A TooL'S ERRaND... Posted by: williambanzai7 Post date: 09/04/2013 - Apocalypse WTF!

 

A TooL'S ERRaND...

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THE TOOL'S ERRAND

 

 

 

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ACT II

 

 

 

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PLANNING THE DAMASCUS RAID

 

 

 

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APOCALYPSE WTF

 

 

 

 

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MCQAEDA POKER APP

 

 

WB7:

Syria is one giant hornet's nest and it is extremely doubtful that there will be any new NG pipelines running through it in the near future.

Why is our government dead set on doing this?

Do you really believe this is just about pipelines and "moral obscenities"?

Who really stands to gain?

This is one big show for the benefit of the Russians and Chinese.

Does anyone believe they are going to standby and watch Amerika's unilateralist adventurism without doing something about it?

What will they do?

They will build up their own military capability in an attempt to put the lid on the "American hegemon."

Who would blame them?

Are they supposed to standby and watch us piss on everyone else's front door?

And who will benefit most from this scenario?

Put your Keynesian thinking caps on friends and take a wild guess.

War is indeed profit...

And the fool on the ass is on a tool's errand!

 

 

 

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Saxo Bank CEO Slams Merkel: "The Verdict Is Out, Need To Re-Evaluate The EU"

"I have met a number of politicians over the years, but lately it has dawned on me that very few of them are seriously prepared to stand up for their beliefs, if indeed they have any. ...

Ideologies and courage have been consigned to the past and, as I see it, Europe’s Achilles’ heel is the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the de facto leader of the EU, and her lack of vision for the single-currency bloc. ... Her lack of vision stands as a striking contrast to the emotional feelings that dominated much of post-war European political thinking. ...

As I see it, the research is done. The verdict is out. We have to re-evaluate the EU."

 

 

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Reading the financial press, one gets the impression there are only two sides to the austerity debate: pro-austerity and anti-austerity. In reality, we have three forms of austerity. There is the Keynesian-Krugman-Robert Reich form which promotes more government spending and higher taxes. There is the Angela Merkel form of less government spending and higher taxes, and there is the Austrian form of less spending and lower taxes. Of the three forms of austerity, only the third increases the size of the private sector relative to the public sector, frees up resources for private investment, and has actual evidence of success in boosting growth.

 

 

S&P Blames DoJ's Lawsuit On "Retaliation" For US Downgrade

embrace; and hence, america’s erosion, decline, defacto bankruptcy and cover-up of america’s crimes which are substantial and numerous, past and present. }

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These Are The 7 Democratic And 3 Republican Senators Who Want To Start The Syrian War

 

 

Senate Panel Authorizes Limited Military Strike In Syria

And like that, the first step to all out war has been taken:

Vote breakdown: 10 Yes; 7 No; 1 Present. The measure includes new language saying U.S. policy is to "change the momentum on the battlefield in Syria" in way that brings about negotiated settlement of conflict, leading to a democratic govt in Syria. In other words: a pro-Qatari/Saudi coalition government that will permit the passage of natgas pipelines under Syria, through Turkey and into Europe, breaking Gazpromia's marginal energy monopoly over the broke continent.

 

 

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About That "Construction Worker Shortage"

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The Recovery Is Here: Spot The Outlier

Presented with little comment aside to note that following last month's Porsche news, the Lambo release, and now this... the 'recovery' is truly here...

 

 

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A Market Week Of War-Drums

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Guest Post: Have Advances In Consumer Electronics Reached Diminishing Returns?

Aerospace technology experienced a Golden Age of rapid technological development that leveled off once fundamental technologies had matured. Investment in further advances reached a point of diminishing return: the cost of squeezing out modest gains exceeded the profit potential of the advances. We can expect the same trajectory of change in consumer electronics: it will be ubiquity that creates change, rather than technological leaps in capabilities.

 

 

Russia Chemical Attack Probe Shows "Weapons Similar To Ones Made By Rebels"

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And perhaps most critically, as Reuters reports, the foreign minstry statement asserts that Russian expert findings show the weapon used in the Syrian chemical attack was similar to the ones made by a rebel group.

 

 

Senate Foreign Relations Panel Approves Military Action in Syria

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Oliver Stone Slams Push Toward Intervention In Syria

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Oliver Stone Slams Push Toward Intervention In Syria

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McCain Blames Boredom For Playing Poker At Senate War Meeting

Kit Daniels | Senator disappointed he lost at poker during hearing which could lead to World War 3.

 

Syrian Activists Form ‘Human Shields’ Around Military Installations

Adan Salazar | Will Obama take the ultimate step to embodying ‘war criminal’ status?

 

Will Congress Reject Obama’s Attack on Syria?

Paul Joseph Watson | No vote could spark constitutional crisis if White House launches attack anyway.

 

Russia Boosts Mediterranean Flotilla as U.S. Weighs Syria Strike

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Pelosi Uses Her 5 Year Old Grandson To Propagandize War With Syria

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Rand Paul Demands Obama Adhere to Congress on Syria

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Unemployment At One Year High, Gallup Finds

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Is The United States Going To Go To War With Syria Over A Natural Gas Pipeline?

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Asia's Richest Man, Li Ka-Shing, Looking to Make Gold Investments Posted by: GoldCore Post date: 09/04/2013 - It is likely that he does, as he is Chinese and was a Chinese refugee who fled to Hong Kong with his family to avoid the perils of war. Refugees who flee from their homeland to start new lives in...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is The United States Going To Go To War With Syria Over A Natural Gas Pipeline?

PipelineWhy has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars to support the rebels in Syria?  Could it be because Qatar is the largest exporter of liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won't let them build a natural gas pipeline through Syria?  Of course.  Qatar wants to install a puppet regime in Syria that will allow them to build a pipeline which will enable them to sell lots and lots of natural gas to Europe.  Why is Saudi Arabia spending huge amounts of money to help the rebels and why has Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan been "jetting from covert command centers near the Syrian front lines to the Élysée Palace in Paris and the Kremlin in Moscow, seeking to undermine the Assad regime"?  Well, it turns out that Saudi Arabia intends to install their own puppet government in Syria which will allow the Saudis to control the flow of energy through the region.  On the other side, Russia very much prefers the Assad regime for a whole bunch of reasons.  One of those reasons is that Assad is helping to block the flow of natural gas out of the Persian Gulf into Europe, thus ensuring higher profits for Gazprom.  Now the United States is getting directly involved in the conflict.  If the U.S. is successful in getting rid of the Assad regime, it will be good for either the Saudis or Qatar (and possibly for both), and it will be really bad for Russia.  This is a strategic geopolitical conflict about natural resources, religion and money, and it really has nothing to do with chemical weapons at all. (Read More....)

 

 

 

Quotes From Glenn Beck, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin And Rush Limbaugh About War With Syria

Right now, top conservatives such as Glenn Beck, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Matt Drudge are all trying to warn us about the foolishness of the Obama administration’s rush to go to war with Syria.  Many prominent conservatives are absolutely disgusted that the U.S. military would be fighting on the side of al-Qaeda if we intervene in Syria, and some of them are even warning that striking Syria could lead to World War III.  Over the past couple of decades, conservatives have generally been the most eager to support going to war, but this time is very different.  This time, many of the most well-known conservatives are urging us to stay out of Syria.  The following are 12 quotes from some of the top conservative voices in the country about the upcoming war in Syria that should send a chill down your spine… (Read More.....)

 

 

 

 

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Absolutely Shocking Syria War Bible Code

Syria War Bible Code

Did you know that there is a Bible code matrix that contains the words “Armageddon”, “Asad”, “Military” and “Holocaust”?  Did you know that there is another Bible Code matrix that contains the words “Syria”, “World War”, “Russia”, “China” and “USA”?  These discoveries were made by Michael Drosnin in his 1997 book entitled “The Bible Code“, but what is going on in the Middle East right now is causing a lot of people to give these Bible codes a second look.  Could it be possible that our future is encoded in the ancient Hebrew Scriptures?  Some people believe that there is something to these Bible codes while others consider them to be a total load of nonsense.

If you are not familiar with the Bible codes, the following is a quick summary from Wikipedia

 

 

IT'S TiMe FoR THe NeoCoN MuNSTeRS! Posted by : williambanzai7 Post date: 09/03/2013 - Grandpa: What smells so good? Herman: I cut myself shaving...

IT'S TiMe FoR THe NeoCoN MuNSTeRS!

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Herman Kerry:  “Life is real; life is earnest. If you're cold, turn up the furnace.”

 

GRANDPA MCCAIN
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Grandpa McCain: "What are you knocking? Some of my best friends are petrified."

 

 

LILLY GRAHAM

 

Lily Graham: "We Munsters always feel more at home in a box."

 

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BARACK MUNSTER

 

Eddie Obama: "I thought you liked violence Pop."

 

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MR BOMBHEAD IN DAMASCUS
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Barack can be seen in the smoke

His peace prize was simply a joke

His hope we believed

But all were deceived

And on the word "change" we now choke

The Limerick King

 

 

 

 

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Point-By-Point Rebuttal of U.S. Case for War In Syria Posted by: George Washington Post date: 09/03/2013 - Demolishing the American War Brief Piece by Piece

The White House released a 4-page document setting forth its case for use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.

But as shown below, the case is extremely weak (government’s claim in quotes, followed by rebuttal evidence).

“A preliminary U.S. government assessment determined that 1,429 people were killed in the chemical weapons attack, including at least 426 children, though this assessment will certainly evolve as we obtain more information.

But McClatchy notes:

Neither Kerry’s remarks nor the unclassified version of the U.S. intelligence he referenced explained how the U.S. reached a tally of 1,429, including 426 children. The only attribution was “a preliminary government assessment.”

 

Anthony Cordesman, a former senior defense official who’s now with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, took aim at the death toll discrepancies in an essay published Sunday.

 

He criticized Kerry as being “sandbagged into using an absurdly over-precise number” of 1,429, and noted that the number didn’t agree with either the British assessment of “at least 350 fatalities” or other Syrian opposition sources, namely the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has confirmed 502 dead, including about 100 children and “tens” of rebel fighters, and has demanded that Kerry provide the names of the victims included in the U.S. tally.

 

“President Obama was then forced to round off the number at ‘well over 1,000 people’ – creating a mix of contradictions over the most basic facts,” Cordesman wrote. He added that the blunder was reminiscent of “the mistakes the U.S. made in preparing Secretary (Colin) Powell’s speech to the U.N. on Iraq in 2003.”

 

An unclassified version of a French intelligence report on Syria that was released Monday hardly cleared things up; France confirmed only 281 fatalities, though it more broadly agreed with the United States that the regime had used chemical weapons in the Aug. 21 attack.

Next, the government says:

“In addition to U.S. intelligence information, there are accounts from international and Syrian medical personnel; videos; witness accounts; thousands of social media reports from at least 12 different locations in the Damascus area; journalist accounts; and reports from highly credible nongovernmental organizations.”

Reports on the ground are contradictory, with some claiming that the rebels used the chemical weapons. See this and this.  Indeed, government officials have admitted that they’re not sure who used chemical weapons.

More importantly the U.S. government claimed it had unimpeachable sources regarding Iraq’s WMDs … and that turned out to be wholly fabricated.

“We assess with high confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year, including in the Damascus suburbs. This assessment is based on multiple streams of information including reporting of Syrian officials planning and executing chemical weapons attacks and laboratory analysis of physiological samples obtained from a number of individuals, which revealed exposure to sarin.”

Chemical weapons experts are still skeptical.  The chain of custody is suspect, given that the U.S. hasn’t revealed where the samples came from, and who delivered them to the U.S.  McClatchy reports:

Among chemical weapons experts and other analysts who’ve closely studied the Syrian battlefield, the main reservation about the U.S. claims is that there’s no understanding of the methodology behind the intelligence-gathering. They say that the evidence presented points to the use of some type of chemical agent, but say that there are still questions as to how the evidence was collected, the integrity of the chain of custody of such samples, and which laboratories were involved.

 

Eliot Higgins, a British chronicler of the Syrian civil war who writes the Brown Moses blog, a widely cited repository of information on the weapons observed on the Syrian battlefield, wrote a detailed post Monday listing photographs and videos that would seem to support U.S. claims that the Assad regime has possession of munitions that could be used to deliver chemical weapons. But he wouldn’t make the leap.

 

On the blog, Higgins asked: “How do we know these are chemical weapons? That’s the thing, we don’t. As I’ve said all along, these are munitions linked to alleged chemical attacks, not chemical munitions used in chemical attacks. It’s ultimately up to the U.N. to confirm if chemical weapons were used.”

Moreover, Dan Kaszeta – a former Chemical Officer in the United States Army, and one of the foremost experts in chemical and biological weapons – said in a recent interview that there can be false positives for Sarin, especially, when tests are done in the field (pesticides or other chemical agents can trigger a false positive for sarin.)

The bottom lines is that – even though the U.S. has done everything it can to derail a UN weapons inspection – we have to wait to see what the UN tests reveal.

“We assess that the opposition has not used chemical weapons.”

The rebels absolutely had had access to chemical weapons. While the American government claims that the opposition has not used chemical weapons, many other sources – including the United Nations, Haaretz, and Turkish state newspaper Zaman - disagree.

“The Syrian regime has the types of munitions that we assess were used to carry out the attack on August 21, and has the ability to strike simultaneously in multiple locations.”

The types of munitions which were apparently used to deliver the chemical weapon attack are an odd, do-it-yourself type of rocket.   The rebels could have made these.

“We assess that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons over the last year primarily to gain the upper hand or break a stalemate in areas where it has struggled to seize and hold strategically valuable territory. In this regard, we continue to judge that the Syrian regime views chemical weapons as one of many tools in its arsenal, including air power and ballistic missiles, which they indiscriminately use against the opposition.

 

The Syrian regime has initiated an effort to rid the Damascus suburbs of opposition forces using the area as a base to stage attacks against regime targets in the capital. The regime has failed to clear dozens of Damascus neighborhoods of opposition elements, including neighborhoods targeted on August 21, despite employing nearly all of its conventional weapons systems. We assess that the regime’s frustration with its inability to secure large portions of Damascus may have contributed to its decision to use chemical weapons on August 21.”

This is not evidence. This is a conclusory opinion without any support.   (To give an analogy, this would be like claiming Saddam was using weapons of mass destruction right before the Iraq war started because he didn’t like short people … without refuting the actual fact that Saddam didn’t have any WMDs.)

“We have intelligence that leads us to assess that Syrian chemical weapons personnel – including personnel assessed to be associated with the SSRC – were preparing chemical munitions prior to the attack. In the three days prior to the attack, we collected streams of human, signals and geospatial intelligence that reveal regime activities that we assess were associated with preparations for a chemical weapons attack.

 

Syrian chemical weapons personnel were operating in the Damascus suburb of ‘Adra from Sunday, August 18 until early in the morning on Wednesday, August 21 near an area that the regime uses to mix chemical weapons, including sarin.”

Gareth Porter notes:

Despite the use of the term “operating,” the US intelligence had no information about the actual activities of the individual or individuals being tracked through geospatial and signals intelligence. When administration officials leaked the information to CBS news last week, they conceded that the presence of the individual being tracked in the area in question had been viewed at the time as “nothing out of the ordinary.”

 

Yet, after the August 21 event, the same information was suddenly transformed into “evidence” that supports the official line.

Moroever, American intelligence sources have repeatedly been caught lying.  During the run-up to the Iraq war, the government entirely bypassed the normal intelligence-vetting process, so that bogus claims could be trumpeted without the normal checks and balances from conscientious intelligence analysts.  Israeli intelligence - which appears to have played a part in the Syria war brief - has been equally bad.

Former top CIA intelligence officers confirm that the intelligence has been grossly politicized to justify war against Syria.

“On August 21, a Syrian regime element prepared for a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus area, including through the utilization of gas masks.”

This is an oddly-worded – and carefully crafted – statement.  Assad has repeatedly warned that the rebels might steal chemical weapons and use them on civilians. The utilization of gas masks could have been a preventative measure because the Syrian government had received word that the rebels might carry out a chemical attack. More information is necessary.

“Multiple streams of intelligence indicate that the regime executed a rocket and artillery attack against the Damascus suburbs in the early hours of August 21. Satellite detections corroborate that attacks from a regime-controlled area struck neighborhoods where the chemical attacks reportedly occurred – including Kafr Batna, Jawbar, ‘Ayn Tarma, Darayya, and Mu’addamiyah. This includes the detection of rocket launches from regime controlled territory early in the morning, approximately 90 minutes before the first report of a chemical attack appeared in social media. The lack of flight activity or missile launches also leads us to conclude that the regime used rockets in the attack.”

The area in which attacks occurred was heavily contested by the both government and the rebels, and both sides were in and out of the area. 90 minutes before the first attack is an eternity when fighting a war on a heavily-contested battlefield … and could have been plenty of time for rebels to slip in and fire off chemical weapons.

As Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting notes:

It’s unclear why this is supposed to be persuasive. Do rockets take 90 minutes to reach their targets? Does nerve gas escape from rockets 90 minutes after impact, or, once released, take 90 minutes to cause symptoms?

 

In a conflict as conscious of the importance of communication as the Syrian Civil War, do citizen journalists wait an hour and a half before reporting an enormous development–the point at which, as Kerry put it, “all hell broke loose in the social media”? Unless there’s some reason to expect this kind of a delay, it’s very unclear why we should think there’s any connection at all between the allegedly observed rocket launches and the later reports of mass poisoning.

The government next turns to social media:

“Local social media reports of a chemical attack in the Damascus suburbs began at 2:30 a.m. local time on August 21. Within the next four hours there were thousands of social media reports on this attack from at least 12 different locations in the Damascus area. Multiple accounts described chemical-filled rockets impacting opposition-controlled areas.

