Spinning out of control------Yemen rebels take port city, province near capital

Yemen rebels take port city, province near capital - SFGate:

SANAA, Yemen — Shiite rebels who recently overran Yemen’s capital on Tuesday seized control of a key port city on the Red Sea and a province south of Sanaa in a stunning new blitz that is certain to deepen the country’s turmoil, security and military officials said.

The land grab indicates the rebels, also known as the Houthis, may be determined to carve out a mini-state within Yemen, taking advantage of the weakness of the central government and the disarray in the army and security forces.

The Shiite rebels’ offensive is the latest chapter in the chaos prevailing across much of this impoverished country on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

9 Ominous Signals: Is the stock market about to crash?

9 Ominous Signals: Is the stock market about to crash?:
The following article has been generously contributed by Michael Snyder, founder of The Economic Collapse Blog and author of The Beginning of the End.

Editor’s Note: Since the stock market’s reversal following the crash of 2008 to new highs today many observers have warned that the fundamental economic, financial and monetary problems that caused the crash to begin with have yet to be resolved. In fact, by all accounts things have only gotten worse. 
But you wouldn’t know it if you’ve only been paying to the official numbers being disseminated by the government or the constant blathering on about economic recovery from financial media pundits. 
Frankly, the whole of the industrialized world knows something is wrong and those with any sense are now just waiting for the system to finally buckle. 
We’re starting to see major gaps in economic progress – real estate is dropping like a brick, more people are exiting the labor force than ever before, and tens of millions of people per month are requesting social assistance from the government just so that they can put food on the table.

To put it mildly, the situation is deteriorating. 
Even the stock market, America’s pillar of financial success, is finally starting to crack. 
In the following article Michael Snyder highlights some critical signals that are appearing now. 
We saw them prior to the last crash, and while past performance is not a guarantee of future results, things are certainly looking ominous going into this holiday shopping season.

How long can the U.S. economy hold on to the facade?

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 9 Ominous Signals Coming From The Financial Markets That We Have Not Seen In Years
By Michael Snyder (Economic Collapse Blog)

Is the stock market about to crash?  Hopefully not, and there definitely have been quite a few “false alarms” over the past few years. 
But without a doubt we have been living through one of the greatest financial bubbles in U.S. history, and the markets are absolutely primed for a full-blown crash.  That doesn’t mean that one will happen now, but we are starting to see some ominous things happen in the financial world that we have not seen happen in a very long time. 
So many of the same patterns that we witnessed just prior to the bursting of the dotcom bubble and just prior to the 2008 financial crisis are repeating themselves again. 
Hopefully we still have at least a little bit more time before stocks completely crash, because when this market does implode it is going to be a doozy.

The following are 9 ominous signals coming from the financial markets that we have not seen in years…

UNBELIEVABLE: This Dem Governor Threatens to Release Mass Murderer if Not Re-Elected

UNBELIEVABLE: This Dem Governor Threatens to Release Mass Murderer if Not Re-Elected:

"It should be noted that Hickenlooper reacted to the Aurora movie shooting by crusading for unconstitutional gun laws that unfairly punish all law-abiding Coloradans. However, for the man who actually murdered citizens, the governor is not only considering sparing his life, but letting him loose on the streets of Colorado as a punishment for the state that refused to reelect him."

University to offer degree in ‘Social Justice Studies’

University to offer degree in ‘Social Justice Studies’
Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) will become the first school in Kentucky to offer a Social Justice Studies (SJS) degree emphasizing the “struggles for social justice.”

Students enrolled in the Social Justice Studies program will be educated in a variety of topics such as American Studies, anthropology, cultural and political geography, sociology, and political economy, and will gain an “understanding of justice and injustice and strategies by which problems can be overcome.”

"Such programs are necessary to educate students in enhancing the social, cultural and environmental health of the state."    Tweet This

“The interdisciplinary program will critically examine the cultural, economic and political dynamics of societal conflict and struggles for social justice among and between various groups and institutions,” according to a press release from EKU.

Union Leader Celebrates Failing School’s Performance

Union Leader Celebrates Failing School’s Performance [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia stopped at Flint Northwestern as part of statewide tour on Sept. 24 to celebrate it being moved off a Michigan Department of Education "priority schools list."
The state applies this label to the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, which makes them subject to increased supervision.
When Flint Northwestern finished among the bottom 6 percent instead, it dodged this status by two percentage points.
Academic outcomes at the school show little cause for celebration. Flint Northwestern had a four-year graduation rate of 66 percent in 2012-13 — its lowest in five years.
In 2010-11, it was ranked among the bottom 13 percent of Michigan public schools.
In 2011-12, it fell to the bottom 8 percent, and in 2012-13 joined the lowest 5 percent.
In that year, 17 percent of students scored proficient on the Michigan Merit Exam reading test. 
The school's ranking in the bottom 6 percent this year represents a marginal improvement after three years of decline.
Yet during her visit, Eskelsen Garcia said, “This is a school that did it right.” 
She told school employees, "To me, a really good school is one that's involving the whole community in caring for kids,"  
"We're moving up!" a Northwestern teacher said, according to a Michigan Education Association press release."

