Eurozone industrial output falls for second month

Industrial output in the eurozone fell for a second straight month in September, data showed Thursday, as German manufacturers felt the pinch from weakening demand in China and other large developing economies.

The decline in the output of factories, mines and utilities was unexpected, and means it is possible figures to be released Friday will record a slight slowdown in the pace of economic growth during the three months through September, a development that would make it more likely the European Central Bank would decide to provide fresh stimulus when its governing council meets in December.  Read more

Young women are living at home at record levels

36.4% of young women lived with parents or relatives in 2014


A record 36.4% of young women were living at home with their parents or other relatives last year, the highest share of the population since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president.  Read more

Talk of North Korean purge amid mystery over senior official

SEOUL—Speculation about a possible new high-level purge in North Korea grew on Thursday after a close aide to leader Kim Jong Un appeared to miss a gathering of the Pyongyang leadership.

Choe Ryong Hae, who has been an emissary for Kim to China, Russia and South Korea in recent years, wasn’t among the mourners at a funeral on Wednesday for a senior military figure, according to analysis from South Korean media of North Korean television footage of the event.  Read more

Intel on 'two-hour timer' uncovered in Russian jet crash investigation

Investigators analyzing the deadly crash of a Russian jet in Egypt uncovered intelligence about a “a two-hour timer,”  though it is not clear whether the reference came from intercepted communications between known terrorist operatives, or physical evidence, a source familiar with the investigation told Fox News.

A separate source, also not authorized to speak on the record, said that based on the facts so far, one of the working theories is that a bomb was planted at or near the fuel line or where it attaches to the engine, with the fuel burning off the explosive. This theory would explain the apparent lack of residue immediately found, the source says.  Read more

‘The biggest sham’: Sheriffs fume at mass release of 6,000 federal inmates

Look!  Obama where he should be.  

Local sheriffs across America are voicing concern for the safety of the citizens they've sworn to protect after the biggest one-time release of federal inmates in U.S. history -- though advocates of criminal justice reform maintain the release is being handled responsibly. 

The 6,112 inmates were released from federal prison at the beginning of November in response to a decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to reduce sentences for most drug trafficking offenses and apply them retroactively. It coincides with a broader and bipartisan push for rethinking federal sentencing.   Read more

Kurds begin offensive to retake strategic Iraqi town of Sinjar from ISIS

Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by U.S. airstrikes, launched an assault Thursday aimed at retaking the strategic town of Sinjar, which ISIS overran last year in an onslaught that caused the flight of tens of thousands of Yazidis and prompted the U.S. to begin its campaign against the militants.  Read more

Glen Campbell moves to full-time care facility

Glen Campbell's wife has been forced to make the heartbreaking decision to return the ailing country star to a full-time memory care facility as his battle with Alzheimer’s progresses.

Kim Campbell brought her husband home in September after placing him in a full-time care facility in 2014. Along with the couple’s children, Ashley and Shannon, as well as their nephew Matthew Monier and family friend Brody Wooton, she returned to being his primary caregiver for seven weeks.

“I always wanted to bring him home and give it another try because I miss him so terribly,” Kim tells People. But in the end, she decided he needed to return to a full-time facility with professional caregivers. “It was just more than I could handle,” she admits. “He’s the sweetest person in the world, but he becomes combative when you try to change his clothes or bathe him. It really wasn’t the best situation.”  Read more

Macy’s Q3 Report Reveals People Not Buying Stuff in “Recovering” Economy

Macy's falling short of the $6.15 billion forecast by Wall Street analysts. The company dropped its full-year earnings forecast a full 50 cents, from $4.70 to $4.80 per share down to $4.20 to $4.30 per share.

Comparable store sales also tumbled by 3.9%. That was far worse than the expected negative 0.4% drop.

The New York Times offered a number of plausible excuses for Macy’s poor performance, including warm weather and a strong dollar. But the bottom line is people simply aren’t buying as much stuff, as indicated by Macy’s chairman Terry J. Lundgren in his statement:  Read more

The Extinction of Trust - Charlie Daniels

When you go to court you are asked to swear to “tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”.

Now that statement covers a lot of ground.

If you tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, spin, tilt, stonewalling and plausible deniability do not apply.

It seems in so many congressional hearings those who are being questioned find a way to talk around the real answers with platitudes, stalling, skirting the edges with half-truths and giving such long, wordy answers as to lead the conversation away from the original intention of the question.  Read more

Military Tribute, Thank You Veterans

Obamacare - The Gift That Keeps On Taking

Isn’t it interesting the mainstream media makes barely a peep about the ongoing and worsening Obamacare debacle. Healthcare premiums, co-pays and deductibles are soaring, while doctor and plan choices contract to a minuscule level. Recent surveys reveal the hardship being inflicted upon families across the nation. Those who are willfully baffled by the lack of consumer spending need look no further than Obamacare and its impact on the budgets of hard working Americans.  Read more

Veterans Day: It's time to let our military focus on character not political agendas

I flew the A-10 Thunderbolt II (known as “the Warthog”) in the first Gulf War, and on each mission I had to trust my wingman with my life. That is not something that most people experience on a day-to-day basis, but the chance of something bad happening to either of us depended upon whether we worked as a team and looked out for each other.

