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PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM will once again inspire America? From 2000, live in Madison Square Garden. The song was written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin as a favor to Elton's friend, tennis star Billie Jean King. King was part of the Philadelphia Freedoms tennis team. Four years ago, Obama won Philadelphia by 500,000 votes, and lost the rest of the state by 150,000 votes to Romney If Trump can do significantly better than Romney did in Philly, he can win Pennsylvania and the Election The Kelly File 9/29/16 | Donald Trump Still ahead in Polls, Donald Trump & Next Presidential Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FZ2sdMojMY Published on 29 Sep 2016 The Kelly File 9/29/16 | Donald Trump Still ahead in Polls, Donald Trump & Next Presidential Debate

Good News, Bad News Good: Estimates rose for PH Growth : Up 0.4% to 6.4% for this year, and 6.7% for next year. That's very good indeed, but was not the only news out... PH Slips in Global Competitiveness The Philippines fell 10 notches to rank #57, out of 138 economies reviewed. In the latest year, the Philippines saw a decline in 7 of the 12 pillars used in the survey; namely: institutions, infrastructure, goods maket efficiency (v19 to #99), labor market efficiency, technological readiness (v14 to #83), business sophistication (v10 to #52) and innovation (v14 to #62) . "The country appears to be going backwards vis a vis its peers in some of the more complex areas of competition. PH continues to have the second lowest rating on ease of starting a business.

Exclusive — Breitbart/Gravis Polls: Trump Takes 4-Point Lead in ... Breitbart News-9 hours ago In Colorado, a swing state with 9 electoral votes, Trump leads Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton by 4 points—outside the survey’s 3.5 percent margin of error. Trump, at 41 percent, leads Clinton—who has just 37 percent. Libertarian Gary Johnson takes 6 percent and Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party takes 6 percent, and 10 percent of the voters polled are undecided. The poll, conducted from Sept. 22 to Sept. 23, surveyed 799 registered voters in Colorado. === Poll: Wealthy Voters Abandon Republican Party for Hillary Clinton Breitbart News-21 Sep 2016 A Bloomberg poll shows that Americans living in households making $100,000 or more have abandoned the Republican party, led by Donald ... Millennial Voters May Cost Hillary Clinton the Election In-Depth-The Atlantic-19 Sep 2016

Trump is headed for a win, says professor who has predicted 30 years of presidential outcomes correctly By Peter W. StevensonThe Fix September 23 Who will win the 2016 presidential election? This professor has predicted correctly for 32 years Allan Lichtman, a distinguished professor of history at American University, created his "13 Keys to the White House" more than 30 years ago—and he's ready to predict who will win in 2016. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) Nobody knows for certain who will win on Nov. 8 — but one man is pretty sure: Professor Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since 1984. When we sat down in May, he explained how he comes to a decision. Lichtman's prediction isn't based on horse-race polls, shifting demographics or his own political opinions. Rather, he uses a system of true/false statements he calls the "Keys to the White House" to determine his predicted winner. And this year, he says, Donald Trump is the favorite to win. . . . Lichtman, a distinguished professor of history at American University, sat down with The Fix this week to reveal who he thinks will win in November and why 2016 was the most difficult election to predict yet. Our conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity. THE FIX: Can you tell me about the keys, and how you use them to evaluate the election from the point where — I assume it's very murky a year or two out, and they start to crystallize over the course of the election. LICHTMAN: "The Keys to the White House" is a historically based prediction system. I derived the system by looking at every American presidential election from 1860 to 1980, and have since used the system to correctly predict the outcomes of all eight American presidential elections from 1984 to 2012. == > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/23/trump-is-headed-for-a-win-says-professor-whos-predicted-30-years-of-presidential-outcomes-correctly/

