10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Hurricane Michael – The 3rd Most Powerful Hurricane Ever To Make Landfall In The U.S.

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by Michael Snyder It wasn’t supposed to be like this.  Hurricane Michael was supposed to be a relatively minor storm as hurricanes go, but it just kept getting stronger and stronger as it approached the Florida panhandle.  And when it finally did make landfall, it was an absolutely monstrous storm with sustained maximum winds of … Read more

We Witnessed The 3rd Largest Point Crash In Stock Market History On The Same Day That The 3rd Most Powerful Hurricane To Ever Hit The U.S. Made Landfall

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by Michael Snyder If you don’t believe in “coincidences”, what are we supposed to make of this?  On Wednesday, the 3rd most powerful hurricane to ever hit the United States made landfall in the Florida panhandle.  Entire communities were absolutely shredded as Hurricane Michael came ashore with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour.  You can … Read more

“Concerned” Bank of England Raises Alarm about Growth of High-Risk Loans

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The power of Collateralized  Loan Obligations. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. “The global leveraged loan market is larger than – and growing as quickly as – the US subprime mortgage market was in 2006,” said the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee in the statement from its latest meeting. And the committee is … Read more

Infectious typhus, fueled by homeless, reaches epidemic levels in southern California

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by Dr. Eowyn Typhus, or typhus fever is an infectious disease spread by fleas. Symptoms can include high fever, headache, chills, and body aches, rashes and in some rare cases, meningitis and even death. KMI 640AM reports, Oct. 9, 2018, that health officials in Southern California are warning residents to be aware of a typhus outbreak that’s reached ‘epidemic’ levels in … Read more

Rising health-care costs are eating away at your wages and you may not even realize it

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Via Marketwatch Health-care costs are quietly eating away at American wages. Employer-sponsored insurance premiums have jumped dramatically in the last 20 years, from almost $6,000 in 1999 to more than $18,000 in 2016, according to a report released Wednesday by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive Washington-based economic think tank. Those health-care expenses accounted for 51.7% of … Read more

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Former Attorney General Eric Holder: “Michelle [Obama] always says, ‘When they go low, we go high.’ No. No. When they go low, we kick them.”

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Eric Holder tells group to physically kick Republicans Democrat Eric Holder: When Republicans Go Low, "We Kick Them" pic.twitter.com/IJ2Wlxt4FZ — Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) October 10, 2018 As Aaron Blake of the Washington Post adds, “This notably comes 2 days after Hillary Clinton justified Democrats not being civil.” UPDATE: In an article at the WaPo, Blake blames — … Read more

When the Market Crashes The Scenarios Make No Sense

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by Martin Armstrong Interest Rates have been on the rise since 2015.75 4th quarter. All of a sudden, the headlines claim U.S. stocks took a dump to close sharply lower because investors spooked by rising bond yields sold equities in all sectors. The Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP) fell 315.97 points, or 4.1%, to 7,422.05, its biggest decline … Read more

3 Big Retirement Vehicles Now Under Severe Stress

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From Birch Gold Group You’ve probably heard the saying, a rising tide lifts all boats. It means a strong or improving economy benefits everyone. And it should. The problem is, the “boats” that most people are in these days have leaks. It’s possible that you might not be aware of how big those leaks really are. … Read more

PLEASE: 35 States Tell the FCC to Get Off Its Ass and Do Something About Spoofed Robocalls.

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via gizmodo: Last November, the FCC created the 2017 Call Blocking Order, which is supposed to provide phone companies a means of weeding out and blocking robocalls. But a group of concerned attorneys general have observed that the robocall issue is getting worse, despite the order. In 2017, the Federal Trade Commission received 4.5 million complaints … Read more

CALIFORNIA’S CORPORATE BOARD QUOTAS: Yes, it’s unconstitutional for California to set quotas for women serving on boards of public corporations.

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via reason: California recently passed Senate Bill 826, a law requiring all publicly held corporations based in the state to have a minimum number of women on their boards. A corporation with four or fewer directors must have at least one woman on its board. If the board has five members, at least two women must be … Read more

ANALYSIS: TRUE. If Republicans Can Confirm Kavanaugh, They Can Repeal Obamacare.

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So Republican lawmakers do have spines after all. Who knew? Last weekend’s confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, notwithstanding the controversies surrounding his nomination, stemmed primarily from two sources. First, many Republican lawmakers objected to how Democrats politicized the nomination—holding allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh for more than a month, then leaking them days … Read more

The Banks Are NOT On You Side – Craig Hemke

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by Craig Hemke of Sprott Money News Certain precious metals analysts are once again claiming that, soon, the Banks will be “on your side”. This isn’t true, it hasn’t been true and it won’t ever be true so long as the fractional reserve and digital derivative pricing scheme continues. Since much of the current optimism is based upon … Read more

The mystery of the declining sperm rates in Western Males

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb0fJArn6z8 The rate of men being treated for infertility has increased 700 percent in the last 15 years – and their semen quality is plummeting, new research shows. Researchers in the US and Spain analyzed semen samples from two major fertility centers between 2002 and 2017. They found the number of men seeking treatment went … Read more