxnekqo8#t=0
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMmTkKz60W8
On ((Bloomberg)) radio today they interviewed ((Larry summers)) about what advice he’d give trump, lol! Guy can’t run a lemonade stand, but he did manage to stay awake for the interview. Babbled about what you’d expect from a loser like him.
They also interviewed some hag whose name I didn’t catch, probably ((Susan rice)) or ((Victoria nuland)) and asked what advice she’d give trump on dealing with Russia. She said she doubt if trump would ask, but if she did she wouldn’t tell him! Guess she wants to keep the secret to her successful policies to herself, lol!
These ((losers)) are talentless nobodies who couldn’t get a job except through fraud and deceit, their chief talents.
When will Uncle Sam kick out the Chinese residential real estate investors the way that Canada did?
Why would we turn down investment?
1. Raise taxes off foreigners instead of American families
2. Free up working American families from the burden of unaffordable housing, with the high rent payments flowing to Chinese landlords
Why WOULDN’T we take measures to create these favorable outcomes?
3. Prevent the neighborhood decay that occurs with empty, unmaintained properties.
I’m going to look into putting a ballot measure to place a 15% foreign buyer tax for home purchases in California.
They need to invest in iowa electronic market.
American in visa limbo has a message for fellow citizens hoping to move to Canada: ‘There is a wall already’
Well, I, for one, hope it works out for them. So they can “plan their future”.
I love how naive Americans think they can just waltz into another country and be allowed to stay and work.
Other countries jealously protect their job markets, both via protectionism and an immigration system that pretty much keeps foreigners out of their labor force (tourists and financially independent retirees are welcome). I can’t think of another industrialized country that mollycoddles illegal immigrants the way we do. To be fair, other (European) countries do roll out the welcome mat for protected class refugees, but technically those people are not illegal immigrants.
All true.
Ever try to get a job overseas without having a sponsor? Good luck with that.
And even though the guy in the story is married to a Canuck, he’s been waiting over two years for a visa. From Canada. Now imagine trying to get an immigrant visa for any European country, or Japan, Korea or China.
Sure, if you have special, in demand skills you might be able to get a temporary work permit (say for 6 months). But the equivalent of a Green Card will be next to impossible to get for an average Joe.
The Financial Times
US Inflation
US Treasury yields hit new highs on Dudley remarks
NY Fed president says he is increasingly optimistic about meeting inflation target
© Reuters
November 18, 2016
by: Joe Rennison and Wataru Suzuki in New York
US Treasury yields jumped to new highs for the year after New York Federal Reserve president William Dudley said inflation expectations were “well-anchored” and that he was optimistic the central bank’s inflation target would be met in the “next few years”.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since December 2015, rising to 2.35 per cent before falling slightly to 2.32 per cent. The US dollar also rose against the euro, British sterling and the Japanese yen, sending the dollar index to its highest level in more than 13 years.
Mr Dudley was speaking at the release of the New York Fed’s consumer expectations survey, which includes details on household inflation. Three-year consumer inflation expectations fell from 2.86 to 2.58 per cent between June and October but Mr Dudley said the recovery in the rate over the course of 2016, compared to 2015, confirms that inflation expectations are well-anchored.
“They certainly seem to be,” said Mr Dudley. “That combined with an economy that continues to grow above trend, that is generating respectable payroll gains, certainly is consistent with the notion that we should be increasingly optimistic that we will reach our inflation objectives over the next few years.”
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Do you guys remember those promissory notes back by gold that got this whole party started? How times have changed.
This is how times have changed.
http://endthefed.org
10% mort rate spike going into winter
=winter of discontent
Seeing some articles already
GTFO, neocons. And don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-19/war-breaks-out-between-neo-cons-and-libertarians-over-trumps-foreign-policy
Note to McCain and Graham: be afraid, be very afraid.
Without using a search engine, can you tell me what ths is from?
Now some they do and some they don’t
And some you just can’t tell
And some they will and some they won’t
With some it’s just as well
Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger (promise I didn’t cheat)
Very good.