FOREIGN SELLING? I showed the above chart to a friend (here in Makati) who has good political contacts, and knowledge of finance. His reaction was: + August is usually a slow month for the stock market + The market is still getting used to the new president, and there will be some swings + Although people see he is not speaking very carefully sometimes, Duterte is making some positive changes and he still has good support internally, + However, he has created some enemies (often with drug connections), who may be pulling some money out of the country. Thus, the departing funds may be "foreign investors" (like from Switzerland or Cayman Islands?) but with the shots called within the PH. Let's see how sensible President Duterte is. I don't think he wants to be responsible for the reversal of the reputation of the PH - which has improved in recent years. If he is smart, and can learn, he may learn to discipline himself and his own statements (as Mr Trump has done over the last several weeks) On the other hand, some of RD's enemies, are said to be keen to destroy Duterte's reputation, and even have him impeached. So let's see how he handles it. === === (I tried to post this earlier, and could not get onto the MP website): 140,000,000 for 300 sqm (i.e. 450,000 per sqm = about US$10,000 psm). Assuming commercial prices are approx 200,000 per sqm, this translates to a 125% premium It is interesting to see that BGC prices have gone that high. It sounds like the high price is driven by the Value of the Ground floor - hugely attractive to capture walk-by, street traffic. Ground floor retail units will always be at a premium in areas of high density - for shops, restaurants, etc Hong Kong gets around the scarcity of ground floors, by creating a second level in Central and other areas, where people can walk above the car traffic and still do their shopping and other business. This provides a sort of bonus for the property owners, which they can monetize by opening commercial units along along walkways. We are beginning to see this in Makati also. This morning, I will be visiting a building (Eton Tower) which draws the walkway traffic inside, so that they can provide customers for the retail units on that floor. In that part of Makati, they may get as many paying customers on the walkway level, as they get at street level

Ep. 528 FADE to BLACK Jimmy Church w/ Richard Alan Miller : Time Travel : LIVE Published on Sep 21, 2016 Dr. Richard Alan Miller is our guest and we discuss everything from time-travel, Nibiru, GMOs, the election, the space elevator and life after death...this is one of the best conversations we've had with Dr. RAM...and then we even take a few phone calls...he is the best. "I am Dr Strange," says Miller Doctor Strange Official Trailer 2 Published on Jul 23, 2016 See Marvel's "Doctor Strange," in theaters November 4, 2016

" The euro strengthened from the low EURPHP46.8 in march 2015 to around EURPHP53.5 now. So that also helps to explain the lower value of the remittances, i.e. the strength of PHP" I thought that too - until I looked at the data The comparison was July'2015 to July'2016, and those two months showed the EUR at similar levels EUR - in USD ... update

EXCERPTS "The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said soft remittance flows from overseas Filipinos could persist this year amid various de-risking activities by foreign banks and weak oil prices." "Latest data from the central bank showed cash remittances contracted 5.4 percent to $2.13 billion in July from $2.25 billion in the same month last year. This pulled down the growth in cash remittances to three percent in the first seven months, lower than the full-year target set by the BSP. Cash remittances amounted to $15.32 billion from January to July, $449 million higher than the $14.87 billion recorded in the same period last year." WHERE were the drops?: + Remittances from Filipinos in Saudi Arabia fell 10.8 percent to $1.51 billion from $1.7 billion (Oil related*?) + Cash remittance from Europe dropped 8.5 percent to $2.2 billion in the first seven months from $2.41 billion in the same period last year. Remittances from the United Kingdom fell seven percent to $805.8 million from $886.77 million (Europe hiring more refugees, rather than Filipinos?) === === *Oil-related OILB ... All-data : 5-yrs : 1-yr : ... PB :

Too cheap ? Gran Colombia Gold Announces Strategic Review Process TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - September 16, 2016) - Gran Colombia Gold Corp. (the "Company") (GCM) (otc pink:TPRFF) announced today that, in light of current market conditions and the Company's improved operational and financial performance this year, it has engaged GMP Securities L.P. as its exclusive financial advisor to conduct a strategic review process that will explore alternatives to enhance shareholder value. The strategic review process will be broad and could include, but not be limited to, a strategic investment in the Company by a third party, a business combination with another entity, a recapitalization of the Company, a reduction of the principal outstanding under the Senior Secured Convertible Debentures due 2020, a sale of the Company, or some combination of the foregoing. At present, there can be no assurance as to what, if any, strategic alternatives might be pursued by the Company. The Company does not intend to disclose further details with respect to its review of strategic alternatives unless and until the Board of Directors has approved a specific transaction or otherwise determines that further disclosure is warranted. == > http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gran-colombia-gold-announces-strategic-review-process-2016-09-16?siteid=bigcharts&dist=bigcharts Translation: We think our stock price is too cheap GCM.t ... 10-yrs : 5-yrs : 2-yrs : 12mos : 6-mos / 10-d / U-1%: V-6% : Updated, Last: C$0.125 at 9/19/2016

