High-Level U.S. Intelligence Officers: Syrian Government Didn’t Launch Chemical Weapons Posted by : George Washington Post date: 09/07/2013 - Numerous Intelligence Officials Question Administration’s Claims

 

Fear Increases Productivity and the Old Posted by: Pivotfarm Post date: 09/07/2013 - We live in a throw-away world where we don’t repair and as soon as things start looking a bit shabby round the edges and curled up as if they were sandwiches left over from the night before, with the...

 

 

Who Is Going To Buy Our Debt If This War Causes China, Russia And The Rest Of The World To Turn On Us?

Syrian Rebel ForcesCan the U.S. really afford to greatly anger the rest of the world when they are the ones that are paying our bills?  What is going to happen if China, Russia and many other large nations stop buying our debt and start rapidly dumping U.S. debt that they already own?  If the United States is not very careful, it is going to pay a tremendous economic price for taking military action in Syria.  At this point, survey after survey has shown that the American people are overwhelmingly against an attack on Syria, people around the globe are overwhelmingly against an attack on Syria, and it looks like the U.S. Congress is even going to reject it.  But Barack Obama is not backing down.  In fact, ABC News is reporting that plans are now being made for a "significantly larger" strike on Syria than most experts had expected. (Read More....)

 

 

INTeRNaTioNaL LaW 101... Posted by: williambanzai7 Post date: 09/06/2013 - Someone has to put this front and center and that someone is me...

 

INTeRNaTioNaL LaW 101...

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INTERNATIONAL LAW 101

 

 

 

Barack is now jury and judge

This new Neo-Con will not budge

And if he wants war

The truth he'll ignore

And reasons for war he will fudge

The Limerick King

 

 

Just a few weeks ago, that buffoon Kerry said it is remotely possible this might end in Pakistan at some unspexcified time in the future...

 

 

 

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WAR CRIMES

 

And let us not forget this piece of work, who Holder literally petitioned to pardon from war crimes liability two weeks ago.

 

 

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FALL OF THE DICTATOR

And the choomhead always calls the kettle black.

 

 

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The Fed Has Wasted Trillions and the US Remains in Depression Posted by: Phoenix Capital... Post date: 09/06/2013 - The facts are now becoming abundantly clear, that the forecast we’ve maintained for well over two years has been validated: the US is in a DE-pression and both Washington and the Federal...

 

Putin presses US Congress over Syria, says Kerry lied



(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the U.S. Congress had no right to approve the use of force against Syria without a decision from the U.N. Security Council, and that doing so would be an "act of aggression".

He said "anything that is outside the U.N. Security Council is aggression, except self-defense. Now what Congress and the U.S. Senate are doing in essence is legitimizing aggression. This is inadmissible in principle."

In remarks that could raise tension further before he hosts President Barack Obama and other G20 leaders on Thursday, Putin also said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lied to Congress about the militant group al Qaeda's role in the Syrian conflict.

"They lie beautifully, of course. I saw debates in Congress. A congressman asks Mr Kerry: 'Is al Qaeda there?' He says: 'No, I am telling you responsibly that it is not'," Putin said at a meeting of his human rights council in the Kremlin.

"Al Qaeda units are the main military echelon, and they know this," he said, referring to the United States. "It was unpleasant and surprising for me - we talk to them, we proceed from the assumption that they are decent people. But he is lying and knows he is lying. It's sad."

Putin did not give any more details.

In an exchange with a senator, Kerry was asked whether it was "basically true" that the Syrian opposition had "become more infiltrated by al Qaeda over time. Kerry said: "No, that is actually basically not true. It's basically incorrect".

In another sign of tension, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that since August 31, the U.S. State Department had repeatedly asked for a telephone call between Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov but Kerry had been unavailable and declined to set a time for the call.

(Reporting by Darya Korsunskaya,; Writing by Steve Gutterman, Editing by Timothy Heritage)

 

 

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...

 

 

 

 

PoLiSH PaRTiTIONS... Posted by: williambanzai7 Post date: 09/07/2013 - Wszystko nie jest OK...

 

PoLiSH PaRTiTIONS...

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JESZCZE RAZ!

Know any Poles?

Show them these.

They will understand immediately what they are driving at.

As they say in Polska: Wszystko nie jest OK...

