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SETTLERS IN THE WEST BANK
ELKIN: START PREPARING FOR ONE MILLION SETTLERS IN THE WEST BANK
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Elk...st-Bank-514251
Dropping a word of Arabic slang, Elkin also dismissed the idea of a Palestinian state in the West Bank.
A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim
in the West Bank. (photo credit AMMAR AWAD REUTERS
Israel must start planning for a million people in Area C of the West Bank, Jerusalem Affairs Minister
Zeev Elkin and settler leaders said on Tuesday.
This will happen, it is only a question of when, Elkin said, adding that it could be anywhere between
the next 10 to 20 years, depending on the pace of construction.
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LEBANON
Lebanons Fall Would Be Irans Gain
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11368/lebanon-iran
Almost unnoticed in the coverage of President Trump Asia trip, Lebanon is slipping under Iran control.
On November 3, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, resigned, citing fears of
assassination by Hezbollah, the Shia Muslim terrorist group funded and controlled by Iran. No one
can say Hariris fears are unjustified since his father, former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, was murdered
in 2005, almost certainly at Syrian or Iranian direction.
While the full ramifications of Saad Hariris resignation remain to be seen, Tehrans ayatollahs have now
significantly extended their malign reach in the Middle East. This is bad for the people of Lebanon; bad
for Israel, with which Lebanon shares a common border and a contentious history; bad for Arab states
like Jordan and the oil producing Arabian Peninsula monarchies; and bad for America and its vital
national interests in this critical region.
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ZIMBABWE
Soldiers on Harare streets as ruling party accuses Zimbabwe army chief of treason
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-z...-idUSKBN1DE1NG
Zimbabwe ruling party accused the head of the armed forces of treason on Tuesday as troops took up
positions around the capital in an escalation of a dispute with 93 year old President Robert Mugabe
over political succession.
Just 24 hours after military chief General Constantino Chiwenga threatened to intervene to end a purge
in the ruling party, a Reuters reporter saw six armored personnel carriers on major thoroughfares on the
outskirts of the capital.
Aggressive soldiers directing traffic told passing cars to keep moving through the darkness.
Do not try anything funny. Just go, one soldier said on Harare Drive.
The presence of troops, including the movement of at least six armored personnel carriers from a
barracks northwest of Harare, sparked rumors of coup against Mugabe, although there was no
evidence to suggest Zimbabwes leader of the last 37 years had been toppled.
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VENEZUELA
Venezuela just defaulted, moving deeper into crisis
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/14/news...-sp/index.html
Venezuela, a nation spiraling into a humanitarian crisis, has missed a debt payment. It could soon face
grim consequences.
The South American country defaulted on its debt, according to a statement issued Monday night by
S&P Global Ratings. The agency said the 30 day grace period had expired for a payment that was due
in October.
A debt default risks setting off a dangerous series of events that could exacerbate Venezuelas food and
medical shortages.
If enough holders of a particular bond demand full and immediate repayment, it can prompt investors
across all Venezuelan bonds to demand the same thing. Since Venezuela does not have the money to pay
all its bondholders right now, investors would then be entitled to seize the country assets, primarily barrels
of oil, outside its borders.
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U.S.A.
The US most secretive intelligence agency was embarrassingly robbed and mocked by hackers
http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-e...rokers-2017-11
* The New York Times on Sunday published a detailed look at how the National Security Agency,
the US largest and most secretive intelligence agency, had been deeply infiltrated over the past year.
* Expensive NSA cyberweapons are now for sale to hostile countries and have already been used in
cyberattacks against the public.
* Now doubt surrounds the NSA, and experts wonder whether the agency can do its job at all.
==========
RETAIL APOCALYPSE
Why Americas Retail Apocalypse Could Accelerate Even More In 2018
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a...n-more-in-2018
Is the retail apocalypse in the United States about to go to a whole new level? That is a frightening
thing to consider, because the truth is that things are already quite bad. We have already shattered
the all time record for store closings in a single year and we still have the rest of November and
December to go. Unfortunately, it truly does appear that things will get even worse in 2018, because
a tremendous amount of high yield retail debt is coming due next year. In fact, Bloomberg is reporting
that the amount of high yield retail debt that will mature next year is approximately 19 times larger than
the amount that matured this year.
Just $100 million of high yield retail borrowings were set to mature this year, but that will increase to
$1.9 billion in 2018, according to Fitch Ratings Inc. And from 2019 to 2025, it will balloon to an annual
average of almost $5 billion. The amount of retail debt considered risky is also rising. Over the past year,
high yield bonds outstanding gained 20 percent, to $35 billion, and th industrys leveraged loans are up
15 percent, to $152 billion, according to Bloomberg data.
Even worse, this will hit as a record $1 trillion in high yield debt for all industries comes due over the
next five years, according to Moodys.
Can you say debt bomb?
For those of you that are not familiar with these concepts, high yield debt is considered to be the riskiest
form of debt. Retailers all over the nation went on a tremendous debt binge for years, and many of those
loans never should have been made. Now that debt is going to start to come due, and many of these
retailers simply will not be able to pay.
So how does that concern the rest of us?
Well, just like with the subprime mortgage meltdown, the spillover could potentially be enormous.