Trump Takes Huge Seven Point Lead in LA Times Poll as Black Voters Ditch Clinton A new LA Times Daily Tracking poll shows that the bombastic Republican nominee has managed to attract support from a growing number of minority voters despite recent attacks and the revival of the Birther controversy this week. . . . The latest survey conducted by the LA Times of 2,507 respondents nationwide shows 47.7% of voters support Republican nominee versus only 41% who support the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Trump’s poll performance improving by an unprecedented 7.1% over the past 6 days. U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton climbs into her van outside her daughter Chelsea's home in New York, New York, United States September 11, 2016, after Clinton left ceremonies commemorating the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks feeling overheated. © REUTERS/ Brian Snyder Poll: Only 39% of US Voters Believe Hillary is Healthy Enough to be President Trump’s rise in the polls comes during a rough patch in the Clinton campaign after Hillary collapsed at the 9/11 Memorial ceremony last Saturday reviving questions about her health and fitness to serve as the nation’s commander-in-chief. Read more: https://sputniknews.com/us/20160918/1045443855/trump-poll-surge-black-voters.html

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REMEMBER What the Stakes are ! The Circus should not distract us from the fact that a huge Clean-up of Global Mess is needed Good post! Clinton Business in Haiti called "Monkey business" HILLARY EXPOSED AGAIN !! ••"CLINTON TRIED TO BRIBE ME " - HAITIAN PRESIDENT (SHARE THIS VIDEO !!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5i5XoK0JHE The questions about the "work" of the Clinton Foundation multiply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaKzja_CX0 Ask yourself, are you willing to follow this woman into WW3? A war the globalist want to keep their grip on power & the wealth drain intact. Or do you want Peace under Trump, and a clean-up of the Globalist messes?

Bill Still : TRUMP NOW has it ! Enough Electoral votes, with momentum on his side Still Report #1197 Donald Trump Has a Wide Open Path to Victory over Hillary -Electoral College! They must be panicking this weekend (with ashtrays flying) around Clinton HQ Meanwhile Trump continues on the campaign trail, while Hiillary plays games in front of green screens Full Speech: Donald Trump Holds HUGE Rally in Colorado Springs, CO 9/17/16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9OfNpuitl4

Bonds - is the rally finally ending ? Charts : USD-bonds : TLT :

The Gallery - a three-block-long shopping mall in Philadelphia's Center City How it will look in 2019: PREIT’s plans promise to reconnect the shopping center with the rest of Market Street. In 2014, the real estate company brought in Macerich, the third-largest publicly traded mall company in America, which now has a 50 percent interest in The Gallery. Woodard has mixed feelings about the project, which he views as a necessary auxiliary to the Pennsylvania Convention Center and the luxury hotels that have sprouted near City Hall. Although he loved The Gallery as it was, he also recognizes that it proved a challenge. Its stores did not appeal to conventioneers and tourists, and the closest shopping destinations were around Rittenhouse Square, a mile away from the convention center. It didn’t compare to the outlet offerings that similarly prominent cities like Atlanta or Boston have in their city centers to capture tourist dollars. The population that could be served in the immediate vicinity had changed radically as well. In 1980 there were only 2,768 people per square mile in the census tract that contains The Gallery. By 2000, there were 6,762. At last count, the number had more than doubled to 14,424 with similar patterns in most of the surrounding tracts == > https://nextcity.org/features/view/philadelphia-gentrification-retail-gallery-mall-makeover The owners of the mall, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PEI) ... All-data : 5-yrs : 2-yrs : 6-mos : PREIT’s plans promise to reconnect The Gallery shopping center with the rest of Market Street. In 2014, the real estate company brought in . Macerich (MAK) ... All : 5-yrs : 2yrs : 6-mos , the third-largest publicly traded mall company in America, has a 50% interest in The Gallery. Construction is estimated to (cost over $1 billion, and) take at least two years, and completion is expected in late 2018 or early 2019. == == PEI : Invests in retail shopping malls and power centers especially in the eastern United States. Based in Philadelphia : website MAK : Owns and operates regional shopping malls, mainly in the western US.: website

