US Debt Rockets Up $339 Billion in a Single Day

As USA Today reports, the bill not only suspended the debt ceiling, it also set the federal budget for fiscal years 2016 and 2017, and lifted budget caps to boost spending for military and domestic programs by a total of $80 billion over two years.  Read more

Bearish warning that the Fed's 'chickens will come home from to roost'.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-warning-that-the-feds-chickens-will-come-home-to-roost-2015-11-04?dist=beforebell

BILL GATES: ONLY SOCIALISM CAN SAVE US FROM CLIMATE CHANGE

“Representative democracy” has failed; the private sector is “inept”; and only bigger government – led by China and the US – has the power to save the world from climate change.  Read more

REP. JIM JORDAN SUGGESTS FOREIGN WORKERS NEEDED BECAUSE TOO MANY AMERICANS ON DRUGS

On The Laura Ingraham Show, House Freedom Caucus Chairman 

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)

94%

 refused to say whether he supports curbing immigration levels. Jordan cited concerns of employers that the United States may need more workers because too many Americans are on drugs.  Read more

October Auto Sales Gains Put 2015 in Position for Record Year

Automakers continued to see robust sales gains in October and inched closer to making 2015 their best year ever.

Thanks to cheaper gasoline and favorable loan terms, sales could close the year at an all-time high. Recent momentum led Kelley Blue Book to raise its 2015 forecast to 17.4 million units. That would break the current sales record of 17.35 million in 2000.  Read more

Campus Anti-Rape Activists Whine About Guys Not Willing To Have Sex With Them

The kicker about this whole thing? These hosebeasts STILL complain that it’s the guys’ fault.  Read more

Ancient fortress discovery may solve one of Jerusalem's great archaeological mysteries

Archaeologists in Israel believe they have found the remains of an ancient Greek fortification used to control the Temple in Jerusalem more than 2,000 years ago.

The citadel was recently uncovered during archaeological excavations in a parking lot at the City of David, which is in the Jerusalem Walls National Park.  Read more

Allen West: Left Sees Christians as Easy Targets--So Did Nero, So Does ISIS

Remember during the last National Prayer breakfast when, after the savage burning alive of a Jordanian fighter pilot by ISIS, President Obama chastised Christians for the Crusades? And y’all know how vicious the leftists Islamapologists speak out when we bring out issues surrounding Islamic jihadism and terrorism? Of course, we have an administration that finds it much easier to attack political opposition than to identify the true enemy of the State. Why?  Read more

Number of Cubans intercepted at sea rises to highest level in two decades

More Cubans were stopped at sea while trying to reach the U.S. in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 than at any time since the chaotic rafter crisis of 1994, according to figures from the U.S. Coast Guard.

The total number of Cubans picked up on the ocean — heading to South Florida in vessels often makeshift and unseaworthy — and returned to the island during those 12 months was 2,924, according to figures released this week.  Read more

Houston Voters Reject LGBT Ordinance That Raised Bathroom Privacy Concerns

The people of Houston rejected an Equal Rights Ordinance that that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people, with more than 60 percent of voters saying no.  Read more

Juvenile Delinquents Are Now 'Justice-Involved Youth'

They used to be called juvenile delinquents. But not any more.

The new term is "justice-involved youth," a non-disparaging, government-speak phrase that fits with the Obama administration's recent push to give people with criminal convictions a second chance to become productive citizens.  Read more

U.S. trade deficit shrinks 15% in September to $40.8 billion

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. trade deficit fell 15% to $40.8 billion in September after a rebound in exports and a decline in imports of oil and consumer goods such as cell phones. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had predicted the deficit would decline to a seasonally adjusted $41 billion. Exports rose 1.6% to $187.9 billion after falling in the prior month to a three-year low, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Imports slid 1.8% to $228.7 billion, the smallest amount in seven months. The deficit had ballooned in August to a five-month high of $48 billion. Despite the improvement in September, U.S. exports are still 3.8% lower through the first nine months of this year compared to the same period in 2014. A surging dollar and weak global growth have curbed demand for American-made goods and stunted the U.S. economy. The trade deficit with China hit another record high and the gap with Hong Kong, a departure point for many other Chinese-made goods, rose to the highest level in three years. The U.S. imported more TVs, computers and other electronics from those countries, among other things.

Clinton Campaign Lawyer Charged With Registering DEAD PEOPLE TO VOTE

A lawyer named Marc Elias who has strong ties to the Clintons and Hillary’s presidential campaign is being investigated for voter fraud. His previous work includes fighting voter IDs.  Read more

Study: More Americans reject religion, but believers firm in faith

Americans as a whole are becoming less religious, but those who still practice a faith are just as committed as they were in the past — in certain respects even more so.

