Broke Up...

The number one cause of divorce is obvious. It's not about money, or about kids, or infidelity, or any other domestic issue. The number one cause of divorce is marriage, as more than half of all marriages end in divorce. 

Finally, more people are deciding to stay single or are waiting longer before plunging into the wacky world of matrimony.

Was it necessity that forced people to get married at age 14 in the early 1900s?

Was it brainwashing by parents and society that made marriage seem like the thing to do? 

Family and societal expectations? 

Or just a really bad habit? Marriage seems to be a habit that people can't seem to break, as many take the plunge more than once--multiple times, even?

At least now kids are waiting longer before they tie the knot. Is it culture that has taught us that we are supposed to get married after high school or college and blissfully settle down with our "soul mates" to have 2.5 children and a white picket fence--only for more than half of those matches made in Heaven to dissolve in bitter divorces years later.

Uncle...

The Media realized how bad the situation in Yemen is. The death, the starvation, the destruction and the dehumanization of a country. The only issue here is this realization came Four years later.

The Media also realized that War is not a way to change people's Minds and Hearts. Just look at other countries we participated in helping, assisting or bombing... Nothing changed but massive destruction and killings.

Ratio...

 

The main drag on markets is not the rolling narrative of politics, it is the money flow of central banks and in particular the Federal Reserve.

The stock market has been going up since the credit crunch of 2007/2008 because liquidity has been pumped into the system and made the value of assets go up as the cheap credit has driven participants to seek out assets that will appreciate faster than the interest they have to pay. This is how QE (quantitative easing) saved the global economy and a lot of people’s homes and jobs.

Now that rescue cycle is deemed over, the Federal Reserve has decided to (and has been encouraged to) reverse the QE, to get its assets and liabilities downsized. From a QE high of $4.5 trillion they have shrunk the balance sheet down to $4.1 trillion.  

On the otherside, October 2018 was a rough ride for U.S. stocks,  remained on pace for one of the worst months since the financial crisis.

U.S. markets lost more than $2.5 trillion in October coming into the month's final day of trading, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices analyst Howard Silverblatt. 

Notice the relation between the reverse to the loses. It is 5 folds loses. Just a thought.

Suckers...

President Trump struck overtly political chords as he addressed service members during a speech at the al-Asad airbase in Iraq, his first visit
to an overseas military installation. 

The president said his military strategy puts an end to the United States being "suckers" and hammered Democrats for resisting his demands for border wall funding.  

In past visits abroad the president has frequently admonished allies to be more committed to fights taking place in their own backyards. During the speech at al-Asad, Trump revisited that theme, saying that countries must sometimes pay a "monetary price" for the United States’ military involvement, "so we’re not the suckers of the world." 

The president noted that "stopping terrorists from entering America’s shores" is part of a broader strategy of homeland security.  Trump said his political rivals are only blocking a more robust border wall out of blind opposition to everything he proposes. 

Iraq Death: Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on.Oct 15, 2013.

Side...

Turkish-backed Syrian fighters are preparing to deploy in eastern Syria alongside Turkish troops once American forces withdraw.

A Syrian Kurdish official said her group is reaching out for help to protect the Kurdish- occupied areas against a possible Turkish offensive.

A Kurdish-led force captured much of northern and eastern Syria from the Islamic State group with the help of the U.S.-led coalition. Turkey views the Kurdish fighters as terrorists because of their links to a Kurdish insurgent group inside Turkey.

Manbij was at the center of an agreement the U.S. and Turkey reached under which Kurdish forces were to withdraw. Turkey had vowed to launch a new offensive against the Kurds.

The Kurdish-led forces still ( occupied)
 30 percent of Syria, mostly in the east, including some of the richest oil fields. The Kurdish militia has expressed shock at the U.S. decision to withdraw, and now faces a triple threat from Turkey, the Syrian government and IS.

Syria is being occupied by many powers that shouldn't be there. These forces are causing Misery and Death to innocent people. So when we talk about dectatodicta, who are we referring to!?

Involved...

Refund...

The fundraising website GoFundMe has fully refunded every one of about 14,000 people who donated more than $400,000 to a New Jersey trio now charged with concocting a cruel hoax involving a seemingly selfless homeless man, a gas can and a $20 bill.

The scam first warmed, then broke the hearts of thousands of Americans before it was exposed as an alleged fraud last month.

In the fall of 2017, Kate McClure and Mark D’Amico launched a GoFundMe fundraising campaign with a disarming tale about an allegedly homeless veteran named Johnny Bobbitt using his last $20 to help McClure out of a roadside jam when she ran out of gas. It was a tale she repeated alongside Bobbitt in a Nov. 2017 interview on ‘Good Morning America.’

McClure told ‘GMA’ TV that it was close to midnight one night in 2017 and she was driving alone on I-95 when her car ran out of gas as she was on an exit ramp. 

Destruction...

Turkey said  it is working with the United States to coordinate the withdrawal of American forces but remains "determined" to clear U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters from northeastern Syria.

Ankara views the Kurdish forces as terrorists because of their links to an insurgent group inside Turkey. WHile  US was funding and supporting forces that Turkey considered  terrorists.

Turkey has been negotiating on behalf of the Syrian opposition with Russia and Iran, which support the Syrian government, as part of efforts to end the nearly 8-year civil war.

Why all these countries are against Syria?  are they pleased with the misery, killing and the destruction they caused?

Where is the "free Media" reports about what's really happening?

Single...

The rise of the voluntarily single woman has been happening in Western societies slowly. A well-paying jobs, legal protection from economic or physical abuse, reliable birth control and the possibility of fulfilling careers and adventures support that.

Currently, 53% of women over 18 are in the singles column. Women now have choices that allow them to customize the arc of their lives.  

A woman who is poor and meets equally poor  men, is in a tough spot. Yet the dreams of  comfortable living is always there.

Some women with children, may be better off with government help and a boyfriend than a husband 

When a woman is very privileged or highly successful, marriage come very easy or not depending on many factors.

Marriage is very important to women but being single is a strong competitor.

Feliz Natal...