The Gallery - a three-block-long shopping mall in Philadelphia's Center City The owners of the mall, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PEI) ... All-data : 5-yrs : 2-yrs : 6-mos : PREIT’s plans promise to reconnect The Gallery shopping center with the rest of Market Street. In 2014, the real estate company brought in . Macerich (MAK) ... All : 5-yrs : 2yrs : 6-mos , the third-largest publicly traded mall company in America, has a 50% interest in The Gallery. Construction is estimated to (cost over $1 billion, and) take at least two years, and completion is expected in late 2018 or early 2019. == == PEI : Invests in retail shopping malls and power centers especially in the eastern United States. Based in Philadelphia : website MAK : Owns and operates regional shopping malls, mainly in the western US.: website

The $1 Billion Bet on Gentrifying Black Philadelphia’s Downtown Mall Can a diverse downtown remain inclusive even as rents rise and developers cater to a more affluent clientele? Wallace Wyche is tending shop in a ghost town. The three-block-long shopping mall where he works in the heart of Philadelphia is empty, cleared out for a massive renovation. At one end, where his Verizon store is situated, a few stragglers hang on: a leather goods shop, a perfume shop, a GameStop. A lone police officer sits at a security station, clearly bored out of his mind, and looks over the empty expanse. There used to be two cops stationed here, but the second was taken off the desk. The scene is a far cry from the mall where Wyche first began working. Then, The Gallery at Market East, known as “The Gallery,” was bustling with people, many of them black and coming from neighborhoods that didn’t have a lot of safe places to meet a friend, pick up new shoes or grab a bite to eat. For the past 15 years at least, The Gallery has been what Elijah Anderson, a Yale professor of sociology, calls “a black place,” attracting a majority African-American clientele from the city’s disinvested North and West sections — both a mere subway or trolley ride away. But last year, the owners of the mall, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT), began to reinvent the mall for a new clientele. Now riot screens cover the tunnels connecting the mall’s subterranean eastern and western halves. The crowds have vanished, along with the numerous shops frequented by black shoppers, like Horizon Books, one of the last African-American bookstores in the city. “A lot of people who can afford to are moving in [to Center City],” says Wyche, 28, who is African-American and lives about 10 miles away in the city’s Mayfair section. Of the owners of The Gallery, he speculates, “I think they are trying for a different tax bracket. They are weeding out the people who can’t afford to shop that high.” New mixed-use towers that will include offices and luxury apartment are under construction on the blocks surrounding The Gallery. Today, Center City Philadelphia is the second most populous downtown in the country, a dense, transit-friendly hub where a good meal and plenty of shopping options, from posh Barneys New York to cheap-chic Buffalo Exchange, can be found on foot. For the first time in generations, people are moving downtown, to luxury apartments and condos being created above and alongside fancy restaurants and chain retailers that are no longer afraid of the city. On Market Street east of City Hall, a prime stretch connecting the city’s business center to Independence Mall and other tourist attractions in Old City, it isn’t only The Gallery (now the Fashion Outlets of Philadelphia) that is getting a facelift. There are at least two other major mixed-use projects underway, and many smaller developments, which promise to add thousands of new apartments and hundreds of thousands of square feet in new commercial space. Even before those projects are complete, the population of what the Center City District terms “Greater Center City” had, at last count, grown by 17 percent (since 2000), largely driven by an influx of childless millennials and empty nesters. But outside of Center City and its halo of revitalizing neighborhoods, Philadelphia still struggles with crushing poverty — more than a quarter of the city’s population lives under the poverty line — and middle-class flight. Although the unemployment rate in 2015 fell to 7 percent, there are still many parts of North and West Philadelphia where it is more than twice that. A 2015 Pew analysis found that in a ranking of comparable cities, only Detroit has a larger share of its population outside of the labor force. And while some centrally located areas are gentrifying, many outlying middle-class neighborhoods