I heard that for the first time in many years on the way back from a job yesterday and got a phone call after that line, the song was over when I got off the phone and I had to use a search engine when I got home to find out who it was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd0-6zGkQe0
One of the best songs from one of the best albums ever: Breakfast in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsV-rQ23bus
That album is one of my favorites too!
Another Supertramp song (from the late ’70s) that perfectly describes what caused the 2008 financial crisis: banksters played their part, but so too did millions of FBs who signed for mortgages they couldn’t afford, and tens of millions of stupid voters who sanctioned Wall Street’s fraud and swindles by voting for its political water carriers, i.e. Obama, McCain, and Romney.
Now they’re planning the crime of the century
Well what will it be?
Read all about their schemes and adventuring
It’s well worth a fee
So roll up and see
And they rape the universe
How they’ve gone from bad to worse
Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory?
Rip off the masks and let see.
But that’s not right - oh no, what’s the story?
There’s you and there’s me
Thank you for that
Merkel is delusional if she thinks German voters are going to give her a fourth term after she foisted over a million unwanted Third World migrants on their communities. The globalists have had their day and now the populist-nationalists are going to have to set right everything they screwed up.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-20/merkel-seek-fourth-term-german-chancellor
I think other Euros might follow the Trump wave, but not the Germans. While she will lose ground, I think her party/coalition will retain control (for now)
Steve Eisman (played by Steve Carrol in The Big Short) thinks Italian banks are in trouble.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/nov/19/big-short-financial-crash-steve-eisman-italy-banks-risk
Sunday funnies from TBP. Enjoy!
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/11/20/sunday-funnies-139/
As always, thanks for posting those. Some good stuff there, especially Obamacare.
My pleasure, Palmy.
A perfect storm is converging on Italy’s banking system.
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/11/20/italys-banking-crisis-debt-for-equity-swap-retail-investors-pay/
They just keep rolling out Meet The Press, Face The Nation and
This Week with George Stephanopoulos as if there is anyone besides the Special Snowflakes and the ‘Alarmed and Anxious’ who believe what they are saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyS3Ghevf2I
One must remember that many of those on the Coasts have extremely limited knowledge of flyover country.
I am not just talking about people of influence on the Coasts. I am talking about nearly all of them.
Remember our own Download Joe, our attorney / government subcontractor? He thought himself enlightened after visiting Pittsburgh (his first time) for three days.
A true pompous @ss.
As the European sheeple discover that the globalism and “fundamental transformation” they voted for isn’t much to their liking, as they don’t appreciate their “cultural enrichment” and its costs, so-called “far right” parties and leaders are going from strength to strength.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/marine-le-pen-poll-election-odds-latest-french-presidential-lead-sarkozy-a7428126.html
MSM “news shaping” techniques may have had some unintended consequences in this past US election:
• I was having a discussion with some Democrat friends. They complained about how much free airtime Trump received. I noted that they probably gave Trump the airtime and the kid-glove treatment during the primaries because they were trying to influence the Republicans to select the most un-electable candidate.
• THEN, when the general election started, they presented one candidate as essentially inevitable, the election as a mere formality, with the other being completely unelectable. This had the unintended consequence of suppressing Democrat turnout (e.g. Democrats made less of an effort to get to the polls as their candidate was inevitable).
The MSM wields a tremendous amount of power, as they present the information which flows in over the bullhorns that are installed in most people’s homes (television, radio, Internet). I wonder if going forward, political races will be covered differently as a result of lessons learned from this election.
Remember The Narrative: any and all “gun violence” is always the fault of the gun, never of the thug wielding it or the corrupt, incompetent Democrat politicians who preside over our urban dystopias.
https://www.rt.com/usa/367547-chicago-danny-davis-jovan-wilson-shot/
Haha… over a pair of tennis shoes. Ghetto.