 

Three hospitals in the Damascus area received approximately 3,600 patients displaying symptoms consistent with nerve agent exposure in less than three hours on the morning of August 21, according to a highly credible international humanitarian organization. The reported symptoms, and the epidemiological pattern of events – characterized by the massive influx of patients in a short period of time, the origin of the patients, and the contamination of medical and first aid workers – were consistent with mass exposure to a nerve agent. We also received reports from international and Syrian medical personnel on the ground.

 

We have identified one hundred videos attributed to the attack, many of which show large numbers of bodies exhibiting physical signs consistent with, but not unique to, nerve agent exposure. The reported symptoms of victims included unconsciousness, foaming from the nose and mouth, constricted pupils, rapid heartbeat, and difficulty breathing. Several of the videos show what appear to be numerous fatalities with no visible injuries, which is consistent with death from chemical weapons, and inconsistent with death from small-arms, high-explosive munitions or blister agents. At least 12 locations are portrayed in the publicly available videos, and a sampling of those videos confirmed that some were shot at the general times and locations described in the footage.”

No one contests that some kind of chemical agent was used.  The question is exactly what type of chemical it was and – more importantly – who used it.

Moreover, the rebels were making propaganda videos for years … and they’ve gotten more sophisticated recently.   More information is needed.

“We assess the Syrian opposition does not have the capability to fabricate all of the videos, physical symptoms verified by medical personnel and NGOs, and other information associated with this chemical attack.”

Another conclusory opinion without evidence. More importantly, it is a red herring.  No one is saying that the tragic and horrific deaths were faked.

The question is when and where they occurred, and who caused them. For example, one of the world’s leading experts on chemical weapons points out that it is difficult to know where the videos were taken:

Zanders, the former EU chemical weapons expert, went even further, arguing that outsiders cannot conclude with confidence the extent or geographic location of the chemical weapons attack widely being blamed on the Assad regime.

 

He singled out the images of victims convulsing in agony that have circulated widely on the Web, including on YouTube.

 

“You do not know where they were taken,” he said. “You do not know when they were taken or even by whom they were taken. Or, whether they [are from] the same incident or from different incidents.”

 

Zanders added: “It doesn’t tell me who would be responsible for it. It doesn’t tell me where the films were taken. It just tells me that something has happened, somewhere, at some point.”

The government then expands on allegedly intercepted intelligence:

“We have a body of information, including past Syrian practice, that leads us to conclude that regime officials were witting of and directed the attack on August 21. We intercepted communications involving a senior official intimately familiar with the offensive who confirmed that chemical weapons were used by the regime on August 21 and was concerned with the U.N. inspectors obtaining evidence. On the afternoon of August 21, we have intelligence that Syrian chemical weapons personnel were directed to cease operations.”

The Washington Post points out that alleged intelligence intercepts are “the core of the Obama administration’s evidentiary case….”    America’s war intelligence has been spotty.  For example:

*  The U.S. Navy’s own historians now say that the sinking of the USS Maine — the justification for America’s entry into the Spanish-American War — was probably caused by an internal explosion of coal, rather than an attack by the Spanish.

*  It is also now well-accepted that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which led to the Vietnam war was a fiction (confirmed here).

And the U.S. and Israel have admitted that they have carried out false flag deceptions (as have Muslim countries such as Indonesia; but to our knowledge, Syria has never been busted in a false flag.)

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting writes:

Recall that Powell played tapes of Iraqi officials supposedly talking about concealing evidence of banned weapons from inspectors–which turned out to show nothing of the kind. But Powell at least played tapes of the intercepted communication, even as he spun and misrepresented their contents–allowing for the possibility of an independent interpretation of these messages. Perhaps “mindful of the Iraq experience,” Kerry allows for no such interpretation.

David Swanson notes that American officials mischaracterized the communications to justify the Iraq war:

Powell was writing fictional dialogue. He put those extra lines in there and pretended somebody had said them. Here’s what Bob Woodward said about this in his book “Plan of Attack.”

 

“[Powell] had decided to add his personal interpretation of the intercepts to rehearsed script, taking them substantially further and casting them in the most negative light. Concerning the intercept about inspecting for the possibility of ‘forbidden ammo,’ Powell took the interpretation further: ‘Clean out all of the areas. . . . Make sure there is nothing there.’ None of this was in the intercept.”

 

[In addition] Powell … was presenting as facts numerous claims that his own staff had warned him were weak and indefensible.

The government then makes a throw-away argument:

“At the same time, the regime intensified the artillery barrage targeting many of the neighborhoods where chemical attacks occurred. In the 24 hour period after the attack, we detected indications of artillery and rocket fire at a rate approximately four times higher than the ten preceding days. We continued to see indications of sustained shelling in the neighborhoods up until the morning of August 26.”

This is another red herring. If the Syrian government believed that the rebels had used chemical weapons on civilians, they may have increased artillery fire to flush out the rebels to prevent further chemical attacks. Again, further information is needed.

“To conclude, there is a substantial body of information that implicates the Syrian government’s responsibility in the chemical weapons attack that took place on August 21.As indicated, there is additional intelligence that remains classified because of sources and methods concerns that is being provided to Congress and international partners.”

This sounds impressive at first glance.  But Congress members who have seen the classified information – such as Tom Harkin – are not impressed.   Indeed, Congressman Justin Amash says:

What I heard in Obama admn briefing actually makes me more skeptical of certain significant aspects of Pres’s case for attacking

 

And see these further details refuting the government’s argument for war.

Bonus:

The Congressional Vote On War with Syria Is Too Close to Call

 

 

A Complete Guide to European Bail-Out Facilities - Part 1: ECB Posted by: Eugen Bohm-Bawerk Post date: 09/03/2013 - This is our first out of four series where we look at all the various bail-out schemes concocted by Eurocrats. Today we look at how the ECB has evolved since 2007. In the next three posts we will...

 

Why Did Obama Choose Syria?

On a purely humanitarian basis, Syria’s tragedy is exceeded by many conflicts that the US abstained from participating in. So when thinking about civil wars and how the US defines its national interest, one has to ask why Syria would qualify for direct intervention while others conflicts did not.

 

 

Guest Post: Congressional 'Danse Macabre' Has Begun

The first draft of the White House's war authorization legislation was leaked yesterday, signaling the opening round of the danse macabre, in which the bargaining and maneuvering over what Congress and the president both want -- war on Syria -- begins its public journey from conception to law. There will be fighting and sharp words along the way. Members will be coy and make impassioned speeches. It is all for show. It is important to make this clear to readers: The fight is not between whether the House and Senate will pass or reject the president's request for authorization to attack, but rather what kind of force authorization will ultimately be brought to the Floor for passage... and sure enough the headlines are starting with more drafts:

*OBAMA WANTS "TOO BROAD AUTHORITY'' IN SYRIA, TWO DEMOCRATS SAY

and Menendez/Corker propose a new US Senate resolution for authorizing use of military force in Syria setting a 60-day deadline, with one 30-day extension possible, while barring ground forces

 

 

Jordan Prepares For Syrian Fallout; Places Air Force On High Alert

Following last week's refusal to allow the US to use the nation as a launchpad for Syria strikes, Jordan has placed its air-force, one of the Arab world's strongest, on high alert in anticipation of "various possibilities." The show of strength captured in Al-Arabiya's special access to the Jordanian air-base shows F-16s and multiple Himars truck-mounted rocket-launchers. While Jordan, like so many nations, would prefer the political solution, it is prepared for any emergency.

 

 

BofAML Warns Of 'Deeper Downside Risk' To June Lows (S&P 1560)

Last week's 90%-down day and TRIN (market-breadth) above 2.0 provided the ammunition for an oversold bounce but as BofAML notes, there is plenty of resistance to limit upside. With 1658 as critical resistance (S&P 500 cash traded 1651 this morning), the following charts show the weight of evidence suggests deeper downside risk to the June lows around 1560.

 

 

Unemployment At One Year High, Gallup Finds

Gallup, which every week polls thousands of adults to get an unadjusted, snapshot picture of who has a job, who has a part-time job and who has no job has released its latest weekly results which have some good and some bad news. Good for those who fear that the NFP print on Friday will be so bad Bernanke will have no choice to delay (or reduce) the taper; bad for the economy. Because at 8.5%, unemployment for the week ended September 1 is now near the highest levels it has been in one year, following a spike in mid-August that sent it all the way to 8.8%.

 

 

Ex-Reserve Bank Of India Chief Admits 'Central Bankers Rarely Learn From Mistakes Of The Past'

With the value of the rupee plunging to new lows, the current account deficit at an all-time high and inflation running at nearly a ten-percent annual clip, India is in serious economic trouble. Indeed many are beginning to wonder whether the country is edging toward a replay of the events in the summer of 1991. Back then, an acute balance of payments crisis forced New Delhi into the indignity of pawning its gold reserves in order to secure desperately needed international financing. At a small public event the other week, Duvvuri Subbarao, the outgoing head of the central bank conceded that policymakers rarely learn from their mistakes: "...in matters of economics and finance, history repeats itself, not because it is an inherent trait of history, but because we don’t learn from history and let the repeat occur."

 

 

'Ben'-edictions On The Economic And Profit Cycle

1:1 In the beginning, Ben Bernanke hath said, let there be liquidity.

...

1:6 And so each among them sayeth the following benediction: “May the Fed bless you and keep you; may the Fed extend its balance sheet to shine upon you; and may the Fed lift up asset prices and protect you from harm”

 

Marc Faber Warns "Western Imperial Arrogance Will Ignite Middle-East 'Powder-Keg'"

As usual, Gloom, Boom, and Doom's Marc Faber pulls no punches in this brief interview on CNBC's Futures Now. When asked what is the catalyst for the crash he expects in US equity markets (following crashes in various markets around the world), he shocks a stunned anchor looking at equity markets near all-time highs with some ugly truths - "interest rates are no longer a tail-wind, earnings growth is not there, and emerging economies are collapsing (so no global growth)." However, with asset allocators "swimming in the pool of liquidity" it is hard to say 'when' it will occur especially as money floods out of EM markets. Critically though, it is Syria (and the spillover) that has Faber most concerned; as he concludes that Western governments "meddling" is "going to be a disaster."

 

Is Europe's Nuclear Fusion 'Experiment' Melting Down?

Fusion nuclear energy has been described as both the ‘Hail Mary pass’ and ‘Holy Grail’ of renewable energy sources. Fusion, the process that powers the sun by fusing together light atoms at extremely high temperatures, offers almost unlimited potential. The fuel is practically inexhaustible, the production process emits no greenhouse gasses and it is inherently safe from many of the safety concerns that have tarnished the reputation of fission nuclear energy. Finally, unlike most renewable energy sources under development, fusion nuclear energy could serve as a base load power source, providing huge amounts of energy around the clock relatively efficiently. ITER portends to be the next step on the path to scaling up the process to commercial proportions. However, the ambitious project may be critically handicapped by its European-politicis-inspired organizational structure. The most apt metaphor may be a fumbled Hail Mary pass.

 

Russia Sends Two Marine-Carrying Ships To The Mediterranean



If the direct result of today's surprising and unannounced Israeli missile test was to provoke a response by Russia, the Allies have succeeded. ITAR TASS reports that Russia’s Black and Baltic Sea Fleets’ Ropucha-class landing ships Novocherkassk (150 marines on board) and Minsk (225 marines) have sailed off for the Mediterranean Sea. What was not reported is that the destination of the two marine carrying ships is the sensitive area around Syria already staked out by the US navy. It is implied.

 

 

Hard-Assets Surge As Equity Bulls Purge

Markets started the day in exuberant mood. Investors were greatly rotating away from bonds into stocks, "war-off" premia were holding up and oil prices were not shooting higher. Then the macro data hit - better-than-expected - and things got a little anxious in equity land (and bond yields pushed higher in Taper-on mode). Then Boehner et al. showed their support for Obama and stocks started to crumble. Commodities had already risen back above Friday's close (dismissing any de-escalation) and while stocks stalled on their collapse lower at Sunday's futures open, they inevitably dumped back to unchanged from Friday. VIX jumped back above 17.25% and the curve flattened and bonds (slow to start) saw yields dump back lower. A late-day pure algo run to VWAP saved the day and closed us green in stocks buy Trannies are not happy as WTI closes back above $108.50.

 

 

Assad Gets Cold Feet: Tells France "Willing To Work To Reach Diplomatic Solution"

 

 

No Electricity Or Toilet Paper Is A Small Price To Pay For "All Time Highs"

Now that the All Time High (ATH) in the S&P is a distant memory (at least until the Syrian war becomes a widespread conflict involving all global powers and the US suddenly has to issue, and monetize, a few extra trillion) there are those momentum chasers who have an itch to BTFATH. To all of them we have a message: don't despair, and merely set your sights a little lower, on the globe that is, to Venezuela where the local stock market keeps crushing every upside resistance level and hitting new all time highs day after day after day, resulting in a YTD return of nearly 200%!

 

 

Guest Post: America's Energy Boom And The Rising U.S. Dollar

The petrodollar regime - that oil is bought and sold globally in U.S. dollars - is easy to understand. It boils down to these two principles: 1. Petroleum is the lifeblood of the global economy; and 2. Any nation that can print its own currency and trade the conjured money for oil has an extraordinary advantage over nations that cannot trade freshly created money for oil. This is why many analysts trace much of America's foreign policy back to defending the petrodollar regime. America's energy boom is creating consequences for the value of the dollar.

 

 

Kerry, Dempsey And Hagel Pitch For "Use Of Force In Syria" - Live Webcast

"The Big Three" will take the stage in front of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to make the case for "the authorization of the use of force in Syria." Given the volume of 'supportive' leadership comments this morning already, it seems that John Kerry (Secretary of State), Chuck Hagel (Secretary of Defense), and General Martin Dempsey (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) will not get too much push-back though earlier comments that the scope of the strike "was too narrow" may become a sticking point.

 

Exclusive: High Level Source Confirms Secret US Nuclear Warhead Transfer

Anthony Gucciardi & Alex Jones | High level military official confirms secret nuclear warhead transfer to East Coast US.

 

The top 9 real reasons to go to war in Syria

Jon Rappoport | None of these reasons has anything to do with “punishing Assad for using chemical weapons.”

 

Rush Limbaugh Suspects Obama Conspired With Al-Qaeda to Frame Bashar al-Assad

Julie Wilson | “If true, this is the setup of all time,” says Limbaugh.

 

‘Impeach Obama’ Ad to Run in Washington Times

Adan Salazar | Group planned to deliver copies of newspaper to Congress members today.

 

CIA Trained Al-Qaeda Cell To Enter Syria

Steve Watson | US sanctioned 50 man group to sneak over border into Syria with arms.

 

 

 

22 Reasons Why Starting World War 3 In The Middle East Is A Really Bad Idea

While most of the country is obsessing over Miley Cyrus, the Obama administration is preparing a military attack against Syria which has the potential of starting World War 3.  In fact, it is being reported that cruise missile strikes could begin "as early as Thursday".  The Obama administration is pledging that the strikes will be "limited", but what happens when the Syrians fight back?  What happens if they sink a U.S. naval vessel or they have agents start hitting targets inside the United States?  Then we would have a full-blown war on our hands.  And what happens if the Syrians decide to retaliate by hitting Israel?  If Syrian missiles start raining down on Tel Aviv, Israel will be extremely tempted to absolutely flatten Damascus, and they are more than capable of doing precisely that.  And of course Hezbollah and Iran are not likely to just sit idly by as their close ally Syria is battered into oblivion.  We are looking at a scenario where the entire Middle East could be set aflame, and that might only be just the beginning.  Russia and China are sternly warning the U.S. government not to get involved in Syria, and by starting a war with Syria we will do an extraordinary amount of damage to our relationships with those two global superpowers.  Could this be the beginning of a chain of events that could eventually lead to a massive global conflict with Russia and China on one side and the United States on the other?  Of course it will not happen immediately, but I fear that what is happening now is setting the stage for some really bad things.  The following are 22 reasons why starting World War 3 in the Middle East is a really bad idea... (Read More....)

#1 The American people are overwhelmingly against going to war with Syria...

Americans strongly oppose U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war and believe Washington should stay out of the conflict even if reports that Syria's government used deadly chemicals to attack civilians are confirmed, a Reuters/Ipsos poll says.

About 60 percent of Americans surveyed said the United States should not intervene in Syria's civil war, while just 9 percent thought President Barack Obama should act.

#2 At this point, a war in Syria is even more unpopular with the American people than Congress is.

#3 The Obama administration has not gotten approval to go to war with Syria from Congress as the U.S. Constitution requires.

#4 The United States does not have the approval of the United Nations to attack Syria and it is not going to be getting it.

#5 Syria has said that it will use "all means available" to defend itself if the United States attacks.  Would that include terror attacks in the United States itself?

#6 Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem made the following statement on Tuesday...

"We have two options: either to surrender, or to defend ourselves with the means at our disposal. The second choice is the best: we will defend ourselves"

#7 Russia has just sent their most advanced anti-ship missiles to Syria.  What do you think would happen if images of sinking U.S. naval vessels were to come flashing across our television screens?

#8 When the United States attacks Syria, there is a very good chance that Syria will attack Israel.  Just check out what one Syrian official said recently...

A member of the Syrian Ba'ath national council Halef al-Muftah, until recently the Syrian propaganda minister's aide, said on Monday that Damascus views Israel as "behind the aggression and therefore it will come under fire" should Syria be attacked by the United States.

In an interview for the American radio station Sawa in Arabic, President Bashar Assad's fellow party member said: "We have strategic weapons and we can retaliate. Essentially, the strategic weapons are aimed at Israel."

Al-Muftah stressed that the US's threats will not influence the Syrain regime and added that "If the US or Israel err through aggression and exploit the chemical issue, the region will go up in endless flames, affecting not only the area's security, but the world's."

