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I would never be so silly as to suggest giving up technology. I will remind folks that herd behavior is the path of least resistance. The tech revolution has made it possible to herd more people in much shorter periods of time. Companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and many others have learned how to profit by exploiting the human herding instinct. Being perceived as cool can be expensive. Sometimes it comes down to that or living outside the herd.

Notice that this is a Facebook free site. Independent web sites like this one are almost extinct. That is not by accident. Google’s business model calls for getting small operators jumping through hoops trying to get good search engine placement and squelching them at the same time. There are no true search engines left. There is no way to find independent web sites unless they are filtered through some marketing service first. If this is what people want, they have it.

A growing number are not so easily herded. Herd behavior can in fact be over ridden.  I think this is a pretty good article from the Washington Post.

 Techno-skeptics’ objection growing louder

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The chart shows the Russell 3000 Index in black charted along with the percent of its components above the 200 day moving average. This chart like many others being published this week show that the averages are being carried higher by only a small number of stocks.

In other times this would be a harbinger of a serious decline in the immediate future. It is still a very bad sign but we must remember that there is a politically untouchable system of organized support pushing the market higher. Odinary investors have only money they have earned to trade with. That money is theirs to lose. Gains and losses don’t concern central banks. Don’t think for a moment that all central banks are not buying outright with money that is virtually imagined into existance

That doesn’t render indicators useless. It does make it impossible to make a meaningful forecast with respect to timing. Back in the early fall, I cautioned readers to discount the possibility of an October selloff. The same bearish indicators were present at that time. The market is not going to crash here unless the Federal Reserve is completely taken by surprise with a sudden swamp of supply. Odds of that happening is slim. The vast majority in the U.S. still completely trust government and are completely clueless about what Federal Reserve policy has to do with stock prices.

Remember that Wall Street and international banks have hired government to make and keep them profitable. Of course this is a huge disadvantage to average Americans who are completely unaware that there is a problem.

I am still 78% in cash. The big deal here is protecting assets even if it means foregoing any return at all in the interem. The only thing relevent to predicting a crash is determining when the American public will wake up and discover they are being robbed.

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John Crudele of the New York Post wrote the following article.

Stock surge doesn’t make any sense

John actually does know why the stock surge occurred. Perhaps good manners prevents him from giving the reason.  I don’t get paid, so I have nothing to lose by telling the truth, offensive or not.

News, good or bad amounts to a free short squeeze. The jobs report on Friday was actually bad news to anyone who took the time to look at all of the numbers. Stock market bears of course had taken short position in anticipation of the market dropping further following Thursday. I have been warning people about this since August.  Any news bad enough to sink the market draws massive central bank intervention. A surprising number of investors still believe the system is honest.

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The crude oil chart shows the eventual path of the stock market and the U.S. economy.

Regardless of what the Federal Reserve announces on Wednesday with respect to interest rates, there will be a a huge short squeeze engineered by the worlds central banks and the remaining friends of the Fed who trade risk free for lending their assistance.

The worse the news is, the more the effort will be to rocket the market on Wednesday. Will it work? It has worked up to this point every time the squeeze has been orchestrated.

The fact that I am stating clearly exactly what is going to happen three days ahead of time sheds doubt on whether it actually will work this time.  Let me be clear, the squeeze will be orchestrated. If it fails the outcome will be disastrous.

The Fed’s first concern is the stock market.

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There is a short cut to being right about economic issues. Stop studying human beings as if they were an anointed species just a step below divinity. Do this and you will begin to understand all of what is going on in the world.

The next step is to accept total uncertainty as reality. Then watch the animals as they go about replacing that reality with euphemisms and fantasies. No one knows what life is. No one knows what death is either. All animals survive by consuming living things. The animals which do the best are the ones who do the most killing. The most prolific beasts at consuming living things and killing are human beings. Humanity is such an efficient killer that  killing is done by a small number of human animals. But, the numbers are there.

Accept  these things and it becomes clear that self interest is the universal incentive. There are no other incentive in play with respect to government. Why do politicians run? They run to get what they want and that is usually power and money. That is why you end up with no representation. After casting a vote, you are of no use to those you elect. The representation you feel entitled to goes to others who are more useful to the office holder.

These are the cold hard facts. Just know that if you expect government to provide more certainty in your life, you are harming yourself and making yourself available to be a sucker. Certainty does not exist. What does not exist cannot be provided. Watch human activity just as if you were watching an aggregation of other animals and it is no trouble at all figuring out what is going on and even what is going to happen next.

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World leaders are always sociopaths. The job of world leader is not easy to get. The competition to get these jobs is so stiff that only people with pronounced special personality characteristics can obtain them.  The polite term is “political personality.”  Sociopath is a synonym. Psychopath and sociopath are mostly used interchangeably.  Any of these terms would be fine for describing Castro.

When Castro took over in Cuba, he replaced fascist dictator Fulgencio Batista. Under the fascist Batista, the economy went the way fascist economies always go. He was replaced by Castro who offered communism as an alternative. The elite in Cuba all left for the United States and a few other countries. It is hard to say which system was worse. Socialist societies mostly survive poorly. Fascist societies destroy themselves completely.

Under Batista, crime and government merged, just as is the case in the United States today. Organized crime ran Batista’s Cuba just as organized crime runs our system in the United States.

As a killer, Fidel Castro was about average. It is fine to criticize Castro for his crimes against humanity.  Americans take great comfort in shaking fingers at foreign despots. That is fine. They are guilty as charged.

Americans should not be blinded to the United States’ initiated atrocities. It would take many lifetimes for Castro to kill as many people as the United States has in the mideast in the effort to control and monetize their natural resources.

It is a principle of natural law that an action undertaken for an immoral purpose will have a negative outcome. Calling military adventures fights for freedom and other euphemisms doesn’t make them anything other than what they are.

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According to the Republican National Committee, yes trump is a fascist. According to what a fascist really is, no Trump is not a fascist. Oddly he is being called a fascist by people who have no problem with every bill on which congress votes being an effort to rig a market or gain a subsidy for the politically powerful. Friends, As our government operates on a daily basis, we live in a fascist system. This is something the Republican National Committee wants to preserve. If Trump actually was a fascist, he would be exactly what the Republican Party leadership is looking far,

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