What a nightmare for the globalist oligarchs: 61 million awake and aware Americans who aren’t going to go quietly into the globalists’ incorporated neoliberal plantation or embrace their serfdom.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/18/enter-the-honey-badger/
Oh dear. Contributions to the Clinton Foundation have dropped precipitiously now that Crooked Hillary won’t be in any position to broker pay-to-play deals and serve as a president-for-hire. The heat will be on Chelsea to run for some sort of political office to kickstart the Clinton Crime Family’s payola rackets.
http://nypost.com/2016/11/20/donations-to-clinton-foundation-fell-by-37-percent/
No prospect of power, no donation. As simple as that.
No wonder they want Chelsea to run for CONgress.
If Sessions is actually serious about upholding the law, even on members of the .1%, a lot of the Clinton’s ill-gotten gains are going to be eaten up on legal fees trying to keep Crooked Hillary out of prison.
Oligarchs do not appreciate having their influence-peddling exposed in the media.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/20/duchess-of-york-demands-25-million-for-news-of-the-world-fake-sh/
“The cash plummeted as Hillary Clinton left the nonprofit in April 2015 after announcing her ill-fated candidacy.”
Sounds like…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3HFXSgWps8
Hey Donald, you’ve got more important things to do than lecture the cast of a Broadway play. If you really want to sort them out, rule out any taxpayer or Fed bailouts of Wall Street once the next financial crisis hits, and then the chattering classes who see Broadway plays will shift to survival mode while the cast members fight over dishwashing gigs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3953810/Couldn-t-memorize-lines-Trump-continues-Twitter-feud-Hamilton-cast-tweeting-attack-delete-moments-later.html
Get rid of the National Endowment for the Arts and other such subsidies. One thing I’ve learned from this election cycle is how much money all these “foundations” have. Let them fund this crap.
Always keep in mind the GEOGRAPHIC distribution of money.
It’s often more of matter of where it is than of who has it.
Once you learn WHERE the money is, examine voter behavior geographically.
Washington DC is the wealthiest metropolitan area in the country. It votes routinely 85-90% Democrat.
These very people say they your best interests at heart.
NYC has a big tourism industry. People travel from all over the country to see Broadway plays.
Elitists and globalists travel from all over the world to see Broadway plays.
Naturally, the Hamilton cast is going to be all upset. They know they have specific people to please.
Musicals are pretty middlebrow affairs. They’re preferred by middle Americans who travel to NYC and go directly to Times Square to clog up the sidewalks. The true theater elitists favor obscure off-Broadway stuff.
Mike Pence is an example of the kind of person I’m talking about. I read that Hamilton will be going on tour soon. It’ll probably draw big crowds in places like Indianapolis, Tulsa and so forth.
NYC has a big tourism industry. People travel from all over the country to see Broadway plays.
I bet you look good in your Captain Obvious costume.
Pence’s response to the churlishness of the “Hamilton” cast and audience members was classy. I hope he’ll keep The Donald focused on That Which Matters and let the rest slide. Being booed by a bunch of NYC asswipes doesn’t rate a Twitter response. The best revenge will be cutting off the Fed’s financial crack cocaine and then waving to the “Hamilton” cast and crew when his motorcade passes their soup line.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-20/mike-pence-hamilton-i-wasnt-offended-thats-what-freedom-sounds
Since counties that pay slave-labor wages and don’t care about pollution or workers’ rights are the chief beneficiaries of globalism, they are also its biggest cheerleaders outside of Manhattan and The Hamptons.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/11/20/china-will-not-shut-the-door-on-globalisation-president-xi-jinpi/
Something to ponder with Thanksgiving coming up.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/11/20/thanks-for-nothing-and-everything/
But…but…The Narrative tells us guns are evil and should not be allowed in civilian hands.
http://www.winknews.com/2016/11/14/police-activity-blocks-i-75-sb-at-exit-123/
Wah…even “progressive” journalists are calling out the DNC on its failure to take responsibility for its repudiation by American voters.