have seen median incomes drop precipitously. Depending on whom you ask, The Gallery was either one of the few Center City amenities serving the city’s working-class and lower-income majority population, or a throwback to a time when even the most choice Philly real estate could rarely attract the most desirable tenants. (A Kmart served as one of the mall’s anchors until it closed in 2014.) . . . And while PREIT is keeping quiet about which retailers it is courting for the revamped space, the company clearly hopes to shed the mall’s discount store vibe. Renderings show a brightly lit, glass-fronted structure with sit-down restaurants and shops facing out to the street. In an emailed statement, PREIT spokesperson Ashlyn Delson describes the new offerings as “a fusion of outlet retail including designer and moderate brands, popular flagship retail, artisanal food experiences and entertainment offerings.” She calls it “the future of outlet retailing.” Still, the first new tenant PREIT has welcomed is a Century 21, a discount retailer of designer clothing. But as Center City continues to grow and neighborhoods on the city’s fringe continue to stagnate, it is worth asking whether the mall can remain a diverse hub for all Philadelphians now that its lower-end corners are being upgraded. It isn’t only The Gallery, after all, that is moving upmarket. Chinatown is being transformed by an influx of wealthy single professionals (many of them Chinese), while the area known as the Gayborhood has shed all the trappings of its past as an affordable — if seedy — respite for the young and queer and now boasts a nationally renowned concentration of high-end restaurants. Earlier this year, the central Love Park closed for a complete rehabilitation that will transform the austere modernist plaza — which attracted a steady stream of skateboarders, many from lower-income neighborhoods — into a greener and more tourist-friendly site. The old Dilworth Plaza outside City Hall is long gone too. Once a grimy warren of bizarre little alcoves, which sheltered Occupy Philly and a year-round homeless population, it is now a sleek, well-secured monument to the new Center City, all fountains and open space where encampments once stood. Changes of this nature are probably inevitable. A booming downtown will not long cede swaths of prime real estate to uses that predominantly attract low-income people. But we shouldn’t pretend that nothing has been lost in the transformation of these spaces or that the people who frequented the old Gallery or Love Park will necessarily be back. “I don’t know if it can be all things to all people,” says Inga Saffron, the architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. “The Gallery was an amazing space, like a town square, where a lot of people came together. Will it be like that again? I don’t know. Can it be both things? Probably not.” . . . PREIT’s plans promise to reconnect the shopping center with the rest of Market Street. In 2014, the real estate company brought in Macerich, the third-largest publicly traded mall company in America, which now has a 50 percent interest in The Gallery. Construction is estimated to take at least two years, and completion is expected in late 2018 or early 2019. Woodard has mixed feelings about the project, which he views as a necessary auxiliary to the Pennsylvania Convention Center and the luxury hotels that have sprouted near City Hall. Although he loved The Gallery as it was, he also recognizes that it proved a challenge. Its stores did not appeal to conventioneers and tourists, and the closest shopping destinations were around Rittenhouse Square, a mile away from the convention center. It didn’t compare to the outlet offerings that similarly prominent cities like Atlanta or Boston have in their city centers to capture tourist dollars. The population that could be served in the immediate vicinity had changed radically as well. In 1980 there were only 2,768 people per square mile in the census tract that contains The Gallery. By 2000, there were 6,762. At last count, the number had more than doubled to 14,424 with similar patterns in most of the surrounding tracts. . . . “I’m sure PREIT would have liked to tear the entire thing down and restart it from scratch, but that would have cost a lot of money,” says CBRE’s Gartner. “I hear they are talking to a lot of tenants all over the country, many of which would be unique to the market and first time here. … Failure is not an option for them. They have to do this. Even if they have to give away cheap rent, they are going to have to pull it off.” === > https://nextcity.org/features/view/philadelphia-gentrification-retail-gallery-mall-makeover

