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2015 Superbowl Commentary http://albertpeia.com/bradybunchen.htm
Barbara Bush:
‘I changed my mind’ about Bush dynasty { bush league disease is contagious … read her lips, no new bushes … I have to take back the credit I
previously gave her which is why this post … but, which position sounds more
true … Lots of lobbying/pressure in the bush league which is part/parcel of
being bush league … decades ago I referred to her as poppy’s ‘Picture of Dorian
Gray’, wearing the innumerable bush crimes (poppy’s confessor), in large part
inherent as well as being indicative of
a total lack of bushy talent, ability, competence and essentially
vegetable status except when they’re enabled for destructiveness/venality/and
check out poppy’s cocaine connection/high end imports (along with clinton et
als) http://albertpeia.com/CIAAgentAffidavit1.jpg and, of course, cocaine, etc., use by obama,
dumbya bush, clinton already widely known/documented - fluff 'jobs' (money to
jenna, chelsea, et als for something like nothing at/from, ie., that bastion of
journalistic 'excellence', viz., ie., brian williams' nbc, etc. ). }
Washington Post | … former first
lady Barbara Bush said there had been “enough Bushes” in the White House… {
INDEED, THERE HAVE BEEN! ... TOO MANY ... BY A COUNT OF TWO! ... She was right
the first time she addressed the issue from heart and mind! }
Note: I’m here in San Diego County in my new/old 39 foot
Chevy Motorhome. I can’t get a signal for my Verizon LG smartphone (I’ll be
taking a spin in my Ford Explorer in search of a signal; my VOIP phone,
magicjack requiring a broadband connection, is currently not up except for
voicemail). The wifi internet connection also limits the uploading of files so
not all the images in the folders/directories to interim updates are included
(I’ll create a separate complete update page later with broadband connection).
The following are currently the updates with said limitations:
http://albertpeia.com/interimupdates102613-012515.htm
The
radio reception is also limited which led me to ‘sample’ some limited AM
offerings which included shallow sean hannity the hallmark of insanity, and
‘rush revere’ [limbaugh… he’s totally burnt out (the consequence of his being
‘tired of carrying the water for the republican party’? - his own words),
relegated now to authoring children’s illustrated books of a simplistic
nature]. Shallow sean’s latest ‘crusade’ (beyond the same note/key obvious
debacle of wobamacare) was defense of the indefensible mobster but friend of
sean’s, donald trump (trump should be in jail… or a mental institution in light
of his documented enthrallment with/by the speeches/orations of none other than
adolph hitler which he would obsessively/repeatedly play … for inspiration? …
kindred spirit? … { as per Ivana trump as set forth by author O’Donnell } ). In defense of t_rump, he offers up the
itsy-bitsy, teeny weeny wohlman skating rink project as evidence of t_rump’s
contribution to NYC (too small for high new york priority given the magnitude
of New York substantial problems, some largely the result of trumpish tastes,
ie., solid gold trump tower fixtures, etc., that trump’s ‘pre-packaged
bankrupcies’ seem to fail to touch, and which extravagance must be paid for by
someone, but not him). Shallow sean’s excoriation of new york city never seems
to link the obviousness of t_rump’s grandstanding responsibility for same.
After all, someone ultimately has to pay for trump’s disproportionate
non-value-added livin’ large. No talk of trump’s ingratiating bribe strategy
for protection ( ie., retainers to law firms linked to state attorney generals,
viz., {kimmelman} wolf and sampson, chris droney’s brother, his sister’s
protection/corruption and quid pro quo from the federal bench, etc., and as
well, protection of drug-money laundering through his now nominal only casinos
… ( it’s important to note that bribes in pervasively corrupt america take many
forms beyond direct monetary transfers and are ubiquitous and extend to all
levels of government; ie., legislators/politicians’ quid pro quo, judges,
prosecutors, fbi <hoover’s ‘whorse-trading’ was ‘world famous’, etc.>,
sam alito rising by way of cover-up/quid pro quo/bribe to inept supreme court
justice labeled after an infamous faux paux in terms of judicial acumen/ability
as <in a Washington Post comment> making clarence thomas look like Oliver
Wendell Holmes <my personal favorite jurist>, maryanne trump barry
awaiting full payment of bribe to brother don’s trump casinos before ruling for
RICO defendants (she also protected john gotti, etc.), etc., See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm .
Trump’s a fraud! I won’t be listening to ‘rush revere’ or shallow sean
prospectively. They’re a waste of time and preposterous given their unbridled
support of war criminals bush, cheney, etc., and the failed debacles they
created, etc…… And, 10-22-14, I personally believe, whether overt, covert, or
defacto, that america, pervasively corrupt as it is, has effectively (through
no prosecutions whatsoever of gargantuan frauds of ‘too big to fail magnitude
by inaction’), essentially become a willing accomplice in the ‘paper fraud
booty’, taking their cut while looking the other way and ignoring the longer
term dire consequences and implications! Moreover, 10-26-14, I further believe,
though not new but certainly more prevalent, that the ‘clandestine services’
have moved further ‘off the grid’ and beyond oversight, governmental and
otherwise, by way of ‘independent’ LLCs with domestic presence by way of, ie.,
economically parasitic ‘securities (ie., bonds, stocks, etc.) trading’ firms
with shell within shell corporate presence internationally with offshore
accounts for primary ops far beyond the reach of the ‘law’ as a matter of
(convenient for all see-no-evil) practicality and (lack of) will (keep in mind
the sense of ‘entitlement’ these jokers have despite a lack of any real
constructive skills, knowledge, talent, abilities, to the point where under
such a joker/war criminal, viz., ie., dumbya bush, they actually brazenly flew
360 tons of $100 bills, $13 billion, into Iraq during their self-created,
chaotic ‘fog-of-war’ which they made ‘disappear’… guess where to … and, kid
yourself not, they do it for the money, in part, because they really can’t do
anything else of value … Beyond the ‘cover-story’, ‘patriotism’ has nothing to
do with it (as per the age-old adage, the flag being the last refuge of a
scoundrel) …
I strongly recommend the
(by necessity) independent film, ‘Killing the Messenger’, the story of
journalist Gary Webb who documented cia/government involvement in the illegal
drug trade and was killed execution style for his laudable but thankless
efforts … Well done and highly recommended by those close to the truth, the
film stars Jeremy Renner of, ie., ‘Hurt Locker’/’Jason Bourne’, etc., fame … }
Today’s Current Topics/Articles/News
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/FBIAgentAffidavit.jpg
· 2:26Jeremy Triantafilo talks with 23ABC about dog attack, cat who
saved him by 23ABCnews 8,230 views
· 45:02Complete Security Cam Video (Cat rescues boy from dog attack) by 23ABCnews 2,728 views
{ Cats … the unsung heroes … this heroic act
was caught on a surveillance camera (otherwise lost forever) … no, you would
not see the cat drooling all over itself, tongue hanging out, prancing around
to garner attention, humping/ejaculating on a few legs of those not paying
attention … the mother of the boy aptly stated the cat saved the boy’s life …
indeed, that dog would have shredded that boy … unprovoked, for no reason
whatsoever other than a dog just being a dog … yes, dogs eat their own s**t, a
distinctive dog trait not widely publicized and of which I was not aware until
I directly witnessed same … they eat dogs in Vietnam, clearly a
precursor/predictor of their significant 20th century war victory …
there’s the propaganda … ‘man’s best friend’ … riiiiight … no small wonder why
man’s prognosis/fate is dismal/short-lived at best and very dismal/very short-lived
at worst … with friends like dogs, one needs no enemies … then we have american
dogs/yankee dogs/dog lovers; viz., ie., the bushes (dogs of war, etc.), clinton
(post Socks), obamas, etc., who have a similar negative predisposition
towards/effect on children, whether the middle east or domestically … yes,
michelle obama’s a dog … but looks more like an orangutan, another negative
genetic predisposition … dogs are more than just a part of satanic ritual …
gone to the dogs … with few exceptions, they’re bad news … }
For the first time, a Los Angeles shelter's Hero Dog award
has gone to a cat.
Yet, here’s a dog that
compassionately spared this rather spunky, but naïve kitty; and who more
seasoned cats welcomes to the feline fold
http://albertpeia.com/youngcatspared.mp4
I also like horses; though not
similar to nor to the extent of my love for cats http://albertpeia.com/seabiscuit.htm
Posted by : williambanzai7
Feds form grand jury to probe
Chris Christie's role in Bridgegate...
HuMPTY CHRiSTiE HaD A GReaT
FaLL... Posted
by: williambanzai7
Post date: 03/30/2014 - 19:38 FOOD AND BEVERAGE NOT RECOMMENDED
A dead Minke whale that washed ashore in New Jersey
suffered some further indignity: someone tagged it with graffiti. The whale,
...
GeoRGe W BuSH SeLF
PoRTRaIT...
Posted
by: williambanzai7
Post
date: 04/06/2014
The fine art of
Presidential shlock...
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
12/01/2013
Commemorative
Prints Now Available: [email protected]
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/21/2013
"The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching aim,
nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private
hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of
the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion
by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements
arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to
be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; a private bank
owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private
corporations. Each central bank... sought to dominate its government by its
ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to
influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence
cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business
world." -
Carroll Quigley, member of the Council on Foreign Relations
The
Emperor At Christmas...
Northern
Koreans are queer
The
life that they live draws a tear
Games
are all banned
Except
Missile Command
They
need it to fire their gear
The
Limerick Cat is King
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
12/18/2013
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
12/17/2013
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
12/15/2013
"Just
as we did for the Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zucotti Park and the Snow
Park encampment in Oakland, we are here to support your just cause…"
WB7:
Just
sayin'
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
12/14/2013
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
12/12/2013
I'm dreaming of a white
noise Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the tower tops glisten
And spooks can't listen
To hear our data in the snow
I'm dreaming of a white noise Christmas
With every Christmas card emailed
May your days be merry and bright
And may all
Your Christmases be quiet...
MERRY
CHRISTMAS ED, wherever you are...
From
WilliamBanzai7 and the rest of the fringe low brows at Zero Hedge
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 12/09/2013
.
.
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
12/07/2013
The
slippery slope to Fascism is coated with radioactive wasabi...
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
12/06/2013
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
12/03/2013
Weekend
Krugman
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
12/04/2013 - 16:03
While hardly as spectacular as Hugh Hendry's supernova
flameout, or the far more boring, slow motion conversion of the
assorted other famous and less famous bears, a legendary hedge fund titan has
decided he too has no use for excess capital in this broken market. No surprise
then that Institutional Investors' Alpha
reports that Baupost's Seth Klarman is returning $4 billion
in capital to investors for only the second time in its history due to "a
lack of investment opportunities." And watching how the epic
farce that Bernanke's wealth effect known as the Stalingrad & Poorski
trades in the last 30 minutes of every day nobody can blame him. And no,
Klarman is not returning cash due to some hidden underperformance:
"Baupost’s many partnerships were up 13 percent, on average, through the
September quarter. Its annualized return since inception is in the high
teens." This happens to push it in the top decile of all hedge funds in
2013.
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
12/02/2013
Submitted by williambanzai7 on
11/28/2013
HANK’S
RESTAURANT
(Arlo
Guthrie--Alice’s Restaurant)
Adapted by
WilliamBanzai7
This song is
called Hank’s Restaurant,
and it’s
about Hank,
and the
restaurant,
but Hank’s
Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that’s just
the name of the song,
and that’s
why I called the song Hank’s Restaurant.
You can take
anything you want from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
You can take
anything you want from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
Walk right in
it’s around the back
Just a half a
mile from the Federal Reserve Bank
You can take
anything you want from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
Now it all
started Hanksgiving Day 2008
when my
friend Fabulous Fab and I went up to visit Hank at the restaurant,
but Hank
doesn’t like sittin in there,
he likes
sittin near a fella named Blankfein in Goldman Sachs’ Wall Street office,
in a big
glass tower.
And being in
a tower like that,
they got a
lot of room downstairs.
Havin’ all
that room,
they decided
that they didn’t have to take out their subprime garbage for a long time.
We got up
there,
we found all
the toxic subprime garbage in there,
and we
decided it’d be a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the
Federal Reserve shitty deal dump, Maiden Lane.
So my friend
and I took the $700 billion tons of subprime garbage,
put it in the
back of a red Humvee stretch limo, including CDSs and CDOs and other implements
of financial
mass
destruction and headed on toward the Maiden Lane shitty deal dump.
Well we got
there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the dump saying,
"By
order of Emperor Benron--No Dumping on Hanksgiving."
And we had never
heard of a shitty deal dump closed on Hanksgiving before,
and with
tears in our eyes we drove off into the sunset looking for another place to put
the toxic asset garbage.
We didn’t
find one.
Until we came
to a side road,
and off the
side of the side road there was another financial black hole hole and at the
bottom of the hole there was
a big pile of
Wall Street garbage, offering circulars, stress tests, analyst reports,
mortgage notes and such.
And we
decided that one big pile is better than two little piles,
and rather
than bring that one up we decided to throw our’s down.
That’s what
we did, and drove back to the restaurant,
had a
Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat,
went to sleep
and didn’t get up until the next morning,
when we got a
phone call from Porn Commissioner Cox.
He said,
"Kid, we found your name on an Abacus offering circular at the bottom of a
half a ton of shitty deals,
and just
wanted to know if you had any information about it."
And I said,
"Yes, sir, Mr. Porn Commissioner,
I cannot tell
a lie, I put that Abacus offering circular under that garbage."
After
speaking to Porn Commissioner Cox for about fourty-five minutes on the
telephone we finally arrived at
the truth
of the matter and said that we had to go down and pick up the subprime garbage,
and also had
to go down and speak to him at the Porn Commission’s NY Regional office.
So we got in
the red Humvee Limo with the CDOs and CDSs and implements of financial mass
destruction and
headed on
toward the Porn office upstairs at Score’s.
Now friends,
there was only one or two things that the Commissioner coulda done at the Porn
office,
and the first
was he could have shown us some hot porn tubes of Mary Schapiro doin the deed,
which wasn’t
very likely, and we didn’t expect it,
and the other
thing was he could have bawled us out and told us never to be seen driving
toxic asset backed
garbage
around the vicinity of Wall Street again,
which is what
we expected,
but when we
got to the Porn Commission’s office there was a third possibility that we
hadn’t even counted upon,
and we was
both immediately arrested.
Handcuffed.
And I said
Mr. Porn Commissioner sir, I don’t think I can pick up the toxic garbage with
these handcuffs on.
He said,
"Shut up, kid. Get in the back of the car."
And that’s
what we did, sat in the back of the car and drove to the quote Scene of the
Crime unquote.
I want tell
you about Wall Street, where this happened here, they got three Federal
regulators, the SEC, the
CFTC and the
FBI, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime there was all kinds of Black Ops
people running
around,
this being
the biggest financial crime of the last five consecutive Wall Street trading
days,
and everybody
wanted to get in the newspaper story about it.
And the TSA,
they was using up all kinds of equipment that they had hanging around the
anti-traveler unit.
They was
taking plaster tire tracks, finger prints, dog smelling prints, and they took
twenty seven eight-by-ten
glossy back
scatter scans with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one
explaining what each
one was to be
used as evidence against us.
Took scans of
the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that’s
not to
mention the
aerial drone photography.
After the
ordeal, we went back to the jail.
Porn
Commissioner Cox said he was going to put us in the cell. Said,
"Kid,
I’m going to put you in the cell, I want your wallet and your belt."
And I said,
"I can understand you wanting my wallet so I don’t have any money to spend
in the cell,
but what do
you want my belt for?"
And he said,
"Kid, we don’t want any hangings."
I said,
"did you really think I was going to hang myself for financial
intermediation?"
Porn
commissioner Cox said he was making sure,
and friends
the Porn Commissioner was,
cause he took
out the toilet seat so I couldn’t hit myself over the head and drown,
and he took
out the toilet paper so I couldn’t bend the bars roll out the – roll the toilet
paper out the window,
slide down
the roll and have an escape.
The
PornCommissioner was making sure,
and it was
about four or five hours later that Hank (remember Hank? It’s a song about
Hank),
came by and
with a few nasty words to Porn Commissioner Cox on the side,
Bailed us out
using Federal taxpayer money,
and we went
back to the restaurant,
had a another
Hanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat!!
You can take
anything you want, from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
You can take
anything you want, from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
Walk right in
it’s around the back
Just a half a
mile from the Federal Reserve Bank
You can take
anything you want, from Hank’s Bailout Restaurant
WB7: This is
my favorite Thanksgiving song. It is also the only one I know.
Arlo Authrie,
if you don’t know him, is the son of Woody Guthrie, a famous folk singer who
was no friend of Wall Street.
I originally
did this version of Alice’s Restaurant in September 2008. This is my updated
version, which is really an excuse for me to play this song for you and to once
again say…
HAPPY
HANKSGIVING ALL!!
WB7
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 11/29/2013
Animal
studies made famous by John Calhoun (1962) show that crowding in the animal
world results in what he calls the "behavioral sink."
Human
studies made famous by Dr Satoshi Nakamura show that intensive rounds of
Keynesian money printing in the financial world result in what he calls
the "Walmart sink" and what Dr Ben Bernanke calls the "Kitchen
Sink".
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
11/25/2013
.
Bernanke
is printing out bones
His
favorite's the one for Dow Jones
Her
Keynesian schooling
Has
Old Yellen drooling
As
she licks her androgynous zones
The
Limerick King
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
11/18/2013 13:45 -0500
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
11/19/2013
“TO BIT OR NOT TO BIT”
WilliamBanzaiShakespeare
To Bit, or not to Bit: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fiat distortions,
Or to take arms against a sea of endless bubbles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sweep;
No more; and by a sweep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand Wall Street schtupps
That insolvent flesh is heir to, ’tis a con-flagellation
Devoutly to be dish’d. To die, to sweep;
To sweep: perchance to scream: ay, there’s the hubub;
For aft that sweep of bankster dregs what new reams may come?
When we have shuffled off the immoral coinage,
Must give us pause: there’s the hazard of moral neglect
That makes calamity of sound money life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of fiat debasement ,
The oppressor’s wrong, the borrowing idiot's contumely,
The pangs of despised austerity, the law of gravity's delay,
The insolence of central banking office and the spurns
That impatient murmur of money changing snakes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a Benjamin Bernankin? who would QE fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life of indebtured servitude,
But that the dread of something after redemption prior to maturity,
The undiscovered monetary wasteland from whose bourn
Are no asset returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those monetary ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not much of?
Thus risk avoidance does make cowards of us all;
And thus the creative hue of fiscal revolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of doubt,
And genius enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard alternative currencies turn awry,
And lose the name of action.–Soft you now!
And now the Bitcoin hysteria…
While Banksta pimps 'r in thy orfices
Be all our financial sins and cowardices priced in.
According
to a whistleblower that has recently come forward, Census employees have been
faking and manipulating U.S. employment numbers for years. In fact, it is
being alleged that this manipulation was a significant reason for why the
official unemployment rate dipped sharply just before the last presidential
election. What you are about to read is incredibly disturbing. The
numbers that the American people depend upon to make important decisions are
being faked. But should we be surprised by this? After all, Barack
Obama has been caught telling dozens of major
lies over the past five years. At this point it is incredible that
there are any Americans that still trust anything that comes out of his
mouth. And of course it is not just Obama that has been lying to
us. Corruption and deception are rampant throughout the entire federal
government, and this has been the case for years. Now that some light is
being shed on this, hopefully the American people will respond with overwhelming
outrage and disgust. (Read More....)
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
11/15/2013 10:28 -0500
Submitted by williambanzai7
on 11/13/2013 14:47
Here
they are. WilliamBanzai7's Special Holiday Puke Fine Art Print Editions just in
time for the Christmas Holidays…
.
.
Dear
Friends,
Here
before you is a truly historic series of images that I have painstakingly
adapted to the current state of sordidly odiferous political/financial affairs.
Years
from now, there will be little doubt over what the artist was seeing and
thinking contemporaneously in the year 2013.
I
am not going to oversell these pictures. They speak for themselves.
They
also demonstrate how history truly rhymes on Wall Street.
I
have all of these in very large high resolution files. So every print will
match the highest standards of fine art print production.
As
you can see, I have departed from normal practice by offering these prints in
an assortment of sizes. I have done this solely to maximize your
participation
by spreading price points. Bear in mind that the amount of personal time and
effort involved is the same irrespective of print size.
Each
print will be signed, numbered and dated December 25, 2013.
I
know that many of you are suffering various levels of economic hardship in
these trying times. As is always the case, you are free to print these off for
your own personal use.
I
truly appreciate all the the moral and financial support that I receive from
all of you.
As
you know, the primary reason that I am doing these prints is to signify my
gratitude in return for your generous support for my endeavors.
It
is my sincerest wish that the situation will turn sooner than later so
that each and everyone of us can return to personal prosperity.
Best
wishes to you all,
And
Fuck You Ben Bernanke!
WB7
Submitted by williambanzai7 on
11/12/2013
How many lies can one president tell and
still retain any credibility? What you are about to see is absolutely
astounding. It is a long list of important promises that Barack Obama has
broken since he has been president. If he had only told a few lies,
perhaps the American people would be willing to overlook that. After all,
pretty much all of our politicians our liars. Unfortunately, many of the
lies that Obama has told appear to have been quite cold-hearted in
nature. For example, Barack Obama repeatedly made the promise that “you will be able to keep
your health care plan” under Obamacare. But now we are learning that
he knew that this was a lie all along. Not only that, the Democrats in
Congress knew that this was a lie all along too. In fact, U.S. Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, said the following when she was
asked about Obama’s promise to the American people recently: “He should’ve just
been specific. No, we all knew.” You can see video of her making this
statement right here. The truth is that they
all knew that millions upon millions of Americans would lose their current
health care policies under Obamacare. They deliberately lied just so that
they could get the law passed.
And of course this is far from the only
major lie that Obama has told in recent years. The following is a list of
23 famous Obama quotes that turned out to be broken promises or cold-hearted
lies…
#1 “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period.
If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care
plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”
#2 “My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of
openness in government.”
#3 “We agree on reforms that will finally reduce the costs of health care.
Families will save on their premiums…”
#4 “I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be the
president
of the United States of America.”
#5 “We’ve got shovel-ready projects all across the country that
governors and mayors are pleading to fund. And the minute we can get those
investments to the state level, jobs are going to be created.”
#6 “And we will pursue the housing plan I’m outlining today. And through
this plan, we will help between 7 and 9 million families restructure or
refinance their mortgages so they can afford—avoid foreclosure.”
#7 “I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my
first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a
typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.”
#8 “We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who
are not suspected of a crime.”
#9 “For people with insurance, the only impact of the health-care law is
that their insurance is stronger, better, and more secure than it was before.
Full stop. That’s it. They don’t have to worry about anything else.”
#10 “We will close the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, the location of so
many of the worst constitutional abuses in recent years.”
#11 “Allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries
if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the U.S.”
#12 “We will revisit the Patriot Act and overturn unconstitutional
executive decisions issued during the past eight years.”
#13 “Will ensure that federal contracts over $25,000 are competitively
bid.”
#14 “We reject sweeping claims of ‘inherent’ presidential power.”
#15 “Will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000
per year. This will eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors — saving them an
average of $1,400 a year– and will also mean that 27 million seniors will not
need to file an income tax return at all.”
#16 “We support constitutional protections and judicial oversight on any
surveillance program involving Americans.”
#17 “If we have not gotten our troops out by the time I
am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops
home, we will end this war. You can take that to the bank.”
#18 “Will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public
an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”
#19 “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.”
#20 “We have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds
division and conflict and cynicism…. That is one option. Or, at this moment, in
this election, we can come together and say, ‘Not this time….’”
#21 “We’ve got to spend some money now to pull us out of this recession.
But as soon as we’re out of this recession, we’ve got to get serious about
starting to live within our means, instead of leaving debt for our children and
our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren.”
#22 “[T]oday I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the
end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to
make difficult decisions and face challenges we’ve long neglected. But I refuse
to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay – and that means
taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our
spending under control.”
#23 “I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will execute the
office of president of the United States faithfully, and will to the best of my
ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States.”
About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former
Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The
Truth. His new thriller entitled “The Beginning Of The End”
is now available on Amazon.com.
Since
when can a president change a law all by himself? By unilaterally
declaring that certain provisions of Obamacare will not be enforced, Barack
Obama is making a mockery of the U.S. Constitution. For those that have
not read it, the U.S. Constitution says that the president “shall
take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed“. So when Obama
declares that he will not enforce certain provisions of Obamacare for a year,
he is directly violating the Constitution. And as Stanford Law School
Professor Michael McConnell wrote back in July, the Office of Legal
Counsel for the Justice Department “has always insisted that the president has
no authority, as one such memo put it in 1990, to ‘refuse to enforce a statute
he opposes for policy reasons.’” This is an open and shut case. If
the U.S. Congress still had a shred of respect for the Constitution, they would
immediately demand that Obama enforce the law as written. If Obama
refused, they should immediately impeach him. We are a country that is
run by the rule of law, and just because Obama’s new law completely screws up
one-sixth of the economy does not mean that he can unilaterally change
it. In our system, Congress makes the laws and the president enforces
them. If we allow any president to unilaterally change laws whenever he
does not like them, then that puts us dangerously close to having a dictator in
the White House. (Read More.....)
Submitted
by williambanzai7
on 11/20/2013
The Law demands that we
atone
When we take things that we
don't own;
But leaves the lords and
ladies fine
Who take things that are
yours and mine...
Anonymous, circa 1764
.
.
The
dice of this moron are loaded
All
trust in our system's eroded
But
still he plays on
A
Kleptocrat Con
He'll
play till the world has exploded
The
Limerick King
.
.
.
.
.
.
Commemorating
100 Years of Central Bankster Schtupping
[I
am just too stupid to figure out why this picture won't center. It's not that I
haven't spent 15 minutes staring at the damned HTML code]
WB7
We
Americans are basically a very simple people.
Our
formula for past successes has essentially been distilled as follows: maintain
a "can-do" attitude, believe in the "American way", honest
hard work will be rewarded, abundant opportunity and upward mobility for all.
Those
who play the prosperity game correctly may look forward to retirement in
a spleniferous life of leisure and Obamacare.
Once
upon a time, this is is what American Thanksgiving was supposed to look like...
Most
Americans desperately cling to the foolish Ponzi pipe dream of a notion that
this Thanksgiving dream is still possible.
And
for some PhD morons who evidently borrow subprime QE money to purchase shitty
American vehicles made principally of plastic components sourced in Shenzen,
the dream has been fullfilled.
Unfortunately,
for reasons far to numerous to enumerate in this post, this is all just a Ponzi
Pilgrim's delusion.
There
is one big kahuna of a fucking reason so very plainly obvious.
When
it comes to ridding our fucking system of finance, the "fucking
system" if you will, of all the learned fucking thieves sitting the top of
the fucking Ponzi pyramid, we are hopelessly screwed up each and every one of
our Holland and Lincoln Tunnels.
The
same cheap fucking QE paper that buys those shitty vehicles will also pay the much
ballyhooed $13 Billion JPM shyster fine. Half of JPM's profits in 2013.
Gobble
fucking Goebbels.
I
won't insult anyone's fringe low brow intelligence by asking who has been
convicted.
In
any event, such a scenario is far to fetched to even consider.
Instead
I will pose the following question:
The
biggest most egregious case of financial fraud and chicanery by a US banking
institution measured by the fiat of the fine.
The
biggest fine ever!
"Hoooly
Cow!"--Phil Rizutto
Have
the regulators who are in charge of the whole JP Clusterfuck (you know the ones
who keep getting reappointed, promoted or hired by private equity firms)
applied their very substantial leverage to force the Shyster in Chief of JP
Cesspool to cede his shysterly position by resigning?
Is
this something that could have happened? Of course it is.
Don't
believe me?
Go
and ask our distinguished colleague Bill Black, Esq what he thinks.
Does
the fact that the same schlemiel will remain in charge of the old JP Cesspit
send the rest of us a message?
You
better believe it does...
Whatcha
are you gonna do sisters and brothers?
Sadly,
for most of the rest of America it all boils down to this...
Goebbel,
Goebbel, Goebbel!
Atheist
'mega-churches' take root across US, world { They are intellectually dishonest,
disingenuous, and most importantly, absolutely wrong. Quite simply, atheists
are pathetic! }
Knox's
knife DNA casts doubt on murder weapon
{ I’ve had occasion to
read the well-written book ‘Murder in Italy’ by award-winning italian-american
author, Candace Dempsey, which documents the horrific travesty called ‘italian
justice’ (actually blatant injustice) torturously imposed upon Amanda Knox et
als (rudy guede excepted). So outrageous but typical of these typical italians
( like packs of the rabid dogs they are pre-disposed to be). (Parenthetically,
my grandparents, both of whom I loved and respected – Elsie/Nanny, Bari, Italy
and Martin/Mario/PopPop (Peia), Lake Como, Italy – were not typical as such;
but rather, thoroughly modern in all respects relative to time and extremely
civilized in a manner to be emulated … although, truth be told, I found
italians with mob/mafia links/connections/sympathies to be like those rabid
perugians/italians who outrageously pilloried Amanda Knox, See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm ) }
Submitted
by williambanzai7 on
11/16/2013 22:04 -0500
.
You may find what is happening at
one Wal-Mart in Ohio very hard to believe. At the Wal-mart on Atlantic
Boulevard in Canton, Ohio employees are being asked to donate food items so
that other employees that cannot afford to buy Thanksgiving dinner will be able
to enjoy one too. You can see a photo of the donation bins that has been
posted on Twitter right
here. On the one hand, it is commendable that someone at that
Wal-Mart is deeply concerned about the employees that are so poor that they
cannot afford to buy the food that they need for Thanksgiving. On the
other hand, this is a perfect example that shows how the quality of the jobs in
this country has gone down the toilet. Wal-Mart is the largest employer
in the United States and it had operating income of 26.5
billion dollars last year. Wal-Mart is not required to pay their
employees a decent wage, and it is very unlikely that anyone will force them
to. But they should. Because Wal-Mart does not pay
decent wages to their employees, the rest of us end up with the bill. As
you will see below, huge numbers of Wal-Mart employees end up on Medicaid and
other government assistance programs. Meanwhile, those that control
Wal-Mart continue to enjoy absolutely massive profits. (Read
More....)
If there were any shreds of hope left
that the stunning decline of the middle class could be turned around, Obamacare
has absolutely destroyed them. Over the past decade or so, the middle
class in the United States has been absolutely eviscerated. The number of
working age Americans without a job has increased by 27 million since the year 2000, median household
income in the U.S. has fallen for five years in a row, and the poverty
numbers in this country are spiraling out of control. And now
here comes Obamacare. As you will see below, Obamacare is causing
millions of Americans to lose their current health insurance policies, it is
causing health insurance premiums to explode to absolutely ridiculous levels,
and it is systematically killing jobs even though the employer mandate has been
delayed for a while. All of this is creating a tremendous amount of
stress for millions of middle class families that are already stretched
extremely thin financially. According to CNN, a survey that was conducted earlier this year found that 76
percent of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Most of those
families simply cannot afford to pay much higher health insurance premiums for
new policies that also come with much larger deductibles and significantly
increased out-of-pocket costs. Millions of those families will ultimately
end up choosing to do without health insurance altogether, and that will create
a whole host of new problems. This is a disaster that is so enormous that
it is really hard to put into words. If the U.S. health care system was a
separate country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the entire globe all
by itself. And now Obamacare is going to bring the entire U.S. health
care system to its knees. (Read More....)
The
Federal Reserve is creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air and
using that money to buy U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities and
take them out of circulation. Since the middle of 2008, these purchases
have caused the Fed's balance sheet to balloon from under a trillion dollars to
nearly four trillion dollars. This represents the greatest central bank
intervention in the history of the planet, and Janet Yellen says that she does
not anticipate that it will end any time soon because "the recovery is
still fragile". Of course, as I showed the other day, the truth is
that quantitative easing has done essentially nothing for the average person on
the street. But what QE has done is that it has sent stocks soaring to
record highs. Unfortunately, this stock market bubble is completely and
totally divorced from economic reality, and when the easy money is taken away
the bubble will collapse. Just look at what happened a few months ago
when Ben Bernanke suggested that the Fed may begin to "taper" the
amount of quantitative easing that it was doing. The mere suggestion that
the flow of easy money would start to slow down a little bit was enough to send
the market into deep convulsions. This is why the Federal Reserve cannot
stop monetizing debt. The moment the Fed stops, it could throw our financial
markets into a crisis even worse than what we saw back in 2008. (Read More....)
Americans
Are Disgusted By BOTH Republicans and Democrats Posted by : George Washington Post date: 10/11/2013 - 60% of Americans Want a Third Party Candidate
for 2016 { Make that a ‘Second
Party Candidate’ since there seems to be a morphed one party which could be
aptly called the repdemolicansocrats which has supported failure, obama’s
failure, ultimately at every turn, though contraindicated, favoring that 1%
with their ‘non-plan plan’ which has somewhat obfuscated wobama’s unequivocal
failure in terms of selling the sizzle ( like Zimbabwee, soaring
inflation/asset bubbles/paper share prices, etc.) … Bob Woodward did not mince
words in positing blame with wobama …
Yet, the incompetence/corruption is pervasive which is my direct
observation and experience … http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm }
China
just dropped an absolute bombshell, but it was almost entirely ignored by the
mainstream media in the United States. The central bank of China has decided
that it is "no longer in China’s favor to accumulate foreign-exchange
reserves". During the third quarter of 2013, China's
foreign-exchange reserves were valued at approximately $3.66 trillion. And of course
the biggest chunk of that was made up of U.S. dollars. For years, China
has been accumulating dollars and working hard to keep the value of the dollar
up and the value of the yuan down. One of the goals has been to make
Chinese products less expensive in the international marketplace. But now
China has announced that the time has come for it to stop stockpiling U.S.
dollars. And if that does indeed turn out to be the case, than many U.S.
analysts are suggesting that China could also soon stop buying any more U.S.
debt. Needless to say, all of this would be very bad for the United
States. (Read More....)
Can the U.S. government afford to
pay for the health care of 38 million more people? As you will see below,
Obamacare is going to be the biggest expansion of the welfare state in U.S.
history. It is being projected that a decade from now 17 million Americans
will be receiving Obamacare subsidies and an additional 21 million Americans
will have been added to the Medicaid rolls. At a time when we are already
running trillion dollar deficits, is this really something that the government
should be taking on? In addition, it is being projected that bringing
millions upon millions of new people into the Medicaid program will also cause
enrollment in many other federal welfare programs such as food stamps to
surge. Right now, the percentage of Americans that are financially
dependent on the U.S. government is already at an all-time high, and Obamacare
is going to cause the level of government dependence to go much, much
higher. But how much weight can the “safety net” actually carry before it
breaks entirely? (Read
More.....)
The more Americans learn about
Obamacare, the less they like it. They were promised that under Obamacare
they would be able to keep their current health insurance plans, that health
insurance premiums would be lower, and that millions more Americans would be
able to get coverage. But none of those promises are turning out to be
true. Right now, millions of Americans are receiving cancellation notices
from their health insurance companies – including many Americans that are in a
life or death battle with cancer. By the end of next year, it is being
projected that up
to 100 million more Americans could have their health insurance policies
canceled. Meanwhile, large numbers of Americans are discovering that
their “new plans” are going to cost them two, three, four or even five times as
much as their old plans cost them. You are about to see some shocking
examples of this. And now that the reality of Obamacare is really
starting to sink in for the American people, the popularity of the law is
starting to drop like a rock. According to a brand new
CBS News poll that was just released, only 31 percent of all Americans
still approve of Obamacare while an astounding 61 percent of all Americans now
disapprove of it. Perhaps if we get that number to 70 or 80 percent, the
politicians in Washington D.C. will cave in and we can get this law
repealed. So please share this article with as many people as you
possibly can. The following are 10 Obamacare horror stories that are
almost too crazy to believe… (Read
More.....)
Edie Littlefield Sundby: “My grievance is not political; all my energies are
directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics.
For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer,
with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a
determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My
affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective
Dec. 31.
My choice is to get coverage through the
government health exchange and lose access to my cancer doctors, or pay much
more for insurance outside the exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more)
for the privilege of starting over with an unfamiliar insurance company and
impaired benefits.”
Patricia in North Carolina:”I am a 62 year old woman who has an individual
policy with BCBS of North Carolina. My premiums are $249.50 per
month. I bought the policy when I retired and moved to NC to be closer to
my aging parents. The policy is a high deductible one with a $2700
deductible, $5000 out of pocket maximum. BCBS has told me my plan is no
longer offered due to Obamacare and that my new plan will cost $600.55 per
month and has a required an out of pocket maximum of $6350.”
Jacqueline Proctor: Take, for example, Jacqueline Proctor of San
Francisco. She and her husband are in their early 60s. They have been paying
$7,200 a year for a bare-bones Kaiser Permanente health plan with a $5,000 per
person annual deductible. “Kaiser told us the plan does not comply with
Obamacare and the substitute will cost more than twice as much,” about $15,000
per year, she says.
This new plan, Kaiser’s cheapest offering
for 2014, would consume about 25 percent of their after-tax income. The new
plan still has a $5,000 deductible but provides coverage for things her current
policy does not, such as maternity care, healthy child visits and coverage for
dependents up to age 26. Proctor has no use for such coverage, since her son
is 30.
Gloria Cantor: Gloria Cantor of Florida has cancer — five brain
tumors and tumors in her bones — but she won’t have the health insurance she
has relied on for her treatment for much longer.
Mrs. Cantor and her husband, Jay, told
WFTV in Orlando that their insurance is being dropped in order to comply with
Obamacare regulations.
“The Cantors received [a] letter in the
mail [that] explains Gloria’s health insurance will end next summer due to the
Affordable Care Act,” reporter Lori Brown says. “But after promises by
President Obama … the Cantors now feel betrayed. After the insurance company
drops them, it will offer them a different plan that it admits will be more
expensive. The Cantors are especially worried because their doctors cannot assure
them that [the MD Anderson Cancer Center] will still accept the new plan.”
A Zero Hedge Reader: My company, based in California, employs 600. We
used to insure about 250 of our employees. The rest opted out. The company paid
50% of their premiums for about $750,000/yr.
Under obamacare, none can opt out without
penalty, and the rates are double or triple, depending upon the plan. Our 750k
for 250 employees is going to $2 million per year for 600 employees.
By mandate, we have to pay 91.5% of the
premium or more up from the 50% we used to pay.
Our employees share of the premium goes
from $7/week for the cheapest plan to $30/week. 95% of my employees were on
that plan. Remember, we used to pay 50% now we pay 91.5% and the premiums
still go up that much!!
The cheapest plan now has a
deductible of $6350! Before it was $150. Employees making $9 to $10/hr, have to
pay $30/wk and have a $6350 deductible!!! What!!!!
They can’t afford that to be sure.
Obamacare will kill their propensity to seek medical care. More money for less
care? How does that help them?
Ashley Dionne: I graduated from The University of Michigan in
2009. In my state, this used to mean something, but even with a bachelor’s I
was told I was too educated and wouldn’t stay. I watched as kids with GEDs and
high school diploma’s took the low-paying jobs for which I applied.
I went back to school and got a second
degree and finally found work at a gym. I work nights and only get 32 hours a
week for eight dollars an hour. I’m unable to find a second job at this time.
I have asthma, ulcers, and mild cerebral
palsy. Obamacare takes my monthly rate from $75 a month for full coverage on my
“Young Adult Plan,” to $319 a month. After $6,000 in deductibles, of course.
Liberals claimed this law would help the
poor. I am the poor, the working poor, and I can’t afford to support myself,
let alone older generations and people not willing to work at
all.
This law has raped my future.
It will keep me and kids my age from
having a future at all.
This is the real face of Obamacare and it
isn’t pretty.
George Schwab: George Schwab, 62, of North Carolina, said he was
“perfectly happy” with his plan from Blue Cross Blue Shield, which also insured
his wife for a $228 monthly premium. But this past September, he was surprised
to receive a letter saying his policy was no longer available. The “comparable”
plan the insurance company offered him carried a $1,208 monthly premium and a
$5,500 deductible.
A Middle Class Texas Family: Obamacare is named the “Affordable Care Act,” after
all, and the President promised the rates would be “as low as a phone bill.”
But I just received a confirmed letter from a friend in Texas showing a 539%
rate increase on an existing policy that’s been in good standing for years.
As the letter reveals (see below), the
cost for this couple’s policy under Humana is increasing from $212.10 per month
to $1,356.60 per month. This is for a couple in good health whose combined
income is less than $70K — a middle-class family, in other words.
Michael Cerpok: “I’ve worked hard because I’ve had to, and I’ve had
to, because cancer runs in my family,” says Cerpok, who picked his current
health insurance based on that family history. His monthly premium is just
about half of his monthly take-home pay.
Back in 2006, he found out he had an
incurable form of leukemia that requires ongoing treatment until he dies.
In 2012, his treatment bill was more than
$350,000. But because of his insurance, his out-of-pocket was only $4,500.
That’s about to change because Michael
just got a letter from his insurance carrier saying as of January 1, he would
be dropped from coverage because of new regulations under Obamacare.
Bill
Elliot: Fox News
host Megyn Kelly shared a heart rendering story Thursday night of a South
Carolina man with cancer who is being forced to make what he sees as a life or
death decision after his health insurance plan was cancelled because of
Obamacare.
Bill Elliot, who voted for President
Obama, contacted “The Kelly File” via Facebook and said he can no longer afford
to pay his medical bills and does not want to take on the new costs because he
does not want to put a “burden” on his family, according to Fox News.
Saying he feels “misled,” Elliott told
Kelly his new insurance will cost him $1,500 per month with a $13,000
deductible, adding that he will opt to pay the minimal fine for not having
health insurance and “will just let nature take its course.”
—–
So what do you think about
Obamacare? Please feel free to share your thoughts by posting a comment
below…
So much of what we have been taught about
ancient history is simply not true. According to Mexico’s National
Institute of Anthropology and History, a team of archaeologists working close
to the Mexican village of Onavas has made an amazing discovery. They
reportedly found 13 ancient human specimens that had grossly elongated
skulls. You can find original photographs of this discovery right here, but the descriptions of the
photos are in Spanish. The Mexican scientists are telling us that these
skulls are approximately 1,000 years old, and that no skulls of this nature
have ever been found in this region of Mexico before. So exactly what is
going on here? Are these elongated skulls simply the product of an
ancient technique known as “cradle-boarding”, or is there another
explanation? Could these actually be Nephilim skulls that prove that an
ancient race of hybrids once roamed the planet? You might want to hold on
to your hat – because the (Read More....)
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TIN
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Can the U.S. government afford to
pay for the health care of 38 million more people? As you will see below,
Obamacare is going to be the biggest expansion of the welfare state in U.S.
history. It is being projected that a decade from now 17 million
Americans will be receiving Obamacare subsidies and an additional 21 million
Americans will have been added to the Medicaid rolls. At a time when we
are already running trillion dollar deficits, is this really something that the
government should be taking on? In addition, it is being projected that
bringing millions upon millions of new people into the Medicaid program will
also cause enrollment in many other federal welfare programs such as food
stamps to surge. Right now, the percentage of Americans that are
financially dependent on the U.S. government is already at an all-time high,
and Obamacare is going to cause the level of government dependence to go much,
much higher. But how much weight can the “safety net” actually carry
before it breaks entirely? (Read More.....)
Oprah
Winfrey: Obama is victim of racism; racists ‘just have to die’ (453 comments) { Former
Secret Service Agent: Holder Justice Dept 'Travesty'... The race card? Again? That dog don’t hunt
nomore! … Mayor
Throws Racial Tirade After Drunk Driving Arrest; 'You F*****g Crackers'... Who are the racists? … UPDATE:
MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... ‘ignore cases that involve black
defendants and white victims’ POLICE: Black teenagers light
13-year-old on fire; 'You get what you deserve, white boy'...Typical n*****s! Come on! People are tired of making
making up excuses for the blacks. It’s always the same story with them, no
matter where. http://www.albertpeia.com/whitesvictimizedbyblacks.htm http://www.albertpeia.com/whitesvictimizedbyblacks.htm Drudgereport: 'Mob' beatings at WI state fair... 'Hundreds of young black people
beating white people'... [ Typical n*****s! Good thing there are food stamps; otherwise they’d be
reverting to their inherent proclivity for canabalism (send them back to africa
… even give them a lump sum for an irrevocable repatriation incentive … a huge
cost-saving beyond the first year with substantial salutary effects for the
nation, the economy, and the remaining civilized non-blacks). The other major
crimes they do anyway. It’s their nature. You’ll never change the nigger … they
evolved only to ‘a point’ and no further.
] Fairgoers 'pulled out of cars'... 'They were just going after white
people'... Heightened security... [ I
refrained from using the ‘n word’ (or even blacks / negroes) in referring to
the culprits in the following two incidents (those tender sensibilities) but
I’m sure you’ve guessed that they were niggers and I include same here in light
of the foregoing incident (and yes, the victims were white), which is typical.
‘.. while walking through Military Park (a sliver of a “park” - more a
pedestrian thoroughfare/cement walks) in newark, new jersey on the way to the
bank during lunch hour, I heard the clearly audible screams/cries of what
turned out to be an old lady on the ground with blood streaming from her mouth.
I ran toward the sound of the cries, the source of which I could not see
because there were so many people in and about this thoroughfare so as to block
any vision of the source of the cries. When I came to the woman, on the ground,
blood streaming from her mouth, I asked what happened, to which she responded
she had been hit in the mouth and knocked to the ground, her purse stolen/put
inside her shopping bag, and she pointed out the criminal casually now walking
across the main street. Nobody stopped to help her, many having passed her by.
I slammed the thug to the ground so hard that, in light of all the blood and
confusion (limbic system / adrenalin flow) I thought I had been stabbed (the
blood was from his elbows hitting the pavement so hard - no one helped / a
crowd gathered / an undercover cop happened along). When I testified at the
Grand Jury Proceeding I made sure his threat on my life was set forth in prima
facie fashion so as to maximize the DA’s position with both felonies ( he went
to prison – pled out ). The other case I wrote about here ( This was included
on my website in the Psychology forum discussion of ‘bystander effect’ /
diffusion of responsibility. ) - Having had occasion to have run down a mugger
in newark, n.j. who apparently had followed a girl from the bank on her way to
the bursar to pay tuition, though in pretty good shape, I was astounded by how
totally exhausting such a pursuit was, how much like rubber my arms were when I
traded punches with the perpetrator, and truth be told, if I had a flashlight
on my belt, I have little doubt that I would have probably used it to subdue
the perp (a police officer here in California was the object of intense criticism
for having used a flashlight to subdue a criminal / nigger after a long chase so I included that here) . The girl
was not that seriously injured, did get her pocketbook and tuition back, and
the criminal / nigger went to jail (where they belong). The other thing about
such a pursuit that amazed me was that no one else assisted the girl or me
despite being in a position to do so. I was also mugged by 4 niggers and 2
hispanics in an incident here in Los Angeles, CA. But, to be fair and balanced,
the RICO litigation involves those uncivilized who consider themselves ‘whites’
http://albertpeia.com/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
(predominantly but not exclusively jews / romans-italians / mobsters /
government slugs). ]
Black Serial/Mass/Spree Killer List:
1. Matthew Emanuel Macon
(Murdered and Raped 5 White Women in Lansing)
2. Jimmie Reed
(Murdered his wife and his 2 month old daughter and set them on fire)
3. Shelly Brooks
(Murdered 7 prostitutes in Detroit Cass Corridor)
4. Justin Blackshere (Stabbed two white cooks
at Cheli’s Chili downtown Detroit)
5. Jervon Miguel Coleman
(Murdered three people.)
6. Donell Ramon Johnson
(Murdered a mother and a daughter)
7. Brian Ranard Davis
(6 women known murdered by nigger)
8. Paul Durousseau
(Seven women)
9. Mark Goudeau “The Baseline Killer” (Eight
women and a man in 2005-2006)
10. Coral Eugene Watts
(11 women in Texas & 1 in Michigan)
11. Anthony McKnight
(Five girls and young women)
12. Derrick Todd Lee (8
Women)
13. Charles Lendelle Carter
(4 known murders; admits to ‘hunting’ Atlantans for 15 years!)
14. The Zebra Killings
(71 White people)
15. Chester Turner
(L.A.s most prolific killer 12 women killed.)
16. Lorenzo J. Gilyard
(Kansas City, MO.—13 victims)
17. Eugene Victor Britt
(Gary, IN.–3 known murder/rapes.)
18. Reginald and Jonathan Carr
(The Wichita Massacre–6 Whites murdered)
19. Ray Joseph Dandridge and his
uncle, Ricky Gevon Gray (Richmond, VA.–Murdered 7 people in 7 days,
including an entire White family.)
20. The Tinley Park Murderer
(Suspect hasn’t been found but has been described as black – murdered 5 women
in a store.)
21. Henry Louis Wallace
(Raped and strangled 5 women to death.)
22. Charles Johnston
(Murdered 3 unarmed white men in hospital)
23. Craig Price (Brutally murdered 3 women)
24. Harrison Graham
(Brually Murdered 3 women)
25. Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton
(Murdered 6 Whites at the Kirkwood, MO. city council. )
26. & 27. Darnell Hartsfeld & Romeo Pinkerton
(Abducted and Murdered 5 from a restaurant)
28 &29. John Allen Muhammad & Lee Boyd Malvo (Sniped 11 people from a
car in DC, 9 died.)
30. George Russell (3 women, WA state)
31. Timothy W. Spencer (5 killed, Arlington, VA and Richmond, VA)
32. Elton M. Jackson (12 gay men killed, Norfolk, VA area)
33. Carlton Gary (3 killed in Columbus, GA)
34. Mohammed Adam Omar (16 women, Yemen. Omar is Sudanese.)
35. Kendall Francois (8 women, Poughkeepsie, NY and surrounding areas.)
36. Terry A. Blair (8 women, Kansas City area)
37. Wayne Williams (33 many of them children!, Atlanta, GA)
38. Vaughn Greenwood (11 killed in LA)
39. Andre Crawford (10 killed in Chicago – southside)
40. Calvin Jackson (9 killed possibley more in NY)
41. Gregory Klepper (killed 8, Chicago – southside)
42. Alton Coleman (Killed 8 in the Midwest)
43. Harrison Graham (killed 7+ in N. Philadelphia)
44. Cleophus Prince (6 killed in, San Diego
45. Robert Rozier (7 killed in, Miami)
46. Maurice Byrd (killed 20 + in St. Louis)
47. Maury Travis (17 and rising, St. Louis and possibly also Atlanta)
48. Hulon Mitchell, a.k.a. Yahweh Ben Yahweh (killed 20+ in Florida)
49. Lorenzo Fayne (killed 5 children in East St. Louis, IL)
50. Paul Durousseau, (killed 6, two of which were pregnant women, Jacksonville,
FL; Georgia.)
51. Eddie Lee Mosley (killed 25 to 30 women, south Florida)
52. Henry Lee Jones (killed 4 in, south Florida; Bartlett, TN)
53. Richard “Babyface” Jameswhite (15 killed in, New York; Georgia.)
54. Donald E. Younge, Jr. (killed 4), East St. Louis, IL; Salt Lake City, UT.
55. Ivan Hill (killed 6
in Los Angeles area).
56. Michael Vernon (Bronx, NY. Killed at least seven people – )
57. Chester Dewayne Turner (12 women killed in, Los Angeles)
ARREST MADE IN LOS ANGELES GRIM SLEEPER SERIAL KILLER CASE July
07, 2010 http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-07/justice/grim.sleeper.arrest_1_lonnie-david-franklin-serial-killer-case-family-members?_s=PM:CRIME |By
Mallory Simon, CNN ‘Authorities in California said Wednesday they have arrested
a suspect in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case and will charge him with 10
counts of murder.Lonnie David Franklin Jr., 57, faces an additional count of
attempted murder, Capt. Kevin McClure with the Los Angeles Police Department
said.Franklin will arraigned in court Thursday morning, McClure said.The
California Attorney General's office attributed the arrest to DNA collected
from a relative of the suspect, in a controversial and rarely used practice
known as familial DNA search.’
Of Course There Are Black
Serial Killers by Lynette Holloway on July 15, 2010 The case of the "Grim
Sleeper" inspires a second look at the popular perception that serial
killing is the province of clever white men.
Serial Murderers' Row
July 16, 2010 The following black men are
among the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/gallery-meet-6-black-serial-killers Plus: Behind the myth
that only white men commit such crimes.
Black Serial Killers Not So Uncommon http://www.amren.com/news/news04/03/03/blackserial.html
200 Involved In Fights At Mall Of
America After Rumors That Rappers Are There...
Miami Heat Players Don Hoodies...
'Dead or Alive' Poster Issued by New
Black Panther Party... [ ‘Minority Report’ Division of Pre-Crime,
Pre-Cogs say, ‘Dead or Alive – all niggers’ … whatever the outcome in the
investigative process, the stark reality is that at least, unlike the niggers
committing many more ‘black on white’ violent crimes, Zimmerman (and this is no endorsement – I won’t be looking at
this one incident all that closely) was at least trying to do a good thing made
necessary by the ever increasing number of brutal crimes committed by the black
thugs in neighborhoods across the nation; then there’s somalian pirates, etc..
People domestically and internationally are suffering from nigger-fatigue and
are totally niggered out. Oh, yeah, there are some Hollywood types who feel
good about themselves having niggers around and helping niggers to help them
feel better than they really are, insecure as they are, by being better than at
least someone beyond fantasy. Loony george clooney is one. Dreadfully boring
and with that monotone, monotonous voice and not that bright, he’s not even
able to fake it on screen as an action hero (ie., batman, what a horrific
miscast) wimpy pussy in reality that he is; then there’s the ‘black (sean)
penn’ who cried like a baby while incarcerated for a couple of days not that
long ago. The atheist jolie, so fatherly troubled as she is, has let the
equally mentally troubled pitt (she so nutty she makes him feel somewhat sane
though still not too bright) and pendulum ‘backwoods bob’ be the closest she’s
gotten to her black projects. Let them live anonomously (in disguise) with the
niggers for some time for a real close look and then see what’s left of their
predisposed love for the nigger. Then there’s the italian scallion, booby
deniro; drug addled as his black wife high-tower, what a total embarrassment to
Italians everywhere; even as he tried to ingratiate himself recently with
niggers everywhere and particularly national embarrassment mammy michele with
the embarrassing pro-nigger first lady remark.. [ Send the niggers back to sub-saharan Africa! ]
'BLACK NIGGERS [ NOT WHITES BY
NIGGERS THE IMPLICATION DESPITE FACTUAL DATA TO THE CONTRARY ] ARE UNDER ATTACK [ SAYS NIGGER SHAKEDOWN
ARTIST JACKSON] ' [ Hold on one cotton-pickin’ minute jesse, that’s
not what the facts say Obama: ‘If I
had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.’ [ Yeah! He’d look just like any
other nigger. And, don’t worry about the black vote, failed president wobama
the b for b***s*** will get nearly if not all, 100% of the nigger vote!
Drudgereport: Farrakhan Threatens 'Retaliation'… [
Retaliation? Can you imagine the number of blacks that would have to be
retaliated against based upon the hushed reality of the prevalence of black on
white crime? The blacks should be careful what they wish for in playing that
game because the facts don’t break in their favor. ] ...
People have become weary of
making up excuses for blacks (like obama, holder, etc.). At some point, as now,
people should not be timid about relating the cold, unvarnished truth
statistically / factually about blacks and, ie., black on white violent crime, etc..
From Pat Buchanan: As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in
interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack
Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the
time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack
aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse,
that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years
of this decade as the reverse? We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al
about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be
hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we
hear nothing.
http://www.albertpeia.com/whitesvictimizedbyblacks.htm
The reality is that blacks
are an insoluble problem wherever they are. That’s not going to ever change;
not make-shift/make-work jobs; not programs; not anything tried or to be tried;
hence, they must be treated as exactly that – problems – before a solution can
be derived and fashioned. ] [ Send the niggers, including niggerbama back to
sub-saharan africa! ] }
Obama:
‘We Have Accomplished As Much, If Not More, Than Any Time in Our History’ { Indeed … all the wrong things
(particularly from a managerial perspective as defined by the late, brilliant
Peter F. Drucker). It’s very unlikely that pervasively corrupt, defacto
bankrupt america will ever recover from the egregious missteps, cover-ups, and
obfuscations. }
CNSNews.com | President Barack Obama told the crowd at a
Democratic fundraiser in Beverly Hills on Tuesday that he has accomplished “as
much, if not more” than any other president.
{ 12-7-13
Pearl Harbor Day http://www.douglasdietrich.com Wow!
History, indeed. The great, astute, and incisive Napoleon put it this
way … ‘History is but a fable that is agreed upon’ … He also said, ‘From the
sublime to the ridiculous is but a step’….. Indeed! }
DOUGLAS DIETRICH: Exposing World History
– The Reality Behind American Revisionism.
{ http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm }
Do you ever
find yourself reading a story so unbelievable that you simply do not know how
to get your brain to properly process the data? I came upon such a story
yesterday and I intend to report it but ultimately you need to decide what you
believe. I am not afraid to print anything for discussion, but I will not
characterize this story as undeniable truth. I want to throw it out so people
can process it at their own pace. It might take me awhile. Fair enough?
Dr.
Jim Garrow is a former Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He was responsible for
bringing the military
litmus tests (whether soldiers will fire on American citizens) to light
early in 2013. I believed that story because there have been other sources to
report similar occurrences, including the infamous 29 Palms survey.
About
a month ago Dr.
Garrow reported that Tom Clancy and Andrew Breitbart were basically
assassinated by operatives from The Obama Administration. I can actually
believe that could be true. However, the part I had a hard time swallowing was
that Garrow claimed to have this knowledge only because he is a former CIA
Agent. I printed that article, written by Dr. Eowyn but I must admit that the
CIA Agent scenario seemed a bit odd to me.
I
have two thoughts on this:
Well
those stories seem like back page news compared to the potential bombshell that
Garrow just dropped. I don’t like Barack Obama one bit. I think he is hell bent
on destroying America. But would he nuke America? Like I said, you will have to
decide.
Liberty Digest reprinted two Facebook statuses of Dr. Jim
Garrow from November 18th and 19th that have since been removed by Facebook:
Three
individuals have just saved 300 million lives in the past 2 weeks. They saved
the 90% of the population that would be dead if Bathhouse Barry had not been
stopped from using 3 nuclear devices against the American populace. 2 Army
Generals and 1 Navy Admiral, whose duties included the safeguarding and
oversight of the nuclear arsenal. Obama ordered that 3 nukes be transported in
a major breach of protocol and safety regulations of long standing. He wanted
it NOW, and these officers were made aware of what the intention was. The
admiral had the one Navy nuke taken 200 miles off South Carolina and detonated
deep in the ocean. The other 2 nukes disappeared thanks to the handiwork of the
2 Generals, the numbers 1 and 2 men in charge of the Army ordinance. These
three men are heroes of the highest order. Look up the events of 2 Generals and
1 Admiral being dismissed in the past two weeks and you will find their names.
They saved your lives and the lives of 300 million of your fellow citizens.
Mr. Obama’s intention was to set off the
three nukes to devastate all computer related systems on the continent thus
taking America back 200 years and guaranteeing a total breakdown in society and
with in one year the death of 300 million Americans. To see how this would be
possible read, “One Second After”. You can get it on Amazon.
We peered over the edge of the precipice
of the death of our civilization and have lived to tell the tale. 3 heroes
stood tall for America and the mad man in the white house was stopped for the
first time in his life. He is unsure of what to do just now and he does not
possess the keys to the nuclear submarines nor the two nukes that are now
hidden. For the first time in his life someone said no, meant it, and stopped
him from murder and devastation. The next few days are critical. Be afraid and
go to prepper sites to find out how to save your family, if you can. – Dr. Jim
Garrow, Nov. 18, 2013
In the condominium complex in Casa
Grande, Arizona, where I have a unit, a visit was made yesterday by a group of
4 men in a black Suburban with lots of antenna’s on the roof. The management of
our large group of condo’s was asked to open the door of my unit. The badges
were a combination of many different alphabet agencies including my former one.
Interesting because after I posted about EMP’s and missing nukes my phone rang
late in the evening and I was requested to cease and desist. My posts have been
removed. I am not however repentant, nor cowed. If anything like this happens
again I have instructed people to begin the release of documents and
information as per prepared plans in the hands of these people. Obama is known
for overplaying his hand, and now should be known far and wide as a dangerous
amateur. He may have gotten Breitbart, Hastings and Clancy, but they were just
writers. I hope that he enjoys the protests today in DC. – Dr. Jim Garrow, Nov.
19, 2013
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/obama-plan-nuke-america-fall-jim-garrow-completely-nuts/#IgiwTyfcBUOJFYSZ.99
Charles Burris | The real legacy of Nelson Mandela. The Truth About Nelson Mandela Stefan Molyneux | Mandela
is portrayed in the mainstream media as a peace-loving anti-apartheid
revolutionary. }
Infowars.com
December 7, 2013
Nelson Mandela, working with the Soviet
Union, wanted to replace Apartheid tyranny with a Marxist dictatorship. He and
his followers hijacked the Anti-Apartheid Movement in an attempt to bring
communism to South Africa.
{ Niggers are all hype,
no substance! }
Pearl Harbor & Pink
Pagoda http://www.coasttocoastam.com
Sat 12-07
In the first half, renegade military
historian Douglas
Dietrich will discuss what his research has uncovered about the attack on
Pearl Harbor and how FDR's administration provoked Japan and led the United
States into war in order to pull the country out of the Great Depression.
In the second half, Jim Garrow of Pink Pagoda will talk about
the consequences of China's one child per couple policy.
There
is a hot new game being played in cities all over America, and it is very
simple. You pick out a defenseless person on the street and you try to
knock them out. In most areas, it is known as “the knockout game”.
In some communities it is called by other names such as “point-em-out,
knock-em-out” and “polar bear hunting”. In many instances, the
perpetrators don’t even try to steal anything from the people that they knock
out. The goal is just to “have fun” by brutally attacking an innocent
victim. Well, if this is what young thugs in America will do for fun when
times are still good, what will they be willing to do when our economy really
starts falling apart? Yes, the U.S. economy has
definitely been steadily declining, but the truth is that what we are
experiencing right now is rip-roaring prosperity compared to what is coming in
the years ahead. So what will the streets of America look like when
things get really bad? (Read
More.....)
Are
you deeply concerned about the future of America? Is something in your
gut telling you that our system is fundamentally broken and that the mainstream
media is not telling you the truth about what is happening? If so, you
are definitely not alone. Right now, there are millions upon millions of
Americans that are absolutely horrified as they watch this nation
deteriorate. In fact, according to an analysis of recent polling data
conducted by Real Clear Politics,
approximately 68 percent of all Americans believe that the country is on the
wrong track and only 23.5 percent of all Americans believe that the country is
on the right track. And of course our problems did not appear just recently.
In fact, many of them are the result of decades of very foolish decisions and
they are not going to be fixed easily. Unfortunately, there is very
little consensus among Americans about how to fix any of our problems.
There is more anger, frustration, hatred and division in the United States
today than there has been in decades, and there is very little hope that the
great storms that are looming on the horizon will be averted. Those that
are wise are preparing for what is coming. Those that are not are going
to be absolutely blindsided by what is rapidly approaching. (Read More....)
The
too big to fail banks have a larger share of the U.S. banking industry than
they have ever had before. So if having banks that were too big to fail
was a "problem" back in 2008, what is it today? As you will
read about below, the total number of banks in the United States has fallen to a
brand new all-time record low and that means that the health of the too big to
fail banks is now more critical to our economy than ever. In 1985, there
were more than 18,000 banks in
the United States. Today, there are only 6,891 left, and that number continues to
drop every single year. That means that more than 10,000 U.S. banks have
gone out of existence since 1985. Meanwhile, the too big to fail banks
just keep on getting even bigger. In fact, the six largest banks in the
United States (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman
Sachs and Morgan Stanley) have collectively gotten 37 percent larger
over the past five years. If even one of those banks collapses, it would
be absolutely crippling to the U.S. economy. If several of them were to
collapse at the same time, it could potentially plunge us into an economic
depression unlike anything that this nation has ever seen before. (Read More....)
Have you noticed that this December is
unusually cold so far? Could the fact that we have had a record number of
volcanoes erupt in 2013 be responsible? Certainly an unusually calm solar cycle is playing a
significant role in producing all of this cold weather, but as you will see
below the truth is that throughout human history volcanic eruptions have
produced some of the coldest winters ever recorded. In fact, there have
been some major eruptions that have actually substantially reduced global
temperatures for two to three years. So should we be alarmed that the
number of volcano eruptions this year was the highest ever recorded?
Could it be possible that we are heading for a period of global cooling as a
result? And if the planet does cool significantly, could that lead to
widespread crop failures and mass famine? Don’t think that it can’t
happen. In fact, it has happened before and it is only a matter of time
until it happens again.
I knew that we were seeing an unusual
amount of volcanic activity around the planet so far (Read More...)
When
QE1 ended there was a substantial stock market correction, and when QE2 ended
there was a substantial stock market correction. And if you will
remember, the financial markets threw a massive hissy fit a few months ago when
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that the Fed may soon start
tapering QE3. Clearly Wall Street does not like it when their supply of
monetary heroin is interrupted. The Federal Reserve has tricked the
American people into supporting quantitative easing by insisting that it is about
"stimulating the economy", but that has turned out to be a massive
hoax. In fact, I just wrote an article that contained 37 statistics that prove that things just keep
getting even worse for ordinary Americans. But quantitative easing has
been exceptionally good for Wall Street. During
QE1, the S&P 500 rose by about 300 points. During QE2, the S&P
500 rose by about 200 points. And during QE3, the S&P 500 has risen
by about 400 points. The S&P 500 is now in unprecedented territory,
and stock prices have become completely and totally divorced from
reality. In essence, we are in the midst of the largest financial bubble this
nation has ever seen. So what is going to happen when the Fed starts
pulling back the monetary crack and the bubble bursts? (Read More....)
The
“coming persecution of Christians” has already begun. It is already
here. So why is the mainstream media in the United States almost totally
silent about this phenomenon? When some politician somewhere around the
globe inadvertently offends homosexuals or Muslims, it instantly makes headline
news. But very few Americans are even aware that it has been estimated
that 100
million Christians are currently facing persecution and that approximately
100,000 Christians die for their faith each year. As you are about to
see, Christians all over the world are being burned alive, beheaded, crucified,
tortured to death and imprisoned in metal shipping containers just because of
what they believe. This persecution goes on year after year and it is
steadily intensifying. But the governments of the western world and the
mainstream media are almost entirely ignoring what is happening. (Read
More.....)
Why are huge numbers of dead birds
dropping dead and washing up along the coastlines of Alaska? It is being
reported that many of the carcases of the dead birds are “broken open and
bleeding”. The photo of some of these dead birds at the top of this
article was originally posted by Alaska native David Akeya on Facebook.
You can find more photos of these dead birds right here. And of course it isn’t
just birds that are dying. As you will see below, something is causing
mass death events among various populations of fish as well. In addition,
it has been reported that large numbers of polar bears, seals and walruses in
Alaska are being affected by hair loss and “oozing sores”. So precisely what
is causing all of this? Could Fukushima be responsible? Authorities
are claiming that all of this is being caused by “disease” or “harsh weather”,
but are they actually telling us the truth? Evaluate the evidence that I
have shared below and decide for yourself…
#1 Something is causing large numbers of dead birds to
wash up on shores all (Read More...)
Back in 2009, Al Gore boldly declared that “the entire
north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely
ice-free within the next five to seven years.” Well, it turns out that
was a lie along with almost everything else that Al Gore has been
peddling. The truth is that the polar ice cap is actually growing.
It is about 50 percent larger than it was at this time last year. And as
you will read about below, a shocking UN report that was recently leaked shows
that the planet has actually not been warming for the past 15 years. So
if you are breathlessly anticipating that “global warming” will soon bring on
the apocalypse, you can stop waiting. On the other hand, there is rising
concern about what “global cooling” will soon do to the planet as we suffer
through the beginning of the coldest winter in decades. Thanks to an unusually quiet solar cycle and an (Read
More...)
“Let’s say somebody were [in the White
House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among
the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles
that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the
nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears coincidentally that
those are the very things that are happening right now.”
-Dr. Ben Carson on March 16th, 2013
That quote by Dr. Ben Carson does a great
job of capturing what is taking place in the United States right now. If
you wanted to destroy the most powerful nation on the planet, the best way to
do so would be to destroy it from the inside out. Right now, America is
more divided than it has been at any point in any of our lifetimes. Anger
and frustration are growing to unprecedented levels, and one recent survey
discovered that the level of trust that Americans have in one another (Read
More...)
All
over America, formerly prosperous communities are being transformed into
crime-infested wastelands of poverty and despair. Of course the most
famous example of this is Detroit. At one time, Detroit was the greatest manufacturing
city that the world had ever seen and it had the highest per capita income in
the entire country. But now it has become a rotting, decaying hellhole
that the rest of the planet laughs at. And of course Detroit is far from
alone. There are hundreds of other U.S. cities that are suffering a
similar fate. In this article, the focus is going to be on Camden, New
Jersey, but the truth is that there are lots of other "Detroits" and
"Camdens" all over the nation. Jobs and businesses are leaving
our cities at a staggering rate, and what is being left behind is poverty,
crime and extreme desperation. (Read More....)
Obama:
Worst approval ratings since Nixon
{ And, it’s not just obamacare … ‘As head of the executive branch, the
President was of course in charge of the FBI and the CIA.’ (and the NSA, IRS,
ATF, DOJ, DOD, DOS, etc.) ‘So the instruction to Haldeman was probably not, in
the most technical sense, an obstruction of justice. But it was certainly an
abuse of power or an abuse of agency. By almost any definition, it was an
impeachable offense.’ (page 296) … ‘The charge -Article One- would have to show
what Nixon had done to warrant impeachment.
If direct actions could not be shown, it would note simply that the
President had condoned or acquiesced in the activities of others. (page 305)…
Coincidentally (for years I had meant to and finally), I have just (this very
date of this article, viz., December 17, 2013)
finished reading ‘The Final Days’ Woodward/Bernstein, 1976. … My, my,
my, how times post (and pre, ie., LBJ) Nixon certainly have changed. The
magnitude of america’s decline and fall should no longer be understated. After
all, they’d all be as they should have been, at the least impeached (if not
jailed as required if ‘no one was above the law’, the typically
fictitious/disingenuous/fake american mantra as they went after Nixon) …
certainly the bushes and obama et als … and from my direct observation and
experience: … See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm }
Business Insider | Explosive backlash against Obamacare.
Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson | America has been seized by an executive dictatorship.
On this bombshell
Tuesday, December 17 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex completely exposes
the accelerated destruction on property rights, privacy rights and national
sovereignty. In New York, police
harassed a man for washing his car in his own private driveway. In national
news, a federal judge in Washington ruled that the NSA's
domestic spying likely violates the Fourth Amendment and is "almost
Orwellian" in scope. He also said that James Madison, the architect of
the Constitution, would be aghast at the agency's dragnet. American lawyer and
activist Larry Klayman
joins Alex to break down what this historic ruling means for Americans. William F.
Jasper, senior editor of The
New American, also joins the show to explain in detail how the Trans-Pacific
Partnership will erode U.S. sovereignty.
The
unelected central planners at the Federal Reserve have decided that the time
has come to slightly taper the amount of quantitative easing that it has been
doing. On Wednesday, the Fed announced that monthly purchases of U.S.
Treasury bonds will be reduced from $45 billion to $40 billion, and monthly
purchases of mortgage-backed securities will be reduced from $35 billion to $30
billion. When this news came out, it sent shockwaves through financial
markets all over the planet. But the truth is that not that much has
really changed. The Federal Reserve will still be recklessly creating
gigantic mountains of new money out of thin air and massively intervening in
the financial marketplace. It will just be slightly less than
before. However, this very well could represent a very important
psychological turning point for investors. It is a signal that "the
party is starting to end" and that the great bull market of the past four
years is drawing to a close. So what is all of this going to mean for
average Americans? The following are 8 ways that "the taper" is
going to affect you and your family... (Read More....)
During 2013, America continued to
steadily march down a self-destructive path toward oblivion. As a
society, our debt levels are completely and totally out of control. Our
financial system has been transformed into the largest casino on the entire
planet and our big banks are behaving even more recklessly than they did just
before the last financial crisis. We continue to see thousands of
businesses and millions of jobs get shipped out of the United States, and the
middle class is being absolutely eviscerated. Due to the lack of decent
jobs, poverty is absolutely exploding. Government dependence is at an
all-time high and crime is rising. Evidence of social and moral decay is
seemingly everywhere, and our government appears to be going insane. If
we are going to have any hope of solving these problems, the American people
need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and finally admit how bad things
have actually become. If we all just blindly have faith that
"everything is going to be okay", the consequences of decades of
incredibly foolish decisions are going to absolutely blindside us and we will
be absolutely devastated by the great crisis that is rapidly approaching.
The United States is in a massive amount of trouble, and it is time that we all
started facing the truth. The following are 83 numbers from 2013 that are
almost too crazy to believe... (Read More....)
And so for all you cat owners, here's the Secret Code
of Cat Behavior (or What Cats Know but Won't Tell You). If someone claims to
love cats and that all cats love him or her in return, lull
Most dog owners come into the
veterinary office with their canine companions devotedly following them. Tails
wagging, the dogs look up at their people with adoring eyes. Most cat owners,
on the other hand, wrestle a cardboard box into the exam room, reach in like a
magician and pull out not a rabbit, but an angry feline. For their efforts they
get covered with furry shrapnel and sometimes raked with claws until their face
and arms look like so many tic-tac-toe games. (It doesn't have to be like that, by the way.)
See Also: 9 Cat Breeds That Crave Affection
As a lifetime pet lover and practicing
veterinarian of more than 30 years, I've noticed a few things about cats. And
so for all you cat owners, here's the Secret Code of Cat Behavior (or What Cats
Know but Won't Tell You).
And never forget the No. 1 rule of being
a cat: When in doubt, blame the dog.
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December
23rd, 1913 is a date which will live in infamy. That was the day when the
Federal Reserve Act was pushed through Congress. Many members of Congress
were absent that day, and the general public was distracted with holiday
preparations. Now we have reached the 100th anniversary of the Federal
Reserve, and most Americans still don't know what it actually is or how it
functions. But understanding the Federal Reserve is absolutely critical,
because the Fed is at the very heart of our economic problems. Since the
Federal Reserve was created, there have been 18 recessions or depressions, the
value of the U.S. dollar has declined by 98 percent, and the U.S. national debt
has gotten more than 5000 times larger. This insidious debt-based
financial system has literally made debt slaves out of all of us, and it is
systematically destroying the bright future that our children and our
grandchildren were supposed to have. If nothing is done, we are inevitably
heading for a massive amount of economic pain as a nation. So please
share this article with as many people as you can. The following are 100
reasons why the Federal Reserve should be shut down forever... (Read More....)
#1 We like to think that we have a government "of
the people, by the people, for the people", but the truth is that an
unelected, unaccountable group of central planners has far more power over our
economy than anyone else in our society does.
#2 The Federal Reserve is actually
"independent" of the government. In fact, the Federal Reserve
has argued vehemently in federal court that it is "not an agency" of the federal government
and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
#3 The Federal Reserve openly admits that the 12
regional Federal Reserve banks are organized "much like private corporations".
#4 The regional Federal Reserve banks issue shares of stock to the "member banks"
that own them.
#5 100% of the shareholders of the Federal Reserve are private
banks. The U.S. government owns zero shares.
#6 The Federal Reserve is not an agency of the federal
government, but it has been given power to regulate our banks and financial
institutions. This should not be happening.
#7 According to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, the
U.S. Congress is the one that is supposed to have the authority to "coin
Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of
Weights and Measures". So why is the Federal Reserve doing it?
#8 If you look at a "U.S. dollar", it
actually says "Federal Reserve note" at the top. In the
financial world, a "note" is an instrument of debt.
#9 In 1963, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive
Order 11110 which authorized the U.S. Treasury to issue "United
States notes" which were created by the U.S. government directly and not
by the Federal Reserve. He was assassinated shortly thereafter.
#10 Many of the debt-free United States notes issued
under President Kennedy are still in circulation today.
#11 The Federal Reserve determines what levels some of
the most important interest rates in our system are going to be set at.
In a free market system, the free market would determine those interest rates.
#12 The Federal Reserve has become so powerful that it
is now known as "the fourth branch of government".
#13 The greatest period of economic growth in U.S.
history was when there
was no central bank.
#14 The Federal Reserve was designed to be a
perpetual debt machine. The bankers that designed it intended
to trap the U.S. government in a perpetual debt spiral from which it could
never possibly escape. Since the Federal Reserve was established 100 years
ago, the U.S. national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger.
#15 A permanent federal income tax was established the
exact same year that the Federal Reserve was created. This was
not a coincidence. In order to pay for all of the government debt that
the Federal Reserve would create, a federal income tax was necessary. The
whole idea was to transfer wealth from our pockets to the federal government
and from the federal government to the bankers.
#16 The period prior to 1913 (when there was no income
tax) was the greatest period of economic growth in
U.S. history.
#17 Today, the U.S. tax code is about 13 miles long.
#18 From the time that the Federal Reserve was created
until now, the U.S. dollar has lost 98
percent of its value.
#19 From the time that President Nixon took us off the
gold standard until now, the U.S. dollar has lost 83
percent of its value.
#20 During the 100 years before the Federal Reserve was
created, the U.S. economy rarely had any problems with
inflation. But since the Federal Reserve was established, the
U.S. economy has experienced constant and never ending inflation.
#21 In the century before the Federal Reserve was
created, the average annual rate of inflation was about half a percent.
In the century since the Federal Reserve was created, the average annual rate
of inflation has been about 3.5 percent.
#22 The Federal Reserve has stripped the middle class of
trillions of dollars of wealth through the hidden tax of inflation.
#23 The size of M1 has
nearly doubled since 2008 thanks to the reckless money printing that
the Federal Reserve has been doing.
#24 The Federal Reserve has been starting to behave like
the Weimar Republic, and we all remember how that ended.
#25 The Federal Reserve has been consistently
lying to us about the level of inflation in our economy. If
the inflation rate was still calculated the same way that it was back when
Jimmy Carter was president, the official rate of inflation would be somewhere between 8 and 10 percent today.
#26 Since the Federal Reserve was created, there have
been 18 distinct recessions or
depressions: 1918, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1929, 1937, 1945, 1949, 1953,
1958, 1960, 1969, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1990, 2001, 2008.
#27 Within 20 years of the creation of the Federal
Reserve, the U.S. economy was plunged into the Great Depression.
#28 The Federal Reserve created the conditions that
caused the stock market crash of 1929, and even
Ben Bernanke admits that the response by the Fed to that crisis made
the Great Depression even worse than it should have been.
#29 The "easy money" policies of former Fed
Chairman Alan Greenspan set the stage for the great financial crisis of 2008.
#30 Without the Federal Reserve, the "subprime
mortgage meltdown" would probably never have happened.
#31 If you can believe it, there have been 10 different economic recessions
since 1950. The Federal Reserve created the "dotcom bubble",
the Federal Reserve created the "housing bubble" and now it has
created the
largest bond bubble in the history of the planet.
#32 According to an official government report, the
Federal Reserve made 16.1
trillion dollars in secret loans to the big banks during the last
financial crisis. The following is a list of loan recipients that was
taken directly from page
131 of the report...
Citigroup - $2.513 trillion
Morgan Stanley - $2.041 trillion
Merrill Lynch - $1.949 trillion
Bank of America - $1.344 trillion
Barclays PLC - $868 billion
Bear Sterns - $853 billion
Goldman Sachs - $814 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland - $541 billion
JP Morgan Chase - $391 billion
Deutsche Bank - $354 billion
UBS - $287 billion
Credit Suisse - $262 billion
Lehman Brothers - $183 billion
Bank of Scotland - $181 billion
BNP Paribas - $175 billion
Wells Fargo - $159 billion
Dexia - $159 billion
Wachovia - $142 billion
Dresdner Bank - $135 billion
Societe Generale - $124 billion
"All Other Borrowers" - $2.639 trillion
#33 The Federal Reserve also paid those big banks $659.4
million in "fees" to help "administer" those
secret loans.
#34 During the last financial crisis, big European banks
were allowed to borrow an "unlimited" amount
of money from the Federal Reserve at ultra-low interest rates.
#35 The "easy money" policies of Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have created the
largest financial bubble this nation has ever seen, and this has set
the stage for the great financial crisis that we are rapidly approaching.
#36 Since late 2008, the size of the Federal Reserve
balance sheet has grown from less than a trillion dollars to more than 4 trillion dollars. This is
complete and utter insanity.
#37 During the quantitative easing era, the value of the
financial securities that the Fed has accumulated is greater than the total
amount of publicly held debt that the U.S. government accumulated from the presidency of George
Washington through the end of the presidency of Bill Clinton.
#38 Overall, the Federal Reserve now holds more than 32 percent of all 10 year equivalents, and
that percentage is rising by about 0.3 percent each week.
#39 Quantitative easing creates financial bubbles, and
when quantitative easing ends those bubbles tend
to deflate rapidly.
#40 Most of the new money created by quantitative easing
has ended up in the hands of the very wealthy.
#41 According to a prominent Federal Reserve insider,
quantitative easing has been one giant "subsidy"
for Wall Street banks.
#42 As one CNBC article recently stated, we are seeing
absolutely rampant inflation in "stocks and bonds and art and
Ferraris".
#43 Donald Trump once made the following statement about
quantitative easing: "People like me will benefit from this."
#44 Most people have never heard about this, but a very interesting study
conducted for the Bank of England shows that quantitative easing actually
increases the gap between the wealthy and the poor.
#45 The gap between the top one percent and the rest of
the country is now the greatest that it has been since the 1920s.
#46 The mainstream media has sold quantitative easing to
the American public as an "economic stimulus program", but the truth
is that the percentage of Americans that have a job has
actually gone down since quantitative easing first began.
#47 The Federal Reserve is supposed to be able to guide
the nation toward "full employment", but the reality of the matter is
that an all-time record 102 million working age Americans do not have a job
right now. That number has risen by about 27 million since the year 2000.
#48 For years, the projections of economic growth by the
Federal Reserve have consistently overstated the strength of the U.S.
economy. But every single time, the mainstream media continues to report
that these numbers are "reliable" even though all they actually
represent is wishful thinking.
#49 The Federal Reserve system fuels the growth of
government, and the growth of government fuels the growth of the Federal
Reserve system. Since 1970, federal spending has grown nearly 12 times as rapidly as median household income
has.
#50 The Federal Reserve is supposed to look out for the
health of all U.S. banks, but the truth is that they only seem to be concerned
about the big ones. In 1985, there were more than 18,000 banks in the United States.
Today, there are only 6,891
left.
#51 The six largest banks in the United States (JPMorgan
Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan
Stanley) have collectively gotten 37
percent larger over the past five years.
#52 The U.S. banking system has 14.4 trillion dollars in
total assets. The six largest banks now account for 67
percent of those assets and all of the other banks account for only 33
percent of those assets.
#53 The five largest banks now account for 42
percent of all loans in the United States.
#54 We were told that the purpose of quantitative easing
is to help "stimulate the economy", but today the Federal Reserve is
actually paying the big banks not to lend out 1.8 trillion dollars in "excess
reserves" that they have parked at the Fed.
#55 The Federal Reserve has allowed an absolutely
gigantic derivatives bubble to inflate which could destroy our financial system
at any moment. Right now, four of the "too big to fail" banks
each have total exposure to derivatives that is well in excess of 40
trillion dollars.
#56 The total exposure that Goldman Sachs has to
derivatives contracts is more
than 381 times greater than their total assets.
#57 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has a track
record of failure that would make the Chicago Cubs look good.
#58 The secret November 1910 gathering at Jekyll Island,
Georgia during which the plan for the Federal Reserve was hatched was attended
by U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Department A.P. Andrews and a whole host of representatives from the upper
crust of the Wall Street banking establishment.
#59 The Federal Reserve was created by the big Wall
Street banks and for the benefit of the big Wall Street banks.
#60 In 1913, Congress was promised that if the Federal
Reserve Act was passed that it would eliminate
the business cycle.
#61 There has
never been a true comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve since
it was created back in 1913.
#62 The Federal Reserve system has been described as
"the biggest Ponzi scheme in the
history of the world".
#63 The following comes directly from the Fed's official mission statement: "To
provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and
financial system." Without a doubt, the Federal Reserve has failed
in those tasks dramatically.
#64 The Fed decides what the target rate of inflation
should be, what the target rate of unemployment should be and what the size of
the money supply is going to be. This is quite similar to the "central
planning" that goes on in communist nations, but very few
people in our government seem upset by this.
#65 A couple of years ago, Federal Reserve officials
walked into one bank in Oklahoma and demanded that they take down all the Bible verses and all the
Christmas buttons that the bank had been displaying.
#66 The Federal Reserve has taken some other very
frightening steps in recent years. For example, back in 2011 the Federal
Reserve announced plans to identify "key bloggers"
and to monitor "billions of conversations" about the Fed on Facebook,
Twitter, forums and blogs. Someone at the Fed will almost certainly end
up reading this article.
#67 Thanks to this endless debt spiral that we are
trapped in, a massive amount of money is transferred out of our pockets and
into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy each year. Incredibly, the U.S.
government spent more than 415 billion dollars just on interest on the
national debt in 2013.
#68 In September, the average rate of interest on the
government’s marketable debt was 1.981 percent. In January 2000, the average
rate of interest on the government’s marketable debt was 6.620 percent. If we got back to that level
today, we would be paying more than a trillion dollars a year just in interest
on the national debt and it would collapse our entire financial system.
#69 The American people are being killed by compound
interest but most of them don't even understand what it is. Albert
Einstein once made the following statement about compound interest...
"Compound
interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it …
he who doesn’t … pays it."
#70 Most Americans have absolutely no idea where money
comes from. The truth is that the Federal Reserve just creates it out of
thin air. The following is how I have previously
described how money is normally created by the Fed in our system...
When
the U.S. government decides that it wants to spend another billion dollars that
it does not have, it does not print up a billion dollars.
Rather,
the U.S. government creates a bunch of U.S. Treasury bonds (debt) and takes
them over to the Federal Reserve.
The
Federal Reserve creates a billion dollars out of thin air and exchanges them
for the U.S. Treasury bonds.
#71 What does the Federal Reserve do with those U.S.
Treasury bonds? They end up getting auctioned off to
the highest bidder. But this entire process actually creates
more debt than it does money...
The
U.S. Treasury bonds that the Federal Reserve receives in exchange for the money
it has created out of nothing are auctioned off through the Federal Reserve
system.
But
wait.
There
is a problem.
Because
the U.S. government must pay interest on the Treasury bonds, the amount of debt
that has been created by this transaction is greater than the amount of money
that has been created.
So
where will the U.S. government get the money to pay that debt?
Well,
the theory is that we can get money to circulate through the economy really,
really fast and tax it at a high enough rate that the government will be able
to collect enough taxes to pay the debt.
But
that never actually happens, does it?
And
the creators of the Federal Reserve understood this as well. They
understood that the U.S. government would not have enough money to both run the
government and service the national debt. They knew that the U.S.
government would have to keep borrowing even more money in an attempt to keep
up with the game.
#72 Of course the U.S. government could actually create
money and spend it directly into the economy without the Federal Reserve being
involved at all. But then we wouldn't be 17 trillion dollars in debt and
that wouldn't serve the interests of the bankers at all.
#73 The following is what Thomas
Edison once had to say about our absolutely insane debt-based
financial system...
That
is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we
are compelled to add to the national debt.
Now,
that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I,
that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United
States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 — that is what it amounts to,
with interest. People who will not turn a shovelful of dirt nor contribute a
pound of material will collect more money from the United States than will the
people who supply the material and do the work. That is the terrible thing
about interest. In all our great bond issues the interest is always greater
than the principal. All of the great public works cost more than twice the
actual cost, on that account. Under the present system of doing business we
simply add 120 to 150 per cent, to the stated cost.
But
here is the point: If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar
bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good.
#74 The United States now has the
largest national debt in the history of the world, and we are
stealing more than 100 million dollars from our children and our grandchildren
every single hour of every single day in a desperate attempt to keep the debt
spiral going.
#75 Thomas Jefferson once stated that if he could add
just one more amendment to the U.S. Constitution it would be a ban on all government borrowing....
I
wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would
be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of
our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an
additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.
#76 At this moment, the U.S. national debt is sitting at
$17,251,528,475,994.19.
If we had followed the advice of Thomas Jefferson, it would be sitting at zero.
#77 When the Federal Reserve was first established, the
U.S. national debt was sitting at about 2.9 billion dollars. On average, we
have been adding more than that to the national debt every single day
since Obama has been in the White House.
#78 We are on pace to accumulate more new debt under the
8 years of the Obama administration than we did under all of the other
presidents in all of U.S. history combined.
#79 If all of the new debt that has been accumulated
since John Boehner became Speaker of the House had been given directly to the
American people instead, every household in America would have been able to buy a new truck.
#80 Between 2008 and 2012, U.S. government debt grew by 60.7
percent, but U.S. GDP only grew by a total of about 8.5
percent during that entire time period.
#81 Since 2007, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio has increased
from 66.6 percent to 101.6
percent.
#82 According to the U.S. Treasury, foreigners hold
approximately 5.6 trillion dollars of our debt.
#83 The amount of U.S. government debt held by
foreigners is about 5 times larger than it was just a decade ago.
#84 As I have written about previously,
if the U.S. national debt was reduced to a stack of one dollar bills it would
circle the earth at the equator 45
times.
#85 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his entire
fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for
15 days.
#86 Sometimes we forget just how much money a trillion
dollars is. If you were alive when Jesus Christ was born and you spent
one million dollars every single day since that point, you still would not have
spent one trillion dollars by now.
#87 If right this moment you went out and started
spending one dollar every single second, it would take you more than 31,000 years
to spend one trillion dollars.
#88 In addition to all of our debt, the U.S. government
has also accumulated more than 200 trillion dollars in unfunded
liabilities. So where in the world will all of that money come from?
#89 The greatest damage that quantitative easing has
been causing to our economy is the fact that it is destroying worldwide faith
in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. debt. If the rest of the world stops using
our dollars and stops buying our debt, we are going to be in a
massive amount of trouble.
#90 Over the past several years, the Federal Reserve has
been monetizing a staggering amount of U.S. government debt even
though Ben Bernanke once promised that he would never do this.
#91 China recently announced that they are going to quit
stockpiling more U.S. dollars. If the Federal Reserve was not
recklessly printing money, this would probably not have happened.
#92 Most Americans have no idea that one of our most
famous presidents was absolutely obsessed with getting rid of central banking
in the United States. The following is a
February 1834 quote by President Andrew Jackson about the evils of
central banking....
I
too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States.
I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have
used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When
you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it
to the Bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the Bank and annul
its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen,
but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand
families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and
thieves. I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal,
(bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out.
#93 There are plenty of possible alternative financial
systems, but at this point all 187 nations that belong to the IMF have a central
bank. Are we supposed to believe that this is just some sort of a bizarre
coincidence?
#94 The capstone of the global central banking system is
an organization known as the Bank for International Settlements. The
following is how I described this organization in a previous
article...
An
immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even
heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe. It is
called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of
central banks. It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also has
branches in Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is essentially an unelected,
unaccountable central bank of the world that has complete immunity from
taxation and from national laws. Even Wikipedia admits that "it is not accountable to any
single national government." The Bank for International
Settlements was used to launder money for the Nazis during World War II, but
these days the main purpose of the BIS is to guide and direct the
centrally-planned global financial system. Today, 58 global central banks
belong to the BIS, and it has far more power over how the U.S. economy (or any
other economy for that matter) will perform over the course of the next year
than any politician does. Every two months, the central bankers of the
world gather in Basel for another "Global Economy Meeting".
During those meetings, decisions are made which affect every man, woman and
child on the planet, and yet none of us have any say in what goes on. The
Bank for International Settlements is an organization that was founded by the
global elite and it operates for the benefit of the global elite, and it is intended
to be one of the key cornerstones of the emerging one world economic system.
#95 The borrower is the servant of the lender, and the
Federal Reserve has turned all of us into debt slaves.
#96 Debt is a form of social control, and the global
elite use all of this debt to dominate all the rest of us. 40 years ago,
the total amount of debt in our system (all government debt, all business debt,
all consumer debt, etc.) was sitting at about 2 trillion dollars. Today,
the grand total exceeds 56 trillion dollars.
#97 Unless something dramatic is done, our children and
our grandchildren will be debt slaves for their entire lives as they service
our debts and pay for our mistakes.
#98 Now that you know this information, you are
responsible for doing something about it.
#99 Congress has the power to shut down the Federal
Reserve any time that they would like. But right now most of our
politicians fully endorse the current system, and nothing is ever going to
happen until the American people start demanding change.
#100 The design of the Federal Reserve system was flawed
from the very beginning. If something is not done very rapidly, it is
inevitable that our entire financial system is going to suffer an absolutely
nightmarish collapse.
The truth is that we do not have to have
a Federal Reserve. The greatest period of economic growth in U.S. history
was when we did not have a central bank. If we are ever going to turn
this nation around economically, we are going to have to get rid of this
debt-based financial system that is centered around the Federal Reserve.
On the path that we are on now, there is no hope. Please share this
article with as many people as you can. It is imperative that we try to
wake the American people up while we still have time.
What is being
done to Phil Robertson shows just how far America has fallen. The thought
police are waging an all-out campaign to take down one of the biggest names in
the United States, and if they are successful none of us will ever be safe
again. We are becoming a nation that is governed by bullying,
intimidation and unwritten speech codes, and if you happen to say the “wrong
thing” you could lose everything. Liberal pundits are gleefully declaring
that making statements such as Robertson made “should get you
fired from most jobs“. That means that they believe that unless you
conform to their version of morality (or keep your mouth shut forever) you
should lose your job. So are you ready to lose your job for what you
believe? Because that is where we are heading. In the future, if
you do not conform to their politically correct Big Brother speech code, you
will be unemployable and you and your entire family will be outcasts from
society. That is why the Duck Dynasty controversy is so important.
This is a “line in the sand” moment, and if the thought police are successful
than those that refuse to abandon Biblical morality will soon be forced
underground. Do you really want to live in a country where a large
percentage of the population can no longer express what they believe to be
right and wrong? (Read More.....)
Sometimes our cameras can see what human
eyes cannot. Could what you are looking at actually be a photo of a real
angel? At a recent Promise Keepers conference in Cedar Falls, Iowa a
Baptist pastor took two photographs of the stage during a time of praise and
worship. Both of those photos show “a radiant, glowing white figure” that
was not supposed to be there and that could not be seen with the naked
eye. At the time these photos were taken, the band on the stage was
singing these words: “Jesus, take all of me. I run to you, I run to you. I lay
everything at your feet. Let my life be yours.” Could it be possible that
the camera picked up an angel that was standing on the stage during that time
of praise and worship? Could this picture actually be physical evidence
that angels really exist? You have to admit that the image in this
photograph is pretty compelling. Here is a closer look at the photo… (Read
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pathetic … north korea is a second-rate failed communist nation/state unable to
even feed their own people … ‘Let them eat missiles’ says ugly ‘kim jun un very
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courage and wisdom enough to speak out unequivocally as to the persecution of
Christians globally!
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opposed to the failed/corrupt/oppressive western regimes; viz.,
u.s./eu/nato/coup state. } RT |
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of Ukraine goes against the US laws, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said.
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foment/support/finance revolutions/coup d’etats then seek to, ie.,
disenfranchise Russian Ukranians (Crimea) from democratic choice of Russia as
opposed to the failed/corrupt/oppressive western regimes; viz.,
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$6 Billion Goes Missing at State Department
The Fiscal Times
April 4, 2014
The State Department has no idea what
happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors.
In a special “management alert”
made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve Linick
warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the
department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years.
The alert was just the latest example of
the federal government’s continued struggle with oversight over its outside
contractors.
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The lack of oversight “exposes the
department to significant financial risk,” the auditor said. “It creates
conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal
evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file.
It impairs the ability of the Department to take effective and timely action to
protect its interests, and, in tum, those of taxpayers.”
In the memo, the IG detailed “repeated
examples of poor contract file administration.” For instance, a recent
investigation of the closeout process for contracts supporting the mission in
Iraq, showed that auditors couldn't find 33 of the 115 contract files totaling about
$2.1 billion. Of the remaining 82 files, auditors said 48 contained
insufficient documents required by federal law.
In another instance, the Bureau of
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement issued a $1 billion contract in
Afghanistan that was deemed “incomplete.”
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The auditor recommended that the State
Department establish a centralized system to track, maintain and retain
contract files.
The department responded and said it
concurred with the recommendations to address the “vulnerability” in its
contracting process.
Before Linick took office last fall, the
State Department had been without an inspector general position for five
years—the longest
IG vacancy in the government’s history, as noted in The Washington Post.
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Scientist: Twenty simple
signs to spot a psychopath...
Scientist: Twenty simple
signs to spot a psychopath...
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3:00PM BST 06 Apr 2014
There
are a few things we take for granted in social interactions with people. We
presume that we see the world in roughly the same way, that we all know certain
basic facts, that words mean the same things to you as they do to me. And we
assume that we have pretty similar ideas of right and wrong.
But
for a small – but not that small – subset of the population, things are very
different. These people lack remorse and empathy and feel emotion only
shallowly. In extreme cases, they might not care whether you live or die. These
people are called psychopaths. Some of them are violent criminals, murderers.
But by no means all.
Professor
Robert Hare is a criminal psychologist, and the creator of the PCL-R, a
psychological assessment used to determine whether someone is a psychopath. For
decades, he has studied people with psychopathy, and worked with them, in
prisons and elsewhere. “It stuns me, as much as it did when I started 40 years
ago, that it is possible to have people who are so emotionally disconnected
that they can function as if other people are objects to be manipulated and
destroyed without any concern,” he says.
Our
understanding of the brain is still in its infancy, and it’s not so many
decades since psychological disorders were seen as character failings. Slowly
we are learning to think of mental illnesses as illnesses, like kidney disease
or liver failure, and developmental disorders, such as autism, in a similar
way. Psychopathy challenges this view. “A high-scoring psychopath views the
world in a very different way,” says Hare. “It’s like colour-blind people
trying to understand the colour red, but in this case ‘red’ is other people’s
emotions.”
At
heart, Hare’s test is simple: a list of 20 criteria, each given a score of 0
(if it doesn’t apply to the person), 1 (if it partially applies) or 2 (if it
fully applies). The list in full is: glibness and superficial charm, grandiose
sense of self-worth, pathological lying, cunning/manipulative, lack of remorse,
emotional shallowness, callousness and lack of empathy, unwillingness to accept
responsibility for actions, a tendency to boredom, a parasitic lifestyle, a
lack of realistic long-term goals, impulsivity, irresponsibility, lack of
behavioural control, behavioural problems in early life, juvenile delinquency,
criminal versatility, a history of “revocation of conditional release” (ie
broken parole), multiple marriages, and promiscuous sexual behaviour. A pure,
prototypical psychopath would score 40. A score of 30 or more qualifies for a
diagnosis of psychopathy. Hare says: “A friend of mine, a psychiatrist, once
said: ‘Bob, when I meet someone who scores 35 or 36, I know these people really
are different.’ The ones we consider to be alien are the ones at the upper
end.”
But
is psychopathy a disorder – or a different way of being? Anyone reading the
list above will spot a few criteria familiar from people they know. On average,
someone with no criminal convictions scores 5. “It’s dimensional,” says Hare.
“There are people who are part-way up the scale, high enough to warrant an assessment
for psychopathy, but not high enough up to cause problems. Often they’re our
friends, they’re fun to be around. They might take advantage of us now and
then, but usually it’s subtle and they’re able to talk their way around it.”
Like autism, a condition which we think of as a spectrum, “psychopathy”, the
diagnosis, bleeds into normalcy.
We
think of psychopaths as killers, criminals, outside society. People such as
Joanna Dennehy, a 31-year-old British woman who killed three men in 2013 and
who the year before had been diagnosed with a psychopathic personality
disorder, or Ted Bundy, the American serial killer who is believed to have
murdered at least 30 people and who said of himself: “I’m the most cold-blooded
son of a bitch you’ll ever meet. I just liked to kill.” But many psychopathic
traits aren’t necessarily disadvantages – and might, in certain circumstances,
be an advantage. For their co-authored book, “Snakes in suits: When Psychopaths
go to work”, Hare and another researcher, Paul Babiak, looked at 203 corporate
professionals and found about four per cent scored sufficiently highly on the
PCL-R to be evaluated for psychopathy. Hare says that this wasn’t a proper
random sample (claims that “10 per cent of financial executives” are psychopaths
are certainly false) but it’s easy to see how a lack of moral scruples and
indifference to other people’s suffering could be beneficial if you want to get
ahead in business.
The
American serial killer Ted Bundy, who is believed to have murdered at least 30
people
“There
are two kinds of empathy,” says James Fallon, a neuroscientist
at the University of California and author of The Psychopath Inside: A
Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain. “Cognitive
empathy is the ability to know what other people are feeling, and emotional
empathy is the kind where you feel what they’re feeling.” Autistic people can
be very empathetic – they feel other people’s pain – but are less able to
recognise the cues we read easily, the smiles and frowns that tell us what
someone is thinking. Psychopaths are often the opposite: they know what you’re
feeling, but don’t feel it themselves. “This all gives certain psychopaths a
great advantage, because they can understand what you’re thinking, it’s just
that they don’t care, so they can use you against yourself.” (Chillingly,
psychopaths are particularly adept at detecting vulnerability. A 2008 study
that asked participants to remember virtual characters found that those who
scored highly for psychopathy had a near perfect recognition for sad,
unsuccessful females, but impaired memory for other characters.)
Fallon
himself is a case in point. In 2005, he was looking at brain scans of
psychopathic murderers, while on another study, of Alzheimer’s, he was using
scans of his own family’s brains as controls. In the latter pile, he found
something strange. “You can’t tell just from a brain scan whether someone’s a
psychopath,” he says, “but you can make a good guess at the personality traits
they’ll have.” He describes a great loop that starts in the front of the brain
including the parahippocampal gyrus and the amygdala and other regions tied to
emotion and impulse control and empathy. Under certain circumstances they would
light up dramatically on a normal person’s MRI scan, but would be darker on a
psychopath’s.
“I
saw one that was extremely abnormal, and I thought this is someone who’s way
off. It looked like the murderers I’d been looking at,” he says. He broke the
anonymisation code in case it had been put into the wrong pile. When he did, he
discovered it was his own brain. “I kind of blew it off,” he says. “But later,
some psychiatrist friends of mine went through my behaviours, and they said,
actually, you’re probably a borderline psychopath.”
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Speaking
to him is a strange experience; he barely draws breath in an hour, in which I
ask perhaps three questions. He explains how he has frequently put his family
in danger, exposing his brother to the deadly Marburg virus and taking his son
trout-fishing in the African countryside knowing there were lions around. And
in his youth, “if I was confronted by authority – if I stole a car, made pipe bombs,
started fires – when we got caught by the police I showed no emotion, no
anxiety”. Yet he is highly successful, driven to win. He tells me things most
people would be uncomfortable saying: that his wife says she’s married to a
“fun-loving, happy-go-lucky nice guy” on the one hand, and a “very dark
character who she does not like” on the other. He’s pleasant, and funny, if
self-absorbed, but I can’t help but think about the criteria in Hare’s PCL-R:
superficial charm, lack of emotional depth, grandiose sense of self-worth. “I
look like hell now, Tom,” he says – he’s 66 – “but growing up I was
good-looking, six foot, 180lb, athletic, smart, funny, popular.” (Hare warns
against non-professionals trying to diagnose people using his test, by the
way.)
“Psychopaths
do think they’re more rational than other people, that this isn’t a deficit,”
says Hare. “I met one offender who was certainly a psychopath who said ‘My
problem is that according to psychiatrists I think more with my head than my
heart. What am I supposed to do about that? Am I supposed to get all teary-eyed?’ ”
Another, asked if he had any regrets about stabbing a robbery victim, replied:
“Get real! He spends a few months in hospital and I rot here. If I wanted to
kill him I would have slit his throat. That’s the kind of guy I am; I gave him
a break.”
And
yet, as Hare points out, when you’re talking about people who aren’t criminals,
who might be successful in life, it’s difficult to categorise it as a disorder.
“It’d be pretty hard for me to go into high-level political or economic or
academic context and pick out all the most successful people and say, ‘Look, I
think you’ve got some brain deficit.’ One of my inmates said that his problem
was that he’s a cat in a world of mice. If you compare the brainwave activity
of a cat and a mouse, you’d find they were quite different.”
It
would, says Hare, probably have been an evolutionarily successful strategy for
many of our ancestors, and can be successful today; adept at manipulating
people, a psychopath can enter a community, “like a church or a cultural
organisation, saying, ‘I believe the same things you do’, but of course what we
have is really a cat pretending to be a mouse, and suddenly all the money’s
gone”. At this point he floats the name Bernie Madoff.
Columbine High School killers Dylan Klebold (right) and Eric Harris
captured on CCTV on the day of the massacre (Reuters/Gary Caskey)
This
brings up the issue of treatment. “Psychopathy is probably the most
pleasant-feeling of all the mental disorders,” says the journalist Jon Ronson,
whose book, The Psychopath Test, explored the concept of psychopathy and the
mental health industry in general. “All of the things that keep you good,
morally good, are painful things: guilt, remorse, empathy.” Fallon agrees:
“Psychopaths can work very quickly, and can have an apparent IQ higher than it
really is, because they’re not inhibited by moral concerns.”
So
psychopaths often welcome their condition, and “treating” them becomes
complicated. “How many psychopaths go to a psychiatrist for mental distress,
unless they’re in prison? It doesn’t happen,” says Hare. The ones in prison, of
course, are often required to go to “talk therapy, empathy training, or talk to
the family of the victims” – but since psychopaths don’t have any empathy, it
doesn’t work. “What you want to do is say, ‘Look, it’s in your own
self-interest to change your behaviour, otherwise you’ll stay in prison for
quite a while.’ ”
It
seems Hare’s message has got through to the UK Department of Justice: in its
guidelines for working with personality-disordered inmates, it advises that
while “highly psychopathic individuals” are likely to be “highly treatment
resistant”, the “interventions most likely to be effective are those which
focus on ‘self-interest’ – what the offender wants out of life – and work with
them to develop the skills to get those things in a pro-social rather than
anti-social way.”
If
someone’s brain lacks the moral niceties the rest of us take for granted, they
obviously can’t do anything about that, any more than a colour-blind person can
start seeing colour. So where does this leave the concept of moral
responsibility? “The legal system traditionally asserts that all people
standing in front of the judge’s bench are equal. That’s demonstrably false,”
says the neuroscientist David
Eagleman, author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. He
suggests that instead of thinking in terms of blameworthiness, the law should
deal with the likelihood that someone will reoffend, and issue sentences
accordingly, with rehabilitation for those likely to benefit and long sentences
for those likely to be long-term dangers. The PCL-R is already used as part of
algorithms which categorise people in terms of their recidivism risk. “Life
insurance companies do exactly this sort of thing, in actuarial tables, where
they ask: ‘What age do we think he’s going to die?’ No one’s pretending they
know exactly when we’re going to die. But they can make rough guesses which
make for an enormously more efficient system.”
What
this doesn’t mean, he says, is a situation like the sci-fi film Minority Report,
in which people who are likely to commit crimes are locked up before they
actually do. “Here's why,” he says. “It's because many people in the population
have high levels of psychopathy - about 1 per cent. But not all of them become
criminals. In fact many of them, because of their glibness and charm and
willingness to ride roughshod over the people in their way, become quite
successful. They become CEOs, professional athletes, soldiers. These people are
revered for their courage and their straight talk and their willingness to
crush obstacles in their way. Merely having psychopathy doesn't tell us that a
person will go off and commit a crime.” It is central to the justice system,
both in Britain and America, that you can’t pre-emptively punish someone. And
that won’t ever change, says Eagleman, not just for moral, philosophical
reasons, but for practical ones. The Minority Report scenario is a fantasy,
because “it's impossible to predict what somebody will do, even given their
personality type and everything, because life is complicated and crime is
conceptual. Once someone has committed a crime, once someone has stepped over a
societal boundary, then there's a lot more statistical power about what they're
likely to do in future. But until that's happened, you can't ever know.”
Speaking
to all these experts, I notice they all talk about psychopaths as “them”,
almost as a different species, although they make conscious efforts not to.
There’s something uniquely troubling about a person who lacks emotion and
empathy; it’s the stuff of changeling stories, the Midwich Cuckoos, Hannibal
Lecter. “You know kids who use a magnifying glass to burn ants, thinking, this
is interesting,” says Hare. “Translate that to an adult psychopath who treats a
person that way. It is chilling.” At one stage Ronson suggests I speak to
another well-known self-described psychopath, a woman, but I can’t bring myself
to. I find the idea unsettling, as if he’d suggested I commune with the dead.
• This article originally stated that autism was a "personality
disorder". It is in fact a neurodevelopmental disorder. This has been
corrected; apologies for the error. Tom
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to order from Telegraph Books at £10.99 + £1.35p&p. Call 0844 871 1514 or
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[comment]
‘Honestly, I'm pretty
sure I'm a sociopath, and honestly not that bad of a person. I can be a
nightmare if you cross me, I'll plot year-long revenge schemes, but if you're a
friend of mine I'm the nicest, most dependable and trustworthy friend you could
have. I don't really have real morals or a conscience…’ (typical nigger)
Psychopathy and sociopathy are both
anti-social personality disorders. While both these disorders are the result of
an interaction between genetic predispositions and environmental factors,
psychopathy leans towards the hereditary whereas sociopathy tends towards the
environmental.
Psychopaths are born with temperamental
differences such as impulsivity, cortical underarousal, and fearlessness that
lead them to risk-seeking behavior and an inability to internalize
social norms. On the other hand, sociopaths have relatively normal
temperaments; their personality disorder being more an effect of negative sociological factors like
parental neglect, delinquent peers, poverty, and extremely low or extremely
high intelligence.
Anti-social personality disorder results
in extremely violent acts. Though psychiatrists often consider and treat
sociopaths and psychopaths as the same, criminologists treat them as different
because of the difference in their outward behaviour.
|
Psychopath
|
Sociopath
|
Predisposition to
Violence |
High |
Varied |
Impulsivity |
High |
Varies |
Behavior |
Erratic |
Controlled |
Criminal behavior |
Tendency to leave clues
and act on impulse. |
Tendency to participate
in schemes and take calculated risks to minimize evidence or exposure. |
Criminal
Predispositions |
Tendency for impulsive
or opportunistic criminal behavior, excessive risk taking, impulsive or
opportunistic violence. |
Tendency for
premeditated crimes with controllable risks, criminal opportunism, fraud,
calculated or opportunistic violence. |
Social relationships |
Unable to maintain
normal relationships.
Values relationships that benefit themselves. |
Tendency to appear
superficially normal in social relationships, often social predators. |
Suffers from |
Antisocial personality
disorder (ASPD); lack of empathy or
conscience, delusional. |
Antisocial personality
disorder (ASPD). |
By
Michael Snyder, on April 9th, 2014
The
collection of facts and statistics that you are about to read is highly
controversial. A lot of people are going to be greatly upset by it.
Why? Because they don’t like to be confronted with the truth about
America. Most people tend to believe that we can “fix this country” by
getting the right politicians into power or by implementing certain economic or
social reforms. But the reality of the matter is that our problems go far
deeper than that. A moral collapse is eating away at the foundations of
our society like cancer. If it continues to go unchecked, it will inevitably
destroy America. Unfortunately, fixing moral decay is far more difficult
than switching out political parties, because it is in the hearts of hundreds
of millions of individual Americans. And most people don’t want to hear
anything about a “moral collapse”, because most people like to think that the
United States is setting a “good example” for the rest of the planet. But
as you will see below, that is not the case at all.
And
if we are honest with ourselves, we see the evidence of this moral collapse all
around us every day. Just consider a few of the news stories that we have
seen recently…
What
would cause a high school kid to take two kitchen knives and go on a stabbing rampage through
his school?
What
would cause a topless woman to ransack
a McDonald’s in St. Petersburg, Florida?
What
would cause two 18-year-old boys to beat a 30-year-old mentally-disabled man to
death with a baseball bat just so
they could get his XBox?
What
would cause a new father to put his 6-week-old daughter in a freezer to keep her from crying?
A
lot of people regard those kinds of stories as “isolated incidents”, but as you
will see below, they are actually representative of a much larger trend.
As a society, we are decaying from the inside out, and we need to start facing
the truth if we are ever going to get this turned around. The following
are 100 facts about the moral collapse of America that are almost too crazy to
believe…
#1 Approximately
one-third of the entire population of the United States (110 million people) currently
has a sexually transmitted disease according to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
#2 Every single year,
there are 20 million new STD cases in America.
#3 America has the
highest STD infection rate in the entire
industrialized world.
#4 Americans in the
15 to 24-year-old age group account for about 50 percent of all new STD
cases each year.
#5 It costs our
nation approximately 16 billion dollars a year
to treat our sexually transmitted diseases.
#6 According to one
survey, 24 percent of all U.S. teens that have
STDs say that they still have unprotected sex.
#7 In Chicago, public
school kindergarten teachers are now required to set aside 30 minutes a month for sex
education.
#8 The United States
has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the
entire industrialized world.
#9 According to a
study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately two-thirds
of all Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket have engaged in oral sex.
#10 At this point, one out of every four teen girls in the U.S.
has at least one sexually transmitted disease.
#11 According to the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, there are 747,408 registered sex
offenders in the United States.
#12 There are 106,216 registered sex offenders in the
state of California alone.
#13 18 percent of all women in the United
States say that they have been raped at some point in their lives.
#14 More than 50 percent of all
rapes take place within one mile of the home.
#15 Teens that are in
the 16 to 19-year-old age bracket are 3 1/2 times more likely
than the general population “to be the victims of rape, attempted rape or
sexual assault.”
#16 60 percent of male sex abuse victims and 80 percent of female sex abuse victims “are abused by
someone known to the child or the child’s family.”
#17 It is estimated
that one out of every four girls
will be sexually abused before they become adults.
#18 An astounding 30 percent of all Internet traffic now
goes to adult websites.
#19 70 percent of all men in the 18 to
24-year-old age bracket visit at least one adult website each month.
#20 The average high
school boy spends two hours on adult websites every single
week.
#21 Law enforcement
officials estimate that about 600,000 Americans and about 65,000 Canadians
are trading dirty child
pictures online.
#22 It has been
estimated that 89 percent of all pornography is
produced in the United States.
#23 One survey
discovered that 25 percent of all employees that
have Internet access in America visit sex websites while they are at work.
#24 The marriage rate
in the United States has fallen to an all-time low. Right now it is
sitting at a yearly rate of 6.8 marriages per 1000
people.
#25 In the United
States today, more than half of all couples “move
in together” before they get married.
#26 Not surprisingly,
an all-time low 44.2 percent of all Americans in the 25 to
34-year-old age bracket are married at this point.
#27 America has the
highest divorce rate in the world by a good
margin.
#28 America has the
highest percentage of one person households on the
entire planet.
#29 100 years ago,
4.52 people were living in the average U.S. household, but now the average U.S.
household only consists of 2.59 people.
#30 According to the
Pew Research Center, only 51 percent of all American adults are
currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all adults in the United
States were married.
#31 For women under
the age of 30 in the United States, more than half of all
babies are being born out of wedlock.
#32 At this point,
approximately one out of every three
children in the United States lives in a home without a father.
#33 In 1970, the
average woman had her first child when she was 21.4 years old. Now the
average woman has her first child when she is 25.6 years old.
#34 In a massacre
that is almost unspeakable, more than 56
million American babies have been slaughtered in this country since Roe v.
Wade was decided in 1973.
#35 Approximately 47 percent of the women that get an
abortion each year in the United States have also had a previous abortion.
#36 The number of
American babies killed by abortion each year is roughly equal to the number of U.S. military
deaths that have occurred in all of the wars that the United States has ever
been involved in combined.
#37 About one-third of all American
women will have had an abortion by the age of 45.
#38 Approximately
3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of the destruction of the World
Trade Center towers on 9/11. Every single day, more than
3,000 American babies are killed by abortion when you include all forms of
abortion.
#39 The United States
has the highest abortion rate in the western world.
#40 It has been
reported that a staggering 41 percent of all New York City pregnancies end in abortion.
#41 Most women that
get abortions in the United States claim to be Christian. Protestant
women get 42 percent of all abortions and Catholic
women get 27 percent of all abortions.
#42 According to
Pastor Clenard Childress, approximately 52 percent
of all African-American pregnancies now end in abortion.
#43 About 18 percent of all abortions in the United States each
year are performed on teenagers.
#44 One very shocking
study found that 86 percent of all abortions are done for
the sake of convenience.
#45 A Department of
Homeland Security report that was released in January 2012 says that if you are
“anti-abortion”, you are a potential terrorist.
#46 Some abortion
clinics have been caught selling aborted baby parts to medical researchers.
#47 Planned
Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger once said the following…
“The
most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill
it.”
But
now she is praised in the halls of the U.S. Congress.
#48 Planned
Parenthood performs more than 300,000 abortions
every single year.
#49 Planned
Parenthood specifically targets the poor. A staggering 72 percent of Planned Parenthood’s
“customers” have incomes that are either equal to or beneath 150 percent of the
federal poverty level. And most of those “customers” live in minority
neighborhoods.
#50 There are 30 Planned Parenthood
executives that make more than $200,000 a year. A few of them
actually make more than $300,000 a year.
#51 Planned
Parenthood receives hundreds of millions of dollars
from the federal government every single year.
#52 The FDA is
actually considering making it legal for doctors and scientists to create “three parent babies” in the
United States.
#53 An all-time high 59 percent of all Americans believe that
the traditional definition of marriage needs to be changed.
#54 The number of
sexual assaults in the U.S. military is at an all-time high, and the majority
of them are male on male.
#55 During 2012, more than 85,000
military veterans were formally treated for sexual abuse that they suffered
while serving in the U.S. military.
#56 The number of
active members of the U.S. military that kill themselves each year now exceeds the number that are dying
on the battlefield.
#57 According to one absolutely shocking study, 22
military veterans kill themselves in the United States every single day.
#58 America has the highest
incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in
the entire world by a wide margin.
#59 In America today,
there are 60 million people that abuse
alcohol and there are 22 million people that use illegal drugs.
#60 Incredibly, more than 11 percent of all
Americans that are 12 years of age or older admit that they have driven home
under the influence of alcohol at least once during the past year.
#61 According to a
study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one
prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at
least five prescription drugs.
#62 According to the
CDC, approximately 9 out of every 10 Americans that
are at least 60 years old say that they have taken at least one prescription
drug within the last month.
#63 Americans spend more than 280 billion
dollars on prescription drugs each year.
#64 According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors in the United States write more than 250
million prescriptions for antidepressants each year.
#65 Right now, there
are 70 million Americans that are
on mind-altering drugs of one form or another.
#66 Children in the
United States are three times more likely to
be prescribed antidepressants than children in Europe are.
#67 In the United
States today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and
cocaine combined.
#68 America has the highest rate
of illegal drug use on the entire planet.
#69 According to the
federal government, the number of heroin addicts in the United States has more than doubled since
2002.
#70 The number of
heroin-related overdose deaths has risen 84 percent just since 2010.
#71 It is hard to
believe, but 56 percent of all Americans now have
“subprime credit”.
#72 Of all the major
industrialized nations, America is the most obese. Mexico is #2.
#73 Only one state in the entire country has an
obesity rate of under 20 percent. 11 states have an obesity rate of over 30
percent.
#74 Back in 1962, only 13 percent of all Americans
were obese, but it is being projected that 42 percent of all Americans could be
obese by the year 2030.
#75 Corruption is
rampant throughout our society. In fact, America leads the world in money given to fake
charities.
#76 Without strong
families, our young people are constantly in search of an identity.
According to the FBI, there are now more than 1.4 million
gang members involved in the 33,000 active criminal gangs in the United
States.
#77 In 2012, the
latest full year that we have numbers for, the rate of violent crime in the
United States increased by 15 percent.
#78 The average young
American will spend 10,000 hours playing video games
before the age of 21.
#79 One study
discovered that 88 percent of all Americans from age 8
to age 18 play video games, and that approximately four times as many boys are
addicted to video games as girls are.
#80 Average SAT
scores have been falling for years,
and the level of education that our kids are receiving in most of our public
schools is a total joke.
#81 At this point,
15-year-olds that attend U.S. public schools do not even rank in
the top half of all industrialized nations when it comes
to math or science literacy.
#82 We live a time
when most employers no longer care about their employees. As I wrote
about the other day, a company that Warren
Buffett has a controlling interest in has decided to shut down a factory in Kentucky and move it to Honduras just
so that he can make a little bit more money. As a result, 600
workers are going to lose their jobs.
#83 There are more than 3 million reports of child
abuse in the United States every single year.
#84 According to a
recent Pew Research Center survey,
60 percent of all Americans believe that “humans and other living things have
evolved over time”, while only 33 percent of respondents rejected this
statement.
#85 Nearly one-fifth of all U.S. adults have no
religious affiliation whatsoever. Back in 1972, only 7 percent of all
U.S. adults had no religious affiliation.
#86 The number of
Americans with no religious affiliation has grown by 25 percent over the past five years.
#87 The younger you
are, the more likely you are not to be affiliated with a religion. 9
percent of all U.S. adults that are 65 or older have no religious affiliation,
but a whopping 32 percent of all U.S. adults under the
age of 30 have no religious affiliation.
#88 88 percent of those that are religiously unaffiliated
“are not looking for religion”.
#89 73 percent of the religiously unaffiliated support gay
marriage and 72 percent of the religiously unaffiliated support legalized
abortion.
#90 The religiously
unaffiliated now make up 24 percent of all registered voters “who are Democrats
or lean Democratic”.
#91 For the first
time ever, Protestants do not make up a majority of the U.S. population.
In 2007, Protestants made up 53 percent of the U.S. population, but now they
only make up 48 percent of the U.S. population. Way
back in 1972, Protestants made up 62 percent of the U.S. population.
#92 29 percent of all U.S. adults “seldom or never attend
religious services”.
#93 51 percent of all U.S. adults believe that churches and
other religious organizations “are too concerned with money and power”.
#94 66 percent of all U.S. adults believe that religion is
“losing its influence on American life”.
#95 According to the
U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Americans with “no religion” more than doubled between 1990
and 2008.
#96 According to the American Religious
Identification Survey, only 76 percent of all Americans identified
themselves as “Christian” of one type or another in 2008. Back in 1990, 86 percent of all Americans identified
themselves as “Christian” of one type or another.
#97 A study conducted
by the Barna Group discovered that nearly 60 percent of all
Christians from 15 years of age to 29 years of age are no longer actively
involved in any church.
#98 It is being
projected that the percentage of Americans attending church in 2050 will be about half of what it is today.
#99 One survey
conducted a while back found that 52 percent of all American Christians
believe that “at least some non-Christian faiths can lead to eternal life”.
#100 According to
LifeWay Research, 46 percent of all Americans never even
think about whether they will go to heaven or not.
About
the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former
Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller entitled “The Beginning Of The End”
is now available on Amazon.com.
Don Sterling and Rod Serling
Truly an unlikely pair
Now barely can come up for air
Yes Don, ‘tis true as you say
spics drink (do drugs) and hang out
While niggers smell, do the same, and carrying vermin
flout
The norms of civilized behavior
The sanctity of peaceful living Sterling is savior
america in decline is appalled
The truth out, Sterling gets mauled
How long will lost angles america last
As all are aghast
That fallen america’s still standing
Unfold and embrace Sterling’s tome
Reality and truth his tool
He’s certainly no fool
Sterling’s now entered Serling’s
american twilight zone
{ I must honestly say,
from direct experience over a considerable amount of time and in a wide variety
of circumstances and geographic locations including LA particularly as relevant
here, the uncivilized niggers are so deleterious to whatever locations they
inhabit, occupy, or are present; that they are so, euphemistically speaking,
unpleasant and inherently criminal, lazy, unproductive, and mentally challenged
if not clearly mentally ill, it should be said in defense of Sterling who no
doubt with LA in mind merely expounded upon the truth of the foregoing reality
in a very innocuous way, however politically incorrect in this period of
american decline. They’re just typical bulls*** niggers! }
I felt constrained
to include the following passage from acclaimed, consummate author/artist
(anonymous so as to preclude retribution for honesty) and former spook:
‘… We live in an age where only
fundamental issues matter … The united states is no longer capable of
undertaking its own revolution … The political posture of the united kingdom is
‘( along with germany and america et als )’ without relevance or moral
viability in world affairs … In ‘( pseudo )’ capitalist america economic
repression of the masses is institutionalized to a point which not even lenin
could have foreseen … The cold war began in 1917 but the bitterest struggles
lie ahead of us, as america’s death-bed ‘(death-bed indeed)’ paranoia drives
her to greater excesses ‘(in fact, indeed)’ abroad ‘(and domestically)’ … He
spoke not of the decline of the west, but of its death by greed and
constipation. He hated america very deeply … He had often wondered which side
he would be on if the test ever came; after prolonged reflection he had finally
to admit that if either monolith had to win the day, he would prefer it to be
the East. … ‘ { Though stated by a fictional character in but a well-informed
novel, this articulated position significantly preceding the ‘fall of the wall’
has proved to be both prescient and rational! ( that within parentheses added )
}
Eric Zuesse | Why are
Americans puzzled that foreigners consider the U.S. to be the nation that’s the
biggest threat to world peace?
Liberty Blitzkrieg blog |
During this week’s Senate hearings, Janet Yellen was asked by Senator Bernie
Sanders if the U.S. was a capitalist democracy or has morphed into an
oligarchy.
This is a list of the "smartest" and
"dumbest" states in the country based on the percentage of the
population with at least a bachelor's degree.
The
healthiest states for retirees
Ranking the 50 states on health and lifestyle considerations
CHINA TO SURPASS AMERICA AS
WORLD'S LARGEST ECONOMY...
Note: I’m here in San Diego County in my new/old 39 foot
Chevy Motorhome. I can’t get a signal for my Verizon LG smartphone (I’ll be
taking a spin in my Ford Explorer in search of a signal; my VOIP phone,
magicjack requiring a broadband connection, is currently not up except for
voicemail). The wifi internet connection also limits the uploading of files so
not all the images in the folders/directories to interim updates are included
(I’ll create a separate complete update page later with broadband connection).
The following are currently the updates with said limitations:
http://albertpeia.com/interimupdates102613-11714
http://albertpeia.com/interimupdates011814-030914
http://albertpeia.com/interimupdates031014-041514
http://albertpeia.com/interimupdates041414-050114
The radio reception is also limited which led me to ‘sample’ some limited AM
offerings which included shallow sean hannity the hallmark of insanity, and
‘rush revere’ [limbaugh… he’s totally burnt out (the consequence of his being
‘tired of carrying the water for the republican party’? - his own words),
relegated now to authoring children’s illustrated books of a simplistic
nature]. Shallow sean’s latest ‘crusade’ (beyond the same note/key obvious
debacle of wobamacare) was defense of the indefensible mobster but friend of
sean’s, donald trump (trump should be in jail). In defense of t_rump, he offers
up the itsy-bitsy, teeny weeny wohlman skating rink project as evidence of
t_rump’s contribution to NYC (too small for high new york priority given the
magnitude of New York substantial problems, some largely the result of trumpish
tastes, ie., solid gold trump tower fixtures, etc., that trump’s ‘pre-packaged
bankrupcies’ seem to fail to touch, and which extravagance must be paid for by
someone, but not him). Shallow sean’s excoriation of new york city never seems
to link the obviousness of t_rump’s grandstanding responsibility for same.
After all, someone ultimately has to pay for trump’s disproportionate
non-value-added livin’ large. No talk of trump’s ingratiating bribe strategy
for protection ( ie., retainers to law firms linked to state attorney generals,
viz., {kimmelman} wolf and sampson, chris droney’s brother, his sister’s
protection/corruption and quid pro quo from the federal bench, etc., and as
well, protection of drug-money laundering through his now nominal only casinos
… See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm . Trump’s
a fraud! I won’t be listening to ‘rush revere’ or shallow sean prospectively.
They’re a waste of time and preposterous given their unbridled support of war
criminals bush, cheney, etc., and the failed debacles they created, etc……
By
Michael Snyder, on April 29th, 2014
No,
the economy is most definitely not "recovering". Despite what
you may hear from the politicians and from the mainstream media, the truth is
that the U.S. economy is in far worse shape than it was prior to the last
recession. In fact, we are still pretty much where we were at when the
last recession finally ended. When the financial crisis of 2008 struck,
it took us down to a much lower level economically. Thankfully, things
have at least stabilized at this much lower level. For example, the
percentage of working age Americans that are employed has stayed remarkably flat for the past
four years. We should be grateful that things have not continued to
get even worse. It is almost as if someone has hit the "pause
button" on the U.S. economy. But things are definitely not getting
better, and there are a whole host of signs that this bubble of false stability
will soon come to an end and that our economic decline will accelerate once
again. The following are 17 facts to show to anyone that believes that
the U.S. economy is just fine...
#1 The homeownership
rate in the United States has dropped to the lowest level in 19 years.
#2 Consumer spending
for durable goods has dropped by 3.23 percent since
November. This is a clear sign that an economic slowdown is ahead.
#3 Major retailers
are closing stores at the fastest pace that we have seen since the
collapse of Lehman Brothers.
#4 According to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of all families in the United
States do not have a single member that is employed. That means that one
out of every five families in the entire country is completely unemployed.
#5 There are 1.3 million fewer jobs in
the U.S. economy than when the last recession began in December 2007.
Meanwhile, our population has continued to grow steadily since that time.
#6 According to a new report from
the National Employment Law Project, the quality of the jobs that have been
"created" since the end of the last recession does not match the
quality of the jobs lost during the last recession...
#7 After adjusting
for inflation, men who work full-time in America today make less money than men who worked
full-time in America 40 years ago.
#8 It is hard to
believe, but 62 percent of all Americans make $20 or
less an hour at this point.
#9 Nine of the top ten
occupations in the U.S. pay an average wage of less than $35,000 a year.
#10 The middle class
in Canada now makes more money than the middle class in the
United States does.
#11 According to one
recent study, 40 percent of all
Americans could not come up with $2000 right now even if there was a major
emergency.
#12 Less than one out
of every four Americans has enough money put away to cover six months of
expenses if there was a job loss or major emergency.
#13 An astounding 56 percent of all Americans have
subprime credit in 2014.
#14 As I wrote about
the other day, there are now 49 million Americans that are
dealing with food insecurity.
#15 Ten years ago,
the number of women in the U.S. that had jobs outnumbered the number of women
in the U.S. on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin. But now the
number of women in the U.S. on food stamps actually exceeds the number of
women that have jobs.
#16 69 percent of the federal budget is
spent either on entitlements or on welfare programs.
#17 The number of
Americans receiving benefits from the federal government each month exceeds the
number of full-time workers in the private sector by more than 60 million.
Taken
individually, those numbers are quite remarkable.
Taken
collectively, they are absolutely breathtaking.
Yes,
things have been improving for the wealthy for the last several years.
The stock market has soared to new record highs and real estate prices in the
Hamptons have skyrocketed to unprecedented heights.
But
that is not the real economy. In the real economy, the middle class is
being squeezed out of existence. The quality of our jobs is declining and
prices just keep rising. This reality was reflected quite well in a
comment that one of my readers left on one of my recent articles...
It
is getting worse each passing month. The food bank I help out, has barely
squeaked by the last 3 months. Donors are having to pull back, to take care of
their own families. Wages down, prices up, simple math tells you we can not
hold out much longer. Things are going up so fast, you have to adopt a new way
of thinking. Example I just had to put new tires on my truck. Normally I would
have tried to get by to next winter. But with the way prices are moving, I
decide to get them while I could still afford them. It is the same way with
food. I see nothing that will stop the upward trend for quite a while. So if
you have a little money, and the space, buy it while you can afford it. And
never forget, there will be some people worse off than you. Help them if you
can.
And
the false stock bubble that the wealthy are enjoying right now will not last
that much longer. It is an artificial bubble that has been pumped up by
unprecedented money printing by the Federal Reserve, and like all bubbles that
the Fed creates, it will eventually burst.
None
of the long-term trends that are systematically destroying our economy have
been addressed, and none of our major economic problems have been fixed.
In fact, as I showed in this recent article, we are actually in far
worse shape than we were just prior to the last major financial crisis.
Let
us hope that this current bubble of false stability lasts for as long as
possible.
That
is what I am hoping for.
But
let us not be deceived into thinking that it is permanent.
It
will soon burst, and then the real pain will begin.
Paul
Craig Roberts | The US economy is a house of cards. Every aspect of it is
fraudulent, and the illusion of recovery is created with fraudulent statistics.
{ Totally fraudulent! This is absolutely true! )
Washington’s
Blog | “We Are No Longer a Nation Ruled By Laws”. { I warned everyone of this
truth from my direct experience and observation:
Kurt Nimmo |
Political correctness reigns supreme as hypocrite rallies on basketball
court. { Problem is, it’s not correct,
politically or otherwise! }
Don Sterling and Rod Serling
Truly an unlikely pair
Now barely can come up for air
Yes Don, ‘tis true as you say
spics drink (do drugs) and hang out
While niggers smell, do the same, and carrying vermin
flout
The norms of civilized behavior
The sanctity of peaceful living Sterling is savior
america in decline is appalled
The truth out, Sterling gets mauled
How long will lost angles america last
As all are aghast
That fallen america’s still standing
Unfold and embrace Sterling’s tome
Reality and truth his tool
He’s certainly no fool
Sterling’s now entered Serling’s
american twilight zone
NSA Releases Snowden Emails,
Claim Never Contacted Over Spying Concerns... { Come on!
… Who believes their s***! … Claim of ‘no contact’ just a mouse click
away from delete and cover-up … I personally have directly experienced
governmental database intrusion/sabotage which is rather easy for them when
typical american criminals/dummies/bureaucrats/mental cases ‘fall all over
themselves’ to help out the ‘james bonds’ (in reality criminals, assassins,
drug dealers/$launderers, frauds, thieves, mental cases, etc.) still on the
reservation … That’s why government approvals potentially impacting
constitutional rights (ie., 1st, 2nd, 4th
amendments, etc.) should and must be resisted! You can’t trust the government,
federal, state, local … they’re americans in decline in an america in decline
and lack integrity, courage, and fortitude … Process? … riiiight … Snowden’d be
dead … } NSA
releases Snowden email after denying its existence RT | Former National Security Agency
contractor Edward Snowden did raise questions with top NSA lawyers, the agency
admitted on Thursday.
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 05/29/2014 - 14:22
... Obama Has Committed
War Crimes As Well
{ I’m totally astounded
by the press that lightweight neocon mccain’s been getting of late … Who would
be more astute/reliable, from an intellectual/analytical/knowledgeable
perspective … Pat Buchanan (hardly a closet liberal/democrat) or mccain?
Mccain’s views are unreasoned, all over the map and much like that which one
might expect from an automaton robotic gumball machine of sorts that spits out
pre-recorded responses once you put in a coin, and predictably self-interested
and more often than not, hypocritical (Senility? Metastasis of his face cancer
to his brain?, Etc.?). Take the Bergdahl matter; ie., mccain himself was
labeled by his fellow prisoners of war as the songbird, for his singing for VC
benefit the treasonous songs which for the moment made life as a POW more
bearable for him though in contravention of military code. Everyone breaks
could be his not unreasonable response … but not for mccain. Is there one
rational person who truly believes that GOD would so lower Himself to the point
of conversation with a braincell deficient dry drunk, totally burnt out (LSD,
copious amounts of cocaine-he could afford plenty, etc.) war criminal and moron
( see, ie., http://albertpeia.com/bushisms.htm ) as george dumbya bush? Most such as who
would make such claim, particularly to defensively buttress his misguided,
costly military-industrial complex welfare programs leaving death, injury,
destruction and defacto bankruptcy in his wake, would be labeled schizophrenic
with positive symptoms (ie., delusions, hallucinations). Then there’s the ‘tin
man’ cheney. Persistent deferment-seeker when ‘his nation called’, chicken hawk
cheney ‘acted’ to preserve ‘our way of life’; literally, his way of life, viz.,
the military-industrial complex even as the way of life for the vast majority
in america has been substantially and severely negatively impacted; but, he can
when self-interested be liberal too in supporting gay marriage ( I couldn’t
care less ) because his daughter’s a lesbian. Pat Buchanan says the Iraq
debacle was a mistake ab initio. I agree! (this is not to say that saddamn
hussein insane wasn’t a deplorable/despicable despot/murderer deserving of his
fateful end, but rather america’s(/cia) creation to fight a proxy war against
Iran creating the turmoil/chaos on which they and the military/industrial
complex thrive). }
Obama as
unpopular as George W. Bush in poll
The Hill | A new survey suggests
President Obama is just as unpopular as former President George W. Bush.
A new survey suggests President Obama is
just as unpopular as former President George W. Bush.
Just over half of those polled, 51
percent, have an unfavorable view of Obama, and 51 percent currently feel the
same about Bush, according to a CNN/ORC International poll released
Thursday.
Forty-seven percent of the public has a
favorable rating of Obama, which CNN said is a new low for him, and roughly
identical to Bush’s favorable rating of 46 percent.
Days before leaving the White House in
January 2009, Bush had a favorable rating of 35 percent. After the 2008
election, Obama had a 78 percent favorable rating.
· Poll: Obama approval at all-time
low
· 27 percent:
Bush hits new approval low in Fox News poll.
Have
you noticed that prices are going up rapidly? If so, you are certainly
not alone. But Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, the Obama
administration and the mainstream media would have us believe that inflation is
completely under control and exactly where it should be. Perhaps if the
highly manipulated numbers that they quote us were real, everything would be
fine. But of course the way that the inflation rate is calculated has
been changed more than 20 times since the 1970s, and at this point it bears so
little relation to reality that it is essentially meaningless. Anyone
that has to regularly pay for food, water, gas, electricity or anything else
knows that inflation is too high. In fact, if inflation was calculated
the same way that it was back in 1980, the inflation rate would be close
to 10 percent right now. (Read More....)
{ Well, now we know why
we all think the fed’s contra-indicated feeble misguided approach has failed …
The fed’s in a parallel universe … right, you heard it … a parallel universe
much like the one that zimbabwee, that bastion of economic/capitalist
principles and democracy, inhabits … yes, where there’s no inflation (but just
hyperinflation – some records just broken regarding dollar-debased runaway
prices); and, like their kindred soul men of zimbabwee, record paper stock
prices … just kidding about the parallel universe! }
Today’s
Current Topics/Articles/News
The year of dollar danger for
the world
Inside the Beltway: Scott Walker inherits the 'Mitt Romney vote' Washington Times The catcalling press
continues to trail after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, hoping to make an issue
over his lack of a college diploma, among other things. { Diploma? … Dumbya bush has 2 diplomas and
can’t think his way out of a paper bag and barely can speak his (one and only)
native language http://albertpeia.com/bushisms.htm bushisms
from bush the brain-damaged moron (‘gentleman’s Cs’? … I think it was Milton Friedman who once said
that dumbya bush would have flunked out of the University of Chicago … I
believe that) … I respect education …
have three degrees (etc.) myself (NYU B.S. Bus.Adm. 1973, eves NYU GBA MBA Finance 1977, eves NYLS J.D. Law 1981) http://albertpeia.com/alresume.htm
and I can honestly say given the pervasively corrupt/fraudulent state of this
meaningfully lawless nation, Finance has along with Law been rendered
irrelevant and meaningless (http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm
) … What can he do must be the fair question for these dire/perilous times … }
http://albertpeia.com/topexpertspredicteconomicdisaster2015.htm
Putin
Predicted Washington Would Employ Assassination Tactic Against Russia { I believe both Putin and Gorbachev are
correct … After all, Putin has been to those in the know, a savior to those
opposed to ruthless, insatiable forces with imperialistic/world order designs
which, in their desperation and failed policies absolutely resent, envy, and
abhor Putin’s success as an historically formidable world-class leader who has
saved Russia, and in many ways, this world from war mongering criminals who
would literally do anything to undermine him! }
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 02/28/2015 -
18:53
Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 03/01/2015 - 21:05
A
short tribute to a decent human being...
Gorbachev:
Murder of Opposition Leader Was a False Flag
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 02/28/2015 - 18:53
Like
the Ukrainian Sniper Murders
Housing
Industry Frets About the Next Brick to Drop
Posted by: testosteronepit
Post date: 03/01/2015 - 00:54
Cashing
out of the “Bet on America” might get messy.
Can
you imagine a world where your home, your vehicles, your appliances and every
single electronic device that you own is constantly connected to the
Internet? This is not some grand vision that is being planned for some
day in the future. This is something that is being systematically
implemented right now. In 2015, we already have “smart homes”, vehicles that talk to one another,
refrigerators that are connected
to the Internet, and televisions that spy on us. Our world is
becoming increasingly interconnected, and that opens up some wonderful
possibilities. But there is also a downside. What if we rapidly
reach a point where one must be connected to the Internet in
order to function in society? Will there come a day when we can’t even do
basic things such as buy, sell, get a job or open a bank account without
it? And what about the potential for government abuse? Could an
“Internet of Things” create a dystopian nightmare where everyone and everything
will be constantly monitored and tracked by the government? That is
something to think about. (Read More....)
Are
we in love with how smart we are? In America today, there are technology
companies that have a much larger “cult following” than any religious
organization. And there are millions upon millions of Americans that
freely confess that they “believe in science”. So what does this say
about us? Does it say that we have discarded ancient “superstitions” and
instead have embraced logic and reason? Sadly, in most cases the truth is
that we have simply traded one form of religion for another. Scientists
and technology gurus have become our new high priests, and most of us blindly
follow whatever they tell us. But in the end, just like with so many
religious organizations, it is all about the money. Those with the money
determine what the science is going to say, who the high priests are going to
be, and what messages are conveyed to the public. For example, once upon
a time the big tobacco companies had armies of doctors and scientists that
swore up and down that smoking cigarettes was not harmful. In fact, many
doctors and dentists in America once personally endorsed specific brands of
cigarettes. Of course millions of Americans were getting sick and dying,
but this was dismissed as “anecdotal evidence”. And over in Germany,
“science” was once used to prove that the Germans were the master race.
We look back in horror now, but at the time the best “science” in the world was
used as justification to promote some horrible untruths. And of course
the same thing is happening today. We are told over and over that “the
science is settled” regarding genetically-modified food, climate change and
vaccine safety, and yet those of us that think for ourselves know that isn’t
the case at all. But if you do not believe in the “official story”, you
don’t get to be part of the “scientific establishment”. By definition,
the only people that get to be “scientific experts” are the ones that embrace
the “doctrine” of those that control the big corporations, that fund the
research studies at the major universities and that own the big media
outlets. Everyone else is not permitted to be part of the discussion. (Read More...)
Over
the past few weeks, a new piece of equipment has been spotted hanging off the
NYSE primary microwave tower. Here it is...
Slowly,
all the lies of the "recovery", all the skeletons in the closet, and
all the bodies swept under the rug are emerging. Moments ago, Austrian ORF reported that there have been "spectacular
developments" in the case of the Hypo Alpe Adria bad bank, also known
as the Heta Asset Resolution, where an outside audit of Heta's balance sheet exposed
a capital hole of up to 7.6 billion euros ($8.51 billion) which the government
was not prepared to fill, the Austrian Financial Market Authority said.
The punchline: "The finance ministry noted that creditors can be
forced to contribute to the costs of winding down Heta - or "bailed
in" - under new European legislation that Austria adopted this year so
that taxpayers do not have to shoulder the entire burden."
While
the citizenry of America remains transfixed by the ever-changing color of some
Scottish wedding dress; this weekend saw an even more massively viral social
media phenomenon as tens of millions of Chinese watched, gripped and
outraged, a 104-minute video entitled "Under The Dome" exposing the
ugly truth about Chinese air pollution...
"The
Fed is out of control," exclaims David Stockman - perhaps best known for
architecting Reagan's economic turnaround known as 'Morning in America' -
adding that "people don't want to hear the reality and the truth
that we're facing." Policymakers are "taking our economy in
a direction that is dangerous, that is not sustainable, and is likely
to fully undermine everything that's been built up and created by the American
people over decades and decades." The Fed, Stockman concludes,
"is a rogue institution," and their actions have led us to "one
of the scariest moments in our history... it's a festering time-bomb
and we're not sure when it will explode."
"...a
small proposal for the emendation of such tatters of the Constitution as can be
found: For voting in
federal elections, we should employ a literacy test to disenfranchise the
majority of the population, to the infinite betterment of the country. This
wise move should be accompanied by an increase in the voting age to
twenty-five. The
necessity cannot be denied..."
Despite
a 7% rise in actual tourist arrivals to Macau from China during this Lunar New
Year's holiday, 'The Year of The Goat' is off to an extremely inauspicious
start. As Bloomberg reports,
even with expectations of a 40% drop, Macau casino revenues is now
projected to crash a stunning 53.5% from last year. While a decline in
VIP gambling was expected (due to, among other things, Xi's extreme crackdown
on corruption - and the Macau money laundering schemes), JPMorgan notes, this
was still "shockingly bad," as "even premium mass demand
remained very muted," and marks the ninth straight month of decline,
the longest losing streak since monthly records started in 2005.
"By
lowering the cost of borrowing, QE has lowered the risk of default. This has
led to overcapacity (see highly leveraged shale companies). Overcapacity leads
to deflation. With QE, are central banks manufacturing what they are trying to
defeat?"
Paul
Krugman may (or may not) know a lot of economic theory and is a very clever
writer, but you should never ever trust him to recount tales of battles between
Keynesians and other schools of thought. His misrememberings in this
realm are so astounding that they would impress Brian Williams.
Under
normal circumstances, after 2008's conflagration of the calamitous
collateralizations, we shouldn’t have seen such irrational, reckless,
greedy behavior from Wall Street for another generation. But, Wall
Street didn’t have to accept the consequences of their actions. They were
bailed out and further enriched by their puppets at the Federal Reserve, the
lackey politicians they installed in Washington D.C., and on the backs of
honest, hard-working, tax paying Americans. The lesson they learned was
they could continue to take excessive, reckless, unregulated risks without
concern for losses, downside, or consequences.
"On October 15, the deepest and most liquid market in the world
demonstrated a six standard deviation move in less than two hours, a move that
happens once in 506,797,346 days and a recent report by BlackRock highlights
how “the secondary trading environment for corporate bonds today is broken.
These examples signal that the probability of an accident is high and the stage
is set for an adverse event meeting with an outsized impact on markets and
possibly economies."
Tick...
Tock...
In
California, the low gas price "tax cut"for the consumer is officially
over as gas prices soar by 60 cents to $3.23 per gallon in the last few
weeks...
As
Søren Skou, Maerk's CEO, admitted when he warned that global trade
growth could slow this year from recent 4% growth ratnes, as Chinese, Brazilian
and Russian economies disappoint, the Baltic Dry is still not only
relevant and accurate but telling the real story of global growth, or lack
thereof. “The economies in Europe are still very sluggish. Brazil, Russia
and China: those three economies used to drive a lot of growth, and
right now we are not really seeing that to the same extent. The
only real bright spot is the US, and even the US is good but not great.” He
added that: "To my mind volumes were sluggish. There is nothing in
container volume numbers that suggest that the global economy is just on the
verge of starting a new growth trend.”
We’ve
tried medication. We’ve tried prayer. We’ve tried heavy drinking – all in
an effort to understand how our crazy money system works. And where it
leads. You’d think it would be easy. It’s just Central Banking 101, no? Well,
no. It is squirrelly... and diabolically subtle. We doubt anyone
understands it – especially those who are supposed to control it.
Yesterday
Tsipras made clear his displeasure with the betrayal of what were formerly his
socio-economic equals quite well-known, when he accused Spain and Portugal on
Saturday of leading a conservative conspiracy to topple his
anti-austerity government, saying they feared their own radical forces before
elections this year. As Reuters reports, in a
speech to his Syriza party, Tsipras turned on Madrid and Lisbon,
accusing them of taking a hard line in negotiations which led to the euro zone
extending the bailout programme last week for four months. And the
inevitable response: both nations are now demanding that the EU
"arbitrate" and respond to Tsipras' allegations, in the process
essentially validating his accusations.
Prison Planet.com |
Protestors descended on the site to fight back against the horror taking place
inside the Homan Square facility.
\
Rob Dew | Infowars
examines pro-vaccine propaganda meant to scare you into rolling up your
sleeves.
\
Zero
Hedge | The following clip suggests this was anything but an ad hoc shooting…
\
Sputnik
| Soviet ex-President Mikhail Gorbachev sees the assassination of opposition
politician Boris Nemtsov as an attempt to destabilize Russia.
\
Tony
Cartalucci | Which leaves exactly who as a possible suspect? Cui bono?
\
Washington’s
Blog | Half of the Studies Find Cause For Concern … The Other Half Are Studies
By the GMO Food Industry Itself.
\
Reuters
| Senator Rand Paul won a straw poll of conservative activists on Saturday.
\
Paul
Joseph Watson | Gun stores selling 20 times usual amount.
\
Prison
Planet.com | Infowars investigates the Chicago PD’s secret, CIA-style black
site used to unlawfully detain, torture and harass citizens.
\
Tony
Cartalucci | Martyrdom on demand: if not of use alive, perhaps of use dead?
WORLD NEWS
Our
Middle Eastern “Allies” Fund Terrorists Abroad So They Won’t Attack Them At
Home
Washington’s
Blog | With Friends Likes These …
Jihadi
John: Mohammed Emwazi ‘considered suicide to escape MI5 spies’ before fleeing
to Syria
London
Independent | Emails revealed his paranoia but he still managed to escape
Britain for Syria.
China
Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine Conflict
Zero Hedge | And
the winner is…
US
Parades Troops At Russian Border; Left-Wing Media Trembles
Truth Revolt |
“On Wednesday, the US Army did something that seemed, and maybe was,
dangerously provocative…”
Pentagon
walks back plans for spring offensive against ISIS stronghold Mosul
RT | Facing
criticism, the Pentagon announced it has pushed back plans by Iraqis to mount a
major attack to regain Mosul from the Islamic State.
·
MONEY WATCH
22
million reasons black America doesn’t trust banks
Marcus Anthony
Hunter | The story of the rise and collapse of the Freedman’s Bank is an
important and little known episode in black and American history in the years
following Emancipation.
In
“Paranormal” Europe, Banks Will Pay You To Borrow, And Charge You To Save
Zero Hedge |
Paid to take out even more debt! Call it monetary socialism.
Does Greece need a
THIRD bailout?
CNBC | Even
before the ink was dry on the extension of its current bailout program,
speculation is growing that embattled Greece is on the verge of asking for yet
more cash.
Zero Hedge |
Global “effective demand is extraordinarily weak – tantamount to the late
stages of the great depression.”
·
PRISON PLANET
With
deadline looming, Obama renews NSA program
The Hill | The
Obama administration on Friday received court reauthorization for a
controversial National Security Agency surveillance program.
“Say
‘Lawyer’ All You Want Motherf****r” Detainees from Chicago’s Police “Black
Site” Speak Out
Free Thought
Project | It was discovered this week that the Chicago Police Department has
been operating a secret “black site” facility on the city’s west side.
Cops
Promoted Despite Video of Them Severely Beating Peaceful Mentally Ill Man with
Hands Up
Free Thought
Project | When Joanna Jurgens’ schizophrenic son came to her after being
severely beaten, including a broken arm, and told her “cops did it,” she didn’t
believe him.
Under
Proposed Law, Teachers Could Face 6 Months In Jail For Teaching “Offensive”
Material
Free Thought
Project | The bill was inspired by a recent outrage that was caused by the
material in a sex education class.
COMMENTARY
Jon Rappoport |
The psychological operation to destroy the individual.
The
Entire Case for Sanctions Against Russia Is Pure Lies
Eric Zuesse |
U.S. President Barack Obama has stated many times his case against Russia — the
reason for the economic sanctions.
Pop
Quiz: How Many Constitutional Rights Have We Lost?
Washington’s
Blog | This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Common
Core Testing Regime Ruled Unconstitutional
New American | A
Missouri judge ruled this week that the federally funded testing regime for the
controversial standards was unconstitutional.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Teacher
investigated for posting ‘terrorist list’ of students on classroom door
Tampa Bay Times
| A math teacher at St. Petersburg High allegedly posted a “terrorist list” on
his classroom door with students’ names.
Police
appeal for help identifying mystery tunnel digger
Global News |
Toronto police are asking the public for help tracking down who built a chamber
or tunnel a conservation officer stumbled upon near York University.
Michael Krieger
| Take a look at how contemptuously and dismissively these parents’ concerns
are dealt with at the Collier Country School Board Workshop.
·
U.S. NEWS
Gitmo2Chicago:
Activists demand probe of ‘secret interrogation facility’
RT | Activists
in Chicago are demanding a thorough investigation into Homan Square.
Congress
just passed a bill to fund Homeland Security for one week
AP | Bordering
on dysfunction, Congress passed a one-week bill late Friday night.
Obama
Brags About Power Grab While Americans Debate Color of a Dress
Kit Daniels | Americans more concerned about the color of a
dress which went viral than they are about Internet takeover.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
DARPA
is working on tiny satellites that could provide on-demand terrain imaging for
US soldiers
Business Insider
| In late December, DARPA awarded a $1.5 million contract to Raytheon to
develop small satellites capable of quickly providing US ground troops with
imagery of their surroundings.
Pentagon
using deep web tool to ‘scoop up’ data on Islamic State
Washington Times
| “Our law enforcement colleagues, they were sort of taken aback, I think,
initially by how rich that data set was.”
World’s
first talking drone ‘can communicate with air traffic like a normal pilot’
London Telegraph
| In a world-first, the drone uses automated voice technology to issue and
receive calls to and from air traffic control.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Putin
Predicted Washington Would Employ Assassination Tactic Against Russia { I believe both Putin and Gorbachev are
correct … After all, Putin has been to those in the know, a savior to those
opposed to ruthless, insatiable forces with imperialistic/world order designs
which, in their desperation and failed policies absolutely resent, envy, and
abhor Putin’s success as an historically formidable world-class leader who has
saved Russia, and in many ways, this world from war mongering criminals who
would literally do anything to undermine him! }
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 02/28/2015 -
18:53
Less
than 24 hours ago, an estimated 4 million in gold bars were commandeered on the
side of Interstate 95 in what was the 11th largest gold bullion heist in
history.
Posted by : Sprott Money
Post date: 03/01/2015 - 23:51
Clearly
if Western governments were ‘merely’ drowning in debt-to-GDP ratios of roughly
100%, then theycould still argue that attempting to manage these
debt-loads was legitimate rather than...
Gold
Demand in Greece, Italy, Spain, Russia, Germany, UK and U.S.
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 03/02/2015 - 09:40
Reuters
Interview GoldCore. How has demand compared in different regions of Europe so
far this year? p.s. Dislike term silver bug and gold bug. Pejorative and we
don't call people stock roaches or...
The
$100 Trillion Reason the Fed is Terrified of Deflation
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 03/01/2015 - 16:58
DEBT
DEFLATION is a nightmare for the Fed because it would almost immediately
bankrupt both the US and the Too Big To Fail Wall Street Banks.
"Before
this week is up, we’ll be deploying a battalion... to the Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces for the fight that's
taking place," stated
US 173rd Airborne Brigade Commander Colonel Michael Foster said at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC on Monday. Despite earlier warnings from
Russia (and claims that NATO had not agreed to any such foreign 'boots on the
ground' action'), Sputnik News reports,
Foster added, "what we’ve got laid out is six United States
companies that will be training six Ukrainian companies throughout the summer."
Goldman's
Global Leading Indicator (GLI) final print for February affirms the global
economy has entered a contraction with accelerating negative growth.
Just six months after "expansion", the Goldman Swirlogram has
collapsed into "contraction" with monthly revisions notably ugly and 9
out of 10 components declining in February. Some have suggested, given
US equity's strong February (buyback-driven)
performance, that the US economy will decouple from the world... or even drive
it.. but that is 100% incorrect. US Macro data has fallen at its
fastest pace in 3 years and is at its weakest level since July 2011 as
42 of 48 data items have missed since the start of February.
The
2008 worldwide financial crisis was produced due to excessively easy monetary
policy, which caused the largest debt driven mal-investment in housing,
automobiles, and Chinese produced crap in world history. The consequences
of this debt bacchanalia should have been the orderly liquidation of
the Wall Street entities that created the crisis, the writing off of trillions
in bad debt, corporate and personal bankruptcies of businesses and people who
borrowed recklessly, a sharp steep economic decline to cleanse the excesses,
and politicians who immediately began the process of reducing budgets and
addressing long term unfunded unpayable liability promises. Instead,
the psychotic oligarchs did not want to lose any of their power, wealth or
control over the proletariat. They have done the exact opposite of what needed
to be done.
When
do you know that Wall Street has officially succeeded in turning back the clock
5 years? When the market’s collective mind state has been reconditioned to the
point where analysts feel comfortable creating research notes with titles like
this one: “Keep Calm and Lever Up.”
Throughout history, political, financial, and military leaders have
sought to create empires.
Great Britain owned the 19th century but lost its empire due largely to costly
wars. The US took over in the 20th century and, like Rome, rose as a republic,
with minimal central control, but is now crumbling under its own governmental
weight. Invariably, the last people to understand the collapse of an
empire are those who live within it. Americans remain hopeful that
the dramatic decline is a temporary setback from which they will rebound...Not
likely.
Presenting
the Florida jobless claims website. According to the Miami Herald reports,
on Friday, the state’s auditor general issued a scathing 45-page audit that
joins mounting evidence that CONNECT - aka Florida's Online Reemployment
Assistance System or said simpler, jobless claims website - is
a system in disarray.
Exactly 15 years ago today,
who said it?
"You
want winners? [This]
is what my fund is buying today to try to make money tomorrow and the next day
and the next? You
want my top 10 stocks for who is going to make it in the New World? You know
what? I am going to give them to you. Right here. Right now. OK. Here goes. Write them
down..."
Fifteen
months later, Money magazine reported that [his] list had cratered 82%... Accountability
ruins the game.
“They were people with great dignity,” Ivo Costamagna said of his
neighbors who committed suicide in 2013. Romeo Dionisi, 62, and Anna Maria Sopranzi, 68,
hanged themselves after Ms. Sopranzi’s pension evaporated. “Romeo just wanted a
job.” But no jobs were available in the dismal Italian economy.
In
what may be another case of research confirming common sense, a new study finds,
in all four regions of the world studied, “unemployment was related to an
increased relative risk of suicide by 20-30%." While the tragic
consequences of ZIRP, bailouts, and multiple QEs have so far been ignored, a
tsunami of suicides are coming as the under-saved American baby boom generation
faces the stark reality of having to work until they die to survive.
"The BOJ’s purchases have had a 'huge' impact on the market’s
liquidity. Buying bonds at a faster pace would make it more difficult for the
BOJ to exit from its easing policy when the time comes to reduce stimulus."
Our world is becoming increasingly interconnected, and that opens up
some wonderful possibilities. But there is also a downside. What if we rapidly reach a point where one must
be connected to the Internet in order to function in society? Will there
come a day when we can’t even do basic things such as buy, sell, get a job or
open a bank account without it? And what about the potential for
government abuse? Could an “Internet of Things” create a
dystopian nightmare where everyone and everything will be constantly monitored
and tracked by the government? That is something to
think about.
Remember,
no matter how severe the repression... it's for your own good!
yes:
the S&P may well be "fairly priced" here, if one assumes an 18x
(rounded up) forward P/E multiple to be fair - a number which is above the
prior 5-year average forward 12-month P/E ratio of 13.6, and above the prior
10-year average forward 12-month P/E ratio of 14.1. And in order to achieve
that, not much has to happen: instead of hiring millions, America's
corporations just need to fire about 2-3 million people in order to extract the
kinds of net margin efficiencies that are already priced in!
There is no exit strategy…there is only a continuation strategy... and The Fed’s cronies have always known this. Yellen
is simply paralyzed with fear that the markets will violently react to a
tightening of policy. The Fed is being held hostage to the financial
markets but, ironically, is in no mood to escape its captors despite so many
clear opportunities. The lack of action, by Yellen, can only be
described as cowardly.
Mikael
Thalen | “I was like, ‘Wow, is this a joke?’ I really couldn’t believe what I
was reading.”
Kit Daniels | FBI
says AR-15s involved in less than 2.3% of murders.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Only white people can be racist.
Steve Watson | Claim
to have shot down US chopper full of weapons.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Social justice warriors pounce on incident before facts are in.
Steve
Watson | “We just need the right guy, and Karl Marx seems to be the best
candidate.”
Washington
Times | GAO: Illegals banked on staying in U.S. based on rumors.
London
Guardian | Terror group supporters threaten social network, as well as
co-founder Jack Dorsey specifically.
UK
Daily Mail | Militants fighting for the Islamic State in Syria have released
sickening footage of the murder of a man the terror group accused of working as
a spy.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Gun owners assert ultimate goal is to “ban tactical style
rifles”.
WORLD NEWS
UK Daily Mail |
“You’ve just eaten him.”‘
‘All
about money’: NATO spending debate focuses on ‘Russian threat’
RT | NATO
member-states unwilling or unable to help boost the military spending are being
accused of ignoring the “Russian threat.”
Some
of the CCTV Cameras at Nemtsov Murder Site Were Shut Off – Media
Sputnik | Videos
from the CCTV cameras were either blurred or missing altogether.
Putin
Predicted Washington Would Employ Assassination Tactic Against Russia
Paul Craig
Roberts | Like everything else that happens, Americans will be given by the
presstitutes an explanation that coincides with the interests of Washington.
Report:
Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Planes If Israel Struck Iran
Truth Revolt |
Netanyahu and two top aides “had decided to carry out air strikes against
Iran’s nuclear program.”
·
MONEY WATCH
Meanwhile,
Over At The “New York” Stock Exchange… Lasers
Zero Hedge |
Over the past several weeks there has been some furious work by engineers.
World’s
Largest Container-Shipper Warns Global Trade Is Slowing Down
Zero Hedge |
Maersk has said it needs the new ships to help it maintain its market
leadership up until the end of the decade.
Paul
Krugman Is The Brian Williams Of Economics Bloggers
Robert Murphy |
His misrememberings in this realm are so astounding that they would impress
Brian Williams.
Billionaire
Warns Of Total Collapse End Game Scenario: ‘No Way Out… Your Money Will Be
Worthless’
Mac Slavo | It’s
time to start considering the endgame.
·
PRISON PLANET
Is
Supreme Court’s chief justice ready to take down ObamaCare?
The Hill | U.S.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts faced a conservative backlash after
casting a decisive vote to save ObamaCare in 2012.
LAPD fatal
shooting of man caught on tape
LA Times |
Authorities said Sunday night that Los Angeles police fatally shot a man on
skid row during a struggle over an officer’s weapons.
12
Year-Old’s Facebook Page Locked After Posting Viral Video Questioning Obama’s
Love of Country
Gateway Pundit |
Kid’s account and page had been locked for “suspicious activity.”
Two
thirds of Britain’s laws ‘made or influenced by EU’
London Telegraph
| Business for Britain says more power must given back to Parliament amid
concerns that EU red tape is strangling companies.
COMMENTARY
CNN
Informs America That ‘Jihadi John’ Is None Other Than VLADIMIR PUTIN
Daily Caller |
CNN, which bills itself as “The Most Trusted Name in News,” has apologized for
a technical gaffe.
When
Technology Becomes Religion And Science Becomes God
Michael Snyder |
Are we in love with how smart we are?
Michael Snyder |
Can you imagine a world where your home, your vehicles, your appliances and
every single electronic device that you own is constantly connected to the
Internet?
Jon Rappoport |
The psychological operation to destroy the individual.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Teacher
investigated for posting ‘terrorist list’ of students on classroom door
Tampa Bay Times
| A math teacher at St. Petersburg High allegedly posted a “terrorist list” on
his classroom door with students’ names.
Police
appeal for help identifying mystery tunnel digger
Global News |
Toronto police are asking the public for help tracking down who built a chamber
or tunnel a conservation officer stumbled upon near York University.
Michael Krieger
| Take a look at how contemptuously and dismissively these parents’ concerns
are dealt with at the Collier Country School Board Workshop.
·
U.S. NEWS
White
House Claims Banning AR-15 Ammo Will “Save” Cops, But Rifle Murder Rate Only
2.3%
Kit Daniels | FBI says AR-15s involved in less than 2.3% of
murders.
Five
Immigrants Found Dead on Banks of Rio Grande
Adan
Salazar | Obama policies
enticing illegals to undertake dangerous trek.
Pentagon bans
foreign-made flags
The Hill |
American flags made overseas will be prohibited at U.S. military bases around
the world under new rules from the Department of Defense.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Most
Doctors Give In to Requests by Parents to Alter Vaccine Schedules
New York Times |
Physicians who reluctantly agreed said they did so to build trust with families
and to avoid losing them as patients.
Food Network
Airs Monsanto Advertisement
Christina Sarich
| Here is how to voice your concern.
Jimmy
Kimmel’s ignorant vaccine doctors
Jon Rappoport |
Clueless, ignorant, arrogant, useless, pathetic vaccine doctors.
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Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 03/03/2015 - 21:11
Revealed
in Clinton portrait...
Posted by: Capitalist Exploits
Post date: 03/03/2015 - 17:56
Financial
systems that seem robust are more often than not inherently fragile - China is
no exception!
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 03/03/2015 - 15:15
Unrelated?
Russian Opposition Says Putin Did NOT Assassinate Opposition Leader
In
"an unprecedented move",
the controversial head of Norway's Nobel Peace Prize committee was removed
Tuesday and demoted to the rank of mere member. Thorbjoern Jagland, a
former Norwegian premier, drew criticism after becoming committee
chairman in 2009 for awarding the prestigious Nobel to newly elected US
President Barack Obama. He will be replaced by current Deputy Chair
Kaci Kullmann Five.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on
03/03/2015 - 22:43
In
a surprise move, the RBI just cut its main interest rates for the second time
in two months, taking it from 6.75% to 6.50%, in what the central bank calls a
“pre-emptive” policy move, but what is in reality merely a confirmation that so
far in 2015 at least 20 central banks have lowered their interest rate.
At
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), red tape is preventing the
removal of a top level employee accused of viewing porn two to six
hours a day while at work, since 2010. Even though investigators found
7,000 pornographic files on his computer and even caught him
watching porn, he remains on the payroll.
By
far the most important geopolitical event of the day, as straight-to-C
Span-poluist-pandering as it may have been, was Israel Prime Minister's address
to congress, in which for nearly one hour the Israeli leader bashed Iran,
stopping just shy of fabricating even more evidence about
how close Iran is to developing a nuclear weapon. Yet one person missed
everything including the standing ovation at the end: president Barack
Obama. As it turns out he had more important things to do...
