http://www.wsj.com/articles/millennials-...1474038301

Quote:Hillary Clinton’s once-commanding lead among young voters has nearly collapsed, several polls show, a factor making the presidential race much closer in recent weeks and prompting the Clinton campaign to move quickly to keep a core Democratic constituency in the fold.

In its most visible response, the campaign has begun sending the party’s most popular stars to college campuses to urge students not to sit out the election or back third-party candidates, who are drawing support from young voters.

“Elections aren’t just about who votes, but who doesn’t vote, and that is especially true for young people like all of you,’’ first lady Michelle Obama said Friday during a campaign event at a university in Virginia, a battleground state where polls show the race tightening....    http://www.wsj.com/articles/millennials-...1474038301

http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/201...any-speed/

Quote:In response to a high-profile crash that killed a Tesla driver, CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company will upgrade its Autopilot function. But will a simple upgrade do the job? While the race to produce fully autonomous vehicles is being breathlessly heralded by the media, vast cost, legal, and security obstacles remain. More importantly, the fundamental limitations of AI technology will make the journey from semiautonomous to fully autonomous much more difficult than most people realize.

The race to bring autonomous vehicles into commercial production has accelerated. In March, GM bought self-driving startup Cruise Automation for $1 billion. In May, Toyota and Uber joined forces, Apple invested $1 billion into Chinese ride-sharing company Didi Chuxing, and Google partnered with Fiat Chrysler. Uber, meanwhile, has rolled out a pilot program to test self-driving cars in Pittsburgh. Google is even determined to create a car without a steering wheel or pedals. These players are betting heavily on transforming the $5.4 trillion transportation services market. While Tesla proclaims that it will have autonomous vehicles commercially available by 2018, BMW is planning for 2021...


http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/201...any-speed/

OH. MY. GOD!

Gov. Matt Bevin ® is worried about the lives of his grandchildren if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency.

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin ® said on Saturday that conservatives may have to turn to physical violence to protect their values.
“I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it physically,” Bevin said during his speech at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. “But that may, in fact, be the case.”

Bevin went on to say that he believed the U.S. would survive a Hillary Clinton presidency, but it might require bloodshed.
“The roots of the tree of liberty are watered by what? The blood. Of who? The tyrants to be sure, but who else? The patriots,” he said. “Whose blood will be shed? It may be that of those in this room. It might be that of our children and grandchildren. I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood that is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something, that we through our apathy and our indifference have given away. Don’t let it happen.”

Asked by the Lexington Herald-Leader to clarify his comments, Bevin said he was talking about military service.
“Today we have thousands of men and women in uniform fighting for us overseas and they need our full backing,” he said in a statement. “We cannot be complacent about the determination of radical Islamic extremists to destroy our freedoms. Nor can we allow apathy and indifference to allow our culture to crumble from within.”

Republican nominee Donald Trump has also used violent imagery during his presidential campaign.
“If she gets to pick her judges ― nothing you can do, folks,” Trump said in August. “Although, the Second Amendment people. Maybe there is. I don’t know.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/matt...4b722c58e3?

...Are Kentuckians getting their tap water from Flint, Michigan?

Let's start out with a doozy:

http://www.news.com.au Wrote:

WANNABE property investors now have another option for getting a toehold in the booming Sydney property market. A new company is selling houses just one brick at a time.
There’s no need to attend a single open inspection or auction, pay stamp duty, or deal directly with tenants.
And you can do it all in 10 minutes, online, and sell whenever you want.
The BrickX investment scheme which launched officially today is billed as Australia’s first stock exchange for residential property, offering part ownership via buying single ‘bricks’, which start at $67, under a system called ‘fractional ownership”.
While it’s open to anyone, since it’s soft launch a month ago, the bulk of the earliest stakeholders are those in the under-34 year old age group.
BrickX CEO Anthony Millet said it’s early days, but the investor breakdown so far indicates 60 per cent of those buying in are in that age group: the one most likely to be feeling frustrated at not having the funds to get a foothold in the market.
Alyssa Raymundo, 20, of Blacktown, is one of them.
She graduated from university last year, is now working full time and can’t afford to move out of her parents’ home “anytime soon” and had no idea how to get into the market,.
“I just know that if I want to, I have to start now”.
She found out about BrickX via a Google search.
“I’m a first-time investor and I had no idea really about the whole housing market or investing and I had no idea how to go about it,” she said.

