"Trump Voters Are Not Just Angry - They Want Revenge"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 - 16:40 The phenomenon of “The Donald” is rooted in a psyche far deeper and more consequential than next November’s presidential election. His support denotes an abiding distrust in - and disrespect for - the governing elite. These individuals do not like being told by Washington or Wall Street what is best for them, do not like the direction America is headed in, and disdain President Barack Obama and his (perceived) circle of self-righteous, tone-deaf governing partisans. Trump voters are not just angry - they want revenge.

Ontarians Urged To "Voluntarily" Pay More Taxes To Cut Province's Debt

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 - 19:15 Christmas is a time for giving and that is what Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is asking of her citizenry. With almost $300 billion in debt, and almost 1 in 10 dollars of revenue going to pay interest, and already facing the highest tax rates in North America, The Star reports that Ontario officials are asking that 'patriots' voluntarily donate their tax refund or write a cheque to defray the province's massive debtload.

2015: The Year That Exposed The "Experts" And Left The "Smart-Crowd" Dumbfounded

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 - 18:40 It wasn’t supposed to be this way. We were all told by the “experts” and the so-called “smart crowd” ad nauseam the economy and markets of 2015 were “ready for lift off.” Proclamations that GDP and other economic metrics were indeed going to be the unquestionable catalyst to help propel not only the markets themselves ever higher, but also, prove all the nay-sayers as well as data-deniers wrong. The problem? It was the exact opposite. 2015 exposed the sole overarching fundamental principle the “experts” refused to calculate into their qualitative analysis. That fundamental? Without the continuing interventionism of the Federal Reserve – there is no market. Period.

WalMart Works With FBI, MIC To Spy On "Problem" Employees

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 - 18:05 Evil corporate America meets oppressive police state: “When we received word of potential strikes and disruptive activity on Black Friday 2012, that’s when we started to ask the ARC to work with us. ARC had contracted with Lockheed leading up to Black Friday to help source open social media sites.”

David Collum: The Next Recession Will Be A Barn-Burner

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 - 17:30 For those who enjoyed his encyclopedic 2015: Year In Review, this week we spend an hour with David Collum to ask: After processing through all of that information, what do you think the future is most likely to bring? Perhaps it comes as little surprise that he sees the global economy headed back down into recession, one that will be deeper and more damaging than the 2008 crisis...

Warmongering Pays - US Foreign Arms Sales Soar 35%

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 - 16:55 If ever there was a clearer indication of America's "need for war" it was the latest Durable Goods orders data, which confirmed, absent defense spending, the US economy is in a tail-spin. However, as NYTimes reports, foreign arms sales by the United States jumped by almost $10 billion in 2014, about 35 percent, even as the global weapons market remained flat and competition among suppliers increased, thanks to multibillion-dollar agreements with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and South Korea.

Another Bubble Pops: Used Boeing 777 Sells For 97% Off List Price

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 - 15:42 Ten days ago, Delta CEO Richard Anderson sent shockwaves through the aviation industry when he announced he had just purchased a used Boeing 777 for the paltry price of $7.7 million. Here is the punchline: Boeing’s list price for a new 777-200ER is $277.3 million, meaning Delta is buying a used 777 at a price 97.2% lower than the value of a new 777.

Atlas Shrugged-er: Government Now Preying On High School Graduates

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 - 15:10 Louisiana’s board of education is going to implement a new policy which requires all students to fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid in order to receive a high school diploma. This requirement in Louisiana is exactly the type insane laws which were imposed by the Government as described in the narrative laid out in “Atlas Shrugged.” Acts of mandate which enabled the Government and the corporate friends of the Government to suck wealth from the populace and from productive workers and redistribute the largesse among themselves.

ISIS Head Calls For Global Jihad; Here Are Some Muslim Responses

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 - 14:35 "I've got Star Wars on Sunday, maybe later"...

The Credit Crunch Is Back: Banks Scramble To Collateralize Loans To Record Levels

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 - 13:31 Banks have finally woken up to the risk their billions in C&I loans issued to fund "financial engineering" are exposed to. The reaction: an unprecedented surge in loan collateralization, with the percent of total loans secured by collateral soaring by nearly 50% in the past quarter to a record 55.9%, the highest ever!

The Second Amendment and Its Relevance in Today’s Society

from Survival Blog:

Amendment II (the Second Amendment) of the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights declares a well-regulated militia as “being necessary to the security of a free State” and prohibits infringement of “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” It is a controversial subject whose ramifications are still being debated to this day, over two-hundred and thirty years after it was written. Its place in the Bill of Rights as the Second Amendment is indicative of how important our nation’s founding fathers thought that right should be. It is still relevant in today’s society, despite haphazard attempts at gun control. This is evidenced by other countries’ takes on gun control, regulation, or lack of it.
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David Collum: The Next Recession Will Be A Barn-Burner

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Bill Clinton And The Pedophile: The Sex Scandal That Could Destroy Hillary’s Presidential Ambitions

from The Sleuth Journal:

Why did a convicted billionaire pedophile named Jeffrey Epstein that pimped out underage girls to powerful men have 21 contact phone numbers for Bill Clinton?  And why did Clinton fly on “multiple occasions” to the private Caribbean island where Epstein regularly held wild sexual orgies?  Let me give you a hint: it was not to discuss politics over milk and cookies.  Every once in a while, we get a small peek into the twisted sexual world of the global elite.  In this case, a Florida lawsuit that alleges that Britain’s Prince Andrew had sex with a 17-year-old “sex slave” provided by Epstein is making headlines all over the planet.  But of potentially even greater importance is what this lawsuit is revealing about Bill Clinton.  If it can be proven that Bill Clinton had sex with underage girls provided by Jeffrey Epstein, that could potentially destroy any chance that Hillary Clinton has of winning the presidency in 2016.

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Right After Donald’s Comment, What Happened To Hillary Caused Trump To Shout ‘Staged!’

from Western Journalism:

Donald Trump, who remains the GOP front-runner in the in the presidential primary race, issued likely Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton a sober warning.
“The Hillary Clinton staged event yesterday was pathetic. Be careful Hillary as you play the war on women or women being degraded card,” Trump tweeted Wednesday.
The battle between Trump and Clinton has escalated as the two candidates issued personal attacks on the other’s campaign in stump speeches. The latest episode involves women and bullying.
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