Just
in time for both total auto loans and total student debt outstanding to top the
$1 trillion mark, we get a match made in FICO hell as the subprime lending unit
of AIG Springleaf, has purchased OneMain, another subprime lender that’s been
relegated to Citi’s Citi Holdings trash bin for years. The deal creates a
subprime lending powerhouse with some $14 billion in possibly-not-toxic
receivables.
Recency
bias no doubt once again playing a role, but more likely it is this new-ish
trend to deny any damaging economic possibility as it might disrupt the balance
of financialism. Any system that cannot even countenance just a small
possibility of contrary thought is not robust or “resilient” at all. As
we saw in 2008-09, oil liquidations were entirely appropriate for economic
conditions; how can “everyone” deny outright something even slightly similar?
After
three hopeful months of greater-than-50 prints for Japanese Services PMI,
February saw it plunge back into contraction with a considerably worse than
expected 48.5 print. This drags the overall composite PMI for Japan to 50.0,
its weakest reading in 4 months as New Orders drop to May 2014 lows and
employment craters to its lowest since Oct 2012. On the heels of last
night's weak JGB auction and sell-off in stocks on relatively hawkish comments
from economists, tonight is seeing more of the same as the Nikkei 225
is having the worst 2 days in 2 months and JGB yields are jumping once again.
Abegeddon is back...
Amid
a booming housing market (home prices +14.4% YoY), and busting economy (PMI
44.2 from 55.1 2014 peak), Australia's Gold output in 2014 surged 4% to
its highest since 2003. As Mining.com reports,
the world's no.2 gold-producing nation (after China) has been forced to
increase the grade of ore they were targeting and push their processing plants
even harder, and mining consultants Surbiton Associates warns "it's
not all good news."
Tens of thousands marched Sunday through Central Moscow to honor Boris
Nemtsov, outspoken
opposition critic of Vladimir Putin who was murdered Friday night and thousands
more mourned today at his funeral (though notably not Putin himself) and more
pointedly, The BBC reports, several
EU politicians and Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were barred from
attending the funeral. Hours later, Mr Navalny accused the Russian
authorities of responsibility for the murder, adding to slew of
competing theories involving everything from the CIA to Islamic militants and
Ukrainian nationalists.
Not
to be outdone by his partner Charlie Munger (who offended many with his
comments that "gold is a great thing to sew onto
your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939,"),
Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett decides to take on Europe (and The Big
Lebowski), and particularly the Greeks in today's 'perhaps it's time to
just STFU' moment. Responding to questions about Europe's future,
Buffett compares Greece to a "dog peeing on the carpet" of Europe,
suggesting Germany stop "rewarding behavior you want to get rid of."
Financial collapse is already baked in, and it's only a matter of time
before it happens, and
precipitates commercial collapse when global supply chains stop functioning.
Political collapse will be resisted, and the way it will be resisted is by
starting as many wars as possible, to produce a vast backdrop of failure to
serve as a rationale for all sorts of “emergency measures,” all of which will
have just one aim: to suppress rebellion and to keep the oligarchy in
power.
The
underlying concept of how Petrodollar recycling, or as some call it,
petrocurrency mercantilism works, leaves some confusion. So in order to alleviate
that, here courtesy of Cult State, is a quick and simple primer that should
hopefully answer all questions.
The
person who successfully predicts the decline of the price of oil or gets the
highest return in a given year is lionized by The Wall Street Journal. In
the short term, it is impossible to know whether this success was due to luck
or skill, but it will come out in the long term because it is hard to be lucky
for 20 years. Marks said he has been successful by not taking bets
that could lose dramatically, by mitigating loss, and by being consistent
rather than having brilliant successes outweighed by dismal failures. Successful
investing comes from “variant perception,” Marks said, where the
consensus view is incorporated into the price of the asset and you have a
different view from the consensus. If your variant view is correct, then
eventually the consensus comes to agree with you and the price moves favorably
in your direction. Marks said if you think investing is easy and you do
not see the complexities, you will not be successful.
Mikael
Thalen | Former Obama admin officials shamed into early-retirement for using
private email.
Paul
Joseph Watson | White House may be forced to respond.
Paul
Joseph Watson | CBS News blames “angry gun enthusiasts” for run on bullets.
Zero Hedge | How is
it possible that a Romanian convict may have helped accelerate the downfall of
Warren Buffett’s presidential hopeful?
Kit Daniels | Like
Common Core, DOJ to develop “standards” for state and local agencies.
Steve Watson |
Replaced all cops with private security.
Steve Watson | Police
called to home to help man acting “weird”, end up killing him.
Kurt Nimmo | Making
the case to expand the war on ISIS into Libya.
·
WORLD NEWS
Netanyahu
blasts ISIS, Iran before US Congress
RT | Netanyahu was greeted to deafening applause in US
House chamber.
Snowden
ready to go to US if he gets fair trial – whistleblower’s lawyer
RT | Edward
Snowden would go to the US if he was sure that he would face a fair trial
there, the former NSA contractor’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says.
Despite
Russian Warnings, US Will Deploy A Battalion To Ukraine By The End Of The Week
Zero Hedge |
“Before this week is up, we’ll be deploying a battalion… to the Ukraine to
train Ukrainian forces for the fight that’s taking place.”
Conspiracy
Theories Embraced by Mainstream Media in Russian Assassination
Prison
Planet.com | Whenever an American political figure, whistleblower or journalist
dies its always either suicide or a “lone wolf” assassin.
UK Daily Mail |
“You’ve just eaten him.”‘
·
MONEY WATCH
Rampant
inflation means Russians are spending half of their incomes on food this year
Business Insider
| An amazing (and horrible) statistic on Russia’s grim economic outlook can be
found in a Quartz article just out.
Spain using
Facebook to Hunt for Taxes
Martin Armstrong
| Spain’s abusive police beat and hunt down citizens for spare change.
Stock
Market Bubble: Wall Street Is Ecstatic As The NASDAQ Closes Above 5000
Michael Snyder |
Are we at the tail end of the stock market bubble to end all stock market
bubbles?
Obama
“Very Interested” In Raising Taxes Through Executive Action
Town Hall.com |
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Monday that President Obama
is “very interested” in the idea of raising taxes through unitlateral executive
action.
·
PRISON PLANET
Pakistan’s
mobile phone owners told: be fingerprinted or lose your sim card
Washington Post
| Government launches mass drive to gather biometric data from mobile owners in
attempt to combat terrorism.
Did
the Justice Dept. Help Fund This Gangsta Rap Protest Video About Killing Cops?
The Daily
Sheeple | “Time to start killing these coppers.”
LA
Police press conference: We have visual proof homeless man forcibly grabbed officer’s
gun
Bizpac Review |
“Compelling” evidence.
Horrified!
Locals Unaware of Chicago Torture Site
Prison
Planet.com | Infowars reporter Joe Biggs takes to the streets of Chicago.
·
COMMENTARY
Will
White House Respond to Petition Seeking to Ban Mandatory Vaccines?
Adan Salazar |
Citizens request president halt forced inoculations.
Amnesty
Allegation: Obama Wants to Create a “Country Within a Country” and
Disenfranchise Citizens
New American |
The new illegal aliens are “seedlings” that will develop a “country within a
country,” is the secret Obama administration plan.
East
Coast Tsunami: If It Happens, MILLIONS Of Americans Could Die
Michael Snyder |
Could you imagine what would happen if a tsunami hundreds of feet high slammed
into the east coast of the United States at several hundred miles an hour?
CNN
Informs America That ‘Jihadi John’ Is None Other Than VLADIMIR PUTIN
Daily Caller |
CNN, which bills itself as “The Most Trusted Name in News,” has apologized for
a technical gaffe.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Teacher
investigated for posting ‘terrorist list’ of students on classroom door
Tampa Bay Times
| A math teacher at St. Petersburg High allegedly posted a “terrorist list” on
his classroom door with students’ names.
Police
appeal for help identifying mystery tunnel digger
Global News |
Toronto police are asking the public for help tracking down who built a chamber
or tunnel a conservation officer stumbled upon near York University.
Michael Krieger
| Take a look at how contemptuously and dismissively these parents’ concerns
are dealt with at the Collier Country School Board Workshop.
·
U.S. NEWS
Obama
to Expand Federal Control Over State, Local Police
Kit Daniels | Like Common Core, DOJ to develop “standards” for
state and local agencies.
Hillary
Clinton may have broken law by using personal email at State Dept.
RT | Former US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might have violated a federal law.
Michael Krieger
| It’s an oligarch’s world, you’re just living in it.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Mac Slavo | When
it comes to an EMP attack, the question remains “when” not “if” the SHTF.
Kraft,
Kellogg’s, Coca-Cola And Dozens More Continue to Lose Money
Christina Sarich
| Are processed foods finally on their way out?
Most
Doctors Give In to Requests by Parents to Alter Vaccine Schedules
New York Times |
Physicians who reluctantly agreed said they did so to build trust with families
and to avoid losing them as patients.
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Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 03/04/2015 - 13:49
Bill
Clinton Dusted Off the Same Marketing Strategy Which Bad-Mustache Used On the
Eve of Invading Poland ... And Obama's Been Using It Ever Since
Canada’s
Central Bank Requests End To Defacing of Debasing Canadian Dollar
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 03/04/2015 - 08:29
“Yes,
it’s legal, but it’s just not a very nice or Canadian thing to do.“ Similarly,
in Europe, an artist known as Stefanos has been defacing euro notes with
images of little human figures in a...
Posted by : StalingradandPoorski
Post date: 03/04/2015 - 16:46
What
people and central bankers do not understand, is that you can't devalue your
way to prosperity. Absolutely nothing has changed since the last crisis. The
same too big too fail banks have only...
Should
a tail event such a deflationary spiral or Grexit occur, limits on ECB asset
purchases will put Mario Draghi at a disadvantage as other central banks race
to the bottom. JP Morgan says this will force the ECB to cut interest rates for
cash deposits to minus 3% while the dollar will appreciate by 20%, reaching
parity with euro in 2015.
Just over a year ago, we
warned that while the world of speculative capital is focused intently on the
Twitter and Facebook #Ref/0 fundamental valuations in the publicly-traded
equity markets, the real dot-com 2.0 bubble is occurring in the private
markets. Few paid attention, prefering the head in the sand "well the
music is still playing" meme; but one (or two) billionaires noticed,
and with all eyes intently focused on Nasdaq 5,000 (as some indicator that we
made it back to Nirvana), Mark Cuban unleashes uncontestible exposition
why is this bubble far worse than the tech bubble of 2000.
Just 3 days after "Under The
Dome" went massively viral (152 million views on China's Tencent alone),
exposing the reality of China's disastrous pollution in an in-depth 104-minute
documentary, The FT reports Chinese
censors have moved to tamp down discussion domestically. We had
previously noted with surprise just how 'big' the story had got without
Beijing's intervention and now we see propaganda authorities directed
news outlets on Monday not to publish stories about Under the Dome.
Just
as everyone supports "solutions" until the solutions crush their
share of the swag, everybody supports innovation and transparency until it
disrupts their share of the swag. Then they scramble to hide the ugly truths
and suppress the spread of threatening innovation. This parallel
rejection of swag-crushing solutions and innovation/transparency by vested
interests is not coincidental: innovation and transparency are the heart of
real solutions.
We
have “early signs of new demand slowing” while “construction pricing is busting
budgets beyond feasibility” in a market where “speculation abounds” in land
pricing. When framed against a very unfavorable foreign exchange dynamic for
the market’s most important buyers, the situation really couldn’t get much more
precarious.
It
appears some more of the cameras around the Kremlin were working when Boris
Nemtsov was assassinated last week. The following, rather stunning clip - given
we now know what transpired - shows the immediate (within 3 minutes)
aftermath of the murder, the white "getaway" car accelerating, and
the garbage truck...
Following
the approval of the government, Kazakhstan's Central Bank has announced
it plans to de-dollarize its economy by the end of 2016. The goal is
to avoid the macroeconomic instability that the USD creates and to give
priority to Tenge in trade agreements (banning price designations in foreign
exchange). Coming just 2 weeks after the ratification of the $100 billion
BRICS bank, and Russia's creation of a SWIFT-alternative, one wonders
- as one by one foreign nations agree non-dollar trade and swap agreements - who
is becoming 'isolated' now?
You
wouldn't know it if you looked at the price of oil, but arguably the world's
largest economy just unloaded a kitchen sink of fears, warnings, and downgrades
on its economy; the most notable being:
*CHINA SETS 2015 GDP GROWTH TARGET AT ABOUT 7% (from 7.5% in 2014)
In
a report to be delivered to the government tonight, Premier Li Keqiang
warned China may face more economic difficulties in 2015 vs 2014 and downward
economic pressure is still growing (despite Western 'analysts'
proclaiming China fixed). The currency is weakening on the news and AsiaPac
stocks are lower and as Chinese stocks open lower (despite hints at more
easing), millions of newly minted "can't lose" Chinese investors
begin to worry.
Today,
for the second time since 2012, the fate of Obamacare lies in the hands of the
Supreme Court, and like last time, it will likely be all about Justice John
Roberts ' decision. Later today, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments
in the case of King v. Burwell, the latest challenge to Obamacare, and one that
could potentially leave it gutted from an unexpected direction. As a result, nearly
eight million Americans could lose their health insurance depending on how the
Supreme Court interprets four words in the "Affordable" Care Act.
US Ambassador to Cyprus, John Koenig, was forced to issue a clarifying
statement on Monday, after a
series of tweets on Sunday, about President Anastasiades’ recent Russia visit,
sparked a hostile reaction from Anastasiades, the Archbishop, the political
parties and journalists. As
RedPillTimes reports, Koenig has been promptly "relieved of
duty" after he posted on his Twitter account what was essentially
a clever ploy to link Cyprus President Anastasiades (who recently
visited Moscow) to the assassination of Boris Nemtsov.
Anastasiades was furious, calling Koenig's tweet "exceedibly
undiplomatic," adding that it "creates 'icy' bilateral
relations."
The nation has been lulled by the media, which is our government’s main
weapon against its own people, to believe the doublespeak. Patriotism is terrorism and terrorism is
patriotism. And so we go, now faster and faster, down the septic drain
into an underworld that has been described in great detail by those who have a
sense for what the future will bring; Orwell, Rand, Hobbes and Plato. Where
or how it ends nobody knows but we know it will be a ‘them’ and ‘us’ kind of
world. Where the haves, have everything and the have nots have
nothing. We are well on our way, just look around.
Vladimir
Putin has broken his public silence since Boris Nemtsov's murder and, perhaps
unsurprisingly, stirred up further controversy. While condemning the
"brazen murder of Boris Nemtsov right in the center of the
capital," WSJ reports, he told
senior Police officials to "finally rid Russia of shame and
tragedy" of politically-motivated murders. As The Guardian notes,
this seemingly contradicts theories the former deputy prime minister was
shot over a domestic or business row.
Pensioners
are under attack. With yields depressed across asset classes, public pension
funds in the U.S. are diving into risky investments in order to justify
clinging to unrealistic investment rate assumptions. In Europe, low rates are
causing corporations to adopt lower discount rates to determine the present
value of their pension liabilities, dramatically increasing EU pension deficits.
While in Greece, the government is robbing the public purse to make good on its
commitments to the IMF.
Who should you believe?
Record stock market valuations and consensus spouting, highly paid
economists who tell you all as is well...or oil, negative economic indicators,
and your own eyes that this is just one more artificial boom desperately trying
to run from the inevitable bust?
When
we arrived to Bangkok the other day, coming down the motorway from the airport
we saw a huge billboard - and it floored us. The billboard was from the
Bank of China. It said: “RMB: New Choice; The World Currency”
Adan
Salazar | “All that God created is good, including marijuana.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Head of £2.3 billion trust says wealth preservation is the key.
Paul
Joseph Watson | John McCain & Lindsey Graham met with Islamic State
militant.
Kit Daniels | Obama
admin. complicit in Clinton’s use of private, unsecured e-mail in exchanges
with W.H.
Mac Slavo | What you
are about to hear is shocking.
Steve Watson | Child
forced to undergo reeducation on “what it means to be dead”.
Kurt Nimmo | Belhadj
worked with U.S. and NATO to overthrow Gaddafi.
Steve Watson | Use
live flash bangs, carry weapons in show of force.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Tensions over Ukraine continue to build despite ceasefire.
Bizpac
Review | Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is demanding answers as to whether
the suspected murderer of three people.
WORLD NEWS
If
You Can’t Beat Em, Beat Em Up: Ukrainian Rada to Install Boxing Ring
Sputnik | The Speaker of Ukraine’s parliament proposed
installing an actual boxing ring inside the parliament.
Drone
spotted near Charlie Hebdo as 10 more fly over Paris
London
Telegraph | The mystery of
the unmanned aircraft seen over Paris in recent weeks deepened.
Mohammed
Emwazi’s father: no proof my son is Isis executioner
AFP | Jassem
Emwazi tells Kuwaiti newspaper false rumours are circulating and he has
appointed a lawyer to prove it.
As
1000s Mourn At Nemtsov’s Funeral, Seven Main Conspiracy Theories Emerge
Zero Hedge |
Tens of thousands marched Sunday through Central Moscow to honor Boris Nemtsov.
Unprecedented:
Nobel Peace Prize chair who oversaw Obama award demoted
RT | The Nobel
Peace Prize Committee’s chairman has been removed from his post for the first
time in the award’s 114-year history.
·
MONEY WATCH
Jihadi
John’s Family Given 600K Of British Taxpayers’ Money
Truth
Revolt | They are still
receiving over $60,000 per year.
US
running out of room to store oil; price collapse next?
AP | The U.S.
has so much crude that it is running out of places to put it, and that could
drive oil and gasoline prices even lower in the coming months.
One
Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 1
Alt Market | We
are only two months into 2015, and it has already proven to be the most
volatile year for the economic environment since 2008-2009.
The
Untouchables – Government Employee Can’t Be Fired Despite Watching 6 Hours of
Porn a Day at Work
Michael Krieger
| This is not a free country.
·
PRISON PLANET
Government
spying might be making your cell phone service crappy
The Week | A newly released document indicates that the local
reach of the devices may be interfering with cell service.
Paul
Ryan: Obama Made ‘Huge Mistake’ By ‘Dissing’ Netanyahu [VIDEO] { Paul Ryan … wrong again … I realize this
may sound like 20-20 hindsight; but, truth be told, I assumed when the Romney
people chose him, ‘their ears were closer to the ground’ and that Nikki Haley,
the logical choice, had already (quietly) turned them down for the VP spot. }
Daily Caller |
It “elevated” critiques of his foreign policy into the public eye.
Mac Slavo |
Welcome to 2015. We’re certainly not in Kansas anymore.
Private
Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State
John W.
Whitehead | When all is said and done, privatization in the American police
state amounts to little more than the corporate elite providing cover for
government wrong-doing.
COMMENTARY
Is Netanyahu
“Crying Wolf” About Iran?
New American |
Going back nearly a quarter of a century.
Obama-Netanyahu
“Fallout” is Theater – Planned in 2009
Tony Cartalucci
| US and Israel attempting to establish feigned “diplomatic row” to justify
“unilateral” Israeli attack on Iran.
The
Breakdown Of U.S.-Israeli Relations Brings Us Several Steps Closer To World War
III
Michael Snyder |
In the past 40 years, we have never been closer to World War III than we are
today.
Will
White House Respond to Petition Seeking to Ban Mandatory Vaccines?
Adan Salazar |
Citizens request president halt forced inoculations.
·
MULTIMEDIA
VIDEO:
ISIS Leader Was Armed & Funded by Obama White House
Paul Joseph
Watson | John McCain & Lindsey Graham met with Islamic State militant.
Teacher
investigated for posting ‘terrorist list’ of students on classroom door
Tampa Bay Times
| A math teacher at St. Petersburg High allegedly posted a “terrorist list” on
his classroom door with students’ names.
The Crazy World
of Feminist Theater
Paul Joseph
Watson | Get ready to check your male privilege…
·
U.S. NEWS
White
House Involved in Illegal Email Scandal With Hillary Clinton
Kit Daniels | Obama admin. complicit in Clinton’s use of
private, unsecured e-mail in exchanges with W.H.
Zero Hedge | The fate of Obamacare lies in the hands of the
Supreme Court.
Suspect
in Shootings at NSA, ICC in Custody: FBI
NBC Washington |
Two shootings were reported Monday.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Why
Eating Fats Really Doesn’t Make You Fat
Barbara Minton |
Plus a list of suggested fats.
Search
Tells You If, When, and How Much YOUR Doctor Was Paid by Big Pharma
Anthony
Gucciardi | Is your doctor on the payroll of the mega pharmaceutical companies?
Mac Slavo | When
it comes to an EMP attack, the question remains “when” not “if” the SHTF.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 03/05/2015 - 04:16
One
interpretation is that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
Another is that we are being led to financial slaughter.
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 03/05/2015 - 16:14
QE
Is a Sham
The
Second Round of the Crisis Will DWARF 2008 In Size and Scope
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 03/05/2015 - 11:34
All
of the biggest problems in the financial world revolve around the bond markets
today: Greece, Japan, the Fed's interest rate hike, etc.
Perhaps
echoing two entire nations' frustration, one reporter loses his cool
when Mario Draghi explains how everyone else in Europe gets free money
except Greece and Cyprus...
Has the DNA of the global economy been gradually altered by endless
injections of quantitative easing, morphing it into a freakish mutant? Are things that are not supposed to happen for centuries
on end going to become common occurrences? The collapse of oil prices and jump
in the Swiss franc have forced us to puzzle over these weighty questions. In
isolation, these events and the direction of their moves did not worry us, but
their magnitude, velocity and proximity to each other sent me on an
intellectual quest.
When
we parsed the newly released 2009 Fed transcripts yesterday we were too busy
looking to uncover things like a previously unreported plan to create a bad
bank to look for signs of central planner levity, but fortunately, the research
department at Bloomberg was looking for the important stuff. Thanks to
their efforts we have the official Fed Chuckle Count for 2009.
So,
zero down payment loans to low-income borrowers with basically no cash
reserves, on properties least likely to increase appreciably in value, and
probably most likely in need of repairs.What could possibly go wrong with this
set-up?
So
much for that wall of worry...
Throughout history governments have often overestimated how much their
citizens are willing to accept. Japan has a beautiful stoic culture that has been able to endure
tremendous suffering. That said, everyone has a breaking point. And that’s when
you see that there’s a big difference between love of country and love of
government. Bottom line - it’s already starting to unravel.
Four
months ago, in another failed attempt to boost confidence in the Eurozone and
stimulate lending (failed because three months later the ECB finally launched
its own QE), the ECB conducted its latest stress test, which as we explicitly
pointed out was an utter joke as even its "worst-case" scenario
did not simulate a deflationary scenario. Two months later Europe was in
outright deflation. It was initially unclear just how comparably
laughable the Fed's own stress test assumptions were, but refuting rumors that
Deutsche and Santander would fail the Fed's stress test (perhaps because former
FDIC head and current Santander head Sheila Bair wasn't too happy about her
bank being one of the failed ones), moments ago the Fed released the results of
the 2015 Fed stress test, and.... it seems there was no need to provide a
sacrificial lamb as with stocks at record highs. In fact everything is awesome!
FED STRESS TEST SHOWS ALL 31 BANKS EXCEED MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
The tide is turning against the banks. We will see more and more corporations turn away from
the banks as advisory entities. They just cannot be trusted when they are also
the market-makers making commissions/spreads on the trading that are totally
undisclosed. The day of the banks is coming to an end. It looks more like the
next downturn will drive the spike right through their hearts. Just maybe, we
may get back to the way its should be – relationship business,
not transactional where they have the incentive to manipulate markets for the
quick buck and front-run clients.
Update: And just to
prove that people are indeed, idiots, moments ago this hits:
ENERGY XXI GULF COAST, INC. PRICES UPSIZED PRIVATE OFFERING OF $1.45
BILLION OF 11.000% SENIOR SECURED SECOND LIEN NOTES DUE 2020
Back
in August 2014, yield-starved bondholders were delighted to give American Eagle
Energy $175 million in cash, and why not: the company promised them an 11%
annual cash coupon. Seven months later the company is in default, and the
same bondholders are looking at an 80% loss, without receiving even one
coupon payment. Movie Gallery anyone?
Since
the start of February, 48 US macro data items have missed expectations and 8
have beaten. Since then the S&P 500 has risen over 5.5% (and the Nasdaq
even more) and 10Y yields are up 50bps. Bloomberg's US Macro Surprise
index is now as weak as it was just after Lehman and is falling at the fastest
pace since Summer 2012. While everyone is well aware that markets can
stay irrational longer than a trader can stay liquid, one has to wonder just
how long this farce can continue before even the most effusive talking head has
to admit... things ain't great.
"What the data doesn't tell us is whether it [the next correction]
will be a 'buy the dip' opportunity or something much more significant. Given
the length of current
economic expansion and cyclical bull market, the fact that the Fed is
extracting liquidity from the markets, the trend in margin debt, and the current
extension of the markets above their long-term moving averages, there is cause for real concern."
Earlier
today a lightbulb went over the head of Goldman Sachs which just had the
following epiphany: "if we have blamed the snow for everything
so far, shouldn't we also blame it for the most important data point to come - tomorrow's
nonfarm payrolls?" And so it did...
Once upon a time businesses borrowed long term money - if they borrowed
at all - in order to fund plant, equipment and other long-lived productive
assets. Today American
businesses are borrowing like never before - to fund financial engineering maneuvers such as stock
buybacks, M&A and LBOs, not the acquisition of productive assets that can
actually fuel future output and productivity.
Let’s see. The Eccles Building has grown its balance sheet by 9X since
the turn of the century, but real net investment in the business sector has
plunged by 33%!
***************:
I try not to be political on facebook so as not to offend,
but felt compelled to save your credibility:
Clinton ‘blew’ (no pun intended) the peace dividend he
inherited (lucky). Continuing h.w. bush’s disastrous policy of engagement with
communist (John Huang) china (we all know how that turned out, economically
speaking), he paved the way for dumbya bush, his high end drug import partner’s
son ( http://www.albertpeia.com/CIAAgentAffidavit1.jpg ).
He was, is is, a really bad guy … http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
Regards,
AL
YES. THAT'S THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM NEW YORK WHOSE
OFFICE WAS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR WITH PARDONS (FOR VOTES-HASIDIM/JEWISH, LATINO,
ETC.) FOR CONVICTED CRIMINALS BY HER PSYCHOPATHIC MURDEROUS, LYING, RAPIST
CRIMINAL PARTNER IN CRIME, (HILL)BILLY CLINTON. WHAT NEW YORKERS ALSO HAVE IS A
2 FOR 1. YES. BUT NOT (HILL)BILLY, BUT ELEANOR. NO. NOT ELEANOR RIGBY BUT
RATHER ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. YES. HILLARY'S WELL DOCUMENTED (BOB WOODWARD)
COMMUNING WITH ELEANOR (VIA SEANCE ON THE ROOF OF THE WHITEHOUSE - YOUR TAX
DOLLARS AT WORK) SHOULD GIVE NEW YORKERS GREAT CHEER, ALTHOUGH COINCIDENTALLY,
NEW YORK WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE HILLBILLY CLINTONS HAS, AS THE REST OF THE
NATION, FELT THAT GOOD OLD ARKANSAS HILLBILLY CLINTON EFFECT (9-11,
CONSEQUENCES OF THE CLINTON INDUCED STOCK MARKET FRAUD, FALLOUT FROM AND
LINGERING EFFECTS OF THE HILLBILLIES' TENURE IN WASHINGTON, CLINTON
PROMOTED/SIGNED NAFTA, ETC.). THESE PARTNERS IN CRIME SHOULD BE IN JAIL.
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On
this Thursday, March 5, 2015 edition of the Alex Jones Show, the firestorm
continues over Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of hidden e-mail accounts while
serving as Secretary of State to keep the public in the dark about government
affairs. Radio host Richie Allen joins to show to discuss
Clinton's home-brewed e-mail server and more. For one thing, media outlets and
watchdog groups are now threatening legal action over unfulfilled Freedom of
Information Act requests due to the hidden e-mails the State Dept. knew about
but would not release.
***************:
I try not to be political on facebook so as not to offend,
but felt compelled to save your credibility:
Clinton ‘blew’ (no pun intended) the peace dividend he
inherited (lucky). Continuing h.w. bush’s disastrous policy of engagement with
communist (John Huang) china (we all know how that turned out, economically
speaking), he paved the way for dumbya bush, his high end drug import partner’s
son ( http://www.albertpeia.com/CIAAgentAffidavit1.jpg ).
He was, is is, a really bad guy … http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
Regards,
AL
YES. THAT'S THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM NEW YORK WHOSE
OFFICE WAS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR WITH PARDONS (FOR VOTES-HASIDIM/JEWISH, LATINO,
ETC.) FOR CONVICTED CRIMINALS BY HER PSYCHOPATHIC MURDEROUS, LYING, RAPIST
CRIMINAL PARTNER IN CRIME, (HILL)BILLY CLINTON. WHAT NEW YORKERS ALSO HAVE IS A
2 FOR 1. YES. BUT NOT (HILL)BILLY, BUT ELEANOR. NO. NOT ELEANOR RIGBY BUT
RATHER ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. YES. HILLARY'S WELL DOCUMENTED (BOB WOODWARD)
COMMUNING WITH ELEANOR (VIA SEANCE ON THE ROOF OF THE WHITEHOUSE - YOUR TAX
DOLLARS AT WORK) SHOULD GIVE NEW YORKERS GREAT CHEER, ALTHOUGH COINCIDENTALLY,
NEW YORK WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE HILLBILLY CLINTONS HAS, AS THE REST OF THE
NATION, FELT THAT GOOD OLD ARKANSAS HILLBILLY CLINTON EFFECT (9-11,
CONSEQUENCES OF THE CLINTON INDUCED STOCK MARKET FRAUD, FALLOUT FROM AND
LINGERING EFFECTS OF THE HILLBILLIES' TENURE IN WASHINGTON, CLINTON
PROMOTED/SIGNED NAFTA, ETC.). THESE PARTNERS IN CRIME SHOULD BE IN JAIL.
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Mikael Thalen | “Dogmatic adherence to
mealtimes is anti-science, racist…”
Kit Daniels | THIS is
why feds want to take over the Internet!
Paul
Joseph Watson | Men not doing “fair share of daily chores”.
Kurt Nimmo | Ship
allegedly flying under Panama flag contained Syrian M-302 rockets.
Steve Watson | “No
Knock” SWAT pot raid ends in death.
Steve Watson | “He’s
grasping for straws”.
Kurt Nimmo | Iraqi PM
says he will release documents soon.
Paul
Joseph Watson | ISIS executioner lived under “pretty harsh repression in
England”.
Washington
Post | The undercurrent of anxiety about Clinton’s vulnerabilities has grown in
recent days.
Michael
Snyder | The Chinese do not plan to live in a world dominated by the U.S.
dollar for much longer.
WORLD NEWS
‘68
killed, kids among them’: Boko Haram attacks, burns Nigeria village
RT | Witnesses,
who managed to escape from the village, said the militants targeted mainly men.
‘Military
pressure’ may be needed to oust Syrian President – John Kerry
RT | The US,
along with Turkey, has started training Syrian rebels.
London
Independent | Kim Jong-un’s official KCNA news agency described the bloody
assault as ‘the knife of justice’
Russia
Dismisses Reports of Military Concentration on Ukrainian Border
Sputnik | Russia
denies having troops along the Ukrainian border, Russian Deputy Defense
Minister Anatoly Antonov said Thursday.
US
Considering Openly Arming Syrian al-Qaeda Faction, al-Nusra
Robert
Barsocchini | The US is prodding the major al-Qaeda faction operating in Syria,
a brutal terrorist group called al-Nusra, to “re-brand” so the US can openly
arm it.
·
MONEY WATCH
Caught
On Tape: The Moment Mario Draghi Gets Heckled
Zero Hedge | One
reporter loses his cool.
ECB Will
Cut Rates To Minus 3%: JP Morgan
Zero Hedge | The
ECB is now close to running out of ammunition.
Jihadi
John’s Family Given 600K Of British Taxpayers’ Money
Truth
Revolt | They are still
receiving over $60,000 per year.
US
running out of room to store oil; price collapse next?
AP | The U.S.
has so much crude that it is running out of places to put it, and that could
drive oil and gasoline prices even lower in the coming months.
·
PRISON PLANET
According
to two FCC commissioners, those new regulations are bad all around
WatchDog.org |
Not all FCC members are so sunny in their outlook for the future.
NZ
customs want entrants to hand over passwords or face 3 months in prison
Stuff | Customs
seeks powers to disclose passwords.
Watch
this Police Officer Get Owned After He Pulls Over a Former Cop for Honking at
Him
Free Thought
Project | In a brief video posted to YouTube, a man claiming to be a former
cop, lets an officer who pulled him over for no reason have it. He then goes on
his way.
Government
spying might be making your cell phone service crappy
The Week | A newly released document indicates that the local
reach of the devices may be interfering with cell service.
COMMENTARY
ABC
NEWS: Kim Kardashian Dyes Hair BLONDE! –BREAKING NEWS– Idiocracy in America
Mark Dice | She
dyed her hair and went platinum ! OMG! This is amazing!
Jimmy
Kimmel quoted me, so here’s more on vaccines
Jon Rappoport |
The other night on his show, Jimmy Kimmel doubled down on his defense of
vaccination.
Liberty
Blitzkrieg | In 2002, Benjamin Netanyahu already harbored some extremely strong
convictions on how to deal with both Iran and Iraq.
Is Netanyahu
“Crying Wolf” About Iran?
New American |
Going back nearly a quarter of a century.
·
MULTIMEDIA
VIDEO:
ISIS Leader Was Armed & Funded by Obama White House
Paul Joseph
Watson | John McCain & Lindsey Graham met with Islamic State militant.
Teacher
investigated for posting ‘terrorist list’ of students on classroom door
Tampa Bay Times
| A math teacher at St. Petersburg High allegedly posted a “terrorist list” on
his classroom door with students’ names.
The Crazy World
of Feminist Theater
Paul Joseph
Watson | Get ready to check your male privilege…
·
U.S. NEWS
Mom
Teaches Babywearing, Gun Carrying Classes for Parents
Adan Salazar |
Parents learning how to holster both infant and firearm simultaneously.
TIME
Poll: Drudge, Food Babe Far More Influential Than Obama
Kit Daniels | THIS is why feds want to take over the Internet!
Gay Rights
Activist Fakes Own Kidnapping
CNS News |
Hoover is the co-president of Marriage Equality Ohio.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Flashback
1985: Gov’t Scientists Predicted NYC Would Resemble Daytona Beach
Daily Caller |
Three decades later, and New York City does not remotely resemble Daytona
Beach.
Missing
link? African bones predate earliest-known humans by 400,000yrs
RT | A newly
discovered fossil has shaken up science’s view of human evolution.
Newly
Released: Study Confirms Chronic Kidney Failure 5 Times Higher in
Glyphosate-Ridden Areas
Christina Sarich
| Yet Monsanto claims it is safe.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
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TODAY ON THE ALEX JONES
SHOW
On
this Thursday, March 5, 2015 edition of the Alex Jones Show, the firestorm
continues over Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of hidden e-mail accounts while
serving as Secretary of State to keep the public in the dark about government
affairs. Radio host Richie Allen joins to show to discuss
Clinton's home-brewed e-mail server and more. For one thing, media outlets and
watchdog groups are now threatening legal action over unfulfilled Freedom of
Information Act requests due to the hidden e-mails the State Dept. knew about
but would not release.
Mikael Thalen |
“Dogmatic adherence to mealtimes is anti-science, racist…”
Kit Daniels |
THIS is why feds want to take over the Internet!
Paul Joseph Watson | Head of £2.3 billion trust says wealth preservation is the key.
Paul Joseph Watson | Men not doing “fair share of daily chores”.
Kurt Nimmo |
Ship allegedly flying under Panama flag contained Syrian M-302 rockets.
Steve Watson |
“No Knock” SWAT pot raid ends in death.
Steve Watson |
“He’s grasping for straws”.
Kurt Nimmo |
Iraqi PM says he will release documents soon.
U.S. NEWS
Md. ‘Free Range’ Parents Fighting Child Neglect Charges
by
‘Sled-in’ Held on Capitol Hill After Police Refuse to Lift
Sledding Ban
by
Boots on the Ground: US Military Instructors Arrive in
Ukraine
by
World News
Bombshell: Hillary’s Private Emails Show Saudi Arabia
Funded Benghazi Attack
by
‘Nuland ensconced in neocon camp who believes in noble lie’
by
by
Economic Crisis
Understanding True Credit and False Credit
by
US Factory Orders Drop For 6th Month In A Row – Worst Since
Lehman
by
The Illusionary Recovery Is Now Giving Way To The Economic
Collapse
by
World at War
ISIS Attacks Archaeological Site at Nimrud
by
Big Brother
New Zealand spying on Pacific islands, Snowden leaks say
by
Warren: Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch Received
$6 Trillion Backdoor Bailout from Fed
by
Self-Driving Cars Will Be in 30 U.S. Cities By the End of
Next Year
by
Police State
“They’re Going To Kill Me,” Man Yelled Before Dying In
Police Custody
by
Emails Between Former Police Chief, Taser International
Exposed
by
Man Acquitted of Crime, Cops Still Take His Cash
by
Sci-Tech
‘Pee power’: UK university trials electricity generating
toilet
by
Health
Victory! McDonalds Forced To Change Menu
by
Sheriffs sue Colorado over legal marijuana
by
The Fight For Medical Freedom Continues
by
Constitution & Law
Mom Teaches Babywearing, Gun-Carrying Classes for Parents
by
No, the Secretary of State Does Not Get to Privatize Their
Email, Not Even Hillary Clinton
by
Texas to Create Anti-Vaxxer Black List
by
Border Control
Agents continue to arrest sexual predators attempting to
enter U.S.
by
War on Terror
Islamic State torches oil field near Tikrit
by
George W Bush banned from Venezuela after country’s
president brands him a terrorist
McCain ‘Troubled’ by Iranian Help With ISIS
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Inside the War Room at Infowars
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Global Crisis
Boko Haram Massacres 68 Civilians, Including Many Children
America Must Reject Netanyahu’s War Cry on Iran
Pro-Kremlin Activists Claim Boris Nemtsov Killed by
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by
***************:
I try not to be political on facebook so as not to offend,
but felt compelled to save your credibility:
Clinton ‘blew’ (no pun intended) the peace dividend he
inherited (lucky). Continuing h.w. bush’s disastrous policy of engagement with
communist (John Huang) china (we all know how that turned out, economically
speaking), he paved the way for dumbya bush, his high end drug import partner’s
son ( http://www.albertpeia.com/CIAAgentAffidavit1.jpg ).
He was, is is, a really bad guy … http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
Regards,
AL
YES. THAT'S THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM NEW YORK WHOSE
OFFICE WAS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR WITH PARDONS (FOR VOTES-HASIDIM/JEWISH, LATINO,
ETC.) FOR CONVICTED CRIMINALS BY HER PSYCHOPATHIC MURDEROUS, LYING, RAPIST
CRIMINAL PARTNER IN CRIME, (HILL)BILLY CLINTON. WHAT NEW YORKERS ALSO HAVE IS A
2 FOR 1. YES. BUT NOT (HILL)BILLY, BUT ELEANOR. NO. NOT ELEANOR RIGBY BUT
RATHER ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. YES. HILLARY'S WELL DOCUMENTED (BOB WOODWARD)
COMMUNING WITH ELEANOR (VIA SEANCE ON THE ROOF OF THE WHITEHOUSE - YOUR TAX
DOLLARS AT WORK) SHOULD GIVE NEW YORKERS GREAT CHEER, ALTHOUGH COINCIDENTALLY,
NEW YORK WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE HILLBILLY CLINTONS HAS, AS THE REST OF THE
NATION, FELT THAT GOOD OLD ARKANSAS HILLBILLY CLINTON EFFECT (9-11, CONSEQUENCES
OF THE CLINTON INDUCED STOCK MARKET FRAUD, FALLOUT FROM AND LINGERING EFFECTS
OF THE HILLBILLIES' TENURE IN WASHINGTON, CLINTON PROMOTED/SIGNED NAFTA, ETC.).
THESE PARTNERS IN CRIME SHOULD BE IN JAIL.
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Inquisitr12
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Former President Bill
Clinton took a romantic jaunt in 2002 to convicted pedophile pal Jeffrey
Epstein’s “orgy island” with “two young girls” from New York ...
www.news.com.au/world/north-america/bill-clinton-visited...
Jan
25, 2015 · FORMER
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SHOW
On
this Thursday, March 5, 2015 edition of the Alex Jones Show, the firestorm
continues over Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of hidden e-mail accounts while
serving as Secretary of State to keep the public in the dark about government
affairs. Radio host Richie Allen joins to show to discuss
Clinton's home-brewed e-mail server and more. For one thing, media outlets and
watchdog groups are now threatening legal action over unfulfilled Freedom of
Information Act requests due to the hidden e-mails the
State Dept. knew about but would not release.
Two of four strains of the virus that can
cause AIDS come from gorillas in southwestern Cameroon, an international team
of scientists reported in studies published Monday in the United States.
The new information means that
researchers now know the origins of all strains of the HIV virus that occur in
people.
HIV (HIV-1) has at least four strains.
Known as Groups M, N, O and P, each one had its own origin - from ape to man,
on at least four separate occasions.
Groups M and N were known to have come
from chimpanzees in Cameroon. But until now the origin of the O and P strains
had been unknown.
Results of the study led by Martine
Peeters, a virologist at France's Research and Development Institute (IRD) and
the University of Montpellier, appeared in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
·
Ebola
death toll rises as Cuba sends doctors
12
Sep 2014
·
Millions
more at risk in Ebola outbreak, British study finds
10
Sep 2014
·
Battle
for Virunga: fight to save Africa's oldest national park
06
Sep 2014
·
Congo
troops guarding British firm 'killed peaceful protesters'
06
Sep 2014
·
Italian
politician claims he has been 'cursed' after orang-utan remark
27
Aug 2014
·
Why
is this the worst ever outbreak of Ebola?
26
Aug 2014
HIV-1's
Group M is the most widely spread, behind the greatest part of the epidemic
with more than 40 million people now infected around the world.
Group
P has only been detected in two people so far. And Group O has been found in
central and western Africa, infecting about 100,000.
The
breakthrough was made possible thanks to genetic samples from chimpanzees and
gorillas from Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"From
this study and others that our team has conducted in the past it has become
clear that both chimpanzees and gorillas harbor viruses that are capable of
crossing the species barrier to humans and have the potential to cause major
disease outbreaks," Peeters said.
"Understanding
emerging disease origins is critical to gauge future human infection
risks," she added.
Since
1981, about 78 million people have been infected by HIV, which destroys immune
cells and leaves the body exposed to tuberculosis, pneumonia and other
opportunistic diseases.
Thirty-nine
million have died, according to UN estimates.
The
team of scientists is from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania, the University of Montpellier, the University of Edinburgh, and
other institutions.
First Look: Oliver Stone
Movie...
The first photo of Joseph
Gordon-Levitt portraying Edward Snowden
in Oliver Stone's upcoming biopic was
released Tuesday morning.
This image portrays Snowden in his
pre-whistleblower days, when he was "an ordinary man who unquestioningly
served his country."
Read More Nicolas Cage Boards Oliver Stone's 'Snowden'
Snowden is currently shooting in Munich before moving to
other locations around the world.
Shailene Woodley is playing Snowden's girlfriend in the film, while Nicolas
Cage has been cast as a former U.S. intelligence officer.
Other castmembers include Melissa
Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys
Ifans, Joely Richardson and Timothy
Olyphant.
The thriller is based on Luke
Harding's book The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s
Most Wanted Man, which chronicles Snowden's move from Hawaii to Hong Kong,
where he handed over the NSA documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald,
and Time of the Octopus, the upcoming novel from the whistleblower's
Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, telling the story about
Snowden's time waiting for the government in Moscow to grant his asylum.
Read More Snowden Doc Filmmaker
Laura Poitras Talks 'Citizenfour' Reception (Video)
Paris-based Pathe Films has developed the
project with Stone’s longtime producing partner Moritz Borman
and has retained distribution rights for France and Benelux. Wild Bunch is
handling international sales in all other territories, with Open Road Films and
Endgame Entertainment partnering for the U.S. release. The film is being
produced by Borman, Eric Kopeloff and Philip
Schulz-Deyle.
Snowden will be released in the U.S. on Dec. 25.
Snowden also was the subject of the
Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour.
***************:
I try not to be political on facebook so as not to offend,
but felt compelled to save your credibility:
Clinton ‘blew’ (no pun intended) the peace dividend he
inherited (lucky). Continuing h.w. bush’s disastrous policy of engagement with
communist (John Huang) china (we all know how that turned out, economically
speaking), he paved the way for dumbya bush, his high end drug import partner’s
son ( http://www.albertpeia.com/CIAAgentAffidavit1.jpg ).
He was, is is, a really bad guy … http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
Regards,
AL
YES. THAT'S THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM NEW YORK WHOSE
OFFICE WAS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR WITH PARDONS (FOR VOTES-HASIDIM/JEWISH, LATINO,
ETC.) FOR CONVICTED CRIMINALS BY HER PSYCHOPATHIC MURDEROUS, LYING, RAPIST
CRIMINAL PARTNER IN CRIME, (HILL)BILLY CLINTON. WHAT NEW YORKERS ALSO HAVE IS A
2 FOR 1. YES. BUT NOT (HILL)BILLY, BUT ELEANOR. NO. NOT ELEANOR RIGBY BUT
RATHER ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. YES. HILLARY'S WELL DOCUMENTED (BOB WOODWARD)
COMMUNING WITH ELEANOR (VIA SEANCE ON THE ROOF OF THE WHITEHOUSE - YOUR TAX
DOLLARS AT WORK) SHOULD GIVE NEW YORKERS GREAT CHEER, ALTHOUGH COINCIDENTALLY,
NEW YORK WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE HILLBILLY CLINTONS HAS, AS THE REST OF THE
NATION, FELT THAT GOOD OLD ARKANSAS HILLBILLY CLINTON EFFECT (9-11,
CONSEQUENCES OF THE CLINTON INDUCED STOCK MARKET FRAUD, FALLOUT FROM AND
LINGERING EFFECTS OF THE HILLBILLIES' TENURE IN WASHINGTON, CLINTON
PROMOTED/SIGNED NAFTA, ETC.). THESE PARTNERS IN CRIME SHOULD BE IN JAIL.
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Epstein’s “orgy island” with “two young girls” from New York ...
www.news.com.au/world/north-america/bill-clinton-visited...
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TODAY ON THE ALEX JONES
SHOW
On
this Thursday, March 5, 2015 edition of the Alex Jones Show, the firestorm
continues over Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of hidden e-mail accounts while
serving as Secretary of State to keep the public in the dark about government
affairs. Radio host Richie Allen joins to show to discuss
Clinton's home-brewed e-mail server and more. For one thing, media outlets and
watchdog groups are now threatening legal action over unfulfilled Freedom of
Information Act requests due to the hidden e-mails the State Dept. knew about
but would not release.
Difficult to Believe;
yet, now, despite netanayahu’s ‘guarantee’ that things would be better in the
mideast with an american invasion of Iraq, we all know such guarantee from a
lying fraud like netanyahu was simply untrue and things are worse than ever. We
also saw that his ‘red line’ speech calling for an invasion of the historically
great civilization of Iran was simply untrue. He now once again calls for
reliance upon his lies/israeliocentric concerns for an invasion of the historically
great civilization of Iran. Who has illegal nukes (with stolen nuke technology
from the u.s.) and refuses the dictates of (and signing the) nuclear
non-proliferation and disclosure? … israel… What belligerent, militant illegal
nuke nation acts like they have illegal nukes to the detriment of other
regional nations … israel. What leader used terrorist bombings to usurp control
of mideast land from the caretaker brits … manachem begin, israel …
ISIS, as I’ve previously stated in this website must be
completely destroyed … Who’s doing the heavy lifting in that regard … certainly
not israel … Answer: the historically great civilization of Iran …
REMEMBER:
SOME PERSONAL POSITIONS
SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE RECORD TO PRECLUDE
ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
OBAMA TO STONERS: WE'RE COOL... { Yeah … right! … Choom gang-banger wobama is about as cool as
s**t moving downhill … ‘social’ drugs as marijuana, blow to a much lesser
extent if at all (as a weekend stimulant after a 60+ hour work-weeks, but not
to excess – some ‘hot girls’ ‘expected it’, though no excuse; and, truth be
told, Freud used to give it to his wife to enhance her libido which in fact is
true … still no excuse ), hashish (heroin, speed, barbiturates, pills, etc.,
are DEFINITELY UNCOOL, sticking with limited stoner dudes’ terminology) are
neither cool nor uncool … as plebian as a glass of wine, champagne, beer,
scotch, etc., after a week’s hard work only, at best a somewhat decadent
indulgence; at worst, as with all indulgences, literally potentially
destructive and negative if in excess … Far from special, anyone can do them …
[Truth be told, within weeks (ie., usually 4-6 weeks) of ie., important exams
(it’s also ‘lamentably’ true I was a ‘quick-study’ crammer but blessed with a
great memory facilitating same without detriment thereby, providing
for/enabling ‘balance’), I abstained from marijuana owing to the somewhat
limited, lingering persistence of same in the fatty tissues including the brain
affecting retention, etc.. ] Wobama’s
Choom Gang Bangin’ { This brief video (11 mb) is well done and worth a
watch! http://www.albertpeia.com/wobamaschoomgangbangin.wmv }
{ It should be noted that now for decades I’ve not used any
illegal substances whatsoever (no big deal/sacrifice) or ‘legal’
substances/drugs including alcohol except aspirin, coffee/cola/caffeine - I
smoke a tobacco (admittedly not healthy) pipe, but so did Albert Einstein, and,
as well, Hugh Hefner who has been reported to have a high IQ and must be a
genius having made a fortune taking naked pictures of and having sex with
beautiful women … (remember nancy reagan’s preposterous ‘just say no to drugs’
campaign when ultimately it was pointed out by investigative author Kitty Kelly
that nancy was a ‘walking pharmacy’ so numerous were her prescription drugs of
choice … shades of nixon’s eulogy to Elvis in noting Elvis’ lethal drug mix
were legal drugs … riiiiight, dick) owing to arbitrary enforcement, hypocrisy,
etc. … In the past I’ve ‘partied’ (ie., pot, hashish, blow, etc.) weekends with
assistant prosecutors, prosecutor, other lawyers, among others, etc.. (Note
that the prosecutor who prosecuted Paris Hilton for possession of a small amount
of cocaine was himself busted and prosecuted for possession of a small amount
of cocaine, etc.)}.
Atheists 'face discrimination around globe'... { Indeed!
After all, the ‘globe’ can’t be wrong ‘all the time’. Actually, I have
previously stated that I can empathize with the agnostic ( F. Lee Bailey was
notably in that category by prior self-proclamation, among others ); this world
being such as it is, human beings such as they are. Yet, said position is still
unequivocally, absolutely incorrect; but, understandable. The position of the
atheist is at the least intellectually dishonest (at worst, constituting a
petulant penchant for the ‘great lie’ and in some instances, an inherent
capacity for great evil). But, as well, atheism is incorrect, and certainly not
understandable; and all the more wrong by positing something they don’t and
hence, obviously, could not know as being so. Atheists are, quite
simply…pathetic! }
ISIS, as I’ve previously stated in this website must be
completely destroyed … Who’s doing the heavy lifting in that regard … certainly
not israel … Answer: the historically great civilization of Iran … REMEMBER:
ISIS (AMONG OTHER DESTABILIZING FACTIONS) IS THE YANG
OF THE YING OF YINGYANG/MORON/DUMBYA BUSH AND FELLOW WAR CRIMINALS, IE., CHENEY,
ET ALS, NEOCONS, ETC..
That ‘judeo/Christian’
mantra/linkage does not pass muster … as in who crucified (with stated
reluctant roman help), denies the fact/reality of, Christ the Lord ? … Answer:
israel !
STUDY: Girls As Young As
6 See Themselves As Sex Objects... { Wow! This is really quite alarming and
bespeaks america’s new-found perverse, third-world uncivilized status, which is
‘picked up’ by kids who in some ways are smarter than given credit for with a
vulnerable longing to please, be accepted in light of their powerless position
in our ever more deteriorating society. Moreover, with the prevalence of sick
pedophiles and kiddie-porn, it’s not so surprising that kids might pick up on
such abominable vibes. It is difficult to imagine that little girls could be
the objects of such horror as, ie., Samantha Runnion ( who was kidnapped,
sexually abused and strangled by a man who lured her from her front yard by
telling her he had lost his dog. Her naked body was found the next day by a
hiker in Cleveland National Forest, 50 miles southeast of Stanton. The autopsy
revealed that she died from compression. A sample of the kidnapper's DNA was
found under her fingernail. The suspect, a Lake Elsinore, California, man named
Alejandro Avila, was convicted of first degree murder with special
circumstances in May 2005. His DNA was found on Samantha's body, and her DNA
was found in his car. He was arrested three days after the abduction. Avila had
previously been to the condominium complex where Samantha lived, because his
ex-girlfriend resided there and he had been previously acquitted of molesting
her daughter and niece. On May 16, 2005, the jury recommended he receive the
death penalty. On July 22, 2005, Avila was formally sentenced to death. He is
incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison on death row ). Then there was that
other little girl who was brutalized, sexually assaulted/raped, and then buried
alive while clutching her teddy bear. What species, other than man, is capable
of such horror/perversion/criminality?!
The great authors have in large part engaged in treatment of
what’s been termed the universal theme of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’. I differ
with that characterization which I believe is incorrect and would posit the the
universal theme as being ‘man’s humanity to man’.
Some guidance/insight can be derived here:
http://albertpeia.com/anthroindex1.htm
http://albertpeia.com/generalpsychology/genpsy.html
As an aside, I’ve included the following for the record as
well: Personally, I’ve never had/known a virgin in the biblical sense though
I’ve been in a position to; that’s something I just don’t do. Never have, never
wanted to, never would, never will! Though I’ve had many consensual sexual
liasons with many different female sexual partners (mid-hundreds) all of whom I
liked, I’ve never, ever resorted to prostitutes. The accidental exceptions
included two ‘call girls’; one having met at summer beach town bar matinee and
who was ‘not working’ (as it turned out the reason being she was at the end of
her menstrual cycle). The other at a grocery store with her daughter which made
such in my mind, unlikely. As it turned out, both were ‘nymphomaniacs’ (which,
truth be told, made for quite an exceptional sexual romp) and I simplistically
inferred/surmised without dwelling on the subject that they probably expected
they’d have inordinate amounts of sex anyway and might as well get paid for it
– of course I didn’t nor was I asked to pay. The other incident I’m including
here for the record concerned an absolutely beautiful (blond hair, blue eyes,
pretty, cute, perfectly built/proportioned – make no mistake, however, I like
brunettes also/equally) girl I met at a bar called ‘the Red Ranch’, later
changed to ‘Harpoon Willy’s’. At closing, we immediately became amorous, near
intimate to a point in my car with abrupt ‘resistance’ at the ‘crucial
moments’. When I finally, ‘exasperated’, asked ‘what’s up’, she stated she had
recently broken up with her boyfriend who had gone too far in the
‘sado-masochistic’ ritual behavior they were, and she still was into. I told
her I wasn’t into it (I don’t connect
sex with sado-masochism); never would, never did, never will. We talked for
quite some time and she explained her ‘predisposition’ the (her perceived)
consequence of her strict, puritanical upbringing and feelings of guilt
concomitant with sexual activity requiring coincident punishment/pain when so
engaged. I was busy with law school evenings, work full-time, and teaching at a
local college part-time and parted ways without taking her number and never did
see her again. } ]
New India Gang Rape: Woman Hanged from Tree after Sexual
Assault in Bihar [VIDEO] { What can you
expect from ‘animals’ who believe they might reincarnate (ridiculous!) as other
animals (but, there are spirits and there is such thing as demonic possession)
(‘…Hinduism is based on the concept of omnipresence of the Divine, and the
presence of a soul in all creatures, including bovines. Thus, by that
definition, killing any animal would be a sin: one would be obstructing the
natural cycle of birth and death of that creature, and the creature would have
to be reborn in that same form because of its unnatural death. Historically,
even Krishna, one of the most revered forms of the Divine (Avatar), tended
cows…’ Wikipedia) }
6 ARRESTED IN NEW GANG RAPE OF A BUS PASSENGER IN INDIA...
Woman hung from tree after rape...
India reports 25 rapes in week following Delhi gangrape
IBNLive { See, as per the
californication amerikan jurisprudential scholar/jurist/judge, these 25 girls
may not have realized it, but, they really wanted it … you know, otherwise, as
per the californication jurisprudential scholar/jurist/judge these
subconsciously consensual encounters could not have happened because the body
would ‘just say no’ to such liasons if nonconsensual. There you go! … american
jurisprudence has done it again as they guide us through those dark, shadowy,
murky areas of the law that would otherwise label violent criminal rapists as
violent criminal rapists. (We’re
talking India here; but, violent rape among a plethora of other substantial
crimes including murder, huge protected ie., wall street, etc., frauds, armed
robberies, etc., are rampant in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt
america.) India gang-rape suspects to
face murder charges (CBS/AP) NEW DELHI - Indian police charged six men with
murder on Saturday, hours after a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus
in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago died in a Singapore hospital. { Clearly, says
the california-american jurist/jurisprudential scholar, this girl was not a
victim but really ‘wanted it’ and while she may have been screaming/saying
‘no’, she really meant ‘yes’ since otherwise her body wouldn’t have permitted
that rape (and beating) to happen. See … now that’s why we have professionally
educated/trained judges … to ‘split the pubic hairs’, so to speak … (that judge
should be forced to step down)} Calif. judge says a victims' bodies can prevent
rape CBS News SANTA ANA, Calif. A Southern California judge is being publicly
admonished for saying a rape victim "didn't put up a fight" during
her assault and that if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body
"will not permit that to happen.” { Wow! Spoken like a true california
american jurist. Well, with violent rapes on the rise along with other serious
violent among other crimes in america and california particularly, and elections
being what they are, ‘might as well go with the flow’ might have been the
ratio-descedendi. After all, so the (ir)rationale would go, most violent
criminals in america are closet pacifists/peace corp members and if the body
says yes or no but the mind subconsciously says yes, only then will a rape
happen (NOT!); and, no violent rapist would let a LIVE/CONSCIOUS rape-resistor
get in the way of implicit consensual rape. Wow! I initially was going to quip,
‘he doesn’t get out much’; but, maybe he just ‘gets out too much’. Wow! What
more can anyone say! [ If the foregoing didn’t make sense to you, that’s because the californication judge’s outrageous
statement is absolutely preposterous! ] }
***************:
I try not to be political on facebook so as not to offend,
but felt compelled to save your credibility:
Clinton ‘blew’ (no pun intended) the peace dividend he
inherited (lucky). Continuing h.w. bush’s disastrous policy of engagement with
communist (John Huang) china (we all know how that turned out, economically
speaking), he paved the way for dumbya bush, his high end drug import partner’s
son ( http://www.albertpeia.com/CIAAgentAffidavit1.jpg ).
He was, is is, a really bad guy … http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
Regards,
AL
YES. THAT'S THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM NEW YORK WHOSE
OFFICE WAS BOUGHT AND PAID FOR WITH PARDONS (FOR VOTES-HASIDIM/JEWISH, LATINO,
ETC.) FOR CONVICTED CRIMINALS BY HER PSYCHOPATHIC MURDEROUS, LYING, RAPIST
CRIMINAL PARTNER IN CRIME, (HILL)BILLY CLINTON. WHAT NEW YORKERS ALSO HAVE IS A
2 FOR 1. YES. BUT NOT (HILL)BILLY, BUT ELEANOR. NO. NOT ELEANOR RIGBY BUT
RATHER ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. YES. HILLARY'S WELL DOCUMENTED (BOB WOODWARD)
COMMUNING WITH ELEANOR (VIA SEANCE ON THE ROOF OF THE WHITEHOUSE - YOUR TAX
DOLLARS AT WORK) SHOULD GIVE NEW YORKERS GREAT CHEER, ALTHOUGH COINCIDENTALLY,
NEW YORK WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE HILLBILLY CLINTONS HAS, AS THE REST OF THE
NATION, FELT THAT GOOD OLD ARKANSAS HILLBILLY CLINTON EFFECT (9-11,
CONSEQUENCES OF THE CLINTON INDUCED STOCK MARKET FRAUD, FALLOUT FROM AND
LINGERING EFFECTS OF THE HILLBILLIES' TENURE IN WASHINGTON, CLINTON
PROMOTED/SIGNED NAFTA, ETC.). THESE PARTNERS IN CRIME SHOULD BE IN JAIL.
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Epstein’s “orgy island” with “two young girls” from New York ...
www.news.com.au/world/north-america/bill-clinton-visited...
Jan
25, 2015 · FORMER
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TODAY ON THE ALEX JONES
SHOW
On
this Thursday, March 5, 2015 edition of the Alex Jones Show, the firestorm
continues over Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of hidden e-mail accounts while
serving as Secretary of State to keep the public in the dark about government
affairs. Radio host Richie Allen joins to show to discuss
Clinton's home-brewed e-mail server and more. For one thing, media outlets and
watchdog groups are now threatening legal action over unfulfilled Freedom of
Information Act requests due to the hidden e-mails the State Dept. knew about
but would not release.
SOME PERSONAL POSITIONS
SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE RECORD TO PRECLUDE
ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
OBAMA TO STONERS: WE'RE COOL... { Yeah … right! … Choom gang-banger wobama is about as cool as
s**t moving downhill … ‘social’ drugs as marijuana, blow to a much lesser
extent if at all (as a weekend stimulant after a 60+ hour work-weeks, but not
to excess – some ‘hot girls’ ‘expected it’, though no excuse; and, truth be
told, Freud used to give it to his wife to enhance her libido which in fact is
true … still no excuse ), hashish (heroin, speed, barbiturates, pills, etc.,
are DEFINITELY UNCOOL, sticking with limited stoner dudes’ terminology) are
neither cool nor uncool … as plebian as a glass of wine, champagne, beer,
scotch, etc., after a week’s hard work only, at best a somewhat decadent
indulgence; at worst, as with all indulgences, literally potentially
destructive and negative if in excess … Far from special, anyone can do them …
[Truth be told, within weeks (ie., usually 4-6 weeks) of ie., important exams
(it’s also ‘lamentably’ true I was a ‘quick-study’ crammer but blessed with a
great memory facilitating same without detriment thereby, providing
for/enabling ‘balance’), I abstained from marijuana owing to the somewhat
limited, lingering persistence of same in the fatty tissues including the brain
affecting retention, etc.. ] Wobama’s
Choom Gang Bangin’ { This brief video (11 mb) is well done and worth a
watch! http://www.albertpeia.com/wobamaschoomgangbangin.wmv }
{ It should be noted that now for decades I’ve not used any
illegal substances whatsoever (no big deal/sacrifice) or ‘legal’
substances/drugs including alcohol except aspirin, coffee/cola/caffeine - I
smoke a tobacco (admittedly not healthy) pipe, but so did Albert Einstein, and,
as well, Hugh Hefner who has been reported to have a high IQ and must be a genius
having made a fortune taking naked pictures of and having sex with beautiful
women … (remember nancy reagan’s preposterous ‘just say no to drugs’ campaign
when ultimately it was pointed out by investigative author Kitty Kelly that
nancy was a ‘walking pharmacy’ so numerous were her prescription drugs of
choice … shades of nixon’s eulogy to Elvis in noting Elvis’ lethal drug mix
were legal drugs … riiiiight, dick) owing to arbitrary enforcement, hypocrisy,
etc. … In the past I’ve ‘partied’ (ie., pot, hashish, blow, etc.) weekends with
assistant prosecutors, prosecutor, other lawyers, among others, etc.. (Note
that the prosecutor who prosecuted Paris Hilton for possession of a small
amount of cocaine was himself busted and prosecuted for possession of a small
amount of cocaine, etc.)}.
Atheists 'face discrimination around globe'... { Indeed!
After all, the ‘globe’ can’t be wrong ‘all the time’. Actually, I have
previously stated that I can empathize with the agnostic ( F. Lee Bailey was
notably in that category by prior self-proclamation, among others ); this world
being such as it is, human beings such as they are. Yet, said position is still
unequivocally, absolutely incorrect; but, understandable. The position of the
atheist is at the least intellectually dishonest (at worst, constituting a
petulant penchant for the ‘great lie’ and in some instances, an inherent
capacity for great evil). But, as well, atheism is incorrect, and certainly not
understandable; and all the more wrong by positing something they don’t and
hence, obviously, could not know as being so. Atheists are, quite
simply…pathetic! }
Difficult to Believe;
yet, now, despite netanayahu’s ‘guarantee’ that things would be better in the
mideast with an american invasion of Iraq, we all know such guarantee from a
lying fraud like netanyahu was simply untrue and things are worse than ever. We
also saw that his ‘red line’ speech calling for an invasion of the historically
great civilization of Iran was simply untrue. He now once again calls for reliance
upon his lies/israeliocentric concerns for an invasion of the historically
great civilization of Iran. Who has illegal nukes (with stolen nuke technology
from the u.s.) and refuses the dictates of (and signing the) nuclear
non-proliferation and disclosure? … israel… What belligerent, militant illegal
nuke nation acts like they have illegal nukes to the detriment of other
regional nations … israel. What leader used terrorist bombings to usurp control
of mideast land from the caretaker brits … manachem begin, israel …
I’ve previously stated in this website that Yitshak Rabin,
was a great man of courage, motivated by neither wealth nor grandeur, who gave
his blood, sweat, and tears fighting for and leading israel and who wisely
sought peace saying ‘no more tears’ … cut down, not by an Arab, Palestinian,
Iranian, etc., but by fellow israeli likudnut of netanayahu.
ISIS, as I’ve previously stated in this website must be
completely destroyed … Who’s doing the heavy lifting in that regard … certainly
not israel … Answer: the historically great civilization of Iran … REMEMBER:
ISIS (AMONG OTHER DESTABILIZING FACTIONS) IS THE YANG
OF THE YING OF YINGYANG/MORON/DUMBYA BUSH AND FELLOW WAR CRIMINALS, IE.,
CHENEY, ET ALS, NEOCONS, ETC..
That ‘judeo/Christian’
mantra/linkage does not pass muster … as in who crucified (with stated
reluctant roman help), denies the fact/reality of, Christ the Lord ? … Answer:
israel !
STUDY: Girls As Young As
6 See Themselves As Sex Objects... { Wow! This is really quite alarming and
bespeaks america’s new-found perverse, third-world uncivilized status, which is
‘picked up’ by kids who in some ways are smarter than given credit for with a
vulnerable longing to please, be accepted in light of their powerless position
in our ever more deteriorating society. Moreover, with the prevalence of sick
pedophiles and kiddie-porn, it’s not so surprising that kids might pick up on
such abominable vibes. It is difficult to imagine that little girls could be
the objects of such horror as, ie., Samantha Runnion ( who was kidnapped,
sexually abused and strangled by a man who lured her from her front yard by
telling her he had lost his dog. Her naked body was found the next day by a
hiker in Cleveland National Forest, 50 miles southeast of Stanton. The autopsy
revealed that she died from compression. A sample of the kidnapper's DNA was
found under her fingernail. The suspect, a Lake Elsinore, California, man named
Alejandro Avila, was convicted of first degree murder with special
circumstances in May 2005. His DNA was found on Samantha's body, and her DNA
was found in his car. He was arrested three days after the abduction. Avila had
previously been to the condominium complex where Samantha lived, because his
ex-girlfriend resided there and he had been previously acquitted of molesting
her daughter and niece. On May 16, 2005, the jury recommended he receive the
death penalty. On July 22, 2005, Avila was formally sentenced to death. He is
incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison on death row ). Then there was that
other little girl who was brutalized, sexually assaulted/raped, and then buried
alive while clutching her teddy bear. What species, other than man, is capable
of such horror/perversion/criminality?!
The great authors have in large part engaged in treatment of
what’s been termed the universal theme of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’. I differ
with that characterization which I believe is incorrect and would posit the the
universal theme as being ‘man’s humanity to man’.
Some guidance/insight can be derived here:
http://albertpeia.com/anthroindex1.htm
http://albertpeia.com/generalpsychology/genpsy.html
As an aside, I’ve included the following for the record as
well: Personally, I’ve never had/known a virgin in the biblical sense though
I’ve been in a position to; that’s something I just don’t do. Never have, never
wanted to, never would, never will! Though I’ve had many consensual sexual
liasons with many different female sexual partners (mid-hundreds) all of whom I
liked, I’ve never, ever resorted to prostitutes. The accidental exceptions
included two ‘call girls’; one having met at summer beach town bar matinee and
who was ‘not working’ (as it turned out the reason being she was at the end of
her menstrual cycle). The other at a grocery store with her daughter which made
such in my mind, unlikely. As it turned out, both were ‘nymphomaniacs’ (which,
truth be told, made for quite an exceptional sexual romp) and I simplistically
inferred/surmised without dwelling on the subject that they probably expected
they’d have inordinate amounts of sex anyway and might as well get paid for it
– of course I didn’t nor was I asked to pay. The other incident I’m including
here for the record concerned an absolutely beautiful (blond hair, blue eyes,
pretty, cute, perfectly built/proportioned – make no mistake, however, I like
brunettes also/equally) girl I met at a bar called ‘the Red Ranch’, later
changed to ‘Harpoon Willy’s’. At closing, we immediately became amorous, near
intimate to a point in my car with abrupt ‘resistance’ at the ‘crucial
moments’. When I finally, ‘exasperated’, asked ‘what’s up’, she stated she had
recently broken up with her boyfriend who had gone too far in the
‘sado-masochistic’ ritual behavior they were, and she still was into. I told
her I wasn’t into it (I don’t connect
sex with sado-masochism); never would, never did, never will. We talked for
quite some time and she explained her ‘predisposition’ the (her perceived)
consequence of her strict, puritanical upbringing and feelings of guilt
concomitant with sexual activity requiring coincident punishment/pain when so
engaged. I was busy with law school evenings, work full-time, and teaching at a
local college part-time and parted ways without taking her number and never did
see her again. } ]
New India Gang Rape: Woman Hanged from Tree after Sexual
Assault in Bihar [VIDEO] { What can you
expect from ‘animals’ who believe they might reincarnate (ridiculous!) as other
animals (but, there are spirits and there is such thing as demonic possession)
(‘…Hinduism is based on the concept of omnipresence of the Divine, and the
presence of a soul in all creatures, including bovines. Thus, by that
definition, killing any animal would be a sin: one would be obstructing the
natural cycle of birth and death of that creature, and the creature would have
to be reborn in that same form because of its unnatural death. Historically, even
Krishna, one of the most revered forms of the Divine (Avatar), tended cows…’
Wikipedia) }
6 ARRESTED IN NEW GANG RAPE OF A BUS PASSENGER IN INDIA...
Woman hung from tree after rape...
India reports 25 rapes in week following Delhi gangrape
IBNLive { See, as per the
californication amerikan jurisprudential scholar/jurist/judge, these 25 girls
may not have realized it, but, they really wanted it … you know, otherwise, as
per the californication jurisprudential scholar/jurist/judge these
subconsciously consensual encounters could not have happened because the body
would ‘just say no’ to such liasons if nonconsensual. There you go! … american
jurisprudence has done it again as they guide us through those dark, shadowy,
murky areas of the law that would otherwise label violent criminal rapists as
violent criminal rapists. (We’re
talking India here; but, violent rape among a plethora of other substantial
crimes including murder, huge protected ie., wall street, etc., frauds, armed
robberies, etc., are rampant in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt
america.) India gang-rape suspects to
face murder charges (CBS/AP) NEW DELHI - Indian police charged six men with
murder on Saturday, hours after a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus
in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago died in a Singapore hospital. { Clearly, says
the california-american jurist/jurisprudential scholar, this girl was not a
victim but really ‘wanted it’ and while she may have been screaming/saying
‘no’, she really meant ‘yes’ since otherwise her body wouldn’t have permitted
that rape (and beating) to happen. See … now that’s why we have professionally
educated/trained judges … to ‘split the pubic hairs’, so to speak … (that judge
should be forced to step down)} Calif. judge says a victims' bodies can prevent
rape CBS News SANTA ANA, Calif. A Southern California judge is being publicly
admonished for saying a rape victim "didn't put up a fight" during
her assault and that if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body
"will not permit that to happen.” { Wow! Spoken like a true california
american jurist. Well, with violent rapes on the rise along with other serious
violent among other crimes in america and california particularly, and
elections being what they are, ‘might as well go with the flow’ might have been
the ratio-descedendi. After all, so the (ir)rationale would go, most violent
criminals in america are closet pacifists/peace corp members and if the body
says yes or no but the mind subconsciously says yes, only then will a rape happen
(NOT!); and, no violent rapist would let a LIVE/CONSCIOUS rape-resistor get in
the way of implicit consensual rape. Wow! I initially was going to quip, ‘he
doesn’t get out much’; but, maybe he just ‘gets out too much’. Wow! What more
can anyone say! [ If the foregoing didn’t make sense to you, that’s because the
californication judge’s outrageous statement is absolutely preposterous! ] }
TODAY ON THE ALEX JONES
SHOW
On
this Thursday, March 5, 2015 edition of the Alex Jones Show, the firestorm
continues over Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of hidden e-mail accounts while
serving as Secretary of State to keep the public in the dark about government
affairs. Radio host Richie Allen joins to show to discuss
Clinton's home-brewed e-mail server and more. For one thing, media outlets and
watchdog groups are now threatening legal action over unfulfilled Freedom of
Information Act requests due to the hidden e-mails the State Dept. knew about
but would not release.
Difficult to Believe;
yet, now, despite netanayahu’s ‘guarantee’ that things would be better in the
mideast with an american invasion of Iraq, we all know such guarantee from a
lying fraud like netanyahu was simply untrue and things are worse than ever. We
also saw that his ‘red line’ speech calling for an invasion of the historically
great civilization of Iran was simply untrue. He now once again calls for
reliance upon his lies/israeliocentric concerns for an invasion of the
historically great civilization of Iran. Who has illegal nukes (with stolen
nuke technology from the u.s.) and refuses the dictates of (and signing the)
nuclear non-proliferation and disclosure? … israel… What belligerent, militant
illegal nuke nation acts like they have illegal nukes to the detriment of other
regional nations … israel. What leader used terrorist bombings to usurp control
of mideast land from the caretaker brits … manachem begin, israel …
ISIS, as I’ve previously stated in this website must be
completely destroyed … Who’s doing the heavy lifting in that regard … certainly
not israel … Answer: the historically great civilization of Iran …
REMEMBER:
SOME PERSONAL POSITIONS
SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE RECORD TO PRECLUDE
ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
OBAMA TO STONERS: WE'RE COOL... { Yeah … right! … Choom gang-banger wobama is about as cool as
s**t moving downhill … ‘social’ drugs as marijuana, blow to a much lesser
extent if at all (as a weekend stimulant after a 60+ hour work-weeks, but not
to excess – some ‘hot girls’ ‘expected it’, though no excuse; and, truth be
told, Freud used to give it to his wife to enhance her libido which in fact is
true … still no excuse ), hashish (heroin, speed, barbiturates, pills, etc.,
are DEFINITELY UNCOOL, sticking with limited stoner dudes’ terminology) are
neither cool nor uncool … as plebian as a glass of wine, champagne, beer,
scotch, etc., after a week’s hard work only, at best a somewhat decadent
indulgence; at worst, as with all indulgences, literally potentially
destructive and negative if in excess … Far from special, anyone can do them …
[Truth be told, within weeks (ie., usually 4-6 weeks) of ie., important exams
(it’s also ‘lamentably’ true I was a ‘quick-study’ crammer but blessed with a
great memory facilitating same without detriment thereby, providing
for/enabling ‘balance’), I abstained from marijuana owing to the somewhat
limited, lingering persistence of same in the fatty tissues including the brain
affecting retention, etc.. ] Wobama’s
Choom Gang Bangin’ { This brief video (11 mb) is well done and worth a
watch! http://www.albertpeia.com/wobamaschoomgangbangin.wmv }
{ It should be noted that now for decades I’ve not used any
illegal substances whatsoever (no big deal/sacrifice) or ‘legal’
substances/drugs including alcohol except aspirin, coffee/cola/caffeine - I smoke
a tobacco (admittedly not healthy) pipe, but so did Albert Einstein, and, as
well, Hugh Hefner who has been reported to have a high IQ and must be a genius
having made a fortune taking naked pictures of and having sex with beautiful
women … (remember nancy reagan’s preposterous ‘just say no to drugs’ campaign
when ultimately it was pointed out by investigative author Kitty Kelly that
nancy was a ‘walking pharmacy’ so numerous were her prescription drugs of
choice … shades of nixon’s eulogy to Elvis in noting Elvis’ lethal drug mix
were legal drugs … riiiiight, dick) owing to arbitrary enforcement, hypocrisy,
etc. … In the past I’ve ‘partied’ (ie., pot, hashish, blow, etc.) weekends with
assistant prosecutors, prosecutor, other lawyers, among others, etc.. (Note
that the prosecutor who prosecuted Paris Hilton for possession of a small
amount of cocaine was himself busted and prosecuted for possession of a small
amount of cocaine, etc.)}.
Atheists 'face discrimination around globe'... { Indeed!
After all, the ‘globe’ can’t be wrong ‘all the time’. Actually, I have
previously stated that I can empathize with the agnostic ( F. Lee Bailey was
notably in that category by prior self-proclamation, among others ); this world
being such as it is, human beings such as they are. Yet, said position is still
unequivocally, absolutely incorrect; but, understandable. The position of the
atheist is at the least intellectually dishonest (at worst, constituting a
petulant penchant for the ‘great lie’ and in some instances, an inherent
capacity for great evil). But, as well, atheism is incorrect, and certainly not
understandable; and all the more wrong by positing something they don’t and
hence, obviously, could not know as being so. Atheists are, quite
simply…pathetic! }
ISIS, as I’ve previously stated in this website must be
completely destroyed … Who’s doing the heavy lifting in that regard … certainly
not israel … Answer: the historically great civilization of Iran … REMEMBER:
ISIS (AMONG OTHER DESTABILIZING FACTIONS) IS THE YANG
OF THE YING OF YINGYANG/MORON/DUMBYA BUSH AND FELLOW WAR CRIMINALS, IE.,
CHENEY, ET ALS, NEOCONS, ETC..
That ‘judeo/Christian’
mantra/linkage does not pass muster … as in who crucified (with stated
reluctant roman help), denies the fact/reality of, Christ the Lord ? … Answer:
israel !
STUDY: Girls As Young As
6 See Themselves As Sex Objects... { Wow! This is really quite alarming and
bespeaks america’s new-found perverse, third-world uncivilized status, which is
‘picked up’ by kids who in some ways are smarter than given credit for with a
vulnerable longing to please, be accepted in light of their powerless position
in our ever more deteriorating society. Moreover, with the prevalence of sick
pedophiles and kiddie-porn, it’s not so surprising that kids might pick up on
such abominable vibes. It is difficult to imagine that little girls could be
the objects of such horror as, ie., Samantha Runnion ( who was kidnapped,
sexually abused and strangled by a man who lured her from her front yard by telling
her he had lost his dog. Her naked body was found the next day by a hiker in
Cleveland National Forest, 50 miles southeast of Stanton. The autopsy revealed
that she died from compression. A sample of the kidnapper's DNA was found under
her fingernail. The suspect, a Lake Elsinore, California, man named Alejandro
Avila, was convicted of first degree murder with special circumstances in May
2005. His DNA was found on Samantha's body, and her DNA was found in his car.
He was arrested three days after the abduction. Avila had previously been to
the condominium complex where Samantha lived, because his ex-girlfriend resided
there and he had been previously acquitted of molesting her daughter and niece.
On May 16, 2005, the jury recommended he receive the death penalty. On July 22,
2005, Avila was formally sentenced to death. He is incarcerated at San Quentin
State Prison on death row ). Then there was that other little girl who was
brutalized, sexually assaulted/raped, and then buried alive while clutching her
teddy bear. What species, other than man, is capable of such
horror/perversion/criminality?!
The great authors have in large part engaged in treatment of
what’s been termed the universal theme of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’. I differ
with that characterization which I believe is incorrect and would posit the the
universal theme as being ‘man’s humanity to man’.
Some guidance/insight can be derived here:
http://albertpeia.com/anthroindex1.htm
http://albertpeia.com/generalpsychology/genpsy.html
As an aside, I’ve included the following for the record as
well: Personally, I’ve never had/known a virgin in the biblical sense though
I’ve been in a position to; that’s something I just don’t do. Never have, never
wanted to, never would, never will! Though I’ve had many consensual sexual
liasons with many different female sexual partners (mid-hundreds) all of whom I
liked, I’ve never, ever resorted to prostitutes. The accidental exceptions
included two ‘call girls’; one having met at summer beach town bar matinee and
who was ‘not working’ (as it turned out the reason being she was at the end of
her menstrual cycle). The other at a grocery store with her daughter which made
such in my mind, unlikely. As it turned out, both were ‘nymphomaniacs’ (which,
truth be told, made for quite an exceptional sexual romp) and I simplistically
inferred/surmised without dwelling on the subject that they probably expected
they’d have inordinate amounts of sex anyway and might as well get paid for it
– of course I didn’t nor was I asked to pay. The other incident I’m including
here for the record concerned an absolutely beautiful (blond hair, blue eyes,
pretty, cute, perfectly built/proportioned – make no mistake, however, I like
brunettes also/equally) girl I met at a bar called ‘the Red Ranch’, later
changed to ‘Harpoon Willy’s’. At closing, we immediately became amorous, near
intimate to a point in my car with abrupt ‘resistance’ at the ‘crucial
moments’. When I finally, ‘exasperated’, asked ‘what’s up’, she stated she had
recently broken up with her boyfriend who had gone too far in the
‘sado-masochistic’ ritual behavior they were, and she still was into. I told
her I wasn’t into it (I don’t connect
sex with sado-masochism); never would, never did, never will. We talked for
quite some time and she explained her ‘predisposition’ the (her perceived)
consequence of her strict, puritanical upbringing and feelings of guilt
concomitant with sexual activity requiring coincident punishment/pain when so
engaged. I was busy with law school evenings, work full-time, and teaching at a
local college part-time and parted ways without taking her number and never did
see her again. } ]
New India Gang Rape: Woman Hanged from Tree after Sexual
Assault in Bihar [VIDEO] { What can you
expect from ‘animals’ who believe they might reincarnate (ridiculous!) as other
animals (but, there are spirits and there is such thing as demonic possession)
(‘…Hinduism is based on the concept of omnipresence of the Divine, and the
presence of a soul in all creatures, including bovines. Thus, by that
definition, killing any animal would be a sin: one would be obstructing the
natural cycle of birth and death of that creature, and the creature would have
to be reborn in that same form because of its unnatural death. Historically,
even Krishna, one of the most revered forms of the Divine (Avatar), tended
cows…’ Wikipedia) }
6 ARRESTED IN NEW GANG RAPE OF A BUS PASSENGER IN INDIA...
Woman hung from tree after rape...
India reports 25 rapes in week following Delhi gangrape
IBNLive { See, as per the
californication amerikan jurisprudential scholar/jurist/judge, these 25 girls
may not have realized it, but, they really wanted it … you know, otherwise, as
per the californication jurisprudential scholar/jurist/judge these
subconsciously consensual encounters could not have happened because the body
would ‘just say no’ to such liasons if nonconsensual. There you go! … american
jurisprudence has done it again as they guide us through those dark, shadowy,
murky areas of the law that would otherwise label violent criminal rapists as
violent criminal rapists. (We’re talking
India here; but, violent rape among a plethora of other substantial crimes
including murder, huge protected ie., wall street, etc., frauds, armed
robberies, etc., are rampant in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt
america.) India gang-rape suspects to
face murder charges (CBS/AP) NEW DELHI - Indian police charged six men with
murder on Saturday, hours after a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus
in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago died in a Singapore hospital. { Clearly, says
the california-american jurist/jurisprudential scholar, this girl was not a
victim but really ‘wanted it’ and while she may have been screaming/saying
‘no’, she really meant ‘yes’ since otherwise her body wouldn’t have permitted
that rape (and beating) to happen. See … now that’s why we have professionally
educated/trained judges … to ‘split the pubic hairs’, so to speak … (that judge
should be forced to step down)} Calif. judge says a victims' bodies can prevent
rape CBS News SANTA ANA, Calif. A Southern California judge is being publicly
admonished for saying a rape victim "didn't put up a fight" during
her assault and that if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body
"will not permit that to happen.” { Wow! Spoken like a true california
american jurist. Well, with violent rapes on the rise along with other serious
violent among other crimes in america and california particularly, and
elections being what they are, ‘might as well go with the flow’ might have been
the ratio-descedendi. After all, so the (ir)rationale would go, most violent
criminals in america are closet pacifists/peace corp members and if the body
says yes or no but the mind subconsciously says yes, only then will a rape
happen (NOT!); and, no violent rapist would let a LIVE/CONSCIOUS rape-resistor
get in the way of implicit consensual rape. Wow! I initially was going to quip,
‘he doesn’t get out much’; but, maybe he just ‘gets out too much’. Wow! What
more can anyone say! [ If the foregoing didn’t make sense to you, that’s
because the californication judge’s outrageous statement is absolutely
preposterous! ] }
Posted by : smartknowledgeu
Post date: 03/09/2015 - 23:02
Unfortunately,
industrialists and bankers who reshaped schooling to serve their needs during
the Industrial Revolution have transformed institutional academia into the rote
memorization of many...
The US Lurches Towards Default… Again
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 03/09/2015 - 13:21
Despite
all of the talk of cutting the deficit and the like, the political class
continues to throw taxpayer money around at a pace that is bankrupting the
nation.
Money is stored labor. Labor is part of human life.
To devalue money is to debase life.
Posted by: Bruno de Landevoisin
Post date: 03/08/2015 - 02:12
They
will reflate - There won't be growth - There will be blood!
Following
a year of threats that the west would kick Russia out of SWIFT, Moscow finally
took the plunge and created its own international payment system alternative.
And now, seeing how easy and fast it can be done, here comes China next with
its own "China International Payment System" or CIPS,
as one after another major global powers wave goodbye to a
dollar-based, Washington-controlled (and NSA-supervised) international
funds-transfer protocol. One that no longer relies on the US Dollar.
Well
that escalated quickly...
No catalyzing event - China CPI modestly hotter than expected and Aussie
confidence weak - but FX
markets are fast in the Asia session with USDJPY surging above 122.00
for the first time since July 2007 and EURUSD dropping below 1.08 as
USD strength dominates (up 1.65% from payrolls). Japanese stocks have decoupled
from USDJPY's rally and are down notably and despite the USD strength,
WTI crude has jumped (perhaps on news of Iraqi forces taking back an oil field
near Tikrit). Gold is falling as Offshore Renminbi weakens. All in
all - markets are turmoiling for no good reason...
The term “Martial Law” is thrown around with reckless disregard..."Martial law occurs when the prevailing regime
feels threatened by the message being offered by the loyal opposition. When
normal means of censorship and marginalization fail, despotic regimes resort to
martial law with all intended brutality of a violent crackdown on all of those
being perceived as the 'enemy'." Just how many intrusive government policies are in
place in the following video?
Back
in August, when we wrote about
the latest instance of trouble in Maduro's socialist
paradise, we cautioned that as a result of the economic collapse in
the Latin American nation, Venezuelans soon may need to have their fingerprints
scanned before they can buy bread and other staples. Privacy concerns
aside (clearly Venezuelans have bigger, well, smaller fish to fry) there was
hope that this plunge into insanity would be delayed indefinitely, as the last
thing Venezuela's strained economy would be able to handle is smuggling of the
most basic of necessities: something such a dramatic rationing step would
surely lead to. Unfortunately for the struggling Venezuelan population, the
time has arrived and as AP reported over the weekend,
Venezuela "will begin installing 20,000 fingerprint scanners at
supermarkets nationwide in a bid to stamp out hoarding and panic buying"
as of this moment.
In
recent weeks, the Fed and its apologists in Congress and the media have
launched numerous attacks on the 'Audit the Fed' legislation. These
attacks amount to nothing more than distortions about the effects and intent of
the audit bill. For over a century, the Fed has operated in secrecy,
to the benefit of the elites and the detriment of the people. It is
time to finally bring transparency to monetary policy by auditing the Federal
Reserve.
Fearing
Grexit and an outright economic collapse, former Greek FinMin moved nearly
€500,000 out of the country in 2012. Authorities in Athens suspect tax evasion
was the motive.
That a handful of extraordinarily rich and powerful oligarchs as well as
mega-corporations have completely hijacked the American political process is
hardy news; but of all the
commentary written about Netanyahu’s embarrassing political stunt in front of
the U.S. Congress last week, the most important angle was largely overlooked.
That is, it sort of represented a coming out party for the American
oligarch from behind the curtain.
A
survey of 40 financial institutions shows that BoJ purchases are sapping
liquidity and making it difficult for dealers to fill orders. Defiant to the
end, the central bank pledges to stay in the market until inflation hits 2%.
Greenspan believes that in five years gold will be “measurably higher”
than current levels because of the excess liquidity that will eventually be
released into the open market. Such
an event will undoubtedly lead to
riots across America as the general public, woefully unprepared for
rapidly rising prices when the pin finally pops the dollar bubble, loses access
to affordable critical supplies like food, gas and other resources.
The collapse of the dollar, an inevitability suggested by Alan Greenspan,
will be a game changer that results in the quadrupling
of the cost of living for the average American.
It’s
a remarkable irony, notes Sharyl Attkinson,
that the same U.S. president whose administration has gone to great
lengths to monitor journalists, whistleblowers and the public, claims to be
oddly in the dark regarding basic information on some of his biggest
controversies. Here are eight instances in which President Obama
said he heard it on the news - or way after-the-fact - just like ordinary
Americans.
Having
been shamed what seems like numerous times now by the Eurogroup in recent
weeks, Greece suffered its greatest humiliation today. First, the
farcical renaming of 'Troika' to 'Institutions' was summarily
dismissed as "semantics," as France played good cop (asking for the
group not to call it Troika) while Germany's bad-cop Schaeuble used the T-word
four times in one interview. And second, Eurogroup chairman Dijsselbloem stated
that "technical teams will begin considering Greek reform plans on
Wednesday," adding that some of the negotiations will have to take place
"in situ in Athens." So instead of discussing
reforms with institutions in Brussels, the Varoufakis-defined "cabal
of technocrats" Troika will be back on Greek soil to straighten out the
nation.
How can the government be telling us that we are nearly at “full
employment” when so many people can’t find work? Could it be possible that the government numbers are
misleading? It is our contention that the official “unemployment rate” has
become so politicized and so manipulated that it is essentially
meaningless at this point.
There is a story being told to the masses about Chinese gold demand that
is grossly incorrect. The huge discrepancy between numbers from the World Gold
Council (WGC) and actual gold demand is so wide yet cunningly hidden I must
conclude there is essential information about physical gold demand deliberately
kept privy.
"To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and
be humble. You have to be an independent thinker because you can’t make money agreeing with the consensus
view, which is already embedded in the price. Yet whenever you’re betting against the consensus,
there’s a significant probability you’re going to be wrong, so you have to be humble."
Is
this the end of the last great run for the U.S. stock market? Are we
witnessing classic “peaking behavior” that is similar to what occurred just
before other major stock market crashes? Throughout 2014 and for the
early stages of 2015, stocks have been on quite a tear. Even though the
overall U.S. economy continues to be deeply troubled, we
have seen the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq set record after
record. But no bull market lasts forever – particularly one that has no
relation to economic reality whatsoever. This false bubble of financial
prosperity has been enjoyable, and even I wish that it could last much
longer. But there comes a time when we all must face reality, and the
cold, hard facts are telling us that this party is about to end. The
following are 7 signs that a stock market peak is happening right now… (Read More....)
On
Friday, we learned that the official “unemployment rate” has fallen to 5.5
percent. Since an unemployment rate of 5 percent is considered to be “full
employment” by many economists, many in the mainstream media took this as a
sign that the U.S. economy has almost fully “recovered” since the last
recession. In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, some Federal
Reserve officials believe that “the U.S.
economy is already at full employment“. But how can this possibly
be? It certainly does not square with reality. Personally, I know
people that have been struggling with unemployment for years and that still
cannot find a decent job. And I get emails from readers all the time that
are heartbroken because they are suffering through extended periods of
unemployment. So what in the world is going on? How can the
government be telling us that we are nearly at “full employment” when so many
people can’t find work? Could it be possible that the government numbers
are misleading? (Read More....)
It is my contention that the official
“unemployment rate” has become so politicized and so manipulated that it is
essentially meaningless at this point. The following are 10 reasons why…
#1 Since February 2008, the size of the U.S. population
has grown by 16.8 million people, but the number of full-time jobs has actually
decreased by
140,000.
#2 The percentage of working age Americans that have a
job right now is still about the same as it was during the depths of the last
recession. Posted below is a chart that shows how the
employment-population ratio has changed since the beginning of the
decade. Does this look like a full-blown “employment recovery” to you?…
#3 The primary reason for the decline in the official
“unemployment rate” is the fact that the government now considers millions upon
millions of long-term unemployed workers to “no longer be in the labor
force”. Just check out the following numbers…
The
number of Americans participating in the labor force has been on a decline for
the past few years. Nearly 33 percent of the Americans above age 16 are not
part of the workforce, the highest number since 1978. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) report issued recently has found 92,898,000 Americans above
age 16 not a part of the labor force of the country as on February 2015.
When
President Obama took over the office in January 2009, nearly 80,529,000
Americans were not a part of the labor force. The number has increase by
nearly 12 million over the last few years.
#4 Over the past couple
of years, the labor force participation rate in this country has been
hovering near mutli-decade lows…
The
labor force participation rate hovered between 62.9 percent and 62.7 percent in
the eleven months from April 2014 through February, and has been 62.9 percent
or lower in 13 of the 17 months since October 2013.
Prior
to that, the last time the rate was below 63 percent was 37 years ago, in March
1978 when it was 62.8 percent, the same rate it was in February.
#5 When you add the
number of “officially unemployed” Americans (8.7 million) to the number of
Americans “not in the labor force” (92.9 million), you get a grand total of 101.6
million working age Americans that do not have a job right now.
Does that sound like “full employment” to you?
#6 The quality of our
jobs continues to decline. Right now, only 44
percent of U.S. adults are employed for 30 or more hours each week.
#7 Millions upon
millions of Americans have been forced to take part-time jobs because that is
all they can find, and wages for American workers are at depressingly low
levels. The following numbers come directly from the Social Security Administration…
-39
percent of American workers make less than $20,000 a year.
-52
percent of American workers make less than $30,000 a year.
-63
percent of American workers make less than $40,000 a year.
-72
percent of American workers make less than $50,000 a year.
#8 The average
duration of unemployment for an unemployed worker is still about
twice as long as it was just prior to the last recession.
#9 Most Americans
feel as though the Obama administration has done little to nothing to help the
middle class. Just consider the following poll numbers…
According to a new poll by the
Pew Research Center, Americans see government policies under the
Obama administration as having mostly benefited wealthy people, large
corporations and financial institutions.
Seventy-two
percent of respondents said government policies have done little or nothing to
help the middle class, and 65 percent said they have done nothing to help the
poor. Sixty-eight percent said the policies have done nothing to help small
businesses.
Meanwhile,
45 percent said the policies have done a “great deal” to help large banks and
financial institutions, 38 percent say they have helped large corporations, and
36 percent say they have helped the wealthy.
#10 If the
unemployment rate was calculated honestly, we would all be talking about the
horrific “unemployment crisis” that we were currently enduring. According
to John Williams of shadowstats.com, the real unemployment rate in the
United States right now is above 23 percent.
Our
politicians and the mainstream media are attempting to convince us that
everything is just fine.
But
what they are telling us simply does not match the cold, hard reality on the
streets.
And
since the talking heads on television are proclaiming that we are nearly at
“full employment”, that just makes millions upon millions of Americans that
can’t seem to find work no matter how hard they try feel even worse than they
already do.
If
jobs are “easy to get”, then those that are chronically unemployment must have
“something wrong” with them. That is the message that we are being given.
If the mainstream media says that unemployment has gone way down, then anyone
that is still unemployed must be really “lazy”, right?
When
you are unemployed for an extended period of time, it can really suck the life
right out of you. It can be really tempting to believe that you are
viewed as a failure by your family and friends. And for the government to
lie to us like this just makes things even harder.
If
you are unemployed and can’t find a job right now, I want you to understand
that you are caught in the midst of a long-term downward economic spiral which
is going to get a lot worse.
When
the government tells you that we are in a “recovery”, they are lying to you.
And
when the government tells you that things are about to get a lot better, they
are lying to you.
Everyone
has times in their lives when they get knocked down.
The
key is to always get back up and to never, ever stop fighting.
Yes,
we are facing some really hard economic times. But that does not mean
that your life is over. Never give up, and never give in to fear.
Just do what you can with what you have today, and tomorrow get up and fight
with everything that you have got.
The
truth is that the best chapters of your life could be just around the corner.
Just
don’t sit back and wait for the government to save you. If you are
waiting for the government to save you, then you are going to be deeply
disappointed.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Rampant feminist hypocrisy which drives Hillary campaign in the
spotlight again.
Mikael
Thalen | VA manager makes toy elf beg for Xanax, hang itself with electrical
wire.
Kurt Nimmo | More
evidence U.S. and Israel directly aiding ISIS
Kit
Daniels | “Fat acceptance” campaign digital equivalent of fat people who avoid
stepping on a scale.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Criticism driven by “Republican fear of having a vagina in
control of the White House”.
Kurt Nimmo |
Propagandized ISIS threat turns into consensus for endless war.
Mark
Dice | Feminism is a fraud.
Steve Watson | “The
President is not a king and the Constitution means what it says.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | “Someone is paying to test a series of negative messages about
Hillary Clinton”.
Ron
Paul | In recent weeks, the Federal Reserve and its apologists in Congress and
the media have launched numerous attacks on the Audit the Fed legislation.
WORLD NEWS
Bank
Records Reveal Saudi Elites Gave Millions to Boston Marathon Bombers’ Mosque
Breitbart |
Wealthy Saudi and Gulf sources paid for over $8.6 million of the ISBCC
mega-mosque’s $15.6 million price tag.
Revealed:
UK sells tear gas and rubber bullets to regimes ‘on Foreign Office blacklist’
London
Independent | Items on display to delegations from governments likely to
include Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and Egypt are sniper rifles, computer and
phone-hacking tools and a crowd-control sonic ‘projector’.
French
PM predicts 10,000 Europeans to join ISIS before 2015 ends
RT | France,
along with Belgium, has seen the largest figures of radicalized Islamists who
left home to join the Islamic state in their war in Syria and Iraq.
Drone
breaks into French military communications site airspace
RT | An
unidentified drone has been spotted over a naval communications center near
Paris.
Washington’s
Al Qaeda Ally Now Leading ISIS in Libya
Eric Draitser |
The revelations that US ally Abdelhakim Belhadj is now leading ISIS in Libya
should come as no surprise to those who have followed US policy in that
country, and throughout the region.
·
MONEY WATCH
US
Acts as Terrorist State Waging Finance War Against Russia – Magazine
Sputnik | The
United States is waging a finance war against Moscow.
Insider
Alan Greenspan Warns of Explosive Inflation: “Tinderbox Looking For a Spark”
SHTFplan.com |
According to Greenspan, something big is coming.
Nearly
At ‘Full Employment’? 10 Reasons Why The Unemployment Numbers Are A Massive Lie
Michael Snyder |
On Friday, we learned that the official “unemployment rate” has fallen to 5.5
percent.
SHTFPlan.com | A
secret agreement that was enacted five years ago at the Federal Reserve has
just come to light.
·
PRISON PLANET
Michigan
State Police Get ‘OK’ to Use Drones
Adan Salazar |
Privacy concerns overshadowed by purported need for increased security.
Cops
Force Mentally Challenged Woman to Wear “I’m Dope” T-shirt So they Could
Ridicule Her
Free Thought
Project | A lawsuit has been brought against two New York City cops claiming
they exploited a mentally challenged woman for their own disgusting buffoonery.
SWAT
Team Shows Up To Elementary School to Promote Police State USA
Free Thought
Project | The officers weren’t there to raid the school or arrest anyone, but
they certainly looked like they were going to so.
Put
CCTV in EVERY home: Householders should help us trap burglars, says Scotland
Yard chief
UK Daily Mail |
Homeowners should consider fitting CCTV to trap burglars, the country’s most
senior police officer declared yesterday.
COMMENTARY
COMMON
CORE KIDNAPPING: Parent Calls 911 After Public School Won’t Release Kid From
Test
Daily Caller |
School allegedly attempted to confine a student for a Common Core standardized
test.
The
Bizarre Excesses of The Anti-Human Feminazis
Prison
Planet.com | Bossy brainwashing blitz backed by corporate patriarchy.
It’s Not Too
Late to Stop Net Neutrality
New American |
Republican lawmakers are pursuing legislation to reverse the FCC’s Net
Neutrality ruling, which at least one lawmaker describes as “illegal.”
Google’s
New Algorithm Will Only Show You ‘What They Say Is True’
Barbara Minton |
With 2.8 billion ‘facts’ currently in the database.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Men Are
Losers, Says New Feminist Campaign
Paul Joseph
Watson | Bossy brainwashing blitz backed by corporate patriarchy.
VIDEO:
ISIS Leader Was Armed & Funded by Obama White House
Paul Joseph
Watson | John McCain & Lindsey Graham met with Islamic State militant.
Teacher
investigated for posting ‘terrorist list’ of students on classroom door
Tampa Bay Times
| A math teacher at St. Petersburg High allegedly posted a “terrorist list” on
his classroom door with students’ names.
·
U.S. NEWS
Fat
Activists Demand Facebook Remove “I’m Feeling Fat” Emoticon
Kit Daniels |
“Fat acceptance” campaign digital equivalent of fat people who avoid stepping
on a scale.
Law
Proposed To Let Police Enter Homes Without Warrants and Shoot Dogs
Counter Current News | A
new bill has been proposed which would allow police officers to enter any home,
regardless of whether or not they have a warrant, if there is a pit bull on the
Chris
Wallace GRILLS Fmr Clinton Lawyer: ‘Do You Really Believe She Did Nothing
Wrong?’ [VIDEO]
Daily Caller |
“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace grilled former Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis
about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email as secretary of state.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Isis
— No, Not That One — Wins $7 Million Pentagon Cyber Contract
Nextgov.com | A
little-known Virginia startup company – with an unfortunate name.
Monsanto
Is About To Escape All Regulation From The USDA
Christina Sarich
| Is big biotech immune to everything?
Major
Chemical Company ‘Poisoned Water Supply’ for 50 Years
Christina Sarich
| And is now being sued, again.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
TODAY ON THE ALEX JONES
SHOW
On
this Thursday, March 5, 2015 edition of the Alex Jones Show, the firestorm
continues over Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of hidden e-mail accounts while
serving as Secretary of State to keep the public in the dark about government
affairs. Radio host Richie Allen joins to show to discuss
Clinton's home-brewed e-mail server and more. For one thing, media outlets and
watchdog groups are now threatening legal action over unfulfilled Freedom of
Information Act requests due to the hidden e-mails the State Dept. knew about
but would not release.
Difficult to Believe;
yet, now, despite netanayahu’s ‘guarantee’ that things would be better in the
mideast with an american invasion of Iraq, we all know such guarantee from a
lying fraud like netanyahu was simply untrue and things are worse than ever. We
also saw that his ‘red line’ speech calling for an invasion of the historically
great civilization of Iran was simply untrue. He now once again calls for
reliance upon his lies/israeliocentric concerns for an invasion of the
historically great civilization of Iran. Who has illegal nukes (with stolen
nuke technology from the u.s.) and refuses the dictates of (and signing the)
nuclear non-proliferation and disclosure? … israel… What belligerent, militant
illegal nuke nation acts like they have illegal nukes to the detriment of other
regional nations … israel. What leader used terrorist bombings to usurp control
of mideast land from the caretaker brits … manachem begin, israel …
ISIS, as I’ve previously stated in this website must be
completely destroyed … Who’s doing the heavy lifting in that regard … certainly
not israel … Answer: the historically great civilization of Iran …
REMEMBER:
SOME PERSONAL POSITIONS
SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE RECORD TO PRECLUDE
ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
OBAMA TO STONERS: WE'RE COOL... { Yeah … right! … Choom gang-banger wobama is about as cool as
s**t moving downhill … ‘social’ drugs as marijuana, blow to a much lesser
extent if at all (as a weekend stimulant after a 60+ hour work-weeks, but not
to excess – some ‘hot girls’ ‘expected it’, though no excuse; and, truth be
told, Freud used to give it to his wife to enhance her libido which in fact is
true … still no excuse ), hashish (heroin, speed, barbiturates, pills, etc.,
are DEFINITELY UNCOOL, sticking with limited stoner dudes’ terminology) are
neither cool nor uncool … as plebian as a glass of wine, champagne, beer,
scotch, etc., after a week’s hard work only, at best a somewhat decadent
indulgence; at worst, as with all indulgences, literally potentially
destructive and negative if in excess … Far from special, anyone can do them …
[Truth be told, within weeks (ie., usually 4-6 weeks) of ie., important exams
(it’s also ‘lamentably’ true I was a ‘quick-study’ crammer but blessed with a
great memory facilitating same without detriment thereby, providing
for/enabling ‘balance’), I abstained from marijuana owing to the somewhat
limited, lingering persistence of same in the fatty tissues including the brain
affecting retention, etc.. ] Wobama’s
Choom Gang Bangin’ { This brief video (11 mb) is well done and worth a
watch! http://www.albertpeia.com/wobamaschoomgangbangin.wmv }
{ It should be noted that now for decades I’ve not used any
illegal substances whatsoever (no big deal/sacrifice) or ‘legal’
substances/drugs including alcohol except aspirin, coffee/cola/caffeine - I
smoke a tobacco (admittedly not healthy) pipe, but so did Albert Einstein, and,
as well, Hugh Hefner who has been reported to have a high IQ and must be a
genius having made a fortune taking naked pictures of and having sex with
beautiful women … (remember nancy reagan’s preposterous ‘just say no to drugs’
campaign when ultimately it was pointed out by investigative author Kitty Kelly
that nancy was a ‘walking pharmacy’ so numerous were her prescription drugs of
choice … shades of nixon’s eulogy to Elvis in noting Elvis’ lethal drug mix
were legal drugs … riiiiight, dick) owing to arbitrary enforcement, hypocrisy,
etc. … In the past I’ve ‘partied’ (ie., pot, hashish, blow, etc.) weekends with
assistant prosecutors, prosecutor, other lawyers, among others, etc.. (Note
that the prosecutor who prosecuted Paris Hilton for possession of a small
amount of cocaine was himself busted and prosecuted for possession of a small
amount of cocaine, etc.)}.
Atheists 'face discrimination around globe'... { Indeed!
After all, the ‘globe’ can’t be wrong ‘all the time’. Actually, I have
previously stated that I can empathize with the agnostic ( F. Lee Bailey was
notably in that category by prior self-proclamation, among others ); this world
being such as it is, human beings such as they are. Yet, said position is still
unequivocally, absolutely incorrect; but, understandable. The position of the
atheist is at the least intellectually dishonest (at worst, constituting a
petulant penchant for the ‘great lie’ and in some instances, an inherent
capacity for great evil). But, as well, atheism is incorrect, and certainly not
understandable; and all the more wrong by positing something they don’t and
hence, obviously, could not know as being so. Atheists are, quite
simply…pathetic! }
ISIS, as I’ve previously stated in this website must be
completely destroyed … Who’s doing the heavy lifting in that regard … certainly
not israel … Answer: the historically great civilization of Iran … REMEMBER:
ISIS (AMONG OTHER DESTABILIZING FACTIONS) IS THE YANG
OF THE YING OF YINGYANG/MORON/DUMBYA BUSH AND FELLOW WAR CRIMINALS, IE.,
CHENEY, ET ALS, NEOCONS, ETC..
That ‘judeo/Christian’ mantra/linkage
does not pass muster … as in who crucified (with stated reluctant roman help),
denies the fact/reality of, Christ the Lord ? … Answer: israelis !
STUDY: Girls As Young As
6 See Themselves As Sex Objects... { Wow! This is really quite alarming and
bespeaks america’s new-found perverse, third-world uncivilized status, which is
‘picked up’ by kids who in some ways are smarter than given credit for with a
vulnerable longing to please, be accepted in light of their powerless position
in our ever more deteriorating society. Moreover, with the prevalence of sick
pedophiles and kiddie-porn, it’s not so surprising that kids might pick up on
such abominable vibes. It is difficult to imagine that little girls could be
the objects of such horror as, ie., Samantha Runnion ( who was kidnapped,
sexually abused and strangled by a man who lured her from her front yard by
telling her he had lost his dog. Her naked body was found the next day by a
hiker in Cleveland National Forest, 50 miles southeast of Stanton. The autopsy
revealed that she died from compression. A sample of the kidnapper's DNA was
found under her fingernail. The suspect, a Lake Elsinore, California, man named
Alejandro Avila, was convicted of first degree murder with special
circumstances in May 2005. His DNA was found on Samantha's body, and her DNA
was found in his car. He was arrested three days after the abduction. Avila had
previously been to the condominium complex where Samantha lived, because his
ex-girlfriend resided there and he had been previously acquitted of molesting
her daughter and niece. On May 16, 2005, the jury recommended he receive the
death penalty. On July 22, 2005, Avila was formally sentenced to death. He is
incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison on death row ). Then there was that
other little girl who was brutalized, sexually assaulted/raped, and then buried
alive while clutching her teddy bear. What species, other than man, is capable
of such horror/perversion/criminality?!
The great authors have in large part engaged in treatment of
what’s been termed the universal theme of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’. I differ
with that characterization which I believe is incorrect and would posit the the
universal theme as being ‘man’s humanity to man’.
Some guidance/insight can be derived here:
http://albertpeia.com/anthroindex1.htm
http://albertpeia.com/generalpsychology/genpsy.html
As an aside, I’ve included the following for the record as
well: Personally, I’ve never had/known a virgin in the biblical sense though
I’ve been in a position to; that’s something I just don’t do. Never have, never
wanted to, never would, never will! Though I’ve had many consensual sexual
liasons with many different female sexual partners (mid-hundreds) all of whom I
liked, I’ve never, ever resorted to prostitutes. The accidental exceptions
included two ‘call girls’; one having met at summer beach town bar matinee and
who was ‘not working’ (as it turned out the reason being she was at the end of
her menstrual cycle). The other at a grocery store with her daughter which made
such in my mind, unlikely. As it turned out, both were ‘nymphomaniacs’ (which,
truth be told, made for quite an exceptional sexual romp) and I simplistically
inferred/surmised without dwelling on the subject that they probably expected
they’d have inordinate amounts of sex anyway and might as well get paid for it
– of course I didn’t nor was I asked to pay. The other incident I’m including
here for the record concerned an absolutely beautiful (blond hair, blue eyes,
pretty, cute, perfectly built/proportioned – make no mistake, however, I like
brunettes also/equally) girl I met at a bar called ‘the Red Ranch’, later
changed to ‘Harpoon Willy’s’. At closing, we immediately became amorous, near
intimate to a point in my car with abrupt ‘resistance’ at the ‘crucial
moments’. When I finally, ‘exasperated’, asked ‘what’s up’, she stated she had
recently broken up with her boyfriend who had gone too far in the
‘sado-masochistic’ ritual behavior they were, and she still was into. I told
her I wasn’t into it (I don’t connect
sex with sado-masochism); never would, never did, never will. We talked for
quite some time and she explained her ‘predisposition’ the (her perceived)
consequence of her strict, puritanical upbringing and feelings of guilt
concomitant with sexual activity requiring coincident punishment/pain when so
engaged. I was busy with law school evenings, work full-time, and teaching at a
local college part-time and parted ways without taking her number and never did
see her again. } ]
New India Gang Rape: Woman Hanged from Tree after Sexual
Assault in Bihar [VIDEO] { What can you
expect from ‘animals’ who believe they might reincarnate (ridiculous!) as other
animals (but, there are spirits and there is such thing as demonic possession)
(‘…Hinduism is based on the concept of omnipresence of the Divine, and the
presence of a soul in all creatures, including bovines. Thus, by that
definition, killing any animal would be a sin: one would be obstructing the
natural cycle of birth and death of that creature, and the creature would have
to be reborn in that same form because of its unnatural death. Historically, even
Krishna, one of the most revered forms of the Divine (Avatar), tended cows…’
Wikipedia) }
6 ARRESTED IN NEW GANG RAPE OF A BUS PASSENGER IN INDIA...
Woman hung from tree after rape...
India reports 25 rapes in week following Delhi gangrape
IBNLive { See, as per the
californication amerikan jurisprudential scholar/jurist/judge, these 25 girls
may not have realized it, but, they really wanted it … you know, otherwise, as
per the californication jurisprudential scholar/jurist/judge these
subconsciously consensual encounters could not have happened because the body
would ‘just say no’ to such liasons if nonconsensual. There you go! … american
jurisprudence has done it again as they guide us through those dark, shadowy,
murky areas of the law that would otherwise label violent criminal rapists as
violent criminal rapists. (We’re
talking India here; but, violent rape among a plethora of other substantial
crimes including murder, huge protected ie., wall street, etc., frauds, armed
robberies, etc., are rampant in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt
america.) India gang-rape suspects to
face murder charges (CBS/AP) NEW DELHI - Indian police charged six men with
murder on Saturday, hours after a woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus
in New Delhi nearly two weeks ago died in a Singapore hospital. { Clearly, says
the california-american jurist/jurisprudential scholar, this girl was not a
victim but really ‘wanted it’ and while she may have been screaming/saying
‘no’, she really meant ‘yes’ since otherwise her body wouldn’t have permitted
that rape (and beating) to happen. See … now that’s why we have professionally
educated/trained judges … to ‘split the pubic hairs’, so to speak … (that judge
should be forced to step down)} Calif. judge says a victims' bodies can prevent
rape CBS News SANTA ANA, Calif. A Southern California judge is being publicly
admonished for saying a rape victim "didn't put up a fight" during
her assault and that if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body
"will not permit that to happen.” { Wow! Spoken like a true california
american jurist. Well, with violent rapes on the rise along with other serious
violent among other crimes in america and california particularly, and
elections being what they are, ‘might as well go with the flow’ might have been
the ratio-descedendi. After all, so the (ir)rationale would go, most violent
criminals in america are closet pacifists/peace corp members and if the body
says yes or no but the mind subconsciously says yes, only then will a rape happen
(NOT!); and, no violent rapist would let a LIVE/CONSCIOUS rape-resistor get in
the way of implicit consensual rape. Wow! I initially was going to quip, ‘he
doesn’t get out much’; but, maybe he just ‘gets out too much’. Wow! What more
can anyone say! [ If the foregoing didn’t make sense to you, that’s because the
californication judge’s outrageous statement is absolutely preposterous! ] }
Michael Snyder Reports
http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream.htm
Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 03/10/2015 - 07:56
Six Days Until Bond Market Crash Begins
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 03/10/2015 - 17:17
The
Federal Reserve, and now the European Union have set the stage for the biggest
collapse in bond markets that will make the sub-prime financial crisis look
like a cakewalk
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 03/10/2015 - 13:05
With
all the focus on Grexit in recent weeks, investors have not paid much attention
to the risk posed by ‘Brexit’ or the possibility of the UK leaving the European
Union.
It
appears that just as the administration is finally figuring out what
HFT is, it also decided to take a look at the charts above and has made a
decision: the next bailout is about to be unveiled, and it will involve
a "streamlined" bankruptcy law allowing students to discharge their
student debt.
"The
current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or
another... conflicts of interest among brokers, a two-tier system favoring the
speediest and a general sense that today’s rules have been crafted to the benefit of
insiders."
Every
dystopian sci-fi film we’ve ever seen is suddenly converging into this present
moment in a dangerous trifecta between science, technology and a
government that wants to be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful.
Having already used surveillance technology to render the entire American
populace potential suspects, DNA technology in the hands of government will
complete our transition to a suspect society in which we are all merely waiting
to be matched up with a crime. No longer can we consider ourselves
innocent until proven guilty.
"If
inflation expectations remain muted, then the amount available for purchase by
the BoJ is liable to be largely exhausted during the next 1.5 to 2 years, at
which point supply/demand may tighten to unprecedented proportions,"
Morgan Stanley writes. Meanwhile, a BoJ "liquidity auction" intended
to allay concerns around JGB availability attracts tepid demand a day after a
dealer survey revealed concerns about the health of the market.
First
she tried to take over the credit derivatives world which she first had to
create, and succeeded. Then, after Enron failed, she tried to take over the California
electricity market and also failed. And all through this time she made sure the
prices of the world's precious metals were right where she wanted them. Now, a
year after an embarrassing attempt to become head of her former regulator ended
in humiliation, she is back and has her sights set on the final financial
frontier: Bitcoin.
Russians view the United States much more unfavorably today than they
did during the end of the Cold War era. As you will read about below, an astounding 81
percent of all Russians now view the United States negatively, and only 13
percent have a positive opinion of this country. In all of the years when
Russians have been surveyed on their attitudes toward the U.S., they have never
been this negative. But of course Americans generally do not view the
Russian people unfavorably. Even while most Americans are
extremely apathetic about what is going on over in Russia, an increasingly
large chunk of the Russian population is angry enough to go to war.
In
what some note could be a pre-emptive strike against rising social tensions
in The Kingdom, new (and potentially crazy) King Salman bin Abdulaziz vowed to
limit the impact of lower oil prices on economic growth, demanding that his
regional governors "listen to their citizens." King Salman
then specifically noted, he would work to "achieve justice for all
citizens with no difference between one citizen and another, one region or
another," adding that he will "confront the reasons behind
schisms in society." Concluding with a warning that "we will
never allow for tampering with our security," the King vowed to "boost
security forces’ capabilities to defend the nation."
"...as with the car on a slush-covered highway, any fool can get it
to spin out, but that same fool is then unlikely to have the presence of mind,
the skill and the steel nerves to keep it from hitting one of the barriers.
Same goes for the would-be builders of an “empire of controlled chaos”: sure, they can generate chaos, but controlling it in
a manner that allows them to derive some benefit from it is rather out of the
question, and even their ability to stabilize it, so that they are not
themselves hurt by it, is in grave doubt."
It’s
one thing to predict one person’s shopping or investment decisions. But can
brain scans be used to forecast the entire market? Neuroeconomist Paul Glimcher
says, “If we had access to that data, when people pick stocks, can these models
predict macro-level changes in stock prices from individual-level models of
angels picking stocks? There’s reason to believe it might work.” Already,
neuromarketing consultancies advise large companies like Google and PepsiCo on
which products will do well, and how to position them in the marketplace. Maybe
one day there will be boutique equity research consultancies that scan the
brains of focus group participants as they answer questions about individual
securities, and investors could incorporate these neural inputs as they mull
whether to buy or sell a security.
The Fed's real
predicament is not how to raise rates, but how to talk about raising interest
rates without ever having to actually raise them. If we had a real recovery, the Fed would not need to
couch its language so delicately. It would have just pulled the trigger
already. But when its communications and its intentions are
different, credibility becomes a very delicate asset.
No
lesser trustworthy character than Assistant Secretary of State Victoria
Nuland explained this morning that the US can
"confirm" new Russian weapons delivery to Ukraine and that
they "can tell" when Russia sends in new weapons (though offering no
explanation of this statement). This comment to the Senate Committee comes a day
after the US delivered 'lethal aid' to Latvia - 120 armored units (including
tanks) - with US Army General John O’Conner who witnessed the tanks
arriving on Latvian soil said, "Freedom must be fought for, freedom
must be defended." And finally, one more shot in the eye of the
germans, deputy under-secretary of Defense Brian McKeon said the US is
"actively considering more weapons for Ukraine,"
seemingly implying they alreadt sent some?
ISIS
launches its own version of FaceBook just as a new report profiles the typical
terrorist tweeter.
The
oil glut we are experiencing now reflects a worldwide affordability crisis.
Because of a lack of affordability, demand is depressed. This lack of demand
keeps prices low–below the cost of production for many producers. If
the affordability issue cannot be fixed, it threatens to bring down the system
by discouraging investment in oil production.
Berkshire
Hathaway is getting into the car-retailing business with the purchase of the
country's biggest privately-held dealership chain. With auto sales set to stall
thanks to subprime jitters, is the Oracle stepping into the wrong business at
just the wrong time?
Mikael
Thalen | “Talk to your financial adviser about how to divest your retirement
savings from the gun industry.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | First question asked during press conference invokes feminist
rhetoric.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Feminists want to make dishonesty in relationships a punishable
crime on a par with rape.
Prison Planet.com |
We decided to grant him the treat of a succulent, little fish.
Adan
Salazar | Multiple immunizations administered to 16-year-old, including HPV
vaccine.
Kit Daniels | Private
email server “certainly proved to be effective and secure,” she says.
Kurt Nimmo |
Propaganda push to defend illegal assassinations.
Kit Daniels | City
also wants to ban soft drink ads from publicly-owned areas.
Steve Watson | Spooks
bragged at secret meeting about planting backdoors and key stroke loggers.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Report shies away from naming Islamic religion as most
oppressive towards women.
WORLD NEWS
London
Independent | But experts say the discovery is unlikely to aid them with
discovering the wreckage of the plane, now lost for more than a year.
Moscow
Will Respond to NATO Military Buildup Near Russia’s Border – Lavrov
Sputnik |
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that Moscow would respond to NATO military
buildup near Russian border “in an adequate way.”
Brzezinski:
“We Must Guarantee to the Russians That … Ukraine Would Not Seek To Join NATO”
Washington’s
Blog | Wants Ukraine to Follow Finnish Model.
Bank
Records Reveal Saudi Elites Gave Millions to Boston Marathon Bombers’ Mosque
Breitbart |
Wealthy Saudi and Gulf sources paid for over $8.6 million of the ISBCC
mega-mosque’s $15.6 million price tag.
Revealed:
UK sells tear gas and rubber bullets to regimes ‘on Foreign Office blacklist’
London
Independent | Items on display to delegations from governments likely to
include Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and Egypt are sniper rifles, computer and
phone-hacking tools and a crowd-control sonic ‘projector’.
·
MONEY WATCH
China
Completes SWIFT Alternative, May Launch “De-Dollarization Axis” As Soon As
September
Zero Hedge |
Putin’s regime may be locked out of all international monetary transactions.
Top
Asset Manager Warns Of Risks In Banking System: “It’s The Biggest Reason To Own
Precious Metals”
Mac Slavo | Top alternative asset manager Eric Sprott, whose
company has $10 billion in assets under management, sounds the alarm.
7
Signs That A Stock Market Peak Is Happening Right Now
Michael Snyder |
Is this the end of the last great run for the U.S. stock market?
US
Acts as Terrorist State Waging Finance War Against Russia – Magazine
Sputnik | The
United States is waging a finance war against Moscow.
·
PRISON PLANET
Cop
Threatens to Confiscate 4-year-old’s Bike
Adan Salazar |
Child now fearful of police after unnecessary encounter.
Michigan
State Police Get ‘OK’ to Use Drones
Adan Salazar |
Privacy concerns overshadowed by purported need for increased security.
Cops
Force Mentally Challenged Woman to Wear “I’m Dope” T-shirt So they Could
Ridicule Her
Free Thought
Project | A lawsuit has been brought against two New York City cops claiming
they exploited a mentally challenged woman for their own disgusting buffoonery.
SWAT
Team Shows Up To Elementary School to Promote Police State USA
Free Thought
Project | The officers weren’t there to raid the school or arrest anyone, but
they certainly looked like they were going to so.
COMMENTARY
McConnell
Betrays Conservatives by Promising to Raise Debt Ceiling
New American |
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. government will reach
its borrowing limit in October or November.
COMMON
CORE KIDNAPPING: Parent Calls 911 After Public School Won’t Release Kid From
Test
Daily Caller |
School allegedly attempted to confine a student for a Common Core standardized
test.
The
Bizarre Excesses of The Anti-Human Feminazis
Prison
Planet.com | Bossy brainwashing blitz backed by corporate patriarchy.
It’s Not Too
Late to Stop Net Neutrality
New American |
Republican lawmakers are pursuing legislation to reverse the FCC’s Net
Neutrality ruling, which at least one lawmaker describes as “illegal.”
·
MULTIMEDIA
Men Are
Losers, Says New Feminist Campaign
Paul Joseph
Watson | Bossy brainwashing blitz backed by corporate patriarchy.
VIDEO:
ISIS Leader Was Armed & Funded by Obama White House
Paul Joseph
Watson | John McCain & Lindsey Graham met with Islamic State militant.
Teacher
investigated for posting ‘terrorist list’ of students on classroom door
Tampa Bay Times
| A math teacher at St. Petersburg High allegedly posted a “terrorist list” on
his classroom door with students’ names.
·
U.S. NEWS
Video: Lazy Pelican
Begs For Food
Prison
Planet.com | We decided to
grant him the treat of a succulent, little fish.
Hillary
Clinton: I Used Private E-mail Out of “Convenience”
Kit Daniels | Private email server “certainly proved to be
effective and secure,” she says.
James
Carville has meltdown over Hillary on MSNBC: ‘Are you saying that she’s a
crook?’
Bizpac Review |
Democratic strategist and longtime Clinton adviser James Carville went off the
rails in defense of Hillary Clinton.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
More
Evidence Of Climate Data Tampering By NOAA?
Daily Caller |
When Dr. Roy Spencer looked up summer temperature data for the U.S. Corn Belt,
it showed no warming trend for over a century.
Pepsi
Wins Battle to Keep Adding Carcinogen to Your Soda
Christina Sarich
| Sounds like it’s time for a boycott.
Isis
— No, Not That One — Wins $7 Million Pentagon Cyber Contract
Nextgov.com | A
little-known Virginia startup company – with an unfortunate name.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 03/11/2015 - 13:50
Posted by : EconMatters
Post date: 03/11/2015 - 14:24
Financial
markets should actually be begging the Fed for a June 25 basis point rate hike,
the alternative is going to hurt a lot more...
This Simple Strategy Could Have Potentially Saved
Billions
Posted by: Capitalist Exploits
Post date: 03/11/2015 - 18:10
As
Ronald Reagan said, trust, but verify!
Dear
Federal Reserve, we have just solved the biggest riddle that your
"smartest economist PhDs in the room" have been unable to figure out
for the past year...
"Central banks are not all singing and all dancing," and cannot avoid the consequences of what they are doing, concluding, "you and I have got grandstand seats here [to an
imminent market shock]," and investors are about to "find out just how illiquid it really
is out there."
As the world's dollar funding
shortage continues to unwind, EURUSD has re-collapsed to a
1.04 handle in the Asia session and dragged The USD Index
above 100 for the first time since 2003. This is now the fastest surge
in the USD since records began and EM FX is getting monkey-hammered.
Swissy has almost retraced the entire post-SNB de-peg surge. USD strength has
weakened JPY and thus miraculously lifted US equity futures (just as it did
last night before the dead cat bounce collapsed to lower-lows).
"The
amount a state needs to expend on guard labor is a function of how much
legitimacy the state holds in its population’s reckoning... Why spy? Because it’s cheaper than playing fair.
Our networks have given the edge to the elites, and unless we seize the means
of information, we
are headed for a long age of IT-powered feudalism."
Collapsing crude prices have left America's oil boom towns cash-strapped
in the face of double-digit population growth and increased levels of drug
trafficking and violent crime.
As local governments struggle to cope, a prolonged slump for oil could imperil
the stability of many once quiet communities.
China
is in the midst of attempting to help local governments refinance a mountain of
debt, some of which was accumulated off balance sheet via shadow banking
conduits at relatively high rates. According to UBS, "Chinese
domestic media are saying that the authorities are considering a Chinese
"QE" with the central bank funding the purchase of RMB 10
trillion in local government debt."
Global
growth forecasts are falling and the risk of deflation is rising. As a result,
countries that are dependent on commodity exports are especially vulnerable. Australia
relies on exports to China. If prices fall and China slows down then Australia
will be in big trouble.
Water is the lifeblood of humanity; it turns out it is in short supply. Like any other commodity high in demand, you should
keep an eye on it for investment purposes as we get closer and closer to “peak
water.” Right now, the average American consumes about 100 gallons of water per
day both directly and indirectly. This is a problem of conservation and
efficiency as much as it is supply, as the aging water infrastructure
had its last upgrade during the Reagan era.
The
currency war salvos just keep on coming. Moments ago the BOK unexpectedly
(the move was predicted by just 2 of 17 economists polled by Bloomberg) cut its
policy rate from 2.00% to a record low 1.75%, in what is clearly a full-blown
retaliation against the collapse currency of its biggest export competitor,
Japan, whose currency has cratered to a level that many in South Korea believe
has become a direct subsidy for its competing exports. As such the only
question is why the BOK didn't cut earlier. And following the surprise rate cut
by Thailand earlier today, the "surprise" South Korean rate cut means
there are now 24 easing policy actions by central banks in 2015 alone.
China remains an export economy no matter how hard they try to convince
the world they are moving otherwise. The idea of creating internal “demand” as a means to extricate marginal
changes from everybody else is undoubtedly a good idea, even a noble one, but
the reality of China as it exists top-down isn’t conducive for such a
transformation. Further, that just isn’t realistic under the global conditions
that have persisted since the Great Recession was declared over. In that
respect, there isn’t much to separate what is occurring now from the
Great Recession itself.
"We
ourselves in the European Union provoked the conflict through our territorial
expansionism in the Ukraine. We poked the Russian bear with a stick, and unsurprisingly, Putin reacted. But this now is
to be used as an opportunity to build a European army... And Mr. Juncker said,
we must convey to Russia that we are serious. Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Juncker?"
"...this
hiking cycle is nothing like any experienced before and the key to PEs will be how LT yields react. But
in the meantime, EPS risk remains to the downside on FX, whereas the debate on
magnitude of Fed hikes and how bond yields and PEs react will last all year... We see risk of a near-term 9% dip."
So
much for the second Minsk ceasefire. A few hours ago, the US returned to its
strategy of escalating Russian "costs" when it placed sanctions on eight Ukrainian separatists and a
Russian bank, warning that recent attacks by rebels armed by Russia
violated a European-brokered ceasefire in the war-torn country. The Russian
response to the latest sanction pending, but the response may have been hinted
at earlier today when an official from Russia's Foreign Ministery said
the nation has the right to deploy nuclear arms in the Black Sea peninsula of
Crimea. And finally, indicating that the semi-hot escalation between
the US and Russia is close to getting out of control, Vice President Biden
told Ukraine's president Wednesday the U.S. will send more aid to the
country, which U.S. officials said will include small drones and armored
Humvees.
While
none of the current batch of currency-devaluing Central Bankers would admit
that their policies are designed to weaken the currency, enhance
competitiveness, and hail a new bright future of growth for their nation (by
printing money), it is clear that is the chosen textbook-based path chosen.
However, as the following charts show, it's not working...
Paul
Joseph Watson | Company following same process that caused Samsung privacy
controversy.
Mikael
Thalen | U.S. “would be better served by keeping the terrorist organization afloat…”
Adan Salazar |
Sheriff says he’s ready to go to jail over flag dispute.
Kit Daniels | Like
KKK and Nazis, feminists using stereotypes to promote their agenda.
Paul
Joseph Watson | 90′s talk show host in bizarre Twitter outburst.
Steve Watson | 80,000
Americans bombard government with complaints.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Senator calls for independent investigation into email scandal.
Steve
Watson | Gun rights activists maintain government purposefully deleted ammo it
wants to ban.
RT
| Residents of the Big Apple could start earning big bucks if an anti-idling
bill to award New Yorkers for filming law breakers is approved by the City
Council.
WORLD NEWS
Isis
tricked victims into appearing calm with beheading rehearsals
London Guardian
| Islamic State videos featuring ‘Jihadi John’ Mohammed Emwazi were preceded by
mock run of killing videos in which they were unharmed.
Is
Social Unrest Coming To Saudi Arabia? New King Vows To Limit Oil Price Impact,
Boost Security
Zero Hedge |
King Salman bin Abdulaziz vowed on Tuesday to limit the impact of lower oil
prices on economic growth.
London
Independent | But experts say the discovery is unlikely to aid them with
discovering the wreckage of the plane, now lost for more than a year.
Moscow
Will Respond to NATO Military Buildup Near Russia’s Border – Lavrov
Sputnik |
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that Moscow would respond to NATO military
buildup near Russian border “in an adequate way.”
Brzezinski:
“We Must Guarantee to the Russians That … Ukraine Would Not Seek To Join NATO”
Washington’s
Blog | Wants Ukraine to Follow Finnish Model.
·
MONEY WATCH
Former
SEC Director Admits The Truth: The Market Is Rigged
Zero Hedge | For
more than a decade, John Ramsay kept his mouth shut about how rigged the US
equity market was.
One
Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 2
Brandon Smith |
Government debt creation does not beget successful domestic production.
Tax
Breaks for Oligarchs – The $100 Million Manhattan Apartment with a Property Tax
Rate of 0.017%
Michael Kreiger
| The most disingenuous and sickening type of status quo defender is the person
who blames the recent expansion in wealth inequality on a “lack of skilled
workers.”
China
Completes SWIFT Alternative, May Launch “De-Dollarization Axis” As Soon As
September
Zero Hedge |
Putin’s regime may be locked out of all international monetary transactions.
·
PRISON PLANET
The
CIA helped develop planes that scrape cell phone data
The Verge | The
US may be using cellphone-sniffing planes to find suspects across the world.
Powerful
Member of Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law Has NEVER SENT
AN EMAIL
Washington’s
Blog | Dinosaur Makes Law for Modern World
Homeland
Security: Going Places the Government Shouldn’t Go
New American |
“They’ve kind of lost their way.”
LGBT
Activists Issue Death Threats To Children Of Oklahoma State Senator
Truth Revolt |
For introducing a religious liberties bill for private business owners.
COMMENTARY
A
New Way To Be Human: The Plan Is To Replace Existing Humans With ‘Transhuman’
Hybrids
Michael Snyder |
Transhumanists believe that the time has come for humans to take control of
their own evolution.
Michael Snyder |
Are we on the verge of an unprecedented global currency crisis?
McConnell
Betrays Conservatives by Promising to Raise Debt Ceiling
New American |
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. government will reach
its borrowing limit in October or November.
COMMON
CORE KIDNAPPING: Parent Calls 911 After Public School Won’t Release Kid From
Test
Daily Caller |
School allegedly attempted to confine a student for a Common Core standardized
test.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Men Are
Losers, Says New Feminist Campaign
Paul Joseph
Watson | Bossy brainwashing blitz backed by corporate patriarchy.
VIDEO:
ISIS Leader Was Armed & Funded by Obama White House
Paul Joseph
Watson | John McCain & Lindsey Graham met with Islamic State militant.
Teacher
investigated for posting ‘terrorist list’ of students on classroom door
Tampa Bay Times
| A math teacher at St. Petersburg High allegedly posted a “terrorist list” on
his classroom door with students’ names.
·
U.S. NEWS
Feminists
Promote Gender Stereotypes on Period Pad Messages Posted in Public
Kit Daniels | Like KKK and Nazis, feminists using stereotypes to
promote their agenda.
Trey
Gowdy mocks Hillary’s ‘convenience’ excuse: And she wants to be the president?
Bizpac Review |
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s news conference Tuesday created
more questions than answers for Trey Gowdy.
Memo:
Illegals To Receive Social Security, Credit For Time Worked Illegally
Daily Caller |
Under President Obama’s rule, illegal immigrants will be eligible for social
security payments.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Factory
Farm Antibiotics Making Children ‘Allergic to Fruits and Vegetables’
Christina Sarich
| Just another problem.
Fast
Food Giants Losing Cash Desperately Try to Convince You They’re ‘Natural’
Anthony
Gucciardi | McDonald’s, Burger King try to survive.
More
Evidence Of Climate Data Tampering By NOAA?
Daily Caller |
When Dr. Roy Spencer looked up summer temperature data for the U.S. Corn Belt,
it showed no warming trend for over a century.
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Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 03/12/2015 - 13:38
We
hope this letter enriches your knowledge...
A Worse Divergence Than That of the 2007 Peak
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 03/12/2015 - 10:23
Based
on the current pace of earnings growth, we should see a VERY serious
collapse in the next few months:
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 03/12/2015 - 10:38
Must
Have Been Wearing Tinfoil Hats ... And Living In Their Mom's Basement
The
beginning of the end of high frequency trading has arrived, and it has done so
in a most unexpected fashion: with an HFT turning on other HFTs and
revealing on the record, for the entire world to see, just how truly parasitic,
manipulative and "market-rigging" the algorithms truly are.
If
Vladimir Putin is alive and remotely capable of laughter (the jury is out on
that one...) then he’s probably doing so right now. For the last several
months, despite numerous warnings of the consequences, the US and UK
governments have been pushing to block Russia from the SWIFT payments system.
And so what is utterly hilarious - On Monday afternoon, not only did
SWIFT not kick Russia out... but they announced that they were actually giving
a Board Seat to Russia.
When
things are this obviously crazy, anything is possible.
China
now has the opportunity to take a dominant role in London, without having to
direct its order flows through the fixing banks. Therefore, it is no
exaggeration to say that from 20th March, China will be able to control the
global physical gold market, which will permit her to manage the price.
She has the deepest pockets, backed by the largest single stockpile.
Since
QE has been far and away the most important variable impacting the economy and
markets since the crisis, ignoring its impact on wealth inequality is
simply unforgivable. Yet, it’s more than that. Much more. Many of the
polices existing in these United States not only encourage foreign oligarch
money laundering into luxury skyscrapers that remain empty, but our society
seems to go out of its way to ensure they have to pay as little in property tax
as possible. Indeed, tax polices don’t benefit the rich, they benefit
the super rich. Nowhere is this more apparent that in the oligarch
capital of America, New York City.
A
new report suggests that the government agency in charge of backstopping
private-sector pension plans (the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation) isn’t entirely
optimistic about its own ability to provide an effective safety net for
multiemployer plans. In fact, more than half of participants will see
their benefits cut if their plans become insolvent and are forced to turn to
government guarantees.
GM did $20.4 billion worth of
buybacks from 1986 through 2002. If it had saved that money and
earned a modest 2.5% on it, the company would have had $35 billion on hand
when the financial crisis and Great Recession hit and probably would not have
had to file for bankruptcy protection. As Bob Lutz, the veteran
auto executive, said recently, stock buybacks are “always a harbinger of the
next downturn…in almost all cases, you regret it later”... Taxpayers and
workers brought GM out of bankruptcy, yet it is the hedge funds that will reap
the biggest rewards. Taxpayers and workers should demand that
open-market repurchases by all companies be banned. Stock buybacks
manipulate the stock market and leave most Americans worse off. In
this case, it is clear that what is good for the hedge funds is bad for the
United States.
What is the chance of the S&P 500 entering a bear market in 2015?
Accused of illegally repossessing cars from active-duty service members,
Santander Consumer has agreed to pay $9.35 million to the Justice Department in
the largest auto reposession-related settlement in history. A look at the company's subprime auto
securitizations speaks volumes not only about the lender, but about the furture
course of subprime ABS issuance in the US.
From
February through May, gas prices have historically tended to rise. However,
between refinery strikes and shutdowns (and blend transitions), 2015
has seen gas prices rise from the start of February at the fastest pace on
record. Despite the total lack of 'surge in consumer spending' from
the low gas prices that we were promised, the velocity of this price rise
is eerily reminiscent of the 2007 surge that, within months, saw the US
in recession...
"Although the market seems obsessed with the euro/dollar parity,
SG's Technical Analysis guru Stephanie Aymes stresses that it is the $1.05/1.04
level that is more important, being the lower limit of the EUR/USD?s massive
upward channel (see chart below). Stephanie argues that the move since last summer has been relentless and
is very similar to the one seen in the late 1990s. She suspects that a break
below $1.05/1.04 will confirm that the ongoing move is not a correction of the
upmove since 2000, but a much larger down move. In such scenario, the EUR/USD
will achieve parity, but this may well be just a temporary support
before the downleg extends towards $0.98/0.96 - and even perhaps towards the
lows of $0.84/0.82 reached in 2000."
Herbalife
stock is up over 5% after hours after WSJ reports Bill
Ackman (among others) made false statement about Herbalife's business models to
regulators - in order to spur investigations into the company and lower its
stock price. This comes just months after Ackman kinda-sorta-didn't-really
insider-trade in the Allergan 'scam' that we detailed here.
We suspect Whitney Tilson (and his Lumber Liquidators positions) is getting
a little nervous now... and Carl Icahn is quietly laughing to himself.
"I did not have typographical relations with anyone..."
The
Greco-Germanic war of words continues... Having pissed off The Greeks with his
"Troika" remarks, Germany's Schaeuble went on today to more ad
hominum attacks by reportedly calling the Greek FinMin "foolishly
naive." The Greek ambassador has 'officially' complained
to "friend and ally" Germany about the personal insult. But The Greeks
had the last laugh, as first Varoufakis and then Tsipras explained respectively
that "Greece would never pay back its debts," and
"Greece cannot pretend its debt burden is sustainable." The German
response, via tabloid Bild, "there must be an end to this madness.
Europe must not be made to look stupid."
Adan
Salazar | Department of Public Safety wants Big Brother to keep an eye on the
border.
Mikael
Thalen | Camera torn from the ground less than one hour after being discovered.
Kit Daniels | Social
media site already sent funeral home ads to man who announced he was battling
cancer.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Why isn’t he in Guantanamo Bay?
Steve Watson | Three
times as many people believe government is a bigger problem than terrorism.
The
Washington Times | The Obama administration will soon find itself in court.
KDVR
News | Positioned to capture and record the license plates and facial features
of customers.
RT
| A Parliamentary report examining the mass collection of private
communications by UK security agencies has defended the practice as
“essential.”
Kurt Nimmo | New
Secretary of Defense says “AUMF wisely does not include any geographical
restriction.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | “Best day Ferguson has had in years”.
WORLD NEWS
Armies
of Darkness: 83% of Syria’s Lights Out Since Start of War in 2011
Sputnik | A
recent observation of Syria’s nighttime lights reveals that 83% of the
country’s lights have gone out since the start of the military conflict in
2011.
Australian
Tourists Terrorized on Temple Mount
The Temple
Institute | Physically attacked and accosted by screaming burka-veiled Muslim
woman.
US
wants Vietnam to stop Russian aircraft refueling at navy base – report
RT | Washington
has asked Vietnam to prevent Russia from using the Cam Ranh Bay naval base.
Could
SU-25 fighter jet down a Boeing? Former pilots speak out on MH17 claims
RT | The
SU-25′s chief designer has told German media that the fighter jet could
not possibly have taken down the passenger plane.
Michael Krieger
| We ourselves in the European Union provoked the conflict through our
territorial expansionism in the Ukraine.
·
MONEY WATCH
McDonald’s
Uses 1868 Anti-Slavery Law to Avoid Paying Employees
Jefferey Jaxen |
It appears that 2015 is not going to be kind for McDonald’s.
Big
Banks Struggle to Pass Fed’s ‘Stress Tests’
Wall Street
Journal | Bank of America must resubmit proposal to address certain weaknesses.
“We
Have Front-Row Seats To An Imminent Market Shock”, Hedge Fund Billionaire Warns
Zero Hedge |
“Central banks are not all singing and all dancing,”
Guess
What Happened The Last Two Times The S&P 500 Was Up More Than 200% In Six
Years?
Michael Snyder |
Just a few days ago, the bull market for the S&P 500 turned six years old.
·
PRISON PLANET
Retired
Cop Shoots Man in Subway, Video Shows NYPD Arrest the Man Trying to Save Him
Cassandra Rules
| What kind of person allows a man to lay dying and not attempt to help them?
Recipe for Full
Military Takeover?
Washington’s
Blog | A major survey has found that “Americans’ confidence in all three
branches of government is at or near” forty year record lows.
Lindsey
Graham: as president I would deploy the military against Congress
Vox | To force
Congress to reverse cuts to the defense and intelligence budgets.
U.S.
Senate rushing through cyber-surveillance bill
Drew Mitnick |
Today the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee will secretly consider the
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA).
COMMENTARY
Why
I Don’t Want An Apple Watch (And It’s Not Battery Life)
Charles
Hugh-Smith | Being connected is a sure way to destroy productivity.
American
Narcissist: Raising With Praising Makes Jack a Proud Boy
New American |
Parents who overvalue their kids aren’t doing them any favours, a new study
suggests.
The
Real Reason ATF Is Backing down from Green Tip Ammo Ban
Joshua Krause |
In retrospect, the ATF’s attempt at classifying the M855 as armor piercing,
says a lot about the government’s long term goals.
A
New Way To Be Human: The Plan Is To Replace Existing Humans With ‘Transhuman’
Hybrids
Michael Snyder |
Transhumanists believe that the time has come for humans to take control of
their own evolution.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Montel and Media
Attack Alex Jones
Prison
Planet.com | Montel Williams says Alex Jones “Inspires People to Blow Things
Up”
Video
emerges of Ferguson cops shooting (Warning: Strong language)
RT | An amateur
video has emerged online showing exactly the moment two policemen were shot
during a rally near Ferguson police department.
Men Are
Losers, Says New Feminist Campaign
Paul Joseph
Watson | Bossy brainwashing blitz backed by corporate patriarchy.
·
U.S. NEWS
Facebook
to Collect Users’ Conversations for Advertisers
Kit Daniels | Social media site already sent funeral home ads to
man who announced he was battling cancer.
Cops
Sell Man Drugs Then Kill Him, Shoot One of their Own Cops in the Process
Free Thought
Project | A man is dead, and a deputy has been shot after the Putman County
Sheriff’s Department relentless carries out the state’s immoral war on drugs.
Judge
Nap: Hillary couldn’t have been telling the truth — and here’s why
Bizpac Review |
Her lips were moving.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
New
smoking gun further ties NSA to omnipotent “Equation Group” hackers
Ars Technica |
What are the chances unrelated state-sponsored projects were both named
“BACKSNARF”?
General
Mills Sued for Dumping 15,000 Gallons of Cancer Chemicals into Air and Water
Christina Sarich
| A class action lawsuit against the maker of Cheerios, Yoplait yogurt, and
Pillsbury cinnamon rolls was just certified by a federal judge.
Father
Faces 20 Years Prison for Treating Daughter’s Cancer with Cannabis Oil
Christina Sarich
| Is this how we should treat medicine?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 03/13/2015 - 11:28
"I
am not a kook..."
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 03/13/2015 - 15:34
Now
this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to market manipulation, I
thought I would just provide a concrete example of the kind of funny business
that goes on every day in financial...
"I was shocked today by the absolute gaul of the Fed releasing a
statement about Net Worth in America reaching record levels. Now I get that they are under extreme pressure
to sell the story that everything is rainbows and butterflies. The ugly reality is that the bottom 80% of Americans
experienced none of that gain. And so when the Fed via its ass pamper boy, Steve Liesman, start banging on about the fact that some sliver of
society is being handed extraordinary wealth while the working class
has lost 40% of their net worth since 2007, well a big F### you right
back at ya bub!...And for those of you that think I’m an ass for being so harsh
on us, well stuff it. Get up off your stool you lazy drunk, shut your damn mouth and start
fighting these political parasites like a damn man, like a damn American."
http://albertpeia.com/somesummarizedpositions.htm
. . . . . by Roger
Friedman - June 24, 2014 8:35 am
British actor Gary Oldman has had
a nice very career in Hollywood. Now, it’s over. Oldman tells Playboy magazine
that Hollywood is “run by Jews,” suggests that those Jews make fun of Germans,
and says that the policeman with whom Mel Gibson became embroiled in a huge
anti-Semitic scandal probably is anti-Semitic himself …(or jewish – I added
this). Oldman seems unaware that James Mee, the policeman, is Jewish himself .
. . . .
Here
are the quotes:
“I
don’t know about Mel. He got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said
those things. We’re all fucking hypocrites. That’s what I think about it. The
policeman who arrested him has never used the word nigger or that fucking Jew?
I’m being brutally honest here. It’s the hypocrisy of it that drives me crazy.
Or maybe I should strike that and say “the N word” and “the F word,” though
there are two F words now.”
“Alec
calling someone an F-A-G in the street while he’s pissed off coming out of his
building because they won’t leave him alone. I don’t blame him. So they
persecute. Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews and he said the wrong
thing because he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him—and
doesn’t need to feed him anymore because he’s got enough dough. He’s like an
outcast, a leper, you know? But some Jewish guy in his office somewhere hasn’t
turned and said, “That fucking kraut” or “Fuck those Germans,” whatever it is?
We all hide and try to be so politically correct. That’s what gets me. It’s
just the sheer hypocrisy of everyone, that we all stand on this thing going,
“Isn’t that shocking?” [smiles wryly] All right. Shall I stop talking now? What
else can we discuss?” …’
{ I think Gary Oldman is spot-on and correct.
After all, look what they’ve done to Gibson for the great
‘Passion of the Christ’ (I had been putting off watching it because I knew it
would be brutally painful but brutally honest). It is among the greatest films
I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen ‘nearly all worth seeing’. And, then there’s
‘Apocalypto’ … another truly great film … particularly taking into account
native languages and sub-titles which ordinarily I tend not to appreciate. Less
‘artsy’ but oscar-worthy was his less controversial but deserving great film,
‘Braveheart’ (though a disappointing soft-touch when it came to robert bruce).
He ranks with the all-time greatest of directors and did not
deserve the treatment he received which no doubt would not have occurred absent
‘Passion …’ . I also believe the great actor
Jim Caviezel similarly suffered as he’s pointed out by his
participation in the project which accurately portrays the bloodthirst behind
the crucifixion of Christ (Don’t forget his oscar-worthy performance as ‘The
Count of Monte Cristo’).
While still on film, it’s noteworthy that the great
director, Alfred Hitchcock never won an oscar … clearly a sign that bending
over is as or more important to Hollywood than talent/ability.
Without a doubt, Mel Gibson has earned a place at the top of
the list of greatest directors in the history of cinema.
So as to provide balance, let me add that ‘Minority Report’
and ‘AI’ by Steven Spielberg were great films, ‘Minority Report’ being
Spielberg’s best and coincidentally, Tom Cruise’s greatest role/performance… }
Michael Snyder Reports:
http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream.htm
Posted by: testosteronepit
Post date: 03/12/2015 - 20:41
Just
when oil collapsed, housing stumbled, and layoffs began.
"I was shocked today by the absolute gaul of the Fed releasing a statement about Net Worth in America
reaching record levels. Now I get that they are under extreme pressure to sell the story
that everything is rainbows and butterflies. The ugly reality is that the bottom 80% of Americans
experienced none of that gain. And so when the Fed via its ass pamper boy, Steve Liesman, start banging on about the fact that some sliver of
society is being handed extraordinary wealth while the working class
has lost 40% of their net worth since 2007, well a big F### you right
back at ya bub!...And for those of you that think I’m an ass for being so harsh
on us, well stuff it. Get up off your stool you lazy drunk, shut your damn mouth and start
fighting these political parasites like a damn man, like a damn American."
"Exceptionally"
optimistic, "exceptionally distracted" ignorance, or
"exceptionally blind" faith?
The
endgame of communist rule in China has begun, and Xi Jinping’s ruthless
measures are only bringing the country closer to a breaking point...
Meet
ForexChile, the largest purveyor of leveraged contracts for difference in Chile
and the subject of a scathing Bloomberg report which outlines how
unsuspecting retail investors end up 100X leveraged on derivatives
they sometimes do not understand.
There
is a possibility of a nuclear deal being agreed between the P5 + 1
nations and Iran next Friday, 20th March. This may be the precursor
for energy stocks to recouple to downside and for spending cuts to spread from
capex to dividends for majors.
Whether
it’s subprime auto lending, Janet Yellen’s “stretched” biotech sector, or
corporate credit, bubbles abound in today’s fragile market. Prem Watsa
thinks valuations in one sector are particularly outrageous.
"Gotland is a big worry for us. It could be overrun by Russia in minutes and then all
of us would be highly vulnerable to an attack," warned one politician recently as it appears NATO fear-mongering and
Russia sabre-rattling is having a significant effect on many of the Baltic
Sea's border nations. As The FT reports, Sweden
will put troops back on the strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland after a
decade-long absence and will also step up military exercises around
the island involving the army, navy and air force. “Hunting submarines is a
priority area," Sweden's defense minister explained, adding that
"everything we do is a part of underlining Swedish sovereignty."
Every time you think the US establishment can do no more to threaten the
freedom and livelihood of the very Americans who contribute the most to the
prosperity of the country,
they increase the heat in the furnace by a notch with more cheap money and
debt, additional laws and higher taxes. America, the land of the free, as it
was rightfully referred to in the past, and certainly a beautiful place in so
many ways, is in the process of destroying the very foundation it was
built on.
In
an apparent attempt to allow Greeks to live well vicariously through their
elected officials, FinMin Yanis Varoufakis poses for a not very austere
photo shoot, sending Twitter into a frenzy.
Betting on the end of what is a 30-year interest rate cycle may not a
productive use of our time. However,
the first thing you need to know about central banks is that they are
the worst traders in the world. The worst.
Despite
the endless media onslaught, which courtesy of Apple's hundreds of billions in
cash is nothing but the biggest new product paid infomercial-cum-publicity
stunt to roll out the latest new "revolutionary" wearable
product a just released Reuters/IPSOS poll shows
that the vast majority of Americans are greeting the new Apple watch with
nothing but iYawns. The poll reveals that 69% of Americans are they are
not interested in buying the gadget, with 47.8% responding "not
at all interested."
The
beginning of the end of high frequency trading has arrived, and it has done so
in a most unexpected fashion: with an HFT turning on other HFTs and
revealing on the record, for the entire world to see, just how truly parasitic,
manipulative and "market-rigging" the algorithms truly are.
There
is a tremendous denial by analysts and economists currently of
the deteriorating economic underpinnings.
"We're
not just up a creek without a paddle in California, we're losing the creek
too... Right now the
state has only
about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is
rapidly disappearing. California has no contingency plan for a persistent
drought like this one (let alone a 20-plus-year mega-drought), except,
apparently, staying in emergency mode and praying for rain."
Kurt Nimmo | Net
neutrality is a classic Trojan horse
Kit Daniels | FCC
cherry picking existing laws for cable, radio & broadband to regulate
Internet.
Business
Insider | The dollar is set for its strongest quarterly strengthening since
1992.
Kurt Nimmo |
Unsubstantiated rumors keep Putin in headlines as propaganda war on Russia
continues
Steve
Watson | Cracking down on the hardcore criminals.
Steve Watson | “Yeah,
eff the police.”
Steve
Watson | Shocking footage made public following court hearing.
Paul
Joseph Watson | President continues to fan the flames of unrest.
Defense
One | A top US commander warns Caribbean and South American countries are
unable to track 100 foreign fighters that could return from Syria.
WORLD NEWS
‘Stick
to peace’: China warns Japan to remain pacifist as Tokyo eyes military return
RT | China has
called upon Japan to “remain on the pathway of peace.”
North
Korea fires volley of missiles into sea as South and US continue drills
AFP | Regime
leader Kim Jong-un personally supervised show of force, says Seoul, with seven
missiles coming down off east coast.
Partners
in jihad: ISIS welcomes Boko Haram’s allegiance
RT | The
self-proclaimed leader of the Islamic State has accepted a pledge of allegiance
from Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
Over
1,5 Mln Europeans Sign Petition Against TTIP
Sputnik | More
than 1.5 million Europeans have signed a petition to prevent EU from entering a
secretive trade alliance with the United States.
Armies
of Darkness: 83% of Syria’s Lights Out Since Start of War in 2011
Sputnik | A
recent observation of Syria’s nighttime lights reveals that 83% of the
country’s lights have gone out since the start of the military conflict in
2011.
·
MONEY WATCH
Europe
Has A Modest Proposal For Greece: “Don’t Pay Wages For One Or Two Months”
Zero Hedge |
Greece will run out of cash absent another check from the Troika.
The
German government is discussing whether Greece should be cut from Europe like
an ‘amputated leg’
Business Insider
| Even without the heat of official negotiations, relations between Athens and
Berlin are getting more sour by the day.
The
West’s Plan To Drop Russia From SWIFT Hilariously Backfires
Simon Black | If
Vladimir Putin is remotely capable of laughter (the jury is out on that one…)
then he’s probably doing so right now.
McDonald’s
Uses 1868 Anti-Slavery Law to Avoid Paying Employees
Jefferey Jaxen |
It appears that 2015 is not going to be kind for McDonald’s.
·
PRISON PLANET
Tom LaVenture |
A local freestyle rapper who allegedly sang the words, “I will kill you,” said
they were words of love.
Spokane:
Armed 2nd-Amend. Supporters Confront Feds; Feds Back Down
New American |
While eyes were focused on the Selma golden jubilee celebrating bygone battles,
a current-day civil-rights battle was being waged — and ignored by the
mainstream media.
Mac Slavo | You
could soon be receiving a legal notice from the Federal Aviation
Administration.
Retired
Cop Shoots Man in Subway, Video Shows NYPD Arrest the Man Trying to Save Him
Cassandra Rules
| What kind of person allows a man to lay dying and not attempt to help them?
COMMENTARY
Facebook
Does it Again – Company Sends Funeral Home Advertisements to Cancer Sufferer
Michael Krieger
| I don’t know what it’s going to take to get people to stop using Facebook. I
really don’t.
Why
I Wouldn’t Want To Be A Police Officer In America Today
Michael Snyder |
Can you imagine going to work each day knowing that there are lots of people
out there that would love to see you dead?
Why
I Don’t Want An Apple Watch (And It’s Not Battery Life)
Charles
Hugh-Smith | Being connected is a sure way to destroy productivity.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Prison
Planet.com | Film character goes off on a racist rampage during a town hall meeting
because he’s been brainwashed by Alex Jones.
Montel and Media
Attack Alex Jones
Prison
Planet.com | Montel Williams says Alex Jones “Inspires People to Blow Things
Up”
Video
emerges of Ferguson cops shooting (Warning: Strong language)
RT | An amateur
video has emerged online showing exactly the moment two policemen were shot
during a rally near Ferguson police department.
·
U.S. NEWS
FCC
to Seize Entire Internet, Cable Spectrum Under 400-Page “Rules”
Kit Daniels | FCC cherry picking existing laws for cable, radio
& broadband to regulate Internet.
Retired
admiral: Michelle O’s school lunch rules needed for ‘national security’
Victor Skinner |
Supporters of the federal regulations are reframing the issue as one of
national security.
Transgender
Teen Activist Lands TLC Reality Show
Hollywood
Reporter | The network will chronicle 14-year-old Jazz Jennings’ family and
daily life.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Big
Pharma Giant Guilty of Selling Tainted Children’s Tylenol – Knowingly
MIKE BARRETT |
Even if it meant facing a federal criminal charge.
The
Threat Is Real: Billion Dollar NASA Mission To Study Blackout Risks to Power Grid
Mac Slavo | The
potential for a devastating EMP resulting from a massive solar event, or a man
made weapon, is well known.
New
smoking gun further ties NSA to omnipotent “Equation Group” hackers
Ars Technica |
What are the chances unrelated state-sponsored projects were both named “BACKSNARF”?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Posted by : EconMatters
Post date: 03/13/2015 - 15:34
Now
this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to market manipulation, I
thought I would just provide a concrete example of the kind of funny business
that goes on every day in financial...
What Happens When the Fed Finally Fails to Prop the
Markets?
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 03/14/2015 - 13:12
The
Fed has created a very very dangerous situation.
Household Debt Soars in Canada, “Stability” at Risk
Posted by: testosteronepit
Post date: 03/12/2015 - 20:41
Just
when oil collapsed, housing stumbled, and layoffs began.
"Dear President Obama, Senators, and Members of Congress:
Americans
now owe $1.3 trillion in student debt. Eighty-six percent of that money is owed
to the United States government. This is a crushing burden for more than 40
million Americans and their families.
I
urge you to take immediate action to forgive all student debt, public and
private."
In the first part of this article
series, we discussed the true state of global demand,
along with the unstable situation within numerous indicators from exports to
retail. Swiftly falling global demand for raw materials as well as consumer
goods is an undeniable reality. This is a distinct problem in terms of the
U.S., which has been, up until recently, the primary consumption driver for
much of the world. As we will show, U.S. demand is about to fall even
further into the abyss as real unemployment and personal debt take their toll.
In the discourse of statists, there is a group of phrases of which one
or more tend to be present in nearly every argument. While this is not an exhaustive listing of that
group, it does contain twenty-five of the most common phrases that statists use
in their arguments. As propaganda has a tendency to be repetitive, some of
these phrases contain the same logical fallacies, and will therefore have
similar refutations...
The
bust of Aussie boom-towns,
collapse of the mining industry,
dramatic capital outflows,
and a bursting housing bubble
all have one thing in common, according to billionaire hedge fund manager
Crispin Odey - "China is everything to Australia in lots of
ways." Simply put, he tells The Australian Financial Review,
economies dependent on China for income, including Australia, are headed for
recession and central banks will not be able to able to come to the rescue
because they have exhausted the arsenal of policy weapons. "We've got
a very old-fashioned recession which is spreading across the world,"
and Australian banks face a tough time ahead too because there are indications
bad debt risks are rising.
US
sales of what the industry calls "luxury" rolls — anything quilted,
lotioned, perfumed or ultra-soft, from two- to four-ply — climbed to $1.4
billion last year, outpacing all other kinds of toilet paper for the
first time in nearly a decade, data from market research firm Euromonitor
International show. The luxury market is one-fourth the size of the
standard TP market, but its prominence in Big Wipe is growing faster than many
industry watchers expected. Luxury toilet paper sales have grown more
than 70 percent since 2000, and they're expected to keep growing faster than
all other categories every year through at least 2018.
Keep
your friends close...
Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal
Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in
anticipation of the Fed Chair's every word. Yet the average person knows very
little about the most powerful - and least understood - financial institution
on earth. "Money For Nothing" is the first film to take viewers
inside the Fed and reveal the impact of Fed policies - past, present, and
future - on our lives. Join current and former Fed officials as they debate the
critics, and each other, about the decisions that helped lead the
global financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008. And why we might be
headed there again...
On
the scale of 'unpatriotic' things to suggest, there is only one thing worse
than a tax inversion for an American to do... suggest something positive about
Russia, Russian markets, or Russia's economy. So it perhaps ultimately ironic
that none other than Goldman "doing God's work" Sachs suggests Russian
bonds are both cyclically and strucuturally under-priced.
According
to The New York Times, some $1 million in money the CIA
delivered to the Afghan government was handed over to Al Qaeda in 2010. As
The Times notes, this is merely the latest "in a long list of
examples of how the United States, largely because of poor oversight and loose
financial controls, has sometimes inadvertently financed the very militants it
is fighting."
Rich valuations point to the likelihood of low returns across asset
classes. [W]e develop a
cross-asset approach to risk premia and implement it across the asset classes.
The results show that valuations are rich across the board.
This indicates markets may become shaky as we get closer to the first
Fed rate hike in nine years.
This anti-capitalistic mentality has brought about today’s essentially
bankrupt “middle of the road” welfare state system, in which governments and
big business are in a tight embrace that utterly deadens economic progress. The EU’s latest “Four Year Plan” is yet another in a
long list of examples of this prototypical continental tradition (incidentally,
Europe’s moribund banking system is one of the end results of these economic
policies as well). What is really required is a return to free
market principles, not yet another “government plan”.
Someone
call the ECB because it looks like the game is well nigh up. Greek
FinMins are taking time away from photo shoots and looting pension funds to
call out QE for creating equity bubbles and the mainstream financial news media
has figured out that there’s an acute collateral shortage and that
buying €1.1 trillion in bonds €15 million at a time probably indicates a forced
deviation from the original plan.
The Washington Post notes
that "many Western countries are cutting their defense budgets,
while military spending in Russia and China surges," leading some
US and UK officials to question whether the West is prepared to counter the
"greatest threats to global security."
To
truly understand monetary policy, we go to the source... Sounding
supremely self-righteous, the New York Fed concludes, "making monetary
policy is a complicated job but it's necessary in order for our economy to
enjoy continued growth along with stable prices." And
besides, if you lot are allowed to think for yourselves, who knows what could
happen?
Lee
Ann McAdoo | Group warns against artificial intelligence takeover.
Alex
Jones | Anti-gun video ignores stats showing massive crime drop with increased
gun sales.
Washington
Times | Taxpayers paid for President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama to fly
separately Thursday to Los Angeles, where they appeared on separate TV talk
shows on the same day.
Sputnik | Brennan has said that the United
States does not want to see the collapse of President Al-Assad’s government in
Syria.
Washington
Times | CIA Director John Brennan said Friday that changing technology and
social media websites have “greatly amplified” the security threats facing the
free world.
London
Telegraph | Speculation over the whereabouts of the Russian president continues
as Swiss tabloid claims his girlfriend has given birth.
CBS
Denver | For the second time this week, CBS4 has obtained Denver police video
that led to an officer being disciplined for excessive force.
The
Hill | Guess whether remarks over U.S.-Iranian negotiations are from Hillary
Clinton or a spokesman for Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei.
London
Independent | The new gene-editing method could eliminate inherited diseases
from affected families.
Mikael
Thalen | “…when our children’s health and our national security are at stake,
retreat is not an option.”
WORLD NEWS
Fox
‘News’ ‘Expert’ Says We Must “Start Killing Russians.” I Disagree.
Washington’s
Blog | “In the Ukraine, the only way that the United States can have any effect
in this region and turn the tide is to start killing Russians.”
‘Stick
to peace’: China warns Japan to remain pacifist as Tokyo eyes military return
RT | China has
called upon Japan to “remain on the pathway of peace.”
North
Korea fires volley of missiles into sea as South and US continue drills
AFP | Regime
leader Kim Jong-un personally supervised show of force, says Seoul, with seven
missiles coming down off east coast.
Partners
in jihad: ISIS welcomes Boko Haram’s allegiance
RT | The
self-proclaimed leader of the Islamic State has accepted a pledge of allegiance
from Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
Over
1,5 Mln Europeans Sign Petition Against TTIP
Sputnik | More
than 1.5 million Europeans have signed a petition to prevent EU from entering a
secretive trade alliance with the United States.
·
MONEY WATCH
IBM
Moves to Create a Centralized, Central Bank Controlled Blockchain for Currency
Control
Michael Krieger
| International Business Machines Corp is considering adopting the underlying
technology behind bitcoin, known as the “blockchain.”
Europe
Has A Modest Proposal For Greece: “Don’t Pay Wages For One Or Two Months”
Zero Hedge |
Greece will run out of cash absent another check from the Troika.
