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Here is the pertinent discussion from Dissecting the Fed-Sponsored Housing Bubble Comparative Growth in HPI vs. OER From 1994 until 1999 there was little difference in the rate of change of rent vs. housing prices.
From November 11, 2011, RPJr says : The Obama Administration has put off a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until immediately after the 2012 election. At that point a newly elected Republican president will be able to quickly approve it or President Obama can do the same without concern for an upcoming election. Responding to enviro claims that rejecting the original Keystone application was a victory, RPJr continues: Let’s return to this February, 2013 and see if "victory" still smells as sweet — when plans re-emerge for crude oil flowing south, regardless of who wins the election.
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If Obama’s threat sounds familiar it’s because it is.
Links Who is to blame for the crisis in South Sudan? The nascent civil war in South Sudan is a product of kleptocratic governance, systemic corruption, and political posturing that has reignited deep ethnic divisions between the nation’s two largest tribal groups
Links Thailand: CONFIRMED – "Men-in-Black" Gunmen Were Regime Police CAPO also confirmed to have lied about "police dressed as protesters," in yet another egregious episode exposing Shinawatra regime as illegitimate and intolerable. January 2, 2014  (Tony Cartalucci) – It is now confirmed that black-clad gunmen seen atop the Labour Ministry building on December 26, 2013 during deadly violence last month that left two dead were in fact police. Thai PBS reported in an article titled, " National police chief admits men in black are police ," that: National Police Office commissioner Pol Gen Adul Saengsingkaew this morning admitted that the men in black†on the roof-top of the Labor Ministry’s building near the Thai-Japan youth centre in Din Daeng are police. The national police commissioner’s official admittance came as he led senior police officers to deliver best wishes and receive New Year blessings from the president of the Privy Council Gen Prem Tinsulanonda this morning. Pol Gen Adul admitted that “men in black†are police and vowed to investigate and bring them to justice procedure. He also admitted that the men in anti-riot uniforms who were seen smashing the windshields of a vehicle of a volunteer nurse are also the police.
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