Alyssa Raymundo Googled ‘first homebuyer’ and ‘investment property’ and ended up buying her first bricks. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
Like any tech-savvy 20-year-old worth her salt, she typed “first homebuyer” and “investment property” into a Google search, and BrickX came up in one of the results.
Her investment in three bricks — costing a total of about $300 in two properties in Mosman and Annandale — was completed online, and while it’s modest to say the least, she says it’s a start as she tries to get the feel of the market.
“I am saving for an investment property — I wasn’t to own my own, and this is a start,” she said.
“I just got out of university so I don’t really have a stable savings account — there are things like car payments and a uni loan to take care of, so this was a way to put just a little bit away.”
“I’m not expecting a huge return. To me it is a set and forget kind of thing, I’ll buy some more bricks when I can and it’s a way of learning about the market. So it’s a learning curve and savings account as much as anything,” she said.
BrickX works by buying a property, then splitting it into 10,000 ‘bricks’. Prospective investors can go onto their website to check out the properties (currently there are five, including in Sydneys Enmore, Mosman and as of last week, Double Bay, and Melbourne’s Prahan, and the aim is to have 100).
“We provide as much information as we can to empower investors to choose what they want to buy into,” said Millet.
Bricks start at less than $100. Investors can buy and sell whenever they like, and can own up to a maximum of five per cent of any single property’s bricks.
Investors get a proportional share of any monthly net rental income.

One of BrickX’s first properties was this sone in Parriwi Road, Mosman. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
Until recently the scheme was open only for wholesale investors under the Corporations Act, but has now received approval from ASIC to open to regular “mum and dad investors”.
As for BrickX’s cut: “When you buy in you pay 1.75 per cent and when you sell you pay 1.75 per cent,” said Millet.
“There are no funds under manage. The only other expenses are the specific expenses that would relate to any standard property. like strata, water, council rates etc, and these are administered before investors get their dividend.”
“We also revalue the bricks every six months so people can follow what us happening with their capital returns.”
The scheme was inspired by crowd-funding models, with the aim of tackling what have become the biggest hurdles to buying into property: Affordability, big initial costs, loan requirements, exit and commission costs and long investment periods.
Asked why would-be owners wouldn’t just keep saving a deposit or invest in shares, Millet said “without comparing this to shares, I wouldn’t say whether this is any better or worse. they’re just different”.
“This can provide a way for investors to get their foot on the ladder, to it could be an interesting tool for saving a deposit because you are investing in line with there housing market.
“We have a mix of investors from first-timers dipping into the water and getting comfortable with investing to the sophisticated investors who are putting in larger amounts and enjoy the ease of getting into this without the traditional hassles of investment properties.
“What this does is it doesn’t over-complicate things. you invest where when and how much time you want to invest for.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/.../90193752/

Quote:2 hours ago
The woman at the center of an iconic Times Square photograph taken at the end of World War II has died, her son confirmed to media outlets Saturday.


Greta Zimmer Friedman, then a 21-year-old dental assistant, was kissed by a sailor on Aug. 14, 1945, during a celebration as news of the Japanese surrender reached home. The photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt was published inLife as “V-J Day in Times Square.” Friedman didn’t know the sailor, George Mendonsa, who grabbed who he thought was a nurse and planted a kiss.
World War II veterans Ray and Ellie Williams recreate the iconic Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph in ...more
Bryan Thomas, Getty Images
Friedman’s son confirmed to NBC and CBS that his mother died Thursday following a bout with pneumonia. She was 92, and had been living in an assisted-living community, Joshua Friedman said.
Several similar photos were taken on V-J Day in New York City, celebrating the surrender of Japan.
National Archives
Greta Friedman will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery alongside her late husband.
The black-and-white photo captured a nation’s relief and joy at wars’ end, with dozens of sailors and civilians celebrating on the street as Mendonsa kissed Friedman.

Pundits are abuzz with the news that North Korea has tested a nuclear bomb that approaches the one dropped on Hiroshima, and is developing missiles to deliver it.

Some people think there could be a nuclear war in this 4T. The most obvious chance of this happening is if North Korea launches one against South Korea during a mutual dispute between them. Or, the USA and its allies South Korea and Japan may decide that the Dear Leader has developed nuclear weapons to a level that can't be tolerated, and the USA launches a preventive strike to take them out.