The
surging dollar is a signal that a colossal financial event is just around the
corner
Business Insider
| The dollar is set for its strongest quarterly strengthening since 1992.
The
German government is discussing whether Greece should be cut from Europe like
an ‘amputated leg’
Business Insider
| Even without the heat of official negotiations, relations between Athens and
Berlin are getting more sour by the day.
·
PRISON PLANET
Oregon
Students Stomp On Pro-Lifer’s Rights (Literally)
Truth Revolt |
Campus officer: “What I’m here to tell you is that on campus we have additional
rules other than just freedom of speech.”
Video:
School Cop Chokes Child Unconscious; Causes Brain Damage
Steve Watson |
Shocking footage made public following court hearing
Tom LaVenture |
A local freestyle rapper who allegedly sang the words, “I will kill you,” said
they were words of love.
Spokane:
Armed 2nd-Amend. Supporters Confront Feds; Feds Back Down
New American |
While eyes were focused on the Selma golden jubilee celebrating bygone battles,
a current-day civil-rights battle was being waged — and ignored by the
mainstream media.
COMMENTARY
Net
neutrality is “Big Brother ObamaNet,” and other brilliant criticism of FCC
Ars Technica |
Most “anti-speech” law in a century supposedly gives FCC the power of kings.
Wu
Tang Clan Rapper Says Ferguson Police ‘Reap What They Sow’
Steve
Watson | “Yeah, eff the
police.”
Facebook
Does it Again – Company Sends Funeral Home Advertisements to Cancer Sufferer
Michael Krieger
| I don’t know what it’s going to take to get people to stop using Facebook. I
really don’t.
·
MULTIMEDIA
OSU
researchers create fast robot modeled after birds
KGW |
Researchers at Oregon State University have built a robot that’s the first of
its kind. Its name is Atrias.
VIDEO: Where is
Vladimir Putin?
Paul Joseph
Watson | Rumors swirl after Russian President disappears from public view.
Prison
Planet.com | Film character goes off on a racist rampage during a town hall
meeting because he’s been brainwashed by Alex Jones.
·
U.S. NEWS
Neighbor
puts ‘e-mail server’ with hilarious ‘for sale’ sign in front of Hillary Clinton’s
home
Bizpac Review |
“Used Email Server, Clean Hard Drive, 15 Old House Ln.”
FCC
to Seize Entire Internet, Cable Spectrum Under 400-Page “Rules”
Kit Daniels | FCC cherry picking existing laws for cable, radio
& broadband to regulate Internet.
Retired
admiral: Michelle O’s school lunch rules needed for ‘national security’
Victor Skinner |
Supporters of the federal regulations are reframing the issue as one of
national security.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
NASA
Signals Crisis: “California Has About One Year of Water Left”
Mac Slavo | No
hesitation in calling for mandatory water rationing and other measures to cut
water uses.
Big
Pharma Giant Guilty of Selling Tainted Children’s Tylenol – Knowingly
MIKE BARRETT |
Even if it meant facing a federal criminal charge.
The
Threat Is Real: Billion Dollar NASA Mission To Study Blackout Risks to Power
Grid
Mac Slavo | The
potential for a devastating EMP resulting from a massive solar event, or a man
made weapon, is well known.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Posted by : Sprout Money
Post date: 03/15/2015 - 14:35
Will
Europe ever see its money back?
Four Central Banks Meet but FOMC is Key
Posted by: Marc To Market
Post date: 03/15/2015 - 15:11
Fed
to lose patience. Many expected Norway and Switzerland to cut rates.
Could they be disappointed?
Moments
ago we got confirmation that the next domino from the appearance of the
Austrian black swan has tipped over, following a Reuters report
that Germany's deposit protection fund will take over the property lender
Duesseldorfer Hypothekenbank AG (DuesselHyp), which has "run into
problems" due to its exposure to Austrian lender Hypo Alpe
Adria's "bad bank" Heta.
CNBC:
"Are you a liability for your party?"
Varoufakis:
"Are you a liability for your channel?"
The American Empire has been long in the making. A green light was given in 1990 to finalize that
goal. Dramatic events occurred that year that allowed the promoters of the
American Empire to cheer. It also ushered in the current 25-year war to
solidify the power necessary to manage a world empire. The day will
come when we will be forced to give up our role as world policeman and resort
to using a little common sense and come home. This will only occur
when the American people realize that our presence around the world and the
maintenance of our empire has nothing to do with defending our Constitution,
preserving our liberties, or fulfilling some imaginary obligation on our part
to use force to spread American exceptionalism. A thorough look at our
economic conditions, our pending bankruptcy, our veterans hospitals, and how
we’re viewed in the world by most other nations, will compel Americans to see
things differently and insist that we bring our troops home – the sooner the
better.
Mapping
the favorite locales of the world's super rich.
If
the German media needed a photo-op which to put on their front pages and rile
up public opinion against Greece even more, they just
got it.
“...we all
know that sanctions don’t work, negotiations don’t work,... the only way the United States can have any
effect in this region and turn the tide is start killing Russians...killing so many Russians that even Putin’s media
can’t hide the fact that Russians are returning to their motherland in body bags.”
With
a rebound in commodities a long way out, here's which countries may be hit the
hardest.
Presented
with no comment...
As
Greeks
solemnly remembered the horrific acts of 72 years ago (when
the first of 19 trains transported nearly 50,000 local jews to Nazi death
camps), the Greek President Pavlopoulos made statements today that he
"remains adamant" that "Greece's demands for German war
reparations and the occupation loan are active and can be claimed
legally." German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble
has once again ruled out the possibility of a retreat
from what Berlin has already officially said on the matter - that the issue has
been settled decades ago. But, today the Greek Defense Minister issued
a statement confirming that archives that they possess from Nazi armed forces
support the country's claims for reparations.
Update: *WTI CRUDE TRADES AT LOWEST INTRADAY PRICE SINCE MARCH 2009 -
$43.57
Despite
'trouble' in Saudi Arabia, and chatter of SPR buying, it appears the re-opening
of all Houston shipping channels, comments from Greenspan, yet another refinery
shut (Exxon's Joliet lost power), and the rapidly filling storage capacity has
awakened the realization that the month-long dead-cat-bounce is over in crude. Brent
broke below $53.50 and WTI back to a $43 handle (close to the lowest levels in
6 years) at the open. One can only imagine the pressure on USO (Oil
ETF) holders as the contango continues to gap wider. EURUSD is teasing
the crucial 1.05 level again...
"Sensitive
data from around 170 major companies, including the UK’s Atomic Weapons
Establishment and Lockheed Martin, might have been compromised after
British Telecom web traffic was accidentally rerouted through Ukraine," RT
reports.
Since
Jeb Hensareling is opening a criminal probe into the Fed for leaking material,
non-public information because Congress is “committed to holding the
Federal Reserve accountable for its actions and omissions, and to ensuring
transparency in its operations”, it is also time to finally hold
none other than former Treasury Secretary and then-Fed Vice Chairman Tim
Geithner criminally accountable for his actions.
Having recently noted The
Kingdom's new king's decrees promising to support the poor and needy with more
and more handouts (and to halt the rise of inequality), it is
interestingly coincidental that, as The BBC reports, the
US embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh has cancelled all consular services for
Sunday and Monday due to "heightened security concerns," and consular
services in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran would not be available. This follows
Friday's warning that Western oil workers could be the target of
militant attacks. Something is going in Saudi Arabia...
In
the age when torture has become "enhanced interrogation techniques";
when the rich are "job creators"; when austerity is rephrased as
"reforms"; "scarcity" does not mean shortage; and when
murdered children are "collateral damage"; it is good to remember
these brilliant words from the late, great, George Carlin.
The
Hill | Jokes about Hillary emails
EAG
News | “Almost one in three young adults in the U.S. is too overweight to
serve.”
Washington’s
Blog | Robert David Steele – a 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence
officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence.
Paul
Craig Roberts | Such irresponsible propaganda and so many blatant lies.
The
Washington Times | “Jihadi John,” the Islamic State group terrorist involved in
the execution of multiple Western prisoners, still has access to his British
bank account.
Zero
Hedge | Some $1 million in cash funneled to the Afghan government by the CIA
ended up in the hands of al Qaeda.
UK
Daily Mail | ISIS has executed another nine men for allegedly being spies in an
unknown location in the Middle East.
Lee
Ann McAdoo | Group warns against artificial intelligence takeover.
Alex
Jones | Anti-gun video ignores stats showing massive crime drop with increased
gun sales.
Washington
Times | Taxpayers paid for President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama to fly
separately Thursday to Los Angeles, where they appeared on separate TV talk
shows on the same day.
WORLD NEWS
‘Freedom
in jeopardy’: Thousands rally across Canada against new anti-terror law
RT | Thousands
of demonstrators have united across Canada to take action against proposed
anti-terrorism legislation known as Bill C-51.
Revealed:
UK govt bans filming at immigrant detention center to avoid bad publicity
RT | UK
authorities have banned filming at Harmondsworth immigration removal center.
Fox
‘News’ ‘Expert’ Says We Must “Start Killing Russians.” I Disagree.
Washington’s
Blog | “In the Ukraine, the only way that the United States can have any effect
in this region and turn the tide is to start killing Russians.”
CIA
Chief Says Washington Against ‘Collapse’ of Syrian Government
Sputnik |
Brennan has said that the United States does not want to see the collapse of
President Al-Assad’s government in Syria.
Vladimir
Putin’s ‘girlfriend has given birth’
London Telegraph
| Speculation over the whereabouts of the Russian president continues as Swiss
tabloid claims his girlfriend has given birth.
·
MONEY WATCH
Greta
outraged: ‘So SELFISH! You wont believe what US president and first lady did to
you!’
Bizpac Review |
“There are Americans working really hard in this country to pay taxes and this
is what the president and first lady do to the American taxpayer?”
IBM
Moves to Create a Centralized, Central Bank Controlled Blockchain for Currency
Control
Michael Krieger
| International Business Machines Corp is considering adopting the underlying
technology behind bitcoin, known as the “blockchain.”
Europe
Has A Modest Proposal For Greece: “Don’t Pay Wages For One Or Two Months”
Zero Hedge |
Greece will run out of cash absent another check from the Troika.
The
surging dollar is a signal that a colossal financial event is just around the
corner
Business Insider
| The dollar is set for its strongest quarterly strengthening since 1992.
·
PRISON PLANET
NYPD
caught red-handed sanitizing police brutality Wikipedia entries
Ars Technica |
“Garner raised both his arms in the air” changed to “flailed his arms about.”
Oregon
Students Stomp On Pro-Lifer’s Rights (Literally)
Truth Revolt |
Campus officer: “What I’m here to tell you is that on campus we have additional
rules other than just freedom of speech.”
CIA
director: Social media ‘greatly amplifies’ terror threat
Washington Times
| CIA Director John Brennan said Friday that changing technology and social
media websites have “greatly amplified” the security threats facing the free
world.
CBS Denver | For
the second time this week, CBS4 has obtained Denver police video that led to an
officer being disciplined for excessive force.
COMMENTARY
Not
everything is “predictive programming”
Jon Rappoport |
The term “predictive programming” is used to describe film and literature that
portray dystopian futures.
Net
neutrality is “Big Brother ObamaNet,” and other brilliant criticism of FCC
Ars Technica |
Most “anti-speech” law in a century supposedly gives FCC the power of kings.
Wu
Tang Clan Rapper Says Ferguson Police ‘Reap What They Sow’
Steve
Watson | “Yeah, eff the
police.”
Facebook
Does it Again – Company Sends Funeral Home Advertisements to Cancer Sufferer
Michael Krieger
| I don’t know what it’s going to take to get people to stop using Facebook. I
really don’t.
·
MULTIMEDIA
OSU
researchers create fast robot modeled after birds
KGW |
Researchers at Oregon State University have built a robot that’s the first of
its kind. Its name is Atrias.
VIDEO: Where is
Vladimir Putin?
Paul Joseph
Watson | Rumors swirl after Russian President disappears from public view.
Prison
Planet.com | Film character goes off on a racist rampage during a town hall
meeting because he’s been brainwashed by Alex Jones.
·
U.S. NEWS
As
governor, Jeb Bush used e-mail to discuss security, troop deployments
Washington Post
| Bush has sharply criticized likely Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham
Clinton for her use of a private e-mail account.
Neighbor
puts ‘e-mail server’ with hilarious ‘for sale’ sign in front of Hillary
Clinton’s home
Bizpac Review |
“Used Email Server, Clean Hard Drive, 15 Old House Ln.”
Rand
Paul’s new quiz: Is it Clinton or the ayatollah?
The Hill | Guess
whether remarks over U.S.-Iranian negotiations are from Hillary Clinton or a
spokesman for Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Bankrupt
Detroit Still Paying For Fluoride – Even During Water Shut Down
Jefferey Jaxon |
Citizens are paying for poison.
NASA
Signals Crisis: “California Has About One Year of Water Left”
Mac Slavo | No
hesitation in calling for mandatory water rationing and other measures to cut
water uses.
American
scientists are trying to genetically modify human eggs
London
Independent | The new gene-editing method could eliminate inherited diseases
from affected families.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Posted by : GoldCore
Post date: 03/16/2015 - 14:02
We
advise readers and clients to do as the Minister has done and prudently hedge
the many risks of today by diversifying into gold - not paper gold but physical
gold. The gold ETF is not a safe haven...
The 5 Most Crowded Trades on Wall Street: Part 1
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 03/16/2015 - 14:35
I
would say Apple is the most dangerous holding on the street right now for
portfolio managers.
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 03/16/2015 - 13:34
This
is the short-term scenario. The longer-term scenario is that the market is
prime for a sizable collapse.
Some
Michael Snyder Reports: http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream.htm
When even the propagandists smirk at their own propaganda, you know Washington has reached 'peak contempt' for
its citizenry...
Having attacked its "closest
ally" UK for "constant accomodation" with China, we
suspect President Obama will be greatly displeased at yet another close-ally's
decision to partner up with the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB). As The Australian reports,
"make no mistake," the decision by Australia's Abbott
government to sign on for negotiations to join China’s regional bank,
foreshadowed by Tony Abbott at the weekend, "represents
a colossal defeat for the Obama administration’s incompetent,
distracted, ham-fisted diplomacy in Asia." It seems
de-dollarization continues...
“Don’t mess with Texas.” Unless of course you are a thieving, violent cop; in which case Jason
Villalba wants to make it open season on citizens by denying them their First Amendment
rights.
Once
upon a time, much of the state of California was a barren desert. And
now, thanks to the worst drought in modern American history, much of
the state is turning back into one. Back in early 2014,
California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency for the entire
state, but since that time water usage has only dropped by 9 percent.
That is not nearly enough. The state of California has been
losing more than 12 million acre-feet of total water a year since 2011, and we
are quickly heading toward an extremely painful water crisis unlike anything
that any of us have ever seen before.
Money
is getting tight in China where the PBoC finds itself stuck between
easing to counter economic deceleration and exacerbating capital
outflows.
"History’s fourth turnings are full of Hobson’s choices, full of
grim choices. I
think that the what the Fed got into -- back in 2000 as well 2009, 2010 and
then with QE -- they got into that with a feeling of they had no choice; this
is crisis intervention. And crisis intervention became a habit... I just think that the full consequences of it have
not yet been fully perceived, and I think they will be when the financial
markets ultimately reflect the damage that has been done to the economy as a whole. And I think that will happen probably over the next
year and a half -- if it even takes that long."
"We
have put in place the toughest ethics and transparency laws of any
administration in history." - Barack Obama.
The
lies end now. As reported moments ago,
the White House is voiding a federal regulation that subjects its Office of
Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA (incidentally
the same act that discovered none of Hillary Clinton's "personal"
government-business emails since they were not even stored on government
property!) which as USA Today explains, makes "official a policy under
Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office."
"Ladies
and gentlemen. A few weeks ago, in Riyadh, I was at a small, private
function along with the British central bank governor, Mark Carney. Mr Carney
asked me two questions. First, why did the oil price drop? And the
second, where is the price heading? I will tell you today what I said to him
then."
-
Ibrahim Al-Muhanna, Advisor to the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral
Resources for Saudi Arabia
China overtakes Germany to become the world's third largest arms
exporter just as Western
military spending outside the US fails to keep pace with China and Russia.
To
truly understand what The Fed does, we go to the source... "The Fed is
best known for its influence in money and credit conditions in the economy in
order to help the US economy experience strong growth in output and income,
high employment, and stable prices." So factory output growth is now
negative, income stagnant, the percentage of employed people in the population
is catastrophic, and prices (oil collapse? stock explosion? record beef and
beer prices?) are anything but stable.
"On
a military base in Quantico, Virginia, the FBI keeps a collection of
over 7,000 guns, including weapons used by John Dillinger and other famous
American gangsters," BBC reports.
Between
2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations
spent a combined $5.8 Billion on federal
lobbying and campaign contributions. What they gave pales compared to
what those same corporations got: $4.4 Trillion
in federal business and support. Here is the visual representation of
this stunning finding: for every dollar spent on influencing politics,
the nation’s most politically active corporations received $760 from the
government.
Israelis will elect a new parliament March 17. As WaPo notes, the
main contest pits the right-wing Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu against a surprisingly strong challenge from the Zionist Union, a
center-left political alliance led by Isaac Herzog of the Labor party. Polls
place Herzog's bloc ahead of Likud, but that's no guarantee of victory. Since
Israel's first election in 1949, no single party has ever won an outright
majority in the 120-seat Knesset, the name for the Israeli parliament.
That means smaller political parties -- and there are 26 in total -- play a
significant role in shaping the ruling coalition that forms the Israeli
government after the ballots get counted. There appear to be three main
scenarios for Israel's next coalition...
It's
getting old but the percentage of missed expectations in economic data is now
over 90% since the start of February with three more added to the long list
today. This has pushed Bloomberg's US Macro Surprise index to its worst
start to a year on record.
Prison
Planet.com | “A pig is a pig that’s what I said, the only good pig is a pig
that’s dead!”
Prison
Planet.com | Threats of nuclear war surpass Cold War era.
Adan
Salazar | Sixth grader falls victim to state’s stringent zero tolerance laws.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Talking heads portray Jeffrey Williams as victim.
Steve Watson |
Hospitalized child faces assault charges.
Paul
Craig Roberts | Press Club Of Mexico Awards PCR International Medal For
Journalism Excellence.
Truth
Revolt | Letter calls for action using “existing authority”.
BBC
News | Claims police covered up child sex offences because of the involvement
of officers and MPs.
Kurt Nimmo | New
proposed law would outlaw the M855 outright.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Demonstrators compel nervous onlookers to raise hands in
support of Michael Brown.
WORLD NEWS
What
Saudi Arabia Told The Bank Of England About Why Oil Crashed And Where It Is
Headed Next
Zero Hedge |
Spot the number of lies.
Pedophilia
in Britain ‘woven into the fabric of society’ – Theresa May
RT | Allegations
are just a “tip of an iceberg”.
Vladimir
Putin reappears in public for first time in 10 days
London Telegraph
| Russian president says life “would be boring without gossip” as he attends
meeting in Saint Petersburg on Monday, after days of rumours about his absence.
Massive
military drills in Venezuela as govt stands up to perceived US threat (VIDEO)
RT | Nearly
100,000 soldiers are taking part in massive 10-day military exercises across
Venezuela, which were staged to counter an alleged US threat.
Russia starts
nationwide show of force
Reuters |More
than 45,000 Russian troops as well as war planes and submarines started
military exercises across much of the country on Monday.
·
MONEY WATCH
Wall
Street climbs as dollar drop eases worry over earnings impact
Reuters | U.S.
stocks rose on Monday, with the benchmark S&P 500 rebounding after three
weeks of losses.
Varoufakis
Walks Out Of CNBC Interview When Asked If He Is Now A “Liability”
Zero Hedge |
“Are you a liability for your channel?”
The
dollar has hit a 12-year high against the euro
AFP | The dollar
hit a 12-year high against the euro Monday.
Greta
outraged: ‘So SELFISH! You wont believe what US president and first lady did to
you!’
Bizpac Review |
“There are Americans working really hard in this country to pay taxes and this
is what the president and first lady do to the American taxpayer?”
·
PRISON PLANET
Virginia
passes shortest limit in US on keeping license plate reader data
Ars Technica |
Senator: “I wasn’t a criminal suspect, so why are they taking pictures of me?”
Sirius
founder envisions world of cyber clones, tech med
USA TODAY | In a
not-too-far-future, robotic mind-clones will accompany us to the ballot box or
grocery store.
A
Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh! It’s Secret
NY Times | A
powerful new surveillance tool being adopted by police departments across the
country comes with an unusual requirement.
Hertz
puts cameras in its rental cars, says it has no plans to use them
Fusion | This
week I got an angry email from a friend who had just rented a car from Hertz:
“Did you know Hertz is putting cameras in rental cars!?
COMMENTARY
Personal Liberty
Digest | Conventional wisdom is based on confusion and disinformation.
Michael Krieger
| As a matter of long-standing policy, the United States does not support
political transitions by non-constitutional means.
California
Is Turning Back Into A Desert And There Are No Contingency Plans
Michael Snyder |
Once upon a time, much of the state of California was a barren desert.
Not
everything is “predictive programming”
Jon Rappoport |
The term “predictive programming” is used to describe film and literature that
portray dystopian futures.
·
MULTIMEDIA
OSU
researchers create fast robot modeled after birds
KGW | Researchers
at Oregon State University have built a robot that’s the first of its kind. Its
name is Atrias.
Prison
Planet.com | Film character goes off on a racist rampage during a town hall
meeting because he’s been brainwashed by Alex Jones.
·
U.S. NEWS
Rand
Paul: Clintons kind of think ‘the law’s for you ordinary people’
The Washington
Times | “I wish someone had explained to her you could put two email icons on
her phone.”
Accused
Ferguson gunman’s Facebook page boasts of drug use, hints at violence, hating
cops
Bizpac Review |
This is the new face of “hands up, don’t shoot.”
As
governor, Jeb Bush used e-mail to discuss security, troop deployments
Washington Post
| Bush has sharply criticized likely Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham
Clinton for her use of a private e-mail account.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Anti-Artificial
Intelligence Protests Begin At SXSW
Mark Dice |
South by Southwest protest by StopTheRobots.org.
Activists
Push Dunkin’ Donuts to Drop Controversial Ingredient
Mike Barrett |
Another victory for the public.
John
Kerry Preaches on “Immorality” of Doubting “Climate Change”
New American |
The end of “life as we know it on Earth”.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 03/17/2015 - 14:53
"Old
News"? Not When They've Repeated the Same Playbook in Libya, Ukraine,
Syria, and ...
Posted by: Bruce Krasting
Post date: 03/17/2015 - 17:24
Tens
of millions of people will be affected one way or the other.
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 03/17/2015 - 13:34
Mr.
Ponzi was a charming con-artist who operated about a century ago in the United
States and Canada. He enticed investors to contribute new money to his
investment scheme (100% return in...
An
epic decoupling in the cost of put protection and S&P earnings multiples
may be a bad omen for stocks as Goldman suggests a "substantial
market correction may be on the horizon."
“The game is rigged, the network is bugged, the government talks
double-speak, the courts are complicit and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Is
Greece truly on the verge of capital controls, especially the kind that has the
blessing of the very man who created the Cyprus "blueprint"? For the
answer we go to ISI, which discussed just that in a flash note issued earlier
today:
All Good Things Must End... this may not be the end of the world exactly. But the end of the fiat
money system President Nixon gave birth to in 1971... when he cut the dollar
loose from gold. And it may feel like the end of the world, because of
the social chaos it will provoke.
Things are not going well for the Greeks. Bond yields are at post-default highs, implicitly
shutting them out of the capital markets; stocks are cratering; and deposit
outflows continue as the cash crunch looms. Even ex-Goldman
silver-lining-finder Erik Nielsen stated this weekend that he is "throwing
in the towel," on Greece, adding, as Bloomberg reports,
that things have gone "plain nuts" in Athens.
However, things are going great for the Germans - borrowing costs have never
been lower, and the stock market is at record-er highs every day, as Draghi's
money-printing fiasco has succeeded in one thing (and one thing only) dividing
an already fragile 'union' into ever-greater 'haves' and ever-lesser
'have-nots'.
As
Americans, we tend to be pretty full of ourselves, and this is especially true
of our young people. But do we really have reason for such pride?
According to a shocking new report from the Educational Testing Service, Americans
between the ages of 20 and 34 are way behind young adults in other
industrialized nations when it comes to literacy, mathematics and technological
proficiency. Even though more Americans than ever are going to
college, we continue to fall farther and farther behind intellectually.
So what does this say about us? Sadly, the truth is that Americans are
stupid.
Currently,
a new form of danger arises. The Keynesian pettifoggers at the Fed have
painted themselves into an epochal corner. After 78 months of ZIRP
they have no idea about how and why they got here; and now, mired deep in the
lunacy of free money, they are clueless about where they are going next. There
is not a chance the US economy has decoupled from the rest of the world.
The great credit-driven boom was universal and fueled by out of control central
banks. Now comes the bust phase, and these same money printing central bankers
have no clue what to do about it.
News of an upcoming meeting between Tsipras and Putin comes just days
ahead of EU Summit and a €2
billion debt repayment, suggesting Athens may be playing one of its few
remaining cards.
There is a much larger structural risk for markets and investors than
HFT and the whole Flash Boys brouhaha, it’s just totally under the radar and
hasn’t surfaced yet.
Investors may not know better yet, but they will soon, one way or another. Tomorrow
a handful of governments will influence aggregate political behaviors by
triggering small communications that Big Data tells them will be voluntarily
magnified by individual citizens, snowballing into outsized, long-lasting, and
untraceable “popular” actions. Tomorrow a handful of hedge funds will influence
aggregate market behaviors by triggering small trades that Big Data tells them
will be voluntarily magnified by individual traders, snowballing into outsized,
long-lasting, and untraceable “market” actions. Tomorrow Big Data
will be primarily an instrument of social control, with a powerful and
ubiquitous impact on all citizens and all investors.
Perhaps
it is purely a coincidence that on the day in which the Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights (which as profiled earlier is anything but)
released several new YouTube clips "confirming" a poison gas chemcial
attack by the Assad army had killed 6 people in the country, that several hours
later a US drone was shot down by the Syrian military according to CNN,
which cites Syria's state-run news agency reported Tuesday. Then again, perhaps
not.
First
it was Sam Zell, warning "it's very likely that something has to give
here." Then George Soros upped his market hedge drastically, followed
by Carl Icahn's "worry about excessive money printing," adding that
he was "very nervous" about US equity markets.
"Financial markets are euphoric," warned Stan Druckenmiller, warning
that "market participants are pricing in hardly any risks," and
Crispin Odey explained "there are consequences to CB actions,"
stating that "we have front-row seats to an imminent market shock."
And now hedge fund manager Andy Redleaf (who predicted "there is going
to be a panic in credit markets," in 2007) has come out with the most
ominous of warnings yet among the billionaire crowd... "I think it is
a truly scary time."
"Seasonally
adjusted housing starts for February plunged by one of the largest amounts in
the post-crisis period. The chart below shows a subset of the February non-farm
payroll report, residential construction jobs. Seasonally adjusted these jobs
increased by 17,200 in February, the most in two years (Feb 2013 was greater)
and the second most in four years. So while economists are blaming
the weather for the plunge in housing starts, residential construction jobs
were fairly robust in February. This makes no sense."
Kit Daniels | “I hate
everything about this country,” she said. “Like, I hate fat, white Americans.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | “The only good pig is a pig that’s dead”.
Kurt Nimmo |
Staggering amount of evidence reveals terror is U.S. and Saudi creation
Steve
Watson | “Do you know who I am?”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Rep. Patrick McHenry accuses feds of assaulting bill of rights.
Breitbart
| National Journal Senior Political Columnist and Editorial Director Ron
Fournier said that Democrats are “scared to death”.
CNS
News | The USCIS is the agency responsible for managing legal immigration to
the United States.
Mac
Slavo | With a crack in the dam, the flood can’t be held back forever.
Anthony
Gucciardi | Would you like a healthy dose of high-fructose corn syrup with that
organic salad?
Michael
Snyder | As Americans, we tend to be pretty full of ourselves, and this is
especially true of our young people.
WORLD NEWS
Russian
Iskander Missiles to Be Deployed to Kaliningrad for Snap Drills
Sputnik |
Russian ground troops on the Baltic will receive Iskander missile complexes in
the framework of snap combat readiness exercises involving fighters and
bombers.
Latvia
reports 2 Russian ‘black hole’ subs & research ship on edge of territorial
waters
RT | The Latvian
armed forces claim they have detected two Russian Kilo-class submarines and a
research vessel 27 and 30 nautical miles outside the country’s territorial
waters.
Ukraine
cops get ‘shoot-to-kill orders’ amid unrest over army hit & run killing of
8yo
RT | Police have
reportedly been allowed to use live rounds.
What
Saudi Arabia Told The Bank Of England About Why Oil Crashed And Where It Is
Headed Next
Zero Hedge |
Spot the number of lies.
Pedophilia
in Britain ‘woven into the fabric of society’ – Theresa May
RT | Allegations
are just a “tip of an iceberg”.
·
MONEY WATCH
Major
American Allies Ignore U.S. Pleas and Join China’s Alternative Bank
Washington’s
Blog | UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and India All Sign On … South
Korea Next?
Wall
Street climbs as dollar drop eases worry over earnings impact
Reuters | U.S.
stocks rose on Monday, with the benchmark S&P 500 rebounding after three
weeks of losses.
Varoufakis
Walks Out Of CNBC Interview When Asked If He Is Now A “Liability”
Zero Hedge |
“Are you a liability for your channel?”
The
dollar has hit a 12-year high against the euro
AFP | The dollar
hit a 12-year high against the euro Monday.
·
PRISON PLANET
Liberal
WaPo Columnist Admits That ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Was A Lie
Daily Caller |
“Brown never surrendered with his hands up, and Wilson was justified in
shooting Brown.”
Michael Krieger
| Something I hope to encourage readers of Liberty Blitzkrieg to become aware
of is their civil rights.
Leaf
That Isn’t Pot Gets Child A 1 Yr School Suspension
Prison
Planet.com | Pushing for an ammo ban, Democrats call the 2nd Amendment
“madness”.
Virginia
passes shortest limit in US on keeping license plate reader data
Ars Technica |
Senator: “I wasn’t a criminal suspect, so why are they taking pictures of me?”
COMMENTARY
If
Netanyahu Loses, You Can Blame Barack Obama
Michael Snyder |
It’s no secret that Barack Obama greatly dislikes Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu.
Black
Minister: Obama Lying, Black Americans “Acting Like Ku Klux Klan”
New American |
The latest shootings of policemen in Ferguson and the town’s riots last year
were incited by race-baiting black leaders.
Personal Liberty
Digest | Conventional wisdom is based on confusion and disinformation.
Michael Krieger
| As a matter of long-standing policy, the United States does not support
political transitions by non-constitutional means.
·
MULTIMEDIA
OSU
researchers create fast robot modeled after birds
KGW |
Researchers at Oregon State University have built a robot that’s the first of
its kind. Its name is Atrias.
VIDEO: Where is
Vladimir Putin?
Paul Joseph
Watson | Rumors swirl after Russian President disappears from public view.
Prison
Planet.com | Film character goes off on a racist rampage during a town hall
meeting because he’s been brainwashed by Alex Jones.
·
U.S. NEWS
Rapper
Azealia Banks: I Hate White Americans
Kit Daniels | “I hate everything about this country,” she said.
“Like, I hate fat, white Americans.”
NO
MORE EXCUSES: Obama Admin Has What It Needs To Give Up Lerner’s Emails
Daily Caller |
Obama administration investigators now have everything they need to provide
Congress with Lois Lerner’s emails, The Daily Caller has learned.
Zero Hedge |
Lies, lies, and nothing but lies. The lies end now.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Solar
eclipse, Supermoon, Spring equinox: Friday will see three rare celestial events
London
Independent | Eclipses have long been feared as bad omens, but the equinox is
celebrated as a time of renewal.
Anti-Artificial
Intelligence Protests Begin At SXSW
Mark Dice | South
by Southwest protest by StopTheRobots.org.
Activists
Push Dunkin’ Donuts to Drop Controversial Ingredient
Mike Barrett |
Another victory for the public.
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Posted by : Pivotfarm
Post date: 03/18/2015 - 20:37
A
wicked web of deceit, with just a good measure of theft and forgery thrown in
for old time’s sake!
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 03/18/2015 - 13:33
Another
Conspiracy "Theory" Admitted as Fact
The 5 Most Crowded Trades on Wall Street: Part 3
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 03/18/2015 - 11:46
Utilities
have always been attractive yield plays for conservative investors, but natural
gas prices are low and margins are not that great for the industry.
Complete
Currency Carnage...
War
is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Censorship is Transparency...
the
next time someone asks "why is Yellen so terrified of even the
smallest possible rate hike", show them this chart above and explain
that the Fed vividly remembers what heppened when LTCM blew up. What the Fed doesn't
want, is not one but one thousand LTCMs going off at
exactly the same time in what is now the world's most levered trade...
Investors
are wary of debt from fourth largest iron ore miner as slumping demand
and a supply glut crush prices.
Russia
must get aggressive in the economic war. You can win this economic
contest in 24 months, if certain special zones in Russia simply are allowed to
copy Swiss banking rules and regulations, as wealth will always flow to secure
locations where taxes are low. You know what banking privacy and
security did for Switzerland, it made a poor country with few natural resources
the wealthiest nation in the world.
Recall Lenin’s quote: “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Today, of course, the capitalists don’t even sell the rope; they give it away,
for nothing. But what’s not to like? Stock investors are getting rich.
Bondholders are making money. The government can spend as much as it likes. And
the voters are bamboozled by it; they think it helps make the economy work
better. This is going to be a hard habit to break. So, here’s the gist of my
conclusion: Governments won’t break the habit of getting something for
nothing. It will break them. But how?
Even
as a Graccident becomes more likely by the day, there are still plenty
of signs that EMU members are prepared to present a unified front in the face
of uncertainty.
What we have here is another powerful case of the Great Immoderation. That is, the havoc that the Fed’s bubble finance
policies have visited upon the main street economy. In short, in the name of
improving upon the alleged instability of the private economy - absent the
Fed’s expert ministrations - the geniuses in the Eccles building have
actually caused the rate of housing starts to gyrate wildly. To wit, by a
factor of 5X from top to bottom - so far this century.
What
the Fed just said is the following: "it wasn't the snow, it was
the economy." End Result: Goodbye
"recovery", hello stock surge.
A
decade ago the Inland Empire was known for having more real estate agents than
any other profession, because "making money in real estate was so easy, anyone
could do it." Now it's the rise of the "hedge fund
managers."
With
Greek bank bonds collapsing, stocks near record lows, Greek default risk at
post-crisis record highs, and Greek government bond yields spiking, it has been
surprisng that we have not seen the ATM lines and generalized 'panic' of a
population in fear of being "Cyprus'd." Well, now as ekathimerini reports,
that appears to escalating and rapidly as credit sector officials estimated
that the flight of deposits yesterday alone amounted to 350-400 million
euros, which was some five times higher than the daily average in previous
days.
This time is not different. The excesses being built up in the markets today
will eventually revert just as they have been at every other peak in market
history. The only question, of which no one has the answer to, is exactly when
this occurs. With this in mind, there are 10-basic investment rules
that have historically kept investors out of trouble over the long term. These
are not unique by any means but rather a list of investment rules that in some
shape, or form, has been uttered by every great investor in history.
As
the world continues its push towards de-dollarization, Washington
responds to Russian military preparedness by conducting drills in Moscow's
backyard.
Where is the Greek government going with its approach? Four scenarios present themselves and hold the
possible answer...
Because
it's called a credit "cycle" for a reason...
Adan
Salazar | Health regulators to assert authority over female body.
Paul
Joseph Watson | The white guilt trip you didn’t ask for.
Steve Watson | DHS
“manipulates the statistics” to make border look more secure; Two-thirds of all
illegal crossers get through.
Kit Daniels | Legal
concealed carry “more pro-rape than anti-rape,” claims anti-gun media.
Kurt Nimmo | More
evidence intelligence agencies run ISIS recruitment.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Group likely to be behind siege was hired by U.S. State
Department to defend Benghazi consulate.
Paul
Joseph Watson | “It’s too dangerous”.
Daily
Caller | Lecturing elementary school-aged children about gay, lesbian and
transgender issues.
WORLD NEWS
Israel
election result: Binyamin Netanyahu surges to victory
London Guardian
| Netanyahu promises to form ‘strong and stable’ government but victory puts
Israel on collision course with international community.
Russian
Airborne Forces Division Relocated to Arctic Amid Drills
Sputnik | The
main goal of the current snap drills is to assess combat readiness of Russian
forces deployed in the Arctic region, according to Russian Defense Minister
Sergei Shoigu.
Blockupy:
ECB protesters clash with Frankfurt police, tear gas deployed
RT | Some 350
people have been detained.
Afghan
Villagers: US-Trained Militias Far More Terrifying than Taliban
Washington’s
Blog | US proxy militias in Afghanistan “enforce their will through beatings
and rape”, say new reports.
Russian
Iskander Missiles to Be Deployed to Kaliningrad for Snap Drills
Sputnik |
Russian ground troops on the Baltic will receive Iskander missile complexes in
the framework of snap combat readiness exercises involving fighters and
bombers.
·
MONEY WATCH
Are Greek
Capital Controls Now Inevitable?
Zero Hedge |
“Greece will not be blackmailed.”
One
Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 3
Brandon Smith |
In the previous installments of this series, we discussed the hidden and often
unspoken crisis brewing within the employment market, as well as in personal
debt.
Michael Krieger
| When you have as much money as Conrad Hilton, laws simply do not apply to
you.
Major
American Allies Ignore U.S. Pleas and Join China’s Alternative Bank
Washington’s
Blog | UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and India All Sign On … South
Korea Next?
·
PRISON PLANET
EPA
Wants to Monitor How Long Hotel Guests Spend in the Shower
Washington Free
Beacon | $15,000 grant creating device to “modify” guests behavior.
DHS
considers gamers & photographers a suspicious activity
MassPrivateI |
Playing games and using the internet are inherently suspicious.
Social
Justice Puritans Convince Artist To Pull Batgirl Comic Book Cover
Daily Caller |
Another day, another ridiculous controversy generated by feminists and the
social justice crowd.
Liberal
WaPo Columnist Admits That ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Was A Lie
Daily Caller |
“Brown never surrendered with his hands up, and Wilson was justified in shooting
Brown.”
COMMENTARY
No,
Starbucks, I don’t want a lecture on race with my latte; are you people insane?
Bizpac Review |
Not everyone is feeling all warm and fuzzy over the new program.
In
Resignation, Oklahoma Teacher Blows Whistle on Common Core
New American |
Lawmakers are aware of the resignation and looking into the matter.
Russia
Is Becoming Awfully Comfortable with Nuclear War
The Daily
Sheeple | After emerging from his 11 day disappearing act, Putin marked the
occasion with several provocative moves.
·
MULTIMEDIA
OSU
researchers create fast robot modeled after birds
KGW |
Researchers at Oregon State University have built a robot that’s the first of
its kind. Its name is Atrias.
Prison
Planet.com | Film character goes off on a racist rampage during a town hall
meeting because he’s been brainwashed by Alex Jones.
·
U.S. NEWS
Leftist
Media Claims If You Support Second Amendment, You Support Rape
Kit Daniels | Legal concealed carry “more pro-rape than
anti-rape,” claims anti-gun media.
Alleged
Threats Of Violence And Vandalism By Feminists Cause ‘Black Pussy’ To Cancel
Concert
Daily Caller | A
band with a supposed “racist” and “sexist” name has allegedly been the target
of “serious threats of violence and vandalism” by feminists.
Rapper
Azealia Banks: I Hate White Americans
Kit Daniels | “I hate everything about this country,” she said.
“Like, I hate fat, white Americans.”
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Denied:
Lawmakers Fighting to Hide GMO Ingredients Nationwide
Mike Barrett |
Tell Congress to drop this corporate hand-out of a bill!
How
GMO Foods Feed Junk Food Profits – Not the World
Christina Sarich
| Leading to obesity, diabetes, and more.
Solar
eclipse, Supermoon, Spring equinox: Friday will see three rare celestial events
London
Independent | Eclipses have long been feared as bad omens, but the equinox is
celebrated as a time of renewal.
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Explication
of the wording of the Balfour Declaration is found in the correspondence leading
to the final version of the declaration. The phrase "national home"
was intentionally used instead of "state" because of opposition to
the Zionist program within the British Cabinet. Following discussion of the
initial draft the Cabinet Secretary, Mark Sykes,
met with the Zionist negotiators to clarify their aims. His official report
back to the Cabinet categorically stated that the Zionists did not want
"to set up a Jewish Republic or any other form of state in Palestine
immediately"[23]
but rather preferred some form of protectorate as provided in the Palestine
Mandate. In approving the Balfour Declaration, Leopold
Amery, one of the Secretaries to the British War Cabinet of 1917–18,
testified under oath to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in January 1946
from his personal knowledge that:
"The
phrase 'the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish
people' was intended and understood by all concerned to mean at the time of the
Balfour Declaration that Palestine would ultimately become a 'Jewish Commonwealth'
or a 'Jewish State', if only Jews came and settled there in sufficient
numbers."[24]
Both
the Zionist Organization and the British government devoted efforts over the following
decades, including Winston Churchill's 1922 White Paper, to denying that a
state was the intention… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
) how the
state of israel came to be … and, also, I believe the incentive for ‘israeli
skullduggery’ in the mideast which has been disastrous for the u.s. would be
substantially diminished … }
Jeb Bush was a young man building a real
estate business in Miami in 1985 when health-care entrepreneur Miguel Recarey
Jr. hired him to help locate office space in South Florida.
Bush, then the son of the vice president,
later provided another service: opening doors in Washington, where Recarey had
mounted an aggressive lobbying effort for a waiver from Medicare rules that
would allow his fast-growing company to continue to expand.
Recarey got what he wanted. But two years
later, the firm, International Medical Centers, was shut down as regulators
searched for millions in missing federal funds. Facing charges of bribery and
bilking Medicare, Recarey fled the country to avoid prosecution. He remains a
fugitive in Spain, where a court denied U.S. requests for extradition……. { Come
on … no mystery here … the vegetable bushes are corrupt political hacks … }
Posted by : Sprout Money
Post date: 03/19/2015 - 16:25
History
never repeats itself, but it always rhymes...
The Central Banks Will Not Be Able to Control This
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 03/19/2015 - 14:11
The
Fed and other Central Banks are trying to maintain the illusion that they have
everything in control by talking about interest rates, but the reality is that
the US Dollar carry trade is ABOVE $9...
Falling Interest Causes Falling Wages
Posted by: Gold Standard I...
Post date: 03/19/2015 - 02:35
Monetary
policy is putting the hurt on labor.
Senator Tom Cotton Warns That Iran
Must Be Stopped: 'They Already Control Tehran!' (VIDEO) Tom Cotton shows his foreign policy knowledge with a lesson in
geography any 5th grader would be ashamed of. { If he really wanted to do something constructive for the nation
and his home state and be taken seriously, he’d seek justice for those on the
‘clinton domestic kill list’ http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
… there’s no statute of limitations on murder … }
"This gap between the 1% and the rest of America, and between the
US and the rest of the world, cannot and will not persist," warns renowned trader Paul Tudor Jones during his
recent TED Talks speech, as
he addressed the question - can capital be just? Hoping to expand the
"narrow definitions of capitalism," that threaten the underpinnings
of society, Tudor Jones exclaims, "we're in the middle of a disastrous
market mania," adding "one of worst of my life." Perhaps
most ominously, he concludes, historically this ends "by revolution,
higher taxes or wars. None are on my bucket list."
A judicial advisory panel Monday quietly approved a rule change that
will broaden the FBI’s hacking authority despite fears raised by Google that
the amended language represents a “monumental” constitutional concern. The Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on
Criminal Rules voted 11-1 to modify an arcane federal rule to allow judges more
flexibility in how they approve search warrants for electronic data, according
to a Justice Department spokesman. The FBI wants the expanded authority, which
would allow it to more easily infiltrate computer networks to install malicious
tracking software. This way, investigators can better monitor suspected
criminals who use technology to conceal their identity.... Google
weighed in last month with public comments that warned that the
tweak “raises a number of monumental and highly complex constitutional, legal
and geopolitical concerns that should be left to Congress to decide.”
FHFA
finds that the GSEs might well need billions more in taxpayer dollars
in the event of a downturn, suggesting the deck may be stakced against those
the companies' common.
"It would be transformative if everybody voted," Obama said during a town hall event in
Cleveland, Ohio. "That would counteract (campaign) money more than
anything. If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map
in this country." Obama also added that the people who tend not
to vote are "young, they're lower income, they're skewed more
heavily toward immigrant groups and minorities ... There's a reason
why some folks try to keep them away from the polls."
"The
GPIF in October slashed its targeted holdings of low-yielding government bonds
and doubled its target for stocks, as part of Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe's plan to boost the economy and promote risk-taking," Bloomberg
notes, marking a shift into risk assets by the country's pension funds.
"Under
our central case, gold prices are likely to rise gradually, eventually
breaking through the USD2,000/oz level within the next decade. This is
the most likely outcome, to which we assign a 45% probability," ANZ
analysts say, in a note explaining how a number of factors are converging to
make the outlook for gold particularly bullish.
In
the next FOMC projection slide deck, Janet Yellen should just show the
following "dots" chart. It may well be the first time in history that
the Fed has actually made an accurate forecast.
US
diplomats still haven’t quite figured out how to greet Japanese officials, as
was made abundantly clear when the First Lady visited Japan this week.
"Due
to unforseen events I decided to close down Evolution Marketplace. We want to
thank you guys for you effort and help making this the most profitable and
popular marketplace. This wasn’t an easy decision but due to other marketplaces
getting shut down and the forum going downhill I decided to cut my ties and
exit with an eight figure profit. The millions from evo will be divided up
amongst the mods a few admin and members. Since this is such an abundance of
money I may consider buy ins from former evo members in exchange for 1k
bitcoinis. I’ll be around around for a short period of time
before permanently moving to the caribbeans, I hope you guys understand."
"Ignoring
direct pleas from the Obama administration, Europe’s biggest economies
have declared their desire to become founding members of a new Chinese-led
Asian investment bank that the United States views as a rival to the World Bank
and other institutions set up at the height of American power after
World War II," The Times notes, in yet another indication of
declining US influence.
The
people of Venezuela can rejoice... not so fast. Amid paranoid-sounding
(though not unlikely) rantings about US-created coups (and blaming 'economic'
war for his nation's Socialist utopia hyperinflation), it appears President
Maduro just got another life-line (or more rope to hang himself). After begging
China's leader Xi early in January for moar money (and getting it), China
- which is already Venezuela's biggest creditor with over $50 billion loaned
since 2007 - as Reuters reports, is
said to plan on signing another $5bn loan to Venezuela for
"wide-ranging" projects like "mature oil fields."
So, it appears China is enabling Maduro to hollow out his economy even more.
These negative rates that we see in Europe are a first glimpse of fiat
currency destruction due to imploding economies. And again the negative rates are nominal rates
meaning they are negative by way of something beyond inflation.
Specifically they are moving to their natural minimum state of valuelessness
because the economy is no longer strong enough to provide alternative
investments for the fiat currency. Fiat currency is shown then
not to be a storage of value whatsoever. But only a representation of
strength of its respective economy. As the economy goes to zero
so does the value of its currency. This point is exceedingly imperative
to understand in our current global environment.
"This is not investing," exclaims Ed Yardeni in this brief clip, "it is all about
central bankers... these markets are all rigged." That is not a
criticism he notes, "I just say that factually... I love these central
bankers, they've been very good to the stock market." The clip is then followed
by a defense of this pumping by central banks, because "we are a
401(k) society." Which apparently ignores the whole "massive
inequality gap" issue that is staring America right in the eyes... But
for now stocks are up so "shut up and enjoy it" as Larry Kudlow said
yesterday.
Reason
| REAL feminist Camille Paglia DESTROYS feminist hypocrisy on their support for
sex crimes apologist Hillary Clinton.
Paul
Joseph Watson | “You think your drunk college-age daughters are bad with their
phones? Imagine them with guns”.
EAG
News | That means a biological boy who self-identifies as a girl will be free
to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice-versa.
Paul
Joseph Watson | “I Hate My Thighs” outfit called “detrimental to babies’ body
image”.
Prison Planet.com |
“Some participants will be wearing civilian attire and driving civilian
vehicles…”
Steve
Watson | Incident prompts accusations of racism.
Steve Watson | Police
are not trained to deal with disturbed individuals.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Actor pointed out Kenyan heritage of President.
BizPac
Review | Video footage of demonstrators scuffling outside the Ferguson Police
Department the night two officers were shot could hold a key to the case.
New
Scientist | The human self has five components. Machines now have three of
them. How far away is artificial consciousness – and what does it tell us about
ourselves?
WORLD NEWS
TEPCO
confirms nearly all fuel melted in Fukushima No. 1 unit
Kyodo News | The
result marks the first confirmation of a meltdown of the reactor in the wake of
the March 2011 massive earthquake and tsunami.
German
Interior Minister Slams Comparisons of Frankfurt Protests to Maidan
Sputnik News |
“We knew that there would be violence”.
Media
mystified by latest slaughter of 17 Western tourists; what Muslim terrorists?
BizPac Review |
At least 17 Western tourists were massacred in the capital of Tunisia on
Wednesday.
If
Damascus falls, Europe won’t be far behind – US senator
RT | A Virginia
state senator who once thanked the Syrian government for defending Christians
is worried about the fate of Damascus.
·
MONEY WATCH
Paul
Tudor Jones Warns This “Disastrous Market Mania” Will End “By Revolution,
Taxes, Or War”
Zero Hedge |
“We’re in the middle of a disastrous market mania”.
Zero Hedge | The
Syriza government is now raiding the major state utility firms.
The
euro is plunging again after Wednesday’s colossal surge
Business Insider
| The euro has been on a roller-coaster ride in the past 24 hours.
Oil
glut going from bad to worse, EIA says supplies hit 80-year high
Yahoo Finance |
WTI crude prices are taking another leg down.
·
PRISON PLANET
EU
Parliament Declares Abortion and Gay Marriage “Human Rights”
New American |
The European Parliament last week declared gay “marriage” and abortion to be
fundamental human rights.
Michael Krieger
| Ms. Chai’s film had simply grown too big.
EPA
Wants to Monitor How Long Hotel Guests Spend in the Shower
Washington Free
Beacon | $15,000 grant creating device to “modify” guests behavior.
DHS
considers gamers & photographers a suspicious activity
MassPrivateI |
Playing games and using the internet are inherently suspicious.
COMMENTARY
Biotech
Bans Anti-GMO Group from SXSW Food Supply Panel
JEFFEREY JAXEN |
Biotech pulls strings at SXSW.
Obama
Administration Sets New Record for Censoring and Denying Access to Government
Documents
Michael Krieger
| The backlog of unanswered requests at year’s end surged by 55% to more than
200,00.
No,
Starbucks, I don’t want a lecture on race with my latte; are you people insane?
Bizpac Review |
Not everyone is feeling all warm and fuzzy over the new program.
In
Resignation, Oklahoma Teacher Blows Whistle on Common Core
New American |
Lawmakers are aware of the resignation and looking into the matter.
·
MULTIMEDIA
HIDDEN
CAMERA: Cross-Dressing At “Tolerant” Planet Fitness!
Truth Revolt |
Just where does tolerance end and judgment begin…
OSU
researchers create fast robot modeled after birds
KGW |
Researchers at Oregon State University have built a robot that’s the first of
its kind. Its name is Atrias.
·
U.S. NEWS
‘I’m
actually black’: AWKWARD moment radio host is accused of being white, co-opting
black culture
BizPac Review |
“CBS News Sunday Morning” contributor Nancy Giles found herself in an inept
“open mouth, insert foot” moment.
San
Francisco Saint Mary’s Cathedral Drenches Homeless With Water To Keep Them Away
CBS San
Francisco | “They actually have signs in there that say, ‘No Trespassing,’”
said a homeless man named Robert.
Obama Calls For
Mandatory Voting
Kit Daniels | “It would be transformative if everybody voted,”
he said.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Get
Ready for Embryos From Two Men or Two Women
Time | Genetic
research is advancing to the day when gay couples could fulfill their dreams of
having children related to them both.
SXSW Patrons
Want Real Food, Not GMO’s
Prison
Planet.com | SXSW hosted a discussion on GMO’s in which the biotech industry
refused to debate the safety of their food.
Denied:
Lawmakers Fighting to Hide GMO Ingredients Nationwide
Mike Barrett |
Tell Congress to drop this corporate hand-out of a bill!
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 03/20/2015 - 12:32
This
is awkward...
Posted by : testosteronepit
Post date: 03/20/2015 - 11:51
“I
don’t think there is much space left to fill.”
U.S. Begs Russia to Remain in ‘SWIFT’ - The One Bank
Fails Again
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 03/20/2015 - 11:51
Does
it get any funnier than this? Well, arguably, we’ve already seen an even
funnier episode from these financial “Wile E. Coyotes”. But let’s begin with a
look at the most recent “botched operation...
Why We’re Drifting Towards World War 3
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 03/20/2015 - 10:45
Debt,
Distraction, Currency Wars, Itchy Fingers
Senator Tom Cotton Warns That Iran
Must Be Stopped: 'They Already Control Tehran!' (VIDEO) Tom Cotton shows his foreign policy knowledge with a lesson in
geography any 5th grader would be ashamed of. { If he really wanted to do something constructive for the nation
and his home state and be taken seriously, he’d seek justice for those on the
‘clinton domestic kill list’ http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
… there’s no statute of limitations on murder … }
"This gap between the 1% and the rest of America, and between the
US and the rest of the world, cannot and will not persist," warns renowned trader Paul Tudor Jones during his
recent TED Talks speech, as
he addressed the question - can capital be just? Hoping to expand the
"narrow definitions of capitalism," that threaten the underpinnings
of society, Tudor Jones exclaims, "we're in the middle of a disastrous
market mania," adding "one of worst of my life." Perhaps
most ominously, he concludes, historically this ends "by revolution,
higher taxes or wars. None are on my bucket list."
Something
stunning took place earlier this week, and it quietly snuck by, unnoticed by
anyone as the "all important" FOMC meeting was looming. That
something could have been taken straight out of the playbook of either Cyprus,
or Greece, or the USSR "evil empire", or all three.
In
the previous installments of this series, we discussed the hidden and often
unspoken crisis brewing within the employment market, as well as in personal
debt. The primary consequence being a collapse in overall consumer demand,
something which we are at this very moment witnessing in the macro-picture of
the fiscal situation around the world. Lack of real production and lack of
sustainable employment options result in a lack of savings, an over-dependency
on debt and welfare, the destruction of grass-roots entrepreneurship, a
conflated and disingenuous representation of gross domestic product, and
ultimately an economic system devoid of structural integrity — a hollow shell
of a system, vulnerable to even the slightest shocks.
"As
a society, we’ve become increasingly obsessed with youth, materialism, power
and short-termism, tossing aside wisdom, real joy, soulfulness and
connectivity. One of the symptoms of this unfortunate transformation
can been seen in how we treat the least fortunate and most vulnerable around
us, particularly the homeless."
As
Chinese stocks rise for an eigth straight day hitting their highest levels
since the crisis, China's securities regulator sees signs of froth
and warns investors against adopting a foolish mentality.
Back
in 2009, when aside from a few insiders, nobody had heard of HFT, Zero Hedge
launched its crusade to expose the algorithmic scourge that has since then
caused an equity, treasury and now US Dollar flash crash, and has been the
subject of a Michael Lewis bestseller and resulted in countless market halts
and failures. More importantly, there is now roughly 50 pages of just bibliography
citing the evidence-based, academic research that has shown just how
pervsavibely, maliciously and premeditatedly HFTs manipulate, destabilize,
impair and otherwise destroy every single market in
which they participate.
"Because
the Bank of Japan gobbles up dramatic amounts of debt, the cost of financing
government spending stays low. It’s been said that a country that
issues debt in its own currency cannot go broke. Theoretically that may be
correct: the central bank can always monetize the debt, i.e. buy up any new
debt being issued. But in practice, there has to be a valve."
Since
the number of people who still believe this lie has soared in recent months, it
is our duty to conduct a public service announcement to show the truth. Here it
is, from Credit Suisse:"Cash levels have slipped relative to
assets, while free cash flow yields are nearly back to 2007 lows."
and "Corporate cash levels in the US are still high relative to
history, but have been worked down in recent years."
"Shipping
freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe
fell 12.4 percent," for the week Reuters notes. This is seventh
consecutive week of declines and puts us squarely back at levels last seen in
2013.
While
the distraction that is the stock market continues to enthrall most Americans,
the big shots in the global monetary which for now are taking place behind the
scenes, are getting ever louder. One person who is paying attention to the
failure of the US to grasp that the unipolar world of the 1980s is long gone,
is Russia's Vladimir Putin, who earlier today proposed creating a
"Eurasian" currency union which would have Belarus and Kazakhstan as
its first members, which already are Russia's partners in a political
and economic union made up of former Soviet republics.
"I
was having lunch with a very dear friend of mine yesterday, who is also a very
successful financial planner and advisor, who stunned me with an obvious
question: 'Has the dumb money become the smart money?'"
This
is what happened to the world's most valuable company in the last minutes of
trading, when a few million shares in the last 10 minutes, and a volume slam in
the last few seconds, sent the stock from just shy of $128 where it had been
trading most of the day, to just over $125. A nearly $10 billion move
in market cap in seconds.... on nothing.
The
only asset class that made any sense in today's quad-witching was the 10 Year,
whose yield did precisely what it should do in a world in which the Fed slashed
the economic outlook 2 days ago: it tumbled. Everything else was just
algorithmic momentum ignition, stop hunts, and the other usual quad witching
thriller which we said
would happen first thing this morning.
University
of California President Janet Napolitano wants students' voices to be heard — unless
it means "listening to their crap."
In
the aftermath of the ECB's QE announcement one topic has received far less
attention than it should: the unexpected collapse of risk-sharing across the
Eurosystem as a precursor to QE. This is what prompted "gold-expert"
Willem Buiter of Citigroup to pen an analysis titled "The Euro Area:
Monetary Union or System of Currency Boards", in which he answers two
simple yet suddenly very critical for the Eurozone questions: which
"currency boards", aka national central banks, are suddenly most at
risk of going insolvent, and should the worst case scenario take place, and one
or more NCBs go insolvent what happens then?
"This
time a year ago, the oil industry's biggest problem was finding a way to deal
with the “retirement tsunami” about to crash down on it as older oilfield
workers hung up their cork boots to enjoy freedom. Now, with oil prices
still in the doldrums, many of those same workers are lucky to be hanging onto
their jobs, while others have been booted from the payroll as an ugly wave of
layoffs takes hold."
CCC-rated
Ukraine is preparing to issue more debt, debt with a Aa+/AAA rating because it
will come with the explicit guarantee of the United States of America. In other
words, after raiding Greek pensions with the IMF's blessing, the Kiev puppet
government is now going after the "full faith and credit" of the
US... backed by its taxpayers. In yet other words, the latest Ukraine
"bailout" is courtesy of you, dear US taxpaying reader.
Mikael
Thalen | “You have no idea what racism is. That’s not racist, you idiot! You
moron!”
Prison
Planet.com | #RaceTogether campaign provides “Race Relations Reality Check”
questionnaire.
Adan
Salazar | Host claimed billionaire philanthropist has “his tentacles into
political organizations.”
Jon
Bowne | Border agent blows lid off of DHS coverup.
Paul
Joseph Watson | It won’t be appearing on your coffee cup.
Lee
Ann McAdoo | Group chanted various anti-police slogans, including, “Oink! Oink!
Bang! Bang!”
Joe Biggs | Is your
state next?
Steve Watson |
“American people are quite fond of the royal family”.
RT
| Judge William Garnett declined to release grand jury records in the Eric
Garner case.
WORLD NEWS
How
Low Can You Go? Western Europe To Begin Propaganda War With Russia
Sputnik | European Union leaders have given the go ahead for
a propaganda war with Russia.
Suicide
Bombers Kill and Wound Hundreds at Yemen Mosque
Sputnik |
Hundreds are killed and wounded after suicide bombers attacked two mosques in
Yemen’s capital.
Dutch
dismiss reports alleging MH17 downed by Buk missile
RT | The
Netherlands has denied reports that the Malaysia Airlines plane was downed by a
Buk missile, killing all 298 passengers and crew last July.
US
shoots down ISIS-operated drone for the first time
RT | US Central
Command announced that the military bombed an unmanned drone being operated by
the extremist group in Iraq.
North
Korea ready ‘anytime’ for nuclear war as diplomat calls defectors ‘animals’ and
‘scum’
London
Independent | North Korea is ‘not afraid of war,’ the diplomat said.
·
MONEY WATCH
Dollar
currently on a ‘pause’: Analyst
CNBC | Investors
and companies should continue eyeing the dollar, despite its most recent slide
against major currencies, BlackRock’s Russ Koesterich said Friday.
Russia’s
new Eurasian Economic Union could get its own single currency
Business Insider
| After his mysterious recent absence, Russian president Vladimir Putin is in
Astana, Kazakhstan today for a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Government
Hints Fannie/Freddie Would Need Another Bailout If Conditions Deteriorate
Zero Hedge |
Fannie and Freddie may well go broke again.
Revealed:
Gates Foundation’s $1.4bn in fossil fuel investments
London Guardian
| Analysis of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s most recent tax filing
reveals huge investments in the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies.
·
PRISON PLANET
US
Customs Quietly Launches Facial Recognition Experiment at DC Airport
Vice | Customs
officers might take a picture of you and use facial recognition technology to figure
out if you really are who you say you are.
FBI
probes hanging death of black man in Mississippi
USA Today |
Authorities are investigating the hanging of black man in Claiborne County,
officials said Thursday.
University
bans hoop skirts because they’re ‘associated with the symbolic past’
EAG News | A
Georgia university banned hoop skirts this week in response to a racist
fraternity video that caused an uproar at the University of Oklahoma recently.
EU
Parliament Declares Abortion and Gay Marriage “Human Rights”
New American |
The European Parliament last week declared gay “marriage” and abortion to be
fundamental human rights.
COMMENTARY
Drones
aren’t just toys that cause a nuisance. They’re still killing innocent people
London Guardian
| Current media coverage might make you think drones are what naughty people
land on the White House lawn. This is a dangerous disconnect from the bloody
reality.
Common
Core Rebellion to “Opt Out” of Tests Spreads Nationwide
New American | A
growing rebellion against the tests and accompanying data-mining scheme is
sweeping the country as well.
Why We’re
Drifting Towards World War 3
Washington’s
Blog | Financial Experts: World War Looms … Unless We Stop It.
Feminist
Reporter: Take Away White Men’s Guns
Daily Caller |
Still think liberal feminist journalists aren’t racist man-haters?
·
MULTIMEDIA
HIDDEN
CAMERA: Cross-Dressing At “Tolerant” Planet Fitness!
Truth Revolt |
Just where does tolerance end and judgment begin…
OSU
researchers create fast robot modeled after birds
KGW |
Researchers at Oregon State University have built a robot that’s the first of
its kind. Its name is Atrias.
·
U.S. NEWS
SOCOM
Plan to Invade ‘Hostile’ Texas Revealed
Joe Biggs | Is your state next?
NY
school apologizes for reciting pledge of allegiance in Arabic
AP | The Arabic
reading of the pledge has “divided the school in half.”
Clinton
Charity Tapped Foreign Friends
Wall Street
Journal | Foundation agreed not to seek donations from other governments, but
cash kept flowing from individuals with connections to them.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Scientists
at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days
Daily Express |
SCIENTISTS conducting a mindbending experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
next week hope to connect with a PARALLEL UNIVERSE outside of our own.
Google:
Our new system for recognizing faces is the best one ever
Fortune | New
advances in facial recognition are a step forward for an artificial
intelligence technique called deep learning.
FAA
allows Amazon to fly drones experimentally
USA TODAY | The
Federal Aviation Administration approved Amazon Logistics Inc. on Thursday to
fly drones experimentally.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
SHOCK: Colorado woman admits cutting fetus from stranger's
womb...
Posted by : Tim Knight from...
Post date: 03/20/2015 - 21:27
What's
that? It sounds just like Starbucks, Peet's, or any other coffee place on the
planet? Yeah, well, I guess you have a point there. But there's a big
difference: you have to pay to sit down.
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 03/21/2015 - 12:39
Let's
do the time warp again...
Just as Global Oil Glut Deepens, China Cuts Oil
Imports
Posted by: testosteronepit
Post date: 03/20/2015 - 11:51
“I
don’t think there is much space left to fill.”
Senator Tom Cotton Warns That Iran
Must Be Stopped: 'They Already Control Tehran!' (VIDEO) Tom Cotton shows his foreign policy knowledge with a lesson in
geography any 5th grader would be ashamed of. { If he really wanted to do something constructive for the nation
and his home state and be taken seriously, he’d seek justice for those on the
‘clinton domestic kill list’ http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
… there’s no statute of limitations on murder … }
"This gap between the 1% and the rest of America, and between the
US and the rest of the world, cannot and will not persist," warns renowned trader Paul Tudor Jones during his
recent TED Talks speech, as
he addressed the question - can capital be just? Hoping to expand the
"narrow definitions of capitalism," that threaten the underpinnings
of society, Tudor Jones exclaims, "we're in the middle of a disastrous
market mania," adding "one of worst of my life." Perhaps
most ominously, he concludes, historically this ends "by revolution,
higher taxes or wars. None are on my bucket list."
At
the current rate of record oil production, storage will be exhausted in under
two months, some time in mid-May. At that point, with no more
storage to buffer the record oil production, the open market dumping begins and
prices of WTI will crater as every barrel will have to be sold at any clearing
price, since the producers will have no other choice than to, literally, dump
the oil. In other words, a perfect storm is shaping up for oil some time in
late May, early June. And then we learned something even more
startling.
When
I first came across the title to this article, I didn’t think much of it. In
fact, I almost didn’t even click the link thinking it was just a repeat of a
prior expose I highlighted in the post: Hillary Clinton Exposed Part 2 –
Clinton Foundation Took Millions From Countries That Also Fund ISIS.
Fortunately, I did decide to take a look and pretty soon my jaw absolutely hit
the floor. Although the Wall Street Journal didn’t play up the connection,
I was stunned to see that of all the oligarchs connected to foreign governments
who donated to the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State, Ukraine
was at the very top.
If
you believe that ignorance is bliss, you might not want to
read this article.
It matters not who is in charge of the Fed or what rules Congress may
insist that it adopts. Once
money printing, via fiat or fractional reserve credit creation, is seen to be
both feasible, justified, and legal nothing and no one can stop it. The
political pressure to fund government programs will be irresistible. Everyone
knows that the Fed seemingly has the ability to solve their problem by
monetizing the federal debt.
Should it refuse to do so, we would see riots in the streets similar to what is
happening in Europe as protesters target the European
Central Bank. The only solution is to destroy the monster
that makes it all possible, the Fed.
NATO is in the midst of conducting large scale military maneuvers along
the Russian border in a move Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says
encourages “Kiev to pursue a military solution.” Over the course of 10 days, NATO will parade 120
combat vehicles across the region in an effort to prove how quickly the West
can confront perceived Russian aggression.
Something
stunning took place earlier this week, and it quietly snuck by, unnoticed by
anyone as the "all important" FOMC meeting was looming. That
something could have been taken straight out of the playbook of either Cyprus,
or Greece, or the USSR "evil empire", or all three.
It
was only a matter of time before Germany's peculiar sense of humor struck back
to Greek demands for WWII reparations, and sure enough here comes Spiegel with
"How
Europeans look at the Germans — The German Superiority" or
""The German Übermacht", in which Spiegel decided to
send over Merkel coupled with a few nazis right in the middle of the Acropolis.
The
correlation between wage growth and consumer spending is now 0.93 according to
RBC meaning that the 80% of the labor force who aren't seeing their pay
increase will not be driving the US economic engine going forward.
Well
that's settled then...
The idea is that savings exceed investment, and that a negative real
interest rate is required for bringing savings in line with investment. From
the viewpoint of the Austrian school, the notion of a “negative equilibrium
real interest rate” doesn’t make sense at all. To show this, let us develop the case step by step.
To start with, one should make a distinction between two types of interest
rates: There is the market interest rate, and there is the originary
interest rate.
Dear
Chairman,
I would like one member of the FOMC to take the time to tell the American
public the truth about the last seven years and monetary policy...
In
the first part of this series we discussed Greece and its ongoing negotiations
with the European Union – particularly with Germany – and how the complicated
history between these two countries makes it exceedingly difficult for the
Greek people to accept the terms on offer from the EU. This time
we will turn our attention north, to a different kind of conflict.
This one has also wrought economic devastation to a European country, but
of a much higher intensity. It is the first civil war that the European
continent has seen since the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, when the regional
superpower of Yugoslavia was ultimately broken up amidst a series of separatist
and independence movements. Today’s conflict will almost certainly result
in a similar outcome for its host country. I’m talking, of course,
about Ukraine. Let’s take a closer look.
"The
planet has been our best friend by buffering our actions and showing its
resilience, but for the first time ever," warns Swedish environmental
professor Johan Rockstrom, "we might shift the planet from friend to
foe." As RT notes, Rockstrom
explains there are nine "planetary boundaries" in a
new paper published in Science – and human beings have already crossed
four of them... Where's Matthew McConaughey when we need him?
"That
is between December and February €22bn of deposits likely left the Greek
banking system and of this €10bn or 45% went under the mattress. What
is clear is that the Greek banking system cannot withstand another big wave of
deposit outflows."
Bankers
who took up their business in the Square Mile of London’s banking heart could
smell the Eurodollars in the air. As Anthony Sampson wrote, “Young British
bankers and their foreign counterparts began to earn higher salaries than other
bankers. Skyscrapers shot up by the old classic architecture near St. Paul’s
Cathedral. Far Eastern and Arabic banks appeared, as did Mercedes and Cadillacs
to cart bankers around the thin London streets.” The Soviet Union and other
Eastern Bloc countries needed dollars for trade but wanted to avoid adverse US
policy by not keeping or borrowing money in the United States. So they
stuck funds in the London offices of British and American banks, causing the
City of London to grow as a banking center and recoup some prewar financial
glory.
Mikael
Thalen | Rick Santorum questioned on Obama nuke transfer to South Carolina.
RT
| The active ingredient in the world’s most widely-used Roundup herbicide has
been classified as “probably” carcinogenic to humans by a branch of the World
Health Organization.
BizPac
Review | A man, armed with a machete and a can of bug spray attacked passengers
and TSA workers Friday.
Politico
| “The normal Clinton response is to cover up, deny, refuse to acknowledge.”
Paul
Craig Roberts | Russia faces the renewal of conflict in Ukraine simultaneously
with three more Ukraine-type situations along its Asian border.
Free
Thought Project | “They took my son to jail because he tried to save his son.”
The
Daily Sheeple | So because the place they train at doesn’t have bushes and
fountains, they can’t properly protect the White House?
Heartland
| “I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will
be catastrophic in the near future.”
Mikael
Thalen | “You have no idea what racism is. That’s not racist, you idiot! You
moron!”
WORLD NEWS
Drills
for me but not for thee: NATO launches war games near Russian border
RT | Despite
being quick to condemn Russian military manoeuvers, NATO is conducting
wide-scale war games in the Baltic states and creating a “line of troops”
across Eastern Europe.
US
Propaganda Op in Korea Exposes American TV as Social Engineering Tool
Tony Cartalucci
| If American TV is used to brainwash North Koreans, wouldn’t that suggest it
was used to brainwash Americans too?
How
Low Can You Go? Western Europe To Begin Propaganda War With Russia
Sputnik | European Union leaders have given the go ahead for
a propaganda war with Russia.
US
threatened to ‘cut off’ Germany over Snowden
The Hill | The
Obama administration reportedly threatened to “cut off” Germany from its vast
intelligence resources if it provided legal aide to leaker Edward Snowden.
Suicide
Bombers Kill and Wound Hundreds at Yemen Mosque
Sputnik |
Hundreds are killed and wounded after suicide bombers attacked two mosques in
Yemen’s capital.
·
MONEY WATCH
Michael Krieger
| Considering this is the main geopolitical hotspot on earth right now, many,
many questions need to be asked.
Dollar
currently on a ‘pause’: Analyst
CNBC | Investors
and companies should continue eyeing the dollar, despite its most recent slide
against major currencies, BlackRock’s Russ Koesterich said Friday.
Russia’s
new Eurasian Economic Union could get its own single currency
Business Insider
| After his mysterious recent absence, Russian president Vladimir Putin is in
Astana, Kazakhstan today for a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Government
Hints Fannie/Freddie Would Need Another Bailout If Conditions Deteriorate
Zero Hedge |
Fannie and Freddie may well go broke again.
·
PRISON PLANET
Weaponizing
Wikipedia- What Invasion Scale Info War Is
Washington’s
Blog | When knowledge fails, wisdom fails with it.
NY
Judge rejects request to release Eric Garner grand jury records
RT | Judge
William Garnett declined to release grand jury records in the Eric Garner case.
To
avoid NSA, Cisco delivers gear to strange addresses
The Hill |
Cisco’s security chief said the company has accommodated special requests for
those worried about the NSA.
US
Customs Quietly Launches Facial Recognition Experiment at DC Airport
Vice | Customs
officers might take a picture of you and use facial recognition technology to
figure out if you really are who you say you are.
COMMENTARY
Hands
Up, Don’t Report: New Video Destroys Ferguson Coverage
Truth Revolt |
Truth rarely takes hold in the press.
Soros-funded
Media Matters Attacks O’Reilly for Exposing “Puppet Master” George Soros
Adan Salazar |
Host claimed billionaire philanthropist has “his tentacles into political
organizations.”
This
One ‘Racist’ Fact Completely Debunks Starbucks’ ‘Race Together’ Campaign
Paul Joseph
Watson | It won’t be appearing on your coffee cup.
Drones
aren’t just toys that cause a nuisance. They’re still killing innocent people
London Guardian
| Current media coverage might make you think drones are what naughty people
land on the White House lawn. This is a dangerous disconnect from the bloody
reality.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Jon Bowne |
Border agent blows lid off of DHS coverup.
Armed Black
Militants Prep for War
Lee Ann McAdoo |
Group chanted various anti-police slogans, including, “Oink! Oink! Bang! Bang!”
HIDDEN
CAMERA: Cross-Dressing At “Tolerant” Planet Fitness!
Truth Revolt |
Just where does tolerance end and judgment begin…
·
U.S. NEWS
Activists
Open Gun Store To Sell Gun Control
Truth Revolt |
“Collectors love this one. Adam Lanza’s mom had this in her collection too.”
SOCOM
Plan to Invade ‘Hostile’ Texas Revealed
Joe Biggs | Is your state next?
Video: Obama
Grovels To British Royalty
Steve
Watson | “American people
are quite fond of the royal family”.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Oops!
No March Tornadoes? Climate Alarmists Perplexed
New American |
The U.S. Tornado count for March 2015 stands at — zero. That’s right: Zero.
Zilch. Nada.
Scientists
at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days
Daily Express |
SCIENTISTS conducting a mindbending experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
next week hope to connect with a PARALLEL UNIVERSE outside of our own.
Google:
Our new system for recognizing faces is the best one ever
Fortune | New advances
in facial recognition are a step forward for an artificial intelligence
technique called deep learning.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Senator Tom Cotton Warns That Iran
Must Be Stopped: 'They Already Control Tehran!' (VIDEO) Tom Cotton shows his foreign policy knowledge with a lesson in
geography any 5th grader would be ashamed of. { If he really wanted to do something constructive for the nation
and his home state and be taken seriously, he’d seek justice for those on the
‘clinton domestic kill list’ http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
… there’s no statute of limitations on murder … }
"This gap between the 1% and the rest of America, and between the
US and the rest of the world, cannot and will not persist," warns renowned trader Paul Tudor Jones during his
recent TED Talks speech, as
he addressed the question - can capital be just? Hoping to expand the
"narrow definitions of capitalism," that threaten the underpinnings
of society, Tudor Jones exclaims, "we're in the middle of a disastrous
market mania," adding "one of worst of my life." Perhaps
most ominously, he concludes, historically this ends "by revolution,
higher taxes or wars. None are on my bucket list."
Posted by : Sprout Money
Post date: 03/22/2015 - 08:52
And
the Fed is trapped in its own system...
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 03/22/2015 - 11:15
Buy
the Shanghai Dip!
Is This How It All Begins to Unravel?
Posted by: Capitalist Exploits
Post date: 03/22/2015 - 07:43
If
the Fed indeed raises rates in June, we're likely to begin to see periphery
sovereign debt defaults
"The
Obama administration, facing defiance by allies that have signed up to support
a new Chinese-led infrastructure fund, is proposing the bank work in a
partnership with Washington-backed development institutions such as the World
Bank." And with that, one giant shift towards de-dollarization is
now in the books.
The
divide between the rich and the poor is not only getting wider thanks to the
central bank's efforts to inflate the value of the very types of assets that
the poor are unlikely to own, but is in fact now destroying the
American family.
"The
web has enabled virtually anyone with Internet access to create a nearly-free
global distribution network. Critics of this democratization feel that this has
unleashed an avalanche of mediocrity that is judged on "likes" and
pages views. The other side of the debate sees the demise of the
gatekeepers, who could enforce their own view of what was valuable culturally
and economically, as freeing all those who could never get past the
gatekeepers.
Just
as The Fed folded this week on ending the nation's booming income inequality
problem (by reinforcing the Yellen put for longer), so Starbucks has folded in
its effort to fix the other growing divide in America - racism. Careful not to
admit that it was due to pressure from the avalanche of less-than-positive
social media reactions, AP reports Starbucks
baristas will no longer write "Race Together" on customers' cups.
"Nothing is changing," Starbucks claims it was all part "of the
cadence" of the plan - hhmm. "Most people come to Starbucks for
coffee," concludes one young African-American, adding "race
is an uncomfortable thing to bring up, especially in a Starbucks."
Presented
with no comment...
It
appears clear that the war reparations 'issue' will not go away
anymore. Either Berlin pays what legal experts determine should be
paid, or it risks becoming a pariah in its own neighborhood. That the
Germans in the 1950s and 1960s, at home and in schools, chose not to tell their
children anything about their crimes cannot serve as an excuse to silence
the children of its victims. It seems the only way to save the European Union,
that Germany has made its economy so dependent on, is for Germany to
pay up.
We
hate to spoil the surprise, but the answer, as clearly shown by the first blue
bar on the chart below, is "Energy"...
What
happens in the event a Fed rate hike triggers widening corporate credit spreads
in a corporate bond market devoid of liquidity? Could it indeed be the
case that the Fed’s highly anticipated “lift-off” will serve as the catalyst for
credit market carnage? Some traders think so.
At
the current rate of record oil production, storage will be exhausted in under
two months, some time in mid-May. At that point, with no more
storage to buffer the record oil production, the open market dumping begins and
prices of WTI will crater as every barrel will have to be sold at any clearing
price, since the producers will have no other choice than to, literally, dump
the oil. In other words, a perfect storm is shaping up for oil some time in
late May, early June. And then we learned something even more
startling.
A
study shows industrial robots' impact on economic growth is comparable
to the impact of railroads, highways, and IT and given gains in labor
productivity and aggregate growth, low- and middle-skilled workers could end up
displaced.
"Yes,
Alexis, the time has run out"
"...
there is a case that policy should first and foremost constrain the
build-up of financial booms – especially in the form of strong joint credit and
property price increases – as these are the main cause of the subsequent bust. And
once the financial bust occurs, after the financial system is stabilised,
the priority should be to address the nexus of debt and poor asset quality
head-on, rather than relying on overly aggressive and prolonged macroeconomic
accommodation through traditional policies. This would pave
the way for a sustainable recovery."
- Bank of Interenational Settlements
China
and Russia have taken the lead in establishing the Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank, seen as a rival organization to the World Bank and the Asian
Development Bank, which are dominated by the United States with Europe and
Japan. These banks do business at the behest of the old Bretton Woods
order. The AIIB will dance to China and Russia's tune instead.
In
response to questions posed by Santelli, former Dallas Fed president Richard
Fisher made two points which were both salient if not downright prophetic. The
first: “Well, what worries me is how totally lazy investors have
gotten, totally dependent on the Federal Reserve and I find this to be a
precarious situation.” The second: “Are we vulnerable in my
opinion to a significant equity market correction? I believe we are.
Not only has the Fed painted themselves into an even tighter corner – they’ve
left no clear path as to now kick the empty can.
Put
together our 1% elections, the privatization of our government, the
de-legitimization of Congress and the presidency, as well as the empowerment of
the national security state and the U.S. military, and add in the
demobilization of the American public (in the name of protecting us from
terrorism), and you have something like a new ballgame.
Reuters
| Islamic State has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses
and photos of 100 American military service members.
Truth
Revolt | And collecting data on what they’re eating, doing.
Examiner
| The term “surreal” may not adequately describe the continuing national
coverage of the ever-developing Brian Williams saga.
Gateway
Pundit | “We face the dual challenges of a world view and an economic system
that seem to have enormous shortcomings.”
ABC
News | A 12-year-old Colorado girl has been detained for allegedly trying to
kill her mother twice over an iPhone.
Mikael
Thalen | Rick Santorum questioned on Obama nuke transfer to South Carolina.
RT
| The active ingredient in the world’s most widely-used Roundup herbicide has
been classified as “probably” carcinogenic to humans by a branch of the World
Health Organization.
BizPac
Review | A man, armed with a machete and a can of bug spray attacked passengers
and TSA workers Friday.
WORLD NEWS
Russia
threatens Denmark with nuclear weapons if it tries to join Nato defence shield
London
Independent | The Russian ambassador in Copenhagen says Danish warships would
become ‘targets for Russian nuclear missiles’.
Obama
confirms ‘evaluating options’ after Netanyahu’s ‘no Palestinian state’ pledge
RT | The White
House is re-evaluating its policy towards Israel and seeking other option to
avoid chaos in the region, the US President has said.
Drills
for me but not for thee: NATO launches war games near Russian border
RT | Despite
being quick to condemn Russian military manoeuvers, NATO is conducting
wide-scale war games in the Baltic states and creating a “line of troops”
across Eastern Europe.
US
Propaganda Op in Korea Exposes American TV as Social Engineering Tool
Tony Cartalucci
| If American TV is used to brainwash North Koreans, wouldn’t that suggest it
was used to brainwash Americans too?
How
Low Can You Go? Western Europe To Begin Propaganda War With Russia
Sputnik | European Union leaders have given the go ahead for
a propaganda war with Russia.
·
MONEY WATCH
The
Perfect Storm For Oil Hits In Two Months: US Crude Production To Soar Just As
Storage Runs Out
Zero Hedge |
North Dakota is likely to see a “big surge” in production this June.
Michael Krieger
| Considering this is the main geopolitical hotspot on earth right now, many,
many questions need to be asked.
Rand
Paul: Foreign donations to Clinton Foundation ‘thinly veiled bribes’
Politico | “The
normal Clinton response is to cover up, deny, refuse to acknowledge.”
Dollar
currently on a ‘pause’: Analyst
CNBC | Investors
and companies should continue eyeing the dollar, despite its most recent slide
against major currencies, BlackRock’s Russ Koesterich said Friday.
·
PRISON PLANET
Terrorizing
Cop Points Gun At Innocent Man’s Head And Says “We Shoot People”
Free Thought
Project | Police officer Jenchesky Santiago was indicted last week for holding
his gun to an innocent man’s head and threatening to shoot him.
Weaponizing
Wikipedia- What Invasion Scale Info War Is
Washington’s
Blog | When knowledge fails, wisdom fails with it.
Cops
Tase Father Multiple Times as He Tries to Save His 3-Year-Old Son From House
Fire
Free Thought
Project | “They took my son to jail because he tried to save his son.”
NY
Judge rejects request to release Eric Garner grand jury records
RT | Judge
William Garnett declined to release grand jury records in the Eric Garner case.
COMMENTARY
Hillary
Clinton : The Latest Person of Power to Get “Devil Horns” on the Cover of Time
Vigilant Citizen
| Are They Trying to Tell Us Something?
Hands
Up, Don’t Report: New Video Destroys Ferguson Coverage
Truth Revolt |
Truth rarely takes hold in the press.
Paul Craig
Roberts | Russia faces the renewal of conflict in Ukraine simultaneously with
three more Ukraine-type situations along its Asian border.
Soros-funded
Media Matters Attacks O’Reilly for Exposing “Puppet Master” George Soros
Adan Salazar |
Host claimed billionaire philanthropist has “his tentacles into political
organizations.”
·
MULTIMEDIA
Jon Bowne |
Border agent blows lid off of DHS coverup.
Armed Black
Militants Prep for War
Lee Ann McAdoo |
Group chanted various anti-police slogans, including, “Oink! Oink! Bang! Bang!”
HIDDEN
CAMERA: Cross-Dressing At “Tolerant” Planet Fitness!
Truth Revolt |
Just where does tolerance end and judgment begin…
·
U.S. NEWS
NOLA
Airport Terrorist Refused Surgery & Died – Said It Was Against His Religion
Gateway Pundit |
At least two people were stabbed in a security line at New Orleans Airport on
Saturday night.
Activists
Open Gun Store To Sell Gun Control
Truth Revolt |
“Collectors love this one. Adam Lanza’s mom had this in her collection too.”
The
Secret Service Wants $8 Million to Build a Fake White House So They Can Protect
the White House
The Daily
Sheeple | So because the place they train at doesn’t have bushes and fountains,
they can’t properly protect the White House?
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Study:
Walmart & Major Retailers are ‘Making Us Fat’
Christina Sarich
| Food economists say yes – here’s why.
Oops!
No March Tornadoes? Climate Alarmists Perplexed
New American |
The U.S. Tornado count for March 2015 stands at — zero. That’s right: Zero.
Zilch. Nada.
Greenpeace
Founder: Why I am a Climate Change Skeptic
Heartland | “I
am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be
catastrophic in the near future.”
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
GALLUP: San Francisco area
top LGBT population...
Birmingham, AL lowest...
More cash-strapped Americans turn to tax refund advances...
Posted by : GoldCore
Post date: 03/23/2015 - 11:08
Greece
– faced with illiquidity, insolvency and a potential banking collapse – is
running out of time and appears to be on the back foot as its international
creditors refuse to countenance any debt...
Could the US Dollar Crash Stocks?
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 03/23/2015 - 11:47
The
US Dollar took down Oil, commodities, even emerging market currencies. Stocks
will be next. The first REAL sign that the 2008 Crash was coming occurred when
the US Dollar began to skyrocket in...
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 03/23/2015 - 09:37
Content
to continue the beating...
Senator Tom Cotton Warns That Iran
Must Be Stopped: 'They Already Control Tehran!' (VIDEO) Tom Cotton shows his foreign policy knowledge with a lesson in
geography any 5th grader would be ashamed of. { If he really wanted to do something constructive for the nation
and his home state and be taken seriously, he’d seek justice for those on the
‘clinton domestic kill list’ http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
… there’s no statute of limitations on murder … }
"This gap between the 1% and the rest of America, and between the
US and the rest of the world, cannot and will not persist," warns renowned trader Paul Tudor Jones during his
recent TED Talks speech, as
he addressed the question - can capital be just? Hoping to expand the
"narrow definitions of capitalism," that threaten the underpinnings
of society, Tudor Jones exclaims, "we're in the middle of a disastrous
market mania," adding "one of worst of my life." Perhaps
most ominously, he concludes, historically this ends "by revolution,
higher taxes or wars. None are on my bucket list."
We begin to understand
why the death of Ferguson, Mo, teen Michael Brown sent such shock waves through
America last year. He truly symbolized our country: an overgrown, oafish,
wannabe thug making one bad choice after another until his final, suicidal
lurch against authority — followed by all the exculpatory lying on his behalf:
the “gentle giant,” hands up, don’t shoot! This is exactly how America
acts on the world stage these days. We are the Michael Brown among
nations, high on exceptionalism, stoned on entitlement, swaggering moronically
from one place to another grabbing what we feel like, smashing things up as we
go.
Just
when we thought it was logistically impossible for US foreign policy to be any
more incompetent and cluless, we read this...
It was just a matter of time before Western governments used the trumped up
"War on Terror" as an excuse to drastically ratchet up the
very real war on the use of cash and personal privacy that they are
waging against their own citizens.
Cypriots
celebrate the bail in anniversary...
Presented
with no comment aside from WTF!
With
"The objective of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund is to
contribute to the maintenance of the stability of the Greek banking system, for
the sake of public interest," it appears the Fund's Chairman has
decided to add some instability and leave the sinking ship:
Ironic
(or coincidental) timing as Draghi proclaims he is not blackmailing Greece and
Merkel says "Nein" to more liquidity.
The
future of Europe being decided?
*'WE WANT GREECE TO BE ECONOMICALLY STRONG,' MERKEL SAYS SHE IS SEEKING
TRUSTFUL COOPERATION WITH TSIPRAS
*TSIPRAS: GREEK BAILOUT INCREASED SOCIAL INEQUALITY
*TSIPRAS: GREEK ECONOMY NEEDS BAILOUT DISBURSEMENT (please?)
*MERKEL SAYS SHE CAN'T 'OFFER ANY LIQUIDITY' ON HER OWN
(nein!)
Spot
the odd one out...
As
the chart below shows, there very dramatic, and very glaring discrepancy
between what BofA started experiencing one year ago (when we first noted it) when
it comes to loan creation, and what the Fed represents every Friday in its
weekly H.8 statement, has never been greater!
Careful
to follow the status quo's meme, Fed vice-Chair Stanley Fischer just uttered
the following...
FISCHER SAYS DOLLAR'S RISE ALSO REFLECTS RELATIVE U.S. STRENGTH
Which is odd because
a) Jim Bullard said this morning that it was ECB QE that was responsible for
the strong dollar; and b) US growth expectations have collapsed as the USD
soared. Don't show him this chart...
*FISCHER SAYS RATE LIFTOFF LIKELY WARRANTED BEFORE END-2015
With
the world now convinmced that Janet Yellen is as dovish as she has ever been on
rate hikes, today comes the first post-FOMC speech. None other than Vice-chair
Stanley Fischer is due to address The Economic Club of New York on the topic of
"Monetary-policy lessons and the way ahead." As Art Cashin warned
this morning, Fischer "seems to feel that the Fed must raise rates
this year. He is also the only Fed official to concede that any rate hike will
be different than any seen before."
A
shift in the mutual fund industry's stance towards grossly overvalued private
tech startups may be embedding risk into the retirement accounts of
unsuspecting Americans, suggesting that the rather creative valuations
VCs and founders place on the latest app may be imperiling your 401k. It's
called "chasing unicorns."
It
has not been a good week for Spain's embattled Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
Following what Bloomberg calls "its worst election result in 25
years," in Andalusia (the nation's most populous region); the
corruption scandals re-rear their ugly head:
*SPAIN RULING PEOPLE'S PARTY MAY HAVE HAD SECRET ACCOUNTS; COURT SEES
POSSIBLE TAX FRAUD BY COUNTRY'S RULING PARTY
Spanish
bond risk widened 4-5bps on the day as both events confirm the rise of
anti-EU parties Podemos and Ciudadanos.
Can
stocks keep hitting new highs even as sales and profits fall?
We often hear various Fed officials described as hawks or doves but
Janet Yellen’s Fed brings to mind another avian metaphor. They are afraid to raise rates for fear that doing so
would upset the asset market inflation process and derail what is left of their
theory. In her press conference last week Yellen said that stock market
valuations were on the high side of historical norms, an appellation that only
works if one includes the stock bubble of the late 90s. It seems that she
and the other members of the FOMC have decided that another epic stock market
bubble is better than admitting they were wrong. This FOMC doesn’t have
any hawks or doves, only chickens.
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 03/23/2015 - 02:30
That @ssh&le Who Spews
Garbage and Doesn't Listen to Your Reasonable Comments ... May Be a Bot
With allies migrating en masse to
China's new infrastructure bank (and even the US having to admit it will
'cooperate'), it appears America has fallen back on what has worked
for it in the past to ensure the world's largest creditor remains the world's
reserve currency ad inifinitum - rattle its nuclear missile sabre... As the
following clip shows, The US Air Force just test-fired a Minuteman III
intercontinental ballistic missile from California, providing a "visual to
the world."
Just
when we thought it was logistically impossible for US foreign policy to be any
more incompetent and cluless, we read this...
Chinese rail freight
collapses 9.1% YoY; China Manufacturing PMI tumbled back to a
contractionary 49.2 - lowest in 11 months; and the Employment sub-index
plunged to its lowest since Lehman ... yeah but apart from that, everything is
awesome. And for those excited about just how disastrous Chinese data
is (and thus how huge the next stimulus unleashing will be), think again
- China now sees exactly where the last trillion dollar QE went... a de
minimus and unsustained blip in the economy and liquidity-fueled rampage in
stocks (which is not what a corruption-crackdown politburo wants to encourage).
After
almost two centuries of political and economic meddling in Latin America under
the Monroe Doctrine (1823) banner, much of it involving regime change, the US
is finally coming to terms with the reality that its influence has not just
waned but disappeared. To Washington’s despair, similar results, if for other
reasons, are happening throughout North Africa and the extended Middle East;
certainly not the results the US had hoped for or anticipated from the
revolutionary wave in the Arab Spring, now entering its fifth year. The
era of using regime change as a weapon of mass deception may have already ended
for the United States of America… and hopefully for the entire world.
Fortescue's
refinancing effort, which many investors believe was hampered by collapsing
commodity prices, wasn't actually a failure the company's CEO says. Besides,
it was all Janet Yellen's fault.
“I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not
making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made
for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became
poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for
themselves, and became richer.” - Benjamin
Franklin
Well
that didn't last long. The utterly idiotic surge in Copper futures prices into
the US cash equity close has been largely unwound with a small jerk higher on
Japan's open and plunge as China joined the fray... retracing ~80% of
the rampfest during the day on extremely heavy volume.
It
appears Japanese policy-makers are getting inspiration from Hollywood for their
latest economic 'fixes'. Having begun the building of a giant
'Game of Thrones'-esque ice-wall to hold back the radiation leaking from
Fukushima (only to
fail miserably); AP reports the latest
cunning plan from the Japanese is to build a Pacific-Rim-esque
"massive, costly sea wall to fend off tsunamis." The $6.8
billion, 250-mile-long, 41-foot-high concrete barrier public works
project is seen by some as a necessary evil, and by others as a jail... Perhaps
The UN's head of Disaster Risk Reduction summed it up best - "There's
a bit of an over-belief in technology as a solution."
Just
as the central bank runs out of viable options, the country's sovereign wealth
fund (which once famously loaded up on Greek bonds) is set to buy "a
lot" of Asian property with the country's oil riches.
Angus
Macleod made a valiant effort to counter Russian nuclear aggression but in the
end couldn't quite land Moby Dick...
The average American spends more than 10 hours a day using an electronic
device... and most of that activity is not even interactive. The vast majority of the time we are just passively
absorbing content that someone else has created. Instead of humans being
forcefully connected to “the Matrix”, we are all willingly connecting ourselves
to it, as the system that defines our reality for us gains greater and
greater hold over everything.
"Equity
crowdfunding, or raising capital directly from a large group of investors, is
widely used for projects from technology to fashion. Now, at least two
small Texas firms are testing the concept in the oil and gas industry."
Krugman wants his US readers to believe that all proper economists now
agree that cutting deficits was a bad mistake, and it’s only self-interested
finance types and ideologically-motivated politicians and think-tankers that
take a different view. But that’s nonsense. Just think about it: “Everyone agrees that austerity
was a mistake”… apart from every government in Europe except the Greeks, and
the economists and many of the civil servants that advise them. Krugman and his
fan-club do not constitute all serious opinion, much as they might like to
regard themselves that way. It’s all very nice sitting in a US university
office preaching to the Europeans (or, indeed, preaching in the New York Times)
"The Fed is a reluctant Dollar bull," explains Goldman Sachs, noting that Yellen
inadvertently revealed the FOMC's expectation that coming policy changes will
boost the greenback. Broadly speaking the rest of the sell-side has herded
along into the strong US Dollar camp with only Unicredit (rate shift may slow
recent very strong USD momentum) and Morgan Stanley (suggesting USD corrective
activity) backing away from full dollar bull though most suggest adding
to dollar longs on any dip as the most crowded trade in the
world gets crowded-er. Then Stan Fischer added...
"DOLLAR WON'T KEEP RISING FOREVER."
It was just a matter of time before Western governments used the trumped up
"War on Terror" as an excuse to drastically ratchet up the
very real war on the use of cash and personal privacy that they are
waging against their own citizens.
Kurt Nimmo | U.S. has
linked use of chlorine gas to al-Assad government in Syria.
Kit
Daniels | Drama about anti-gun lobbyist who pushes through federal gun control
bill.
Paul
Joseph Watson | USASOCM calls worries about Jade Helm exercise “alarmist”.
London
Independent | The former officer claims the investigation was shut down for
‘national security’ reasons.
RT
| The second in line to the throne was flown by helicopter to the headquarters
of Britain’s elite spy agency for a secret visit.
Sputnik
| After the tragedy of 9/11 Washington’s policies became divorced from reality,
according to Edward Snowden, former American intelligence agent.
Business
Insider | Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s staff also used personal
emails.
Kurt Nimmo | New York
Democrat plans to lean on new ATF boss.
Paul
Joseph Watson | “You’re stirring up conflict – go home!”
Bizpac
Review | President Obama is actually bragging about doing whatever it takes to
ram his progressive agenda through, even if it means working around – or
outside – the law.
WORLD NEWS
US
Heightens Military Presence in Gulf as Iran Nuclear Deal Approaches
Sputnik | As the
nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 nations come to a head, the US
begins Eagle Resolve, a massive military exercise in the Persian Gulf.
London
Independent | Party pledges £3 billion more a year on defence than the Tories,
despite Nigel Farage’s call for Britain to stop intervening in “endless foreign
wars”.
London
Independent | Isis fanatics ‘highly likely’ to launch chlorine gas attack at
football match or on Tube, expert says.
Venezuela
Gathers Million Signatures Against Obama Declaring Caracas Threat
Sputnik | The
Venezuelan government will take the signatures to the Summit of the Americas.
UK
approves £5bn of arms exports to ‘countries of human rights concern’
RT | The UK has
approved more than £5bn worth of arms export licenses to countries listed as
being of “human rights concern”.
·
MONEY WATCH
Oil
rises to near $56 as weaker dollar offsets Saudi output
Reuters | Saudi
Arabia said it was pumping around 10 million barrels per day, near a record
high.
REPORT:
Greece’s government has only 2 weeks until the money runs out
Business Insider
| The Greek government has just over two weeks, until April 8, before it enters
a “critical” situation and cash runs dry in Athens.
Quantity
Theory of Money is Being Scrapped
Martin Armstrong
| The Quantity Theory of Money that an increase in supply should result in a
decrease in its purchasing power (inflation) is being seriously questioned
behind the curtain.
Michael Krieger
| The following video clip will make you extremely sick to your stomach.
·
PRISON PLANET
Watch
as Veteran Practicing His 1st Amendment Rights Refuses to be Bullied by this
Orwellian Cop
Free Thought
Project | In a video uploaded to YouTube last week, we see an infuriating and
absolutely Orwellian reaction by the Winston-Salem Police Department.
Obama’s
Former Ebola Czar Is Now Concerned About Too Much Government
Daily Caller |
“The most visible conflicts between startups and the government in the next two
years will be in the nation’s capital, not in city halls or state houses.”
Terrorizing
Cop Points Gun At Innocent Man’s Head And Says “We Shoot People”
Free Thought
Project | Police officer Jenchesky Santiago was indicted last week for holding
his gun to an innocent man’s head and threatening to shoot him.
Weaponizing
Wikipedia- What Invasion Scale Info War Is
Washington’s
Blog | When knowledge fails, wisdom fails with it.
COMMENTARY
Rebranding
AlQaeda’s Jabhat Al Nusra as “Moderates”
Maram Susli |
Since the US backed “Hazm” Syrian rebel group defected to Jabhat Al Nusra, the
US has attempted to rebrand Al Nusra as a non-Al Qaeda “moderate” force.
Surprise!
Liberal discovers ‘taxpayer’ is a code word for ‘right wing!’
Bizpac Review |
All kinds of words offend liberals, but this week one added a new word to her
lexicon of forbidden locutions: “taxpayer.”
Video:
Experts Look Into 10-Year Old Boy’s Claims of Reincarnation: “Ryan Was Right
All Along”
Daily Sheeple |
Do you believe in reincarnation? It’s an intriguing question as old as humanity
itself.
How
Much Time Do Americans Spend Plugged Into The Matrix Every Day?
Michael Snyder |
The average American spends more than 10 hours a day using an electronic
device.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Jon Bowne |
Border agent blows lid off of DHS coverup.
Armed Black
Militants Prep for War
Lee Ann McAdoo |
Group chanted various anti-police slogans, including, “Oink! Oink! Bang! Bang!”
HIDDEN
CAMERA: Cross-Dressing At “Tolerant” Planet Fitness!
Truth Revolt |
Just where does tolerance end and judgment begin…
·
U.S. NEWS
Hollywood
Making Major Gun Control Movie
Kit Daniels |
Drama about anti-gun lobbyist who pushes through federal gun control bill.
Americans
prefer fictional TV presidents over Obama – survey
RT | Judging by
the results of a recent poll, US President Barack Obama may want to become an
actor.
Rand
Paul to kick off 2016 bid April 7 with ambitious five-state tour
Washington Times
| Kentucky senator shows organization muscle with debut.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
The
world’s largest asteroid impact zone has been found, scientists say
Washington Post
| Every now and then, the universe rises to make clear the enormity of its
size.
Study:
Drinking Diet Soda Leads to Weight GAIN
Mike Barrett |
But the damage doesn’t end there.
17
Scientists Speak Out: Monsanto’s Roundup is Causing Cancer
Mike Barrett |
Monsanto openly disagrees.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Posted by: Sprott Money
Stocks
are pulling back ahead of a greatly anticipated FED meeting. Investors are
holding their breath as they wait for news from Janet Yellen on whether or not
the FED will give more indication of...
Posted by: GoldCore
Banks
and insolvent governments desperate for cash likely also dislike safety deposit
boxes as they are a means for people to protect and grow wealth and protect
themselves from bail-ins and deposit...
Posted by : George Washington
Of
COURSE Israel Was Spying On U.S. Negotiations With Iran
The best spots for riding out a zombie apocalypse are sparsely populated
areas of Montana and Nevada, which remain untouched even four months, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell
University who have developed a statistical model for simulating the spread of
a fictional zombie epidemic. Stay away from Scranton, PA!
Amid
firey austerity protests at the site of its new headquarters, the ECB has a job
opening available.
In
recent years we have seen an increasing number of Americans strategically
relocate to another region of the country. They can see our society
breaking down and they can see the storm clouds on the horizon and they want to
do what they can to prepare themselves and their families for what is ahead.
So is there a “best place to live” in the United States? Are there some
areas that are preferable to others? The following are 9 maps to consider...
Under-"mined"...
"...markets
can turn from tranquil to turbulent in short order. It is worth noting that in 2006 volatility was low,
and companies were generating record pro?t margins, until the business cycle
came to an abrupt halt due to events that many people had not anticipated.
Although investor appetite for equities may remain robust in the near term,
because of positive equity fundamentals and low yields in other asset classes, history shows high valuations carry inherent risk... potential ?nancial stability risks arising from
leverage, compressed pricing of risk, interconnectedness, and complexity
deserve further attention and analysis."
Against
expectations of a 4.75 million barrel build (according to Bloomberg), API
reported a 4.8 mm barrel build overall but the Cushing build (2mm
barrels) was less than last week's 3mm build. This is the 11th
weekly build in a row - the longest streak of builds since October 2004.
The last 11 weeks have seen inventories build over 20% - the fastest
pace on record.
In
light of the social and economic devolution of the world, it should hardly come
as a surprise that as SocGen attempts to quantify the biggest Black Swans risks
(and hopes) of 2015 (yes, a foolish endeavor since nobody can actually
envision what a black swan may be, by its very definition an event that was
predicted by no one), it notes that "political and financial risks now
outnumber real economy risks."
Janet Yellen noted that everything was awesome and that stocks were now
slightly "on the high side" of their historical range. It appears no one showed her the Russell 2000 which
has a valuation multiple of just about 90x LTM earnings (as reported by the
2000 companies which comprise the index, and which were certified as accurate
by 4,000 CEOs and CFOs on penalty of jail time). The mystery of how the
Fed remains so stubbornly bubble blind - just like it did during the dotcom and
housing bubbles - is thus revealed. The self-evident reason is that the
purported geniuses who comprise our monetary politburo drink the Wall Street
Cool-Aid about forward ex-items EPS. The Fed is driving a two-ton
bubble machine, but has no clue that it has become a financial death trap.
Back
on June 3, 2013,
following what was merely the latest observation of how broken the market is
thanks to central banks manipulation and HFT rigging, we wrote some snarky
commentary. And as happens with nearly 100% regularity nowadays, our
snarky commentary on what takes place behind the scenes was once again almost
100% accurate. Because earlier today we learned precisely what happened...
The
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Israel secretly gathered
information regarding nuclear talks between Iran and the US then shared the
information with members of Congress in an attempt to undermine support for the
talks in what turns out to be a comically absurd game of spy vs. spy.
Following its "visual to the
world" message last night by test-firing an ICBM,
America appears to shifting to 'big stick' diplomacy. Following Iran's naval drills last week
(attacking a replica US aircraft carrier), Sputnik News reports
that as the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 nations come to a
head, the US begins Eagle Resolve, a massive military exercise in the
Persian Gulf. Eagle Resolve will involve tactical exercises from the
US Army, Marines, and various other military branches "with simulated
portions of the exercise based on a fictional adversary." Careful to
ensure Obama does not lose his Nobel Peace Prize, a CENTCOM official explained,
"the exercise is not intended as a signal to Iran."
This
is how ridiculous goverment data has become: in the same month in which both
Housing Starts and Existing Home sales significantly missed expectations,
misses which were promptly blamed on the weather, the Census Bureau moments ago
released a stunner of a New Home Sales number, which supposedly rose from an
upward revised 500K to 539K, a 25% spike from a year ago and up 7.8% from January,
which incidentally is also the highest number since February 2008, even as the
median home price dropped to the lowest since September. All of this
would be great... if it was remotely credible. It isn't.
Adan
Salazar & Mikael Thalen | ‘Realistic Military Training’ exercise expands to
as many as ten states
Kit Daniels | She’s
mocking critics who call “bowling for abortions” disgusting.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Iconic poster draws fury of feminist control freaks obsessed
with policing art.
Steve Watson | State
to get access to thousands of Americans’ genetic information.
Breitbart.com
| Clinton took no questions after her 20-minute speech in Washington, D.C.
Kurt Nimmo | Accuses
Obama of “pitting Americans against each other solely based on race”
Steve Watson | Turns
Out POTUS actually DOES follow her.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Kentucky Senator rounds on Hillary’s hypocrisy.
Bizpac
Review | The city’s Muslim activists weren’t happy.
Zero
Hedge | The US Air Force just test-fired a Minuteman III intercontinental
ballistic missile from California, providing a “visual to the world.”
·
WORLD NEWS
US
Begins “Big Stick” Negotiations With Iran: Sends The “Big Ships” Into The
Persian Gulf
Zero Hedge |
America appears to shifting to ‘big stick’ diplomacy.
Germanwings
Flight 4U9525: Airbus A320 crash in French Alps kills 150 aboard
Reuters | The
airline crashed in a remote snowy area of the French Alps on Tuesday.
Germanwings
A320 Passenger Jet With 148 Aboard Crashes in Southern France
Sputnik |
Germanwings Airbus A320 en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf with 148 people
on board crashed in southern France Tuesday; all passengers are dead.
Congress Demands War
in Ukraine!
Daniel McAdams |
The US House of Representatives today takes a big step toward re-igniting — and
expanding — the bloody civil war.
Israel
must end its 50-year occupation of Palestine, the White House says
London
Independent | US-Israel relations have noticeably cooled in recent weeks.
·
MONEY WATCH
These
Are 2015′s “Black Swans” According To SocGen
Zero Hedge |
Here are the “bad” ones, alongside their estimated probability of occurring.
SOROS:
Greece is ‘now a lose-lose game’ with a 50% chance of leaving the euro
Business Insider
| “The best that can happen is actually muddling through.”
The
Coming Robo-Depression, the Root of Civil Unrest
Infowars | Is it
decades or a few years away?
They Are Slowly
Making Cash Illegal
Michael Snyder |
The move to a cashless society won’t happen overnight.
·
PRISON PLANET
Ford’s
new car will force you to obey the speed limit
Engadget | A
camera mounted on the windshield scans the road signs on the sides of the
highway.
TSA
Cleared Former Domestic Terrorist for PreCheck Lane
CNS News | The
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) cleared a “notorious convicted
felon”.
Report
Says Former IRS Employees–Think Lois Lerner–Can Still Peruse Your Tax Returns
Forbes | Could
Lois Lerner still take a look at your tax returns on IRS computers?
School
cancels ‘American Pride’ themed prom after it’s deemed not ‘inclusive’
Eag News |
Students swiftly and roundly criticized the move.
·
COMMENTARY
American
Enterprise Institute | If you are a criminal defendant, it is far better to be
a woman than a man.
PC
Fitness Franchise Exposed By Dallas Maverick
Infowars | Alex
Jones talks with fellow talk show host Steven Crowder about his undercover work
at Planet Fitness.
The
Best Place To Live In The United States? Here Are 9 Maps To Consider
Michael Snyder |
If you could live anywhere in America during the tumultuous years ahead, where
would it be?
Rebranding
AlQaeda’s Jabhat Al Nusra as “Moderates”
Maram Susli |
Since the US backed “Hazm” Syrian rebel group defected to Jabhat Al Nusra, the
US has attempted to rebrand Al Nusra as a non-Al Qaeda “moderate” force.
·
MULTIMEDIA
ARMY
and MSM Launch DisInfo Psyop Against American People
Prison
Planet.com | Special Operations leadership attempts to downplay military drill
listing Texas as “hostile.”
Jon Bowne |
Border agent blows lid off of DHS coverup.
Armed Black
Militants Prep for War
Lee Ann McAdoo |
Group chanted various anti-police slogans, including, “Oink! Oink! Bang! Bang!”
·
U.S. NEWS
CNN
Reporter Bowls to Raise Money for Abortions, Sparking Outrage
Kit Daniels | She’s mocking critics who call “bowling for
abortions” disgusting.
Bizpac Review |
George Zimmerman broke his silence for the first time.
Gateway Pundit |
On Wednesday vandals slapped “Exclusively for White People” stickers on local
businesses in Austin, Texas.
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SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Herbicide
US Sprays over Millions of Acres in Columbia “Drug War” Linked to Cancer
Washington’s
Blog | The Associated Press reports that “the world’s most-popular weed killer”
has been discovered to be “a likely cause of cancer”.
Monsanto
Hit With Fine for ‘Genetically Contaminating Wheat Supply’
Anthony
Gucciardi | And it isn’t the first time.
The
world’s largest asteroid impact zone has been found, scientists say
Washington Post
| Every now and then, the universe rises to make clear the enormity of its
size.
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Holy
Hegemoney!
Posted by: lemetropole
Basically,
investing in the gold/silver shares has been a waste of time and money for the
last 17 years. If you had told me that when The Café opened for business in
September of 1998, I would have...
The
New Silk Road, actually roads - boosted by a special, multi-billion-dollar
Silk Road Fund and the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which,
not by accident, has attracted the attention of European investors -
symbolizes China’s pivot to an old heartland: Eurasia. Beijing has been
quick to dismiss any notions of hegemony. It maintains this is no Marshall
Plan. China, on the other hand, is focused on integrating
“emerging economies” into a vast, pan-Eurasian trade/commerce network. And
that, crucially, would have to include Russia, which is a vital part
of the New Silk Road through an upcoming, Russia-China financed $280 billion
high-speed rail upgrade of the Trans-Siberian railway. This is where the
New Silk Road project and President Putin’s initial idea of a huge trade
emporium from Lisbon to Vladivostok actually merge.
The best spots for riding out a zombie apocalypse are sparsely populated
areas of Montana and Nevada, which remain untouched even four months, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell
University who have developed a statistical model for simulating the spread of
a fictional zombie epidemic. Stay away from Scranton, PA!
Yesterday,
in a vote that largely slid under the radar, the House of Representatives
passed a resolution urging Obama to send lethal aid to Ukraine, providing
offensive, not just "defensive" weapons to the Ukraine army. The
resolution passed with broad bipartisan support by a count of 348 to 48.
Russia's response came promptly: Washington's decision to supply Ukraine with
ammunition and weapons would “explode the whole situation” in eastern
Ukraine and Russia would be forced to respond “appropriately,” Russia's
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at the end of February.“It
would be a major blow to the Minsk agreements and would explode the whole
situation,”
Washington’s Blog | The
U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth. { The ugly
americans … pervasively corrupt, thievingly fraudulent, bellicose, incompetent,
war mongering, meaningfully lawless (See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm ) … how pathetic! }
"There's a liquidity conundrum in fixed income markets facing
policy makers and investors: how it’s resolved will have long term investment
implications across banks, asset managers and infrastructure players," a new report from Morgan Stanley and Oliver Wyman
notes. The joint effort is an attempt to dig deep into the all important issue
of credit market liquidity (or lack thereof) and determine the short term and
long term implications.
If
the US intervention in Iraq created the “unintended consequences” of ISIS and
al-Qaeda, how is it that more US intervention can solve the problem?
A war based on lies cannot be fixed by launching another war. We must
just march home. And stay home.
In
the same week as Japan unveils its Pacific-Rim-esque anti-tsunami
wall public works project, and Japanese government auditors say
the operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has wasted
more than a third of the 190 billion yen ($1.6 billion) in taxpayer money
allocated for cleaning up the plant after it was destroyed by a March 2011
earthquake and tsunami; Science Journal reports,
Fukushima won't be truly safe until engineers can remove the reactors'
nuclear fuel. But first, they have to find it... And so, in February
of this year two muon detectors were installed outside the Fukushima Daiichi
unit-1 ruins at reactor vessel height for the purpose of finding that
‘missing’ reactor fuel.
"I'm not
sure [European QE] is going to do anything - certainly, nothing that's good. The fundamental problem here, as I see it anyway, is
that the European banking system is still broken... I think, increasingly,
bankers are discomforted more than anything else (it's not just the ex central
bankers but increasingly the people that are still holding the levers)... they
are starting to ask whether
they have somehow been backed into a place where they don't really want to be.... Unfortunately, [it] is getting bigger and
bigger. There is a
possibility at least that this whole exercise could end very badly."
Energy
accounts for 10% of Canadian GDP and around 25% of exports and the swift fall
in oil prices is having a profound effect in the nation’s oil producing regions
where home sales are collapsing by as much as 65%.
The
global debt glut, plus the related money printing efforts by the world's
central banks to try to stimulate further credit growth at all costs, leads us
to conclude that a major currency crisis -- actually, multiple major currency
crises -- are practically inevitable at this point. To
understand better the anatomy of a currency collapse, Philip Haslam - author of
the book When Money
Destroys Nations, and an authority on monetary history, who more
recently spent much time in Zimbabwe collecting dozens of accounts of
the experiences real people had as the currency there failed - explains
the six 'gorge' process to hyperinflation.
Echoing the grave concerns of no
lesser 'maestro' of manipulation than Alan Greenspan, Wells Capital Management's Jim
Paulsen notes that while the U.S. stock market has risen by
about 3 times from its crisis low in March 2009; much of this advance
has been against a backdrop of disappointing productivity gains...
should productivity growth remain subpar, stock market risk seems to
be rising.
Amid
firey austerity protests at the site of its new headquarters, the ECB has a job
opening available.
Under-"mined"...
"...markets
can turn from tranquil to turbulent in short order. It is worth noting that in 2006 volatility was low,
and companies were generating record pro?t margins, until the business cycle
came to an abrupt halt due to events that many people had not anticipated.
Although investor appetite for equities may remain robust in the near term, because
of positive equity fundamentals and low yields in other asset classes, history shows high valuations carry inherent risk... potential fnancial stability risks arising from
leverage, compressed pricing of risk, interconnectedness, and complexity deserve
further attention and analysis."
Adan Salazar & Mikael Thalen | ‘Realistic Military Training’ exercise expands to
as many as ten states.
Kit Daniels |
She’s mocking critics who call “bowling for abortions” disgusting.
Paul Joseph Watson | Iconic poster draws fury of feminist control freaks obsessed with
policing art.
Steve Watson |
State to get access to thousands of Americans’ genetic information.
Infowars.com
| Special Operations leadership attempts to downplay military drill listing
Texas as “hostile.”
Kurt Nimmo |
Accuses Obama of “pitting Americans against each other solely based on race.”
Steve Watson |
Turns Out POTUS actually DOES follow her.
Paul Joseph Watson | Kentucky Senator rounds on Hillary’s hypocrisy.
Senator Tom Cotton Warns That Iran
Must Be Stopped: 'They Already Control Tehran!' (VIDEO) Tom Cotton shows his foreign policy knowledge with a lesson in
geography any 5th grader would be ashamed of. { If he really wanted to do something constructive for the nation
and his home state and be taken seriously, he’d seek justice for those on the
‘clinton domestic kill list’ http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
… there’s no statute of limitations on murder … }
Jack Tatar
Medicare
deal hurts retirees
A bipartisan agreement to stave off cuts in payments to doctors could prove
costly.
A recent agreement on a budget deal
between Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Republican House
Speaker John Boehner is being heralded as the return of bi-partisanship. The
deal, which will soon be voted on, addresses payments to doctors who treat
Medicare patients.
"The bipartisan,
bicameral bill seeks to end the cycle of annual 'doc fix' crises that have
created uncertainty for millions of Medicare providers and beneficiaries for
over a decade and create a system that promotes higher quality care for
America's seniors," a release from committee leaders in both parties stated.
This is an issue that has been fixed on a
temporary basis 17 times. Congress had to address this because failure to do so
would create cuts of 20% or more in payments to doctors treating Medicare
patients, according to this story on CNN.com. In fairness, we need to ensure that
doctors, the backbone of the health-care system, get their fair payment. As for
Congress, the reality is that it will soon be election season and every
donation counts.
It
all sounds good, but as the article points out, Pelosi also agreed to some
structural changes, including some “means testing” for beneficiaries.
Means
testing? What's
that?
For
the last two years, that’s been a rallying cry for the authors of "What You Don't Know About Retirement Will Hurt You!,” a book
that I contributed to and is published by People Tested Media, a company that I
have an ownership stake in.
“Clients
had better rethink their retirement planning, especially those who are putting
so much emphasis on the timing of taking Social Security and contributing
everything to their traditional 401(k) or 403b plans. Remember Part B and any
surcharges from this means testing come out directly from your Social Security
check,” said Dan McGrath, the book’s lead author. I recently discussed this
issue with three of the book’s seven authors.
"It
appears that the legislation will expand the number of means testing brackets
to nine and have no indexing for inflation until 25% of beneficiaries pay some
form of additional Medicare premiums," Michael Gerali explained.
Gerali
added that, "This is why we have placed so much emphasis on the type of
income you take in retirement. The 'doc fix' will be a bad prescription for
those who don't plan ahead."
Rob
Klein voiced concern that this bipartisan deal “will be sold to the people as
something to make the rich pay their fair share. Behind closed doors, some of
the politicians see it as a way to save Social Security and pay for Obamacare.”
For
Americans, this bipartisan deal might seem to be a good step forward to show
that Congress can actually work together. But for retirees, this deal may
provide another roadblock in their ability to control and manage their
retirement income.
The models we use for decision making determine the outcomes we
experience. So, if
our models are faulty or flawed, we make bad decisions and suffer bad outcomes. How broken are they? Steve Keen explains...
Forget
Pyrrhic victories, the more Greek tongues that wag, the clearer it becomes that
no one appears to have a clue what is going on. The contradictory
tone from various Syriza members has allowed the opposition to sit
quietly by (with the odd jab from Samaras) and watch the collapse unfold. The
more threats and promises Tsipras makes, the more cornered he becomes as cash
outflows accelerate and cash demands loom. It appears all over bar the printing
as both sides are now just posturing for who bears the blame for the ultimat
exit, as one wit noted, "once you remove walking away from a deal as
an option, you are no longer negotiating."
When
it comes to our current pre-war, pre-revolutionary world (in Paul Tudor Jones' words)
there are two social classes which are jockeying for the post positioning when
it all comes crashing down: the Ultra High Net Worth, i.e., the 0.01%,
those 211,275 individuals (and their families) who have a net worth over $30
million and who collectively control $30 trillion in wealth,
and everyone else, with the countdown to extinction for the global middle class
now getting louder by the day, leaving a world of a handful of uber-wealthy
oligarchs and billions of, well, others. And nowhere is this
distinction more vivid than when looking at their residential real estate
holdings. But while the real estate of the 99.99% is boring (and increasingly
in the form of rentals), when it comes to the dwellings of the 0.01% things get
exciting, and are the topic of the latest joint report between Wealth-X and
Sotheby's whose findings we summarize below.
Creating
even more money will not help the situation, only exacerbate it. Hyperinflation
is a cancer that lurks in our monetary structure. Time to surgically
remove it before it metastasizes.
As
Goldman notes, the driver behind the recent modest rise in real weekly
earnings: lowflation - is the wrong recipe for wage growth...
The
credit-based dollar brought about a new economy. It changed the way people
thought and the way their government operated. Now, deep pools of money
determine which candidates are presented to voters. And there is a new
branch of government: the “Deep State.” It is not mentioned in the
Constitution. And it operates above and beyond the visible process of
democratic government.
Despite
what may look to be "cheap" valuations, JPM calls the EM contrarian
approach “tactically challenging” thanks to leverage, a difficult environment
for economic growth and Janet Yellen. "Each of these is a problem,
in our view. In combination, they could be a serious problem,"
the bank notes.
If
you ever doubted that bad news is good news... have faith!
"We made an error in our original estimate of the GDP tracking
implications of the February PCE report. We have now reduced our Q1 GDP
tracking estimate to +0.8%. We regret the mistake."
In
all the annals of investing, few seemingly innocuous phrases incorporate as
much by way of grave implication as those four words, “a shift to banknotes”.
2008 was bad. With central bank policy now at the outer reaches of the possible
and even of the theoretical, the outlook is certainly uncertain. Not
wishing to participate in the terminal stages of a momentum-driven bubble is
not bearish so much as simply sane.
Because
nothing screams un-broken and un-rigged market like a completely unjustified
$1+ spike in the world's most important commodity as it nears the NYMEX close,
just because at the very same instant every algo decided to frontrun every
other algo.
Nestling
idyllically between France and Spain in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Andorra
- which has enjoyed the benefits of European borders without the restrictions
of EU membership - has seen its risk "increase beyond our
expectations," according to S&P. As a reminder, when
Cyprus was "templated" and depositors awoke with a 47% haircut, its total financial
assets to GDP was around 8x, Andorra is now at a stunning
17x. As The Telegrpah explains,
in the last three weeks, the state has been gripped by a banking crisis
that threatens to take it to the brink; and Andorra, which is not a member of
the eurozone but uses the single currency on an informal basis, would have no
way of bailing them out (with no central bank or lender of last resort). In
short, the country faces a catastrophe if its banks fall apart.
“Everybody knows that the Americans are dropping supplies to Daesh,” said Brig. Gen. Abed al-Maliki, a senior Iraqi army
commander based in the city of Samarra, about 80 miles north of Baghdad, using
another term for the Islamic State. “It’s just a show,” he said, sitting in the
city’s army command headquarters. “If the Americans want to finish
something, they will finish it. If they wanted to liberate Iraq, they could.”
Regarding
the major problem of the more domestic issue of economic recovery, unless we
would agree, which we really shouldn’t, that making a small group of the
population richer while the much larger rest is made poorer, is how we define
‘recovery’, we have no recovery. But it is still accepted and
proclaimed like a gospel: our economies are in recovery. If you take a
step back and watch things from a distance, it’s truly too silly to be true,
but endless repetition of the same lines, be they true or not, has them
accepted as being cast in stone. It’s like selling detergent. Of
course it doesn’t hurt that people very much want to believe a recovery is
here. The stories we are bombarded with 24/7 under the quite hilarious
misnomer ‘News’ have been prepared, pre-cooked and pre-chewed for our smooth
and painless digestion, and as such they contain only tiny little flakes of
reality. They are designed to make us feel good, not understand the world
around us. And, as Scott Minerd says, the economic future for your
entire families will look utterly bleak. Because that recovery they talk about?
It’s not for you.
For the 4th month in a row, personal spending growth missed
expectations. With a 0.1%
gain in February (against expectations of a 0.2% rise), this growth rate
remains below all of 2014's growth. Income rose slightly more than
expected at 0.4% (against +0.3% exp) but this is the same growth as
January's upwardly reviused +0.4%. That leaves the powers that be very
disappointed as the savings rate jumps to the highest since 2012...
not exactly the Keynesian pump-primed, low gas prices tax cut spendfest all the
smartest people in the room promised...
In
addition to Janet Yellen's confused ramblings at 3:45 pm on Friday, which did
all they could to push the S&P to close green for the year, the other
catalyst that sent stocks higher on Friday afternoon was the unconfirmed rumor
reported by the WSJ that Intel would purchase Altera, the news of which briefly
sent INTC stock higher than the entire market cap of Altera on what can only be
described as the latest short squeeze. Yet one entity that appears unhappy with
this news is none other than Goldman Sachs which likely was snubbed as an
advisor or an underwriter by Intel in recent months, and which all else equal,
once again slaughtered the muppets who listened to its recommendation to Sell
Intel stock (just days after another comparable slaughter by Goldman on SanDisk longs this time on the
Conviction Buy side).
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 03/30/2015 - 07:54
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 03/30/2015
With
the rest of the developed world's central banks waiting for the Fed to admit
defeat for one more year and delay its proposed rate hike (or launch NIRP/QE4
outright) it was all about China (the same China which a month ago we said would launch QE
sooner or later) and hope that its central bank would boost asset
prices, when over the weekend the PBoC governor hinted that more easing is
imminent to offset the accelerating drag after he admitted that the nation’s
growth rate has tumbled "a bit" too much and that policy makers have
scope to respond. How much scope it really has now that its bad debt is rising
exponentially is a different question. It got so bad, Shanghai Securities News
leaked a false rumor earlier forcing many to believe China would announce an
unexpected rate cut as soon as today, in the process sending the Shanghai
Composite soaring by 2.6%.
Submitted
by RANSquawk
Video on 03/30/2015
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 03/29/2015
Up
until now, the world's descent into the NIRPy twilight of fiat currency was a
function of failing monetary policy around the globe as central bank after
desperate central bank implemented negative and even more negative (in the case
of Denmark some four times rapid succession) rates, hoping to make saving so
prohibitive consumers would have no choice but to spend the fruits of their
labor, or better yet, take out massive loans which they would never be able to
repay. However, nobody said it was only central banks who could be the
executioners of the world's saver class: governments are perfectly capable
too. Such as Australia's. According to Australia's ABC News,
the "Federal Government looks set to introduce a tax on bank
deposits in the May budget."
In
recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least
half a dozen media companies about hosting their content inside Facebook rather
than making users tap a link to go to an external site. Given the
enormity of what Facebook is trying to achieve - and since all of the leverage
seems to reside with Facebook it is likely to succeed - this single
company’s ability to control access to news and what is trending and deemed
important by a huge section of humanity will be extraordinary.
The
question is... would it be any worse?
"Global
financial markets are more distorted than ever before and accordingly, the
risks are very high...
All equity and currency markets are pretty extended, at present; and many of
the bond markets are as well... We know that the longer a distortion prevails,
the more investors get used to it and it becomes the “new normal” to them.
That’s where the problem lies! I see three potential threats..." - Felix Zulauf
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 03/29/2015 - 19:30
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/29/2015
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 03/29/2015 - 18:45
Because
it could never be just plain-old Keynesian-doctrine-destroying, debt-saturated,
economic weakness...
"If
the RMB wants to achieve international status, it must have popular acceptance
and a stable value. To this end, other than having assurance from the issuing
nation, it is very important to have enough gold as the foundation, raising the
‘gold content’ of the RMB. Therefore, to China, the meaning and mission of gold
is to support the RMB to become an internationally accepted currency and make
China an economic powerhouse. That is why, in order for gold to fulfill
its destined mission, we must raise our gold holdings a great deal, and do so
with a solid plan. Step one should take us to the 4,000 tonnes mark, more than
Germany and become number two in the world, next, we should increase step by
step towards 8,500 tonnes, more than the US."
- Song Xin, Party Secretary and President of the China Gold Association
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/28/2015
"How
many rich people do you know today that are poorer than they were at the peak
in 06/07 (apart from
Dick Fuld), I don't think I know any.. QE has been distributive to the rich...
but now that the world has started this policy it is unable to end it... the next recession will be a hard one because the
tools in the toolbox are not there to avert a severe downturn... where are the liquidity worries at the moment? Equities would be the toughest to exit.. it's like a
5-lane highway going in and goat trail coming out... Brazil is great example"
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/28/2015
"In
the long run classical economics would tell us that the pricing distortions
created by the current global regimes of QE will lead to a suboptimal
allocation of capital and investment, which will result in lower output
and lower standards of living over time. In fact, although U.S. equity
prices are setting record highs, real median household incomes are 9
percent lower than 1999 highs. The report from Bank of America Merrill
Lynch plainly supports the conclusion that QE and the associated
currency depreciation is not leading to higher global output. The
cost of QE is greater than the income lost to savers and investors. The
long-term consequence of the new monetary orthodoxy is likely to permanently
impair living standards for generations to come while creating a false illusion
of reviving prosperity."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/28/2015
This is the death rattle of the American dream, which was built on the idea that no one is above the
law, that our rights are inalienable and cannot be taken away, and that our
government and its appointed agents exist to serve us.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/28/2015
At
the end of the day there is a considerable irony. The Fed has now
become the tool of liberal Keynesian do-gooders - exemplified by the school
marm who heads it. But its policies are exclusively benefiting
Wall Street and the top 1%. They are redistributing income and wealth to the
top, not the bottom of society as liberals have always claimed. Needless to
say, main street does not need that kind of “help”. And it
would do far better on its own hind legs if the monetary
politburo joined its Soviet colleagues in the afterlife of mistaken ideologies.
Joe Biggs | Army
National Guard invades Texas airport held by “hostiles.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Tim Cook’s rampant hypocrisy laid bare.
Kit Daniels | Content
of student hand-outs must also be reviewed and approved by school officials.
Steve Watson |
Refuses Case On School’s Cinco De Mayo US Flag Ban.
Kurt Nimmo | Relief
agencies and organizations prevented from helping civilians.
AllGov.com | Some
Americans are refusing to answer questions at Border Patrol checkpoints set up
many miles away from U.S. borders.
Kurt Nimmo | Laughs
when defendant cites First Amendment in freedom of speech case.
Steve Watson |
Clinton’s ‘one device’ excuse proven to be a total lie.
Paul
Joseph Watson | “The consequences will be catastrophic for the United States”.
News
Busters | “I never thought I’d be more afraid of police in America than in
South Africa.”
WORLD NEWS
Saudi
Arabia accused of killing 40 including children in air strike on Yemen refugee
camp
London
Independent | Al-Mazraq camp, near the Saudi border, was allegedly hit by
fighter jets yesterday but the government blamed rebel artillery fire for
casualties.
Anonymous
hacker group threatens Israel with ‘cyber-holocaust’
RT | “Erase it
from cyberspace”
Shocking
Discovery: Secret Files Reveal Hitler Tested V2 on His Own People
Joshua Krause |
By far my favorite part of studying history, is discovering amazing details
after the fact.
“Small
mountain” of antidepressants found at Germanwings co-pilot’s apartment
International
Business Times | The 27-year-old was treated by four psychiatrists in the
months leading up to the fatal plane crash.
London
Independent | 1.5 hours of audio was obtained from the black box.
·
MONEY WATCH
Mac Slavo | According to the report as many as 33% of American
college grads with student loan debt are now in delinquent status on their
repayments.
Here’s
the ‘ugly scenario’ that’s about to happen if Greece doesn’t get a bailout deal
Business Insider
| Greece’s bailout talks aren’t going very well.
Pentagon
Loses $500 Million in Yemen, Gets a $96 Billion Budget Increase
New American |
For decades, conservative Republicans have been accusing their liberal
counterparts of trying to cure social ills by “throwing money” at every
problem.
Four
“Too Big to Fail/Jail” Banks Threaten to Hold Back Funds to Democrats Over
Elizabeth Warren
Michael Krieger
| It seems even Warren’s meager push for reform is simply too much for the thin
skinned bailout baby banks to handle.
·
PRISON PLANET
Facebook
accused of tracking all users even if they delete accounts, ask never to be
followed
London
Independent | Academic researchers
said that the report showed that the company was breaking European law with its
tracking policies.
Television
Commercial in California Asks Drone Pilots to Stop Killing
Washington’s
Blog | This may be a first: a television ad campaign in a U.S. state capitol
appealing to someone to stop murdering human beings who have, in most cases,
already been born.
THREE
SUSPECTS ARRESTED in Brutal Metrolink Attack on White Rider Over #MikeBrown
Gateway Pundit |
Last week a Metrolink rider in St. Louis was brutally beaten over Michael
Brown.
Nationwide
‘Emergency Alert’ Test Causes Panic, Confusion
Paul Joseph
Watson | TV viewers across America see unexpected message.
COMMENTARY
Are
men inferior to women? Let’s check the data
American
Enterprise Institute | Are women good, and men bad?
5
Charts Which Show That The Next Economic Crash Is Dead Ahead
Michael Snyder |
When an economic crisis is coming, there are usually certain indicators that
appear in advance.
New
Smashing Pumpkins Music Video Spotlights Soldier PTSD Epidemic
Prison
Planet.com | Video illustrates horrific aftermath of indiscriminate drone
attacks.
“Do You
Know How Many Americans Died . . .
Lew Rockwell
Blog | We should always support all of the state’s wars, forever and ever.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Video
Shows Troops Training to Intern Citizens in Fort Lauderdale
Paul Joseph
Watson | Martial law-style drill caught on camera.
US Troops Go
Undercover on American Soil
Prison
Planet.com | Role players to practice infiltrating towns during controversial
exercise.
Entire
Federal Martial Law Plan Exposed
Prison
Planet.com | Alex Jones responds to MSM attacks on purpose of Jade Helm
exercise.
·
U.S. NEWS
Jade
Helm: Texas Labeled ‘Hostile’ Yet Again by Army
Joe Biggs | Army National Guard invades Texas airport held by
“hostiles.”
University
Requires Students to Apply For “Free Speech Permits”
Kit Daniels | Content of student hand-outs must also be reviewed
and approved by school officials.
Benghazi panel summons
Clinton
Washington
Examiner | The request comes
after Kendall told Gowdy that the server had been wiped clean.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
“GM-Free”
Domino’s Caught Selling GMO-Laden Pizzas
Mike Barrett |
Will they return to gmo-free?
HUGE
WIN! Former Monsanto Employee Fired from Major Scientific Journal’s Editor
Position
Christina Sarich
| The tides are turning.
5
Reasons Monsanto Will Continue Losing Money in 2015
Anthony
Gucciardi | 2015 may be the tipping point.
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Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 03/31/2015 - 11:36
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 03/31/2015 - 14:13
Which
silver? Paper silver or real silver?
$100 Trillion Global Bond Bubble Poses “Systemic
Risk” To Financial System
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 03/31/2015 - 11:17
Rate
hike could put fixed-income funds under severe pressure > Fed’s
Bullard warns of “dire consequences” of developing asset price bubbles
> “Gates” or capital controls...
Posted by : bugs_
Post date: 04/01/2015 - 08:45
Domestic
energy production continues to increase despite the anticipated shale
shakeout. The precipitous decline in gasoline prices were welcomed by
most but government exise tax revenue was in...
Posted by: Tim Knight from...
Post date: 04/01/2015 - 14:24
Just
got this in my email, and if this isn't a sign of a top, I don't know what is.
Stocks Are In an Epic Bubble Second Only to the 1999
Tech Bubble
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 04/01/2015 - 08:37
This
is true going back even to 1870.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
Three
weeks ago, when Hillary Clinton was scrambling to come up with a
credible lie to explain why she was using a personal server for
email distribution - one that was not US government property and thus exempt
from official FOIA requests - she said during a press conference at the United
Nations that the reason was simple: it was simply a matter of
"convenience" of carrying just one device."when I got to work as
secretary of State, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account,
which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would
be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails
instead of two." As it turns out she lied. Again.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
One
just has to laugh at this point.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
Barron’s
should have published its gushing cover story on Jamie Dimon’s stewardship of
JPMorgan today – as an April Fool’s joke.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
When
gaming the old score wasn't sufficient to expand the pool of elligible
borrowers, creativity was necessary. The result: an entirely new score is
born...
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015 - 14:32
For the first time in the state's history, Governor Jerry Brown has directed the State Water
Resources Control Board to implement mandatory water reductions across
California, in an effort to reduce water usage by 25 percent.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
With
both channel stuffing and subprime out of the window if only for the time
being, GM, whose China sales are falling off a cliff, had to come up with some
urgent source of end demand. And thanks to recently disclosed data, we now know
that "once a Government Motors, always a Government Motors",
because just the first quarter of 2015, the average annual increase in sales
to Uncle Sam, aka the Government was a whopping 24%, just
about 100% higher than GM's headline rate of sales increase!
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
It's
the debt-saturated "worst since Lehman" economy!
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
Blogger
Ben’s work is already done. In his very first substantive post as a
civilian he gave away all the secrets of the monetary temple. The
Bernank actually refuted the case for modern central banking in one blog.
The truth is the real world of capitalism is far, far too complex and
dynamic to be measured and assessed with the exactitude implied by Bernanke’s
gobbledygook. In fact, what his purported necessity for
choosing a rate “somewhere” actually involves is the age old problem of
socialist calculation.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
The
Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted
annual rate) in the first quarter of 2015 has been downgraded once again... to
0.0 percent on April 1, down from 2.3 percent on Feb 13th.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
The
scenes seen on the video were chaotic and very wobbly, said
Bild, adding, screams and shouts of "My God" in various
languages could be heard, indicating the passengers knew what was happening.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
In
a story which we initially thought was an early April fool's prank, but
subsequently turned out to be all too real, and all too tragic, yesterday
afternoon Andrew Rork Getty, the 47-year-old grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul
Getty who once was the richest living man in the world and member of the Getty trust, was found
dead at his Hollywood Hills home, the latest chapter in a saga involving the
Getty family which has seen kidnappings (including
a tax-deductible ransom
payment), mutilations, drug use
and now, allegedly, murder.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
Is it possible that capitalism’s underlying focus on profits, and the
necessity for endless purchases of goods and services, has a practical limit?
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/01/2015
Despite
the second (or third) dead cat bounce of the day in US equities (as machines
pin the S&P to VWAP), US Treasury yields are collapsing-er to the lows of
the day. While 30Y and 10Y yields are now down 10bps or so
from earlier highs, the move in 2Y is most notable as it has broken
below the 200-day moving average for the first time in 2 months...
suggesting that no matter how assuredly The Fed says it will raise rates, the
market sees Yellen cutting 'em back promptly.
Kit Daniels | Prior
to Bergdahl’s disappearance, Obama planned to release al-Qaeda-linked fighters
to empty out Gitmo.
Ben
Shapiro | To the left, freedom now means only the freedom to do what it is the
left wants you to do at point of gun.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Controversial clip showed men defending themselves against
violent women.
Zero
Hedge | The latest chapter in a saga involving the Getty family which has seen
kidnappings, mutilations, drug use and now, allegedly, murder.
Steve
Watson | As President reinvigorates war in Middle East, only 35 percent say
Obama is ‘no threat’.
Kurt Nimmo | Most
Americans want the IRS to confiscate money from the wealthy and corporations.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Exercise wargames thousands of people flooding into America during
crisis.
Reuters
| The Obama administration’s plan for U.N. climate change talks encountered
swift opposition after its release Tuesday.
Daily
Caller | A new study out of Germany casts further doubt on the so-called global
warming “consensus”.
Jacob
G. Hornberger | “Overgrown military establishments, which under any form of
government, are inauspicious to liberty.”
WORLD NEWS
High
fail: Afghan opium production rises as ex-Blackwater profits
RT | Opium
production has been on the rise in Afghanistan over recent years despite US
counternarcotics efforts.
Israel
tests U.S.-backed missile shield as Iran nuclear deadline looms
Reuters | A new
Israeli air defense system being developed in partnership with the United
States has passed advanced tests.
Bibi
Blasts Iran Talks After Iranian General Says ‘Israel’s Destruction Is
Non-Negotiable’
Washington Free
Beacon | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement on negotiations
with Iran.
Nuclear
deal with Iran ‘reached on all key aspects’ – Lavrov
RT | Iran and
six major world powers have managed to reach a preliminary agreement on ‘all
the key aspects’ of a deal over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.
Romania
will host NATO heavy arms if asked, as they support ‘every venture’ – bloc
chief
RT | A decision
on whether Romania will host NATO’s heavy military equipment will soon be made
public.
·
MONEY WATCH
China
Builds $6 Million Bridge To Nowhere
Zero Hedge |
It’s important that China keep up the momentum when it comes to besting the US
wherever and whenever it can.
2015
Or 1987? Computerized Trading & “A Crash Is Coming” Or Rates Mean “Bull’s
Not Over”
Zero Hedge |
1987 Or 2015?
World
Gold Reserves May Run out in 20 Years
Joshua Krause |
As the dollar and the stock market continue their preposterous rise in value,
it seems that more and more people (especially Americans) are ditching gold.
The
Stock Market In 2015 Is Starting To Look Remarkably Similar To The Stock Market
In 2008
Michael Snyder |
Are we watching a replay of the last financial crisis?
·
PRISON PLANET
Obama
Dictates National “Cyber Security” Emergency
Zero Hedge |
It’s business as usual in Washington.
Google
‘makes people think they are smarter than they are’
London Telegraph
| Searching the internet for information gives people a ‘widely inaccurate’
view of their own intelligence, Yale psychologists believe.
Facebook
accused of tracking all users even if they delete accounts, ask never to be
followed
London
Independent | Academic
researchers said that the report showed that the company was breaking European
law with its tracking policies.
Television
Commercial in California Asks Drone Pilots to Stop Killing
Washington’s
Blog | This may be a first: a television ad campaign in a U.S. state capitol
appealing to someone to stop murdering human beings who have, in most cases,
already been born.
COMMENTARY
Jeb
Bush Doubles Down on His Love Affair with the NSA in Recent Interview
Michael Krieger
| Last month, I highlighted Jeb Bush’s passionate and relentless support for
the fascist, authoritarian and unconstitutional activities of the NSA.
McDonald’s
Downfall: Even Kids Aren’t Eating Fast Food Anymore
Anthony
Gucciardi | More signs that awareness is growing.
Are
men inferior to women? Let’s check the data
American
Enterprise Institute | Are women good, and men bad?
5
Charts Which Show That The Next Economic Crash Is Dead Ahead
Michael Snyder |
When an economic crisis is coming, there are usually certain indicators that
appear in advance.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Video:
Bloodstains Found Atop Georgia Guidestones?
Adan Salazar |
Was mysterious occult monument used for ritualistic blood sacrifice?
Video
Shows Troops Training to Intern Citizens in Fort Lauderdale
Paul Joseph
Watson | Martial law-style drill caught on camera.
US Troops Go
Undercover on American Soil
Prison
Planet.com | Role players to practice infiltrating towns during controversial
exercise.
·
U.S. NEWS
Report:
Obama Wanted to Release Taliban Five Without Bergdahl in Return
Kit Daniels | Prior to Bergdahl’s disappearance, Obama planned
to release al-Qaeda-linked fighters to empty out Gitmo.
Indiana Pizza
Shop: We Won’t Serve Gays
CBS Cleveland |
An Indiana pizza shop may be the first to publicly say it will not serve gay
and lesbian customers.
Koskinen:
‘I Have Certainly Never Discussed IRS Business on My Own Personal (Email)
Account’
CNS News |
“Can’t guarantee” IRS policy is always followed.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
How We’re Winning
The GMO Battle
Prison
Planet.com | Alex Jones talks with Dr. Joseph Mercola about his book and how
you can help defend your body against the toxins we’re exposed to everyday.
Scientists
Discover Medieval Home Remedy Kills Superbugs and Infections
Mike Barrett |
Could it be our solution to antibiotic-resistance?
“GM-Free”
Domino’s Caught Selling GMO-Laden Pizzas
Mike Barrett |
Will they return to gmo-free?
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ARCHIVE
Adan Salazar |
Was mysterious occult monument used for ritualistic blood sacrifice?
Mikael Thalen |
“I have no respect for you… because you’re an enemy.”
Paul Joseph Watson | Tim Cook’s rampant hypocrisy laid bare.
Joe Biggs |
Army National Guard invades Texas airport held by “hostiles.”
Kit Daniels |
Content of student hand-outs must also be reviewed and approved by school
officials.
Kurt Nimmo |
Relief agencies and organizations prevented from helping civilians.
Steve Watson |
Refuses Case On School’s Cinco De Mayo US Flag Ban.
Hillary Wiped Email Server Clean!
by
Iran nuclear talks miss
deadline; Russia says 'key aspects' agreed...
Saudis Make Own Moves...
Yemen nears 'total collapse'
as Mideast powers trade blame...
How The Fed Has Failed The Nation (In One Chart)
OBAMA
PLANS 'EXECUTIVE ORDER' FOR UN CLIMATE RULES
NYT: Dem Strategists Offer
Blueprint to Beat Clinton...
Standing O for O'Malley in
NH...
Senator Tom Cotton Warns That Iran
Must Be Stopped: 'They Already Control Tehran!' (VIDEO) Tom Cotton shows his foreign policy knowledge with a lesson in
geography any 5th grader would be ashamed of. { If he really wanted to do something constructive for the nation
and his home state and be taken seriously, he’d seek justice for those on the
‘clinton domestic kill list’ http://www.albertpeia.com/clintondomestickilllist.htm
… there’s no statute of limitations on murder … }
Banzai http://albertpeia.com/banzai3-26-15.htm
Jack Tatar
Medicare
deal hurts retirees
A bipartisan agreement to stave off cuts in payments to doctors could prove
costly.
A recent agreement on a budget deal
between Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Republican House
Speaker John Boehner is being heralded as the return of bi-partisanship. The
deal, which will soon be voted on, addresses payments to doctors who treat
Medicare patients.
"The bipartisan,
bicameral bill seeks to end the cycle of annual 'doc fix' crises that have
created uncertainty for millions of Medicare providers and beneficiaries for
over a decade and create a system that promotes higher quality care for
America's seniors," a release from committee leaders in both parties stated.
This is an issue that has been fixed on a
temporary basis 17 times. Congress had to address this because failure to do so
would create cuts of 20% or more in payments to doctors treating Medicare
patients, according to this story on CNN.com. In fairness, we need to ensure that
doctors, the backbone of the health-care system, get their fair payment. As for
Congress, the reality is that it will soon be election season and every
donation counts.
It
all sounds good, but as the article points out, Pelosi also agreed to some
structural changes, including some “means testing” for beneficiaries.
Means
testing? What's
that?
For
the last two years, that’s been a rallying cry for the authors of "What You Don't Know About Retirement Will Hurt You!,” a book
that I contributed to and is published by People Tested Media, a company that I
have an ownership stake in.
“Clients
had better rethink their retirement planning, especially those who are putting
so much emphasis on the timing of taking Social Security and contributing
everything to their traditional 401(k) or 403b plans. Remember Part B and any
surcharges from this means testing come out directly from your Social Security
check,” said Dan McGrath, the book’s lead author. I recently discussed this
issue with three of the book’s seven authors.
"It
appears that the legislation will expand the number of means testing brackets
to nine and have no indexing for inflation until 25% of beneficiaries pay some
form of additional Medicare premiums," Michael Gerali explained.
Gerali
added that, "This is why we have placed so much emphasis on the type of
income you take in retirement. The 'doc fix' will be a bad prescription for
those who don't plan ahead."
Rob
Klein voiced concern that this bipartisan deal “will be sold to the people as
something to make the rich pay their fair share. Behind closed doors, some of
the politicians see it as a way to save Social Security and pay for Obamacare.”
For
Americans, this bipartisan deal might seem to be a good step forward to show
that Congress can actually work together. But for retirees, this deal may
provide another roadblock in their ability to control and manage their
retirement income.
1987 Or 2015? "A
crash is coming..."
"They are
not real buyers and sellers... these are computers that drive the markets down extremely
fast..."
"A correction will prompt rate cuts which will ensure The Bull Market is not over..."
After Japan's Tankan disappointed
greatly and various talking heads from Japan came out to deliver
the credibility-destroying-phrase of the day: that "the economic recovery
is progressing smoothly" despite all evidence to the contrary...
USDJPY took a dive. And when USDJPY takes a dive, all its risk-on,
carry-trade-imbibed friends take a dive. Dow futures cratered 230
points in minutes only to bounce back modestly when some enterprising
sell-side analyst reminded the machines that "bad news is good news."
But that didn't last and US equity futures are sliding rapidly in the overnight
session...
We
live in an era in which few can even conceive of a world without the welfare
state. Who would care for the old? How would people provide for their medical
needs? What would happen to the disadvantaged and needy that fell upon hard
times? In fact, there were free market solutions and non-government
answers to these questions long before the modern Big Government Welfare State.
Unfortunately, after nearly a century of increasing political and cultural
collectivism, the historical memory of the pre-welfare state era has
all but been lost. The Welfare State makes us all poorer in
character and independence. Confiscation of freedom through abridgements of
individuals’ rights to their life, liberty and honestly acquired property, also
brings with it a less humane and civil society.
"I fear that central bankers may have been inadvertently drawn into
what they are currently doing... [QE] won't work and may have many undesired side
effects that will build up over time. Many of the central bankers at Davos this year said
explicitly that they were only buying time for governments to act but, seven
years into the crisis, it already seems we have been waiting forever...
the effectiveness of
monetary policy in terms of stimulating aggregate demand goes down with time,
because you're constantly bringing spending forward from the future... Logically, at this point, central bankers
should say, "We are doing more harm than good. This policy must be reversed." But I don't see
anybody actually doing it."
It's become
a running theme, at least since last September, but the latest
release of CPI numbers from around the world has brought our simple average
World CPI proxy to its lowest level since the financial crisis. For the period
ending in February, our World CPI proxy hit just 1.01% year-over-year. This is
the lowest rate of change since November 2009. The year-over-year rate
in our World CPI proxy has been falling for six months straight.
The story is the same every time: some nation, due to a confluence of lucky
circumstances, becomes powerful—much more powerful than the rest—and, for a
time, is dominant. But the lucky circumstances, which often amount to no more
than a few advantageous quirks of geology, be it Welsh coal or West Texas oil,
in due course come to an end. In the meantime, the erstwhile superpower
becomes corrupted by its own power. As the endgame approaches, those still
nominally in charge of the collapsing empire resort to all sorts of desperate
measures—all except one: they will refuse to ever consider the fact
that their imperial superpower is at an end, and that they should change their
ways accordingly.
Bad
news isn't even good news anymore in Japan. A sushi-boat-load of data this
evening show once again that Abenomics is failing dismally. In no particular
order... Large Manufacturing Index MISS (lowest in 9 months),
Large Manufacturing Outlook BIG MISS, Large Services Outlook
MISS, Small Manufacturing Index MISS, Small Manufacturing
Outlook BIG MISS, and drum roll please... Tankan Large
Industry Capex Outlook crashes to -1.2% (from +8.7%) - the lowest in 2 years
(since Abewrongics was unleashed). The response... USDJPY and Nikkei are
dumping...
And
the answer is...
I’m
sure when Talking Heads wrote "Burning Down The House" that they
didn’t exactly have financial collapse and environmental degradation in mind.
Although with a verse like “Hold tight wait till the party's over. Hold tight
we're in for nasty weather. There has got to be a way. Burning down the house”
it’s hard not to see that song as strangely prophetic.
How
long can this last?
As
the death toll mounts from the various regional conflicts in the Middle East,
one wonders if trading autocratic rule for some semblance of stability isn’t
all that bad of a compromise. That said, US foreign policy seems to be
everywhere and always inept especially as it relates to the Arab world and as
CNN notes, propping up dictatorships at the expense of basic rights and
freedoms sows the seeds for violent revolution.
The key feature of age is that it happens no matter what you think. What does this mean? It means the “old countries” –
their assets and their institutions, at least the ones that depend on
population, income and credit growth – are “fastened to a dying animal” and are
not likely to survive in their present form. Today, these countries, including
the US, are victims of demography. Older people get more money from the
government. And they pay less in taxes. Old people also slow the rate of GDP, for obvious reasons: They are
not adding to output; they are living on it.
If you want as many people to attend your
church as possible, why limit yourself to just Christians? All over
America, “radically inclusive” churches that embrace all religions and all
lifestyles are starting to pop up. Church services that incorporate
elements of Hinduism, Islam, native American religions and even Wicca are
becoming increasingly common. And even if you don’t believe anything at
all, that is okay with these churches too. In fact, as you will see
below, one Presbyterian minister in Oregon is even inviting people to
“bring their own god” to church. But if these churches don’t really stand
for anything at all, what is their purpose? And what does the popularity
of these churches say about the future of religion in America? (Read
More...)
Are we watching a replay of the last
financial crisis? Over the past six months, the price of oil has collapsed, the U.S. dollar has soared, and a whole bunch of other patterns that we
witnessed just before the stock market crash of 2008 are repeating once again. But what
we have not seen yet is the actual stock market crash. So will there be
one this year? In this article, I am going to compare the performance of
the Dow Jones Industrial Average during the first three months of 2008 to the
performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average during the first three months
of 2015. As you will see, there are some striking similarities. And
without a doubt, we are overdue for a major market downturn. The S&P
500 has risen for six years in a row, but it has never had seven up years
consecutively. In addition, there has not even been a 10 percent stock
market “correction” is almost three and a half years. So will stocks be
able to continue to defy both gravity and the forces of economic reality?
Only time will tell. (Read More....)
When an economic crisis is coming, there
are usually certain indicators that appear in advance. For example,
commodity prices usually start to plunge before a recession begins. And
as you can see from the Bloomberg Commodity Index which you can find right here, this
has already been happening. In addition, I have previously written about how the U.S. dollar
went on a great run just before the financial collapse of 2008. This is
something that has also been happening over the past few months. Some
people would have you believe that nobody can anticipate the next great
economic downturn and that to try to do so is just an exercise in
“guesswork”. But that is not the case at all. We can look back over
history and see patterns that keep repeating. And a lot of the exact same
patterns that happened just before previous stock market crashes are happening
again right now. (Read More....)
Saudi Arabia and Egypt stand poised to
conduct a massive ground invasion of Yemen, and the western media will be full
of tales about how “Operation Decisive Storm” is liberating that country from
the evil Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. And without a doubt, the Houthis
are bad guys and so are their Iranian
benefactors. But don’t be fooled into thinking that the war in Yemen
is a battle of good vs. evil. The truth is that the conflict in Yemen is
actually a proxy war between two sets of bad guys that both ultimately plan for
Islam to take over the entire planet. On one side, the Iranians are very
honest about the fact that they view us as an enemy, and they plan to impose
their version of radical Shia Islam worldwide as soon as they can. On the
other side, the Saudis pretend to be our friends, but they don’t hide the fact
that they believe that their version of Sunni Islam will eventually rule the
world. And their version of Sunni Islam includes constant beheadings, the
destruction of all churches and the death penalty for anyone caught smuggling a
Bible into Saudi territory. At the end of the day, there is very little
difference between the Saudis and ISIS. In fact, ISIS gets a lot of
funding from Saudi sources, and there is more support for ISIS on Twitter from
Saudi Arabia than from anywhere else. Saudi Arabia is a horribly
repressive regime where women are treated like dirt, where the secret police
conduct a never ending reign of terror and where even a minor deviation from
sharia law can mean the loss of a limb. But because our politicians and
the mainstream media constantly tell us that they are “our friends”, we cheer
them on. (Read More....)
Since the depths of the last recession,
the price of ground beef in the United States has doubled. Has your paycheck doubled since then?
Even though the Federal Reserve insists that we are in a “low inflation”
environment, the government’s own numbers show that the price of ground beef
has been on an unprecedented run over the past six years. In early 2009,
the average price of a pound of ground beef was hovering near 2 dollars.
In February, it hit a brand new all-time record high of $4.238 per pound.
Even just 12 months ago, the price of ground beef was sitting at $3.555 per
pound. So we are talking about a huge increase. And this hits
American families where they really live. Each year, the average American
consumes approximately 270 pounds of meat. The
only nation in the world that eats more meat than we do is Luxembourg. If
the paychecks of American workers were going up fast enough to deal with this
increase, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. But of course that is not
happening. In an article just last week, I showed that real median
household income is a couple thousand dollars lower now
than it was during the depths of the last recession. The middle class is
being squeezed, and we are rapidly getting to the point where burgers are going
to be considered a “luxury” item. (Read More....)
Did you know that about one-fourth of the entire
global prison population is in the United States? Did you know that Apple
has more money than the U.S. Treasury?
Did you know that if you have no debt and also have 10 dollars in your wallet
that you are wealthier than 25 percent of all Americans? Did
you know that by the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child
will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television?
There are some things that are great about the United States, and there are
definitely some things that are not so great. Once upon a time we were
the most loved and most respected nation on the entire planet, but those days
are long gone. We have wrecked our economy, we have lost our values and
we have fumbled away our future. But if you look close enough, you can
still see many of the things that once made this country a shining beacon to
the rest of the world. This article includes some weird facts, some fun
facts, but also some very troubling facts. It has been said that a
spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, and hopefully as people enjoy
reading the fun facts in this article they will also take note of the more
serious facts. If we are ever going to change course as a nation, we need
to come to grips with just how far we have fallen. The following are 33
strange facts about America that most Americans would be shocked to learn… (Read More....)
The following are 33 strange facts about
America that most Americans would be shocked to learn…
#1 The amount of cement that China used from 2011 to
2013 was greater than the total amount of cement that the United States used during
the entire 20th century.
#2 In more than half of all U.S. states, the highest
paid public employee in the state is a football coach.
#3 It costs the U.S. government 1.8 cents to mint a penny and 9.4 cents to mint a nickel.
#4 Almost half of all Americans (47 percent) do not put a single penny
out of their paychecks into savings.
#5 In 2014, police in the United States killed 1,100 people. During that same
year, police in Canada killed 14 people, police in China killed 12 people and police in Germany didn’t
kill anyone at all.
#6 The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of
Rhode Island is. But Rhode Island has a significantly larger
population than Alaska does.
#7 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other
49 U.S. states put together.
#8 The city of Juneau, Alaska is about 3,000 square miles in size. It is actually
larger than the entire state of Delaware.
#9 When LBJ’s “War on Poverty” began, less than 10 percent of all
U.S. children were growing up in single parent households. Today, that
number has skyrocketed to 33 percent.
#10 In 1950, less than 5 percent of all
babies in America were born to unmarried parents. Today, that number is over 40 percent.
#11 The poverty rate for households that are led by a
married couple is 6.8 percent. For households that
are led by a female single parent, the poverty rate is 37.1 percent.
#12 In 2013, women earned 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees
that were awarded that year in the United States.
#13 According to the CDC, 34.6 percent of all men in the U.S. are obese at this
point.
#14 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds of food each year.
#15 Right now, more than 200 million
people around the planet are officially considered to be unemployed.
Meanwhile, approximately 20 percent
of the garbage that goes into our landfills is food.
#16 There is a city in Bangladesh called Dhaka where
workers are paid just one dollar for every 1,000
bricks that they carry. Meanwhile, the “inactivity rate” for men in their
prime working years in the United States is hovering near record high levels.
#17 According to one recent survey, 81 percent of Russians now have a
negative view of the United States. That is much higher than at the end
of the Cold War era.
#18 Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
#19 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of
California. But no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.
#20 One recent survey discovered that “a steady job” is the number one thing
that American women are looking for in a husband, and another survey discovered
that 75 percent of women would have a serious problem dating an unemployed man.
#21 According to a study conducted by economist Carl
Benedikt Frey and engineer Michael Osborne, 47 percent of the jobs in the United
States could soon be lost to computers, robots and other forms of technology.
#22 The only place in the United States where coffee is
grown commercially is in Hawaii.
#23 The original name of the city of Atlanta was “Terminus“.
#24 The state with the most millionaires per capita is Maryland.
#25 There are more than 4 million adult websites
on the Internet, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter
combined.
#26 86 percent of men include “having children”
in their definition of success. For women, that number is only 73 percent.
#27 One survey of 50-year-old men in the U.S. found that
only 12 percent of them said that they were
“very happy”.
#28 The United States has 845 motor vehicles for every 1,000 people. Japan only has
593 for every 1,000 people, and Germany only has 540 for every 1,000 people.
#29 The average American spends more than 10 hours a day using an
electronic device.
#30 48 percent of all Americans do not have any emergency
supplies in their homes whatsoever.
#31 There are three towns in the United States that have
the name “Santa Claus“.
#32 There is actually a town in Michigan called “Hell“.
#33 There are 60,000 miles of blood
vessels in your body. If they were stretched out in a single line,
they could go around the planet more than twice.
The move to a cashless society won’t
happen overnight. Instead, it is being implemented very slowly and
systematically in a series of incremental steps. All over the planet,
governments are starting to place restrictions on the use of cash for security
reasons. As citizens, we are being told that this is being done to thwart
criminals, terrorists, drug runners, money launderers and tax evaders.
Other forms of payment are much easier for governments to track, and so they
very much prefer them. But we are rapidly getting to the point where the
use of cash is considered to be a “suspicious activity” all by itself.
These days, if you pay a hotel bill with cash or if you pay for several hundred
dollars worth of goods at a store with cash you are probably going to get
looked at funny. You see, the truth is that we have already been trained
to regard the use of large amounts of cash to be unusual. The next step
will be to formally ban large cash transactions like France and other countries
in Europe are already doing. (Read More....)
The average American spends more than 10
hours a day using an electronic device. And most of that activity is not
even interactive. The vast majority of the time we are just passively
absorbing content that someone else has created. This very much reminds
me of the movie “the Matrix”, but with a twist. Instead of humans being
forcefully connected to “the Matrix”, we are all willingly connecting ourselves to it. There is a giant
system that defines our reality for us, and the length of time that the average
American spends connected to it just continues to keep growing. In fact,
there are millions upon millions of us that simply do not “feel right” unless
there is at least something on in the background. Just think about
it. How much time do you spend each day with all electronic devices
completely turned off? Thanks to technology, we live at a time when more
news, information and entertainment is at our fingertips than ever before, and
we are consuming more of it than ever before. But this also gives a
tremendous amount of power to those that create all of this news, information
and entertainment. As I have written about previously, more than 90
percent of the “programming” that we absorb is created by just 6 enormously
powerful media corporations. Our conversations, attitudes, opinions
and belief systems are constantly being shaped by those entities.
Unfortunately, most of us are content to just sit back and let it happen. (Read More....)
If you believe that ignorance is bliss,
you might not want to read this article. I am going to dispel the notion
that there has been any sort of “economic recovery”, and I am going to show
that we are much worse off than we were just prior to the last economic
crisis. If you go back to 2007, people were feeling really good about
things. Houses were being flipped like crazy, the stock market was
booming and unemployment was relatively low. But then the financial
crisis of 2008 struck, and for a while it felt like the world was coming to an
end. Of course it didn’t come to an end – it was just the first wave of
our problems. The waves that come next are going to be the ones that
really wipe us out. Unfortunately, because we have experienced a few years
of relative stability, many Americans have become convinced that Barack Obama,
Janet Yellen and the rest of the folks in Washington D.C. have fixed whatever
problems caused the last crisis. Even though all of the numbers are
screaming otherwise, there are millions upon millions of people out there that
truly believe that everything is going to be okay somehow. We never seem
to learn from the past, and when this next economic downturn strikes it is
going to do an astonishing amount of damage because we are already in a
significantly weakened state from the last one. (Read More....)
Putin
Predicted Washington Would Employ Assassination Tactic Against Russia { I believe both Putin and Gorbachev are
correct … After all, Putin has been to those in the know, a savior to those
opposed to ruthless, insatiable forces with imperialistic/world order designs
which, in their desperation and failed policies absolutely resent, envy, and
abhor Putin’s success as an historically formidable world-class leader who has
saved Russia, and in many ways, this world from war mongering criminals who
would literally do anything to undermine him! }
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 02/28/2015 -
18:53
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/13/2015
"A slow start to the week has become
customary, as Monday appears to have become the new Friday,"
Barclays says, noting that the humans simply aren't trading in a credit market
where opportunities are scarce. Meanwhile, the robots do not rest, and on the
Monday they simultaneously decide that some random data point or unduly
hawkish/dovish soundbite out of an FOMC voter is cause for all the algos to
chase down the same rabbit hole sending ripples through a fixed income market
devoid of any real liquidity, the humans will be in for a rude awakening
when they get to work on Tuesday morning.
Princeton University and former vice
chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder unleashes his self-serving
smorgasbord of Fed apologism in today's
WSJ Op-Ed. The Fed should be patient-er for longer, he explains; and as far
as the "loudly and frequently worried 'impatience crowd'," Blinder
states, fears of policy "causing financial-market 'distortions' and
bubbles might burst, causing untold damage to our economy," can apparently
be ignored because, as he explains "none of the hypothesized financial
hazards have surfaced." So -
because we haven't crashed yet... policy is right - "This is a time
to be patient."
"We have passed the point where
Jelly Donut policy is merely slowing the recovery. Distortions are now adding
risk to the banking and insurance markets and leading to poor incentives for
the largest players in the financial system. Monetary policy and regulations
have combined like a failed chemistry experiment to create a potentially
destructive force that should not exist outside of fiction."
- David Einhorn
In recent weeks the sell side
analysts who cover energy have become so complacent that they merely plug
in the current strip prices into their earnings models for E&P companies.
Not one, except Mike Rothman at Cornerstone Analytics, is questioning the “why?”
or “how?” of what is occurring. The 200 or so players who effectively control
the oil futures market have changed behavior and expectations as the oil price
curve has collapsed. Prices from late 2016 into 2018 are essentially flat in
the low to mid 60s, believe it or not, which would essentially bankrupt
most of OPEC, US conventional oil, part of US shale and deep offshore drilling.
So ask where is the oil going to come from?
Yet the madness continues until investors realize E&P companies
need a higher price to justify investments in the space.
