Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

Faith in an ideology based on a desire for power over others and the need to feel personally superior without any legitimate accomplishment is perhaps the most dangerous state of being an individual or society can adopt. I would refer to such a mindset as “zealotry,” an integral element of cultism and an extreme result of the elitist side of faith.

The "long dollar" trade may be the most crowded ever...

...but that doesn't mean there aren't disagreements where the greenback goes from here, especially after the Fed's historic first rate hike which according to some means the end of the dollar's tremendous year-plus long rally as the market starts to price in the next recession as a result of the Fed's own action, while according to others as a result of rate differentials and other central banks' ongoing debasement of their own currencies, the dollar surge is only getting started.

Both modern cars and voting systems are significantly computerized.VW played a very high stakes financial game that led someone to installed cheating software (malware).The stakes are also very high in modern elections.I continue to be amazed that some losing candidates either are pressured not to rock the boat or actually accept negative results without questioning the computerized voting machines that "declare" those results

The war talk in America is playing right into the terroists hands. Its time to finally live up to American ideals if we don't want to crash and burn.