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Americans can no longer afford mobile-homes


Stock Board Asset
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 20:57 UTC
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A little over a month ago, after we first brought the market's attention to the crisis quietly unfolding in consumer debt, Business Insider has finally caught up, acknowledging that "lower-income consumers and younger borrowers with substantial student debt moving at a slower pace than more affluent and established participants." In other words, Bussiness Insider describes the economy as running at 'two speeds,' and mentions an ominous warning sign that lower-income consumers are entirely tapped out.

Without consumption, the US economy would collapse. Consumption accounts for about 70 percent of US GDP. Further, there are some 95 million Americans out of the labor force. The rosy narratives of how millennials and low-income consumers are propping up the economy are starting to fade, as Business Insider through a new UBS report -provides the knowledge that the "mobile-home market is showing signs of stress."

According to the consumer research desk at UBS, Americans can no longer afford mobile-homes, as the delinquency rate on these tiny trailers has soared two percentage points, over the past year. In fact, what is even more mindboggling, is the 30-day-plus delinquency level is now about five percent, not seen since the first quarter of 2005 or a few years after the dot-com bubble.

Comment: Are Trump's tax cuts too little too late? The economic downward spiral continues and there may not be much anyone can do. See also:

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Israel kills Palestinians and the Western liberal sham of 'humanitarian intervention' is laid bare

Mehdi Hasan
The Intercept
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:55 UTC
Israeli troops
© Majdi Mohammed/AP
Israeli troops fire teargas at protesters during a clashes following a protest to mark the Land Day, in the village of Qusra, near the West Bank City of Nablus, Friday, March 30, 2018.
"If the concept of intervention is driven by universal human rights, why is it - from the people who identify themselves as liberal interventionists - why do we never hear a peep, a word, about intervening to protect the Palestinians?"

That was the question I put to the French philosopher, author, and champion of liberal (or humanitarian) interventionism, Bernard-Henri Lévy, on my Al Jazeera English interview show "Head to Head" in 2013.

The usually silver-tongued Levy struggled to answer the question. The situation in Palestine is "not the same" as in Syria and "you have not all the good on one side and all the bad on the other side," said Levy, who once remarked in reference to the Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF, that he had "never seen such a democratic army, which asks itself so many moral questions."

I couldn't help but be reminded of my exchange with the man known as "BHL" this past weekend, as I watched horrific images of unarmed Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border being shot in the back by the "democratic army" of Israel. How many "moral questions" did those Israeli snipers ask themselves, I wondered, before they gunned down Gazan refugees for daring to demand a return to their homes inside the Green Line?
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If Western media spoke honestly about how they cover Russia here's what they'd say...

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
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Today's Caitlin Johnstone article has been replaced with a statement from the Editorial Board of the National News Conglomerate, your trusted source for real news and authorized opinions. Obey.

Well, this is awkward.

Many of our readers have been pointing out the recent revelations that some rather significant falsehoods have been knowingly advanced by the British government about Russia and promoted uncritically by trusted media outlets of the western world. Following said revelations, there have been some attempts by the Foreign Office and those same media outlets to cover up said falsehoods.

Rather than double down and risk making a bad situation worse, we here at National News Conglomerate have decided to come clean with our readers about exactly what's going on with this whole Russia kerfuffle.

It should here be noted that after typing the preceding paragraph, we here at the NNC Editorial Board have spent the last six and a half hours sitting around the conference room table chewing on our erasers and checking our Twitter notifications, not quite sure how to continue. This is the first time we've ever tried being honest with our readers about this stuff, and it's just weird for everyone. We are sure you can relate.

Comment: Yeah, that sounds about right.

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Star of David

Corbyn attends left-wing Jewish group's Passover event... and is attacked regardless


RT
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
After having anti-Semitic accusations hurled at him, Jeremy Corbyn is now being slammed for spending time with Jews. He attended a Passover celebration run by left-wing group Jewdas, copping ire from other Jewish groups and MPs.

Corbyn stopped by the Passover Seder in his home constituency of Islington, and - according to one of the attendees - he stayed for four hours and was an active participant in the event's rituals. A representative of Corbyn said he had not attended the function in his capacity as Labour leader, but in a personal capacity.

Jewdas last week accused the Jewish Board of Deputies, Jewish Leadership Council and Jewish Labour Movement of "playing a dangerous game with people's lives" after they took aim at Corbyn, claiming that he supports anti-Semitic values. Jewdas also described last week's protests against the Labour leader as "faux-outrage greased with hypocrisy and opportunism."

Comment: The Jewish power politics is the major tool for the PTB that is controlling the Western Population. These accusations of Semitic or Anti-Semitic has nothing to do with religion, they are tools to witch-hunt the people whom they don't like. See also:

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All Russiagate roads lead to London: Evidence emerges of Joseph Mifsud's links to UK intelligence

Elizabeth Vos
Disobedient Media
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:01 UTC
Joseph Mifsud
Over the last few months, Professor Joseph Mifsud has become a feather in the cap for those pushing the Trump-Russia narrative. He is characterized as a "Russian" intelligence asset in mainstream press, despite his declarations to the contrary. However, evidence has surfaced that suggests Mifsud was anything but a Russian spy, and may have actually worked for British intelligence. This new evidence culminates in the ground-breaking conclusion that the UK and its intelligence apparatus may be responsible for the invention of key pillars of the Trump-Russia scandal. If true, this would essentially turn the entire RussiaGate debacle on its head.