One of America’s biggest banks is going
to be protested by an unlikely group today: its employees. As The
Guardian reports, Wells Fargo bankers are protesting the bank’s alleged
predatory practices – mainly the sales quotas imposed on some of its
workers
(which have led to at least 30 employees opening duplicate accounts,
sometimes without customers’ knowledge, in order to inflate their sales
numbers). One worker warns, “it is not in Wells Fargo’s best interest for
customers to purchase products and services they don’t use or need.” Now where
have we seen this kind of activity before? Wells Fargo bank workers are not the
only ones struggling to make ends meet without breaking ethical standards as bank
tellers have collected as much as $105m in food stamps.
Update: as always is the case in Europe,
nothing is confirmed until it is officially denied by officials, so here you
go: GREEK GOVT OFFICIAL DENIES FT REPORT GREECE PLANNING DEFAULT
It should hardly come as a surprise that
after the latest
round of Greek pre-negotiation negotiations with the Troika, in which the
Greek representative was said
to behave like a
taxi driver, who "just asked where the money was and
insisted his country would soon be bankrupt" and in which the
Eurozone members "were disappointed and shocked at Athens' lack of
movement in its plans, and in particular its reluctance to talk about cutting
civil servants' pensions" that the next Greek step is to fall back - yet
again - to square zero: threats of an imminent default. Which is precisely
what, according to the FT, has happened "Greece is preparing to take
the dramatic step of declaring a debt default unless it can reach a deal with
its international creditors by the end of April."
Any year in which two of the best
performing hedge funds are two of our old-time favorites, the aptly named
Keynes Leveraged Quantitative Strategies and even more aptly named Tulip
Trend Fund, you know is going to be one of "those" years.
Only this time joining them at the top after the first quarter is also the
Russian Prosperity Fund, while making an unexpected and welcome appearance in
the top 10 is none other than everyone's favorite outspoken, if rather timid in
recent years, scot: Hugh Hendry's Eclectica, which has returned 14% YTD.
It's just maff yo...
Who could have seen
that coming? With Treasury
yields pressing lows of the day since the US open, and AAPL in the red; the
stop-hunt in stocks this morning is now starting to fade back into reality as
Crude oil prices gave up gains and went red and reports appear that Greece is
preparing to default... The Dow and S&P are now red on the day.
More to the point, what does the
flight of Hillary say about party politics in this land? That a more corrupt and sclerotic dominion has
hardly been glimpsed since the last Bourbons cavorted in the halls of
Versailles? Hence, my view that America will witness a very peculiar spectacle
leading up to and perhaps beyond the 2016 election: the disintegration of
seeming normality against a background of mounting disorder and insurrection. Hillary
will go on caw-cawing platitudes about togetherness, diversity, and recovery
while the economy sinks to new extremes of unravelment, and the anger of a
swindled people finally boils over.
Attempts to isolate Russia and ignore
its position are useless and counterproductive, State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin said on Monday,
ahead of the decision to lift sanctions on anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. With
the Russian stock market among the top performers of the year and The Ruble
the strongest currency in the world this year, it appears he may be on to
something...
On the heels of the South Carolina
“confrontation” which led to the shooting death of Walter Scott, we get a new
video out of Tulsa in which one Eric Courtney Harris — who apparently sold an
illegal firearm to undercover agents and who CNN compassionately describes as a
“possibly PCP-addled felon” — is “accidentally” shot by a 73-old reserve
deputy who apparently could not distinguish between his Taser and his glock.
Unemployment is the one statistic
that one would have thought is easy to define: just total up the number of people on unemployment
benefit and there's your answer.
As Wall Street struggles to explain last
night’s trade data out of China which seemed to vividly illustrate the notion
that the combination of the yuan’s dollar peg and generally weak demand can and
will take a devastating toll on the country’s exports, and as iron ore does its
best dead dog bounce impression on the “psychologically” important news that
Australia’s fourth largest miner is suspending operations,
Citi is out with a rather dismal take on the outlook for iron ore prices.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
A month ago we warned "Beijing,
you have a big problem," and showed 10 charts to expose the
reality hiding behind a stock market rally up over 100% in the last year.
Tonight we get confirmation that all is not well - China
GDP fell to 7.0% (its lowest in 6 years) with QoQ GDP missing expectations
at +1.3% (vs 1.4%). Then retail sales rose 10.2% YoY - the slowest pace in 9
years (missing expectations of 10.9%). Fixed Asset Investment rose 13.5% - the
lowest since Dec 2000 (missing expectations). And finally Industrial Production
massively disappointed, rising only 5.6% YoY (weakest since Dec 2008). Finally,
as a gentle reminder to the PBOC-front-runners, a month ago Beijing
said there was no such thing as China QE (and no, the weather is
not to blame.. but the smog?).
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
With EIA forecasting $250/bbl crude oil
in the next 20 years, one wonders how long before 'muscle' or 'firewood'
returns as the world's major energy source?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
This is the email Bank of America's
economist Hans "Great Rotation" Mikkelsen blasted
out moments ago, without shame and without the embarassment that thousands of
people would read this and burst out laughing.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
It is quite obvious that Russia cannot
substitute the West and in particular European countries with someone else. It
is impossible for historical and cultural reasons, the abundance of industrial
relations, geographical proximity and so on.
Moscow can however substantially weaken such dependency through the
strengthening of political, military, financial and economic relations with
other countries which are friendlier and less susceptible to pressure from
Washington. Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) holds a special place amongst countries
friendly to the Russian government, and strategic dialogue is being actively
developed with it.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
"People make the difference" at
Knight Oil Tools where the "Knightmark" of
"excellence, leadership, and integrity" was on full display
last year when then-CEO Mark Knight planted drugs in his brother's car then
paid police to arrest him...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
The panic buying by China’s newly-minted,
day trader hordes took a breather on Tuesday which we think presents as good an
opportunity as any to
assess what factors might intervene to derail the self-feeding margin
madness that has Shanghai and Hong Kong partying like it’s 1999 on the Nasdaq.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
Can you arbitrage time? Can you buy and sell time? We think that you can from
the perspective of time horizons. In our view, financial markets are operating
on the wrong time horizon – one that is too long (thanks to central banks
ZIRP/NIRP and credit creation) - although there are signs that this is
beginning to change.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
Well done IMF, well done.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
"Nearly three-quarters (73 percent)
of enrollees in America’s major public support programs are members of working
families; the taxpayers bear a significant portion of the hidden costs of
low-wage work in America," a new study finds, suggesting that when it
comes to straining the public purse, "bad" jobs may be a bigger
problem than "no" jobs.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
This is not a government of the people,
for the people, by the people.
It is a government that takes
from the people. By any means necessary. And they grow bolder with each passing
day.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
To maintain its hegemony, the U.S. must
by all means prevent the emergence of rival powers and impede possible current
as well as future threats that could emanate from oil states. The ideal
condition for enforcing its own goals at a low cost would be the fragmentation
of antagonistic power centers through ethnic and religious strife, civil wars,
chaos and deep-seated mistrust in the Middle East – always following the
well-known premise of ‘divide and rule.’ In fact, we are currently experiencing
tremendous changes towards such a chaotic state of affairs.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
“The biggest worry of the buy side around
the world is that there has been a dramatic decline in liquidity from the sell
side for many fixed income products,” Prudential's David Hunt tells Bloomberg,
echoing Jamie Dimon and confirming what we've been shouting about for years.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
Neither Russia nor China is an imminent
threat to the US, but a cataclysmic event is looming in the economic front, one
which will forever change the perception of America by the rest of the world;
or how we, Americans, perceive ourselves. It’s back to what that great
cartoonist (and sociopolitical commentator), Walt Kelly, told us a half century
ago as America struggled during the Vietnam War:
“We have met the enemy and he is
us.”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
As the ongoing
collapse in economic productivity continues in America, and Alan
Greenspan's concerns grow, the call for an end to the diversion of
corporate spending to instantly shareholder-friendly actions comes from an
unusual source. Larry Fink - CEO of the largest asset manager in the world -
has unleashed a letter to 500 CEOs around the world - telling them that "
the effects of the short-termist phenomenon are troubling
both to those seeking to save for long-term goals such as retirement and for
our broader economy,” bucking the dividend/buyback trend that
investors are demanding. As
NYTimes notes, the shortsightedness that pervades corporate America is just
a symptom of a larger issue. "This is not just a corporate problem,"
Fink explains, "It's a societal problem, we’re currently living in
a "gambling society."
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/14/2015
If Intel had used its tax rate and share
count from last quarter, it would have missed Wall Street
consensus. Instead it beat by 1 cent. This is how it did it.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
WalMart has abruptly closed multiple
stores across the country affecting an estimated 2,000 employees over the past
several days citing "ongoing plumbing issues" which it will
apparently take the company 6 months or more to fix. Interestingly, the stores
are geographically distinct, and have nothing in common other than "clogs
and leaks," and no plumbing permits have been obtained for any work.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
The biggest star of today's ECB's press
conference was not Mario Draghi but 21-year-old German feminist, Josephine
Witt, an ex-Femen activist who jumped on Draghi's desk wearing an "
ECB Dick-tatorship", a slogan she repeatedly screamed as she was led
away by security guards. She threw paper copies of her demands at Mr Draghi,
while showering him with confetti that were created from her finely chopped up
manifesto. Who is Josephine Witt and what is her message?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
Back in November we chronicled the
(quiet) death of the Petrodollar, the system that has buttressed USD hegemony
for decades by ensuring that oil producers recycled their dollar proceeds into
still more USD assets creating a very convenient (if your printing press mints
dollars) self-fulfilling prophecy that has effectively underwritten the
dollar’s reserve status in the post WWII era.
Now, with oil prices still in the doldrums, oil producers are selling off
their USD assets in a frenzy threatening the viability of petrocurrency
mercantilism and effectively extracting billions in liquidity from the system
just as the Fed prepares to hike rates.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
The
following clip seemed to sum up perfectly just what The PBOC is
attempting to do (and just exactly how it will end). With Chinese equities
entirely decoupled from any sense of fundamentals, elementary-school-educated
people piling their
life savings into a market that is up 100% YoY amid the worst
economic conditions in a decade or more, and margin
trading that is surging (and now being probed - as
Reuters reports, PBOC Shanghai has asked banks to check
margin trading risks); how could anything go wrong?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
"Financial markets are treating the
risks around Greek exit with too little regard for the probable dangers,"
UBS says. Put simply, bond yields don't matter, meaning that ECB-controlled
sovereign spreads can't possibly be taken as a serious indicator when it comes
to assessing the contagion risk from a possible Grexit. What matters are bank
runs because to the degree depositors feel that redenomination risk is real,
everything else goes out the window and the lines start to form at the doors of
periphery banks.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
March was a record month for CLO issuance
with $15.2 billion in deals coming to market, bringing the YTD total to $29
billion and making Q1 2015 the best first quarter in history for CLO new issue
volume. And while a JPM analyst who spoke to Bloomberg says managers “want to
get deals done early before risk retention kicks in,” we're confident that it’s
all about keeping credit flowing to deserving borrowers and not at all about a
desire to keep exposure to 5% of a collateral pool littered with loans to
“companies that are of lower credit quality or that do not have a third-party
evaluation of the likelihood of timely payment of interest and repayment of
principal” off of the books.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
On March 16, 1936, the government of the
United States published the very first edition of the Federal Register - which
would contain a complete set of every rule, regulation, code, and proposal
issued by each of the executive agencies. The first edition was sixteen pages.
Every single work day since then, without fail, the government has published
the Federal Register. President Obama has averaged nearly 80,000 pages per
year, far and away the highest of any President in US history. We've
seen this theme countless times throughout history.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
During a Q&A this evening, Richmond
Fed's Jeffrey Lacker unleashed a stream of what can only be described as total
idiocy:
*LACKER: INDICATORS POINT TO NEED TO
RAISE RATES THIS YEAR (US macro data is the worst since Lehman?)
*LACKER: I'M UNDETERRED BY RECENT WEAKNESS IN DATA, "CAN'T GO ON
FOREVER" (Hope is a strategy?)
*LACKER: DON'T EXPECT UNUSUAL MARKET VOLATILITY AROUND RATE RISE (because the
Taper Tantrum went well?)
These are the people that the world
trusts to centrally plan the world? The people that are there to 'save'
investors at the merest downtick in stocks? They seriously have no clue
whatsoever!!
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/
While the world gasped last night when
China's production-based, and goalseeked GDP number came in at 7.0% - the
lowest in 6 years the truly scary numbers were in the details, which revealed
unprecedented deterioration. Details which suggest China is now growing at a
1.6% annual pace: the lowest in modern history.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
EURUSD just exploded 80 pips higher as
Japanese markets opened (once again for no good reason - just like DAX at the
EU close). No ther markets are moving with it (as both spot and futures are
poked higher on relatively heavy overnight volume). We assume this is just the
machines over at Virtu (which IPO'd at a $19 price tonight) celebrating...
after all they
said the FX market was the next to be rigged by them (allegedly)...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
Yanis Varoufakis’ publisher, Public
Affairs Books, posted a promo for an upcoming book by the Greek Finance
Minister, due out only in 2016 that reveals a few things that haven’t gotten
much attention to date.
Varoufakis simply analyzes the structure of the EU and the eurozone, as
well as the peculiar place the ECB has in both. Some may find what he writes
provocative, but that’s beside the point. It’s not as if Europe is beyond
analysis; indeed, such analysis is long overdue. Indeed, it may well be the
lack of it, and the idea in Brussels that it is exempt from scrutiny, even as
institutions such as the ECB build billion dollar edifices as the Greek
population goes hungry, that could be its downfall. It may be better to
be critical and make necessary changes than to be hardheaded and precipitate
your own downfall.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
The fairy dust peddlers who moonlight as
Wall Street economists were out in force yesterday after March retail sales
came in with a positive m/m change for the first time since November.
This purportedly confirms that we’re back on track for a big rebound in
Q2. In any event, what happens next is not too hard to figure. Unless
you are a Wall Street economist.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
Exactly one month ago we wrote that
"Japan
Ties China As America's Largest Creditor" when, according to Treasury
International Capital in the month of January, China sold just over $5 billion
in Treasurys while Japan bought $8 billion in US paper. Fast forward to today
when we are pleased to announce that, as expected, the trend has continued and
for the first time since the great financial crisis,
Japan is once again America's largest foreign credito.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/15/2015
Sandisk is down around 5% after-hours
after drastically lowering expectations (sees $5.4bn FY Revs vs Prev Est.
$6.1bn). As a result, the CEO just announced that SANDISK LOWERING NON-FACTORY
HEADCOUNT BY 5% IN Q2. It did not take long to discover why they felt the need
to do that as the Sandisk CEO shunned Larry Fink and unveiled an
ADDITIONAL $750M IN BUYBACKS THIS YR. So
to the 5% of employees about to get laid off - Thank you for
your service and thank you more for the wealth you are creating for 'others'.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
Chair Yellen frequently reminds us how
effective and innovative QE is as a monetary policy tool. She even referred to
the monetary actions, of her former boss, as heroic at a commencement speech
this past spring. Literally…QE has saved the financial world. So,
why are we, the citizens of this great country, no longer worthy of the
almighty, far ranging and omnipotent QE? Ms. Yellen, don’t you stop this money
printing anytime soon. Just erase that thought from your mind just like you can
simply erase away all my financial worries with that great machine of yours. We,
the ignorant public, are so relying on you. As we see it there is just no
downside to any of this money printing.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
"Bridgewater’s assets under
management increased from $150 billion as of 12/31/13 to approximately $154
billion as of 12/31/14."... "
Bridgewater generally requires that its Clients have a minimum of $5 billion
of investable assets."... "For new client relationships,
Bridgewater’s standard minimum fee is expected to be $500,000 for its All
Weather strategy, $1,000,000 for its Pure Alpha and Pure Alpha Major Markets
strategies, and $4,750,000 for Optimal Portfolio."
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/
A summary of the internal report shows
the DEA doled out
punishments to 10 of its agents, which ranged from a letter of caution to
a two-week suspension. None of the agents who participated in the parties was
fired. Re. Elijah Cummings exclaimed, the report depicted “truly breathtaking
recklessness” and showed “DEA agents as completely out of control,"
lamenting “Hello? Am I missing something? I think we are at an all-time
low here." We suspect it can get a lot lower yet.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
"We Win More Than We Lose"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
As we reported earlier, the former chief
of the IMF Rodrigo Rato, who was succeeded in 2007 by another scandalous
figure, Dominique Strauss-Khan, was recently put under investigation by Spanish
authorities for money-laundering, benefiting from a tax amnesty to repatriate
previously undeclared offshore funds. This is in addition to previous
investigation into his role as chairman of Caja Madrid, the failed savings
bank, and its successor Bankia.
And, unlike every single JPM banker pretty much ever, moments ago Rato
became the second former IMF head in several years (following DSK), to be
placed under arrest.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/
Having generously
(if not obliviously) stepped up to the plate to bail out Ukraine (with
open-ended bond guarantees), US taxpayers are opening their wallets again -
this time for Iraq. As
Reuters reports,
cheap oil has ravage Iraq's state
finances just as the government faces rising military spending from the war it
is waging against ISIS; and so it has decided to issue $5 billion in
international bonds. However, Iraq is considering other ways to cover its
budget deficit, including asking the IMF (i.e. US taxpayers) for relief funding
and also requesting the controversial U.S. Export-Import Bank (US Taxpayers)
finance the purchase of 10 planes from Boeing Co, which cost the government
$500 million.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
Lately the Greek finmin is far more in
the media for things he doesn't say, or "allegedly says" (or which
fingers he extends during his speeches), than for his official statements,
however his statements are still relevant especially with the Greek endgame
according to many having started. So feel free to watch him without any lost in
translation moments as he speeks at the Brookings Institute, the place where
Citadel's latest trader Ben Bernanke blogs out of, on the topic of
"the Greek economy and its global
partners." It may be a short speech.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
Over the past several weeks we have heard
repeated comments that you should ignore the recent retail sales
weakness for a variety of reasons such as cold winter weather,
consumers don't believe the drop in gas prices, etc. Putting aside the
fact that cold weather almost always occurs during winter (which is why the
data is seasonally adjusted to begin with), or that
more than 70% of Americans are living
paycheck-to-paycheck, should we dismiss the data entirely?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
Late last year, Grexit "expert"
Willem Buiter decided that he was a greater expert on the topic of monetary
metals than on geopolitics by stating that "Gold
Is A 6,000 Year Old Bubble." Now, he has decided that after gold, it is
best to just do away with any physical currency altogether and the time to ban
cash has arrived.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
The sudden decision to buy EUR and dump
USDs (after a slew of Fed speakers spewed their usual spew) has sparked a buy
everything trade across markets as bonds, stocks, and crude are surging...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
If you said these are
all things that current or former IMF
heads are or have been accused of, you are 100% correct.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
It is almost too coincidental to be a
coincidence: on the day Ben Bernanke, who until a year ago was the biggest
fixed income portfolio manager in the world courtesy of the Fed's $4.5 trillion
in assets, joins
Citadel as an advisor, the massively levered "market-neutral"
hedge fund which as we showed earlier has $176
billion in regulatory assets, "loses" its global head of fixed
income, senior managing director Derek Kaufman. Well not exactly loses. The
reason for his "voluntary" departure:
according to Bloomberg Kaufman is leaving
Citadel not because he is about to be replaced by the former Fed chairman but
because last year he lost $1 billion "in a variety of trades."
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/16/2015
Just yesterday, German FinMin Schaeuble
bent the truth, proclaiming that there was no sign of contagion from Grexit
concerns. Today, it appears, he will be eating his words, as
Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese bond
spreads have exploded higher (up 15-30bps this week) amid the collapse of Greek
sovereign and bank bonds. All we need now is for some EU
leader to claim "Grexit risk is contained," and we know trouble is
ahead.
http://albertpeia.com/infowars41715.htm
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 04/17/2015 - 11:49
Anthrax
Was As Important As 9/11 In "Justifying" the War on Terror, the Iraq
War, and the Patriot Act
Let it Blow Up in Their Faces, Rather than in Ours
Posted by: testosteronepit
Post date: 04/17/2015 - 11:23
Wall
Street turns junk-rated US corporate loans into highly rated
yen-denominated bonds. Desperate Japanese pension funds gobble them up. Blame
the Bank of Japan.
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 04/17/2015 - 15:12
A
day in the life of a real live Keynesian Trading Advisor...
“We absolutely think it is for military
aircraft...the main question is, what else would land there? Unless they are
planning to turn these into resorts..."
The endgame has indeed arrived. At the
very least, the international elites seem to think success is within their
grasp, for they now openly expose their own criminality. But they do so in a
way that attempts to divert blame or to rationalize their actions as being for
the "greater good." All signs and evidence point to what the IMF
calls the "great global economic reset.”" The plans for this reset do
not include U.S. prosperity or a thriving dollar.
In yet another ripped from the
movies-screen-esque event,
Beijing was brought to a standstill today
as a massive Interstellar-like sandstorm covered the Chinese capital in thick
blanket of red dust, sparking social media discussions of the end of the world.
As RT
reports, The China Meteorological Administration issued a yellow
sandstorm alert – the third-most serious danger level, which given the images
below, makes us wonder just WTF it takes to get to a level 1 sandstorm...
What is the real story of energy and the
economy? We hear two predominant energy stories. One is the story economists
tell: The economy can grow forever; energy shortages will have no
impact on the economy. We can simply substitute other forms of energy, or do
without. Another version of the energy and the economy story is the view
of many who believe in the “Peak Oil” theory. According to this view,
oil supply can decrease with only a minor impact on the economy. The economy
will continue along as before, except with higher prices. These higher prices
encourage the production of alternatives, such wind and solar. At this
point, it is not just peak oilers who endorse this view, but many others as
well. In our view, the real story of energy and the economy is much less
favorable than either of these views.
Moody's puts $3 billion in student
debt-backed ABS on default watch leading us to wonder when 30% delinquency rates
in a market where nearly $1.3 trillion in credit has been extended will finally
result in the bursting of what is America's most spectacular debt bubble.
"About 300
paratroopers, from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, arrived at the International
Peacekeeping and Security Center, April 14 - 15, to begin a six-month training
rotation with Ukrainian national guard forces."
Presenting the history of the Pico Rivera
WalMart store which was closed as part of the company's mysterious, nationwide
"plumbing" problem.
Could the closure be related to the
location's history of protests against low wages, poor working conditions, and
retaliation? Read and decide for yourself...
With Abenomics seemingly a total failure
(aside from managing to collapse the currency and living standards of the
population - worst
Misery Index in 33 years) the demographic crisis that Japan faces just got
more crisis-er. As NHKWorld
reports,
Japan's population continues to fall (4th
year in a row) but what is worse, there are now 33 million people over the age
of 65 (a record 26%), more than double the number under the age of 14 (16.2
million). The ministry says the population will likely continue declining for
some time as fewer babies are born and society ages. The implications
are catastrophic...
Central bankers in the U.S., Europe and
Asia have created another massive bubble. This time it is a bubble in stocks,
bonds and real estate simultaneously. There is no place to hide. But
we’d put my money on war, chaos, and
revolution. There will be no impunity for our gambling.
June 1, 2015 is a very important day for
American civil liberties and the Constitution. On that day, Section 215 of the
Patriot Act, one of the most egregious pieces of legislation passed in U.S.
history, will expire automatically without reauthorization from Congress.
Naturally, this is causing a panic attack within the heart of the NSA, FBI and
all the authoritarian lackey legislators in Washington D.C. With the chances of
a clean reauthorization next to none, these crafty “representatives” and their
puppeteers need to figure out a way to sneak it into another piece of
legislation. What better way to do this than making it a part of something that
ostensibly appears to be reining in surveillance powers. Enter the USA Freedom
Act.
Global debt has expanded by
$35 trillion since the credit crisis and
as Lacy Hunt exclaims, "that's a net negative, debt is an increase
in current consumption in exchange for a decline in future spending and we
are not going to solve this problem by taking on more and more debt."
"This process is far from over," Hunt concludes, "rates
will move irregularly lower and will remain depressed for several years."
Santelli sums up perfectly, "we're all frogs in boiling water," as we
await the consequences of central planning.
The economic data has continued to
disappoint on virtually all fronts, earnings are weak and markets are grossly
extended. Yet, investors are more bullish than ever...
Presented with no comment...
Prison Planet.com | Agents asked Biggs to meet with them in El Paso,
Texas.
Paul Joseph Watson | Footage shows
dramatized clips of 9/11 attack, gruesome beheadings.
Mikael Thalen | “Data-collecting” LED
streetlights part of General Electric’s “Intelligent City Initiative.”
Steve Watson | Internal briefings read like a strategy for going
to war.
UK Daily Mail | Cameras placed along
Texas’ 1,200-mile border with Mexico have captured the stream of illegal
immigrants sneaking into the country on a daily basis.
Breitbart | Bush said that illegal
immigrants should not earn citizenship.
Kurt Nimmo | Exploited famous actors to push foreign policy
objectives.
Paul Joseph Watson | 14 helicopters seen
over airport.
Bizpac Review | If anyone ever wondered
why liberals get labeled hypocrites they need look no further than the queen of
media progressives, Melissa Harris-Perry.
Christina Sarich | Before details of
Agreement are deleased to public.
WORLD NEWS
Fukushima
Tap Water Wins ‘Gold Quality Award,’ Officials Claim Safe to Drink
Adan
Salazar| Water was
previously deemed unfit to drink in weeks following nuclear disaster.
EU
poised to let in new GM products, introduce non-health opt-outs
RT | The EU is
expected to permit over a dozen new genetically modified agricultural products
into its market.
A U.S.-Russia War
Over Ukraine?
Patrick J.
Buchanan | “Could a U.S. response to Russia’s action in Ukraine provoke a
confrontation that leads to a U.S.-Russia War?”
US
military instructors deployed to Ukraine to train local forces
RT |
Paratroopers of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade, based in Vincenza, Italy, have
arrived in western Ukraine to provide training for Ukrainian government troops.
Muslims
Murder 12 Christians Throwing Them Overboard
Truth Revolt |
Italian police arrested 15 Muslim men for murdering 12 Christians by throwing
them into the Mediterranean Sea as they crossed to Italy from Libya on a rubber
dinghy.
·
MONEY WATCH
Is
Saudi Arabia Setting The World Up For Major Oil Price Spike?
OilPrice.com |
In order to maintain a grip on market share by pushing U.S. shale producers out
of the market, Saudi Arabia (and OPEC) is willing to use up its spare capacity.
China
No Longer Top Foreign Owner of U.S. Debt
CNS News | By
the end of February, according to data released yesterday by the U.S. Treasury,
entities in Mainland China had relinquished their position as the top owners of
U.S. government debt.
Dutch
Central Banker Fired For Being A “Nazi Cross-Dressing, Nymphomaniac,
Dominatrix” Prostitute
Zero Hedge |
They say don’t let money printing get to your head, but for one now former
central banker it is far too late.
Flat
Broke, Living In A Moldy Basement And Relying On Food Stamps And Medicaid
Michael Snyder |
Could you imagine being a single parent and trying to survive in America today
on $10.50 an hour?
·
PRISON PLANET
Worse
than Sandusky: School Cop Whose Job was to “Protect” Students, Repeatedly Raped
22 Boys
Free Thought
Project | The lawsuit details how this serial child rapist would repeatedly
walk into classrooms and remove his victims one by one.
San
Antonio Woman Fined $2000 For Feeding The Homeless
Zero Hedge |
Enough to get her ticketed and fined $2000.
N.J.
Teacher Reinstated After Suspension for “Anti-Gay” Facebook Posts
New American |
“By agreement with all parties involved, there will be no further comment on
the issue.”
Green
Party supporters ‘most likely’ to fly long-haul
London Telegraph
| Despite their party’s environmental agenda, Green supporters prefer jetting
off to distant shores, new research has suggested.
COMMENTARY
Ukraine
a Vector for GMO Poison’s Spread Through EU
Ulson Gunnar |
Since Monsanto already operates in Ukraine, what else would it be investing in
additionally that it hasn’t had the opportunity to before besides GMOs?
Congressional
Hearing: Bloggers Are Terrorists
Prison Planet.com
| Alex Jones talks with Rob Dew about some breaking news coming out of a
congressional hearing.
HEAD
of the FBI’s Anthrax Investigation Says the Whole Thing Was a SHAM
Washington’s
Blog | Agent In Charge of Amerithrax Investigation Blows the Whistle.
The
FBI Informant Who Mounted a Sting Operation Against the FBI
The Intercept |
A new documentary, (T)ERROR, reveals the weaknesses and bungling behind a
terrorism investigation that relied on informants.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Aerial
Search For ISIS Camp at U.S. Border
Prison
Planet.com | Infowars reporter Joe Biggs takes to the skies in search of the
reported ISIS base hidden among Cartel compounds just across the U.S. border in
Anapra, Mexico.
Which
Fortune 500 Companies Pay No Taxes?
Rob Dew | Mega-corproations
enjoy no income tax as Federal Reserve targets everyday Americans.
Video:
Veteran Pulled Over by Camo-Wearing Cops In Armored Vehicle
Paul Joseph
Watson | “I didn’t know we were in Iraq”.
·
U.S. NEWS
FBI
Requests Meeting with Infowars Reporter
Prison
Planet.com | Agents asked
Biggs to meet with them in El Paso, Texas.
PHOTO:
School blames ‘poor lighting’ for paltry Michelle O lunch
EAG News | That’s
not really a fish filet with a whole wheat bun resting on top.
Feminists
assault free speech with illegal ‘No Catcall’ signs in NYC — city is NOT amused
Bizpac Review |
Signs have been popping up all over New York City declaring and end to
catcalling.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Scientists
find key to ‘turbo-charging’ immune system to kill all cancers
London Telegraph
| Imperial College scientists are developing a gene therapy designed to boost
immune cells.
Have
you heard ‘the hum’? Mystery of Earth’s low droning noise could now be solved
London
Independent | It was often blamed on phone masts, submarine communications and
pipes.
Researcher:
Scientists Have Warned for Years that Monsanto’s Roundup Causes Cancer
Barbara Minton |
But it was approved anyway.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 04/17/2015 - Anthrax Was As Important As 9/11 In
"Justifying" the War on Terror, the Iraq War, and the Patriot Act
We have never, ever, seen the US equity
market so
disconnected from underlying macro
fundamentals.
Today, to our dismay, we find that the
ECB has not only considered a "parallel currency" alterantive but for
Greece this may be a reality before long. According
to Reuters, the ECB "
has analyzed a scenario in which Greece
runs out of money and starts paying civil servants with IOUs, creating a
virtual second currency within the euro bloc, people with knowledge of the
exercise told Reuters." "The fact is we are not seeing any
progress... So we have to look at these scenarios."
When the ECB is finally forced, by
distortions of its own making, to dive into the corporate bond market, and
when, after that, Mario Draghi goes full-Kuroda and throws the ECB’s balance
sheet behind European equities, the central bank may want to check in the
following places for relative value because according to Bloomberg, these are
the countries where the “bargains” are to be found in equities and fixed income...
When Barry met Yanis... "honest
broker" Barack Obama left Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis
disappointed yesterday when, as Bild reports,
US will not give financial aid to Greece
(but will send advisers to Athens to compile a list of possible savings
measures).
Time Warner is down 5-8% on the news that
the DoJ is "leaning against" the Comcast deal:
*DOJ LAWYERS SAID CLOSE TO RECOMMENDING
SUIT TO BLOCK CABLE DEAL
*U.S. SAID GATHERING EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT BLOCKING TWC PURCHASE
This has dragged the broad market lower
as Comcast hit back stating "there is no basis for a lawsuit to block the
TWC merger."
Should Gary Gensler truly be Clinton's
chief financial officer, and should Hillary become America's next president,
then ladies and gentlemen, in the fine tradition started by Hank Paulson who
nearly brought the entire wastern world to ruin,
the next US Treasury Secretary will be
the following fine former Goldman Sachs employee and "champion for
everyday Americans."
Let’s talk about idiots. Somewhere out
there, some absurdly well-paid banker just placed his investors’ capital in yet
another financial instrument which is guaranteed to lose money: Australian
government debt. For the first time in Australia, every single one of
the 47 bidders offered a price so high that it implies a negative interest rate.
Sadly, there are plenty of similarities between today’s negative interest rates
and the early 2000s housing bubble. Only a fool believes that this time is
different.
Rig counts fell for a record 19th week in
a row. Total rigs dropped 34 to 954 and oil rigs dropped 26 to 374. This means
the total rig count drop is now greater than 50% - the fastest drop since 1986.
Crude prices had slid into the rig count announcement and popped afterwards.
The severe limitation of human
robot jobs is that they rarely offer much opportunity to learn a
wide variety of skills--precisely what enables us to create more value with our
labor.
Apple's market capitalization of $730
billion may now be more than double that of Exxon Mobil, but when it comes to
taxes paid to the US government, it's no contest: the company with record
profitability that so many progressive hipsters adore and for whose products
they line up with annual regularity is billions of dollars below its
"fair" contribution to the US Treasury. Ironically, it is
eclipsed by that other company that so many progressives love to hate: Exxon
Mobil, which paid $4 billion more in tax than Apple, yet whose valuation has
been cut by 15% over the past year as a result of the collapse in oil prices.
President Obama and Italian PM Matteo
Renzi have been deep in discussion for minutes... here's the press
conference...
European
Sovereigns Have Worst Week In 5 Years, Stocks Slump
As
Grexit contagion spreads so European
peripheral bond risk has surged. Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish risk has
increased by the most since May 2010. It appears that the hope of
"containment" in Europe via Q€ purchases is overwhelmed by the
outflows - this was extremely evident in German markets today that saw
'someone' selling both bonds & stocks as Grexit fears rose. European stocks
were all battered - the worst week of the year - with
Germany worst as E1uropean VIX soared 5 to 25.05 - its biggest jump in 4
months.
Posted by : GoldCore
Post date: 04/23/2015 - 08:34
The
Saudi bombing of Yemen is another flash point and will deepen tensions between
the U.S., NATO allies and Russia and indeed China. Geopolitical risk remains
high and the region remains a powder...
U.S. Oil Glut: How High Can It Go?
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 04/23/2015 - 08:04
For
now, EIA still estimates that total U.S. crude oil production will fall in May.
But we think the current oil prices are enough to get the shale E&Ps
excited.
These Two Assets Show Us a Crash is Coming
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 04/23/2015 - 10:12
The
era the phony recovery narrative has come unhinged. We have now entered a
cycle of actual price discovery in which financial assets fall to more accurate
values. This will eventually result...
The
CME contacted Sarao about his trades after concluding he appeared to be
significantly swaying opening prices. Sarao explained some of his conduct
to the CME in a March 2010 e-mail as “just showing a friend of mine what occurs
on the bid side of the market almost 24 hours a day, by the high-frequency
geeks.” And the reason why nobody touched Sarao until just days before the 5
years statute of limitations following the Flash Crash had run out, is the
following: "He then questioned whether CME’s actions regarding his
activity meant “the mass manipulation of high frequency
nerds is going to end."
The
answer was no.
It
appears as though Hillary Clinton may be witnessing her “Geithner moment,”
because as Reuters reports, several Clinton family charities will now
refile a half decade worth of returns after failing to report “tens of
millions” in contributions from foreign governments.
US
Equity volatility (VIX) is trading at its lowest since early December, as the
schizophrenic swings continue. However, Rates, FX, and Oil
"VIX" all remain notably high...
What’s
so shocking about the story below is not that a 20-year veteran of the Houston
police force, who was previously named one of the “Officers of the Year”
by the Officers Union, was trafficking weapons for drug cartels. What’s
shocking is that he was actually indicted and faces life in prison. He
should’ve worked for a federal agency like the DEA or TSA, in which case he
might not have even been fired.
Following
the CEO's comments that over 100,000 energy jobs will be lost this
year, an executive with Weatherford International - the fifth largest
US fracker - has warned half of the 41 fracking companies operating in
the U.S. will be dead or sold by year-end because of slashed spending
by oil companies. “We go by and we see yards are locked up and the doors are
closed," said Rob Fulks, seemingly confirming what Weatherford CEO Duroc-Danner
said earlier in the year, "we're now confronted with an unusually
severe market contraction."
We recently revealed that $5.3 trillion of government debt trades
at subzero interest rates. In today’s fiscally profligate world that is a thundering tell.
What it signifies is nothing less than financial regime change. There are
no markets left in any meaningful sense of the word - just a raging casino
infected with the madness of the crowds and the central bank pied pipers
who mesmerize them. Every day there are new confirmations of the
mania.
Just
because...
Something
doesn't quite add up when the median price of a new home is just shy of all
time highs, while the actual number of new homes sold is just shy of all time
lows.
No sector will be immune to the changing nature of work and value
creation. The only
sustainable way to avoid upheaval is to learn to create value in ways
that cannot be commoditized.
From
below $56 to $58 in a few hours as terrible Asian, European, and US PMIs prompt
a spoofed, manic stop-run to Tuesday's highs.
"Fed
has created abnormal market conditions by printing money and keeping interest
rates low. Investors are looking for growth anywhere they can find it
and tech companies are good targets - at these values, however, all tech stocks
are expensive - even looking at 5+ years of revenue growth down the road.
This means that most value-driven investors have left the market
and the remaining 5-10%+ increase in market value will be driven by momentum
investors. At some point there won't be any momentum investors left
buying at higher prices, and the market begins to tumble. May be 10-20%
correction or something more significant, especially in tech stocks."
US
stocks are open - Panic Buy. PMI missed! - Buy moar on bad data. New Home Sales
miss - even better - buy moar as bad news is good news. Yesterday's highs
hit... Stop-run complete... unleash the selling...
After
existing home sales sent stocks vertical on great news, so new home sales plunge
has sent stocks vertical on bad news. An 11.1% drop MoM - the biggest
since July 2013 - dragged new home sales back below 500k to 481k SAAR - the
biggest miss in a year. Sales of new homes collapse 33.3% in The
Northeast and The South saw new home sales crash 15.8%.
A
U.S. drone strike in January targeting a suspected al Qaeda compound in
Pakistan inadvertently killed an American and Italian being held hostage by the
group, senior Obama administration officials said. As WSJ reports, the
killing of American development expert Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker
Giovanni Lo Porto is the first known instance in which the U.S. has
accidentally killed a hostage in a drone strike. We await President
Obama's 'collateral damage' explanation.
On
the heels of weak PMIs from Europe and Asia, Markit's US Manufacturing
PMI plunged to 54.2 in April (from 55.7). Against expectations of a
rise to 55.6, this is the biggest miss on record. Of course,
this is 'post-weather' so talking-heads will need to find another excuse as New
Orders declined for the first time since Nov 2014.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Refusing to identify
as a liberal in Hollywood is a career killer.
Truth
Revolt | Another Possible Clinton
Foundation Quid Pro Quo.
The
Hill | President Obama on Thursday
acknowledged that the U.S. killed two innocent hostages in counterterrorism
operations against al Qaeda
The
Washington Times | The ACLU hopes to
obtain government records outlining reproductive health policies for
unaccompanied immigrant children.
Jakari Jackson | An
interview with the writer of the Revolutionary War comic series Rebels.
Kurt Nimmo | Obama says
American and Italian hostages held by al-Qaeda “accidentally” killed in drone
strike
Paul
Joseph Watson | Troops repel angry
protesters with pepper spray & rifles.
Steven
Crowder | Time to stop playing nice.
conservatives.
National
Review | Nobody does hypocrisy better than leftists.
WORLD NEWS
CIA
cooperated with Chinese intelligence to target Russia
The Washington Times
| Covert CIA-China cooperation was part of successive administrations’ programs
to undermine the Soviet Union.
Scientists
successfully genetically modify human embryos, allowing for editing of babies’
genes
London
Independent | Ethical and medical concerns abound about the study, which had
been rumoured to be taking place in secret.
Top
Chinese experts: North Korea has more nukes than anyone thought and Kim could
double it
Business Insider
| Chinese nuclear experts have warned that North Korea may already have 20
nuclear warheads.
Bus
Driver Orders 8-year-old to Stop Reading… Because Books are Dangerous
Adan
Salazar | School board
supports driver’s decision to ban girl from reading.
French
police foil imminent terror attack in Paris
London Guardian
| Interior minister announces arrest of student after stash of weapons found in
car and lodgings.
·
MONEY WATCH
Clinton
charities will refile tax returns, audit for other errors
Reuters |
Hillary Clinton’s family’s charities are refiling at least five annual tax
returns.
Nick
Leeson just said the man charged with the 2010 ‘Flash Crash’ is a ‘scapegoat’
Business Insider
| The charges don’t “entirely ring true.”
Mac Slavo |
There’s one libertarian economist who says that the people in charge just can’t
be trusted.
IRS Hung Up On 8
Million Taxpayers
Truth Revolt |
Obamacare forced agency to divert millions from taxpayer services
·
PRISON PLANET
Rand
Paul on NSA: ‘Our Founding Fathers would be mortified’
Associated Press
| Republican Sen. Rand Paul lashed out against the federal government’s
sweeping surveillance programs.
California
Bill Proposes “Drug Breathalyzers” for Police
New American |
The California state assembly is considering a bill that would permit
on-the-spot drug testing using “drug breathalyzers.”
Michael Krieger
| More of that famous American justice for ya.
Breitbart
editor mysteriously blacklisted from Shorty Awards
Breitbart | A
whispering campaign by feminist agitators
COMMENTARY
The Disastrous
Clinton Post-Presidency
New Yorker | The
qualities of an effective presidency do not seem to transfer onto a
post-presidency.
Jakari
Jackson | An interview with
the writer of the Revolutionary War comic series Rebels.
The
Drug War and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Daniel McAdams
|Parents who seek non-intoxicating cannabis oil to treat their seriously ill
children are being delivered into the clutches of the corporatist-run US gulag
system.
Bad
Guys Pushing THIS WEEK to Promote Global Tyranny Run By Corporations
Washington’s
Blog | Here’s How to STOP Them.
·
MULTIMEDIA
U.S.
Army FORCES Cadets to Wear High Heels to Promote Feminist Campaign
Paul Joseph
Watson | ROTC cadets told their careers would be finished if they refused to
participate.
Paypal
Head Wants Brain Chips to Replace Passwords
Paul Joseph
Watson | New technology will have to fit inside ‘cultural norms’ to be accepted.
Inside White House
Call Boy Ring
Prison
Planet.com | Alex Jones welcomes Nick Bryant & Henry Vinson to the show to
talk about Historical White House sex scandals and why the D.C. Madam was
killed.
·
U.S. NEWS
Rand Paul
yanks Ray-Bans after complaint
The Hill |
Ray-Ban has asked Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign to quit selling the
brand’s Wayfarer sunglasses, which Paul had imprinted with the “Rand” logo.
Bizpac Review |
A white guy is getting the job!
Bill
Nye Brags About Boarding Gas-Guzzling Air Force One to Combat “Climate Change”
Kit Daniels | Air Force One’s fuel efficiency: 0.20 miles per
gallon!
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
London
Independent | Surgeon Sergio Canavero has vowed to go to China is he is banned
from doing it everywhere else.
FDA
Database: 93% of Food Additives Aren’t Properly Studied
Barbara Minton |
FDA’s indifference to food additives is strange.
IRT’s
Jeffrey Smith’s Appears on Daily Show; Warns Stewart of GMO Apples &
Potatoes
Jefferey Jaxon |
GMOs are reaching the mainstream.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Posted by : Capitalist Exploits
Some
economic facts that you did not know...
Posted by: williambanzai7
On
the occasion of William Shakespeare's Birthday...To Default or Not To
Default
TPTB Are Trying to Kill Off What’s Left of America
RIGHT NOW
Posted by: George Washington
It's
the Last Stand for Our Republic
The war on cash is escalating. Just a week ago, the infamous Willem Buiter, along
with Ken Rogoff, voiced their support for a restriction (or ban altogether) on
the use of cash (something
that was already been implemented in Louisiana in 2011 for used goods).
Today, as Mises' Jo Salerno reports, the war has acquired a powerful new ally
in Chase, the largest bank in the U.S., which has enacted a policy restricting
the use of cash in selected markets; bans cash payments for
credit cards, mortgages, and auto loans; and disallows the storage of "any
cash or coins" in safe deposit boxes.
Instead
of merely plugging the hole left from declining liabilities (deposits), what
the ECB's ELA funding appears to also be doing is compensating for a rapid
write down in bank assets (loans) as well, in the form of charged off
Non-Performing Loans. According to Reuters, one of the
leading Greek financial institutions, Piraeus Bank will write off
credit cards and retail loans up to 20,000 euros ($21,484) for Greeks who
qualify for help under a law the leftist government passed to provide relief to
poverty-stricken borrowers, it said on Thursday.
"Companies that obsessively buy back their shares could be making a
big mistake," Moody's
head of head of leveraged finance tells CNBC, echoing what we have said on too
many occasions to count. With IG supply at all-time highs and with companies
pouring the money into share repurchases instead of investing in future
productivity and growth, we say yet again that the theatre of financial
engineering will continue only until it can no longer continue.
No
matter what other problems may or may not be linked to hydraulic fracturing, or
fracking, the disposal of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost
certainly is primarily responsible for the recent spate of earthquakes in
Oklahoma, normally a seismologically quiet state. That’s the
conclusion of a report issued April 21 by the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS).
What’s important about Andrews’ and Holland’s conclusion is that they
represent the state of Oklahoma, where energy is an important industry,
providing about one-quarter of the state’s jobs.
“It’s
absolutely possible we’ll see some draconian measures from the regulators,” a
UBS strategist tells Bloomberg, referring to steps Beijing may have to take to
curb China's equity mania. Meanwhile, in a new note, the bank says that "the
challenge with almost all retail-driven liquidity rallies (like this one) is
that they generally don't abide by the more fundamental rules we follow."
It's all liquidity and "animal spirits" in China folks — look out
below.
At
HSBC — whose Swiss arm is the international gold standard for money laundering
— Mexican drug cartels and terrorists were once welcomed, but porn site
operators will apparently have to take their business elsewhere.
When
we deny reality and engage in irrational wishful thinking, we are engaging in
something called 'hopium': "The irrational belief that, despite all
evidence to the contrary, things will turn out for the best." Right
now that propaganda matrix is assuring the American people that everything is
going to be just fine. Well, they better be right. Because if
not, they are going to have millions of people extremely angry with them when
things really start falling to pieces.
Entrepreneurs around the world are "drowning in this nothingness
reality," and Saxobank CIO Steen Jakobsen sees
a crisis correction as the only outcome of a zero
environment in his opinion. "We have zero growth, zero inflation and zero
hope," he explains based on his recent global travels meeting business
leaders and key investors whose shared negative outlook was striking. The
following brief clip concludes ominously, with Jakobsen noting that he "believes
a Fed hike will act as a margin call on the global economy."
The
CME contacted Sarao about his trades after concluding he appeared to be
significantly swaying opening prices. Sarao explained some of his conduct
to the CME in a March 2010 e-mail as “just showing a friend of mine what occurs
on the bid side of the market almost 24 hours a day, by the high-frequency
geeks.” And the reason why nobody touched Sarao until just days before the 5
years statute of limitations following the Flash Crash had run out, is the
following: "He then questioned whether CME’s actions regarding his
activity meant “the mass manipulation of high frequency
nerds is going to end."
The
answer was no.
The next time some financial pundit tells you to buy stocks, show them
this chart. It’s an
incredibly interesting take on not only how expensive stocks are right
now, but also how the monetary system has left the average guy
behind.
It
appears as though Hillary Clinton may be witnessing her “Geithner moment,”
because as Reuters reports, several Clinton family charities will now
refile a half decade worth of returns after failing to report “tens of
millions” in contributions from foreign governments.
...
or the similarities...
Mikael
Thalen | “It goes beyond just looking at crime data.”
Kit Daniels | Fast
food giant admits it quietly closed 350 stores in Q1.
Adan Salazar | Police
chief stands by officer’s brutal use of force.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Refusing to identify as a liberal in Hollywood is a career
killer.
Truth
Revolt | Another Possible Clinton Foundation Quid Pro Quo.
The
Hill | President Obama on Thursday acknowledged that the U.S. killed two
innocent hostages in counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda
The
Washington Times | The ACLU hopes to obtain government records outlining
reproductive health policies for unaccompanied immigrant children.
Jakari Jackson | An
interview with the writer of the Revolutionary War comic series Rebels.
Kurt Nimmo | Obama
says American and Italian hostages held by al-Qaeda “accidentally” killed in
drone strike
Paul
Joseph Watson | Troops repel angry protesters with pepper spray & rifles.
WORLD NEWS
CIA
cooperated with Chinese intelligence to target Russia
The Washington
Times | Covert CIA-China cooperation was part of successive administrations’ programs
to undermine the Soviet Union.
Scientists
successfully genetically modify human embryos, allowing for editing of babies’
genes
London
Independent | Ethical and medical concerns abound about the study, which had
been rumoured to be taking place in secret.
Top
Chinese experts: North Korea has more nukes than anyone thought and Kim could
double it
Business Insider
| Chinese nuclear experts have warned that North Korea may already have 20
nuclear warheads.
Bus
Driver Orders 8-year-old to Stop Reading… Because Books are Dangerous
Adan
Salazar | School board
supports driver’s decision to ban girl from reading.
French
police foil imminent terror attack in Paris
London Guardian
| Interior minister announces arrest of student after stash of weapons found in
car and lodgings.
·
MONEY WATCH
Clinton
charities will refile tax returns, audit for other errors
Reuters |
Hillary Clinton’s family’s charities are refiling at least five annual tax
returns.
Nick
Leeson just said the man charged with the 2010 ‘Flash Crash’ is a ‘scapegoat’
Business Insider
| The charges don’t “entirely ring true.”
Mac Slavo |
There’s one libertarian economist who says that the people in charge just can’t
be trusted.
IRS Hung Up On 8
Million Taxpayers
Truth Revolt |
Obamacare forced agency to divert millions from taxpayer services
·
PRISON PLANET
Rand
Paul on NSA: ‘Our Founding Fathers would be mortified’
Associated Press
| Republican Sen. Rand Paul lashed out against the federal government’s
sweeping surveillance programs.
California
Bill Proposes “Drug Breathalyzers” for Police
New American |
The California state assembly is considering a bill that would permit
on-the-spot drug testing using “drug breathalyzers.”
Michael Krieger
| More of that famous American justice for ya.
Breitbart
editor mysteriously blacklisted from Shorty Awards
Breitbart | A
whispering campaign by feminist agitators
COMMENTARY
The Disastrous
Clinton Post-Presidency
New Yorker | The
qualities of an effective presidency do not seem to transfer onto a
post-presidency.
Jakari
Jackson | An interview with
the writer of the Revolutionary War comic series Rebels.
The
Drug War and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Daniel McAdams
|Parents who seek non-intoxicating cannabis oil to treat their seriously ill
children are being delivered into the clutches of the corporatist-run US gulag
system.
Bad
Guys Pushing THIS WEEK to Promote Global Tyranny Run By Corporations
Washington’s
Blog | Here’s How to STOP Them.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Sommers:
Campuses have become a hostile environment for free speech
Prison
Planet.com | Megyn Kelly interviews Christina Hoff Sommers.
California
One Vote Closer to Forced Vaccination
Lee Ann McAdoo |
Politics at play in vote that many are calling “totally rigged.”
Walmart
Death Camps for Martial Law Takeover? (Debunked)
Paul Joseph
Watson | The truth behind the hysteria.
·
U.S. NEWS
McDonald’s to Close
700 Stores
Kit Daniels | Fast food giant admits it quietly closed 350
stores in Q1.
Rand Paul
yanks Ray-Bans after complaint
The Hill |
Ray-Ban has asked Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign to quit selling the
brand’s Wayfarer sunglasses, which Paul had imprinted with the “Rand” logo.
Bizpac Review |
A white guy is getting the job!
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
London
Independent | Surgeon Sergio Canavero has vowed to go to China is he is banned
from doing it everywhere else.
FDA
Database: 93% of Food Additives Aren’t Properly Studied
Barbara Minton |
FDA’s indifference to food additives is strange.
IRT’s
Jeffrey Smith’s Appears on Daily Show; Warns Stewart of GMO Apples &
Potatoes
Jefferey Jaxon |
GMOs are reaching the mainstream.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 04/24/2015 - 16:57
"These people are essentially
lapdogs for Obama."--Rand Paul
October 15th Bond Market Crash Explained
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 04/25/2015 - 14:01
October 15th, 2014 wasn`t a market
crash!
This Is How Junk-Bond Investors Are Now Getting
Whacked
Posted by: testosteronepit
Post date: 04/24/2015 - 01:27
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/25/2015
It
is undoubtedly a huge red flag when in one of the countries
considered to be a member of the “highest economic freedom in the world” club, commercial
banks are suddenly refusing their customers access to their cash. This
money doesn’t belong to the banks, and it doesn’t belong to the central bank
either. If this can happen in prosperous Switzerland, based on some nebulous
notion of the “collective good”, which its unelected central planners can
arbitrarily determine and base decisions upon, it can probably happen anywhere.
Consider yourself warned.
It would appear the era of the dollar's global domination as a reserve
currency is coming to an end,
and the stage is now being set for gold to be officially accepted as the
ultimate reserve money once again, this time by the next generation of advanced
nations.
What
does it mean to be an effective advocate of liberty?
With
everyone's attention pegged on the Grexit, what everyone appears to be
forgetting is a nuanced clause buried deep in the term sheet of the second Greek
bailout: a bailout whose terms will be ultimately reneged upon if and when
Greece defaults on its debt to the Troika (either in or out of the Eurozone).
Recall that as per our report from February 2012, in
addition to losing its sovereignty years ago, Greece also lost something far
more important. It's gold: To wit: "Ms. Katseli, an economist who was
labor minister in the government of George Papandreou until she left in a
cabinet reshuffle last June, was also upset that Greece’s lenders will
have the right to seize the gold reserves in the Bank of Greece under the terms
of the new deal."
When a specially-designed robot
dies within 3 hours of being exposed to Fukushima's radiation, it is
clear something is not quite as propagandized in Japan; and today, as SCMP reports, extremely
high levels of radiation have been discovered in a children's playground in
Tokyo. While two hours of exposure to a child would be equivalent to
the maximum does allowable in a year, Japanese officials say they do
not think it is connected to the disaster at Fukushima. We are not
sure whether that is supposed to reassure or terrorize locals?
Presented
with one comment... Di(e)Vergence?
In
what appears to be an effort to ensure that James Franco and Seth Rogen are
never again sabotaged by evil North Korean hackers, the Pentagon is out with a
new plan that explains when it may be necessary to take the cyber fight to the
“aggressors” in order to “mitigate potential cyberrisk to the US homeland.”
Unsurprisingly, the list of cyber adversaries is indistinguishable from what
might fairly be called Washington’s “usual suspects.” The villains are:
Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/25/2015
The day after the crash (and thereafter), what will be the currency that is used to buy a bag of groceries, a tank of
petrol, a meal at a restaurant? Certainly, the need will be immediate and will
be on a national level in each impacted country, affecting everyone. Many believe the US will be prepared ahead of time
with a new, electronic currency - US citizens will then become the most
economically controlled people in the world, overnight. A further
possibility is taking place in Mexico today. Mexico
is remonetising silver. As the Great Unravelling proceeds, we would be
wise to monitor what happens with the Libertad in Mexico and watch for
a similar return to precious metals in other jurisdictions.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/25/2015
The
Fed once stored $4 billion in hard currency in an underground Virginia bunker
in preparation for a nuclear showdown with the Soviet Union. Here are the
blueprints and pictures.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 04/25/2015
A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out
truth is not a government that any country wants. But such an undesirable government is the government
that Clinton-Bush-Cheney-Obama-Hillary-Lack-Royce have given us. Does it satisfy you? Are you content that in your
name and with taxes on your hard-earned and increasingly scarce earnings,
Washington in the 21st century has murdered, maimed, and displaced millions of
peoples in eight countries, has set America on the path to war with Russia and
China, and has declared truth to be an enemy of the state?
“Sometimes
the side effects outweigh the benefits"...
Stunned
hypocrisy...
It
has been a very disturbing 24 hours for Greece.
The trio of macro-prudential policy, the onset and evolution of shadow
banking, and the nebulous concept of financial stability may have become a
toxic cocktail which can be
instrumental in moving forward the Federal Reserve’s timeline for lift-off zero
bound rates. The intuition here is stooped in concepts of volatility and how
market structure evolution may contribute or detract from asset volatility.
Volatility is the square root of time. Financial repression times time
equals volatility. Financial repression and/or macro-prudential policy times
time equals the inverse of financial stability. Financial stability
inverted equals volatility squared.
Paul
Joseph Watson | US-backed militants carry out brutal execution.
The
Hill | Former presidential candidate and Texas congressman Ron Paul (R) is
criticizing President Obama for the “targeted assassination” of Americans in al
Qaeda.
Ulson
Gunnar | A house of mirrors is an immersive, highly distorted and intentionally
confusing version of reality
Michael
Snyder | Why in the world has JP Morgan accumulated more than 55 million ounces
of physical silver?
ARS
Technica | Spies failed to check properly what was being passed across to the
US.
Kyle
Olsen | Michelle Obama isn’t winning over many fans in the next generation of
voters.
Battle
Creek Enquirer | A fake rental truck with a fake dirty bomb inside triggered a
practice military response Friday in Battle Creek.
RT
| officers “failed to give medical attention in a timely manner multiple
times.”
Prison
Planet.com | “Mankind’s greatest mistake will be its inability to control the
technology it has created.”
Daily Mail | Children
as young as three are being asked to sign a contract pledging not to use
transphobic language at school.
WORLD NEWS
Muddying
the Waters: US Interested in Keeping Up Ukrainian Crisis
Sputnik | It
seems to be only a matter of time until the next military escalation, a German
magazine wrote.
Massive
Earthquake Kills 565, Demolishes Buildings in Nepal
Sputnik | A 7.5
magnitude earthquake rattled Nepal on Saturday, the European Mediterranean
Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
Judge:
Obama’s Drone Strikes Are “War Crime”
Steve
Watson | POTUS acting as
judge, jury and executioner.
High
levels of radiation have been found in a Tokyo playground
Reuters |
Authorities in the Japanese capital have cordoned off a playground where high
levels of radiation were detected this week.
US
‘Masterminds’ All Present-Day Military Conflicts – Russian General Staff
Sputnik | The
United States and their allies have used military force more than 50 times over
the past decade, with six US operations ending in local armed conflicts.
·
MONEY WATCH
National Debt
Soars Over $18 Trillion
Truth Revolt |
Our debt is more than we produce.
PayPal
Asserts Copyright Ownership Over All Intellectual Property of its Users
Paul Joseph
Watson | Payment processor announces alarming update to terms of agreement.
“I’m
Not Crazy, I’m Scared” – Why For One Trader, This Time It Is Different
Zero Hedge |
Central banks are driving all investment decisions.
Zero Hedge |
There simply is not enough ad spending dollars in existence to support the
gargantuan market caps.
·
PRISON PLANET
Washington’s
Blog | TPP may as well stand for “Tracking Porn Pics.”
School
Expels 12-year-old Cancer Survivor for Missing Too Many Days
Adan
Salazar | “I didn’t do
anything wrong, but they still got rid of me.”
Pentagon
Announces New Strategy for Cyberwarfare
NY Times | The
Pentagon on Thursday took a major step designed to instill a measure of fear in
potential cyberadversaries.
First They Came
for the Anti-Vaxxers
Ron Paul
Institute | The manipulation of the conversation around vaccines in the
mainstream media has been nothing short of a tour de force.
COMMENTARY
CIA
Drone Kills Adam “Gadahn”, but What About Adam “Pearlman”?
SGTreport.com |
Why was so little fanfare given to Gadahn’s murder by CIA drone strike in this
“separate (deliberate) operation?”
‘Say
something nice about Hillary’ trends on Twitter and the result is hilarious
Bizpac Reivew |
Hillary Clinton had another tough week, yet she still managed to kick off a
huge Twitter trend yesterday.
A
Lesson for New York Cops: How to Subdue Brawlers Without Hurting Them
Kurt Nimmo | Swedish officers show how to handle violent
situation without hurting or killing suspects.
No
Matter Who Wins the White House, the New Boss Will Be the Same as the Old Boss
John W.
Whitehead | The American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new
president in the White House can solve the problems that plague us.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Black Boxes:
Vanishing Point of Freedom
David Knight |
Why hot rods are a symbol of liberty.
Alex Jones vs The
Mainstream Media
Know More Films
| A documentary film from Know More News exposing the Mainstream Media’s
propaganda campaign to ridicule Jones.
Sommers:
Campuses have become a hostile environment for free speech
Prison
Planet.com | Megyn Kelly interviews Christina Hoff Sommers.
·
U.S. NEWS
California
citizens seek referendum to block transgender public bathroom use
EAG News | The
petition is currently bottled up in court.
Hillary’s
White House bid energizes gun control supporters
The Hill | Gun
control advocates have high hopes for Hillary Clinton’s presidential run.
College
Students Have No Idea Who Ronald Reagan Is [VIDEO]
Daily Caller |
Can college students at one of America’s top taxpayer-funded universities
identify former President Ronald Reagan?
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
The
giant ‘supervoid’ discovered in the universe may not be the only one
The Conversation
| Astronomers have found evidence of a giant void that could be the largest
known structure in the universe.
Scientists
find missing link in Yellowstone plumbing: This giant volcano is very much
alive
Washington post
| Yellowstone National Park is the home of one of the world’s largest
volcanoes.
California’s
‘Big One’ could trigger super cycle of destructive quakes – study
RT | A major earthquake
– the Big One – is statistically almost certain in California in the coming
decades.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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1. Switzerland
6. Finland
2. Iceland
7. Netherlands
3. Denmark
8. Sweden
4. Norway
9. New Zealand
5. Canada
10. Australia
149. Chad
154. Rwanda
150. Guinea
155. Benin
151. Ivory Coast
156. Syria
152. Burkina Faso
157. Burundi
153. Afghanistan
158. Togo
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3053619/Feeling-glum-Switzerland-Swiss-nation-happiest-Earth-America-15th-grumpy-Britain-21st.html#ixzz3YNz6J0n4
Nearly
two months ago we explained "How Beijing Is Responding To A
Soaring Dollar, And Why QE In China Is Now Inevitable" in which
we cited Cornerstone who reminded us the backdrop for China looks a bit similar
to that in the US during the crisis: "We had a credit bubble, they have a
credit bubble. We had a housing bubble, they have a housing/investment bubble.
Will China eventually have to go down the same path as the U.S., and the
Eurozone? ... The PBoC will first cut rates to 0%, before contemplating
QE." To this we added that "once China, that final quasi-Western
nation, proceeds to engage in outright monetization of its debt, then and only
then will the terminal phase of the global currency wars start."
We
may not have long to wait because just hours ago, MarketNews first among the
wire services hinted at what we suggested was the endgame: PBOC
DISCUSSING DIRECT PURCHASES OF LOCAL GOVT BONDS: MNI
In
the immediate aftermath of yesterday's destructive Nepal earthquake, which has
led to hundreds of aftershocks and a constantly rising death toll, currently exceeding 2000,
the most visually stunning, if quite deadly, phenomenon was a massive avalanche
on Mt. Everest and leading to at least 17 casualties, including a Google
executive, and 61 injured.
"Soft"
capital controls arrived in Greece last week with the state decree requiring
local governments to transfer reserves to Athens. Now, Kathimerini reports that
debtors are seeing their accounts frozen in an indication that
"hard" capital controls are set to be instituted amid a deepening
cash crunch.
The
leniency shown former CIA Director (and retired General) David
Petraeus by the Justice Department in sparing him prison time for the serious
crimes that he has committed puts him in the same preferential,
immune-from-incarceration category as those running the financial
institutions of Wall Street, where, incidentally, Petraeus now makes millions.
By contrast, “lesser” folks – and particularly the brave men and women who
disclose government crimes – get to serve time, even decades, in jail. Behold,
the virtual immunity enjoyed by the well connected.
While
the USA is busy killing US civilians and terrorists with its drone program, Russia
is set to deploy its own Orlan-10 drones in the oil- and gas-rich Arctic region
(reportedly to monitor the climate situation). As SputnikNews reports,
Colonel Aleksandr Gordeev stated "the drones' task is to maintain
impartial control of the situation in the Russian sector of the Arctic."
So, passive-agressive? However, Russia also chose this week to release
rarely-seen images of a US intelligence satellite which as one analyst notes is
provocative (but obscure in its intent other than the growing
recognition of US space-based surveillance assets).
"Largely
missing from these discussions about the Fed's "exit strategy" is a
consideration that perhaps it should retain, not discard, the balance
sheet tools," the Boston Fed says, in a new paper advocating the
retention of QE as a permanent part of the Fed's tool box. QEfinity may yet
become a reality and for the most ironic of reasons: because the Fed is now in
charge of promoting "financial stability" something which, as last
October's Treasury flash crash proves, is exacerbated by asset purchases not
ameliorated.
It’s official: all
the markers of manias both past and present have now been surpassed.
The
lines have been drawn in many police departments: it’s us vs. them.
Trust in many departments has been utterly shattered within some communities
because the police hold themselves to a different standard than they do the
populace. But the recent cases of police brutality are simply a
symptom of a much larger problem. Society in the US is breaking
down, civility has been lost, and the country is rapidly becoming uncivilized.
This extends within and across all of the most important institutions.
Who
(or what) is pushing the market to fresh highs even as corporate buybacks are
on hold and households and institutions are dumping?
Over
the past year, special-operations forces have landed in 81 countries.
"I have no way of imagining what the United States will be like in
your adulthood and yet I can sense that this country is changing in unsettling ways... Stretch anything far enough and it’ll begin to
tear, fragment, break apart. That, I suspect, may be a reasonable summary
of what’s been happening in our twenty-first-century world. Under stress, things are beginning to crack open... Though you don’t know it yet, you’re already
living in an increasingly lopsided world whose stresses only seem to be
multiplying. This has been true for the return of plutocracy...It
certainly doesn’t look like the American world I’d want to turn over to you."
"Louisiana
faces a $1.6 billion budget shortfall in the coming fiscal year, a result of
both plunging oil-tax revenue and the state’s failure to enact adequate tax
increases or spending cuts after the economic downturn in 2009. The
latest plans would mean an 82 percent cut to the state’s public colleges and
universities."
Posted by : Secular Investor
Post date: 04/26/2015 - 08:17
It
feels like not a single soul is worried about the increasing amount of negative
interest rates around the world. Ignorance or indifference?
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 04/26/2015 - 16:15
BANZAI7
FOOD AND BERVERAGE WARNING...
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 04/26/2015 - 11:17
Central
Bankers bet the financial system that their academic theories would work,
despite the countless real-world examples showing that printing money does not
generate growth.
Steve Watson |
Idiotic display labeled ‘justice’ for Freddie Gray.
RT
| Clashes have broken out in Baltimore’s Camden Yards as demonstrators began
throwing bottles at police and smashing cars.
NY
Times | Congress holds the program to less careful scrutiny than many members
assert.
Christina
Sarich | Following Vermont’s GMO labeling victory.
Jeff
Thomas | Historically, when a nation’s debt exceeds its ability to repay even
the interest, it can be assumed that the currency will collapse.
The
Washington Times | The news is startling pediatricians.
The
Hill | Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Saturday he was fed up with Republicans who
caved when pressured over their stance on abortion.
ARS
Technica | New CIA internal watchdog report from 2009 released as part of New
York Times lawsuit.
Paul
Joseph Watson | US-backed militants carry out brutal execution.
The
Hill | Former presidential candidate and Texas congressman Ron Paul (R) is
criticizing President Obama for the “targeted assassination” of Americans in al
Qaeda.
WORLD NEWS
More
devastation: 6.7 magnitude aftershock earthquake strikes Nepal
RT | A fresh 6.7
magnitude earthquake struck 17km south of Kodari, Nepal, on Sunday morning.
Dramatic
Images From The Mount Everest Avalanche
Zero Hedge | the
most visually stunning, if quite deadly, phenomenon was a massive avalanche on
Mt. Everest.
Muddying
the Waters: US Interested in Keeping Up Ukrainian Crisis
Sputnik | It
seems to be only a matter of time until the next military escalation, a German
magazine wrote.
Massive
Earthquake Kills 565, Demolishes Buildings in Nepal
Sputnik | A 7.5
magnitude earthquake rattled Nepal on Saturday, the European Mediterranean
Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
Judge:
Obama’s Drone Strikes Are “War Crime”
Steve
Watson | POTUS acting as
judge, jury and executioner.
·
MONEY WATCH
Our
Financial Future: Infinite Greed Meets a Funny Thing Called Karma
Charles Hugh
Smith | All those angered by the mere question of the viability of this
predatory pillaging in the name of capitalism are incapable of even admitting
this cultural crisis exists.
National Debt
Soars Over $18 Trillion
Truth Revolt |
Our debt is more than we produce.
Why
Is JP Morgan Accumulating The Biggest Stockpile Of Physical Silver In History?
Michael Snyder |
Why in the world has JP Morgan accumulated more than 55 million ounces of
physical silver?
PayPal
Asserts Copyright Ownership Over All Intellectual Property of its Users
Paul Joseph
Watson | Payment processor announces alarming update to terms of agreement.
·
PRISON PLANET
US
Unveils 6-Year-Old Report on NSA Surveillance
AP | President
George W. Bush authorized the “President’s Surveillance Program” in the
aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Washington’s
Blog | TPP may as well stand for “Tracking Porn Pics.”
NSA
spied on EU politicians and companies with help from German intelligence
ARS Technica |
Spies failed to check properly what was being passed across to the US.
Military
holds dirty bomb exercise in city
Battle Creek
Enquirer | A fake rental truck with a fake dirty bomb inside triggered a
practice military response Friday in Battle Creek.
COMMENTARY
Imagine
George Bush yukking it up at dinner while riots escalated . . .
BizPac Review |
How different things might have been if it were President George W. Bush
yukking it up at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night.
CIA
Drone Kills Adam “Gadahn”, but What About Adam “Pearlman”?
SGTreport.com |
Why was so little fanfare given to Gadahn’s murder by CIA drone strike in this
“separate (deliberate) operation?”
‘Say
something nice about Hillary’ trends on Twitter and the result is hilarious
Bizpac Reivew |
Hillary Clinton had another tough week, yet she still managed to kick off a
huge Twitter trend yesterday.
A
Lesson for New York Cops: How to Subdue Brawlers Without Hurting Them
Kurt Nimmo | Swedish officers show how to handle violent
situation without hurting or killing suspects.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Black Boxes:
Vanishing Point of Freedom
David Knight |
Why hot rods are a symbol of liberty.
Alex Jones vs The
Mainstream Media
Know More Films
| A documentary film from Know More News exposing the Mainstream Media’s
propaganda campaign to ridicule Jones.
Sommers:
Campuses have become a hostile environment for free speech
Prison
Planet.com | Megyn Kelly interviews Christina Hoff Sommers.
·
U.S. NEWS
Innocent
Man Convicted After FBI “Expert” Analysts Confused his Hair with the Hair of a
DOG
Free Thought
Project | There are still 1200 cases left to be investigated.
California
citizens seek referendum to block transgender public bathroom use
EAG News | The
petition is currently bottled up in court.
Students
rip school lunches: #ThanksMichelleObama ‘for screwing us out of a good meal’
Kyle Olsen |
Michelle Obama isn’t winning over many fans in the next generation of voters.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Scientists’
Message to Pope: Be Skeptical of Climate Change Alarm
New American | A
team of independent climate scientists and public policy experts is traveling
to Rome to ‘enlighten’ Pope Francis.
The
giant ‘supervoid’ discovered in the universe may not be the only one
The Conversation
| Astronomers have found evidence of a giant void that could be the largest
known structure in the universe.
Scientists
find missing link in Yellowstone plumbing: This giant volcano is very much
alive
Washington post
| Yellowstone National Park is the home of one of the world’s largest
volcanoes.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Clinton Foundation admits
making mistakes on taxes...
Combined government grants
and donations...
7.8 MAG: SUPERQUAKE ROCKS
NEPAL...
2000+ dead, history crumbles...
AFTERSHOCKS TERRIFY...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ON
STREETS...
UPDATES...
Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 04/28/2015 - 14:12
BANZAI7
FOOD AND BEVERAGE WARNING...
Gold Rises, Silver Surges on Short-Covering and
Physical Demand – Greece, Ukraine, Russia Risks
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 04/28/2015 - 08:19
Greece
must pay $3.8 billion to the IMF over the course of the next month and most
analysts believe they will not be in a position to do so unless they can access
the outstanding $7.2 billion in...
Posted by: Pivotfarm
Post date: 04/28/2015 - 07:17
The
20th century could be categorized as THE century when communications took off
and we started living in each other’s pockets. Lives had been ruined by war,
trouble and strife. Wealth had been...
Against
expectations of a 3.3mm bbl build, API reported a 4.2mm bbl build - the 16th
weekly build in a row (and record streak). Cushing saw a small
draw of 162k bbls. WTI Crude fell back below $57...
Honest price discovery is essential to capitalist prosperity since it is
the miraculous mechanism by which capital is raised from savers and investors
and efficiently allocated
among producers, entrepreneurs and genuine market-rate borrowers. What the
central banks have generated, instead, is a casino that is blindly impelled to
churn the secondary capital markets and inflate the price of existing assets to
higher and higher levels - until they ultimately roll-over under their own
weight. The Easy Button addiction of our central bankers is thus not
just another large public policy problem. It is the very economic and social
scourge of our times.
One
look at the charts below and one should start wondering just how viable is
social media any more as a business model.
"Twitter has likely the greatest array of company-specific
catalysts of any company in its sphere this year, including Periscope, core
monthly active user (MAU) acceleration from the Google partnership, and new
core features like embedded video.... building out the "tail" should allow Twitter to
grow well-above average over the next several years. With a global ad
load between 1% to 2% and 85% from mobile, we think TWTR has more
revenue runway than any other company in the Internet space. Our target is
$55."
Presented
with no comment...
Well,
the leak (which ironically came out on Twitter only, and not Facebook) was
right, and the full story is even worse than Selerity reported:TWITTER 1Q LOSS
PER SHARE 25C; TWITTER INC 1Q ADJ. EPS 7C , EST. 4C.
That much we knew. Here is where it gets worse:
And
now perhaps someone will ask how much of Facebook's 1.4 billion
"users" are actually real.
When we first exposed in February
how yet another bank - Bank of America - has been quietly preserving
the post Glass-Steagall world in which cash depositing taxpayers are on the
hook for a bank's stupidity, some shrugged it off and looked to stress test to
solve all the problems. However, it appears - for once - the SEC is not willing
to just ignore the bank's actions. Just as JPMorgan's CIO Office, aka the
London Whale, took advantage of fungible, taxpayer-insured funding in the form
of excess US deposits over loans, to corner the US credit market (in what was
clearly a directional prop trade); so, as WSJ reports,
The SEC is investigating whether BofA broke rules designed to safeguard
client accounts, potentially putting retail-brokerage funds at risk in order to
generate more profits using large complex trades.
It
had been a relatively good quarter so far when it comes to leaked earnings...
until moments ago when website scouring service Selerity managed to sniff out
Twitter results, and they are not pretty.
The
sudden closure of Corinthian Colleges' remaining campuses has displaced some
16,000 students. If all of their student debt is canceled — which is
possible — it will cost taxpayers more than $200 million. With the
government cracking down on the for-profit education space and with nearly 90%
of students at for profit-colleges dependent on loans, the demise of the for-profit
model could end up costing taxpayers quite a pretty penny.
Thus,
the mistaken conceit of monetarism is on full display, especially in Japan, as
they boil down their efforts to substitute financial wealth for true
wealth as if they could simply conjure industrious creation from nothing.
And Japan is proving useful as the full and complete refutation of every
facet of such a notion, even if the mainstream resists so far confessing it.
It
was all too easy to see the devastation unleashed on Baltimore last night as
angry protesters showed their disgust at the police by burning, breaking, and
looting their city; and give up hope for America's future. But there
was a bright spot... a sign that people really do know right from wrong...
"...my greater source of personal concern, outrage... is focused upon an American
political elite that
have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities
and towns around the US... plunged tens of millions of good hard-working Americans into economic
devastation... in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living
and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive
surveillance state."
"An 'oil-debt nexus' could create a vicious circle whereby
overindebted companies pump more oil to ensure they can pay interest on their loans,
adding to the current global oil glut, and further depressing energy
prices," WSJ notes,
citing a BIS report. The interplay between the industry's growing debt pile and
falling prices is a microcosm of the deflationary dynamic that’s taking hold in
the macroeconomy and that serves, in Citi's words, to destroy creative
destruction, creating "zombies" along the way.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Cops told not to stop looting.
London
Independent | Iranian forces have reportedly fired at and seized a US cargo
ship with 34 sailors on board, according to Saudi Arabian state TV.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Chaos continues as authorities accused of failing to deal with
unrest.
Prison
Planet.com | Alex Jones makes a powerful presentation profiling how the elite
are corrupting humanity’s bright future.
Daily
Caller | Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan implied that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake waited too long.
Daily
Caller | When asked what word should be used, Questlove offered nothing.
Mac
Slavo | The bizarre world of militarization and propaganda just got a little
bit more crazy – and spooky.
Michael
Snyder | The city of Baltimore has been transformed into an “absolute war
zone“.
Michael
Snyder | Is it possible that there are people out there that are attempting to
inflame the Baltimore riots for their own twisted purposes?
Truth
Revolt | And She Tries To Get Sun Reporter Erica Green To Agree.
WORLD NEWS
Did
you hear the one about the Muslim, socialist, Kenyan president?
Washington Post
| The joke Obama can’t stop telling.
Ron
Paul: Why Are US Special Forces in 81 Countries?
Prison
Planet.com | Is it dangerous for the president to have what is de facto a
personal army like this?
Iran
insists Israel ‘give up the bomb’ as Tehran seeks nuclear-free Middle East
RT | Iran has
demanded that Israel give up its “nuclear weapons”.
Dramatic
Footage: Drone Flies Over Devastated Kathmandu, Reveals Earthquake Destruction
Zero Hedge | This may be the most destructive tremor in the
history of the poor Himalayan country.
Russian
Air Defense Units Successfully Fire S-300 Missiles
Sputnik |
Anti-air S-300 missiles were successfully fired by units from the Kapustin Yar
Testing Range in Russia’s southern Astrakhan Region.
·
MONEY WATCH
World
Faces New Collapse Under Strong Dollar: “We’re Going to Have Another Financial
Crisis”
Mac Slavo | It
has always been said that what goes up must come down, and it has equally been
said that the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Greek
Municipal Union Refuses To Hand Over “Confiscated” Cash To Central Bank
Zero Hedge | As Bloomberg confirms, the union said “they won’t
transfer cash reserves to Bank of Greece.”
China
Considers Launching QE; Shanghai Stocks Soar
Zero Hedge |
While no decision has been made and China is clearly unsure if this is the
correct policy…
The Real War on the
Middle Class
Ron Paul | Eliminating
the welfare-warfare state would benefit middle-class Americans by freeing them
from exorbitant federal taxes.
·
PRISON PLANET
Professor
And CNN Commentator: ‘We Should BE STRATEGIC In How We Riot’ [VIDEO]
Daily Caller |
Marc Lamont Hill, a Morehouse College professor and regular CNN commentator,
embraced radical violence in the streets during an interview Monday on CNN.
PROTESTERS
Gather on #Ferguson Streets in Support of #Baltimore Riots – MULTIPLE ARRESTS
Gateway Pundit |
Over 15 police officers were injured.
Smart
policing to come Dubai with robo-cops
Khaleej
Times | In the next two
years robots will be used to bolster police forces patrolling malls and other
public areas.
Rep. Cummings
Downplays Baltimore Riots
Truth Revolt |
Protesters “mainly from out of town”
COMMENTARY
Insanity Grips The
Western World
Paul Craig
Roberts | Just as Karl Marx claimed that History had chosen the proletariat,
neoconservatives claim that History has chosen America.
US
Forest Service Ignores Nestlé’s Illegal Take Over of Water Supply
Christina Sarich
| Talk about being asleep at the wheel.
Bastrop
Psyop: What It Tells Us About Jade Helm
Prison
Planet.com | Local government officials invited a military spokesman to talk to
the citizens.
Mac Slavo | Over the next several years we’ll begin to see
advanced bio-technologies hit the retail market.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Will
The Shot Heard Round The World Ring Out Again?
Dan Bidondi | Patriots are more awake than ever before.
Jon Bowne | Psychopathic irresponsibility could potentially
spark into a full blown third world war in the Middle East.
‘US
National Guard’s drills in public aimed at dealing with domestic ‘dissidents’’
RT | Paul Joseph
Watson, Infowars Editor at Large speaks with RT.
·
U.S. NEWS
WATCH:
White Man Stomped On The Sidewalk In Baltimore [VIDEO]
Daily Caller | A
white Baltimore man was pulled out of a Baltimore store Monday evening during
the city’s riots and punched in the face.
Wolf
Blitzer Highlights The Real Danger In Baltimore: Cops Driving Fast
Truth Revolt |
No, not protesters attacking cars, or injuring police, or looting buildings.
Live Jade Helm
Coverage in Texas
Prison
Planet.com | Americans flood
Bastrop, Texas, council to oppose Jade Helm.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Are We Living in a 2D
Hologram?
Sputnik | New
research suggests that our universe may behave according to the holographic
principle of theoretical physics.
Medications
Found in Water are Changing the Sex of Fish
ROBERT
HARRINGTON | And drugs
aren’t the only culprits.
GMO-free
burritos: Chipotle 1st fast-food chain to ditch genetic-modifications
RT | Chipotle has become the first fast-food chain to
ban genetically modified foods.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Posted by : GoldCore
Post date: 05/01/2015 - 08:09
JP
Morgan’s massive silver buying brings to mind the Hunt Brothers' attempt to
corner the silver market in the late 1970s. The Texas oil-tycoons tried to
corner the silver market by accumulating a...
Five Charts Showing the US is Back in Recession
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 05/01/2015 - 15:43
Numerous
data points are showing the economy is approaching if not already in recession.
And yet stocks are pricing in economic perfection. By the time they catch on…
we’ll see a serious...
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 05/01/2015 - 13:35
Forget
about Peak Oil, the new buzzword is Peak Demand. In short the oil
market is a declining business over the next 50 years ....
With London, Paris, and Basel’s compliance, Nazi Germany had just looted
23.1 metric tons of gold without a shot being fired.
Despite
claiming that its “people’s Uber” service in China, involving private
drivers, is simply a type of car-pooling service; the bubblicious
company continues to burn its series ZZ financings on legal briefs around the
world. That appears to be a total waste when it comes to China as IBTimes
reports, police, transport and commercial officials in the
southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have raided the local offices of online car
service company Uber, amid continuing tension in China over the
legality of ride-booking apps using private vehicles, which officials say have disrupted
the country’s heavily regulated taxi market.
Racism, it seems, is not only alive and well, but worse than it has ever
been. Or is it?
Could it be that most Americans, regardless of the color of their skin, are
perfectly fine having people of other races as their friends, neighbors and
colleagues, and that certain people in positions of power are using
their influence to manipulate the masses?
Deutsche
Bank's LIBOR settlement likely should have landed the bank on the SEC's
"bad actor" list, but thankfully, the CFTC was willing to write
language into its settlement with the bank which effectively allows the German
lender to skirt Dodd-Frank, proving yet again that it's good to be
TBTF.
Have you noticed that we are starting to be bombarded with images of
troops in the streets?
Have you noticed that the term “martial law” is coming up a lot in movies, news
broadcasts and even in television commercials? In recent years, it seems
like the solution to almost every major crisis involves bringing in
troops. In fact, it has already gotten to the point where when something
really bad happens a lot of Americans immediately cry out for troops to be
brought in. And we are seeing the same patterns over and over
again.
We
have never, ever, seen a larger divergence between long-term
earnings growth expectations and equity valuations...
Q:
How do you make a small fortune on Wall Street?
A:
Start with a large fortune.
~ old investing adage
A
look at the current data on executions by country shows that although China is
still number one over the long haul, two other countries have put on a strong
showing YTD...
While
we are delighted that you take advantage of the daily posts on Zero Hedge
detailing flagrant spoofing across various asset classes (which you use to promptly ban two gold
manipulators yesterday), the reality is that with every passing day
the market becomes more disjointed, more fragmented, more broken.
"Too Big
to Fail is a license for recklessness. These institutions defy notions of
fairness, accountability, and responsibility... They benefit from the upside and expose the rest of
us to the downside of their decisions. These banks are too powerful politically
as well... Effectively we're hostages because their failure would be so
harmful. They're likely to be bailed out if their risks don't turn out well and
the largest financial firms in America can hide an enormous amount of risk in
derivatives which creates
a house of cards — a very fragile system."
It
appears the situation in Baltimore just got a lot more serious as MD State
Attorney Marilyn Mosby states that charges have been filed against 6
Baltimore PD police officers, arrest warrants have been issued for the charged
cops, and that Gray's death was a homicide.
On
April 28, Zero Hedge presented what was unmistakable evidence of manipulation
by spoofing in the gold market in "Dear CFTC: Here Is Today's
Illegal "Spoofing" In Gold Futures." Two days later,
the CME said it bas suspended two traders for placing precisely the trade we
profiled previously intending to manipulate the gold market. Dear CME - you are
welcome. Now if only you pursued all those other documented instances of
S&P futures manipulation with the same speed and resolve...
The
final Q1 GDP revision was just released and we saw that GDP has again missed
expectations by such a large margin that 2015 is another write off for a 3%
growth year. Almost comically we heard the same excuses we got
last year. “Weather was wintery and next year is going to be the
turnaround year”. So in order to explain to these supposed
economic and market ‘experts’ who seem wholly incapable of understanding
economic and market forces with any sense of accuracy, let’s run
through a few fundamentals.
On
top of the world...
5 Things To Ponder: GDP - Love It
Or List It
"What investors need to know today is that they are currently
priced just as high as they were back then! The problem is they once again want
their cake and to eat it, too. Despite paying an extremely high price for stocks
today they also expect a high rate of return. A few recent polls show investors expecting to get
10% per year from their equity investments right now. Some are even expecting
to generate twice that much and there’s just no chance it’s going to happen."
Paul
Joseph Watson | Don’t hold your breath for mass protests…
Prison Planet.com |
Watch a re-enactment of what police say happened in the van.
Kit Daniels | Law
provides impetus for “ultimate world disarmament” and U.N. control over
military.
Kurt Nimmo | Claim
follows Sen. Tom Cotton’s suggestion US should bomb Iran.
Steve Watson | Cop:
“I had to look away.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Hit piece fixates on B12 vitamins rather than addressing actual
concerns over military drill.
AP
| State’s attorney says Freddie Gray’s arrest was illegal, plans to file
charges.
The
Hill | The stop was at an unspecified location between Gray’s arrest and the
department’s Western District building.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Explanation behind “nationwide riots” audio makes little sense.
Mac
Slavo | Racism, it seems, is not only alive and well, but worse than it has
ever been.
WORLD NEWS
Poll:
Large majority backs drone strikes against US terrorists
The Hill | 75
percent of U.S. voters favor the use of targeted drone strikes against
Americans.
Russia
Conducts Nuclear Bomber Flight Near Alaska
Bill Gertz | Two
Bear H bombers intrude into air defense zone.
ISIS
releases video of Yemeni soldiers execution – report
RT | A branch of
the Islamic State in Yemen has released footage allegedly showing the
beheadings of four Yemeni soldiers and the shooting of 11 others.
China,
Russia to hold first-ever Mediterranean naval exercise
RT | The Russian
and Chinese Navies are to hold a joint exercise in the Mediterranean Sea in
mid-May, a first in that part of the world.
AP | American
officials briefed on intelligence from the region say Russia has significantly
deepened its command and control.
·
MONEY WATCH
Russia is
hoarding gold, you should worry
Washington Times
| The Central Bank of the Russian Federation announced this week on its website
that in March, Russia bought approximately 30 tons of gold.
Cash
on Lockdown: Bankers “Want Badly to Charge YOU Interest for Depositing YOUR
Funds”
Mac Slavo | Cash
is quickly becoming a liability.
Saudis,
Russians No Longer Buying Gold In Dubai As Oil Slump Curbs Precious Metals
Shopping
Zero Hedge |
Over the course of the oil price slump we’ve documented the far-reaching
effects of falling crude.
Billionaire
Hypocrisy: George Soros May Owe $7 Billion In Taxes
Zero Hedge |
“please raise taxes on all the uber-wealthy… except me.”
·
PRISON PLANET
Report:
Top American Psychologists Aided CIA Torture Program
Gawker |
According to a new report, the American Psychological Association collaborated
in secret with the C.I.A. and the Bush administration.
How
To Take Down A Military Drone Without Firing A Shot
Joshua Krause |
There is a fundamental law of warfare that no member of any conventional
military wants to admit to.
Sugar
Pine Mine: BLM Brings in Armed Security Contractors
Oath Keepers |
BLM Armed Security Contractors.
Know
Your Rights – How to Respond When Police Tell You to Stop Filming
Michael Krieger
| If we don’t constantly exercise our rights, they’ll ultimately fall victim to
atrophy like a vestigial organ.
COMMENTARY
There Is A Real War
On Americans
Bob Livingston |
“We’ve got to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here.”
Sharpton:
Federalize Cops and Fight Against States’ Rights
Kurt Nimmo | Libertarians are trying to create a new Civil War
by insisting on the 10th Amendment.
A
totalitarian society has totalitarian science
Jon Rappoport |
Totalitarian science lets you know you’re living in a totalitarian society.
Who’s
Crazy Now? American Psychological Association Supported Torture “At Every
Critical Juncture”
Washington’s
Blog | Like Nazi and Soviet Psychologists, American Psychologists Aided Abuse.
·
MULTIMEDIA
What
Happens When You Ask Male College Students To #EndUrinalPrivilege?
Chicks On The
Right | Watch. And laugh (or cry, if you prefer)
Texas
Bill to Give Arrest Powers to Federal Reserve Guards
Prison
Planet.com | The Federal Reserve seeks police powers for its agents guarding
Federal Reserve Banks or personnel.
The Muckrakers Will
Never Die!
Jon Bowne | Government propagandists hit roadblock with real
journalists performing real journalism.
·
U.S. NEWS
With
Patriot Act Deadline Closing In, House Advances Bill to Limit NSA Spying
Nextgov.com | A
House committee advanced major legislation Thursday that would effectively end
the National Security Agency’s bulk vacuuming of American phone records.
Van
Witness: I Never Said Freddie Gray Was Trying to Hurt Himself
Truth Revolt |
Says he fears for his life since his story got out.
11
Examples Of How Evil Is Growing In America Like A Cancerous Tumor
Michael Snyder |
Have you heard of “arterial tapping”, “flakka” or “cyberextortion”?
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Scientists
Discover the Secret to Keeping Cells Young
TIME |
Researchers say it may be possible to slow and even reverse aging by keeping
DNA more stably packed together in our cells.
MSM
Finally Admits Antibiotics are Causing Mental Illness
Christina Sarich
| Something we told our readers years ago.
Polls
Show Youngest Americans Are Skeptical of Global Warming
Joshua Krause |
When it comes to global warming, there is a wide variety of opinions.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
COPS CHARGED
POLICE UNION FIGHTS BACK
Celebrations Erupt On Streets
After Charges Announced...
Lawyer slams 'egregious rush
to judgment'...
Sergeant warns officers
'being challenged to fight'...
Sharpton Calls for Feds to
'Take Over Policing'...
'Going to Have
to Fight States' Rights'...
MICHAEL MOORE: Disarm the
police!
PRINCE Records Tribute to
Baltimore...
DOJ announces body-cam
program...
Obama says he might go back
to community organizing...
America’s
Main Problem: Corruption
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 05/07/2015 -
20:41
Systematic Corruption
Has Metastasized throughout the U.S. ... Making Our Once-Great Nation
Deathly Ill
Submitted by George Washington on 05/07/2015
Preface: Sadly, in the
month since we last posted on this topic, many new examples of corruption have
arisen.
Government corruption has
become rampant:
The biggest companies own the D.C. politicians. Indeed, the
head of the economics department at George Mason University has pointed out
that it is unfair to call politicians “prostitutes”. They are in fact pimps … selling out
the American people for a price.Government regulators have become so corrupted and “captured” by those they regulate
that Americans know that the cop is on the take. Institutional
corruption is killing people’s trust in our government and our institutions.Indeed,
America is no longer a democracy or republic ... it's officially an
oligarchy.The allowance of unlimited campaign spending allows the oligarchs to purchase politicians more
directly than ever. Moreover, there are two systems of justice in America
… one for the big
banks and other fatcats, and one for everyone else.
But the private sector is
no better ... for example, the big banks have literally turned
into criminal syndicates.Wall Street and giant corporations are literally manipulating
every single market.And the big corporations are cutting corners to make an
extra penny ... wrecking havoc with their carelessness. For example:
(Further examples here,
here, here,
here and here.)
The real problem is that
we need to learn a little
history:
Liberals and
conservatives tend to blame our country's problems on different factors ... but
they
are all connected.The real problem is the malignant,
symbiotic relationship between big corporations and big government.
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 05/08/2015 - 10:42
In
a remarkably unbalanced and lazy article on gold this month the Economist
magazine attempts to dismantle the case for investors and others to own gold.
Both from an investment point of view and...
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 05/07/2015 - 09:55
An interesting
article has neatly encapsulated the global (but primarily Western) “bond
bubble”:
The graduating class of
2015 is the most heavily-indebted college class in history and the chart is
"up and to the right," which in the case of student loans, is
anything but encouraging. Fortunately, we have some advice for this year's
graduating seniors...
Unless you are growing
sales i.e. expanding the business, any growth in cash flow is temporary.
And that is really the point of all this isn’t it? So go ahead boys tell me how
the market is fairly valued. Tell me that PE’s prove it. Tell me
how earnings are great and that unemployment is bang on in line with a full
steam ahead economy. Tell me the lackluster economic growth year on year
since the big bang is just transitory pains with a bit winter thrown in.
I, like you, will smile and nod, both knowing it’s a lie and both of us
preparing for the reset.
In what was an
"unambiguously" unpleasant April jobs payrolls report the fact that
the number of Americans not in the labor force rose once again, this time to
93,194K from 93,175K, with the result being a participation rate of 69.45 or
just above the lowest percentage since 1977, will merely catalyze even more
upside to the so called "market" which continues to reflect nothing
but central bank liquidity, and thus - the accelerating deterioration of the
broader economy.
"Tah-dah"
indeed...
"The median stock
in the S&P 500 is the most expensive it has even been (for as long as
we have data). That's never a good sign! If your favorite valuation indicator
is not at 'the highest ever', then it is likely now at 'the highest ever except
2000'. That's not good company unless you are a short seller."
We can now add another to
the list of government agencies out of control this month. In the latest
example of abuse by the unaccountable feds, we learn that Pentagon employees
have been caught using their government credit cards on gambling and escorts,
amongst other things. Their punishment? A “stern warning.”
There's never been a
better time to be a home flipper. Not only are average returns at all-time
highs (you can double your money in Baltimore), you can even obtain cheap
financing from Wall Street as opposed to dealing with pesky local banks. Better
still, there's a very good chance you won't have to deal with annoying aspiring
homeowners because according to RealtyTrac, the percentage of flipped homes
sold to other "investors" is at a four-year high.
As we reported yesterday,
in addition to Turkey and Saudi forming an alliance to topple Syria's despised
anti-Qatar nat gas pipeline leader, Bashar Assad, the US has now begun training
and arming Syrian rebels. But how will the US know it is arming Syrian rebels,
aka opposition "freedom fighters" and al-Nusra or Islamic State
jihadists who will promptly turn around and use the same weapons and training
against the US? The answer: "appropriate vetting." No, really.
Threatened with
deflation, the authorities will want to turn the tide in the worst possible
way. What’s the worst way to stop deflation? With hyperinflation. Yes, we may
suffer a year or two more of sluggish growth... or even deflation. Stocks will
crash and people will be desperate for paper dollars. But sooner or later, the
feds will find their feet and lose their heads. Most likely, the
credit-drenched world of 2015 will end... not in a whimper of deflation, but in
a bang. Hyperinflation will bring the long depression to a dramatic close long
before a quarter of a century has passed.
Pity the Tax Donkeys who
pay for everyone below and further enrich the few above. "No
representation without taxation" only works for the top .01%; Tax Donkeys
pay huge taxes but have no representation in a system that auctions political
power to the highest bidders.
A wrong-way bet on AUDUSD
looks to have cost one of London's most well-known money managers dearly last
month as Crispin Odey's flagship fund takes a 19% hit.
For all who are still confused why there are no wage hikes despite the Fed's relentless efforts to micromanage the economy and stimulate wage growth via trickle-down record high stock market prices, the answer is that there is wage growth. Just not for 83% of the working population.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/07/2015
Since the end of QE3 (and
the end of the government's fiscal year), US macroeconomic data has
disappointed and weakened on an unprecedented scale. With April data not
showing the post-weather bounce that every sell-side economist is hoping for,
the absolute level of macro weakness was only marginally weaker in the past in
the aftermath of the Lehman crisis.
The oddest
couple out there? Probably.
At 38 consecutive days,
it is now the longest streak without the Dow hitting either a 1-month high or
low in at least 100 years. That milestone alone would justify discussion, but
as Dana
Lyon notes, the current 1-month range in the Dow is a very tight 1.58% (the
17th narrowest 1-month range since 1990). Simply put, the bar for setting a
1-month high or low has been very low for the Dow, yet it has been unable to
achieve one; but given the length and amount of the market compression, one
might expect it to explode one way or another once the streak was broken.
In a quarter in which US
GDP is set to decline consumer credit, according to the latest update from the
Federal Reserve, increased by just over $45 billion. But how is it possible
that with such a massive expansion in household credit there was no actual
benefit to the underlying economy? Simple: 98% of the credit lent out in the
first quarter, or $44.3 billion, went to student and car loans!
Ever since the
mysterious, unexpected bursting of ISIS on the global stage one year ago with
much fanfare and even more carefully produced with just the right amount of
lighting beheading video clip, we said from the
very beginning that entire rehashed sequence of events in the middle east
is about one thing: removing Syria's Assad from power just so the nat gas
infrastructure from Qatar can traverse the territory and enter Europe,
eliminating Russia's energy dominance over the continent. Today we got the
latest confirmation of this in an AP
report according to which "Turkey and Saudi Arabia have converged on
an aggressive new strategy to bring down Syrian President Bashar Assad."
"I love how he
criticizes hedge funds, yet he had the first hedge fund. He criticizes
activists, he was the first activist. He criticizes financial services
companies, yet he loves to invest in them. He thinks that we should all pay
taxes, yet he avoids them himself.”
Since robots entering the
workforce is probably one of the most significant economic trends in the
decades ahead, we should all start thinking about how to deal with what will be
a major adjustment for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people.
Americans in The South
appear to be rushing through the 7 stages of 'low-oil-price-grief' rather
rapidly. After a few months of disbelief and denial, it appears, judging by
Bloomberg's Consumer Comfort Index, that 'Southerners' have jumped right to
anger and depression as sentiment tumbles to its lowest since Dec 2014. Along
with a surge in job cuts in the energy sector, it appears "low"
oil prices are not unequivocally good after all.
When it comes to Bund
sell-offs, be careful what you wish for...
The market is currently
engaged in the longest bull run in history without a 10% correction. The
decline in momentum, the weakness in economic underpinnings and lack of Central
Bank interventions (not to mention the threat of an increase in overnight
lending rates) certainly provide the necessary ingredients for a sharper than
expected correction this summer.
It's a little early to
judge her stock-timing skills but, just
as we saw with Biotechs last year, the market appears quite happy to ignore
Janet Yellen's stock valuation calls (while still believing her every word - as
if set in stone from on high - that the economy is recovering, that weakness is
transitory, and that everything will be awesome)...
Based on the most
mainstream of mainstream overbought/oversold indicators (a 14-day RSI), the 30Y
Treasury bond has not been this oversold since June 2007 - 9 years ago and a
very memorable peak in yields. Over the next month, the yield had fallen 16
basis points. Over the next 3 months, the yield had fallen 61 basis points, 6
months, 74 basis points. Finally, this big movement culminated in about a year
and a half, as the yield had fallen 280 basis points to the financial crisis
low of 2.55% on 12/18/2008.
Yes, well, sort of – and
they have for some time now. The truth is, the US uranium industry as its
currently built isn’t all that American. In fact, it’s mostly Canadian. Qualms
over perceived threats to national security are misplaced, though not entirely
dismissible. The deal further illustrates an already pronounced trend
of the decline
of US nuclear capabilities and influence at all stages of the nuclear fuel
cycle.
Last week we revealed
that the Swiss National Bank is the proud owner of an equity portofilio that
sums to $100 billion, or around 15% of Switzerland's GDP. Courtesy of the
bank's latest SEC filing, we now know just what the Swiss were buying in Q1...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015 - 10:04
Paging Mario Draghi...
This was not supposed to happen!!
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/05/2015
To paraphrase H.L.
Mencken, anyone who wants the government and Federal Reserve to create a
housing recovery, deserves to get it good and hard, like a four by four to the
side of their head. Subprime mortgages, subprime auto loans, and subprime
student loans driven by preposterously low interest rates are the liquefying
foundation of this fake economic recovery. Most rational people would agree
that loaning money to people who will eventually default is not a good idea.
But it is the underpinning of everything the Fed and government apparatchiks
have done to keep this farce going a little while longer. It will not end well
– Again.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/05/2015
On July
12 of 2014 as part of Operation Protective Edge, Israel launched a ground
assault into Gaza which promptly led to a mini-war in the Strip that left more
than 2,100 Palestinians dead and reduced vast areas to rubble: a
"war" which many speculated was nothing but a massacre by highly
skilled, trained, and ethically drained Israeli soldiers who used civilians for
target practice. Yesterday we got confirmation of just that. In a 242-page
report, soldiers recount how they fire artillery at random houses to avenge
fallen comrades, shoot at innocent civilians because they were bored and watch
armed drones attack a pair of women. That and much more.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/04/2015
Considering:1)
governments are unable to eliminate deficits
2) global government debt is increasing exponentially
3) 0% interest rates are allowing governments to borrow more to pay off old
loans and fund deficits
4) Global growth is declining despite money printing and bailouts And, we've
saved the latest and greatest fact for last: as stunning as 0% interest rates
sound, the mathematically-challenged-fantasyland called Europe has just one
upped everyone by introducing NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/03/2015
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/03/2015
"I think we have
to blame central bank intervention. How can we not? It’s all around the
world. They’re setting interest rates at a ridiculous level. Quantitative
easing is distorting all sorts of prices of assets. How do you price things
anymore when you have such a giant manipulator out there?"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/03/2015
The end result of Fed
policy appears to be to keep us in perpetual economic malaise, to keep us all
confused. They keep interest rates low masking the huge structural issues of
huge federal budget deficits and whenever the economy appears to be picking up
a bit, they threaten to take away the government props of QE and low interest
rates faster thereby slapping down the economy. All this happening while the
ticking time bomb of huge Federal Debt accumulates more potency. There is no
solution to the crisis, merely a choice of which roads to choose, a
deflationary debt collapse, or a hyperinflationary dollar collapse or World War
III. Pick your poison...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/02/2015
Only Two Republicans Admit
They Actually Read Secret Obama Trade Deal...
Top Dem Warns: Global
'Tribunal' Could Junk U.S. Laws...
Gun restrictions?
BUCHANAN: 'Fast-track to
national ruin'...
Paul Joseph Watson | A conflict between Saddam and George W. Bush?
Infowars.com
| Latest psychological tool promises to take tyranny directly into the depths
of the individual’s mind.
Infowars.com
| Including libertarians, constitutionalists & patriots.
Paul Joseph Watson | Authorities targeting Americans with traditional, rural lifestyles.
Gun Owners of America | Will UN-style gun control be rammed down our throats?
Michael Snyder |
Just like “America’s time-share king”, America just keeps on making the same
mistakes over and over again.
Nicole Haas |
“Isn’t that insulting to the Muslims who would be watching?” he asked.
Washington's Blog | Obama HATES the press.
U.S. NEWS
Suspected Heroin Found Inside Baltimore NAACP Offices
by
Defense Chief Shrugs Off Jade Helm Fears
by
Dartmouth Students Demand Gay Black Student President
Resign For Being Too Conservative
by
World News
Canadian Town Makes Insulting Police Online a Crime
by
Finland Sends Letters To Reservists
by
Obama to confer with Saudi king over Mideast troubles
by
Economic Crisis
Feds set tax haul record: $472B in one month
by
Seven Changes Needed in Baltimore and Ferguson Right Now
by
Financial Warfare and the Declining Dollar
by
World at War
ISIS supporters claim attack on Hamas base in Gaza Strip
by
Big Brother
Tracking kids via microchip ‘can’t be far off,’ says expert
by
Motels Sharing “Daily Guest List with Police” and Aiding
Warrant Checks on Every Guest
by
This Database Gathers the Resumes of 27,000 Intelligence
Workers
by
Police State
Dover Police Officer Indicted In Connection With Video Of
Arrest 2 Years Ago
by
Justice Department to launch federal investigation of
Baltimore Police
by
Los Angeles police chief, union at odds over homeless man’s
slaying
by
Sci-Tech
Patents for technology to read people’s minds hugely
increasing
by
Health
by
American doctor declared free of Ebola finds the virus in
his eye months later
by
Leading Geneticist: ‘Health Damaging Effects’ of GMOs
Unpredictable
by
Constitution & Law
The First Amendment, The Second Amendment And The
3D-Printed Gun
by
7th Circuit Decision Says We Can Order You to Buy a Gun..?
by
by
Border Control
Rand Paul: ‘You can’t have open borders AND a welfare
state’
by
War on Terror
Ohio Suspect Wanted to Help ISIL, Feds Say
by
ISIS Threat To US Military: Bases Increase Security Over
Islamic State, Terror Concerns
by
FBI sent out bulletin about gunman before Texas attack
by
Infowars Special Reports
Baltimore Officials Work Towards Disarming The United
States
by
Twisted But True: How To Fix The System
by
Radical Imam Calls For The Death of ‘Draw Mohammed’ Contest
Creator
by
Infowars Special Reports Archive
Hot News
Vermont Senator Accused of Sexual Assault
by
Horticulturist: We Must Go Back To Being Self-Sufficient
by
Mini Goats Banned in Rural California
by
Global Crisis
This Is How the Elite Wages War on Americans
by
Climate change is UN-led hoax to create ‘new world order’ –
Australian PM’s adviser
by
Honorable Men Warned Us About The End of Days
by
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
There
is propaganda, and then there is the harsh reality, as shown by the case of
Denny Rder, 47, of Decatur, Illinois: "look closer, and this city of
75,000 resembles many communities across the industrial Midwest, where the
unemployment rate is falling fast in part because workers are disappearing: moving
away, retiring or no longer looking for a job."
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
The
only reform of the PATRIOT Act is a total repeal. Accept nothing less.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
The
class of 2015 may be the most indebted class of college graduates in the
history of US higher education and the economy may have flatlined in Q1, but
that doesn't mean all hope is lost for anyone who didn't study to become a
petroleum engineer because as the government will tell you, you can always be a
farmer.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
Whoever holds the most gold will hold the most real wealth and, by
extension, gain the most prominent seat at the bargaining table for decades to
come. Whether that table
will be the IMF, the new AAIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), or any
future central economic entity, the future will go to the player with the most
metal, as he will be able to create the most currency, in whatever form it may
take.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
As
investors, it is crucial to ignore headline statistical data and focus
on the underlying data trends that affect the real economy. While it
is currently "blue skies" for investors, there are clearly storm
clouds forming on the horizon. It will be those who fail to take
precautionary actions that suffer the worst of consequences when the storm
hits.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
Presented
with no comment...
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
"We are not negotiating with domestic and foreign capitalists. We
won't become a colony of Germany or any other Imperialist power", dozens of protesters said Monday, on the way to
entering the Siemens building in Northern Athens and papering the exterior and
interior with anti-austerity banners.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
Whether
it is more posturing ahead of OPEC's June meeting is unclear but the message
from 'sources', according to The Wall Street
Journal is "OPEC won’t agree to go lower," with
regard global market share (which has fallen from more than 50-% to
just 32% currently). The cartel's latest strategy report forecasts oil prices
won't reach $100 - “$100 is not in any of the scenarios,” in the next
decade (and could drop below $40) with its most optimistic scenario
$76 in 2025 (which only Qatar and Kuwait can cover expenditures with). “If they
want to sustain the organization, they have no choice,” but to
reintroduce production quotas, adding any concession by stronger
members would be temporary.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
Having
briefly tested above 3.00% on Thursday, for the first time since December 2nd,
2014, the post-payrolls reaction continues today with 30Y yields up 9bps and
back above the 3.00% Maginot Line. We note, additionally, that as Deutsche
reports, net short exposure to Treasuries is back at the extremes of
its recent range.
Update: AP confirms Zimmerman not seriously injured.
George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the 2013 shooting death of
Trayvon Martin, has, according to WESH Orlando,
been shot in Orlando, Florida. The shooting involved two men and happened
on Lake Mary Boulevard, police said. Officers at the scene said it appeared
Zimmerman suffered a minor gunshot wound, Bracknell said. “He
walked normally into the ambulance, so he wasn’t being helped or nothing,”
said witness Ricardo Berrare.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
With
the class of 2015 graduating with a record amount of debt, one
hopeful student appears to recognize her fate all too well...
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
As expected, today's Eurogroup meeting concluded without an agreement
between Greece and its creditors as both sides cited "progress" and regurgitated familiar
rhetoric around the need for a "comprehensive list of reforms", and a
universal desire for a favorable outcome. Despite this, Athens claims it will
make a €750 million payment to the IMF on Tuesday even as it isn't at all clear
where the money will come from.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/11/2015
Here
is what happens when you rebrand your real estate company as a
cutting-edge P2P lender and your shares are listed on an exchange
that's in the midst of a world-beating rally driven in part by millions of
newly-minted, poorly-educated day traders...
9
News | What started as a joke is now on the calendar.
Paul
Joseph Watson | A conflict between Saddam and George W. Bush?
Prison Planet.com |
Including libertarians, constitutionalists & patriots.
Prison Planet.com |
Latest psychological tool promises to take tyranny directly into the depths of
the individual’s mind.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Authorities targeting Americans with traditional, rural
lifestyles.
Gun
Owners of America | Will UN-style gun control be rammed down our throats?
BizPacReview
| “Isn’t that insulting to the Muslims who would be watching?” he asked.
Daily
Caller | The twist: The president is a gay black man.
Mac
Slavo | The motel and hotel industry is not only spying you, it is partnering
with police.
Washington’s
Blog | Obama HATES the press.
WORLD NEWS
US
Government Declares Al Jazeera Journalist a ‘Member of Al-Qaeda’
Sputnik News |
The United States government labeled a prominent journalist as a member of
al-Qaeda.
#GE2015
result: Conservatives heading for majority as Labour leader to resign
RT | David
Cameron’s Conservative Party has secured the largest share of seats in the UK
General Election.
Russian
tanks on White House? Students protest Obama V-Day snub using ‘projection’
RT | The group
blasted President Obama for undermining Russia’s WWII victory celebrations.
China
wants to prevent a ‘repeat of World War 2′
Reuters | China
is building a stronger military.
Walid and
Theodore Shoebat | What the west needs to learn, and they will, slowly, is that
Islam is the antithesis to western ethics.
·
MONEY WATCH
Americans
Not In The Labor Force Rise To Record 93,194,000
Zero Hedge | The
number of Americans not in the labor force rose once again.
In
Most Countries, 40 Hours + Minimum Wage = Poverty
Zero Hedge |
Many working families depend on government assistance to make ends meet.
Fast-Track:
Free Trade or Protectionism?
Daniel McAdams |
Where does “fast track” authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership fit in?
US
Taxpayers Paying $3.042B for UN, More Than 185 Other Countries Combined
CNS News |
American taxpayers will pony up around $3.024 billion this year towards the
United Nations’ regular and peacekeeping budgets.
·
PRISON PLANET
Tracking
kids via microchip ‘can’t be far off,’ says expert
KENS 5 | All it
would take is strategically placing scanners or portals at key locations like
doorways, counters or even on street corners.
Feds
Forcing Public Schools to Adopt ‘Nondiscrimination’ for Transgender Teachers
and Students
CNS News | The
“nondiscrimination” would apply to transgender students and teachers.
Karma
comes for Ferguson liar; Dorian Johnson arrested on drug charges, resisting
arrest
Biz Pac Review | Karma paid a visit to Ferguson, Mo., on Wednesday.
NSA’s
telephone metadata collection not authorized by Patriot Act – appeals court
RT | The appeals court said that the metadata
collection was not authorized.
COMMENTARY
The
Guardian Tackles The Important Issue Of Martian Rape
Alex Griswold |
Left-wing UK paper The Guardian tackled the pressing issue of sexism and racism
on Mars.
The
90,000 Square Foot, 100 Million Dollar Home That Is A Metaphor For America
Michael Snyder |
Just like “America’s time-share king”, America just keeps on making the same
mistakes over and over again.
Mike Krieger |
Their punishment? A “stern warning.”
It
Is Time to Call Radio “Liberty” What It Is: Radio Gestapo Amerika
Paul Craig
Roberts | Radio “Liberty” has always been a propaganda ministry.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Facebook
Blocks Alex Jones Account For Posting Image of ISIS Militant
Paul Joseph
Watson | Months after Infowars warned about social network’s draconian new
censorship policies.
Special
Report: Federalized Police Force Rising
Prison
Planet.com | The police state intensifies as feds absorb law enforcement
nationwide.
What
Happens When You Ask Male College Students To #EndUrinalPrivilege?
Chicks On The
Right | Watch. And laugh (or cry, if you prefer)
·
U.S. NEWS
Pentagon
Raises Security Level at All US Military Bases Due to ISIL Threat
Sputnik News |
The Pentagon has raised the security status of military bases across the
country.
Number
of People Renouncing US Citizenship in 2015 Hits All-Time High
Sputnik | As
many as 1,335 of Americans gave up their citizenship in the first 90 days of
the year.
Marxist
Professor Fails Student For Not Denouncing Christian Faith in Support of
Feminism
Kit Daniels | Biased exam questions painted Christianity as
false, violent and oppressive to women.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Environment
Chairman: ‘Global Warming Alarmism Has Evolved Into a Religion’
CNS News |
“Global warming alarmism has evolved into a religion where one is either an
alarmist or a skeptic.”
Geneticist
and Molecular Biologist State Serious Concerns About GMOs
Christina Sarich
| Why exactly does Antoniou believe GM crops are unsafe?
IBM’s
Watson supercomputer to speed up cancer care
BBC News | IBM’s
supercomputer Watson will be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14
hospitals in the US and Canada.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
SOME PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE
SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Posted by : GoldCore
Post date: 05/22/2015 - 09:40
Smart
money continues to maintain allocations or accumulate positions. U.S. mining
financier Oskar Lewnowski is preparing to launch a base and precious metals
fund. The 50 year old New Yorker has...
OBAMAS MaSSiVe FiGHT WiTH WaLL STReeT...
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 05/22/2015 - 02:05
We're
living in interesting times...
The Fed Hasn't Solved Anything… All It's Done Is Set
Up an Even Bigger Crisis
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 05/22/2015 - 16:10
Nothing
exposes the fallacies of the Fed’s policies of the last five years like its
horror at the prospect of raising rates even a little bit.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/22/2015
One
year ago, we explained "How The Market Is Like CYNK." Earlier this
week, China's richest man found out how right we were, in the hardest way
possible
The
first rule of “Project Bookend” is that you don’t talk about “Project Bookend.”
In retrospect, maybe the first rule should have been “you don’t accidentally
e-mail ‘Project Bookend’ to a news agency.”
A
vision of Hell troubles our sleep. It is the vision of what the United
States will be like when the authorities have obliterated almost three
millennia of monetary progress and have their boots on our necks.
Earlier
this month we learned that in 21 out of the 26 OECD member countries that have
a minimum wage, working 40 hours per week at the pay floor would not be
sufficient to keep one's family out of poverty. Now, we discover something even
more shocking...
Did you know that if you took every single penny away from everyone in
the United States that it still would not be enough to pay off the national
debt? Today, the debt
of the federal government exceeds $145,000
per household, and it is getting worse with each passing year. Many
believe that if we paid it off a little bit at a time that we could eventually
pay it all off, but as you will see below that isn’t going to work either.
It's
official: after seeing it work so well for years in China, the US Department of
Commerce's Bureau of Economic Statistics has officially replaced all of its
excel models with just one function. The following.
More
than 3.5 million people’s sexual preferences, fetishes and secrets have been
exposed after dating site Adult FriendFinder was hacked.
“I went straight for government employees because they seem the easiest
to shame.”
The
consequence of policies that exacerbate injustice, inequality and double-bind
demands is a madness that will find a social and economic outlet
somewhere, sometime.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/22/2015 - 17:10
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/22/2015 - 16:35
No
matter what investors SAY they will do, they will almost always succumb
to the emotional investment mistakes caused by being human.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/22/2015 - 16:06
"I got no strings on me..."
The State Department has released 850 pages of e-mails from Hillary
Clinton’s private e-mail address. Clinton has been under fire for using a private e-mail server (as
opposed to an official government account) to discuss potentially sensitive
matters of national security and foreign policy during her tenure as the
nation’s top diplomat. Specifically, there are big questions about who knew
what and when about an attack on US outposts in Benghazi that killed US
ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
Forget Shanghai and its roaring stock market, there's a new centre for
speculative excess in China. Nothing
says sustainable capital formation like a stock index that trades at a
valuation of 67.2 times earnings, is up 166% in the
last year and whose components regularly see 500% rallies
(and recently epic collapses).
Welcome to Shenzhen.
It
appears, thanks to the generous backing of US taxpayers, Ukraine is
about to get its cake and eat it too. On the same day as Ukraine's
government unleashes a bill enabling a moratorium on foreign debt
repayments - implicitly meaning default "in case of an attack
from dishonest lenders" - the defense ministry unveils a plan to increase
military spending by 17 billion hryvnia this year statuing that will
“make efforts to find possibilities to finance needs” to secure country’s
defense. Ukraine bonds are tumbling.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/19/
Our
present situation is like that of the cartoon character Wile E. Coyote.
The oil price collapse is not over yet. It is more likely that the
Brent price could fall back into the mid-$50 range than that it will continue
to rise toward $70 per barrel. That is because oil prices have risen
based on sentiment alone. The fundamentals of supply and demand
indicate a dismal reality: oil prices will fall and may fall hard in the near
term.
Angela
Merkel is attempting to head off staunch opposition from lawmakers concerning
further coddling of what they perceive to be a belligerent Greek government. As
we reported earlier this month, the German Chancellor has been under pressure
from members of her Christian Democratic bloc to essentially cut Greece loose. Now
that pressure is building, leaving Merkel with the unenviable task of selling
yet another Greek bailout to an increasingly hostile audience.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/19/2015 - 07:49
In
what may be the most cryptic press release from Walmart yet, the company just issued an 8-K which consisted
all of 5 bullet points, a few charts, and precious little else. Perhaps the
reason for the pithy transmission is that WMT had nothing good to say: Revenue
declined from $115 billion to $114.8 billion, missing expectations of a jump to
$116.2 billion, EPS also missed at $1.03, vs $1.05 expected, operating income
tumbled 8.3% from $6.2 billion to $5.7 billion, and finally comp store sales
also missed at 1.0%, below the 1.5% expected. With these results, anyone would
be short and to the point.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/19/2015
Less
than a week ago, fresh from the aftermath of the recent dramatic six-sigma move
in German Bunds, one of Europe's largest banks openly lamented that so far the ECB's QE
had done absolutely nothing: "two months of QE for
nothing." And lo and behold, as if on demand, overnight the
ECB confirmed it had heard SocGen's lament when just before the European market
open, ECB executive board member Benoit Coeure delivered a speech at the Brevan
Howard Centre for Financial Analysis (appropriately named after a
hedge fund) at Imperial College Business School (not to be confused with the
July 26, 2012 Mario Draghi "whatever it takes" speech which also took
place in London) in which he said that the ECB intends to
"frontload" i.e., increase, its purchases of euro-area assets in May
and June ahead of an expected low-liquidity period in the summer.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/19/2015
Whenever
secret or confidential information or documents are leaked to the press, the
first question should always be who leaked it and why. That’s often
more important than the contents of what has been leaked. And since there’s
been a lot of hullabaloo about a leaked document the past two days, here’s a
closer look.
Bosses
at French banking giant Societe Generale were aware of the activities of
"rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel, a top detective working on the case
reportedly told an investigating judge, according to France24.
The French investigative news website, Mediapart, quoted Nathalie Le Roy as
telling judge Roger Le Loire she was "certain" that Kerviel's
superiors "could not have been unaware" he was taking wildly risky
bets on derivatives. However, as Bloomberg reports, SocGen, in a
statement released on Monday, that several judicial decisions have assigned
exclusive criminal responsibility to Kerviel, adding "it’s just the
opinion of a person and not based on the discovery of new documents."
Speaking
in Camden, New Jersey, President Obama just uttered the following Detroit-esque
words of doom:
*OBAMA SAYS CAMDEN IS SYMBOL OF PROMISE FOR NATION
We
discussed Camden in 2012, 2013, and 2014... and had a
different opinion.
After
months of speculation and confusion, on Friday we finally got if not direct,
then certainly indirect, evidence from this month's TIC data that "Belgium"
was merely a front for China.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/18/2015 -
“When Edward Snowden revealed our intelligence secrets to the world in
2013, civil liberties extremists seized that moment to advance their own narrow
agenda." Well the
founding fathers were also “civil liberties extremists” with a narrow agenda.
That agenda was laid out in a little something called the Constitution. The
most dangerous part of Christie’s language is calling Snowden defenders “extremists.”
Christie knows exactly what that term has come to mean, and he
deliberately used it.
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/18/2015
"Like
any trend in an unhinged market, it's next to impossible to predict when the
confidence will peak. But
based on previous peaks, it could (should) be any time,"
Things
escalated quickly on Sunday when rival biker gangs met at a Texas Twin Peaks
franchise to settle what Reuters says was a "dispute over a parking
lot." The fight started in the bathroom, spilled into the
restaraunt, and then into the parking lot where as many as five rival gangs
attacked each other with guns, knives, brass knuckles, clubs and motorcycle
chains.”
Submitted
by Tyler
Durden on 05/18/2015
Having
enabled billions of dollars worth of militarized equipment to be unloaded into
every police department in the nation - only to have alienated the very
Americans that hoped for change the most - it appears President Obama is ready
to uncross another red line. Following unrest in U.S. cities over the deaths of
black men at the hands of police officers, Reuters reports,
during his triup to Camden NJ, Obama announced his plans to put in
place new restrictions on the use of military equipment by police departments.
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 05/12/2015 - 00:25
Why
Are Domestic Law Enforcement More Heavily Armed than Our Soldiers?
Hyperinflation in Art Investment Market as Picasso
Sells for $179 Million
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 05/12/2015 - 07:48
As
a diversification, art has some merit but only as a small part of an overall
portfolio. For those of us who cannot afford a Picasso - as the great
heritage of western art continues to be...
The ECB is Attempting to Corner the Bond Market…
Buckle Up
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 05/11/2015 - 17:40
Put
another way, the amount of high quality collateral backstopping this
mess has shrunken dramatically. On top of this, traders have been piling into
sovereign bonds in anticipation of...
It looks like all
those ‘conspiracy nuts’ who took issue with the “official” story following the
President’s original announcement of bin Laden’s death were not so crazy after
all. There’s a reason millions of Americans have lost trust in their
government, and especially with the sitting President of the United States.
It’s because we have been consistently lied to about anything and everything of
any significance.
oil itself is now
trading at a premium to its own still weak fundamentals in their view. Goldman
therefore views this rally as derailing this rebalancing and setting the
stage for sequentially weaker prices, especially with oil speculative
length as long as when oil traded at $100/bbl.
But what it
really describes is a clear and present danger to American capitalism fostered
by an unelected monetary politburo in thrall to its own lust for power and
mesmerized by its own doctrinaire group think. The tragedy is that nothing can stop them except the
thundering crash of the gargantuan bubble they have single handedly enabled.
days after Japanese
PM Shinzo Abe leaves Washington (having stepped up his nation's military
assertiveness), The Wall Street Journal reports
that the US Secretary of Defense has asked staff for military options in the
South China Sea (as we have detailed China's land
reclamation efforts):
*U.S. MAY USE
MILITARY TO CONFRONT CHINA IN SPRATLY ISLANDS DISPUTE: WSJ
amid China's rising
threat to USD dominance (with Yuan liberalization and AIIB success).
a group of Baltimore
teens kicking and brutally attacking a Maryland man after he tried to break up
a fight...
last week's biggest inventory draw since
September 2014 of 3.88 million barrels, expectations were for a relatively
small 250k draw this week (with builds in gasoline and distillates). API
reported a considerably bigger than expected 2 million bbl draw (with a 827k
draw from Cushing). WTI Crude has pushed up above $61 on the news.
What is extremely
clear is that there is something amiss with the statistical headline employment
and economic data. While there are indeed pockets of improvement, which should
be expected following a recessionary contraction, there is a lack of widespread
recovery. That sentiment is clearly reflected in every major poll of American's
over the last year. What is important is that there is a clear disconnect
between the financial markets, statistical economic headlines, and the reality
of the vast majority of American consumers. So, riddle me this - what
happens when that disconnect is eventually resolved?
that leaves the
McDonald's acceptance rate at 6.20%. Let's see how that compares with the Ivy
League acceptance rate in 2011...
Bull markets don’t
end all at once. Generally a few egregiously-overvalued sectors blow up first
and are dismissed by most observers as aberrations. Instead, they turn out to
be a sign of things to come. In the previous decade’s bubble it was subprime
housing that led the way, while being initially characterized by experts as too
small to matter. Click
here for Ben Bernanke’s ongoing attempts to convince the world to relax and
ignore housing’s problems. This time around we of course won’t know
until after the fact which sector is the canary in the coal mine. But these
epic fails in the bubbly social media/online marketplace region of tech
certainly look like viable candidates.
was illegal. It’s now
up to Congress to vote on whether or not to modify the law and continue the
program, or let it die once and for all. Lawmakers must vote on this matter
by June 1, when they need to reauthorize the Patriot Act. A key factor in
that decision is the American public’s attitude toward surveillance.
Given the vast amount of revelations about NSA abuses, it is somewhat
surprising that just slightly more than a majority of Americans seem concerned
about government surveillance. Which leads to the question of why?
http://albertpeia.com/Another14
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Council
Of Conservative Citizens
May 12, 2015
We have been working to create a comprehensive look at
black on white murders for the years 2014 and 2015. Many media bosses openly admit that they censor black on
white crime. We have been working to collect the biggest sample
size of black on white murders possible.
From information we have already collected, many
important conclusion can already be drawn.
People who drive taxi cabs, deliver pizza, or deliver other food items are
probably in much greater danger of being killed on the job than police officers.
The overwhelming majority of these killings seem to be black on white and black
on Asian. For people who delivery food or drive a cab, this is important
information that they should be aware of. They should not be put in greater
danger by having this information censored in the name of political
correctness.
Also, large numbers of young white males and females are being murdered
while trying to buy marijuana off of black dealers. The perps never acquire any
significant monetary gain from the murders. They simply kill the victim for the
fun of it and to gain street cred. The media often blames the white victim and
calls it “a drug deal gone bad.”
We also find that a very high percentage of black on white murders are
random. Usually the perps are never charged with capital murder and in many
cases they are only charged with manslaughter or aggravated assault! Since such
a high percentage of black on white murders are random events, it suggests that
a high percentage of white victims of unsolved murders were killed by a black
perpetrator. Since random killings are more likely to be unsolved.
This is information is not being disseminated in the
“mainstream” media. You will only learn about it here.
It is important that the public has as much information as a possible
on crime, so they can avoid becoming a victim. Many “mainstream” media outlets
openly admit that they place political correctness ahead of public safety.
Our 2014 sampling of black on white murders is now up to 412.
Our 2015 sampling of black on white murders is already up to
96.
We have also tried to find actual cases of white on black
murders, in which the victim was not committing a felony at the time. We
have asked the Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC], #BlackLivesMatters, and
various other left-wing groups for examples of white on black murders for 2014
and 2015. So far we have only found four in 2014, and two in 2015.
To read
about other black on white crimes, click here.
4/27/15 – Ana Charle, 36, was murdered by a black male while
working at a homeless shelter in New York City, NY.
4/24/15 – David Fuller, 26, was shot and killed by a black
male while delivering pizzas in Flint, MI.
4/22/15 – A father and son were killed execution style when two black
males invaded their home in Metairie, LA.
David Pence, 56
Nicholas Pence, 26
4/20/15 –Aiden Louis Bard, 8, died from being burned in a
scalding hot bath by his black DCFS caregiver in Deerfield, IL.
4/17/15 – Cassandra Cassidy, 24, was shot and killed by
multiple black males in a car in Las Vegas, NV.
4/17/15 – Samantha J. Fleming, 23,
was stabbed to death in her home by a black female in Gary, IN. Police say the
perp pretended to be a government worker.
4/15/15 – Floyd Valachovic, elderly, was beaten to death by
a black male in St. Stephens, SC.
4/2/15 – Cheri Amber Houston, 28, was killed by a
black male in Lake County, FL.
3/26/15 – Destiny Asher, 23, was shot and killed by a black
male who wanted to rob her and her friends in Indianapolis, IN.
4/11/15 – Nils Johnson, 39, was beaten to death by a black
male in Oak Park Heights, MN.
1/2/15 – Lee Rappuhn, 36, was shot and killed by a black
male while driving his car in Flint, MI.
11/15/14 – Catherine Walker, 38, was stabbed to death by a
black female in Honolulu, HI.
5/1/14 – Harold E. Collins, 66, was killed by multiple
black male perpetrators while he was working in his coin shop in Monroe, LA.
America’s
Main Problem: Corruption
Posted by : George Washington
Systematic Corruption
Has Metastasized throughout the U.S. ... Making Our Once-Great Nation
Deathly Ill
Submitted by George Washington
Preface: Sadly, in the
month since we last posted on this topic, many new examples of corruption have
arisen.
Government corruption has
become rampant:
The biggest companies own the D.C. politicians. Indeed, the
head of the economics department at George Mason University has pointed out
that it is unfair to call politicians “prostitutes”. They are in fact pimps … selling out
the American people for a price.Government regulators have become so corrupted and “captured” by those they regulate
that Americans know that the cop is on the take. Institutional
corruption is killing people’s trust in our government and our institutions.Indeed,
America is no longer a democracy or republic ... it's officially an
oligarchy.The allowance of unlimited campaign spending allows the oligarchs to purchase politicians more
directly than ever. Moreover, there are two systems of justice in America
… one for the big
banks and other fatcats, and one for everyone else.
But the private sector is
no better ... for example, the big banks have literally turned
into criminal syndicates.Wall Street and giant corporations are literally manipulating
every single market.And the big corporations are cutting corners to make an
extra penny ... wrecking havoc with their carelessness. For example:
(Further examples here,
here, here,
here and here.)
The real problem is that
we need to learn a little
history:
Liberals and
conservatives tend to blame our country's problems on different factors ... but
they
are all connected.The real problem is the malignant,
symbiotic relationship between big corporations and big government.
Posted by: GoldCore
In
a remarkably unbalanced and lazy article on gold this month the Economist
magazine attempts to dismantle the case for investors and others to own gold.
Both from an investment point of view and...
Posted by: Sprott Money
An interesting
article has neatly encapsulated the global (but primarily Western) “bond
bubble”:
It looks like all
those ‘conspiracy nuts’ who took issue with the “official” story following the
President’s original announcement of bin Laden’s death were not so crazy after
all. There’s a reason millions of Americans have lost trust in their
government, and especially with the sitting President of the United States.
It’s because we have been consistently lied to about anything and everything of
any significance.
REPORT:
The IMF won’t join in a third bailout for Greece
Business Insider | The International Monetary
Fund (IMF) is backing away from a potential third Greek bailout package,
according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
Greece
is not making ‘progress’ — it’s hurtling toward a default
Business Insider | The word “progress” is
going to crop up in a lot of headlines about Greece today.
Larger
Than Ever, Big Banks Poised to Fail Again: “The Damage Will Not Be Contained”
Mac Slavo | The banksters, who nearly
tanked the global market in their collective effort to loot the peoples of the
world, are operating out of “larger than ever” big banks.
Why
Hersh’s Account Is Credible and Why I Believe It Is Correct
Michael S. Rozeff | The White House
denies the accuracy of Hersh’s expose of the real nature of the bin Laden
murder.
Hersh:
Obama lied. Obama: No, I didn’t. NBC: Yep, you did. And again just now.
Robert Barsocchini |
Obama and his regime are on the defensive.
DEMS SINK OBAMATRADE
GOP VOWS TO SALVAGE
Muggings Hit NYC Central
Park...
Shots fired in smash and grab
on Madison Ave...
Hammer-wielding man attacks
women in Union Square...
'Subway Conquestors' Linked
To Explosions In Tunnels...
Changing
Destination Signs To Confuse Passengers...
Surfing
Atop Cars...
REPORT: ISIS
mutilates women caught breastfeeding in public...
Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out the
establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
Paul Joseph Watson | Authorities to
continue investigation of ‘off grid family’ in Kentucky.
Paul Joseph Watson | More domestic
disorder coming in the aftermath of Ferguson & Baltimore.
Paul Joseph Watson | Jessica Valenti:
Liking books & music written by men is also “suspect”.
Kit Daniels | Americans have a more favorable view of Clinton
(47%) and Biden (39%) than they do of Bush (35%).
Steve Watson | Agency doesn’t know what
screening equipment is working correctly.
Kurt Nimmo | Says NSA not interested in your phone calls, has
broken no laws.
Alex Jones’ Featured Stories archive
Hillary Discussed
Speculation About Her Health With Aides In Emails...
'My cracked head'...
Forgets Where She Is...
Campaigning in 'bubble,'
isolated from real people...
Demands Anonymity On
Conference Call With Media...
Got Now-Classified Benghazi
Info on Private Email...
Archives feared Hillary might
send files to Arkansas...
Racking up endorsements --
from rappers!
NYT: Prospect of
Clinton-Rubio Matchup Unnerves Dems...
FBI admits it
hasn't cracked single terror case with Patriot Act snooping power...
DROUGHT-RIDDEN CALIFORNIA
FACES DECISION ON NEW WATER CUTS...
COPS: 500-gallon tanker
stolen in Oakland...
Southern California saying
goodbye to lawns...
SOME PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE
SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
http://albertpeia.com/Another14
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Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
Fastest Growing Cities in the USA
Posted by: Pivotfarm
Post date: 05/26/2015 - 16:54
We
have fast-paced lives, we pay to get fast-tracked, we eat fast-food and we
fast-forward on a film that bores us. Our lives are fast. We even have fast
fashion; our clothes are fast these days from...
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 05/26/2015 - 13:36
We're
still open...
We have been warning for some time that government was eying up
pensions. The amount in
private pension funds is about $19.4 trillion. The question that has been
debated in secret behind the curtain is how to justify to the people taking
that over... Just how that is to be accomplished was finally settled
by the Supreme Court without any justification constitutionally.
"I got interested in her in 2008," Kenyan Felix Kiprono tells The Nairobian newspaper,
and now, in an official marriage request, the lawyer has offered US
president Barack Obama 50 cows, 70 sheep, and 30 goats in exchange for his
16-year old daughter Malia's hand in marriage. As
AFP reports, Kiprono dismissed the notion he might be a gold-digger, adding
that he and the young Obama would lead "a simple life," and he will teach
Malia how to milk a cow. This is not the first time a Kenyan has
offered livestock in exchange for a President's daughter...
"Beijing
has not yet declared a formal air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over the
South China Sea, unlike the one it established over part of the East China Sea
in 2013, nor could it today enforce such a zone effectively with its current
fighters. However, with its reclamation activities continuing, and the Obama
Administration apparently having decided to challenge China’s claims, the US
and China are now potentially closer to an armed encounter than at any time in
the past 20 years. Here are three ways the US and China could go to
war..."
There’s
only one question that matters today in markets: why is the government bond
market going up and down like a yo-yo? How is it possible that the deepest
and most important securities in the world are currently displaying all the
trading stability of a biotech stock?
Hot
on the heels of George Soros' warnings that we stand on the verge of World War
3, demanding Washington back off its anti-Yuan pressure, it appears
"the good guys" are fighting back with their own good-cop, bad-cop
propaganda. As
Sputnik News reports, General hans-Lothar Domrose, NATO Commander of the
Brunssum Allied Joint Force Command, said in an interview with German
magazine Focus Online that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a
tough-minded, forward-thinking politician who is capable of foreseeing
situations, but also regards him as a dangerous "gambler," who
"is willing to use nuclear weapons against NATO troops."
The
Shanghai Composite is on the verge of 5,000 and has more than doubled in the
past year but this may just be the beginning. The reason: if the
Chinese stock bubble bursts, that will be the beginning of the end of the
greatest con game in history.
Containers holding contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear
power plant are at risk of hydrogen explosions, The
Telegraph reports, with 10% of them found to be leaking. The discovery was
reported to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), which raised concerns
surrounding the potential hazards of accumulated hydrogen building up in the
containers warning that "a spark caused by static electricity could
cause a container to explode." TEPCO officials reassuringly note that
they "think the possibility of an occurrence of hydrogen explosion from
these storage facilities is extremely low, since there is no fire origin, or
anything that generates static electricity nearby," but this is the same
company that a recent IAEA report blasted for "failing
to implement adequate safeguards at Fukushima – despite being aware of the
tsunami risk."
Because
"normal people" just do not think like this...
If governments have proven anything to us over the last seven years, it
is that they will do anything to keep the banks from going down. If just 10% of people hit their breaking
points and withdrew their money in cash - there wouldn’t be enough cash in the
system to support this demand. And the banks would subsequently collapse. When
a government is bankrupt, the central bank is nearly insolvent, the banking
system is illiquid, and an entire population suffers from interest rates that
are either negative or below the rate of inflation, capital controls are
a foregone conclusion. In fact, we expect the next round of
capital controls will be designed to protect the banks... from you.
2015's
heavily-indebted graduating class of college seniors has a lot of options. Not
paying their loans is one of them. Read on...
In
an unprecedented move against a government agency, which we are just waiting to
hear blamed on Russia, The IRS has admitted that its data has ben
compromised...
*IRS SAYS THIEVES ACCESSED TAX INFORMATION ON 100,000 PAYERS, IRS'S
KOSKINEN SAYS THERE WAS UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS FEB-MAY
One
wonders if they found Lois Lerner's emails while they were in there?
Surprise!
Even
as some Republicans — including former Texas Governor and one-time Presidential
hopeful Rick Perry — insist that a (re)annexation of Texas isn't in the cards, some
observers including 'Texas Ranger' Chuck Norris aren't buying it and insist
that at the end of the day, it all comes down to one thing: no one, not even Washington,
messes with Texas.
Between 1974 and 2009 there were 62 magnitude 3.0 or stronger
earthquakes in Oklahoma. In the past five years there have been 1,070 M3.0+
quakes. The chart of
Oklahoma's quake surge correlates perfectly with the amount of wastewater
injected into the state. And when it comes to Oklahoma's "induced
seismicity" there is nobody more responsible for either Oklahoma's
"shale miracle" or the resultant earthquake epidemic than David
Chernicky, CEO of Tulsa-based New Dominion.
Global
Trade Dives Most since the Financial Crisis
Posted by : testosteronepit
Post date: 05/25/2015 -
22:49
What
the honey-bee die-off means for humanity...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015 - 17:13
"Zero Hedge long ago gave up discussing corporate fundamentals due
to our long-held tenet that currently the only relevant pieces of financial
information are contained in the Fed's H.4.1, H.3 statements... it is flow not stock that matters" - Zero Hedge, January 2010
"If there were any lingering doubt, this week’s gyrations
demonstrate neatly that it is central bank liquidity, not fundamentals,
driving markets. It is the flow, not the anticipated stock, of QE which counts." - Citigroup, May 2015
Having
previously shown that money can buy happiness, it appears, as
Bloomberg reports, that the cost of buying that happiness is soaring. With
well-managed government-provided statistics on inflation, why would one look
elsewhere for clues as to the declining standards of living across much of
America... but look we did and with wages stagnant, the 2900% surge in
prices to Disneyland since 1971 makes 'the happeist place on earth' a place
only the wealthy can afford to visit.
Ridding the world of Monsanto via a state buy-out would be a boon to
humanity, and doing so for a mere $57 billion would be a bargain - especially when you consider the $3 trillion the
state has squandered on endless wars of choice and the trillions of dollars the
Federal Reserve and the government have squandered propping up the
self-serving, parasitic cartel of too big to jail banks.
Everything
is better (and fixed) once you can print...
Israel is refusing to comply with an order by a Swiss court that it pay
$1.1 billion that it has owed to Tehran since before Iran’s 1979 Islamic
revolution for its share of a jointly owned oil pipeline. “Without referring to the matter at hand, we’ll
note that according to the Trading with the Enemy Act it is forbidden to
transfer money to the enemy, including the Iranian national oil company,”
the Israeli
Finance Ministry said in a statement.
“The Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. They were not outnumbered. In fact they vastly
outnumbered the opposing force and yet they failed to fight and withdrew from
the site...We can give them training, we can give them equipment. We obviously
can’t give them the will to fight.”
"These are the only choices for the masses: whether to be a
“doomer” or a “wisher.” Both positions are cartoon world-views that don’t
provide much guidance for continuing the project of civilization, in case
anyone is actually interested in that. It’s either rampaging id or the illusion of
supernatural control, take your pick. I find both stances revolting."
"If,
as the ECB's Coeuré said, you are concerned about the rapidity of the market
moves, it seems odd, in our view, to give everyone an incentive to get
longer today only to sell again tomorrow."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015 - 11:35
"Unrigged"...
There has to be a very clear line between central banks and governments.
The latter should never be
able to influence the former, because it would risk making economic policy
serve only short term interests (until the next election). Likewise the former
should stay out of the latter’s decisions, because that would tend to make
political processes skewed disproportionally towards finance and the economy,
at the potential cost of other interests in a society. This may sound
idealistic and out of sync with the present day reality, but if it does, that
does not bode well. It’s dangerous to play fast and loose with the
founding principles of individual countries, and perhaps even more with those
of unions of sovereign nations.
Between
escalating Grexit concerns and Podemos 'victory' in Spain, European bond and
stock markets shuddered somewhat today. EURUSD continues to close
lower - back below 1.1000. All major bourses across Europe are in the
red with Greece and Spain worst (ASE -3%) but the most notable shift is a
collapse in Poruguese bonds. Illiquidity has always been an issue for
PORTUG bonds but today's near 4 point collapse in 10Y bond prices (and 48bps
spike in spreads) is dramatic to say the least. Bond yields and
spreads are now higher than before Draghi announced Q€ in January and
dramatically higher since bond-buying began. If EU leaders proclaim they can
see no contagion from Greece, show them these charts. Finally, despite cash
markets being closed, US equity futures also suffered (despite
an exuberant BTFD rip higher in China overnight).
Some
say that eliminating the welfare-warfare state and the fiat currency system
that props it up will cause the people pain. The truth is the only people who
will feel any long-term pain from returning to limited, constitutional
government are the special interests that profit from the current system. A
return to a true free-market economy will greatly improve the lives of the vast
majority of Americans.
With
just 10 days until a June 5 IMF payment that Athens almost certainly will not
make unless it strikes a deal for the disbursement of more bailout funds,
things just got quite a bit more interesting on the EU political front after Spain’s
Popular Party was dealt a dramatic electoral blow on Sunday by the leftist
Podemos and center-right Ciudadanos.
Ruh-roh
- looks like Christie is cracking. From Talking Points Memo:
New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie (R) gave a speech on Wednesday full of vulgarities directed at
reporters over the George Washington Bridge scandal, New Jersey's finances, and
his travel history.
"We don't give a
s--- about this or any of you," Christie told a crowd of 350 people at the
Hamilton banquet hall on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg Politics. The event
was an annual event in New Jersey which features a roast of the sitting New
Jersey governor. Elected officials, journalists, and lobbyists attend the
event.
The New Jersey
governor said one journalist should "open your eyes" and "clean
the s--- out of your ears."
"This is a guy
who says he doesn't know what I'm doing every day," Christie said of
another journalist according to the Bloomberg report. "Then just get the
f--- away from me if you don't know what I'm doing."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
This looks to me like
Christie's way of saying he won't be running for President. Language like that
is beneath the dignity of public office.
http://albertpeia.com/Another14
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RT
| The USA Freedom Act has failed in the Senate.
Breitbart
| “Outside the beltway people still do care about the Bill of Rights.
Washington
Times | Senators passed the first major free trade bill in years late Friday.
Gateway
Pundit | Conservative internet mogul Matt Drudge unleashed on the Republican
Party Friday after the GOP Congress gave Barack Obama sweeping new powers.
Breitbart
| The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claims it has access to nuclear weapons through
the nation of Pakistan.
Truth
Revolt | Clinton’s unsecured emails “definitely increased risk.”
Sputnik
| E-mails to and from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released by the
State Department reveal US officials working overtime to orchestrate the fall
of a foreign government.
Paul
Joseph Watson | US Army currently training pro-Kiev neo-nazi fighters.
Mikael
Thalen | Communist group attacks pro-life protesters for defending black lives.
Kit Daniels |
Statement raises concern over politically-inspired violence this summer when
more riots are expected.
WORLD NEWS
Bank
Of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret Brexit Plan To Newspaper
Zero Hedge | The
first rule of “Project Bookend” is that you don’t talk about “Project Bookend.”
A Color Revolution
for Macedonia
Paul Craig
Roberts | During the Cold War Washington was concerned about communists
fomenting street protests that they could turn into revolutions.
‘Conspiracy
Theorists’ Are Causing Militants To Abandon ISIS
Steve
Watson | Radicals complain
recruits are turning away as they discover Western intelligence controls
extremist groups.
ISIS seizes
another town in western Iraq
The Hill | “The
situation is very critical.”
The
Clintons and the Sultan of Brunei Have a History
Washington Free
Beacon | Bill Clinton hinted at post-presidency money obsession from Brunei
palace.
·
MONEY WATCH
Why
the $5.7 Billion Dollar Fine on Big Banks Is Actually a Joke
The Anti Media |
On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced that 5 major banks will be fined
a total of about $5.7 billion.
Why
The US Consumer Is About To be Crushed: The Obamacare Inflationary Deluge
Arrives
Zero Hedge |
Core US inflation finally spiked the most since 2013.
Real
Estate – Hedge Against Economic Totalitarianism
Martin Armstrong
| I live in the Intermountain West. Our local real estate market has been in
the toilet for years.
It
Is Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off All Of Our Debt
Michael Snyder |
Did you know that if you took every single penny away from everyone in the
United States that it still would not be enough to pay off the national debt?
·
PRISON PLANET
Virginia
Cop Resigns After Tasering and Pepper Spraying Man Having Medical Emergency
Carlos Miller |A
Virginia cop tasered a man sitting in the driver’s seat of his car, following
it with a ten-second blast of pepper spray into the man’s face.
Video:
Man Holds Carjacker at Gunpoint Until Cops Arrive
Adan
Salazar | “You picked the
wrong mother fu*ker to try to rob today.”
Indiana
Cops Arrest Man for Asking for Their Badge Number
Carlos Miller |
An Indiana man unhappy with cops parking in the fire lane of his local Walmart
was arrested after he asked a cop for his name and badge number.
FBI
admits no major cases cracked with Patriot Act snooping powers
Washington Times
| FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to
the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act.
COMMENTARY
Meteorologist
Spears Obama’s ‘Absurd Climate Change Claim’
Truth Revolt |
Slaps media for failing to counter with facts.
Maoist
#BlackLivesMatter Group Calls For “War” Against Cops
Paul Joseph
Watson | Red Guards Facebook page advocates violent Communist revolution.
A key
source clues me in on TPP code of silence
Jon Rappoport |
Is the US Senate a representative body or a mafia?
The case against
“nothing to hide”
Washington’s
Blog |Arguing That You Don’t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have
Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don’t Care About Free Speech
Because You Have Nothing To Say.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Shock
Video: Militant Communists Attack Pro-Life Protest
Paul Joseph
Watson | Red Guards agitators assault Alex Jones, steal equipment, censor free
speech while yelling their love for Satan.
Video:
Alex Jones Assaulted by Rabid Communists
Prison
Planet.com | Pro-death leftists attack peaceful-protesters for defending
innocent life.
12 Year Old
Outs Lying Vice President
Prison
Planet.com | Rex Jones produced an impromptu report focusing on lies, which is
the main way the system conditions you.
·
U.S. NEWS
Teachers
complain Michelle O breakfasts taking up too much class time
EAG News |
Administrators in the Keyes, California school district decided to give all K-2
students free breakfasts this year, served in the classroom.
Communists
Call For ‘Red Terror’ Murder Campaign to Exterminate America’s Middle Class
Kit Daniels | Statement raises concern over politically-inspired
violence this summer when more riots are expected.
The
$50 million DEA heroin bust could have supplied all of New York City
Vice | The Drug
Enforcement Administration is celebrating a record-breaking seizure of heroin
in the Bronx that would have been enough to supply a fix to everyone in New
York City.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Monsanto
helps fund all-expense-paid ‘reporter boot camp’ for food writers
RT | Biotech
company Monsanto is helping fund a “reporter boot camp”.
300
trillion suns: NASA finds brightest galaxy to date… shining from 12.5bn years
ago
RT | NASA
astronomers have discovered the most luminous galaxy in space so far.
Former
UN Lead Author: Global Warming Caused By ‘Natural Variations’ In Climate
Daily Caller |
Global temperature change observed over the last hundred years or so is well
within the natural variability of the last 8,000 years.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
Posted by : Eugen Bohm-Bawerk
Post date: 06/04/2015 - 14:07
Paper
Propaganda
Iraq War Propaganda Redux: U.S. Claims Syrian
Government Supporting ISIS
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 06/04/2015 - 10:44
That
Makes Sens ... Wait, WHAT??
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 06/04/2015 - 10:24
This
same process has likely begun for the markets again… but this time it will be
global in nature as the bubble in question is not just in stocks but in bonds,
commodities, real estate...
One
(perhaps the only) bright spot in the past few year’s gold market has been
Chinese and Indian demand for the metal. But physical bullion is only part
of the story, and may not be the biggest one going forward. Speculation has
been circulating for years that China’s miners, flush with cash from selling
their low-cost output to the government, would soon start buying up the world’s
in-ground gold reserves... and now, finally, the
China-buying-all-the-gold-mines scenario has begun to solidify.
If there are two things that are scarce in the US it’s good jobs and
affordable housing. But all
is not lost, because apparently, there are some places in America where the
Goldilocks combination of good jobs and affordable housing actually exists.
Presented
with no comment...
A
week ago, Russian
"crime syndicates" were blamed when the IRS announced that a
"major cyber breach allowed criminals to steal the tax returns of more
than 100,000 people." Today, it is China's turn to be blamed following a
report that the FBI is probing what has been described as "one of the
largest thefts of government data ever seen."
"...recent
indications have darkened the probability spectrum to the point that it may
actually be worth examining a worst case scenario. My gut sense is that there is indeed a recession
forming, and one that looks worse by the month, so there are numerous relevant
factors that demand attention the greater the potential for it. That starts with leverage and any transmission from
finance to the economy."
For
all who are still confused why there are no wage hikes despite the Fed's
relentless efforts to micromanage the economy and stimulate wage growth via
trickle-down record high stock market prices, the answer is that there is wage
growth. Just not for 83% of the working population. Now, with pundits
parroting the “robust” jobs market refrain on the nightly news, “everyday
Americans” are beginning to ask “where’s my raise?”
And
just like that, after effectively defaulting to the IMF a month ago, Greece has
just re-effectively re-defaulted to the same IMF on its payment due tomorrow,
which now will not be made, just as we said it won't.
Update: GREEK
FINANCE MINISTRY REJECTS CREDITORS' BAILOUT PROPOSAL
FTW (For Those Who Say I Just Don't Get It... Get This!) There
seems a shift showing itself in dramatic fashion unseen since the 2008
financial meltdown. Not only are some key players, or institutions beginning to
notice some troubling signs; but rather; those very signs that everyone
was told 'won’t or shouldn’t happen', not only are,
they’re starting to rear their ugly heads in much greater frequency.
When Draghi warned traders yesterday that "markets must get used to
periods of higher volatility" boy was he not kidding.
"The
elderly dependency ratio is in the early stages of a relentless rise that
doesn't hit an interim peak until around 2036, over two decades from now." The
"structural shift" in the dynamics that drove the economy
and financial markets in the 80's and 90's will not likely exist again for
quite some time. Of course, if this was not the case, would we still be
needing massive Central Bank interventions to support global economies and
markets? Meh? What could possibly go wrong? [sarcasm alert]
In Fredensborg, Denmark, ten official cars from the Tax Administration
Office were set on fire and
destroyed overnight in a protest. As ExstraBladet reports, police received
notification Wednesday night at 3:09 a.m. that the Tax Administration offices
on Kratvej were on fire. So far, there are no suspects. But, as Martin Armstrong
notes, the police will undoubtedly hunt for someone retaliating
against the Tax Man. As the world economy turns down and
governments become far more aggressive to grab money from everyone, we should
see a sharp rise in these types of incidents.
"Under severe capital controls, redenomination and nationalisation
risk rises. The Greek banks
would be most at risk, while the two largest non-financial issuers could
potentially continue to service their external debt even after a redenomination
of domestic liquidity and revenues. Such a scenario also poses major risks to
GGBs and other EGB markets"...
Mikael
Thalen | City councilwoman holds vote to fire police hours after being arrested
for illegal firearm.
Paul
Joseph Watson | It’s all in the name, right? Wrong.
Kit Daniels | Small
town “speed trap” lacks prosecutor to try traffic cases!
Steve
Watson | Cops gave towels to children “to clean the blood off of themselves”
after beatings.
Paul
Joseph Watson | “They have been treated like property.”
The
Washington Times | “The Obama administration’s lax enforcement policies are
reckless and needlessly endanger our communities.”
The
Washington Times | A selfie posted online by a member of the Islamic State
group just cost the terror organization a headquarters building in Syria.
Mediaite
| “Do you on some level relish being the target of these attacks?”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Latest anti-second amendment campaign gets trolled.
Daily
Caller | “I’m a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me,”
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Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 06/09/2015 - 14:13
Follow
the Law?? US????
U.S. State Finances – Lack “Truth and Integrity” –
Volcker Warns
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 06/09/2015 - 12:01
The
highly regarded former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker, has
severely criticized the State Governments in the U.S. over “faulty practices”
used to devise budgets which mask the true...
Posted by: Tim Knight from...
Post date: 06/09/2015 - 12:32
Not
only is the cover graced with a photo of this self-obsessed, morbidly obese
woman..........but the photo is simply a photo of her taking a photo of
herself.
Just when we thought
the absurdity that marks every single day of Obama's reign could not possibly
be surpassed, we learned that 4 hours (3 hours and 47 minutes to be precise)
after the US president vowed to sign a new law banning bulk data collection by
the NSA (named, for purely grotesque reasons, the "
USA Freedom Act"), the Obama administration asked
the secret Fisa surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk
surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the
power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months.
Wishing it was true
doesn't make it true--it makes you a chump who fell for the con.
The
financial pundits gushing over "The China Story" -
that the Middle Kingdom's industrialization is a permanent boon to the
global economy and China's poor - never calculate the
human cost of that runaway industrialization and the vast
inequalities it has unleashed. The human cost is
staggering...
"China's market is highly
inefficient, which means it's relatively easy to produce absolute returns.
Chinese retail investors don't have any advantage over us."
The Department of
Education says it will forgive federal student loans made to Corinthian
Colleges students who can prove they were victims of fraud. The potential cost to
taxpayers: nearly $4 billion. With the precedent thus set, the question now is whether continued
pressure on for-profit colleges will result in further closures and more
petitions from hundreds of thousands of students with hundreds of billions of
loans they now know can be legally discharged.
While investor
behavior hasn't sunk to the depths seen just before the crisis, Oaktree
Capital's Howard marks warns, in many ways it has entered the zone of
imprudence.
"Today I feel it's important to pay more
attention to loss prevention than to the pursuit of gain... Although
I have no idea what could make the day of reckoning come sooner rather than
later, I don’t think it’s too early to take today’s carefree market conditions
into consideration. What I do know is that those conditions
are creating a degree of risk for which there is no commensurate risk premium."
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/09/2015 - 18:49
Corporate executives
offer three main reasons for share repurchases:
1. Buybacks are investments in our undervalued shares signaling our
confidence in the company’s future; 2. Buybacks allow the company to offset the
dilution of EPS when employee stock options are exercised or stock is granted
to employees; or 3. The company is mature and has limited investment
opportunities, therefore we are obligated to return unneeded cash to
shareholders. The logic behind each of these explanations
is in the vast majority of cases is flawed, to be kind, and deceptive to
be blunt.
As Russia adjusts to
Western sanctions stemming from the conflict in Ukraine, Gazprom is now
settling all crude sales to China in renminbi. At the intersection of the
petrodollar's death and yuan hegemony is: the PetroYuan...
MSCI has not decided to include China stocks in its index yet -
as opposed to what mainstream media believes. MSCI instead says the inclusion
is "on track" for inclusion but there remains three significant
hurdles including liquiidty restrictions.
What
happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... apart from the water. As the following
interactive chart from ProPublica shows, water usage in the greater Las
Vegas region has more than doubled in the last 40 years and with the drought conditions,
every reservoir is near record lows.
Welcome To Las Vegas (while water supplies last).
While API and DOE
data has not exactly been consistent recently, the fact that API reported a huge 6.7
million barrel inventory draw for the last week is significant. Of course, all eyes will be focused
on production data tomorrow but for now, WTI prices are up at the highs of the
day.
Chinese
stocks are around 4 times more volatile than the current MSCI World index... in other words, if asset allocators maintain current
equity weightings then portfolio risks will soar (if China is added). But given
that most risk budgets are fixed, rising volatility in the equity portion of
portfolios (from adding China) will require rotation out of equities and into
bonds (or lower vol assets) in order to maintain VaR limits. Be careful what
you wish for...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/09/2015
What’s really at
issue here is a transfer from national democratic sovereignty to, instead,
international-corporate sovereignty, in which international coporations will
have locked-in an international dictatorial control over a large portion of
what it is that national governments do, and necessarily must do, in order to
serve the public good. The whole thing is a corrupt
con-job.
“We’re setting the
stage for a terrorist attack in this country and the group is not going to be
ISIS…” […]
Kit
Daniels | Taxpayers are
coughing up the millions spent on security for the Bilderberg Group they’re not
allowed to know about.
Paul Joseph Watson |
Global elite’s secret plan revealed.
Paul Joseph Watson |
Cops visited reporters’ hotel, inquired about YouTube videos.
Jon
Bowne | TPP will hand huge
corporations the power to change U.S. laws.
London Guardian |
Justice Department’s national security chief cites six-month transition period
in the USA Freedom Act as a reason to turn the bulk surveillance spigot back
on.
Breitbart |
Secretive quinquennial meetings do to tend to attract some pretty high-level
insect overlords.
Sputnik | Bankers,
politicians and leaders of huge global businesses are set to meet.
London Independent |
A planned discussion about Europe’s future will include executives and
politicians.
Kurt
Nimmo | Austrian Home
Guard NCO contact provides telephone numbers.
WORLD NEWS
Flashback:
Bilderberg Decides World’s Political, Economic Policies, Says NATO
Secretary-General
Kit
Daniels | Taxpayers are
coughing up the millions spent on security for the Bilderberg Group they’re not
allowed to know about.
Report:
Israel built, exploded ‘dirty bombs’ in nuclear test
AP | Israel built
and exploded so-called “dirty bombs.”
London Independent |
The Duke of Windsor, who is widely regarded as a Nazi sympathiser, once argued
that bombing England could bring peace by ending WWII, it has emerged.
Saudi
Ambassador Warns West On Iran Deal: “All Options On Table…” Including Nukes
Zero Hedge | Saudi
Arabia is ready to acquire nuclear weapons if diplomatic talks aimed at halting
Iran’s nuclear ambitions break down.
US
Army website hacked as Obama demands cyber law
RT | A hacker group
backing the Syrian government claimed responsibility for hacking the official
website of the US Army.WORLD
NEWS ARCHIVE
·
MONEY WATCH
Monsanto
plans ‘corporate inversion’ move to UK, wooed by Osborne’s low taxes
RT | Monsanto, the
agrochemical and seed giant, is eyeing a move to the UK.
HSBC moves to
cut 25,000 jobs globally
London Guardian | Branch
closures in the UK and six other major markets are among cost-saving measures
to be detailed as chief executive Stuart Gulliver briefs shareholders.
Michael Kreiger |
Think about how troubling this is for a second.
Billionaire
Cartier Owner Sees Wealth Gap Fueling Social Unrest
Bloomberg | Robots
and artificial intelligence fuel mass unemployment.
·
PRISON PLANET
Carlos Miller | A
trial date has not been set but Slager faces between to 30 years to life in
prison if convicted.
Wearables
at work: the new frontier of employee surveillance
Financial Times |
Technology has made it possible for employers to monitor employees more closely
than ever.
Major
Medical Journal Retracts Numerous Scientific Papers After Fake Peer-Review
Scandal
Zero Hedge | A major
publisher of scholarly medical and science articles has retracted 43 papers
because of “fabricated” peer reviews.
‘Osama’s
house looks better than mine': Homeowner Pissed After SWAT Team Destroys Home
Adan
Salazar | “This is a
para-military action, done by para-military thugs. This is not a police force.”
COMMENTARY
4
things we know about the secretive Bilderberg Group and 1 thing we’ll never
know
London Guardian |
The secretive meeting brings together big international business and top-level
government.
Senator
Sessions to Obama: Stop Fast Track Push, Release Secret Trade Documents
New American |
“Congress ought to have answered before even considering whether to grant the
executive such broad new powers.”
It’s
Not Just the Clintons – George W. Bush is Making Tens of Millions on the Speech
Circuit
Michael Kreiger | By
now, it’s pretty clear that the U.S. Presidency represents little more than a
4-8 year period in which the chosen puppet proves his or her worthiness to
America’s billionaire class.
The
Bilderberg Group: Founded By A Nazi And Continuing The Agenda Of The Nazis
Michael Snyder |
When you want to discover what an organization is really all about, it is
important to dig down to the roots.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Bilderberg
Police Putting Small Town Under Martial Law
Prison
Planet.com | Security in
small town blown way out of proportion ahead of globalist confab.
Anthony
Gucciardi Donates to Help Feed 525,000 Americans
Anthony Gucciardi |
Meals that would otherwise be thrown away.
Commissioner
Says Recent Violence Due To Stolen Opiates
WBAL-TV | Baltimore
City police leaders said opiates are to blame for a recent spike in crime.
·
U.S. NEWS
Humanitarian
Aid or Killer Terminators? US Military Awards $2m to Autonomous Robotics Team
Free Thought Project
| The DARPA Robotics Challenge finals in Pomona California has just concluded.
CNN
to Start Producing “News-like Content” on Behalf of Advertisers
Truth Revolt | “This
is CNN. We’re not here to blur the lines.”
EAG News | Last week
we were stunned to learn that chaos has been the norm in the St. Paul,
Minnesota school district.
U.S. NEWS ARCHIVESCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
iOS 9:
iPhone will now track sexual activity
London Independent |
As part of new ‘reproductive health’ tracking, they can track when exactly you
had sex and whether they used protection.
Watch:
This Changes Everything: The Do-It-Yourself LASER Shotgun: “Dangerous Is an
Understatement”
Mac Slavo | The
world of self defense is about to change dramatically.
Neil Young
Boycotts Starbucks Over GMOs
Robert Harrington |
When it comes to protest music, Neil Young is the one.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
HILLARY:
I'LL TAKE $1...
Jeb
unlikely to hit $100 million goal...
Donors fearful...
REPUBLICANS RUSH VOTE ON
OBAMATRADE
BEFORE ANYONE READS IT
Mood
darkens in Greece bailout talks...
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Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The lack of faith in central bank
trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then Holland, and Austria, and now
- as
we noted was possible previously - Texas has enacted a Bill to
repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a newly established
state gold bullion depository..."People have this image of
Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they
would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes a
section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.
Is this the first step down a road to secession?
After 27 years, honest price
discovery has been destroyed, thereby reducing the nerve centers of
capitalism - the money and capital markets - to little more than gambling
casinos. Accordingly,
speculative rent-seeking in the financial arena has replaced
enterprenurial innovation and supply side investment and productivity as
the modus operandi of the US economy. This has resulted in a severe
diminution of main street growth and a massive redistribution of windfall
wealth to the tiny share of households which own most of the financial assets.
Warren Buffett’s $73 billion net worth is the poster boy for this untoward
state of affairs. The massive and systematic falsification
of asset prices which lies at the heart of this deformation of
capitalism is a direct and unavoidable consequence of monetary central planning.
It’s easy to see evil in dead
people. Stalin... Hitler...
Pol Pot... people who tortured and killed just to feel good. The jaws of Hell
must open especially wide to let them in. But who should go to
the devil today?
As many as four gunmen fired automatic
weapons against the Dallas Police headquarters, and that at least at least two
pipe bombs were found outside the police headquarters after the initial
shooting. At least one attacker opened fire on Dallas' police
headquarters early Saturday, riddling windows and police cars with bullets
before fleeing in a van to a suburban restaurant parking lot, where
officers surrounded the vehicle in a standoff that has lasted for hours, CNN
reports.
The common error of confusing growth
with progress goes largely unnoticed, though it permeates all macroeconomic
analysis. There is no better
example of this mistake than the fallacies behind the interpretation of Gross
Domestic Product.
And just like that, Goldman wins again.
"but it's different this
time..."
Don’t mess with Texas. Particularly if you happen to be a person who
enjoys the freedom to purchase lemonade from two adorable little girls
trying to raise money to buy their dad a Father’s Day gift. In that case, you
better watch out. The cops are on the case, ever vigilant to protect
the unsuspecting citizen from the perils of contraband juice.
If I'm a fund manager, the idea that ETFs
provide liquidity rests on the assumption that when I experience outflows,
someone else will be experiencing inflows and thus I can sell ETFs and avoid
offloading my bonds into an illiquid corporate credit market. Put another way:
I am depending on new money coming into the market to fund redemptions from
previous investors who are exiting the market, all so that I can avoid
liquidating assets that are declining in value and that I believe will be
difficult to sell. There's a term for that kind of business. It's
called a ponzi scheme.
Spiegle traces the history of German
Chancellor Angela Merkel's relationship with FinMin Wolfgang Schaeuble who is
leading the opposition against further aid for a Greek government he views as
unwilling to accept economic realities. As the rift between the two deepens, Schaeuble has
instructed the German finance ministry to draw up plans that would limit the
fallout from a sovereign default.