 

We Have Officially Jumped The Shark: Al-Arabiya Reports Another "Gas Attack" By Syrian Regime

So totally unexpected:

SYRIA GOVT FORCES SHELL QABUN, DAMASCUS WITH GAS: AL-ARABIYA
AL-ARABIYA CITES UNIDENTIFIED ACTIVISTS - so the same CIA-trained, al Qaeda funded, Qatari mercenaries?

Actually it is surprising: the odds were today's false flag would take place in Iran to get the Israel card in play. Apparently nobody was dumb enough to assume the government would go with two false flags in a row in the same place. And now bring on the 1000 YouTube clips of "undisputed proof."

 

 

McJiHaD U.S.A... Posted by : williambanzai7 Post date: 09/05/2013 - But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll...And Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool--you bet that Tommy sees!

 

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

 

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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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Exclusive: Top Chemical Weapons Expert Highly Skeptical of U.S. Case Against Syrian Government Posted by: George Washington Post date: 09/05/2013 - Western Samples Have No Verifiable Chain of Custody

 

 

 

 

Who Is Going To Buy The US Debt If This War Causes China, Russia And The Rest Of The World To Turn On Us?

Yesterday we implied a difficult question when we illustrated the huge size of US Treasury bond holdings that China and Russia have between them - accounting for 25% of all foreign held debt - implicitly funding US standards of living (along with the Federal Reserve). The difficult question is "Can the U.S. really afford to greatly anger the rest of the world when they are the ones that are paying our bills?" What is going to happen if China, Russia and many other large nations stop buying our debt and start rapidly dumping U.S. debt that they already own? If the United States is not very careful, it is going to pay a tremendous economic price for taking military action in Syria.

 

 

Labor Force Participation Crisis? Don't Blame Demographics!

The Labor Force Participation Rate - in English, the percent of the population that is either in a job or looking for a job - fell yesterday to fresh 35 year lows. This is not a new trend, in fact since the end of 1999 (the dot-com bust) it has trended lower from well over 67% to the current 63.2%; which means the current unemployment rate would be almost 11% if the labor force was constant from when Obama took office. There appear to be at least four reasons (excuses) put forth for this dismal 'structural' trend but chief among them - and propagandized by most in the mainstream (given its lack of 'blame') - is the so-called 'aging of America' or demographics. There is only one problem with that 'myth'; it's entirely inconsistent with other Western economies who are experiencing exactly the same demographic shift. The collapse in the US labor force is, in fact, due to excess credit having fueled artificial growth for 3 decades; and now a government throwing free money at the population in the form of disability insurance (which has surged) and student loans (which are exponentially exploded). So who (or what) is to blame for the US' collapsing workforce? Simple, the unintended consequences of government interference.

 

 

Tokyo To Host 2020 Summer Olympics

Despite Mariano Rajoy's solemn promises that awarding the 2020 Olympics to Madrid would boost the Spanish GDP by 1.8% and lead to the creation of anywhere between 168,000 and a few hundred million new jobs (the latter number is a joke but since it comes from Rajoy, both are equally credible), the Olympic committee cut the Spanish contender before the final, which pitted Tokyo vs Istanbul. And when the final votes were tallied it was not even a contest: with 60 to 36 votes, the 2020 Olympics Games will be held in Tokyo: the city that was supposed to host the event in 1940 but due to the break out of World War II the event was delayed until 1964 (when it was almost cancelled again, permanently, following a modest escalation in nuclear deterrence between the US and USSR surrounding Cuba). Let's hope history does not rhyme.

 

 

Is Forward Guidance Already Dead?

While the market has been fixated lately on the question of when and how the Fed will taper its asset purchases, perhaps as important for the rates market (and the magic that levitates stocks) is the outlook for the Fed’s forward rate guidance. On this front, BofAML suggests that recent evidence shows the effectiveness of forward guidance is diminishing... already. Simply put, policy makers are finding it harder to convince markets that central bankers have more insight into the future course of the economy and policy than they actually do. Meanwhile, markets are learning that it can be painful to rely too heavily on forward guidance when the risk/reward of being long fixed income is asymmetrical when close to the zero lower bound. In BofAML's view, this should lead to a return to persistently higher front-end risk premiums than have prevailed over the last two years, barring a sharp deterioration in the economic outlook.