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Star of David

As Israel and its apologists continue the coverup there are 7 things you need to know about the latest Gaza massacre

Michael Lesher
ZNET
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Israel Land Day massacre Gaza

Video said to be from Gaza border March 30, 2018, shows shooting in the back of a man identified as Abed el-Fatah Abed e-Nabi, 18, on left, as he ran. He was reportedly killed.
Being of mild disposition, I am ill suited to describe in detail the thuggery by which the putative Jewish State executed 17 of its 2 million Gaza prisoners (wounding some 1,400 more) by way of inaugurating the Jewish Festival of Liberation last Friday.

Fortunately, however, there is no need of such descriptive talent. The things everyone must know about the latest Gaza massacre - and its rapidly ensuing cover-up - are as simple and uncontroversial as they are abhorrent.

1. Israel's killings were premeditated.

Before the first demonstrators set foot anywhere in the vicinity of Gaza's border with Israel, the "most moral army in the world" had openly declared its violent intentions toward any Palestinian reckless enough to challenge Israel's crippling siege. A hundred snipers, we learned, were to be deployed around Gaza's prison wall and "prepared to use live fire," supplemented by "heavy machinery" and even the novelty of "drone-deployed tear gas." Education Minister Naftali Bennett - who likes to boast about killing Arabs - swore that the Gazans would be kept inside their cage (a place described in a recent U.N. study as verging on uninhabitable) "at any cost."

Comment: More on the Land Day massacre:

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Brick Wall

'Trump Effect' is over: Illegal US-Mexico border crossings rebound


Yahoo! News
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 10:29 UTC
US-Mexico border wall prototypes
© AFP Photo/GUILLERMO ARIAS
Prototypes for President Donald Trump's planned border wall: illegal immigration across the Mexico border has surged in recent months to pre-Trump levels.
President Donald Trump's shock order to send National Guard troops to the frontier with Mexico Wednesday came after data showed that illegal immigration has sharply rebounded following a plunge in his first year in office.

Data on border apprehension for March released late Wednesday indicates undocumented immigrants are pouring into the country at the highest level in four years.

Trump's warning of a crackdown when he entered the White House in January 2017 drove the number of apprehensions of illegal border crossers -- an indicator of total crossing numbers -- to four-decade lows.

For example, apprehensions in February 2017 were 23,555, down from more than 38,000 a year earlier. And they hit a monthly low of 15,766 in April 2017, less than one-third of the previous year's number.

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Petition of 1,600 Parisians demands action against gangs of Moroccan teenagers terrorising residents

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 10:40 UTC
refugees immgrants
© CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP/Getty Images
A large number of residents of the heavily-migrant populated Paris areas of La Chapelle, Goutte-d'Or and Barbès have demanded the government act to stop underage Moroccan migrant gangs, with women being routinely targetted for assault.

The petition, which now stands at over 1,600 signatures, asks the local government to provide measures to deal with the gangs of underage Moroccan migrants, typically aged 14 to 17, many of which are addicted to drugs Le Parisienreports.

One resident, named Mireille, claimed that the migrants had targetted her and her 15-year-old daughter saying, "The first time was a Sunday night, I saw three of these young people on the sidewalk and I felt a threat then we turned around, but right after one of them jumped to my daughter's throat, maybe to get her collar on her, she broke free, started to cry."

"The next day we filed a complaint, but now I'm no longer quiet in the street, and she either. It is very unfair not to be able to walk freely in this neighbourhood," she added.
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Pistol

California considering bill to restrict police use of firearms

Scott Morefield
The Daily Caller
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 22:40 UTC
Oakland Occupy 2012 cop
© Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
An Oakland police officer holds a shotgun as Occupy protesters are detained for attempting to block a street on May 1, 2012 in Oakland, California.
California lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday that would impose an unprecedented restriction on the rules of engagement for police.

The Police Accountability and Community Protection Act would change the state's guidance for police use of firearms to a "necessary force" standard from the current "reasonable force" standard, according to ABC News.

The proposed change comes after Sacramento police were sharply criticized over the police shooting of 22-year old Stephon Clark.

Comment: Seems like they're changing the wording from one completely subjective word to another. Whether a situation is "reasonable" or "necessary" could easily be argued. This is neither a reasonable or necessary step toward police accountability.

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More than a million undocumented immigrants have California driver's licenses - hit and run accidents dropped

Benjy Egel
The Sacramento Bee
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 17:58 UTC
Real ID California license
© Emily Zentner - The Sacramento Bee
Starting Jan. 22, Californians need to apply for a new, federally-approved driver's license or ID before the old ones become invalid for air travel.
More than 1 million undocumented immigrants have received driver's licenses, the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Wednesday.

Assembly Bill 60, authored by then-Assemblyman Luis Alejo in 2013, required California DMV offices to issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants as long as they can prove their identity and residence within the state. The law has led to 1,001,000 undocumented immigrants receiving licenses as of March 31 but doesn't give the licensees carte blanche to drive outside of California or fly across state or federal borders.
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