For months, Hillary Clinton kept
radiosilence unsure how to best address and respond to numerous accusations of
impropriety involving the Clinton foundation, the "cash-for-speeches"
fiasco, the various email scandals and countless other public issues that have
dogged her second presidential campaign. Moments ago, she reappeared and is
rolling out her 2016 presidential campaign with a speech at Roosevelt Island in
New York City. Watch it live below.
Keynesian policy of manipulating economic
“aggregates” through countercyclical macro-measures appeared to work
when balance sheets were not stretched to the brink. The glaringly
obvious result of such policies, gross capital consumption through
malinvestments epitomized through a serial bubble economy, did not discourage
our money masters. The best and brightest even suggest bubbles are the
only remedy to what they believe is some sort of secular stagnation.
Just as drugs, the abuser must increase the dosage to feel the same
high and spend accordingly.
"If we have a sustainable
solution, regardless of how difficult the compromise is, we will bear the
burden because the only criteria are exiting the crisis and the bailouts."
Prison
Planet.com | Infowars Reporters Rob Dew and Paul Joseph Watson share their
insights into the lack of mainstream media coverage in this years Bilderberg
2015.
Steve Watson | Locals
previously unaware of Bilderberg now joining protests.
Infowars
reporters Rob Dew and Paul Joseph Watson cover the recent defeat to President
Obama’s trade agenda.
Kurt Nimmo | Sen.
Sessions warns TAA and TPA will undermine American workers.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Infowars reporters harassed, followed by cops miles away from
site of elitist meeting.
RT
| After a rally on Friday, anti-Bilderberg activists re-emerged on Saturday
afternoon.
Paul
Craig Roberts | Monday, June 15, 2015, is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
The
Washington Times | The documents came in a Friday afternoon dump.
Reuters
| Shots were fired from what was described as an armored van in an attack on
Dallas Police headquarters early on Saturday.
Mac
Slavo | The Air Force is ready to embrace EMP as the status quo of future
warfare.
Posted by : williambanzai7
If
it looks like a skunk...
Posted by: George Washington
Round
2 Comes Tuesday
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 06/13/2015 - 06:39
Approximately two years ago, a
commentary was published entitled “The One Bank”. The empirical foundation
for the article (and the paradigm) was an extensive computer model,
produced...
·
WORLD NEWS
Secret
CIA effort in Syria faces large funding cut
Washington Post
| Key lawmakers have moved to slash funding of a secret CIA operation to train
and arm rebels in Syria.
ISIS
Holds MASSIVE Military Parade in Libya – PHOTOS
Gateway Pundit |
ISIS parades its troops and equipment in Libya.
Bilderberger:
We “welcome the general interest in the conference”
Steve
Watson | Email arrives from
anonymous spokesperson behind 6 miles of checkpoints in the Austrian Alps.
Bilderberg
guests include George Osborne and Ed Balls
BBC News |
Chancellor George Osborne and former opposite number Ed Balls are on the list
to attend the famously secretive Bilderberg conference in Austria.
#ObamaTrade
Relaxes Visa Process for Pakistan
Conservative
Review | Is it a good idea to loosen the screening process for Pakistani
nationals seeking visas to enter the United States?
·
MONEY WATCH
Fast-track
Hands the Money Monopoly to Private Banks — Permanently
Washington’s
Blog | The Banking Game Exposed.
Stop
Printing Money For The Banks, Hand Out Cash To The People Instead, Citi Tells
Australia
Zero Hedge | In
other words, Australia engaged in what was effectively a helicopter drop of
money designed to stimulate spending and boost inflation.
There’s
Bipartisan Hatred Towards TPP … But Corrupt Congress Trying to Pass It, Anyway
Washington’s
Blog | The hatred of the Trans Pacific Partnership is widespread and
bipartisan.
Poll
Finds Majority Of Greeks Ready To Fold To Troika, Even As Anti-Austerity
Protests Return
Zero Hedge | A
new poll shows that 50.2% of Greeks think Athens should accept the troika’s
proposal “if they insist on it”.
·
PRISON PLANET
ISIS
Jihadist Tweets Pamela Geller’s Home Address, Urges Followers to ‘#GoForth’
Truth Revolt |
“I’m not worried about taking a risk. It’s more important to defend our way of
life.”
Two
U.S. men charged with beheading plot to help Islamic State
Reuters |
Prosecutors charged two U.S. men on Friday of plotting to help the Islamic
State militant group by beheading Americans.
House
votes to block NSA snooping through Americans’ emails
The Washington
Times | The House voted Thursday to halt the government’s probing of Americans’
emails and other data.
Miami
Police Kill Homeless Man In Front of Dozens of Terrified Children
PINAC | A Miami
police officer killed a homeless man, shooting him five times Thursday outside
a public library for failing to drop a stick he was holding.
·
COMMENTARY
US
Dollar May Go Past 100 Against Most Currencies, May Turn Into a Bubble in 1-2
years: Jim Rogers
The Economic
Times | Jim Rogers, commodity expert, shares his views on the currency market.
TiSA:
A Secret Trade Agreement That Will Usurp America’s Authority to Make
Immigration Policy
Economic Policy
Institute | Congress’ intent could not be any clearer.
March of the feminist
bullies!
UK Daily Mail |
As a Nobel professor’s hounded from his job for ‘sexist’ remarks, Sarah Vine
says it’s part of a deeply disturbing trend.
Globalism
and the push for mandatory universal vaccination
Jon Rappoport |
The top controllers are the contented psychopaths.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Neil
Young + Promise Of The Real – A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop (Official Music
Video)
Prison
Planet.com | Official Music Video for “A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop” by Neil
Young + Promise Of The Real from the upcoming New album ‘The Monsanto Years’
Pictured:
COBRA Special Forces On Top Of Bilderberg Hotel
Infowars.com |
InfoWars reporters were able to get this shot of the Austrian anti-terror
special ops police stationed on top of the Interalpen-Hotel.
Did
You Know Bilderberg Created the 1973 Oil Crisis?
Kit Daniels | OPEC just played along with crisis orchestrated by
Bilderberg.
·
U.S. NEWS
Congressman
Mike Rogers Introduces Bill to Get U.S. Out of UN
New American |
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.; shown) introduced a bill to restore U.S. sovereignty
and withdraw from the United Nations.
Update:
Shaq Distances Self from 9/11-Inside Job Post, Fires Media Company
Adan
Salazar | NBA star’s website
publishes article questioning events of 9/11.
Rand
Paul warns the media to leave his wife alone
Boston Herald |
“I’m running for president, she’s not.”
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
India
Halts GMO Trials After Activist Campaign
Christina Sarich
| Maharastra is a large industrial state in India known for its many historic
monuments, but it will now be known as the state that stopped GM field trials.
Leaked
TPP Healthcare Text: Another Reason to Scuttle Secret Treaty
New American |
WikiLeaks released another chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Monsanto
Now Billing Itself as a “Sustainable Agriculture Company”
Christina Sarich
| When you read headlines like these, you may be confused. Should you get
angry, or laugh?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Feds
seek order to protect sensitive details in Dennis Hastert charges...
SHOTTER
'STRESSED'...
CNN
Anchor Calls Dallas Gunman's Attack On Police 'Courageous And Brave'...
USA
Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in East Europe...
DOWD:
Must wonder if moment of greatness
is flickering...
For the first time, a Los Angeles shelter's Hero Dog award has gone to a cat.
SOME PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE
SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
http://albertpeia.com/Another14
blackonwhitemurders.htm
Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
Amid
criticism from Washington, Beijing has embarked on a propaganda campaign to
show that despite attempts by the US and its regional allies to cast
aspersions, island life in the Spratlys is all about girls, gardening, puppies,
and pigs.
“Clients want to feel secure that if something happens, they’ll have
funds. They’re coming with more cash.”
"My tax plan would blow up the tax code and start over. Today, the American people see the rot in the system that
is degrading our economy day after day and want it to end. That is exactly what the Fair and Flat Tax will do
through a plan that’s the boldest restoration of fairness to American taxpayers
in over a century."
What
everyone is really thinking...
For
those wondering which "strategy" has been the biggest contributor to
Bridgewater's flagship $82 billion Pure Alpha funds over the past decade, the
answer is shown in table below. It is not stocks.
The troika of Greek creditors has gone into full-frontal
morals-be-damned attack mode. This
has turned into the kind of economic warfare one would expect to see between
sworn and lethal enemies, that the US would gladly use against Russia for
instance, but not between partners in a union founded on principles based
entirely and exclusively on being mutually beneficial to everyone involved. And
all EU nations should understand by now that this is not about Greece anymore,
it’s about all of them.
"I am utterly amazed at how the Federal Reserve can play havoc with
the market," Ron
Paul exclaimed on CNBC's "Futures Now" referring to Thursday's surge
in stocks, warnings that he sees it as "being very unstable." As Paul
rages, "the fallacy of economic planning" has created such a
"horrendous bubble" in the bond market that it's only a matter of
time before the bottom falls out. And when it does, it will lead to "stock
market chaos."
Today,
on the eve of the bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo, we do not celebrate
war. Only a fool would celebrate something so horrible. But we pay our
respects to the glorious imbecility of it. War may be dreadful, little
more than a racket in many ways, but it is also a magnificent undertaking. It
engages the heart and the brain at once and exposes both the genius of our race
and its incredible stupidity. But we are talking about real war. Not
phony wars against enemies who pose no real threat. Phony wars earn
real profits for the war industry, but only an ersatz glory for the warriors.
Real soldiers take no pride in them. Instead, to a real hero, they are
a source of shame and embarrassment.
Among
countries with relatively high Human Development Index scores, the
number of African Americans killed per 100,000 people in the US each year is
around 12 times the average for all people in developed countries and
is comparable to the homicide rate in Rwanda and Mexico.
Since the beginning of this year the markets have primarily treaded
water. The primary support
for the bulls has been continued acknowledgement by the Fed on
an inability to remove accommodative policy by raising interest rates. (Which
should make you question what happens the first time they do.) The bears
have been feasting on weak economic data and deteriorating
fundamentals.
Michelle
Bachmann had her corndog, but Angela Merkel has something much fishier...
"I
... welcome the government's continued efforts to reach a collaborative
agreement with all creditors," IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde
said in a statement. "This is important since this means that the
Fund will be able to continue to support Ukraine through its
Lending-into-Arrears Policy even in the event that a negotiated agreement with
creditors in line with the program cannot be reached in a timely manner."
Having
explained His vision for a new world order, The Holy See unleashed some
scathing remarks towards the bankers of the world in his 183-page encyclical.
Appearing to address the bank that does God's work, God's man on earth stated,
"Saving banks at any cost, making the public pay the price,
foregoing a firm commitment to reviewing and reforming the entire system, only
reaffirms the absolute power of a financial system, a power which has no future
and will only give rise to new crises." Furthermore,
His Holiness called out the financial sector for having outsized influence over
the political process and endorsed limiting its reach.
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 06/19/2015 - 15:37
The
situation in Greece has very little to do with politics or economics. Instead
it is entirely focused on just one thing.
Posted by: Tim Knight from...
Post date: 06/19/2015 - 10:41
The
amount of hate crawling through his soul must be mind-numbing.
Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 06/19/2015 - 13:14
Yeeeeeha!
Mikael
Thalen | Leftist outlet tells Americans not to blame groups for the actions of
a few – unless they’re white.
Adan Salazar | Attempts
to demonize firearms backfire spectacularly.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Beijing launches huge program as tensions with U.S. build.
Steve
Watson | Roof was given “birthday money”; the family didn’t know what he did
with it.
Kit Daniels | Just
look at “gun-free” Chicago & the U.K.
CNBC
| Paul says the Fed’s easy money policies have left stocks and bonds are on the
verge of a massive collapse.
Kurt Nimmo | Race war
perpetrated by black activists and Obama administration.
Steve
Watson | ‘Shocking lack of fundamental respect for the sanctity of human life.’
Paul
Joseph Watson | “What we have to do is continue to pray”.
·
WORLD NEWS
Dutch
anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders vows to broadcast cartoons of prophet
Muhammad on TV
Sydney Morning
Herald | The cartoons will be shown on Dutch public television on Saturday.
Russian
Eastern Military District to Hold Iskander-M Drills
Sputnik |
Russian servicemen will practice using the Iskander-M systems in Buryatia in
September.
Pentagon
Building Cruise Missile Shield To Defend US Cities From Russia
Defense One |
The military moves to set up an expensive network to defend American cities,
but is the threat real?
45
U.S. Military Veterans Sign Letter Urging Drone Operators to “Refuse to Fly”
Michael Krieger
| This is very good news, and come on the heels of several former drone pilots
speaking out about the horrors of their “profession.”
Pentagon:
Iraq Likely to Split Into Three States
Sputnik News |
Pentagon officials are now beginning to accept that the country they helped
unravel may ultimately settle into three separate nations.
·
MONEY WATCH
‘Capital
controls imminent’ as money floods out of Greece’s banks and default looms
Business Insider
| After yet another failed summit, the blame and recriminations started as soon
as Thursday’s Eurogroup meeting broke up.
Swelling
State Debt and “Pension Tidal Wave” May Engulf Economy
Mac Slavo | The
housing market and the student loan bubble are not the only financial bombs set
to go off.
New
York Lawyer Goes Nuts Over Texas Gold Plan
Lew Rockwell
Blog | Declared it contrary to the so-called supremacy clause in the United
States constitution.
ECB
“Blesses” Greek Bank Runs, Says Unsure If Banks Will Reopen Monday
Zero Hedge |
Reuters is reporting that The ECB dropped the bank run hammer.
·
PRISON PLANET
Belgian
Doctors Are Euthanizing Patients Without Their Consent
CNS News | The
decision to euthanize was not discussed with the patient in 77.9 percent of the
cases.
Opinion:
Obama looking to blame someone for church killings? Look in the mirror
Bizpac Review |
Many people, including liberals like President Obama, have blood on their
hands.
Facial-Recognition
Concerns Keep Facebook ‘Moments’ From Europe
Wall Street Journal
| Facebook is not offering its new photo-sharing app Moments in Europe because
of regulators’ concerns about its facial-recognition technology.
Italy:
Little Schoolchildren Cross-dress Under New Gov’t Program
New American |
“Girls will be boys and boys will be girls; it’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook
up world….”
COMMENTARY
Sex
Abuse by UN “Peace” Troops Becoming Global Scandal
New American | A
growing deluge of sex and murder scandals surrounding the controversial “blue
helmets.”
Men Can’t Even Have
Father’s Day
PrisonPlanet.com
| “Happy father’s day…mom?”
The great
TPP deathtrap for India, China
Jon Rappoport |
The clues are all there in Obamatrade and Obamacare.
“The
System is Broken”: Americans No Longer Believe In Its Institutions
Mac Slavo | It’s
not difficult to see that the foundation is crumbling…
·
MULTIMEDIA
Angel
Soft Ad Which Disparages Fathers Gets Huge Negative Backlash
Paul Joseph
Watson | “Happy Father’s Day, Mom” commercial stokes boycott threats.
Investigative
Report: Jade Helm Mystery Solved
Prison
Planet.com | In-depth, three-month investigation by Infowars uncovers real
meaning behind Jade Helm.
Exclusive:
Infowars Reporter Breaks Down Dallas PD Shooting
InfoWars | Joe
Biggs reports from behind the yellow tape at the Dallas Police shooting crime
scene.
·
U.S. NEWS
Obama’s Gun
Control Will Kill More Blacks
Kit Daniels | Just look at “gun-free” Chicago & the U.K.
University
lecturer teaches students: ‘There are no good white people’ — and he’s WHITE
Bizpac Review |
“There are only less bad white people.”
Katie
Pavlich: ICE director says no one fired for releasing more than 65,000 criminal
aliens
Twitchy | Office of Personnel Management director Katherine
Archuleta was reportedly offered chances to apologize and resign but
“declined to do either.”
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Kim
Jong-un claims to have cured Aids, Ebola, Sars and Mers with single ‘miracle
drug’
The Mirror | Kim
Jong-un claims to have succeeded where the greatest minds in science have
failed.
2,666,000
Words: FDA Rules are Twice the Length of the Bible
CNS News |
CNSNews.com found 545 distinct rules published by the FDA since January 20,
2009 covering medical devices, food additives, and animal drugs, to name a few.
Outrage!
Oxitec’s GM Moths are Released in New York
CHRISTINA SARICH
| The same company that releases GM mosquitoes.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
ABC
News | “Wanted something to spark up the race war again.”
Posted by : hedgeless_horseman
Post date: 06/23/2015 - 12:30
The kids and wife have asked me,
"Why do you think it is, dad, that the murderers and robbers are usually
black?" How is a dad supposed to answer this question?
The Fed's
Policies Have Paved the Way For an Even Bigger Crisis Than 2008
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 06/23/2015 - 13:42
The 2008 Crisis was a stock and
investment bank crisis. But it was not THE Crisis.
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 06/23/2015 - 13:05
The Dow that can be spoken is not the great Dow...
For the first time, a Los Angeles shelter's Hero Dog award has gone to a cat.
SOME PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE
SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
http://albertpeia.com/Another14
blackonwhitemurders.htm
Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as
we noted was possible previously - Texas has enacted a Bill to
repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a newly established
state gold bullion depository..."People have this image of
Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they
would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes a
section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.
Is this the first step down a road to secession?
Posted by : Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 06/26/2015 - 10:23
For
the first time since 2009... the biggest driver for stocks is cratering.
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 06/26/2015 - 12:19
When
you wet the QE bed...
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 06/26/2015 - 08:04
Shanghai
Gold Exchange volume climbed to a record today as prices declined
incentivizing value driven Chinese buyers as Chinese stocks crashed 7.4%.
Chinese stocks have had the biggest two-...
Greek
PM Tsipras just delivered the biggest Friday night bomb in recent European
history: he stunned the Troika and his peers in Europe with the biggest shocker
of all - a referendum announcement, aka the Greek "nuclear
option", something which cost his predecessor George Papandreou his job. At
this point there is no turning back, and the Greeks - of which 80% want to stay
in the Euro even as 80% want an end to austerity - will get to choose their own
fate. Whatever choice they make, they will now only have only
themselves to blame.
Presented
with no comment...
An
extensive look at what would happen if Greece were to leave the Eurozone,
through a legal fudge.
"As this critical domino chain of local governments in China’s
credit risk situation begins to wobble, there could be significant
ramifications for broad financial market stability. Such a chain reaction seems
to have begun."
"A judicial victory doesn’t automatically translate into a
political victory, let
alone a policy success."
In a free society, debate is over only when the people decide it’s over.
Germany’s
financial regulator says departing Deutsche Bank co-CEO Anshu Jain may have
lied to the Bundesbank about LIBOR manipulation when he apparently denied
having any knowledge of rumors that the fixes may have been fixed (so to speak)
even as his inbox told a different story.
Update: TSIPRAS SAYS
WILL CALL REFERENDUM ON GREEK DEAL WITH CREDITORS
"When I
think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large
animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long
roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain but has become trapped by its own
missteps, as caught in a tar pit or some quicksand, and it is violently
flailing about, making a terrifying noises in its effort to free itself and
re-establish its authority. Any observer immediately knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but
certainly is frightened by the noise and crashing that it can sustain for a
considerable time."
{ This analogy would almost be funny if it wasn’t so tragically true … }
As
we await the final capitulation by the ECB, EU and IMF to provide Greece
another bailout (or not), we have assembled a list of reading for you that has ABSOLUTELY
NOTHING to do with Greece.
"You're cruisin' for a bruisin'." - Kenickie, Quote From "Grease"
This
is it, warns one water advocate, "it really does (make critical) the fact
that we have to start changing." Lake Mead water levels
have sunk to their lowest levels on record (below the levels when the dam was
built) at 1075 feet. This is a major problem, as
USA Today reports, since Las Vegas water authority's current
"straws" glean water from 1,050 feet and 1,000 feet - leaving the
first straw just 25 feet away from pulling in air. With the drought
only set to get worse as the summer begins, the water wars are just beginning
as Lower-basin states are still taking more than the river system can
sustain.
Presenting:
Bank of America's chart showing who the undisputed victor in that age-old war
between Wall Street and Main Street, truly is.
Looking
at electricity consumption, adjusted or otherwise, things are
definitely looking very sluggish in the US economy right now.
Adan Salazar | Dr.
Jeff Bradstreet helped families whose children were believed to have been
damaged by immunizations.
Kurt Nimmo | On
Friday French authorities said they will deal harshly with Uber drivers.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Islam is not a religion of peace. When are we going to
acknowledge this fact?
Steve Watson | Cop
who murdered 17-year-old at traffic stop faces no charges.
Kurt Nimmo | Muhammad
al-Adnani urged “calamity for the infidels” in audio message.
London
Guardian | At least 27 people, mostly tourists, killed in attack on beach near
Imperial Marhaba hotel, according to Tunisian interior ministry.
Michael
Krieger | Divide and conquer has been the most successful strategy used by
humans to attain and maintain power since ancient times.
Truth
Revolt | The National Cathedral has announced it will take down two
stained-glass windows that feature the flag.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Will leftist media blame all Muslims for attack like they
blamed all whites for Charleston?
London
Independent | The US Deputy Secretary of Defence said that Russia’s attempts to
intimidate Nato countries had not worked.
·
WORLD NEWS
Islamic
State claims responsibility for deadly blast at Kuwait City mosque
AP | Attack
inside Imam Sadiq mosque during Friday prayers kills at least 25.
ISIS
carries out one of its ‘worst massacres’ in Syria
UK Daily Mail |
Women and children are among 120 civilians massacred as ISIS fired at ‘anything
that moved’ after re-entering the key Syrian city of Kobane.
Putin
Unexpectedly Calls Obama: What Did They Talk About?
Zero Hedge | So
why really did Putin call Obama?
The
30,000-pound bomb that could be used against Iran’s nuclear facilities ‘boggles
the mind’
Business Insider
| Negotiators are working toward a June 30 deadline for a comprehensive nuclear
agreement with Iran.
China
to Begin Construction of ‘Power of Siberia’ Gas Pipeline June 29
Sputnik |
Gazprom Deputy Chairman said that China will begin the construction of its leg
of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline on June 29.
·
MONEY WATCH
Greece
Rejects Bailout Extension, Tsipras Says “Won’t Be Blackmailed”
Zero Hedge |
Reports suggest Greece has rejected creditors’ bailout extension proposal.
For
The First Time Ever, QE Has Officially Failed
Zero Hedge | The
Riksbank’s bond purchases are undermining liquidity and driving Swedish yields
higher.
German
EU commissioner says ‘Grexit’ unavoidable if no solution found in 5 days
RT | It’s not
the European Commission’s aim to see Greece exit the EU, but this may become
unavoidable.
Greek
Suicide Rate Surges 35% In 2 Years
Zero Hedge |
Tough financial austerity measures in Greece have led to a 35% jump in suicide
rates in a little less than 2 years.
·
PRISON PLANET
Cop
Asks Man for Insurance, Doesn’t Let Him Reach For It, Writes Him Ticket for No
Insurance
PINAC | The
over-the-top paranoia inflicting police forces these days could not be more
evident than in a video posted to Facebook Wednesday by a Wisconsin man named
James Wells.
“Cops
Ahead. Stop at Sign and Light” Man Ticketed for Sign Warning Of Speed Trap
Mac Slavo |
Warning: Don’t get between a law enforcement officer and his revenue collection
schemes.
Facebook
Can Recognize You Even if You Don’t Show Your Face
The Hacker News
| Well, this is incredible and scary both at the same time.
How the
Feds Asked Me to Rat Out Commenters
Daily Beast |
This all just happened to my colleagues and me at Reason.com.
COMMENTARY
Muse’s
“The Handler” : A Song about a Mind Control Slave Singing to His Handler
Vigilant Citizen
| Muse’s The Handler is one of the most obvious music videos about Monarch mind
control ever created.
Gun-grabbing
Dem LOSES IT with Second Amendment supporters: ‘SHUT UP!”
Bizpac Review |
“Quiet! You’re not recognized!”
Conservatives
Smack Down Team Obama-Boehner Over Retribution
New American |
House Speaker John Boehner’s rampage against House members who defied him on
the ObamaTrade vote has begun to backfire.
THIS
WEEK IN PROGRESSIVE LUNACY: The “Trigger” in “Trigger Warning” is Too Triggering
Truth Revolt |
There aren’t enough faces or palms in the world to do this one justice.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Prison
Planet.com | Artist summit
in Texas aims to shed light on the issue of human trafficking.
Video:
This is How Monsanto’s GMOs Could Be Banned
Anthony
Gucciardi | Will GMOs ever be banned?
SATIRE: The
Truth About Trans-Everything
Paul Joseph
Watson | Why is there so much hate and bigotry surrounding trans-everything?
·
U.S. NEWS
Supreme
Court Extends Gay Marriage Nationwide
AP | The Supreme
Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in
the United States.
Mattress
Girls Accused Of Organized ‘Anti-Male’ Campaign
Daily Caller |
Sulkowicz became a national celebrity in 2014 when she began a senior art
project titled “Carry That Weight.”
Millennials
overtake baby boomers; minority babies outnumber white – Census
RT | New
information released by the Census Bureau shows that baby boomers are not the
most populous generation for the first time in decades.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Russian
Deputy Prime Minister: GMOs Will NOT be Tolerated
Christina Sarich
| Will Russia lead the way in GMO-refusal?
California
Assembly approves one of the toughest mandatory vaccination laws in the nation
LA Times |
California lawmakers on Thursday approved one of the toughest mandatory
vaccination requirements in the nation.
Lamb
Genetically Modified with Jellyfish DNA Sold as Meat in France
Christina Sarich
| Sold it to an unnamed individual.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 06/23/2015
Why
will the IMF throw up all over the latest Greek proposal in just two
numbers? Here is the answer, courtesy of Kathimerini: The proposals contain 7.9
billion euros of measures, of which 7.3 are from increases to
tax and social security contributions.
Ten
days ago it seemed as if America's corporatism would finally be slowed in its
tracks after the House unexpectedly killed the fast-tracking of Obamatrade, aka
the fast-tracking of the Trade Promotion Authority. Alas, it was not to
last, and moments ago, in a "nailbiting" 60-37 vote, the Senate
advanced Obama's fast-track tarde bill.
“I expect that we may have a similar encounter because we’re operating
in this part of the world,” US
Naval Commander Rich Jarrett tells Bloomberg, referencing the likelihood of a
maritime confrontation between the US and China. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is
concerned that Beijing is "closing the gap" when it comes to air and
space technology.
There’s
a specific sort of instability in the world today – a game theoretic
instability – which means that it has an identifiable pattern and rhythm you
can understand in order to improve your investment strategy. It’s the
instability of the game of Chicken, and once you start looking for it, you will
see it everywhere here in the Golden Age of the Central Banker. Greece
vs. the Troika? Chicken. Western sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine? Chicken.
OPEC vs. US energy producers? Chicken. ECB vs. the Swiss National Bank?
Chicken. Fed monetary policy communications to markets? Chicken. Abenomics?
Chicken. US policy towards China? Chicken. ISIS vs. the world? Chicken.
74% of American men are either overweight or Obese (up from 63% in 1994) according to a new report using data from the
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. As
MSN reports, the researchers exclaim "obesity is not getting better.
It's getting worse, and it's really scary. It's not looking pretty,"
warning that America's "car dependence" and poverty
("processed and fast foods are less expensive") are to blame
and America's weight problem is an issue that will not be resolved through a
purely medical solution. "This generation of Americans is the
first that will have a shorter life expectancy than the previous
generation."
Following
the removal of Confederate Flag merchandise from WalMart; Sears, Ebay, ETSY, and prominent flag maker Valley
Forge Flags have all joined the 'movement' and stopped selling the
'controversial' flag. However, as with any and all government-'suggested'
actions, there are unintended consequences in the hypocrisy of implicitly
banning this symbolic banner... sales
of Confederate Flags are soaring everywhere else (as the "guns and
ammo"-like threat of scarcity has led to a run on the products).
"It's June. Winter is coming..."
Welcome
to the new normal efficient "market" - where 7 sevenths
are worth 3.5% more than the whole...
"...my personal strategy for change has morphed from speaking to power in favor of becoming
a monk rather than a martyr. If I could stand in front of a tank and have it force positive change
I would do so but clearly that opportunity won’t happen or present itself in
this leaderless, narrowing, putrefied, lying lawless system of festering
corruption. Beyond 2015, I fear it will continue to be everyman for himself and thus divided
we'll fall having
rejected the spirit of one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 06/23/2015 - 16:15
Maybe
WMT should start selling Confederate flags again...
Just
as we warned earlier in the year, total uncertainty about the future of
Greece has enabled a growing sense of moral hazard as "if the nation
doesn't pay its debt, why should we" sweeps across the troubled
nation. As Greeks' tax remittances to the government, which were almost
non-existent to begin with, have ground to a halt, so
The FT reports, so-called 'strategic defaults' have become a way of life
among Greece's formerly affluent middle-class..."I still owe money on
the car and motorboat I can’t afford to use. Even a holiday loan I’d forgotten
about...I’m living with my mother looking for work and waiting for the bank to
come up with another restructuring offer."
According
to BofA's Jill Hall, "BofAML clients were big net sellers of US stocks in
the amount of $4.1bn, following four weeks of net buying. Net sales were the
largest since January 2008 and led by institutional clients—after three weeks
of net buying, institutional clients’ net sales last week were the
largest in our data history."
Time's
running out...
"If they want to
lecture us on democracy building, let them lecture students at some American
university," Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and the
Rule of Law Konstantin Dolgov said Tuesday, regarding the collapse of a
bilateral arrangement struck in 2009 between Moscow and Washington. Fortunately
for Dolgov, it doesn't appear as though he, or any other Russian diplomats for
that matter, will be forced to endure a "lecture" on democracy from
the US anytime soon because as the positioning of 250 Bradleys and
self-propelled howitzers, and associated armored brigade combat team
equipment" in Eastern Europe makes clear, the time for dialogue of any
kind has long since passed. { Indeed,
from my own direct experience, pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america
sports the highest crime stats in the world and meaningful rules of law
invariably give way to the expedience of crime because in america, crime pays
and pays well … See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm . }
Kit Daniels |
Jarrett’s father in particular was a high-level communist in Chicago.
Kit
Daniels | Did you know the KKK was created by Democrats?
Adan
Salazar | Multiple sightings confirm autonomous vehicle is being tested on
public roadways.
Steve Watson |
Extremists up the barbarity as Americans focus on domestic strife.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Infowars first warned of PC microphone snooping nearly a decade
ago.
Truth
Revolt | CNN anchor Don Lemon came under heavy social media fire last night
after holding up a sign with the N-word.
Washington
Times | National Democrats tried Monday evening to raise funds off the South
Carolina Confederate flag flap.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Controversial symbol sparks heated debate.
AP
| Backers of President Barack Obama’s trade agenda are imploring key senators
to stand by their previous votes when they revisit the issue in a showdown set
for Tuesday.
Kurt Nimmo | Move
good for military-industrial complex, opposed by European citizens.
·
WORLD NEWS
WikiLeaks
‘Saudi Cables': Gulf States were willing to pay $10bn for Mubarak’s release
RT | The Gulf
States were willing to pay $10 billion for the release of deposed Egyptian
President Mubarak.
Controversial
GCHQ Unit Engaged in Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda, Psychology
Research
Glenn Greenwald
| Involved in efforts against political groups it considers “extremist”.
US
military to develop Star Wars-style hoverbikes
London Guardian
| The prototype is intended to do many of the jobs that a helicopter is used
for, without the problems of helicopter design.
Ukraine’s
President Poroshenko Admits Overthrow Of Yanukovych Was A Coup
Zero Hedge | Not
from something democratic, not from any authentic constitutional process at
all.
Washington
Think Tank Wants to Arm America with Small Tactical Nukes
Joshua Krause |
Normally, when you hear the term “think tank” you assume that the people within
the organization are there to actually think.
·
MONEY WATCH
Mexico
to Overtake Russia by 2050 as U.S. Slides
Bloomberg |
China, the U.S. and India will be top three economies, according to forecasts
by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
“It’s
Time to Hide Cash Under the Mattress”: Bond Manager Warns of System Wide
Collapse
Mac Slavo | No
one knows how well prepared the system is to handle potential bank runs and
massive demands for cash withdrawals if the system tanks.
Greece
Capitulates: Tsipras Crosses “Red Line”, Will Accept Bailout Extension
Zero Hedge |
We’ve long said that negotiations between Greece and its creditors are more a
matter of politics than they are a matter of economics or finance.
Michael Krieger
| Most of you will be aware that it’s almost impossible to discharge of student
loan debt once you have it.
·
PRISON PLANET
Media
Matters Founder: We Defend Hillary Clinton!
Daily Caller |
Media Matters For America founder David Brock admitted Monday that his
nonprofit, tax-exempt organization specifically defends Hillary Clinton.
In
2014, Police Killed Nearly Twice as Many Americans than Mass Shooters Combined
Since 1982
Free Thought
Project | Only the government can have guns.
Keeping
Government Bureaucrats Off the Backs of the Citizenry: The Supreme Court
Responds
John W.
Whitehead | In one swoop, on June 22, 2015, a divided US Supreme Court handed
down three consecutive rulings affirming the right of raisin farmers, hotel
owners and prison inmates.
Churches
are using facial recognition software to spy on members
MassPrivateI | Soon every churchgoer will be identified by facial
recognition software!
COMMENTARY
Vultures
are circling the Confederate flag again
Washington Times
| The vultures are circling.
Why
the South Carolina shooting suspect should not be called a terrorist
Reuters | Was
the massacre of nine people at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston,
South Carolina an act of terrorism?
Joel
Rosenberg: ‘Something is coming. I don’t know what. But we must be ready’
Michael Snyder |
Do you also have the feeling that something really BIG is coming?
Will
Seizure of Russian Assets Hasten Dollar Decline?
Ron Paul | The
timing of these actions is quite curious.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Video:
This is How Monsanto’s GMOs Could Be Banned
Anthony
Gucciardi | Will GMOs ever be banned?
Charleston
Shooting: What They’re Not Telling You
Paul Joseph
Watson | The truth behind the phony narrative.
Angel
Soft Ad Which Disparages Fathers Gets Huge Negative Backlash
Paul Joseph
Watson | “Happy Father’s Day, Mom” commercial stokes boycott threats.
·
U.S. NEWS
FBI:
Obama’s Trusted Advisor Jarrett Related to Communists
Kit Daniels | Jarrett’s father in particular was a high-level
communist in Chicago.
Rebel
Flag Controversy: Why Not Just Ban Democratic Party For Its Links to Racism?
Kit Daniels |
Did you know the KKK was created by Democrats?
Hillary
Clinton Confederate Flag Merchandise Surfaces on eBay
Breitbart |
Hillary Clinton has managed to avoid any questions about the Confederate flag.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Apple
mind-control news is on the way
Jon Rappoport |
The globalization of media: a strike force.
Huge
solar storm hits Earth: power grid and GPS could be disrupted, but auroras
might be seen
London
Independent | Blast came from the sun in what could be the biggest storm since
September 2005.
Herbicide-Resistant
Insects Are Destroying GMO Crops Like Never Before
Christina Sarich
| So biotech tries to make even stronger toxic crops, chemicals.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
For the first time, a Los Angeles shelter's Hero Dog award has gone to a cat.
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
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Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as
we noted was possible previously - Texas has enacted a Bill to
repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a newly established
state gold bullion depository..."People have this image of
Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they
would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes a
section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.
Is this the first step down a road to secession?
Posted by : Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 07/02/2015 - 11:09
This
process has already begun in Europe. It will be spreading elsewhere in the
months to come. Smart investors are preparing now BEFORE it hits so
they are in a position to profit from it...
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 07/02/2015 - 10:49
East,
West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other.--Dr No
Posted by: Secular Investor
Post date: 07/02/2015 - 07:51
While
everyone (and their mother) is waiting for a final wash-out in gold, the price
could surprise to the upside...
...
at this very moment, politicians from Spain's Podemos to Italy Five Star
movement are drafting memos demanding that the IMF evaluate their own debt
sustainability. Or rather unsustainability.
Greek banks will run out of cash "in a matter of days," WSJ reports. Meanwhile, businesses are closing their
doors as suppliers refuse to extend credit prompting the Athens Chamber of
Commerce to predict that "in one week, two weeks, three weeks, it will be
finished."
While
it remains unclear if the Holy Spirit was behind these trades, one
thing is for sure: When Charles Erickson's investors opened their recent
statements, they said, "Holy $hit!"
In
April, we noted the NACM's comments that "there are big, big
problems" underlying the economy as a surge in unfavorable
factors suggested credit conditions were tightening dramatically (only
to see that data revised away suddenly). June's data has confirmed
this weakness with credit rejections soaring to their highest since 2009 with
the biggest spike in 9 years, with NACM CEO Kuehl
exclaiming, "There are some obvious signs of
distress in the manufacturing community, as the expected wave of consumer
demand has yet to manifest... companies that have been awaiting it are getting
in trouble with their creditors."
"Greece is being 'hit', there's no doubt about it," exclaims John Perkins, author of Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man, noting that "[Indebted countries] become servants to
what I call the corporatocracy ... today we have a global empire, and it's not
an American empire. It's not a national empire... It's a corporate
empire, and the big corporations rule."
"Merkel's
fear was that Athens would be unable to overcome its problems even with
an additional haircut, since it would not be able to handle the remaining
debt... Within the German cabinet, Finance Minister
Wolfgang Schnaeuble alone continued to strongly back another haircut... with
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde described as undecided on the
issue."
"...between ridiculously low interest rates and the increasing
costs of compliance, we can’t make money anymore..."
The US government has really screwed the world on this. Paperwork is the
priority. Not business. The
transition isn’t going to be smooth. And it won’t happen overnight. But there
will come a time, and likely soon, when the United States gets
displaced.
While
the Chinese recently found out that making money from trading is, in fact, not
"easier than farmwork," it appears in America, trading stocks is
back en vogue... Meet 2014 Playmate of the Year, Kennedy Summers, who has
given it all up to become a day trader...
Tick,
tock... "it could never happen here?"
Hillary Clinton figuring
out how to work a fax machine... and this is who may become America's next
President?
"I believe there are two ways to give Greece Chinese aid. First,
within the framework of the international aid through EU countries. Second,
China could aid Greece directly. Especially considering the Silk Road Economic Belt
and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. China has this ability," Fan Mingtao director of the Quantitative Finance Department at China's
Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics told Sputnik China. It would
be difficult to imagine a more fitting pilot program for the world’s newest
supranational lender than a rescue package for the birthplace of Western
democracy which has been brought to its knees by that most Western of all
multilateral institutions, the IMF.
"With banks shuttered and Greece’s economy hobbled by capital
controls, Varoufakis said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Athens that he would “rather cut my arm off” than sign a deal
that fails to restructure Greece’s debt."
The
American taxpayer is paying a hefty price to support the “battle” against the
CIA’s “strategic asset” gone rogue. The damage: about $9.2 million per
day or around $3 billion in total, meaning the US could have created
around 67,000 average jobs with the money it's spent fighting the group.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 07/02/2015 - 14:36
The
time to negotiate the Greek referendum this Sunday has come and gone and at
this point, one can only sit and wait as the vote results start trickling in on
Sunday evening. And, as Goldman's Huw Pill prudently observes, the outcome of
Sunday's Greek referendum is uncertain. "Regardless of the outcome, Greece
will continue to face substantial economic dislocation in the shorter
term." What is interesting is that Goldman says "Greece will
ultimately remain in the Euro area even in the event of a ‘No’ vote."
Kit Daniels | “The
day of reckoning is at hand,” he said.
Prison
Planet.com | What not to do when confronted by police…
Adan Salazar |
Mysterious spate of deaths rattle medical community.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Read the shocking list of racist behaviors being given to
faculty.
Kurt Nimmo |
Democrats have attempted to normalize pedophilia as a sexual orientation
Steve Watson |
Pentagon Issues alert; ISIS posts map of FBI Command Centers
Kurt Nimmo | Pretext
to build and expand the surveillance grid.
Reuters
| Authorities issued an “all clear” after reports of a possible shooter.
Politico
| Hillary has received at least $1 million from billionaire financier George
Soros.
Gateway
Pundit | Rick Jones faked the attack and carved “Die Fag” into his own arm.
·
WORLD NEWS
Space
could be the battlefield for World War III
CNN | “This is
the Chinese navy. This is the Chinese navy. Please go away quickly.”
Higher
Radioactivity Detected at Chernobyl Amid Forest Fires
Sputnik | Wildfires
in the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have led to higher levels
of the radioactive isotope caesium-137 in one of the fire sites.
US
military morale is reportedly at ‘rock bottom’ again
Business Insider
| Since 2009, $287 million has been spent on programs aimed at improving morale
within the US military.
US
blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons directly to Kurds to fight
Islamic State
London Telegraph
| Middle East allies accuse Barack Obama and David Cameron of failing to show
strategic leadership in fight against Isil, as MPs could be given vote on
whether to bomb Syria.
Gazprom
Confirms Gas Delivery Cutoff to Ukraine on July 1
Sputnik News |
Russian energy giant Gazprom has shut the valves for gas deliveries to Ukraine.
·
MONEY WATCH
Zero Hedge | The
devastation of the US labor force continues.
Business Insider
| Contradictory polls are showing that any result is possible in Greece’s
upcoming referendum.
Why
The Puerto Rico Debt Crisis Is Such A Huge Threat To The U.S. Financial System
Economic
Collapse | The debt crisis in Puerto Rico could potentially cost financial
institutions in the United States tens of billions of dollars in losses.
Greece Again Can Save
The West
Paul Craig
Roberts | Like Marathon, Thermopylae, Plateau and Mycale roughly 2,500 years
ago, Western freedom again depends on Greece.
·
PRISON PLANET
Black
Suspect Arrested After Racist Message Discovered Outside Predominately Black
Church
CBS4 | A
Colorado Springs man was arrested after police believe he left racist messages
outside a church.
Cop
Forgets About the 1st Amendment and YouTube, Claims “It’s Against the Law” to
Film Him
Free Thought
Project | A woman on her way to a conference session about surveillance by
police got some great material as she was harassed by a cop for parking the
wrong way.
NSA’s
XKEYSCORE spy program is ‘as easy as typing a few words in Google’
RT | The NSA’s
infamous XKEYSCORE program makes searching the world’s private communications
as easy to use as Google.
Obama
administration steps in to aid transgender teen amid school bathroom dispute
EAG News | The
U.S. Department of Justice Tuesday filed a statement of interest.
COMMENTARY
The
Media Should Devote LESS Coverage to Black Church Fires, Not More
Alex Griswold |
There has been plenty of coverage of the black church fires.
CNN:
Obama White House Lied ‘We Didn’t Know About Hillary’s Private Email’
Washington’s
Blog | CNN is covering for the White House.
Climate
Change: Is a Deadly Ice Age on the Horizon?
New American |
The last ice age ended approximately 12,000 years ago.
Government
Trolls Are Using ‘Psychology-Based Influence Techniques’ On YouTube, Facebook
And Twitter
Michael Snyder |
Have you ever come across someone on the Internet that you suspected was a paid
government troll?
·
MULTIMEDIA
Mac Slavo | For
those who laugh at “preppers” it boils down to the belief that this time is
different from the countless historical examples showing just how bad things
can get.
Does Jim Carrey
Wear A Tin Foil Hat?
Prison
Planet.com | Actor Jim
Carrey recently came out against California’s fascist SB 277 bill which
mandates vaccines which begs the question, what else is he right about?
4
Powerful Ways to Optimize Your Morning Routine That Work
Anthony
Gucciardi | You’ll notice a difference right away.
·
U.S. NEWS
Ron Paul: It’s All
Coming Apart
Kit Daniels | “The day of reckoning is at hand,” he said.
Charleston
police plan charges after flag burning
The Post &
Courier | Charleston police will cite protesters who torched flags in Marion
Square on June 21 for open burning and climbing on a public monument.
How
dare they! Photo comparing gay marriage victory to Iwo Jima beyond
disrespectful
BizPac Review |
Seriously, he says he doesn’t get it.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
FBI
investigating 11 attacks on San Francisco-area Internet lines
USA Today | The
pattern of attacks raises serious questions about the glaring vulnerability of
critical Internet infrastructure.
Worker
killed in Volkswagen robot accident
FT.com | A
technician has been killed by a robot at a Volkswagen plant near Kassel,
Germany.
Today
GMO Mosquitoes: Tomorrow GMO Dogs and People
Robert
Harrington | What will they think of next?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
For the first time, a Los Angeles Hero Dog award has gone to a cat.
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
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Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as
we noted was possible previously - Texas has enacted a Bill to
repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a newly established
state gold bullion depository..."People have this image of
Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they
would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes a
section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.
Is this the first step down a road to secession?
ECONOMY & MARKETS | 07.09.2015
It used to be that when
economic times got tough, people sought out public employment. The pay was less
than in the private sector, but the job security was pretty good, and at the
end you got a pension.
Nowadays, when including all the benefits, public sector pay is higher than
what you can get in the private sector, so the jobs are that much more
attractive.
Unfortunately, those jobs are harder to get today than they were in years past,
and chances are they won’t come back anytime soon.
This usually isn’t the case coming out of a recession, when public employment
typically grows faster than the private sector. When the economy turns down,
people depend more on public services. That creates even more demand for what
governments provide, and requires more workers to meet those needs.
In fact, this is exactly what has occurred since the 1950s… until now.
The Rockefeller
Institute studies the financial aspects of state and local government.
According to their research, public employment six years after the end of a
recession was always higher – and sometimes much higher – than when the
recession started, going back to 1957.
The years of the recessions they reviewed, and the employment change six years
later, are as follows:
The latest
downturn is an outlier when it comes to public employment. But I doubt it’s an
anomaly. It’s much more likely a harbinger of what lies ahead.
The problem isn’t that states want to offer less service. Our population has
grown between 6% and 8% in each of these time frames. There’s plenty more
people to serve.
The problem is that they can’t afford it. More specifically, state budgets are
getting overwhelmed with Medicaid costs.
Medicaid expenses increased by 28.7% between 2008 and 2013. To put that in
context, education spending moved up just 1.7%... expenditures for police,
highways, and natural resources was actually down 5.8%... and administrative
spending was down 7.7%. Overall, state expenditures were up just 3.7%.
On the revenue side, state tax revenue is just 5% above where it was before the
financial crisis. If it were following prior recessions, it would be more like
12% to 20%.
Some of this is due to stagnant wages. When constituents don’t earn a lot more,
the only way to increase tax revenue is to raise the tax rate. And while
unpopular, it’s exactly what’s happened in California and a few other states.
At the same time, muted consumer spending has also held back sales tax revenue.
After previous recessions, personal consumption increased between 20% and 30%.
But this time, it’s only up
12%.
This situation will only intensify in the years ahead as the boomers get older
and eventually retire.
As they progress through their empty nester years, they’ll likely keep a lid on
their spending as they try to sock away more assets for retirement. That lack
of spending is the same constraint that’s held back consumption since the
financial crisis, which, again, affects sales tax revenue.
But Medicaid and lack of consumer spending aside, there’s still another issue –
pensions.
From 2008 to 2013, state pension contributions increased $6.7 billion – a 17%
jump.
It gets worse when you consider that as the boomers retire, they’ll rightfully
demand their pension payments. So as state’s pension liabilities grow, they’ll
have to make larger contributions to their pension funds, leaving even fewer
funds for other services.
Keep in mind that states regularly fail to make their required pension
contributions. As the problem grows, they’ll just push more of the liability
down the road, requiring even larger contributions in the future.
The upshot is that our state governments are slashing headcount as they try to
make ends meet with only modestly-growing revenues, even though the claims on
their resources keep growing.
But at some point states won’t be able to cut their employment roll to make
ends meet. Rising Medicaid and pension costs won’t decline anytime soon, and
the funding issue is only going to get worse. That means they’ll have to find
other ways to plug their budget gaps.
It might take time, but eventually states will use the same tactic as
California – a “temporary” tax hike that somehow becomes permanent.
Rodney
ECONOMY & MARKETS | July 09, 2015
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Tell Congress: Subpoena Eric Holder's communication with his
corporate law firm
Petition
to the leadership of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees:
"Subpoena all communications between former Attorney General Eric
Holder and Covington & Burling while he served at Department of Justice and
investigate any potential conflict of interest."
Dear
Albert,
It’s
the revolving door at its most despicable. Eric Holder spent six years as
attorney general, and failed to prosecute banks for their criminal wrongdoing
or put any bank executives behind bars. Now, he’s set to rejoin his old
white-collar criminal defense firm, making millions each year helping Wall
Street bankers avoid criminal consequences.1
Worse, it was just reported that the firm, Covington & Burling, has
kept an empty 11th floor corner office for Holder awaiting his return. Combined
with Holder’s purchase a year ago of a $1.5 million condo just 300 feet from
his new office raises serious questions about how long Holder knew
he would be getting a major payday from his old firm even while it continued to
represent companies under Department of Justice investigation. If the firm and
Holder agreed on a future job offer, that alone could violate criminal laws.2
The leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees owe it to the
American people to explore all communications between a sitting attorney
general and a firm that appears to have been holding a job for him while its
clients negotiated legal settlements with the Justice Department.
Wall
Street banks committed fraud that crashed the economy and then illegally
foreclosed on countless homeowners, but still not a single big bank executive
has gone to jail. In many cases, the Justice Department under Eric Holder’s
leadership refused even to prosecute banks for criminal acts, despite
whistleblowers coming forward to guide investigators to the key evidence. In
the rare cases where prosecutors brought charges, they quickly agreed on
settlements that allowed banks to get off the hook with empty promises, token
fines, no admissions of wrongdoing, no one losing their job, and no one going
to jail.
We
knew that Eric Holder’s long career in white-collar criminal defense biased him
against confronting mega banks, and many expected him to return to Covington
& Burling after he left office. But only recently did it come to light that
the firm had reserved a space for him in its new building well before he had
announced his attention to resign. Not only that, last year Holder and his wife
purchased a $1.5 million just 300 feet from the firm’s downtown office, a move that
many interpret to suggest he knew he would return. The firm’s chairman even
admitted in an interview that Holder’s return was “a project I've been working
on since I started as chair [in 2008].”3
Did
Covington & Burling make concrete promises to Holder while he was still
serving as attorney general? Holding a corner office alone could constitute a
violation of U.S. criminal code prohibiting “an arrangement concerning
prospective employment.”4
Even if there is no smoking gun of criminal behavior, the mere fact that
Holder will now make millions getting rich criminals off the hook is a
revolting example of the revolving door. Covington
& Burling represents JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and nearly
every other Wall Street titan. Disturbingly, the firm’s marketing materials
include glowing references to Lanny Breuer. In Breuer's four years as head of
the Justice Department's criminal division under Holder, he sent not a single
banker to jail for crimes committed during the financial meltdown. In 2013,
Breuer left the DOJ for a job at Covington where his salary was reported to
start at around $4 million a year. The firm is notable for helping big banks
find the legal justification for much of the rampant securitization that led to
the financial crash and ensuing foreclosure fraud.5
Covington
& Burling has already brought on six of Holder’s colleagues from the
Justice Department, including the former head of the criminal division who
refused to investigate banks, and the firm reportedly views Holder as a
“rainmaker” who will bring in new business. Holder himself recently said his
role model is a former attorney general who used his position to became the
first lawyer to charge $1,000 an hour.6 Even if Holder never shows
up in court to represent his clients, he and Covington & Burling clearly
plan to trade on expertise and insider connections to defend illegal behavior
and rake in big bucks.7
Holder’s new job is already a national disgrace. The least the leaders
of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees can do is make sure it isn’t
criminal, as well.
Tell Congress: Subpoena former Attorney General Eric Holder's
communications with his corporate law firm while serving as head of the
Department of Justice. Click below to sign the petition.
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/subpoena_holder?t=7&akid=14923.7997710.3ixIF4
Thank
you for speaking out,
Becky
Bond, Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets
Symptoms and Causes
The typical definition of a Third
World country focuses on “indicators”: poverty rates, infant mortality,
literacy and so on. The United Nations even publishes a Human
Development Report that ranks countries according to a composite of
these indicators.
On one hand, that’s a good thing: After all, the main reason to care about
development is its impact on human beings. But a focus on symptoms obscures the
reasons why countries get stuck in Third World status.
For example, when I worked for an international development agency, my team
worked to create a ranking system that would help us prioritize which countries
to help. But some countries were perennially resistant to change no matter how
much aid we threw at them. I wanted to know why, so our work could be
more effective. After all, why focus on the symptoms if you can identify — and
address — the causes of underdevelopment and poverty?
Three interrelated factors cause
“Third World-itis”: lopsided distribution of income; a government hijacked by
the economic elite; and a political focus on stasis rather than change.
Together those features form a self-reinforcing engine that moves in one direction
only: toward conflict, tyranny and eventual collapse.
It works like this. Lopsided income leads to lopsided wealth. Wealth means
power — more power than any vote. The governments of highly unequal societies
reflect this, as the “rules” are reinterpreted and bent to reinforce and
protect those at the top. Since those at the top see no need to change a system
that works in their favor, government policy focuses on preventing
real change … regardless of what politicians say in public.
Of course, societies like this generate misery, which leads to resentment. That
breeds disorder, which is met by increasing force. Government becomes paranoid
and preoccupied with security. Sometimes, there’s a tipping point: France,
1789. Russia and Eastern Europe, 1917 and 1989. Cuba, 1959. Nicaragua and Iran,
1979.
Far more common, though, are societies that grind on, with increasing poverty,
dissatisfaction, repression, and a narrowing of the economic base to little
more than whatever serves the interests of the elite, making the economy highly
vulnerable to external shocks. Chunks of Africa and Latin America fall into
this category.
America certainly meets the
criteria for a Third World country. To start, it’s clear that income and wealth
in the U.S. have become vastly more unequal since the mid-‘60s. In 2010, 3.3%
of households received as much income as the bottom 50%. Despite all the talk
about “redistribution,” that trend is growing dramatically worse.
What about the elite capture of
our government?
A rigorous statistical 2014 study by
political scientists and Princeton and Northwestern found that compared to the
economic elite, average voters have a nonexistent influence on public policies.
“Not only do ordinary citizens not have uniquely substantial power over policy
decisions, they have little or no independent influence on policy at all,” the
authors conclude. In cases where the majority gets its desired policy outcome,
it’s only because the elite happen to want the same result. Regardless of
whether a small minority or a large majority of American citizens support a
policy, the probability of policy change is nearly the same — approximately
30%.
Finally, government policy. Here’s where some will call me a heretic. When I
step back and look at the big picture, I don’t see any change in America’s key
Third World “policies” over the last 50-odd years: the dominance of corporate
managers over shareholders; acceptance of monopoly and market abuse; favoritism
towards the financial sector; and a justice system that ignores elite economic
crime.
Those “policies” are so entrenched that they aren’t even noticed ... and they
have nothing to do with taxation and redistribution. They are the
reason so many Americans want redistribution, since they distort how
our society’s wealth is distributed in the first place. Compared to these
pillars, Obamacare and the other so-called “socialist” measures favored by
Democrats are just window dressing to keep the plebs in order.
What if you could identify the
structural causes of “Third World-itis” before a country
started exhibiting the symptoms? You can … just use the framework I've laid out
here. If you’re considering investing or moving abroad, ask yourself:
1. How
unequal is this society?
2. How
representative are its political parties of the popular will?
3. Does the
government work to make society and economy fair for all citizens, so that high
taxation and redistribution are unnecessary?
4. Are the
factors above getting better, or worse?
There are countries ... most
notably, in my experience, Uruguay
and a few others … that fit this bill. Now you know why we recommend them.
Kind regards,
Ted Baumann
Offshore and Asset Protection Editor
P.S. As America continues its decline into Third World status,
it’s crucial to have a Plan B in place. And at Sovereign’s Total Wealth
Symposium this October in The Bahamas, you’ll learn how to do just that. With
information about investing and moving offshore, obtaining a second residence
or passport, and even how to choose where to expatriate, Total Wealth Symposium
has the answers you need.
Posted by : testosteronepit
Post date: 07/09/2015 - 10:05
That’s
what’s beyond the insufferably rosy corporate speak.
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 07/09/2015 - 15:03
Enemies
of the People...
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 07/09/2015 - 14:53
When
you shred democracy and the central tenants of a legal system in order to
benefit the very few, it’s only a matter of time before the whole system
collapses.
With
just six days to go until the government begins Jade Helm 15, expect the rumor mill
to come alive because as The Washington Post reports, the media will
not be given access to the drills.
Presented
with nothing but an open-mouthed 'no comment'... TRUMP JUMPS TO FIRST PLACE...
{ Wow! … How irrevocably far america’s fallen … don … you must complete your
fourth reich aspiration by writing a ‘Mein Kampf’ from inside a jail cell …
paralleling your idol, Adolph, whose orations you obsessively listen to for
inspiration (from author O’Donnell as per Ivanna Trump) …}
Leaves third-party door
open...
"Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake replaced the city's
police commissioner on Wednesday, saying the city needed to be more focused on
suppressing a spike in violence in the months since the death of a man in
police custody."
The time of deflationary confiscation is coming closer for the remaining
Greek bank depositors. Those
who kept their cash in safe deposit boxes at banks are out of luck too: the
government has decreed they may not take it out. This is something one needs to
keep in mind – if one wants to keep cash outside the banking system, one cannot
leave it in a bank safe deposit box either. The government will
confiscate it when push comes to shove and the banks need to be rescued.
Buying stocks "is buying the Chinese Dream," proclaimed a top brokerage after officials
'promised' a centrally-planned bull market for the on-the-verge-of-social-unrest-after-real-estate-collapse
population... but instead they have lured them into a bear trap. Even The
Economist sees the irony... as yet another centrally-planned market
economy scars a generation of investors...
This all seems like good investment strategy: Convince everyone that "free trade" is
good, take their jobs, make them desperate enough to become heroin addicts, and
then take the last bit of their money by profiting from their drug-related healthcare
expenses. For some reason, the
average person always seems to come out on the wrong side of quantitative
easing.
There
is nothing incrementally new or different to what we revealed earlier in the leaked
Greek proposal (i.e., no actionable pension cuts, no debt
"reprofiling") and as Bloomberg makes it all too clear in flashing
red headlines:
GREEK GOVT PROPOSAL SIMILAR TO EU COMMISSION'S JUNE 26 PROPOSAL
...
or the one which 61% of the Greek people said no to.
If earnings are the mother's milk of stock bull markets, then the endless supply of talking heads bloviating
on the next leg of the stock market rally being driven by a post Q1 renaissance
in earnings growth (ever ready to pull out their hockey-stick forecasts)
may want to look away from the following chart...
The tense
division in Europe's union are becoming increasingly evident. Between Greece's "no" vote, yesterday's EU
Parliament outbursts, and today's German parliament commentary it is clear
that,
as Bloomberg reports, the centerpiece of Merkel’s cure for Europe -
fiscal retrenchment - has catalyzed her in the eyes of many as despite her calm
but firm entreaties, an economic bully. “The lesson of this crisis
is more Europe, not less Europe,” Angela Merkel said in 2012 as the
integrity of the region’s monetary union was threatened by financial
instability, but many, like Greece, have come to understand "more
Europe" means something different: "more Germany."
While
yesterday's suspension of trading on the New York Stock Exchange drew attention
to the plunge in equity prices, the reality is that stocks have been in a
correction since the all-time highs posted back in May. Of course, until
yesterday's headlines, you may not have realized that the correction
was in process as it has been "as slow as a turtle running in
peanut butter."
When the going gets tough, the taxed get going and that is what Nobel Prize winning economist
Joseph Stiglitz thinks should happen. In a Time op-ed,
Stiglitz warns (likely correctly) that if Greece continues with austerity, it
would be depression without end; and so his solution is simple... "The
U.S. was generous with Germany as we defeated it. Now, it is time for the U.S.
to be generous with our friends in Greece in their time of need,
as they have been crushed for the second time in a century by Germany, this
time with the support of the troika." Strawman much?
"China is not doing anything that the US has not already
tried," exclaims Rick
Santelli as he derides the 'entitlement' society that has reached the investor
class. Whether it's US, Japan, Europe, or China, "the idea of trying
to prop up returns in the equity market - admitted or not - is going on,"
Santelli notes, asking - after forcing every mom and pop out of savings and
into investment, "if it doesn't turn out well... do they have a moral
obligation to help out?" Simply put, he rages - drawing the chart
of the year - "the central planners are in control... and I
don't suspect they will give up the reins any time soon."
This time it is different, but not in the way that the cheerleaders intended.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Illegal immigrant host claims documentary is not about shaming
white people.
Kurt Nimmo |
Clinton’s “body woman” linked to radical Islam.
Steve Watson | Claims
“I’ve never had a subpoena”; subpoena produced within hours.
Kit Daniels | No word
yet if American flag will also be removed, since that follows same “logic.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | White People documentary hosted by illegal immigrant features
young Americans crying over their “white privilege”.
Washington
Free Beacon | Challenges presidential rivals on foreign policy.
The
Daily Sheeple | Seattle sure is turning into a real progressive utopia isn’t
it?
CNN
| Facebook’s 1.4 billion active users may need to strain their eyes to see the
social network’s subtle new design change.
… raving
“ineradicable pest”. { If only someone had said that about hitler … }
·
WORLD NEWS
TechDirt | Well,
Spain’s officially a police state now.
ISIS
pilots from Indonesia Tracked on Facebook by Australia
The Intercept |
The apparent recruitment of pilots and other aviation workers comes as
Indonesia struggles to counter the ever-increasing numbers of foreign fighters
heading for Iraq or Syria.
Air
force drops dummy nuclear bomb in Nevada in first controversial test to update
cold war arsenal
UK Daily Mail |
A ‘safe’ version of the the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb with no warhead was
tested at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada.
EU Parliament
backs TTIP resolution
RT | Despite
vocal criticism, the EU Parliament has approved a non-binding resolution on the
controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
BRICS
Bank Officially Launches As Sun Sets On US Hegemony
Zero Hedge | On
Tuesday, ahead of this year’s summit in Ulfa, the BRICS countries officially
launched the new bank along with the reserve currency pool.
·
MONEY WATCH
Michelle
Obama reveals her ‘modest’ $600k changes to White House State Dining Room
UK Daily Mail |
The $590,000 tab was paid by the White House Endowment Trust.
China
Makes Selling For Big Investors Illegal
Zero Hedge |
China has now made it illegal for big investors to dump shares over the next
six months.
Are
Big Banks Using Derivatives To Suppress Bullion Prices?
Paul Craig
Roberts | The gold and silver futures markets are not a place where people buy
and sell gold and silver.
History
Repeats as China Faces Gloomy 1929-Style Crash: “The Parallels with 1920 Are
Uncanny”
Mac Slavo |
According to some, Greece has been hogging the limelight, while China is going
through ultra dramatic market fails, too.
·
PRISON PLANET
NSA
spying scandal: ‘Only so much humiliation Germany can take’
RT | The latest
WikiLeaks report says leading German officials have been spied on for decades
by the US’s National Security Agency.
Florida
Judge Who Tried to Ban Protests Forced to Backtrack After Lawsuit Filed
Michael Krieger
| This story is another example of what can happen when unethical people in
positions of power feel like they can get away with anything.
High
School Test Ridiculously Defines ‘Family’
Truth Revolt |
Related by blood = WRONG!
10
Very Strange Things That Have Happened In Just The Past Few Weeks
Michael Snyder |
Have you noticed that events have begun to accelerate?
·
COMMENTARY
American
Police Caught Buying Spyware from Insidious Hacker Group — To Use on You
Free Thought
Project | A powerful hacking company that sells malware and infectious spying
software exclusively to governments has itself been hacked.
Walmart,
Amazon, Google, Sears Still Profiting off Mass-Murdering Communist Che Guevara
Gateway Pundit |
The Confederate Battle flag is being cleansed in a Stalinist purge, being
banned from sale by major businesses including Walmart, Amazon and Google Shops.
Wikipedia
as Propaganda Not History — MH17 as An Example
Eric Zuesse |
Wikipedia articles are more propaganda than they are historical accounts. And,
often, their cited sources are misleading, or even false.
Homosexual
Lobby Wins Crippling Judgment Against Jewish Traditionalists
New American |
·
MULTIMEDIA
Ron Paul says Trump
troubles him
The Hill |
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said on Thursday that GOP presidential candidate
Donald Trump’s ‘aggressive personality’ troubles him.
Mac Slavo | For
those who laugh at “preppers” it boils down to the belief that this time is
different from the countless historical examples showing just how bad things
can get.
Does Jim Carrey
Wear A Tin Foil Hat?
Prison
Planet.com | Actor Jim
Carrey recently came out against California’s fascist SB 277 bill which
mandates vaccines which begs the question, what else is he right about?
·
U.S. NEWS
High-Profile
Hillary Clinton Supporter: ‘I Hate Americans. I Hate America’
Washington Free
Beacon | Grande is one of a number of high-profile celebrities to publicly back
Clinton’s presidential run.
Charges
pressed against top Dem activist who threatened 12-year-old Obama critic
Bizpac Review |
The Pearson family is planning to press charges.
Pelosi
Uses Murder Committed By Illegal Immigrant To Pitch … Gun Control
Truth Revolt |
Because the weapon did it.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
PHOTO:
Superintendent defends paltry Michelle O school lunch after parents sound alarm
EAG News | While
the summer is a respite for some students from the books and the teacher’s
dirty looks, for others, there’s no getting away from paltry school lunches.
Subterranean
Farm to Harvest 2.5 Acres of Produce 100 Feet Below Ground Level
Christina Sarich
| Taking farming to a whole new level.
Thousands
of birds leave ‘dead zone’ after abandoning Florida Gulf Coast
RT | A 150-acre
portion of the Florida Gulf Coast is being described as a “dead zone” by
scientists.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
DEADLINE: GREECE...
LAST CHANCE, REALLY...
DEAL IN SIGHT AS GERMANY
BACKS DOWN...
Banks struggle to remain afloat...
Cash fast
running out despite restrictions on withdrawals...
Argentina suffers default
déjà vu...
07-10-15 thru 07-17-15
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
http://albertpeia.com/Another14
blackonwhitemurders.htm
Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as
we noted was possible previously - Texas has enacted a Bill to
repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a newly established
state gold bullion depository..."People have this image of
Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they
would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes a
section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.
Is this the first step down a road to secession?
‘…Trump may be a “joke” to people who see right through what he’s doing,
but he’s no joke to his growing number of supporters. The Huffington Post would do far more good
covering him religiously, while discrediting him every step of the way.
Mocking him will only reflexively boost his support amongst an
increasingly desperate and confused citizenry. As much as I wish he
were a joke, he’s not. In fact, he’s very real and very dangerous.
Fortunately,
Jeffrey Tucker at Liberty.me has penned a piece on Trump that is at the same
time brilliant, incisive and necessary. He wrote the article on Trump I
wish I had. If we are to ultimately choose liberty as opposed to Trump’s
American brand of right-of-center statism, we much expose him for what he is in
the context of history. Mocking him, ignoring him and hoping he just goes away
silently into the night will not be enough.
Now
here are some excerpts from Mr. Tucker’s excellent article: Trumpism: The Ideology
It’s not too interesting to say that Donald Trump is a nationalist and
aspiring despot who is manipulating bourgeois resentment, nativism, and
ignorance to feed his power lust. It’s uninteresting because it is obviously
true. It’s so true that stating it sounds more like an observation than a
criticism.
I just heard Trump speak live. It was an awesome experience, like an
interwar séance of once-powerful dictators who inspired multitudes, drove
countries into the ground, and died grim deaths.
The ideology is a 21st century version of right fascism — one of the
most politically successful ideological strains of 20th century politics. Though hardly anyone talks about it today, we really
should. It is still real. It exists. It is distinct. It is not going away. Trump has tapped into it, absorbing unto his own
political ambitions every conceivable bourgeois resentment: race, class, sex,
religion, economic. You would have to be hopelessly ignorant of modern history
not to see the outlines and where they end up.
For now, Trump seems more like comedy than reality. I want to laugh
about what he said, like reading a comic-book version of Franco, Mussolini, or
Hitler. And truly I did laugh, as when he denounced the existence of tech
support in India that serves American companies (“how can it be cheaper to call
people there than here?” — as if he still thinks that long-distance charges
apply).
Let’s hope this laughter doesn’t turn to tears.
Lovers of freedom need to confront the views of a man with views like
this. What’s more, of all the speeches I heard at FreedomFest, I learned more
from this one than any other. I heard, for the first time in my life, what a
modern iteration of a consistently statist but non-leftist outlook on politics
sounds and feels like in our own time. And I watched as most of the audience
undulated between delight and disgust — with perhaps only 10% actually cheering
his descent into vituperative anti-intellectualism. That was gratifying.
As of this writing, Trump is leading in the polls in the Republican
field. He is hated by the media, which is a plus for the hoi polloi in the GOP.
He says things he should not, which is also a plus for his supporters. He is
brilliant at making belligerent noises rather than having worked out policy
plans. He knows that real people don’t care about the details; they only want a
strongman who shares their values. He makes fun of the intellectuals, of
course, as all populists must do. Along with this penchant, Trump encourages a kind of
nihilistic throwing out of rationality in favor of a trust in his own genius.
And people respond, as we can see.
So, what does Trump actually believe? He does have a philosophy, though
it takes a bit of insight and historical understanding to discern it. Of course
race baiting is essential to the ideology, and there was plenty of that. When a Hispanic man asked a question, Trump
interrupted him and asked if he had been sent by the Mexican government. He
took it a step further, dividing blacks from Hispanics by inviting a black man
to the microphone to tell how his own son was killed by an illegal immigrant.
Trump also tosses little bones to the Christian Right, enough to allow
them to believe that he represents their interests. Yes, it’s implausible and
hilarious. But the crowd who looks for this is easily won with winks and
nudges, and those he did give. At the speech I heard, he railed against ISIS
and its war against Christians, pointing out further than he is a Presbyterian
and thus personally affected every time ISIS beheads a Christian. This entire
section of his speech was structured to rally the nationalist Christian strain
that was the bulwark of support for the last four Republican presidents.
But as much as racialist and religious resentment is part of his
rhetorical apparatus, it is not his core. His core is about business, his own
business and his acumen thereof. He is living proof that being a successful
capitalist is no predictor of one’s appreciation for an actual free market (stealing not
trading is more his style). It only implies a love of money and a longing for the power that comes
with it. Trump has both.
In effect, he believes that he is running to be the CEO of the country —
not just of the government (as Ross Perot once believed) but of the entire country.
In this capacity, he believes that he will make deals with other countries that
cause the U.S. to come out on top, whatever that could mean. He conjures up
visions of himself or one of his associates sitting across the table from some
Indian or Chinese leader and making wild demands that they will buy such and
such amount of product else “we” won’t buy their product.
Yes, it’s bizarre. As Nick Gillespie said, he has a tenuous grasp on
reality. Trade theory from hundreds of years plays no role in his thinking at
all. To him, America is a homogenous unit, no different from his own business
enterprise. With his run for president, he is really making a takeover bid, not
just for another company to own but for an entire country to manage from the
top down, under his proven and brilliant record of business negotiation,
acquisition, and management.
ECONOMY & MARKETS | 07.09.2015
It used to be that when
economic times got tough, people sought out public employment. The pay was less
than in the private sector, but the job security was pretty good, and at the
end you got a pension.
Nowadays, when including all the benefits, public sector pay is higher than
what you can get in the private sector, so the jobs are that much more
attractive.
Unfortunately, those jobs are harder to get today than they were in years past,
and chances are they won’t come back anytime soon.
This usually isn’t the case coming out of a recession, when public employment
typically grows faster than the private sector. When the economy turns down,
people depend more on public services. That creates even more demand for what
governments provide, and requires more workers to meet those needs.
In fact, this is exactly what has occurred since the 1950s… until now.
The Rockefeller
Institute studies the financial aspects of state and local government.
According to their research, public employment six years after the end of a
recession was always higher – and sometimes much higher – than when the
recession started, going back to 1957.
The years of the recessions they reviewed, and the employment change six years
later, are as follows:
The latest
downturn is an outlier when it comes to public employment. But I doubt it’s an
anomaly. It’s much more likely a harbinger of what lies ahead.
The problem isn’t that states want to offer less service. Our population has
grown between 6% and 8% in each of these time frames. There’s plenty more
people to serve.
The problem is that they can’t afford it. More specifically, state budgets are
getting overwhelmed with Medicaid costs.
Medicaid expenses increased by 28.7% between 2008 and 2013. To put that in
context, education spending moved up just 1.7%... expenditures for police,
highways, and natural resources was actually down 5.8%... and administrative
spending was down 7.7%. Overall, state expenditures were up just 3.7%.
On the revenue side, state tax revenue is just 5% above where it was before the
financial crisis. If it were following prior recessions, it would be more like
12% to 20%.
Some of this is due to stagnant wages. When constituents don’t earn a lot more,
the only way to increase tax revenue is to raise the tax rate. And while unpopular,
it’s exactly what’s happened in California and a few other states.
At the same time, muted consumer spending has also held back sales tax revenue.
After previous recessions, personal consumption increased between 20% and 30%.
But this time, it’s only up
12%.
This situation will only intensify in the years ahead as the boomers get older
and eventually retire.
As they progress through their empty nester years, they’ll likely keep a lid on
their spending as they try to sock away more assets for retirement. That lack
of spending is the same constraint that’s held back consumption since the
financial crisis, which, again, affects sales tax revenue.
But Medicaid and lack of consumer spending aside, there’s still another issue –
pensions.
From 2008 to 2013, state pension contributions increased $6.7 billion – a 17%
jump.
It gets worse when you consider that as the boomers retire, they’ll rightfully
demand their pension payments. So as state’s pension liabilities grow, they’ll
have to make larger contributions to their pension funds, leaving even fewer
funds for other services.
Keep in mind that states regularly fail to make their required pension
contributions. As the problem grows, they’ll just push more of the liability
down the road, requiring even larger contributions in the future.
The upshot is that our state governments are slashing headcount as they try to
make ends meet with only modestly-growing revenues, even though the claims on
their resources keep growing.
But at some point states won’t be able to cut their employment roll to make
ends meet. Rising Medicaid and pension costs won’t decline anytime soon, and
the funding issue is only going to get worse. That means they’ll have to find
other ways to plug their budget gaps.
It might take time, but eventually states will use the same tactic as
California – a “temporary” tax hike that somehow becomes permanent.
Rodney
ECONOMY & MARKETS | July 09, 2015
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Tell Congress: Subpoena Eric Holder's communication with his
corporate law firm
Petition
to the leadership of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees:
"Subpoena all communications between former Attorney General Eric
Holder and Covington & Burling while he served at Department of Justice and
investigate any potential conflict of interest."
Dear
Albert,
It’s
the revolving door at its most despicable. Eric Holder spent six years as
attorney general, and failed to prosecute banks for their criminal wrongdoing
or put any bank executives behind bars. Now, he’s set to rejoin his old
white-collar criminal defense firm, making millions each year helping Wall
Street bankers avoid criminal consequences.1
Worse, it was just reported that the firm, Covington & Burling, has
kept an empty 11th floor corner office for Holder awaiting his return. Combined
with Holder’s purchase a year ago of a $1.5 million condo just 300 feet from
his new office raises serious questions about how long Holder knew
he would be getting a major payday from his old firm even while it continued to
represent companies under Department of Justice investigation. If the firm and
Holder agreed on a future job offer, that alone could violate criminal laws.2
The leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees owe it to the
American people to explore all communications between a sitting attorney
general and a firm that appears to have been holding a job for him while its
clients negotiated legal settlements with the Justice Department.
Wall
Street banks committed fraud that crashed the economy and then illegally
foreclosed on countless homeowners, but still not a single big bank executive
has gone to jail. In many cases, the Justice Department under Eric Holder’s
leadership refused even to prosecute banks for criminal acts, despite
whistleblowers coming forward to guide investigators to the key evidence. In
the rare cases where prosecutors brought charges, they quickly agreed on
settlements that allowed banks to get off the hook with empty promises, token
fines, no admissions of wrongdoing, no one losing their job, and no one going
to jail.
We
knew that Eric Holder’s long career in white-collar criminal defense biased him
against confronting mega banks, and many expected him to return to Covington
& Burling after he left office. But only recently did it come to light that
the firm had reserved a space for him in its new building well before he had
announced his attention to resign. Not only that, last year Holder and his wife
purchased a $1.5 million just 300 feet from the firm’s downtown office, a move
that many interpret to suggest he knew he would return. The firm’s chairman even
admitted in an interview that Holder’s return was “a project I've been working
on since I started as chair [in 2008].”3
Did
Covington & Burling make concrete promises to Holder while he was still
serving as attorney general? Holding a corner office alone could constitute a
violation of U.S. criminal code prohibiting “an arrangement concerning
prospective employment.”4
Even if there is no smoking gun of criminal behavior, the mere fact that
Holder will now make millions getting rich criminals off the hook is a
revolting example of the revolving door. Covington
& Burling represents JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and nearly
every other Wall Street titan. Disturbingly, the firm’s marketing materials
include glowing references to Lanny Breuer. In Breuer's four years as head of
the Justice Department's criminal division under Holder, he sent not a single
banker to jail for crimes committed during the financial meltdown. In 2013,
Breuer left the DOJ for a job at Covington where his salary was reported to
start at around $4 million a year. The firm is notable for helping big banks
find the legal justification for much of the rampant securitization that led to
the financial crash and ensuing foreclosure fraud.5
Covington
& Burling has already brought on six of Holder’s colleagues from the
Justice Department, including the former head of the criminal division who
refused to investigate banks, and the firm reportedly views Holder as a
“rainmaker” who will bring in new business. Holder himself recently said his
role model is a former attorney general who used his position to became the
first lawyer to charge $1,000 an hour.6 Even if Holder never shows
up in court to represent his clients, he and Covington & Burling clearly
plan to trade on expertise and insider connections to defend illegal behavior
and rake in big bucks.7
Holder’s new job is already a national disgrace. The least the leaders
of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees can do is make sure it isn’t
criminal, as well.
Tell Congress: Subpoena former Attorney General Eric Holder's
communications with his corporate law firm while serving as head of the
Department of Justice. Click below to sign the petition.
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/subpoena_holder?t=7&akid=14923.7997710.3ixIF4
Thank
you for speaking out,
Becky
Bond, Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets
Symptoms and Causes
The typical definition of a Third
World country focuses on “indicators”: poverty rates, infant mortality, literacy
and so on. The United Nations even publishes a Human
Development Report that ranks countries according to a composite of
these indicators.
On one hand, that’s a good thing: After all, the main reason to care about
development is its impact on human beings. But a focus on symptoms obscures the
reasons why countries get stuck in Third World status.
For example, when I worked for an international development agency, my team
worked to create a ranking system that would help us prioritize which countries
to help. But some countries were perennially resistant to change no matter how
much aid we threw at them. I wanted to know why, so our work could be
more effective. After all, why focus on the symptoms if you can identify — and
address — the causes of underdevelopment and poverty?
Three interrelated factors cause
“Third World-itis”: lopsided distribution of income; a government hijacked by
the economic elite; and a political focus on stasis rather than change.
Together those features form a self-reinforcing engine that moves in one
direction only: toward conflict, tyranny and eventual collapse.
It works like this. Lopsided income leads to lopsided wealth. Wealth means
power — more power than any vote. The governments of highly unequal societies
reflect this, as the “rules” are reinterpreted and bent to reinforce and
protect those at the top. Since those at the top see no need to change a system
that works in their favor, government policy focuses on preventing
real change … regardless of what politicians say in public.
Of course, societies like this generate misery, which leads to resentment. That
breeds disorder, which is met by increasing force. Government becomes paranoid
and preoccupied with security. Sometimes, there’s a tipping point: France,
1789. Russia and Eastern Europe, 1917 and 1989. Cuba, 1959. Nicaragua and Iran,
1979.
Far more common, though, are societies that grind on, with increasing poverty,
dissatisfaction, repression, and a narrowing of the economic base to little
more than whatever serves the interests of the elite, making the economy highly
vulnerable to external shocks. Chunks of Africa and Latin America fall into
this category.
America certainly meets the
criteria for a Third World country. To start, it’s clear that income and wealth
in the U.S. have become vastly more unequal since the mid-‘60s. In 2010, 3.3%
of households received as much income as the bottom 50%. Despite all the talk
about “redistribution,” that trend is growing dramatically worse.
What about the elite capture of
our government?
A rigorous statistical 2014 study by
political scientists and Princeton and Northwestern found that compared to the
economic elite, average voters have a nonexistent influence on public policies.
“Not only do ordinary citizens not have uniquely substantial power over policy
decisions, they have little or no independent influence on policy at all,” the
authors conclude. In cases where the majority gets its desired policy outcome,
it’s only because the elite happen to want the same result. Regardless of
whether a small minority or a large majority of American citizens support a
policy, the probability of policy change is nearly the same — approximately
30%.
Finally, government policy. Here’s where some will call me a heretic. When I
step back and look at the big picture, I don’t see any change in America’s key
Third World “policies” over the last 50-odd years: the dominance of corporate
managers over shareholders; acceptance of monopoly and market abuse; favoritism
towards the financial sector; and a justice system that ignores elite economic
crime.
Those “policies” are so entrenched that they aren’t even noticed ... and they
have nothing to do with taxation and redistribution. They are the
reason so many Americans want redistribution, since they distort how
our society’s wealth is distributed in the first place. Compared to these
pillars, Obamacare and the other so-called “socialist” measures favored by
Democrats are just window dressing to keep the plebs in order.
What if you could identify the
structural causes of “Third World-itis” before a country started
exhibiting the symptoms? You can … just use the framework I've laid out here.
If you’re considering investing or moving abroad, ask yourself:
5. How
unequal is this society?
6. How
representative are its political parties of the popular will?
7. Does the
government work to make society and economy fair for all citizens, so that high
taxation and redistribution are unnecessary?
8. Are the
factors above getting better, or worse?
There are countries ... most
notably, in my experience, Uruguay
and a few others … that fit this bill. Now you know why we recommend them.
Kind regards,
Ted Baumann
Offshore and Asset Protection Editor
P.S. As America continues its decline into Third World status,
it’s crucial to have a Plan B in place. And at Sovereign’s Total Wealth
Symposium this October in The Bahamas, you’ll learn how to do just that. With
information about investing and moving offshore, obtaining a second residence
or passport, and even how to choose where to expatriate, Total Wealth Symposium
has the answers you need.
Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 07/17/2015 - 13:35
All
these bitches get to print money...
Little-Known History of the Euro: Crisis Was Baked In
from the Start
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 07/17/2015 - 13:56
Economic
Hitmen?
LIVE From GREECE: Greek People Victims Of Political
Games
Posted by: Secular Investor
Post date: 07/17/2015 - 13:52
Our
boots-on-the-ground coverage from the Greek 'frontline': what do normal Greek
citizens think of all this mess?
"The IMF acts as a member of the Troika, yet has no elected
position whatsoever. The second unelected member is Mario Draghi of the ECB.
Then the head of Europe is also unelected by the people...This is authoritarian government if we have ever
seen one... The
Invisible Hand of Adam Smith works even in this instance – those in power are only interested in their
self-interest and will risk war and civil unrest to maintain their failed
dreams of power."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 07/17/2015
Demagogue
or not, The Donald continues to gain support among Republicans for the GOP
Presidential nomination, according to the latest FOX News poll, and among Republican
primary voters, Trump now captures 18 percent: more than his closest
competitor, Walker.
Jeffrey Tucker knows a
resurrected nazi/fascist fraud as trumpshitler … http://albertpeia.com/trumpism.htm
One
of the reasons we write is rooted in our deep fear of what
might emerge after the current paradigm collapses. We have no
doubt something very different is coming, we just desperately want that
thing to be freedom, free markets and prosperity as opposed to the disaster
that a $2 despot like Trump would bring. His ascension in the polls is very
troubling, and makes us wonder whether the public will ultimately
choose to rally behind some statist-demagogue wrapped in an American flag when
things get bad enough, as opposed to something far more difficult: Liberty.
We fear they may eventually choose someone like Donald Trump.
The people of Greece are facing further years of economic hardship following a Eurozone agreement over the terms of a
third bailout. The deal included more tax rises and spending cuts, despite the
Syriza government coming to power promising to end what it described as the
"humiliation and pain" of austerity. With the country having already
endured years of economic contraction since the global downturn, The BBC asks, just how
does Greece's ordeal compare with other recessions and how have the lives of
the country's people been affected?
There
has been so much attention on Greece in recent weeks, but the truth is that Greece
represents only a very tiny fraction of an unprecedented global debt bomb which
threatens to explode at any moment. As you are about to see,
there are 24 nations that are currently facing a full-blown debt crisis, and
there are 14 more that are rapidly heading toward one. Right now, the
debt to GDP ratio for the entire planet is up to an all-time record high of 286 percent, and globally there is approximately
200 TRILLION dollars of debt on the books. That breaks down to
about $28,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet.
And since close to half of the population of the world lives on less than 10
dollars a day, there is no way that all of this debt can ever be repaid. The
only “solution” under our current system is to kick the can down the road for
as long as we can until this colossal debt pyramid finally collapses in upon
itself.
Now
that even the IMF has admitted Greece has an unsustainable debt problem with a
debt-to-GDP ratio which will soon cross 200% after its third bailout (even if
it leaves open the question what the IMF thinks about Japan's debt
"sustainability") we wonder what the IMF thinks when looking at
Greece's net government liabilities, which as SocGen's Albert Edwards reminds
us are rapidly approaching 1000%. Which incidentally means that Greece
is only marginally better than the USA, whose comparable net liability is a
little over 500%, while its other nearest comparable is none other than France,
whose next president may will be "Madame
Frexit" and whose biggest headache will be how to resolve government
promises to creditors and retirees that are five times greater than the
country's GDP.
After
a record $92.5 billion drop in March, "Belgium" sold another $24
billion in April, and another $26 billion last month, bringing the total
liquidation to a whopping $142.5 billion for the months of March, April and
May.
As
Bloomberg reports, "an old debt for Peru has come home to
roost..."
"In the water world, the pre-1914 rights were considered to be
gold," exclaimed one
water attorney, but as AP
reports, it appears that 'gold' is being tested as California water
regulators flexed their muscles by ordering a group of farmers to stop pumping
from a branch of the San Joaquin River amid an escalating battle over how much
power the state has to protect waterways that are drying up in the drought. As
usual, governments do what they want with one almond farmer raging "I've
made investments as a farmer based on the rule of law...Now, somebody's
changing the law that we depend on." This is not abiout toi get any
better as NBCNews
reports, this drought is of historic proportions - the worst in
over 100 years.
Greece...
just another brick in the wall...
While
the markets have improved since the "resolution" of the
Greek crisis, in my opinion we would have expected substantially more given the
overall "angst" that the situation was generating. Yet, the
market remains in a bearish consolidation pattern. Furthermore,
relative strength, momentum and volume remain a detraction from the
"bullishness" of this week's "crisis resolution
rally."
Don't
ask. Period.
If
you were a shareholder of a Greek bank, you wouldn’t lose sleep over your
relationship with your regulator. In that context, the statement of the 12 July
Euro Summit may have come as a shock—particularly the bit about the new program
for Greece having to include "the establishment of a buffer of EUR 10 to
25bn for the banking sector in order to address potential bank recapitalisation
needs and resolution costs." You could be forgiven for
thinking—where did that come from?
Mikael
Thalen | Citizens rally to protect “gun free zone” in wake of Chattanooga
shooting.
Kit Daniels | “In the
modern world, no one acts in isolation,” Cruz says.
Adan Salazar & Anthony Gucciardi | Social media giant suppresses spread of
information on damning legislation.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Political correctness is king following attack on Marines.
Kurt Nimmo | Declares
Trump not a valid presidential candidate.
Steve Watson | Family
known to FBI for years.
Kurt Nimmo | Act
ignores role of FBI in creating terror attack plots.
Tony
Cartalucci | His father had been investigated several years ago for “possible
ties to a foreign terrorist organization”.
RT
| The voices cited by the transcript of the full footage claim a warplane shot
down the Boeing.
The
following references the corrupt u.s.district court judge matz who ultimately
covers for the asst. u.s. attorney robert lester who, in light of defendant
usa's default, misstates the legal rule at the court hearing (4 pages in
pertinent part):
(2-26-15)
But, I did make clear in a response to Senator Boxer that there are Honorable
Judges who uphold their sworn duty to honor constitution and rule of law as
follows in pertinent part:
Dear Senator Boxer:
Thank you for thinking of me. It's good to hear
of your goal of making sure your grandson knows you and your retirement plans
to assure same and I wish you well. That said, let me allay your current
concern:
The vast majority of the Department
of Homeland Security is considered by previous applicable determination to be
'essential' and hence, would continue regardless of shutdown. What follows is
my most recent email to Senator Wyden which also references my responding
emails to Senators Feinstein, Warren, and Sanders and as well, an email to
former FBI Director Louis Freeh pursuant to a request from a current client of
Mr. Freeh (now in private practice); and parenthetically, seeking Mr. Freeh's
retention on my behalf toward the end of resolving the referenced RICO matters
of which he had some knowledge (at least in part). I was 'led to believe' you
had some awareness of my presence before the federal district court in United States
District Court for the Central District of California, LA (The Honorable Dean
Pregerson, USDCJ, who 'amazed' me by saying to LA on a perfunctory motion to
dismiss that in light of the properly pleaded complaint, he was constrained by
LAW to deny their motion. He certainly deserved consideration if not nomination
to the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly as an alternative to the corrupt/inept
Sam Alito who figured prominently in the RICO coverup (see infra, attachments).
There was concurrent jurisdiction so I 'let him out' of a very 'dicey
situation' (federal v. states' rights type of thing) and concluded the case in
state court. I believe his father (Circuit Court of Appeals) would properly
recommend him.
Can you help get the RICO matter resolved. A small
but not insignificant sum would go to LA/CA as set forth in the http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
and likewise, to the U.S. treasury.
Sincerely,
Albert L. Peia
Scalia: ‘Ask the nearest hippie’ if marriage helps intimacy { Wow! … How ‘bout asking your bud, scalito
(j.s.alito), what happened to that RICO file, twice, the ‘disappearance’ of
which l’il scalito parlayed into an undeserved lifetime appointment to
ct.o.appeals/scotus … after all, that was/is of itself a substantial/serious
crime … (http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm
) }
‘…sam alito rising by way of cover-up/quid pro quo/bribe to
inept supreme court justice labeled after an infamous faux paux in terms of
judicial acumen/ability as <in a Washington Post comment by an astute
observer/commenter> making clarence thomas look like Oliver Wendell Holmes
<my personal favorite jurist – I thought that was very funny as it is and
was meant to be>, maryanne trump barry awaiting full payment of bribe to
brother don’s trump casinos before ruling for RICO defendants (she also
protected john gotti, etc.), etc., See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm … ‘
Washington’s Blog | The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21
Years Total Since Its Birth. { The ugly americans … pervasively corrupt,
thievingly fraudulent, inherently criminal, bellicose, incompetent, militant,
war mongering, meaningfully lawless (See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm ) … how pathetic! }
{ I responded to a former employee by email in pertinent
part:
‘…..I had occasion to meet a former
(retired) DEA agent here recently. I believe the ‘meeting’ was not accidental.
Well informed and tough, we had a pleasant conversation. Among the topics of
which he was well aware and dismayed by included the 360 tons of unmarked $100
bills totaling $13 billion flown into Iraq and stolen/disappeared; the U.S.
protected poppy fields in Afghanistan (surging production since U.S. occupation
and prior near eradication by the Taliban); CIA drug runs in Vietnam, U.S.,
etc.. Like most criminals, they do it for the money. Parenthetically, I told
him as a matter of patriotism (my father had been a decorated soldier in World
War II and the Korean War; viz., silver star, bronze star, purple heart among
other medals – his first medal, as important, was for saving the life of a
friend when he was a young boy)(My grandfather also served – US/World War I),
upon the death of a couple of my neighborhood friends in Vietnam, at the
beginning of my freshman year at NYU I sought and got an appointment to West
Point (I wouldn’t have gone as a grunt) despite my exempt draft status and
stated that to this day, I thank God that I ultimately decided not to go.
[Interestingly, I subsequently worked a summer job with a good guy who had just
gotten back from‘Nam. I was immensely curious about my ‘Road Not Taken’ (Robert
Frost, my favorite poem). In addition to a few war stories, he explained it
this way:‘… for the first two weeks you’re there and for the two weeks before
you go home you worry about getting killed … for the time in between, you just
don’t give a f***’ (whether you live or die)]. ... see http://albertpeia.com/nam.htm }
"When I think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large
animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long
roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain but has become trapped by its own
missteps, as caught in a tar pit or some quicksand, and it is violently
flailing about, making a terrifying noises in its effort to free itself and
re-establish its authority. Any observer immediately knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but
certainly is frightened by the noise and crashing that it can sustain for a
considerable time."
{ This analogy would almost be funny if it wasn’t so tragically true … }
Ron Paul says Trump
troubles him The Hill | Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said on Thursday
that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ‘aggressive personality’
troubles him. { If only someone had said that about hitler … } TRUMP JUMPS TO FIRST PLACE... { Wow! …
How irrevocably far america’s fallen … ny/american mobster/mental case don ‘the
donald’ t-rump … don, you must complete your fourth reich aspiration by writing
your ‘Mein Kampf’ from inside a jail cell … paralleling your idol, adolph,
whose orations you obsessively listened to for inspiration (from author
O’Donnell as per Ivanna Trump) …}
Leaves third-party door
open... { ‘The
Donald’, as did his psychopathic idol, ‘The Furor’ of dark days past
hits/exploits a ‘hot-button’ issue, illegal immigration, arguing for
selective/arbitrary enforcement of the law in that regard [conveniently
exempting/sparing/ignoring him and his <1%> from far more destructive
(economically and otherwise) criminal activities] and like his kindred spirits,
the nazis, ramps up the rhetoric … The truth/reality is that the aforesaid
immigration debacle is but a fraction of the damage/cost to the nation of
home-grown crimes of corruption, bribery, (drug) money laundering and financial
frauds in the hundreds of billions (along with citizen violent crimes which has
made the u.s. number 1 in that regard for many decades), integral to and
attributes of his indigenous new york/new jersey nationwide sinkhole; the
frenzy obscuring the magnitude of such home-grown crimes while focusing on the
almost insignificant by financial comparison immigration issue … After all,
trump’s benefited mightily from such bubble frauds and through political power
seeks to lock in the ill-founded wealth for himself and the other greedy
criminal 1%. Where was he when the fraudulent bubbles were expanding … counting
his money/gains along with the rest of the small 1% while 99% were bearing the
brunt/cost of such blatantly misguided/oft times illegal policy … appreciating,
not deprecating until irrevocable, the 1% wealth enhancing crimes to the
detriment of the nation and 99% of the populace … t_rump’s a fraud on the
nation and any nations worldwide that have had the misfortune to buy into ‘the
donald’s’ hitlerian attempt to fool ‘all of the people’ not ‘some of the time’,
but this one time to protect his undeserved gains through raw, unbridled(in his
maniacal hands), power at the expense of those who can least afford it … [ If only
someone had said that about hitler! … ]
see http://albertpeia.com/trumpshitler.htm ,
http://albertpeia.com/trumpism.htm
{ The
latest in t_rump’s disparagement of john mccain: … t_rump will set his military
service record against that of McCain any day; viz., ‘the donald’ t_rump 0 vs.
mccain –1 … yes john, yours is a negative number (victory t_rump), because
(bully and coward as all bullies are) t_rump says you’re a loser for having
been shot down in your fighter jet in the heat of actual battle and having been
captured seriously injured thereafter (along with 5 years of torturous
captivity – If only t_rump had focused on mccain’s senility, misguided military
industrial complex welfare programs warned against by great but underrated
President General Eisenhower (note t_rump has gone after Academy grads,
ie.,Graham, McCain, where honor was/is still taught but for quite some time has
been out of fashion/irrelevant, not practiced), violations of the military code
of conduct while prisoner, ‘keating 5 type corruption’, etc., t_rump might have
at least showed deceptively a semblance of rationality; but of course, going
after corruption would be for t_rump, blatantly self-destructive-that trump’s
not in jail is a testament to how far america’s fallen) … and fellow veterans
you are on notice by t_rump: Those of you who actually have served to date,
who’ve been POW’s, lost limbs, been wounded, maimed, killed are losers … not
winners in the corrupt/fixed/bribe-induced fantasy world (‘mobster in chief’
would more suit the ‘teflon don t_rump’ http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm
. ) of t_rump’s sociopathic/narcissistic
projection of ‘real winners’ in the mold of ‘the donald’s’ role model/idol,
‘the furor’, the psychotic adolph hitler himself whose orations t_rump
obsessively listened to for inspiration (from author
O’Donnell as per Ivanna Trump … ‘Trumped: The Inside Story of the Real Donald
Trump’ by John R.
O'Donnell ) Student deferment
AND medical deferment (psychological / psychiatric I could believe is apropos),
t_rump likes to cover all bases, ‘flower child’ that he conveniently was at the
time (WHAT TYPICAL TRUMP B**L S**T!). (Just kidding about ‘flower child’ … I
always liked real hippies; especially those real hippies who molded themselves
to the extent possible in the manner of Jesus Christ himself in terms of peace,
love, and ‘quintessential anti-greed/anti-corruption’.) This t_rump scenario
brings to mind that great oscar-worthy film superbly crafted by the underrated
David Cronenberg, ‘Dead Zone’ (book by Stephen King), oscar-worthy great
performance (how did they miss it) by lead Christopher Walken with great
performances across the board; especially Martin Sheen superbly as the
psychotic, ruthlessly aggressive, trumpishly ambitious politician, Greg
Stillson. Borrowing the words of Walken’s psychically endowed Johnny Smith
rather than to t_rump his own ‘your fired’, I say (to psychotic mental case
trump) ’YOU’RE FINISHED’! }
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
http://albertpeia.com/Another14
blackonwhitemurders.htm
Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as
we noted was possible previously - Texas has enacted a Bill to
repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a newly established
state gold bullion depository..."People have this image of
Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they
would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes a
section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.
Is this the first step down a road to secession?
Posted by : Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 07/21/2015 - 17:34
The
Fed may raise rates from 0.25% to 0.3% or possible even 0.5% sometime in the
next 24 months… but these moves will be largely symbolic. Here's why...
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 07/21/2015 - 11:19
Since
yesterday there has been another of wave of negative, misleading and almost
triumphalist commentary on gold most of which studiously ignores the clear
evidence of manipulation of the price on...
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 07/21/2015 - 05:57
What
does an economy do when it no longer produces enough goods to pay its own
bills? It “consumes”, meaning it cannibalizes (i.e. consumes) all of the
accumulated wealth of that society. And when...
"They are going to be toast. It will be one of our first levels of
shorting the moment we start to see cracks, because it’s ripe with retail,
emotional investors."
The
latest confirmation that the Trump "nightmare" is causing not only
sleepless nights but also panic attacks for a GOP that is scrambling to respond
to the Donald's juggernaut is not only open attempts at caricature, which
however merely feed Trump's ego and push him to troll his accusers even more,
but to use the influential Des Moines Register, Iowa's largest newspaper and a
critical voice when it comes to endorsing, or panning, presidential candidates
in this first caucus state, to call on Donald Trump to drop out of the 2016
presidential race.
The
action in gold in 2013 was a warning about the “dollar”, a warning that went
completely unheeded yet has been largely fulfilled. Again, 2013
provides a guide as to why gold prices may be declining in sharp moves,
especially right at the open or in weaker trading hours, and it has very little
to do with interest rates apart from fixed income suggesting the same factors
about the “dollar.” Whether it is growing unease about the global economic
picture or the “sudden” recurrence of financial irregularity almost wherever
you wish to gaze, the “dollar” is once more wreaking havoc. This
isn’t controversial at all, but somehow economists can miss that
gold is global and universal collateral and when the eurodollar system is
stressed it becomes activated in that manner.
In
what may be the biggest story of the year, if confirmed, Greek newspaper To
Vima reports that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has asked Russian
President Vladimir Putin for 10 billion dollars in order to print drachmas. But
the real shocker: on the night of the referendum, word came from Russia
that Putin did not want to support Greece’s return to the drachma. After that,
Tsipras had no choice left but to “surrender” to German Chancellor.
In
what is being called "the first of its kind," Wired.com
reports that hackers, using just a laptop and mobile phone,
accessed a Jeep Cherokee's on-board systems (via its wireless internet
connection), took control and crashed the car into a ditch from 10 miles away
sitting on their sofa. As
The Telegraph details, the breach was revealed by security researchers
Charlie Miller, a former staffer at the NSA, and Chris Valasek, who warned that
more than 470,000 cars made by Fiat Chrysler could be at risk of being attacked
by similar means. Coming just weeks after the FBI claimed a US hacker
took control of a passenger jet he was on in the first known such incident of
its kind, the incident shows just how vulnerable we are to modern technology.
What if Syriza were not just a particularly fluffy breed of miniature
Europoodle but actual honest-to-goodness revolutionaries, ready to do whatever
it takes? How would they
act differently? And what would be the result? Given that the price is so
high, perhaps it would be better after all if we just sat quietly, allowed the
rich get richer as the poor get poorer, watched listlessly as the environment
got completely destroyed by capitalist industrialists in blind pursuit of
profit, and eventually curled up, kissed our sweet asses good-bye and died?
Good luck selling that idea to young radicalized hotheads who have
nothing to lose - except maybe you, if you happen to stand in their way as they
change the world!
For
all the back-patting exuberance over manipulated record high stock
prices and record periods of illusory job gains, it appears the
administration and its Obamanomics forgot one important thing - the children!
As USA
Today reports, a higher percentage of children live in poverty now
than did during the Great Recession, according to a new
report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released Tuesday.
When
Janet Yellen speaks, investors buy stocks (whether she tells you stock
valuations are 'substantialy stretched' or not). When Warren Buffett speaks,
investors listen... so when his favorite indicator is flashing a huge
"sell signal" trading 80% 'expensive' to its long-term average,
perhaps, as BofAML suggests, it is time to listen.
George Clooney has just released to promote his new non-profit, entitled
THE SENTRY - an initiative
that "seeks to disrupt and ultimately dismantle the networks of
perpetrators, facilitators, and enablers who fund and profit from America’s
deadliest conflicts." Eliminating genocide sounds like an incredibly
noble cause; however, in order to do so, Mr. Clooney’s aim is break
down financial privacy. The road to tyranny is always paved with the
stones of good intentions. Because no matter how many financial regulations
get passed, and no matter how far the dictators are chased by Mr. Clooney on
his white horse, the fact remains that bad people will always find the
resources to do bad things. And in the meantime, the crusade to
save the world only serves to make everyone else less free.
The
company which was carrying the fate of not only the Dow Jones and the S&P
500 on its shoulders had taken the stairs up, and just took the elevator down.
"I held in my hand the Holy Grail for the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange. The most influential economic mind of the twentieth century provided
the CME with the intellectual foundation upon which to build its financial
superstructure."
Unleash
the talking head spin...
"The only thing we have to fear is the lack of fear itself..."
The
one line item everyone looks for in every Greek forecast is what its debt will
be now that reality is finally allowed to creep in. We have dutifully
highlighted it on the chart below: it is now expected to hit 238% by 2018. But
it was another number that caught our attention: Citi's estimate for Greek HICP
(inflation) in 2017. 22.5% In other words, Citi
predicts that by 2017 Greece will have hyperinflation even if it
remains in the Eurozone.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Obama finally makes the decision after intense criticism.
Kit Daniels |
al-Awlaki, who dined at the Pentagon, also had ties to Ft. Hood shooting,
Charlie Hebdo attack.
Mikael
Thalen | Presidential hopeful battles “all 70,000 pages” in campaign ad.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Armed forces locations on alert after Chattanooga shooting.
Steve Watson |
Footage shows official haggling over price of baby body parts; jokes about
buying a Lamborghini with profits.
RT
| “There is no bigger question.”
Washington
Post | Add “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell to the list of Americans who believe
the Pentagon should arm recruiters and other service members after the attack
in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The
Hill | The National Rifle Association (NRA) is taking aim at a controversial
policy that prohibits soldiers from carrying personal firearms on military
bases.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Claims criticism that she advocated ISIS propaganda represents
“Islamophobia”.
·
WORLD NEWS
New
pictures of Edward VIII giving Nazi salute on visit to Germany emerge at
auction
London Telegraph
| Edward VIII is pictured giving the “Heil Hitler” salute in photographs of him
with uniformed senior members of the Nazi regime.
Exploding
CHICKENS, new weapon of choice for ISIS?
Bizpac Review |
The newest reported weapon of the Islamic State is appropriate for the group of
cowards.
US
Could Deploy New Missiles in Europe – Russian Defense Official
Sputnik | These
new missiles could be deployed in Poland and Romania by 2018, Oleg Pyshny said.
Japan
defense paper slams China’s ‘coercive’ maritime demands
AFP | Japan on
Tuesday slammed Beijing’s bid to reclaim land in the South China Sea.
Kerry:
We Have Ended Iran’s Ability to Get a Weapon
Truth Revolt |
Famous last words.
·
MONEY WATCH
Buffett,
Johnny Depp Snap Up “Cheap” Greek Islands
Zero Hedge | Who
can afford to pay cash for property in Greece?
“Central
Bank Warfare Model Wearing Thin”: Nations Desperate for Way Out of Crunch
Mac Slavo | A
financial expert has warned that allowing predatory economics to continue
misleading the world can only result in three things: war, depopulation… or,
maybe, change.
The
Firesale Begins: Tsipras Agrees To Sell Greek Assets
Joshua Krause |
It’s never been more obvious that Greece has been sold out to the banks.
4
Things That Are Happening Today That Indicate That A Deflationary Financial
Collapse Is Imminent
Michael Snyder |
When financial markets crash, they do not do so in a vacuum.
·
PRISON PLANET
Moscow
calls for greater UN involvement in MH17 crash investigation, not ‘political
propaganda game’
RT | The UN
Security Council has held consultations on the investigation of the downing of
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.
Ashley
Madison Data Hack ‘Done For Profit’
Sky News | A
member of a hacking community claims Impact Team “will profit in a big way” if
they sell the stolen personal details.
Driver
Pulled Over for Hanging an Air Freshener in His Car
Joshua Krause |
It all started when Michigan resident Richard Houghton was driving through
Wisconsin, where he was pulled over by a police officer.
ATF
Works With FBI And VA To Get Veterans’ Guns Taken Away
Daily Caller |
And it’s not just veterans facing this scrutiny: now it’s anybody who gets
Social Security.
·
COMMENTARY
Retired
US General Admits Military’s Role in Creating ISIS
Carey Wedler |
Flynn was a top intelligence official following 9/11.
Obama
Simply Switched from One War Crime Which Increases Terrorism to Another
Washington’s
Blog | It has now been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that the type of
torture which the U.S. used during the Bush years was a war crime.
Today
Congress Votes to Take Your Passport
Daniel McAdams |
Revolutions most often become horrific parodies as they inevitably turn inward
on their own people.
Propaganda
Wave Portends Invasion of Syria
Tony Cartalucci
| US Plans to Use Al Qaeda in 2007, Now Fully Realized.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Video:
Try This 20 Min/Day ‘Life Hack’ to Transform Your Health
Anthony
Gucciardi | Anyone can benefit.
Feminist:
Not Allowing Your Wife to Sleep With Other Men is Sexist
Paul Joseph
Watson | “She’ll tell me all about how she and Paulo had sex, and I’m glad
because I’m a feminist.”
VIDEO:
Liberals Sign Petition to Support “White Privilege Tax”
Paul Joseph
Watson | A 1% income tax on all white people to be redistributed to help
“minority communities”.
·
U.S. NEWS
Chattanooga
Shooter Linked to CIA, FBI Asset Anwar al-Awlaki
Kit Daniels | al-Awlaki, who dined at the Pentagon, also had
ties to Ft. Hood shooting, Charlie Hebdo attack.
Poll:
Trump surges to big lead in GOP presidential race
Washington Post
| Has almost twice the support of his closest rival.
Obama
Ordered Flags to Half Mast for Newtown, But Not 5 Military Personnel Murdered
in Tenn.
CNS News |
President Barack Obama has yet to order the flags to half-staff following this
tragedy.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
A
new NASA-funded study lays out a plan to return humans to the Moon
The Verge |
Footprints by 2021 and a permanent base by the 2030s.
Study:
Probability of Obese People Reaching ‘Normal’ Weight Less Than 1%
CBS Washington |
The Centers for Disease Control classify a BMI of between 25 and 29.9 as
“overweight,” anything above that as obese.
Colorado
City Stops Water Fluoridation Following Concerning Study
Christina Sarich
| Joining the rest of the world in refusing fluoride.
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The
following references the corrupt u.s.district court judge matz who ultimately
covers for the asst. u.s. attorney robert lester who, in light of defendant
usa's default, misstates the legal rule at the court hearing (4 pages in
pertinent part):
(2-26-15)
But, I did make clear in a response to Senator Boxer that there are Honorable
Judges who uphold their sworn duty to honor constitution and rule of law as
follows in pertinent part:
Dear Senator Boxer:
Thank you for thinking of me. It's good to hear
of your goal of making sure your grandson knows you and your retirement plans
to assure same and I wish you well. That said, let me allay your current
concern:
The vast majority of the Department
of Homeland Security is considered by previous applicable determination to be
'essential' and hence, would continue regardless of shutdown. What follows is
my most recent email to Senator Wyden which also references my responding emails
to Senators Feinstein, Warren, and Sanders and as well, an email to former FBI
Director Louis Freeh pursuant to a request from a current client of Mr. Freeh
(now in private practice); and parenthetically, seeking Mr. Freeh's retention
on my behalf toward the end of resolving the referenced RICO matters of which
he had some knowledge (at least in part). I was 'led to believe' you had some
awareness of my presence before the federal district court in United States
District Court for the Central District of California, LA (The Honorable Dean
Pregerson, USDCJ, who 'amazed' me by saying to LA on a perfunctory motion to
dismiss that in light of the properly pleaded complaint, he was constrained by
LAW to deny their motion. He certainly deserved consideration if not nomination
to the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly as an alternative to the corrupt/inept
Sam Alito who figured prominently in the RICO coverup (see infra, attachments).
There was concurrent jurisdiction so I 'let him out' of a very 'dicey situation'
(federal v. states' rights type of thing) and concluded the case in state
court. I believe his father (Circuit Court of Appeals) would properly recommend
him.
Can you help get the RICO matter resolved. A
small but not insignificant sum would go to LA/CA as set forth in the http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
and likewise, to the U.S. treasury.
Sincerely,
Albert L. Peia
Scalia: ‘Ask the nearest hippie’ if marriage helps intimacy { Wow! … How ‘bout asking your bud, scalito
(j.s.alito), what happened to that RICO file, twice, the ‘disappearance’ of
which l’il scalito parlayed into an undeserved lifetime appointment to
ct.o.appeals/scotus … after all, that was/is of itself a substantial/serious
crime … (http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm
) }
‘…sam alito rising by way of cover-up/quid pro quo/bribe to
inept supreme court justice labeled after an infamous faux paux in terms of
judicial acumen/ability as <in a Washington Post comment by an astute
observer/commenter> making clarence thomas look like Oliver Wendell Holmes
<my personal favorite jurist – I thought that was very funny as it is and
was meant to be>, maryanne trump barry awaiting full payment of bribe to
brother don’s trump casinos before ruling for RICO defendants (she also
protected john gotti, etc.), etc., See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm … ‘
Washington’s Blog | The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21
Years Total Since Its Birth. { The ugly americans … pervasively corrupt,
thievingly fraudulent, inherently criminal, bellicose, incompetent, militant,
war mongering, meaningfully lawless (See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm ) … how pathetic! }
{ I responded to a former employee by email in pertinent
part:
‘…..I had occasion to meet a former
(retired) DEA agent here recently. I believe the ‘meeting’ was not accidental.
Well informed and tough, we had a pleasant conversation. Among the topics of
which he was well aware and dismayed by included the 360 tons of unmarked $100
bills totaling $13 billion flown into Iraq and stolen/disappeared; the U.S.
protected poppy fields in Afghanistan (surging production since U.S. occupation
and prior near eradication by the Taliban); CIA drug runs in Vietnam, U.S.,
etc.. Like most criminals, they do it for the money. Parenthetically, I told
him as a matter of patriotism (my father had been a decorated soldier in World
War II and the Korean War; viz., silver star, bronze star, purple heart among
other medals – his first medal, as important, was for saving the life of a
friend when he was a young boy)(My grandfather also served – US/World War I),
upon the death of a couple of my neighborhood friends in Vietnam, at the
beginning of my freshman year at NYU I sought and got an appointment to West
Point (I wouldn’t have gone as a grunt) despite my exempt draft status and
stated that to this day, I thank God that I ultimately decided not to go.
[Interestingly, I subsequently worked a summer job with a good guy who had just
gotten back from‘Nam. I was immensely curious about my ‘Road Not Taken’ (Robert
Frost, my favorite poem). In addition to a few war stories, he explained it
this way:‘… for the first two weeks you’re there and for the two weeks before
you go home you worry about getting killed … for the time in between, you just
don’t give a f***’ (whether you live or die)]. ... see http://albertpeia.com/nam.htm }
"When I think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large
animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long
roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain but has become trapped by its own
missteps, as caught in a tar pit or some quicksand, and it is violently
flailing about, making a terrifying noises in its effort to free itself and
re-establish its authority. Any observer immediately knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but
certainly is frightened by the noise and crashing that it can sustain for a
considerable time."
{ This analogy would almost be funny if it wasn’t so tragically true … }
Ron Paul says Trump
troubles him The Hill | Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said on Thursday
that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ‘aggressive personality’
troubles him. { If only someone had said that about hitler … } TRUMP JUMPS TO FIRST PLACE... { Wow! …
How irrevocably far america’s fallen … ny/american mobster/mental case don ‘the
donald’ t-rump … don, you must complete your fourth reich aspiration by writing
your ‘Mein Kampf’ from inside a jail cell … paralleling your idol, adolph,
whose orations you obsessively listened to for inspiration (from author
O’Donnell as per Ivanna Trump) …}
Leaves third-party door
open... { ‘The
Donald’, as did his psychopathic idol, ‘The Furor’ of dark days past
hits/exploits a ‘hot-button’ issue, illegal immigration, arguing for
selective/arbitrary enforcement of the law in that regard [conveniently
exempting/sparing/ignoring him and his <1%> from far more destructive
(economically and otherwise) criminal activities] and like his kindred spirits,
the nazis, ramps up the rhetoric … The truth/reality is that the aforesaid
immigration debacle is but a fraction of the damage/cost to the nation of
home-grown crimes of corruption, bribery, (drug) money laundering and financial
frauds in the hundreds of billions (along with citizen violent crimes which has
made the u.s. number 1 in that regard for many decades), integral to and
attributes of his indigenous new york/new jersey nationwide sinkhole; the
frenzy obscuring the magnitude of such home-grown crimes while focusing on the
almost insignificant by financial comparison immigration issue … After all,
trump’s benefited mightily from such bubble frauds and through political power
seeks to lock in the ill-founded wealth for himself and the other greedy
criminal 1%. Where was he when the fraudulent bubbles were expanding … counting
his money/gains along with the rest of the small 1% while 99% were bearing the
brunt/cost of such blatantly misguided/oft times illegal policy … appreciating,
not deprecating until irrevocable, the 1% wealth enhancing crimes to the
detriment of the nation and 99% of the populace … t_rump’s a fraud on the
nation and any nations worldwide that have had the misfortune to buy into ‘the
donald’s’ hitlerian attempt to fool ‘all of the people’ not ‘some of the time’,
but this one time to protect his undeserved gains through raw, unbridled(in his
maniacal hands), power at the expense of those who can least afford it … [ If only
someone had said that about hitler! … ]
see http://albertpeia.com/trumpshitler.htm ,
http://albertpeia.com/trumpism.htm
{ The
latest in t_rump’s disparagement of john mccain: … t_rump will set his military
service record against that of McCain any day; viz., ‘the donald’ t_rump 0 vs.
mccain –1 … yes john, yours is a negative number (victory t_rump), because
(bully and coward as all bullies are) t_rump says you’re a loser for having
been shot down in your fighter jet in the heat of actual battle and having been
captured seriously injured thereafter (along with 5 years of torturous captivity
– If only t_rump had focused on mccain’s senility, misguided military
industrial complex welfare programs warned against by great but underrated
President General Eisenhower (note t_rump has gone after Academy grads,
ie.,Graham, McCain, where honor was/is still taught but for quite some time has
been out of fashion/irrelevant, not practiced), violations of the military code
of conduct while prisoner, ‘keating 5 type corruption’, etc., t_rump might have
at least showed deceptively a semblance of rationality; but of course, going
after corruption would be for t_rump, blatantly self-destructive-that trump’s
not in jail is a testament to how far america’s fallen) … and fellow veterans
you are on notice by t_rump: Those of you who actually have served to date,
who’ve been POW’s, lost limbs, been wounded, maimed, killed are losers … not
winners in the corrupt/fixed/bribe-induced fantasy world (‘mobster in chief’
would more suit the ‘teflon don t_rump’ http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm
. ) of t_rump’s sociopathic/narcissistic
projection of ‘real winners’ in the mold of ‘the donald’s’ role model/idol,
‘the furor’, the psychotic adolph hitler himself whose orations t_rump
obsessively listened to for inspiration (from author
O’Donnell as per Ivanna Trump … ‘Trumped: The Inside Story of the Real Donald
Trump’ by John R.
O'Donnell ) Student deferment
AND medical deferment (psychological / psychiatric I could believe is apropos),
t_rump likes to cover all bases, ‘flower child’ that he conveniently was at the
time (WHAT TYPICAL TRUMP B**L S**T!). (Just kidding about ‘flower child’ … I
always liked real hippies; especially those real hippies who molded themselves
to the extent possible in the manner of Jesus Christ himself in terms of peace,
love, and ‘quintessential anti-greed/anti-corruption’.) This t_rump scenario
brings to mind that great oscar-worthy film superbly crafted by the underrated
David Cronenberg, ‘Dead Zone’ (book by Stephen King), oscar-worthy great performance
(how did they miss it) by lead Christopher Walken with great performances
across the board; especially Martin Sheen superbly as the psychotic, ruthlessly
aggressive, trumpishly ambitious politician, Greg Stillson. Borrowing the words
of Walken’s psychically endowed Johnny Smith rather than to t_rump his own
‘your fired’, I say (to psychotic mental case trump) ’YOU’RE FINISHED’! }
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
http://albertpeia.com/Another14
blackonwhitemurders.htm
Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as
we noted was possible previously - Texas has enacted a Bill to
repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a newly established
state gold bullion depository..."People have this image of
Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they
would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes a
section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.
Is this the first step down a road to secession?
Posted by : testosteronepit
Post date: 07/30/2015 - 23:58
Just
the tip of the iceberg?
Gold Bullion Demand Surges - Perth Mint and U.S. Mint
Cannot Meet Demand
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 07/31/2015 - 14:34
In
an interview on Bloomberg’s “First Up” show, Treasurer for
the Perth Mint, Nigel Moffatt, said “Our biggest restriction is the
amount of unrefined gold we’re getting in from...
The Investment Legends Are Warning of a Systemic
Event
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 07/30/2015 - 09:12
More
and more insiders are warning of a potential systemic event.
When
all of your arguments have been crushed with brutal determination, what better
way to prove you have no idea what you are talking about than to name drop this
website, and start laughing hysterically.
"Please remember, these people are our neighbors and friends. You
have a skill that will be very much in need when this goes down. You are experts in the job market and you know what
it takes to get hired. This is a time for us to step up and do what we can to
help."
A Hillview man has been arrested after he shot down a drone flying over
his property - but he's not making any apologies for it. "I just think you should have privacy in your
own backyard," said William Merideth, 47, "I went and got my shotgun
and I said, "I'm not going to do anything unless it's directly over my
property."" That moment soon arrived, "within a minute or
so, here it came... it was hovering over top of my property, and I shot it out
of the sky." Merideth was arrested and charged with first
degree criminal mischief and first degree wanton endangerment...
The
“war on terror” is a status quo fraud perpetuated by the
oligarch-controlled mainstream media and authoritarian members of Congress as a
way to systematically strip the American public of its freedom and
civil rights in the name of fighting an outside enemy. This tried and
true tactic has been used by statists throughout history, and history is
indeed repeating itself here in the “land of the free.” { I’ve seen this first hand; complicit
corruption in processes state and federal to help cover-up pervasive fraud,
criminality at the highest levels as well as the lowest … and lowest in america
is very low indeed … so low in fact, that america’s become an ‘escape from’
nation as opposed to what formerly was a ‘go-to/escape to’ nation … quite
simply, america has become a meaningfully lawless/inherently criminal rogue
nation doing substantial damage in the world when the veil of propaganda is
pierced/lifted and the truth/reality is recognized… america’s one big lie on
top of another to cover-up the previous big lie on top of the others … I really
wish there was even one positive thing to say about america … there isn’t! …
Symptoms and Causes
The typical definition of a Third
World country focuses on “indicators”: poverty rates, infant mortality,
literacy and so on. The United Nations even publishes a Human Development Report that ranks countries according to
a composite of these indicators.
On one hand, that’s a good thing: After all, the main reason to care about
development is its impact on human beings. But a focus on symptoms obscures the
reasons why countries get stuck in Third World status.
For example, when I worked for an international development agency, my team
worked to create a ranking system that would help us prioritize which countries
to help. But some countries were perennially resistant to change no matter how
much aid we threw at them. I wanted to know why, so our work could be
more effective. After all, why focus on the symptoms if you can identify — and
address — the causes of underdevelopment and poverty?
Three interrelated factors cause
“Third World-itis”: lopsided distribution of income; a government hijacked by
the economic elite; and a political focus on stasis rather than change.
Together those features form a self-reinforcing engine that moves in one
direction only: toward conflict, tyranny and eventual collapse.
It works like this. Lopsided income leads to lopsided wealth. Wealth means
power — more power than any vote. The governments of highly unequal societies
reflect this, as the “rules” are reinterpreted and bent to reinforce and
protect those at the top. Since those at the top see no need to change a system
that works in their favor, government policy focuses on preventing
real change … regardless of what politicians say in public.
Of course, societies like this generate misery, which leads to resentment. That
breeds disorder, which is met by increasing force. Government becomes paranoid
and preoccupied with security. Sometimes, there’s a tipping point: France,
1789. Russia and Eastern Europe, 1917 and 1989. Cuba, 1959. Nicaragua and Iran,
1979.
Far more common, though, are societies that grind on, with increasing poverty,
dissatisfaction, repression, and a narrowing of the economic base to little
more than whatever serves the interests of the elite, making the economy highly
vulnerable to external shocks. Chunks of Africa and Latin America fall into
this category.
America certainly meets the
criteria for a Third World country. To start, it’s clear that income and wealth
in the U.S. have become vastly more unequal since the mid-‘60s. In 2010, 3.3%
of households received as much income as the bottom 50%. Despite all the talk
about “redistribution,” that trend is growing dramatically worse.
What about the elite capture of our
government?
A rigorous statistical 2014 study by
political scientists and Princeton and Northwestern found that compared to the
economic elite, average voters have a nonexistent influence on public policies.
“Not only do ordinary citizens not have uniquely substantial power over policy
decisions, they have little or no independent influence on policy at all,” the
authors conclude. In cases where the majority gets its desired policy outcome,
it’s only because the elite happen to want the same result. Regardless of
whether a small minority or a large majority of American citizens support a
policy, the probability of policy change is nearly the same — approximately
30%.
Finally, government policy. Here’s where some will call me a heretic. When I
step back and look at the big picture, I don’t see any change in America’s key
Third World “policies” over the last 50-odd years: the dominance of corporate
managers over shareholders; acceptance of monopoly and market abuse; favoritism
towards the financial sector; and a justice system that ignores elite economic
crime.
Those “policies” are so entrenched that they aren’t even noticed ... and they
have nothing to do with taxation and redistribution. They are the
reason so many Americans want redistribution, since they distort how
our society’s wealth is distributed in the first place. Compared to these
pillars, Obamacare and the other so-called “socialist” measures favored by
Democrats are just window dressing to keep the plebs in order.
What if you could identify the
structural causes of “Third World-itis” before a country
started exhibiting the symptoms? You can … just use the framework I've laid out
here. If you’re considering investing or moving abroad, ask yourself:
·
How unequal is this society?
·
How representative are its political parties of the
popular will?
·
Does the government work to make society and economy
fair for all citizens, so that high taxation and redistribution are
unnecessary?
·
Are the factors above getting better, or worse?
There are countries ... most
notably, in my experience, Uruguay and a few others … that fit this bill. Now you know
why we recommend them.
Kind regards,
Ted Baumann
Offshore and Asset Protection Editor
P.S. As America continues its decline into Third World status,
it’s crucial to have a Plan B in place. And at Sovereign’s Total Wealth
Symposium this October in The Bahamas, you’ll learn how to do just that. With
information about investing and moving offshore, obtaining a second residence
or passport, and even how to choose where to expatriate, Total Wealth Symposium
has the answers you need. }
Having
claimed 'foreign interests' were "waging an economic war" against
China, it was ironic that the most outspoken of Chinese SOEs is now under
investigation for 'selling' shares when it was told not to. As
Reuters reports, China is extending its dragnet for "malicious
sellers" to Hong Kong and Singapore as the witchhunt
blame-mongery continues, Rather ominously, the China Securities Regulatory
Commission (CSRC) has demanded trading records to try to identify those
with net short positions who would profit in case of further falls in
China-listed shares, three sources at Chinese brokerages and two at
foreign financial institutions said. Even more incredibly, as
Bloomberg reports, despite total ignorance by US regulators, China
is 'daring' to crackdown on market manipulation via 'spoofing'.
The disconnect between economic underpinnings, market internals and "bullish" investor optimism leaves many investors/advisors "mentally conflicted." If they "sell" too soon, they
might miss a further advance in the market. But if they wait too long, well,
they have lived through that scenario previously. This week's reading list is a
smattering of conflicting views about the markets and the economy.
Forget
The White House... Hillary is heading to The Big House...
After
a slow first quarter of 2015, the private equity industry experienced a
revitalization in Q2-2015. Investment dipped by less than 1 percent to $112
billion, holding strong at the second highest Q2 level since 2007, fundraising
fell to $30 billion. . Meanwhile, as
ValueWalk details, exit volume exploded last quarter to $125
billion - the highest level on record - raising the question: "if
everything is so awesome, why the smartest people in the room selling to the
public at the heaviest pace ever?"
Having
told Jimmy Kimmel that he "would love to" appoint Sarah Palin to his
cabinet, The
Washington Post asks (and answers), just what would a trump cabinet
look like?
Earlier
this week, the largest for-profit college in the country disclosed that the FTC
is investigating whether the school adopted "deceptive or unfair
practices" in the course of recruiting students. Now that the closure of
Corinthian Colleges has set a $3.6 billion precedent, will the government
investigation of Apollo Education put taxpayers on the hook again?
When fiat fragility shows its fecklessness, it appears people turn to the alternatives...
We’re
always interested in alternative economic frameworks that can
help address the sizable gaps left open by classical approaches. Behavioral
economics can fill part of that void, of course, as it describes some basic
shortfalls in the assumption that we’re all superhuman welfare maximizing
individuals. One step beyond that is evolutionary economics, which
borrows from biology rather than psychology to form models about economic
behavior.
"Turkey's interest in northern Syria and northern Iraq is not an
abstraction triggered by a group of religious fanatics calling themselves the
Islamic State; it is the bypass, intersection and reinforcement of multiple
geopolitical wavelengths creating an invisible force behind Ankara to re-extend
Turkey's formal and informal boundaries beyond Anatolia."
Prison Planet.com |
Jones breaks down how Spain’s new “free speech” laws are beyond Orwellian
Paul
Joseph Watson | National Abortion Federation files injunction.
Steve Watson | “They
are very scared of it.”
9
News | The Governor’s Office and Department of Public Health and Environment
proposed all Colorado communities fluoridate their public water supplies.
Washington
Examiner | The chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission has renewed talk
about targeting campaign and political activities on the internet.
NY
Daily News | The scientists were right — your cell phone can give you cancer.
Kurt Nimmo | Fed
continues to hold out false hope economy will turn around.
Steve Watson |
Organisation used the harvesting scandal as a donation drive, claiming
‘extremists’ had hacked website.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Revealing video demonstrates gruesome details of the procedure.
Daily
Caller | The White House expressed its firm belief Thursday that
recently-released videos attacking Planned Parenthood are “fraudulent.” Their
source: Planned Parenthood.
WORLD NEWS
Intel
agencies: U.S. strikes not weakening ISIS
Washington
Examiner | Despite a year of airstrikes against the Islamic State, the group is
no weaker.
MH370
search: Australia ‘increasingly confident’ debris is from missing jet
London Guardian
| Martin Dolan, head of search effort, says wing component found on Reúnion
island ‘looks very much like specific part’ of missing Malaysia Airlines jet.
China
Says US “Militarization” Of South China Sea Shows Washington “Wants Nothing
Better Than Chaos”
Zero Hedge | If
you follow geopolitics you’re well aware that China has become a magnet for
maritime conflict and controversy over the past six or so months.
Zero Hedge |
Over the past 3 days, it appears that the only thing Americans can talk about,
whether around the watercooler, in the office or during prime time TV, is the
tragic death of Cecil.
NATO
Member Busted Massively Supporting ISIS
Washington’s
Blog | Turkey Enabling ISIS.
·
MONEY WATCH
Economics
101: Wal-Mart Hikes Minimum Wages, Prepares To Fire 1000
Zero Hedge | The
next round of layoffs are just around the corner.
Housing
Bubble 2.0: Some Things Never Change
Joshua Krause |
As someone who lives in the Bay Area, I can say from experience that I am
absolutely sick of the housing bubble.
How
UBS Sent Millions to the Clintons After Hillary Saved the Mega Bank While Secretary
of State
Michael Krieger
| A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early
2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent
matter.
Hillary
Clinton Receives Haircut That Costs More Than Average American Makes in a Week
Washington Free
Beacon | Hillary Clinton recently received a haircut priced at $600 from a
stylist at the John Barrett Salon inside of Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.
·
PRISON PLANET
There
Ain’t No Such Thing As “Internet Addiction”
Lionel Nation |
You can be no more addicted to the internet than you can to language or radio
waves.
Morrissey
claims he was sexually assaulted by a member of staff at San Francisco Airport
London
Independent | He detailed his experience in a blog post on Morrissey fan site
True To You.
UK
Man Actually Arrested for Anti-Islam… ‘Thoughts’?!
Louder With
Crowder | In the UK, it is now a crime to offend Muslims. Or even to think
anti-Islam thoughts.
Judge
sets $1 million bond for Ohio officer charged in murder
Reuters | After
she set bail, some people in the courtroom began applauding.
COMMENTARY
Andrew P.
Napolitano | Diverting sensitive emails to the foundation server violated the
law.
Cecil
the Lion Ranks Higher Than Planned Parenthood’s Baby Holocaust
New American |
“Only one good thing comes out of this. Thousands of people have read the story
and have also been shocked. Their eyes opened to the dark side of human
nature.”
Scotland
Yard Accused of Concealing Serial Killer’s Crimes
Joshua Krause |
Sometimes it’s not the serial killers who are busy covering their tracks, but
the authorities who catch them.
Ice
cream shop takes heat for Planned Parenthood ‘Taste of Victory’ flavor
American Mirror
| An Oregon ice cream shop has been feeling the heat since it created a special
flesh-colored flavor to raise money for Planned Parenthood.
·
MULTIMEDIA
MTV
Indoctrinates Youth on “White Privilege”
Kurt Nimmo | Alinksy tactics used to create white guilt and
social tension
UK
Thought Police Arresting People Who May Offend Muslims
Paul Joseph
Watson |Police keep
arresting activist for speech they say may offend radical Muslims.
Occult Circles
Throughout History
Prison
Planet.com | Author and researcher Theo Paijman’s discusses the history of
occult circles.
·
U.S. NEWS
U.S.
intel fears hundreds of secrets leaked in Hillary’s private emails
Washington Times
| Many more classified emails identified as Congress is notified.
Ted
Nugent TAKES AIM at Cecil the lion story: ‘God, are people stupid’; here’s why
Bizpac Review |
There’s at least one person who’s coming out in defense of the Minnesota
dentist who’s under attack – and reportedly has gone into hiding – for killing
Cecil the African lion.
Obama
Admin to Get to the Bottom of Cecil the Lion
Truth Revolt |
Says it stands by Planned Parenthood.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Facebook’s
solar-powered internet plane looks like a stealth bomber
The Verge | Meet
the flying ISP.
Prince
Charles branded a ‘serial hypocrite’ after flying less than 70 miles to attend
polo match
London
Independent | The Prince of Wales has been branded a “serial hypocrite”.
Out
of Shadows: New tech allows face recognition in utter darkness
RT | German
researchers have developed a new technology that can identify a person in poor
lighting or even in absolute darkness.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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The
following references the corrupt u.s.district court judge matz who ultimately
covers for the asst. u.s. attorney robert lester who, in light of defendant
usa's default, misstates the legal rule at the court hearing (4 pages in
pertinent part):
(2-26-15)
But, I did make clear in a response to Senator Boxer that there are Honorable
Judges who uphold their sworn duty to honor constitution and rule of law as
follows in pertinent part:
Dear Senator Boxer:
Thank you for thinking of me. It's good to hear
of your goal of making sure your grandson knows you and your retirement plans
to assure same and I wish you well. That said, let me allay your current
concern:
The vast majority of the Department
of Homeland Security is considered by previous applicable determination to be
'essential' and hence, would continue regardless of shutdown. What follows is
my most recent email to Senator Wyden which also references my responding
emails to Senators Feinstein, Warren, and Sanders and as well, an email to former
FBI Director Louis Freeh pursuant to a request from a current client of Mr.
Freeh (now in private practice); and parenthetically, seeking Mr. Freeh's
retention on my behalf toward the end of resolving the referenced RICO matters
of which he had some knowledge (at least in part). I was 'led to believe' you
had some awareness of my presence before the federal district court in United
States District Court for the Central District of California, LA (The Honorable
Dean Pregerson, USDCJ, who 'amazed' me by saying to LA on a perfunctory motion
to dismiss that in light of the properly pleaded complaint, he was constrained
by LAW to deny their motion. He certainly deserved consideration if not
nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly as an alternative to the
corrupt/inept Sam Alito who figured prominently in the RICO coverup (see infra,
attachments). There was concurrent jurisdiction so I 'let him out' of a very
'dicey situation' (federal v. states' rights type of thing) and concluded the
case in state court. I believe his father (Circuit Court of Appeals) would
properly recommend him.
Can you help get the RICO matter resolved. A
small but not insignificant sum would go to LA/CA as set forth in the http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
and likewise, to the U.S. treasury.
Sincerely,
Albert L. Peia
Scalia: ‘Ask the nearest hippie’ if marriage helps intimacy { Wow! … How ‘bout asking your bud, scalito
(j.s.alito), what happened to that RICO file, twice, the ‘disappearance’ of
which l’il scalito parlayed into an undeserved lifetime appointment to
ct.o.appeals/scotus … after all, that was/is of itself a substantial/serious
crime … (http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm
) }
‘…sam alito rising by way of cover-up/quid pro quo/bribe to
inept supreme court justice labeled after an infamous faux paux in terms of
judicial acumen/ability as <in a Washington Post comment by an astute
observer/commenter> making clarence thomas look like Oliver Wendell Holmes
<my personal favorite jurist – I thought that was very funny as it is and
was meant to be>, maryanne trump barry awaiting full payment of bribe to
brother don’s trump casinos before ruling for RICO defendants (she also
protected john gotti, etc.), etc., See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm … ‘
Washington’s Blog | The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21
Years Total Since Its Birth. { The ugly americans … pervasively corrupt,
thievingly fraudulent, inherently criminal, bellicose, incompetent, militant,
war mongering, meaningfully lawless (See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm ) … how pathetic! }
{ I responded to a former employee by email in pertinent
part:
‘…..I had occasion to meet a former
(retired) DEA agent here recently. I believe the ‘meeting’ was not accidental.
Well informed and tough, we had a pleasant conversation. Among the topics of
which he was well aware and dismayed by included the 360 tons of unmarked $100
bills totaling $13 billion flown into Iraq and stolen/disappeared; the U.S.
protected poppy fields in Afghanistan (surging production since U.S. occupation
and prior near eradication by the Taliban); CIA drug runs in Vietnam, U.S.,
etc.. Like most criminals, they do it for the money. Parenthetically, I told
him as a matter of patriotism (my father had been a decorated soldier in World
War II and the Korean War; viz., silver star, bronze star, purple heart among
other medals – his first medal, as important, was for saving the life of a
friend when he was a young boy)(My grandfather also served – US/World War I),
upon the death of a couple of my neighborhood friends in Vietnam, at the
beginning of my freshman year at NYU I sought and got an appointment to West
Point (I wouldn’t have gone as a grunt) despite my exempt draft status and
stated that to this day, I thank God that I ultimately decided not to go.
[Interestingly, I subsequently worked a summer job with a good guy who had just
gotten back from‘Nam. I was immensely curious about my ‘Road Not Taken’ (Robert
Frost, my favorite poem). In addition to a few war stories, he explained it
this way:‘… for the first two weeks you’re there and for the two weeks before
you go home you worry about getting killed … for the time in between, you just
don’t give a f***’ (whether you live or die)]. ... see http://albertpeia.com/nam.htm }
"When I think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large
animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long
roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain but has become trapped by its own
missteps, as caught in a tar pit or some quicksand, and it is violently
flailing about, making a terrifying noises in its effort to free itself and
re-establish its authority. Any observer immediately knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but
certainly is frightened by the noise and crashing that it can sustain for a
considerable time."
{ This analogy would almost be funny if it wasn’t so tragically true … }
Ron Paul says Trump
troubles him The Hill | Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said on Thursday
that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ‘aggressive personality’
troubles him. { If only someone had said that about hitler … } TRUMP JUMPS TO FIRST PLACE... { Wow! …
How irrevocably far america’s fallen … ny/american mobster/mental case don ‘the
donald’ t-rump … don, you must complete your fourth reich aspiration by writing
your ‘Mein Kampf’ from inside a jail cell … paralleling your idol, adolph,
whose orations you obsessively listened to for inspiration (from author
O’Donnell as per Ivanna Trump) …}
Leaves third-party door
open... { ‘The
Donald’, as did his psychopathic idol, ‘The Furor’ of dark days past hits/exploits
a ‘hot-button’ issue, illegal immigration, arguing for selective/arbitrary
enforcement of the law in that regard [conveniently exempting/sparing/ignoring
him and his <1%> from far more destructive (economically and otherwise)
criminal activities] and like his kindred spirits, the nazis, ramps up the
rhetoric … The truth/reality is that the aforesaid immigration debacle is but a
fraction of the damage/cost to the nation of home-grown crimes of corruption,
bribery, (drug) money laundering and financial frauds in the hundreds of
billions (along with citizen violent crimes which has made the u.s. number 1 in
that regard for many decades), integral to and attributes of his indigenous new
york/new jersey nationwide sinkhole; the frenzy obscuring the magnitude of such
home-grown crimes while focusing on the almost insignificant by financial
comparison immigration issue … After all, trump’s benefited mightily from such
bubble frauds and through political power seeks to lock in the ill-founded
wealth for himself and the other greedy criminal 1%. Where was he when the
fraudulent bubbles were expanding … counting his money/gains along with the
rest of the small 1% while 99% were bearing the brunt/cost of such blatantly
misguided/oft times illegal policy … appreciating, not deprecating until
irrevocable, the 1% wealth enhancing crimes to the detriment of the nation and
99% of the populace … t_rump’s a fraud on the nation and any nations worldwide
that have had the misfortune to buy into ‘the donald’s’ hitlerian attempt to
fool ‘all of the people’ not ‘some of the time’, but this one time to protect
his undeserved gains through raw, unbridled(in his maniacal hands), power at
the expense of those who can least afford it … [ If only
someone had said that about hitler! … ]
see http://albertpeia.com/trumpshitler.htm ,
http://albertpeia.com/trumpism.htm
{ The
latest in t_rump’s disparagement of john mccain: … t_rump will set his military
service record against that of McCain any day; viz., ‘the donald’ t_rump 0 vs.
mccain –1 … yes john, yours is a negative number (victory t_rump), because
(bully and coward as all bullies are) t_rump says you’re a loser for having
been shot down in your fighter jet in the heat of actual battle and having been
captured seriously injured thereafter (along with 5 years of torturous
captivity – If only t_rump had focused on mccain’s senility, misguided military
industrial complex welfare programs warned against by great but underrated
President General Eisenhower (note t_rump has gone after Academy grads,
ie.,Graham, McCain, where honor was/is still taught but for quite some time has
been out of fashion/irrelevant, not practiced), violations of the military code
of conduct while prisoner, ‘keating 5 type corruption’, etc., t_rump might have
at least showed deceptively a semblance of rationality; but of course, going
after corruption would be for t_rump, blatantly self-destructive-that trump’s
not in jail is a testament to how far america’s fallen) … and fellow veterans
you are on notice by t_rump: Those of you who actually have served to date,
who’ve been POW’s, lost limbs, been wounded, maimed, killed are losers … not winners
in the corrupt/fixed/bribe-induced fantasy world (‘mobster in chief’ would more suit the ‘teflon don
t_rump’ http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm
. ) of t_rump’s sociopathic/narcissistic
projection of ‘real winners’ in the mold of ‘the donald’s’ role model/idol,
‘the furor’, the psychotic adolph hitler himself whose orations t_rump obsessively
listened to for inspiration (from author O’Donnell as per Ivanna
Trump … ‘Trumped: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump’ by John R.
O'Donnell ) Student deferment
AND medical deferment (psychological / psychiatric I could believe is apropos),
t_rump likes to cover all bases, ‘flower child’ that he conveniently was at the
time (WHAT TYPICAL TRUMP B**L S**T!). (Just kidding about ‘flower child’ … I
always liked real hippies; especially those real hippies who molded themselves
to the extent possible in the manner of Jesus Christ himself in terms of peace,
love, and ‘quintessential anti-greed/anti-corruption’.) This t_rump scenario
brings to mind that great oscar-worthy film superbly crafted by the underrated
David Cronenberg, ‘Dead Zone’ (book by Stephen King), oscar-worthy great
performance (how did they miss it) by lead Christopher Walken with great
performances across the board; especially Martin Sheen superbly as the
psychotic, ruthlessly aggressive, trumpishly ambitious politician, Greg
Stillson. Borrowing the words of Walken’s psychically endowed Johnny Smith
rather than to t_rump his own ‘your fired’, I say (to psychotic mental case
trump) ’YOU’RE FINISHED’! }
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
http://albertpeia.com/Another14
blackonwhitemurders.htm
Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as
we noted was possible previously - Texas has enacted a Bill to
repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a newly established
state gold bullion depository..."People have this image of
Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they
would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes a
section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.
Is this the first step down a road to secession?
Meghan Kelly fears no evil … ‘blood from her eyes and other
body parts’ (a disparagement of women, to be sure; but as well, more
importantly, for those in the know, a veiled threat meant to intimidate - not
that t_rump would actually bloody them but some mob minion of one of the extant
ny/nj entrenched old gangs with whom he’s ingratiated himself, through ie., the
federal bench – viz., sister maryanne trump barry et als, etc. – don’t the feds
have any pride/honor? – ask the ‘tough questions’ of these and other major
american criminals, ie., wall street, etc. – they’ll either lie, plead the 5th,
or be arrested on the spot – oh well, Martha Stewart was a 45 thousand dollar
soft target to be bullied to jail under some perverted notion they’re doing
their job – what job – coverup for the biggest criminals – how pathetic and
gutless they are) … and nbc (and parent
companies among others) who gave rise to media/unreality tv exposure to
‘american furor’ t_rump seems happy to oblige with one of those Sunday joke
shows … t_rump just wants fairness … for himself and only for himself (through
whatever means, ie., bribery through, ie., retainers to law firms linked to
state attorney generals, viz., {kimmelman} wolf and sampson, chris droney’s (now
a fed judge) brother, his sister’s protection/corruption and quid pro quo from
the federal bench, etc., and as well, protection of drug-money laundering
through his now nominal only casinos … ( it’s important to note that bribes in
pervasively corrupt america take many forms beyond direct monetary transfers
and are ubiquitous and extend to all levels of government; ie.,
legislators/politicians’ quid pro quo, judges, prosecutors, fbi <hoover’s
‘whorse-trading’ was ‘world famous’, etc.>, sam alito rising by way of
cover-up/quid pro quo/bribe to inept supreme court justice labeled after an
infamous faux paux in terms of judicial acumen/ability as <in a Washington
Post comment> making clarence thomas look like Oliver Wendell Holmes <my
personal favorite jurist>, maryanne trump barry awaiting full payment of
bribe to brother don’s trump casinos before ruling for RICO defendants (she
also protected john gotti, etc.), etc., See, ie.,
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm .
; that is, as he corruptly asserts ill-gotten financial
dominance – always getting a piece of someone else’s action/off the top like a
cost so prevalent and built in ‘On the Waterfront’) … Because americans are for
the most part, cowards if not bullies, the threat seems to have had the desired
effect …
The ‘strategy’
promulgated by mobster t_rump on national television: ‘take away their wealth’
… well, that’s worked for him in america where the processes are
fixed/corrupted and far from the ‘fair treatment’ he’s demanding as if a victim
… Wasn’t that hitler’s strategy/popular tune … and, even substantially a
motivation for the debacle in Iraq (oil wealth) which I unequivocally opposed ab
initio and without qualification
Well isn’t that what made the 20th century the bloodiest …
blowback’s a bitch and modern weaponry is ever more lethal … t_rump awaited the
negative outcome before taking a position – check the dates … t_rump’s also
exploited the hot button issue of immigration when the truth/reality is that
the aforesaid immigration debacle is but a fraction of the damage/cost to the
nation of home-grown crimes of corruption, bribery, (drug) money laundering and
financial frauds in the hundreds of billions (along with citizen violent crimes
which has made the u.s. number 1 in that regard for many decades), integral to
and attributes of his indigenous new york/new jersey nationwide sinkhole; the
frenzy obscuring the magnitude of such home-grown crimes /criminality
/corruption that has benefited him while focusing on the almost insignificant
by financial comparison immigration issue … Since Pope Francis has been
vociferous/prominent in the immigration debate, it is time for The Church to
step up so as not to be accused of silence as was so during hitler’s rise …
‘The present
contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was
already in the cause.’ – Henri Bergson
Donald Trump Empire Sought Visas For At Least 1100 Foreign
Workers Huffington
Post
abcnews.go.com/US/...cops-chris-dorners-manifesto-speaks/...
Feb 06, 2013 · The
rage-filled "manifesto" written by former police officer Christopher
Dorner before he went on an alleged cop killing spree around the Los Angeles
area ...
radaronline.com/videos/murder-jodi...manifesto-in-jail-to...
Apr 07, 2013 · Jodi Arias Wrote A 'Manifesto' In Jail To Sell —
After She Got (In)Famous. ... PHOTOS: Jodi Arias Murder Trial: The 44 Most
Important Evidence Photos. Etc.
By Philip Bump
Somehow, I didn't know that Mama Grizzly Radio existed, probably because I
live on one of the coasts and not in Real America, which includes Alaska
despite it being on a coast. The network touts itself as offering "Sarah
Palin news 24-7" -- a slate that includes a weekly show called "The
Palin Update with Kevin Scholla." (One Palin update from this week's
program: "President Obama finally lowers flags to half-staff to honor our Marines
shortly after Governor Palin and others demand he do so.")
But the real news on that show came when
Donald Trump joined Scholla. The host asked Trump if he might
appoint Palin to a Cabinet position. "I'd love that," Trump
responded. "So would we," added Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and
Jimmy Fallon, basically.
It raises the question, though: What would
a Trump Cabinet look like?
Because Trump is busy poring over poll
numbers and reviewing tape from focus groups, we went ahead and cobbled it
together for him.
●●●●●●●
Vice President: Oprah Winfrey, per Trump's past suggestion. Would
she run with Trump? If Donald Trump can convince the Hispanic vote to come out
for him, which he insists he can, he can certainly convince Winfrey to join his
ticket. He has great negotiators.
Secretary of the Interior: Sarah Palin. Granted, Palin would
probably like something a little more substantive than this, but what other
candidate can brag about having toured the country hunting various animals
for a TV show? In case Palin declines, maybe reach out to that dentist.
Attorney General: His go-to counsel, Michael Cohen.
Secretary of Homeland Security: Joe Arpaio. Trump's campaign shot into the
stratosphere after his appearance with Arpaio at an immigration event in
Arizona. This has the added benefit of helping to keep the Department of Justice off Arpaio's back.
Secretary of State: We know that Trump thinks that Hillary
Clinton was the worst secretary of state in American history. He
clearly wants the opposite of that. So how about Vladimir Putin, whom Trump has repeatedly praised? He's
pretty opposite.
Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development: Ivanka Trump. Public housing is basically just a
no-frills hotel, right?
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Dr. Oz.
Secretary of Transportation: Christophe Georges, president of Bentley
Motors.
Secretary of Energy: Manoj Bhargava.
Secretary of Education: Michael Sexton, former president of Trump University, which was a thing.
Secretary of Agriculture: Secretary of Agriculture:
Tom Fazio, Trump's golf course architect. Who
knows more about proper watering and vegetation maintenance than this guy?
Also, the imminent desertification of swaths of California sounds
much better if you think about the process as "the creation of challenging
new sand bunkers."
Secretary of the Treasury: Donald Trump. Sure, it's more common for
the president to appoint someone else to this
position, but who's better at managing money than Donald Trump? No one. He's
the best.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Donald Trump. Sure, it's more common to
etc., etc. But who cares more about the veterans than Donald Trump? No one.
Secretary of Defense: Donald Trump. Sure, etc., etc., etc.,
ISIS, etc. No one.
Secretary of Labor: Position will be left unfilled. }
"When I think of America’s
place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a
very large animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth,
which long roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain but has become trapped
by its own missteps, as caught in a tar pit or some quicksand, and it is
violently flailing about, making a terrifying noises in its effort to free
itself and re-establish its authority. Any observer immediately
knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but certainly is frightened by the
noise and crashing that it can sustain for a considerable time." {
This analogy would almost be funny if it wasn’t so tragically true … }
Ron Paul says Trump
troubles him The Hill | Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said on Thursday
that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ‘aggressive personality’ troubles
him. { If only someone had said that about hitler … } TRUMP JUMPS TO FIRST PLACE... { Wow! … How irrevocably far america’s fallen … ny/american
mobster/mental case don ‘the donald’ t-rump … don, you must complete your
fourth reich aspiration by writing your ‘Mein Kampf’ from inside a jail cell …
paralleling your idol, adolph, whose orations you obsessively listened to for
inspiration (from author O’Donnell as per Ivanna Trump) …}
Leaves third-party door
open... { ‘The Donald’, as did his psychopathic idol, ‘The
Furor’ of dark days past hits/exploits a ‘hot-button’ issue, illegal
immigration, arguing for selective/arbitrary enforcement of the law in that
regard [conveniently exempting/sparing/ignoring him and his <1%> from far
more destructive (economically and otherwise) criminal activities] and like his
kindred spirits, the nazis, ramps up the rhetoric … The truth/reality is that
the aforesaid immigration debacle is but a fraction of the damage/cost to the
nation of home-grown crimes of corruption, bribery, (drug) money laundering and
financial frauds in the hundreds of billions (along with citizen violent crimes
which has made the u.s. number 1 in that regard for many decades), integral to
and attributes of his indigenous new york/new jersey nationwide sinkhole; the
frenzy obscuring the magnitude of such home-grown crimes while focusing on the
almost insignificant by financial comparison immigration issue … After all,
trump’s benefited mightily from such bubble frauds and through political power
seeks to lock in the ill-founded wealth for himself and the
other greedy criminal 1%. Where was he when the fraudulent bubbles were
expanding … counting his money/gains along with the rest of the small 1% while
99% were bearing the brunt/cost of such blatantly misguided/oft times illegal
policy … appreciating, not deprecating until irrevocable, the 1% wealth
enhancing crimes to the detriment of the nation and 99% of the populace …
t_rump’s a fraud on the nation and any nations worldwide that have had the
misfortune to buy into ‘the donald’s’ hitlerian attempt to fool ‘all of the
people’ not ‘some of the time’, but this one time to protect his undeserved
gains through raw, unbridled(in his maniacal hands), power at the expense of
those who can least afford it … your pain, his gain is the inevitable and
invariable ultimate reality (Donald Trump Empire Sought Visas For At Least 1100 Foreign
Workers Huffington Post) … [ If only
someone had said that about hitler! … ]
see http://albertpeia.com/trumpshitler.htm ,
http://albertpeia.com/trumpism.htm
{ The
latest in t_rump’s disparagement of john mccain: … t_rump will set his military
service record against that of McCain any day; viz., ‘the donald’ t_rump 0 vs.
mccain –1 … yes john, yours is a negative number (victory t_rump), because
(bully and coward as all bullies are) t_rump says you’re a loser for having
been shot down in your fighter jet in the heat of actual battle and having been
captured seriously injured thereafter [along with 5 years of torturous
captivity – If only t_rump had focused on mccain’s senility, misguided military
industrial complex welfare programs warned against by great but underrated
President General Eisenhower (note t_rump has gone after Academy grads,
ie.,Graham, McCain, where honor was/is still taught but for quite some time has
been out of fashion/irrelevant, not practiced), violations of the military code
of conduct while prisoner, ‘keating 5 type corruption’, etc., t_rump might have
at least showed deceptively a semblance of rationality; but of course, going
after corruption would be for t_rump, blatantly self-destructive-that trump’s
not in jail is a testament to how far america’s fallen] … and fellow veterans
you are on notice by t_rump: Those of you who actually have served to date,
who’ve been POW’s, lost limbs, been wounded, maimed, killed are losers … not
winners in the corrupt/fixed/bribe-induced fantasy world (‘mobster in chief’
would more suit the ‘teflon don t_rump’ http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm
. ) of t_rump’s sociopathic/narcissistic
projection of ‘real winners’ in the mold of ‘the donald’s’ role model/idol,
‘the furor’, the psychotic adolph hitler himself whose orations t_rump obsessively listened to for
inspiration
(from author O’Donnell as per Ivanna Trump … ‘Trumped: The Inside Story of
the Real Donald Trump’ by John R.
O'Donnell ) Student deferment AND medical deferment
(psychological / psychiatric I could believe is apropos), t_rump likes to cover
all bases, ‘flower child’ that he conveniently was at the time (WHAT TYPICAL
TRUMP B**L S**T!). (Just kidding about ‘flower child’ … I always liked real
hippies; especially those real hippies who molded themselves to the extent
possible in the manner of Jesus Christ himself in terms of peace, love, and
‘quintessential anti-greed/anti-corruption’.) This t_rump scenario brings to
mind that great oscar-worthy film superbly crafted by the underrated David
Cronenberg, ‘Dead Zone’ (book by Stephen King), oscar-worthy great performance
(how did they miss it) by lead Christopher Walken with great performances
across the board; especially Martin Sheen superbly as the psychotic, ruthlessly
aggressive, trumpishly ambitious politician, Greg Stillson. Borrowing the words
of Walken’s psychically endowed Johnny Smith rather than to t_rump his own
‘your fired’, I say (to psychotic mental case trump) ’YOU’RE FINISHED’! }
Orlando
Sentinel4
days ago
The
Inquisitr6
days ago
The Hollywood Reporter
Business
Insider via Yahoo! FinanceAug 11
Fox News host Megyn Kelly told her network that
she received death threats from Donald Trump...
Megyn Kelly fears no evil … ‘blood from her eyes and other body parts’ … a disparagement
of women, to be sure; but as well, more importantly, for those in the know, a
veiled threat meant to intimidate - not that t_rump would actually bloody them
but some mob minion of one of the extant ny/nj entrenched old gangs with whom
he’s ingratiated himself, through ie., the federal bench – viz., sister
maryanne trump barry et als, etc. – don’t the feds have any pride/honor? – ask the
‘tough questions’ of these and other major american criminals, ie., wall
street, etc. – they’ll either lie, plead the 5th, or be arrested on
the spot – oh well, Martha Stewart was a 45 thousand dollar soft target to be
bullied to jail under some perverted notion they’re doing their job – what job
– coverup for the biggest criminals – how pathetic and gutless they are … and nbc (and parent companies among
others) who gave rise to media/unreality tv exposure to ‘american furor’ t_rump
seems happy to oblige with one of those Sunday joke shows … t_rump just wants
fairness … for himself and only for himself [through whatever means, ie.,
bribery through, ie., retainers to law firms linked to state attorney generals,
viz., {kimmelman} wolf and sampson, chris droney’s (now a fed judge) brother,
his sister’s protection/corruption and quid pro quo from the federal bench,
etc., and as well, protection of drug-money laundering through his now nominal
only casinos … ( it’s important to note that bribes in pervasively corrupt
america take many forms beyond direct monetary transfers and are ubiquitous and
extend to all levels of government; ie., legislators/politicians’ quid pro quo,
judges, prosecutors, fbi <hoover’s ‘whorse-trading’ was ‘world famous’,
etc.>, sam alito rising by way of cover-up/quid pro quo/bribe to inept
supreme court justice labeled after an infamous faux paux in terms of judicial
acumen/ability as <in a Washington Post comment> making clarence thomas
look like Oliver Wendell Holmes <my personal favorite jurist>, maryanne
trump barry awaiting full payment of bribe to brother don’s trump casinos
before ruling for RICO defendants (she also protected john gotti, etc.), etc., See,
ie.,
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm .
; that is,
as he corruptly asserts ill-gotten financial dominance – always getting a piece
of someone else’s action/work/off the top like a cost so prevalent and built in
‘On the Waterfront’ – think of those instances where t_rump had to ‘real (not
under)world’ compete; ie., trump air, trump university, jersey generals(pro
football), the fraudulent debacle in Baja California bearing his name, etc…fraud
and failure… ] … Because americans are for the most part, cowards if not
bullies, the threat seems to have had the desired effect …
The ‘strategy’ promulgated by mobster t_rump on national
television: ‘take away their wealth’ … well, that’s worked for him in america
where the processes are fixed/corrupted and far from the ‘fair treatment’ he’s
demanding as if a victim … Wasn’t that hitler’s strategy/popular tune … a page
right out of hitler’s blood-red linings playbook … and, even substantially a
motivation for the debacle in Iraq (oil wealth) which I unequivocally opposed ab
initio and without qualification …
Well now, isn’t that what made the 20th century the bloodiest …
payback/pushback/blowback’s a bitch and modern weaponry is ever more lethal …
t_rump awaited the negative outcome before taking a position – check the dates
… t_rump’s also exploited the hot button issue of immigration when the
truth/reality is that the aforesaid immigration debacle is but a fraction of
the damage/cost to the nation of home-grown crimes of corruption, bribery,
illegal drugs/(drug) money laundering and financial frauds in the hundreds of
billions (along with citizen violent crimes which has made the u.s. number 1 in
that regard for many decades), integral to and attributes of his indigenous new
york/new jersey nationwide sinkhole; the frenzy obscuring the magnitude of such
home-grown crimes /criminality /corruption that has benefited him while
focusing on the almost insignificant by financial comparison immigration issue …
Since Pope Francis has been vocal/prominent in the immigration debate, it is
time for The Church to step up so as not to be accused of silence as was so
during hitler’s rise … the scape-goating of the relatively powerless/ the
minorities/ the poor/ the oppressed … yet another page right out of hitler’s
blood-red linings playbook … What say you, Pope Francis … After ALL, the
‘moneychangers’ to which t_rump is joined at the hip (ie., wall street, etc.)
would make the corrupt, avaricious ‘moneychangers’ condemned by Christ look
like novices/pikers in comparison. (NOTE: 8-23-15 t_rump says tax the hedge
funds … sure, relatively small in size, dispersed here and there… chump change
if at all collectible with offsets given the sell-off owing to fraudulently inflated
bubble prices coming back to earth/reality; but, not the institutional
monoliths, ie., goldman sachs, j.p.morgan, et als of his new york/new jersey
national drain homeland and at the heart of scam/problem – bail-outs,
pennies-on-a-dollar ‘cost of business’ fines but no prosecutions or full
disgorgement, huge bonuses even as bailed out, etc. … If you think t_rump is
for the middle class, you haven’t been paying attention or he might just sell
you the Brooklyn Bridge … You are already paying for churn and earn, non-value,
non-value added computerized lightning-fast scams). Yes, as Michael Lewis
pointed out, ‘A Den of Thieves’ (See also Michael Lewis’ recent fact-filled
non-fiction book, ‘The Big Short’ – ‘… The Big
Short describes
several of the key players in the creation of the credit default swap market that sought to bet
against the collateralized debt obligation (CDO)
bubble and thus ended up profiting from the financial crisis of 2007–2010. The
book also highlights the eccentric nature of the type of person who bets
against the market or goes against the grain….’ Wikipedia )
Here are some reasons Trump stays so popular with
his supporters:
In such
things time can be of the essence … I’m sure Biden would have consulted with
his late son Beau before embarking on such a run … I don’t know much about
Beau; but, if asked, I believe Beau would say, ‘DAD, GO FOR IT!’
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Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as
we noted was possible previously - Texas has enacted a Bill to
repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a newly established
state gold bullion depository..."People have this image of
Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they
would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes a
section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.
Is this the first step down a road to secession?
Posted by : Phoenix Capital...
This will not be a one-off event. With
the Fed and other Central banks now leveraged well above 50-to-1, even those
entities that were backstopping an insolvent financial system are themselves...
The
Impossible Co-Bubbles: Stocks and Bonds
Posted by: Sprott
Money
In the past, readers have been alerted
to numerous “impossible” trends in our markets and economies, all manufactured
by the Western banking crime syndicate. Here are just a few of those...
“Like A
Blind Man In A Dark Room Looking For A Black Hat Which Isn’t There”
Posted by: GoldCore
The musings of the many wonderful minds
who preach to goldbugs, contrarians, real anarchists, real patriots,
conservatives and republicans, moralists, real believers in genuine free
markets, solution...
t_rump the nazi
Yet,
here’s a dog that compassionately spared this rather spunky, but naïve kitty;
and who more seasoned cats welcomes to the feline fold http://albertpeia.com/youngcatspared.mp4
Paul
Craig Roberts: "America Is A Gulag"
{ See, ie.,
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm }
America is a gulag. We are
ruled by a government that is devoid of all morality, all integrity, all
compassion, all justice. The government of the United States stands for one
thing and one thing only: Evil. You are part of the new Captive Nation.
Submitted
by Paul Craig Roberts,
America’s
First Black President is a traitor to his race and also to justice.
Obama
has permitted the corrupt US Department of Justice (sic), over which he wields
authority, to overturn the ruling of a US Federal Court of Appeals that
prisoners sentenced illegally to longer terms than the law permits must be
released once the legal portion of their sentence is served. The DOJ, devoid of
all integrity, compassion, and sense of justice, said that “finality” of
conviction was more important than justice.
Indeed,
the US Justice (sic) Department’s motto is: “Justice? We don’t need no stinkin’
justice!”
Alec
Karakatsanis, a civil rights attorney and co-founder of Equal Justice Under
Law, tells the story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/opinion/president-obamas-department-of-injustice.html?_r=1
The
concept of “finality” was an invention of a harebrained Republican conservative
academic lionized by the Republican Federalist Society. In years
past conservatives believed—indeed, still do—that the criminal justice system
coddles criminals by allowing too many appeals against their unlawful
convictions. The appeals were granted by judges who thought that the system was
supposed to serve justice, but conservatives demonized justice as something
that enabled criminals. A succession of Republican presidents turned the US
Supreme Court into an organization that only serves the interests of private
corporations. Justice is nowhere in the picture.
Appeals
Court Judge, James Hill, a member of the court that ruled that prisoners did
not have to serve the illegal portion of their sentences, when confronted with
the Obama/DOJ deep-sixing of justice had this to say:
“A judicial system that values finality over
justice is morally bankrupt.”
Obama’s DOJ says that there are too many
black prisoners illegally sentenced to be released without upsetting the
crime-fearful white population. According to Obama’s Justice (sic)
Department, the fears of brainwashed whites take precedence over justice.
Judge Hill said that the DOJ “calls itself, without a trace of
irony, the Department of Justice.”
Judge Hill added: We used to call such systems as people
sitting in prison serving sentences that were illegally imposed “gulags.” “Now
we call them the United States.”
America is a gulag. We are
ruled by a government that is devoid of all morality, all integrity, all
compassion, all justice. The government of the United States stands for one
thing and one thing only: Evil.
It is just as Chavez told the United
Nations in 2006 referring to President George W. Bush’s address to the assembly
the day before: “Yesterday, at this very podium, Satan himself stood speaking
as if he owned the world. You can still smell the sulfur.”
If you are an American and you cannot smell
the sulfur, you are tightly locked down in The Matrix. God help you. There is
no Neo to rescue you. And you are too brainwashed and ignorant to be rescued by
me.
You are part of the new Captive Nation.
Apparently, someone at the Pentagon
thought that between the four-year civil war in Syria, the heightened violence
in Turkey, the proxy war in Ukraine, and the threat of a new war in the Korean
Peninsula, the geopolitical situation wasn’t unstable enough, because on
Thursday the DoD issued a report entitled "Asia Pacific Maritime Security
Strategy," in which a considerable amount of space is spent discussing
China’s land reclamation efforts in the Spratlys.
Imagine that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) was a corporation, with its shares owned by the nation's
major pharmaceutical companies. How would you feel about the
regulation of medications? Whose interests would this corporation be
serving? Or suppose that major oil companies appointed a small
committee to periodically announce the price of a barrel of crude in the United
States. How would that impact you at the gasoline pump? Such hypotheticals would
strike the majority of Americans as completely absurd, but it's exactly how our
banking system operates.
As the great EM unwind continues
unabated, we’ve noted that in some hard-hit countries, the terrible trio of
falling commodity prices, decelerating Chinese demand, and looming Fed hike has
been exacerbated by political turmoil. Now, we turn to Malaysia where an
already tenuous situation just got worse as PM Najib Razak is now facing calls for a no-confidence vote amid
allegations he embezzled some $700 million from the country's development fund.
Coincidence? As China enters the
currency wars, crushing carry around the world, it just happens that it also
conducted a flight test of its new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
this month (and China’s acquisition of a MIRVed capability is one of the
most dangerous nuclear weapons developments that no one is talking about).
Donald Trump is holding a campaign
rally at a football stadium. Enough said.
We’ve posted a lot of “dismal’
stuff today, but since
it’s better to laugh than to cry, we give you the following...
Shockwaves from China’s devaluation
have conspired with sluggish global demand and an attendant commodities slump
to wreak havoc on developing market currencies the world over. On the heels of
Kazakhstan's dramatic move to float the tenge, here's which currencies are next
in line to tumble.