#9 If Syria attacks Israel, the consequences could be absolutely catastrophic.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is promising that any attack will be responded to "forcefully"...

"We are not a party to this civil war in Syria but if we identify any attempt to attack us we will respond and we will respond forcefully"

#10 Hezbollah will likely do whatever it can to fight for the survival of the Assad regime.  That could include striking targets inside both the United States and Israel.

#11 Iran's closest ally is Syria.  Will Iran sit idly by as their closest ally is removed from the chessboard?

#12 Starting a war with Syria will cause significant damage to our relationship with Russia.  On Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the West is acting like a "monkey with a hand grenade".

#13 Starting a war with Syria will cause significant damage to our relationship with China.  And what will happen if the Chinese decide to start dumping the massive amount of U.S. debt that it is holding?  Interest rates would absolutely skyrocket and we would rapidly be facing a nightmare scenario.

#14 Dr. Jerome Corsi and Walid Shoebat have compiled some startling evidence that it was actually the Syrian rebels that the U.S. is supporting that were responsible for the chemical weapons attack that is being used as justification to go to war with Syria...

With the assistance of former PLO member and native Arabic-speaker Walid Shoebat, WND has assembled evidence from various Middle Eastern sources that cast doubt on Obama administration claims the Assad government is responsible for last week’s attack.

You can examine the evidence for yourself right here.

#15 As Pat Buchanan recently noted, it would have made absolutely no sense for the Assad regime to use chemical weapons on defenseless women and children.  The only people who would benefit from such an attack would be the rebels...

The basic question that needs to be asked about this horrific attack on civilians, which appears to be gas related, is: Cui bono?

To whose benefit would the use of nerve gas on Syrian women and children redound? Certainly not Assad’s, as we can see from the furor and threats against him that the use of gas has produced.

The sole beneficiary of this apparent use of poison gas against civilians in rebel-held territory appears to be the rebels, who have long sought to have us come in and fight their war.

#16 If the Saudis really want to topple the Assad regime, they should do it themselves.  They should not expect the United States to do their dirty work for them.

#17 A former commander of U.S. Central Command has said that a U.S. attack on Syria would result in "a full-throated, very, very serious war".

#18 A war in the Middle East will be bad for the financial markets.  The Dow was down about 170 points today and concern about war with Syria was the primary reason.

#19 A war in the Middle East will cause the price of oil to go up.  On Tuesday, the price of U.S. oil rose to about $109 a barrel.

#20 There is no way in the world that the U.S. government should be backing the Syrian rebels.  As I discussed a few days ago, the rebels have pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda, they have beheaded numerous Christians and they have massacred entire Christian villages.  If the U.S. government helps these lunatics take power in Syria it will be a complete and utter disaster.

#21 A lot of innocent civilians inside Syria will end up getting killed.  Already, a lot of Syrians are expressing concern about what "foreign intervention" will mean for them and their families...

"I've always been a supporter of foreign intervention, but now that it seems like a reality, I've been worrying that my family could be hurt or killed," said one woman, Zaina, who opposes Assad. "I'm afraid of a military strike now."

"The big fear is that they'll make the same mistakes they made in Libya and Iraq," said Ziyad, a man in his 50s. "They'll hit civilian targets, and then they'll cry that it was by mistake, but we'll get killed in the thousands."

#22 If the U.S. government insists on going to war with Syria without the approval of the American people, the U.S. Congress or the United Nations, we are going to lose a lot of friends and a lot of credibility around the globe.  It truly is a sad day when Russia looks like "the good guys" and we look like "the bad guys".

What good could possibly come out of getting involved in Syria?  As I wrote about the other day, the "rebels" that Obama is backing are rabidly anti-Christian, rabidly anti-Israel and rabidly anti-western.  If they take control of Syria, that nation will be far more unstable and far more of a hotbed for terrorism than it is now.

And the downside of getting involved in Syria is absolutely enormous.  Syria, Iran and Hezbollah all have agents inside this country, and if they decide to start blowing stuff up that will wake up the American people to the horror of war really quick.  And by attacking Syria, the United States could cause a major regional war to erupt in the Middle East which could eventually lead to World War 3.

I don't know about you, but I think that starting World War 3 in the Middle East is a really bad idea.

Let us hope that cooler heads prevail before things spin totally out of control.

 

 

 

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Boehner will support Obama call for military action in Syria... { boehner is really a very stupid man … and, I mean that literally, not figuratively; because he truly is very dumb … Really!  And, as his name implies, he’s also a dick! Really! }


First 'rebels' armed and trained by CIA 'on way to battlefield'...

Assad: 'Obama is weak'...

KERRY'S DRINKS AND DINNERS WITH TYRANT...

2010: 'I Trust Senator Kerry... I Met Him Five Times'...

FLASHBACK: REBELS arrested with Sarin gas!

 

MSM Claims Military Revolt Against Obama a Hoax

Paul Joseph Watson | Rest of corporate media refuses to cover viral Twitter backlash against attack on Syria.

 

Obama’s Syria Attack Resolution Authorizes Boots on the Ground

Paul Joseph Watson | Plan for military intervention greases skids for war throughout the region, says Harvard professor.

 

Israel claims joint US missile launch in Mediterranean for ‘target practice’

RT | Israel later claimed responsibility for firing the target test rockets.

 

#IDidntJoin: Stunning Photos Of U.S. Service Members Publicly Saying No To War With Syria

American Dream | What do members of the U.S. military think about the possibility of a war with Syria?

 

Bombshell: Syria’s ‘chemical weapons’ turn out to be sodium fluoride used in the U.S. water supply

Mike Adams | Natural News can now reveal that the Syria chemical weapons narrative being pushed by the White House is an outlandish hoax.

 

Point-By-Point Rebuttal of U.S. Case for War In Syria

Washington’s Blog | The American War Brief Is Extremely Weak.

 

US-Backed Terrorists Behead 40 Syrians Including Baby

Alalam | Al-Qaeda militants kill 24 civilians near Ras al-Ain.

 

Congressional Danse Macabre Has Begun

Ron Paul Institute | The first draft of the White House’s war authorization legislation was leaked today.

 

The 5% recovery: Why most are still in recession

USA Today | Lower income families have fared poorly since 2009.

 

Syria and the geopolitics of oil

Al-Jazeera | How will a war impact the U.S. energy sector?

 

Poverty consumes so much mental energy it’s like a drop in IQ

UPI | Poverty like a 13-point drop in IQ or loss of a night’s sleep.

 

MSM Claims Military Revolt Against Obama a Hoax

Paul Joseph Watson | Rest of corporate media refuses to cover viral Twitter backlash against attack on Syria.

 

US general says Syria action could be ‘more substantial than thought’

London Telegraph | A former US army chief has claimed that Barack Obama is eyeing intervention in Syria that would go beyond a mere deterrent against chemical weapons to damage the military capacity of the Assad regime.

 

Kaine: Syria resolution must explicitly forbid boots on the ground

The Hill | Kaine said Congress should specify that Obama seek “additional authority before there are boots on ground.”

 

Obama confident Congress will vote to strike Syria

USA TODAY | President Obama said Tuesday he believes Congress will vote to authorize military action against Syria, and he is willing to work with lawmakers on the wording of a specific resolution.

 

Cruise missiles unlikely to deter Syrian regime, analysts say

The Washington Times | Tomahawks lack bunker-busting ability, poor on mobile targets.

Obama’s Syria Attack Resolution Authorizes Boots on the Ground

Paul Joseph Watson | Plan for military intervention greases skids for war throughout the region, says Harvard professor.

 

Israel claims joint US missile launch in Mediterranean for ‘target practice’

RT | Israel later claimed responsibility for firing the target test rockets.

 

Congressional Danse Macabre Has Begun

Ron Paul Institute | The first draft of the White House’s war authorization legislation was leaked today.

Point-By-Point Rebuttal of U.S. Case for War In Syria

Washington’s Blog | The American War Brief Is Extremely Weak.

 

#IDidntJoin: Stunning Photos Of U.S. Service Members Publicly Saying No To War With Syria

American Dream | What do members of the U.S. military think about the possibility of a war with Syria?

 

Markets Briefly Fall After Russian Headlines About Missile — Stocks Recover On News Of No Attack

Business Insider | An incident this morning reveals how jittery the world is, in the midst of escalating geopolitical tensions surrounding Syria.

 

Labor Day: 90 Million Americans Without Jobs; 36% Of the Population

Mac Slavo | This weekend President Obama delivered his weekly radio address commemorating the Labor Day weekend.

 

Global Watchdog to Set Creditor-Loss Rules for Failing Banks

Bloomberg | Global regulators said they would seek to protect taxpayers from having to bail out failing banks by drawing up international rules on creditor losses.

 

Oil, Gold Pull Back on Syria Strike Delay

Wall St Journal | Oil Fell on Easing Supply Concerns While Gold’s Safe-Haven Appeal Became Less of a Factor.

 

 

 

The Blood Red Moons Of 2014 And 2015: An Omen Of War For Israel?



Is Israel going to be involved in a war during the blood red moons of 2014 and 2015?  According to ancient Jewish tradition, a lunar eclipse is a harbinger of bad things for Israel.  If that eclipse is blood red, that is a sign that war is coming.  And blood red moons that happen during Biblical festivals seem to be particularly significant.  There was a “tetrad” of blood red moons that fell during Passover 1967, the Feast of Tabernacles 1967, Passover 1968 and the Feast of Tabernacles 1968.  And of course the 1967 war during which Israel took full control of Jerusalem took place during that time period.  There was also a “tetrad” of blood red moons that fell during Passover 1949, the Feast of Tabernacles 1949, Passover 1950 and the Feast of Tabernacles 1950.  If you know your history, you already are aware that the Israeli War of Independence ended on July 20th, 1949.  So does the blood red moon tetrad of 2014 and 2015 signal that another season of war is now upon us?

The upcoming blood red moon tetrad was discovered by Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries.  He found that this is a very rare event that has only happened seven times since the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.  This upcoming blood red moon tetrad will be the eighth occurrence.  The following is a chart of the upcoming (Read More....)

 

 

#IDidntJoin: Stunning Photos Of U.S. Service Members Publicly Saying No To War With Syria

What do members of the U.S. military think about the possibility of a war with Syria?  So far, they appear to be overwhelmingly against it just like the rest of the general public.  In fact, a new Twitter hashtag (#IdidntJoin) has been flooded with messages from service members expressing their displeasure with the idea of being forced to fight for al-Qaeda in Syria.  This is consistent with what we have been hearing from other sources as well.  For example, U.S. Representative Justin Amash recently sent out a tweet with the following message: “I’ve been hearing a lot from members of our Armed Forces. The message I consistently hear: Please vote no on military action against #Syria.”  Of course there are probably a few members of the military that would love a war with Syria, but they appear to be very much in the minority.  Hopefully the Obama administration and members of the U.S. Congress are listening. (Read More.....)

 

 

Russia Has Equipped Syria With Their Most Advanced Anti-Ship Missiles

Russia has sold Syria highly advanced rocket launchers, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ship missiles.  In fact, the P-800 Yakhont anti-ship missiles that Russia has equipped Syria with are the most advanced anti-ship missiles that Russia has.  When the United States strikes Syria, they might be quite surprised at how hard Syria can hit back.  The Syrian military is the most formidable adversary that the U.S. military has tangled with in the Middle East by far.  From Syria, P-800 Yakhont anti-ship missiles can cover much of the eastern Mediterranean and can even reach air bases in Cyprus.  If the U.S. Navy is not very careful to stay out of range, we could easily see footage of destroyed U.S. naval vessels sinking into the Mediterranean Sea on the evening news.  And once the American people see such footage, it will be impossible to stop a full-blown war between the United States and Syria. (Read More....)

 

The U.S. Military Does Not Want To Fight For Al-Qaeda Christian Killers In Syria

Why is the Obama administration so determined to have the U.S. military help al-Qaeda win the civil war in Syria?  Why are we being told that the U.S. has "no choice" but to help rabid jihadist terrorists that are slaughtering entire Christian villages, brutally raping Christian women and joyfully beheading Christian prisoners?  If you are a Christian, you should not want anything to do with these genocidal lunatics.  Jabhat al-Nusra is a radical Sunni terror organization affiliated with al-Qaeda that is leading the fight against the Assad regime.  If they win, life will be absolute hell for the approximately two million Christians in Syria and other religious minorities. According to Wikipedia, Jabhat al-Nusra intends "to create a Pan-Islamic state under sharia law and aims to reinstate the Islamic Caliphate."  As you will see below, many members of the U.S. military understand this, and they absolutely do not want to fight on the side of al-Qaeda. (Read More....)

 

Who Benefits From A War Between The United States And Syria?

Someone wants to get the United States into a war with Syria very, very badly.  Cui bono is an old Latin phrase that is still commonly used, and it roughly means "to whose benefit?"  The key to figuring out who is really behind the push for war is to look at who will benefit from that war.  If a full-blown war erupts between the United States and Syria, it will not be good for the United States, it will not be good for Israel, it will not be good for Syria, it will not be good for Iran and it will not be good for Hezbollah.  The party that stands to benefit the most is Saudi Arabia, and they won't even be doing any of the fighting.  They have been pouring billions of dollars into the conflict in Syria, but so far they have not been successful in their attempts to overthrow the Assad regime.  Now the Saudis are trying to play their trump card - the U.S. military.  If the Saudis are successful, they will get to pit the two greatest long-term strategic enemies of Sunni Islam against each other - the U.S. and Israel on one side and Shia Islam on the other.  In such a scenario, the more damage that both sides do to each other the happier the Sunnis will be. (Read More....)

 

 

 

ShooT FiRST AND ASK QueSTioNS LaTeR... Posted by : williambanzai7 Post date: 08/29/2013 - 13:50 And no matter what happens...

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In Stunning Move UK Parliament Rejects Syria Military Strike, Obama "Willing To Go It Alone"

Moments ago the UK House of Commons, in a razor thin vote, rejected the Cameron proposal for military action in Syria with a vote 285 to 272. Cameron promptly said he would respect the will of the House of Commons and UK Defense Secretary Phillip Hammond confirmed there would be no UK military intervention in Syria. Incidentally, this may have been the best outcome for an already humiliated British premier who will avoid being dragged into an unpopular war having both sided with his greatest ally, the US, and also relented and listened to the voice of the people. More importantly, the "people" in the UK actually had a voice, which is more than can so far be said about developments in the US. And speaking of the US, the NYT reports that even as the Syrian war "option" is slowly being shut out for staunch US allies (except for France of course), that Obama is "willing to move ahead with a limited military strike on Syria even while allies like Britain are debating whether to join the effort [ZH: and have now voted against it] and without an endorsement from the United Nations Security Council" citing senior administration officials.

 

 

Guest Post: If These Are The Fastest-Growing Jobs In America - We're Doomed

Here’s another depressing list to ruin your day. You can tell a lot about a society by what they value, what they build and what they do. The only new buildings we see being built are banks and medical facilities. That tells us a lot. We look around and see that we value fancy new leased or financed cars, financed McMansions, fastfood, and lots of shopping outlets. And now this list tells us a lot about where this country is headed. Among the ten fastest growing jobs in America, only one can be considered well paying. Only two of the jobs are in industries that produce something. Only one requires a non-liberal arts college degree. Most of the jobs barely pay a living wage. Most of these jobs are non-essential service jobs that add absolutely nothing to society. A society that does not produce is destined to decline. We’re doomed. Based on the list below, we would describe the United States as a service based nation of aging, vain, obese, shallow, financially illiterate boobs with bad skin and muscle aches, who love sports and entertainment, but can’t understand each other, and are addicted to their oil based suburban sprawl debt financed lifestyles.

 

 

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The 10 Fastest-Growing Jobs in America

August 27, 2013 by Alexander E.M. Hess



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Over the past 10 years, the number of nonfarm workers rose by just 5%. But despite past decade’s painful recession and the slow job growth that has followed, several occupations have more than doubled the number of workers employed.

 

24/7 Wall St. compared employment figures published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for hundreds of occupations from 2002 and 2012. Service unit operator jobs in the energy industry quadrupled in that time. The nation’s aging population and changing energy needs played major roles in driving disproportionate job growth for many of the occupations listed. These are the 10 fastest-growing jobs in America.

Many occupations with extreme job growth in the past few years owe at least part of their growth to the changing demographics of the United States. As the baby boom generation ages, many more people need help planning for retirement. This has driven growth of personal financial advisors jobs. Similarly, the need for personal care aides has grown because more people require help in their daily lives

An aging population also has driven job growth in many occupations that are not directly related to retirement planning and care. According to BLS Chief Regional Economist Martin Kohli, “The aging of the population is one of the factors that is driving the demand for massage therapists.” An aging population “is also a factor in the demand for coaches,” Kohli said. Many coaches work as instructors for leisure sports that retirees enjoy.

The growing Hispanic population, in conjunction with expanding international trade, are also factors behind the rising number of interpreters and translators, according to the BLS and Kohli.

But not all job growth can be explained by demographic shifts. For both petroleum engineers and service unit operators in the resource industry, the nation’s two fastest-growing jobs, growth likely is due largely to changes in the energy sector. Both the rise in oil prices, as well as the need to produce from unconventional sources, such as shale oil, have been beneficial to workers in these occupations.

To determine the jobs with the highest percentage growth in employment, 24/7 Wall St. compared data from the BLS’s Occupational Employment Statistics program for both 2002 and 2012. Only jobs with an estimated 20,000 employees or more were included. The program is intended to be a sample of the overall workforce, and estimates are subject to sampling error. The program does not count self-employed workers. Data are collected by the program over the course of several years. Only occupations that existed in both 2002 and 2012 were considered, and any occupations split-up or consolidated between these periods were excluded. Further information on each occupation came from the BLS’s Occupational Outlook Handbook.