History for October 15

History for October 15 - On-This-Day.com
Virgil 70 B.C., Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 - German philosopher


Mario Puzo 1920, Lee Iacocca 1924, Penny Marshall 1942 


1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
 

1883 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race. 


1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre. 


1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason. 


1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution. 


1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV. 


1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missile sites in Cuba. On October 22U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordered the naval "quarantine" of Cuba. 


1964 - It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin. 


1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation. 


1984 - The Freedom of Information Act was passed. 


1993 - South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa. 

Obama Tried To Cut CDC Disease Preparedness Budget | The Daily Caller

Obama Tried To Cut CDC Disease Preparedness Budget | The Daily Caller:

"President Obama proposed to cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) funding in his fiscal year 2012 budget proposal."

SAVING Lives: Michigan Concealed Carrier Holds Would-Be Rapist at Gunpoint Until Police Arrive

SAVING Lives: Michigan Concealed Carrier Holds Would-Be Rapist at Gunpoint Until Police Arrive:
"When seconds count and the police are minutes away, a good guy with a gun can be what makes the difference. The mainstream media works very hard, it seems, to avoid reporting on the abundant supply of incidents that occur each and every day in America where a gun is used to save a life or prevent a violent crime."

Watch: Obama Could Be Calling His Lawyers After The Revelation Allen West Just Made

Watch: Obama Could Be Calling His Lawyers After The Revelation Allen West Just Made:

"Judge Jeanine Pirro remarked that the Obama Administration is violating federal law by reducing the military by 90,000 while simultaneously recruiting illegal immigrants into the armed services and arming them through unilateral executive order. Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Allen West joined the judge to discuss this unlawful action. Col. West agreed with Judge Jeanine’s comment that it is a felony to arm an illegal immigrant under Title 18 USC 922 (d)(5a)"

This Top Marine General Just Courageously Broke Rank To Deliver A Crushing Blow To Obama

This Top Marine General Just Courageously Broke Rank To Deliver A Crushing Blow To Obama:

"In reporting on Gen. Kelly’s warning about a possible flood of Ebola-infected illegal immigrants, the Daily Mail noted Kelly’s often-stated concern about the Obama administration’s lax border security policies worsening the Ebola problem for the United States:

Making matters potentially worse, Kelly warned that the same human trafficking networks responsible for bringing illegal immigrants northward through Mexico could unwittingly pass Ebola to the U.S. through their human cargo."

Bret Stephens: Obama Survival Manual, Intl. Edition

Bret Stephens: Obama Survival Manual, Intl. Edition - WSJ - WSJ:
"So Paul Krugman , who once called on
Alan Greenspan “to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble”;
who, a few months before the eurozone crisis erupted, praised Europe as “an economic success” that “shows that social democracy works”;
who, as the U.S. fracking revolution was getting under way, opined that America was “just a bystander” in a global energy story defined by “peak oil”;
and who, in 2012, hailed Argentina’s economy as a “remarkable success story”—
this guy now tells us, in Rolling Stone magazine, that Barack Obama has been a terrific president.
Which can only mean that the next two years are going to be exceptionally ugly. 
How to get through them?
I ask the question not as an exhortation to subscribe to Survivalist magazine, stock up on tuna fish and Zithromax, and master the arts of homolactic fermentation.
In fact, if you’re a resident of the U.S., you’ll probably be OK.
What Americans call a recession is what the rest of the world considers affluence. 
What we call disaster is what others know as existence."

You Might Be Surprised to See Which Republican Is Beating Hillary in a 2016 Battleground State Poll | TheBlaze.com

You Might Be Surprised to See Which Republican Is Beating Hillary in a 2016 Battleground State Poll | TheBlaze.com:
"Hillary Clinton actually trails former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and holds only the barest of leads over two likely Republican presidential contenders in a new poll out of Iowa.
The results — still within the margin of error in the new Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll — are the latest to cast shade on the former secretary of state’s perceived inevitability for 2016."

University initiative urges students to pee in the shower

University initiative urges students to pee in the shower - EAGnews.org

NORWICH, England – In a bid to “save water,” students are being urged to pee in the shower.
University of East Anglia students Debs Torr and Chris Dobson came up with the “Go with the Flow” campaign to get the “the university’s 15,000 students to take their first wee of the day while having their morning shower,” according to the BBC.
The duo claims the move could save the university £125,000 a year – or about 200,000 American dollars.
“We’ve done the maths, and this project stands to have a phenomenal impact,” Dobson tellsITV news.
“With 15,000 students at UEA, over a year we would save enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool 26 times over. 
Imagine how big an impact it could have if we could get everyone in East Anglia, or even the UK, to change their morning habits.”
While the initiative is not led by the university, it nonetheless endorses it.