When paying a premium for equities, or any
asset for that matter, one runs the serious risk of capital impairment. Worse,
most professional investment managers falling prey to the bullish sentiment
currently surrounding this period of extreme valuations will likely not live up
to their overriding fiduciary duty – the preservation of wealth. Following the
herd may have its benefits at times, but following the herd over a cliff never
ends well. As Seth Klarman warned. “Risk is not inherent in an
investment; it is always relative to the price paid”
Courtesy of the following chart by
BofA, we have the answer: while for the most part of 2015, the move in the
price of oil was a combination of both supply and demand, the most
recent plunge has been entirely
a function of what now appears to be a global economic recession, one
which will get far worse if the Fed indeed hikes rates as it has repeatedly
threatened as it begins to undo 7 years of ultra easy monetary policy.
Back on July 18, Christopher Bartley (a
police lieutenant for the National Institutes of Standards and Technology),
tried to refill a butane lighter. Or he tried to cook a batch of meth...
"Believe it or not, many
economists argue that the economy needs a sufficient amount of public debt out
there to function well. And how much is sufficient? Maybe more than we currently have.
That is, there’s a reasonable argument to be made that part of what ails the world economy right now is
that governments aren’t deep enough in debt."
"The combined levels of bullish
optimism, lack of concern about a possible market correction (don't worry the
Fed has the markets back), and rising levels of leverage in markets provide the 'ingredients'
for a more severe market correction. However, it
is important to understand that these ingredients by themselves are inert. It
is because they are inert that they are quickly dismissed under the guise that
'this time is different.' Like a thermite reaction, when these
relatively inert ingredients are ignited by a catalyst, they will burn
extremely hot. Unfortunately, there is no way to know exactly what
that catalyst will be or when it will occur. The problem for individuals is
that they are trapped by the combustion an unable to extract themselves in
time."
Presented with no comment...
Prison Planet.com | Individuals armed with the spirit
of resistance prevent terror attack.
Adan Salazar | Center for Medical Progress under fire for using
First Amendment.
Mikael Thalen | Australian lawmaker shocked as
hackers pinpoint location, view texts in real-time.
Kit Daniels | “There’s an assault on anything having
to do with Christianity,” he said.
Steve Watson | Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-WHAM.
Kurt Nimmo | Says those opposed to illegal immigration should
seek God’s forgiveness.
Paul Joseph Watson | Survey suggests support for
controversial movement is much weaker than thought.
The Hill | Planned Parenthood is considering legal
action.
Breitbart | The “School Transgender
Guidance” document has been distributed to all schools in the Cornwall area.
WORLD NEWS
Fears
Of Another Mid-East War After Israel Conducts Air Strikes In Syria
Zero Hedge | This “defeat”, Islamic Jihad claims,
prompted Israel to blame the group for a rocket attack that hit an Israeli
village on Thursday.
Russian-Chinese
Naval Drills Begin in Russia’s Far East
Sputnik | According to Eastern Military District
spokesman, Russian-Chinese military drills have started off the coast of
Russia’s eastern Primorsky region.
ISIS
AIDS-bombs: Plans to send 16 HIV-positive fighters on suicide missions – report
RT | The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)
terrorist group plans to send 16 of its fighters on suicide missions after they
were tested positive for AIDS, a Syrian source claimed.
Zero Hedge | The latest images from the massive fish
die-off…
NKorea
warns of war with South after artillery fire
AP | North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday
declared his frontline troops in a “quasi-state of war”.
·
MONEY WATCH
Global
Stocks Fall Further on China Worries
Wall Street Journal | Signs of a sharp slowdown in
the world’s second-largest economy worry investors.
What
Will It Take For The Fed To Panic And Bail Out The Market Once Again: BofA
Explains
Zero Hedge | One of the main reasons a month ago we
started carefully following the commodity trading giants, the Glencores,
Mercurias and Trafiguras of the world…
When $8.5 Trillion
is Chump Change
Washington’s Blog | Three cheers for Reuters pointing
out that the Pentagon can’t explain what it did with $8.5 trillion that
taxpayers gave it between 1996 and 2013.
We
Have Already Witnessed The First 1300 Points Of The Stock Market Crash Of 2015
Michael Snyder | What has been happening on Wall
Street the past few days has been nothing short of stunning.
·
PRISON PLANET
Congresswoman
Breaks Down Over Planned Parenthood Video
Truth Revolt | Mia Love says her job is to protect
life.
You’ve
Been Warned – Spotify Wants to Spy on You in Every Way Imaginable
Michael Krieger | I clearly remember the moment
several years ago when my closest friend from NYC was at my place pleading with
me to download and use Spotify.
Baltimore
Climbs to 211 Homicides as Mayor Seeks More Gun Control
Truth Revolt | Latest body found in the area of
April’s riots.
#BlackLivesMatter
Mob Invades Central West End- BUSTS OUT Car Lights – BEATS PEDESTRIANS (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit | #BlackLivesMatter Protesters Invaded
the Central West End restaurant district.
COMMENTARY
America: A
Land Where Justice Is Absent
Paul Craig Roberts | America’s First Black President
is a traitor to his race and also to justice.
Hillary’s
Troubles Mount Over Wiped E-mail Server
New American | Her problems are looking increasingly
serious.
Mom:
Son’s confederate flag shirt no more offensive than gay rainbow flag in school
EAG News | West Virginia mother April Stanley
believes school officials are playing favorites, and her son is getting the
shaft because of it.
Would
Trump’s Immigration Plan Lead to a Race War?
The Daily Sheeple | Donald Trump has no doubt rattled
the latest election circus with his blunt rhetoric and populist opinions.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Everything
You Need to Know About the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal in Two-and-a-Half
Minutes
Washington Free Beacon | Here’s all you need to know
about it in one video.
Video:
Female Churchgoer Attacked Inside Cathedral in Latest ‘Knockout Game’ Incident
Adan Salazar & Mikael Thalen | 72-year-old victim
asks community to pray for her assailants.
Huff
Post: Racist White Feminists Need to ‘Shut the F**k Up’
Paul Joseph Watson | Being a radical leftist is no
longer enough.
·
U.S. NEWS
Muslim
Immigrants Treated Better Than Christians
Kit Daniels | “There’s an assault on anything having
to do with Christianity,” he said.
Trump:
I Will Build the ‘Great Wall of Trump’
Truth Revolt | Presidential Candidate Donald Trump
spoke with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo and discussed the wall he wants to
build between the U.S.and Mexico.
CNS News | National Gallery: No ‘Moral Test’ for Whom
We Include.
·
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Column
in Medical Journal Says Hazards of GMOs, Pesticides Not Properly Studied
Julie Fidler | Calls for fresh review of herbicides
used on GMO crops.
Scientists
Claim to Have Created 99% of a Human Brain
Julie Fidler | Are man-made hearts next?
Parts
of California Have Sunk Over a Foot in Eight Months Due to Drought
Michael Krieger | California Dreamin’ this is not.
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
The
following references the corrupt u.s.district court judge matz who ultimately
covers for the asst. u.s. attorney robert lester who, in light of defendant
usa's default, misstates the legal rule at the court hearing (4 pages in
pertinent part):
(2-26-15)
But, I did make clear in a response to Senator Boxer that there are Honorable
Judges who uphold their sworn duty to honor constitution and rule of law as
follows in pertinent part:
Dear Senator Boxer:
Thank you for thinking of me. It's good to hear
of your goal of making sure your grandson knows you and your retirement plans
to assure same and I wish you well. That said, let me allay your current
concern:
The vast majority of the Department
of Homeland Security is considered by previous applicable determination to be
'essential' and hence, would continue regardless of shutdown. What follows is
my most recent email to Senator Wyden which also references my responding
emails to Senators Feinstein, Warren, and Sanders and as well, an email to
former FBI Director Louis Freeh pursuant to a request from a current client of
Mr. Freeh (now in private practice); and parenthetically, seeking Mr. Freeh's
retention on my behalf toward the end of resolving the referenced RICO matters
of which he had some knowledge (at least in part). I was 'led to believe' you
had some awareness of my presence before the federal district court in United
States District Court for the Central District of California, LA (The Honorable
Dean Pregerson, USDCJ, who 'amazed' me by saying to LA on a perfunctory motion
to dismiss that in light of the properly pleaded complaint, he was constrained
by LAW to deny their motion. He certainly deserved consideration if not
nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly as an alternative to the
corrupt/inept Sam Alito who figured prominently in the RICO coverup (see infra,
attachments). There was concurrent jurisdiction so I 'let him out' of a very
'dicey situation' (federal v. states' rights type of thing) and concluded the
case in state court. I believe his father (Circuit Court of Appeals) would
properly recommend him.
Can you help get the RICO matter resolved. A
small but not insignificant sum would go to LA/CA as set forth in the http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
and likewise, to the U.S. treasury.
Sincerely,
Albert L. Peia
Scalia: ‘Ask the nearest hippie’ if marriage helps intimacy { Wow! … How ‘bout asking your bud, scalito
(j.s.alito), what happened to that RICO file, twice, the ‘disappearance’ of
which l’il scalito parlayed into an undeserved lifetime appointment to
ct.o.appeals/scotus … after all, that was/is of itself a substantial/serious
crime … (http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm
) }
‘…sam alito rising by way of cover-up/quid pro quo/bribe to
inept supreme court justice labeled after an infamous faux paux in terms of
judicial acumen/ability as <in a Washington Post comment by an astute
observer/commenter> making clarence thomas look like Oliver Wendell Holmes
<my personal favorite jurist – I thought that was very funny as it is and
was meant to be>, maryanne trump barry awaiting full payment of bribe to
brother don’s trump casinos before ruling for RICO defendants (she also
protected john gotti, etc.), etc., See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm … ‘
Washington’s Blog | The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21
Years Total Since Its Birth. { The ugly americans … pervasively corrupt,
thievingly fraudulent, inherently criminal, bellicose, incompetent, militant,
war mongering, meaningfully lawless (See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm ) … how pathetic! }
{ I responded to a former employee by email in pertinent
part:
‘…..I had occasion to meet a former
(retired) DEA agent here recently. I believe the ‘meeting’ was not accidental.
Well informed and tough, we had a pleasant conversation. Among the topics of
which he was well aware and dismayed by included the 360 tons of unmarked $100
bills totaling $13 billion flown into Iraq and stolen/disappeared; the U.S.
protected poppy fields in Afghanistan (surging production since U.S. occupation
and prior near eradication by the Taliban); CIA drug runs in Vietnam, U.S.,
etc.. Like most criminals, they do it for the money. Parenthetically, I told
him as a matter of patriotism (my father had been a decorated soldier in World
War II and the Korean War; viz., silver star, bronze star, purple heart among
other medals – his first medal, as important, was for saving the life of a
friend when he was a young boy)(My grandfather also served – US/World War I),
upon the death of a couple of my neighborhood friends in Vietnam, at the
beginning of my freshman year at NYU I sought and got an appointment to West
Point (I wouldn’t have gone as a grunt) despite my exempt draft status and
stated that to this day, I thank God that I ultimately decided not to go.
[Interestingly, I subsequently worked a summer job with a good guy who had just
gotten back from‘Nam. I was immensely curious about my ‘Road Not Taken’ (Robert
Frost, my favorite poem). In addition to a few war stories, he explained it
this way:‘… for the first two weeks you’re there and for the two weeks before
you go home you worry about getting killed … for the time in between, you just
don’t give a f***’ (whether you live or die)]. ... see http://albertpeia.com/nam.htm }
Posted by : Phoenix
Capital...
Post date: 08/28/2015 - 14:59
One
of the greatest con jobs in history was convincing ordinary people that Central
Bankers care about the “economy” or Main Street.
The Great Unwind, China Begins Dumping Treasuries
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 08/28/2015 - 09:00
As
the situation in China continues to move into the realm of a full-blown crisis,
you have to wonder how much more of their massive stockpile of treasuries are
they willing to dump on the market?
Demand Surge and Shortages of Bullion as Stocks Fall
Sharply
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 08/28/2015 - 10:27
Demand
Surge and Shortages of Bullion as Stocks Fall Sharply, Gold Outperforms All Assets
In August
You
can't say Nassim Taleb didn't warn you: the outspoken academic-philosopher,
best known for his prediction that six sigma "fat tail", or black
swan, events happen much more frequently than they should statistically
(perhaps a main reason why there is no longer a market but a centrally-planned
cesspool of academic intervention) just had a black swan land smack in the
middle of the Universa hedge fund founded by ardent Ron Paul supporter Mark
Spitznagel, and affiliated with Nassim Taleb. The result: a $1 billion payday,
translating into a 20% YTD return, in a week when the VIX exploded from the
teens to over 50, and which most other hedge funds would love to forget.
"The
PBoC’s actions are equivalent to an unwind of QE, or in other words
Quantitative Tightening. The potential for more China outflows is huge
[and] the bottom line is that QT has much more to go. It is hard to
become very optimistic on global risk appetite until a solution is found to
China’s evolving QT."
Late
last year, Saudi Arabia "Plaxico'd" itself and the petrodollar when,
in an effort to "preserve market share" and bankrupt US shale
producers, the kingdom endeavored to purposefully suppress crude prices. Nine months
and billions in liquidated FX reserves later, Saudi Arabia is facing a budget
crisis of epic proportions.
The United States lags far behind other developed countries in terms of
personal, civil and economic freedoms, according to a study released this month. Its
neighbor to the north, for example, ranked 14 spots ahead of the so-called
“Land of the Free.”
Great
news - Californians have managed to reduce water usage by
31% in July, surpassing the
mandated 25% reduction amid the worst drought in centuries. However, this
dramatic reduction is in now way thanks to local government in Los Angeles,
where, as Daily News reports, the majority of LA County supervisors
have their take-home cars washed two or three times a week, service records
show, and actually washed them more frequently than before Governor Brown's
orders. Once again - do as I say, not as I do!
People have their hopes and dreams tied on a quarter of a percent.
That’s how ridiculous things have become. People are so horrified that if money isn’t
absolutely free that all hell will break loose—that people are going to go broke,
the market’s going to crash, and that there won’t be any jobs. That’s a pretty
sad state of affairs, and it is by no stretch of the imagination the
foundation for a free and prosperous nation. It is the height of
central planning and it is a form of economic tyranny.
"There’s
no flying beams of light, no 'pew! pew!' sound effects. But it is nonetheless a
working laser cannon, and it will take your drone down."
How Trump Continues To Lead In The Polls
Recent
polls indicate that, despite public outcry against his incendiary comments on
women and minorities, Donald Trump is still the leading Republican candidate. Here
are some reasons Trump stays so popular with his supporters...
You
know what they say: when it rains it pours, especially when you’re the poster
child for an epic emerging market unwind and you’re suffering through the worst
inflation-growth outcome in over a decade while trying to combat dual deficits
and ward off political and social upheaval.
"You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed
and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I
show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus, The Matrix
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 08/28/2015 - 16:06
Submitted
by RANSquawk Video on 08/28/2015 –
Presented
with no comment...
Explaining The Stock Market Rebound In 1 Simple Chart
Many
were stunned at the pace of the v-shaped recovery in US equity markets
this week after Monday and Tuesday's carnage. However, as the
following chart makes very clear, there was good reason for it... Having
overshot to the downside of "Fed-Balance-Sheet-Implied" levels but
around 100 S&P points, the broad index ripped back higher to almost
perfectly settle at "Fed Fair Value" - between 1980 and 2000. But,
there is a rather ominous event occuring in 2016 that is out of The Fed's
control that implies S&P 1,800 unless QE4 is unleashed.
Adan Salazar | “There
are certain things we can do to reduce and prevent these sorts of things. Not
messing with this document (the Constitution), no.”
Mikael
Thalen | “Their 19th great grandfather is King Edward III so there is precedent
for ruling a country; it’s in their genes.”
Steve
Watson & Paul Joseph Watson | Another racist attack caught on camera.
Kit Daniels | Pope
wishes LGBT author “ever more fruitful work in the service of young
generations.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Gunman was offended by everything.
Newsbusters
| Claims that “gun violence” is “on rise” with “some public health officials
say[ing] it’s time to change our approach to the problem.”
Mediaite
| A Chicago police officer is under investigation for a video in which he makes
a comment about how Michael Brown “deserved it.”
Twitchy
| The organization has hired independent research firm Fusion GPS to perform a
forensic analysis on the videos.
Kurt Nimmo | Black
Sinterklaas apprentice considered vestige of slavery.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Eliminating physical currency necessary to give central banks
more power.
WORLD NEWS
Pope Praises Lesbian Author For Spreading “Christian
Values”
Kit Daniels | Pope wishes LGBT author “ever more fruitful work
in the service of young generations.”
Obama’s Ukrainian Forces Break Minsk Agreement:
Resume Invasion
Eric Zuesse |
The U.S.-backed Ukrainian Armed Forces, on Wednesday August 26th, resumed their
all-out war against the breakaway Donbass region
Migrant crisis: Hundreds trapped in holds feared dead
after two boats capsize off Libyan coast
London
Independent | Libyan coastguard said around 200 people had been rescued.
NATO stages huge airborne drill in Europe, says
‘acting in purely defensive manner’ (VIDEO)
RT | The largest
NATO airborne drills in Europe since the end of the Cold War aim to reassure
allies against external aggression threat.
Who slipped? How fake report on ‘Russian soldier
deaths’ in Ukraine set MSM on fire
RT | A Forbes
report on alleged Russian army casualties in Ukraine citing a dodgy Russian
website has sparked a media and Twitter storm.
·
MONEY WATCH
Chinese Stocks To Plunge Another 35%, BofA Says
Zero Hedge | At
least one analyst thinks that Chinese equities are in for further dramatic
declines.
It’s Official: China Confirms It Has Begun Liquidating
Treasuries, Warns Washington
Zero Hedge | On
Tuesday evening, we asked what would happen if emerging markets joined China in
dumping US Treasurys.
US Deficit Will More than Double over the next 10
Years
Joshua Krause |
Earlier this year the Treasury Department made a stunning announcement.
It’s Official: China Confirms It Has Begun Liquidating
Treasuries, Warns Washington
Zero Hedge | On
Tuesday evening, we asked what would happen if emerging markets joined China in
dumping US Treasurys.
·
PRISON PLANET
New Boss on Construction Sites Is a Drone
MIT Technology
Review | Drones are being used to capture video footage that shows construction
progress at the Sacramento Kings’ new stadium in California.
Germany Tells Facebook: Delete Racist Anti-Refugee
Posts
Bloomberg |
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas wants Facebook Inc. to remove racist posts
targeting asylum seekers after several attacks on refugee camps in Germany over
the past week.
Cop Caught on Tape Extorting Driver for Fundraiser:
“Buy These Tickets or I Take Your Car”
Mac Slavo | It
seems the no-pressure sales method wasn’t working.
School threatens student with expulsion over
Confederate flag ‘gang symbol’
EAG News |
School officials in Idaho claim the Confederate flag is considered a gang
symbol.
COMMENTARY
Washington
Examiner | No gun control measure short of universal confiscation would do
anything to curb shootings in this lifetime.
LA Times Wonders Why We Show More Blacks Dying Than
Whites
Truth Revolt |
Another example of the media’s sick exploitation of murder victims for racial
grievance-mongering.
WATCH: Civil Rights Protestor Destroys
#BlackLivesMatter
louderwithcrowder.com
| If you haven’t noticed, #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) groups and protesters have
been making quite the scene lately.
What if Hillary Clinton doesn’t care?
Andrew P.
Napolitano | Secret emails could tell of secret wars.
·
MULTIMEDIA
The Awful Truth About the TV Reporter Shooting
Paul Joseph
Watson | This tragedy was horribly predictable.
The Truth About ‘Black Lives Matter’
Paul Joseph
Watson | Radical origins of controversial movement revealed.
Why is Everyone Freaking Out About September 2015?
Paul Joseph
Watson | Next two months could be looked back on for decades to come.
·
U.S. NEWS
Halperin: ‘World Would Come to a Halt’ If GOP Said
Dems Were Terrorists
Newsbusters |
Halperin did not mince words.
Gateway Pundit |
St. Louis County Police arrested 21 year-old De’Eris Brown in the shooting
death of 9 year-old Jamyla Bolden in Ferguson, Missouri.
Security Has to Get Involved When Black Transgender
Lives Matter Activists Disrupt Clinton Event
The Blaze |
Black Transgender Lives Matter activists disrupted a Hillary Clinton campaign
stop in Ohio Thursday.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Widespread Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs Sparks
Serious Health Problems
Julie Fidler |
Sometimes with life-threatening side effects.
UK Daily Mail |
Men find thinner women attractive because they associate their body shape with
youth, fertility and a lower risk of disease.
French Woman Wins Disability for Sensitivity to
Electronics
Joshua Krause |
In recent years there have been growing fears towards the possible side effects
of some electromagnetic waves, such as cell phone radiation and wifi.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
Posted by : CrownThomas
Post date: 09/07/2015 - 09:37
Hedge
Funds are apparently dusting off their notes on how to hedge
Posted by: Phoenix
Capital...
Post date: 09/07/2015 - 10:48
The
Fed likes to act as though it’s concerned about stocks… but the real story is
in bonds. Indeed, when you look at the Fed’s actions from the perspective of
the bond market,...
China Buys 16 Tons Gold In August – Dumps $94 Billion
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 09/07/2015 - 09:09
The
People’s Bank of China (PBOC) added another 15.98 tonnes of gold in August – at
the same time its foreign exchange reserves fell a whopping $94 billion.
A baby boy turned to flotsam. Washed up on the shore, face down in the
mud. Warmongers in
government and the media are perversely but predictably trying to conscript
Aylan’s corpse into their march to escalation. They are contending
that Aylan died because the West has not intervened against Syria’s dictator
Bashar al-Assad, and that it must do so now to spare other children the same
fate. Um, no, Aylan’s family were Kurdish refugees from Kobani who had to
flee that city when it was besieged, not by Assad, but by Assad’s enemy:
ISIS.
"It
is like the board is a desperate gambler at the end of their
run"...
The
2015 annual report from the Social Security Board of Trustees shows that the
program’s disability component is in immediate trouble. Data from the
latest report show that the disability fund will be depleted as soon as
next year and unable to pay full benefits to beneficiaries.
Back in April,
European and US officials were quick to blame "The Russians"
when a British fishing trawler's nets became entangled in a submarine.
The incident, one of many, was rapidly escalated as further excuse to increase
NATO forces across Europe and as evidence of Russia's aggression. There's just
one small problem... As The Daily Mail reports, in this case, it wasn't the Russians - The
Royal Navy has finally admitted one of its submarines damaged an Irish fishing
trawler in April - five months after the Russian vessel was blamed for the
incident.
The
prosecution of a Swedish national accused of terrorist activities in Syria has
collapsed at the Old Bailey after it became clear Britain’s security
and intelligence agencies would have been deeply embarrassed had a trial gone
ahead, the Guardian reported. "The prosecution abandoned
the case, apparently to avoid embarrassing the intelligence services. The
defence argued that going ahead with the trial would have been an “affront to
justice” when there was plenty of evidence the British state
was itself providing “extensive support” to the armed Syrian opposition.
That didn’t only include the “non-lethal assistance” boasted of by the
government (including body armour and military vehicles), but training,
logistical support and the secret supply of “arms on a massive scale”."
The
refugee crisis in Europe - sparked in large part by Syria’s four-year old,
bloody civil war - recently reached a tipping point and the scramble to find a
workable solution both in terms of allocating asylum seekers and finding the
funds to accommodate them has become the single most pressing challenge facing
European policy makers. Amid the chaos, Goldman may have found the silver
lining.
Not
to be outdone by his partner Charlie Munger (who offended many with his comments that "gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if
you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939,"), Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett - having already taken on Europe, comparing Greece to a "dog peeing on the
carpet" of Europe, suggesting Germany stop "rewarding behavior you
want to get rid of" - takes aim at the military. Speaking on
Bloomberg TV, the octagenerian oracle of offense just unfriended every
American veteran...
While
we already knew that China was selling - and following the record selling of FX
reserves in August, so does everyone else - an even more interesting question
emerged: who is buying? Thanks to the WSJ we now know the answer: "A little-known New York hedge fund
run by a former Yale University math whiz has been buying tens of billions of
dollars of U.S. Treasury debt at recent auctions, drawing attention from the
Treasury Department and Wall Street."
When
it comes to crisis, SocGen notes that there is an abundance of case studies;
and against the backdrop of the uncertainty shock delivered by China and the
subsequent market tumult, market participants have been looking to the history
books for clues as to what could happen next. While individual crises create
their own risks, SocGen warns, the overriding risk is that
markets are taking less comfort today from the idea that central banks may step
in with further QE-style liquidity injections to save the world.
Six
years after we first explained the only thing that
matters for this "market", JPMorgan finally figured it out.
Liar
loans are back from the dead which means that if you look under the hood, you
might just have a shoddy credit or two hiding in the collateral pool of your
triple-A mortgage-backed paper. Meanwhile, in a further sign that we've learned
nothing since the crisis, non-Agency RMBS is set to stage a comeback.
Earlier
today we got the most glaring confirmation there had been absolutely
zero coordination at the highest levels of authority and
"responsibility", when the World Bank's current chief economist,
Kaushik Basu warned that the Fed risks, and we quote, triggering “panic
and turmoil” in emerging markets if it opts to raise rates at its September
meeting and should hold fire until the global economy is on a surer footing,
the World Bank’s chief economist has warned. And just in case casually
tossing the words "panic in turmoil" was not enough, Basu decided to
add a few more choice nouns, adding a rate hike "could yield a
“shock” and a new crisis in emerging markets"
Well
this might explain the weakness in BABA over the last couple of days as it
appears 'news' of the IRS lack of decision on the tax-free-ness of
YHOO's BABA spin-off leaked out. It is decidely unclear how
the IRS's decision not to issue a ruling will impact the spin-off but for now
YHOO shares have flash-crashed after hours and are now hovering 5-6% lower...
Presented
with no comment...
The
markets are clearly sending the same warning signals that they always have. It
is only a question of whether we are willing to listen, or allow our "greed"
to keep us at the casino table hoping for one more "hot
hand." One thing is for certain, if the market does muster a rally
strong enough in the week's ahead to retest the previous bullish trend moving
average, it could very well be a "sucker's rally."
The last time we looked at Chinese stocks, just a few hours ago, they were on pace to close back under 3000, following the latest collapse in trade, where in August exports dropped 5.5% (last -8.3%) while imports tumbled -13.8% in dollar terms (worse than the -8.1% prior). As the Reuters chart below shows, this was the 10th month in a row of declines and the worst stretch since the 2008 crisis, confirming China will need far more currency devaluation to stabilize the trade pain. And then Chinese authorities intervened with gusto, waiting until the start of the afternoon session, at which point a massive buying orgy ensued, and pushed the SHCOMP from down more than 2% to close at the day highs, up some 2.9%!
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/07/2015
What
does it take to make you sit up and take notice of the problems surrounding
society today? The events of the past few weeks should have been a
warning shot across the bow for many. Our financial and distribution
systems are in a delicate balancing act right now and any sudden shifts could
send them tumbling off the cliff rendering the services they perform extinct in
a matter of hours. What will it take to make you respond to the many crises
taking place today?
Paul
Joseph Watson | Parents warned revealing clothes could lead to “attacks”.
Mikael
Thalen | Tech pioneer reveals presidential run exclusively to Infowars.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Clip shows mostly young men running towards train.
Kit Daniels |
Leftists call the Bible “hate speech” that should be eradicated from society.
Adan Salazar | Teen
gunned down at bus stop in possible gang-related attack.
Steve
Watson | Majority of black voters don’t believe president has improved racial
relations.
Kurt Nimmo | Speech
arrives prior to debate in Congress over Iran nuclear agreement.
CNS
News | “There’s no way of knowing without extensive vetting and investigation
who these people are, what their background is.”
Zero
Hedge | The US and Russia are one “accidental” run-in away from taking the
“proxy” out of the term “proxy war.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | The footage that TV networks don’t broadcast.
WORLD NEWS
VIDEO: Chaos on Greek Island as Migrants Riot
Truth Revolt |
Tension has been rising on the island.
France says taking all refugees would be victory for
ISIS
Pamela Geller |
This is immigration jihad.
350 British jihadis trained in Syria are now back in
the UK
UK Daily Mail |
Threatening security, Home Office warns.
Iranian Warships Confront U.S. Navy On ‘Daily Basis’
Washington Free
Beacon | Routinely photographed by Iranians for intelligence purposes.
David Cameron draws up ‘kill list’ of Isis fighters
who can be taken out at a moment’s notice
London
Independent | Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, is among around 10
jihadists on the hit-list, which also included the two British men killed by
RAF drone attack.
·
MONEY WATCH
Majority of Greeks Say Adopting Euro Has Harmed
Country
Gallup | Greeks’
doubts about the euro reflect the effects of austerity measures over the past
five years.
Happy “$15 Minimum Wage” Labor Day From McDonalds
Zero Hedge |
Don’t forget to thank your micromanaging, centrally-planning government.
Pot Revenue Is So High in Colorado, State Will Have
to Reimburse Taxpayers
Joshua Krause |
When Colorado decided to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, everyone
expected the state’s tax revenue to increase.
Two-Thirds Of Greeks Say Adopting Euro Has Not
Benefited Country
Zero Hedge |
Five years of austerity, higher taxes, deep cuts in public spending, record
suicide rates, and homelessness beyond anyone’s worst forecasts.
·
PRISON PLANET
IRS Employee Arrested After Sexually Molesting Woman
Being Audited in Tennessee
Mike Krieger |
What’s the deal with government employees thinking they have the liberty to
sexually molest the citizens they are supposed to be working for?
Horrifying Video Shows Cops Tell K9 “Good Boy” as
they Let Him Maul a Handcuffed Man
Free Thought
Project | A video uploaded to Facebook yesterday is garnering a massive amount
of attention, for good reason.
New England Police Officers Union Boycotts Obama’s Boston
Labor Day Speech
Gateway Pundit |
23 police officers have been gunned down this year, so far, in the line of
duty.
Student arrested for ‘Impeach Obama’ banner sues —
it’s called the First Amendment!
Michael
Dorstewitz | It’s called the
First Amendment freedom of expression.
COMMENTARY
Guess Who’s Not Taking In ANY ‘Immigrants’? Sunni
Arabs. Here’s Why…
Stephen Crowder
| They aren’t helping their Muslim brothers at all.
US Seeks Occupation as US Fighters Flood Syria
Tony Cartalucci
| US policy paper called for the occupation of northern Syria with special
operations forces. Now Foreign Policy reports northern Syria is being flooded
by “volunteers” from America.
Still Think it’s a Conspiracy Theory? California to
Label Monsanto’s Roundup as ‘Carcinogenic’
Free Thought
Project | The state of California’s Environmental Protection Agency has moved
to begin labeling glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, as a
known carcinogen.
Patrick J.
Buchanan | This is but the beginning of what is to come, if Europe does not
pull up the drawbridge.
·
MULTIMEDIA
WATCH: The End Of America: “We Are All Witnessing The
Death Of A Country”
Mac Slavo | A
new must-see micro documentary.
CNN Catches Hundreds of Refugees Storming Hungary’s
Border
Mediaite |”Fed
up with the conditions they were being held in.”
The “Migrant Crisis” is About Imposing
Multiculturalism on the West
Paul Joseph
Watson | A backdoor plot to enforce mass immigration that European voters had
previously rejected.
·
U.S. NEWS
Hillary on New 25% National Gun Tax: “I am all for
that.”
Americans For
Tax Reform | Clinton emphatically endorsed the tax, stating: “I am all for that.”
Hillary: What I Did Was Allowed
Truth Revolt |
“I did not send or receive any information marked classified,” Clinton said.
Murdoch Tweets: ‘Looks Like Biden Is Already Running’
Newsmax | News
Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tweeted on Monday that Biden already appears to
be running and will likely win the nomination.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Hitler secretly made the weapons of the future during
the Second World War
London
Independent | This week marked the 76th anniversary of the German invasion of
Poland and the beginning of the Second World War.
Porn app secretly takes photos of users to ransom
them
RT | A US
internet security firm has discovered smartphone malware disguised as a free
porn service.
CDC: 3 out of 4 Americans’ Hearts are Older than
Their Chronological Age
Julie Fidler |
With some being as much as 8 years older.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
Posted by : StalingradandPoorski
Post date: 09/18/2015 - 11:00
Well,
the "most anticipated" September FOMC meeting has come and gone, and
no hike yet again. After the release of the FOMC statement, SPX rallied to a
high of 2020, then sold down 30 handles into...
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 09/18/2015 - 11:11
There
they go again...
Kyle Bass Bearish on Emerging Markets for at least 2
More Years. Looking to Short Currencies
Posted by: octafinance
Post date: 09/17/2015 - 04:59
Kyle
Bass shared his macro views during the “Squawk on the Street”
ECONOMY & MARKETS | September 17, 2015
Dear Al,
I’ve just issued a critical warning on a financial event that I am 100% convinced
will cause the markets to crash faster and more furiously than ever
before.
To be blunt: This event
is the single greatest danger brewing in the global markets today and it will
absolutely devastate millions of American investors.
To ensure you’re not a
casualty from the coming fallout, it's extremely important you watch this video right away.
Consider yourself
warned!
Harry
ECONOMY & MARKETS | September 17, 2015
After keeping the markets
on edge in the days and weeks leading up to today’s decision, the Fed has
decided once again to leave interest rates unchanged.
As we’ve spent this week discussing “all things Fed,” it’s worth spilling a
little ink on what the quasi-government-but-really-private organization is
supposed to do.
Originally, the Fed was built as a lender of last resort. In times of panic
when banks needed to sell good assets for cash to meet depositor demands, someone
had to be there with the ability to make good.
This is the proper role of a central bank, and is exactly what the Fed did in
March 2009 when it printed $1 trillion to buy government-insured
mortgage-backed bonds. Fed actions thawed the frozen market, which resuscitated
the buy side and helped things return to normal, albeit at a lower level.
But over the last 100 years Congress piled other responsibilities onto the Fed,
most notably full employment.
The monetary institution is supposed to use interest rates and the printing
press to prod businesses into hiring more people. This part of Fed policy has
failed, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at employment figures from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Here’s how it works.
The Fed tries to create jobs through lower interest rates. If consumers and
businesses can borrow at cheaper rates, then the thinking goes they will borrow
more money. With that extra cash, they’ll spend more on goods, services,
equipment, etc., thereby driving up demand for such things. Businesses then
will meet increased demand by hiring more people to build, sell, and maintain
all the new stuff.
Only, it hasn’t happened that way.
Some industries, such as autos, benefitted from higher sales based on lower
rates. Most did not.
Take housing. It is logical that with very low interest rates home buyers would
rush out to purchase homes, thereby driving up new home construction. But the
pace of home sales since 2008, particularly new home sales, has been anemic at
best.
At the height of the market, our economy was churning out more than 1.3 million
new homes a year. After falling to less than 300,000, the number recently
topped a mere 500,000.
If we’re not building a lot of new homes, we don’t need more framers, roofers,
plumbers, etc. The same is true of other industries – without soaring demand,
why hire more people?
A key to gauging employment is the rate of new business creation. It’s not just
small businesses that hire the most people, but small new businesses.
This is why the BLS tries to figure out how many net new businesses opened up
each month, and therefore how many people were hired at these emerging
companies. The calculation is called the “birth/death adjustment,” and it is
very important to the monthly jobs report.
In August, the U.S. economy created 173,000 jobs. Within that number, the BLS estimates
that 111,000 jobs were created at new businesses. In other words, a majority of
the jobs are based on a guess. They’re not based on verifiable facts.
And that’s just August. The BLS estimates 658,000 jobs from new businesses
year-to-date. Compare that with the roughly 1.6 million total new jobs – not
just from new businesses – estimated for the year. More than one-third of the
new jobs are guesses, and not very good ones at that.
Looking to other sources, it’s clear that new businesses aren’t popping up all
over the place. The polling company Gallup recently published a graph showing
the number of businesses failing each year compared with the number of businesses
created. From the beginning of the chart in the 1970s through 2007, more
companies opened each year than shut their doors.
Since 2008, the numbers have been reversed. The data only goes through 2012,
but it shows that our economy consistently sheds companies, and presumably
jobs.
Now we have even better data.
Just this year the Kauffman Foundation created a Startup Activity Index, which
contains monthly data starting in 1997. Currently the overall index is
negative. It has been below zero since 2010, dragged lower by the rate of new
business creation per 100,000 people. This number bounced between 165 and 200
from the late 1990s through 2008, then dropped to 133 in 2009.
This year it sits at 130, well below the average of the 2000s.
For all the money the Fed created in its attempt to drive interest rates lower,
it has not, and cannot, force economic activity. I guess there are limits to
what the Fed can do… but that’s OK. The BLS is there to guess at numbers to
make us feel better.
Washington Whistleblower Exposes: Political
Corruption at the Highest Levels
He has been the secret man behind some of the biggest
movements and most successful companies in America today. Now he’s back with
his most controversial video presentation in decades. A video where he dares to
expose political corruption at the highest level … click here to see it now.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015
The
man who made a billion dollars on Black Monday sums up his strategy perfectly in this excellent FOX
Business clip with the money-honey, "I'm a hedge fund manager
that actually hedges for his clients. This is something of an old fashioned
idea in this day of just gambling on the next Fed bailout."
Spitznagel, who is wholly unapologetic in his criticism of The Fed (and any
central planner), unleashes eight minutes of awful truthiness on what is going
on under the surface of the so-called 'market', concluding ominously, "if
August was scary for people, they ain't seen nothin’ yet."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015
Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem says Syria may officially request the
support of Russian combat troops in the fight to take back the country, a move that would pave the way
for the Kremlin to overtly declare that Russia has joined the war in support of
Bashar al-Assad. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet
with Putin on Monday to discuss concerns that Russia's involvement could end up
strengthening the military capabilities of Hezbollah. Lurking in the
background: the man one CIA officer once called "the most powerful
operative in the Middle East today"...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015
Ordinary Americans frequently ask why politicians and government
officials appear to be so obtuse, rarely recognizing what is actually occurring
in the country. That is
partly due to the fact that the political class lives in a bubble of its own
creation, but it might also be because many of America’s leaders actually
accept that there is an unelected, unappointed, and unaccountable presence
within the system that actually manages what is taking place behind the scenes.
That would be the American deep state. America’s deep state is
completely corrupt: it exists to sell out the public interest, and includes
both major political parties as well as government officials.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015
Never...
is a long time.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015
"Instead
of acting via bond markets and banking sector, why shouldn’t public
sector bypass markets altogether and inject stimulus directly into the ‘blood
stream’?... CBs directly monetizing Government spending and funding
projects would do the same. Whilst ultimately it would lead to stagflation (UK,
70s) or deflation (China, today), it could provide strong initial boost to
generate impression of recovery and sustainable business cycle... What
is probability of the above policy shift? Low over next six months; very high
over the longer term."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015
Perception is everything in contemporary economics and the Fed is the
center of perception; the medium has become the message. The truth is more this: the Fed no longer reacts
to the waxing and waning of animal spirit-led demand. In the current
monetary regime it exists to create and maintain animal spirits with a secular
policy centered on ever-expanding credit, but it is very aware that
admitting it’s centrality would defeat its purpose.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015 -
Last week we warned of the ominously rising risks evident under the
surface in US financials. Following Yellen's decision to chicken-out yesterday,
it appears interbank counterparty risk is even ominous-er. With bank
stocks prices tumbling, catching down to credit market's concerns, the TED
Spread - implicitly measuring interbank credit risk - jumped over 21% yesterday
- to its highest in 3 years.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015
It is time for a radical denationalization of money, a privatization of
the monetary and banking system through a separation of government from money
and all forms of financial intermediation. That is the pathway to ending the cycles of booms
and busts, and creating the market-based institutional framework for
sustainable economic growth and betterment. It is time for monetary
freedom to replace the out-of-date belief in government monetary central
planning.
"Activist
Investors", the relatively new classification for corporate agitators,
want you to believe that their intellectual tactics/ strategies improve both
corporate governance and shareholder returns. That may be true but they also
seem to be involved in another, less savory, tactic, that is, inflating their
company “ownership” claims with extremely large derivatives positions as
outlined in SEC disclosure filings.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015 -
"As
interest rates go more negative, market participants will have
increasing incentives to make payments quickly and to receive payments in forms
that can be collected slowly. This is exactly the opposite of what
happened when short-term interest rates skyrocketed in the late 1970s: people
then wanted to delay making payments as long as possible and to collect
payments as quickly as possible.... if interest rates go negative, we
may see an epochal outburst of socially unproductive—even if individually
beneficial—financial innovation."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015
The consequences of all this are grim, but the timing is hard to
predict. Perhaps the
government can somehow borrow amounts that no one previously thought possible.
But its creditors will look for repayment. Either the creditors are going to
walk away unhappy (in the case of default), or the holders of all dollars are
going to be stuck with worthless paper (in the case of hyperinflation), or the
taxpayers’ pockets will be looted (the longer things muddle along), or most
likely a combination of all three will happen. This will not be a
happy story for all but a few of us.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015 -
On
Thursday, the Fed made it clear that its reaction function has changed.
"Data dependency" is gone (or at least relegated to the backburner in
times of global turmoil), and international and financial market developments
are now officially guiding the FOMC's (tentative) hand. This epochal shift has
left market participants asking one very simple question: "Ok, now
what?"
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015
Citing
"continuing weakness in the medium-term growth outlook,"
Moody's has downgraded France:
*FRANCE CUT TO Aa2 FROM Aa1 BY MOODY'S, OUTLOOK TO STABLE
Apearing
to blame The EU's "institutional and political
constraints," Moody's expects French growth to be at most
1.5% and does not expect the debt burden to be materially reduced this
decade.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/18/2015 -
The
current surge in deflationary pressures is not just due to the recent fall in
oil prices, but rather a global epidemic of slowing economic growth. While
Janet Yellen addressed this "disinflationary" wave during
her post-meeting press conference, the Fed still maintains the illusion
of confidence that economic growth will return shortly. Unfortunately,
this has been the Fed's "Unicorn" since 2011 as annual hopes of economic recovery have failed to
materialize.
ECONOMY
& MARKETS | September 11, 2015
Mikael
Thalen | Presidential candidate now calls gun and magazine bans “a total
failure.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Calling someone a slut now a criminal offense?
Washington
Post | It would make him the first openly gay civilian secretary of one of the
military services.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Migrants told “Swedish women require real men”.
Kit Daniels | “It
wasn’t even close,” says Chicago Tribune.
Kurt Nimmo | Gulf
Emirates have supported terror through charitable organizations.
Steve Watson | Muslim
kid’s father is a prominent ‘anti-Islamophobia’ activist; Police knew there was
no danger, but arrested Ahmed Mohamed anyway.
Paul
Joseph Watson | “They have lost their fertility!”
Gateway
Pundit | The Islamic State hurled another gay man off the top of a tall
building in Al-Furat province.
Daily
Caller | RICO was a law designed to take down organized crime syndicates, but
scientists now want it to be used against skeptics.
Pope plans to duck dissidents
in Cuba...
Is Francis anti-American?
House Republican Plans to
Boycott Speech...
Acting like 'leftist politician'...
BASTARDI: Quick Note to
Pope on 'Climate Change'...
UPDATE: Vatican disputes WH
guest list...
Illegals hope Pope will
bring end to deportations...
Chicago Archbishop:
Immigration # 1 priority...
OBAMA
PICKS OPENLY GAY MAN TO LEAD ARMY
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Posted by : George
Washington
Post date: 09/25/2015 - 11:28
NSA Is Making It Easier for
Malicious Actors and Hackers to Steal the Family Jewels
Premiums Rise and Delivery Delays Increase on Silver
Coins and Bars
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 09/25/2015 - 09:24
Fed credibility questioned and
Yellen sick - Palladium surges 8% - Russia and central banks buy gold - Smart
money rebalancing and selling overvalued assets to buy depressed assets
especially silver
Posted by: George
Washington
Post date: 09/25/2015 - 11:28
NSA Is Making It Easier for
Malicious Actors and Hackers to Steal the Family Jewels
The Stock
Markets Of The 10 Largest Global Economies Are All Crashing ou would
think that the simultaneous crashing of all of the largest stock markets around
the world would be very big news. But so far the mainstream media in the
United States is treating it like it isn’t really a big deal. Over the
last sixty days, we have witnessed the most significant global stock market
decline since the fall of 2008, and yet most people still seem to think that
this is just a temporary “bump in the road” and that the bull market will soon
resume. Hopefully they are right. When the Dow Jones Industrial
Average plummeted 777 points on September 29th, 2008 everyone freaked out and
rightly so. But a stock market crash doesn’t have to be limited to a
single day. Since the peak of the market earlier this year, the Dow is
down almost three times as much as that 777 point crash back
in 2008. Over the last sixty days, we have seen the 8th largest single
day stock market crash in U.S. history on a point basis and the 10th largest single
day stock market crash in U.S. history on a point basis. You would think
that this would be enough to wake people up, but most Americans still don’t
seem very alarmed. And of course what has happened to U.S. stocks so far
is quite mild compared to what has been going on in the rest of the world. (Read More....)
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/25/2015 -
Perhaps
it is because the world has grown habituated to its unique set of
"liquidity" problems, but California's record, and ongoing,
drought has not been receiving much media coverage in the rest of the country
in recent weeks. Perhaps it should be, because according to a report by CBS
Sacramento, the Mountain Meadows reservoir also known as Walker Lake, a popular
fishing hole just west of Susanville, ran dry literally overnight,
killing thousands of fish and leaving residents looking for answers.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/25/2015 -
Some people will never learn... ever. What is happening today is nothing more than
rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The iceberg has been struck,
we’re taking on water, and this sucker is going to sink. Game Over.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/25/2015
When
it comes to debt-to-central-government-GDP ratios, the US is second only to the
poster child for Keynesian insanity...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/25/2015 - 20:40
The caste of climate alarmists reminds us strongly of assorted
doomsayers throughout history. They have almost
become a kind of priestly caste, accusing us of committing the alleged “sin” of
capitalism, even while they reserve for themselves the right to partake of its
fruits to an extent few others are able to (as Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore
notes, “environmentalism has become a religion”). Mind, we don’t believe genuine environmental
concerns should be ignored, but AGW looks more and more like a contrived
non-issue. The hysteria that has been on display of late is probably an
indication though that its proponents are actually losing the debate.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/25/2015 - 20:05
Forget
currency collapses, capital outflows, crashing confidence, and current account
carnage, there is one major reason why Brazil - no matter what -
will not bounce back quickly...
From ZIRP To NIRP - Accelerating The End Of Fiat
Currencies
In considering NIRP, Central bankers are failing to address an even
greater potential problem, which could easily become cataclysmic. By forcing people into paying to maintain cash and
bank deposits, central bankers are playing fast-and-loose with the public’s
patient acceptance that state-issued money actually has any value at all. There
is a tension between this cavalier macroeconomic attitude and what amounts to a
prospective tax on personal liquidity. Furthermore, NIRP makes the hidden tax
of monetary inflation, of which the public is generally unaware, suddenly very
visible. We should be in no doubt that increasing public awareness
of the true cost to ordinary people of monetary policies, by way of the debate
that would be created by the introduction of NIRP, could have very dangerous
consequences for the currency.
"Pet Rocks" Are Booming In Brazil
It
appears there is one 'currency' worth holding on to when a nation's fiat fraud
is exposed...
Migrant Crisis Sparks Balkan Border Battles As EU
Buckles Under Overwhelming Refugee Flow
"The
influx of migrants is not going to abate. We want to stop people
crossing."
Holding
gold is simply recognition that the Fed’s actions over the last 30 years have
potentially severe consequences that pose threats to the value of most
financial assets, the almighty dollar and ultimately your clients’ purchasing
power. Owning gold is in effect not only a short on the dollar and on
the credibility of the Federal Reserve, but most importantly a one of a kind
asset that protects wealth.
As documented here and
elsewhere, in addition to the Pope and Putin, the third world leader US
president Obama is "historically" meeting this week is China's
President, and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist party, Xi Jinping.
But just like everywhere else, the president is mostly a figurehead for far
greater political and primarily financial interests backing him. So who calls
the shots in China? The following infographc lays out the key power divisions
of political, economic and financial power in China at this moment.
"Everyone's Praying But No One's Believing"
- The 'Fed Put' Is Dead
Yellen’s detailed
speech initially triggered an out-sized market reaction. Unfortunately, it was mainly due to shallow market
depth and weak-hand positions. Yellen’s speech should quickly begin to hurt over-priced
financial assets. Yellen’s speech was the first time I can ever remember
a Federal Reserve Chairperson commenting that inappropriate risk-taking might
be undermining financial stability. This
is explicit confirmation that the Fed’s aim of lifting asset prices in the
hopes they bolster broader economic activity has reached the end of its useful
life. Barring a financial or economic disaster, the ‘Fed put’ has been
put out to pasture.
Weekend Reading: Fed Confusion
The current surge in
dis-inflationary pressures is not just due to the recent fall in oil prices,
but rather a global epidemic of slowing economic growth. While Janet Yellen
addressed this "disinflationary" wave during her
post-meeting press conference, the Fed still maintains the illusion of
confidence that economic growth will return shortly. Unfortunately,
this has been the Fed's "Unicorn" since 2011 as annual hopes of economic recovery have failed to
materialize. However, it is these ongoing views of optimism that have
collided with economic realities.
Stocks Give Up "Yellen's Alive" Gain Amid
Biotech & Junk Bond Bloodbath
Artist's Impression Of Current Fed Policy
Presented
with no comment...
Paul Joseph Watson |
Members of public react with shock to bomb-like object.
Paul Joseph Watson |
Logic and facts are to feminists what holy water and sunlight is to vampires.
Adan Salazar | “This is about making Ontario more inclusive,”
claims member of parliament.
Steve Watson | GCHQ called the operation ‘Karma Police’ because
they were Radiohead fans; Mammoth operation bigger than anything NSA did.
Paul Joseph Watson |
Obama’s war on the free press accelerates.
Zero Hedge | House
speaker John Boehner, just 24 hours after getting a visit by none other than
the Pope, is folding one last time.
Washington Examiner | The
United States already has 10 million more foreign-born citizens than all of the
European Union.
Kurt Nimmo | Putin: only Syrian people have right to decide who
should govern their country
Prison Planet.com | Alex
vows to stand firm as reporting on criminal activity within government is not
against the law.
Gateway
Pundit | WSB reported she also called for activists to ‘take over’ police
stations.
WORLD NEWS
ISIS executes Syrian girl because of “WhatsApp”
ABNA | ISIS has executed a
22-year-old girl in the town of Khacham in the eastern countryside of Deir
al-Zour.
China Set To Deploy Nuclear Sub That Can Hit US
Mainland Targets, Pentagon Says
Zero Hedge | China has
made two things absolutely clear this year.
Israel officially permits use of live ammo in answer
to ‘civilian-threat’ stone-throwers
RT | Until recently,
police officers were only allowed to fire when their own lives were in danger.
Profiting Politicians? German journalist claims huge
industry behind EU refugee crisis
RT | Germany is often the
preferred destination of refugees seeking to settle in Europe.
While Pope Lectures Congress on Immigration, Vatican
Lets in Very Few
Truth Revolt | Do as I
say, not as I do.
·
MONEY WATCH
Deutsche Bank Is Part of the Euro Crisis
Martin Armstrong | Do you
think they will allow Deutsche Bank to fail?
Janet Yellen Falters During Speech, Receives Medical
Attention, All-Clear Given
Zero Hedge | For those
watching Janet Yellen’s speech this evening, the fact that she seemed to
struggle towards the end of her speech was a surprise. Now we know why…
The Stock Markets Of The 10 Largest Global Economies
Are All Crashing
Michael Snyder | But so
far the mainstream media in the United States is treating it like it isn’t
really a big deal.
Obama Promised Healthcare Premiums Would Fall $2,500
Per Family; They Have Climbed $4,865
Michael Krieger | “We
screwed some folks.”
·
PRISON PLANET
‘Snowden Treaty’ drafted to end mass surveillance,
protect whistleblowers worldwide
RT | Seeks to “curtail
mass surveillance and protect the rights of whistleblowers.”
Zero Hedge | Syria has
officially replaced eastern Ukraine as the most likely theatre for the start of
World War 3.
WA school district bans tag to protect ’emotional
safety’ of students
EAG News | Parents say
they didn’t hear about the ban until their children told them. They were both
befuddled and incensed.
UN Approves New T-Shirt Aimed at Brain-Washing Kids
on Socialism
Gateway Pundit | In New
York City, at the end of this week, President Obama is set to officially adopt
the new United Nations sustainable development plan.
COMMENTARY
Where Do the Remains of Aborted Babies Go? Here’s the
Shocking Answer
Life News | It was 1998.
The largest abortion clinic in the San Diego area at that time was the Family
Planning Associates abortion clinic in La Mesa, California.
The Pope’s 3 Biggest Hypocrisies Since He Came to
America
Joshua Krause | For a man
who is supposed to represent the highest virtues of Christianity, Pope Francis
sure has habit of racking up hypocrisies on a regular basis.
BOOM: Gavin McInnes Wrecks Feminists With Epic ‘Are
You A Sexist?’ Video
Louder With Crowder |
Gavin McInnes has some opinions about gender roles and sexism, and he’s made it
into a game show.
Paul Craig Roberts |
Russia so desperately desires to be part of the disreputable and collapsing
West that Russia is losing its grip on reality.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Prison Planet.com | Here
is a message from the spokesperson of the Pot Bellied Pedophile Network.
Remember your children belong to us now move along.
·
U.S. NEWS
SHOCK POLL: 62% of Republicans Feel BETRAYED by their
Party (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit | And,
two-thirds believe the GOP leadership has not done anything to stop the Obama
agenda.
MSNBC Reporter Admits Wife Works For Planned
Parenthood And Still Writes About Planned Parenthood
Daily Caller | Planned
Parenthood supporter and MSNBC reporter Steve Benen’s wife works for Planned
Parenthood.
Washington State Fair Workers Robbed at Gunpoint
AFTER FAIR BANS GUNS
Gateway Pundit | What a
surprise that the criminals didn’t obey the gun ban at Washington State Fair.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Stonehenge on Mars? UFO hunter spots strange rock
formation on red planet
RT | A “small cluster of
rocks that resembles famous rock structure in England.”
The Australian Government Proclaims –
Environmentalism and Alternative Music Are Signs of Terrorism
Michael Kreiger | No,
that’s not a joke.
STUDY: Michelle O school meals may cause cancer
EAG News | A new study
reveals school lunches promoted by first lady Michelle Obama could contain
dangerous levels of BPA.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
Posted by : GoldCore
Post date: 10/02/2015 - 08:25
The
global silver-coin market is in the grips of an unprecedented supply squeeze,
forcing some mints to ration sales and step up overtime, sending U.S. buyers abroad
to fulfill a sudden surge in...
Apple, Amazon, Tesla and the Changing Dynamics of the
Car Industry
Posted by: Vitaliy
Katsenelson
Post date: 10/01/2015 - 18:50
The
unforeseen consequences of the advent of electric cars will reverberate much
farther than the demise of dealerships and significant shifts in market share
in the auto industry.
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 10/01/2015 - 08:54
The
collapse is not over by any stretch...
For
those curious to know what a Russian forward operating base in a Middle Eastern
warzone looks like, we present the following...
"We
call on the Russian Federation to immediately cease its attacks..."
With
the Federal Reserve still hinting at raising interest rates, but trapped by
weak economic growth, will the next big move by the Fed be another form of
monetary accommodation instead? Or, are the underlying dynamics of the
economy and market really strong enough to shake off the recent weakness and
continue its bullish ascent?
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 10/02/2015 - 16:30
All
you need to know about the "independent", "objective" and
"impartial" US media.
"They’re
hopping mad in Saudi Arabia, the U.S. And Qatar because of their defeat and the
victory of Russia and Syria and the unraveling of the fact that the U.S. and
its allies are not serious about fighting Islamic State. Those who claim to be
concerned about the Syrian people are the ones slaughtering the Syrian people
through the terrorists."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 10/02/2015 - 15:50
"The decrease in
labor force participation among prime-age individuals has been driven
mostly by the share who say they currently don't want a job."
US Foreign Policy Explained (In 1 Cartoon)
Peak Government Is Here: Martin Armstrong Warns
"From Here On Out, It Gets Real"
Today marks a “major
change in trend of monumental proportions," according to Martin Armstrong. The government will start to lose control and the
lurking monster that is excess debt will rear its head. Today is the start of
the "real" sovereign debt crisis - "this concentration of
confidence in government marks the peak - from here on out, this will not be a
video game - this is real."
Volkswagen: A Decade Of Deception - Full Chronology
The
scandal swirling around Germany's largest listed company had its beginnings
in an attempt to crack the U.S. market, the missing link in VW's global
footprint. But, as Handelsblatt details, what began as expansion ended in deception (piecing
together the events that led up to the scandal, based on the
facts as they are currently known).
The Fed Isn't Even Trying To Make Sense Any More
Compare this -
BULLARD SAYS HE EXPECTS STRONGER JOBS REPORTS TO COME.
To this - BULLARD
SAYS SUB-200K PAYROLL GAINS MAY BECOME THE NORM?
But
do not fear, these guys are on top of it!!
Former
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney smiled and repeatedly said,
"Nice to see you," when asked if he had any concerns about
the Saudi Arabian-led bombing campaign in Yemen.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Not supporting people who want to blind themselves is bigoted
and intolerant.
Kurt Nimmo | Group
works closely with al-Nusra in Syria
Steve Watson |
Relatives dumbfounded over security failure.
Daily
Beast | The student and Army vet who was shot at least five times while
charging straight at the gunman in an effort to save others.
Louder
With Crowder | “What gun control would have changed this?”
Kurt Nimmo | Gun laws
are about confiscation, not ending violence.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Ex-employee exclusively tells Infowars that college voted
against armed security just last year.
Kit Daniels |
Anti-gun activists blown away by truth.
Steve Watson | City
has the strictest gun laws in the country.
Paul
Joseph Watson | “The staff wouldn’t let us go to assist”.
WORLD NEWS
Israeli Intelligence Reports Takedown of First Known
ISIS Attack on Israel
Truth Revolt |
Israeli Police Inspector: “They were close enough.”
US Complains As Russia Bombs its Terrorists
Tony Cartalucci
| There Are no Moderates, and There Never Were.
London
Independent | Russian Foreign Minister insists Moscow sees ‘eye-to-eye’ with
US-led coalition in wanting to combat Isis militants.
Previously unseen footage of US 1955 nuke tests in
Nevada (HD VIDEO)
RT | Six decades
after the events, a series of unreleased videos has seen the light of day.
Parramatta shooting: two people shot outside NSW
Police headquarters
The Australian |
A massive police operation is under way in Parramatta in Sydney’s west after
two people were shot dead.
·
MONEY WATCH
The US Has Added Three Times More Foreign-Born
Workers Than Native-Born Since December 2007
Zero Hedge | If
you thought the headline jobs print was bad, wait till you see this.
“There Are Five Times More Claims On Dollars As
Dollars In Existence” – Why This Matters
Macro Allocation
| According to the Fed, there is about $60 trillion of US Dollar credit (claims
for US dollars).
US Mint Sees Record Silver Sales In Q3 As Physical
Demand “Is Absolutely Through The Roof”
Zero Hedge | The
U.S. Mint sold 14.26 million ounces of American Eagle silver coins in the third
quarter.
Investments Drop at a Record Pace: “Frightened
Investors Withdrew Near Record $63 Billion”
Mac Slavo | It
represents another sign that zero percent interest has screwed over the real
economy.
·
PRISON PLANET
Salon.com Pedophile Calls Me Out! But Now I’ve Dug
Into His Past…
Louder With
Crowder | Sorry I’m not sorry.
Colorado College Bans The Words ‘Lord,’ ‘God,’ or
‘Jesus’
Daily Caller | A
former college football player is suing his alma mater for its Bible verse ban.
Nationwide ‘Suspicious Activity’ Files Now Document
Sketchy Online Activity
Nextgov.com | A
counterterrorism surveillance program is documenting reports of suspicious
activity across the Internet.
After Every Mass Shooting, WaPo Sends Out Its Gun
Control Message
Truth Revolt |
11 reasons why America’s fascination with guns is making us all violent.
COMMENTARY
Paul Craig
Roberts | By telling the truth at a time of universal deceit, Putin committed a
revolutionary act.
How the Refugee Crisis Is Already Wrecking German
Society
Joshua Krause |
As foreign refugees continue to flood into Western Europe, one country in
particular stands out for bearing the brunt of the refugee crisis.
Political Correctness is Destroying Language
Prison
Planet.com | The phrase “pregnant women” promotes “trans hatred,” according to
transexual activists.
The Western Media Is Dying and Here’s Why
Tony Cartalucci
| With the veils of legitimacy and professionalism yanked from them, they are
reduced to vulgar, miniature versions of the rotting system that created them.
·
MULTIMEDIA
VIDEO: Vegan protesters storm steakhouse, shout at
customers
Kyle Olsen | A
group of vegans thought they would further their cause by storming a Toronto
steakhouse.
ANGRY Pro-Abortion Activists Interrupt Carly Fiorina
Event, Throw Condoms at Her (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit |
They are furious that she brought up their baby harvesting practices at the
last debate.
·
U.S. NEWS
Newly Published Clinton Email Reveals How Government
Manipulates Media
The Anti Media |
A Hillary Clinton staffer planted questions in a CBS 60 Minutes interview with
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, according to email records released this
week.
Sheriff Clarke: MSM’s ‘Intoxicating Message’ of Free
Stuff Keeps Blacks on ‘Liberal Plantation’
Truth Revolt |
And the hits keep on coming, folks. If there’d been a mic, it would’ve been
dropped.
VIDEO: Trump Drops S-Bomb in New Hampshire: Rubio and
Jeb Bush Playing Nice Is “Political Bullsh*t!”
Gateway Pundit |
Donald Trump dropped an S-bomb in New Hampshire.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Major Hurricane Joaquin to Impact Over 65 Million
From South Carolina to Massachusetts
AccuWeather.com
| Joaquin’s extended assault on the Bahamas has altered the storm track.
Agricultural Workers Diagnosed With Cancer Sue
Monsanto
Julie Fidler |
As numerous other lawsuits are pending.
Myths of Fracking ‘Dangers’ Debunked in AMAZING Video
Louder With
Crowder | Leftists would have you believe that oil is Earth’s poison.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
Posted by : Phoenix
Capital...
Post date: 10/09/2015 - 10:09
One
weekend. The process was not gradual. It was sudden and it was total: once it
began in earnest, the banks were closed and you couldn’t get your money out
(more on this in a moment).
Global Depression Coming - Even
"Powerhouse" Germany and UK Slow "Dramatically"
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 10/09/2015 - 08:50
Investors
should hope for the best while making preparations for less benign scenarios.
This can be achieved by reducing leverage and speculation and having a healthy
allocation to physical precious...
The REAL Reason Saudi Arabia Hates Iran
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 10/08/2015 - 14:16
The
Saudis Hate Iran Because It’s NOT a Monarchy
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 10/09/2015
While
record mainland deficits covered by the petroleum sector is nothing new in
Norwegian budget history, on the contrary it is closer to the norm, the 2016
budget did raise some eyebrows. The other side of the ledger, the net
inflow to the SWF from activities in the North Sea will, again according to
budget, be lower than the required amount to cover the deficit. This
has never happened before and is testimony of the sea change occurring in the
world of petrodollar recycling.
Dear
Americans, meet your venerable central planners:
FED'S EVANS: DOT PLOT CHART CLEARLY SHOWS US ECON DOING BETTER
So,
according to the Fed's academic experts, the US economy is not, well, the US
economy, it's not Y = C + I + G + NX, it's not the product of all goods and
services created in the United States... it's this:
The
Islamic State group is little more than the proxy bastard child of a New
Cold War that looks set to escalate...
This
worn-down, decomposing wooden shack that was built in 1906, and the interior is
unlivable in its current condition. The San Francisco house is also
selling for $350,000.
Weekend Reading: Is The Correction Over?
This
past week saw the markets rebound off their lows which has brought the
"bulls" rushing back claiming the correction is over. However, is
that really the case?
Here's What Happened When Venezuela Imposed Gun
Control Laws
A few years ago, in
response to national outcry, the government of Venezuela took steps to fix this
problem. There was too much
death, too much crime. So they imposed strict gun control laws to stop the
murderers and thieves. The end result? Violent
crime actually increased. And Caracas is now one of the most dangerous cities
in the world. But across the Andes is another city that used to be
one of the most dangerous in the world - Bogota.
The "Secret" Of Successful Biotech
Investing Revealed: All You Need To Know In One Chart
Here
is the chart exposing the "secret" behind biotech investing success: the
more cash a biotech company burns, the higher the return it generates.
It A "Liquidity Mirage": New York Fed
Finally Grasps How Broken The Market Is Due To HFTs
Goodbye
to "fat fingers" being blamed for flash crashes, and welcome
to the Heisenberg uncertainty market: you can have your 1 cent
bid/ask spreads... but you can't have any real market
depth at the same time.
Ranking The Peasants: China Introduces Orwellian
"Citizen Scores"
The
following is extraordinarily creepy and disturbing. It’s also extremely clever,
from a jackbooted, fascist thug perspective. When massive censorship
itself isn’t enough...
Obama Weighs "Syria Retreat" As White House
Ends Training Of Moderate Rebels
Last
weekend we called Obama's latest failed attempt to replace Syria's president
for what it is: "this is shaping up to be the most spectacular US
foreign policy debacle since Vietnam." Today, less than a week later, we have confirmation
that this was correct after first Bloomberg reported that "some top White
House advisers and National Security Council staffers are trying to
persuade President Barack Obama to scale back U.S. engagement" in
Syria, and then a report from the NYT that "the Obama
administration has ended the Pentagon’s $500 million program to train and equip
Syrian rebels." And just like that Obama folds, again.
As we pointed out previously, the growing convergence between BLS-reported
initial jobless claims (at 42 year lows) and reported job cuts (highest since
2009) suggests someone is lying. It appears we have found the cuplrit
as Goldman Sachs confirms that changes in gross labor market flows (e.g. gross
hires and quits), as well as changes in the unemployment insurance benefit take
up rate, affect the relationship between jobless claims and employment growth
over the cycle. For this reason, today’s low level of jobless claims
should probably not be taken as a sign of a booming labor market.
China Threatens The U.S., Says Will "Not
Tolerate Violations Of Its Territorial Waters"
"We will never allow any country to violate China's territorial
waters and airspace in the Spratly Islands, in the name of protecting freedom
of navigation and overflight," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing."We
urge the related parties not to take any provocative actions, and genuinely
take a responsible stance on regional peace and stability," Hua
said in response to a question about possible U.S. patrols.
Kit Daniels |
Facebook has previously shown support for TPP.
Mikael Thalen |
“These are American parachutes that the Americans sent to IS when they were
here in Baiji.”
Adan
Salazar | Smuggler caught transporting nearly 40 immigrants crammed into semi
trailer.
Kit Daniels | Trade
deal to expand healthcare costs beyond Obamacare – worldwide!
Paul
Joseph Watson | Nir Barkat encourages residents to protect themselves.
Steve Watson | Six in
ten want to see feds reigned in.
Kurt Nimmo | Opposes
Sharia law, mosques, halal certification and Muslim refugees.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Protest against President’s visit set for today.
Michael
Snyder | We are in the midst of the greatest debt bubble the world has ever
seen.
Louder
With Crowder | Wolf “Lowest Score on Celebrity Jeopardy Ever” Blitzer gets
spanked hard.
WORLD NEWS
TPP to Kill Thousands by Expanding Monopoly Power of
Drug Companies
Kit Daniels | Trade deal to expand healthcare costs beyond
Obamacare – worldwide!
Germany Aware of Possible Terrorists Among Refugees –
Interior Minister
Sputnik | Berlin
is aware of the potential for terrorists to be hiding among asylum seekers
streaming into Germany, the country’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said
Friday.
Turning point? EU Commission head says relations with
Russia ‘must be improved,’ US ‘can’t dictate’
RT | “It is not
sexy but that must be the case, we can’t go on like this.”
ISIS training militants from Russia in Afghanistan,
‘US and UK citizens among instructors’
RT | Islamic
State is training militants from Russia in Afghanistan as part of its efforts
to expand into Central Asia, a senior Russian diplomat said.
·
MONEY WATCH
Congress Declares Martial Law as Dollar Rapidly
Collapsing: “Living in Last Days of This Republic.”
Mac Slavo | The
debt ceiling issue is returning to the forefront in American politics, again
threatening a government shutdown.
Stop TTIP Petition: ‘3.26 Million Signatures Against
Undermining Democracy’
Sputnik | “We
are ready to submit 3.26 mln signatures to European Commission.”
Central Banks Selling U.S. Treasuries As Fight Over
Debt Looms
Martin Armstrong
| Central banks have been dumping U.S. Treasury bonds because of the debt
ceiling problem.
Monsanto cuts 12% of its workforce to save money amid
profit drop
RT | Falling
commodity prices have sowed the seeds of destruction for 2,600 employees of
agricultural giant Monsanto.
·
PRISON PLANET
Ranking the Peasants – China Introduces Orwellian
“Citizen Scores”
Michael Krieger
| When massive censorship itself isn’t enough…
Edward Snowden’s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling
Sophie McAdam |
The UK intelligence centre GCHQ has the power to hack phones without their
owners’ knowledge.
South Carolina Police Agrees to $6.5 Million
Settlement to Family of Man Shot in Back
PINAC | Scott
was the man shot in the back in April while running away from a traffic stop
after being pulled over for a broken taillight.
Hillary Compares The NRA To ‘The Iranians And
Communists’ [VIDEO]
Daily Caller |
Hillary Clinton took aim at the National Rifle Association in Iowa on
Wednesday.
COMMENTARY
Study Shows No Correlation Between Violent Crime and
Gun Laws
Joshua Krause |
After every mass shooting, you can expect the gun control crowd to make the
same exact argument that they’ve been trying to make for decades.
The Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved
Tony Cartalucci
| The US Treasury has recently opened an inquiry about the so-called “Islamic
State’s” (ISIS/ISIL) use of large numbers of brand-new Toyota trucks.
Washington Times
| Deranged gunmen target places where no one can shoot back.
The Matt Drudge/Alex Jones interview: the future of
America
Jon Rappoport |
Matt Drudge showed up unannounced on the Alex Jones show and provoked a
stunning conversation about the future of America.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Caught On Tape: Russian Warships Launch 26 Cruise
Missiles At ISIS Targets
Zero Hedge |
Time to do some sea-based target practice on a few Nike-wearing, black
flag-waving jihadists…
In Rare Interview, Matt Drudge Worries About An
NSA-Equipped Hillary Clinton [AUDIO]
Daily Caller |
He decried the present state of journalism and praised his and Jones’
willingness to go against the grain.
Paul Joseph
Watson | The backlash to political correctness.
·
U.S. NEWS
Video: Facebook Reportedly Censoring Anti-TPP Posts
Kit Daniels | Facebook has previously shown support for TPP.
Gun-free Zones Contribute to Mass Slayings, Say Many
Experts
New American |
Gun-control laws don’t deter criminals.
Prison
Planet.com | Newt Gingrich said he would consider taking up the Speaker’s gavel
again if called upon to by House Republicans.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Over 40 Rodent Feeding Studies Show GM Food is
Disastrous to Health
Christina Sarich
| …Why aren’t these foods labeled?
Blue skies on Pluto: NASA New Horizons probe spots
‘gorgeous’ vistas on icy dwarf planet
Mirror |
Scientists shocked after discovering distant Pluto has skies and icecaps
resembling our own.
Researcher: Children’s cancer linked to Fukushima
radiation
AP | “This is 20
times to 50 times what would be normally expected.”
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 10/16/2015 - 13:48
May Even Be More Widespread Than
BEFORE the War STARTED
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 10/15/2015 - 21:28
I love the smell of ____________
in the morning.
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 10/16/2015 - 08:49
Audio - There were some very
interesting insights and we believe high net worth and institutional investors
and indeed all listeners will get useful information with which to protect and
grow their...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 10/16/2015
This
wasn't supposed to happen.
When we were kids, we
used to proudly wear a T-shirt explaining different economic systems using ‘two
cows’ as a metaphor... Times have changed...
Reporter:
"Russia, China, and Iran have warned of catastrophic consequences if
the US attacks Syria."
McCain:
"That doesn't concern me in the slightest. They will
not act. I guarantee you they will not act."
Much
of the political thinking about violence in the United States comes from
unfavorable comparisons between the United States and a series of cherry-picked
countries with lower murder rates and with fewer guns per capita. This is, in
turn, supposed to fill Americans with a sense of shame and illustrate that
the United States should be regarded as some sort of pariah nation because of
its murder rate. However, politically, historically, and demographically,
the US has little in common with these nations.
At
$267, Bitcoin has retraced the entire plunge from China's initial devaluation
entry into the currency wars and the Black Monday dump. It appears, just as we warned, that China's increasing crackdown on its -
until now lax - capital controls has spurred demand for alternate 'currencies'
that remain out of the control (for now) of governments - like gold... and
bitcoin.
"Since
Washington doesn't understand what went wrong in 2007 and 2008, so the Fed, the
White House and Congress are recreating the very same conditions for another
financial bubble. If
it pops, we could replay the same devastating effects as occurred during the
first bubble in 1999 and 2000.”
“Adulterous
women will be stoned; thieves will have their hands chopped off!"
Iranian
forces backed by Russian air power have officially begun the assault on Syria's
largest city. A victory at Aleppo would effectively restore the Assad
government just weeks after Moscow began bombing runs from Latakia. As
Reuters notes, "the assault means the army is now pressing insurgents on
several fronts near Syria's main cities in the west, control of which would
secure President Bashar al-Assad's hold on power even if the east of the
country is still held by Islamic State."
Politicians
have zero respect for our human rights for they only think
about how they are going to raid our wealth to pay for their families and
retirements at our expense. These people are highly dangerous. They
only see government as the solution and do not grasp that we have
rights. Government wants to eliminate all encryption because they are
hunting money. You have a 1000 times greater chance of dying in a car crash
than by a terrorist. They use terrorism as the great excuse to
collect everything we do.
If
you’re the U.S. military and you killed 22 people while intentionally bombing a Doctors Without Border
hospital in Afghanistan,
what do you do next? First, you deny all requests for an
independent investigation. Check. Second, you go to the scene of the war crime
and destroy evidence. Check mate.
With
FIFA executive heads falling faster than Glencore stock (with Blatter and
Platini most recently and today the entire Kuwait FA), it appeared we had
reached some kind of peak debacle.. but no! German newspaper Der Spiegel reports that the German bidding committee created
a slush fund in its effort to garner votes from Asian FIFA officials, land the
rights to host the 2006 World Cup (which they did by 12 votes to 11).
Obama Withdraws Aircraft Carrier Support From Middle
East Just As Russia Unveils Its Syrian Airbase
The
US aircraft carrier, CVN-71, USS Theodore Roosevelt is currently on its way out
of the Persian Gulf, leaving just the LHD-2 Essex Amphibious Warfare ship group
to defend the Persian Gulf and more importantly, leaving the hotly
contested middle east without U.S. carrier-based air support for the first time
in years.
Artist's Impression Of Who (Really) Won The
Democrat's Debate?
The
verdict is in from Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debates: Bernie
Sanders’ message influenced viewers by leaps and bounds over the next most
discussed candidate, Hillary Clinton. Unless, of course, you prefer the
convenient swill of pre-planned, pre-packaged, predictable corporate media
propaganda that unanimously sang Clinton’s praises while completely ignoring
one essential thing - you know, reality.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 10/15/2015
Adan Salazar | Last
ditch effort actually causing stores to lose more money, customers.
Kit Daniels | But
Hillary also demanded we ship guns to ISIS-linked rebels.
Mikael
Thalen | Students also asked to choose between President Obama, Trump, a
Hispanic woman, rabbi and minister.
Kurt Nimmo | CIA has
a long history of assassination.
Breitbart
| “I don’t think it posed a national security problem,” Mr. Obama said Sunday
on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
Daily
Mail | FBI agent says she could be prosecuted just for failing to tell Obama.
Fox
News | Common Core backers are sneaking a social and political agenda into
nationalized curriculum, say critics.
Steve Watson |
Documents show astounding cost to Americans of President’s jaunts.
Steve Watson | Super
hero turns “socialist”.
Washington
Times | “Why is it that we have background checks for guns but not background
checks for ammunition? It makes no sense.”
WORLD NEWS
Demoralized ISIS militants deserting en masse amid
Russian airstrikes – Defense Ministry
RT | Growing
numbers of Islamic State militants in Syria have become discontent with their
command.
Putin: 7,000 people from ex-Soviet republics
estimated to fight alongside ISIS
RT | There are
7,000 foreign terrorists in Syria who went there from Russia and several other
former Soviet nations to join Islamic State.
Muslim Invasion of Europe Turns Deadly: Afghan Killed
in Mob Shootout on Bulgaria-Turkey Border
Gateway Pundit |
“One person was killed in a shooting at the Bulgarian-Turkish border near
Sredets, Burgas.”
Putin is Defeating More than ISIS in Syria
F. William
Engdahl | Russia in the last weeks has completely out-maneuvered the
diabolical, and they are diabolical, agenda of the Obama Administration.
Obama to keep 5,500 US troops in Afghanistan when he
leaves office – officials
RT | President
Obama will keep 5,500 US troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017.
·
MONEY WATCH
Blackmail? Germany Considers Bailout “Concessions” If
Greece Keeps More Refugees
Zero Hedge | The
European Commission will release €2 billion to Greece in the coming days to
help the country manage the current migration crisis.
Swiss Lawmaker Skeptical of EU-US Signing Trade Deal
Sputnik | “They
want always to have it all, and the others to have nothing. They want to rule
the world.”
CNS News | The
federal government took in a record of approximately $3,248,723,000,000 in
taxes in fiscal 2015.
Adam Dick |
Paul, while in the House, introduced legislation that would require an audit of
the Federal Reserve.
·
PRISON PLANET
Russia ‘tried to cut off’ World Wide Web
London Telegraph
| A failed experiment to cut Russia from the World Wide Web stokes fears of
Chinese-style online censorship.
Mother of Benghazi Victim NOT Sick & Tired of
Hillary’s ‘Damn Emails’
Truth Revolt |
“Why can’t I find anything out about my son?”
Black Sites Revealed: UK Journos Uncover Chilling
Details of CIA Prisons
Sputnik | The
investigation reveals the real names of detainees for the first time.
TX Rancher Fighting the Feds Over Land Grab
Truth Revolt |
They want half!
COMMENTARY
Did Obama Just Set Off A Global Nuclear Arms Race By
Signing The Iran Deal?
Zero
Hedge | On one level, it’s easy to forgive those who fall victim to unintended
consequences when their actions were clearly meant to promote the greater good.
Leaks from a Drone Program Whistleblower – Highlights
from the Intercept’s Blockbuster Investigation
Michael
Krieger | The U.S. empire is completely and totally out of control.
“Scientific” Findings of Obama’s Mind-control Social
and Behavioral Science Team
New
American | Last month, the White House’s Social and Behavioral Science Team
published its first annual report on the effectiveness of behavioral science to
achieve policy change.
False East/West Paradigm And The End Of Freedom
Brandon
Smith | People are desperate for leaders and heroes.
·
MULTIMEDIA
The #1 LIE You’ve Been Told All Your Life
Paul
Joseph Watson | You are not worthless & you do have power.
Video: Facebook Reportedly Censoring Anti-TPP Posts
Kit Daniels |
Facebook has previously shown support for TPP.
Caught On Tape: Russian Warships Launch 26 Cruise
Missiles At ISIS Targets
Zero
Hedge | Time to do some sea-based target practice on a few Nike-wearing, black
flag-waving jihadists…
·
U.S. NEWS
Hillary Clinton: Nationwide Gun Ban, Repeal of Second
Amendment “Worth Considering”
Kit Daniels | But
Hillary also demanded we ship guns to ISIS-linked rebels.
VA Governor Just Signed Unilateral Executive Order
for More Gun Control
The
Daily Sheeple | How many gun laws are there these days?
Carson and Trump Threaten to Skip Next Debate
Truth
Revolt | Problems with the length and format causing dissension in the ranks.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
2 Recent Developments Bring Fresh Concerns Over GM
Crops
Christina
Sarich | Says New England Journal of Medicine.
Children ‘becoming hunchbacks’ due to addiction to
smart phones
London
Telegraph | Chiropractor claims that young people who spend hours hunched over
electronic devices are seriously damaging their necks and spines, as witnessed
by the rise in cases of ‘text neck’
EU Committee Wants to Demolish Existing Law Allowing
Member States to Ban GMOs
Christina
Sarich | The recommendation was approved by 47 votes to 3, with 5 abstentions.
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 10/23/2015 - 14:12
"Some In the Turkish
Government ... Believed They Could Get Assad’s Nuts In a Vice By Dabbling With
a Sarin Attack Inside Syria"
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 10/23/2015 - 11:12
The Man Who Drinks His Own Kool
Aid...
Global
Wealth Continues to Shift, 25% of the Western World is Broke
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 10/23/2015 - 11:01
Consumer debt culture has
completely and utterly taken over the West.
When someone is right over and over and
over, eventually people start paying attention. Personally, I have
learned to tune out the “forecasts” of most “economic experts” out there.
As an attorney, I was trained to be skeptical, and I have found that most
forecasts about what the financial markets are going to do are not worth the
paper they are printed on. However, once in a while something comes along
that really gets my attention. Over the past few days, I have seen a
number of references to the remarkable forecasts of Bo Polny of Gold 2020
Forecast. In recent
months he has correctly predicted that U.S. stocks would begin to drop in July,
that there would be a huge plunge in August and that that the month of
September would be rather uneventful. Now he is saying that he expects
“November to be a complete meltdown on the U.S. and world markets”. Just
because he has been right in the past does not guarantee that he will be
correct this time around, but lots of people (like me) are starting to pay
attention.
So how does Polny come to his
conclusions? Well, he uses something that most of us hated when we were
in school – mathematics. The following comes from the
Daily Sheeple…
Cyclical
analyst Bo Polny of Gold
2020 Forecast utilizes
advanced mathematical formulas and years of cyclical analysis to make forecasts
about global stock markets. In late July he noted that U.S. stock markets had
hit a top and that investors should prepare for a rapid down-move in the Dow
Jones and other indexes. As we now know, that prediction has come to pass.
But
while many on Wall Street panicked, Polny noted that the crash was not yet
imminent and that the month of September would be relatively calm, with no
major moves up or down forecast to occur. Once again, his analysis proved
accurate.
I
want to stress that I do not know if he will be right this time around.
When trying to forecast the future of the markets, there are thousands of
moving pieces, and many of them cannot be accounted for easily. But
without a doubt the markets are perfectly primed for a major crash, so it would
not surprise me in the least if he did turn out to be correct.
And
as I mentioned above, Polny does have a solid track record of accuracy…
*****
Bo’s
model appears to have an impressive track record of accurate predictions,
including the following:
*****
If
Polny is right again this time, next month will be the most significant month
for global financial markets since the crash of 2008. Here is more from
Z3News…
*****
In
an interview with Future
Money Trends on October
17 2015, he made the following comments:
“Now
we are expecting the next leg down on the U.S. and world markets on the dollar.
What we are forecasting now is the lows of August are all going to break. They
could break in the month of October yet, but we believe they will break no
problem into November. We expect November to be a complete meltdown on
the U.S. and world markets.”
He
also posted the following
statements on his website:
“If
you thought the crash of August 2015 was bad; November 2015 is expected
to usher in the START of the US Stock, Dollar, and Treasuries Market
MELTDOWN!!!”
“The end of this year ushers in the start of an Economic Meltdown that
is to last years! The U.S. Dollar, Treasuries, and Stock Market bomb is set to
blow in November 2015!”
*****
Polny
is projecting that stocks could ultimately fall by as much as 70 percent by the
time it is all said and done. You can watch a full interview where he
discusses these things right here.
Meanwhile,
early signs of the kind of trouble that Polny is warning about continue to pop
up.
On
Wednesday, the stock price of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in
the world absolutely crashed after a report came out claiming that it was in
danger of suffering the same fate as Enron…
Hedge
fund darling Valeant Pharmaceuticals is getting hammered after
short-selling-firm Citron Research published a report comparing it to Enron.
The
Canadian drug company’s stock was last down about 25% at around $110. It had
fallen as low as $88.50.
The
stock has been popular among hedge funds.
It
ranked No. 10 on Goldman Sachs’ stocks that “matter most” to hedge funds list
for the second quarter. According to Goldman, 32 funds had the stock as one of
their top-10 stock holdings.
And
this week we learned that construction machinery giant Caterpillar has now
reported global sales declines for 34 consecutive months. The following
comes from Zero
Hedge…
Most
cats bounce at least once when they die, but not this one: after CAT posted its
first annual drop in retail sales in December of 2012, it has failed to
see a rise in retail sales even once.
In
fact, since then Caterpillar has seen 34 consecutive months of
declining global sales, and 11 consecutive months of double digit declines!
Those
that assume that everything is going to be “just fine” now that we have gotten
past September are going to be dead wrong.
Whether
it happens in November or not, the kind of chaotic financial collapse that Bo
Polny is warning about will happen.
And
of course factors that he is unable to account for such as war, terror attacks
and major natural disasters could greatly accelerate things.
Once
again, I don’t know if everything that Bo Polny is saying is going to turn out
to be 100% accurate or not. I am just reporting what he is saying.
But it is true that what he is forecasting fits very well with what I have been
warning my readers about for months and months.
A
day of reckoning is most definitely coming for global financial markets.
Will
it happen in November?
Stay
tuned…
How The U.S. Government "Covers Up" 72%
Inflation Before Your Very Eyes
Dear
Bureau of Labor Statistics: please pay careful attention to this case study of
how your CPI "inflation" gauge, hedonically, seasonally-adjusted or
otherwise, is completely inaccurate, and how what you record as 0%
inflation is really 72%!
“I
think he's now mounting a serious campaign,” a South Carolina Republican said.
“His stump speech had matured and even though the novelty of his
candidacy is wearing off, his straight talk is appealing to people who are so
sick of being lied to by the political class.”
How To Stamp Out Cultural Marxism In A Single
Generation
The
insane lie that cultural Marxists seem to have conned themselves and others
into believing is that their “activism” is somehow anti-establishment.
In fact, social justice is constantly coddled and supported by the
establishment. From politicians to judges to media pundits to the
blogosphere, the overwhelming majority of people in positions of traditional
power (even in supposedly conservative circles) have been more than happy to
become the enforcers of the social justice warrior agenda, an agenda
representing a minuscule portion of the public. There is no establishment for
the PC army to fight; the establishment bias works vastly more in favor of
their ideology than any other. Cultural Marxists ARE the
establishment.
Japan's PM Demands "Bold Proposals" For
Raising The Country's Birth-Rate
With
a birth-rate at record-lows and death-rate at
record-highs, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe unveiled a new set of 'arrows' a few weeks
ago to 'fix' the demographic
disaster the nation faces. At the time, Abe was long of "bold
proposals" but short of actual policies to encourage the nation to make
more babies (despite dwindling interest in sex).
As Bloomberg reports, here are a number of options that Abe's new minister
for demographics Kato could introduce to slow the downward spiral of
population...
Superyacht Getaway Subs And Luxury Bomb Shelters: The
Elite Are The Most Paranoid Preppers Of All
When
it comes to “prepping”, many among the elite take things to an entirely
different level.
"The International Buyer Has Been Absent"
Unsold Hamptons' Mansions Pile-Up As Bubble Bursts
Just
a few months ago, Hamptons 2nd home-hunting was an elitist's dream. Home sales
were surging (highest sicne 2007's peak) even as home prices soared (in the
face of bad weather and economic angst). But that has all changed. As Bloomberg reports, sales of luxury homes in the are have
tumbled 16% YoY in Q3, prices have plunged 18% YoY, and inventories are surging
(up 34%). The reason is simple, as one realtor notes, "the
international buyer has been absent."
Hillary Clinton Pretends to Be Progressive: She's
Actually Conservative
Reality is only what a politician does in office, not about
mere rhetoric. Even
when rhetoric is great, such as it was with Abraham Lincoln, it has relied upon
honesty in order to be able to be so. Lying rhetoric tends simply to
be forgotten by historians. It shouldn’t be, even if this requires
us to remember some very bad rhetoric. Lies can be very important, no matter
how bad the rhetoric might happen to be. History should deal with
what’s important. So should voters.
Meet "Stunningly Catastrophic" Patricia,
The World's Strongest Storm Ever Is About To Hit Mexico
"Stunning, historic, mind-boggling, and catastrophic" is how Weather Underground's Jeff Masters sums up Hurricane Patricia, which intensified to an
incredible-strength Category 5 storm with 200 mph winds overnight as it
approaches the Mexican coast. As The NY Times reports, The World Meteorological
Organization warned that the hurricane’s strength was comparable to
that of Typhoon Haiyan, which caused devastation in the Philippines in 2013,
and so Mexico has declared a state of emergency for Puerto Vallarta (with officials
warning that storm surges could cause waves of up to 39 feet) as she is
forecast to hit the coast between 6 and 10pm ET. Hurricane Patricia is
"uncharted territory."
We Now Have An ETA When The Biggest Bond Bubble In
The World Will Burst
"On
the current trajectory, we doubt the market can stay stable beyond a
few quarters, especially if some SOE and/or LGFV bonds indeed
default."
- Bank of America
Reflections On Venezuela's "Economic
Miracle"
What
this economic crisis does highlight is that short-term success should
never be taken as proof of a long-term solution. And this is
particularly true when it comes to quasi-socialist and extreme populist
governments. In the long-run, countries that follow these policies have a
consistent track record, which is basically the same as what we’re witnessing
now in Venezuela.
Weekend Reading: Compelling Intellection
“October is a
particularly dangerous month to speculate in stocks. Followed by July, January, September, April,
November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.” – Mark Twain
Why The Chinese Rate Cut Will Do Nothing To Slow
China's Economic Decline
Today
the Peoples Bank of China cut the benchmark interest rate by .25% and lowered
banks’ reserve requirements by .5%. The measure is supposed to spur growth and
make life a little easier on debt-ridden Chinese companies. In the
immediate term it may give a slight boost to the economy, but there is no
chance this measure, or others like it, will keep the Chinese economy from
slowing much further in the years ahead. Let us explain.
Three Chinese Warships To Dock In Florida Port
At
a time when the US and China are practically at arms over the artificial
islands in the South China Seas, with the US sending warships on location to
patrol (despite White House Spokesman Josh Earnest saying on Oct. 8 that U.S. warships "should not provoke significant
reaction from the Chinese") and a stunned China responding "What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This", the last thing we thought we would see right
now was three Chinese warships about to port in Florida's Naval Station
Mayport. And yet according to USNI that is precisely what is about to happen.
Prison
Planet.com | Alex Jones storms Google headquarters.
Adan Salazar |
Florida Rep. urges Congress to address claim that MMR vaccine at an early age
leads to higher incidence of autism.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Big Brother gets nervous when little brother watches back.
Steve Watson | “He’s
the worst nominee we could possibly think of.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Billionaires splash out on hi-tech panic rooms, blast proof
windows, hidden spy cameras.
Truth
Revolt | Emails supporters during testimony.
Truth
Revolt | Called Benghazi an attack by terror group.
Gateway
Pundit | 1,200 migrants with beards entered Stockholm, Sweden in a single day
claiming to be “refugee children.”
Gateway
Pundit | During the march the radical activists screamed violent and homophobic
slurs at cops as police escorted them for their safety.
WORLD NEWS
WHO Set to Classify Red Meat, Processed Meats as
“Probably Carcinogenic”
Julie Fidler |
Would be a huge blow to the meat industry.
Sex, spies & H-bombs: MI5 documents made public
RT | Four
hundred Foreign Office, Cabinet Office and MI5 files have been made public for
the first time in 50 years.
Bus, truck collision that killed over 40 near
Bordeaux is France’s worst accident in 30yrs (PHOTOS)
RT | More than
40 people have been killed and eight injured after a bus and truck collided in
Gironde province in southwestern France, say local authorities.
Again on the Table: Washington Weighs Pros and Cons
of Syria No-Fly Zone
Sputnik | The
Obama administration is reportedly embroiled in a new debate on the potential
creation of no-fly zones and ‘safe havens’ in Syria.
Real Clear
Politics | Syndicated
columnist Charles Krauthammer reacts to Hillary Clinton’s handling of the House
Select Committee on Benghazi hearing.
·
MONEY WATCH
Bernanke Says Economy Needs To Crash Periodically So
We Can Be Sure We’re Pushing It Hard Enough
Zero Hedge |
Bernanke is essentially saying that low interest rates had nothing to do with
the housing bubble.
More Bad News For Millennials, Who Face “Great
Depression” In Retirement
Zero Hedge |
Americans in their 20s and 30s are facing a retirement crisis that could plunge
them back into the Great Depression.
Goldman Is Getting Nervous: “There Are Significant
Risks To Our Forecast For Gold Price Weakness”
Zero Hedge |
When it comes to assets, economists, Wall Street, and central planners love
them all… except one: gold.
Saudi Arabia Will Be Broke In 5 Years, IMF Predicts
Zero Hedge | As
crazy as it sounds, the Saudis are going broke.
·
PRISON PLANET
Obama Defends #blacklivesmatter Movement to Police
Truth Revolt |
They aren’t making this up.
Bradley University combats ‘fatism’ by promoting ‘fat
acceptance’
Campus Reform |
One university wants its students to know there’s nothing wrong with being fat.
Tommy Robinson Banded From Speaking About Free Speech
At University
Breitbart |
“Things are getting difficult on our side”
Obama admin urges schools to ‘publicly demonstrate
support’ for illegals
EAG News | The
U.S. Department of Education issued the document “Resource Guide: Supporting
Undocumented Youth” to public schools this week.
COMMENTARY
How Mass Immigration Could Destroy the Second
Amendment
Joshua Krause |
The demographic trends of America are working against gun rights.
Abortionist Caught With Aborted Baby Remains in Car —
Media Ignore Story
New American |
Another abortionist caught in a scandal; another Big Media coverup.
Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner Named ‘Woman of the Year.’ Still
Has a Penis…
Louder With
Crowder | Retroactively, we need to apply all of Bruce’s accomplishments to
Caitlyn’s, while ignoring the penis.
Gateway Pundit |
Before the body of Ambassador Chris Stevens was recovered the Obama
administration was scheming to deceive the American public about the Benghazi
attacks.
·
MULTIMEDIA
HILARIOUS! South Park DESTROYS Body Shaming and
Liberal ‘Safe Spaces’…
Louder With
Crowder | There’s a huge rejection of political correctness and speech-policing
coming from millennial.
Paul Joseph
Watson | MTV ‘jokes’ about calling CPS on parents who let their kids wear
“offensive” costumes.
VIDEO: #BlackLivesMatter Mob Storms LA Mayor at Town
Hall – SURROUND and JUMP ON His Car
Gateway Pundit |
The activists forced Mayor Garcetti to flee the town hall.
·
U.S. NEWS
Poll: NRA more popular than Barack Obama and Hillary
Clinton
Fox News | A new
poll shows The National Rifle Association is more popular than the Democratic
party’s two most prominent members.
Gateway Pundit |
Michael Ingmire, uncle of Sean Smith who was killed in Benghazi, went on
Hannity Thursday night after the marathon Benghazi hearing with Hillary
Clinton.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Hurricane Patricia ‘strongest storm on record’ as it
barrels toward Mexico
London Telegraph
| The “potentially catastrophic” category five storm has sustained winds of
200mph, making it the strongest storm ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere.
Will Obama Name This Big Pharma Insider as Head of
the FDA?
Christina Sarich
| ‘Too close for comfort’ to the drug industry.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 10/30/2015 - 09:01
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 10/30/2015 - 05:48
Where
is the “hyperinflation”?
Posted by : Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 10/30/2015 - 10:40
The
US Federal Reserve is obsessed with market reactions to its policies. Because
of this, anytime the Fed plans to announce a major change in policy, it preps
the markets via numerous leaks and...
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
“Allahu Akbar”...
Just
when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Obamacare, it gets worse.
The Chinese are known for being strategic thinkers. This goes back thousands of years to the days of Sun
Tzu. Leaders don’t act haphazardly, they make long-term plans and execute in a
disciplined manner. But it’s becoming pretty obvious now that the
Chinese government is in reaction mode. Their system is based on a
bunch of unelected policymakers sitting in a room and making decisions to
control one of the largest economies in the world. But now it’s all extremely
reactive. The grand plans and strategy have gone out the window, and
instead they’re taking it day-by-day, making it up as they go along. To
us, this is a sign of how bad things really are.
First,
Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the
financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander
will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks,
Íslandsbanki.
"Easy policy has passed the point of diminishing return and keeping
it longer would only increase moral hazard and distort financial markets,"
exclaims the
Institute of International Finance, warning that the gap between the value
of Americans' holdings of stocks, bonds and other financial assets and the
trend growth rate of the economy is still large and not far off the level that
prevailed in 2007 before the financial crisis. "The Fed should start to
normalize policy as soon as possible," removing the excess as the
'gap' "typically ends up being narrowed by a correction in the stock
market."
“It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.”
Trick...
No Treat!
In
a "world of disappointments", where beta is king and where alpha has
become a joke (or, now that equity is a risk-free asset and debt is risky, is
outright punished) where growth no longer exists, drowning under the weight of
$200 trillion in debt, and where value strategies have been all but forgotten
replaced instead with "stories" about companies that have no cash
flows but just might be "the next big thing" (one day), what should
one to do? Why, engage in the most idiotic of strategies: chase
momentum.
"We
expect the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's general government fiscal deficit will
increase to 16% of GDP in 2015, from 1.5% in 2014, primarily reflecting the
sharp drop in oil prices. Hydrocarbons account for about 80% of Saudi Arabia's
fiscal revenues."
Americans are increasingly likely to respond positively to a placebo in
a drug trial – more so than other nationalities. That’s the upshot of a recently published academic
paper that looked at 84 clinical trials for pain medication done between 1990
and 2013. These findings, while bad for drug researchers, does shed some light
on our favorite topic: behavioral finance. Trust and
confidence makes placebos work, and those attributes also play a role in the
societal effectiveness of central banks. That’s what makes the Fed’s
eventual move to higher rates so difficult; even if zero interest rates are
more placebo than actual medicine, markets believe they work to support asset
prices.
While
the Valeant soap opera has had constant, heart-pounding drama for weeks and
following yesterday's report that it allegedly fabricated
prescriptions, even an element of career-ending (and prison-time launching)
criminality, so far one thing had been missing: an antagonist tied to Goldman
Sachs. We are delighted to reveal the "missing link", one which ties
everything together. Its name is Howard
Schiller.
According
to multiple reports, the Obama administration is set to send dozens of
"military advisers" to Syria. They will serve in an "advise and
assist" role in the effort to rout ISIS. Cutting through the
obfuscation: Washington needs to figure out how to salvage its strategy in
Syria - and fast. Make no mistake, this will be a disaster...
To believe this isn’t a bubble is to believe that all of the hot momo money from insti’s,
high/biotech, flipper, flappers, fraudsters, and foreigners buying houses is
fundamental and here to stay, which is exactly what everybody thought in 2006.
Or, to believe that interest rates will keep falling 1% per year going forward,
which would lend an element of support to prices.
Adan Salazar | Man
faced maximum of 126.5 years if he had been found guilty on all charges.
Kit Daniels | School
tells Hispanic student his costume is offensive to Hispanics.
Steve Watson | “He’s
broken all other promises, why would this be any different?”
Kurt Nimmo | Fear of
minority political parties enforcing Sharia law.
Claire Bernish | Because
Icelanders took control of their government, they effectively own the banks.
Washington Examiner | Federal gun
convictions have plummeted under Obama.
Paul Joseph Watson | Culprits
sodomized girl to the point of her wanting to commit suicide.
Kurt Nimmo |
Globalists want to undermine Russia’s thriving energy sector
Paul Joseph Watson | Critics claim
Butler’s kids show promotes sexual themes.
Campus Reform | “Are you Hitler?
Do you have anything to do with Hitler?”
·
WORLD NEWS
MI5
Chief Claims ISIS Is About to Attack Britain
The Daily Sheeple | It is being reported that
Britain’s top spy chief has warned ISIS is planning mass casualty attacks in
the UK.
China Turns
Tables on US-Backed Agitators
Ulson Gunnar | US impotence in the South China Sea
isn’t the only battle it is losing against China.
Refugees
refusing to leave bus in ‘too cold’ Swedish village to be removed
Agence France-Presse | Fourteen people have stayed on
the bus since it reached Limedsforsen three days ago, saying the village is too
cold and isolated.
AWOL:
Thousands More Muslim “Migrants” “Mysteriously Disappear”
Pamela Geller | Where are they going? Who is
sheltering these illegals, many with ties to ISIS?
This
Is What The “Invasion Of Europe” Looks Like
Zero Hedge | On Monday, we brought you a series of
still shots along with a video which depicted the scope of Europe’s migrant
crisis via drone footage.
·
MONEY WATCH
Budget
buster: Senate passes debt and spending hike in dead of night
The Washington Times | 144-page bill amounts to $558
million in new spending per page.
Rand Paul’s
Filibuster Runs Short
Daily Caller | Paul’s maneuver was short-lived.
Retirement
Assets of 100 CEOs Equals Combined Retirement Assets of 41% of American
Families
Michael Krieger | “The CEOs’ extraordinary nest eggs
are not the result of extraordinary performance.”
The
Federal Reserve: Illusion Of Understanding, Illusion Of Control
Charles Hugh-Smith | We live in an era of illusion:
the illusion of understanding, and the illusion of control.
·
PRISON PLANET
Police
‘to be given powers to view everyone’s entire internet history’
London Independent | The power is reportedly to be
included in the Government’s new surveillance bill which will be published next
week.
Quentin
Tarantino Faces Mounting Pressure as Police Boycotts Spread
The Wrap | “This can spread to other unions, like
firemen and teachers too,” expert tells TheWrap.
China’s
One-Child Policy Becomes Two-Child Policy
New American | China’s one-child policy is officially
coming to an end, the Communist Party of China announced Thursday.
Ben
Carson: ‘PC Culture’ Is ‘Destroying This Nation’
CNS News | GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson says
the culture of political correctness is used to “frighten people and get people
to shut up” and it’s “destroying this nation.”
·
COMMENTARY
Andrew P. Napolitano | Hillary Clinton lied over her
role in ousting Libya’s Gadhafi.
Michael
Tsarion on “The Prisoner” Symbolism
Prison Planet.com | Michael Tsarion gives an
excellent analysis of the symbolism in the 1960s TV show “The Prisoner.”
Michael Krieger | Fortunately for me, I don’t have
cable so watching last night’s Republican debate was not even an option.
Syrian
Refugees Still Beat Their Wives. Liberal Journalist Blames Germany
Louder With Crowder | Most of the “refugees” are
military-aged, able-bodied men, not poor women and children seeking asylum.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Spring
Valley: Latest “Racist, Police Brutality” Story Changes with New Video…
Louder With Crowder | The social media lynch mob can’t
wait 30 seconds before any facts come in.
Michael
Savage: Black Lives Matter Are Obama’s Shock Troops, Like Hitler’s Brown Shirts
(Video)
Gateway Pundit | The conservative radio host said the
latest Iowa polls with Carson leading are due to “white guilt.”
Why Are Men
Frightened of Marriage?
Paul Joseph Watson | “Women aren’t women anymore.”
·
U.S. NEWS
School
Bans Hispanic Student’s “Racist” Mariachi Halloween Costume
Kit Daniels | School tells Hispanic
student his costume is offensive to Hispanics.
Rand:
Congress Gets Along Too Much, ‘Has Become a Shell of Itself,’ Our Debt Has Become
‘Disruptive’
Breitbart | “We’ve become a rubber stamp, and we give
everybody what they want.”
NBC
Host Rips Coworker For Moderating ‘Train Wreck’ Debate [VIDEO]
Daily Caller | “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough
blasted John Harwood for his “train wreck” performance moderating Wednesday’s
CNBC debate.
·
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Monsanto
Reports the Closing of 3 Research and Development Centers
Christina Sarich | After announcing a 2,600 job cut.
5 Tips
for Falling Asleep and Staying Asleep
Julie Fidler | #3 is especially effective.
WiFi
Can See You Through Walls: “Even Within Your House, Where You Go Can Reveal a
Lot”
Mac Slavo | The implications for privacy under a big
brother police state are obvious.
SHELL-SHOCKED: CNBC STAFF
LONG FLIGHT HOME...
TRUMP BACKS NBC SUSPENSION...
DEBATE FALLOUT: REPUBLICANS DROP NBC
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Posted by : hedgeless_horseman
Post date: 11/06/2015 - 12:16
Sick
from being overweight, tired of bombing brown people to steal their oil, and
want something you can do about it, today, that will also improve your personal
financial situation?
If This Doesn't Convince You to Exit the Global
Banking System, Then Absolutely Nothing Will
Posted by: smartknowledgeu
Post date: 11/06/2015 - 00:43
While
most of us would realize that something sinister is afoot right now in the
global banking system if we merely diverted our attention away from the Sunday
football game or the Game of Thrones...
Russia and China: Victory-by-default
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 11/06/2015 - 05:58
History
tells us that empires are rarely defeated, by any external rival.
Posted by : Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 11/01/2015 - 11:25
From
best bank to totally broke and freezing clients’ accounts in less than one
year. Could this happen in the US?
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 10/31/2015 - 20:05
Oh
the Horror!
Halloween Surprise: How Will The US Banks Plug Their
$120B Capital Shortfall? Trick Or Treat?
Posted by: Secular Investor
Post date: 10/31/2015 - 17:58
These
banks, 6 years after the global financial crisis, are still facing shortcomings
on their balance sheets... How scary is that?!
Activists
Seek To Impoverish Thai Villagers To Save Monkeys From "Slavery"
While
the Thai/Malay practice of using monkeys to harvest coconuts dates back
hundreds of years, landing in the crosshairs of activist vegans and SJWs
(Social Justice Warriors) is a new phenomenon. In a perfect world, Thai
farmers would have machines and monkeys would have unspoiled wilderness.
But, for the world we have — one in which habitat destruction wipes out entire
populations — coconuts and farmers in need may be all that keeps the
macaques in the trees and off the dinner tables.
China's
Navy Trolls US Destroyer: "Hope To See You Again"
"Hey, we're not going to be with you anymore. Wish you a pleasant
voyage. Hope to see
you again'."
The
Most Surprising Thing About Today's Jobs Report
-
Workers aged 55 and over: +378,000
- Workers aged 25-54: -35,000
Weekend
Reading: Copious Contemplations
"After
many years of ultra-accommodative polices, it is clear that ongoing
interventions have failed to boost actual economic growth and only exacerbated
the destruction of the middle class. It is clear that employment growth has only been a
function of population growth, as witnessed by the ongoing decline in the
labor-force participation rates and the surging levels of individuals that have
fallen out of the work-force. While we will continue to operate to foster maximum
employment and price stability, the reality is that the economy overall remains
far to weak to sustain higher interest rates or any tightening of monetary
policy."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/06/2015 - 16:06
Wealthiest
Americans Ominously Remind Nation They Could Easily Drop Another $10 Billion On
Election
“We want to make it completely clear to voters that there’s absolutely no reason - none at all - why
we couldn’t shell
out another $10 billion between now and next November,”
Is This
The Green Light To Hike Rates?
We
will let readers decide if the 1.3% increase in total employment, less than
half what it was last October, is the answer.
World's
Largest Steelmaker Reports Huge Loss, Suspends Dividend, Blames China
"This
is essentially the result of very low export prices out of China that are
impacting prices worldwide. It is obvious that we are operating in a
very challenging market."
Consumer
Credit Has Biggest Jump In History, Led By Government-Funded Car And Student
Loans
If
there was any confusion where all those soaring new car sales are coming from,
we now have the definitive answer: moments ago the latest consumer credit data
for September was released, and surging by $28.9 billion - a 4.9% jump Y/Y -
not only did this smash expectations of a "modest" $18 billion rise,
this was the biggest monthly increase ever!
Mistress
Of Deception - More From The Hillary Chronicles
The self-inflicted wounds of Hillary Rodham Clinton just keep
manifesting themselves. She
has two serious issues that have arisen in the past week; one is political and
the other is legal. Both have deception at their root.
Tech
Bubble Unravelling: Square To Go Public At 30% Discount To Latest Private Round
One
tech company realized today just how big the second "private" tech
bubble, one
we profiled first in January of 2014, truly is. That company is Jack
Dorsey's Square, which earlier today filed a prospectus in which it said that
the "initial public offering price per share of Class A common stock will
be between $11.00 and $13.00." Assuming a mid-point price of $12 and
applying the 322.9 million shares outstanding after the offering, it means a
valuation of $3.9 billion. The problem is that in its last private
fundraising round, Square was valued at about $6 billion according
to ReCode.
2015 has been an 'odd' year. Typically this time of year sees demand picking up amid holiday
inventory stacking and measures of global trade such as The Baltic Dry Index
rise from mid-summer to Thanksgiving. This year, it has not. In fact, it has
plummeted as the world's economic engines slow and reality under the covers of
global stock markets suggests a massive deflationary wave (following a massive
mal-investment boom). At a level of 631, this is the lowest cost for
Baltic Dry Freight Index for this time of year in history.. and within
a small drop of an all-time historical low.
Can The
Market Pull It Off Again?
Presented
with no comment, not even one.
If
you think you're having a bad day (amid the post-payrolls turmoil), consider
"America's richest woman" Christy Walton - the widow of Wal-Mart's
John Walton. According
to newly-released documents, her $32 billion wealth is actually
around $5bn (as the assumption that John passed on the bulk of his
wealth to his wife was wrong) plunging from 18th richest person in the world to
just 280th. However, today biggest winner is her son, Lukas Walton who
vaults to 103rd richest in the world as his fortune is revealed at $11 billion.
Now those are first-world problems...
Kurt Nimmo | Move
comes ahead of any official conclusion on crash.
Paul Joseph Watson | Europe
continues to important ‘tolerant’ Muslim culture.
Steve Watson | Officer
cleared of murder charge; Routine traffic stop turned deadly.
Steve Watson | ‘They
have anti-tank weapons and missiles that we gave them’.
Washington Free Beacon | Dem
presidential candidate and top aides signed NDAs warning against ‘negligent
handling’ of classified information.
Daily Mail | Girl, 18, ‘deeply
distressed’ after being ‘subjected to five-hour ordeal’ at care home in Kent.
Truth Revolt | Meanwhile, U.S.
professors are shredding the actual Constitution.
Kurt Nimmo |
Republicans want intervention in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
Paul Joseph Watson |
“Anti-capitalist” protesters use iPhones and Twitter to voice their grievances.
Zero Hedge | No, not Donald Trump.
11-7-15: t_rump wants to
make america great again … does Saturday Night Live … wow … that’s worth a
laugh or two … yes, t_rump’s effectively saying the joke’s on you!
·
WORLD NEWS
Russia
suspends Egypt flights as Western intelligence backs bomb theory
Reuters | British and U.S. spies intercepted “chatter” from
suspected militants.
London Independent | 217 passengers and seven members of
crew were killed in the crash in the Sinai Peninsula.
VIDEO:
Hotel Owner Cancels Reservations to House Migrants, 31 Lose Their Jobs
Pamela Geller | Taxpayers fired to make way for Muslim
migrants who live off …. the taxpayer.
Prepping
for “Hybrid War” with Russia: NATO Holds Biggest Military Exercise in 13 Years
Daily Sheeple | The biggest military exercise NATO has held
in 13 years, “Trident Juncture” will end tomorrow.
ISLAMISTS
SMASH CROSSES in Spanish Church – Moroccan Screaming “Allahu Akbar” Arrested
Gateway Pundit | The Church of our Lady of Carmen in the
Spanish town of Rincon de la Victoria, Andalucia was vandalized this week.
·
MONEY WATCH
CNS News | Lowest point in 38 years.
Failed
Syrian rebel training program cost US taxpayers $2 million per fighter – report
RT | The Pentagon claims the actual cost was $30,000 per
trainee.
Bank
Of Ireland Bans “Small” Cash Withdrawals At Branches
Zero Hedge | Bank of Ireland has banned branch withdrawals
of less than €700.
A
Warning to Indian Citizens – Your Government Wants Your Gold
Michael Krieger | Government is merely doing what government
does best: Citizen Theft.
·
PRISON PLANET
Obama
pushes military frustration to highest level in decades
The Washington Times | President’s overly cautious,
centralized style irking Pentagon.
Hillary
Clinton Meets With Mike Brown’s Mother – Promises Changes in US Policing
Gateway Pundit | Hillary Clinton met this week with Michael
Brown’s mother Leslie McSpadden in Chicago.
This
City Will Fine You Literally Anything: “Including Mismatching Drapes and Front
Yard Grilling”
Mac Slavo | Petty laws are the building blocks of tyranny.
Susquehanna
U drops Crusaders nickname to ensure school is ‘welcoming and inclusive’
Campus Reform | The “Crusader” is out and inclusiveness and
sensitivity is in at Susquehanna University.
COMMENTARY
US
in Syria: Stopping the “Arsonist-Firefighter”
Tony Cartalucci | Imagine an arsonist lighting a building
ablaze, then turning around, changing into a firefighter’s uniform, and running
back toward it.
Secret
TPP Text Released: GOP to Push Obama’s Dangerous Trade Deal
New American | Although billed as a “trade
agreement,” the treaty calls for economic and political “integration” among the
TPP members.
Chris
Pratt Don’t Care, Openly Supports #BlueLivesMatter
Louder With Crowder | Pratt was moved by this story he saw
on Facebook about two police officers helping a driver who couldn’t afford car
seats.
TPP
Text Finally Released … It’s Even Worse Than We Thought
Washington’s Blog | The full text of the TPP was finally
released today after years of secrecy … and it’s even worse than we thought.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Political
Strategist: Hillary Clinton is “An Abuser of Women & Girls”
Paul Joseph Watson | Roger Stone says Hillary hired private
investigators to terrorize Bill Clinton’s rape victims.
Trump:
“Obama Can’t Handle The Country; He’s Doing A Terrible Job” { trump, like idol hitler, would have done much better … }
Steve Watson | Hillary
will be nominee, “unless she gets indicted.”
Shock
Figures Show Women Now Cheat as Much as Men
Paul Joseph Watson | The truth about how culture is teaching
girls to be sluts.
·
U.S. NEWS
Trump
blasts expletive-laden Hispanic advocacy video
Politico | Young kids speaking that way “is a disgrace.” {
Come on … trump’s a disgrace }
Eighth
graders write about boozing, herpes and one-night stands in ‘reading’
assignment
EAG News | “I don’t think it’s age appropriate. I don’t
think it’s appropriate at all.”
Sheriff
Clarke: Obama ‘Delusional’ to Believe He has Improved Race Relations in America
Truth Revolt | Rev. Jeremiah Right. Case closed.
·
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Washington Post | Congressman doubles down on NOAA to
release deliberations on climate study.
Michael Krieger | The corruption has also poisoned CDC’s
immunization safety office.
Spontaneous
human combustion: Woman bursts into flames on park bench in Germany
SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
11/01/2015 - 10:08
Homicide
Rates Cut In Half Over Past 20 Years (While New Gun Ownership Soared)
The American public believes that
homicides and gun deaths are increasing in the United States. Those who
think violence is getting worse should probably watch less television
and look around them instead. The murder rate in the US is
currently similar to 1950s levels. Meanwhile, the number of privately owned
guns (and gun commerce in general) in the United States has increased substantially
in recent decades.
US,
Japanese Stocks Extend Losses; Turkish Lira Soars Most In 7 Years As Gold
Mini-Flash-Crashes
Despite the world seemingly
exuberant at Turkey's fraud election, sparking the biggest rally
in the Lira since Nov 2008 (confirming
once again that "markets love totalitarian governments,")
it appears the centrally-planned machinations of the US equity markets are not
living up to their promises of wealth for all (and rate-hikes don't matter). US
and Japanese equity futures are opening notably lower, erasing all of the
post-Fed exuberance with Dow Futs down over 200 points from pre-BoJ
hope highs. Finally, gold futures were hammered lower at the
Asia open (on heavy volume) only to rip back to practically unchanged.
"What
The Heck Is Going On Here"
Succinctly summarizing the state
of the mainstream media's cognitive dissonance at the state of 'real' America...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
11/01/2015 - 18:05
In an interview with Spanish
newspapers that was published October 31st, U.N. Secretary General Ban
Ki-Moon condemned U.S. President Barack Obama’s demand that Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad be removed from office, and Moon said: “The future of Assad must be determined by the Syrian
people." The U.N. Secretary General's detailed comments are implicitly
blaming all of this - lots of blood and misery - on U.S. President Obama,
and on the “many Western countries” who ally with him and have joined with him
in demanding regime-change in Syria. Ban ki-Moon took a rare courageous
position here: what he said was correct, though it’s virtually
unmentionable in the West.
In all, while balanced mutual
funds and risk parity funds are the ones which appear to have triggered the
equity rally since the end of September, the rally was amplified at around mid
October by CTA capitulation. The reversal of CTAs equity exposure from
a short to a long position means that all four sectors, CTAs, Discretionary
Macro hedge funds, risk parity funds and multi-asset or balanced mutual funds,
are currently long equities.
Late on Friday afternoon, after
recording its biggest monthly points gain in history, the S&P500
unexpectedly took a surprising swoon lower to close trading well in the red. This
chart may be the reason why.
Stocks,
Symmetry, & A Significant Threat To The Global Economy
Central banks can’t
afford a big correction to take place as it goes counter to their mandate, a
stable growing economy, hence they interfere every single time a
correction of size is about to unfold. And any threat to the global
economy must be prevented. Now that fiscal year end mark-ups are over
for many funds buyers have to prove how committed they are to driving
markets higher. Price will ultimately confirm how this will
play out, but altogether this chart is an amazing construct of symmetry and, as
fans of structures and symmetry, it certainly has our attention. We
can’t recall ever seeing such a precise structure.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
11/01/2015
"Russia and Iran have very
similar objectives in that they both want to eject U.S. influence from Iraq. Any
success that the militias have bolsters that goal."
"Social
Expenditures" In the US Are Higher Than All Other OECD Countries, Except
France
While redistributive social
spending in the US is indeed different from many other countries, the overall
magnitude is actually greater (both proportionally
and in absolute terms) in the US than in almost all other countries
measured. One can argue that the way that the wealth is redistributed
through public policy in the US is "wrong" or "suboptimal."
But, to argue that there is less
redistribution as a result of public policy in the US than elsewhere is simply
wrong.
In
a shockingly quick confirmation of our gravest concerns, Admiral John
Richardson, chief of naval operations, told
The FT that the navy was reassessing its global posture in the face
of the Russian activity, which stretches from the Black Sea and Mediterranean
to the Pacific. Amid China's island-building in the South China Sea
(30% of global trade), and Russia's highest level naval activity in 20 years in
The Mediterranean (20% of global trade), Richardson warns, rather ominously,
the "ambiguous motivations" of China and Russia raised fears
about the health of a global system that ensures freedom: "It
again perturbs that global system," he said, adding that "the
current model... has been threatened?"
A
Market Worthy Of The Line: "Do You Feel Lucky?"
The now immortal line spoken by
Clint Eastwood as "Dirty Harry" (1971 Warner Bros.) has never fit as
a descriptor these financial markets more so than it does today. For if you
believe you’re investing as opposed to gambling? These markets are now poised
to show everyone the difference.
Epic fail...
The
Relevance Of Gold - Sprott's 3 Litmus Tests
The investment thesis for
gold has never been limited to popular relationships, such as
CPI-type inflation, financial meltdown or political instability. We prefer to
focus on the irretrievable gap between financial assets (claims on future
output) and productive output (GDP). In essence, the most compelling reason
to own gold is that financial assets have lost their underpinnings to
sustainable productive output.
Kurt Nimmo | “Germans
don’t reproduce and Muslims have 7-8 children each.”
Daily Caller | German
government officials have compelled a small town with just 102 people to take
in approximately 750 migrants from Syria and other countries.
Steven Crowder | It’s
Halloween and another holiday that humorless PC leftists want to ruin.
William F. Jasper |
Tucked away on page 19 of the 34-page document is the call for establishing an
International Tribunal of Climate Justice.
RT | The US Special
Forces are being used as “human shields” to curb Russian air strikes against
anti-government mercenaries.
London Independent |
Investigators have refused to rule out any potential cause of the crash, from
technical problems to human error.
Kurt Nimmo | Crash
occurred in area where Islamic State affiliated group is active.
Kit
Daniels | What they’re not telling you.
Bloomberg
| “His name is perhaps the strongest example of those who support anything that
weakens nation states.”
Gateway
Pundit | Migrant Muslims were seen on video singing jihadist songs at their
refugee center. The ignorant German volunteers applauded.
·
WORLD NEWS
Tony Cartalucci
| Admission of Special Forces in Syria is Just the Beginning.
Obama
Announces “Boots on the Ground” in Syria, Despite Promising “No Boots on the
Ground” 16 Times
Michael Krieger
| I thought it’d be useful to share with readers the 16 times Obama has
publicly promised over the last couple of years to not send ground forces into
Syria.
Sinai
plane crash: Russian airliner ‘completely destroyed’ with 224 people on board
London Telegraph
| A commercial plane with 17 children on board comes down in northern Sinai,
close to area where Egyptian army is fighting militants loyal to Isil.
MI5
Chief Claims ISIS Is About to Attack Britain
The Daily
Sheeple | It is being reported that Britain’s top spy chief has warned ISIS is
planning mass casualty attacks in the UK.
China Turns
Tables on US-Backed Agitators
Ulson Gunnar |
US impotence in the South China Sea isn’t the only battle it is losing against
China.
·
MONEY WATCH
‘Scarier
Than Zombies’: Rand Paul Mocks Gov’t Debt at Halloween Party
Sputnik | Paul
appeared in a red turtleneck shirt sporting the words ‘$18 Trillion’, a
reference to the country’s ‘spooky’ national debt.
Obamacare
Is A Disaster: Co-Op Insurers Across America Are Collapsing, And Now There Is
Fraud
Zero Hedge |
Colorado HealthOP is abruptly shutting down, forcing 80,000 Coloradans to find
a new insurer for 2016.
First
They Jailed The Bankers, Now Every Icelander To Get Paid Back In Bank Sale
Claire Bernish |
Because Icelanders took control of their government, they effectively own the
banks.
Budget
buster: Senate passes debt and spending hike in dead of night
The Washington
Times | 144-page bill amounts to $558 million in new spending per page.
·
PRISON PLANET
WHITE
HOUSE WANTS Clinton Emails INVOLVING OBAMA KEPT PRIVATE
UPI | The State
Department on Friday released 7,000 additional pages of Clinton’s emails.
FBI
Knew Jared Fogle Was a Pedophile, Let Him Continue Molesting Children for Years
The Free Thought
Project | Why did they take that long to arrest him???
Law
enforcement? Gun convictions down 34.5%
Washington
Examiner | Federal gun convictions have plummeted under Obama.
Police
‘to be given powers to view everyone’s entire internet history’
London
Independent | The power is reportedly to be included in the Government’s new
surveillance bill which will be published next week.
COMMENTARY
Glamour
Names Planned Parenthood Abortionist ‘Woman of the Year’
Louder With
Crowder | Suddenly naming Caitlyn Jenner as “Woman of the Year” seems less
ridiculous.
Andrew P.
Napolitano | Hillary Clinton lied over her role in ousting Libya’s Gadhafi.
Michael
Tsarion on “The Prisoner” Symbolism
Prison Planet.com
| Michael Tsarion gives an excellent analysis of the symbolism in the 1960s TV
show “The Prisoner.”
Michael Krieger
| Fortunately for me, I don’t have cable so watching last night’s Republican
debate was not even an option.
·
MULTIMEDIA
The Truth About
Political Correctness
Kit Daniels |
What they’re not telling you.
Spring
Valley: Latest “Racist, Police Brutality” Story Changes with New Video…
Louder With
Crowder | The social media lynch mob can’t wait 30 seconds before any facts
come in.
Michael
Savage: Black Lives Matter Are Obama’s Shock Troops, Like Hitler’s Brown Shirts
(Video)
Gateway Pundit |
The conservative radio host said the latest Iowa polls with Carson leading are
due to “white guilt.”
·
U.S. NEWS
The Hill | Since
CNBC is an NBC Universal property, “We are suspending the partnership with NBC
News” for its Feb. 26 debate.
Clinton
interrupted by Black Lives Matter at ‘African Americans for Hillary’ launch
RT | Eight
protesters chanting “black lives matter” prompted the Democratic presidential
candidate to go off script momentarily on Friday.
School
Bans Hispanic Student’s “Racist” Mariachi Halloween Costume
Kit Daniels | School tells Hispanic student his costume is
offensive to Hispanics.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
CDC
Scientist Admits Destroying Evidence Linking Vaccines To Autism
Ben Swann | Over
100 people gathered outside the CDC in Atlanta demanding transparency when it
comes to vaccines.
Monsanto
Reports the Closing of 3 Research and Development Centers
Christina Sarich
| After announcing a 2,600 job cut.
5 Tips
for Falling Asleep and Staying Asleep
Julie Fidler |
#3 is especially effective.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 11/13/2015 - 13:30
Fin...
The Root of Gold Conspiracy Theories
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 11/13/2015 - 05:55
There’s
no reason to sweat a drop in the gold price or cheer a rise.
Largest Ever Chinese Gold Reserve Found But There's
Just One Problem
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 11/12/2015 - 13:57
It's
2000 meters undersea.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/13/2015
In
the wake of the stunning wave of bombings, shootouts, and hostage situations
unfolding in Paris on Friday, French President Francois Hollande has
closed the French border.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/13/2015 - 16:11
In
very raw terms, if a man wanted to buy a house and a car in 1975 he had
to work just under five years to pay for them.
If
he wants a house and a car today, he has to work almost 11 years...
"They helped us understand what was going on beyond what you see on the screens."
Will they, won't they, should they or shouldn't they? Those are the questions being hotly contested by the
mainstream media on a daily basis. Of course, the reality is the Federal
Reserve faces the huge obstacle of weak global growth and deflationary
pressures which could very well keep them on hold well into 2016. The potential
loss of credibility in the Fed by the markets could be the bigger
issue to be concerned with. For now, we wait.
Should
the Fed not hike rates on December 16, then we
will know with certainty that over 90% of economists are unable to accurately
forecast a simple yes/no event, which is due to take place in just over a month
While
the saying goes "good fences make good neighbors," it appears the
leadership of The EU is starting to get frustrated with the lack of
acquiescence among some of the 'union's' newer or more marginal members. In a
somewhat stunning statement, following ongoing and contentious meetings to
discuss solutions to the migrant 'problem', EU Commissioner Timmermanns
appeared to warn disagreeable member states, "There is an alternative
to everything. I believe in EU cooperation because of all other
forms in history have been tried to help Europeans get on
better, and with the exception of this one, all other forms
have led to war - so let's stick to this one."
Demand,
Supply, or Outright Manipulation?
The
Obama administration officially rolled out its MyRA program. MyRA is a
special form of IRA that ‘helps’ Americans save for retirement by making it
easy for you to loan your money to the federal government. Despite
misleading promises that these MyRA accounts are for “people who aren’t saving
and who have a fear of losing their principal," the big catch here is that
there’s only one investment: US government bonds... So with these MyRA
accounts, when adjusted for inflation, you’re guaranteed to lose money.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/13/2015 - 14:53
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/13/2015 - 14:34
Personally
handing out money to each "deserving" citizen...
“We’re potentially careening down this road of nominating somebody
who frankly isn’t fit to be president in terms of the basic ability and
temperament to do the job,” this
strategist said. “It’s not just that it could be somebody Hillary could destroy
electorally, but what if Hillary hits a banana peel and this person becomes
president?”
Joe Biggs | Another
deadly attack despite gun ban.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Safe spacers want action within 48 hours unless college
complies with radical list of demands.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Asylum seekers were previously upset about slow Internet, lack
of free money to buy cigarettes.
AFP
| “What we call an autism spectrum disorder now is a much wider group of
symptoms than what we called autism in the past.”
Washington
Times | The single largest hike in history.
Sputnik
| The CIA urged Turkey and Saudi Arabia to provide certain Syrian rebels with
anti-aircraft weapons capable of shooting down airplanes.
The
Hill | President Obama on Thursday slammed Republican presidential hopeful
Donald Trump’s latest controversial plan to crack down on illegal immigration
Kurt Nimmo | Little
evidence Mohammed Emwazi is the ISIS executioner.
Steve Watson | “What
Kind Of Idiot Sends Four People To War?”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Homeowner permission would not be required under draconian
proposal.
WORLD NEWS
Breaking: Another Deadly Attack
in Paris
Joe Biggs | Another deadly attack despite gun ban.
Combat report: Russia flies 107
sorties in Syria eliminating 289 terror targets in 2 days
RT | Two days of the
Russian Air Force operation in Syria have resulted in bombing nearly three
hundred terrorist facilities.
Sweden checks trains for migrants
in first border controls in 20 years
Reuters | Swedish police
started checking trains for migrants on Thursday.
US strategic bombers fly close to
Chinese islands, ignore ‘get away’ orders
RT | Two US B-52 strategic
bombers have flown near Chinese artificial islands in the South China Sea.
Trump: ‘I Would Bomb The Sh** Out
Of’ ISIS
Truth Revolt | ‘As Trump
skewered Carson in deeply personal language, a sense of discomfort settled on
the crowd’.
·
MONEY WATCH
Fast Food Workers Believe They
Deserve More Pay Than Paramedics
Truth Revolt | “I work, I
sweat, I want my $15!”
Robots coming to steal half your
jobs, Bank of England warns
RT | Roughly half of the
workforce in the UK and the US are likely to eventually lose their jobs to
robots.
Neil Cavuto embarrasses student
who wants free college and has no idea how to pay for it
Washington Free Beacon | A
painful exchange with a young student who’s organizing for free public
colleges.
The Bitter, Crushing Poverty Of
Appalachia Is A Preview Of What Is Coming To The Rest Of The Country
Michael Snyder |
Appalachia has lost millions of good paying jobs over the past several decades.
·
PRISON PLANET
New York City finds one in five adults
has mental health problems
Reuters | At least one in
five adult New Yorkers suffer from depression.
VIDEO: Ithaca protesters accuse
classmate of racism for defending president
Campus Reform | Ithaca
College students protesting alleged racism Wednesday were shocked and offended
when one student showed up holding a sign supporting the embattled president.
17% of Americans support the
government prosecuting people who question man-made global warming
Rasmussen | But 68% of
Likely U.S. Voters oppose the government investigating and prosecuting
scientists.
James O’Keefe Detained By Yale
University Police [VIDEO]
Daily Caller | Banned “in
perpetuity” from Yale’s campus.
COMMENTARY
Charles Hugh Smith |
Centrally issued money optimizes inequality, monopoly, cronyism, stagnation,
low social mobility and systemic instability.
Stephen Hawking: There is no God
and the theory of evolution better explains the origin of life
Michael Snyder | For
someone that is supposedly so “brilliant”, Stephen Hawking really doesn’t have
a clue.
Why Leftists Hate Thomas
Jefferson
Kit Daniels | …And why YOU should defend him!
Germany Sells Out Of Pepper Spray
As “Frightened Germans Buy Protection Against Refugees”
Mac Slavo | Things are
getting frightening in Europe.
·
MULTIMEDIA
CJ Pearson | My message to
Black Lives Matter activists on the campus of Mizzou: you have to grow up!
PC Crazies Launch Jihad Against
Free Speech
Paul Joseph Watson | Even
liberals are terrified of the new intolerant, regressive left.
Political Strategist: Hillary
Clinton is “An Abuser of Women & Girls”
Paul Joseph Watson | Roger
Stone says Hillary hired private investigators to terrorize Bill Clinton’s rape
victims.
·
U.S. NEWS
Another Scalp for the Protesters:
Claremont McKenna College Dean Resigns Over ‘Racial Insensitivity’
Truth Revolt | “A
controversy that has divided the student body and disrupted the mission of this
fine institution.”
Protests Cost Missouri a Top
Football Recruit – “Their Campus Is Out of Control”
Gateway Pundit | Louisiana
high school football standout Sci Martin removed Missouri from his top five
list of schools he was considering attending next fall.
Texas High School Holds “UNITY
RALLY” …For Black Students Only
Gateway Pundit | Whitey
not allowed.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
First genetically modified humans
could exist within two years
London Telegraph | Biotech
company Editas Medicine is planning to start human trials to genetically edit
genes and reverse blindness.
EPA Used Biased Studies to Deem
Glyphosate “Safe”
Julie Fidler | And
Monsanto played a big part.
New SARS-Like Virus Spreads From
Bats to Humans: “Not ‘If’ There Will Be An Outbreak”
Mac Slavo | An alarming
new threat has emerged.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
Military being deployed
around Paris after unprecedented attacks...
FRENCH PRESIDENT SAYS HE WILL CLOSE BORDERS...
First Curfew Since 1944...
Gunmen shout 'Allah Akbar'...
'It's for
Syria'...
ISIS Celebrates: 'Paris In
Flames'...
LIVE
FRANCE24...
LIVE
SKYNEWS
AP UPDATE...
Hollande Evacuated From
Stadium...
EARLIER TODAY: OBAMA Declares
ISIS 'Contained'...
FBI: 1,000 Active ISIS Probes
Inside USA...
MUSLIM RAMPAGE IN PARIS
100 HOSTAGES TAKEN IN THEATER; 60+ DEAD
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/06/2015 - 13:13
"Social Security as a whole as well as Medicare cannot sustain projected long-run program costs...", and that the government should be "giving the public adequate
time to prepare."
On August 14, 1935, President
Franklin Roosevelt arrived at his desk to sign the Social Security Act into
law.
It had been a contentious legislative
process, something like the Obamacare of its day.
Fiscally conservative politicians derided
the program for its obvious long-term costs, the massive bureaucracy that it
would create, and the huge tax increase that it represented on workers.
But Roosevelt was able to find
support, and the law was passed.
And just before signing it, he proudly
proclaimed that the law would go down in history “as a protection to future
administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into
debt to furnish relief to the needy.”
Needless to say, that didn’t happen.
Quite the opposite, actually.
Just like most western governments,
the US government has gone deeply into debt to fund its social insurance
programs.
Officially, the US government is now
$18.5 trillion in debt, and Social Security is the biggest financial sinkhole
in America.
Social Security’s various trust funds
currently hold about $2.7 trillion in total assets; yet the government itself
estimates the program’s liabilities to exceed $40 trillion.
And Social Security’s second biggest
trust fund, the Disability Insurance fund, will be fully depleted in a matter
of weeks.
The trustees who manage these massive
funds on behalf of the current and future retirees of America are clearly
concerned.
In the 2015 report of the Social Security
and Medicare Board of Trustees they state very plainly:
“Social Security as a whole as well as Medicare cannot sustain projected
long-run program costs…”, and that the government should be “giving the public
adequate time to prepare.”
Wow.
Now, we always hear politicians say that ‘Social Security is going to be
just fine’. So this Board of Trustees must be a bunch of wackos. Who are these
guys anyhow?
The
Treasury Secretary of the United States of America, as it turns out. Along with
the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The Secretary of Labor. Etc.
These
are the folks who sign their name to the report saying that Social Security is
going bust, and that Congress needs to give people time to prepare.
And prepare they should.
The
US Government Accountability Office recently released a report showing that
tens of millions of Americans haven’t saved a penny for retirement; and roughly
half of Baby Boomers have zero retirement savings.
This
means that there’s an overwhelming number of Americans pinning all of their
retirement hopes on Social Security.
Bad
idea. In a recently proposed resolution, H. Res 488, Congress states
point blank that Social Security “was never intended by Congress to be the sole
source of retirement income for families.”
Apparently
they got the message from the Social Security Trustees and they want to start
preparing people for the inevitable truth.
This is no longer some wild conspiracy theory.
The
Treasury Secretary is saying it. Congress is saying it. The numbers are
screaming it: Social Security is going to fail.
Ultimately this is a just another chapter in the same story– that
government cannot be relied on to provide or produce, only to squander and
fail.
Sure,
their intentions may be noble. But this level of serial incompetence can no
longer be trusted, nor should we be foolish enough to believe that some new
candidate can fix it.
If
you’re in your fifties and beyond, you’re probably going to be OK and at least get
10-15 years of benefits.
If you’re in your 40s and below, you have to be 100% prepared to fend
for yourself.
Fortunately
you have time to recover. Time to build. And time to learn.
Financial
literacy is absolutely critical here, which includes the ability to both
generate income and manage money, two things that aren’t taught in the
government controlled education system.
You
might also consider some lifestyle adjustments, which may include moving
abroad where your money can go much, much further.
Ultimately,
learning to rely on yourself is no easy task, but it is
an incredible opportunity to become more free.
And in doing so, one day you will no longer panic about the decisions
being made by incompetent bureaucrats, because you will be the one in control of your own fate.
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Painful as it is to admit, the West, especially the
United States, bears significant responsibility for creating the conditions in
which ISIS has flourished. The recent attacks should be
understood as “blowback terrorism”: a dreadful unintended result of repeated US
and European covert and overt military actions throughout the Middle East,
North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Central Asia that aimed to overthrow
governments and install regimes compliant with Western interests. These
operations have not only destabilized the targeted regions, causing great
suffering; they have also put populations in the US, the European Union,
Russia, and the Middle East at significant risk of terror.
Posted by : hedgeless_horseman
Post date: 11/24/2015 - 13:31
If you know someone special that
likes the finer things in life, and lives where they may need to defend those
finer things and their life, I offer mrs_horseman's recipe for,
"Can-of-Whoop-Ass."
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 11/24/2015 - 14:25
Focus on policies promoting
economic growth, lower taxes, and spending tax receipts more efficiently and
not on one`s sexual orientation in the bedroom.
Could
Stocks Collapse 20%-50% in the Next Six Months?
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 11/24/2015 - 04:23
This signal has triggered four
times in the last 20 years. Every time it did stocks lost between 20% and 50% in
the following six months.
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 11/20/2015 - 13:03
Instead of Listening to Idiots
Talking Their Book ... Let's Fact-Check the Myths
Former
Senior Aide to FOUR Presidents Outlines How and Why the Elites Want to End
Physical Cash
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 11/21/2015 - 12:05
There is a widespread global
campaign to eradicate physical cash. And we’ve now got a connected insider
confirming it.
Current
Copper Price Below Cost of Production
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 11/21/2015 - 16:20
Fed Speak became hawkish to
telegraph to financial markets that the December meeting was a potential live
meeting for a rate rise.
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 11/21/2015 - 10:39
Is any of this surprising to
anyone but the maniacs running the circus?
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 11/20/2015 - 13:03
Instead of Listening to Idiots
Talking Their Book ... Let's Fact-Check the Myths
Mine
Production Stagnates As Silver Coin Demand Hits Record High
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 11/20/2015 - 12:01
"We've had 12 consecutive
years of silver deficits" which "can begin to apply upward pressure
to prices in subsequent periods" - Thomson Reuters
Posted by: Sprott
Money
Post date: 11/20/2015 - 05:58
Some First World governments have
taken a decidedly Third World turn.
Mossad
– The Israeli Connection To 911 ...
being involved in the terror attacks of 9/11. ... from a phony moving company
in Weehawken, N.J., ... The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel on ... http://rense.com/general64/moss.htm ‘…Shortly after the destruction of the twin
towers, radio news reports described five "Middle Eastern men" being
arrested in New Jersey after having been seen videotaping and celebrating the
explosive "collapses" of the WTC. These men,
from a phony moving company in Weehawken, N.J., turned out to be agents of
Israeli military intelligence, Mossad. Furthermore, their "moving
van" tested positive for explosives. Dominic
Suter, the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems, the phony "moving
company," fled in haste, or was allowed to escape, to Israel before FBI
agents could interrogate him. The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel
on minor visa violations…’
http://albertpeia.com/mossad911.htm
U.S.
investigators and the controlled media have ignored a preponderance of evidence
pointing to Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, being involved in the
terror attacks of 9/11.
From the
very morning aircraft smashed into the World Trade Center (WTC) and the
Pentagon, news reports have indicated Israeli intelligence being involved in
the events of 9/11 - and the planting of "false flags" to blame Arab
terrorists and mold public opinion to support the pre-planned "war on
terror."
Shortly
after the destruction of the twin towers, radio news reports described five
"Middle Eastern men" being arrested in New Jersey after having been
seen videotaping and celebrating the explosive "collapses" of the
WTC.
These
men, from a phony moving company in Weehawken, N.J., turned out to be agents of
Israeli military intelligence, Mossad. Furthermore, their "moving van"
tested positive for explosives.
Dominic
Suter, the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems, the phony "moving
company," fled in haste, or was allowed to escape, to Israel before FBI
agents could interrogate him. The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel
on minor visa violations.
The
Assistant Attorney General in charge of criminal investigations at the time was
Michael Chertoff, the current head of the Dept. of Homeland Security. Chertoff,
the son of the first hostess of Israel's national air carrier, El Al, is
thought to be an Israeli national.
One of
the Israeli agents later told Israeli radio that they had been sent to
"document the event" - the event which took the lives of some 3,000
Americans.
Despite
the fact that the Israelis arrested in New Jersey evidently had prior knowledge
or were involved in the planning of 9/11, the U.S. mainstream media has never
even broached the question of Israeli complicity in the attacks.
ISRAELIS
FOREWARNED
On
September 12, 2001, the Internet edition of The Jerusalem Post reported,
"The Israeli foreign ministry has collected the names of 4,000 Israelis
believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
at the time of the attack."
Yet only
one Israeli was killed at the WTC and two were reportedly killed on the
"hijacked" aircraft.
Although
a total of three Israeli lives were reportedly lost on 9/11, speechwriters for
President George W. Bush grossly inflated the number of Israeli dead to 130 in
the president's address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001.
The fact
that only one Israeli died at the WTC, while 4,000 Israelis were thought to
have been at the scene of the attacks on 9/11 naturally led to a widespread
rumor, blamed on Arabic sources, that Israelis had been forewarned to stay away
that day.
"Whether
this story was the origin of the rumor," Bret Stephens, the Post's
editor-in-chief wrote in 2003, "I cannot say. What I can say is that there
was no mistake in our reporting."
ODIGO
INSTANT MESSAGES
Evidence
that Israelis had been forewarned several hours before the attacks surfaced at
an Israeli instant messaging service, known as Odigo. This story, clear
evidence of Israeli prior knowledge, was reported only briefly in the U.S.
media - and quickly forgotten.
At least
two Israel-based employees of Odigo received warnings of an imminent attack in
New York City more than two hours before the first plane hit the WTC. Odigo had
its U.S. headquarters two blocks from the WTC. The Odigo employees, however,
did not pass the warning on to the authorities in New York City, a move that
could have saved thousands of lives.
Odigo
has a feature called People Finder that allows users to seek out and contact
others based on certain demographics, such as Israeli nationality.
Two
weeks after 9/11, Alex Diamandis, Odigo's vice president, reportedly said,
"It was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo
members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the
message."
The
Internet address of the sender was given to the FBI, and two months later it
was reported that the FBI was still investigating the matter. There have been
no media reports since.
Odigo,
like many Israeli software companies, is based and has its Research and
Development (R&D) center in Herzliya, Israel, the small town north of Tel
Aviv, which happens to be where Mossad's headquarters are located.
Shortly
after 9/11, Odigo was taken over by Comverse Technology, another Israeli
company. Within a year, five executives from Comverse were reported to have
profited by more than $267 million from "insider trading."
Through
Israeli "venture capital" (VC) investment funds, Mossad spawns and
sponsors scores of software companies currently doing business in the United
States. These Israel-based companies are sponsored by Mossad funding sources
such as Cedar Fund, Stage One Ventures, Veritas Venture Partners, and others.
As one
might expect, the portfolios of these Mossad-linked funding companies contain
only Israeli-based companies, such as Odigo.
Reading
through the strikingly similar websites of these Israeli "VC" funds
and their portfolio companies, one can't help but notice that the key
"team" players share a common profile and are often former members of
"Israel's Intelligence Corps" and veterans of the R&D Department
of the Israel Air Force or another branch of the military. Most are graduates
of Israel's "Technion" school in Haifa, Mossad's Interdisciplinary
Center (IDC) in Herzliya, or a military program for software development.
The IDC,
a private, non-profit university, is closely tied to the Mossad. The IDC has a
"research institute" headed by Shabtai Shavit, former head of the
Mossad from 1989 to 1996, called the International Policy Institute for
Counter-Terrorism.
The IDC
also has a "Marc Rich Center for the Study of Commodities, Trading and
Financial Markets" and a "Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and
Strategy." The cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder, who is a supporter of
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his far-right Likud Party, founded the
Lauder school.
Lauder,
president of the Jewish National Fund and former chairman of New York Governor
George Pataki's Commission on Privatization, is the key individual who pushed
the privatization of the WTC and former Stewart AFB, where the flight paths of
the two planes that hit the twin towers oddly converged. Ronald Lauder played a
significant, albeit unreported, role in the preparation for 9/11.
Pataki's
wife, Libby, has been on Lauder's payroll since at least 2002 and reportedly
earned $100,000 as a consultant in 2004. According to The Village Voice,
between 1994 and 1998, Gov. Pataki earned some $70,000 for speaking to groups
affiliated with Lauder.
THE
PTECH CUTOUT
Ptech, a
mysterious software company has been tied with the events of 9/11. The Quincy,
Massachusetts-based company was supposedly connected to "the Muslim
Brotherhood" and Arab financiers of terrorism.
The firm's
suspected links with terrorism resulted in a consensual examination by the FBI
in December 2002, which was immediately leaked to the media. The media reports
of the FBI "raid" on Ptech soon led to the demise of the company.
Ptech
"produced software that derived from PROMIS, had an artificial
intelligence core, and was installed on virtually every computer system of the
U.S. government and its military agencies on September 11, 2001,"
according to Michael Ruppert's From the Wilderness (FTW) website.
"This
included the White House, Treasury Dept. (Secret Service), Air Force, FAA, CIA,
FBI, both houses of Congress, Navy, Dept. of Energy, IRS, Booz Allen Hamilton,
IBM, Enron and more," FTW reported.
"Whoever
plotted 9/11 definitely viewed the FAA as the enemy that morning. Overriding
FAA systems would be the most effective way to ensure the attacks were
successful," FTW reported. "To do this, the FAA needed an evolution
of PROMIS software installed on their systems and Ptech was just that; the White
House and Secret Service had the same software on their systems - likely a
superior modified version capable of 'surveillance and intervention'
systems."
But did
the U.S. government unwittingly load software capable of "surveillance and
intervention" operations and produced by a company linked to terrorism
onto its most sensitive computer networks, or was Ptech simply a Mossad
"cutout" company?
Oussama
Ziade, a Lebanese Muslim immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1985, founded Ptech
in 1994. But the company's original manager of marketing and information
systems was Michael S. Goff, whose PR firm, Goff Communications, currently
represents Guardium, a Mossad-linked software company.
And Goff
comes from a well-to-do line of Jewish Masons who have belonged to Worcester's
Commonwealth Lodge 600 of B'nai Brith for decades. So, why would a recently
graduated Juris Doctor in Law leave a promising law career to join forces with
a Lebanese Muslim's upstart company sponsored with dodgy funders in Saudi Arabia?
"As
information systems manager [for Ptech], Michael handled design, deployment and
management of its Windows and Macintosh, data, and voice networks," Goff's
website says. "Michael also performed employee training and handled all
procurement for software, systems and peripherals."
AFP
asked Goff, who left the Worcester law firm of Seder & Chandler in 1994,
how he wound up working at Ptech. "Through a temp agency," Goff said.
Asked for the name of the agency, Goff said he could not remember.
Could it
be Mossad Temps, or maybe Sayan Placement Agency?
Goff,
the original marketing manager for Ptech software, said he did not know who had
written the code that Ptech sold to many government agencies. Is this
believable?
Goff
leaves a legal practice in his home town to take a job, through a temp agency,
with a Lebanese Muslim immigrant who is selling software, and he doesn't know
who even wrote the code?
AFP
contacted the government agencies that reportedly have Ptech software on their
computers, and IBM, to ask if they could identify who had written the source
code of the Ptech software.
By press
time, only Lt. Commander Ron Steiner of the U.S. Navy's Naval Network Warfare
Command had responded. Steiner said he had checked with an analyst and been
told that none of the Ptech software has been approved for the Navy's
enterprise networks.
Finis
French push broad sweep
forsuspects after attacks; Concerns over liberties...
Young Jews Bolt for Israel...
Posted by : Capitalist Exploits
Post date: 11/23/2015 - 09:36
If
you think you're fighting the market, or the banks, or the Fed, you're dead
wrong!
Posted by: Sprott Money
Post date: 11/23/2015 - 11:53
Yes,
what we are about to show you is simply a collection of anecdotal data points.
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 11/23/2015 - 13:52
The
Federal Reserve has been telegraphing to markets that they are going to raise
the fed funds rate by 25 basis points next month at its December Fed Meeting.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
Despite
demands from France's Hollande, America's Obama, and NATO's Stoltenberg that
this situation not esclate, it appears Putin is not taking the shooting down of
a fighter jet lying down. The seemingly cagey confirmation by NATO and Obama of
Turkey's claims that Russia invaded its airspace has been rebuked by Russia
which claims the Hmeimim airbase radar shows the attacking Turkish plane
violating Syrian airspace. In response, Russia is moving a Cruiser
'Moskva' off the coast to strengthen air-defenses - just as French and US
carriers are on their way.
Let
them in...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
With
seeming daily record highs in stocks such as AMZN, FB and others it is easy to
get excited about further tech gains. They never go down after all,
or the so the impression goes...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
According
to Goldman, "tech accounted for 50% of the overall S&P 500
expansion during the past five years (Apple is responsible for 20% of rise). Tech
sector now has margins (18%) that are twice the overall market." That
tremendous tech, but mostly AAPL-driven, margin growth has now ended. So
can this torrid surge in tech margins continue? Goldman's answer is a
resounding no.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
It’s quite interesting indeed when both progressives and conservatives
seem to be nostalgic for those good ol’ days in the 1950s, for different
reasons, of course.
Conservatives want to go back to the nuclear Leave It to Beaver family and what
not while liberals like to talk about those 90-percent tax rates that we owe our
prosperity to. Or something like that. However, what a tax rate is
and what is actually paid are two very different things.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
Wondering
where the world's economies are in the leverage cycle? Well, wonder no more.
SocGen is out with its updated "leverage clock" which shows you where
the bank thinks everyone falls in terms of ticking debt time bombs. As you'll
see, SocGen's assessment is quite generous...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
Following
last week's modest inventory build, API reports another much
larger-than-expected build in total crude inventories (+2.6mm barrels). This is
the 9th weekly build in a row for total crude inventory but more worrisome is
the 3rd weekly surge in Cushing inventories (+1.9mm build) as
we warned previously, land
storage fears are starting to rise.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
With
the fundamental and economic backdrop becoming much more hostile toward
investors in the intermediate term, understanding the value of
cash as a "hedge" against loss
becomes much more important. As John Hussman recently
noted: "The overall economic and financial landscape,
then, is one where obscene valuations imply zero or negative S&P 500 total
returns for more than a decade — an outcome that is largely
baked-in-the-cake regardless of shorter term economic or speculative factors.
Presently, market internals remain unfavorable as well. Coming off of recent
overvalued, overbought, overbullish extremes, this has
historically opened a clear vulnerability of the market to air-pockets,
free-falls and crashes."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
If
Putin was angry when Turkey shot down a Russian plane, which may or may not
have crossed Turkish territory - reports on both sides are conflicting - he
will be absolutely livid to learn that, according to Turkey's Dogan News, the
Russian pilots who had parachuted in an attempt to save their lives after the
plane was shot down, had been executed while parachuting down by local rebels,
which considering the video
released earlier belonged to the Free Syrian Army, are same
"rebels" who are funded directly by the CIA.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
November
has been a banner month for black swans. From Leftist political coups in
Portugal to terror attacks in Paris to downed Russian fighter jets in Syria,
the market is gradually learning to expect the unexpected. In its latest
Quarterly Economic Outlook, SocGen outlines five political and economic
black swans that could land in 2016.
When buy the dip doesn't work. "Most distressed situations have not worked out in 2015,"
exclaims one distressed hedge fund manager facing significant losses on the
year, "It wasn’t just energy. It was anything with loads of
leveraged debt on it." As
Bloomberg reports, distressed hedge funds dropped 5% in 2015
through October, putting them on pace for their worst year since 2008,
when they lost 25%... and November isn’t looking like it will be much better.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
The
financial news continues to confound and confuse investors. The Fed is
telling one story. The world economy is telling another.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015
"Would
I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would. In a
heartbeat. I would approve more than that. It works and if it doesn’t work,
they deserve it anyway for what they do to us."
Paul
Joseph Watson | Situation represents ‘most critical moment since the end of the
Cold War’.
Mikael
Thalen | Erdogan contradicts previous statements by shooting down Russian jet.
Kit Daniels | Months
before Turkey shot down Russian jet, prime minister was shipping guns to ISIS.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Turkey is defending its ally – the Islamic State.
Steve Watson | Some
interpret alternative media mogul’s post as a teaser for an upcoming
revelation.
Kurt Nimmo |
Documented support of the Islamic State.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Ankara warned of “serious consequences” if Moscow continued
campaign against Islamic State.
Sky
News | The Kremlin says the downing of the warplane for allegedly violating
Turkey’s airspace is a “very serious incident”.
Gateway
Pundit | Will CAIR rally around Saadiq now?
·
WORLD NEWS
Flashback:
Turkey’s Prime Minister Caught Arming ISIS
Kit Daniels | Months before Turkey shot down Russian jet, prime
minister was shipping guns to ISIS.
More
Liberal Insanity=> Democrats Release Ad – Declare War on Term “Radical
Islam” (Video)
Gateway Pundit | They
won’t hesitate to declare war against Republicans.
Spokesman?
Defense Minister? CNN brands ISIS terrorists as ‘officials’
RT | CNN has come out with
a new definition of Islamic State leaders.
Paris
attacks: ‘Suicide bomb belt’ dumped on street
BBC News | French police
are examining what appears to be a suicide bomb belt dumped on a Paris street
following attacks that killed 130 people.
Belgium
Censors Free Speech With Kitten Photos During Terror Raid
Kit Daniels | Censorship gives officials opportunity to engage
in cover-up.
·
MONEY WATCH
Census
Bureau: 21.6% of U.S. Children—15,931,000–on Food Stamps in 2014
CNS News | The number and
percentage of children in households on food stamps held relatively steady from
2013 to 2014, according to the Census surveys.
Global debt
defaults near milestone
Financial Times | Global
debt markets are on the cusp of an unwelcome development.
Will Oil
Prices Really Double in 2016?
Sputnik | High uncertainty
in future oil prices has suggested that over the course 2016, oil prices could
as much as double, or halve.
“How
Is This Possible” Deutsche Bank Asks, Looking At The Canary In The Junk Bond
Mine
Zero Hedge | Expect mass
confusion to be the norm for a long, long time.
·
PRISON PLANET
Confederate
flag on laptop reported as ‘bias incident’ at Framingham State
Campus Reform | “We
recognize that bias incidents are upsetting for the entire campus community…”
Not
a Safe Space – Canadian University Suspends Yoga Class After Students Become
Offended
Michael Krieger |
Apparently yoga is no longer a safe space.
NY
Daily News cover calls the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre ‘Jihadi Wayne’
Twitchy |Here’s Monday’s
cover of the New York Daily News, again focusing on the bogus claim that the
NRA and GOP want to let terrorists get guns.
Bizpac Review | An angry
Judge Judy tore into three miscreants who vandalized a man’s confederate flag.
COMMENTARY
#ShoutYourAbortion
Campaign Makes Cover of WaPo’s “Style” Section
New American | Treating
abortion as if it’s this season’s trendiest fashion statement.
DC
Police Chief Encourages Citizens to “Take Out” Terrorists
The Daily Sheeple | “Your
options are run, hide or fight.”
Freemasons
fixed inquiry into Titanic to protect Establishment, claims secret archive
Daily Mail | Lists two
million members – including Winston Churchill – and reveals secretive group of
elites ruled society for 200 years.
‘Moderate’
Islamists Admit: ‘Radical’ Islam IS Islam
Louder With Crowder |
Here’s a fun twist.
·
MULTIMEDIA
DONALD
TRUMP Lays Out Plan for ISIS: Blast the Hell Out of Them… Bomb the Hell Of Them
(VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit | “I’d get
everybody together and I’d blast the hell out of them.”
True
Origins of The Paris Massacre Revealed
Prison Planet.com | Alex
Jones talks with Infowars reporters Joe Biggs and Paul Joseph Watson on the
ground in Paris, France.
FBI:
Break-in at Army facility in Worcester, weapons missing
AP | Police are now
searching for suspects.
·
U.S. NEWS
Rand
Paul: Boston Bombers Were ‘Coddled’ as Refugees But Still Attacked Us
Mediaite | The Republican
presidential candidate said the refugee screening process is “absolutely not”
rigorous enough to allow migrants into the United States.
Dallas
Mayor More Frightened by White Guys With Guns Than Refugees
Truth Revolt | “ISIS is no
more Islamic than the Nazi senior staff was Christian.”
Paul:
Trump Should be ‘Disqualified’ His Plans Would Require a ‘Religious Czar’ for
Muslims
Breitbart | “I don’t think
it is consistent with our freedom.”
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Experts
Say Major Earthquake Will Slam Oklahoma
Julie Fidler | The “Big
One” is coming.
Prince
Charles: Climate Change Root Cause of Syrian War
Gateway Pundit | And you
wonder why the 89 year-old Queen Elizabeth won’t step down?
Sugar
Beet Farmers Face Record Low Sales as Demand for ‘Non-GMO’ Booms
Christina Sarich
| Looks like Americans want GMO-free!
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/24/2015 - 14:48
US BACKED 'REBELS'
DOWN RUSSIAN HELICOPTER...
Anti-tank gun 'was
American'...
Kills Russian marine...
Jet pilots 'shot dead' as
descended with parachutes...
'Allahu Akbar'...
Moscow denies airspace
violation...
Puts out own flight path
image...
PUTIN RAGES: Stab in our
back...
NATO to serve Islamic State?
Warns of serious
consequences...
Obama Pokes: Part of 'ongoing
problem' with Russians...
NATO Chief urges 'calm and
de-escalation', sides with Turkey...
'Incursion lasted seconds'...
'World War III' trends
online...
National debt spikes $578
billion -- in 3 weeks!
BUST: 1.1 million Americans
don't have a toilet...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
"I have never felt more uncomfortable than I do today," warns former CIA Director Jack Devine, saying that,
with "frankly uncivilized" ISIS, there is a greater risk of
violence worldwide than ever before."When you have a small
group of people who are willing to lose their lives and kill anyone they can, we’re
all vulnerable."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
"Warning:
airstrikes are coming. Oil trucks will be destroyed. Get away from
your oil trucks immediately. Get out of your trucks and run away.
Do not risk your life."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
These
developments in terrorism are textbook Hegelian Dialectic, using
problem-reaction-solution to justify a greater military presence in Syria and
Iraq, despite nearly a decade and a half of fighting jihad, civil war and
supporting “frenemies” across the region with arms, training and financial
support. The founding fathers warned of this, but could scarcely
foresee the cynical nature of today’s police state – where the terrorists
created by the state have become the population’s worst nightmare.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
While
it is hoped that the economy can continue to expand on the
back of the "service" sector alone, history suggests that
"manufacturing" continues to play a much more important dynamic that
it is given credit for.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
The traditional view of the impact of low oil prices seems to be,
"It is just another cycle." Or, "The cure for low prices is low
prices." We are
doubtful that either of these views is right.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
"...
the next 12-18 months will be divided into three periods corresponding to the
three distinct regimes of market dynamics. They can be summarized by the
following modes of the curve: short-term tactical bear flatteners on the
back of a Fed liftoff story, followed by volatile bear steepeners of the
“taper-tantrum” type around mid-year, and a bull-flattening finale as
structural factors deem rate hikes to be a policy mistake."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
As
Donald Trump came under fire for claiming that he saw Muslims in New Jersey
cheering on 9/11,
admitted-non-total-truth-speaker Ben
Carson jumped on the bandwagon claiming he too "saw film of it."
Now, in yet another embarrassing u-turn 'oops' for the retired (now it all
makes sense) neurosurgeon, the Carson campaign told CBS
News Monday evening that Carson is "really not"
standing behind his earlier statement and that the GOP presidential candidate
was thinking of other footage he saw.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
"The political left is happy to see people cross borders but would
gladly restrict the flow of capital and goods. The political right is happy to
see capital and goods cross borders but would gladly build a fence to restrict
the flow of people. I’m
afraid that the compromise might be to restrict people, capital and
goods."
"Get
him the hell out of here, will you, please? Get him out of here. Throw
him out!”
There exists a common theme amidst these signs of societal decay: The super-rich keep taking from the middle
class as the middle class becomes a massive lower class. Yet the myth
persists that we should all look up with admiration at the “self-made”
takers who are ripping our society apart.
Submitted
by Paul Buchheit via CommonDreams.org,
While Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning
and John Kiriakou are vilified
for revealing vital information about spying and bombing and torture, a man who
conspired
with Goldman Sachs to make billions of dollars on the planned failure of
subprime mortgages was honored by New
York University for his "Outstanding Contributions to Society."
This is one example of the distorted
thinking leading to the demise of a once-vibrant American society. There are other signs of decay:
1. A House Bill Would View
Corporate Crimes as 'Honest Mistakes'
Wealthy conservatives are pushing
a bill that would excuse corporate leaders from financial fraud, environmental
pollution, and other crimes that America's greatest criminals deem simply
reckless or negligent. The Heritage
Foundation attempts to rationalize, saying "someone who simply has an
accident by being slightly careless can hardly be said to have acted with a
'guilty mind.'"
One must wonder, then, what extremes of
evil, in the minds of conservatives, led to criminal charges against people
apparently aware of their actions: the Ohio woman who took coins
from a fountain to buy food; the California man who broke into a church
kitchen to find something to eat; and the 90-year-old Florida activist who
boldly tried to feed
the homeless.
Of course, even without the explicit
protection of Congress, CEOs are rarely charged for their crimes. Not a single
Wall Street executive faced prosecution for the fraud-ridden 2008 financial
crisis.
2. Unpaid Taxes of 500 Companies
Could Pay for a Job for Every Unemployed American
For two years. At the nation's median salary of
$36,000, for all 8
million unemployed.
Citizens for Tax Justice
reports that Fortune 500 companies are holding over $2 trillion in profits
offshore to avoid taxes that would amount to over $600 billion. Our society
desperately needs infrastructure repair, but 8 million potential jobs are being
held hostage beyond our borders.
3. Almost 2/3 of American
Families Couldn't Afford a Single Pill of a Life-Saving Drug
62
percent of polled Americans said they couldn't cover a $500 repair bill. If
any of these Americans need a hepatitis pill from Gilead
Sciences, or an anti-infection pill from Martin
Shkreli's company, they will have to do without.
An AARP study of 115 specialty drugs
found that the average
cost of a year's worth of prescriptions was over $50,000, three times more
than the average Social Security benefit. Although it's true that most people
don't pay the full retail cost of medicine, the portion paid by insurance
companies is ultimately passed on to consumers through higher premiums.
Pharmaceutical companies pay
competitors to keep generic drugs out of the market, and they have
successfully lobbied
Congress to keep Medicare from bargaining for lower drug prices. The companies
claim they need the high prices to pay for better medicines. But for every $1
they spend on basic research, they invest $19 in promotion and
marketing.
4. Violent Crime Down, Prison
Population Doubles
FBI statistics confirm a
dramatic decline in violent crimes since 1991, yet the number of prisoners has doubled
over approximately the same period.
Meanwhile, white-collar prosecutions have
been reduced
by over a third, and, as noted above, corporate leaders are steadily working
toward 100% tolerance for their crimes.
5. One in Four Americans Suffer
Mental Illness, Mental Health Facilities Cut by 90%
According to the National
Alliance on Mental Illness, 25 percent of adults experience mental illness
in a given year, with almost half of the homeless population so inflicted. Yet
from 1970 to 2002, the per capita number of public mental health hospital beds plummeted
from over 200 per 100,000 to 20 per 100,000, and after the recession state
cutbacks continued.
That leaves prison as the only option for
many desperate Americans.
There exists a common theme amidst these signs of societal decay: The super-rich
keep taking from the middle class as the middle class becomes a
massive lower class. Yet the myth persists that we should all look up
with admiration at the "self-made" takers who are ripping our society
apart.
In
the infamous words of Kenny Rogers, "you gotta know when to fold
'em," but in the case of Bill Ackman and his Pershing Square Fund's
massive losing position in Valeant (19.47 million shares at average cost of
$183.57 against today's $87.11 lows), he has decided to not just
double-down, but triple-down by selling puts to fund calls and increase
his stake in the company to 9.9% (or 34.12 million shares).
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
Whether
a job requires intense effort and a specialized skill or just having a human
brain, market prices are the only way to match people that
want to do the job with the people that want the job done. Even $0/hour
is sometimes voluntarily chosen by a worker who simply wants to help a certain
cause. Mandated minimum wages eliminate these kinds of peaceful and
productive arrangements, leaving both parties unsatisfied and
society worse off.
Kit Daniels |
Censorship gives officials opportunity to engage in cover-up.
Adan Salazar | “We’ve
never told people, ‘Take action.’ [But] it’s a different…scenario.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | The problem isn’t “radical Islam,” the problem is just Islam.
KVOA
| A group of veterans are now turning their focus on what they believe are new
threats to America.
Associated
Press | Forgers say a convincing threat letter can go for up to $1,000.
Daily
Mail | Turkey warned of Paris attack jihadis a YEAR ago.
Steve Watson | To
Help modernize the government and Streamline freedom.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Why did it take 15 months for the U.S. to target the Islamic
State’s oil infrastructure?
Gateway
Pundit | The leftists attacked and harassed police in the French capital.
AP
| “They’re a bunch of killers with good social media.”
·
WORLD NEWS
Belgium
Censors Free Speech With Kitten Photos During Terror Raid
Kit Daniels | Censorship gives officials opportunity to engage
in cover-up.
Brussels
schools, subways will remain closed Monday as terror alert remains at highest
level
Twitchy | Educational
institutions and subways in Brussels, Belgium will be closed on Monday.
Britain
on RED ALERT: UK jihadis HELPED make suicide vests worn by Paris attackers
UK Express | INTELLIGENCE
chiefs fear that British jihadis helped make the suicide vests worn by the
Paris attackers and could be plotting a similar outrage in the UK.
Russia
Says U.S. Policies Helped Islamic State, Interfax Reports
Bloomberg | U.S. actions
in the Middle East helped Islamic State to gain influence, Russian Prime
Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, according to Interfax.
Russian
airstrikes destroy 472 terrorist targets in Syria in 48 hours, 1,000 oil
tankers in 5 days
RT | Russian airstrikes
have torched more than 1,000 tankers taking stolen crude oil to Islamic State
refineries.