These are the 10 fastest-growing jobs in America.

10. Skin Care Specialists > Pct. 10-year job growth:104% > 10-year job growth: 16,230 > Total employed: 31,810 > Median annual pay: $28,640

The number of employed skin care specialists doubled in the 10 years ending in 2012. Specialists typically work in salons and spas, although many are self-employed. Among the services they provide are skin cleanings, advice on proper skin care and removal of unwanted hair. Vocational schools usually offer cosmetology programs, which skin care specialists typically complete. States typically require a license to work in the field. New skin care services and products have driven demand for such specialists.

9. Personal Care Aides > Pct. 10-year job growth: 118% > 10-year job growth: 534,190 > Total employed: 985,230 > Median annual pay: $19,910

Personal care aides are in extremely high demand as the baby boom generation ages and the number of elderly Americans rises. But while the total number of such aides doubled between 2002 and 2012, with nearly a million working in the field as of 2012, it remains a high turnover job because of the typically low pay and the high emotional toll. Even the top 10% of home care workers earned just $27,580 last year, when the median wage for employees across all occupations was $34,750.

8. Personal Financial Advisors > Pct. 10-year job growth: 128% > 10-year job growth: 98,460 > Total employed: 175,470 > Median annual pay: $67,520

The increased number of aging baby boomers approaching retirement and looking to manage their savings and assets has been one of the main drivers behind the growth in personal financial advisor jobs. Another key driver has been the rise in private sector retirement planning as a result of pension shortfalls. The resulting cuts to retirees’ benefits mean ever more individuals turn to financial planners in order to better plan for later in life. Becoming a financial advisor usually requires a bachelor’s degree. Backgrounds in math, accounting, economics, finance and law are all considered useful. Pay for many financial planners is quite high, with the top 25% of professionals taking home at least $111,450.

7. Coaches and Scouts > Pct. 10-year job growth: 130% > 10-year job growth: 114,080 > Total employed: 201,800 > Median annual pay: $28,360

The number of coaches and scouts rose from less than 100,000 in 2002 to more than 200,000 in 2012. Several factors have driven job growth of coaches and scouts, and the same factors are expected to continue to drive further growth. A growing number of retirees with time to participate in sports such as golf and tennis is a major source of demand for coaches. But schools and universities are actually the largest source of jobs for coaches, according to the BLS. Job growth in college sports, especially women’s sports, is expected to be a key driver of employment growth in the field going forward.

6. Human Resources Specialists > Pct. 10-year job growth: 134% > 10-year job growth: 225,830 > Total employed: 394,380 > Median annual pay: $55,800

Human resources specialists’ duties involve recruiting, hiring and placing workers. The number of workers employed as human resources specialist rose by more than 225,000 between 2002 and 2012. One major factor contributing to job growth – and that is expected to continue to contribute — is the increase of firms in the employment services industry as companies outsource human resources tasks. Most human resources roles require a bachelor’s degree, and interpersonal skills are also very valuable.

5. Massage Therapists > Pct. 10-year job growth: 162% > 10-year job growth: 43,880 > Total employed: 71,040 > Median annual pay: $35,970

The reason for the growth in massage therapists jobs has been a rise in the number of spas and massage clinics, according to the BLS. The Bureau also cites an increase in the nation’s elderly population as contributing to demand for massage therapists. The median salary for employed massage therapists was just under $36,000 last year, but the majority are self-employed and most work only part time. The median hourly wage for a massage therapist was $17.29 in 2012.

4. Interpreters and Translators > Pct. 10-year job growth: 171% > 10-year job growth: 31,720 > Total employed: 50,320 > Median annual pay: $45,430

As international trade expands and globalization continues, the need for interpreters and translators should continue to rise, according to the BLS. Already, the number of employed translators has jumped from less than 20,000 in 2002 to more than 50,000 in 2012. As the nation’s Hispanic population grows, interpreters and translators also will be needed. Translation pay varies considerably. The top-paid 10% of translators earned more than $91,800 annually last year, while the bottom 10% earned less than $23,570.

3. Music Directors and Composers > Pct. 10-year job growth: 178% > 10-year job growth: 15,960 > Total employed: 24,940 > Median annual pay: $47,350

It seems that Americans’ thirst for music is on the rise. This should drive job growth of music directors and composers. Another factor driving job growth for this occupation is the expected greater need for original music scores or transcriptions used in commercials and movies. In addition to musical talent and mastery of a variety of instruments, those in this occupation, especially the ones writing and conducting classical music, usually have a bachelor’s degree. About 10% of music directors and composers earned less than $21,450 annually, while the top 10% made more than $86,110, a high annual income compared with the same top 10% of other occupations on this list.

2. Petroleum Engineers > Pct. 10-year job growth: 227% > 10-year job growth: 25,280 > Total employed: 36,410 > Median annual pay: $130,280

Petroleum engineers are some of the highest paid workers in the nation, with a median wage that exceeded $130,000 in 2012. Their work typically involves assessing and planning drilling operations, as well as determining the equipment and methods necessary to extract oil and natural gas in the most efficient way possible. Petroleum engineers are required to have a bachelor’s degree in engineering and must pass a licensing exam and have four years of work experience to be licensed. Oil prices play a major role in determining job outlook for petroleum engineers, partially because higher prices improve incentives to explore and produce oil from newer, more challenging sources. In the past decade, oil prices have risen dramatically, possibly accounting for much of the profession’s estimated 227% job growth.

1. Service Unit Operators, Oil, Gas and Mining > Pct. 10-year job growth: 365% > 10-year job growth: 44,870 > Total employed: 57,180 > Median annual pay: $41,970

No occupation has grown faster than service unit operators working in natural resources extraction, where the number of workers jumped from just over 12,000 in 2002 to more than 57,000 in 2012. Workers in these fields typically are responsible for overseeing and maintaining wells and other technology used in extracting natural resources. Workers are most often employed in oil and gas producing states, such as Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and North Dakota. There are several potential reasons for the profession’s explosive job growth, including rising energy prices and the increased extraction of non-conventional fuel sources.

 

 

 

THE NoBeL MaNiaC... Posted by : williambanzai7 Post date: 08/31/2013 - What have we done?

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The Nobel for peace was his prize

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Slavery! Posted by: Pivotfarm Post date: 08/30/2013 - Slavery was meant to have vanished from the face of the Earth, or at least from our modern societies years ago. But, it hasn’t. We all know that.

Experts: U.S. Case that Syrian Government Responsible for Chemical Weapons Is Weak Posted by: George Washington Post date: 08/30/2013 - And other Syria updates ...

 

'UTTER NONSENSE'  { Yes … I concur with Putin … First, the war mongers seem to hang their hats on the chemical strike … conceded … that’s the easy part … the reality concerns who the real perps are … indeed, other so-called circumstantial at best inferences/not proof is quote ‘being held back’ for unspecified reasons (that I believe like the yellow-cake-Iraq scenario does not exist or definitively point to Assad) … Quite simply, I don’t believe the americans/american position and based on history including my own direct experience (  http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf  http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm  http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm    ) , have no reason to do so… This is just more desperation and diversion from unequivocally failed leadership and government (corruption, cover-up, bankruptcy, etc.) in the u.s., ie., bush, wobama, etc.. }

U.S. Had Intel on Chemical Strike Before It Was Launched...

 

Syria Faces Cyber Attacks in Upcoming Strikes...

 

 

 

 

 

Who Benefits From A War Between The United States And Syria?

Someone wants to get the United States into a war with Syria very, very badly.  Cui bono is an old Latin phrase that is still commonly used, and it roughly means "to whose benefit?"  The key to figuring out who is really behind the push for war is to look at who will benefit from that war.  If a full-blown war erupts between the United States and Syria, it will not be good for the United States, it will not be good for Israel, it will not be good for Syria, it will not be good for Iran and it will not be good for Hezbollah.  The party that stands to benefit the most is Saudi Arabia, and they won't even be doing any of the fighting.  They have been pouring billions of dollars into the conflict in Syria, but so far they have not been successful in their attempts to overthrow the Assad regime.  Now the Saudis are trying to play their trump card - the U.S. military.  If the Saudis are successful, they will get to pit the two greatest long-term strategic enemies of Sunni Islam against each other - the U.S. and Israel on one side and Shia Islam on the other.  In such a scenario, the more damage that both sides do to each other the happier the Sunnis will be. (Read More....)

 

25 Quotes About The Coming War With Syria That Every American Should See

If Barack Obama is going to attack Syria, he is going to do it without the support of the American people, without the approval of Congress, without the approval of the United Nations, and without the help of the British.  Now that the British Parliament has voted against a military strike, the Obama administration is saying that it may take "unilateral action" against Syria.  But what good would "a shot across Syria's bow" actually do?  A "limited strike" is not going to bring down the Assad regime and it is certainly not going to end the bloody civil war that has been raging inside Syria.  Even if the U.S. eventually removed Assad, the al-Qaeda affiliated rebels that would take power would almost certainly be even worse than Assad.  Even in the midst of this bloody civil war, the rebels have taken the time and the effort to massacre entire Christian villages.  Why is Barack Obama so obsessed with helping such monsters?  There is no good outcome in Syria.  The Assad regime is absolutely horrible and the rebels are even worse.  Why would we want the U.S. military to get involved in such a mess? (Read More....)

 

 

 

Obama Slapped Down by Congress on Syria Attack

Infowars.com | Alex breaks down Obama’s decision to seek Congressional authorization.

 

Under Colossal Global Backlash, Obama Holds Off on Syria Strike

Julie Wilson | Obama decides to follow the Constitution and seek Congressional approval for Syrian military strike.

 

Video: Russell Brand Trashes MSM in New Interview

Infowars.com | Russell Brand’s full interview released.

 

Pat Buchanan: Chemical Attack ‘Reeks Of False Flag Operation’

Mikael Thalen | Three-time presidential adviser Pat Buchanan says Syrian attacks were part of ‘false flag’ programs.

 

USF Student Harassed by Feds for Transporting Humanitarian Aide to Syria

Julie Wilson | US government targets US Syrian immigrants.

 

Obama’s Syria Attack: The Health of the Military Industrial Complex

Kurt Nimmo | Graphs explain motivation behind looming Syria attack.

 

Syria expecting military strike ‘at any moment,’ says security official

Al Arabiya | “We are ready to retaliate at any moment.”

 

America Totally Discredited

Paul Craig Roberts | Foolish Obama and moronic Kerry have handed the US government its worst diplomatic defeat in history.

Who Benefits From A War Between The United States And Syria?

Michael Snyder | Someone wants to get the United States into a war with Syria very, very badly.

 

JPMorgan Bribery Probe Said to Expand as Spreadsheet Found

Bloomberg | Spreadsheet linked appointments to specific deals pursued by the bank.

 

Detroit stopped issuing death, birth certificates after bankruptcy

The Detroit News | City couldn’t issue death – or birth – certificates because skittish vendor wanted cash to supply paper.

Video: Russell Brand Trashes Media in New Interview

Infowars.com | Russell Brand’s full interview released.

 

Under Colossal Global Backlash, Obama Holds Off on Syria Strike

Julie Wilson | Obama decides to follow the Constitution and seek Congressional approval for military strike.

 

USF Student Harassed by Feds for Transporting Humanitarian Aide to Syria

Julie Wilson | US government targets US Syrian immigrants.

 

(Al-Qaeda Led) Syrian rebels plan raids to exploit Western strikes

Reuters | “The hope is to take advantage when some areas are weakened by any strikes.”

 

Syria expecting military strike ‘at any moment,’ says security official

Al Arabiya | “We are ready to retaliate at any moment.”

 

America Totally Discredited

Paul Craig Roberts | A foolish President Obama and moronic Secretary of State Kerry have handed the United States government its worst diplomatic defeat in history.

 

Putin: US Chemical Weapons Claims “Utter Nonsense

RT | Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared ‘utter nonsense’ the idea that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons.

 

Who Benefits From A War Between The United States And Syria?

Michael Snyder | Someone wants to get the United States into a war with Syria very, very badly.

 

Attack on Syria Could Start Tomorrow As UN Inspectors Leave

Daily Mail | U.S missile strikes against Syria could start tomorrow after U.N. weapons inspectors left the war-torn country earlier than expected.

 

Late-Day “Panic” Leaves Stocks With Worst Month Since May 2012

Zero Hedge | While the Dow suffered its worst monthly loss since May 2012, it is actually holding up better than the rest of the US equity indices since Kerry’s speech.



Crude Falls From Two-Year High as Syria Concern Eases

Bloomberg | Prices dropped 1.2 percent.

 

Ex-CEO of McDonald’s warns Obamacare forcing all employees into 25-hour work weeks

Natural News | There is a movement afoot to force companies to pay low-skill employees better than many college graduates.

 

Goldman Sachs Banker Indicted On Rape Charges

Business Insider | Goldman Sachs managing director Jason Lee has been indicted on a rape charge, Bloomberg’s Chris Dolmetsch is reporting.

 

 

 

If You Want To Know Why Things Are Falling Apart, Look At Total Debt

Want to know why things are falling apart? Just look at our soaring systemic debt and the diminishing returns on that debt. We are in a long-term trend where additional debt undermines the system as the positive returns on that debt turn negative.

 

 

And Now, It's Golfing Time (Or Putin +1, Obama 0)

After bringing the world to the edge of WWIII and nearly giving the first order to launch the ironically named Patriot missile, then dramatically punting in the very last second whether to invade Syria to Congress, something he should have done from the every beginning, Obama went on to do what he does best.

 

 

Mapping America's Dwindling Invasion Coalition

U.S. President Barack Obama is evidently not getting the multinational coalition his administration was expecting to share the burden of a limited strike operation against Syria. The British parliament has voted against a military intervention, and NATO has said it would not participate in a U.S.-led mission. The United States can either unilaterally fire a symbolic but ineffective shot to demonstrate action for the sake of action, wage a highly unpopular multi-month air-land attack alone or abandon the military campaign altogether.

 

 

Guest Post: What To Expect During The Next Stage Of Collapse

The most likely path of collapse to take place within the U.S. includes economic destabilization caused by a loss of the dollar's world reserve status and petro-status.  This fiscal crisis event will likely not occur in the midst of a political vacuum.  The central banks and international financiers that created our ongoing and developing disaster are not going to allow the destruction of the American economy, the dollar, or global markets without a cover event designed to hide their culpability.  They need something big.  Something so big that the average citizen is overwhelmed with fear and confusion.  A smoke and mirrors magic trick so raw and soul shattering it leaves the very population of the Earth mesmerized and helpless to understand the root of the nightmare before them.  The elites need a fabricated Apocalypse. Enter Syria...

 

 

Russia Restructures Cyprus Debt; Cyprus Prohibits US Strikes On Syria

Yesterday afternoon, Russia agreed to restructure Cyprus' EUR 2.5 billion loan terms to a much more affordable 2.5% semi-annual coupon through 2016 and a principal re-payment over the following four years. While probably still out of reach for the desparate economy, it was a positive step. Of course, this 'offer' by Russia has its quid pro quo. This morning, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has stated that Cyprus territory will not be used to launch military strikes against Syria, as "Cyprus wants to live up to its responsibility as a shelter if needed for nationals of friendly countries who evacuate from Middle East". It would appear Obama's influence is fading everywhere...

 

 

Meanwhile In Fukushima: Multiple Leaks, Radiation Soars To 1.8 Sieverts/hr

 

 

Obama's "Next Steps" (On The Ground) Briefing - To Seek Congressional Approval



*OBAMA SAYS USERS OF CHEMCIAL WEAPONS MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT
*OBAMA SAYS `MENACE' OF SYRIA MUST BE CONFRONTED
*OBAMA SAYS U.S. MUST TAKE MILITARY ACTION AGAINST SYRIA

*OBAMA SAYS HE WILL SEEK AUTHORIZATION FROM CONGRESS ON SYRIA

While Andrea Mitchell reports that the President will not be announcing airstrikes from the Rose Garden at 115ET, his press briefing this afternoon will update the American people on his decisions about how to proceed... so with no report due from the UN on Syrian chemical arms until lab tests are done, we wait with bated breath for Obama's next steps (but not on the ground...)

"I look forward to the debate"...

 

 

Guest Post: Where's Congress on Syria?

Where’s Congress? That’s the question that should haunt the American people in the wake of President Obama’s apparent decision to get their country into another Mideast war. In the long history of the American experience, matters of war and peace have always been hotly debated. And those debates traditionally have been most intense and concentrated in Congress. Now we have a president who declares in word and deed that war decisions, as artificially defined by him as something short of actual war, are exclusively within his constitutional domain. And we have a Congress that shows no serious inclination to challenge that claim of prerogative and power. This is a very serious - and potentially calamitous - development in American history.

 

 

Syrian Army Warns "Finger On The Trigger" For Strike Response

 

 

US Marine Ship Approaches Syria; Russia Blasts Any "Acts Of Aggression" - Full Syrian Update



WWhile there may have been a verbal attempt by the Obama administration to diffuse Syrian tensions in the aftermath of Thursday's shocker out of the House of Commons, the action on the ground so far is hardly conciliatory. Or rather water, because a sixth US warship has now anchored in proximity to Syria, joining the recently arrived fifth destroyer USS Stout, which joined the warships already "breathing down Assad's neck." From AP: "Five U.S. Navy destroyers - the USS Gravely, USS Mahan, USS Barry, the USS Stout and USS Ramage - are in the eastern Mediterranean Sea waiting for the order to launch. And the USS San Antonio, an amphibious assault ship has now joined them. The USS San Antonio, which is carrying helicopters and can carry up to 800 Marines, has no cruise missiles, so it is not expected to participate in the attack. Instead, the ship's long-planned transit across the Mediterranean was interrupted so that it could remain in the area to help if needed." So in addition to a cruise missile based force, the US is now bringing in the marines? The justification that they are there "just in case" seems a little shallow in context.

