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That's how it goes. Everybody knows.

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COVER YOUR YEAR-END: Those with crystal balls should cover their glasses
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Time for recklessly insightful 2018 predictions, insightful because I've been consistently correct on this kind of stuff, reckless because I don't play in the Wall Street casino.

1. GREAT DEPRESSION, PART DEUX will hit in the third quarter of next year, too late to help Democrats. Paying attention to publicly available information, I called the 2007-08 meltdown well over two years ahead. (See BarbanoMedia.com et. seq.) I also correctly warned of a Republican presidential victory as far back as February of 2016 with 17 candidates still in play. (Barbwire Feb. 16, 2016) The cycles of history also foreshadow a non-Republican victory in 2020.

2. THE STANDARD DEPRESSION ANTIBIOTICS WON'T WORK WELL, IF AT ALL. They've been over-prescribed and the disease has built up immunity.

    3. NEVADA HAS SEEN THIS BEFORE. With the last recession at full roar, one-term Republican Gov. Jim the Dim offered (drum roll, please) budget cuts, making bad situations worse. As always, this stingiest of states first abuses the physically and mentally disabled, sending them to either graveyards or jails. School children, who can't vote, take the next hit.

     4. NEVADA'S NEXT GOVERNOR MUST NOT BE ANOTHER JIM THE DIM. The projected 2018 GOP frontrunner is accidental Attorney General Adam Laxalt whose tenure has been, er...undistinguished. Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak is considered the Donkey Party frontrunner. His record of corporate welfare cronyism does not portend a people-first mindset. His primary opponent, fellow Commissioner Christina Giunchigliani, has deeper qualifications than both Laxalt and Sisolak combined. She'll have rough sledding because...

     5. THE NEVADA DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL COMMIT SUICIDE. AGAIN. It started with a majority of Democratic lawmakers caving to the gambling-industrial complex in this year's session. (I'll soon publish a dossier on unreported skulduggery for Barbwire Confidential subscribers.)

     6. NEVADA'S CORPORATE WELFARE QUEENS WILL FALTER. Gomorrah South has made the dumbest of investments with the Oakland Raiders, buying into a shrinking market with millions of parents refusing to let their children play the brain-damaging sport. In these parts, Tesla will lose charge. The company is sporadically profitable at best, requiring big borrowing. The bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler 10 years ago should give investors pause.

     7. EDUCATION: As recession morphs into depression, the Washoe County School District will find that the sales tax increase passed to fund borrowing for new schools will fall substantially below projections. WCSD Superintendent Traci Davis will migrate to greener and more lucrative pastures. Like Davis, her successors will ignore the threat of lead-laden, cancer-causing artificial field turf until legal action is filed.

     8. PRO SPORTS, PART ONE. Giunchigliani will become Nevada's first woman governor. The U.S. Senate race will go to recount. In the three most famous (1964, 1974 and 1998), the winner on election night prevailed. Edge: Republican incumbent Heller.

     9. PRO SPORTS, PART DEUX. UNR football will go 5-7 while UNLV will go 4-8, generating calls for firing coach Tony Sanchez, who will be hired by his brother, Kenny, who got Tony's job with Bishop Gorman's professional high school team. However, if the suspended Kenny gets fired due to his domestic battery arrest, Tony will hire him at UNLV if they beat UNR next year and bring back the Fremont Cannon. Nonetheless, Gorman will again eat everyone alive and try to modify rules so that it can play "exhibitions" or "practice games" against lower level college teams. UNLV perhaps?

     10. CLINGING TO THE LEDGE. The Nevada Senate will go GOP. Because Great Depression2 won't hit by the second quarter, Republicans will cling to power until 2020 becomes instant replay of 1932.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)

Online Extras & Smoking Guns—>
Blast from the past: Pierre Rinfret on the ill effects of war spending
Princess Cassandra and perpetual war machines
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Christmastime investment advice from Al Capone
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 12-13-2017 Sparks Tribune
Fake news Valhalla: Putin, my president and me
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A sojourn into the life of a fallen Nevada giant
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-29-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 11-30-2017
We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXII—>
Thanksgibleting 2017: Success, sorrow & sustenanceB
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-22-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 11-23, 11-24, 11-26 and 11-29-2017
We Don't Need No Education Part LXXXI—>
Brain damage means never having to say you're sorry
Nevada's Most-Censored News Stories of 2017
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-15-2017 Sparks Tribune
Throwing the book at big guns and little cowboys
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-8-2017 Sparks Tribune
We Don't Need No Education Part LXXX—>
The poisoning of old Pizen Switch proliferates
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 11-1-2017 Sparks Tribune
We Don't Need No Education Part LXXIX—>
Mississippi West don't need no education
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-25-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 10-29, 10-30 and 10-31-2017 GMT
We Don't Need No Education Part LXXVIII—>
You've got to be taught to learn to hate
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-18-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 10-19 and 10-29-2017 GMT
Window of opportunity: 48 hours for human rights
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-11-2017 Sparks Tribune
Las Vegas 2017: Fire is the devil's only friend
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 10-4-2017 Sparks Tribune
Rewriting the Civil War and the Mexican War
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 9-27-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 9-28-2017
Freedom loving racists shoot to rewrite history
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno / Expanded from the 9-20-2017 Sparks Tribune
Rewriting History
Reno News & Review Editorial: Remove Klansman's sculpture at UNR / 9-14-2017
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Barbwire by Andres Luis Barbáno / Special online Labor Day edition 9-2-2017

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