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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

Republican candidates are currently dominating the space and bandwidth of that media while they seek to outdo one another in bragging about how vicious they would be in dealing with ISIS. Rob Malley's linkage of the growing power of ISIS to Israel's unrestrained occupation and brutality to Palestinians, would be a much wiser course for the candidates to consider.

Last year, the State Department announced with great fanfare a new social media campaign to counter ISIS' online messaging. They called it "Think Again, Turn Away," and created Twitter and Facebook accounts in that name. Its self-described purpose on Facebook: "Our mission is to expose the facts about terrorists and their propaganda."

When it comes to the fate of the US stock market (and economy), no company is more important than Apple. As reported previously, the world's most valuable company by market cap not only accounted for 20% of all U.S. margin expansion since 2010, but is among the key drivers behind US retail sales, and thus GDP growth. In short, if AAPL is about to hit a growth wall, then say goodbye to US margin growth and say hello to the service (because manufacturing is already in it) recession.

Unfortunately, this worst case scenario increasingly looks like the most likely one.

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Source: Townhall.com