The essence of that relationship is called esprit de corps – a commitment to each other and our goals based upon character.  Read more

5 ways the US Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard’s global presence matters right here at home

America’s sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen are set to undertake another Fleet Week in Seattle on July 29th. These celebrations and community connections are much more than the awe-inspiring parades of ships, air shows, and conversations with those currently serving on behalf of the rest of us.  Read more

Ted Cruz proposes eliminating Energy, HUD, Commerce, Education, IRS

Ted Cruz called for the elimination of the Departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Commerce, and Education, as well as the IRS.  The liberal media will be focusing on the fact that he mentioned eliminating Commerce twice.  I prefer to focus on the merits of what he has announced.  Read more

Brilliant Missouri Student Makes Facebook Post About the Protests

I’m sure by now you’ve noticed that the University of Missouri has taken a beating with all the protests about racial insensitivity.

The whole situation began because an inebriated student began using racial slurs, which led to members of the football team refusing to practice or play.  Read more

Berkeley city council may vote on $19 minimum wage

On the same day of the largest nationwide strike calling for a $15 federal minimum wage, the City Council of Berkeley, California, will debate and possibly vote on a proposed city minimum wage of $19 an hour.   Read more

Honor killing in America: DOJ report says growing problem is hidden in stats

The estimated 27 victims of so-called "honor killings" each year in the U.S. don't fit neatly into the FBI's exhaustive Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics.

Hidden among thousands of nondescript murders and cases labeled as domestic violence are a mounting number of killings motivated by a radical and dark interpretation of Islam. Honor killings and violence, which typically see men victimize wives and daughters because of behavior that has somehow insulted their faith, are among the most secretive crimes in society, say experts.  Read more

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World Reality Network: World Reality with Richard G. Medlock Nov. 10, 201...: World Reality with Richard G. Medlock Tonight we tried to make sense of and put into perspective the chaos on the campus' of Univ. of ...

MISSOURI CONFIRMS IT: US CAMPUSES ARE SLIDING INTO PC CHAOS

November 2015 may well prove a tipping point in the college campus descent into politically correct chaos.

Yesterday, I described the rise of emotionally incontinent, Maoist-style mobs at Yale, screeching at a professor who refused to apologise over… something to do with Halloween costumes. Now we learn that a football team at the University of Missouri has taken the unprecedented step of boycotting future games until their concerns about alleged campus racism are addressed, and the university president has resigned over his supposed “white privilege.” There’s even a hunger strike involved.  Read more

ISIS flag, radical manifesto raise questions about Calif. campus stabber's motive

The California college student who stabbed four people last week was carrying an image of the black flag of ISIS according to a report Tuesday, as well as a handwritten manifesto with instructions to behead a student and multiple reminders to pray to Allah, yet authorities continued to insist Faisal Mohammad's motives had nothing to do with radical Islam.

The 18-year-old, who was killed by a campus police officer to end the Wednesday morning attack, was a loner who was incensed at being booted from a study group, according to Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke. But the extreme way Mohammad dealt with his rage, the presence of the printout of Islamic State's black flag and the deadly plans spelled out in the two-page document he carried could indicate there was more to the attack than simple rejection.  Read more

ONLY CONSERVATIVES CAN SAVE THE AMERICAN CAMPUS–BUT SHOULD WE?

What does it take to generate a rabid, Maoist-style mob demanding political purges, on an Ivy League campus, in 2015? An email defending “offensive” Halloween costumes, apparently.

"It gives me so much pleasure to see liberal professors face to face with the monsters they created."  Read more

HUNDREDS OF YALE STUDENTS PROTEST ALLEGED RACISM ON CAMPUS

A twisted string of allegations about racism on the campus of Yale University led hundreds of students to protest Monday, just days after a conference on the future of free speech was disrupted by allegations of racism and two weeks after protests against alleged racism and cultural insensitivity were held over student Halloween costumes.  Read more

POCKETBOOK PAIN: THE RAPIDLY RISING COST OF LIVING IS ABSOLUTELY KILLING THE MIDDLE CLASS IN AMERICA

All over America, the middle class is dying and poverty is on the rise.  One of the primary reasons for this is the rapidly rising cost of living in the United States.  The cost of just about everything that average families shell out money for on a regular basis – food, rent, health insurance, etc. – is rising much faster than wages are.  In a previous article I noted that the federal poverty level for a family of five is $28,410, but 51 percent of all American workers are making less than $30,000 a year at this point.  We have seen an explosion in the number of people in this country that are considered to be “the working poor” and it gets worse with each passing year.  Read more

Scarborough: None Of Us Can Name What Mizzou President Did to Get Kicked Out!

On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist anchored a discussion about the University of Missouri President Tom Wolfe’s resignation Monday. In light of growing student-led protests and the Mizzou football team threatening not to take the field this weekend, Scarborough cornered the key question of exactly why the President and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin have been forced out.

Scarborough angled that despite all of the intense media scrutiny surrounding the developments of the case, no one on the Morning Joe panel could effectively name what exactly Wolfe or Loftin did to be forced into resigning.  Read more

DEM REP CLEAVER: ‘MAYBE’ RACE ISSUES COME UP AT MIZZOU FOR SOME ‘UNIQUELY MIDWESTERN’ REASONS

Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) stated that race issues bubble up on the University of Missouri’s campus from time to time “maybe for a variety of reasons, some of them uniquely midwestern” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily.”

Cleaver said that there have been “problems with — at MU, in Columbia for decades, not consistently, not constantly, but off and on, for decades, probably going back to the ’70s.”  Read more