The 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, also shows that nearly all major religious groups have become more accepting of homosexuality since 2007.  Read more

How the F.B.I. Can Detain, Render and Threaten without Risk

 At exactly 5 p.m. on March 13, 2007, just as I was preparing to leave my cubicle in Washington for the day, I got a phone call from the journalist Jonathan Landay of McClatchy Newspapers. To this day, I remember his exact words.

“One of your congressman’s constituents is being held in an Ethiopian intelligence service prison, and I think your former employer is neck-deep in this.”  Read more

Major US Company Preps for Financial Crisis – Are You Ready?

During a recent speech (see video below) at the United Precious Metals Association, Overstock.com Chairman Jonathan Johnson said the company has stockpiled $10 million in gold and silver outside of the banking system. He said most of the gold is in the form of “button coins” suitable for payroll:  Read more

How the widening urban-rural divide threatens America

 Of all the growing divides in America, none is sharper than that between city and country. For rural residents, existential issues on the national level are seen as magnified versions of personal considerations: Does the country have enough food, fuel and minerals? Can America defend itself, protect its friends and punish its enemies? These concerns differ markedly from the urbanite's worry about whether the government will provide services to take care of vulnerable populations or whether those of different races and religions can get along in such a crowded environment. Add all this up and rural residents are more likely to be conservative and thus Republican, their urban counterparts liberal and logically Democratic. Most hot-button issues — deficit spending, defense, same-sex marriage, amnesty, affirmative action, gun control, and abortion — break along rural or urban lines.  Read more

2016 Index of U.S. Military Strength

Assessing America's ability to provide for the common defense.  Read

A mathematician may have uncovered widespread election fraud, and Kansas is trying to silence her

Kansas loves them some voter fraud hysteria. From going to the Supreme Court to try and make doubly-sure that non-citizens can’t vote in their elections to setting up a voter fraud website where citizens can reportevery kind of voter fraud except the kinds that have actually happened in the state, Kansas is on the forefront of voter fraud readiness and protection.

Except, perhaps, when it comes to the machines they use to record their votes.  Read more

Sale Of Silver Eagles on Pace to Break Record in 2015

According to a Newsmax Finance report, 2015 sales year-to-date are ahead of last year’s pace. Through the third week in October, sales stood at 38,986,000 ounces. That compares to last year’s 38,121,000 ounces. If this trend continues, 2015 sales will exceed last year’s record of 44,006,000 ounces.  Read more

M&A Hits $4 Trillion At Fastest Pace on Record

Global CEOs have done an astounding $4 trillion in deals this year, hitting that mark on Monday for the second time ever and at the fastest pace on record, according toDealogic. A handful of monstrous deals, which accelerated last month, are fueling the frenzy including Anheuser-Busch’s (BUD) $117 billion planned purchase of SAB Miller, which is among the top global deals in history and Dell’s $65 billion planned purchase of EMC(EMC) which leads U.S. tie-ups.   Read more

Factory Orders Fall for Second-Straight Month

New orders for U.S. factory goods fell for a second straight month in September as the manufacturing sector continues to struggle under the weight of a strong dollar and deep spending cuts by energy companies.

The Commerce Department said on Tuesday new orders for manufactured goods declined 1.0 percent after a downwardly revised 2.1 percent drop in August.  Read more

State Department emails conflict with Clinton’s Benghazi testimony

Newly released emails conflict with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 11-hour testimony before the Benghazi Select Committee, according to a review of the transcripts and public records.

One of the conflicts involves the role played by Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal.  Read more

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM RICHARD G. MEDLOCK

Dear followers and readers,

At the end of December, 2015, this website, www.richardmedlock.org will be shut down.  There are other platforms which are allowing me to reach more readers than this website.

I greatly appreciate your loyalty and comments.  But have no fear, the other platforms are up and running now for you to start following.

For posts, go to www.medlockpost.blogspot.com

For the radio program, go to www.worldrealitynetwork.blogspot.com

For training classes, go to www.empowertraininggroup.blogspot.com (still being worked on, but many classes are there)

For leadership posts, got to www.sensibleleadership.blogspot.com

Thank you again for your support and look forward to our continued relationship on the other platforms.

God bless you,

Richard G. Medlock

The Wide Canyon Between Carbon Regulations and the Real World

There’s a chasm between the rarified world of international climate negotiators—who will gather in Paris in December—and the people who will have to cope with the policy edicts established by them.

Christine Figures the United Nations’ top climate change official, told Reddit not to expect anything historic. Paris is only a next step toward even more draconian carbon emissions reduction goals [emphasis mine]:  Read more