 

 

The Fed's Birthday Party Trick: A Market Of Monetary-Punch-Drunk Liquidityholics

If ever there was an investor reaction that summed up just how much the Federal Reserve has broken the markets it was yesterday morning's post-dismal-jobs-report surge. As John Phelan notes, we now appear to be in a position where the interests of financial markets are precisely at odds with the interests of the rest of the economy; where the good news for us is bad news for them and bad news for us is good news for them. The one way bet of the Greenspan Put maintained, so far, by Ben Bernanke, has created a market of monetary-punch-drunk liquidityholics. On its 100th birthday the Federal Reserve has the tricky task of sneaking the punch bowl out of the party, a task it seems they’ll struggle to manage without starting a riot. They may have printed themselves into a corner.

 

 

Obama's Missing Link: No Direct Connection Between Assad And Gas Attack

While one can speculate if the sarin gas attack on August 22 was ordered and orchestrated by Saudi/Qatari petrodollar interests, with the assistance of the CIA and the funding of al Qaeda, and executed by the Syrian "rebels" (there is much circumstantial evidence pointing in the false flag direction: here, here, here and here), the reality is that since the narrative behind Obama's offensive Syrian air strikes has been staged as punishment for Assad, the onus is on the affirmative proof, namely clear and unequivocal evidence that it was Assad who ordered the attack. So far, despite repeated vows and promises that such proof exists, none has been presented, aside from numerous YouTube clips which show an attack did take place (and even that is in question). When it comes to the actual perpetrator, John Kerry and company are reduced to emotional pleadings to the audience to look at pictures of dead children redirecting from the most important question of all: did Assad actually do it. The reason for such Copperfieldian tactics is that there simply is no link - Reuters reports that  "No direct link to President Bashar al-Assad or his inner circle has been publicly demonstrated, and some U.S. sources say intelligence experts are not sure whether the Syrian leader knew of the attack before it was launched or was only informed about it afterward." And yet Obama's entire publicly stated motive is to punish Assad... for something there is zero evidence he did.

 

 

What Do You Know About The News? Take The Quiz

The Pew Research Center has released a comprehensive 13 question quiz which does a surprisingly good, and broad, job of testing readers' knowledge about "prominent people and major events in the news", and comparing the results to a sample of 1052 people. See how well you fare in comparison to everyone else on topics that are considered mainstream.

 

 

Goldman's Quick Answers To Tough EM Questions

As most know by now, over the past month or so, pressure on the currencies of EM deficit countries has intensified again. Goldman's EM research group, however, remains negative on EM FX, bonds, and even stocks suggesting using any strength, like this week's exuberance to add protection or cover any remaining longs.  Central banks in most of these countries have become more active in attempting to stem pressure in the last two weeks. But with a Fed decision on ‘tapering’ looming, investors have also become more cautious and are now focused on the parallels with prior crisis periods. In what follows, Goldman provides some concise answers to the questions on the EM landscape that we encounter most often, confirming their longer-held bearish bias.

 

 

Syria: The Latest Developments

*   Arab press pans Obama on Syria

*   EU Backs 'Clear and Strong' Response to Syria Attack

*   Putin Says Russia Will Continue to Help Syria’s Assad

*   Hollande Says He’ll Wait for UN Inspectors’ Report

*   10 Nations Join U.S. in Condemning Syria Chemical Weapons Use

*   9 G-20 Nations Don’t Join Statement

 

 

Guest Post: Why We Think The NSA Is Lying

"At what point do we just start calling these guys the Stasi,” asked a friend over coffee today. He was, of course, referring to the latest news out of the Guardian that the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ have ‘cracked codes’ across the Internet that were once thought uncrackable. We're deeply suspicious some of the NSA’s assertions. They seem to be claiming that they have cracked nearly everything, and that they have backdoor access to privacy software. But this is practically impossible. Our assessment is that this is an intimidation campaign. The NSA wants people to think that they have this capability. If everyone thinks that the NSA is Big Brother’s Big Brother, all-seeing and all-knowing, then not only will everyone be terrified, but everyone will simply stop using encryption. After all, why bother going through the hassle of encrypting/decrypting if the NSA can still read the contents of your email?