·
MONEY WATCH
“How
Is This Possible” Deutsche Bank Asks, Looking At The Canary In The Junk Bond
Mine
Zero Hedge | Expect mass
confusion to be the norm for a long, long time.
Goldman
Sachs and OPEC: Oil prices could crater to around $20 per barrel in 2016
Reuters | The oversupply
in the oil market is absolutely killing prices and it’s only set to get worse
in 2016.
The
U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To
Make It Worse
Michael Snyder | The 7th
largest economy on the entire planet, Brazil, has been gripped by a horrifying
recession, as has much of the rest of South America.
Oil
May Plunge to $20, Signalling Economic Disaster: “The Numbers Are Dreadful And
Unprecedented”
Mac Slavo | The price of
oil has long been a key indicator of economic health and stability. And that index
is tanking fast.
·
PRISON PLANET
NY
Daily News cover calls the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre ‘Jihadi Wayne’
Twitchy |Here’s Monday’s
cover of the New York Daily News, again focusing on the bogus claim that the
NRA and GOP want to let terrorists get guns.
Bizpac Review | An angry
Judge Judy tore into three miscreants who vandalized a man’s confederate flag.
Bill
Rape Accuser Blasts ‘Evil’ Hillary: ‘Shame on you!’
Breitbart | “Shame on you,
Hillary, that’s disgusting.”
Trump
advocates waterboarding enemy combatants
{ Regressively sick! }
The Hill | Donald Trump
says if he’s elected president, he’ll bring back enhanced interrogation
techniques like waterboarding for enemy combatants.
COMMENTARY
Freemasons
fixed inquiry into Titanic to protect Establishment, claims secret archive
Daily Mail | Lists two
million members – including Winston Churchill – and reveals secretive group of
elites ruled society for 200 years.
‘Moderate’
Islamists Admit: ‘Radical’ Islam IS Islam
Louder With Crowder |
Here’s a fun twist.
Attn.
Obama: 92 percent think this is a ‘serious threat to US’ (Hint: It’s NOT
climate change)
Twitchy | Poll: a staggering
92% of US voters say Radical Islamic terrorism is a serious threat to US.
CNN’s
Kayyem: Don’t Fight Back Against Terrorist Except As Last Resort
Newsbusters | Advised
against fighting unless “you have no other option” after attempting to run or
hide.
·
MULTIMEDIA
DONALD
TRUMP Lays Out Plan for ISIS: Blast the Hell Out of Them… Bomb the Hell Of Them
(VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit | “I’d get
everybody together and I’d blast the hell out of them.”
True
Origins of The Paris Massacre Revealed
Prison Planet.com | Alex
Jones talks with Infowars reporters Joe Biggs and Paul Joseph Watson on the
ground in Paris, France.
FBI:
Break-in at Army facility in Worcester, weapons missing
AP | Police are now
searching for suspects.
·
U.S. NEWS
Paul:
Trump Should be ‘Disqualified’ His Plans Would Require a ‘Religious Czar’ for
Muslims
Breitbart | “I don’t think
it is consistent with our freedom.”
Goon
Who Stormed and Disrupted Trump Rally Is #BlackLivesMatter Activist Mercutio
Southall Jr.
Gateway Pundit | On
Saturday an unhinged left-wing activists stormed Donald Trump’s massive rally
in Alabama.
Bizpac Review | “How many
more protests are you going to do?”
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Prince
Charles: Climate Change Root Cause of Syrian War
Gateway Pundit | And you
wonder why the 89 year-old Queen Elizabeth won’t step down?
Sugar
Beet Farmers Face Record Low Sales as Demand for ‘Non-GMO’ Booms
Christina Sarich | Looks
like Americans want GMO-free!
‘Nonsense’:
Top Scientists Demolish Alarmism Behind UN Climate Summit
Daily Caller | A panel of
prominent scientists debunked one of the most popular global warming arguments.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
WORLDWIDE TRAVEL ALERT FOR
AMERICANS
STOP THE YELLEN! FED CHAIR
DEFENDS NO-RATE POLICIES...
Global debt defaults near
milestone...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015
According
to current and former officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, US
Central Command may have been involved in a year long effort to obscure the
fact that America’s strategy to combat ISIS simply was not effective. "At
the least, the prospect that senior officials intentionally skewed
intelligence conclusions has raised questions about how much Mr. Obama,
Congress and the public can believe the military’s assessments."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015
The U.S. is, in fact, Europe’s enemy - not merely Russia’s enemy. Not merely the truth’s
enemy. Not merely democracy’s enemy.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 21:40
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 -
If it doesn’t start a war in the short run, it’s going to guarantee a
U.S. bankruptcy in the slightly longer run. All the “hawks” running for president this year
(which is to say, almost every candidate) seem oblivious to the fact that, in
anything but the briefest conflict, economic power completely trumps military
hardware. Simply put, whenever you see a mention of the U.S. Navy
and the Spratlys in the same paragraph, you’re seeing a reminder of an open
vein helping to bleed America dry. And that’s the best case.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015
Having
recently explained how "The
Fed has done everything it can to avoid surprising the market," vice-chair
Stan Fischer better be right about what happens next. With all the double-edged
FedSpeak and CONfidence reiteration - in the face of tsunami-like global
deflationary forces only made reflexively worse by a soaring US Dollar - speculators
are at extremely short bonds and short VIX (bullish stocks). The last time
this happened was the end of QE1...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015
If the government’s official statistics are to be believed the U.S. economy is moving full steam ahead.
Consumer are spending, the job market is expanding, real estate has recovered,
stocks are soaring and the U.S. dollar is stronger than it has been
in a decade. But if you have
yet to realize it, billionaire investor Eric Sprott says "it’s
all a lie." The manipulation of precious metals, coupled
with the supply and demand fundamentals which Sprott says will lead to
shortages over the next few years as mining companies reduce output or close up
shop, will leave many investors who think their gold holdings are
easily convertible to physical assets with nothing more than depreciating
Yellen Bucks at exactly the moment they’ll need precious metals in their
possession.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015
It's
that time of year again...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015
Someone
decided that the exact opening of Gold futures trading on a Sunday night -
ahead of a holiday week in the US - was the perfect time to liquidate
over $161 million notional of 'paper' precious metals contracts... Currencies
were unmoved, stocks are leaking higher and bonds lower.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 -
Mass surveillance at home and endless military projection abroad are the
twin sides of the same coin of national security, which must simply be
maximized as much as possible. Conspicuously missing from President Hollande’s decisive declaration of
war however, was any mention of the biggest elephant in the room:
state-sponsorship. A senior Western official familiar with a large cache of
intelligence obtained this summer told the Guardian that “direct dealings between Turkish officials and
ranking ISIS members was now ‘undeniable.’”
"Everything is awesome," rang out as anchor after anchor explained how the
stock market's "best
week of the year" - after mass murder in Paris and as hawkish a Fed as
most traders have known was unleashed - was just the start... and Santa Claus
was on his way. However, there are a few things they forgot to mention...
#BringBackOurIgnorance
"The global dollar standard, that is now the longest-lived of these
artificial monetary systems, has developed a bunch of stress cracks and is in the process of imploding right now. There is going to be before the end of this decade,
most likely, another emergency meeting of a bunch of finance ministers and
economists to try and hash out another world monetary system. It is just history repeating, and it is a natural
consequence of a man-made, artificial manipulation of the free market."
The
Fed, in its reflexive attempt to boost confidence in the economy, is
not only engaging in massive policy error, but is about to unleash a recession
which will promptly force it to cut rates again (to negative) and start another
episode of QE.
"Those
who say the United States should have intervened in 2011 to topple Assad are
left having to explain either how they could have rallied U.S. public support
for an Iraq-like occupation and rebuilding of Syria, or, in the absence of
that, how Syria would have avoided
Painful as it is to admit, the West, especially the
United States, bears significant responsibility for creating the conditions in
which ISIS has flourished. The recent attacks should be understood
as “blowback terrorism”: a dreadful unintended result of repeated US and
European covert and overt military actions throughout the Middle East, North
Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Central Asia that aimed to overthrow
governments and install regimes compliant with Western interests. These
operations have not only destabilized the targeted regions, causing great
suffering; they have also put populations in the US, the European Union,
Russia, and the Middle East at significant risk of terror.
MAFIA WARNS ISIS,
OFFERS NYC PROTECTION...
{ Hmmm … how much additional tribute to the entrenched domestic
terrorists will that cost … make no mistake, to be passed on to the rest of the
nation … and then the betrayal … for money of course … then complete control …
what deals? … weapons? drugs? laundered money to expand/spread control? … wake
up! … the mob’s full of s**! … the ny/nj national drain … do you think t_rump
would be anti-hispanic if the Mexican gangs were paying ny/nj ‘tribute’? wake
up to reality of ny/nj mob control … bribes flow freely making bad policy in
america …}
ISIS Evolution to 'External'
Targets...
Reuters | In January,
Turkish authorities detained one of the suicide bombers at Turkey’s border and
deported him to Belgium.
Gateway Pundit | ISIS is
planning an attack on the Philips Arena in Atlanta Sunday at 7.30 p.m. EST.
KGNS TV | Five Syrian
nationals presented themselves at the Gateway to the Americas Bridge.
Politico | The president
ends a tour of Asia with a plea to Americans to stay the course against ISIL.
Daily Mail | ‘We had him
down as a rent boy, he was always hanging out with that kind of crowd.
Paul Joseph Watson | Man
and his pregnant wife told to find a hotel.
NY Times | President
Obama vowed on Saturday to keep America’s borders open.
Zero Hedge | The Belgian
capital looks like not only a ghost town but something out of a Call of Duty
warzone.
Truth Revolt | What could
possibly have prompted this assignment?
Gateway
Pundit | It took a massacre in Paris for people to finally wake up.
·
WORLD NEWS
U.S.
and Chinese troops connect in first-ever exchange at JBLM
The News Tribune | The
exchange this week brought about 80 soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army
to a military base in the continental U.S.
Several
killed in Paris attacks hid in U.S. band’s dressing room: singer
Reuters | “Several people
hid in our dressing room and the killers were able to get in and killed every
one of them – except for a kid who was hiding under my leather jacket,”
Paris
attacks: Third body found in flat raided by police
BBC News | A third body
has been recovered from the apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis raided
by police after last Friday’s attacks, prosecutors say.
Attkisson:
Obama Is Selectively Reading Intel Reports [VIDEO]
Daily Caller | Obama has
“closed his mind” to some intelligence reports with which he disagrees.
Caught
On Tape: Russian Air Force Destroys Dozens Of ISIS Oil Trucks
Zero Hedge | “Around 500
fuel tanker vehicles transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq for processing
have been destroyed by Russia’s Air Forces.”
·
MONEY WATCH
Oil
May Plunge to $20, Signalling Economic Disaster: “The Numbers Are Dreadful And
Unprecedented”
Mac Slavo | The price of
oil has long been a key indicator of economic health and stability. And that
index is tanking fast.
Is
This How the Next Global Financial Meltdown Will Unfold?
Charles Hugh Smith |
Currencies are in the midst of multi-year revaluations that will destabilize
the tottering towers of debt.
The
Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
Zero Hedge | “You have to
go after the oil, and you have to do it in a serious way, and we’ve just begun
to do that now,”
The
Baltic Dry Shipping Index Just Collapsed To An All-Time Record Low
Michael Snyder | I was
absolutely stunned to learn that the Baltic Dry Shipping Index had plummeted to
a new all-time record low of 504 at one point on Thursday.
·
PRISON PLANET
Trump
advocates waterboarding enemy combatants
The Hill | Donald Trump
says if he’s elected president, he’ll bring back enhanced interrogation
techniques like waterboarding for enemy combatants.
Benedict
Cumberbatch’s character in Zoolander sequel branded transphobic
London Telegraph | The
androgynous character ‘All’ has come under fire for making a ‘mockery’ of
transgender people as a petition to boycott the film reaches almost 8,000
signatures.
Public
Middle School Students Ordered To Sing ODE TO ISLAM In Social Studies Class
Daily Caller | A social
studies teacher at a taxpayer-funded middle school in Orange County, Calif. has
incensed some local parents.
Ashland
student gov. endorses free speech, condemns excesses of Mizzou protests
Campus Reform | “Truth is
great and will prevail if left to itself.”
COMMENTARY
Attn.
Obama: 92 percent think this is a ‘serious threat to US’ (Hint: It’s NOT
climate change)
Twitchy | Poll: a
staggering 92% of US voters say Radical Islamic terrorism is a serious threat
to US.
CNN’s
Kayyem: Don’t Fight Back Against Terrorist Except As Last Resort
Newsbusters | Advised
against fighting unless “you have no other option” after attempting to run or hide.
Former
CIA Chief Woolsey: Electrocution Too Good for Snowden. Hang Him!
Lew Rockwell Blog | Former
Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey has discovered who is really
behind the Paris attacks.
Even
Chris Matthews is Questioning the ‘Refugee’ Crisis
Louder With Crowder |
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is starting to turn on the left when it comes to Syrian
refugees and the war on terror.
·
MULTIMEDIA
DONALD
TRUMP Lays Out Plan for ISIS: Blast the Hell Out of Them… Bomb the Hell Of Them
(VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit | “I’d get
everybody together and I’d blast the hell out of them.”
True
Origins of The Paris Massacre Revealed
Prison Planet.com | Alex
Jones talks with Infowars reporters Joe Biggs and Paul Joseph Watson on the
ground in Paris, France.
FBI:
Break-in at Army facility in Worcester, weapons missing
AP | Police are now
searching for suspects.
·
U.S. NEWS
Trump
refuses to rule out third-party run
{ What’s the signed pledge/word of a mental case/mobster/hitler
aficionado worth anyway? After all, hitler would never have ascended to power
without a broken pledge/word here or there! }
The Hill | Donald Trump is
refusing to rule out an independent White House run if he fails to win the
Republican presidential nomination.
Massive
Crowd at Trump Rally Chants: “Build That Wall! Build That Wall!”
Gateway Pundit | Trump
held a rally in Birmingham, Alabama Saturday afternoon at the
Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex.
National
Contest to Stop Hillary’s Attack on Free Speech
Prison Planet.com | Shoot a video to make fun of Hillary! $6,000 in
cash prizes!
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
‘Nonsense’:
Top Scientists Demolish Alarmism Behind UN Climate Summit
Daily Caller | A panel of
prominent scientists debunked one of the most popular global warming arguments.
Warmer
Is Better: Colder Planet = More War, Famine, Death
New American | There has
been no measurable global warming for nearly 19 years.
The
First GM Human Could Exist Within 2 Years
Julie Fidler | What do you
think about this?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015
Hawaii
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard pulls no punches when it comes to letting America
know what's really going on in Syria. After calling repeatedly for the US to
stop supporting militants in an effort to oust the Assad government in Syria, Gabbard
has now introduced bi-partisan legislation to put an end to what she calls an
"illegal", CIA-sponsored war.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015
Spot rates for transporting containers from Asia to Northern Europe have
crashed a stunning 70% in the last 3 weeks alone.
This almost unprecedented divergence from seasonality has only occurred at this
scale once before 2008!
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015
The
'Great Recession' was evidently so bad for the economy that it stopped the net
influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico. For the first time since the
1940s, more Mexicans have been leaving the U.S. to return home than arriving, a
reversal that brings down the curtain on the largest immigration wave in modern
American history. As
WSJ reports, the Pew Research Center figures released Thursday suggest that
the surge in legal and illegal Mexican immigration that helped transform
America - and remains a contentious issue on the presidential campaign trail - may
have peaked for good.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015
Courtesy
of the Fed, the most bearish trade going into the year end period is to
go long a handful of very specific stocks.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015
While
recent market turmoil in China has meant the government has been burning
through its cash reserves at a record pace, for
the electric utility plant in Yancheng; money is quite literally
power as 3 billion yuan of outdated or damaged bank-notes are incinerated to
generate electricity for Jiangsu province each and every year...
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015
Liquidity
in the junk (and all other markets) is evaporating, and according to Citi the spread
between an illiquid and liquid junk bond portfolio just hit 100 bps, the
most in the history of the series. Meanwhile according to Mohamed El-Erian
"The market is comfortable that whenever we hit a hiccup, the Fed is going
to come back in," he said. "It's very deeply embedded that
central banks are our best friends forever."
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015 - 16:19
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015
A fire burning in a residence on the 50th floor of the John Hancock
Center in Chicago has been put out according to the city’s fire
department.
The
infamous John Hancock building in Chicago is on fire. CNN reports, and the
following tweets show, flames visible halfway up and enormous plumes of
smoke amid the freezing Illinois air. The fire is in the
northeast corner of what appears to be the 50th floor of the building.
The Chicago Tribune reports at least six ambulances were
called to the scene. Authorities have shut down Michigan Avenue, which will be
holding the Magnificent Mile Festival of Lights Parade Saturday evening.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015
Americans have taken on more revolving debt (credit cards basically)
since March than they did the previous three years combined. Economists
are, as you would expect, nearly ecstatic over the impoverishment. To them, it
signals the final capitulation of consumers to that which Janet Yellen has been
professing since her term began. But there is a huge problem with that
view; if consumers are borrowing, what are they doing with the balances? Instead, this discontinuity can
only be consistent where consumers are completely out of options. If
there are noticeably fewer goods being shipped here and within here, the US,
and borrowing has just exploded at the same exact time then it is rather easy
to conclude far more of full recession than recovery.
Success...
or?
Swap
spreads recently took a nosedive and are once again trading at negative levels,
even for shorter maturities. This market perversion suggest
that Wall Street is a safer counterpart than the very institution that
underwrites the whole fractional reserve fraud in the first place. To price
in a higher risk premium on the US government than on US banks is a contradiction
in terms so there need to be another explanation behind this puzzling
market phenomenon... There is, and you're not going to like it.
Dear Mr. President, your country faces a stagnating economy... The
truth is it is too late for our politicians to act, because the speculative
peak that precedes the crisis is already upon us.
Abe
Scrambles To Keep ADB Relevant As Xi Dispenses "Belt" Whipping
The
global economic order is shifting beneath the feet of Washington and Tokyo as
Xi marches ahead with "One Belt, One Road" and prepares to extend the
first loans from the China-led development bank that embarrassed the Obama
administration earlier this year.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/20/2015 - 17:08
“George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the
solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far
more,” read a 2003 article on The Onion a week after
then-President George Bush launched the Iraq War. While a wide variety of
organizations and individuals also rebuked that invasion, the satirical
newspaper offered one of the most accurate assessments to date. So accurate,
in fact, it all but predicted the rise of the Islamic State.
"Daesh
has a mother: the invasion of Iraq. But it also has a father: Saudi Arabia and
its religious-industrial complex. Until that point is understood, battles may
be won, but the war will be lost. Jihadists will be killed, only to be reborn
again in future generations and raised on the same books. The attacks
in Paris have exposed this contradiction again, but as happened after 9/11, it
risks being erased from our analyses and our consciences."
What
do you do when you're a government statistician and the economic data doesn't
say what you want it to say? Why you "adjust" it of course.
In a libertarian world, people with these differing opinions and values
can live side by side in reasonable harmony, each side
following the famous Voltairian advice to disapprove of what someone says (or
does), but defend to the death his right to say (or do) it. But this
harmony breaks down when one group or the other seeks to put the heavy finger
of government on their side of the scales.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/20/2015 - 18:20
Obamaworld
is gone. We live again in an us-versus-them country in an us-versus-them
world. And we shall likely never know another.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/20/2015 - 17:33
Given
how awesome everything appears to be, judging by stocks and the tidal wave of
FedSpeak of the last week confirming that rates are rising in December, we
found it at least marginally 'odd' that out of the blue, The
Fed would announce an 'expedited, closed' meeting on Monday...
Importantly,
while the "bias" of the market is to the upside, primarily due to the
psychological momentum that "stocks are the only game in town,"
the mounting risks are clearly evident. From economic to
earnings-related weakness, the "bullish underpinnings"
are slowly being chipped away.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/20/2015 - 15:50
"Refugee Roulette..."
Is
This How The Next Global Financial Meltdown Will Unfold?
The
sums in play are so staggering (an estimated $11 trillion in emerging
market debts denominated in other currencies) that even the Fed
won't be able to stop the meltdown.
As
Puerto Rico stares down a $355 million bond payment due in less than two weeks,
analysts warn that without federal intervention, the commonwealth could face
growing social unrest and a prolonged depression.
You
can manipulate earnings, but The S&P 500 is as expensive now on
a cash-flow basis as it was at the peak of the dot-com bubble...
Mikael Thalen | Survey concludes Democrats more likely than
Republicans to support government-dictated rules on speech.
Prison Planet.com | Shoot a
video to make fun of Hillary! $6,000 in cash prizes!
Adan Salazar | Mysterious figures descend on federal
building from low flying choppers.
Steve Watson | “Are
you allowed to use profanity? Are we in the free speech zone?”
Paul Joseph Watson | Witnesses told not to talk about
discovery of bombs.
Gateway Pundit | Earlier this week a Syrian refugee went
missing in Louisiana.
Gateway Pundit | A new Pew Poll released this week found
that 63 million Muslims support the Islamic State in the eleven Muslim
countries polled.
Bruce On Politics | Some say do not confuse “moderate”
Muslims with those who have been radicalised.
RT
| RTL France is quoting Carlson Rezidor Group, the company owning the hotel, as
saying that two people are holding 140 visitors and 30 hotel employees hostage.
Mac
Slavo | Ultimately, many of them work in “secure” positions at the airport that
could compromise security and put Americans at risk.
·
WORLD NEWS
Paris
attacks: Third body found in flat raided by police
BBC News | A third body has been recovered from the
apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis raided by police after last
Friday’s attacks, prosecutors say.
Attkisson:
Obama Is Selectively Reading Intel Reports [VIDEO]
Daily Caller | Obama has “closed his mind” to some
intelligence reports with which he disagrees.
Caught
On Tape: Russian Air Force Destroys Dozens Of ISIS Oil Trucks
Zero Hedge | “Around 500 fuel tanker vehicles
transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq for processing have been destroyed
by Russia’s Air Forces.”
Nine
arrested in Brussels linked to Paris attacks
AFP | Series of raids target terror suspects as
Belgium faces criticism for failing to foil Paris perpetrators.
Breaking:
Alleged Audio Recording from Inside Bataclan During ISIS Attack
Gateway Pundit | This audio was reportedly recorded
inside the Bataclan that night.
·
MONEY WATCH
The
Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
Zero Hedge | “You have to go after the oil, and you
have to do it in a serious way, and we’ve just begun to do that now,”
The
Baltic Dry Shipping Index Just Collapsed To An All-Time Record Low
Michael Snyder | I was absolutely stunned to learn
that the Baltic Dry Shipping Index had plummeted to a new all-time record low
of 504 at one point on Thursday.
Exposed
– The Clinton Foundation is Running a $20 Million Private Equity Firm in
Colombia
Michael Krieger | The Clinton Foundation is operating
a $20 million private equity firm in Colombia.
Brace
For a Crash: Holiday Spending Hasn’t Been This High Since 2007
Joshua Krause | I distinctly remember the Christmas
of 2008. It was unique from every other holiday season that I experienced in my
childhood.
·
PRISON PLANET
Public
Middle School Students Ordered To Sing ODE TO ISLAM In Social Studies Class
Daily Caller | A social studies teacher at a
taxpayer-funded middle school in Orange County, Calif. has incensed some local
parents.
Ashland
student gov. endorses free speech, condemns excesses of Mizzou protests
Campus Reform | “Truth is great and will prevail if
left to itself.”
Breaking:
5 Muslim Foreign Nationals Arrested on Ohio Turnpike; Passports Taken (Video)
Gateway Pundit | Five foreign nationals were arrested
on the Ohio Turnpike in Braceville Township on Friday.
CIA
Director: Paris Attacks Result of Too Little Gov’t Surveillance
New American | CIA director John Brennan wasted no
time in using the horrific attack.
COMMENTARY
Former
CIA Chief Woolsey: Electrocution Too Good for Snowden. Hang Him!
Lew Rockwell Blog | Former Director of Central
Intelligence James Woolsey has discovered who is really behind the Paris
attacks.
Even
Chris Matthews is Questioning the ‘Refugee’ Crisis
Louder With Crowder | MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is
starting to turn on the left when it comes to Syrian refugees and the war on
terror.
GridExIII
Drill Coincides with American Terror Threat: “ISIS Cells Could Attack Our Power
Grid”
Mac Slavo | The threat of an ISIS attack on U.S. soil
has become a tangible possibility.
Judgment
On America? We Are On Pace For The Worst Year For Wildfires In All Of U.S.
History!
Michael Snyder | Never before have so many acres
burned in America up to this point in the year.
·
MULTIMEDIA
DONALD
TRUMP Lays Out Plan for ISIS: Blast the Hell Out of Them… Bomb the Hell Of Them
(VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit | “I’d get everybody together and I’d
blast the hell out of them.”
True
Origins of The Paris Massacre Revealed
Prison Planet.com | Alex Jones talks with Infowars
reporters Joe Biggs and Paul Joseph Watson on the ground in Paris, France.
FBI:
Break-in at Army facility in Worcester, weapons missing
AP | Police are now searching for suspects.
·
U.S. NEWS
National
Contest to Stop Hillary’s Attack on Free Speech
Prison Planet.com | Shoot a
video to make fun of Hillary! $6,000 in cash prizes!
Trump rises in
wake of Paris attacks
The Hill | Donald Trump has gained political strength
since the Paris terrorist attacks last Friday, according to most of the polls
released in the aftermath.
Schumer
Flip-Flops, Now Opposes Refugee ‘Pause’
Truth Revolt | “None have been arrested or deported
for terrorism”
·
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Warmer
Is Better: Colder Planet = More War, Famine, Death
New American | There has been no measurable global
warming for nearly 19 years.
The
First GM Human Could Exist Within 2 Years
Julie Fidler | What do you think about this?
Antibiotics
Fed to Livestock are Putting Kids’ Lives in Danger
Julie Fidler | 80% of antibiotic use in the U.S. is
in livestock.
SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
POLL:
Majority of Americans feel like strangers in own country...
t_rump:
the incident showed Carson had a "pathological" temper. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/carsons-comeback-trumps-insults-pray-him-135707822.html
"If
you're pathological, there's no cure for that," Trump said. "If you're
a child molester, there's no cure. They can't stop you."
Carson
has said his intended stabbing victim's belt buckle blocked his knife, a detail
Trump singled out in his rant.
"Lo
and behold! It hit the belt. It hit the belt and the knife broke," Trump
said mockingly.
Other
Republican candidates came to Carson's defense early Friday and slammed Trump
for his controversial plans on foreign policy and immigration.
"Anyone
can turn a multi-million dollar inheritance into more money, but all the money
in the world won't make you as smart as Ben Carson," candidate
Carly
Fiorina wrote on Facebook.
Republican
candidate Lindsey Graham called Carson a "good, decent man," and said
of Trump: "I think he melted down last night."
"He
has no clue what he's talking about," Graham, a South Carolina senator,
said on Fox News. "Over time, that will take a toll - I hope."
Donald
Trump's Plan for a Muslim Database Draws Comparison to Nazi Germany NBCNews.com
https://www.yahoo.com/katiecouric/kasich-on-trump-bullies-dont-bother-me-221438775.html
White
Students Asked to Leave 'Black-Only Healing Space'...
Editor
in Chief of Student Newspaper Blocks Reporters During Campus Protest...
University
Forced To Cancel Play Over Actors Being White...
Wall St. Ties Linger as Image
Issue for Hillary...
Carson loses Iowa
conservatives; Shift to Cruz...
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Painful as it is to admit, the West, especially the
United States, bears significant responsibility for creating the conditions in
which ISIS has flourished. The recent attacks should be
understood as “blowback terrorism”: a dreadful unintended result of repeated US
and European covert and overt military actions throughout the Middle East,
North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Central Asia that aimed to overthrow
governments and install regimes compliant with Western interests. These
operations have not only destabilized the targeted regions, causing great
suffering; they have also put populations in the US, the European Union,
Russia, and the Middle East at significant risk of terror.
Mossad
– The Israeli Connection To 911 ...
being involved in the terror attacks of 9/11. ... from a phony moving company
in Weehawken, N.J., ... The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel on ... http://rense.com/general64/moss.htm ‘…Shortly after the destruction of the twin
towers, radio news reports described five "Middle Eastern men" being
arrested in New Jersey after having been seen videotaping and celebrating the
explosive "collapses" of the WTC. These men,
from a phony moving company in Weehawken, N.J., turned out to be agents of
Israeli military intelligence, Mossad. Furthermore, their "moving
van" tested positive for explosives. Dominic
Suter, the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems, the phony "moving
company," fled in haste, or was allowed to escape, to Israel before FBI
agents could interrogate him. The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel
on minor visa violations…’
http://albertpeia.com/mossad911.htm
U.S.
investigators and the controlled media have ignored a preponderance of evidence
pointing to Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, being involved in the
terror attacks of 9/11.
From the
very morning aircraft smashed into the World Trade Center (WTC) and the
Pentagon, news reports have indicated Israeli intelligence being involved in
the events of 9/11 - and the planting of "false flags" to blame Arab
terrorists and mold public opinion to support the pre-planned "war on
terror."
Shortly
after the destruction of the twin towers, radio news reports described five
"Middle Eastern men" being arrested in New Jersey after having been
seen videotaping and celebrating the explosive "collapses" of the
WTC.
These
men, from a phony moving company in Weehawken, N.J., turned out to be agents of
Israeli military intelligence, Mossad. Furthermore, their "moving
van" tested positive for explosives.
Dominic
Suter, the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems, the phony "moving
company," fled in haste, or was allowed to escape, to Israel before FBI
agents could interrogate him. The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel
on minor visa violations.
The
Assistant Attorney General in charge of criminal investigations at the time was
Michael Chertoff, the current head of the Dept. of Homeland Security. Chertoff,
the son of the first hostess of Israel's national air carrier, El Al, is
thought to be an Israeli national.
One of
the Israeli agents later told Israeli radio that they had been sent to
"document the event" - the event which took the lives of some 3,000
Americans.
Despite
the fact that the Israelis arrested in New Jersey evidently had prior knowledge
or were involved in the planning of 9/11, the U.S. mainstream media has never
even broached the question of Israeli complicity in the attacks.
ISRAELIS
FOREWARNED
On
September 12, 2001, the Internet edition of The Jerusalem Post reported,
"The Israeli foreign ministry has collected the names of 4,000 Israelis
believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
at the time of the attack."
Yet only
one Israeli was killed at the WTC and two were reportedly killed on the
"hijacked" aircraft.
Although
a total of three Israeli lives were reportedly lost on 9/11, speechwriters for
President George W. Bush grossly inflated the number of Israeli dead to 130 in
the president's address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001.
The fact
that only one Israeli died at the WTC, while 4,000 Israelis were thought to
have been at the scene of the attacks on 9/11 naturally led to a widespread
rumor, blamed on Arabic sources, that Israelis had been forewarned to stay away
that day.
"Whether
this story was the origin of the rumor," Bret Stephens, the Post's
editor-in-chief wrote in 2003, "I cannot say. What I can say is that there
was no mistake in our reporting."
ODIGO
INSTANT MESSAGES
Evidence
that Israelis had been forewarned several hours before the attacks surfaced at
an Israeli instant messaging service, known as Odigo. This story, clear
evidence of Israeli prior knowledge, was reported only briefly in the U.S.
media - and quickly forgotten.
At least
two Israel-based employees of Odigo received warnings of an imminent attack in
New York City more than two hours before the first plane hit the WTC. Odigo had
its U.S. headquarters two blocks from the WTC. The Odigo employees, however,
did not pass the warning on to the authorities in New York City, a move that
could have saved thousands of lives.
Odigo
has a feature called People Finder that allows users to seek out and contact
others based on certain demographics, such as Israeli nationality.
Two
weeks after 9/11, Alex Diamandis, Odigo's vice president, reportedly said,
"It was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo
members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the
message."
The
Internet address of the sender was given to the FBI, and two months later it
was reported that the FBI was still investigating the matter. There have been
no media reports since.
Odigo,
like many Israeli software companies, is based and has its Research and
Development (R&D) center in Herzliya, Israel, the small town north of Tel
Aviv, which happens to be where Mossad's headquarters are located.
Shortly
after 9/11, Odigo was taken over by Comverse Technology, another Israeli
company. Within a year, five executives from Comverse were reported to have
profited by more than $267 million from "insider trading."
Through
Israeli "venture capital" (VC) investment funds, Mossad spawns and
sponsors scores of software companies currently doing business in the United
States. These Israel-based companies are sponsored by Mossad funding sources
such as Cedar Fund, Stage One Ventures, Veritas Venture Partners, and others.
As one
might expect, the portfolios of these Mossad-linked funding companies contain
only Israeli-based companies, such as Odigo.
Reading
through the strikingly similar websites of these Israeli "VC" funds
and their portfolio companies, one can't help but notice that the key
"team" players share a common profile and are often former members of
"Israel's Intelligence Corps" and veterans of the R&D Department
of the Israel Air Force or another branch of the military. Most are graduates
of Israel's "Technion" school in Haifa, Mossad's Interdisciplinary
Center (IDC) in Herzliya, or a military program for software development.
The IDC,
a private, non-profit university, is closely tied to the Mossad. The IDC has a
"research institute" headed by Shabtai Shavit, former head of the
Mossad from 1989 to 1996, called the International Policy Institute for
Counter-Terrorism.
The IDC
also has a "Marc Rich Center for the Study of Commodities, Trading and
Financial Markets" and a "Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and
Strategy." The cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder, who is a supporter of
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his far-right Likud Party, founded the
Lauder school.
Lauder,
president of the Jewish National Fund and former chairman of New York Governor
George Pataki's Commission on Privatization, is the key individual who pushed
the privatization of the WTC and former Stewart AFB, where the flight paths of
the two planes that hit the twin towers oddly converged. Ronald Lauder played a
significant, albeit unreported, role in the preparation for 9/11.
Pataki's
wife, Libby, has been on Lauder's payroll since at least 2002 and reportedly
earned $100,000 as a consultant in 2004. According to The Village Voice,
between 1994 and 1998, Gov. Pataki earned some $70,000 for speaking to groups
affiliated with Lauder.
THE
PTECH CUTOUT
Ptech, a
mysterious software company has been tied with the events of 9/11. The Quincy,
Massachusetts-based company was supposedly connected to "the Muslim
Brotherhood" and Arab financiers of terrorism.
The
firm's suspected links with terrorism resulted in a consensual examination by
the FBI in December 2002, which was immediately leaked to the media. The media
reports of the FBI "raid" on Ptech soon led to the demise of the
company.
Ptech
"produced software that derived from PROMIS, had an artificial
intelligence core, and was installed on virtually every computer system of the
U.S. government and its military agencies on September 11, 2001,"
according to Michael Ruppert's From the Wilderness (FTW) website.
"This
included the White House, Treasury Dept. (Secret Service), Air Force, FAA, CIA,
FBI, both houses of Congress, Navy, Dept. of Energy, IRS, Booz Allen Hamilton,
IBM, Enron and more," FTW reported.
"Whoever
plotted 9/11 definitely viewed the FAA as the enemy that morning. Overriding
FAA systems would be the most effective way to ensure the attacks were
successful," FTW reported. "To do this, the FAA needed an evolution
of PROMIS software installed on their systems and Ptech was just that; the
White House and Secret Service had the same software on their systems - likely
a superior modified version capable of 'surveillance and intervention'
systems."
But did
the U.S. government unwittingly load software capable of "surveillance and
intervention" operations and produced by a company linked to terrorism
onto its most sensitive computer networks, or was Ptech simply a Mossad
"cutout" company?
Oussama
Ziade, a Lebanese Muslim immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1985, founded Ptech
in 1994. But the company's original manager of marketing and information
systems was Michael S. Goff, whose PR firm, Goff Communications, currently
represents Guardium, a Mossad-linked software company.
And Goff
comes from a well-to-do line of Jewish Masons who have belonged to Worcester's
Commonwealth Lodge 600 of B'nai Brith for decades. So, why would a recently
graduated Juris Doctor in Law leave a promising law career to join forces with
a Lebanese Muslim's upstart company sponsored with dodgy funders in Saudi
Arabia?
"As
information systems manager [for Ptech], Michael handled design, deployment and
management of its Windows and Macintosh, data, and voice networks," Goff's
website says. "Michael also performed employee training and handled all
procurement for software, systems and peripherals."
AFP
asked Goff, who left the Worcester law firm of Seder & Chandler in 1994,
how he wound up working at Ptech. "Through a temp agency," Goff said.
Asked for the name of the agency, Goff said he could not remember.
Could it
be Mossad Temps, or maybe Sayan Placement Agency?
Goff,
the original marketing manager for Ptech software, said he did not know who had
written the code that Ptech sold to many government agencies. Is this
believable?
Goff
leaves a legal practice in his home town to take a job, through a temp agency,
with a Lebanese Muslim immigrant who is selling software, and he doesn't know
who even wrote the code?
AFP
contacted the government agencies that reportedly have Ptech software on their
computers, and IBM, to ask if they could identify who had written the source
code of the Ptech software.
By press
time, only Lt. Commander Ron Steiner of the U.S. Navy's Naval Network Warfare
Command had responded. Steiner said he had checked with an analyst and been
told that none of the Ptech software has been approved for the Navy's
enterprise networks.
Finis
Why
We’re Sliding Towards World War
Posted by
: George Washington
Why Now?
Posted by:
williambanzai7
Gobble Gobble Garbage...
M&A
Spikes to Craziest Frenzy Ever, even as Bottom Falls out of Riskiest End
Posted by:
testosteronepit
CEOs, Wall Street are furiously making hay while the storm
moves in.
Plan A for GOP donors: Wait for Trump to fall. (There is no Plan
B.) Washington Post When
Donald Trump landed in Ohio this week, he got a taste of the meager Republican
super PAC efforts aimed at him: a 47-second Web video clipping together some of
his most provocative comments and a small airplane trailing a banner
proclaiming, ... Kasich Super PAC Ad Compares a Fellow Republican to Nazis Donald Trump's 4 Brain Farts on Trade and Immigration
Reason (blog) Featured: Black Protester Beaten at Trump Rally Ready to Sue for Hate
Crime Daily Beast
New
Smoking Gun: U.S. and UK KNEW Saddam Did NOT Possess WMDs
Posted by
: George Washington
Post date:
11/30/2015 - 16:02
Obama and Clinton Are JUST AS BAD
ISIS: Oil
as a Strategic Weapon
Posted by:
EconMatters
Post date:
11/30/2015 - 16:21
The ISIS group sells most of its crude directly to
independent traders at the wellhead for $20-$45 a barrel earning the group an
average of $1.5 million a day.
Gold
Demand in China Heading For Record and Reserves Increase 14 Tonnes In October
Posted by:
GoldCore
Post date:
11/30/2015 - 10:52
While gold prices continue to languish in the doldrums and
are on course for their worst month since 2013, global demand and especially
Chinese retail, investor and official demand continues to...
Erdogan
Says Will Resign If Oil Purchases From ISIS Proven After Putin Says Has
"More Proof"
"At the moment we have
received additional information confirming that that oil from the deposits
controlled by Islamic State militants enters Turkish territory on industrial
scale."
Here's
How To Trigger A Bank Run
What should the rational
investor do in an environment of ongoing financial repression? If you
wanted to trigger a bank run, this is certainly how you might go about it.
Number
Of Millennials Living In Parents' Basement Climbs (Again); Weddings Blamed
(Again)
Three weeks ago, we noted with
some alarm that the number of women age 18 to 34 living with their parents is
now the highest since record keeping began more than seven decades ago. Now,
according to the latest data from the Commerce Department (which someone
clearly forgot to double seasonally adjust), we discover that nearly a fifth of
males aged 25-34 live in their parent's basement while the aggregate number for
the 18 to 34 bracket inclusive of both women and men rose to 31.5% as of March.
Paper
Gold Dilution Hits 294x As Comex Registered Gold Drops To New All-Time Low
According to the latest data,
total Comex Registered gold dropped by another 11% overnight to just 134,877
ounces, just over 4 tonnes and another all time low, and since the gold open
interest remains largely unchanged, the physical gold coverage ratio, or the
ratio of gold claims to Registered gold, has just hit an all time high of 294
ounces of paper for every ounces of physical.
Sweden:
"No Apartments, No Jobs, No Shopping Without A Gun"
"I am scared stiff of
what is happening in this country. What will the government do about
this?"
2015:
The Last Christmas In America
The game of enabling more
debt by lowering interest rates and loosening lending standards is coming to an
end. Debt is not a sustainable substitute for income, and
households are increasingly waking up to this realization. Say
good-bye to Christmas, America, and debt-based spending in
general--except, of course, for the federal government, which can always borrow
another couple trillion dollars on the backs of our grandchildren.
President
Obama's Latest ISIS Strategy Illustrated
Seek protection from the great
threat...
The
Lull Before The Storm - An Ideal Chance To Exit The Casino, Part 1
Last night’s Asia action
brought another warning that the global deflation cycle is accelerating. Iron ore
broke below $40 per ton for the first time since the central banks kicked off
the world’s credit based growth binge two decades ago; it’s now down 40%
this year and 80% from its 2011-212 peak. This implosion of demand cannot be
remedied with another round of central bank money printing because the world is
already at peak debt. Accordingly, global corporate profit cycle is
heading into a deep downturn, just as the equity markets go into a
final spasm of levitation based on a handful of big cap stocks.
Across 4,888 US listed stocks,
only the micro-est of micro-caps remain (historically speaking) cheap... do
you feel lucky?
"Tengram has instructed its
broker that it will not permit borrowing of any of its shares by short sellers
who are only interested in reducing the value of the Company’s stock price for
their short-term gain. We urge each of you to contact your broker
today and inform them that your shares may not be made available to be borrowed
by short sellers.”
How
To Defeat ISIS (In 9 Simple Steps)
Having fixed the greatest
threat to the world - climate change - and following the deadly Paris attacks and
numerous other violent incidents perpetrated by the terror group ISIS, many
governments and populations worldwide are wondering how we can eliminate this
threat. Here are some strategies to defeat the Islamic State...
While
hyperinflating Argentina has begun discussing a rise in the denominations of
its banknotes, and South
Africa has admitted defeat in the currency wars, it appears Kazakhstan's
collapsing currency and crashing reserves has prompted action. Since allowing
the Tenge to "free float" in August it has imploded (from 188 to 308
per USD) and so today The Kazakh Central Bank unveiled the new 20,000
Tenge banknote - double the highest denomination previously.
Another
Hedge Fund Bites The Dust: Trafigura Shuts Down Its Flagship Metals Fund
While the storm clouds continue to build above Trafigura, we
now know the fate of Galena and why its CEO Letchford departed the company in a
hurry last week: according to a follow
up from Bloomberg, Trafigura has decided to close the flagship Galena
Metals Fund, the latest hedge fund victim of the rout in raw materials markets
from oil to copper.
Last week's arrest of Latin
America's most prominent investment banker sent shares of BTG Pactual plunging
as investors pulled a third of their money from the firm's fixed income funds.
As shocking as Andre Esteves' detention most assuredly was, analysts say the
real risk may stem from the investigation into Rousseff's "guy" in
the Senate, Delcidio Amaral, who was also detained last Wednesday. As Bloomberg
reports, Amaral's "arrest not only delayed government efforts to resolve
this year’s budget dispute, but it also dispelled a long-held belief
that sitting lawmakers are all but untouchable because of a quirk in Brazilian
law that affords politicians special treatment in criminal
investigations."
Kit Daniels | Russian
Air Force equips jets with air-to-air missiles.
Paul
Joseph Watson | The real agenda behind the Paris climate summit.
CNN
| Combating climate change will prove to be a rebuttal of terrorist efforts.
Zero
Hedge | “The missiles have target-seeking devices and are capable of hitting
air targets within a 60km radius.”
Daily
Mail | Most will arrive by plane from as far afield as New Zealand, Sydney and
Bermuda.
Kurt Nimmo |
Operation “Total Destruction” will use warships, aircraft and submarines
against IS.
Kit Daniels | What
you can do to bring the system to its knees!
Paul
Joseph Watson | Victim sympathized with rapist’s “difficult situation”.
Ron
Paul | They tell us we have to do it in order to fight terrorism, but their
policies actually increase terrorism.
London
Express | The deal has provoked anger and prompted fears that Europe’s doors
will be left wide open to Islamic extremists.
·
WORLD NEWS
Russia
Prepares For Dogfights With NATO Over Syria
Kit Daniels | Russian Air Force equips jets with air-to-air
missiles.
Fears
ISIS taking control of heroin trade, using proceeds for Paris-style attacks
RT | Russia warns that
Islamic State is taking control of heroin production and trafficking.
Prosecutors
ban Soros Foundation as ‘threat to Russian national security’
RT | The Law on
Undesirable Foreign Organizations came into force in early June this year.
The
Laugh’s on Europe: Gulf States Refuse Syrian ‘Refugees’
Turkey’s
Trump Card: Erdogan Can Cut Russia’s Syrian Supply Line By Closing Bosphorus
Zero Hedge | Russia does
indeed have economic interests in Turkey.
·
MONEY WATCH
Chinese
yuan likely to be added to IMF special basket of currencies
London Guardian | China’s
efforts to make the yuan an international currency on a par with the US dollar
are to receive a fillip.
Shortages
Ahead: Half of Global Gold Production Is No Longer Profitable
Daily Sheeple | When you
examine the precious metals market, what you’re really looking at is two
separate markets, being fueled by two very different buyers.
Meanwhile
In Greece, The Price Of A Prostitute Drops To €4 Per Hour
Gold
Plunges Below “Crucial Level”, Lowest Since Oct 2009 On $2 Billion Notional
Flush
Zero Hedge | Someone
decided that Friday after Thanksgiving would be the perfect time to dump over
18,000 contracts.
·
PRISON PLANET
London Independent | A
parliamentary inquiry into the MoD’s safety record listens to parents.
‘Planned
Parenthood Shooter’ Identifies as Unaffiliated Voter, Female
Truth Revolt | Much to the
consternation of liberals.
Air
Force hires civilian drone pilots for combat patrols; critics question legality
LA Times | “There are
limitations on it,” he said. The contractors “are not combatants.”
NSA
begins new phone surveillance program as bulk metadata collection ends
RT | The NSA is ready to
move ahead with a different program.
COMMENTARY
Obama
just gave a 14-minute, apocalyptic speech in Paris; here’s the shortened
version
BizPacReview | President
Barack Obama spoke in Paris urging the world to act on global warming to defy
Islamic terrorists.
Saudi
Arabia and ISIS – A Side by Side Comparison
Liberty Blitzkrieg | Any
questions?
The
Bizarre Explanation For Why The U.S. Has Avoided Bombing ISIS Oil Wells
Michael Snyder | Why
hasn’t the U.S. bombed the oil wells that ISIS controls into oblivion by now?
Marine
Le Pen Wipes the Floor With Islam Apologists During EU Speech
Prison Planet.com | ‘If
you cannot name the enemy, you cannot fight it’.
·
MULTIMEDIA
‘Oxygen
for jihadists’: ISIS-smuggled oil flows through Turkey to intl markets – Iraqi
MP
RT | Terrorist group
Islamic State earns millions of dollars selling oil on the black market in
Turkey.
Videos:
Bullhorning Black Friday Zombies
Infowars.com | Mark Dice
braves the zombie hordes to document the walking dead as they congregate in
retail centres around electronic goods.
Dashcam
Footage Shows Zombie-Like Migrants in Calais, France
YouTube | All males 18-30
years (fighting age).
·
U.S. NEWS
Trump
says pastors were likely pressured by BLM members ‘because he believes all
lives matter’
BizPacReview | He said the
meeting would still take place — endorsement or no endorsement.
How
YOU Can Win Against The System – Watch & Learn!
Kit Daniels | What you can do to bring the system to its knees!
GOP
donors wrestle with possibility of Trump nomination
The Hill | Most,
however, still believe that Trump will flame out before they have to face that
decision.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
China
plans to launch carbon-tracking satellites into space
Reuters | No
launch date was given and no other details of the plan were announced.
Top
biologists debate ban on gene-editing
London Guardian |
Washington biology summit to consider ban on controversial technology.
Scientists
capture black hole eating a star and then vomiting it back out
London
Independent | It is the first time that anyone has seen the radio signal that
comes from what has been likened to a cosmic ‘burp’.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
The
December Jobs Number May Really Be The "Most Important Ever"
Everyone
has heard the phrase "this is the most important jobs report ever",
and virtually every time this has been an exaggeration. However according to an
analysis conducted by BofA's Vadim Iaralov, the nonfarm payrolls report on
December 4 may just really be the most important jobs
number. Ever.
With
Mass Shootings, The State Makes Us Less Safe
A society that is given the option to protect itself is not a fearful
society, it is
a prudent one. The
victims of Paris were never allowed the option to protect their lives, nor were
they fortunate to have armed defenders present or trained combatants to stop the attack before it reached them. People need the opportunity to secure their own
safety since, as the past twelve years has shown, the State will fail them.
Out
Of Gas: Gazprom Cuts Off Ukraine, Will Turkey Be Next?
The
Western media will tell you that Gazprom cannot afford to cut Turkey off in
retailiation for Ankara's attack on a Russian warplane. While that may be true,
it's important to remember that Turkey's fallback option when it comes
to replacing lost supply is Iran and under the circumstances, it seems
exceptionally unlikely that Tehran would be willing to make things easier on
Erdogan.
Retailers
are cutting back their pre-Christmas orders in anticipation of
disappointing holiday sales and due to already bulging inventories.
Bank
Of America Forecasts No Recession Until 2027 (If Ever), Sees S&P At 3,500
In 10 Years
According
to Bank of America there sill be no recession until 2027, if ever, and the
S&P will hit 3500 by 2025. Just one thing we would like to know: does Bank
of America anticipate another bailout of Bank of America during this upcoming
golden age a la 2008, or is that also impossible to predict.
Let
It Snow - California Drought Recovery Remains "Extremely Unlikely"
While
so much hope is pinned on El Nino relieving California's drought in early 2016,
climatologists suggest tempering that optimism a little as what is really
needed is snow. "Since it has been dry for so long, people get
excited,” says one hydrologist, but, as
Bloomberg reports, without snow "the notion of fully
recovering from the drought is extremely unlikely,” as if the
storms come in as rain, or the mountain snow can’t pile up high enough, a lot
of water will be lost.
Gobble,
gobble, gobble...
Even
The Rally In Large Caps Is Narrowing
The bull market in U.S. equities has narrowed over the past 6 months as
strength has become concentrated in large cap stocks. Recently, strength has
narrowed even among those large caps.
Here
Comes "QE For Metals" - China's Desperate Commodity Sector Demands A
State Bailout
China's aluminum and nickel producers have asked Beijing to buy up
surplus metal, sources said,
the first coordinated effort since 2009 to revive prices suffering their worst
rout since the global financial crisis. China Nonferrous Metals Industry
Association had suggested that the state buys 900,000 tonnes of
aluminum, 30,000 tonnes of refined nickel, 40 tonnes of indium, and 400,000
tonnes of zinc. Or, in other words, "QE for metals."
On
Monday, Mauricio Macri, the son of Italian-born construction tycoon Francesco
Macri, beat out Cristina Kirchner’s handpicked successor Daniel Scioli for
Argentina’s presidency in what amounted to a referendum on 12 years of Peronist
rule. Now, Macri faces a trio of daunting tasks: i) restore central bank
liquidity, ii) implement a new FX regime, and iii) tackle the ballooning budget
deficit. The most most pressing concern: the central bank is literally
out of dollars.
Paul Joseph Watson |
“Every Muslim believes in these things”.
Gateway Pundit | But the
politicians will try to push their junk science next week in Paris anyway.
WSB-TV | The terrorist
attacks in Paris put a big spotlight on refugees around the country.
Washington Examiner | The
president has already issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim
nations over the past five years.
Steve Watson | Narcissist In Chief has Americans cringing.
Paul Joseph Watson |
Wesley Clark says Islamic State is “serving the interests of Turkey”.
Paul Joseph Watson |
Footage could “tear Chicago apart”.
Steve Watson | “I was
going to leave the office soon. Now what am I supposed to do?”
Kurt Nimmo | Dirty business deals and terrorism by the
Erdoğan clan.
Michael
Krieger | These kids are more or less acting like Wall Street financiers after
the bailouts.
·
WORLD NEWS
Downing
of Russian Su-24 looks like a planned provocation – Lavrov
RT | Lavrov added that
many Russian partners called the incident “an obvious ambush.”
US
Planes Left ISIS Fuel Tankers Unharmed Because ‘They Ran Out of Ammunition’
CNS News | The U.S.
military conducted a second wave of attacks on (parked) ISIS oil tankers in
Syria on Sunday, Nov. 22, but the attack fell short of its goal.
Second
Russian airman shot down by Turkey is alive, says Moscow
London Guardian |
Navigator of Su-24 jet rescued after Syrian special forces and Hezbollah
conduct 12-hour operation in rebel-held territory.
Ankara
defends ISIS, Turkish officials have financial interest in oil trade with group
– PM Medvedev
RT | Some Turkish
officials have ‘direct financial interest’ in the oil trade with the terrorist
group Islamic State.
Jihadi
John dead but ISIS headquarters still standing
Rebel Media | Why aren’t
those buildings in rubble?
·
MONEY WATCH
The
Gold Vaults Are Running Low, Here’s What Happens They Run Out
The Daily Sheeple |
Someday in the near future, the process of buying a precious metal asset is
going to look very different than it does today.
The
Triumph Of Materialism: The Average American Will Spend 830 Dollars On
Christmas In 2015
Michael Snyder | But have
our incomes gone up accordingly? Of course not.
Census
Bureau: 21.6% of U.S. Children—15,931,000–on Food Stamps in 2014
CNS News | The number and
percentage of children in households on food stamps held relatively steady from
2013 to 2014, according to the Census surveys.
Global debt
defaults near milestone
Financial Times | Global
debt markets are on the cusp of an unwelcome development.
·
PRISON PLANET
This
Thanksgiving, Let’s Say ‘No Thanks’ to the Tyranny of the American Police State
John W. Whitehead |
Thanksgiving is not what it once was.
Muslim
Feminist Diversity Officer Sends Rape Threat to Pamela Geller
Frontpage Mag | “I set up
the Women’s Forum and the Survivor’s Support Network for students who had
experienced sexual violence and abuse”
CHICAGO
ERUPTS! Laquan McDonald Protesters ATTACK POLICE, Toss BOTTLES, Steal Police
Bikes (Video)
Gateway Pundit | McDonald
was murdered for jaywalking.
Confederate
flag on laptop reported as ‘bias incident’ at Framingham State
Campus Reform | “We
recognize that bias incidents are upsetting for the entire campus community…”
COMMENTARY
Angry
Feminist Makes Sourdough Bread With Her Vaginal Yeast – Posts It Online
Gateway Pundit | What a
lovely girl.
Richard
Dawkins Compares Clock Boy to ISIS Jihadi. Leftists FREAK!
Louder With Crowder |
Dawkins walked into this firestorm and didn’t back down.
Drone
Whistleblower Claim – Pilots Often High on Drugs; Refer to Children as “Fun
Size Terrorists”
Michael Krieger | The
killings, part of the Obama administration’s targeted assassination program,
are aiding terrorist recruitment.
NATO
Is Harboring ISIS, And Here’s The Evidence
Zero Hedge | The PKK has
suggested that Ankara is and always has been in bed with Islamic State.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Russian
Jet Shoot Down: What They’re Not Telling You
Paul Joseph Watson |
Turkey is defending its ally – the Islamic State.
Paul Joseph Watson | The
problem isn’t “radical Islam,” the problem is just Islam.
DONALD
TRUMP Lays Out Plan for ISIS: Blast the Hell Out of Them… Bomb the Hell Of Them
(VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit | “I’d get
everybody together and I’d blast the hell out of them.”
·
U.S. NEWS
NEW
VIDEO From MN Black Lives Matter Shooting Shows Black Protesters SUCKER PUNCH
White Videographer
Gateway pundit |
Protesters alleged they were shot by three “white supremacists” for no reason.
Dallas
Mayor Who Fears White People Lives In 92 Percent White Neighborhood
Daily Caller | Dallas
Mayor Mike Rawlings has said that he is more afraid of “white men” than Syrian
refugees.
Sen.
Sessions Reveals 12 Refugee Jihadis To Shrink Obama’s 2016 Refugee Budget
Breitbart | This year,
Obama is promising to bring in an extra 10,000 low-skill, potentially
difficult-to-integrate Syrian migrants into the United States.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
It
Was All a Lie! German Scientist Confirms NASA Fiddled with Climate Data
Gateway Pundit | German
professor Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert confirmed what other previously reported,
NASA fiddled with global warming data to push global warming.
Experts
Say Major Earthquake Will Slam Oklahoma
Julie Fidler | The “Big
One” is coming.
Prince
Charles: Climate Change Root Cause of Syrian War
Gateway Pundit | And you
wonder why the 89 year-old Queen Elizabeth won’t step down?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
"When I think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large
animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long
roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain but has become trapped by its own
missteps, as caught in a tar pit or some quicksand, and it is violently
flailing about, making a terrifying noises in its effort to free itself and
re-establish its authority. Any observer immediately knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but
certainly is frightened by the noise and crashing that it can sustain for a
considerable time."
{ This analogy would almost be funny if it wasn’t so tragically true … }
Ron Paul
says Trump troubles him The Hill | Former Rep. Ron Paul
(R-Texas) said on Thursday that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s ‘aggressive
personality’ troubles him. { If only someone had said that about hitler …
} TRUMP
JUMPS TO FIRST PLACE... { Wow! … How irrevocably far
america’s fallen … ny/american mobster/mental case don ‘the donald’ t-rump …
don, you must complete your fourth reich aspiration by writing your ‘Mein
Kampf’ from inside a jail cell … paralleling your idol, adolph, whose orations
you obsessively listened to for inspiration (from author O’Donnell as per
Ivanna Trump) …}
Leaves
third-party door open... { ‘The Donald’, as did his
psychopathic idol, ‘The Furor’ of dark days past hits/exploits a ‘hot-button’
issue, illegal immigration, arguing for selective/arbitrary enforcement of the
law in that regard [conveniently exempting/sparing/ignoring him and his
<1%> from far more destructive (economically and otherwise) criminal
activities] and like his kindred spirits, the nazis, ramps up the rhetoric …
The truth/reality is that the aforesaid immigration debacle is but a fraction of
the damage/cost to the nation of home-grown crimes of corruption, bribery,
(drug) money laundering and financial frauds in the hundreds of billions (along
with citizen violent crimes which has made the u.s. number 1 in that regard for
many decades), integral to and attributes of his indigenous new york/new jersey
nationwide sinkhole; the frenzy obscuring the magnitude of such home-grown
crimes while focusing on the almost insignificant by financial comparison
immigration issue … After all, trump’s benefited mightily from such bubble
frauds and through political power seeks to lock in the ill-founded wealth for
himself and the other greedy criminal 1%. Where was he when the fraudulent
bubbles were expanding … counting his money/gains along with the rest of the small
1% while 99% were bearing the brunt/cost of such blatantly misguided/oft times
illegal policy … appreciating, not deprecating until irrevocable, the 1% wealth
enhancing crimes to the detriment of the nation and 99% of the populace …
t_rump’s a fraud on the nation and any nations worldwide that have had the
misfortune to buy into ‘the donald’s’ hitlerian attempt to fool ‘all of the
people’ not ‘some of the time’, but this one time to protect his undeserved
gains through raw, unbridled(in his maniacal hands), power at the expense of
those who can least afford it … your pain, his gain is the inevitable and
invariable ultimate reality (Donald
Trump Empire Sought Visas For At Least 1100 Foreign Workers Huffington
Post) … [ If only someone had said that
about hitler! … ] see http://albertpeia.com/trumpshitler.htm ,
http://albertpeia.com/trumpism.htm
{ The latest in t_rump’s disparagement of john mccain: … t_rump will set his military service record against that of McCain any day; viz., ‘the donald’ t_rump 0 vs. mccain –1 … yes john, yours is a negative number (victory t_rump), because (bully and coward as all bullies are) t_rump says you’re a loser for having been shot down in your fighter jet in the heat of actual battle and having been captured seriously injured thereafter [along with 5 years of torturous captivity – If only t_rump had focused on mccain’s senility, misguided military industrial complex welfare programs warned against by great but underrated President General Eisenhower (note t_rump has gone after Academy grads, ie.,Graham, McCain, where honor was/is still taught but for quite some time has been out of fashion/irrelevant, not practiced), violations of the military code of conduct while prisoner, ‘keating 5 type corruption’, etc., t_rump might have at least showed deceptively a semblance of rationality; but of course, going after corruption would be for t_rump, blatantly self-destructive-that trump’s not in jail is a testament to how far america’s fallen] … and fellow veterans you are on notice by t_rump: Those of you who actually have served to date, who’ve been POW’s, lost limbs, been wounded, maimed, killed are losers … not winners in the corrupt/fixed/bribe-induced fantasy world (‘mobster in chief’ would more suit the ‘teflon don t_rump’ http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm . ) of t_rump’s sociopathic/narcissistic projection of ‘real winners’ in the mold of ‘the donald’s’ role model/idol, ‘the furor’, the psychotic adolph hitler himself whose orations t_rump obsessively listened to for inspiration (from author O’Donnell as per Ivanna Trump … ‘Trumped: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump’ by John R. O'Donnell ) Student deferment AND medical deferment (psychological / psychiatric I could believe is apropos), t_rump likes to cover all bases, ‘flower child’ that he conveniently was at the time (WHAT TYPICAL TRUMP B**L S**T!). (Just kidding about ‘flower child’ … I always liked real hippies; especially those real hippies who molded themselves to the extent possible in the manner of Jesus Christ himself in terms of peace, love, and ‘quintessential anti-greed/anti-corruption’.) This t_rump scenario brings to mind that great oscar-worthy film superbly crafted by the underrated David Cronenberg, ‘Dead Zone’ (book by Stephen King), oscar-worthy great performance (how did they miss it) by lead Christopher Walken with great performances across the board; especially Martin Sheen superbly as the psychotic, ruthlessly aggressive, trumpishly ambitious politician, Greg Stillson. Borrowing the words of Walken’s psychically endowed Johnny Smith rather than to t_rump his own ‘your fired’, I say (to psychotic mental case trump) ’YOU’RE FINISHED’! }
11-7-15: t_rump wants to
make america great again … does Saturday Night Live … wow … that’s worth a
laugh or two … yes, t_rump’s effectively saying the joke’s on you!
Orlando Sentinel4 days ago
The Inquisitr6 days ago
The Hollywood Reporter
Business
Insider via Yahoo! FinanceAug 11
Fox News host Megyn Kelly told her network that
she received death threats from Donald Trump...
Megyn Kelly fears no evil … ‘blood from her eyes and other
body parts’ … a disparagement of women, to be sure; but as well, more
importantly, for those in the know, a veiled threat meant to intimidate - not
that t_rump would actually bloody them but some mob minion of one of the extant
ny/nj entrenched old gangs with whom he’s ingratiated himself, through ie., the
federal bench – viz., sister maryanne trump barry et als, etc. – don’t the feds
have any pride/honor? – ask the ‘tough questions’ of these and other major
american criminals, ie., wall street, etc. – they’ll either lie, plead the 5th,
or be arrested on the spot – oh well, Martha Stewart was a 45 thousand dollar
soft target to be bullied to jail under some perverted notion they’re doing
their job – what job – coverup for the biggest criminals – how pathetic and
gutless they are … and nbc (and parent
companies among others) who gave rise to media/unreality tv exposure to
‘american furor’ t_rump seems happy to oblige with one of those Sunday joke
shows … t_rump just wants fairness … for himself and only for himself [through
whatever means, ie., bribery through, ie., retainers to law firms linked to
state attorney generals, viz., {kimmelman} wolf and sampson, chris droney’s
(now a fed judge) brother, his sister’s protection/corruption and quid pro quo
from the federal bench, etc., and as well, protection of drug-money laundering
through his now nominal only casinos … ( it’s important to note that bribes in
pervasively corrupt america take many forms beyond direct monetary transfers
and are ubiquitous and extend to all levels of government; ie.,
legislators/politicians’ quid pro quo, judges, prosecutors, fbi <hoover’s
‘whorse-trading’ was ‘world famous’, etc.>, sam alito rising by way of
cover-up/quid pro quo/bribe to inept supreme court justice labeled after an infamous
faux paux in terms of judicial acumen/ability as <in a Washington Post
comment> making clarence thomas look like Oliver Wendell Holmes <my
personal favorite jurist>, maryanne trump barry awaiting full payment of
bribe to brother don’s trump casinos before ruling for RICO defendants (she
also protected john gotti, etc.), etc., See, ie.,
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm .
; that is, as he corruptly asserts ill-gotten financial
dominance – always getting a piece of someone else’s action/work/off the top
like a cost so prevalent and built in ‘On the Waterfront’ – think of those
instances where t_rump had to ‘real (not under)world’ compete; ie., trump air,
trump university, jersey generals(pro football), the fraudulent debacle in Baja
California bearing his name, etc…fraud and failure… ] … Because americans are
for the most part, cowards if not bullies, the threat seems to have had the
desired effect …
The ‘strategy’
promulgated by mobster t_rump on national television: ‘take away their wealth’
… well, that’s worked for him in america where the processes are
fixed/corrupted and far from the ‘fair treatment’ he’s demanding as if a victim
… Wasn’t that hitler’s strategy/popular tune … a page right out of hitler’s
blood-red linings playbook … and, even substantially a motivation for the
debacle in Iraq (oil wealth) which I unequivocally opposed ab initio and without qualification … Well now, isn’t
that what made the 20th century the bloodiest …
payback/pushback/blowback’s a bitch and modern weaponry is ever more lethal …
t_rump awaited the negative outcome before taking a position – check the dates
… t_rump’s also exploited the hot button issue of immigration when the
truth/reality is that the aforesaid immigration debacle is but a fraction of
the damage/cost to the nation of home-grown crimes of corruption, bribery,
illegal drugs/(drug) money laundering and financial frauds in the hundreds of
billions (along with citizen violent crimes which has made the u.s. number 1 in
that regard for many decades), integral to and attributes of his indigenous new
york/new jersey nationwide sinkhole; the frenzy obscuring the magnitude of such
home-grown crimes /criminality /corruption that has benefited him while
focusing on the almost insignificant by financial comparison immigration issue
… Since Pope Francis has been vocal/prominent in the immigration debate, it is
time for The Church to step up so as not to be accused of silence as was so
during hitler’s rise … the scape-goating of the relatively powerless/ the
minorities/ the poor/ the oppressed … yet another page right out of hitler’s
blood-red linings playbook … What say you, Pope Francis … After ALL, the
‘moneychangers’ to which t_rump is joined at the hip (ie., wall street, etc.)
would make the corrupt, avaricious ‘moneychangers’ condemned by Christ look
like novices/pikers in comparison. (NOTE: 8-23-15 t_rump says tax the hedge
funds … sure, relatively small in size, dispersed here and there… chump change
if at all collectible with offsets given the sell-off owing to fraudulently
inflated bubble prices coming back to earth/reality; but, not the institutional
monoliths, ie., goldman sachs, j.p.morgan, et als of his new york/new jersey
national drain homeland and at the heart of scam/problem – bail-outs,
pennies-on-a-dollar ‘cost of business’ fines but no prosecutions or full
disgorgement, huge bonuses even as bailed out, etc. … If you think t_rump is
for the middle class, you haven’t been paying attention or he might just sell
you the Brooklyn Bridge … You are already paying for churn and earn, non-value,
non-value added computerized lightning-fast scams). Yes, as Michael Lewis
pointed out, ‘A Den of Thieves’ (See also Michael Lewis’ recent fact-filled
non-fiction book, ‘The Big Short’ – ‘… The Big Short describes
several of the key players in the creation of the credit default swap market
that sought to bet against the collateralized debt obligation (CDO)
bubble and thus ended up profiting from the financial crisis of 2007–2010. The book
also highlights the eccentric nature of the type of person who bets against the
market or goes against the grain….’ Wikipedia )
Here are some reasons
Trump stays so popular with his supporters:
11-7-15: t_rump wants to
make america great again … does Saturday Night Live … wow … that’s worth a
laugh or two … yes, t_rump’s effectively saying the joke’s on you!
{Think about it …
seriously … would any of the historically great leaders/presidents have so
exercised such poor judgment to garner attention to his/her self by resorting
to a comedy show starring appearance/performance in these dire, perilous times
… YES, T_RUMP’S A JOKE/JOKER! }
In such things time can be of the essence … I’m sure Biden
would have consulted with his late son Beau before embarking on such a run … I
don’t know much about Beau; but, if asked, I believe Beau would say, ‘DAD, GO
FOR IT!’
JOE SAYS NO! … IT’S A NO-GO FOR JOE!
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Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as we
noted was possible previously - Texas has
enacted a Bill to repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a
newly established state gold bullion depository..."People
have this image of Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is
exactly where they would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes
a section to prevent forced sEIZURE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
IS THIS THE FIRST STEP DOWN A ROAD TO SECESSION?
$8.9 million NIH study
led to mobile system for ‘real time behavior monitoring’AP
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
September 25, 2015 4:45 pm
Researchers at the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a system that can predict the
“psychological status” of users with smartphones and hope to private companies
to bring the invention to the market.
The
technology appeared on a list of NIH inventions published in the Federal
Register that are now available to be licensed by private companies. The
government allows companies to license inventions resulting from federal
research in order to expedite their arrival on the marketplace.
The
system uses smartphones to ask people how they are doing mentally during the
day and based on the results can “deliver an automated intervention” if
necessary.
“The
NIH inventors have developed a mobile health technology to monitor and predict
a user’s psychological status and to deliver an automated intervention when
needed,” according to the notice published Wednesday. “The technology uses
smartphones to monitor the user’s location and ask questions about psychological
status throughout the day.”
“Continuously
collected ambulatory psychological data are fused with data on location and
responses to questions,” the NIH said. “The mobile data are combined with
geospatial risk maps to quantify exposure to risk and predict a future
psychological state. The future predictions are used to warn the user when he
or she is at especially high risk of experiencing a negative event that might
lead to an unwanted outcome (e.g., lapse to drug use in a recovering
addict).”
The
NIH said the technology has potential commercial applications for “real-time
behavior monitoring” and “therapeutic delivery of an intervention via a mobile
device.”
Researchers
developed the system from a project that tracked the mood and cravings of drug users in Baltimore. The $8.9 million federal study sought to develop algorithms that could “automatically detect behavioral events (such as
episodes of drug use or stress) without requiring self-report.”
The
NIH said the app is currently being used for drug addiction interventions, but
that the “inventors are also seeking to test the technology for other health
applications.”
Request
for comment from the NIH was not returned by press time.
Having
spent half my life in the tropics, I appreciate island life. I’m especially
fond of the introspective mindset. Something about living on a small patch of
land surrounded by ocean seems to lead to fruitful contemplation of life’s
mysteries.
For
example, during a trip to investigate citizenship-for-sale in the Caribbean, I
once spent a sunset on the quay of the Dominican capital of Roseau in
conversation with a weathered old gentleman named Jim. As devotees of the sport
tend to do, our conversation turned to cricket — specifically, an incident in
the late 1950s when the selectors chose an inexperienced white player over
acclaimed black Barbadian batsman Frank Worrell to captain the West Indian test
side. At the time, black West Indians weren’t upset with the white player ...
they booed the black cricket administrators instead.
Jim remembered the incident well. “That’s the way with island politics. We
don’t hate foreigners or white skins. We hate those of our own that make money
off foreigners without thinking of us.”
Indeed, the residents of the Caribbean islands welcome immigrants with a smile.
But they get most upset when their political leaders cheat at the
passports-for-sale game.
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The
island nations of the Caribbean basin were founded on plantation agriculture.
Sugarcane and its offspring, rum, made plantation owners fabulously wealthy in
the 18th and 19th centuries. The cane industry survived even when slavery was
abolished throughout the British Empire in the 1830s. But it was decimated by
the loss of colonial tariff protection in the 1960s.
Tourism helped to fill part of the gap, but many of the smaller islands have
been chronically cash-strapped ever since. Starting in the 1980s with St. Kitts
and Nevis, island governments began to sell citizenship in exchange for a cash
contribution and/or a real estate or business investment. In addition to St.
Kitts, passport-vendors now include Antigua and Barbuda, as well as Dominica
and Grenada.
As my own on-the-ground research reveals, these programs are generally
aboveboard. They give new citizens visa-free access to many countries,
including the European Union (EU). This is especially attractive to people from
places like China, Russia and the Middle East, who don’t enjoy that privilege.
And since most of the islands don’t levy income tax, their passports have
become popular with many Americans, too.
Nevertheless,
you have to shop carefully for a Caribbean passport. Antigua is a case in
point.
Owing to its popularity with tourists, Antigua is significantly more “developed”
than the other islands, with more paved roads, more hotels and restaurants, and
a vibrant nightlife. Many celebrities, such as Oprah Winfrey and Eric Clapton,
have holiday homes there. Antiguans tend to see themselves as a cut above the
rest of the islands.
But the country got into serious trouble a while back when U.S. fraudster Allen
Stanford was busted for a $7 billion Ponzi scheme operated from Antigua. The
island’s government and banking system was riddled with corruption centered on
Stanford.
Subsequent elections and reforms cleaned up most of that mess. But the
resulting hole in the island’s public finances led to a rapid expansion of its
Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP). After elections in 2014, the new
ruling party “went ballistic,” according to one observer, issuing hundreds of
passports, mainly to Chinese and Middle Eastern individuals. The government
also stopped releasing the names of new citizens as well as the financial
records of the program.
There are apparently now at least three “secret” levels of the CIP, including
waivers on visas into Antigua, temporary residency status and inclusion of
family members without separate due diligence. The government has also been
accused of “giving” 120 passports to a Chinese company in return for investment
on the island. The disposition of those passports is unknown.
These shenanigans have caught the attention of the U.S. government. Several
weeks ago, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Committee on
Homeland Security, accused Antigua of hosting two human-trafficking rings, one
dealing with Cubans and the other involving Syrians seeking entry into the U.S.
He also said that the U.S. will be investigating a group of Syrians that
illegally “jumped” to the U.S. Virgin Islands after obtaining backdoor visas to
Antigua.
The
always-lively Caribbean press has also noted Antigua’s recent passport
shenanigans. Like my friend Jim, the locals are not at all happy that a program
that was supposed to benefit all islanders is being abused by government
leaders. Accusations of corruption are made almost daily. The temperature is
rising, and Antigua’s program may be at risk, both at home and in the U.S. and
EU, where visa-free access is jealously guarded.
Antigua illustrates a critical fact about Caribbean citizenship programs:
Things are constantly changing. If you’re looking for a Plan B in these islands, you need an unbiased source of
information.
So before you fork over your money for a passport to paradise, be sure to check with me to make sure it isn’t going to land you somewhere
else entirely.
Kind regards,
Ted Bauman
Offshore and Asset Protection Editor
P.S. Whether or not you choose to obtain a second passport,
it’s still crucial to move your money offshore, away from the influence of a
fickle Federal Reserve and volatile stock markets. Learn how to move your
assets offshore with my new book, Where to Stash Your Cash (Legally). Get your free copy of this important resource here.
Posted
by : testosteronepit
Post
date: 03/01/2015 - 00:54
Cashing out of the “Bet on America” might get messy.
Gorbachev: Murder of Opposition Leader Was a False
Flag
Posted
by: George Washington
Post
date: 02/28/2015 - 18:53
Like the Ukrainian Sniper Murders
Posted
by: williambanzai7
Post
date: 02/28/2015 - 20:11
We do!
As the world contemplates the various 'provocation'
scenarios - a Russian act, a CIA act meant to look like a Russian act,
or a Russian act meant to look like a CIA act? - the following
clip suggests this was anything but an ad hoc shooting... Questions
remain, but Soviet ex-President Mikail Gorbachev is sure, the assassination of
opposition politician Boris Nemtsov as an attempt to destabilize
Russia.
If not the economy or fundamentals, and if not the
Fed, which as we know is still on sabbatical after its massive QE1-2-Twist-3 $3
trillion liquidity injection, just what has pushed stocks up to jawdropping all
time highs? Here, courtesy of Deutsche Bank, is the answer...
Most Americans spend their lives working for others,
paying off debts to others and performing tasks that others tell them that they
“must” do. These days, we don’t like to think of ourselves as “servants” or
“slaves”, but that is what the vast majority of us are. It is just
that the mechanisms of our enslavement have become much more sophisticated over
time.
Collecting debt is a dirty business which is why The
Federal Government turns it over to the private sector. Meet one of the biggest players in the industry, law
firm Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson. It has worked for small-town school
districts, the city of New York and at one point, the largest tax collector in
the country: the Internal Revenue Service. As CNN reports, based in Texas, Linebarger works for 2,300
clients nationwide and collects $1 billion for its clients each year.
But the collection system is far from perfect, leading to some nightmare
scenarios. Despite decades of scandals over the way the firm gets business
(and even jail time for one of its top executives) Linebarger still lands
lucrative government contracts...
The average American benefited in no way from the
government/banker bailout.
Their wages have deteriorated, their daily living expenses have risen,
Obamacare has resulted in higher healthcare premiums, higher co-pays, more
part-time jobs, less full-time jobs, and less healthcare choices for the working
class, while Wall Street generates billions in risk free profits, bankers and
corporate executives reap massive million dollar bonuses, and the .1% parties
like its 1999. Rising wealth inequality has been systematically
programmed into our economic system by bankers and their bought off puppet
politicians in Washington D.C. – Corporate fascism at its finest.
Russian scientists have now spotted a total
of seven craters, five of which are in the Yamal Peninsula. Two of
those holes have since turned into lakes. And one giant crater is rimmed by a
ring of at least 20 mini-craters, the Siberian Times
reported."
While the divergence between macro data
'dismalness' and equity price exuberance is by now well known, there is a
greater threat looming to the rampapalooza that is underway. As forward
Price-to-Earnings ratios have soared in the last year (aided and abetted - as Alan Greenspan explained -
solely by The Fed's largesse) so bottom-up earnings growth expectations have cratered. So much so
that veteran stock market investors and traders now see the divergence
between multiple 'hope' and growth 'reality' as "ridiculous."
Just how ridiculous? Worse than 1987, 2002, and 2011, when stocks fell over 20%
upon realization of reality.
Another quarter of no “escape velocity” on main
street and a further round of Kool Aid drinker speculation on Wall Street takes
us just that much closer to the brink. Yet the Fed remains oblivious and continues to
manufacture excuses and equivocations as to why ZIRP should extend into its
80th month and beyond. This is mis-governance on a colossal scale. So when
the next thundering crash occurs - it is devoutly to be hoped that “audit the
Fed” turns out to be the least of the threats descending on the Eccles
Building.
Presented with no comment...
The lines bethween the New Normal and the New
Paranormal, between the real and the surreal are increasingly getting blurred
when, having nothing else to praise about the US economy, the WSJ focuses on
the "wage gains" of burger flippers... meanwhile 75% of Americans are
confident they will work until their death.
Previously, the Obama administration attempted
unsuccessfully to ban the AR-15. That didn’t work, so now Obama is
going after the ammunition. This is yet another example of the war on
preppers that is going on all over the nation. Whether you are a gun owner
or not, this assault on our constitutional rights should disturb you greatly.
One of these things is not like the other... one of
these things just doesn't belong...
Just when Greece thought it had bought itself some
breathing room in its desperate attempt to rebuild confidence in its financial
system, here comes JPM and effectively calls Yanis Varoufakis a liar,
suggesting that Greek deposit outflows have continued at a brisk pace despite
the bailout extension "deal."
"If you drop anybody into any momentous period
in history, it’s really tough to perceive it at the time. It’s only when you
look back on these things with the benefit of hindsight that you really see how
historic they really are. But for many people right now who can forget the narrative and can forget
what they're being told by various interested parties, if you can stand back far enough and take a
practical look at what’s happening, I think it’s much easier to see certainly how far
from normality things are today. "
Just a few short hours after the terrible murder of
Russian opposition politician and outspoken Putin critic Boris Nemtsov, US'
John Kerry was quick to condemn the actions of the "reformer" and
demand Russia's "expeditious investigation," and President Obama has
since issued a statement "admiring [Nemtsov's] struggle against
corruption" Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the Nemtsov murder
was "100% provocation... It looks like a contract killing."
Paul Joseph Watson | Gun stores selling 20 times
usual amount.
Prison Planet.com | Infowars investigates the Chicago
PD’s secret, CIA-style black site used to unlawfully detain, torture and harass
citizens.
Tony Cartalucci | Martyrdom on demand: if not of use
alive, perhaps of use dead?
Daily Caller | “Your rights are in your DNA and the
government, quite frankly, can get over it.”
Weekly Standard | Show availability of Iran for al
Qaeda training, plotting.
RT | Facing criticism, the Pentagon announced it has
pushed back plans by Iraqis to mount a major attack to regain Mosul from the
Islamic State.
Free Thought Project | It was discovered this week
that the Chicago Police Department has been operating a secret “black site”
facility on the city’s west side.
Tampa Bay Times | A math teacher at St. Petersburg
High allegedly posted a “terrorist list” on his classroom door with students’
names.
Adan Salazar | Anywhere between 7,300 and 8,300 people sterilized
under state-sponsored law.
Mikael Thalen | Hayden attempts to sway conservatives
during CPAC speech.
China Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine
Conflict
Zero Hedge | And the winner is…
The Entire Case for Sanctions Against Russia Is Pure
Lies
Eric Zuesse | U.S. President Barack Obama has stated many times his case
against Russia — the reason for the economic sanctions.
SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
California
Terror Attack PROVES Mass Spying Doesn’t Keep Us Safe
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 12/03/2015 - 15:23
Too Bad Our Government Isn't
Serious About Stopping Terrorism ...
Thirty
Years of Silver Supply Deficits
Posted by: Sprott
Money
Post date: 12/04/2015 - 05:43
After a full generation of
systemic crime in the silver market and thirty consecutive years of supply deficits,
there will be a reversal in this market, and that reversal can come in only one
form
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 12/03/2015 - 21:16
For junk trolling...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015 - 17:19
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015 -
For
the hundreds of thousands of warehouse, retail and storage workers who will
soon be made obsolete, please meet your nemesis: the robot who will do
your job without complaints, asking for a pay raise (or salary), or ever
threatening to unionize.
When
at first you don't succeed (having
failed in their bid to draw physical gold from the 'cold, dead' hands of Indian
citizens), find another group to exploit. As is standard
operating procedure with government, if voluntarism fails, use coercion...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015 -
One
of the largest fears of firearm owners is the prospect of a database of their
names and personal information in the hands of the federal
government. The idea of the government in possession of a list of gun
owners has been one of the most opposed proposals in the gun control
debate. The stiff opposition is linked to the justifiable fear of
the government using such a list to confiscate firearms by force.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015
"
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015
The
mainstream media is increasingly suggesting that we have once again entered
into a 'Goldilocks Economy.' The problem is that in the rush to come up
with a 'bullish thesis' as to why stocks should continue to elevate in the
future, they have forgotten the last time the U.S. entered into such a state of
'economic bliss.' You might remember this: "The Fed's
official forecast, an average of forecasts by Fed governors and the Fed's
district banks, essentially portrays a 'Goldilocks' economy that is neither too
hot, with inflation, nor too cold, with rising unemployment." - WSJ Feb
15, 2007. Of course, it was just 10-months later that the U.S.
entered into a recession followed by the worst financial crisis since the
'Great Depression.'
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015 -
The bad news - CDC
says Ecoli has been discovered in 9 states owing to Chipotle
The reaction - Chipotle rescinds previous outlook, sees
Q4 Comps down 8%-11%
The silver-lining - $300 million buybacks - so BTFD you
fools!!
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015 -
Presented
with no comment...
This is WAY beyond ‘if you see something, say something.’
"You
can't 'comply' because there is no rule of law. The best thing you can
do is establish processes for who is likely to be taken away, and how to make
sure they aren't disappeared forever."
CNN
Turkey, citing security forces officials, is reporting what appears to be yet
another escalation in the middle east maelstrom as Turkish troops enter Iraq.
So suddenly, just as the world is scrutinizing Turkey's role in the Islamic
State oil trade, Ankara decides to send anti-ISIS troops across the border? Are
they trying to secure the crude trade and guard the trafficking routes?
French voters are about to head to the polls for the first time since
last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris. This alone is enough to make the upcoming regional
elections particularly significant. However, as in pretty much every recent
French election, all eyes will be on the performance of Marine Le Pen’s Front
National. According to the latest polls, the anti-immigrant party looks close
to a breakthrough at the regional level... Front National has never
governed a French region. It now looks on course to win two of them.
Submitted
by RANSquawk Video on 12/04/2015 - 14:35
As
a consequence, on the back of the rate decision and press conference, EUR/USD
soared after touching intra month lows in the build up and falling below the
1.0550 level to then break above 1.0900 and sustaining the strength through to
the end of the week.
Joe Biggs & Kit Daniels | “Within
four or five blocks from my house, people were shouting ‘Allah Ackbar,'”
resident reports.
Adan Salazar | New
rule would corral holiday revelers into free speech zones.
Kurt Nimmo | Also
question validity of claims Farook was connected to radical Islamists.
Paul Joseph Watson | ‘Refugees’
pelt stones at cops during confrontation.
Gateway Pundit | ISIS Paris
terrorist Salah Abdeslam went to Hungary in late September and met up with two
of the migrants.
Steve Watson | Gun
violence lowest since 1960s, except in gun free zones.
Daily Beast | In 2015, tech billionaires
pursued anti-aging and cheating death like never before.
Google is now after your blood
Daily Mail | Patent reveals the
firm is planning a ‘needle-free’ way to collect samples using smartwatches.
Paul Joseph Watson | New
guidelines demand holiday celebrations are “not a Christmas party in disguise”.
Kurt Nimmo | Says
“violent” language directed at Muslims unacceptable.
JIHAD COMES TO CALI...
Quiet, withdrawn before
violence...
Pro-ISIS news agency says
followers carried out attack...
Obama still not releasing
terrorist immigration records...
200,000 immigrants from
Pakistan since 9/11...
Scrutiny falls on marriage
visas...
AP LATEST...
Gun Violence Declining --
Except in Gun-Free Zones...
Firearm Sales Set Another
Monthly Record...
NRA: CA Already Has
President's 'Control Wish List'...
Loretta Lynch Vows to
Prosecute Those Who Use 'Anti-Muslim' Speech That 'Edges Toward Violence'...
Muslims feel intense
backlash...
FBI: TERRORISM
INVESTIGATION...
Journalists rummage through
killers' home...
PLEDGED
ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS ON FACEBOOK
By Katie Brinn
Sen. Rand Paul slammed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for hypocrisy on marijuana
in an interview Wednesday with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric.
Responding to recent revelations that Gov. Bush smoked pot during
his teen years at Phillips Academy, Paul pointed out the flaws in Bush’s opposition to medical marijuana
in his home state.
Sen. Paul, who has hinted about his own wild college days, was quick to clarify
that he did not fault Bush for having “made mistakes growing up.” Instead, he
took issue with Bush’s inconsistent views on the drug. “If you’ve got MS in
Florida, Jeb Bush voted to put you in jail if you go down to a local store or a
local drugstore and get medical marijuana ... and yet he was doing it for
recreational purposes.”
To Paul, it was Bush’s privileged upbringing that spared him the harsh
penalties many Floridians still face when they entangle with marijuana. “It was
a different standard for him,” the presidential hopeful explained, “because he
was from a wealthy family, going to a very wealthy school, and he got off
scot-free.”
Posted
by : George Washington
Post
date: 02/27/2015 - 11:57
Guess ...
Posted
by: williambanzai7
Post
date: 02/27/2015 - 21:52
Are you a good Jihadi or a bad Jihadi?
Update: John Kerry has decided to comment: U.S. URGES RUSSIA TO ACT IN
EXPEDITIOUSLY IN NEMTSOV MATTER, SAYS BORIS NEMTSOV SOUGHT TO REFORM RUSSIA
Just nine hours after tweeting "Putin
annexed Crimea and is now handing over Siberia to the Chinese," and
three ours after calling for a "Russian Spring" march, prominent
Vladimir Putin critic and opposition politician (who back in 1997 was also
deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation) Boris Nemtsov, has been killed
in the center of Moscow. As The BBC notes, the Russian opposition politician and former deputy
PM was shot to death on a Moscow street. Life News is
reporting he was shot
in the chest four times on a street very close to Red Square.
Few asked throughout the Ukraine civil war is just
whose side is China leaning toward, after all the precarious balance of power
between NATO and Russia had resulted in a stalemate in which neither side has
an obvious advantage (even as the Ukraine economy died, and its currency
hyperinflated, waiting for a clear winner), and the explicit or implicit
support of China to either camp would make all the difference in the world, and
perhaps the world's most formidable axis. Today we finally got the
answer. China's ambassador to Belgium, was quoted as blaming competition
between Russia and the West for the Ukraine crisis, urging Western
powers to "abandon the zero-sum mentality" with Russia.
Reuters assessment of Xing speech: "an unusually frank and open
display of support for Moscow's position in the crisis." At least
it is not a warning to the US to back off or else. Yet.
Never has our nation, corporations and wealthy top 1%
faced so many new threats to their efforts to grow their power and wealth
around the world. But a real war would provide the crisis excuse to
confiscate your gold and "excess" retirement plan and IRA assets,
reduce or curtail your social security benefits, dramatically raise taxes and
institute total exchange controls while curtailing your remaining freedoms and
ability to resist for the duration of the crisis.
As many of you know the FCC approved what is now
considered the greatest change in the fundamental underpinnings of how
the internet will be both used as well as “allowed” to be used. The
regulation now known as Net Neutrality will supposedly make the internet more “fair”
or “equal” to everyone. All I’ll ask you to ponder is this: How’s your cable
bill working out for you? There’s a lot of known and unknowns still to be had
as we sit here today. Why? Regardless of what you’ve heard or seen written in
the press about this regulation; no one, and I do mean, no one knows
the details to this new and sweeping regulation.
Despite warnings from the likes of Elon Musk and
Stephen Hawking (and of course, Sarah Connor), Ray Dalio's $165 billion
AUM hedge fund Bridgewater will start a new, artificial-intelligence unit next
month. Despite the "new normal"'s total reversal of any and
every historical rational trading pattern, the unit will attempt to create
trading algorithms that make predictions based on historical data and
statistical probabilities, as "machine learning is the new wave of
investing for the next 20 years and the smart players are focusing on it."
Does this mean the talking heads of CNBC, with their 'memes', 'myths', and
'mumbling' rationales for it always being a good time to buy are now obsolete?
Or did the market just become self-aware?
The dragon tail of Marx's end-game of overcapacity
and finance capital is about to shred China's fantasy that the state can
micro-manage both capitalism and financialization with no contradictions or
consequences. "Dragon
Seeks path. Dragon whips his tail." The dragon of capitalism isn't as easy
to control as bureaucrats expect.
This is what Europe has become: savers -
those who diligently put away the fruits of their labor - are now forced
to pay, using banks as an intermediary, and subsidize the the
debtor: spenders, who live beyond their means, and who in increasingly more
frequent situations are now paid to take out even more debt!
Call it monetary socialism, or just call it what it is: the New Paranormal.
"In retrospect, Obama’s intervention in Libya was an
abject failure,
judged even by its own standards. Libya has not only failed to evolve into a
democracy; it has devolved into a failed state... As bad as Libya’s human
rights situation was under Qaddafi, it has gotten worse since NATO ousted
him."
Despite the well-managed collapse of Equity, FX, and
Rates volatility in February, the Oil complex is exhibiting
Lehman-Depression-like levels of implied vol still as central planners
seem unable (or unwilling) to manipulate the energy complex (rock of inflation
and hard place of 'consumer tax cut'?). As WSJ reports, this volatility is roiling market makers, luring
fast-money traders (and algos) and discouraging long-term investors from
hedging/positioning. As one asset manager noted, "we like volatile
two-way markets... but this is too high for us."
"While the wealth effect is a theoretical
possibility, it is not supported by economic fact. The stock market is not a
good guide to the economy, but...the bond market is a very good economic indicator. When bond yields are very low and declining it’s an
indication that the same is happening to inflation and that economic activity
is weak. The bond yields are not here for any fluke of reason. They are here because business conditions in the US and
abroad are quite poor."
Presented with little comment but to say "Thank
you Jim..."
With just hours to go until The Department of
Homeland Security runs out of money at midnight, after failing to pass a
longer-term stop-gap funding bill earlier in the evening, the Senate has
managed to buy themselves a week before this whole farce is played over again:
SENATE PASSES ONE-WEEK DHS STOPGAP SPENDING BILL
House GOP Aides expect the one-week measure to pass
with Democratic support.
With the "Great Greek Tragedy" now
behind the markets, for the time being, all eyes have turned towards the
Nasdaq's triumphant march back to 5000. (The graphics department at
CNBC have been working overtime on banners and bugs for when it
happens....watch for them.) For now, it is all about the hopes of
a cyclical upturn in the Eurozone economy supported by the ECB's QE program
starting next month. Market participants have been bidding up stocks
globally in anticipation that the ECB's program will pick up where the Fed left
off, and the flood of liquidity will find its way back into asset prices
Based on Bloomberg data, Doral Bank is the 3rd
largest (by assets) bank in Puerto Rico...or rather was. After a 58% collapse
in the share price today, news broke after the close:
*PUERTO RICO'S DORAL BANK PLACED UNDER FDIC
RECEIVERSHIP, BANCO POPULAR AGREES TO BUY DORAL BANK OPERATIONS
It appears Non-Performing Loans were over 40%. Popular will take the deposits (and 8 of Doral's 26
branches) and the FDIC eats the bad debt (estimates to cost the Deposit
Insurance Fund (DIF) will be $748.9 million).
Adan Salazar | Anywhere between 7,300 and 8,300 people sterilized
under state-sponsored law.
Mikael Thalen | Hayden attempts to sway conservatives
during CPAC speech.
Kit Daniels | Americans more concerned about the color of a dress which went viral
than they are about Internet takeover.
Steve Watson | Jailed for two weeks until footage was viewed.
Kurt Nimmo | Net neutrality is a classic Trojan horse.
Paul Joseph Watson | Panic buying causes shortages
after release of ATF proposal to ban bullets.
Paul Craig Roberts | Why did Washington revive the
threat of world annihilation?
Gateway Pundit | Barack Obama in 2008 made this
promise to his supporters.
Paul Joseph Watson | Feds can expect lawsuits &
defunding over ammo ban.
Michael Snyder | Barack Obama has apparently decided
to rule by decree for the rest of his time in the White House.
WORLD NEWS
7-minute massacre: French media release details from
Paris kosher store attack
RT | French media have released new details of Paris kosher supermarket
massacre where gunman Amedy Coulibaly shot four people dead.
March of Destruction: ISIL Smashes Priceless
3,000-Year-Old Statues in Iraq
Sputnik | The Islamic State has stepped up its campaign to destroy
Iraq’s diverse cultural heritage.
The Stage Is Set For The Syrian Invasion
Zero Hedge | The stage for the second attempt at invading Assad regime
is finally set.
One of CNN’s aviation experts thinks Putin stole
missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
Business Insider | He thinks that the plane landed on a remote runway in
Kazakhstan.
‘Jihadi John’ from Islamic State beheading videos
unmasked as Londoner
Reuters | He was born in Kuwait and comes from a prosperous family in
London.
·
MONEY WATCH
Does Greece need a THIRD bailout?
CNBC | Even before the ink was dry on the extension of its current
bailout program, speculation is growing that embattled Greece is on the verge
of asking for yet more cash.
Zero Hedge | Global “effective demand is extraordinarily weak –
tantamount to the late stages of the great depression.”
The Federal Reserve Has Unleashed a “Virus Of Radical
Monetary Policy”… and There’s No Going Back
Mac Slavo | The Fed has no mandate outside the 50 states, but it
unofficially determines foreign debt and currency markets across the globe in a
big way anyway.
Is This The Most Important Chart For The Future Of
The World’s Reserve Currency?
Zero Hedge | The US is now so woefully buried in debt that another
global military conflict appears inevitable.
·
PRISON PLANET
Cops Promoted Despite Video of Them Severely Beating
Peaceful Mentally Ill Man with Hands Up
Free Thought Project | When Joanna Jurgens’ schizophrenic son came to
her after being severely beaten, including a broken arm, and told her “cops did
it,” she didn’t believe him.
Under Proposed Law, Teachers Could Face 6 Months In
Jail For Teaching “Offensive” Material
Free Thought Project | The bill was inspired by a recent outrage that
was caused by the material in a sex education class.
Hoyer: During DHS ‘Shut Down,’ 200,000 of 230,000 DHS
Workers Would Still Work
CNS News | The other 30,000 employees are not deemed “essential”
workers.
Feds Threaten D.C. Officials with Prison If they Go
Through with Pot Legalization on Thursday
Free Thought Project | D.C. officials and federal lawmakers have sparred
over whether Initiative 71, a ballot measure approved by 70 percent of voters
in November, can legally take effect.
COMMENTARY
Pop Quiz: How Many Constitutional Rights Have We
Lost?
Washington’s Blog | This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the
Bill of Rights.
Common Core Testing Regime Ruled Unconstitutional
New American | A Missouri judge ruled this week that the federally
funded testing regime for the controversial standards was unconstitutional.
Sign Of Judgment? Total Solar Eclipse On March 20th
Falls In The Middle Of The Four Blood Red Moons
Michael Snyder | The total solar eclipse on March 20th falls on Nisan 1,
which is the first day of the first month of the Biblical calendar.
Hillary Clinton Exposed Part 2 – Clinton Foundation
Took Millions From Countries That Also Fund ISIS
Michael Krieger | The latest ISIS conflict is the most Orwellian and
terrifying.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Police appeal for help identifying mystery tunnel
digger
Global News | Toronto police are asking the public for help tracking
down who built a chamber or tunnel a conservation officer stumbled upon near
York University.
Michael Krieger | Take a look at how contemptuously and dismissively
these parents’ concerns are dealt with at the Collier Country School Board Workshop.
Christian Singer Claims Jay-Z Hosts Eyes Wide
Shut-Style Occult Parties
Paul Joseph Watson | Attendees asked to dress in nothing but black
trench coat.
·
U.S. NEWS
Obama Brags About Power Grab While Americans Debate
Color of a Dress
Kit Daniels | Americans more concerned about the color of a dress which went viral
than they are about Internet takeover.
One Single Cop Will Cost City Over $1M After 40
‘Excessive Force’ Settlements
Countercurrentnews.com | In just barely over nine years, one single
police officer has racked up 40 complaints filed against him.
Christians march to White House in orange jumpsuits
with chilling chant to Obama
Bizpac Review | A group of Coptic Christians marched to the White House
on Tuesday.
·
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
World’s first talking drone ‘can communicate with air
traffic like a normal pilot’
London Telegraph | In a world-first, the drone uses automated voice
technology to issue and receive calls to and from air traffic control.
Watch Jim Inhofe Throw a Snowball on the Senate Floor
National Journal | Aide confirms the underhand toss was caught by a page.
Huge Anti-GMO Rallies Popping Up In Hawaii
Christina Sarich | Let’s all tell biotech to stop.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
Chicago nears fiscal free fall with
latest downgrade...
Because he can’t get Congress to approve the things
that he wants to do, Barack Obama has apparently decided to rule by decree for
the rest of his time in the White House. One of Obama’s latest moves is
to try to ban some of the most popular ammunition for the most popular rifle in
America. Previously, the Obama administration attempted unsuccessfully to
ban the AR-15. That didn’t work, so now Obama is going after the
ammunition. This is yet another example of the war on preppers that is going on all over the nation. Whether
you are a gun owner or not, this assault on our constitutional rights should
disturb you greatly. Barack Obama has promised to try to squeeze as much
“change” as possible out of his last two years, and in the process he is
“fundamentally transforming” America. But what will our country look like
when he is done? (Read More....)
The total solar eclipse on March 20th falls on Nisan
1, which is the first day of the first month of the Biblical calendar.
According to Jewish tradition, a solar eclipse on Nisan 1 is a sign of
judgment. And this has certainly been true in the past. For
example, there was a solar eclipse on Nisan 1 in 70 AD. Later that year,
the Romans attacked Jerusalem and completely destroyed the Temple. What
makes all of this even more interesting is the fact that the solar eclipse on
March 20th falls right in the middle of the blood moon tetrad, and it also
happens to fall during the
Shemitah year. If you
are not a believer, you may be tempted to dismiss all of this as some sort of
extremely bizarre coincidence. If you are a believer, you also might be
skeptical. But by the end of this article, at least you will understand
what so many people are talking about right now. (Read More...)
Posted
by : Sprott Money
Post
date: 02/26/2015 - 16:01
Gas prices are some of the highest in the country in
San Diego, California, and it still cost me only $2.96 a gallon to fill up my
tank last week. There’s an excess of oil supplies, according to...
A NoTiCe To ALL HoMeLaNDeRS...
Posted
by: williambanzai7
Post
date: 02/26/2015 - 13:40
An evil exists...
EU Warns of Debt Dangers Facing Ireland and Euro Zone
– “Emperor Has No Clothes”
Posted
by: GoldCore
Post
date: 02/26/2015 - 13:51
The levels of spin and denial are reminiscent of the
run-up to the 2007 crisis. We and many others were ignored for highlighting the
dangers facing the Irish and global economy then and are being...
One week ago, when reporting on the latest bizarre
plan presented by the
Pentagon, namely providing Syrian rebels (but only the moderate ones, not the
jihadists like al Nusra, or, well, ISIS) with B-1B Bomber air support in their
attacks on ISIS, when we wrote that this "means in the coming weeks and
months look forward to a surge in false flag "attacks" blamed on the
Assad regime, aiming to give Obama validation to expand the "War against ISIS"
to include Syria's regime as well." We didn't have long to wait:
in an entirely unsourced Time article written today by Aryn Baker, the Middle
East Bureau Chief, the stage for the second attempt at invading Assad regime is
finally set.
While conflicting economic data leaves hope for both
buills and bears, Alan Greenspan warns that, unlike Yellen, "US
economic growth is not strong." The maestro then breaks the
golden rule of central bankers and explains how The Fed was, in fact,
the main driver of the P/E multiple expansion in stocks; and when
asked if this ends as badly as last time? He concludes "It
depends...When real interest rates start to move up, that's when the crisis
could hit," concluding with a warning that global
"effective demand is extraordinarily weak - tantamount to the late stages
of the great depression."
When a Russian bomber flew over international
waters some 25 miles off the southwest tip of England last week, UK
Defense Secretary Michael Fallon called Russia "a real and present
danger." The UK government scrambled jet fighters to meet the
Russian aircraft as a show of force.
Yet yesterday US combat vehicles conducted a military
parade and show of military force just 300 yards -- yards! -- from the Russian
border.
As ISIS unleashed various escalatingly grotesque
execution videos over the past few months, one thing has been constant - the
image of a masked man, dressed in black (with a British accent). The world has
come to know ISIS apparent chief executioner as 'Jihadi John' but today, as WaPo reports, he has been identified - his real name, according
to friends and others familiar with his case, is Mohammed Emwazi, a
Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from
college with a degree in computer programming. Not exactly the
dis-enfranchised under-employed sad terrorist that the US state department
suggests ISIS supportes are...
Despite still low crude oil prices, gas prices at the
pump have been on the rise recently. While still at levels not seen since 2009,
gas prices in February have surged at the fastest pace in at least a
decade to 2-month highs. As SMRA notes, shutdowns at some refineries
due to strikes has been a good part of the reason for the gain in recent weeks,
but prices for gasoline also typically start to rise with the approach of
spring as refineries prepare to change over to less polluting formations for
the summer months. We assume, in some incredible way, higher gas prices
are also a positive for the US economy (just as lower gas prices were... not).
When the system is set up to encourage maximizing
self-interest, accountability for the whole is lost. And once accountability for the effectiveness and
health of the whole system is lost, the system will degrade and eventually
collapse, for the same reason that unrestricted grazing by individuals
eventually destroys the commons.
Presented with no comment...
Fill In The Blank: "Greece will achieve economic success when
____"
For all the constant bullshit spewing from the mouths
of any and every Japanese monetary and fiscal policy maker about a
"continued moderate recovery", the facts are the facts and the data
is the data - 2 years of Abenomics has utterly failed. The lastest example is
tonight's triple whammy of surging joblessness (up to 3.6%
from 3.4% - highest in 6 months), a 2.0% tumble in retail sales
YoY (double expectations and worse since the tax hike), and a plunge in
household spending (-5.1% YoY - down for the 10th month in a row). But,
of course, Japanese stocks are at 15-year highs - so "everything must be
awesome" - what a farce.
As "isolated"
Russia signs a military deal with Cyprus, agrees bilateral trade with Greece,
ratifies the $100 billion BRICS Bank, and offers to trade advanced
anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, it seems threats of more sanctions against
Putin and his nation are finding resistance from an unexpected place. With
British PM David Cameron re-demanding that Russia be excluded from the SWIFT
global financial payments system, none other than ECB Governing Council member
Ewald Nowotny has exclaimed, "one has to be very careful here, exclusion
of Russia from Swift would be very problematic because it could potentially
undermine confidence in this system as a whole."
Warren Buffett once famously chided that all the gold
in the world would form a cube of 67 feet (20 meters) on each side. In doing
so, he was attempting to argue that there was no point in owning gold since all
the gold in the world would be an unproductive, useless hunk of metal. What’s
ironic (and completely lost on the venerable Mr. Buffett) is that you could
make the same argument about the paper-based financial system.
Now that the Greek topic is back to overall debt
sustainability, a few hours ago Greece Kathimerini
reported that the Euro
Working Group "discussed Greece’s imminent funding problems on Thursday
amid mounting concern about how the country will meet its obligations next
months." This follows a suggestion earlier in the day by the Greek
Minister of State for Coordinating Government Operations Alekos Flambouraris
that "Greece might delay payment to the International Monetary
Fund if it cannot find the necessary money." But wait, how does a
country "delay" a debt payment? It doesn't: "According to
officials familiar with the subject. such a move would constitute a
“clear default,” with consequences for a large number of other loans Greece has
received."
On the day when the MSCI World Stock Index
hits a fresh record high - enthused by the exuberance of the US
markets - we thought it more than a little ironic that Global GDP
growth expectations for 2015 just hit a fresh record low...
Ponzi schemes, alleged or otherwise, can only exist
as long as they generate more cash than they burn. Sadly for Herbalife, the
tipping point beyond which every pyramid sheme implodes, has almost arrived.
Just ask Bernie Madoff. Presenting cash from operations.
Mikael Thalen | “Are you going to put squirt guns on
it? Better make sure the ship only has less than ten rounds on board.”
Adan Salazar | “How many Americans killed by illegal aliens are
too many?”
Kit Daniels | M855 NOT “armor piercing” due to lead core, according to 18 U.S.C.
921 (a)(17)(B).
Fox News | Nigel Farage talks about mass immigration
and Muslims joining ISIS.
Adan Salazar | Officer under investigation for detaining man
conducting perfectly legal activity.
Paul Joseph Watson | Get ready to check your male
privilege…
Washington Examiner | As promised, President Obama is
using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation.
Breitbart.com | “Let’s just take it all the way
through its logical conclusion.”
Steve Watson | Only 45 percent think the President is as
patriotic as other Americans.
Steve Watson | Officer attempted to destroy phone after attacking
man for filming police brutality.
WORLD NEWS
‘Jihadi John’ from Islamic State beheading videos
unmasked as Londoner
Reuters | He was born in Kuwait and comes from a prosperous family in
London.
For propaganda & ‘democracy promotion’: State
Dept seeks budget to counter RT
RT | Citing RT’s influence, Secretary of State John Kerry asked US
lawmakers for more money for propaganda and “democracy promotion” programs
around the world.
TEPCO Admits Delaying Report Of Major Radiation Leak
Into The Pacific Ocean For 10 Months
Zero Hedge | The fact that a massively radioactive leak occurred is not
the worst of it.
‘Senior ISIS commanders killed in air strikes in
Iraq, fate of leader Baghdadi unknown’
Jerusalem Post | Al Arabiya reports that coalition received intel on
Islamic State locations; Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reportedly en route to area.
Sputnik | The Iranian nuclear program has brought Saudi Arabia and
Israel closer, according to a report in Israeli media.
·
MONEY WATCH
Is This The Most Important Chart For The Future Of
The World’s Reserve Currency?
Zero Hedge | The US is now so woefully buried in debt that another
global military conflict appears inevitable.
Apple set to buy a third of world’s gold for luxury
Apple Watch
News.com.au | APPLE is set to buy up one third of the world’s gold in
order to meet the demands of the new up-market Apple Watch, according to
reports.
The Cost of NSA Spying On the U.S. Economy Is
“Incalculable”
Washington’s Blog | Spying Is Destroying the U.S. Economy.
Feds Spend $226,364 on ‘Gender Affirmation’ for
Jailed Transwomen
Washington Free Beacon | NIH study of ‘culturally relevant’
interventions in San Francisco.
·
PRISON PLANET
Hoyer: During DHS ‘Shut Down,’ 200,000 of 230,000 DHS
Workers Would Still Work
CNS News | The other 30,000 employees are not deemed “essential”
workers.
Feds Threaten D.C. Officials with Prison If they Go
Through with Pot Legalization on Thursday
Free Thought Project | D.C. officials and federal lawmakers have sparred
over whether Initiative 71, a ballot measure approved by 70 percent of voters
in November, can legally take effect.
Obama: ‘Consequences’ for ICE Officials Who Don’t
Follow Executive Amnesty
Weekly Standard | President Obama warned workers at the U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement: implement executive amnesty, or else.
Cop Who Illegally Kidnapped and Beat Down Syndrome
Man Says He Would Do It Again if He Could
Free Thought Project | “I would act the same way that I did.”
COMMENTARY
Net Neutrality Explained. Simply and Accurately!
Steven Crowder | Everyone supported it, until they found out what it
actually is…
Torture and All of the Other War On Terror Excesses
Have Come Home
Washington’s Blog | “It’s Just A Matter of Time Before [Torture] Spills
Back Into Domestic Territory. Historically, It Always Has”.
The Odds Of A War Between Israel And Iran Just Went
Way Up
Michael Snyder | Uh oh – Iran just got caught with both hands in the
cookie jar.
Fear of Terrorism Can Destroy Your Health … But
There’s Good News
Washington’s Blog | Fear of Terrorism Can Kill You.
·
MULTIMEDIA
Police appeal for help identifying mystery tunnel
digger
Global News | Toronto police are asking the public for help tracking
down who built a chamber or tunnel a conservation officer stumbled upon near
York University.
Michael Krieger | Take a look at how contemptuously and dismissively
these parents’ concerns are dealt with at the Collier Country School Board
Workshop.
Christian Singer Claims Jay-Z Hosts Eyes Wide
Shut-Style Occult Parties
Paul Joseph Watson | Attendees asked to dress in nothing but black
trench coat.
·
U.S. NEWS
Schools celebrate Black History Month with segregated
assembly, ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ chant
Victor Skinner | A California middle school teacher learned a valuable
lesson about Black History Month this week: segregation is bad.
Beyond parody: University promotes housing for
LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM – it’s not a typo
Bizpac Review | If this wasn’t so ridiculous it would be sad.
Socialist Architect Behind FCC’s Net Neutrality:
Let’s Eliminate “Capitalist Propaganda”
Kit Daniels | “…The ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists,” says
professor who spearheaded FCC’s proposed regulations.
·
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Is Starbucks’ Newly Offered Coconut Milk ‘Fake’?
Christina Sarich | It could be more than just ‘coconut milk and water’.
Report: 100% of Corn in Frito-Lay SunChips is
‘Completely GMO’
Christina Sarich | As well as a popular weed killer chemical.
Full-body transplants will be possible within two
years, says controversial surgeon Sergio Canavero
London Independent | The Italian believes the technique could save the
lives of people riddled with cancer or whose nerves and muscles have wasted
away.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
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PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Why
Liberals Oppose a Gun Ban for People On Terror Watchlist
Posted by
: George Washington
Post date:
12/11/2015 - 17:40
Everyone Agrees that We Need to Stop Mass Shootings ... But
This ISN'T the Way to Do It
Bail-Ins
“Undermine Confidence” In Banks - Lead to Suicide of Pensioner
Posted by:
GoldCore
Post date:
12/11/2015 - 11:36
A tragic example of this was seen in Italy in recent days
when a pensioner committed suicide after having his life savings wiped out in a
bank bail-in. A pensioner from near Rome, hanged himself...
NRG Energy
is a Definite Takeout Candidate
Posted by:
EconMatters
Post date:
12/11/2015 - 11:14
He got caught up in the future of energy, instead of
focusing on maximizing profits and running the business in the here and now.
Painful as it is to admit, the West, especially the
United States, bears significant responsibility for creating the conditions in
which ISIS has flourished. The recent attacks should be
understood as “blowback terrorism”: a dreadful unintended result of repeated US
and European covert and overt military actions throughout the Middle East,
North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Central Asia that aimed to overthrow
governments and install regimes compliant with Western interests. These
operations have not only destabilized the targeted regions, causing great
suffering; they have also put populations in the US, the European Union,
Russia, and the Middle East at significant risk of terror.
Mossad
– The Israeli Connection To 911 ...
being involved in the terror attacks of 9/11. ... from a phony moving company
in Weehawken, N.J., ... The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel on ... http://rense.com/general64/moss.htm ‘…Shortly after the destruction of the twin
towers, radio news reports described five "Middle Eastern men" being
arrested in New Jersey after having been seen videotaping and celebrating the
explosive "collapses" of the WTC. These men,
from a phony moving company in Weehawken, N.J., turned out to be agents of
Israeli military intelligence, Mossad. Furthermore, their "moving
van" tested positive for explosives. Dominic
Suter, the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems, the phony "moving
company," fled in haste, or was allowed to escape, to Israel before FBI
agents could interrogate him. The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel
on minor visa violations…’
http://albertpeia.com/mossad911.htm
U.S.
investigators and the controlled media have ignored a preponderance of evidence
pointing to Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, being involved in the
terror attacks of 9/11.
From the
very morning aircraft smashed into the World Trade Center (WTC) and the
Pentagon, news reports have indicated Israeli intelligence being involved in
the events of 9/11 - and the planting of "false flags" to blame Arab
terrorists and mold public opinion to support the pre-planned "war on
terror."
Shortly
after the destruction of the twin towers, radio news reports described five
"Middle Eastern men" being arrested in New Jersey after having been
seen videotaping and celebrating the explosive "collapses" of the
WTC.
These
men, from a phony moving company in Weehawken, N.J., turned out to be agents of
Israeli military intelligence, Mossad. Furthermore, their "moving
van" tested positive for explosives.
Dominic
Suter, the Israeli owner of Urban Moving Systems, the phony "moving
company," fled in haste, or was allowed to escape, to Israel before FBI
agents could interrogate him. The Israeli agents were later returned to Israel
on minor visa violations.
The
Assistant Attorney General in charge of criminal investigations at the time was
Michael Chertoff, the current head of the Dept. of Homeland Security. Chertoff,
the son of the first hostess of Israel's national air carrier, El Al, is
thought to be an Israeli national.
One of
the Israeli agents later told Israeli radio that they had been sent to
"document the event" - the event which took the lives of some 3,000
Americans.
Despite
the fact that the Israelis arrested in New Jersey evidently had prior knowledge
or were involved in the planning of 9/11, the U.S. mainstream media has never
even broached the question of Israeli complicity in the attacks.
ISRAELIS
FOREWARNED
On
September 12, 2001, the Internet edition of The Jerusalem Post reported,
"The Israeli foreign ministry has collected the names of 4,000 Israelis
believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
at the time of the attack."
Yet only
one Israeli was killed at the WTC and two were reportedly killed on the
"hijacked" aircraft.
Although
a total of three Israeli lives were reportedly lost on 9/11, speechwriters for
President George W. Bush grossly inflated the number of Israeli dead to 130 in
the president's address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001.
The fact
that only one Israeli died at the WTC, while 4,000 Israelis were thought to
have been at the scene of the attacks on 9/11 naturally led to a widespread
rumor, blamed on Arabic sources, that Israelis had been forewarned to stay away
that day.
"Whether
this story was the origin of the rumor," Bret Stephens, the Post's
editor-in-chief wrote in 2003, "I cannot say. What I can say is that there
was no mistake in our reporting."
ODIGO
INSTANT MESSAGES
Evidence
that Israelis had been forewarned several hours before the attacks surfaced at
an Israeli instant messaging service, known as Odigo. This story, clear
evidence of Israeli prior knowledge, was reported only briefly in the U.S.
media - and quickly forgotten.
At least
two Israel-based employees of Odigo received warnings of an imminent attack in
New York City more than two hours before the first plane hit the WTC. Odigo had
its U.S. headquarters two blocks from the WTC. The Odigo employees, however,
did not pass the warning on to the authorities in New York City, a move that
could have saved thousands of lives.
Odigo
has a feature called People Finder that allows users to seek out and contact
others based on certain demographics, such as Israeli nationality.
Two
weeks after 9/11, Alex Diamandis, Odigo's vice president, reportedly said,
"It was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo
members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the
message."
The
Internet address of the sender was given to the FBI, and two months later it
was reported that the FBI was still investigating the matter. There have been
no media reports since.
Odigo,
like many Israeli software companies, is based and has its Research and
Development (R&D) center in Herzliya, Israel, the small town north of Tel
Aviv, which happens to be where Mossad's headquarters are located.
Shortly
after 9/11, Odigo was taken over by Comverse Technology, another Israeli
company. Within a year, five executives from Comverse were reported to have profited
by more than $267 million from "insider trading."
Through
Israeli "venture capital" (VC) investment funds, Mossad spawns and
sponsors scores of software companies currently doing business in the United
States. These Israel-based companies are sponsored by Mossad funding sources
such as Cedar Fund, Stage One Ventures, Veritas Venture Partners, and others.
As one
might expect, the portfolios of these Mossad-linked funding companies contain
only Israeli-based companies, such as Odigo.
Reading
through the strikingly similar websites of these Israeli "VC" funds
and their portfolio companies, one can't help but notice that the key
"team" players share a common profile and are often former members of
"Israel's Intelligence Corps" and veterans of the R&D Department
of the Israel Air Force or another branch of the military. Most are graduates
of Israel's "Technion" school in Haifa, Mossad's Interdisciplinary
Center (IDC) in Herzliya, or a military program for software development.
The IDC,
a private, non-profit university, is closely tied to the Mossad. The IDC has a
"research institute" headed by Shabtai Shavit, former head of the
Mossad from 1989 to 1996, called the International Policy Institute for
Counter-Terrorism.
The IDC
also has a "Marc Rich Center for the Study of Commodities, Trading and
Financial Markets" and a "Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and
Strategy." The cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder, who is a supporter of
Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his far-right Likud Party, founded the
Lauder school.
Lauder,
president of the Jewish National Fund and former chairman of New York Governor
George Pataki's Commission on Privatization, is the key individual who pushed
the privatization of the WTC and former Stewart AFB, where the flight paths of
the two planes that hit the twin towers oddly converged. Ronald Lauder played a
significant, albeit unreported, role in the preparation for 9/11.
Pataki's
wife, Libby, has been on Lauder's payroll since at least 2002 and reportedly
earned $100,000 as a consultant in 2004. According to The Village Voice,
between 1994 and 1998, Gov. Pataki earned some $70,000 for speaking to groups
affiliated with Lauder.
THE
PTECH CUTOUT
Ptech, a
mysterious software company has been tied with the events of 9/11. The Quincy,
Massachusetts-based company was supposedly connected to "the Muslim
Brotherhood" and Arab financiers of terrorism.
The
firm's suspected links with terrorism resulted in a consensual examination by
the FBI in December 2002, which was immediately leaked to the media. The media
reports of the FBI "raid" on Ptech soon led to the demise of the
company.
Ptech
"produced software that derived from PROMIS, had an artificial
intelligence core, and was installed on virtually every computer system of the
U.S. government and its military agencies on September 11, 2001,"
according to Michael Ruppert's From the Wilderness (FTW) website.
"This
included the White House, Treasury Dept. (Secret Service), Air Force, FAA, CIA,
FBI, both houses of Congress, Navy, Dept. of Energy, IRS, Booz Allen Hamilton,
IBM, Enron and more," FTW reported.
"Whoever
plotted 9/11 definitely viewed the FAA as the enemy that morning. Overriding
FAA systems would be the most effective way to ensure the attacks were
successful," FTW reported. "To do this, the FAA needed an evolution
of PROMIS software installed on their systems and Ptech was just that; the
White House and Secret Service had the same software on their systems - likely
a superior modified version capable of 'surveillance and intervention'
systems."
But did
the U.S. government unwittingly load software capable of "surveillance and
intervention" operations and produced by a company linked to terrorism
onto its most sensitive computer networks, or was Ptech simply a Mossad
"cutout" company?
Oussama
Ziade, a Lebanese Muslim immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1985, founded Ptech
in 1994. But the company's original manager of marketing and information
systems was Michael S. Goff, whose PR firm, Goff Communications, currently
represents Guardium, a Mossad-linked software company.
And Goff
comes from a well-to-do line of Jewish Masons who have belonged to Worcester's
Commonwealth Lodge 600 of B'nai Brith for decades. So, why would a recently
graduated Juris Doctor in Law leave a promising law career to join forces with
a Lebanese Muslim's upstart company sponsored with dodgy funders in Saudi
Arabia?
"As
information systems manager [for Ptech], Michael handled design, deployment and
management of its Windows and Macintosh, data, and voice networks," Goff's
website says. "Michael also performed employee training and handled all
procurement for software, systems and peripherals."
AFP
asked Goff, who left the Worcester law firm of Seder & Chandler in 1994,
how he wound up working at Ptech. "Through a temp agency," Goff said.
Asked for the name of the agency, Goff said he could not remember.
Could it
be Mossad Temps, or maybe Sayan Placement Agency?
Goff,
the original marketing manager for Ptech software, said he did not know who had
written the code that Ptech sold to many government agencies. Is this
believable?
Goff
leaves a legal practice in his home town to take a job, through a temp agency,
with a Lebanese Muslim immigrant who is selling software, and he doesn't know
who even wrote the code?
AFP
contacted the government agencies that reportedly have Ptech software on their
computers, and IBM, to ask if they could identify who had written the source
code of the Ptech software.
By press
time, only Lt. Commander Ron Steiner of the U.S. Navy's Naval Network Warfare
Command had responded. Steiner said he had checked with an analyst and been
told that none of the Ptech software has been approved for the Navy's enterprise
networks.
Finis
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/23/2015
As
Donald Trump came under fire for claiming that he saw Muslims in New Jersey
cheering on 9/11,
admitted-non-total-truth-speaker Ben
Carson jumped on the bandwagon claiming he too "saw film of it."
Now, in yet another embarrassing u-turn 'oops' for the retired (now it all
makes sense) neurosurgeon, the Carson campaign told CBS
News Monday evening that Carson is "really not"
standing behind his earlier statement and that the GOP presidential candidate
was thinking of other footage he saw.
Painful as it is to admit, the West, especially the
United States, bears significant responsibility for creating the conditions in
which ISIS has flourished. The recent attacks should be
understood as “blowback terrorism”: a dreadful unintended result of repeated US
and European covert and overt military actions throughout the Middle East,
North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Central Asia that aimed to overthrow governments
and install regimes compliant with Western interests. These operations have
not only destabilized the targeted regions, causing great suffering; they have
also put populations in the US, the European Union, Russia, and the Middle East
at significant risk of terror.
MAFIA WARNS ISIS,
OFFERS NYC PROTECTION...
{ Hmmm … how much additional tribute to the entrenched domestic
terrorists will that cost … make no mistake, to be passed on to the rest of the
nation … and then the betrayal … for money of course … then complete control …
what deals? … weapons? drugs? laundered money to expand/spread control? … wake
up! … the mob’s full of s**! … the ny/nj national drain … do you think t_rump
would be anti-hispanic if the Mexican gangs were paying ny/nj ‘tribute’? wake
up to reality of ny/nj mob control … bribes flow freely making bad policy in
america …}
ISIS Evolution to 'External'
Targets...
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/21/2015
Hawaii
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard pulls no punches when it comes to letting America
know what's really going on in Syria. After calling repeatedly for the US to
stop supporting militants in an effort to oust the Assad government in Syria, Gabbard
has now introduced bi-partisan legislation to put an end to what she calls an
"illegal", CIA-sponsored war.
t_rump:
the incident showed Carson had a "pathological" temper. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/carsons-comeback-trumps-insults-pray-him-135707822.html
"If
you're pathological, there's no cure for that," Trump said. "If
you're a child molester, there's no cure. They can't stop you."
Carson
has said his intended stabbing victim's belt buckle blocked his knife, a detail
Trump singled out in his rant.
"Lo
and behold! It hit the belt. It hit the belt and the knife broke," Trump
said mockingly.
Other
Republican candidates came to Carson's defense early Friday and slammed Trump
for his controversial plans on foreign policy and immigration.
"Anyone
can turn a multi-million dollar inheritance into more money, but all the money
in the world won't make you as smart as Ben Carson," candidate
Carly
Fiorina wrote on Facebook.
Republican
candidate Lindsey Graham called Carson a "good, decent man," and said
of Trump: "I think he melted down last night."
"He
has no clue what he's talking about," Graham, a South Carolina senator,
said on Fox News. "Over time, that will take a toll - I hope."
Donald
Trump's Plan for a Muslim Database Draws Comparison to Nazi Germany NBCNews.com
https://www.yahoo.com/katiecouric/kasich-on-trump-bullies-dont-bother-me-221438775.html
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/11/2015 - 16:45
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/11/
"A flip to fiscal
stimulus is the most likely catalyst for a Great Rotation out of “deflation
plays” into “inflation plays”, undoubtedly the biggest investment
decision of 2016. Sadly it took the New Deal and WW2 to end the
dominance of “growth” over “value” in the 1930s."
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/11/2015
Duh. It was so obvious looking
back. This is not a consequence-free environment... it’s time to find safety.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/11/2015 - 18:33
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/11/2015
“Sooner or later we all sit down
to a banquet of consequences” - Robert Louis Stevenson
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/11/2015
One of Donald Trump's recurring
refrains ever since the San Bernardino shooting, ostensibly the one which
prompted him to declare he would bar Muslims from entering the country, is that
the "US is at war." Whether or not that is the case remains to be
seen but what is certain is that Trump is merely proposing to do what Democrat Jimmy
Carter did back on April 7, 1980, when he banned Iranians from the US and
deported Iranian students during the Iran hostage crisis - a time when some
could argue the US was likewise in war with the Iranian regime.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/11/2015 -
Moments ago Dow Jones reported
that the $1.3 billion Stone Lion Capital, a distress-focused hedge fund, has
just suspended redemptions after ""substantial requests."
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/11/2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin
has ratcheted up the rhetoric in what appears to be one step closer to
the potential for direct conflict with The West. While not detailing
'who' he was focued on, amid the obvious Turkey-Russia tensions, Putin told a
session of the Defense Ministry's collegium that "I order to act
extremely tough. Any targets that threaten Russian forces or our infrastructure
on the ground should be immediately destroyed."
Submitted by Tyler
Durden
You know you've 'made it' when the
prince of one of the world's
biggest human rights abuser (and leading 'beheader') nations calls you a "disgrace
to America."
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/11/2015 - 16:35
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/11/2015
While the world patiently waits
for Janet Yellen to raise interest rates this month, the markets
have been unable to decide as of yet whether such an event is good or bad
thing.
Carl
Icahn Warns "Meltdown In High Yield Is Just Beginning"
Amid the biggest weekly collapse
in high-yield bonds since March 2009, Carl Icahn gently reminds
investors that he saw this coming... and that it's only just getting started!
President
Obama's New Terror Alert System
Presented with no comment...
Caught
On Tape: Ukraine Premier Assaulted In Parliament
You can't make this up...
Australian
Media Throws Up All Over 'Stellar' Jobs Report, Again
"Presented with official
employment figures that were literally incredible (impossible to believe), she
took them at face value and trumpeted them in tweets and in a press conference
as a triumph for her government. But it's not the real thing"
Mikael
Thalen | “Donald Trump, think twice before you speak anything. You have been
warned, Donald Trump.”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Some liberals express support for Stefonknee Wolschtt.
Kit Daniels | Leahy
amendment could transform illegal immigration into “civil right”.
Prison Planet.com |
Director, son of Chuck Norris reveals trailer on film no one wants you to see.
Steve Watson |
Reporter calls out White House on executive push.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Hillary supporter doubles down on his stupidity.
Kurt Nimmo | Clinton
didn’t use love bombs in Libya and Syria.
Gallup
| A new low of 55%.
Gateway
Pundit | A picture is worth a thousand…
The
Hill | Nearly eight in 10 Americans — 79 percent — say a terrorist attack is
“very or somewhat likely in the next few months.”
"When I think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large
animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long
roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain but has become trapped by its own
missteps, as caught in a tar pit or some quicksand, and it is violently
flailing about, making a terrifying noises in its effort to free itself and
re-establish its authority. Any observer immediately knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but
certainly is frightened by the noise and crashing that it can sustain for a
considerable time."
{ This analogy would almost be funny if it wasn’t so tragically true … }
Ron Paul
says Trump troubles him The Hill | Former Rep. Ron Paul
(R-Texas) said on Thursday that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s
‘aggressive personality’ troubles him. { If only someone had said that about
hitler … } TRUMP
JUMPS TO FIRST PLACE... { Wow! … How irrevocably far
america’s fallen … ny/american mobster/mental case don ‘the donald’ t-rump …
don, you must complete your fourth reich aspiration by writing your ‘Mein
Kampf’ from inside a jail cell … paralleling your idol, adolph, whose orations
you obsessively listened to for inspiration (from author O’Donnell as per
Ivanna Trump) …}
Leaves
third-party door open... { ‘The Donald’, as did his
psychopathic idol, ‘The Furor’ of dark days past hits/exploits a ‘hot-button’
issue, illegal immigration, arguing for selective/arbitrary enforcement of the
law in that regard [conveniently exempting/sparing/ignoring him and his
<1%> from far more destructive (economically and otherwise) criminal
activities] and like his kindred spirits, the nazis, ramps up the rhetoric …
The truth/reality is that the aforesaid immigration debacle is but a fraction
of the damage/cost to the nation of home-grown crimes of corruption, bribery,
(drug) money laundering and financial frauds in the hundreds of billions (along
with citizen violent crimes which has made the u.s. number 1 in that regard for
many decades), integral to and attributes of his indigenous new york/new jersey
nationwide sinkhole; the frenzy obscuring the magnitude of such home-grown
crimes while focusing on the almost insignificant by financial comparison
immigration issue … After all, trump’s benefited mightily from such bubble
frauds and through political power seeks to lock in the ill-founded wealth for
himself and the other greedy criminal 1%. Where was he when the fraudulent
bubbles were expanding … counting his money/gains along with the rest of the
small 1% while 99% were bearing the brunt/cost of such blatantly misguided/oft
times illegal policy … appreciating, not deprecating until irrevocable, the 1%
wealth enhancing crimes to the detriment of the nation and 99% of the populace
… t_rump’s a fraud on the nation and any nations worldwide that have had the
misfortune to buy into ‘the donald’s’ hitlerian attempt to fool ‘all of the
people’ not ‘some of the time’, but this one time to protect his undeserved
gains through raw, unbridled(in his maniacal hands), power at the expense of
those who can least afford it … your pain, his gain is the inevitable and
invariable ultimate reality (Donald
Trump Empire Sought Visas For At Least 1100 Foreign Workers Huffington
Post) … [ If only someone had said that
about hitler! … ] see http://albertpeia.com/trumpshitler.htm ,
http://albertpeia.com/trumpism.htm
{ The latest in t_rump’s disparagement of john mccain: … t_rump will set his military service record against that of McCain any day; viz., ‘the donald’ t_rump 0 vs. mccain –1 … yes john, yours is a negative number (victory t_rump), because (bully and coward as all bullies are) t_rump says you’re a loser for having been shot down in your fighter jet in the heat of actual battle and having been captured seriously injured thereafter [along with 5 years of torturous captivity – If only t_rump had focused on mccain’s senility, misguided military industrial complex welfare programs warned against by great but underrated President General Eisenhower (note t_rump has gone after Academy grads, ie.,Graham, McCain, where honor was/is still taught but for quite some time has been out of fashion/irrelevant, not practiced), violations of the military code of conduct while prisoner, ‘keating 5 type corruption’, etc., t_rump might have at least showed deceptively a semblance of rationality; but of course, going after corruption would be for t_rump, blatantly self-destructive-that trump’s not in jail is a testament to how far america’s fallen] … and fellow veterans you are on notice by t_rump: Those of you who actually have served to date, who’ve been POW’s, lost limbs, been wounded, maimed, killed are losers … not winners in the corrupt/fixed/bribe-induced fantasy world (‘mobster in chief’ would more suit the ‘teflon don t_rump’ http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm . ) of t_rump’s sociopathic/narcissistic projection of ‘real winners’ in the mold of ‘the donald’s’ role model/idol, ‘the furor’, the psychotic adolph hitler himself whose orations t_rump obsessively listened to for inspiration (from author O’Donnell as per Ivanna Trump … ‘Trumped: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump’ by John R. O'Donnell ) Student deferment AND medical deferment (psychological / psychiatric I could believe is apropos), t_rump likes to cover all bases, ‘flower child’ that he conveniently was at the time (WHAT TYPICAL TRUMP B**L S**T!). (Just kidding about ‘flower child’ … I always liked real hippies; especially those real hippies who molded themselves to the extent possible in the manner of Jesus Christ himself in terms of peace, love, and ‘quintessential anti-greed/anti-corruption’.) This t_rump scenario brings to mind that great oscar-worthy film superbly crafted by the underrated David Cronenberg, ‘Dead Zone’ (book by Stephen King), oscar-worthy great performance (how did they miss it) by lead Christopher Walken with great performances across the board; especially Martin Sheen superbly as the psychotic, ruthlessly aggressive, trumpishly ambitious politician, Greg Stillson. Borrowing the words of Walken’s psychically endowed Johnny Smith rather than to t_rump his own ‘your fired’, I say (to psychotic mental case trump) ’YOU’RE FINISHED’! }
11-7-15: t_rump wants to
make america great again … does Saturday Night Live … wow … that’s worth a
laugh or two … yes, t_rump’s effectively saying the joke’s on you!
Orlando Sentinel4 days ago
The Inquisitr6 days ago
The Hollywood Reporter
Business
Insider via Yahoo! FinanceAug 11
Fox News host Megyn Kelly told her network that
she received death threats from Donald Trump...
Megyn Kelly fears no evil … ‘blood from her eyes and other
body parts’ … a disparagement of women, to be sure; but as well, more
importantly, for those in the know, a veiled threat meant to intimidate - not
that t_rump would actually bloody them but some mob minion of one of the extant
ny/nj entrenched old gangs with whom he’s ingratiated himself, through ie., the
federal bench – viz., sister maryanne trump barry et als, etc. – don’t the feds
have any pride/honor? – ask the ‘tough questions’ of these and other major
american criminals, ie., wall street, etc. – they’ll either lie, plead the 5th,
or be arrested on the spot – oh well, Martha Stewart was a 45 thousand dollar
soft target to be bullied to jail under some perverted notion they’re doing
their job – what job – coverup for the biggest criminals – how pathetic and
gutless they are … and nbc (and parent
companies among others) who gave rise to media/unreality tv exposure to
‘american furor’ t_rump seems happy to oblige with one of those Sunday joke
shows … t_rump just wants fairness … for himself and only for himself [through
whatever means, ie., bribery through, ie., retainers to law firms linked to
state attorney generals, viz., {kimmelman} wolf and sampson, chris droney’s
(now a fed judge) brother, his sister’s protection/corruption and quid pro quo
from the federal bench, etc., and as well, protection of drug-money laundering
through his now nominal only casinos … ( it’s important to note that bribes in
pervasively corrupt america take many forms beyond direct monetary transfers and
are ubiquitous and extend to all levels of government; ie.,
legislators/politicians’ quid pro quo, judges, prosecutors, fbi <hoover’s
‘whorse-trading’ was ‘world famous’, etc.>, sam alito rising by way of
cover-up/quid pro quo/bribe to inept supreme court justice labeled after an
infamous faux paux in terms of judicial acumen/ability as <in a Washington
Post comment> making clarence thomas look like Oliver Wendell Holmes <my
personal favorite jurist>, maryanne trump barry awaiting full payment of
bribe to brother don’s trump casinos before ruling for RICO defendants (she
also protected john gotti, etc.), etc., See, ie.,
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm .
; that is, as he corruptly asserts ill-gotten financial
dominance – always getting a piece of someone else’s action/work/off the top
like a cost so prevalent and built in ‘On the Waterfront’ – think of those
instances where t_rump had to ‘real (not under)world’ compete; ie., trump air,
trump university, jersey generals(pro football), the fraudulent debacle in Baja
California bearing his name, etc…fraud and failure… ] … Because americans are
for the most part, cowards if not bullies, the threat seems to have had the
desired effect …
The ‘strategy’
promulgated by mobster t_rump on national television: ‘take away their wealth’
… well, that’s worked for him in america where the processes are
fixed/corrupted and far from the ‘fair treatment’ he’s demanding as if a victim
… Wasn’t that hitler’s strategy/popular tune … a page right out of hitler’s
blood-red linings playbook … and, even substantially a motivation for the
debacle in Iraq (oil wealth) which I unequivocally opposed ab initio and without qualification … Well now, isn’t
that what made the 20th century the bloodiest …
payback/pushback/blowback’s a bitch and modern weaponry is ever more lethal …
t_rump awaited the negative outcome before taking a position – check the dates
… t_rump’s also exploited the hot button issue of immigration when the
truth/reality is that the aforesaid immigration debacle is but a fraction of
the damage/cost to the nation of home-grown crimes of corruption, bribery,
illegal drugs/(drug) money laundering and financial frauds in the hundreds of
billions (along with citizen violent crimes which has made the u.s. number 1 in
that regard for many decades), integral to and attributes of his indigenous new
york/new jersey nationwide sinkhole; the frenzy obscuring the magnitude of such
home-grown crimes /criminality /corruption that has benefited him while
focusing on the almost insignificant by financial comparison immigration issue
… Since Pope Francis has been vocal/prominent in the immigration debate, it is
time for The Church to step up so as not to be accused of silence as was so
during hitler’s rise … the scape-goating of the relatively powerless/ the
minorities/ the poor/ the oppressed … yet another page right out of hitler’s
blood-red linings playbook … What say you, Pope Francis … After ALL, the
‘moneychangers’ to which t_rump is joined at the hip (ie., wall street, etc.)
would make the corrupt, avaricious ‘moneychangers’ condemned by Christ look
like novices/pikers in comparison. (NOTE: 8-23-15 t_rump says tax the hedge
funds … sure, relatively small in size, dispersed here and there… chump change
if at all collectible with offsets given the sell-off owing to fraudulently
inflated bubble prices coming back to earth/reality; but, not the institutional
monoliths, ie., goldman sachs, j.p.morgan, et als of his new york/new jersey
national drain homeland and at the heart of scam/problem – bail-outs,
pennies-on-a-dollar ‘cost of business’ fines but no prosecutions or full
disgorgement, huge bonuses even as bailed out, etc. … If you think t_rump is
for the middle class, you haven’t been paying attention or he might just sell
you the Brooklyn Bridge … You are already paying for churn and earn, non-value,
non-value added computerized lightning-fast scams). Yes, as Michael Lewis
pointed out, ‘A Den of Thieves’ (See also Michael Lewis’ recent fact-filled
non-fiction book, ‘The Big Short’ – ‘… The Big Short describes
several of the key players in the creation of the credit default swap market
that sought to bet against the collateralized debt obligation (CDO)
bubble and thus ended up profiting from the financial crisis of 2007–2010. The book
also highlights the eccentric nature of the type of person who bets against the
market or goes against the grain….’ Wikipedia )
Here are some reasons
Trump stays so popular with his supporters:
11-7-15: t_rump wants to
make america great again … does Saturday Night Live … wow … that’s worth a
laugh or two … yes, t_rump’s effectively saying the joke’s on you!
{Think about it …
seriously … would any of the historically great leaders/presidents have so
exercised such poor judgment to garner attention to his/her self by resorting
to a comedy show starring appearance/performance in these dire, perilous times
… YES, T_RUMP’S A JOKE/JOKER! }
In such things time can be of the essence … I’m sure Biden
would have consulted with his late son Beau before embarking on such a run … I
don’t know much about Beau; but, if asked, I believe Beau would say, ‘DAD, GO
FOR IT!’
JOE SAYS NO! … IT’S A NO-GO FOR JOE!
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Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 12/21/2015 - 23:21
Thar
she Bros...
Janet Yellen Fights the Tide of Falling Interest
Posted by: Gold Standard I...
Post date: 12/22/2015 - 01:41
On
Dec 16, Federal Chair Janet Yellen announced the Fed was raising the
federal funds rate by 25 basis points. She will have to take it back.
Feldkamp: The Macroeconomics of Crises and Fraud
Posted by: rcwhalen
Post date: 12/22/2015 - 08:22
Financial
fraud is any method by which deception or duplicity induces those with money to
"invest" in a scheme...
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/22/2015
Do you still believe in market Christmas miracles?
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/22/2015
In a shocking new report, Seymour Hersh reveals what he says was a
covert operation run by the Joint Chiefs of Staff who sought to undermine the
Obama administration and the CIA's goal of overthrowing the Assad regime in
Syria.
"If the American public saw the intelligence we
were producing daily, at the most sensitive level, they would go
ballistic."
From the fringe, for birdie...
Following last week's huge build reported by DOE,
crude inventories reported by API tonight dropped 3.6
million barrels (drastically different from the 2.3mm build expected). WTI is
rallying on the news, despite a 1.5 million barrel build at Cushing (up notably
from last week's 847k) - the 7th weekly build in a row.
At 108 four-year colleges, at least half of all
students hadn’t paid even $1 of what they owe within three years of leaving
college. Those colleges got more than $10 billion in federal student loans and
grants last year.
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/22/2015
"These people, I hate some of these people.
But I would
never kill them."
“I know where she went. It’s disgusting. I don’t want to talk about it.
It’s disgusting."
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/22/2015 - 16:05
Update: just minutes after the WPIX report, the WNBC chief investigative
reporter Jonathan Dienst said that there is no new specific threat to New York
City.
A “credible threat” has been lodged against New York
City, days ahead of Christmas and during an especially busy time of the year
when tourists flock to the Big Apple, law
With the market now back to oversold conditions and redemptions
complete,
it is now or never for the traditional
“Santa Rally.” Statistically speaking, the odds are
high that the market will muster a rally over the next couple of weeks. While
the short-term trends are indeed still bullishly-biased,
the
longer-term analysis
(monthly)
reveals a
more dangerous picture emerging.
"The last straw was the amount of food the Americans provided – 200
pounds of rice and 200 pounds of kidney beans, enough for each of the course
graduates for a week or two, but not for their families, who are in dire
financial straits.
That’s when the group voted to take two weeks
off."
The first Fed rate hike in seven years was supposed
to trigger a powerful equity rally as the bulls expected money to pour out of
bonds into stocks; especially into the cyclicals. Unfortunately for the equity
bulls,, as Mizuho's Steve Ricchiuto notes, this time things are different and
instead of the Fed rate hike triggering the traditional Santa Claus rally; it
looks like the FOMC is actually the Grinch. The key message delivered by the
Fed though the SEP, the DOTS and the Chair’s post meeting press conference is
that this is the best the economy is going to get.
Needless to say, these names are just the beginning: once the
redemptions - and gating - genie is out of the bottle, there is no putting it
back.
Uncertainty
Looms Over Global Markets In 2016
Without being able to predict the election outcome in
2016, it will be prudent to keep cash levels high in order to maintain
flexibility. Furthermore with the leading beta asset classes starting to
exhibit corrections, there are
growing signs
that the investing environment is changing, which should give investors pause.
The
Keynesian Recovery Meme Is About To Get Mugged, Part 1
Since our Keynesian central bankers have no clue that their prodigious
money printing resulted in the drastic underpricing of credit and capital over
the course of the past two decades,
they
are flying blind. They simply fail to see that the
global economy is now swamped in more excess capacity
than at any time since the 1930s, and probably even then. So they keep
expecting the commodity cycle to momentarily bottom and prices to rebound,
thereby reflating CapEx and household spending.
Speaking to Slovak news agency TASR
on December 15h, President Milos Zeman said that he was "extremely
disappointed that the summer negotiations between Greece and creditors did not
ultimately lead to Greece’s exit from the euro area, although it looked quite
possible." Greece had an immediate response: it recalled its ambassador to
Prague.
·
6:05p
Russian billionaire buys rest of Brooklyn Nets and Barclays
Center
·
5:54p
After a brutal 2015, what’s on tap for commodities?
·
5:45p
Church & Dwight shares rise on inclusion to the S&P 500
·
5:35p
BREAKINGFoursquare funding round cuts valuation by more than half:
report
·
5:18p
Stephen Breyer: Global interdependence today affects even the
Supreme Court
·
5:17p
FIFA ex-boss Sepp Blatter says American sponsors are bluffing
·
5:08p
API sees U.S. oil inventories down 3.6 million barrels: reports
·
5:04p
Micron shares fall on weak outlook, revenue drop
·
5:01p
BREAKINGCelgene shares rally on settlement of patent suit
·
5:01p
Apple reverses course, will let investors nominate directors
·
5:00p
This ‘smart money’ indicator nailed the dot-com bust, and it’s
even more bearish now
·
4:59p
How to give Christmas gifts with lasting value, and when it’s
more expensive to be a woman
·
4:55p
The effects of chronic drinking on your brain may be even
greater than we thought
·
4:53p
Treasury yields post largest one-day gain since Fed decision
·
4:48p
David Tepper’s Appaloosa wants to check Terraform Power’s books
·
4:47p
Apple changes bylaws to let certain stockholders nominate
directors
·
4:46p
BREAKINGCelgene shares rally 10% after patent litigation settled
·
4:44p
Google plots WhatsApp rival with artificial intelligence
features
·
4:44p
Under Armour names Chip Molloy new financial chief
·
4:38p
U.S. stocks advance for second straight session
17,417.27
+165.65
+0.96%
5,001.11
+32.19
+0.65%
2,038.97
+17.82
+0.88%
Symbol |
Company |
Country |
Last |
Date |
Time |
Chg. |
% Chg. |
Global Dow Realtime USD |
United States |
2,319 |
12/22/2015 |
6:12 PM |
+16.79 |
+0.73% |
|
Global Dow Realtime EUR |
Europe |
1,994 |
12/22/2015 |
6:12 PM |
+2.64 |
+0.13% |
|
Global Dow Total Return
Index USD |
United States |
3,154 |
12/22/2015 |
5:24 PM |
+23.28 |
+0.74% |
|
Global Dow Total Return
Index EUR |
Europe |
2,708 |
12/22/2015 |
5:24 PM |
+7.92 |
+0.29% |
Symbol |
Company |
Country |
Last |
Date |
Time |
Chg. |
% Chg. |
Dow Jones Brazil Total
Stock Market Total Return Index USD |
Brazil |
13,453 |
12/22/2015 |
12:58 AM |
-681.288 |
-4.82% |
|
S&P/TSX Composite
Index |
Canada |
13,083 |
12/22/2015 |
4:42 PM |
+48.48 |
+0.37% |
|
Dow Jones Chile Index
CLP |
Chile |
657.62 |
12/22/2015 |
5:26 PM |
+1.33 |
+0.20% |
|
Dow Jones Mexico Index
MXP |
Mexico |
2,889 |
12/22/2015 |
5:26 PM |
+9.70 |
+0.34% |
|
S&P 500 Index |
United States |
2,039 |
12/22/2015 |
4:39 PM |
+17.82 |
+0.88% |
|
IBC General Index |
Venezuela |
14,628 |
12/22/2015 |
1:00 PM |
+303.00 |
+2.12% |
Symbol |
Company |
Country |
Last |
Date |
Time |
Chg. |
% Chg. |
ASX All Ordinaries
Index |
Australia |
5,168 |
12/22/2015 |
4:11 PM |
+9.90 |
+0.19% |
|
Shanghai A Share Index |
China |
3,822 |
12/22/2015 |
3:29 PM |
+9.3604 |
+0.25% |
|
Hang Seng Index |
Hong Kong |
21,830 |
12/22/2015 |
4:01 PM |
+38.34 |
+0.18% |
|
S&P BSE Sensex
Index |
India |
25,591 |
12/22/2015 |
6:00 PM |
-145.25 |
-0.56% |
|
JSX Composite Index |
Indonesia |
4,518 |
12/22/2015 |
12:00 AM |
+26.888 |
+0.60% |
|
NIKKEI 225 Index |
Japan |
18,887 |
12/22/2015 |
3:15 PM |
-29.32 |
-0.16% |
|
FTSE Bursa Malaysia
KLCI |
Malaysia |
1,643 |
12/22/2015 |
5:05 PM |
+14.17 |
+0.87% |
|
Karachi KSE-100 Index |
Pakistan |
32,641 |
12/22/2015 |
12:00 AM |
-17.88 |
-0.05% |
|
PSEi Index |
Phillippines |
6,966 |
12/22/2015 |
3:20 PM |
+55.84 |
+0.81% |
|
Dow Jones Singapore
Index SGD |
Singapore |
233.71 |
12/22/2015 |
4:43 PM |
+0.30 |
+0.13% |
|
KOSPI Composite Index |
South Korea |
1,993 |
12/22/2015 |
6:03 PM |
+11.37 |
+0.57% |
|
Colombo All-Share Index |
Sri Lanka |
6,855 |
12/22/2015 |
12:00 AM |
-27.18 |
-0.39% |
|
Taiwan Weighted Index |
Taiwan |
8,293 |
12/22/2015 |
1:33 PM |
+10.57 |
+0.13% |
Symbol |
Company |
Country |
Last |
Date |
Time |
Chg. |
% Chg. |
Dow Jones Denmark Index
DKK |
Denmark |
1,116 |
12/22/2015 |
12:55 PM |
-10.50 |
-0.93% |
|
Dow Jones Finland Index
EUR |
Finland |
1,178 |
12/22/2015 |
12:55 PM |
-0.43 |
-0.04% |
|
CAC 40 Index |
France |
4,568 |
12/22/2015 |
6:05 PM |
+2.43 |
+0.05% |
|
DAX |
Germany |
10,489 |
12/22/2015 |
5:45 PM |
-9.02 |
-0.09% |
|
Dow Jones Greece Index
EUR |
Greece |
28.90 |
12/22/2015 |
4:43 PM |
+0.03 |
+0.10% |
|
Amsterdam AEX Index |
Netherlands |
430.97 |
12/22/2015 |
6:05 PM |
+2.49 |
+0.58% |
|
Oslo Exchange Benchmark
Index_GI |
Norway |
589.90 |
12/22/2015 |
4:46 PM |
-1.24 |
-0.21% |
|
Dow Jones Portugal
Index EUR |
Portugal |
131.52 |
12/22/2015 |
12:55 PM |
+0.85 |
+0.65% |
|
Slovakia SAX Index |
Slovakia |
293.08 |
12/22/2015 |
5:01 PM |
-4.45 |
-1.50% |
|
Dow Jones Switzerland
Index CHF |
Switzerland |
548.47 |
12/22/2015 |
12:55 PM |
-1.59 |
-0.29% |
|
BIST 100 Index |
Turkey |
73,102 |
12/22/2015 |
5:35 PM |
-226.06 |
-0.31% |
|
FTSE 100 Index GBP |
United Kingdom |
6,083 |
12/22/2015 |
4:35 PM |
+48.26 |
+0.80% |
Symbol |
Company |
Country |
Last |
Date |
Time |
Chg. |
% Chg. |
Egypt EGX 30 Index |
Egypt |
6,769 |
12/22/2015 |
2:59 PM |
+6.82 |
+0.10% |
|
Tel Aviv 100 Index |
Israel |
1,287 |
12/22/2015 |
5:24 PM |
-9.02 |
-0.70% |
|
Dow Jones South Africa
Stock Index ZAR |
South Africa |
1,584 |
12/22/2015 |
12:54 PM |
+23.42 |
+1.50% |
Adan Salazar |
Protesters call for unlawful demonstration on private property.
Paul Joseph Watson |
Shock report confirms why Obama failed to target ISIS for 15 months.
Kit Daniels |
Other areas of the globe are also experiencing extreme cold.
Steve Watson |
Rather than the fact that extremists are murdering people.
CNS News | Obama played
golf on Monday afternoon at the Mid-Pacific Country Club, after a morning
workout at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
The Hill | Donald Trump
maintains his lead among the GOP field but half of Americans would be
embarrassed to have the real estate mogul as president, a new poll found.
Kit Daniels |
Obama claims TPP, which expands slavery, is an example of his “American
leadership.”
Paul Joseph Watson |
Terrorists have been instructed to “lay low”.
Steve Watson |
Would render executive action “advisory only”.
Gateway Pundit | ..threat to murder the Republican frontrunner.
WORLD NEWS
ISIS
releases footage of its ‘police’ patrolling Libya streets
RT | Islamic State
(IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has released footage of their security forces on the
streets of Sirte in Libya – the so-called ‘Islamic Police’.
Besieged
Afghan forces in Sangin receive airdrops as UK sends troops
London Guardian | Tiny but symbolic deployment of 10
British troops in non-combat role comes as residents say town has been almost
overrun by Taliban.
One
Million Migrants Entered Europe This Year
Sky News | More than one million migrants and
refugees have entered Europe this year, according to an intergovernmental
organisation.
Mum
regains custody of children after ‘attempting to take them to Syria to live
under ISIS’
UK Mirror | The mum was arrested and her four
children taken into care after they were stopped boarding a flight to Turkey
and the kids were taken into care.
‘Coming
after you:’ Ukrainian ultranationalists stage Nazi-like torch parade
RT | Members of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov volunteer
battalion and their ultranationalist civilian sympathizers have conducted a
torchlit procession.
MONEY WATCH
Grey
Swans Rising – All 6 Of Goldman’s Global Risk Indices Are Worsening
Zero Hedge | Despite every effort by The Fed to
convince the world that everything is awesome, it’s not.
“I
Know Of No One Who Predicted This”: Russian Oil Production Hits Record As Saudi
Gambit Fails
Zero Hedge | The takeaway here is that the Saudi
gambit failed to wrench market share away from the Russians.
Moving
Examples of Generosity This Christmas Season
New American | Each Christmas season, the American
people showcase their generosity with incredible stories of charity and giving.
Central
Banks Have Pushed The Middle Class Down Into Neofeudal Serfdom
Charles Hugh-Smith | The injustice of central-bank
enforced neofeudalism cannot be suppressed like interest rates.
PRISON PLANET
Virginia
to end concealed carry reciprocity with other states
Washington Post | Will no longer recognize concealed
carry handgun permits from 25 states.
Must
Watch Video – U.S. Senator Issues Dire Warning on Unchecked Executive Power
Michael Krieger | Take the time to watch this.
Even
Tina Fey’s Had enough of Liberal Outrage Culture
Louder With Crowder | How bad has leftist, SJW
“outrage” culture gotten?
New
Hampshire Schools Shut Over Email Threat
Sky News | The email threat is the third targeting US
schools in a week amid heightened tensions since the California shooting
attack.
COMMENTARY
Wall
Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
Murray N. Rothbard | Businessmen or manufacturers can
either be genuine free enterprisers or statists.
Pope
Goes Full Doomsday: “For Those Who Celebrate Christmas… It May Be Their Last”
Mac Slavo | Speaking before a crowd Pope Francis has
made a frightening prediction. With wars raging the world over this may be our
last Christmas.
New
Poll Shows 30% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats Support Bombing Fictional
City from Aladdin
Michael Krieger | What First Amendment?
It’s
Official: Over A Trillion Dollars A Year Will Be Added To The Debt During
Obama’s Presidency
Michael Snyder | The debt that we are passing on to
future generations has increased by 8.16 trillion dollars since Barack Obama
was inaugurated.
MULTIMEDIA
Video:
Muslims beat and kick Swedes on the street in broad daylight
Prison Planet.com | The two Swedes told them not to
vandalize flowerpots.
Economist:
Gold On The Rise After Fed Rate Hike
Prison Planet.com | On today’s broadcast we talk with
financial analyst, stockbroker, author, and one-time Senate candidate Peter
Schiff.
TRUMP: Ryan
budget ‘a disaster, a joke’
American Mirror | Trump found it hard to believe
Republican leaders knew these provisions existing and approved them anyway.
U.S. NEWS
“Global
Warming:” -51°F Temperature Recorded in Colorado
Kit Daniels | Other areas of the globe are also
experiencing extreme cold.
Palmieri
Stammers Through Defense of Hillary Clinton’s Claim That Trump Videos Are ISIS
Recruiters
Washington Free Beacon |
“Um, the uh, uh, you know, Donald Trump, I think, was talking–uh, you know…”
Obama
Brags to Reporters: I’m An Excellent Leader
Kit Daniels | Obama claims TPP, which expands
slavery, is an example of his “American leadership.”
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Warmest
Christmas Eve on record to unfold across eastern US
accuweather.com | Any
hopes of a white Christmas that the weekend chill brought will be dashed.
Intelligence
genes discovered by scientists
London Telegraph |
Imperial College London has found that two networks of genes determine whether
people are intelligent or not so bright.
NASA
Study Finds That Burning Fossil Fuels Cools the Planet
The Daily Sheeple |
“This means that Earth’s climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide—or atmospheric
carbon dioxide’s capacity to affect temperature change—has been underestimated,
according to the study.”
SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE
SEASON'S
BEATINGS: Duo Attack Blind SALVATION ARMY Bell Ringer...
Students
Sign Petition to Ban 'White Christmas' from Radio...
Restaurant
Chain Touts 'Politically Incorrect' Holiday Policy...
COPS:
WI woman chants 'ISIS is good, ISIS is great' during sex...
Trump
uses crude language to mock Clinton Associated Press
Thirty Years of Zero Price Discovery in Silver
Posted by : Sprott Money
Post date: 12/18/2015 - 05:58
Despite
these economic dynamics that are automatic in any legitimate market, there has
been no price discovery in the silver market for three decades.
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 12/18/2015 - 08:03
Rock
Bottom Rates!
Federal Reserve Rate Hike At ‘Precisely The Wrong Time’ –
Faber { Come on! There was never going to be a right time!
That’s how ominously bad things are! )
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 12/17/2015 - 14:42 Yesterday’s hike still
leaves U.S. monetary policy extremely loose, and Fed officials have signaled
they will act cautiously from to nurture a very tenuous recovery indeed.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on
12/18/2015
Update: CISA is now
the lawOBAMA SIGNS SPENDING, TAX BILL THAT REPEALS OIL EXPORT BANThey’re kind of
pulling a Patriot Act."
The Chinese are so desperate for clean air - amid the most disgusting pollution in historyAlberta-based Vitality Air is selling "Rocky
Mountain air" to the Chinese for $10 to $20 per can
Perhaps the first
step in rectifying our situation is to begin to look
at the world not as it could be, but how it is. To see things for what they are, to discard the
falsehoods, no matter how pleasant they may seem in order to embrace the truth
regardless of how painful it may be. And that’s not a theory, that’s a reality.
no evidence the
married couple accused of killing 14 people in San Bernardino, California
earlier this month had any connection to an active terror cell
"They want
something that happens everywhere at the same time."
it confirmed that
the money printers have come to a stark dead end. She and her posse of money printers are going to get
bushwhacked by reality in the year ahead.
"In a worst case scenario, the real economy
effects of the oil sector and the earnings slowdown hit the frothy commercial
real estate and REIT sector, which in turn begin the widening of the contagion
begun by energy high yield. Combine this with the sudden stop to lower quality
energy credits I believe is inevitable and you likely have stall speed – or even
recession. And that’s where subprime auto ABS, student loan securitization and
US munis come into the picture for the US domestic economy. Those markets
get hit in recession."
Commodities managers searched in despair; for solace, in cupboards, but cupboards were bare;
BRIC managers looked at each other in shock, with a new
acronym for EM markets – COCK.
"Exceptional"
if people are fallible, then the absolutely last
thing in the world we should do is to give them sovereignty not only over
themselves but over other people as well.
Citi has
announced plans to cut at least 2,000 jobs starting next monthwants to
restructure some of the bank’s businesses.
I don’t mean to make anybody too worried about this
stuff, right? It makes me think hey, should we be calling Yellen...
and saying, let us tell you what we are seeing.
LIMBAUGH: Disband Republican Party... {
What did they expect from Paul Ryan at this juncture/this late date? … Did they
expect him to muster /conjure up t_rump’s prospective (who else could it be?)
Secretariot Harry Potter who is purported to know how to use a magic wand to
solve longstanding intractable problems that have financially benefited
mightily the fashionably political but conveniently late complainers; the
purported previous and undeniably lucrative (for them) ‘cure’ being the
exacerbation of the extant Gordian Knot of a problem. Congressman cuts through 2,000 pages -- with sword! …
Well, it worked for Alexander the Great … My, my how times have changed
…}
SECRECY: Written By Four Lawmakers, Many Lobbyists...
Congressman cuts through 2,000 pages -- with sword!
Steve Watson | Because it didn’t “meet a narrative”.
Paul Joseph Watson | Song inspired by Muhammad’s
return to Medina after he forced Christians to convert to Islam.
Kit Daniels | Dictionary.com defines “climate” as “…generally prevailing weather
conditions of a region.”
Kurt Nimmo | Second man had ISIS-styled balaclava and said he would behead Obama.
Zero Hedge | For those wondering what are the main
components of the spending bill, here is a quick summary.
American Mirror | Trump found it hard to believe
Republican leaders knew these provisions existing and approved them anyway.
Breitbart | “Calling it a utility and getting the
government involved is exactly the wrong thing to do.”
Gateway Pundit | Because Christmas is all about
Mohammad.
Paul
Joseph Watson | Terms “black” and “dark skinned” also prohibited because it may
“arouse criticism” of terrorists and criminals.
·
WORLD NEWS
30+
Iraqi soldiers killed, 20 injured after US airstrike – Iraqi MP cited by
Sputnik
RT | More than 30 Iraqi
soldiers have been killed and 20 more injured in an airstrike carried out by
the US military, an Iraqi said in a statement cited by Sputnik.
Assad:
Daesh Can Be Defeated in a Year if US Drops ‘Regime Change’
Sputnik | The Daesh
terrorist group can be defeated in less than a year if the US and its allies
stop supporting rebel fighters, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad said.
Germany
Set to Cooperate With Assad, Set Up Intel Agency in Damascus
Sputnik | May even involve
reopening the German embassy in Damascus.
Zero Hedge | It’s been
nearly a month since Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24.
Officials
admit they LOST TRACK of thousands of migrants and 30k asylum seekers
overstayed
UK Express |
BRITAIN’S chaotic asylum system was exposed by a Government admission yesterday
that it has lost track of tens of thousands of migrants.
·
MONEY WATCH
Our
“Star Wars” Economy: The Fed-Farce Awakens
Charles Hugh-Smith | The
Fed’s hubris has led it to the Dark Side.
A
Big, Fat “Policy Error” Or Worse? Find Out Tomorrow
Zero Hedge | So tune in
tomorrow when, if the JPM “Gandalf” is right again, things are about to get
very exciting.
What Does Today’s
“Rate Hike” Mean?
Paul Craig Roberts | It
means that the Fed has had time to figure out that the effect of the small
“rate hike” would essentially be zero.
Prison Planet.com |
Financial analyst Harry Dent explains the current economic crisis.
·
PRISON PLANET
Truth Revolt | Because
guns = bad.
Run,
Hide, Tell: Advice For UK Terror Attack
Sky News | A video
released by the UK’s top police officers encourages people to plan for an
attack at work or in a public place.
Augusta
County Schools Closed Due to Calligraphy Assignment Reaction
Newsplex | All public
schools in Augusta County will be closed Friday.
·
COMMENTARY
STINGRAYS:
A Secret Catalogue of Government Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone
The Intercept | THE
INTERCEPT HAS OBTAINED a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens
of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence
agencies.
Paul
Ryan, John Boehner: What’s the Difference?
New American | The budget
increases federal spending and hands victory after victory over to the White
House and Obama’s Democratic allies in the Congress.
Paul
Ryan Sneaks Massive Surveillance Bill Into $1.1 Trillion Must Pass Spending
Legislation
Michael Krieger | On
Friday, Congress will vote on a mutated version of security threat sharing
legislation that had previously passed through the House and Senate.
Harvard
placemat serves up social justice for Christmas
Campus Reform | “The
project… was intended to provide a framework to help first-year students with
potentially difficult conversations during their first visits back home.”
·
MULTIMEDIA
Yale
fail: Ivy leaguers sign ‘petition’ to repeal First Amendment
FoxNews.com | Trigger
warning! This story and video may be unsuitable viewing for the “safe space”
crowd.
VIDEO: The 12 Bans of
Christmas
Campus Reform | We laugh
only to keep from crying.
Muslim
Who Threatened Knife Attack on Trump Gets Secret Service Visit
Paul Joseph Watson |
Hillary supporter doubles down on his stupidity.
·
U.S. NEWS
“Global
Warming:” Democrats Claim Climate Isn’t Weather, Oppose Dictionary Definition
Kit Daniels | Dictionary.com defines “climate” as “…generally
prevailing weather conditions of a region.”
We’re
Not Buying It… Hillary Assures Supporters TWICE IN ONE DAY She Does Not Have
Horns (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit | Hillary
assures supporters she’s not Satan.
VIDEO:
Student lights joint in class, blows smoke in teacher’s face
EAG News | Just how far
have race relations come since the tumultuous days of the Little Rock Nine?
·
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Monsanto’s
DARK ACT Stopped Dead in its Tracks in Congress
Christina Sarich | This is
a huge victory!
NOAA
Relies On ‘Compromised’ Thermometers That Inflate US Warming Trend
Daily Caller | “The
majority of weather stations used by NOAA to detect climate change temperature
signal have been compromised.”
Chemical
Banned Nearly 30 Years Ago Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
Julie Fidler | Still
found in many milk products?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARChive
Until
Today, I Assumed Putin’s Russia Killed Litvinenko … Then I Looked for Myself
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 01/22/2016 -
19:17
Billionaires and Arm's
Smugglers and Blackmail Schemes ... Oh My!
Emerging
Markets Running Scared with Capital Controls
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 01/22/2016 -
15:37
This has not been a good
year for emerging markets since many of the emerging economies are
commodity-reliant (mainly crude oil).
It’s
Not Always About Return on Capital Sometimes It’s About Return of Capital
Posted by: zenkick2000
Post date: 01/22/2016 -
15:03
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/22/2016 - 16:50
For
citizens of Nicholas Maduro's socialist paradise the news is terrible, and
getting worse with every passing day.