So the questions come up. Can China stop North Korea's program? If not, are their cyber attacks or some other way for the USA and its allies to disable them without bombing them?

If not, should there be a preventive strike? Could it take out all of NK's weapons before they can launch any against the USA and its allies?

If NK nukes our ally the South in response to our preventive strike, should we then fully conquer and defeat NK in response?

If North Korea strikes South Korea or Japan, the USA must retaliate. Our allies must be assured of this, or they will build nuclear weapons of their own to deter NK and its Dear Leader. NK must know that if its makes any such strike, regardless of any non-nuclear alleged provocations by the USA, South Korea or Japan, that it will cease to exist as a country. The retaliation must include conquest, regime change and reunification of Korea under the southern government. NK must know that this is the price of any nuclear strike it contemplates against the USA or its allies.

China is NK's ally. What would it do in that case? Could they be assured that if NK is conquered after a nuclear strike by NK, that the new unified Korea will be non-nuclear and not a threat to China? That in fact, a prosperous northern Korea might be an economic boon, even though it would be the end of their ally? That the USA and its allies have no designs on invading China or stationing troops there permanently? That elimination of NK would allow the US to decrease its armed and nuclear presence in the Pacific, and pursue disarmament with China?

Or would China attack to defend its ally? Would it launch nukes, and/or invade Korea to respond to our conquest, much as they did in 1950-51 when MacArthur crossed the Yalu River? Could the USA send enough troops to defeat invading Chinese forces plus any residual North Korean forces left after our attack? Would Taiwan come into the picture too, if China attacks Korea?

Would this be World War Three? Would other powers join in this conflagration? Would Russia back China? Would NATO/Europe then back the USA, Japan and Korea? Would the war then spread to the eastern European theater?

I guess we can't ignore the WW3 scenario for this 4T any longer. 

But besides the saeculum, I of course also look at the astrological timing. Things actually look promising for 2016-2017, as I have said. Progress on Syria was reported tonight, and this is likely to continue into 2017. The next Mars stations in Summer 2018 do not look too dangerous from a US war perspective. Some kind of accident, lone-wolf attack or rebellious uprising is more likely; or even some kind of crisis or financial decision on energy. The war danger is very high in late 2020, but the cycles do not indicate a USA war is likely until 2025. On the other hand, the Korean War itself did not fit into that cycle exactly. It fit closely a Mars station in conjunction with Saturn in Virgo in Spring 1950, which was a similar figure to the escalation of the war in Vietnam in Feb-May 1965 (which also fit the Jupiter cycle, of course). So the Jupiter 11-12 year war cycle is no guarantee of no war when it's not due; it just makes US war much less likely. But late 2020 does not look like a US war to me. In 2025-26 though, if whatever happens in 2020 is not settled, things could get ugly for the USA.

This has gone way too far.

Here we have an undeclared foreign agent, who still has not released his likely incriminating tax returns (e.g. showing foreign sourced funding). He's repeatedly shown himself to be a promoter of the USA's most substantial current foreign rival.

Beyond that, he's violated secrecy in revealing content from the security briefing.

And now, he's revealed a diabolical plan to overthrow the US government from within, by enlisting some cabal of military leaders or would be leaders who would be directly loyal to him in a personal arrangement outwith the actual chain of command and civilian oversight mechanisms. This last bit is reminiscent of Stalin, Hitler, Franco and Pinochet.

Let's face it. He's a traitor. Why wait for him to do further damage? Even if he loses the election, look at all the evil seeds he's sown. That crop will sprout for years if not decades, resulting in unavoidable violent domestic engagements and outright warfare.

HUAC 2.0! Start with Trump, go on from there.

Stop. The. Madness.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/...p=cur&_r=0

Quote:A chart has been making the rounds among the wonky corners of the internet. Nicknamed the elephant chart because of its peculiar shape, it has a big hump showing rising incomes for the world’s middle class, leading into a deep trough for the world’s upper middle class, then rising into another peak for the world’s wealthiest. To make the shape more obvious, some people on the internet have even drawn feet and ears on the graph.

But it isn’t meant to provoke laughs. Made by Branko Milanovic, an economics professor at the City University of New York, the chart forcefully shows how incomes for the middle class have risen in emerging economies like China and fallen for the lower middle class in advanced economies like the United States...



http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/...p=cur&_r=0