 

 

220 Years Of Jobs Jobs Jobs

With the labor force participation rate at 35 year lows still being shrugged off as some 'cyclical' (definitely not structural) issue that will correct just around the corner, we thought it perhaps worth taking the long view, the really long view, of jobs in America. As the following two charts show, all was apparently 'sustainable' until the mid 1970s and then things changed...

 

 

Mark Spitznagel Explains How To Prevent A Market Crisis

"When it comes to market events, there have been no impactful black swans - the so-called unexpected 'tail events," Mark Spitznagel notes in his excellent new book, The Dao Of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World, explaining that, "what were unseen by most, were indeed highly foreseeable" by others. The Fed planted the seeds for the last financial crisis and "when you prevent the natural balancing act, you get growth that shouldn't be happening." 

The financial crisis of 2008 could have been the wake-up tall that, like the Yellowstone fires of 1988, alerted so-called managers to the dangers of trying to override the natural governors of the system. Instead, the Federal Reserve, with its head "ranger," Ben Bernanke, has deluded itself into thinldng ft has tamped down every little smolder from becoming a destructive blaze, but instead all it has done is poured the unnatural fertilizer of liquidity onto a morass of overgrown malinvestment making a even more highly flammable. One day - likely sooner than later, it will burn, and when that happens, the Fed will be sorely lackng in buckets and shovels and must succumb to the flames.

 

 

Friday Humor: G20 Ends Abruptly As Obama Calls Putin A Jackass

Hopes for a positive G20 summit crumbled today as President Obama blurted to Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a joint press appearance, “Everyone here thinks you’re a jackass.”

 

Math Not Allowed In McDonald's New "Dollar Menu"

As fast-food workers of the world unite under a common banner of "higher minimum 'livabale' wages", one can't help but reflect on the terrible jobs data this morning and the potential inability of workers to get anything but a low-skill 'part-time' job flipping burgers. But most importantly, these workers may soon not be able to afford the product they manufacture. Concerns over rising wage costs can be put aside for now as it is the soaring costs of beef (as we discussed here previously) that are causing "Dollar Menu" items to be adjusted upwards. "You can't sell a burger for $1 anymore because the cost of beef has gone up so much," and sure enough, as Bloomberg reports, McDonalds is testing a new version, dubbed 'Dollar Menu and More', that includes items selling for as much as $5. As one analyst notes, the industry's "definition of value has moved up from the Dollar Menu to $1.50 or $2.”

 

 

The Ultimate Chartbook For Gold Bulls And Debt Bears

With gold 'handled' back below $1,400 and bonds 'tapering' through 3.00% yields as equity bulls proclaim 'Mission Accomplished' today on the Dow 15,000 trigger, it seems markets remain entirely confused as to whether there will be moar printing, less-and-then-moar printing, or no moar printing. The following 61 page compendium from Incrementum offers 'everything you wanted to know about gold and bonds' but were afraid to source yourself as a guide for debt bears and bullion bulls... with a sprinkling of china bubbles, wealth effect lies, and regulation imbecilities.

 

 

 

CHICAGOLAND: 53 Homicides, 224 Wounded in August...

NYPD: Man Brain-Dead Following Random Rampage...
Suspect Vowed to Attack 'Next White Person Who Walks By'...

Booker made $689K from law firm that got city contracts while mayor...
RIVAL DEMANDS RELEASE OF EXPENSE REPORTS...
VIDEO: Newark resident calls out Booker for turning back on murder epidemic...

PETRAEUS: MILITARY ACTION IN (US)A 'NECESSARY'   { Talk about a discredited ‘think-tanker’ … what contracts/fund flows directly/indirectly flow his way vis-à-vis the failed military industrial complex so warned against by the great but underrated President General Eisenhower. The reality is that military action is necessary to staunch the nigger-crime epidemic in niggerland usa! How pathetic betrayus, he’s become. What does he know? Not much, even less he can add! No talent … no integrity … no honor … no intelligence … no smarts! }

 

SYRIA'S 'REBELS' AND SOLDIERS AGREE: MILITARY STRIKES WILL CHANGE NOTHING...

 

 

 

Syria: A Vote Of No-Confidence In The President

Jon Rappoport | The House considers it may not vote at all in order to spare Obama embarrassment.