 

 

25 Quotes About The Coming War With Syria That Every American Should See

If Barack Obama is going to attack Syria, he is going to do it without the support of the American people, without the approval of Congress, without the approval of the United Nations, and without the help of the British.  Now that the British Parliament has voted against a military strike, the Obama administration is saying that it may take "unilateral action" against Syria. Unfortunately for the Obama administration, the world is not buying it.  In fact, people are seeing right through this charade. The following are 25 quotes about the coming war with Syria that every American should see...

 

 

Guess Which "Bearish" Bank Bought A Record Amount Of GLD In Q2



In early April, the status quo was exuberant when none other than Goldman Sachs issued a "sell" on the barbarous relic that has become so indicative of the exuberance of central planning. At the time, we were skeptical (to say the least) and, just for extra Muppetting, the bank also suggested its clients buy Treasuries. Well, now that the full details of holdings changes have been released for Q2, it is perhaps clearer than ever before that as the bank was telling its clients to "sell, sell, sell" it was itself "buy, buy, buy"-ing the Gold ETF (GLD) with both arms and feet. In Q2, Goldman Sachs added a stunning (and record) 3.7 million 'shares' of GLD. As Paulson dumped his GLD, Goldman lapped it up to become the ETF's 7th largest holder.

 

 

Citi On The Coming "Black" Gold-Rush

The present picture for the oil price looks increasingly bullish once more. Citi asks, is this a replay of the dynamics seen in the 1970’s? We hope not... but the feedback loop (from oil prices) to the economy and markets is undeniable...

 

 

Hurricane Katrina... Eight Years Later



On the eve of the eighth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, which has been tracking recovery indicators since the early months after the storm, issued a snapshot of post-Katrina statistics... and the results are mixed. From the good (63% of New Orleans students passing vs 30% pre-Katrina); to the bad (rising adult unemployment and child poverty rates); to the ugly (rapidly collapsing population dynamics reflecting a very 'detroit'-like scenario), it seems there is still work to be done...

 

 

Guest Post: The State's Dumb Strength

Whenever the state decides to remove the mask of decency and show its true, violent self, there is a positive outcome to the predation. Many finally catch a glimpse of the true force that backs monopoly government. Very few will allow this image to change their preconceived notions of the viability of institutionalized mass representation. The targeted harassment of dissenters is indicative of the state’s brash reaction to all challenges. It’s a task of extreme difficulty to pinpoint where the downward slide began. The rise of statism, moral relativism, and total war has undeniably had a negative effect on how individuals view themselves in civilized society. The degree of degeneration varies between areas, but it’s not hard to recognize the causal effect.

 

 

 

 

Wal*Mart Now Serving Effortless Meals Posted by : hedgeless_horseman Post date: 08/30/2013 - 10:59 Americans are taught that "effortless" is the path to happiness, when really it is the path to diabetes, hip and knee replacements, bankruptcy, no sex life, and MOAR DEBT!

Experts: U.S. Case that Syrian Government Responsible for Chemical Weapons Is Weak Posted by: George WashingtonPost date: 08/30/2013 - And other Syria updates ...

YouV'e HeaRD IT ALL, NoW LeTS TWeRK IT OFF! Posted by: williambanzai7 Post date: 08/30/2013 - Keep on Twerkin'...

YouV'e HeaRD IT ALL, NoW LeTS TWeRK IT OFF!






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Angie's a hefty old girl

For votes she will bounce, thrust & twirl

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25 Quotes About The Coming War With Syria That Every American Should See

If Barack Obama is going to attack Syria, he is going to do it without the support of the American people, without the approval of Congress, without the approval of the United Nations, and without the help of the British.  Now that the British Parliament has voted against a military strike, the Obama administration is saying that it may take "unilateral action" against Syria.  But what good would "a shot across Syria's bow" actually do?  A "limited strike" is not going to bring down the Assad regime and it is certainly not going to end the bloody civil war that has been raging inside Syria.  Even if the U.S. eventually removed Assad, the al-Qaeda affiliated rebels that would take power would almost certainly be even worse than Assad.  Even in the midst of this bloody civil war, the rebels have taken the time and the effort to massacre entire Christian villages.  Why is Barack Obama so obsessed with helping such monsters?  There is no good outcome in Syria.  The Assad regime is absolutely horrible and the rebels are even worse.  Why would we want the U.S. military to get involved in such a mess? (Read More....)

 

 

 

 

Reports Of Very Unusual Troop Movements In The U.S. And Air Power Massing In Cyprus



The photo posted above shows a massive lineup of U.S. military armored vehicles on the Huey P. Long Bridge over the Mississippi River in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.  According to Before it’s News, this photograph was emailed to them by a very concerned reader: “The picture below was just emailed to Beforeitsnews by a very concerned reader who asked that we publish this to get it out to the world. The picture shows a HUGE number of military vehicles being transported towards New Orleans and was just taken by our reader today, August 26th, 2013.”  Barack Obama has pledged that the U.S. will not have any “boots on the ground” in Syria.  If that is indeed the case, then where are all of those armored vehicles headed?  Are we being lied to?  Could they actually be going over to the Middle East?  Let’s hope not, because a war with Syria could escalate (Read More....)

 

 

PENTAGON CAN'T AFFORD WAR; MUST SEEK ADDITIONAL FUNDS

KERRY'S MOMENT...
Syria says US evidence 'entirely fabricated'...
UN analysis of samples could take two weeks...
WHITE HOUSE PISSED AT LEAKS...
Experts: Don't bomb chemical weapon sites...
U.S. turns on Britain...
Cameron first to lose war vote in Parliament since 1782!
'Embarrassing'...
Obama 'not made any decisions'...
Willing to go it alone...
SYRIA MOVES MISSILES, TROOPS...

 

Obama: Sex Ed for Kindergartners 'Right Thing to Do'...

COPS: 2 Women Gang Raped By Group Of 10-12 Juveniles In Park... Developing... { Yup … uncivilized niggers strike again … ‘Police say two women, ages 32 and 24, were reportedly attacked and sexually assaulted by a group of 10 to 12 black male juveniles in Kosciuszko Park at about 6:54 p.m. Thursday. According to police, the suspects, who range in age from 12 to 17-years-old, remain on the loose…’ }

 

 

 

 

Guess Which "Bearish" Bank Bought A Record Amount Of GLD In Q2



In early April, the status quo was exuberant when none other than Goldman Sachs issued a "sell" on the barbarous relic that has become so indicative of the exuberance of central planning. At the time, we were skeptical (to say the least) and, just for extra Muppetting, the bank also suggested its clients buy Treasuries. Well, now that the full details of holdings changes have been released for Q2, it is perhaps clearer than ever before that as the bank was telling its clients to "sell, sell, sell" it was itself "buy, buy, buy"-ing the Gold ETF (GLD) with both arms and feet. In Q2, Goldman Sachs added a stunning (and record) 3.7 million 'shares' of GLD. As Paulson dumped his GLD, Goldman lapped it up to become the ETF's 7th largest holder.

 

 

Don't Show Obama This Report About Who Really Is Behind The Syrian Chemical Attacks

As we showed mere days ago, it appears the truth of who the real puppet-master in the Middle-East is becoming plainer to see. The incredibly frank discussion between Saudi's spy-chief Prince Bandar and Russia's Putin exposed a much deeper plot is afoot and the following details from the actual people on the ground in the chemically-attacked region of Syria suggest Obama is playing right into the Saudi's plan. While Obama is 'certain' that the chemical attacks took place on al-Assad's orders, as MPN reports, "from numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the dealing gas attack."

 

 

Guest Post: The State's Dumb Strength

Whenever the state decides to remove the mask of decency and show its true, violent self, there is a positive outcome to the predation. Many finally catch a glimpse of the true force that backs monopoly government. Very few will allow this image to change their preconceived notions of the viability of institutionalized mass representation. The targeted harassment of dissenters is indicative of the state’s brash reaction to all challenges. It’s a task of extreme difficulty to pinpoint where the downward slide began. The rise of statism, moral relativism, and total war has undeniably had a negative effect on how individuals view themselves in civilized society. The degree of degeneration varies between areas, but it’s not hard to recognize the causal effect.

 

Are You Eligible For A Black Card (And Can You Afford One)? Find Out With This Infographic

When we think of the once-mythical American Express black card, we tend to conjure images of the most fabulously wealthy people in the world plunking one down on the counter to pay for items that cost more than most Americans earn in a year – or possibly even in a decade. The American Express "black" is actually the American Express Centurion Black card and that image is not a terribly far cry from reality...

 

 

When Printing Money Loses Its Magic

The magic was the magnificent illusion that money printing increased wealth. It certainly looked that way, despite all the common-sense interpretation that would have you believe that it doesn't. But that's the beauty of a wonderfully performed magic trick. Something impossible seems to happen. You know it can't happen, but it looks like it did, and what's the harm in letting yourself believe? Assuming that the goal is reducing unemployment... it really was a wonderful 50 years. Pumping out money increased the labor force participation rate from about 59% in 1960 to 67% by about 2000 by creating jobs in military procurement, lobbying, and (as we went through successive bubbles) brokerages and finance, government, home construction, real estate sales, retail, etc. Now the losses in manufacturing and primary wealth creation are overwhelming the jobs created in the FIRE economy, and the US looks to be heading back to the golden era of the 50s, with labor force participation back below 60%. Too bad they'll all be low-paying jobs.

 

 

Late-Day "Panic" Leaves Stocks With Worst Month Since May 2012

While the Dow suffered its worst monthly loss since May 2012, it is actually holding up better than the rest of the US equity indices since Kerry's speech on Monday. With the Trannies down 4% since Kerry, they cap the worst in the last 23 months. Energy outperformed (unchanged) on the week and financials were major losers down 3% but hombuilders were hammered post-Kerry also ending at the lows of the week. VIX closed at its highest in over 2 months with its biggest weekly jump in over 4 months. Away from equities, FX, commodity, and bond markets also turmoiled... The last few minutes saw stocks crater and ramp as illiquidity, month-end, and anxiety left traders (and machines) breathless.

 

 

Friday Humor: Kevin Henry's Trading Platform



Because we get the feeling Kevin was a busy boy this afternoon...

 

 

And Another Deserts As NATO Says Obama On His Own



They are falling like flies... following the British vote not to join Obama in his latest crusade, it s now NATO's turn as Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells Dutch TV2 that "NATO will have no role in any military action in Syria." Of course, there's still the French; and as Rasmussen notes, should any retaliatory action take place to endanger NATO member Turkey then the situation may well change. Quoted as urging a political resolution rather than military, and supportive of the UN inspectors, Rasmussen added "A sustainable solution is a political solution. But an international reaction is necessary."

 

 

 

Shorting Stocks On These POMO Days May Be Hazardous To Your Health

If anyone expected Bernanke to hint at a tapering in daily monetizations for the month of September, they will be disappointed. Moments ago the NY Fed reported that the Fed will inject a total of $45 billion in the market in September, $1 billion less than in August, but certainly not any other more notable amount which would indicate that the Fed would announce and immediately proceed to reduce its daily POMOs to match the reduction in QE (including $40BN in MBS monetizations). So, continuing our long series of POMO shorting warnings,  now that even the Treasury openly admits "it's all POMO", here is the list of 18 trading days on which shorting stocks may be hazardous to one's health.

 

 

Guest Post: Freedom Is A Community-Based Economy

We are propagandized to assume the existing hyper-structures of our centralized state-cartel economies will deliver us jobs, happiness, wealth, health and financial security. They will not. The following insightful essay is not just a critique of our current centralized economies but an outline of a community-based alternative economy that offers freedom instead of dependence. Though the examples are drawn from the U.K., the dynamics are the same in America and other advanced state-cartel economies.

 

 

Obama Speaks Behind Closed Doors, Says "Syria Action Will Be Limited, No Ground Troops"

The headlines come pouring in:

      OBAMA SPEAKS ON SYRIA DURING MEETING WITH BALTIC LEADERS

      OBAMA CALLS SYRIA CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK CHALLENGE TO WORLD

      OBAMA SAYS SYRIAN USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS THREATENS U.S.

      OBAMA SAYS HE'LL CONTINUE TO CONSULT WITH CONGRESS ON SYRIA

      OBAMA SAYS HE HASN'T MADE FINAL DECISION ON SYRIA ATTACK

      OBAMA SAYS SYRIA ACTION WILL BE LIMITED WITH NO GROUND TROOPS

So... he hasn't made a decision, but the action will be limited. Is this like the Schrodinger economy where everything is dead if one collapses the Fed's wave function.

 

RANsquawk - Weekly Wrap - 30th August 2013

 

The Revelation Will Not Be Televised: White House Declines Request For Network TV Coverage Of Obama 2:30pm Speech

 

 

 

An "Efficient" "Illiquid" "Market" Responds To Kerry's Words



Presented with little comment aside to note that volumes surged as US equities initially dipped and then ripped back to the entirely algorithmically-controlled VWAP level before starting its fade back... Happy Holidays, Johnny 5...

 

 

John Kerry's "Proof" Statement - Full Transcript



It seems clear that it is not "if" but "when" an attack takes place and as the following world-cloud confirms; the US "know"... as the strategy "better to ask for forgiveness than permission?" And that with the Russia meeting due next week, and a UN inspector report that appears pointless now that we have social media, that the attack will occur sooner rather than later...

 

 

 

German Children Kidnapped for Crime of Parent’s Homeschooling Them

Julie Wilson | German Homeschooling ban upheld since Hitler’s rule.

 

John Kerry: Negotiations to Continue Over Syrian Chemical Attack

Julie Wilson | “Many friends stand ready to respond.”

 

Ted Nugent’s Wife Arrested for Gun Found in Luggage

Kit Daniels | Will court offer the same leniency given to others arrested for gun possession?

 

Kerry Lies About Number of Syrian Chemical War Dead

Kurt Nimmo | 355 people were killed, not the wildly exaggerated figure cited by Kerry.

 

Ron Paul: Syria Chemical Attack A ‘False Flag’

Mikael Thalen | Ron Paul blasts Syrian chemical attack as a false flag to launch war.

 

Shocking Story That Could Derail Attack on Syria

Paul Joseph Watson | Will the mainstream media ignore a story that could derail the march to war?

 

Child Taken Because Dad Read Gun Magazine

Gigi Erneta | Government-run gun confiscation kickback program exposed.

 

Individual Morality is the Last Firewall Against Psychopath Takeover

Daniel Taylor | You can be the antibody to the pathocratic disease.

 

JPMorgan Bribery Probe Said to Expand as Spreadsheet Found

Bloomberg | Spreadsheet linked appointments to specific deals pursued by the bank.

 

Detroit stopped issuing death, birth certificates after bankruptcy

The Detroit News | City couldn’t issue death – or birth – certificates because skittish vendor wanted cash to supply paper.

 

Will War With Syria Cause The Price Of Oil To Explode Higher?

Economic Collapse | Are you ready to pay four, five or possibly even six dollars for a gallon of gasoline?

 

John Kerry: Negotiations to Continue in Syrian Chemical Attack

Julie Wilson | “Many friends stand ready to respond.”

 

Will Obama Doom Himself As A War Criminal?

Paul Craig Roberts | Obama, pushed by his Israeli and neocon masters, only to have it sawed off by the British Parliament.

 

Kerry Misrepresents Syria Chemical War Dead

Kurt Nimmo | 355 people were killed, not the wildly exaggerated figure cited by Kerry.

 

Shocking Story That Could Derail Attack on Syria

Paul Joseph Watson | Will the mainstream media ignore a story that could derail the march to war?

 

Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack

Paul Joseph Watson | Militants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident.

 

Released US Report “Proving” Assad’s Use Of Chemical Weapons Is Based On YouTube Clips: Full Report Attached

Zero Hedge | It is exactly as expected, putting the full blame on Assad.

 

Saudi Arabia Goest To “DefCon 2″

Zero Hedge | The UK may be out, but Saudi Arabia isn’t taking any chances.

 

Obama Should Lose Nobel Prize If US Strikes Syria – Pushkov

RIA Novosti | US President Barack Obama should be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize if the United States carries out a military strike on Syria.

Crude Falls From Two-Year High as Syria Concern Eases

Bloomberg | Prices dropped 1.2 percent.

 

Ex-CEO of McDonald’s warns Obamacare forcing all employees into 25-hour work weeks

Natural News | There is a movement afoot to force companies to pay low-skill employees better than many college graduates.

 

Goldman Sachs Banker Indicted On Rape Charges

Business Insider | Goldman Sachs managing director Jason Lee has been indicted on a rape charge, Bloomberg’s Chris Dolmetsch is reporting.

 

The “War” Effect

Zero Hedge | How do markets (US equities, Gold, Crude Oil, and the USD) react around US military conflicts…?

 

Intelligence Report On Syrian Chemical Weapons To Be Released Tomorrow

 

 

1987 Or 2008?

Because "its always different this time..."

 

 

"This" Has Never Happened Outside Of A Recession

 

As the mainstream-media and its status quo "growth's around the corner" lackeys gloat hopefully over this morning's soon-to-be-revised GDP data beat, we noted a rather disturbing trend in a critical part of the report. Real Final Sales growth is collapsing. In fact, the current slow level of growth in real final sales has never occurred outside of a recession... So perhaps, as we commented (here, here, and here) things are not as 'great' as headlines would suggest.

 

Syria News Recap: All The Latest Developments

Summarizing the latest updates in the rapidly changing Syria story.

