Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,
We’re living in the calm before the storm.
That much everyone can sense. The stock market highs and holiday spending spree will soon be over, the inauguration will presumably go as planned, but that’s when everything could start to go off course.
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
The Neocon-Neoliberals must be fired and put out to pasture before they do any more harm.
Murdering the Innocent in Order to Support the Lie
Paul Craig Roberts
Unbeknownst to most Americans, the Central Valley of California is an agricultural powerhouse producing nearly 50% of all fruits and vegetables grown in the United States, including over 90% of popular items like almonds, carrots and table grapes. But producing all those fruits and vegetables is extremely labor intensive requiring up to nearly 500,000 laborers each year. The problem is that those jobs are extremely seasonal (see chart below) and extremely difficult requiring hours of back-breaking work in the 100-degree California sun.
Submitted by Andrew Napolitano via LewRockwell.com,
Over the New Year’s weekend, President Barack Obama’s chief policy adviser and closest strategist, Valerie Jarrett, told a talk show host that her boss would have a happy legacy because there was an absence of scandal in his administration.