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/18/the-stark-contrast-between-the-gops-self-criticism-in-2012-and-the-democrats-blame-everyone-else-posture-now/
The Fed makes another farcical attempt to show it is not an accomplice to the Wall Street grifters, when its “No Billionaire Left Behind” monetary policies and all the “former” Goldman Sachs executives who occupy the top-tier positions at the Fed are running rackets - QE-to-Infinity and ZIRP - that benefit only the .1% in the financial sector at the expense of everyone else.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-18/fed-makes-it-tougher-for-former-officials-to-work-on-wall-street
Challenges to The Narrative must always result in independent media personalities being smeared as racist or anti-Semetic. Because providing real news and real truth to the proles is beyond the pale.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/11/19/steve-bannons-real-crime-providing-deplorables-news-alternative/
Chucky Schumer: Democrats are not going to help Trump build his wall. Of course not. Walling out millions of Democrat-on-Arrival illegal aliens and lifetime dependency voters would be anathema to the DNC.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/11/20/schumer-we-are-not-going-to-help-trump-build-his-wall/
Wanna good laugh?
Watch the following videos - and there’s a special at the end re: Obama. Spaceboing does pretty well I must say.
(Not to worry you Trump haters out there, there are take-offs on him as well. There are others of Hillary as well)
We Came, We Saw, They Died / Because I’m A Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqYJRc0TJkQ
Hacking Hillary / Clapping Tim (Live in Concert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1NhtqEHirs
Robot Hillary MIsfunction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTr-WIvZCJc
If - starring Obama, with special appearance by Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poz6W0znOfk
Second one down at 34 seconds Tim Kaine looks like Arnie Grape.
Now that’s just…Deplorable.
RON PAUL REVEALS HIT LIST OF ALLEGED ‘FAKE NEWS’ JOURNALISTS
RT - NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Former congressman Ron Paul revealed a list of “fake news” journalists he claims are responsible for “bogus wars” and lies about Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the election. Journalists from CNN, the New York Times, and the Guardian are included.
“This list contains the culprits who told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and lied us into multiple bogus wars,”according to a report on his website, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Paul claims the list is sourced and “holds a lot more water”than a list previously released by Melissa Zimdars, who is described on Paul’s website as “a leftist feminist professor.”
“These are the news sources that told us ‘if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,’” he said. “They told us that Hillary Clinton had a 98% of winning the election. They tell us in a never-ending loop that ‘The economy is in great shape!’”
CNN is Paul’s biggest alleged culprit, with nine entries, followed by the NY Times and MSNBC, with six each. The NY Times has recently come under fire from President-elect Donald Trump, who accuses them of being “totally wrong” on news regarding his transition team, while describing them as “failing.”
http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-reveals-hit-list-of-alleged-fake-news-journalists/
Don’t forget about the article I posted about two weeks ago. I you haven’t read this, I suggest you do. Strongly.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/01/22/the-neoconservative-movement-is-trotskyism/
NeoCons = Progressives. That they lied to us is not a surprise. NeoCons have been working for one-world government, too.
The article discusses how NeoCons found their roots in Trotskyism.
I’ve said this before: while there is certainly overlap, the two groups are not identical.
Take Obamacare.
Conservative Neocons want to repeal it.
Progressive Neocons want to expand it.
I believe they are hitting Stage 2
The 5 Stages of Grief
1. Denial & Isolation
The first reaction to learning about the terminal illness, loss, or death of a cherished loved one is to deny the reality of the situation. “This isn’t happening, this can’t be happening,” people often think. It is a normal reaction to rationalize overwhelming emotions. It is a defense mechanism that buffers the immediate shock of the loss. We block out the words and hide from the facts. This is a temporary response that carries us through the first wave of pain.
2. Anger
As the masking effects of denial and isolation begin to wear, reality and its pain re-emerge. We are not ready. The intense emotion is deflected from our vulnerable core, redirected and expressed instead as anger. The anger may be aimed at inanimate objects, complete strangers, friends or family. Anger may be directed at our dying or deceased loved one. Rationally, we know the person is not to be blamed. Emotionally, however, we may resent the person for causing us pain or for leaving us. We feel guilty for being angry, and this makes us more angry.
Gigi Hadid Mocks Melania Trump’s Accent at AMAs
Mark Dice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDv7l2UFoRo
Green Day - “No Trump! No KKK! No Fascist USA!” Chant at AMAs
Mark Dice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUwM47g-220