VIDEO: Government Run School Thinks Showing a Video About Beheadings to 11-Year Olds is Appropriate

VIDEO: Government Run School Thinks Showing a Video About Beheadings to 11-Year Olds is Appropriate:

"Alvin ISD is located south of Houston. Parents of children subjected to the lesson in a 6th grade Language Arts class are irate, but the school district stands by the lesson as age-appropriate. They said there are no plans to reprimand the teacher."

U.S. General Warns of Potential Ebola-Driven 'Mass Migration' from South of Border

U.S. General Warns of Potential Ebola-Driven 'Mass Migration' from South of Border | CNS News: "Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, predicted last week that the Ebola virus will not be contained in West Africa, and if infected people flee those countries and spread the disease to Central and South America, it could cause “mass migration into the United States” of those seeking treatment.
“If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Kelly said in remarks to the National Defense University on Tuesday.
“They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment.
“The potential spread of Ebola into Central and Southern America is a real possibility,” the article written about the general’s speech and posted on the Department of Defense website on Wednesday stated."

POWERFUL: Brave Woman Confronts Muslim Mob on Video

POWERFUL: Brave Woman Confronts Muslim Mob on Video:

"Of course, we are reminded ad nauseum that Islam is a religion of peace. That very well may be, but the religion is also rife with people who are far from peaceful and we must be willing to confront this reality.
After decades of extreme measures to push for multiculturalism, Europe is now facing the consequences of having turned a blind eye to the dangers of radical Islam.
A brave Briton, Stacey Dooley, recently returned to her home in Luton, England, in order to document the effects of the tremendous influx of Muslims in her native community.
 Encountering a protest where Muslims marched and threatened police in accordance with their well-known propensity for peace, Dooley confronted the Muslim protesters who insulted her and hid behind their rhetoric. "

$498 MILLION just sittin' since 2010?!!......Now it's gonna "revitalize"?------$75M in federal funds to help fight blight in Hamtramck, Detroit, other Michigan cities

$75M in federal funds to help fight blight in Hamtramck, Detroit, other Michigan cities | Crain's Detroit Business:

LANSING — Michigan plans to fight blight in 12 cities using $75 million in federal funding, the latest in a series of efforts to deal with vacant and dilapidated buildings across the state.

The plans, created by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority, will help fund work in Detroit, Ecorse, Hamtramck, Highland Park, Inkster and River Rouge in Wayne County as well as Adrian, Ironwood, Jackson, Lansing, Muskegon Heights and Port Huron.
"For too long, blight has driven down property values and stifled growth in some of our communities," Gov. Rick Snyder said in a statement.
Snyder's office last week announced that the state's plans to use the $75 million were approved by the U.S. Treasury Department. 
Eligible cities were selected by MSHDA based on an evaluation system that included residential housing vacancy rates.
"This federal, state and local partnership demonstrates a commitment to revitalizing our cities and to addressing the damaging effects caused by vacant and blighted properties," said U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin.
The money is from $498 million the state was allocated in 2010 as part of the "Hardest Hit" program, designed to help homeowners in states that suffered the most from the housing crisis.

John Kerry pledges $212M U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas

John Kerry pledges $212M U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas | Creeping Sharia

“[T]here are two kinds of plunder: legal and illegal. Americans – if they look up from their government tethering devices for a second – can decide for themselves which type of plunder this is. Either way, they should be outraged. via US pledges $212M to Palestinians, Kerry says | Fox News.

CAIRO – The United States is promising $212 million in immediate assistance to the Palestinians as part of an international effort to rebuild the Gaza Strip after this summer’s 50-day war.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says people in Gaza “need our help desperately — not tomorrow, not next week, but they need it now.”

He announced the new money at a donor conference for the Palestinians in Cairo.

The Palestinians are seeking $4 billion in international aid.

If you want to know how the economy is doing, look inside America's mouth

If you want to know how the economy is doing, look inside America's mouth - CNET
"I am here to reveal, therefore, that the future of the American economy is in the hands of dentists. How do I know this? I have data before me that says the state of our mouths is sending us into a little recession.

Provided by business intelligence app Sikka, these numbers say America's economy is getting sicker.

Specifically, 2014 has seen a reduction in the purchase of crowns, veneers and implants from dentists. These are, allegedly, often cash payments and express a measure of the country's prosperity.

This year, dentists haven't managed a June surge in average daily net production. This doesn't augur well. Indeed, our teeth are chattering that there is to be a downturn.

CEO Vijay Sikka says that he's been collating dental data since 2008. He analyzed 12,200 dental practices and believes the results closely correlate with economic performance.

Sikka told me: "This is the first research of its kind to be published in the dental industry. We have an unprecedented ability to see real-time trends and data. What is happening in these providers' practices, with more than 300 million American patients represented, is tied to broader economic trends."

Interesting!-----Why Do We Have More Boys Than Girls?