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TODAYs VIDEO
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ELKIN: START PREPARING FOR ONE MILLION SETTLERS IN THE WEST BANK
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Elk...st-Bank-514251
Dropping a word of Arabic slang, Elkin also dismissed the idea of a Palestinian state in the West Bank.
A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim
in the West Bank. (photo credit AMMAR AWAD REUTERS
Israel must start planning for a million people in Area C of the West Bank, Jerusalem Affairs Minister
Zeev Elkin and settler leaders said on Tuesday.
This will happen, it is only a question of when, Elkin said, adding that it could be anywhere between
the next 10 to 20 years, depending on the pace of construction.
==========
LEBANON
Lebanons Fall Would Be Irans Gain
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11368/lebanon-iran
Almost unnoticed in the coverage of President Trump Asia trip, Lebanon is slipping under Iran control.
On November 3, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, resigned, citing fears of
assassination by Hezbollah, the Shia Muslim terrorist group funded and controlled by Iran. No one
can say Hariris fears are unjustified since his father, former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, was murdered
in 2005, almost certainly at Syrian or Iranian direction.
While the full ramifications of Saad Hariris resignation remain to be seen, Tehrans ayatollahs have now
significantly extended their malign reach in the Middle East. This is bad for the people of Lebanon; bad
for Israel, with which Lebanon shares a common border and a contentious history; bad for Arab states
like Jordan and the oil producing Arabian Peninsula monarchies; and bad for America and its vital
national interests in this critical region.
==========
ZIMBABWE
Soldiers on Harare streets as ruling party accuses Zimbabwe army chief of treason
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-z...-idUSKBN1DE1NG
Zimbabwe ruling party accused the head of the armed forces of treason on Tuesday as troops took up
positions around the capital in an escalation of a dispute with 93 year old President Robert Mugabe
over political succession.
Just 24 hours after military chief General Constantino Chiwenga threatened to intervene to end a purge
in the ruling party, a Reuters reporter saw six armored personnel carriers on major thoroughfares on the
outskirts of the capital.
Aggressive soldiers directing traffic told passing cars to keep moving through the darkness.
Do not try anything funny. Just go, one soldier said on Harare Drive.
The presence of troops, including the movement of at least six armored personnel carriers from a
barracks northwest of Harare, sparked rumors of coup against Mugabe, although there was no
evidence to suggest Zimbabwes leader of the last 37 years had been toppled.
==========
VENEZUELA
Venezuela just defaulted, moving deeper into crisis
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/14/news...-sp/index.html
Venezuela, a nation spiraling into a humanitarian crisis, has missed a debt payment. It could soon face
grim consequences.
The South American country defaulted on its debt, according to a statement issued Monday night by
S&P Global Ratings. The agency said the 30 day grace period had expired for a payment that was due
in October.
A debt default risks setting off a dangerous series of events that could exacerbate Venezuelas food and
medical shortages.
If enough holders of a particular bond demand full and immediate repayment, it can prompt investors
across all Venezuelan bonds to demand the same thing. Since Venezuela does not have the money to pay
all its bondholders right now, investors would then be entitled to seize the country assets, primarily barrels
of oil, outside its borders.
==========
U.S.A.
The US most secretive intelligence agency was embarrassingly robbed and mocked by hackers
http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-e...rokers-2017-11
* The New York Times on Sunday published a detailed look at how the National Security Agency,
the US largest and most secretive intelligence agency, had been deeply infiltrated over the past year.
* Expensive NSA cyberweapons are now for sale to hostile countries and have already been used in
cyberattacks against the public.
* Now doubt surrounds the NSA, and experts wonder whether the agency can do its job at all.
==========
RETAIL APOCALYPSE
Why Americas Retail Apocalypse Could Accelerate Even More In 2018
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a...n-more-in-2018
Is the retail apocalypse in the United States about to go to a whole new level? That is a frightening
thing to consider, because the truth is that things are already quite bad. We have already shattered
the all time record for store closings in a single year and we still have the rest of November and
December to go. Unfortunately, it truly does appear that things will get even worse in 2018, because
a tremendous amount of high yield retail debt is coming due next year. In fact, Bloomberg is reporting
that the amount of high yield retail debt that will mature next year is approximately 19 times larger than
the amount that matured this year.
Just $100 million of high yield retail borrowings were set to mature this year, but that will increase to
$1.9 billion in 2018, according to Fitch Ratings Inc. And from 2019 to 2025, it will balloon to an annual
average of almost $5 billion. The amount of retail debt considered risky is also rising. Over the past year,
high yield bonds outstanding gained 20 percent, to $35 billion, and th industrys leveraged loans are up
15 percent, to $152 billion, according to Bloomberg data.
Even worse, this will hit as a record $1 trillion in high yield debt for all industries comes due over the
next five years, according to Moodys.
Can you say debt bomb?
For those of you that are not familiar with these concepts, high yield debt is considered to be the riskiest
form of debt. Retailers all over the nation went on a tremendous debt binge for years, and many of those
loans never should have been made. Now that debt is going to start to come due, and many of these
retailers simply will not be able to pay.
So how does that concern the rest of us?
Well, just like with the subprime mortgage meltdown, the spillover could potentially be enormous.
==========
TODAYs VIDEO
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