 

 

Guest Post: Economic Darwinism And The Next Financial Crisis

Just as natural selection selects for traits that improve the odds of success/survival in the natural world, Economic Darwinism advances people and policies that boost profits and power within the dominant environment. If there was one phrase that summarized the current malaise, it would be "The Federal Reserve's 20-year policy of easy money created an environment virtually assured to select bankers, bureaucrats, educators, and elected officials who least understood the consequences of a credit crisis." In other words, a hyper-financialized environment of near-zero interest and abundant credit rewarded those people and policies that succeed in that environment.

 

 

Stocks Up, Bonds Up, USD Up; VIX Up? Commodities Creamed

 

Another very volatile day across asset-classes with no-one having a clue what is going on. Good-news (GDP) was instantly interpreted as bad-news (moar Taper) and bonds and stocks sold off notably but as the US equity market opened, JPY was sold and carry took over lifting stocks back to pre-FOMC-minutes levels once again... but bonds also rallied significantly with it (in a non-Taper-ing manner) as the USD rallied. But once that run-stop was covered on low volume levitation, stocks limped lower from the European (and POMO) close onwards, ending towards the lower-end of the day's cash range. Treasury yields dropped 7bps from their post-GDP highs leaving the 30Y -3bps on the day (and 7Y and less unch). VIX rose (turning higher before stocks topped), almost tagging 17% as it closed. But burying the lead, commodities were slammed with WTI slammed back under $108; gold, silver, and copper all hit with the latter -3.5% on the week. 'Average' volume day in futures.

 

 

Fast-Food Workers Of The World, Unite: The McStrike Epidemic Spreads, Coming To A City Near You

A month ago we reported that US fast food workers in several US cities, namely New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Mo., and Flint, Mich., walked out Monday in a one-day strike demanding a doubling of their pay. Not unexpectedly, even though the president himself has been a strong proponent of rising the minimum wage, the corporations balked and the strikers achieved nothing and just in case there is some confusion, there is a lot of minimum skills, minimum wage applicants (not to mention robots) out there which translates into two words for the strikers: no leverage. However, these concepts may be foreign to a fast-food labor force that probably just wants a day out in the nice weather and to take a break from hard work for a change.

 

 

US Stealth Drones, Bombers, C-130s In Cyprus?

Update: it appears the photos posted on twitter are fake. Hopefully that means there are no B-2 in the vicinity of Syria.

 

 

Boehner Demands Obama Release More "Details" On Syria

With the traditional liberal war dove brigade paradoxically and firmly in Obama's pocket on the issue of the Syrian attack/invasion/false flag/war, it was only a matter of time before Boehner made it clear that if Obama wanted an internal Congressional consensus it won't come easy if at all. And just like Russia and China are making an external united front for public consumption impossible, so the Republican just threw the first theatrical roadblock. Sure enough:

      BOEHNER SEEKS MORE DETAILS ON SYRIA WITH OBAMA AFTER PHONE CALL

To help the speaker in his theatrical quest for "more details", we have taken the first theatrical step in providing them, after this hyperlink.

 

 

How Obama Got His Tomahawks

The rise of Tomahawk force began in 1983 during the Reagan buildup, but the demise of the Evil Empire did not slow down its development one bit. By the end of the century the United States had about 150 surface ships and attack submarines that could launch these deadly cruise missiles and an inventory of nearly 5,000 missiles. Tomahawks have a range of seven hundred miles. This means that from their offshore platforms they can reach three-fourths of the world’s population. And during the last two decades they have been used in just this “stand-off” manner against targets in Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Libya, and others—teaching presidents that they could meddle freely without getting bloodied.

 

Crude Crushed Into Pit Close

 

No news; no update; nothing from the White House or State Department... but WTI Crude futures collapsed over $1.50 into the close in minutes on very heavy volume. We are sure someone somewhere knows why... though the Press Briefing may just have started the world's fears over the credibility of the US case...

 

 

NASDARK Admits "Software Flaws"; Blames NYSE

Unsurprisingly NASDARK, while admitting to "latent software flaws" in the SIP,, choose to place the blame for causing the 'glitch' at the foot of the NYSE Arca...

      *NASDAQ HALT REPORT SAYS DATA FLOOD EXPOSED SOFTWARE FLAW

      *NASDAQ SAYS CONFLUENCE OF EVENTS 'VASTLY EXCEEDED' SIP CAPACITY

      *NASDAQ SAYS SOME ISSUES 'CLEARLY WITHIN' COMPANY'S CONTROL

      *NASDAQ:'UNPRECEDENTED VOLUME' OF MSG TRAFFIC TO SIP CAUSED HALT

      *NASDAQ: SIP RECEIVED OVER 20 SEQUENCES FROM NYSE ARCA

      *NASDAQ: SIP GOT INACCURATE SYMBOL QUOTE STREAM FROM NYSE ARCA

"Other issues contributing to the halt are more endemic to technology issues across today’s complex markets and will require a broader industry-wide effort to resolve... and will present our initial recommendations related to these changes to the SIP governing committee within 30 days." And here is Nanex's perspective.

 

 

Guest Post: This Failure Rate Will Shock You

History is very clear: societies that organize themselves around a tiny elite who thinks they should control the entire system suffer a 100% failure rate, without exception. Today’s system shares similar fundamentals to nearly every other case of failed empire. And it’s foolish to think that this time will be any different.

 

Relative Strength Indicator: TOP! Posted by: thetechnicaltake Post date: 08/29/2013 - we are closer to the end of this rally than the beginning

German Election Finally Gets Messy: “Euro Is More Than A Currency” And Greece “Shouldn’t Have Been Allowed In” Posted by: testosteronepit Post date: 08/29/2013 - “It could create a domino effect of uncertainty”

 

Gundlach's Year End Bond Forecast, Revised

It would appear that the new normal's Bond gurus are struggling with the weight of the 'Taper'-ing, deleveraging, 'special-repo'-ing, government-repress-ing, EM-crisis-ing world of extreme fast money flows that the Fed has thrust upon us. Just 3 short months ago, Jeff Gundlach said that he "expects the absolute highest for the 10-year yield this year is 2.4%, but he expects it to stay closer to 2%." However, as the 10Y yield presses up towards 3.0%, he told CNBC (in this brief but insightful clip on world flows and how he sees markets playing out) that "the 10Y Yield may go up to as highs as 3.1% by year-end," because "investors have switched from "I don't care about volatility, I want income" to "I don't care about income, I dont want volatility." He sees no sign of that changing...

 

 

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7 Year Treasury Auction Prices At Lowest Bid To Cover Since May 2009

 

If yesterday's auction started off as a 5 Year and ended up as a 7 Year reopening, today's 7 Year was just a 7 Year. That said, it was not pretty. Pricing at 2.221%, it was right on top of the When Issued, and yet it was another 18 bps higher than the 2.03% in July, and the widest since July 2011 or right before the first debt ceiling crisis. As the chart below shows, the black line is steepening quite a bit over the past 5 months as expected thanks to the Taper talk. But it was the Bid To Cover that was the real story, having rolled over a long time ago, peaking in mid-2011, and dropping moments ago to just 2.43. This was below the 2.54 from last month., well below the 2.66 TTM average, and the lowest Bid To Cover since the 2.26 in May of 2009.

 

 

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US Finally Admits What Ron Paul Said: "Nobody Knows Who Set Off The Gas"

 

The AP reports that US intelligence officials are admitting that linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack is no "slam dunk," as opposed to Obama (and Kerry) who are 'unequivocal' of the fact. This would appear to confirm Ron Paul's comments this morning on Fox News that "We're not positive who set off the gas," and indeed - who is set to benefit most from any Assad-regime-smackdown? Al-Qaeda. "Assad is not an idiot," Paul adds, "it's unlikely he would do this on purpose... look how many lies were told to us about Saddam Hussein prior to that build-up." A lot of uncomrtable truths in this brief clip for an administration that has crossed its own red line (as we noted here) on actions against Syria now... "I think it's a false flag..." Paul adds, there is a big risk that "we are getting sucked in" and the American people are against this war.

 

 

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Russia Calls For Urgent UN Security Council Meeting

Somehow we doubt that Putin just folded...

Hopefully Putin doesn't whip out incontrovertible proof the chemical gas attack wasn't linked to Al Qaeda... and the US of course.

 

 

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So Much For That "Minimum Repo Haircut"

Back in May, with the release of the quarterly TBAC presentation, we penned "Desperately Seeking $11.2 Trillion In Collateral, Or How "Modern Money" Really Works" in which we described in detail Wall Street's lament that as a result of upcoming changes and regulations of the shadow market, that there may be a dramatic shortage in collateral over the next several years, which in addition to other factors, may hit over $10 trillion. Well, we can scratch the collateral concerns off.

      G20 TASK FORCE SAYS NEW SHADOW BANKING RULES EXPECTED TO BE IN PLACE BY 2015

      WON'T IMPLEMENT GLOBAL MINIMUM 'HAIRCUT' ON REPOS, SECURITIES LENDING UNTIL MARKET CONDITIONS RIGHT

Said otherwise, Wall Street looked at the shadow banking abyss, and promptly ran away when the abyss looked back.

 

 

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EU Stocks Break Losing Streak On EURUSD's Worst Day In Over 4 Months

 

Weakness in German unemployment data was shrugged off as JPY-carry provided the same post US-open lift that US stocks had to move European equities into the green on the day, breaking a 3-day losing streak. EURUSD is down 120 pips from the open of the EU session - its largest plunge in over 4 months as 1.32 looks set to be tested once again. European sovereign bonds traded in a narrow range but rallied modestly on the US open. Once again, it seems, it is all one trade for now...

 

 

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America's Social Recession: Five Years and Counting

Forget Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of expansion ("growth") or recession - what really matters is the social recession, which continues to deepen in America. The term social recession has two distinct meanings: around 2000, the term was used to describe the erosion of social cohesion via the decline of institutions such as marriage and the rise of social problems such as teen pregnancy. We use the term social recession to describe a very different phenomenon, the social and cultural consequences of permanently recessionary economies such as Japan, and now Europe and the U.S.

 

 

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Market Update: It's Opposite Day

Sometimes you have to just sit back and laugh and how Mr. Market (and the visible hand of carry-funded exuberance) spreads its fingers of influence through asset-classes... This morning's equity, bond, precious (and base) metal, and FX price moves are worth a glance...

 

 

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Albert Edwards Storms Out Of The Gate With Calls For 450 On The S&P, Sub-1% 10 Year, And $10,000 GOld

"The emerging markets "story" has once again been exposed as a pyramid of piffle. The EM edifice has come crashing down as their underlying balance of payments weaknesses have been exposed first by the yen’s slide and then by the threat of Fed tightening. China has flipflopped from berating Bernanke for too much QE in 2010 to warning about the negative impact of tapering on emerging markets! It is a mystery to me why anyone, apart from the activists that seem to inhabit western central banks, thinks QE could be the solution to the problems of the global economy. But in temporarily papering over the cracks, they have allowed those cracks to become immeasurably deep crevasses. At the risk of being called a crackpot again, I repeat my forecasts of 450 for the S&P, sub-1% US 10y yields and gold above $10,000."

 

 

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Meanwhile In Damascus, Life Goes On

 

As global financial markets hang on every headline, statement, and rumor emanating from the Middle-East, residents of Damascus try their best to proceed with life as usual. This brief clip from AFP sums it up perfectly as one resident notes, "we've been under mortar attack for years... why should we be afraid? Mortars or Missiles, what's the difference?" Interesting context for the 'Miley-Cyrus'-obsessed American public...

 

 

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Gold Confisaction Imminent? Or Does India Simply Have An Offer For Its Citizens They Can't Refuse...

Even as the Indian capital outflows and current account exodus may be threatening to shut down the economy altogether (except for the three oil companies that received a last ditch USD infusion from the RBI yesterday), the central bank is planning and strategizing. And it appears to have come up with more of precisely the same that has led it to its current unprecedented predicament: prevent the population from converting their wealth into hard money, i.e., gold. But while the government's attempts to impose capital controls on gold purchases have been well documented, the latest foray is just a headspinner. Reuters reports that India is now considering a "radical plan to direct commercial banks to buy gold from ordinary citizens and divert it to precious metal refiners in an attempt to curb imports and take some heat off the plunging currency." Here we can safely assume that the commercial banks will pay for the gold in... Rupees which just hit an all time low?

 

 

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The UK Government Debates The Syrian Attack - Live Webcast

The first public 'discussion' and not just a stream of teleprompter-driven talking points since the crisis came to a head...

 

 

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2,400 Year Old Wisdom On The NSA, Edward Snowden, And Gun Control

Nearly 2,400 years ago, Aristotle wrote one of the defining works of political philosophy in a book entitled Politics. It’s still incredibly relevant today, particularly what he writes about tyranny. The ancient Greeks used the word ‘turannos’, which referred to an illegitimate ruler who governs without regard for the law or interests of the people, often through violent and coercive means. Aristotle attacks tyrants mercilessly in his book, and clearly spells out the criteria which make a leader tyrannical. You may recognize a few of them...

 

 

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BlackBerry All But Finished Following "Dismal" Sales, "Virtually No Demand" For Keyboard-Equipped Q10

Research In Motion BlackBerry may have to rename itself again. Or Thorstein Heins will have to do a Vogue cover spread. Or the company will have to take a page from the Amazon playbook and revel in its losses (with the help of a few DE Shaw algos of course). Or, worst case, Carl iCahn will have to tweet that his breakfast plans include checking his email on a BlackBerry. Because operationally the company is set to become the functional equivalent of JCP, especially following the latest news from the WSJ that sales of the company's Hail Mary product, the keyboard-equipped Q10, have been "dismal."

 

 

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Chairman Of Zurich Insurance Quits Following CFO Suicide

Mere days after the CFO of Zurich Insurance, Pierre Wauthier, was found dead (of suspected suicide) at his home in Zurich, the WSJ reports that CEO Josef Ackerman has abrutly resigned. Just 18 months after his appointment at Zurich (after leaving Deutsche Bank's top position), Ackerman's sudden resignation appears based on his view that the late CFO's family felt he had some responsibility for the death. Following a dismal 7% drop in Q1 profits and having struggled in a low-rate environment since Ackerman took the reins, the reasons for the CFO's suicide are not apparent but a statement from Ackerman oddly commented, "I have reasons to believe the family is of the opinion that I should take my share of responsibility."

 

 

Will War With Syria Cause The Price Of Oil To Explode Higher?

Are you ready to pay four, five or possibly even six dollars for a gallon of gasoline?  War has consequences, and a conflict with Syria has the potential to escalate wildly out of control very rapidly.  The Obama administration is pledging that the upcoming attack on Syria will be "brief and limited" and that the steady flow of oil out of the Middle East will not be interrupted.  But what happens if Syria strikes back?  What happens if Syrian missiles start raining down on Tel Aviv?  What happens if Hezbollah or Iran starts attacking U.S. or Israeli targets?  Unless Syria, Hezbollah and Iran all stand down and refuse to fight back, we could very easily be looking at a major regional war in the Middle East, and that could cause the price of oil to explode higher.  Syria is not a major oil producer, but approximately a third of all of the crude oil in the world is produced in the Middle East.  If the Suez Canal or the Persian Gulf (or both) get shut down for an extended period of time, the consequences would be dramatic.  The price of oil has already risen about 15% so far this summer, and war in the Middle East could potentially send it soaring into record territory. (Read More....)

 

Don’t Let Your Daughters Grow Up To Be Like Miley Cyrus

The ultra-raunchy performance that Miley Cyrus put on at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards the other night is a perfect example of how morally bankrupt our culture has become.  Since that performance, Miley Cyrus has been the number one topic of conversation in America, and a whole lot of people have actually been defending her.  They have been saying stuff like “if you don’t like it, don’t watch it” and a CNN article even went so far as to say that we “need less outrage, less nannying” about such performances.  Unfortunately, the truth is that it would be a tragic mistake to simply ignore such filth.  Millions upon millions of young girls absolutely adored Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana on the Disney channel, and millions of those same girls are looking up to her as a role model now.  What they see her do is going to affect their behavior.  As for Miley Cyrus, she probably believes that the kind of performance that she put on the other night is exactly what her audience wants, and to a large degree that is probably true.  It is easy to denounce the garbage that we see at these award shows, but the cold, hard reality of the matter is that the behavior that we see on these shows is a reflection of who we are as a nation. (Read More.....)

 

UK: NO WAR
British Parliament Votes Against Action in Syria...
U.S. Congress stays away...
Obama Willing to Go Solo...
Deploys fifth warship...
Playing into Moscow's hands...
Israelis hit out over gas mask shortage...

Leaked documents reveal US sees Israel as a major spying threat...

 

OBAMA BYPASSES CONGRESS, GOES AFTER GUNS...

U.S. 'Black Budget' $52.6 Billion...

More than 107,000 intel employees...

Feds OK pot use...

Marijuana advocates cheer White House's stand...

LABOR PARTICIPATION RATE HITS 34-YEAR LOW...

Teen employment hits record lows, suggesting lost generation...

MAG: Premiums higher under Obamacare as employers weigh dropping coverage...

 

Alternative Media Blocks Globalist Attempt to Launch WW3

Julie Wilson | Public becomes more aware of government’s constant lies and contradictions.

 

Rand Paul Warns Obama Against Starting “Major War” With Russia

Paul Joseph Watson | Senator says rebels more likely to be behind chemical weapons attack.

 

Rand Paul: Obama Should Read Constitution to Avoid Allying with Al-Qaeda

Kit Daniels | Paul says that only Congress can declare war on Syria.

 

Intel Sources: Obama Is Stalling On Syria Strike To Make Deals With Putin

Steve Watson | Timescale for attack now up in the air; Support for military action crumbling; Hezbollah deploys troops to border.