 

Amash: Boehner’s Decision To Back Obama On Syria Was A Mistake

The Hill | Amash says more than 95 percent of his constituents are opposed to military action.

 

Syrian Rebels Say They’ll Pounce On Assad’s Forces If U.S. Attacks

L.A. Times | U.S. military would truly become al-Qaeda’s air force.

 

Wouldn’t It Be Something If We Had A President Who Believed In Liberty?

Tech Dirt | The public has been conditioned into choosing the illusion of safety over liberty.

 

Naval Forces Face Each Other Off Syrian Shores

RT | Russia matches U.S. and allies naval deployment.

 

Unintended Consequences From Potential Syrian Attack Continue To Grow

The New American | Russia is giving Assad further military aid.

 

Fox News Covers Infowars Story About Rebel Admitting To Using Chemical Weapons

Paul Joseph Watson | Fox News covered an Infowars exclusive story featuring a Syrian rebel admitting to using chemical weapons.

 

Who Is Going To Buy Our Debt If This War Causes China, Russia And The Rest Of The World To Turn On Us?

Michael Snyder | Can the U.S. really afford to greatly anger the rest of the world when they are the ones that are paying our bills? 

 

Nearly One-Sixth of Population On Food Stamps

Wall Street Journal | Enrollment rose 70% from 2007 to 2011.


 

Who Is Going To Buy Our Debt If This War Causes China, Russia And The Rest Of The World To Turn On Us?

Michael Snyder | Can the U.S. really afford to greatly anger the rest of the world when they are the ones that are paying our bills? 


 

Work Force Rate: 63.2%, Lowest Since 1978

Bloomberg | Unemployment rate declining because more people stopped looking for work.

 

Amash: Boehner’s Decision to Back Obama On Syria Was A Mistake

The Hill | Amash says more than 95 percent of his constituents are opposed to military action.

 

Syrian Rebels Say They’ll Pounce On Assad’s Forces If U.S. Attacks

L.A. Times | U.S. military would truly become al-Qaeda’s air force.

 

Wouldn’t It Be Something If We Had A President Who Believed In Liberty?

Tech Dirt | The public has been conditioned into choosing the illusion of safety over liberty.

 

Naval Forces Face Each Other Off Syrian Shores

RT | Russia matches U.S. and allies naval deployment.

 

Fox News Covers Infowars Story About Rebel Admitting to Using Chemical Weapons

Paul Joseph Watson | Fox News covered an Infowars exclusive story featuring a Syrian rebel admitting to using chemical weapons.

 

Who Is Going To Buy Our Debt If This War Causes China, Russia And The Rest Of The World To Turn On Us?

Michael Snyder | Can the U.S. really afford to greatly anger the rest of the world when they are the ones that are paying our bills? 

 

High-Level U.S. Intelligence Officers: Syrian Government Didn’t Launch Chemical Weapons

Washington’s Blog | Numerous Intelligence Officials Question Administration’s Claims.

 

Obama hints he may abandon Syria strike

The Daily Caller | President Barack Obama hinted Friday that he might not strike Syria if Congress rejects his authorization request.

Intelligence Professionals: Assad Not Responsible for Chemical Weapons Attack

Ray McGovern | Who’s Lying? Brennan, Obama, or Both?

 

Man Calls for John McCain to be Arrested and Tried for Treason During Town Hall

You Tube | A local Prescott man called for John McCain to be arrested and tried for treason.

 

Poland Confiscates Half Of Private Pension Funds To “Cut” Sovereign Debt Load

Zero Hedge | Half Of Private Pension Funds were confiscated by polish government to “Cut” Sovereign Debt Load.


 

U.S. Stocks Fall After Putin Says Russia Will Assist Syria

Bloomberg.com | U.S. stocks rose as slower-than-forecast jobs growth eased concern about reductions in Federal Reserve stimulus.


 

Real Unemployment Rate Rises To 11.4%, Difference Between Reported And Real Data Rises To Record

Zero Hedge | The actual implied unemployment rate just rose from 11.2% to 11.4%.


 

Propaganda Alert: Peace with Syria Will Crash the U.S. Economy

Washington’s Blog | Moronic Drivel from Clueless Warmonger.