In Hillary H3ll, the Clintons are Masters of the White House,,, busy looting everything Les Misérables 2012 Master of the House

Music pour le Movement ... it is becoming a global movement against Globalists Donald Trump enters Miami rally to Les Miserables anthem Daily Mail-1 hour ago 'I made the Les Deplorables meme on @Reddit last Saturday,' he would later write on Twitter. 'Been banned ever since. They won't respond to ... Les Miserables: Do you hear the people sing: Sung by 17 Valjeans from around the world

Higher rent is squeezing everyone, especially the middle Sept 16, 2016 Middle-income wages aren’t keeping up with rental costs. It’s getting more costly to rent. Rental costs remained high in August, continuing to pressure the budgets of most ordinary Americans. Rent was 3.8% higher than a year ago for the fourth month in a row, the Labor Department said Friday. That compares to the 2.4% growth in average hourly earnings. The booming cost of rent is concerning. It points to a market in which supply isn’t keeping up with surging demand and a reminder that Americans are uneasy about, or locked out of, homeownership. And the effects are just as troubling as the causes. Options and mobility are limited, and other expenses get squeezed out. The trend in higher rents has been consistent throughout the economic recovery, but monthly data can be choppy. Census data released earlier this week showed a more healthy economic picture than previously expected. Incomes rose 5.2% between 2014 and 2015 and poverty slid. Census also released some data from its 2015 American Community Survey this week. One promising trend in that data was regional income convergence, Trulia economist Ralph McLaughlin wrote in a research note. Convergence is when income growth in lower income areas is larger than in high income areas. Incomes in the lowest-income metros grew 5.3%, faster than incomes in all others. They also grew substantially faster than housing prices, which were up 3.1%, and slightly outpaced rental costs, which were up 5.1%. But for higher- and middle- income people, rental costs grew at about double the pace of incomes. Metro type % change in income % change in house prices % change in rent Lowest income 5.3% 3.1% 5.1% Lower income 3.3% 4.6% 6.8% Middle income 4.2% 4.6% 6.7% Higher income 3.0% 4.5% 6.6% Highest income 3.4% 2.7% 7.2%

Possible Housing Top being formed ? Let's look at the charts... Has Colliers topped first in late 2015? (they are int'l btw) CIGI /. Colliers Group .. All-data : 10-yrs : 5-yrs : 1-yr / 10d IYR /. US Real Estate etf : All-data : 10-yrs : 5-yrs : 1-yr / 10d : Last; $79.38 . after a higher high at $85.80 PHM /. Pulte Homes ..... All-data : 10-yrs : 5-yrs : 1-yr / 10d : Last: $19.57, after High of Year at $22.40 in July HGX /. Housing Index .. All-data : 10-yrs : 5-yrs : 1-yr / 10d : Last: $234.12, after Double Top at/near $256

Hillary H3LL : The Rich will rub it in your face Clinton Birthday Bash To Benefit Clinton Foundation - Up to $250K A Head - The Kelly File https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKS-iy_8z_w

Did you take a bet? Shorting Hillary seemed like an obvious move As I said on Sept. 2nd: " Silver gives Trump now a 25% chance of winning. Personally, I think there is a higher chance than this that HRC will be imprisoned, or dead (from illness) within 12 months"

More evidence of a LOW END focus - but will the profits shrink? Philippines Property Market: Boom or Bust? VIDEO: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/8979b196-38b4-4163-a3d8-fef1dca1f339 May 22 (Bloomberg) –- With the World Economic Forum underway in Manila, Bloomberg will be looking at therise of the Philippines all morning. The economy is growing strongly, and one sector is gaining rapidly - property. Bloomberg's David Ingles reports. (Source: Bloomberg) They are talking about US $25,000 properties, and they are speculating that prices could move up by 25-30% "after development" Ayala is "reaching down into the pyramid" - where there is huge pent-up demand

Gold/Silver Rally to Explode into Hyperdrive September 2016! - Bo Polny Interview Published on 31 Aug 2016 Mine Closures Creating Massive Profit Opportunity, Learn More: http://CrushTheStreet.com/Zinc