 

Syria Attack: NY Times Advocates Violating International Law

Kurt Nimmo | No shortage of pro-mass murder advocates at the Grey Lady propaganda outfit.

 

Report: US Attack On Syria to Begin Saturday

Paul Joseph Watson | Onslaught to begin when UN inspectors leave.

 

Lawsuit Accusing Texas of “Poorly Supervising Foster Children” Moves Forward

Julie Wilson | “Children are being harmed. And the state knows it and is basically disregarding the harm to children.”

 

Brzezinski: ‘Global Political Awakening’ Making Syrian War Difficult

Mikael Thalen | Top globalist Zbigniew Brzezinski says ‘global political awakening’ halts Syrian war efforts.

 

JPMorgan Bribery Probe Said to Expand as Spreadsheet Found

Bloomberg | Spreadsheet linked appointments to specific deals pursued by the bank.



Detroit stopped issuing death, birth certificates after bankruptcy

The Detroit News | City couldn’t issue death – or birth – certificates because skittish vendor wanted cash to supply paper.



Will War With Syria Cause The Price Of Oil To Explode Higher?

Economic Collapse | Are you ready to pay four, five or possibly even six dollars for a gallon of gasoline?

 

UN orders its inspectors out of Syria in anticipation of strikes

London Guardian | UN weapons inspectors have been ordered to leave Syria early amid mounting anticipation of US-led military strikes.

 

Rand Paul Warns Obama Against Starting “Major War” With Russia

Paul Joseph Watson | Senator says rebels more likely to be behind chemical weapons attack.

 

Rand Paul: Obama Should Read Constitution to Avoid Allying with Al-Qaeda

Kit Daniels | Paul says that only Congress can declare war on Syria.

 

Alternative Media Blocks Globalist Attempt to Launch WW3

Julie Wilson | Public becomes more aware of government’s constant lies and contradictions.

 

Intel Sources: Obama Is Stalling On Syria Strike To Make Deals With Putin

Steve Watson | Timescale for attack now up in the air; Support for military action crumbling; Hezbollah deploys troops to border.

 

US sends fifth destroyer to eastern Med: official

AFP | The US Navy has deployed a fifth destroyer to the eastern Mediterranean, a defense official told AFP on Thursday, as expectations grow of an imminent strike on Syria.

 

Report: US Attack On Syria to Begin Saturday

Paul Joseph Watson | Onslaught to begin when UN inspectors leave.

 

AP: Syria intelligence no ‘slam dunk’

The Hill | According to AP sources, there is uncertainty about who controls Syria’s chemical weapon supplies.

 

Obama imposes new limits on guns through executive action

The Hill | The Obama administration on Thursday imposed new limits on the import of military surplus firearms.

 

Russia Sends Warships to Mediterranean; Denies Syria Link

Paul Joseph Watson | Missile cruiser & anti-submarine ship head to troubled region.

Goldman Sachs Banker Indicted On Rape Charges

Business Insider | Goldman Sachs managing director Jason Lee has been indicted on a rape charge, Bloomberg’s Chris Dolmetsch is reporting.

 

The “War” Effect

Zero Hedge | How do markets (US equities, Gold, Crude Oil, and the USD) react around US military conflicts…?

 

Jackson Hole Conclave: Central Bankers Plan Global Theft, Massive Pain

New American | No Watchdogs Allowed; Only Fed-friendly Media Lapdogs Admitted.



 

 

 

Presenting The Numerous, Undisputed And Very Clear Signs That India's Currency Was Set For An Epic Crash

Citizens of India have been watching, in stunned amazement, as over the past month the local currency has lost an unprecedented 15% of its value, with a record plunge taking place just last night. And, as so often happens, the population habituated to a government "acting in its best interests" is asking itself - how could we have possibly known this was coming. The answer, as usually happens, was staring everyone right in the face. As Grant Williams shows in his latest "Things That Make You Go Hmm", the warnings came loud and clear, and were very explicit in the form of not one, not two, not ten, but many more sequentially imposed and escalating forms of capital controls by the Indian central bank that sought to prevent the conversion of paper into hard currency. Gold.

 

 

Why Emerging Market FX Has Further To Fall

The current external environment and consequence of past policies are limiting options for EM nations (most specifically Indonesia and India). Citi believes the best they can do now is to smooth the (inevitable) macro adjustment (weaker FX, higher risk premiums, slower growth) through improved policy credibility (to curb volatility and overshooting) and find offsets to portfolio flows to ease the pressure. The 4 choices of various rocks and hard places do not hold much hope for anything but further FX devaluation. As Citi's Matt King points out, what goes up (in terms of Emerging Market central bank FX reserves) risks coming back down with a thud... and in case you were wondering why India, Turkey, and Indonesia were the most-hammered...

 

 

22 Reasons Why Starting World War 3 In The Middle East Is A Really Bad Idea

While most of the country is obsessing over Miley Cyrus, the Obama administration is preparing a military attack against Syria which has the potential of starting World War 3.  In fact, it is being reported that cruise missile strikes could begin "as early as Thursday".  The Obama administration is pledging that the strikes will be "limited", but what happens when the Syrians fight back?  What happens if they sink a U.S. naval vessel or they have agents start hitting targets inside the United States?  Then we would have a full-blown war on our hands. Could this be the beginning of a chain of events that could eventually lead to a massive global conflict with Russia and China on one side and the United States on the other?  Of course it will not happen immediately, but we fear that what is happening now is setting the stage for some really bad things... Let us hope that cooler heads prevail before things spin totally out of control.

 

 

Nigerian Scam Emails To Get Facelift Thanks To Goldman, UBS, Credit Suisse

Nigeria, Africa's top oil-producing nation, has a problem - too much money in its sovereign wealth fund and no idea what to do with it. Have no fear though, for as Reuters reports, Goldman Sachs, UBS, and Credit Suisse have kindly responded (to emails from long-lost cousins?) and will be allowed to managed 20% of Nigeria's $1 billion fund (which is meant to cushion against oil price shocks - good timing?) This should come as no surprise to Zero Hedge readers as we have been discussing Africa as the only place left in the world capable of incremental debt capacity (and therefore growth). There are consequences (the boom-bust cycle) to this politically-motivated capital inflow; but for now the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) states (in a reassuring manner) that the banks will invest "the fund's assets conservatively, with capital preservation in nominal terms being of primary importance," which 'nominally' fits with UBS managing their Treasury exposure and GS and CS their corporate debt exposures.

 

 

Obama "Concludes" That Assad Carried Out Chemical Attack

As Pat Buchanan recently noted, it would have made absolutely no sense for the Assad regime to use chemical weapons on defenseless women and children.  The only people who would benefit from such an attack would be the rebels...The basic question that needs to be asked about this horrific attack on civilians, which appears to be gas related, is: Cui bono?To whose benefit would the use of nerve gas on Syrian women and children redound? Certainly not Assad’s, as we can see from the furor and threats against him that the use of gas has produced.The sole beneficiary of this apparent use of poison gas against civilians in rebel-held territory appears to be the rebels, who have long sought to have us come in and fight their war…’

 

 

 

Boehner Sends Obama Letter Demanding "Clear, Unambiguous Explanation" For Syrian Intervention

 

 

 

Obama Administration Copies Bush’s Sidelining of Weapons Inspectors In Iraq Posted by : George Washington Post date: 08/28/2013 - Debunking U.S. Claims about UN Weapons Inspections In Syria

 

Without Fraud and Accounting Gimmicks, Earnings Are Falling... Posted by: Phoenix Capital... Post date: 08/28/2013 - If you remove this sector, then earnings for the S&P 500 in the second quarter so far are DOWN 2.9%

 

I'M A DRoNe MaN! Posted by: williambanzai7 Post date: 08/28/2013 - I have a drone or two!

I'M A DRoNe MaN!




 

 

 

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I'M A DRONE MAN

(I'm a Soul Man, Sam and Dave)

WilliamBanzai7

Comin' to you on a Waziri mountain road

Evil lovin', I got a C4 Butt Load

And when you get it, you got nothing

So don't worry, 'cause I'm a coming

I'm a drone man,

I'm a drone man

I'm a drone man,

I'm a drone man,

I'll bomb it all

You get what I got the hard way

And I'll make it bigger each and every day

So pijamy jihadi, don't you fret

'Cause you ain't seen nothing yet

I'm a Drone man,

I'm a drone man, play it General

I'm a Drone man,

I'm a Drone man

I was brought up on a Hawaiian street,

listen now

I learned how to hula before I could eat

I was educated on choomba weed

When I start a bongin', oh, you can't sleep

I'm a drone man,

I'm a drone man

I'm a drone man,

I'm a drone man

Well, smoke the hopium

and I'll pull you in

Give me the bong and I'll bomb your kin

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm talkin' about a drone man

I'm a drone man, and you're a droned man

I'm a drone man, oh no, drone man

I'm a drone man,

and you're a droned man

 

 

 

 

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Just check out Obama's new drone

"In The Land Of The Free" it is flown

Nothing will save
"The Home Of The Brave"

Tyrannical forces have grown

The Limerick King
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72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered “Potential Terrorists” In Official Government Documents

Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner?  Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order?  Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times” or do you ever visit alternative news websites (such as this one)?  If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are a “potential terrorist” according to official U.S. government documents.  At one time, the term “terrorist” was used very narrowly.  The government applied that label to people like Osama bin Laden and other Islamic jihadists.  But now the Obama administration is removing all references to Islam from terror training materials, and instead the term “terrorist” is being applied to large groups of American citizens.  And if you are a “terrorist”, that means that you have no rights and the government can treat you just like it treats the terrorists that are being held at Guantanamo Bay.  So if you belong to a group of people that is now being referred to as “potential terrorists”, please (Read More....)

August 26th, 2013 | Tags: Alternative News, Christian, Conservative, Conspriacy Theories, End Times, Globalism, Gun Owner, Libertarian, Michael T. Snyder, Potential Terrorists, The New World Order | Category: Conspiracy, Police State, Society's War On Christianity | 67 comments

The Human Race Is Dying: DNA Degeneration Would Eventually Lead To The Total Extinction Of Humanity

The human race is dying.  It certainly won’t happen this year or even this decade, but the steady degeneration of human DNA would eventually lead to the total extinction of humanity given enough time.  The reason that we are heading toward extinction is the increasing number of mutations that are being passed down from generation to generation.  According to Dr. John Sanford of Cornell University, every one of us already carries tens of thousands of harmful mutations, and each of us will pass on approximately 100 new mutations to future generations.  Humanity is degenerating at an accelerating pace, and at some point the number of mutations will become so great that we will no longer be able to produce viable offspring.  This is not going to happen in the immediate future, but already signs of DNA degeneration are all around us.  Despite all of our advanced technology, genetically-related diseases are absolutely exploding.  Our bodies are weak and frail, and with each passing generation it is getting even worse.

Most people don’t understand this.  Most average people on the street just assume that the human race will be able to go on indefinitely.

But the geneticists that carefully (Read More....)

 

Israelis Rush For Gas Masks, Brace For Retaliation Ahead of Strike on Syria...
Syrian PM warns country will become a 'graveyard for invaders'...
UN: 'Give peace a chance'...
DOES OBAMA KNOW HE'S FIGHTING ON AL QAEDA'S SIDE?
'I Have Not Made a Decision'...
Iran: 'Thousands of missiles' to rain on Jewish state...
REPORT: Calls intercepted 'prove' nerve gas...
Jordan: We won't help...
Oil Reaches Two-Year High...
The worst and least-bad scenarios...
Congressman to Boehner: Call House Back Now...

HARVARD: GUN CONTROL DOES NOT DECREASE VIOLENT CRIME...

More Than 200 Detroit Teachers Moonlighting As 'Sugar Babies'...

Coretta Scott King in 1991: Hold Employers Accountable for Hiring Illegals...

 

Jim Rogers Warns Syria War And "Market Panic" To Send Gold "Much, Much Higher"

Astute investor, Jim Rogers has warned overnight in an interview with Tara Joseph of Reuters that "oil and gold will go much, much higher" due to "market panic" regarding Syria and the coming end of free money... "when this artificial sea of liquidity ends we're gonna see panic in a lot of markets, including in the US, including in West developed markets."

 

 

Nigerian Scam Emails To Get Facelift Thanks To Goldman, UBS, Credit Suisse

Nigeria, Africa's top oil-producing nation, has a problem - too much money in its sovereign wealth fund and no idea what to do with it. Have no fear though, for as Reuters reports, Goldman Sachs, UBS, and Credit Suisse have kindly responded (to emails from long-lost cousins?) and will be allowed to managed 20% of Nigeria's $1 billion fund (which is meant to cushion against oil price shocks - good timing?) This should come as no surprise to Zero Hedge readers as we have been discussing Africa as the only place left in the world capable of incremental debt capacity (and therefore growth). There are consequences (the boom-bust cycle) to this politically-motivated capital inflow; but for now the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) states (in a reassuring manner) that the banks will invest "the fund's assets conservatively, with capital preservation in nominal terms being of primary importance," which 'nominally' fits with UBS managing their Treasury exposure and GS and CS their corporate debt exposures.

 

 

Obama "Concludes" That Assad Carried Out Chemical Attack

 

 

Boehner Sends Obama Letter Demanding "Clear, Unambiguous Explanation" For Syrian Intervention

The letter below was sent a short while ago by House Speaker John Boehner to the president, voicing the Republican's displeasure with the Commander In chief, and criticizing the level of consultation about a potential military strike as well as demanding a clear explanation of any mission in advance of its start. Sadly, since not even Obama is quite clear why his Wall Street-based advisors demand that the US rush head first into this deficit-boosting campaign (and whose primary purpose as we have been explaining for a month is to make the Untaper possible), we doubt Boehner will get a response. Separately, as the WSJ reports, 114 House lawmakers— 97 Republicans and only 17 Democrats— have signed a letter calling on Mr. Obama to seek congressional authorization before embarking on military action in Syria. We suspect that 17 would have been substantially greater if the president engaging in unauthorized war had a last name beginning with "Buh" and ending in "Oosh."

 

 

August US Equity Trading Volume Plunges To Lowest In 16 Years

 

Earlier we showed one indicator of the US investor's (should they exist anymore) loss of interest in the Federal-Reserve-sponsored equity market - i.e. CNBC ratings at 20-year lows. In the interest of being more fair-and-balanced we present anther perspective... US equity trading volume in August of 2013 is the lowest on average in 16 years... and all-time highs, middle-east war, taper, weak macro, housing un-recovery, German elections, Asian FX crisis will do little to improve that risk-appetite for the retiring boomer army.

 

 

Bill Ackman's Final JCP Liquidation Price: $12.60/Share

"Citigroup Global Markets Inc. is acting as underwriter of the offering. We and the Selling Stockholders have entered into an underwriting agreement with the underwriter. Subject to the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement, the Selling Stockholders have agreed to sell to the underwriter, and the underwriter has agreed to purchase 39,075,771 shares of common stock at a price of $12.60 per share, which will result in $492,354,715 of aggregate proceeds to the Selling Stockholders before expenses. The underwriter is committed to purchase all the common shares offered by the Selling Stockholders if it purchases any shares."

 

 

Here’s What Candidate Obama Said About Military Intervention In 2007

Q. In what circumstances, if any, would the president have constitutional authority to bomb Iran without seeking a use-of-force authorization from Congress? (Specifically, what about the strategic bombing of suspected nuclear sites — a situation that does not involve stopping an IMMINENT threat?)

Obama:  The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

- Interview with Charlie Savage, December 20, 2007

 

 

Volumeless 'Dead-Dog-Bounce' In Stocks Fades Into Close On "I Believe" Day

 

With crude prices at multi-year highs and India promising to save its oil companies it is perhaps not entirely surprising that all the attention in this opposite world pushed the Energy sector (most notably the biggest names) to lead the market higher on low volumes today. Sadly, Chevron and Exxon accounted for 40 of the Dow's 48 point gain and the S&P energy sector gained an impressive 1.8% as the rest sat around close to unchanged (and Staples lower). Treasuries began selling off from the Asian open last night with the belly 6-7bps higher in yield on the day (-3-5bps on the week)... But 330RAMP was missing as all indices gave back considerable gains into the close with Trannies red (and S&P at its 100DMA again).

 

 

A Brief Visual History Of US Military Interventions

Since the Vietnam War, the United States has engaged in several military interventions. As the West looks ready to act against Syria, accused of using chemical weapons against its own citizens, WaPo presents 10 instances when America has intervened, sometimes without authorization from the United Nations.

 

 

The Chart That Every Taxpayer Deserves To See

This chart seems to sum up our fiscal challenges as well as anything else...

 

 

50 Years After MLK: Obama Shares His Dream - Live Webcast

President Obama commemorates 50 years of "believing"... in jobs and freedom

 

 

This Is How America Gets Educated On Syria

 

 

 

Guest Post: A History Of Real GDP & Population Growth

Despite trillions of dollars of interventions and zero interest rates by the Federal Reserve, combined with numerous bailouts, supports and assistance from the Federal Government, the economy has yet to gain any real traction particularly on "Main Street."  Are we currently experiencing the second "Great Depression?"  That is a question that we can continue to debate currently, however, it will only be answered for certain when future historians judge this period. One thing is for sure.  With the lowest rate of annualized economic growth on record there is a problem currently that is not being adequately recognized. The depression may indeed be on "Main Street" once again with the only difference being that the "breadlines" are formed in the mailbox rather than on street corners. And while many are quick to dismiss comparisons to the Great Depression, there is one important difference: the rate of population growth which, as opposed to the depression era, has been on a steady and consistent decline since the 1950's.

 

 

Nigel Farage Warns "Military Intervention In Syria Could Lead To Something Far Bigger"

 

While Nigel Farage personal view that it is 'probable' that Assad did what the US and British are accusing him of, he notes "it is not absolutely certain," and before we go to war, "we must have absolute proof and certainty." Commenting on the British and US seeming enthusiasm for another Middle Eastern 'war', Farage provides a few minutes of common sense in this brief clip when he notes that Europe remains split - though "moral outrage" at the accusations will likely mean they support the attacks (adding that "moral outrage alone is not enough to warrant attacks."). The UKIP leader then warned that "military intervention in Syria could lead to something far bigger, and even more worrying than we are seeing at the moment." Finally, Farage notes that "whenever we get involved in the Middle East, we tend to make things worse, not better," and as ghastly as the actions being committed are, there is nothing the British (or American) military can do to make things better.

 

 

"MainStreet Bank" Chairman Stole Bailout Cash For Florida House Purchase

While unlikely to surprise too many people, the chairman of the ironically-named "MainStreet Bank" used over one-third of the TARP-supplied funds his bank received to buy himself a luxury home. Darryl Woods plead guilty to using $381,000 of the TARP funds to buy waterfront Florida property "at a time when many Americans were losing their homes," the US District Attorney exclaimed. Disgustingly, Mr Woods had previously written to TARP regulators describing Mainstreet as a small community bank and saying the funds "will provide vitally needed infusions to a bleeding patient." As The BBC reports, his wrongdoing was uncovered when regulators began examining how the money was used - which has so far uncovered 140 cases of misused funds...

 

 

Assad: Failure Awaits the USA Posted by: Pivotfarm Post date: 08/27/2013 - Syrian President Bachar al-Assad has warned President Obama not to take military action against his country since: “Failure awaits the United States as in all previous wars it has unleashed, starting...

 

7 Countries In 5 Years

 

Presented with little comment aside to note that it seems appropriate to watch the following 133 seconds to get some context of just what is occurring once again...

 

 

The Dummies Guide To Understanding The Middle East

Over the weekend we laid out the textual "short guide to the Middle East", today we provide the graphic (visual) version of the dummies guide to the Middle East. Simple, right?

 

 

Final Obamacare "Individual Mandate" Rules Released: This Is What You Will Pay

With president Obama taking his role as Warmonger-In-Chief ever more seriously, it is easy to forget that the only important function before the greatest presidential teleprompter reader in history, is that of Socialized Healthcare Provider-in-Comrade. And so today, in the fog of pre-war, the Obama administration released the final rules on the "Individual Mandate" component of Obamacare, which requires most Americans to buy health insurance starting in 2014 or be fined. Specifically, the rules list lay out the amount of penalties that Americans will face if they opt out of socialized healthcare. The WSJ was kind enough to read the Treasury Department release and summarize it as follows.

 

 

What A US Strike On Syria Would Look Like

 

In the event of a punitive strike or a limited operation to reduce Syrian President Bashar al Assad's chemical weapons delivery capability -- for instance, by targeting key command and control facilities, main air bases and known artillery sites -- the United States already has enough forces positioned to commence operations.

 

 

 

Syria Evacuates Troops From Damascus Military Base, Al Arabiya Reports

Just a headline from Bloomberg, citing Alarabiya, for now:

      SYRIA EVACUATES TROOPS FROM DAMASCUS MILITARY BASE: ARABIYA

      Syrian army is clearing the 4th Battalion base in Damascus, Arabiya reports, citing activists in the city.

More as we see it.

 

 

O.J.Simpson Homeless? JPMorgan Finally Forecloses After 3 Years

 

Murder (acquitted), armed robbery (convicted), kidnapping (convicted), and now foreclosure... It really hasn't been a good decade (or two) for O.J. Simpson. As NYPost reports, after 3 years of non-payment, none other than JPMorgan will foreclose on Simpson's 4,233 square feet, four-bedroom home in Florida. Still, he won't be entirely homeless, he has a 'big house' to share with a few 'friends' for the next 33 years...

 

 

Barclays Warns About The Oil Price "Spillover Effects" From Syria

The increasing likelihood of some form of limited US led military action in Syria is compounding concerns about the stability of the world’s key oil producing region and Barclays warns that it will likely exert upward pressure on prices until the nature of the possible military intervention becomes apparent. But the bigger risk for the oil market is the potential for the Syrian conflict to spread to neighboring producing countries and imperil regional output, as the Syrian conflict is fueling broader sectarian tensions across the entire Middle East and has become something of a proxy war. The problem for global oil prices is that all of this Middle East volatility is taking place against the backdrop of a recent rise in unplanned outages in the oil market outside Syria. In sum, Barclays is concerned that with geopolitical tension and physical outages on the rise, crude oil markets are at an inflection point.

 

 

Syriana: Russia's Latest Official Statements

      MILITARY OPERATION AGAINST SYRIA WOULD ONLY WORSEN CONFLICT - DUMA CHAIRMAN

      MOSCOW ALARMED BY SOME COUNTRIES' DELIBERATE ACTIONS TO UNDERMINE PRECONDITIONS FOR POLITICAL-DIPLOMATIC SETTLEMENT OF CONFLICT IN SYRIA - FOREIGN MINISTRY

      LAVROV DISAGREES WITH U.S. ON BLAMING SYRIAN GOVERNMENT FOR CHEMICAL ATTACK IN TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH KERRY - RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY

      RUSSIA BELIEVES EXPERTS' WORK IN SYRIA SHOULD BE SUPPORTED, FACILITATED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE - FOREIGN MINISTRY

 

 

Guest Post: The Long View On Interest Rates

There has been much discussion as of late about the need for interest rates to rise as they have been historically way too low for too long.  However, is that really the case? The average long term interest rate in the U.S. has been 5.49%  (median is 4.91%) since 1854.  However, that average rate would be much lower if the "spike" in interest rates in the 1960's and 70's were removed which would mean that the current long term interest rate is likely more aligned currently with historical norms.  This is particularly the case when compared to the much slower rates of economic growth that currently exists. What we find find most interesting currently are the ongoing discussions about whether or not the U.S. is in a recession.  The reality is that such discussions are relatively pointless in the broader context.  The "Great Depression" was not just one very long "recessionary" period but rather two recessions that "bookended" a period of relatively strong economic growth.

 

 

Selloffnado: Perfect Macro Storm Clobbers Stocks

An ugly day all around...

30Y Treasury yield - biggest 4-day yield compression in 15 months
Dow Transports - biggest single-day loss in ~5 months (2nd worst in 11 months)
Nasdaq - 2nd worst day in 10 months
AAPL - worst day in 3 months (2nd worst day of 2013)
USDJPY - biggest gain in JPY in 10 weeks
WTI - biggest single-day gain in 10 months
Financials - worst day in 10 months

In no particular order: Weak (and strong) US data (good or bad news?), War, Taper (Treasuries 'special'), Debt Ceiling, German elections, New Fed Chairman, imploding developing markets and collapsing global currencies... (S&P 500's first close <100DMA in 2013) it is on... (oh and S&P 500 futures 2nd biggest volume day in 2 months)

 

 

Guest Post: The Immense (And Needless) Human Misery Caused By Speculative Credit Bubbles

Financialization and the Neocolonial Model of credit-based exploitation leave immense human suffering in their wake when speculative credit bubbles inevitably implode.

 

 

Meet Saudi Arabia's Bandar bin Sultan: The Puppetmaster Behind The Syrian War

Yesterday the Telegraph's Evans-Pritchard dug up a note that we had posted almost a month ago, relating to the "secret" meeting between Saudi Arabia and Russia, in which Saudi's influential intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan met with Putin and regaled him with gifts, including a multi-billion arms deal and a promise that Saudi is "ready to help Moscow play a bigger role in the Middle East at a time when the United States is disengaging from the region", if only Putin would agree to give up his alliance with Syria's al-Assad and let Syria take over, ostensibly including control of the country's all important natgas transit infrastructure. What was not emphasized by the Telegraph is that Putin laughed at the proposal and brushed aside the Saudi desperation by simply saying "nyet." However, what neither the Telegraph, nor we three weeks ago, picked up on, is what happened after Putin put Syria in its place. We now know, and it's a doozy.

 

 

On The Looming Federal 'Helium' Reserve Cliff (No, Really!)

The US has been stockpiling helium in ‘The Federal Helium Reserve’ (no, really) – an underground reservoir near Amarillo – since it was built in 1929. There is also a processing plant and 450 miles of pipelines. The US produces about 75% of the world’s helium, with half of that stored in the aforementioned reserve. Although helium is abundant, it is not economically feasible to capture and extract it from the atmosphere. The problem is that the Congress passed ‘The Helium Privatization Act’ in 1996, which stated that the government would effectively end sales from the reservoir once its debt was paid off. And this is expected to happen in, um, early October.

 

 

Uncle Sam Comes Callin', Asks Jamie Dimon For Another $6 Billion

 

The US is demanding a sum of $6 billion - the total loss associated with the "London Whale" debacle - in compensation for JPMorgan's mis-selling of mortgage-backed-securities. The FT reports that, unsurprisingly, the bank is resisting the payment, which would be its single biggest penalty in a catalog of expensive run-ins with US authorities and one of the largest post-crisis settlements by any bank. The FHFA said the bank falsely claimed that loans backing $33bn of mortgage-backed securities complied with underwriting guidelines and that it "significantly overstated the ability of the borrowers to repay their mortgage loans". It seems, perhaps, it is time to trade in the old jewelry for some new Kremlin cufflinks (the enemy of your enemy is your friend?)

 

 

S&P 500 Futures Lose Critical Technical Level

 

For the first time since the most recent rally began in November, S&P 500 futures have retested (and broken below) the 100-day moving average within days of a previous break (without making new highs). It would appear the BTFD mentaliity is less exuberant with war and a tapering Fed in the background. And for those great rotators... 30Y yields are at 2 week lows...

 

 

DAWN OF WAR
DOES OBAMA KNOW HE'S FIGHTING ON AL-QAEDA'S SIDE?
FLASHBACK: Biden Wanted to Impeach Bush for Attack w/o Congress...
Strike within days...
Warplanes begin arriving in Cyprus...
Armed forces 'making contingency plans'...
White House: Not regime change!
Arab Allies Withhold Support...
NKOREA caught trying to send gas masks, weapons to Syria...
STOCKS JOLTED...
Oil Reaches 18-Month High...
Russia warns 'catastrophic consequences'...
Kucinich: USA Will Become 'al-Qaeda's air force'...
'Rebels' vow revenge attacks...
IRAN THREATENS ISRAEL...
WILL BE 'FIRST VICTIM'...
POLL: Attack On Syria Would Be Most Unpopular...

 

 



UPDATE: 'Homeland Security' employee behind racist website placed on PAID leave...

SHOCK: Pre-teen black kids bully 3-year-old white girl...

VIDEO: 'When white people piss black people off'...


COPS: Black teen girls assault white woman; charged with 'ethnic intimidation'...

PAPER: Black man attacks elderly white male, tells him he 'shouldn't be in his park'...

SCHOOL: Black student sent racist texts to himself...

 

 

 

 

RUSSIA, CHINA WARN AGAINST STRIKE

{ The final nail in america’s global coffin! Really! }

BAMA'S WAR...
BUCHANAN: Congress should veto...
Strike within days...
Warplanes begin arriving in Cyprus...
Armed forces 'making contingency plans' for military action...
CAMERON RECALLS PARLIAMENT...
STOCKS JOLTED...
Russia evacuates 90 people ...
Says West Acting Like 'Monkey With Hand Grenade'...
Top Syrian Official: Obama 'Completely Wrong'; 'Produce The Evidence'...


Cory Booker: So What If I'm Gay? { Wobama’s a gay nigger too! }

 


COPS: Black teen girls assault white woman; charged with 'ethnic intimidation'...

PAPER: Black man attacks elderly white male, tells him he 'shouldn't be in his park'...

Report: SC restaurant refused to seat black patrons...

SCHOOL: Black student sent racist texts to himself...

 

Jesse Jackson: 'Tea Party is Resurrection of the Confederacy'...  { Riiiiight, jesse the typical nigger jackson … go join your son in jail, where the niggers have proven by every factual crime stat they belong … indeed, they’ve proven they can’t live in this or any other nation as anything but slaves or inmates, so inherently uncivilized they are! Time to require work for their welfare … to occupy their otherwise misspent time getting high, partying, listening to their rap s***, and committing crimes. I’m quite serious! }

 

 

Don’t Let Your Daughters Grow Up To Be Like Miley Cyrus

The ultra-raunchy performance that Miley Cyrus put on at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards the other night is a perfect example of how morally bankrupt our culture has become.  Since that performance, Miley Cyrus has been the number one topic of conversation in America, and a whole lot of people have actually been defending her.  They have been saying stuff like “if you don’t like it, don’t watch it” and a CNN article even went so far as to say that we “need less outrage, less nannying” about such performances.  Unfortunately, the truth is that it would be a tragic mistake to simply ignore such filth.  Millions upon millions of young girls absolutely adored Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana on the Disney channel, and millions of those same girls are looking up to her as a role model now.  What they see her do is going to affect their behavior.  As for Miley Cyrus, she probably believes that the kind of performance that she put on the other night is exactly what her audience wants, and to a large degree that is probably true.  It is easy to denounce the garbage that we see at these award shows, but the cold, hard reality of the matter is that the behavior that we see on these shows is a reflection of who we are as a nation. (Read More.....)

 

Public School Is One Of The Most Dangerous Places You Could Possibly Put Your Children

Would you willingly send your kids into a war zone?  No way.  Would you willingly send your children into a federal prison?  Of course not.  So why would you send them to a public school?  In America today, kids are being killed on the way to school, at school and on the way home from school.  Mass shootings are becoming increasingly common, the influence of gangs in our schools is on the rise and sometimes the biggest threat of danger comes from the teachers and the security officials that are supposed to be there to “protect” our children.  But violence is not the only thing for parents to be concerned about when it comes to our public schools.  The truth is that public schools in the United States have become government indoctrination centers, and many teachers are constantly looking for opportunities to inject as much propaganda as they possibly can into classroom instruction.  After a dozen years of this, many students leave high school virtually brainwashed and nearly incapable of thinking for themselves.  This is one of the reasons why so many high school students seem like they are dumb as a rock.  Our young people spend most of their young lives in prison camps where they are constantly being told what to think instead of being trained how to think.  Why would anyone want to subject their children to that? (Read More.....)

 

 

 

Edward Snowden leaks again: five takeaways from the 'black budget'

Edward Snowden has struck again, this time via The Washington Post. The former National Security Agency data professional leaked a secret-filled 178-page summary of

Edward Snowden leaks again: five takeaways from the 'black budget'

      The latest Edward Snowden leak reveals that the CIA claims the lion's share of the $52.6 billion classified 'black budget' that the US spent on its intelligence agencies in 2013, topping the NSA.

Peter Grier

Edward Snowden has struck again, this time via The Washington Post. The former National Security Agency data professional leaked a secret-filled 178-page summary of the US intelligence community budget to Post reporters Barton Gellman and Greg Miller, who published online a lengthy story about the document, illustrated with great charts and graphics, on Thursday.

The bottom line, or rather the budget top line, is that all US intelligence agencies combined spent $52.6 billion in fiscal year 2013. That’s about 2.4 percent less than they spent in FY 2012.

That’s not classified, strictly speaking: The US has released its overall intelligence budget since 2007, as Messrs. Gellman and Miller note. But breakdowns as to which agency gets how much and what the money is spent on have been classified, and the Post reveals those things, too.

Here’s our quick take on significant things in the story:

The CIA is still first among equals. The nation’s human-oriented intelligence agency got $14.7 billion for 2013. The eavesdropping NSA, despite its need for expensive electronics, got less: $10.8 billion. The National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and maintains signal and photo intelligence satellites, received almost as much as the NSA, at $10.3 billion. That means those secret eyes and ears in the sky are really, really expensive.

Predicting the future: priceless. OK, maybe “priceless” isn’t quite the right word. There is a price tag here, a big one. The biggest single item in the breakdown of the budget by mission objective is “Provide Strategic Intelligence and Warning,” which gets 39 percent of intelligence community’s $52 billion. That means they are putting a lot of effort into the predictions that go into the president’s morning security briefings.

“Combat Violent Extremism” is the second-biggest function, with 33 percent of the budget. “Counter Weapons Proliferation” is third, with 13 percent.

Will Israel be insulted? The budget summary included discussion of the intelligence community’s priorities, successes, and failures, as well as numbers. For instance, it noted that the US takes an “interest” in countries that are allies, as well as countries that aren’t. Among the nations listed as counterintelligence “priority targets” are China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, and ... Israel.

Pakistan, a nominal ally, is also listed as an “intractable target." That’s not too surprising, is it, given that’s where Osama bin Laden was hiding in plain sight.

Why so many Spanish-speaking spies? Intelligence agencies pay bonuses to employees who maintain proficiency in foreign languages. The No. 1 bonus language is Spanish, with 2,725 bonuses dispersed. That’s more than twice as many as were paid out to the second-ranking language, Arabic. Arabic speakers got 1,191 bonuses. Chinese speakers got 903, and Russian speakers got 736.

Did Manning make Snowden possible? Near the end, the Post story notes that the intelligence community had budgeted for a “major counterintelligence initiative” in 2012 that would have tried to guard against insider threats by reinvestigating the activities of thousands of “high-risk, high-gain applicants and contractors.”

Mr. Snowden himself might well have fallen into that category. But the initiative never got carried out, the Post notes, because those resources were diverted to an all-hands-on-deck response to the leak of thousands of documents by WikiLeaks. Those documents were provided by Bradley Manning (who has recently asked to be known as a transgender woman named Chelsea).

“The government panicked so strongly about the threat caused by leaking documents classified at a lower level than this [budget] document that it diverted resources from the very program that possibly would have exposed Edward Snowden before he could have leaked,” notes national security journalist Joshua Foust on his blog.

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