Since
taking office in 2013, Xi Jinping has been on a mission to root out corruption
among the ranks of the Communist Party. Some 1,500 officials have seen their
cases publicly announced. All 1,500 are represented in the following excellent
interactive graphic from ChinaFile called “Catching Tigers and Flies.”
“[S]ooner or
later, as the
globalist elites seek to drag the country into conflicts and global
commitments, preside over the economic pastoralization of the United States,
manage the delegitimization of our own culture, and the dispossession of our
people, and disregard or diminish our national interest and national
sovereignty, a
nationalist reaction is almost inevitable and will probably assume populist
form when it arrives. The sooner it comes, the better.”
The
World Economic Forum in Davos is submerged by a tsunami of denials,
and even non-denial denials, stating there won’t be a follow-up to the Crash of
2008. Yet there will be. And the stage is already set for it.
Trump’s
meteoric rise to the top of the polls represents something of a coup for a
system that has for years been dominated by an entrenched political
aristocracy. While we know that Trump has managed to secure an almost religious
following in part by whipping voters into a veritable frenzy, we do not yet
know what, specifically, voters see in brazen billionaire beyond the rather
amorphous “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan. Here to shed some light
on the subject is Gallup.
The
Texas recession is only in its early innings, but we were pleasantly surprised
to learn, courtesy of a reader, that it may not be as severe as some expect
thanks to good samaritans such Houston-based Gramercy Cleaners on Richmond
avenue whose compassion with the imploding energy sector is manifesting itself
in service discounts.
Markets
need to retreat from dependency on central bank stimulus which
they falsely believe provides the magical elixir that fixes all economic and
financial market woes.
“Better to preserve
capital on the downside rather than outperform on the upside”
"China
is to the current cycle what the US housing market was for the Global Financial
Crisis in 2008. It
will take years to correct the excesses that were built up in China... the
consequences of a weaker yuan would be disastrous...If China devalues, all the other countries in the region will follow
suit which will lead
to a global deflationary shock. There is a real chance of a bigger correction than
many investors realize..."
Just
three weeks into the new year, we followed up to see how Goldman's "Top 6
Trades For 2016" are doing and to our amazement we find that Goldman is
about to set a new record: just 21 days into 2016 and Goldman has
already been stopped out with a loss on 3, or half, of its 6 trades for 2016!
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/22/2016
Stocks
are certainly much cheaper than they were a few weeks ago after the worst start
to a new year in Wall Street history...But cheaper doesn’t necessarily mean
cheap.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/22/2016 - 15:10
If
you were wondering how much US debt Saudi Arabia holds, you're out of luck
because as it turns out, that's a state secret protected by a decades old
"unusual Treasury blackout." “It’s mind-boggling they haven’t
undone it. The Treasury didn’t want to offend OPEC [but] it’s hard to
justify this special treatment at this point.”
Kit Daniels | Bill gives Obama power to deploy military anywhere
– including on U.S. soil.
Prison Planet.com | Here are the finalists of the contest!
Prison Planet.com | US caught harboring terrorist affiliates once
again
Kit Daniels | Global banker admits Keynesian economics not
working.
Rex Jones | TSA expands its tyranny despite growing backlash.
USA Today | Dimon paid $1.5 million salary, then over $25
million in bonuses and grants.
RT | The increased activity of the terrorists was
witnessed in several suburbs of Damascus.
Mikael Thalen | Clinton
refutes claim from ex-Secret Service agent.
Adan Salazar | “The President cannot simply announce sweeping new
rules and implement them by giving a speech or issuing an executive
memorandum.”
Adan Salazar | “If
you don’t have your food & groceries yet I feel sorry for you.”
WORLD NEWS
Britain
Claims Putin Had Ex-KGB Agent Killed
Prison Planet.com | Lack of evidence has many thinking otherwise
97% Of Rare
Earth Minerals Go To China
Prison Planet.com | That’s only one of the ways they are stomping out
American prosperity
Islamist
fighters in Aleppo, Syria, got reinforcements from Turkey – Russian Foreign
Ministry
RT | The increased activity of the terrorists was
witnessed in several suburbs of Damascus.
Globalists
Are Using The Third World As A Weapon
Prison Planet.com | Tens of millions of unskilled immigrants are
creating a tower of Babel
The Artwork Of
The Devil On Display
Prison Planet.com | The Devil lives in the twisted, profane, and
diseased because cannot create
·
MONEY WATCH
Banking
Cartel: JPMorgan CEO gets 35% pay raise to $27M amid cutbacks
USA Today | Dimon paid $1.5 million salary, then over $25
million in bonuses and grants.
Crashing
oil prices hit former Texas boomtowns
USA Today | “It’s just like a ghost town again,” bar owner
says.
Dow
falls to new low as oil plunges to $27 a barrel
RT | From an opening of 15,989.45, the Dow never went
higher.
Don’t
Believe The Lies, The Crash Is Coming
Prison Planet.com | “They rig the stock markets, the interest rates,
everything!”
·
PRISON PLANET
El
Chapo: Fast And Furious And Too Big To Jail
Prison Planet.com | Will El Chapo escape prison once again?
Prison Planet.com | Infowars reporter gets “felt up” by the TSA while
heading to Flint, Michigan
Former
Congressman: Clintons Sold Military Secrets To China
Prison Planet.com | Selling arms to China can make you a ton of money
Narcoleptic
Extermination Rant
Prison Planet.com | “One cannot see the matrix while in a trance, you
can only see it by waking up out of it”
COMMENTARY
Prison Planet.com | “She’s been mentally ill since day one”
Why The ATF Hates This
T-Shirt
Prison Planet.com | Show your support for the second amendment
Exclusive: BLM
Admit They Steal Land!!
Prison Planet.com | BLM employees have zero regret for taking private
property
Flint
Resident Describes Symptoms of Lead Poisoning
Prison Planet.com | “My grandson who is nearly two years old, now has
a high level of lead in his body.”
·
MULTIMEDIA
Facebook
Memes & The Land Of Idiocracy
Prison Planet.com | A breakdown of one of the most stupid memes on the
internet, plus more – Full Show
Special Report:
Children and the TSA
Rex Jones | TSA expands its tyranny despite growing backlash.
13
Hours Film Reveals U.S. Gave Stand Down Order In Benghazi Attack!
Prison Planet.com | Hollywood helps expose truth behind infamous stand
down
·
U.S. NEWS
BREAKING:
Military Martial Law Bill Sneaked Through by Senate
Kit Daniels | Bill gives Obama power to deploy military anywhere
– including on U.S. soil.
Finalists
Announced: “Make Fun Of Hillary Clinton” Video Contest
Prison Planet.com | Here are the finalists of the contest!
Prison Planet.com | Establishment openly admits US downfall is already
underway
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Self-Driving
Cars: The Future Of Surveillance
Prison Planet.com | Future vehicles will be big brother spy machines
Why Smart Cars Are a
Dumb Idea
Prison Planet.com | Smart cars will not only drive for you, but
collect all the information they can in the process
Is
This The Most Important Study Of The Decade?
Prison
Planet.com | Yale research
provides fresh insight into human nature
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
WHEN THE BREAD RUNS OUT...
Canceled flights pile up...
Traffic Accidents Galore...
Gas Shortages...
Snow levels 'absolutely
staggering'...
Full Moon Could Make More
Destructive...
STUDY: FACEBOOK friends
almost 'entirely fake'...
Animals at Gaza zoos die of
hunger, diseases...
HOW EMBARRASSING FOR CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS, THE NATION, ET CETERA! … Art of a
deal?
Sarah Palin: ‘t_rump has a track record of (new york/new
jersey)success’pool/drain ‘On the Waterfront’ …
Having told Jimmy Kimmel that he "would love to"
appoint Sarah Palin to his cabinet, The
Washington Post asks (and answers), just what would a trump cabinet
look like?
‘AN
UTTER FRAUD. AN ABSOLUTE AND UTTER FRAUD,’ MCGINNISS CALLS PALIN IN AN INTERVIEW ABOUT THE BOOK
WITH NBC.
Joe McGinniss Sarah Palin Book, 'The Rogue,' Makes
Controversial Claims About Former Alaska Governor ‘Joe McGinniss's new book, The Rogue:
Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, hits bookstores next week, but its controversial claims about the former Alaska governor are
already making waves.
In the book, McGinniss writes that
Palin had a one-night stand in 1987 with future NBA basketball
player Glen Rice nine months before she married her husband Todd. He quotes a
friend who said Palin "had a fetish for black guys for a while."
"She was a gorgeous woman.
Super nice. I was blown away by her," Rice tells McGinniss in the book,
NBC reports. "Afterward, she was a big crush that I had."
McGinniss's book also alleges that
Palin had an extramarital affair with her husband's business partner, Brad
Hanson, in the mid-1990s, and snorted cocaine off a 55-gallon oil drum while
snowboarding.
"An utter fraud. An absolute
and utter fraud," McGinniss calls Palin in an interview about the book with NBC.
"At best, she's a
hypocrite," McGinniss tells NBC's Savannah Guthrie. "At worst, she's
a vindictive hypocrite."
McGinniss famously moved into a house next door to Palin's Wasilla, Alaska home
to write his book -- prompting the Palins to accuse him of stalking them. They built a high fence along their property to protect their
privacy.
In response to McGinniss's book,
Todd Palin gave a statement to NBC saying that McGinniss "spent the
last year interviewing marginal figures with an axe to grind in order to churn
out a hit piece to satisfy his own creepy obsession with my wife."
"I'd ask the fathers and
husbands of America to consider our privacy when one summer day I found this
guy on the deck of the rental property, just 18 feet away next door to us,
staring like a creep at my wife while she mowed the lawn in her shorts,"
Palin said.
McGinniss says that anything he
learned about Palin by living next door did not make it into the book, but he
does become a character in the story himself.
The New York Times writes
in its review:
Soon Mr. McGinniss is settling in to enjoy the fuss
his mere presence has created. "Normally, for a news story to continue
beyond the first 24-hour news cycle, something newsworthy must occur," he
writes loftily, but "The Rogue" is filled with proof to the contrary.
What was his hate mail like? He quotes it. What did Glenn Beck call him? That’s
here too. Who took umbrage at this venom and chose to help him? One man offered
him a hideout, despite Mr. McGinniss's slight skepticism about his motives.
"But you don’t know me," Mr. McGinniss protested.
McGinniss's book is scheduled to
hit bookstores on Tuesday, Sept. 20.’
The
Rogue: Searching For The Real Sarah Palin' Cover Revealed Call it
Palin Noir. Joe McGinniss' upcoming biography of Sarah Palin has a cover design
more fitting for a detective novel. It has a bold...
Joe
McGinniss, Palin Neighbor & Author, Leaving Wasilla To Write Book ANCHORAGE,
Alaska — Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months
on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his...
SOME PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Michael Krieger | What’s even more incredible
than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic attempt to
deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as we
noted was possible previously - Texas has
enacted a Bill to repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a
newly established state gold bullion depository..."People
have this image of Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is
exactly where they would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes
a section to prevent forced sEIZURE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
IS THIS THE FIRST STEP DOWN A ROAD TO SECESSION?
1-26-16: t_rump: ‘…my supporters are smart and
loyal…I could go out on 5th Avenue and shoot someone and they’d
still support me…my poll numbers wouldn’t change’… {When I first heard this
sick, outlandish, psychopathic quote I was reluctant to comment upon/post it
thinking it must be slickly out of context…it’s not!…as a matter of fact, it’s
even worse in context…he meant it!…to be sure, he rivals hitler with his
similarly sick devotees buying into his ‘psychopathy’…(so over the top that
even the presence of the full moon can’t justify trump’s dangerous lunacy-don’t
forget, nuclear weapons exacerbate a globally perilous and precarious doomsday
scenario…(how embarrassing for trump supporters, backers, apologists and
particularly, america …!)}
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 01/26/2016 -
10:21
Escalation, Much?
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 01/26/2016 -
11:09
BANZAI7 FOOD, BEVERAGE
AND EVIL SPECULATNG DOUCHE BAG WARNING
Posted by: Tim Knight from...
Post date: 01/26/2016 -
12:35
Now allow me to
write exactly the same thing using what Slope patron saint George
Carlin lovingly described as "simple, direct, honest language"
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/26/2016 -
"We are going to need a bigger
dilution chart."
China
Warns Soros Against Starting A Currency War: "You Cannot Possibly Succeed,
Ha, Ha"
“
Soros’s war on the renminbi and the Hong Kong
dollar cannot possibly succeed — about this there can be no doubt. Reckless
speculations and vicious shorting will face higher trading costs and possibly
severe legal consequences. And just as proved in the yuan exchange rate case,
the Chinese government has sufficient resources and policy tools to keep the
overall economic situation under control and cope with any external
challenges.”
"Sweden
Could Be At War Within A Few Years", Top General Warns
Sweden's Major General Anders Brännström
thinks a global conflict could be right around the corner and in order to
defend the homeland, the country's military needs to develop "
the capability of armed battle against a
qualified opponent." While it's not entirely clear who counts as a
"qualified opponent," Defence Committee chairman Allan Widman sees a
very real threat from the Russians going forward.
Peter
Schiff On The End Of The Illusion Of Recovery
The financial engineering that has been
made possible by zero percent interest rates is no longer available to paper
over weak corporate results in the U.S.
Our economy is addicted to QE and zero rates, and
without those supports, we will spiral back into recession. This is the reality
that the mainstream tried mightily to ignore the past several years. But the
chickens are coming home to roost, and they have a great many eggs to lay. In
the end, stimulus does not create actual growth, but merely the illusion of it.
AAPL
Earnings Beat Despite Missing Sales, iPhone Expectations; US Revenues Decline
Expectations were hardly sky high for
AAPL heading into a quarter in which most of its suppliers had already
announced iPhone sales would be disappointing, and moments ago AAPL validated
many of these concerns when while beating on the bottom line, with an EPS of
$3.28 compared to expectations of a $3.22 print, it missed not only on the top
line, with revenue coming shy of the $76.5 billion expected at $75.9 billion,
but across every single product line, most notably iPhones, of which AAPL sold
74.78 million in the quarter, below the 75 million expected.
Crude
Plunges After API Reports Biggest Inventory Build Since 1996
After a day of exuberant hope from rumors
of production cuts, WTI crude is plunging back to reality as API reports a
stunning 11.4 million barrel inventory build. This is the
biggest weekly build since May 1996.
Politicians
Admit The System Is Corrupt; Controlled By Special Interests
Politicians
are all corrupt; those few who do initially join to "help the people"
either soon get corrupted, or are mulched out of the system. None are more corrupt than those who are at the very
top of American politics; the so-called "survivors." Some politicians
made the mistake of admitting their own wrong-doings, and others have
"whistleblow"-ed on the corrupt nature of American politics.
Why
A Former Fed Official Fears A Global Meltdown
"
The Fed’s monetary policy of extraordinarily low interest rates helped create the asset bubbles in stock and commodity prices that are now bursting.
In retrospect, the Fed’s rate hike last month will likely be viewed as
monetary malpractice
. None of this is likely to forestall turmoil in credit markets.
Investors are wise to be worried
..."
How
The Current Sell-Off Stacks Up To All Previous Bear Markets
Based on 43 large sell-offs in the
world's major equity markets, Morgan Stanley gauges how the current market
slide compares to bear markets and bull corrections through history. While they
have tended to last about 190 business days, with drawdowns around 30%, the
current environment is considerably weaker than the typical bear market
beginning...
Denmark
Passes Law To Seize Valuables, Cash From Refugees
Denmark has passed new immigration
legislation that will allow police to seize cash and valuables from refugees in
what lawmakers say is a bid to help pay for asylum seekers' upkeep. While some
say the bill is "misunderstood," others call it "morally
horrible."
"While EM government ownership of
the European equity market is just 0.5% of market cap, it is up to 25% for
individual names. We highlight 23 European companies with EM government
ownership of more than 5% of market cap, according to the latest figures
available on Bloomberg... we are concerned that further capital outflows from
emerging markets could lead to more downside risk."
"Pipe
Dreams" Of A Gently Rising Oil Price
What does the world really want from oil
prices?
Paul Joseph Watson | The
elite’s war on culture.
Adan Salazar | “I will
never write an essay to get my rights as an American citizen.”
Kurt Nimmo | Prime
Minister envisions war that will last generations
Adan Salazar | “This
resolution is a total rewrite of the War Powers clause of the Constitution.”
Paul Joseph Watson |
Feminists more concerned about not appearing “Islamophobic” than protecting the
safety of women.
Kurt Nimmo | Former
defense secretary lied about Iraqi WMDs and helped create breeding ground for
IS.
Steve Watson | Witness
the mind numbingly cripplingly boring sterility Washington politics projects
onto the world.
Paul Joseph Watson |
Influential CEO suggests outcome of 2016 presidential election already decided.
The Daily Sheeple | To
date, nobody really knows what the strain is.
EAG News | That means
dressing like Caitlyn Jenner is out.
WORLD NEWS
Middle
Eastern “Refugees” Gang-Rape Woman in Helsinki
Gateway Pundit | The
suspected crime took place in Helsinki in the vicinity of the main train
station in November.
Italy
Dreads Looming Invasion of 400,000 New Immigrants ‘in Coming Weeks’
Breitbart | Italian
authorities fear that their worst nightmare is materializing before their eyes.
Teen
Held Over Murder Of Refugee Centre Worker
Sky News | The 22-year-old
victim, described as “an angel”, was stabbed to death at a Swedish refugee
centre for youngsters aged 14 to 17.
Islamic
Murderer: Christian Girls Exist to “Pleasure Muslim Men”
Kit Daniels | “Christian
girls are only meant for one thing, the pleasure of Muslim men,” Muslim killer
said.
Medieval
Europe? Migration Gridlock Dragging EU Back to the Dark Ages
Sputnik | The ongoing
migration crisis adds significantly to modern-day Europe being turned into a
“medieval mess,” according to political analyst Robert Kaplan
·
MONEY WATCH
French
taxi drivers shut down Paris as protests over Uber turn violent
Business Insider | French
taxi unions are staging a nationwide protest against Uber and the French
government in Paris, according to local media and posts on social media.
Flooding
Damage From Jonas Will Cost Billions And Is Being Described As ‘Worse Than
Hurricane Sandy’
Michael Snyder | The
economic damage done by winter storm Jonas looks like it is going to be much
higher than many had originally anticipated.
Business Insider | After a
rally Friday, oil is tanking again Monday morning.
Will
the Fed’s Manipulations Lead to a Sound Money Revolution?
New American | The super-secret
corporation’s control over the country’s supply of currency will continue
without oversigh
·
PRISON PLANET
Mizzou
Prof Who Called For ‘Muscle’ Charged With Assault
Truth Revolt | No justice,
no t
526
Syrian Refugees Admitted Since Paris Attacks; Still Just One Christian
CNS News | Fewer than 0.2
percent is a Christian.
Pick-Pocketing
Migrant Arrested After BEATING and SPITTING ON Young Mother with Children
Gateway Pundit | Security
cameras caught a pick-pocketing migrant tried to steal from an elderly woman at
subway station in Sweden.
MORE
Liberal Policy Failure: Mass Shooting in Canada Despite Strict Gun Control
Laws…
Louder With Crowder |
Someone tell Obama, he seems to think only America has mass shootings.
COMMENTARY
Duke
Grad Student Equates Free Speech To White Supremacy
Campus Reform | A Duke
University graduate student claims in a recent op-ed that defending free speech
on college campuses is tantamount to white supremacy.
The
REAL Donald Trump – A Fascinating Interview of the Man from 1990
Michael Krieger | In 1990,
Donald Trump conducted a lengthy interview with Playboy Magazine.
Huh?
Glenn Beck Tells Iowa Crowd He Prefers Bernie Sanders Over Donald Trump
Gateway Pundit | So how
exactly will Bernie Sanders push forward the conservative cause?
Just
A Coincidence That A Historic Blizzard Named ‘Jonas’ Hit D.C. On The
Anniversary Of Roe v Wade?
Michael Snyder | On
January 22nd, one of the worst east coast blizzards in history slammed into
Washington D.C. like a freight train.
MULTIMEDIA
Facebook
Memes & The Land Of Idiocracy
Prison Planet.com | A
breakdown of one of the most stupid memes on the internet, plus more – Full
Show
Special Report:
Children and the TSA
Rex Jones | TSA expands
its tyranny despite growing backlash.
13
Hours Film Reveals U.S. Gave Stand Down Order In Benghazi Attack!
Prison Planet.com |
Hollywood helps expose truth behind infamous stand down
U.S. NEWS
Gay
Latino Oscar Voter Pens Letter to Academy President: “Are You Saying I Am
Racist?”
Mark Reina | Mark Reina, a
member of the Academy’s executives branch, weighs in on the #OscarsSoWhite
controversy and the response to it.
Sources:
Bloomberg Willing To Spend $1B On Possible Presidential Bid
CBS New York | Former New
York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking a look at the 2016 presidential
landscape.
Clinton:
‘No, I’m Not Concerned’ About FBI Probe Into Emails
CNS News | “No, I’m not
concerned, because I know what the facts are.”
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Flint
2.0? Officials failed to warn Sebring, Ohio residents of lead-contaminated
water for months
RT | Children and pregnant
women in Sebring, Ohio, have been advised not to drink tap water.
Northeast
Under Feet of Snow Despite NY Times Predicting ‘End of Snow’
Truth Revolt | A better
prediction may have been an end to milk and bread.
Zika
virus suspected of causing brain damage to babies to spread throughout Americas
– WHO
RT | The mosquito-borne
Zika virus is set to spread in all countries across the Americas.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Artificial
Intelligence Writes Political Speeches...
A.I.
is already everywhere...
112-year-old
woman smokes 30 cigarettes a day...
EXODUS: Tidal
Wave of Corporations Flee America...
APPLE's new iOS
center in Naples raises eyebrows...
REVEALED: GOOGLE
worldwide web of tax loopholes...
Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 01/28/2016 -
12:11
PUT YOUR BANZAI7 CRASH
HELMETS ON!
This is Not 2008 …at least Not for Gold
Posted by: Max.Power
Post date: 01/29/2016 -
13:16
If equities sell off
another 20% like 2008, gold would not follow them down in a "dollar
short squeeze or flight to quality". There is now a very different real
interest rate and energy price...
Ignore Stocks, the REAL Crisis is Far Bigger and Far
Worse
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 01/28/2016 -
11:45
While stocks grab the
headlines, there is another far more important crisis for investors to focus
on.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/29/2016
"I
don’t want to invest in stocks because they’re crazy and real estate is a
solid, safe investment."
Just
as we warned, and she mush have known, it appears
at least 22 of
the emails found on Hillary Clinton's private email server have been declared
"top secret" by The FBI (but will not be releasing the contents)
according to AP. The revelation comes just three days before the Iowa
presidential nominating caucuses in which Clinton is a candidate. As
we previously noted, the implications are tough for The DoJ - if they
indict they crush their own candidate's chances of the Presidency,
if they do not - someone will leak the details and
the FBI will revolt...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/29/2016
"The
nominal GDP of the industrialized world has grown just 4.1% since the lows of
Q1’2009, one of the tiniest, deflationary expansions ever. And while asset
prices are up significantly since their 2008/09 lows, the underlying message
from Wall Street in recent years has been doggedly deflationary."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/29/2016
That American Dream thing is a going up in smoke. Upward
mobility has stalled, and stagnation is setting in. Skyrocketing costs and
shrinking opportunity are meeting head on with full on economic disaster. The
"Dude, Where’s My Stuff?" generation doesn’t have much motivation to
go on for growing up and getting their life together these days.
Abandon
all hope for China's equity markets ye who enter here...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/29/2016 -
"...
When stocks are falling this much, it's hard to justify not acting"
"...
Davos - where he mingled with central bankers such as ECB President Mario
Draghi and leading company executives - likely prompted him to pull the
trigger"
“
The real enemy of
investors is not these fairly routine 10 or 20% downturns.
The real enemy is the
bear market that is associated with a recession or crisis, the one that knocks
your equity block down by 40 or 50%. And actually it isn’t even the depth that
is the real enemy.
For most investors the enemy is time.
”
Early
in the day, VIX spiked 'oddly' and instanly broke the options market -
prompting the start of an epic ramp in stocks. In the last minute of the US
day-session today, we have only one question as a follow up...
WTF just happened
here...
By
surprising markets with a move to a negative deposit rate, the Bank of Japan
gave investors temporary reprieve, providing a much needed opportunity to
pare portfolio risk at better prices. Unfortunately, the improvement in
financial asset prices will be short-lived; except, of course, for
long-maturity Treasuries.
Going
down? To The White House... or The Big House
What’s a Keynesian
monetary quack to do when the economy and markets fail to remain “on message”
within a few weeks of grandiose declarations that this time, printing
truckloads of money has somehow “worked”, in defiance of centuries of
experience, and in blatant violation of sound theory? In the weeks since the
largely meaningless December rate hike, numerous armchair central planners,
many of whom seem to be pining for even more monetary insanity than the actual
planners, have begun to berate the Fed for inadvertently summoning that great
bugaboo of modern-day money cranks,
the “ghost of 1937”.
Here
is the one chart which in our opinion virtually assures that the Fed will
follow in the footsteps of Sweden, Denmark, Europe, Switzerland and now Japan.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/29/2016 -
Bank
of America has a simple question: Why, if we are truly seven years into a
“recovery”, are populist parties and politicians dominating the political
landscape?
Adan Salazar | At least
one child sent to emergency care.
Steve Watson | Commanding
Debate performance from the Libertarian Senator.
Cryptogon.com | Here’s
what happened in Brazil, where Oxitec has been conducting massive experiments
with genetically modified mosquitoes.
Media Post | Matt Drudge
has 8.5 billion combined page views.
Kurt Nimmo | Demands
corrupt and fraud-ridden federal agencies take over the state of Michigan.
Diversity
Macht Frei | 20 months in prison without parole for rape.
·
WORLD NEWS
WATCH:
Planned Parenthood Capitalizes on Zika Tragedy to Promote Abortion in Latin
America
Breitbart | Officials from
the abortion giant Planned Parenthood are taking advantage of fears surrounding
the Brazilian Zika crisis.
Special
ISIS cells preparing terror attacks in Europe and Russia – Russian
anti-terrorism body
RT | Islamic State cells
led by Chechen recruiter Akhmed Chetayev are planning terrorist attacks in
Russia and Europe, Moscow’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee reported.
Germany
Confirms Five Zika Virus Cases
Sky News | The health
ministry’s announcement comes after the World Health Organisation warns the
virus is “spreading explosively”.
40%
of Germans want Merkel to quit over refugee policy – poll
RT | Forty percent of
Germans are apparently not satisfied with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee
policy and want her to resign, according to a recent poll.
Hand
grenade thrown at asylum home in Germany
AP | “It was just luck”
the device did not explode and nobody was harmed.
·
MONEY WATCH
Was
there ever a time when so few people controlled so much wealth?
London Guardian | Two
things are clear: radical new ways of getting rich have been invented, and
things have probably never been this unequal since before the second world war.
Who
Can Afford The American Dream? “Rental Rates Have Reached Apocalyptic Levels”
Mac Slavo | Skyrocketing
costs and shrinking opportunity are meeting head on with full on economic
disaster.
IMF
and World Bank move to forestall oil-led defaults
FT | A possible $4bn
emergency loan package.
Guy
With USELESS Degree From $62,965-A-Year College Is REALLY SAD About His Student
Loans, You Guys
Daily Caller | “My
siblings and I had the privilege of expecting we would attend private
colleges.”
·
PRISON PLANET
SUIT:
Parents seek end to forced Islam ‘indoctrination’ school lessons
EAG News | A Maryland
school district is staring down a federal lawsuit.
The
Crime of Being Christian? Atheistic State Seizes Theists’ Children
New American | Is
Christianity now a crime?
Mizzou’s
mandatory diversity training talks Katy Perry, South Park, taco costumes
Campus Reform | Mizzou has
mandated diversity training for all incoming students starting in the spring
2016 semester.
Michael Krieger | The
Department of Homeland Security wants a private company to provide a national
license-plate tracking system.
COMMENTARY
Zika
Outbreak Epicenter in Same Area Where GM Mosquitoes Were Released in 2015
Claire Bernish |
The World Health Organization announced it will convene an Emergency Committee.
Girls
React to New ‘Curvy’ Barbie: ‘Fat, Fat, Fat’
Truth Revolt | As
expected.
MYTH
BUSTED: Actually, Yes, Hitler Was a Socialist Liberal
Louder With Crowder | If
you take nothing else from this post, just remember Hitler was a socialist.
·
MULTIMEDIA
FBI
Video Shows Deadly Confrontation Between Finicum and Feds *Graphic Video
Content*
Mac Slavo | Though several
law enforcement vehicles were present at the scene, the FBI has only released
the aerial footage of the incident.
Facebook
Memes & The Land Of Idiocracy
Prison Planet.com | A
breakdown of one of the most stupid memes on the internet, plus more – Full
Show
Special Report:
Children and the TSA
Rex Jones | TSA expands
its tyranny despite growing backlash.
·
U.S. NEWS
CNS News | “[The]
question’s about new American immigrants and driver’s licenses about new
American immigrants or not-yet-documented citizens.”
Jeb
Bush at #GOPDebate: ‘I Guess I’m Establishment’
Truth Revolt | “Fine, I’ll
take it.”
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Mysterious
booms and shaking, social media rumors scare New Jersey
Washington Post | It was
just after 1:30 p.m. when New Jersey began to shake.
300
Scientists Want NOAA To Stop Hiding Its Global Warming Data
Daily Caller | Scientists
may have violated federal laws.
Moon
was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a forming planet
EurekAlert | UCLA-led
research reconstructs massive crash, which took place 4.5 billion years ago.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
FINAL STRETCH: CRUZ IN FOR
BRUISIN...
Trump Calls Him 'Anchor
Baby'...
Ted shifts focus from Donald
to Marco...
Rubio lowers expectations...
**POLL** WHO IS YOUR REPUBLICAN PICK FOR PRESIDENT?
SALON: DRUDGE LEADING WAY...
SOME CLINTON EMAILS 'TOO
DAMAGING' TO RELEASE
OBAMA ADMIN CONFIRMS
ISSA: FBI 'WOULD LIKE TO INDICT
HUMA AND HILLARY'... |
Gold
And Silver Best Performing Assets – Up 9% and 8% YTD
Posted by : GoldCore
Post date: 02/05/2016 -
14:01
Gold is 3.6% higher this
week and is now over 9% higher year to date. The dollar saw sharp falls
this week on growing doubts that the Federal Reserve will be able to raise
interest rates....
When Mother Market Force Takes Over Central Banking!
Watch Rates Rise Even Though the Fed Doesn't
Posted by: Reggie Middleton
Post date: 02/04/2016 -
12:32
Do you remember when
Greenspan was befuddled when natural market rates wouldn't obey his commands in
the previous decade? Well, I sure hope Yellen does. Even if she doesn't the
high yield financed US...
US, Japan, Canada, Australia and 8 Other Countries
Sign Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 02/04/2016 -
17:59
Can We Stop This
Monster?
Is
it time to panic yet?
Investment
expert, Harry Markopolos, wrote detailed letters to the SEC for years, raising
red flags that Bernie Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme – only to be ignored by
the SEC as Madoff fleeced more and more victims out of their life savings.
Today, there are two equally erudite scribes who have jointly been flooding the
SEC with explosive evidence that some Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
that trade on U.S. stock exchanges and are sold to a gullible public, may be
little more than toxic waste dumped there by Wall Street firms eager to rid
themselves of illiquid securities.
Guess
who will be blamed in a few months when global trade, commerce, and growth all
go negative?
When
looking at the current state of the Chinese economy it is important to
note what happened leading up the ongoing predicament.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 02/05/2016 - 17:31
With
President
Obama unveiling his $10/Barrel tax plan to fund government-subsidized
public transportatation (versus an individual's choice over his method
transportation), we thought a glimpse at the pros and cons of such a
choice may be useful...
"More
monetary stimulus, wherever it is in the world, isn’t the answer for a global economy still trying to find a new
growth path. Pay
attention to bonds and ignore the sirens of the stock market."
"This
time it has been the USD which has been the focal point. Investors continue to
rotate through a vicious circle of concerns on China, commodities and US growth
and with a still large long position, further near-term USD losses are likely
as broader US data momentum remains weak."
"If one is looking for key technical indicators to ring the bell on
the cyclical bull market- maybe it has just rung loud and clear. A renminbi devaluation will only sever an already
badly frayed safety rope..."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 02/05/2016 - 15:50
Enterprise
Products Partners has told at least some counterparties that it is
experiencing delays in delivering crude from its tanks, according to
three sources who were informed of unspecified "terminalling and
pump" issues. The hiccups may be a sign of things to come as traders
fear a further increase in stocks at Cushing would test the upper limits of
tanks and cause the next leg of an 18-month rout.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 02/05/2016 - 15:15
After
someone decided to dump $1.2 billion notional in gold futures this morning as
the jobs data hit - sparking a $20 tumble in the precious metal - it appears
stock sellers are greatly rotating to the safety of bullion (over bonds)...
The
Swiss National Bank Doubled Its Holdings Of AAPL Stock In 2015
In
a year in which AAPL not only entered a bear market, but dropped to multi-year
lows, the SNB almost doubled its total AAPL holdings, which as of December 31,
2015 amounted to 10.4 million shares, up from 5.6 million a year earlier
Adan Salazar | Social media, online journalism, blogs, web
searches, comment sections could all be affected…
Kit Daniels | “I mean, he and Hillary have more in common than
we would have with Cruz and Trump…”
Kurt Nimmo | Cops to be on the lookout for Gadsden flag and
other dangerous symbols
Steve Watson | “Taxpayers, the U.S. Air Force and the Secret
Service are being abused”.
Paul Joseph Watson |
Stefan Molyneux interviews Paul Joseph Watson.
CNBC | The global economy
seems trapped in a “death spiral” that could lead to further weakness in oil
prices, recession and a serious equity bear market, Citi strategists have
warned.
Daily Mail | A Belgian
journalist has spoken about the horrific moment she was sexually assaulted by a
man live on television.
Washington Examiner |
“Her contract with the University of Buffalo for an Oct. 23 speech stipulated
that her $275,000 fee be paid to her speaking agency.”
Bizpac Review | “Who told
you to be here? Bernie?”
Paul
Joseph Watson | Rapes, assaults, terror threats kept secret.
·
WORLD NEWS
White
House says Obama not preparing military action against extremists in Libya
Washington Times | Speaker
Paul D. Ryan said Thursday he is concerned about Libya, after receiving
classified intelligence briefings.
Refugees
Go Clubbing In Russia, Harass Girls, Wake Up In Hospital The Next Morning
Daily Caller | A group of
51 refugees were brutally assaulted outside a night club in Murmansk, Russia,
after they groped and molested women at a night club Saturday.
London
Rejects UN Decision on Assange Freedom
Sputnik | Assange will be
arrested if he tries to leave the Ecuadorian embassy, the UK said.
Japan’s
Sakurajima volcano erupts some 50km from nuclear plant – Met Agency
RT | Japan’s Sakurajima
volcano, situated about 50km from the Sendai nuclear station, has erupted.
Obama
urged by national security team to battle ISIS in Libya
The Week | Some of
President Obama’s national security aides are urging him to approve increased
U.S. military action in Libya.
·
MONEY WATCH
70%
Of Jobs Added In January Were Minimum Wage Waiters And Retail Workers
Zero Hedge | So how does
one explain the snap higher in January wages?
Four
Days After Predicting Oil Will Double, T. Boone Pickens Sells All Oil Holdings
Zero Hedge | While being
merely wrong is excusable, being a “legendary” hypocrite is not.
Hyperinflating
Venezuela Used 36 Boeing 747 Cargo Planes To Deliver Its Worthless Bank Notes
Zero Hedge | More planes
are coming…
22
Signs That The Global Economic Turmoil We Have Seen So Far In 2016 Is Just The
Beginning
Economic Collapse | As bad
as the month of January was for the global economy, the truth is that the rest
of 2016 promises to be much worse.
·
PRISON PLANET
Hillary
Clinton ‘100 percent confident’ FBI won’t find wrongdoing
The Hill | “Absolutely
certain.”
Shocking!
Judge Tazes Man in Court Because He “Continued To Speak When Ordered To Stop”
Mac Slavo | The
punishments being handed out by courtrooms are starting to look a lot like
behaviorists testing rats.
Truth Revolt | “We
understood that there would be consequences of this action. But we are neither
remorseful nor grateful.”
Protesters
supporting Melissa Click interrupt Mizzou board meeting
Campus Reform | Concerned
Students 1950 staged several protests around the Mizzou campus Thursday in
support of Professor Melissa Click.
COMMENTARY
Washington
Post Op-Ed Calls for “Safe Zones” in Syria
Tony Cartalucci | US Seeks
to Turn Syria into the “Libya of the Levant.”
Breitbart | Four-time
Oscar-winners Joel and Ethan Coen have weighed in on the renewed #OscarsSoWhite
controversy.
Christians
“Should be Eradicated”: Researchers Document Anti-Christian Agenda Among
Powerful Elite
New American | Critics
asserting the existence of an institutional anti-Christian bias, and a
resultant war on the faith, have often been labeled paranoid.
First
Woman to Enlist in Combat? Yeah, She’s AWOL…
Louder With Crowder | So
how does one critizice a woman who just couldn’t hack it in the military?
·
MULTIMEDIA
Chicago
Seminary Urges Students To Wear ‘White Privilege Glasses’
EAG News | “It helps you
see the world the way we do.”
You
Won’t Believe Your Eyes: Drone Captures Apocalyptic Devastation of Syrian City
Daily Sheeple | So what
does four years of war do to a city?
FBI
Video Shows Deadly Confrontation Between Finicum and Feds *Graphic Video
Content*
Mac Slavo | Though several
law enforcement vehicles were present at the scene, the FBI has only released
the aerial footage of the incident.
·
U.S. NEWS
Ron
Paul: Cruz Not a Libertarian, He’s Owned by Goldman Sachs
Kit Daniels | “I mean, he and Hillary have more in common than
we would have with Cruz and Trump…”
Hillary:
I’m Not Establishment Because I’m a Woman
Truth Revolt | “I am not
going to make promises I can’t keep.”
Des
Moines Register calls for audit of Iowa results: ‘Something smells in the
Democratic Party’
Politico | The piece
titled “Editorial: Something smells in the Democratic Party,” starts out: “Once
again the world is laughing at Iowa.”
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Humans
are to blame for wiping out honeybees
Daily Mail | The spread of
a disease that is decimating global bee populations is being largely fuelled by
man.
Canadian
Fruit Growers Say NO to Genetically Modified ‘Arctic Apples’
Christina Sarich | Calling
for more research.
Alert!
There’s a dangerous new viral outbreak: Zika conspiracy theories
London Guardian | Most
conspiracy theories are harmless, but rumours that GM mosquitoes may
inadvertently have caused Brazil’s epidemic could potentially cost lives.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
Sex toys of future: Talking
dolls with personality 'perfect lover'...
Tech-stock wreck destroys
$514B this year...
Chicago Exchange Being Sold
to Chinese...
In the battle between
Donald Trump and Fox News, the network just scored a big point
in the ratings department. Fox News’ broadcast of the
February 6-13, 2016
Posted by : Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 02/12/2016 - 08:32
We
predicted NIRP in the US in April '15. The Fed is now openly discussing it.
Next up... cash bans and carry taxes.
Central Banks Are Trojan Horses, Looting Their Host
Nations
Posted by: George Washington
Post date: 02/11/2016 - 12:59
Central
Banks Are the PROBLEM, Not the Solution ... the DISEASE, Not the Cure
Posted by: Steve H. Hanke
Post date: 02/12/2016 - 15:11
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
02/12/2016 -
Watch
as Carrier workers in Indiana discover who's really "peddling
fiction"...
Three possible scenarios exist for the Chinese yuan in 2016...
"I
would like to ask every person who left Syria to come back. That's natural but
not enough. Emotions are not enough. They would ask: "Why should I come
back? Has terrorism stopped? The question is: for how many years will Turkey
and Saudi Arabia continue to support terrorism?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
02/12/2016 -
In
a continuation of a worrisome trend, obesity rates in the US continued to rise
in 2015, hitting 28%. That's right America, nearly a third of you are grossly
overweight.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
02/12/2016
"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and
the crazy crazier." If
you really want to know how weak Hillary Clinton is as a candidate, you merely
have to appreciate that the U.S. media essentially acts as her own personal PR
firm, yet the public still recognizes her as a dishonest crook. Brace
yourself for the following story, it’s huge.
Is
this what we have to look forward to?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
02/12/2016
"I
spend most of my time, while looking at current prices, thinking about and
trying to live six months to one year in the future.... What I
can see now is that US growth is slowing, and that the market is likely to
price in reduced monetary tightening." ... but... "
The future for me is now more uncertain than at any time I can remember"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
02/12/2016 -
"A good player knows when to pick up his marbles..."
"If
the market is to make a new high this rally must break through the resistance
in the S&P 500 around the 1950 area on increasing volume. If it fails, then
the decline will drop to the 1740 area which I have repeatedly said
MUST HOLD or the markets are in a MAJOR BEAR MARKET that will test the lows
reached in 2009."
The
increasingly unstable footing that we find ourselves standing
on is reflected in widening credit spreads that demonstrate that CONFIDENCE is
indeed collapsing. We are on the precipice of what can only be
described as a rising systemic risk for all markets.
Beware,
we are now spiraling headlong into a collapse thanks to a nightmarish NIRP
"doom loop" from which the global cabal of central bankers'
gone full-Krugman will not allow us to escape.
CHESAPEAKE SAID PLANNING TO PAY $500 MILLION DEBT DUE IN MARCH
"...a
special place in hell..." indeed
Adan Salazar | “Bernie is actually pretty popular among
Satanists.”
Paul Joseph Watson | It’s
quite simple….
London Telegraph |
Foreign and defence ministers of the leading international states are meeting
in Munich and Brussels following the collapse of the latest round of peace
talks.
Washington Post | The
Democratic National Committee has rolled back restrictions introduced by
presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008.
The Hill | The ruling
does not necessarily mean that the eight documents will be released.
Kurt Nimmo | Opposes endless war supported by Clinton, Rubio
and Cruz.
Steve Watson | Unlike Hillary, who admitted she is working toward
Kissinger’s envisioned ‘global architecture’.
Paul Joseph Watson |
Message deemed “racist” despite the fact that Islam is not a race.
Michael Snyder | In the
U.S., the Dow lost 254 more points on Thursday, and it has now fallen for five
days in a row.
Gateway
Pundit | Funded By New York City and State Agencies.
·
WORLD NEWS
Bashar
al-Assad vows to retake whole of Syria by force despite ceasefire attempts
London Independent | The
US has backed anti-government rebels and more than a dozen countries are
involved in the civil war.
CIA
director says IS group has used, can make chem weapons
AFP | CIA director John
Brennan has said that Islamic State fighters have used chemical weapons and
have the capability to make small quantities of chlorine and mustard gas, CBS
News reported.
Syria
Fighting To Halt In A Week’s Time
Sky News | It is hoped the
truce will allow aid through and restart peace talks – but IS is not involved
and Russian strikes will continue.
Orban
Accuses Germany And Turkey Of Secret Pact To Flood Europe With Another 500,000
Illegals
Breitbart | Uncompromising
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused Germany and Turkey of
contracting a secret pact.
CNS News | Bachmann said
Minnesota is expected to have its “highest level immigration” this year.
·
MONEY WATCH
Austrians
Need Constitutional Right to Pay in Cash, Mahrer Says
Bloomberg | “We don’t want
someone to be able to track digitally what we buy, eat and drink, what books we
read and what movies we watch.”
Farmers
Riot In Greece As Recession Returns
Sky News | The
demonstrations come as official data shows that the Greek economy has returned
to recession.
Gold
eyes best week in 4 years as stock market turmoil lifts haven appeal
Reuters | Gold took a
breather on Friday after soaring 4 percent the previous day but was still set
for its best week in four years after stock market turmoil sent investors into
safe haven assets.
Why Trump Thinks
Unemployment Is 42%
Zero Hedge | “If we had 5%
unemployment, do you think we’d have these gatherings?”
·
PRISON PLANET
Sheriff’s
Department Uses Drone to Help Fight Crime, Keep People Safe
Arkansas Matters | “To us
it’s a tool. As long as it’s used that way.”
Big
Brother Corporation? BBC to use facial coding cameras to study viewers’
emotions
RT | Facial coding
technology will be used by the BBC to examine viewers’ subconscious reactions
to their shows.
Breitbart | A number of
recent cases where marriages of adult men to girls as young as 14 years of age,
sanctioned by the Danish state, has become a national scandal.
Liberal
Purdue Staffer Threatens to Rape Pro-Life Students…
Louder With Crowder | No
group of liberals exhibit the party of hate more than pro-abortion liberals.
·
COMMENTARY
City
bans workers from mentioning ‘Founding Fathers’ on Presidents’ Day
American Mirror | The City
of San Diego is reworking its manual for employee communications after a
section on “Bias-Free Language” sparked public ridicule because it instructed
staff not to mention the country’s “Founding Fathers.”
Bizpac Review | She said
that it “has nothing to do with equality,” and it’s stunts like this that put
America in a place that “can’t heal.”
·
MULTIMEDIA
Twitter
Recruits Feminist Who Thinks “Everything is Racist” to Police Content
Paul Joseph Watson |
Social media censorship purge of conservatives accelerates.
Mohammad
And Israel Cut From Tommy Robinson Interview On Al Jazeera
Israellycool | Can you
criticise Islam or Mohammad in Qatar? No.
Is The
European Migrant Crisis Leading To War?
Paul Joseph Watson |
Stefan Molyneux interviews Paul Joseph Watson.
·
U.S. NEWS
VIDEO:
‘Hillary’ destroys hard drive with punches, baseball bat
American Mirror | A
stunned “wow” was all “Morning Joe” co-host Mike Brzezinski could say after Ted
Cruz’s new ad was played on the show Friday morning.
Washington:
Muslim Prisoner Shouting “Allahu Akbar!” Tried to Behead Corrections Officer
Gateway Pundit | Muslim
shouting “Allhu Akbar!” tries to take off correction officer’s head.
BOOM!
Bill O’Reilly Calls Out Lindsey Graham for Lying About Trump (VIDEO)
Gateway Pundit | Bill
O’Reilly called out Senator Lindsey Graham (a Jeb supporter) for lying about
Donald Trump tonight The Factor.
·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
How
I quit my smartphone addiction and really started living
London Guardian | I don’t
like being bothered or bossed around. I hated that anyone, for any reason,
could interrupt my life, and I could interrupt my life just the same.
Pub
takes foie gras off Valentine’s Day menu after ‘death threats’ from vegan activists
London Telegraph | Staff
at the King’s Arms in Fleggburgh, Norfolk, received thousands of complaints.
Combatting
Climate Change in the Courts
David W. Schnare | How the
progressive left intends to use the courts to harass those who don’t agree with
them on the climate.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHIVE
DNC DIRTY: RULE CHANGE BOOSTS
CLINTON CA$H...
VIDEO: BILL
DOWNPLAYS OBAMA AS FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT...
UH O: Not a
'change-maker' like Hillary...
HRC wore yellow debate jacket
when meeting GOLDMAN SACHS CEO...
HER NEW PITCH: I CAN BE A
BERNIE!
ALBRIGHT: WRONG CONTEXT.
WRONG TIME...
BLACK COMMUNITY DIVIDED...
Young Minorities Warming To
Sanders...
Satanists 'Bern like hell'...
Republicans Gear Up For His
Possible Nomination...
CHRISTIAN
CONSERVATIVES 'UNDER SIEGE'
Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 02/22/2016 -
12:12
BANZAI7 FOOD, BEVERAGE
AND 100% DOUCHE WARNING...
Gold Costs 80oz of Silver, Report 21 Feb, 2016
Posted by: Monetary
Metals
Post date: 02/22/2016 -
02:14
The big news is that the
gold-silver ratio closed at 80, a new post-2008 record. Why?
Japan Signals That the End Game Has Begun
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 02/22/2016 -
18:23
What's happening in
Japan today has got Global Central Banks terrified.
Experts:
Invasion of Syria Could Lead to Nuclear War
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 02/19/2016 -
12:26
The Threat of Nuclear
War Is Now HIGHER Than During the Soviet Era
Venezuela’s Bogus Inflation Statistics
Posted by: Steve
H. Hanke
Post date: 02/19/2016 -
12:12
Authored by Steve H.
Hanke of The Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Hanke. On
Thursday, Venezuela’s central bank released a long-overdue -- and
little-trusted -- report claiming...
The Illegitimacy of Comex Pricing
Posted by: Sprott
Money
Post date: 02/19/2016 -
05:58
Now that you know what
really affects "price", you should be able to control your emotions
both on upticks and downswings.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 02/19/2016 - 22:00
Three
wees ago, we mocked Canadian Bill Ring who said "I don’t want to invest in
stocks because they’re crazy and real estate is a solid, safe investment."
We mocked Bill. Little did we know that Bill would have the last laugh less
than three weeks later...
The
United States government has abandoned everyone except the rich.
"There is massive
cognitive dissonance here... the crash has only just begun... The "let's make a deal" market is choosing monetary interventionism but when that
door is slammed open, we will see that dreaded black swan monster."
Inbound
cargoes take longer voyages, which allows more time to find a buyer, or
onshore storage space. Many cargoes from the Middle East and India have
diverted around the Cape of Agulhas, at the southernmost point of Africa, on
their way to Europe rather than passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt. The
longer trip takes 30-40 days instead of the 15-20 day journey through the Suez
Canal.
In what could well be a final act of desperation, central banks are
abdicating effective control of the economies they have been entrusted to
manage. First came zero
interest rates, then quantitative easing, and now negative interest rates – one
futile attempt begetting another. Just as the first two gambits failed to gain
meaningful economic traction in chronically weak recoveries, the shift
to negative rates will only compound the risks of financial instability and set
the stage for the next crisis.
At
its peak, the Roman Empire held up to 130 million people over a span of 1.5
million square miles. How could such a powerful empire collapse? Simple, the
real effects of debasement took time to materialize... and then exploded.
Gold is many things to many people. A perennial battleground subject, gold remains
arguably one of the most debated asset classes across global financial markets,
but as Goldman's precious metals equity analyst notes, from a fundamental
perspective, the risk/reward looks more balanced than that of its bulk and
base metal peers, especially in terms of the supply/demand dynamics.
Our price is making a difficult choice between liberty and security - to
choose fear or freedom. When
we feel that our families’ security is threatened, the knee-jerk reaction is
often to say “give the government whatever it needs to make us safe!” But
the harsh reality is that such short-term thinking creates a much more ominous
world in the long-term. And every tacit acquiescence to intrusive
government authority is a brick laid on the road to tyranny.
If the Benjamin is killed, it will “deter illicit activities” they say,
apparently taking us all for complete idiots. Very organized criminals all over the world could be
heard rolling on the floor laughing their heads off at this pronouncement.
Don't
worry, you can always refi via P2P. Oh, wait...
Unless
Cameron heard what he wanted to hear, as we detailed earlier, he would not
have campaigned for the UK to remain in the bloc ahead of an expected
referendum on membership in June.... which would likely have rocked the EU once
again. Well after 30 minutes of chaos after the bell tonight, EU President
Donald Tusk has tweeted that "Deal. Unanimous support for
new settlement." GBPUSD is rallying on the news but now
comes the fun part where Cameron persuades an increasingly euroskeptic Britain
to stay inside Brussels shell...
That
didn’t take much. After a three-day rally, the media is back into “bullish”
mode suggesting the bottom is likely in and by the end of this year, it’s all
going to be just fine. Unfortunately, history suggests that after such
a long unabated expansion risks are substantially higher than it has been
previously. Furthermore, as I have repeated often in these missives, in
an economy that is driven primarily based on consumption, and such conumption
is already weak, it doesn’t take much to “flip the switch.”
Moments
ago during a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, Trump had an
epiphany: "It just occurred to me." His solution: a
boycott of Apple Inc products until the tech giant agrees to U.S. government
demands that it unlock the cellphone of the San Bernardino killer. "Boycott
Apple until such time as they give that information," Trump said.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 02/19/2016 - 16:01
From the great
contemporary composer (‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, Etc.) Andrew Lloyd Weber, from
his great musical ‘Cats’ (get ‘Cats: The Movie’ if you missed the live show),
the great song ‘Memory’, background score/excerpt to a few cats http://albertpeia.com/cats.wmv
Pentagon Troops: It’s Us or Trump
Time for a
New Calendar, One with a Leap Week
Posted by:
Steve H. Hanke
Post date:
02/29/2016 - 10:37
Authored by Steve H. Hanke of the Johns Hopkins University.
Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Hanke. Today is February 29th. Enjoy it. This is a
leap year, which gives us an extra day every four years.
Stocks Are
On the Ledge of a Cliff
Posted by:
Phoenix Capital...
Post date:
02/29/2016 - 10:17
Even manipulation and performance gaming isn't working
anymore.
Buffett’s
Math Trumped by Gold
Posted by
: Gold Money
Post date:
02/29/2016 - 10:56
In his annual newsletter to shareholders, Buffett makes the argument that $56,000 today is six times better (even after his adjustment for inflation) than the $858 of GDP per Capita each US Citizen...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
02/29/2016
"We choke slammed some
folks"...
A Harvard
University professor published an editorial in The Washington Post on Sunday
that compared the surprising rise of Republican
http://albertpeia.com/conservativesagainsttrump.htm
Mitt Romney suggests there's a "bombshell" in Donald
Trump's taxes CBS News
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday called on
Republican candidates to release their tax returns — and speculated there could
be a "bombshell" in those of frontrunner Donald Trump.
"We have good reason to believe that
there's a bombshell in Donald Trump's taxes," Romney told Fox News host
Neil Cavuto on Wednesday.
"What do you mean?" Cavuto
asked Romney.
Romney said:
Well, I think there's something there.
Either he's not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is, or he hasn't been
paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay. Or perhaps he hasn't been
giving money to the vets or the disabled, like he's been telling us he's been
doing.
Romney's statement came after Cavuto asked
him why he had not yet made an endorsement in the Republican presidential race.
As Trump has continued to march toward the nomination, Republican Party
establishment members have rallied around the candidacy of Sen. Marco Rubio of
Florida.
Romney said he'd like to see the taxes of
each candidate.
"Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and
Ted Cruz have not shown us their back taxes," Romney said. "This was
an issue on my campaign."
Indeed, the Obama campaign and its
Democratic allies in 2012 made Romney's taxes a signature issue. Then-Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid famously speculated that Romney didn't pay any
taxes for a decade.
Romney eventually released two years'
worth of returns that showed he had paid an effective rate of less than 15%. He
called on the Republican candidates to do the same but zeroed in on Trump's
supposed hesitance to do so.
"The reason I think there's a
bombshell in there is that every time he's asked about his taxes, he dodges or
delays and says, 'Well, we're working on it,'" Romney said of Trump.
Trump mocked Romney as a "tough guy" on Twitter later
Wednesday.
"Mitt Romney, who totally blew an election that should have been
won and whose tax returns made him look like a fool, is now playing tough
guy," the mogul wrote.
Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday that he
would release his returns "at some point, probably." He has also
bristled at the notion, as Romney suggested, that any of his financial
statements might show that he is not as wealthy as he has claimed.
He told Hewitt:
We'll be working on it. Everything is very much, you know, I gave my
financials ahead of schedule, much ahead of schedule. I had a long time to give
them, and I gave them immediately. And they were very complex, also, and very
big, and they turned out to be extremely good, much better, actually, than
people thought.
But
he hasn’t given us a lot of reason to believe that. In fact, despite Trump’s
protests to the contrary, he has a long history of saying and doing racist
things. It's not really surprising that he's won the support and praise of the
country’s white supremacists.
Here’s
a running list of some of the most glaringly racist things associated with
Trump. We’re sure we’ll be adding to it soon.
When Trump was serving as the
president of his family's real estate company, the Trump Management
Corporation, in 1973, the Justice Department sued the company for alleged
racial discrimination against black people looking to rent apartments in
Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
The lawsuit charged that the
company quoted different rental terms and conditions to black rental candidates
than it did with white candidates, and that the company lied to black
applicants about apartments not being available. Trump called those accusations
“absolutely ridiculous” and sued the Justice Department for $100 million in
damages for defamation.
Without admitting wrongdoing, the
Trump Management Corporation settled the original lawsuit two years later and
promised not to discriminate against black people, Puerto Ricans or other
minorities. Trump also agreed to send weekly vacancy lists for his 15,000
apartments to the New York Urban League, a civil rights group, and to
allow the NYUL to present qualified applicants for vacancies in certain Trump
properties.
Just three years after that, the
Justice Department sued the Trump Management Corporation again for allegedly discriminating against black applicants by telling them
apartments weren’t available.
Three times in a row on Sunday,
Trump sidestepped opportunities to renounce white nationalist and former
KKK leader David Duke, who told his radio audience last week that voting
for any candidate other than Trump is "really
treason to your heritage."
When asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if
he would condemn Duke and say he didn’t want a vote from him or any other white
supremacists, Trump claimed that he didn’t know anything about white
supremacists or about Duke himself. When Tapper pressed him twice more, Trump
said he couldn’t condemn a group he hadn’t yet researched.
By Monday, Trump was saying that in fact he does disavow Duke, and that
the only reason he didn't do so on CNN was because of a "lousy
earpiece." Video of the exchange, however, shows Trump responding
quickly to Tapper's questions with no apparent difficulty in hearing.
It’s preposterous to think that
Trump doesn't know about white supremacist groups or their sometimes violent
support of him. Reports of neo-Nazi groups rallying around Trump go
back as far as August.
His white
supremacist fan club includes the Daily Stormer, a leading neo-Nazi news site;
Richard Spencer, director of the National Policy Institute, which aims to
promote the “heritage, identity, and future of European people”; Jared Taylor,
editor of American Renaissance, a Virginia-based white nationalist magazine;
Michael Hill, head of the League of the South, an Alabama-based white
supremacist secessionist group; and Brad Griffin, a member of Hill’s League of
the South and author of the popular white supremacist blog Hunter Wallace.
Long before calling Mexican
immigrants “criminals” and “rapists,” Trump was a leading proponent of
“birtherism,” the racist conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not
born in the United States and is thus an illegitimate president. Trump claimed
in 2011 to have sent people to Hawaii to investigate whether Obama was
really born there. He insisted at the time that the researchers “cannot believe
what they are finding.”
Obama ultimately got the better of
Trump, releasing his long-form birth certificate and relentlessly
mocking the real estate mogul about it at the White House Correspondents’
Association dinner that year.
But Trump continues to insinuate
that the president was not born in the country.
“I don’t know where he was born,”
Trump said
in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday.
(Again, for the record: He was born in Hawaii.)
Like many racial instigators,
Trump often answers accusations of bigotry by loudly protesting that he
actually loves the group in question. But that's just as uncomfortable
to hear, because he's still treating all the members of the group -- all the
individual human beings -- as essentially the same and interchangeable.
Language is telling, here: Virtually every time Trump mentions a minority
group, he uses the definite article the, as in “the Hispanics,” “the
Muslims” and “the blacks.”
In that sense, Trump’s defensive
explanations are of a piece with his slander of minorities. Both rely on
essentializing racial and ethnic groups, blurring them into simple, monolithic
entities, instead of acknowledging that there's as much variety among Muslims
and Latinos and black people as there is among white people.
How did Trump respond to the
outrage last year that followed his characterization of Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists?
“I'll take jobs back from China,
I'll take jobs back from Japan,” Trump said during
his visit to the U.S.-Mexican border in July. “The Hispanics are going to
get those jobs, and they're going to love Trump.”
"The Hispanics are going to
get those jobs, and they're going to love Trump." Donald Trump, July 2015
How did Trump respond to critics
of his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.?
“I'm doing good for the Muslims,” Trump
told CNN in December. “Many Muslim friends of mine are in agreement with
me. They say, ‘Donald, you brought something up to the fore that is so
brilliant and so fantastic.’”
Not long before he called for a
blanket ban on Muslims entering the country, Trump was proclaiming his
affection for “the Muslims,” disagreeing with rival candidate Ben Carson’s
claim in September that being a Muslim should disqualify someone from running
for president.
“I love the Muslims. I think
they're great people,” Trump
said, insisting that he would be willing to name a Muslim to his
presidential cabinet.
How did Trump respond to the
people who called him out for funding an investigation into whether Obama was
born in the United States?
"I have a great relationship
with the blacks,” Trump
said in April 2011. “I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.”
In 1993, when Trump wanted to open
a casino in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that would compete with one owned by the
Mashantucket Pequot Nation, a local Native American tribe, he told the House subcommittee on Native American Affairs that "they
don't look like Indians to me... They don't look like Indians to Indians."
Trump then elaborated on those
remarks, which were unearthed last year in the Hartford Courant, by saying
the mafia had infiltrated Indian casinos.
In 1989, Trump took out full-page
ads in four New York City-area newspapers calling for the return of the
death penalty in New York and the expansion of police authority in response to
the infamous case of a woman who was beaten and raped while jogging in
Manhattan’s Central Park.
“They should be forced to suffer
and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes,” Trump wrote,
referring to the Central Park attackers and other violent criminals. “I want to
hate these murderers and I always will.”
The public outrage over the
Central Park jogger rape, at a time when the city was struggling with high
crime, led to the wrongful conviction of five teenagers of color known as the
Central Park Five.
The men’s convictions were
overturned in 2002, after they'd already spent years
in prison, when DNA evidence showed they did not commit the crime.
Today, their case is considered a cautionary tale about a politicized criminal
justice process.
Trump, however, still
thinks the men are guilty.
At a November campaign rally in
Alabama, Trump supporters physically
attacked an African-American protester after the man began chanting “Black
lives matter.” Video of the incident shows the assailants kicking the man after
he has already fallen to the ground.
The following day, Trump implied
that the attackers were justified.
"Maybe [the
protester] should have been roughed up," he mused. "It was
absolutely disgusting what he was doing."
Trump’s racial incitement has
already inspired hate crimes. Two brothers arrested
in Boston last summer for beating up a homeless Latino man cited Trump’s anti-immigrant
message when explaining why they did it.
“Donald Trump was right -- all
these illegals need to be deported,” one of the men reportedly told police
officers.
Trump did not even bother to
distance himself from them. Instead, he suggested that the men were
well-intentioned and had simply gotten carried away.
"I will say that people who
are following me are very passionate,” Trump said. “They love this country and
they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.”
When Trump addressed the
Republican Jewish Coalition in December, he tried to relate to the crowd by
invoking the stereotype of Jews as talented and cunning businesspeople.
"I'm a negotiator, like you
folks," Trump
told the crowd, touting his book The Art of the Deal.
"Is there anyone who doesn't
renegotiate deals in this room?" Trump said. "Perhaps more than any
room I've spoken to."
But that wasn’t even the most
offensive thing Trump told his Jewish audience. He implied that he had little
chance of earning the Jewish Republican group’s support, because his fealty
could not be bought with campaign donations.
"You’re not going to support
me, because I don’t want your money," he said. "You want to control
your own politician."
Ironically, Trump has many close
Jewish family members. His daughter Ivanka converted
to Judaism in 2009 before marrying the real estate mogul Jared Kushner.
Trump and Kushner raise their two children in an observant Jewish home.
It's maybe not surprising that
Trump has brought so much racial animus into the 2016 election cycle, given his
family history. His father, Fred Trump, was the target of folk singer Woody
Guthrie's lyrics after Guthrie lived for two years in a building owned by Trump
pere: "I suppose / Old Man Trump knows / Just how much / Racial hate / He
stirred up / In the bloodpot of human hearts."
And last fall, a news report from
1927 surfaced on the site Boing Boing, revealing that Fred Trump was arrested that year following a KKK riot
in Queens. It's not clear exactly what the elder Trump was doing there or what
role he may have played in the riot. Donald Trump, for his part, has categorically denied (except when he's ambiguously denied) that anything of the sort ever
happened.
Editor's note: Donald Trump is
a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban
all Muslims -- 1.6 billion members of an entire religion -- from entering the
U.S.
(REUTERS/Mike Segar)
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday called on
Republican candidates to release their tax returns — and speculated there could
be a "bombshell" in those of frontrunner Donald Trump.
"We
have good reason to believe that there's a bombshell in Donald Trump's
taxes," Romney told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Wednesday.
"What
do you mean?" Cavuto asked Romney.
Romney
said:
Well,
I think there's something there. Either he's not anywhere near as wealthy as he
says he is, or he hasn't been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to
pay. Or perhaps he hasn't been giving money to the vets or the disabled, like
he's been telling us he's been doing.
Romney's
statement came after Cavuto asked him why he had not yet made an endorsement in
the Republican presidential race. As Trump has continued to march toward the
nomination, Republican Party establishment members have rallied around the candidacy of Sen. Marco Rubio of
Florida.
Romney
said he'd like to see the taxes of each candidate.
"Donald
Trump and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have not shown us their back taxes,"
Romney said. "This was an issue on my campaign."
Indeed,
the Obama campaign and its Democratic allies in 2012 made Romney's taxes a
signature issue. Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid famously speculated that Romney didn't pay any
taxes for a decade.
Romney
eventually released two years' worth of returns that showed he had paid an
effective rate of less than 15%. He called on the Republican candidates to do
the same but zeroed in on Trump's supposed hesitance to do so.
"The
reason I think there's a bombshell in there is that every time he's asked about
his taxes, he dodges or delays and says, 'Well, we're working on it,'"
Romney said of Trump.
Trump
mocked Romney as a "tough guy" on Twitter later
Wednesday.
"Mitt Romney, who totally blew an election that should have been
won and whose tax returns made him look like a fool, is now playing tough
guy," the mogul wrote.
Trump
told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday that he
would release his returns "at some point, probably." He has also
bristled at the notion, as Romney suggested, that any of his financial
statements might show that he is not as wealthy as he has claimed.
He told Hewitt:
We'll be working on it. Everything is very much, you know, I gave my
financials ahead of schedule, much ahead of schedule. I had a long time to give
them, and I gave them immediately. And they were very complex, also, and very
big, and they turned out to be extremely good, much better, actually, than
people thought.
Romney,
who has long been critical of Trump, emerged back into the public discussion
over the 2016 presidential race on Wednesday when he was quoted discussing the year's political environment.
"We're
just mad as hell and won't take it anymore," he said of the electorate on
Tuesday, according to The Washington Post.
"The failure of
current political leaders to actually tackle major challenges, or to try at
least, or to go out with proposals," he added, speaking at Babson College
in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
‘…The publication this week listed
a string of the Republican’s high-profile busts.
“Trump Steaks lacked sizzle, Trump
Ice bottled water has dried up,” the editorial said. "Trump Airlines never
turned a profit, and defaulted on its loans. You can’t order a Trump and tonic
because nobody makes Trump Vodka anymore.
“Trump Entertainment Resorts filed
for bankruptcy in 1999. And 2004. And 2009. And 2014. Trump University
closed its doors in 2011, but is still facing lawsuits for ripping off students
for packaging a trumped-up self-help seminar as an actual education.”
The Union-Leader has
endorsed Chris Christie in the GOP New Hampshire primary. Trump responded at
the time by arguing Christie cannot win the party’s nomination and that the
state of New Jersey is currently “a disaster." …(more)’
Romney: 'Good Reason To Believe That
There's a Bombshell In Donald Trump's Taxes' Breitbart News
IT’S TIME FOR AN
ANTI-TRUMP MANHATTAN PROJECT BY CHARLES C. W. COOKE Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com
Republican Race Puts Trump,
Paul Ryan on Collision Course...
RUBIO: 'You Don't Win
Nomination By How Many States You Win'...
BUST: Meltdown pushes 359
stocks under $1...
Cat treks from Wisconsin to
Florida...
Mitt Romney suggests there's a "bombshell" in Donald Trump's
taxes CBS News
Romney: 'Good Reason To Believe That There's a
Bombshell In Donald Trump's Taxes' Breitbart News
IT’S TIME FOR AN
ANTI-TRUMP MANHATTAN PROJECT BY CHARLES C. W. COOKE Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com
Republican Race Puts Trump,
Paul Ryan on Collision Course...
RUBIO: 'You Don't Win
Nomination By How Many States You Win'...
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How
the Economist(s) manipulate gold's value in one chart
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Money
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Day” from The Economist makes an attempt to show that gold isn’t doing any
better when it comes to preserving buying power than currencies such as the
Swiss...
The
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In simple terms, unless
a new large-scale QE program or direct money printing is announced, markets
are unlikely to react strongly to new monetary policy from Central
Banks.
Here
Are 100 Reasons Why We Need To Audit The Federal Reserve
’….. The following list has been adapted from one of my
previous articles…
#1 We like to think
that we have a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”, but
the truth is that an unelected, unaccountable group of central planners has far
more power over our economy than anyone else in our society does.
#2 The Federal
Reserve is actually “independent” of the government. In fact, the Federal
Reserve has argued vehemently in federal court that it is “not an agency”of the
federal government and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
#3 The Federal
Reserve openly admits that the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks are organized
“much like private
corporations“.
#4 The regional
Federal Reserve banks issue shares of stock to the
“member banks” that own them.
#5 100% of the
shareholders of the Federal Reserve are private banks. The U.S. government owns zero shares.
#6 The Federal
Reserve is not an agency of the federal government, but it has been given power
to regulate our banks and financial institutions. This should not be happening.
#7 According to Article I, Section 8 of
the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Congress is the one that is supposed to
have the authority to “coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign
Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures”. So why is the Federal
Reserve doing it?
#8 If you look at a
“U.S. dollar”, it actually says “Federal Reserve note” at the top. In the
financial world, a “note” is an instrument of debt.
#9 In 1963, President
John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 11110 which
authorized the U.S. Treasury to issue “United States notes” which were created
by the U.S. government directly and not by the Federal Reserve. He was
assassinated shortly thereafter.
#10 Many of the
debt-free United States notes issued under President Kennedy are still in circulation
today.
#11 The Federal
Reserve determines what levels some of the most important interest rates in our
system are going to be set at. In a free market system, the free market would
determine those interest rates.
#12 The Federal
Reserve has become so powerful that it is now known as “the fourth branch of
government“.
#13 The greatest
period of economic growth in U.S. history was when there was no central bank.
#14 The Federal
Reserve was designed to be a perpetual debt machine.
The bankers that designed it intended to trap the U.S. government in a
perpetual debt spiral from which it could never possibly escape. Since the
Federal Reserve was established 100 years ago, the U.S. national debt has
gotten more than 5000 times larger.
#15 A permanent
federal income tax was established the exact same year that the Federal Reserve
was created. This was not a coincidence. In order to pay for all of the
government debt that the Federal Reserve would create, a federal income tax was
necessary. The whole idea was to transfer wealth from our pockets to the
federal government and from the federal government to the bankers.
#16 The period prior
to 1913 (when there was no income tax) was the greatest period of economic
growth in U.S. history.
#17 Today, the U.S.
tax code is about 13 miles long.
#18 From the time
that the Federal Reserve was created until now, the U.S. dollar has lost 98 percent of its value.
#19 From the time
that President Nixon took us off the gold standard until now, the U.S. dollar
has lost 83 percent of its value.
#20 During the 100
years before the Federal Reserve was created, the U.S. economy rarely had any
problems with inflation. But since the Federal Reserve was established, the
U.S. economy has experienced constant and never ending inflation.
#21 In the century
before the Federal Reserve was created, the average annual rate of inflation
was about half a percent. In the century since the Federal Reserve was created,
the average annual rate of inflation has been about 3.5 percent.
#22 The Federal
Reserve has stripped the middle class of trillions of dollars of wealth through
the hidden tax of inflation.
#23 The size of M1 has nearly doubled since 2008
thanks to the reckless money printing that the Federal Reserve has been doing.
#24 The Federal
Reserve has been starting to behave like the Weimar Republic,
and we all remember how that ended.
#25 The Federal
Reserve has been consistently lying to us
about the level of inflation in our economy. If the inflation rate was still
calculated the same way that it was back when Jimmy Carter was president, the
official rate of inflation would be somewhere between 8 and 10 percent
today.
#26 Since the Federal
Reserve was created, there have been 18 distinct
recessions or depressions: 1918, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1929, 1937, 1945, 1949,
1953, 1958, 1960, 1969, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1990, 2001, 2008.
#27 Within 20 years
of the creation of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. economy was plunged into the
Great Depression.
#28 The Federal
Reserve created the conditions that caused the stock market crash of 1929, and even Ben Bernanke admits that the response
by the Fed to that crisis made the Great Depression even worse than it should
have been.
#29 The “easy money”
policies of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan set the stage for the great
financial crisis of 2008.
#30 Without the
Federal Reserve, the “subprime mortgage meltdown” would probably never have
happened.
#31 If you can
believe it, there have been 10 different economic
recessionssince 1950. The Federal Reserve created the “dotcom bubble”, the
Federal Reserve created the “housing bubble” and now it has created the largest bond bubble in
the history of the planet.
#32 According to an
official government report, the Federal Reserve made 16.1 trillion dollars in
secret loans to the big banks during the last financial crisis. The following
is a list of loan recipients that was taken directly from page 131 of the report…
Citigroup
– $2.513 trillion
Morgan Stanley – $2.041 trillion
Merrill Lynch – $1.949 trillion
Bank of America – $1.344 trillion
Barclays PLC – $868 billion
Bear Sterns – $853 billion
Goldman Sachs – $814 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland – $541 billion
JP Morgan Chase – $391 billion
Deutsche Bank – $354 billion
UBS – $287 billion
Credit Suisse – $262 billion
Lehman Brothers – $183 billion
Bank of Scotland – $181 billion
BNP Paribas – $175 billion
Wells Fargo – $159 billion
Dexia – $159 billion
Wachovia – $142 billion
Dresdner Bank – $135 billion
Societe Generale – $124 billion
“All Other Borrowers” – $2.639 trillion
#33 The Federal
Reserve also paid those big banks $659.4 million in “fees” to help “administer” those
secret loans.
#34 During the last
financial crisis, big European banks were allowed to borrow an “unlimited” amount of
money from the Federal Reserve at ultra-low interest rates.
#35 The “easy money”
policies of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have created the largest financial
bubble this nation has ever seen, and this has set the stage for the great
financial crisis that we are rapidly approaching.
#36 Since late 2008,
the size of the Federal Reserve balance sheet has grown from less than a
trillion dollars to more than 4 trillion
dollars. This is complete and utter insanity.
#37 During the
quantitative easing era, the value of the financial securities that the Fed has
accumulated is greater than the total amount of publicly held debt that the
U.S. government accumulated from
the presidency of George Washington through the end of the presidency of Bill
Clinton.
#38 Overall, the
Federal Reserve now holds more than 32 percent of all 10 year
equivalents.
#39 Quantitative
easing creates financial bubbles, and when quantitative easing ends those
bubbles tend to deflate rapidly.
#40 Most of the new
money created by quantitative easing has ended up in the hands of the
very wealthy.
#41 According to a
prominent Federal Reserve insider, quantitative easing has been one giant “subsidy” for Wall Street banks.
#42 As one CNBC
article stated, we have seen absolutely rampant inflation in “stocks and bonds and
art and Ferraris“.
#43 Donald Trump once
made the following statement about quantitative easing: “People like me
will benefit from this.”
#44 Most people have
never heard about this, but a very interesting studyconducted for
the Bank of England shows that quantitative easing actually increases the gap
between the wealthy and the poor.
#45 The gap between
the top one percent and the rest of the country is now the greatest that it has
been since the 1920s.
#46 The mainstream
media has sold quantitative easing to the American public as an “economic
stimulus program”, but the truth is that the percentage of Americans that have
a job has actually gone down since
quantitative easing first began.
#47 The Federal
Reserve is supposed to be able to guide the nation toward “full employment”,
but the reality of the matter is that an all-time record 102 million
working age Americans do not have a job right now. That number has risen by
about 27 million since the year 2000.
#48 For years, the
projections of economic growth by the Federal Reserve haveconsistently overstated the
strength of the U.S. economy. But every single time, the mainstream media
continues to report that these numbers are “reliable” even though all they
actually represent is wishful thinking.
#49 The Federal
Reserve system fuels the growth of government, and the growth of government
fuels the growth of the Federal Reserve system. Since 1970, federal spending
has grown nearly 12 times as rapidly
as median household income has.
#50 The Federal
Reserve is supposed to look out for the health of all U.S. banks, but the truth
is that they only seem to be concerned about the big ones. In 1985, there were more than 18,000 banks in
the United States. Today, there are only6,891 left.
#51 The six largest
banks in the United States (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells
Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) have collectively gotten37 percent larger over the past
five years.
#52 The U.S. banking
system has 14.4 trillion dollars in total assets. The six largest banks now
account for 67 percent of those assets and all of
the other banks account for only 33 percent of those assets.
#53 The five largest
banks now account for 42 percent of all loans in the United
States.
#54 We were told that
the purpose of quantitative easing was to help “stimulate the economy”, but
today the Federal Reserve is actually paying the big banks not to lend out
1.8 trillion dollars in “excess reserves” that they have parked at the Fed.
#55 The Federal
Reserve has allowed an absolutely gigantic derivatives bubble to inflate which
could destroy our financial system at any moment. Right now, four of the “too
big to fail” banks each have total exposure to derivatives that is well in
excess of 40 trillion dollars.
#56 The total
exposure that Goldman Sachs has to derivatives contracts is more than 381 times greater
than their total assets.
#57 Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke has a track record of failure
that would make the Chicago Cubs look good.
#58 The secret
November 1910 gathering at Jekyll Island, Georgia during which the plan for the
Federal Reserve was hatched was attended by U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department A.P. Andrews and a whole host of
representatives from the upper crust of the Wall Street banking establishment.
#59 The Federal
Reserve was created by the big Wall Street banks and for the benefit of the big
Wall Street banks.
#60 In 1913, Congress
was promised that if the Federal Reserve Act was passed that it would eliminate the business cycle.
#61 There has never been a true comprehensive
audit of the Federal Reserve since it was created back in 1913.
#62 The Federal
Reserve system has been described as “the
biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world“.
#63 The following
comes directly from the Fed’s official mission
statement: “To provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more
stable monetary and financial system.” Without a doubt, the Federal Reserve has
failed in those tasks dramatically.
#64 The Fed decides
what the target rate of inflation should be, what the target rate of
unemployment should be and what the size of the money supply is going to be.
This is quite similar to the “central planning” that goes on in
communist nations, but very few people in our government seem upset by this.
#65 A couple of years
ago, Federal Reserve officials walked into one bank in Oklahoma and demanded
that they take down all
the Bible verses and all the Christmas buttons that the bank had been
displaying.
#66 The Federal
Reserve has taken some other very frightening steps in recent years. For
example, back in 2011 the Federal Reserve announced plans to identify “key bloggers” and
to monitor “billions of conversations” about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter,
forums and blogs. Someone at the Fed will almost certainly end up reading this
article.
#67 Thanks to this
endless debt spiral that we are trapped in, a massive amount of money is
transferred out of our pockets and into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy each
year. Incredibly, the U.S. government spent more than 415 billion
dollarsjust on interest on the national debt in 2013.
#68 In January 2000,
the average rate of interest on the government’s marketable debt was 6.620 percent. If we got back to that
level today, we would be paying more than a trillion dollars a year just in
interest on the national debt and it would collapse our entire financial
system.
#69 The American
people are being killed by compound interest but most of them don’t even
understand what it is. Albert Einstein once made the following statement
about compound interest…
“Compound interest is
the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who
doesn’t … pays it.”
#70 Most Americans
have absolutely no idea where money comes from. The truth is that the Federal
Reserve just creates it out of thin air. The following is how I havepreviously described how money
is normally created by the Fed in our system…
When
the U.S. government decides that it wants to spend another billion dollars that
it does not have, it does not print up a billion dollars.
Rather,
the U.S. government creates a bunch of U.S. Treasury bonds (debt) and takes
them over to the Federal Reserve.
The
Federal Reserve creates a billion dollars out of thin air and exchanges them
for the U.S. Treasury bonds.
#71 What does the
Federal Reserve do with those U.S. Treasury bonds? They end up getting
auctioned off to the highest bidder. But
this entire process actually creates more debt than it does money…
The
U.S. Treasury bonds that the Federal Reserve receives in exchange for the money
it has created out of nothing are auctioned off through the Federal Reserve
system.
But
wait.
There
is a problem.
Because
the U.S. government must pay interest on the Treasury bonds, the amount of debt
that has been created by this transaction is greater than the amount of money
that has been created.
So
where will the U.S. government get the money to pay that debt?
Well,
the theory is that we can get money to circulate through the economy really,
really fast and tax it at a high enough rate that the government will be able
to collect enough taxes to pay the debt.
But
that never actually happens, does it?
And
the creators of the Federal Reserve understood this as well. They understood
that the U.S. government would not have enough money to both run the government
and service the national debt. They knew that the U.S. government would have to
keep borrowing even more money in an attempt to keep up with the game.
#72 Of course the
U.S. government could actually create money and spend it directly into the
economy without the Federal Reserve being involved at all. But then we wouldn’t
be 17 trillion dollars in debt and that wouldn’t serve the interests of the
bankers at all.
#73 The following is
what Thomas Edison once had to say about
our absolutely insane debt-based financial system…
That
is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we
are compelled to add to the national debt.
Now,
that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I,
that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United
States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 — that is what it amounts to,
with interest. People who will not turn a shovelful of dirt nor contribute a
pound of material will collect more money from the United States than will the
people who supply the material and do the work. That is the terrible thing
about interest. In all our great bond issues the interest is always greater
than the principal. All of the great public works cost more than twice the
actual cost, on that account. Under the present system of doing business we
simply add 120 to 150 per cent, to the stated cost.
But
here is the point: If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar
bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good.
#74 The United States
now has the largest national debt
in the history of the world, and we are stealing roughly 100 million dollars
from our children and our grandchildren every single hour of every single day
in a desperate attempt to keep the debt spiral going.
#75 Thomas Jefferson
once stated that if he could add just one more amendment to the U.S.
Constitution it would
be a ban on all government borrowing…
I
wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would
be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of
our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an
additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.
#76 At this moment,
the U.S. national debt is sitting at$18,141,409,083,212.36. If we had followed
the advice of Thomas Jefferson, it would be sitting at zero.
#77 When the Federal
Reserve was first established, the U.S. national debt was sitting at about 2.9 billion
dollars. On average, we have been adding more than that to the national
debt every single day since Obama has been in the White House.
#78 We are on pace to
accumulate more new debt during the 8 years of the Obama administration than we
did under all of the other presidents in all of U.S. history combined.
#79 If all of the new
debt that has been accumulated since John Boehner became Speaker of the House
had been given directly to the American people instead, every household in
America would have been able to buy a new truck.
#80 Between 2008 and
2012, U.S. government debt grew by 60.7 percent, but U.S. GDP only grew
by a total of about 8.5 percent during that entire time
period.
#81 Since 2007, the
U.S. debt to GDP ratio has increased from 66.6 percent to102.98
percent.
#82 According to the
U.S. Treasury, foreigners hold approximately 5.6 trillion dollars of our
debt.
#83 The amount of
U.S. government debt held by foreigners is about 5 times larger than it was just a decade
ago.
#84 As I have written
about previously, if the U.S. national debt was
reduced to a stack of one dollar bills it would circle the earth at the equator
45 times.
#85 If Bill Gates
gave every single penny of his entire fortune to the U.S. government, it would
only cover the U.S. budget deficit for 15 days.
#86 Sometimes we
forget just how much money a trillion dollars is. If you were alive when Jesus
Christ was born and you spent one million dollars every single day since that
point, you still would not have spent one trillion dollars by now.
#87 If right this
moment you went out and started spending one dollar every single second, it
would take you more than 31,000 years to spend one trillion
dollars.
#88 In addition to
all of our debt, the U.S. government has also accumulatedmore than 200 trillion
dollars in unfunded liabilities. So where in the world will all of that
money come from?
#89 The greatest
damage that quantitative easing has been causing to our economy is the fact
that it is destroying worldwide faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. debt. If
the rest of the world stops using our dollars and stops buying our debt, we are
going to be in a massive amount of trouble.
#90 Over the past
several years, the Federal Reserve has been monetizing a
staggering amount of U.S. government debt even though Ben Bernanke once
promised that he would never do this.
#91 China recently
announced that they are
going to quit stockpiling more U.S. dollars. If the Federal Reserve was not
recklessly printing money, this would probably not have happened.
#92 Most Americans
have no idea that one of our most famous presidents was absolutely obsessed
with getting rid of central banking in the United States. The following is a February 1834 quote by President Andrew
Jackson about the evils of central banking…
I
too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States.
I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have
used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When
you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it
to the Bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the Bank and annul its
charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but
that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand
families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and
thieves. I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal,
(bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out.
#93 There are plenty
of possible alternative financial systems, but at this point all 187 nations that belong to the
IMF have a central bank. Are we supposed to believe that this is just some sort
of a bizarre coincidence?
#94 The capstone of
the global central banking system is an organization known as the Bank for
International Settlements. The following is how I described this organization
in a previous article…
An
immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even
heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe. It is called
the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central
banks. It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also has branches in Hong
Kong and Mexico City. It is essentially an unelected, unaccountable central
bank of the world that has complete immunity from taxation and from national
laws. Even Wikipedia admits that “it
is not accountable to any single national government.” The Bank for
International Settlements was used to launder money for the Nazis during World
War II, but these days the main purpose of the BIS is to guide and direct the
centrally-planned global financial system. Today, 58 global central banks
belong to the BIS, and it has far more power over how the U.S. economy (or any
other economy for that matter) will perform over the course of the next year
than any politician does. Every two months, the central bankers of the world
gather in Basel for another “Global Economy Meeting”. During those meetings,
decisions are made which affect every man, woman and child on the planet, and
yet none of us have any say in what goes on. The Bank for International
Settlements is an organization that was founded by the global elite and it
operates for the benefit of the global elite, and it is intended to be one of
the key cornerstones of the emerging one world economic system.
#95 The borrower is
the servant of the lender, and the Federal Reserve has turned all of us into
debt slaves.
#96 Debt is a form of
social control, and the global elite use all of this debt to dominate all the
rest of us. 40 years ago, the total amount of debt in our system (all
government debt, all business debt, all consumer debt, etc.) was sitting at
about 3 trillion dollars. Today, the grand total is approaching 60 trillion
dollars.
#97 Unless something
dramatic is done, our children and our grandchildren will be debt slaves for
their entire lives as they service our debts and pay for our mistakes.
#98 Now that you know
this information, you are responsible for doing something about it.
#99 Congress has the
power to shut down the Federal Reserve any time that it would like. But right
now most of our politicians fully endorse the current system, and nothing is
ever going to happen until the American people start demanding change.
#100 The design of
the Federal Reserve system was flawed from the very beginning. If something is
not done very rapidly, it is inevitable that our entire financial system is
going to suffer an absolutely nightmarish collapse.
This article was posted: Wednesday, February
24, 2016 at 6:58 am
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In our 693rd issue:
In most issues of EFFector, we give an overview of all the work we’re
doing at EFF right now. This week, we present a deep dive on the FBI’s fight
with Apple over its customers’ privacy.
A
U.S. federal magistrate judge has ordered Apple to undermine the security of an iPhone
that was used by one of the perpetrators of December’s San Bernardino
shootings. If carried out, the order would compromise the security of every
Apple customer in the world. Fortunately, Apple is fighting back and standing
up for its users, and EFF is filing an amicus brief in support of Apple’s
position.
The
government is doing more than simply ask for Apple’s assistance. For the first
time ever, the government is telling Apple to write brand new code that
eliminates the security features of its own products—features that benefit
everyone who uses Apple products or even communicates with iOS users.
Essentially, the government is asking Apple to create a master key so that it
can open a single phone. And once that master key is created, we’re certain
that both our government and others will ask for it again and again.
There’s
been a lot of confusion about what exactly the FBI is asking Apple for. In short, the FBI
wants Apple to do three things:
The
FBI’s goal is to guess Syed Rizwan Farook’s passcode to unlock his phone. If it
just tries entering passcodes, though, it might erase the device’s keys, at
which point the data may never be recoverable. Hence, it’s telling Apple to
write special software to allow unlimited guesses. The FBI claims that it has
the right to make this request under the 1789 All Writs Act, a claim that many legal experts have questioned.
The
problem with the FBI’s request is twofold. First, the risk of this piece of
software getting into unauthorized hands is very high, and the damage that it
could do is obvious.
Second,
writing this code would probably encourage more government requests—potentially
from other governments around the world. Even if you trust the U.S. government,
once this master key is created, governments you don’t trust will
surely demand that Apple undermine the security of their citizens as well.
Last year, thousands of you signed a
petition urging President Obama to speak out for uncompromised security.
The President has not given a real response, but the need to defend
encryption is more urgent than ever.
Fight for the Future
has organized a series of rallies in many major cities across the country.
There will be rallies at most Apple Stores today at 5:30 pm local time.
This
case is not about FBI vs. Apple. It's about every consumer’s right to use secure
technologies, and every technology company’s right to protect its customers’
privacy. Join us.
PBS: Judge's order to Apple over
attacker phone encryption unlocks privacy concerns
“We
know who the shooters were. We know who they were talking to. The FBI already
has the metadata. They chose this case because they want precedent that they
can order a company to design a particular feature at their whim.” EFF’s Nate
Cardozo explains why the FBI’s order has very little to do with Farook’s phone
and everything to do with setting a new precedent.
New York Times: An Unprecedented
Order That Puts Us All at Risk
There
is no such thing as a master key that only the good guys can use. EFF attorney
Sophia Cope shows how carrying out the FBI’s order could open iPhone users to
large-scale threats, both from criminals and from authoritarian world
governments.
PBS Frontline: Who's Right In
Apple's Fight with the FBI?
“Privacy
nihilism is seductive, but deeply misguided. Privacy is not dead, and only
those who wish to kill it claim otherwise.” EFF attorney Nate Cardozo debates
James Andrew Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
explaining why it’s so important that Apple fight the FBI order.
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A Harvard
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http://albertpeia.com/conservativesagainsttrump.htm
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t_rump: ‘…my supporters are smart and loyal…I could go out on 5th
Avenue and shoot someone and they’d still support me…my poll numbers wouldn’t
change’… {When I first heard this sick, outlandish, psychopathic quote I was
reluctant to comment upon/post it thinking it must be slickly out of
context…it’s not!…as a matter of fact, it’s even worse in context…he meant
it!…to be sure, he rivals hitler with his similarly sick devotees buying into
his ‘psychopathy’…(so over the top that even the presence of the full moon
can’t justify trump’s dangerous lunacy-don’t forget, nuclear weapons exacerbate
a globally perilous and precarious doomsday scenario…(how embarrassing for
trump supporters, backers, apologists and particularly, america! ….. smart …
supporters?… How ‘bout deaf, dumb, and blind … like those who ignored what
balanced, intelligent people warned of psychopath hitler, failed to understand
the broad/far-reaching implications of hitler’s modus operandi, and failed to
see the hitlerian insanity in plain sight)}
Politics
A Harvard
University professor published an editorial in The Washington Post on Sunday
that compared the surprising rise of Republican
A Harvard University professor published an editorial in The Washington Post on Sunday
that compared the surprising rise of Republican presidential candidate to Adolf
Hitler seizing power in Germany.
"Like any number of us raised
in the late 20th century, I have spent my life perplexed about exactly how
Hitler could have come to power in Germany," professor and political
theorist Danielle Allen wrote.
"Watching Donald Trump's
rise, I now understand," she added.
She then went on to explain
"how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country." She urged
Trump's critics not to stand by passively as he gains support among Republican
primary voters.
Allen wrote:
Trump is rising by taking
advantage of a divided country. The truth is that the vast majority of voting
Americans think that Trump is unacceptable as a presidential candidate, but we
are split by strong partisan ideologies and cannot coordinate a solution to
stop him. Similarly, a significant part of voting Republicans think that Trump
is unacceptable, but they too, thus far, have been unable to coordinate a
solution. Trump is exploiting the fact that we cannot unite across our
ideological divides.
Hitler rose to power on a
nationalist message. He told the German people that they were exceptional and
played on feelings of disenfranchisement.
Allen also called for Ohio Gov.
John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson to drop out of the race for the
so that their support could consolidate behind Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who
she argued could pose a viable threat to Trump's candidacy.
Read the full Washington Post editorial here >
Danielle Allen is a political theorist at Harvard University and a
contributing columnist for The Post.
Like any number of us raised in the late 20th century, I have spent my
life perplexed about exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany.
Watching Donald Trump’s rise, I now understand. Leave aside whether a direct
comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate. That is not my point. My point
rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country.
To understand the rise of Hitler and the spread of Nazism, I have
generally relied on the German-Jewish émigré philosopher Hannah
Arendt and her arguments about the banality of evil. Somehow people can
understand themselves as “just doing their job,” yet act as cogs in the wheel
of a murderous machine. Arendt also offered a second answer in a small but
powerful book called “Men in Dark Times.” In this book, she described all
those who thought that Hitler’s rise was a terrible thing but chose “internal
exile,” or staying invisible and out of the way as their strategy for coping
with the situation. They knew evil was evil, but they too facilitated it, by
departing from the battlefield out of a sense of hopelessness.
[George Will: Trump relishes wrecking the GOP]
One can see both of these phenomena unfolding now. The first shows
itself, for instance, when journalists cover every crude and cruel thing that
comes out of Trump’s mouth and thereby help acculturate all of us to what we
are hearing. Are they not just doing their jobs, they will ask, in covering the
Republican front-runner? Have we not already been acculturated by 30 years of
popular culture to offensive and inciting comments? Yes, both of these things
are true. But that doesn’t mean journalists ought to be Trump’s megaphone.
Perhaps we should just shut the lights out on offensiveness; turn off the mic
when someone tries to shout down others; reestablish standards for what counts
as a worthwhile contribution to the public debate. That will seem counter to
journalistic norms, yes, but why not let Trump pay for his own ads when he
wants to broadcast foul and incendiary ideas? He’ll still have plenty of access
to freedom of expression. It is time to draw a bright line.
How Donald
Trump won the South Carolina GOP primary, in 60 seconds
One spots the second experience in any number of water-cooler
conversations or dinner-party dialogues. “Yes, yes, it is terrible. Can you
believe it? Have you seen anything like it? Has America come to this?” “Agreed,
agreed.” But when someone asks what is to be done, silence falls. Very many of
us, too many of us, are starting to contemplate accepting internal exile. Or we
joke about moving to Canada more seriously than usually.
But over the course of the past few months, I’ve learned something else
that goes beyond Arendt’s ideas about the banality of evil and feelings of
impotence in the face of danger.
[Five
myths Donald Trump tells about Donald Trump]
Trump is rising by taking advantage of a divided country. The truth is
that the vast majority of voting Americans think that Trump is unacceptable as a presidential candidate, but
we are split by strong partisan ideologies and cannot coordinate a solution to
stop him. Similarly, a significant part of voting Republicans think that
Trump is unacceptable, but they too, thus far, have been unable to coordinate a
solution. Trump is exploiting the fact that we cannot unite across our
ideological divides.
The only way to stop him, then, is to achieve just that kind of
coordination across party lines and across divisions within parties. We have
reached that moment of truth.
Republicans, you cannot count on the Democrats to stop Trump. I believe
that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination, and I intend to vote
for her, but it is also the case that she is a candidate with significant
weaknesses, as your party knows quite well. The result of a head-to-head
contest between Clinton and Trump would be unpredictable. Trump has to be
blocked in your primary.
Jeb Bush has done the right thing by dropping out, just as he did the
right thing by being the first, alongside Rand Paul, to challenge Trump. The
time has come, John Kasich and Ben Carson, to leave the race as well. You both
express a powerful commitment to the good of your country and to its founding
ideals. If you care about the future of this republic, it is time to endorse
Marco Rubio. Kasich, there’s a little wind in your sails, but it’s not enough.
Your country is calling you. Do the right thing.
Ted Cruz is, I believe, pulling votes away from Trump, and for that
reason is useful in the race. But, Mr. Cruz, you are drawing too close to
Trump’s politics. You too should change course.
Democrats, your leading candidate is too weak to count on as a firewall.
She might be able to pull off a general election victory against Trump, but
then again she might not. Too much is uncertain this year. You, too, need to
help the Republicans beat Trump; this is no moment for standing by passively.
If your deadline for changing your party affiliation has not yet come, re-register
and vote for Rubio, even if, like me, you cannot stomach his opposition to
marriage equality. I too would prefer Kasich as the Republican nominee, but
pursuing that goal will only make it more likely that Trump takes the
nomination. The republic cannot afford that.
[Catherine Rampell: Donald Trump thinks you’re
stupid. Yes, you.]
Finally, to all of you Republicans who have already dropped out, one
more, great act of public service awaits you. As candidates, you pledged to
support whomever the Republican party nominated. It’s time to revoke your
pledge. Be bold, stand up and shout that you will not support Trump if he is
your party’s nominee. Do it together. Hold one big mother of a news conference.
Endorse Rubio, together. It is time to draw a bright line, and you are the ones
on whom this burden falls. No one else can do it.
Marco Rubio, this is also your moment to draw a bright line. You too
ought to rescind your pledge to support the party’s nominee if it is Trump.
Donald Trump has no respect for the basic rights that are the foundation
of constitutional democracy, nor for the requirements of decency necessary to
sustain democratic citizenship. Nor can any democracy survive without an
expectation that the people require reasonable arguments that bring the truth
to light, and Trump has nothing but contempt for our intelligence.
We, the people, need to find somewhere, buried in the recesses of our
fading memories, the capacity to make common cause against this formidable
threat to our equally shared liberties. The time is now.
Read more:
Ruth Marcus: Donald Trump’s utterly ridiculous
budget plan
Anne Applebaum: Donald Trump’s campaign of
conspiracy theories
Michael Gerson: Donald Trump and the politics of
the middle finger
NOW WATCH: ‘Turn off the lights!’ — watch Trump turn a lighting outage
into a bizarre political talking point
More From Business Insider
New Hampshire’s largest newspaper
reignited its feud with Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump late
Thursday, criticizing his “decades of failure” in business.
“If you challenged Donald Trump to
a game of ‘Trump: The Game,’ he’d lose,” the New Hampshire Union-Leader editorial quipped.“Losing is
what he does,” it said.
"Trump promises that if he were
president, we would win so much, we’d get bored and ask him to lose. And
Trump has been losing for decades.
“After inheriting his father’s
real estate empire, Trump has used crony capitalism and eminent domain to
increase it. But Trump’s attempts to set up his own businesses have been
striking failures.”
The scathing editorial comes just
six days before New Hampshire’s primaries on Tuesday. Trump, who is polling
well ahead of the rest of the GOP field in the state, is hoping for a
rebound after placing second in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night.
The outspoken billionaire has
repeatedly battled the Union-Leader over its coverage of him this election
cycle.
He
mocked the paper as “dying” under the leadership of publisher Joe McQuaid
after the editorial board sharply criticized Trump’s campaign late last year. Trump
also took credit when the Union-Leader was cut as a debate co-host.
The publication this week listed a
string of the Republican’s high-profile busts.
“Trump Steaks lacked sizzle, Trump
Ice bottled water has dried up,” the editorial said. "Trump Airlines never
turned a profit, and defaulted on its loans. You can’t order a Trump and tonic
because nobody makes Trump Vodka anymore.
“Trump Entertainment Resorts filed
for bankruptcy in 1999. And 2004. And 2009. And 2014. Trump University closed
its doors in 2011, but is still facing lawsuits for ripping off students for
packaging a trumped-up self-help seminar as an actual education.”
The Union-Leader has endorsed
Chris Christie in the GOP New Hampshire primary. Trump responded at the time by
arguing Christie cannot win the party’s nomination and that the state of New
Jersey is currently “a disaster."
Politics
Donald Trump is the candidate of the white working
class. His popularity with this cohort was recognized
early in his candidacy. The preponderance
of commentary on the Trump
phenomenon since then, whether favorable
to the tumescent
real-estate mogul and reality
television star or not,
has proceeded from this assumption.
These
analyses affirm Trump’s allure to white, working-class voters as central to his
candidacy. It is the pillar on which his dominant standing in the polls rests.
If Trump wins the Republican nomination, it will be through their support.
Yet these analyses, revealing as they are, overlook a salient fact. The verdict
of working-class voters will not be the only one rendered on Trump, or the most
important one. However popular Trump may be with the working class, he is as
unpopular with voters who have graduated from college, a group without whose
backing the GOP has no shot at regaining the White House.
Trump
does respectably among college-educated Republicans. In Quinnipiac
University’s most recent poll of the Republican race, Trump received the support
of 30 percent of respondents who had a college degree, more than any other
Republican. This was an improvement from earlier
this month, when Trump trailed Marco Rubio in this demographic. But if
three-tenths of college-educated Republicans back Trump, then seven-tenths of
them don’t. To put it another way: the vast majority of Republicans with
college degrees oppose Donald Trump.
Trump does have a positive favorability
score among college Republicans of 55 to 37 percent. Yet his net rating is the
lowest of any GOP candidate. Ted Cruz (61 to 27 percent), Marco Rubio (75 to 15
percent), and John Kasich (62 to 9 percent) all best Trump on this measure.
Trump also does worst on the question
of which candidate “you would definitely not support for the Republican
nomination for president.” Twenty-eight percent of all Republican voters would
refuse to back him, which improves to 26 percent when only Republican college
graduates are considered.
Trump has a hard ceiling with the
latter group that manifests in survey after survey. College graduates
constituted 54 percent of Republican turnout in the New Hampshire primary.
Trump won this group with 29 percent of the vote. This is a good number. But it
also means the other 71 percent went for Trump’s rivals.
In Iowa, Trump fared worse. College graduates
made up 51 percent of the GOP caucus electorate. Trump could do no better than
third, winning 21 percent of college-educated Iowa Republicans. Both Rubio (28
percent) and Cruz (25 percent) bested him in this crucial demographic. All
told, fourth-fifths of Iowa Republicans who graduated college opposed Trump. As
Tim Alberta notes in his exegesis
of the exit polls from the first two nominating contests, these results
suggest “the formation of an anti-Trump coalition among college-educated
Republicans.” Trump’s “weak link,” as Ron Brownstein calls it, followed him to South Carolina, where Rubio beat Trump 27
to 25 percent among voters with at least a four-year degree.
There is no reason to believe Trump’s
fortunes with college-educated Republican voters will improve—and this is just
Republicans. With college-educated voters as a whole, Trump is poison. Pure,
lethal poison.
The preceding chart, also drawn from
Quinnipiac’s latest polling, is illuminating. For one thing, it shows that
Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, is 13 points
underwater with college-educated voters. Yet she is a homecoming queen compared
to Trump, who is an unfathomable 37 points in arrears with college-educated
voters. Cruz is also anathema to college graduates. They even look askance at
Rubio now, while earlier
this month they were enamored of him. Only Bernie Sanders gets positive
marks from this group.
A candidate’s standing with college
graduates is significant because it correlates with how well he or she performs
on head-to-head ballot tests against other candidates. Here the news is no
better for Trump. He would get crushed among college voters, and consequently
lose the election.
This chart reveals just how poorly
Trump would do with college graduates against Hillary Clinton. While he loses
to Clinton by one point overall, his deficit soars to 15 points with college
graduates. This is a gap Trump’s vaunted working-class support can’t fill.
According to Quinnipiac, he only leads by five points with voters who don’t
have college degrees, 45 to 40 percent.
Cruz, not usually categorized as a
champion of the working class, does better with them against Clinton than Trump
does. The Texas senator gets 48 percent of working-class voters to 39 percent
for the former secretary of state. His deficit among college voters is only 13
points (52 to 39 percent), though, so he leads Clinton 46 to 43 percent. Rubio polls
best against Clinton with both groups, trailing 40 to 46 percent with college
voters and leading 50 to 37 percent with non-college voters. This translates to
a 48 to 41 percent lead for the Florida senator overall.
The “diploma divide” among Republican
voters was a key factor in the 2012 primary, and it has recurred in 2016. In
2012, college-educated Republicans lined up behind Romney, while those without
degrees fragmented among several candidates. But in 2016, as David Wasserman noted
in December, it is college-educated Republicans who have divided their support
while those without degrees have coalesced behind Trump. Consequently, Trump
leads the GOP field because even though he gets only a quarter of Republicans
who graduated from college, he gets two-fifths of those who didn’t.
The problem for Trump (or any candidate) is that
winning non-college graduates while losing degree holders does not a winning
coalition make.
The problem for Trump (or any
candidate) is that winning non-college graduates while losing degree holders
does not a winning coalition make. All it does is guarantee defeat. Per the 2012 exit polls,
Romney won college graduates 51 to 47 percent over President Obama. It was the
only educational cohort Romney won on his way to a four-point loss.
Trump supporters might counter that he
would make up for it by winning overwhelming support from working-class voters.
This is wrong for two reasons. The first reason is that, as seen in the
Quinnipiac poll, Trump only breaks even with non-college graduates in the
general election. The second reason is that there simply aren’t enough
working-class voters to make up for the catastrophic losses among
college-educated voters Trump is destined to incur.
Voting propensity is strongly
correlated with educational attainment. The more educated one is, the more
likely one is to vote. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the two most reliable voting
groups in the United States are voters with bachelor’s degrees and those with
post-graduate degrees. The following chart, drawn from the
2012 election review by the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey,
shows that these two groups turned out at rates of 75 percent and 81 percent,
respectively. Even those who attended but did not finish college had a voting
rate higher than 60 percent. The rate for high school graduates was just over
50 percent, and it declined sharply for those who did not finish high school.
There is simply no way a candidate can
win a presidential election now by losing the biggest turnout group by ten or
more points, as polls consistently show Trump doing. College graduates cannot
stand Trump, and this surely is no small factor in him having the
highest negative rating of any presidential candidate Gallup has ever
tested. Sixty percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Trump. That kind
of radioactivity usually requires a Geiger counter to measure.
College graduates vote more, and there
are more of them who vote. According to the 2012 exit polls, 47 percent of
voters had at least a four-year degree. Another 29 percent spent at least some
time enrolled on campus. That adds up to 76 percent. The overlap is not
perfect, but if working-class voters are defined as voters with no more than a
high school education, then Trump’s hopes rest on taking larger and larger
bites from a cherry.
Even the pit has been consumed.
Psephologists and pundits have fixated on “the mystery of the missing white
voters” ever since Sean Trende noticed their disappearance after the 2012
election. In a recent series on the Trump phenomenon, Trende posits that the
candidate most likely to appeal to these missing voters is Trump, as they were,
for the most part, rural blue-collar whites with an affinity for populism who
in another age voted for Ross Perot.
There simply aren’t enough working-class voters to
make up for Trump’s catastrophic losses among college-educated voters.
As Nate
Cohn puts it, Trump’s base consists of irregularly voting nominal Democrats
from the industrial north, the South, and Appalachia. The problem, Trende
writes, is that there simply aren’t enough of them to win even if you hold
everything else constant. The alternatives are either to win more non-white
support or increase the GOP’s already staggering edge with white voters.
There’s the rub. Trump could
theoretically get more non-white voters (perhaps by appealing to black voters
more than Romney did). Or, more plausibly, he could boost turnout among
blue-collar whites with his stances against free trade and immigration. But he
would do so almost certainly at the expense of support from white-collar voters.
Liam Donovan framed the dilemma well in
a recent article in National Review: “Trump can run up the
popular-vote score all he wants riding white-working-class resentment. It won’t
help him when he gets buried in swing counties such as Fairfax, Hamilton,
Hillsborough, and Arapahoe. Sure, he can target the Rust Belt, but big margins
in Western Pennsylvania or the Upper Peninsula won’t matter if he can’t play in
Bucks or Oakland Counties.”
Trump won’t play in Bucks County. He
won’t for reasons Trende articulates in the
final part of his excellent series. He argues that Trump is the avatar of
what he labels “cultural traditionalism.” Cultural traditionalists share
certain attitudes “about the importance of family, religion, achievement,
intellectual advancement, diversity (at least within categories deemed
important by elites), patriotism, and nationalism” distinct from, and often
diametrically opposed to, those of their counterparts, the “cultural
cosmopolitans.”
In voting terms, there are more cultural
cosmopolitans than there are cultural traditionalists, and by a considerable
margin.
The GOP establishment is made up for
the most part of cultural cosmopolitans, while many of its voters are cultural
traditionalists. Out of this untenable tension sprang Trump. The cultural
traditionalists love him not least because he is a giant middle finger to the
cosmopolitans.
The nation’s metropolitan areas and
suburbs, though, are populated by cultural cosmopolitans, affluent,
college-educated professionals who cringe whenever Trump promises to ban
Muslims or deport every illegal immigrant in the country. As we have already
seen, there are, at least in voting terms, more cultural cosmopolitans than
there are cultural traditionalists, and by a considerable margin. As we have
also seen, they loathe Donald Trump. They are never going to vote for someone
who so grievously offends their sensibilities.
A Trump backer might rejoin that I am
merely speculating that college-educated Republicans would not flock to Trump
if he became the nominee. Supporters of one candidate during a primary often
say they won’t support his opponent but rally around the party flag for the
general election. This is a fair point. It is hard to prove a negative,
especially one that hasn’t happened yet. There is some evidence, however, to
indicate Trump may not benefit from this normal pattern.
On Election Day, Akin lost college graduates 50 to 44
percent, a seven-point swing.
There are few analogues to Trump in
recent years. One who resembled the magnate, at least in his capacity for
intemperate remarks, was Todd Akin. In the
last poll conducted before he devoured his leg, Akin led his 2012 Missouri
Senate race against incumbent Claire McCaskill by 11 points. This included a
one-point advantage with college graduates, 46 to 45 percent. Yet on Election Day,
Akin lost college graduates 50 to 44 percent, a seven-point swing. Moreover, 15
percent of Republican voters defected and voted for McCaskill.
Another GOP Senate candidate who made
foolish remarks about abortion in 2012 was Richard Mourdock of Indiana. He
managed to win college-educated voters, but like Akin he bled considerable
Republican support: 14 percent of Hoosier Republicans backed Democrat Joe
Donnelly, who won.
In 2010, Sharron Angle, the
controversial GOP Senate nominee in Nevada, lost
11 percent of Republicans to Harry Reid. Her Colorado
counterpart, Ken Buck, saw 10 percent of Republicans shift to Michael Bennett.
Most instructive, perhaps, is the 2008
presidential election, which saw Barack Obama win 9 percent of Republicans
and an astounding 20 percent of self-described conservatives. Given the
aspirational qualities of Obama’s candidacy, we should not be surprised he had
so much cross-ballot appeal. Nine or 10 percent is not much in a decisive
contest like his first presidential campaign, but in a close election or a
swing state it could be the difference between victory and defeat.
Trump doesn’t make inflammatory
comments about rape or abortion. That’s because he’s too busy making them about
everything else: immigration, foreign policy, economics, his rivals,
journalists, you name it. His peanut
gallery roars, but the rest of the country is unimpressed.
A Trump-inspired descent
into white identity politics would be a cataclysm for the GOP because it
would alienate the very voters it needs if it wants the White House back. It
must get at least a few voters for whom cultural affinity outweighs partisan
affiliation. There is no way to win without them. Trump’s campaign, on the
other hand, depends on pursuing voters who don’t exist at the cost of those who
do.
Trump’s campaign depends on pursuing voters who don’t
exist at the cost of those who do.
It is well and good to appeal to the
working class. It behooves the GOP to do so. There is great merit in
criticizing the GOP and its leadership and policy cadres, which often seem to
care about little more than hunting such mythical beasts as the flat tax while
pretending to pay lip service to any number of causes dear to its rank and
file. I have myself avowed that the GOP establishment (and donor class) deserve
“incineration.”
But Trump should not be the instrument of vengeance. For that sword, once
drawn, will be sheathed only with difficulty.
By now you have surely begun to suspect
that I oppose Trump. You’re right. I oppose him on philosophical and
ideological grounds. But I also oppose him for practical reasons. Nominate
Trump, and the GOP would lose college-educated voters for at least a
generation, and possibly forever. With them would go the prospect of ever again
winning states like Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida. So, without
them, would the GOP be finished as a national party, and perhaps as any kind of
party at all.
The data speaks in a clear voice and it
speaks a simple message: the Republican Party can have Donald Trump or it can
have a future, but it cannot have both.
Photo Christopher
Halloran / Shutterstock.com
Photo Source: Quinnipiac University Poll, 17 February
2016.
Varad Mehta is a historian. He lives in suburban
Philadelphia.
HOW EMBARRASSING FOR CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS, THE NATION, ET CETERA! … Art of a
deal?
Sarah Palin: ‘t_rump has a track record of (new york/new
jersey)success’pool/drain ‘On the Waterfront’ …
Having told Jimmy Kimmel that he "would love to"
appoint Sarah Palin to his cabinet, The
Washington Post asks (and answers), just what would a trump cabinet
look like?
‘AN
UTTER FRAUD. AN ABSOLUTE AND UTTER FRAUD,’ MCGINNISS CALLS PALIN IN AN INTERVIEW ABOUT THE BOOK
WITH NBC.
Joe McGinniss Sarah Palin Book, 'The Rogue,' Makes
Controversial Claims About Former Alaska Governor ‘Joe McGinniss's new book, The Rogue:
Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, hits bookstores next week, but its controversial claims about the former Alaska governor are
already making waves.
In the book, McGinniss writes that
Palin had a one-night stand in 1987 with future NBA basketball
player Glen Rice nine months before she married her husband Todd. He quotes a
friend who said Palin "had a fetish for black guys for a while."
"She was a gorgeous woman.
Super nice. I was blown away by her," Rice tells McGinniss in the book,
NBC reports. "Afterward, she was a big crush that I had."
McGinniss's book also alleges that
Palin had an extramarital affair with her husband's business partner, Brad
Hanson, in the mid-1990s, and snorted cocaine off a 55-gallon oil drum while
snowboarding.
"An utter fraud. An absolute
and utter fraud," McGinniss calls Palin in an interview about the book with NBC.
"At best, she's a
hypocrite," McGinniss tells NBC's Savannah Guthrie. "At worst, she's
a vindictive hypocrite."
McGinniss famously moved into a house next door to Palin's Wasilla, Alaska home
to write his book -- prompting the Palins to accuse him of stalking them. They built a high fence along their property to protect their
privacy.
In response to McGinniss's book,
Todd Palin gave a statement to NBC saying that McGinniss "spent the
last year interviewing marginal figures with an axe to grind in order to churn
out a hit piece to satisfy his own creepy obsession with my wife."
"I'd ask the fathers and
husbands of America to consider our privacy when one summer day I found this
guy on the deck of the rental property, just 18 feet away next door to us,
staring like a creep at my wife while she mowed the lawn in her shorts,"
Palin said.
McGinniss says that anything he
learned about Palin by living next door did not make it into the book, but he
does become a character in the story himself.
The New York Times writes
in its review:
Soon Mr. McGinniss is settling in to enjoy the fuss
his mere presence has created. "Normally, for a news story to continue
beyond the first 24-hour news cycle, something newsworthy must occur," he
writes loftily, but "The Rogue" is filled with proof to the contrary.
What was his hate mail like? He quotes it. What did Glenn Beck call him? That’s
here too. Who took umbrage at this venom and chose to help him? One man offered
him a hideout, despite Mr. McGinniss's slight skepticism about his motives.
"But you don’t know me," Mr. McGinniss protested.
McGinniss's book is scheduled to
hit bookstores on Tuesday, Sept. 20.’
The
Rogue: Searching For The Real Sarah Palin' Cover Revealed Call it
Palin Noir. Joe McGinniss' upcoming biography of Sarah Palin has a cover design
more fitting for a detective novel. It has a bold...
Joe
McGinniss, Palin Neighbor & Author, Leaving Wasilla To Write Book ANCHORAGE,
Alaska — Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months
on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his...
SOME PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY
Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it.
Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history.
Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“
Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors.
The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as we
noted was possible previously - Texas has
enacted a Bill to repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a
newly established state gold bullion depository..."People
have this image of Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is
exactly where they would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes
a section to prevent forced sEIZURE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
IS THIS THE FIRST STEP DOWN A ROAD TO SECESSION?
1-26-16: t_rump: ‘…my supporters are smart and
loyal…I could go out on 5th Avenue and shoot someone and they’d
still support me…my poll numbers wouldn’t change’… {When I first heard this
sick, outlandish, psychopathic quote I was reluctant to comment upon/post it
thinking it must be slickly out of context…it’s not!…as a matter of fact, it’s
even worse in context…he meant it!…to be sure, he rivals hitler with his
similarly sick devotees buying into his ‘psychopathy’…(so over the top that
even the presence of the full moon can’t justify trump’s dangerous lunacy-don’t
forget, nuclear weapons exacerbate a globally perilous and precarious doomsday
scenario…(how embarrassing for trump supporters, backers, apologists and
particularly, america …!)}
From the great
contemporary composer (‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, Etc.) Andrew Lloyd Weber, from
his great musical ‘Cats’ (get ‘Cats: The Movie’ if you missed the live show),
the great song ‘Memory’, background score/excerpt to a few cats http://albertpeia.com/cats.wmv
Pentagon Troops: It’s Us or Trump
A Harvard
University professor published an editorial in The Washington Post on Sunday
that compared the surprising rise of Republican
http://albertpeia.com/conservativesagainsttrump.htm
What
Is Driving All Currencies Lower Against Gold?
Posted by
: GoldCore
Post date:
03/04/2016 - 07:45
Gold has surged another 4% this week to bring year to date
gains to 20% in dollar terms, 19% in euro terms and 24% in sterling
terms.
Posted by:
Steve H. Hanke
Post date:
03/04/2016 - 14:26
Posted by:
williambanzai7
Post date:
03/04/2016 - 13:13
BANZAI7 FOOD BEVERAGE AND NWO BITCH WARNING...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2016
This
is the email that David Little, Chairman and CEO of Houston-based DXP Enterprises sent
to his employees to explain why, "due to bank obligations and to continue
a positive cash flow profile" the company has to freeze 401(k), why it is
cutting pay in some cases as much as 60% and why many employees are about
to lose their jobs in the middle of what is an "oil and gas
depression." It is a disturbing read.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2016 -
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2016 -
"The reason
that we’re still here, when we really should have fallen apart based on how much debt there was out there, and
various other measures of instability, is that a printing press has turned out to be a great tool
for fooling people...but
in the longer term gold is a beneficiary of the instability that necessarily
flows from borrowing too much money"
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2016 -
Recently,
for example, the markets took a tumble when the Fed moved to normalize monetary
policy. The US central bank responded by delaying the normalization process,
which stabilized the markets, but eventually fears of falling behind the curve
on inflation will force it to resume the process. That will lead to renewed
market turmoil in a cycle that has the potential to repeat itself endlessly.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2016 -
BlackRock's
Gold ETF (IAU) has seen fund inflows every day in 2016 (no outflows at all) and
with the stock trading above its NAV for most of the year, the world's largest
asset manager has made a significant decision: It has suspended
issuance of Gold Trust shares due to "surging demand for gold."
It appears the huge demand for physical gold (and lack of supply) is finally
catching up with the manipulation of paper prices.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2016 - 19:00
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2016 -
While
Christianity remains the largest religion in all 50 states, Islam,
Judaism, and Buddhism are on the rise across the nation.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2016 - 17:45
If
Republican leaders wish to be regarded as moral, every one of them must
renounce Trump, even if it means destroying their party, exclaims
The Washington Post. That the Beltway elites, whose voice is the
Post, hate and fear Trump is not only undeniable, it is understandable. Come
the ides of March, the GOP is going to be in need of its uniters and its
statesmen. But today, all Republicans should ask themselves: Are
these folks coming out in droves to vote Republican really the bigoted, hateful
and authoritarian people of the Post’s depiction?
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2016 -
"The
amount of debt Americans carry is staggering and grows every day.... These data
suggest that a significant portion of every generation is buried under
a mountain of several different kinds of consumer debt. Though sizable slices
of each generation carry no debt, the sheer magnitude of how much Americans
with debt do owe is a cause for concern."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2016 - 17:
The
rise of Donald Trump (and similar iconoclasts in other countries) is due to the
gradual division of society into the protected - that is,
people who make the rules and therefore benefit from them - and the unprotected,
who don’t make the rules and end up getting screwed. The latter have
finally figured this out and have stopped supporting the former.
Weekend
Reading: Is The Bear Market Over Already?
The
time to buy the dip, however, has passed: “I am bearish. There are
just wiggles and jiggles in the markets.“
HY
Credit Spreads Have Never Been This High Outside Of A Recession
"We are
in the bottom of the 8th or 9th inning, and unless the Fed steps in to add liquidity to the
market, which seems unlikely, I don’t expect extra innings... there is no question that the bubble will burst, resulting in
a mini or not-so-mini credit crisis."
Stocks
Tumble After Fed Plans Too-Big-To-Fail Bank Counterparty Risk Cap
US
financials are tumbling after The Fed proposed a rule that would limit
banks with $500 bln or more of assets from having net credit exposure to a
“major counterparty” in excess of 15% of the lender’s tier 1 capital.
Bloomberg reports that The Fed's governors plan to vote today on the proposal.
The implications of this are significant in that it will force some
banks to unwind exposures and delever against one another (most
notably with potential affect the repo market which governs much of the
liquidity transmission mechanisms). Guggenheim's Jaret Seiberg warns the
proposal is likely to be "stringent," though less onerous than the
Dec 2011 proposal... which Goldman Sachs more specifically warned that
it could destroy 300,000 jobs.
The
Only Chart That Matters For The Fed In March
"Uncertainty" exploded in January for The Fed, and after today's "great" (surging job
gains) and "terrible" (plunging wages) jobs data (as well as
surging current inflation and plunging inflation expectations), we can
only imagine Yellen will be even more confused at March's meeting.
German
Banks Told To Start Hoarding Cash
This is officially an all-out revolution of the
financial system where banks
are now actively rebelling against the central bank. In a stunningly real
rebuttal of Europe's negative interest rate policy, German
newspaper Der Spiegel reported yesterday that the Bavarian Banking
Association has recommended that its member banks start stockpiling PHYSICAL
CASH.
I’ve been constrained to create a separate page devoted
exclusively to the ravings/misdeeds of the psychotic trump … Great thanks
should be accorded Mitt Romney for his courage in stating the factual reality
that trump’s a fraud and cites merely some of trump’s great business
failures/cons/scams to back up his true statement ‘a business genius he (trump)
is not’ … Why courage? Because trump’s at most a typical new york/new jersey
mobster, mingling/coddling/intertwined with the proverbial gangs of new
york/new jersey/waterfront … he just recently threatened no less than Speaker
of the House Paul Ryan … then there’s the racist rants/alignments; and as well,
that ‘great wall of trump’s ‘hina , etc.‘ http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm
Draghi
Considers Money Helicopters
Posted by : Secular Investor
Post date: 03/13/2016 -
08:04
Calls the concept 'very
interesting'...
Down
The Trump Rabbit Hole - Manufacturing Consent
Posted by: Cognitive Dissonance
Post date: 03/13/2016 -
09:49
Thus Donald Trump and
his rebel yell, the great white hope (in distinct contrast to the 2008 great
black hope), is simply a reflection of the escalation of Empire’s attempt to
control whatever it...
Inflation
is Already Here... Gold Knows It... So Does the Fed
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 03/12/2016 -
14:34
Beneath the headlines,
inflation is present throughout the US economy. The Fed is cornered.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
"People are not voting for Trump (or Sanders). People are just voting, finally, to destroy the
establishment."
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
It appears the plutocrats themselves are awakening to their own
limitations of omnipotence over the world. Their ability to falsify the economic well being of
the developed world has deteriorated so sharply so quickly that what was once a
threat has become a reality, manifesting through the likes of Sanders and
Trump. But revolts can be crushed and that is the strategy of
MoveOn.org: simple and utter brutishness.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
"There’s a giant bull in the [Turkey stock market] china
shop," exclaims one
trader, but (unsually for Turkey), "nobody knows anything for
sure" about who he, she, or it is. As
Bloomberg reports, a mystery investor who first appeared a year and a half
ago with $450 million of bets on a single day, almost double the market
average, is now executing major transactions with increasing frequency,
scaring away competitors who can’t figure out when he or she will
strike next, traders and bankers said.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
In
the end, the oil attrition wars may lead us not into a future of North American
triumphalism, nor even to a more modest Saudi version of the same, but into a
strange new world in which an unlimited capacity to produce oil meets an
increasingly crippled capitalist system without the capacity to absorb it.
Think of it this way: in the conflagration of the take-no-prisoners war
the Saudis let loose, a centuries-old world based on oil may be ending in both
a glut and a hollowing out on an increasingly overheated planet. A war
of attrition indeed.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
The
market is worried about China. Worried about growth, worried about whether
Beijing can actually manage to pull off the transition to a consumption-led
economic model, worried about the yuan, and perhaps most pressingly, worrried
about whether a push to stamp out the excess capacity that's driving the global
deflationary supply glut will end up creating an employment crisis. Here to
'reassure" you are People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan and Xiao
Yaqing, who oversees the government commission that looks after state assets.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
The
Aussies did it with their employment data (and then admitted it), and now
we see Japan's Economic and Social reserch Institute post the most ridiculous
macro print ever. Over 4 standard deviations from expectations and
almost double the highest expectations, Japan Machinery Orders spiked 15.0% MoM
- the biggest since Jan 2003. We presume this means that Japan is
"fixed" and there will be no need for additional extraordinarily
idiotically experimental monetary policy this week...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
Whether
Trump does or does not make it all the way to the White House, the wave
he’s riding will only grow stronger, tsunami-strength when the economy
collapses and the world descends into war. If the idiot class and its
rabble subvert him, a quote from John F. Kennedy will surely come back to haunt
them: "those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable."
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
When
oil is booming, the hotels, restaurants, and stores boom. When oil
busts, businesses bust with it.
As
shameful as the market has become, what’s just as disgraceful is the cohort of
so-called “smart people” arguing why not only is all this trash good, but also,
giving detailed explanations of economic theories, equations, formulas,
extrapolations, causation, blah, blah, blah as to explain the nuances of it
all. We have just one statement for the so-called “smart crowd.” Please
stop it. You are now not only embarrassing yourselves ever the more (if it were
even possible at this stage) You are now annoying everyone with any
decency of what free markets are supposed to represent. You’ve gone
past the once laughable stage to the outright vulgar. So please – spare us.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
Draghi
dead-dog-bounce deja-vu all over again...
Concerns
about the health of the US economy and the true state of the labor market will
likely mean that demand for marketplace-backed paper won’t exactly be what one
would call “robust” going forward. Of course that’s a problem for lenders like
SoFi, which pools its loans and sells them to free up space on the books for
still more loans. But don’t worry, because SoFi - which originates billions in
personal loans - has an idea...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
Amid
the maelstrom of Sunday's political show machinations over Trump's rallies, one
awkward fact remains - The Donald's lead increases. The latest NBC/Marist
polls show Trump 'swamping' Rubio in his home state of Florida
(43% to 21%), a solid lead in Illinois (34% to Cruz's 25%),
and is closing the gap on Kasich in Ohio (33% to Kasich's 39%). However, as Reuters
reports, despite the growing social unrest, The Donald shows no sign of
toning down his rhetoric, theatening to send his supporters to the
campaign rallies of "Communist friend" Bernie Sanders and
hammering Kasich's "Ohio recovery" narrative.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016
"While investors focus on oil and the ECB, they overlook the
largest current macro market risk – and opportunity – which centers on the Fed. Although our economists expect rates will remain
unchanged, a credible argument can be made for the FOMC to proceed with the
“flight path” it had previously outlined.... The market’s eventual
acceptance of the Fed tightening path will spur some parts of the momentum
trade to resume and others to unwind."
"I hope that oil prices increase but cannot find any substantive
reason why they should do anything but fall." As market balance reality re-emerges in
investor consciousness and the false euphoria of a production freeze recedes,
prices should correct to around $30. A little bad economic or
political news could send prices much lower.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
03/13/2016 - 15:41
http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 04/05/2016 - 15:45
Clinton
Supported Tax Evasion Deal
Posted by: williambanzai7
Post date: 04/05/2016 - 18:56
Are
you Feeling Lucky?
Remember, the Sharpest Rallies Occur During BEAR
Markets.
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 04/05/2016 - 13:04
The
time to prepare for this is now, BEFORE it hits.
Cyber
Fraud At SWIFT – $81 Million Stolen From Central Bank
Posted by : GoldCore
Post date: 04/26/2016 -
07:30
Jim Rickards commented
to GoldCore today about the cyber theft: "The case for owning gold in
an age of cyber-financial threats is compelling ... "
Stocks Could Easily Plunge 24% in the Next Three
Months
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 04/26/2016 -
07:29
The time to prepare for
this bubble to burst is now. Imagine if you'd prepared for the 2008 Crash back
in late 2007?
Gold In Vaults Beneath Bank of England Worth $248
Billion?
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 04/25/2016 -
10:11
There
is no smell here: metal has none. There is no noise, either, on account of the
vaults’ thick concrete walls. What there is, however, is one of the
world’s most important traded assets....
NBCNews.com The lawsuit against Donald Trump's self-styled
"university" accusing it of scamming hundreds of students can head to
trial, a New York judge decided Tuesday.
NY judge decides Trump University case
going to trial Fox News
Trump University Fraud Suit to Go to
Trial, Judge Rules Wall Street Journal
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/26/2016
Washington Post - 04/26/2016 Pat
Toomey is one of the smarter politicians in Washington. It's how he got elected
to the Senate as a Republican in Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania.
The gold market will soon be very
different than from what we see today - largely due to the current developments
in China. China’s influence will impact not just gold investors but
everyone who has a vested interest in the global economy, stock markets, and
the US dollar. After all, China will be a dominant force in all, as
most analysts project. Here are the five trends in China that will change
the gold market forever...
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/26/2016 - 19:58
It was not until Friday, April 22, over a
week after the Deutsche Bank gold rigging settlement news broke, that the CFTC's
press office admitted what many had speculated, when he said he was
unaware of the Deutsche Bank story and could find no reference to it in the
commission's compendium of news reports of interest to the commission's work.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the "US commodity" regulator hard
at work.
Open your eyes!!
There really are “two Americas” in
2016, and they are getting farther and farther apart with each passing
year. On the one hand,
you have lots of people smiling in New York City these days because of the
stock market boom, and property values have soared to ridiculous levels in San
Francisco because of the tech bubble. But in between the two coasts
there are vast stretches of forgotten people that the U.S. economy has left
behind.
For the past few months, we have been
shown the massive crowds of millennials flooding Bernie Sanders rallies, and
the dyed in the wool democrats who have been flocking to Hillary's. The
narrative has been that the Democrats have really generated some enthusiasm
this year that hasn't been seen in the past. As is often the case,
however, propaganda is much different than reality.
Following the biggest Apple debacle in
years, here is the reason why the hedge fund community is about to see even
more redemption requests and underperform the market even more: according to the
latest GS hedge fund tracker, at least 163 hedge fund are long the name which
has just lost over $40 billion in market cap in the after hours. The good news:
it used to be over 200 as recently as a year ago.
Moments ago AAPL reported Q2 EPS of
$1.90, missing expectations of $2.00 on revenue of $50.56BN which not only
plunged by 13% from ayear ago, but also significantly missed expectations of
$52 Billion. Perhaps the biggest driver for this was both the sequential and
annual plunge in Chinese sales, which dropped to $12.5 billion from $16.8
billion a year ago. Worse, the company's guidance for Q3 revenues was
absolutely abysmal, and now sees only $41-$43BN in Q3 sales, well below
not only the median estimate of $47.35bn but below the lowest sellside estimate
of $43.95bn.
"The physical market dog is starting to wag the paper
market tail. Anyone
trading paper-centric historical patters is driving forward while looking in
the rear view mirror."
With AAPL trading with a $95 handle
after-hours (down over $40 billion in market cap), the blowback of the demise
of this "no brainer" is echoing through the once impregnable walls of
Nasdaq futures which are now down over 60 points from the cash
close...back to one-month lows.
As most Americans have resigned
themselves to the fact that merit increases are a thing of the past, and yearly
reviews will only yield a pat on the back and new goals for the upcoming year,
life is still good in the corner suite. CEOs are still getting raises, but
don't be alarmed, you'll feel that trickle down effect any minute now.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/26/2016 - 16:53
With expectations for a 1.75m barrel
build, API shocked by reporting a 1.1m inventory draw sending
WTI crude above $44.50 - running stops from last week's highs. Gasoline (-400k)
and Distillates (-1.02m) also saw draws. Cushing, however, after recent
declines from pipeline closures, saw a 1.9m barrel build.
Posted by : George Washington
Post date: 04/18/2016 -
23:00
The World's Two Biggest
Sponsors of Terrorism Cover For Each Other
Marc Faber: “Messiah” Central Banks Currency Printing
“Will Not End Well”
Posted by: GoldCore
Post date: 04/19/2016 -
05:34
Marc Faber has warned
that a new financial crisis is coming and will be worse than the 2008 one and
warned that the “messiah” central banks “helicopter money ” policies “will not
end well ...”
The Next Round of QE is Just Around the Corner
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 04/19/2016 -
12:57
NIRP is a dud as far as
monetary policy goes. Look for more QE shortly...
"I've been apoplectic for so long I am just spent. Nothing would surprise me anymore. I really honestly don’t know how
this is going to get corrected. I know it can’t continue."
The Doha-disappointment appears to have
sparked some risk-aversion as yesterday saw Russia's biggest exchange-traded
fund - Market Vectors Russia ETF - suffer its largest outflows since
May 2015. However, in a perfect example of ill-timed moves, Russian
stocks have soared over 6% from the knee-jerk lows pushing back up
towards cycle highs.
In the first 14 weeks of the New Year,
gold rose 16%. The first quarter qualified as its best beginning year
performance in 30 years (CNBC, E. Rosenbaum, 4/14/16). The reversal
was prompted by stumbling stock markets and a series of sharply dovish
turns from central banks around the world. Perhaps the main reason
people buy gold is as a hedge against inflation. But uncertainty and
fear contributed undoubtedly to gold’s stellar first quarter rise. But
will it continue?
The catalyst that moved oil prices higher
over the past two days, and which had overriden the "bad news" from
the Doha talks failure, was the Kuwait oil workers strike announced over the
weekend and which resulted in up to 1.6mmb/d in production being taken offline.
As of moments ago, however, according to Kuwait's Aljarida press
website, the strike is now over.
Overnight a historic event took place
when China, the world's top gold consumer, launched a yuan-denominated gold benchmark
on Tuesday as had been previewed here previously in what Reuters dubbed "an
ambitious step to exert more control over the pricing of the metal and boost
its influence in the global bullion market."
"Over the past six months,
has your bank used the additional liquidity arising from the ECB's asset
purchases for granting loans to corporations, for housing loans or for consumer
loans?"
Judging by the exuberant equity market,
it is not 'low' gas prices, but high gas prices that are "unequivocally
good" for America - after all the market is ultimate arbiter of how the
average joe feels, right? However, if you drive a car - or gas-hungry truck -
you may have noticed something in the last month or so - gas prices at
the pump are up almost 25% from the mid-Feb lows, the biggest surge since July
2009.
There were some rumors reported late last
week that the world's biggest chip maker was about to fire a major portion of
its workforce. Moments ago the company confirmed these rumors, when it reported
that it was firing a whopping 11% of its entire workforce, laying off a massive
12,000 workers. Confused? Don't be: it's all part of the new normal
recovery, and don't forget the spin: don't think of its as 12,000 highly paid
engineers and tech workers fired, think of it as 12,000 brand spanking new
waiters and bartenders.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/19/2016 - 16:03
"If somebody needs a bell ringing to figure out that the [market] frothy right now, then I’m in the business of selling hearing
aids..."
“They told me the key to the building had not arrived yet...I am sure there are many people who tried to vote and had to leave who
will not be able to come back,”
"If you care about something, you
have to be willing to risk it all — your reputation, your values, your business
— for the greater good. The post on Ben & Jerry's website said the
protests are just a start to make sure the peoples' voices are heard.
Sometimes, when something really matters, you have to put your body on the
line. You have to take a stand.
Largest
U.S. Health Insurer Is Done With Obamacare: UnitedHealth To Exit Most State
Exchanges
UnitedHealth made its divorce with
Obamacare complete when it announed plans to exit most of the
Affordable Care Act state exchanges where it currently operates by 2017.
During a conference call with analysts Tuesday, CEO Stephen Hemsley noted that "next
year we will remain in only a handful of states."
http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm
Michael
Snyder: http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream50816.htm
Police: Dog mauls 3-day-old baby to death 10News Digital Team
Trump campaign plane flying with expired
registration Washington Post Trump campaign plane flying with
expired registration. The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to
know about new stories from PowerPost.
Donald Trump's Jet, a Regular on the
Campaign Trail, Isn't Registered to Fly New York Times
Oops! Trump Is Traveling On a Jet That's
Not Registered to Fly TheBlaze.com
From the great
contemporary composer (‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, Etc.) Andrew Lloyd Weber, from
his great musical ‘Cats’ (get ‘Cats: The Movie’ if you missed the live show),
the great song ‘Memory’, background score/excerpt to a few cats http://albertpeia.com/cats.wmv
Police: Dog mauls 3-day-old baby to death 10News Digital Team
Pentagon Troops: It’s Us or Trump
A Harvard
University professor published an editorial in The Washington Post on Sunday
that compared the surprising rise of Republican
http://albertpeia.com/conservativesagainsttrump.htm
I’ve
been constrained to create a separate page devoted exclusively to the
ravings/misdeeds of the psychotic trump … Great thanks should be accorded Mitt
Romney for his courage in stating the factual reality that trump’s a fraud and
cites merely some of trump’s great business failures/cons/scams to back up his
true statement ‘a business genius he (trump) is not’ … Why courage? Because
trump’s at most a typical new york/new jersey mobster,
mingling/coddling/intertwined with the proverbial gangs of new york/new
jersey/waterfront … he just recently threatened no less than Speaker of the
House Paul Ryan … then there’s the racist rants/alignments; and as well, that
‘great wall of trump’s ‘hina , etc.‘ http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm
Michael
Snyder: http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream42616.htm
http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream32616.htm
IN
CASE OF TRUMP NOMINATION, BREAK GLASS
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434768/donald-trump-republican-nomination-victory-would-cause-tremendous-damage
Posted by : Tim Knight from...
Post date: 05/06/2016 - 17:13
Just imagine the song list..........
Trump's
Election Should Cause US CDS Spreads to Spike, and for Good Reason
Posted by: Reggie Middleton
Post date: 05/06/2016 - 14:49
Has anybody actually bothered to
stop and listen to what Trump is saying? Kiss American prosperity bye bye!
Favor
Delivery: How Many Reckless Drivers Driving Without Insurance?
Posted by: EconMatters
Post date: 05/06/2016 - 12:30
A reckless millennial delivery
business to a city near you......
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2016 - 18:23
With
blue lights flashing and a SWAT team in front of the warehouse, a black sedan
pulled up. A man got out, popped the trunk, grabbed a briefcase and headed for
Natalie Jewelry. Once there, the man was heard to say "I just
need to drop off this gold and get a receipt. I need a receipt..."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2016 - 21:00
The
San Andreas fault is one of California's most dangerous. While the last big
earthquake to strike the southern San Andreas was in 1857, as
LA Times reports Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California
Earthquake Center, explained this week "the springs on the San Andreas
system have been wound very, very tight. And the southern San Andreas fault, in
particular, looks like it’s locked, loaded and ready to go."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2016
A
spending survey done by MasterCard shows
that March retail sales in Hong Kong declined at the worst rate in the
history of the survey.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2016 -
"The
other day I was watching the stock open up, and it went up on share volumes of
a few thousand shares. I mean, every trade was a tick up. That's
not the way it should operate in an honestly or intelligently run exchange.
But that's the thing, all those guys sold their dark pools and their
order flow and the positioning on the floors of the servers to the HFTs.
And it's made a couple of guys that I'm friendly with very rich because they
are high-frequency traders."
A
source has confirmed that Hillary Clinton will be interviewed by the FBI within
the coming weeks, in connection with the investigation into her private email
server. As reported last night, Hillary's top aide, Huma Abedin was interviewed
by the FBI at its Washington field office in April.
When
it comes to the economic future, a Trump presidency could bring either
a shitstorm or salvation. Regrettably, the odds of the former are
immensely the higher. That’s because Trump is a welcome,
but extremely unguided missile.
An
Army captain filed suit against President Obama on Wednesday, claiming that the
president is engaged in an “illegal war” against the Islamic State in Iraq and
Syria. Nathan Michael Smith, who is deployed to Kuwait as an intelligence officer
at Camp Arifjan, argues in the lawsuit that the president lacks the proper
authorization for his campaign against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS,
because he failed to get congressional authorization under the War Powers
Resolution of 1973.
As
politicians and businesses trip over each other to see who can raise the
minimum wage the fastest and to what extent, the typical "totally
unforeseen" consequences of central planning are being felt.
Last
week, the Global Challenges Foundation released a new report entitled “Global Catastrophic
Risks 2016” in which they discussed various apocalyptic events
that they believe could wipe out more than 10 percent of the population of our
planet, and they warned that these types of events “are more
likely than we intuitively think”...
In
the wake of the Panama
Papers being released, the U.S.Treasury announced that it will use existing
powers in order to make two rule changes that are intended to stop tax
evasion. However, as Lew admits, "despite these efforts, bad
actors will continue to seek new ways to exploit the system."
How
poor have the election forecasters been this year? It is a topic many are
discussing given the large number of upsets we've had during the
Primaries. For example, statistician Nate Silver (who started the
campaign season proclaiming Trump had <2% chance of being nominated) by
March 1 predicted with 94% probability that Trump would win
Alaska (he lost).
Zimbabwe
is set to print its own version of the US dollar, as an ailing economy fuels a
severe cash shortage in the southern African nation. John
Mangudya, Zimbabwe’s central bank governor, said Thursday the so-called
bond notes will be backed by $200 million in support from the Africa
Export-Import Bank. The specially designed dollar notes will come in
denominations of two, five, 10 and 20. They will also have the same value as
their U.S. dollar equivalents. The bond notes are an extension of
so-called bond coins of one, five, 10 and 25 cents which the central bank
introduced in 2014 and are pegged to the value of the U.S. dollar.
Posted by
: williambanzai7
Post date:
05/03/2016 - 20:25
This picture explains it...
ECB
Doubles Down on Financial Repression
Posted by:
rcwhalen
Post date:
05/03/2016 - 07:22
“The zero interest [rate] policy is an attack on the assets
of millions of Germans..."
The ECB
Just Admitted QE and NIRP Cannot Produce Growth
Posted by:
Phoenix Capital...
Post date:
05/03/2016 - 15:34
The ECB is effectively out of viable options. The global
banking crisis is back.
The 'odd' regime shift in the relationship between USDJPY and US
equities continues overnight. Following
some visible-handedness and follow-through momentum, Yen is weakening against
the USD - normally a big flashing green sign for risk-on pajama traders but China's
biggest Yuan devaluation in 9 months (since the August turmoil) seems
to have stolen the jam out of the bull's donut as US equity futures extend
losses, AsiaPac credit risk jumps, and USD strength is weighing on crude
prices.
"Unrestrained
power may be many things, but it’s not American. It is in this sense that the act of whistleblowing
increasingly has become an act of political resistance. The whistleblower raises the alarm and lifts the
lamp, inheriting the legacy of a line of Americans that begins with Paul
Revere..."
Based on the world risk index, which
takes into account not only the frequency of natural disasters in each country
(known as exposure) but also how well equipped the country is to cope with and
recover from the effects of a disaster, The
Guardian reports Vanuatu is the riskiest country to live in,
with natural disasters on average affecting more than a third of the population
each year. If you want to be safe from natural disasters, move to Qatar
(the lowest disaster risk country in the world)...
"I oppose today’s so-called capitalism. I don’t even like the world
“capitalism,” I like “free markets.” But if you say “free markets” and
“capitalism” together, we don’t have that. We have interventionism. We have a planned economy,
we have a welfare state, we have inflationism, we have central economic
planning by a central bank, we have a belief in deficit financing. It is so far removed from free-market capitalism
that it’s foolish for people to label it free market and capitalize on this and
say: “We know it’s
so bad. What we need is socialism.” That is a problem."
Back
in March, Japan's Global Pension Investment Fund appointed Norihiro Takahashi
as its new president. Few paid much attention to it, but it may very well
end up being one of the most significant events that occurred as we look back
in twelve to eighteen months.
Bo: "I just
want to know how you can say you're going to put a lot of coal
miners out of jobs, and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be
our friend."
Hillary: "I don't know how to explain it.."
Great
News!! As
OilJobFinder.com reports, North Dakota's top oil regulator sent out a
message the other day to the leaders of Williston: Get Ready. "This
is going to come back pretty hard and pretty rapidly," Helms
said told members of Williston’s Chamber of Commerce. "And we'll be
back running to stay ahead of it." You can smell the desperate hope
in his rhetoric...
Despite
today's jump in the USD index, the sharp dollar selloff trend remains even as
U.S. rates have climbed and the commodity rally pauses. It’s logical
to query if there is an end in sight for the rout. The short
answer, according to Bloomberg's Mark Cudmore, is no. The
dollar may be due a bounce, but that would likely mark a consolidation phase
rather than a trend reversal.
China's
military is out with a new recruiting video, although it isn't what some may
envision. The People's Liberation Army (incidentally the world's largest
military force, with a strength of approximately 2,285,000 personnel, or 0.18%
of China's population) released an online recruiting video, which however was
anything but your average, army stock filler with a beating bass line or a
cherubic choir in the background: it was just the testament to demonstrate
China's militant yet "cultured uniqueness" as it sets off to
dominates the world. In other words: a "culturally unique"
rap video.
"I’m
going to do something I haven’t done the entire campaign. I’m going to tell you
what I really think of Donald Trump. This man is a pathological liar.
He doesn't know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically
every word that comes out of his mouth. And in a pattern that I think is
straight out of a psychology text book, his response is to accuse everybody
else of lying."
Just
another central bank intervention in what is now a daily occurrence?
"...
one of the most dangerous places on a college campus is the
so-called safe space because it creates a false impression that we can isolate
ourselves from those who hold different views. We can't, and
we shouldn't try. Not in politics, or in the workplace..."
IN CASE OF TRUMP NOMINATION, BREAK GLASS
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434768/donald-trump-republican-nomination-victory-would-cause-tremendous-damage
by George Will April 30,
2016 8:00 PM @GeorgeWill Donald Trump’s damage to the Republican party,
although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will
multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential
aspirant in their party’s history. These collaborationists will render
themselves ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction. Ted Cruz’s
announcement of his preferred running mate has enhanced the nomination process
by giving voters pertinent information. They already know the only important
thing about Trump’s choice: His running mate will be unqualified for high
office because he or she will think Trump is qualified. Hillary Clinton’s
optimal running mate might be Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a pro-labor
populist whose selection would be balm for the bruised feelings of Bernie
Sanders’s legions. Running mates rarely matter as electoral factors: In 2000,
Al Gore got 43.2 percent of the North Carolina vote. In 2004, John Kerry,
trying to improve upon Gore’s total there, ran with North Carolina senator John
Edwards but received 43.6 percent. If, however, Brown were to help deliver Ohio
for Clinton, the Republican path to 270 electoral votes would be narrower than
a needle’s eye. Republican voters, particularly in Indiana and California, can,
by supporting Cruz, make the Republican convention a deliberative body rather
than one that merely ratifies decisions made elsewhere, some of them six months
earlier. A convention’s sovereign duty is to choose a plausible nominee who has
a reasonable chance to win, not to passively affirm the will of a mere
plurality of voters recorded episodically in a protracted process. RELATED:
Weighing Trump’s Running-Mate Options Trump would be the most unpopular nominee
ever, unable to even come close to Mitt Romney’s insufficient support among
women, minorities, and young people. In losing disastrously, Trump probably
would create down-ballot carnage sufficient to end even Republican control of
the House. Ticket splitting is becoming rare in polarized America: In 2012,
only 5.7 percent of voters supported a presidential candidate and a
congressional candidate of opposite parties. Share article on Facebook share
Tweet article tweet At least half a dozen Republican senators seeking
reelection and Senate aspirants can hope to win if the person at the top of the
Republican ticket loses their state by, say, only four points, but not if he
loses by ten. A Democratic Senate probably would guarantee a Supreme Court with
a liberal cast for a generation. If Clinton is inaugurated next January 20,
Merrick Garland probably will already be on the Court — confirmed in a lame
duck Senate session — and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, and
Stephen Breyer will be 83, 80, and 78, respectively. The minority of people who
pay close attention to politics includes those who define an ideal political
outcome and pursue it, and those who focus on the worst possible outcome and
strive to avoid it. The former experience the excitements of utopianism, the
latter settle for prudence’s mild pleasure of avoiding disappointed dreams.
Both sensibilities have their uses, but this is a time for prudence, which
demands the prevention of a Trump presidency. RELATED: America Needs
#NeverTrump Now More than Ever Were he to be nominated, conservatives would
have two tasks. One would be to help him lose 50 states — condign punishment
for his comprehensive disdain for conservative essentials, including the
manners and grace that should lubricate the nation’s civic life. Second,
conservatives can try to save from the anti-Trump undertow as many senators,
representatives, governors, and state legislators as possible. More Donald
Trump Trump Should Apologize for JFK Comment How Donald Trump Mainstreamed
Conspiracy-Mongering The GOP Race Effectively Ends Tonight It was 32 years
after Jimmy Carter won 50.1 percent in 1976 that a Democrat won half the
popular vote. Barack Obama won only 52.9 percent and then 51.1 percent, but
only three Democrats — Andrew Jackson (twice), Franklin Roosevelt (four times),
and Lyndon Johnson — have won more than 53 percent. Trump probably would make
Clinton the fourth, and he would be a tonic for her party, undoing the
extraordinary damage (13 Senate seats, 69 House seats, eleven governorships,
913 state-legislative seats) Obama has done. If Trump is nominated, Republicans
working to purge him and his manner from public life will reap the considerable
satisfaction of preserving the identity of their 162-year-old party while
working to see that they forgo only four years of the enjoyment of executive
power. Six times since 1945 a party has tried, and five times failed, to secure
a third consecutive presidential term. The one success — the Republicans’ 1988
election of George H.W. Bush — produced a one-term president. If Clinton gives
her party its first twelve consecutive White House years since 1945,
Republicans can help Nebraska senator Ben Sasse, or someone else who has
honorably recoiled from Trump, confine her to a single term. — George Will is a
Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist. © 2016 The Washington Post Did you
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Posted by : williambanzai7
Post date: 04/29/2016 -
09:59
More M$M Bull$hit...
A Few Facts About Gold That Nay-Sayers Conveniently
Ignore
Posted by: Phoenix Capital...
Post date: 04/29/2016 -
13:50
Long-term, Gold Has
CRUSHED Stocks' Performance
Posted by: Tim Knight from...
Post date: 04/29/2016 -
14:00
In which Palo Ato
out-Vancouvers Vancouver.
Trump campaign plane flying with expired
registration Washington Post Trump campaign plane flying with
expired registration. The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to
know about new stories from PowerPost.
Donald Trump's Jet, a Regular on the
Campaign Trail, Isn't Registered to Fly New York Times
Oops! Trump Is Traveling On a Jet That's
Not Registered to Fly TheBlaze.com
Over the years, Zero Hedge has proven to
be a magnet for media attention. Today, it is Bloomberg's turn.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/29/2016
The FBI is notifying unsuspecting targets
after the release of an ISIS hit list that includes thousands of New Yorkers.
The names on the list were released last week. ISIS has urged urged followers
of the militant group to target these 3,600 individuals and to
facilitate that the hacker group has posted their personal information with
the demand that "we want them #Dead."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/29/2016
Is Turkey the support behind
ISIS? A new documentary
lays out evidence that would lead to that conclusion... one we first exposed here,
here,
and here.
The documentary takes place just days after the YPG took back the town of
Shaddadi (a former ISIS stronghold), and what is revealed will most
certainly go under reported, but is important nonetheless.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/29/2016
In Davos, they chug bottles of Chateau
Lafite Rothschild and plot how to pillage small nations. At Berkshire,
we will eat Dilly bars and plot how to pillage the middle class.
Capitalism is beautiful and crony capitalism is the end product of politicians
who prostitute the laws. I don’t have the power to change the current rules,
but I can certainly learn to thrive within them.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/29/2016
For every dollar that you have in the
bank there is actually 0.00061 dollars available...in other words,
there's 6 cents for every $100 dollars of deposits that you have at the bank.
As Mike
Maloney explains in this brief clip, we live in an economic system that is
made complicated by design. Basically, it’s set up so most people don’t even
try to understand it. Got Gold?
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/29/2016 -
What until now was mostly effete
jawboning over US complaints surrounding China's territorial expansion
ambitions in the South China Sea, including the occasional sailing of a US ship
deep inside the disputed territorial waters (with zero impact especially now
that China may soon start building maritime
nuclear power plants in the area), changed dramatically earlier today when
China officially denied a U.S. carrier strike group's request for a port visit
to Hong Kong next week.
"I need a rocket for firing at people! .. Careful not to shoot at our brothers! ... I've been shot!"
The object of this exercise appears
to be perpetual debt-servitude as well as placing almost everyone fully and
finally under the complete control of the powers that be, who are no longer just the powers in government.
The distinction between state power and corporate power is so blurry now as to
be almost impossible to parse. The two are effectively the same
thing, working hand in hand for their mutual benefit
"New York City just turned
very quickly and more deeply than we expected. We had to join the
concession party to close deals." Chief Operating Officer David Santee
said during the Q1 earnings call, also adding that with the city accounting for
20% of the firm's revenue "if you can't achieve 3 or 4 percent rate growth
here, then it's going to impact your bottom line."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/29/2016
Italy's bad bank bailouts fund,
"Atlas", is about to become the proud new owner of around 90% of
Italy's Popolare di Vicenza after investors only bought a fraction of the
mid-tier bank's €1.5 billion cash call, Reuters reports.
Popolare di Vicenza, which was due to announce the outcome of the public share
offer later on Friday, said earlier in the day that it had raised €4.25
billion, at the lower end of a 4-6 billion euro range it had initially
targeted, from 67 mostly domestic financial institutions.
Whether the establishment likes it or
not, and it evidently does not, there is a revolution going on in
America.
“The market does what it should do, just not always when.”
– Jesse Livermore
"Treasury is creating a new
“Monitoring List” that includes these economies: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan,
and Germany. China,
Japan, Germany, and Korea are identified as a result of a material current
account surplus combined with a significant bilateral trade surplus with the
United States. Taiwan is identified as a result of its material current account
surplus and its persistent, one-sided intervention in foreign exchange markets.
Treasury will closely monitor and assess the economic trends and foreign
exchange policies of these economies."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/29/2016 - 16:05
Keep 'peddling'...
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence threw his support behind
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz Friday afternoon, just days before Indiana's
critical Tuesday primary.
Mike
Pence endorses Ted Cruz
In-Depth-CNN-12 hours ago
Indiana
Governor Mike Pence Endorses Ted Cruz
In-Depth-The
Atlantic-10 hours ago
Indiana
Gov. Mike Pence Backs Ted Cruz for President
Blog-Wall
Street Journal (blog)-12 hours
ago
Boehner’s Unreasonable Attack on Cruz http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434736/ted-cruz-john-boehners-attack-was-wrong { boner’s a dick … quite seriously, he’s
also a failed house speaker … by the numbers or any other criterion … earliest
sign should have been the moment he was handed the gavel and a torrent of tears
erupted … his image, projected visage is realistically that he is at least half
in bag 24/7 … he always has that vacuous look of bewilderment that invariably
is the natural concomitant of intoxication; yet, we know that can’t be so …
quite simply, it’s just that ‘he’s all that’ … DUMB! … but those free mar ill
lago golf junkets certainly had their intended effect … look at the dire
results … to the state of the nation in light of every broken promise by boner
… }
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com
Trump
making case to GOP insiders amid chaotic rally scene Associated Press
{What case? … That he’s
unequivocally the corrupt chaos conman king? … who has turned the process, as
he invariably does, into a global and domestic embarrassment … that he loves
the uneducated (unwitting marks/dupes that they are) who would ultimately among
many other expendable, disenfranchised groups, find themselves much like the
Jewish people in nazi Germany as reality ‘trumps’ wild, empty rhetoric without
moral or constitutionally/legally founded compass, basis, restraint … I am
absolutely convinced this, his strategy
is right out of adolph’s ‘blood-red linings playbook’ (how can people ignore
his confirmed obsessive fascination with the furor’s speeches that, of all
historic personages, he listened to, over and over again) … }
Donald Trump’s business disaster is worse than you think
Why is Donald Trump getting a
pass for his disastrous and incompetent track record of running a public
company?
The Republican front-runner has made much
of his
supposed “success” in business and says he now wants to do the same for
America.
But the only part of his business track
record for which we have the full picture shows that Trump wasn’t a successful
executive but an absolute catastrophe.
For 10 years between 1995 and 2005,
Donald Trump ran Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts — and he did it so badly and
incompetently that it collapsed into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. His stockholders
were almost entirely wiped out, losing a staggering 89% of their money. The
company actually lost money every single year. In total it racked up more
than $600 million in net losses over that period.
Trump was chairman of the board throughout
the entire time, and CEO as well for about half of it.
This is the sort of record usually
associated with an Enron or a WorldCom or a Pets.com.
Meanwhile, over the same period, all his
competitors were enjoying an enormous boom. Take a look at our chart.
While Trump was running Trump Hotels
& Casino Resorts into the ground, the Dow Jones index of gambling stocks —
the index that Trump himself cited in public filings as his best benchmark —
soared 160%. Investors in Harrah’s saw their stake go up by nearly 150%. MGM MGM, -0.40% quintupled. These people
were making out like bandits.
Donald Trump ran the worst performing
casino company on the stock market. This isn’t a matter of “opinion.” This
isn’t speculation or politics. It’s a matter of plain fact.
However, one person associated with Trump
Hotels & Casino Resorts did make money:
Donald J. Trump.
A review of the company’s public filings
show that over that period, while his ordinary investors were getting hosed,
Trump himself was siphoning millions out of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
through salary, “bonuses” — yes, really — and cozy “service agreements” or side
deals with his private corporations.
Check out the relevant page from the 2003
public filing, for example:
In total, Donald Trump pocketed $32
million over nine years, while his public stockholders lost more than $100
million.
Follow the money. It really isn’t that
complex.
Now his supporters want to put him in
charge of the federal government. They actually hope he will do for America
what he’s already done for his business.
Heaven help us all.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/05/2016
Today
we finally get some answers to the question on everyone's lips: who are the
Americans in the Panama Papers? Surprisingly, there are no politicians of note
are in files but plenty of others. Among them: retirees, scammers, and tax
evaders, all of whom found a use for secrecy of offshore companies.
What’s left for the Empire of Chaos in the Eurasian front is the wishful
thinking of attempting to
encircle both Russia and China, while both keep actually expanding all across
the Eurasian Heartland, shedding US dollars and buying gold, signing a flurry
of contracts in yuan and selling oil and gas to all and sundry.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/05/2016
While
America managed (for the first time) to get two cities on the world's Top 50
most murderous list, it is Brazil that takes the proverbial cake. Brazil has
been in crisis for some time now, but even that does not explain how
the venue for the 2016 Olympics is home to a mind-boggling 32 of the 50 most
murderous cities in the world.
Investors
now acknowledge that fundamental analysis is merely an afterthought
when compared to the far bigger influence of central bank buying. While
this destroys free markets, fuels malinvestment bubbles and rewards
cronyism, it doesn’t stop central planners — it merely emboldens
them. The latest example of such hubris was on full display
last month when the ECB’s Mario Draghi increased QE by a third. Here’s some of
what’s happened since. So “investing” has morphed into simply front-running the
decisions of unelected central planners. That’s all there is to it.
Both
Cruz and Sanders win Wisconsin, in line with what the polls had predicted.
It
appears that Ed Yardeni's market-driven global growth barometer is peddling
more fiction about the so-called 'recovery'...
Someday this is going to end in tears. But not tomorrow. Kuroda knows this, hoping that the
“after tomorrow” won’t be under his watch. After me the deluge!
If
you ever wondered what Jamie Dimon meant by “That’s why I’m richer than you”,
this summary from the Financial Times explains.
While
the Pfizer-Allergan $160 billion merger may be the most notable casualty of the
Treasury's decree, there are various other deals working on corporate inversion
deals or who have carried out inversions in the past. They are shown in the
list below,
2016 was supposed to have been the year of Jeb Bush versus Hillary
Clinton: the year when the
established Bush dynasty confronted the upstart rival Clinton Dynasty.
But the year of the insider has turned into the year of the outsider. On
both sides, voters have unexpectedly given vent to thirty years of accumulated
anger with neoliberalism which has downsized their incomes and hopes. Though
the Republican rebellion has been more clear-cut in its dismissal of insider
candidates, it is Bernie Sanders’ Democratic rebellion that is of
potentially far greater historic significance.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/05/2016
The
infamous Microsoft help paperclip makes a timely
appearance, providing options for all of your year-end tax planning needs.
As of midnight, both
California and New York have signed the new $15 minimum wage into law. The
irony of the situation, which will most certainly go under reported, is that
even California’s Governor Brown knows that it’s not the right decision to make
economically. Regarding the actual economic impact, California’s Governor Brown
was
quoted as saying that "economically, minimum wages may
not make sense."
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/05/2016
And
here's the money shot... "...only arms dealers and
scumbags set up asset protect vehicles like anonymous shell companies."
http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm
Michael
Snyder: http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream50816.htm
Police: Dog mauls 3-day-old baby to death 10News Digital Team
Trump campaign plane flying with expired
registration Washington Post Trump campaign plane flying with
expired registration. The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to
know about new stories from PowerPost.
Donald Trump's Jet, a Regular on the
Campaign Trail, Isn't Registered to Fly New York Times
Oops! Trump Is Traveling On a Jet That's
Not Registered to Fly TheBlaze.com
From the great
contemporary composer (‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, Etc.) Andrew Lloyd Weber, from
his great musical ‘Cats’ (get ‘Cats: The Movie’ if you missed the live show), the
great song ‘Memory’, background score/excerpt to a few cats http://albertpeia.com/cats.wmv
Police: Dog mauls 3-day-old baby to death 10News Digital Team
Pentagon Troops: It’s Us or Trump
A Harvard
University professor published an editorial in The Washington Post on Sunday
that compared the surprising rise of Republican
http://albertpeia.com/conservativesagainsttrump.htm
I’ve
been constrained to create a separate page devoted exclusively to the
ravings/misdeeds of the psychotic trump … Great thanks should be accorded Mitt
Romney for his courage in stating the factual reality that trump’s a fraud and
cites merely some of trump’s great business failures/cons/scams to back up his
true statement ‘a business genius he (trump) is not’ … Why courage? Because
trump’s at most a typical new york/new jersey mobster,
mingling/coddling/intertwined with the proverbial gangs of new york/new
jersey/waterfront … he just recently threatened no less than Speaker of the
House Paul Ryan … then there’s the racist rants/alignments; and as well, that
‘great wall of trump’s ‘hina , etc.‘ http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm
Michael
Snyder: http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream42616.htm
http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream32616.htm
After Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination
on Tuesday night, the BBC rounded up the reactions from the global press to
Trump's victory. You've seen similar coverage from the foreign press throughout
Trump's rise, the tone of which has been a mixture of panic, terror, and
gallows humor. "Trump seems to be a nightmare for everyone here,"
Hanin Ghaddar, managing editor of Now, an English news site based in Lebanon,
said in March.
After Donald Trump secured the Republican
nomination on Tuesday night, the BBC rounded up
the reactions from the global press to Trump's victory. Aside from some
gloating in authoritarian Russia and China, the reaction was pretty shocked.
"The craziest US presidential
election campaign begins," Germany's Die Welt daily wrote. "The
unthinkable has come to pass."
You've seen similar
coverage from the foreign press throughout Trump's rise, the tone of which has
been a mixture of panic, terror, and gallows humor.
France's
Channel 2 once aired a debate titled, "That Donald Trump could become
president of the United States: should we laugh or cry?" In January, the
leading German magazine Der Spiegel published an issue titled,
"Madness: American Agitator Donald Trump."
It's not just Europe. "Trump seems
to be a nightmare for everyone here," Hanin Ghaddar, managing editor of
Now, an English news site based in Lebanon, said in March. One
of South Korea's largest newspapers, JoongAng
Ilbo, declared itself "dumbfounded" that someone with Trump's
views could be a "leading candidate in the U.S. presidential race."
South Africa's City
Press published a piece titled, "God help us all if Trump wins."
Why? Because Trump plays into many
countries' worst fears about America.
Part of it is that he embodies the
world's worst anti-American stereotypes: vulgar, violent, cash-obsessed,
racist. Trump is everything many people hate about the United States, so it's
no surprise some are infuriated by his rise.
But it's not just ethos —
it's also what he proposes to do to many countries, particularly American
allies. Trump's actual foreign policy vision represents a fundamental break
with decades of American foreign policy. Given that a lot of American allies depend
on those very decades-old policies for their own security, Trump's rise is more
than just cartoonish.
For them, it's legitimately terrifying.
One
of the most insightful things I've read on foreign views of Trump is by German
political theorist Yascha Mounk, currently teaching at Harvard.
"If
a communist propaganda ministry had commissioned a gifted cartoonist to draw a
typically-American rogue, he would have invented a figure like 'The Donald,'"
Mounk writes in the German newspaper Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung. "A man who embodies the wealthy, boorish
philistine, from his self-important attitude to the way his hair is folded this
way and that, and someone for whom nothing is sacred — other than money,
bosoms, success and power."
Germans,
Mounk writes, see Trump as "a symptom of a distinctly American
disease":
In
no other democracy in the world, it is said, could voters be so openly
motivated by greed, show so little concern for less-privileged fellow citizens
and be so politically ignorant. Only in hate-filled, under-educated 'Ami-land'
could someone like Trump be successful.
Mounk
describes Trump as fitting stereotypes of Americans held not just in Germany
but in places around the world. A 2005 Pew
survey of people in 16 nations found that majorities in most countries
described Americans as "greedy" and "violent." A 2005 study
in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology looked at data from 48 non-American
samples, finding that they described the typical American as (among other
things) "arrogant" and "achievement-oriented."
Trump
is a man who describes everything he has as "the best," is obsessed
with "winning," and tells his followers that the protesters they beat
up had it coming. He once literally
said, "My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy for money — but now I
want to be greedy for the United States."
Now,
most non-Americans don't only see the bad in America — and a lot of the time,
these stereotypes are fodder for jokes rather than taken seriously.
But
in Trump, they see the bad parts of America swamping the parts of it they
admire. That's not just in personality, but also the policies he proposes.
Trump's personal qualities would become the ones that define American
governance.
"For
[some], Trump's mere existence confirms their worst suspicions of the United
States," Joyce
Karam, the Washington bureau chief for the Arabic daily Al-Hayat,
writes. "In a region already predisposed to anti-Americanism,
Trump’s Islamophobic and racially charged message is reinforcing long-held
suspicions that America is a racist, imperialist nation that wants to exploit
and subjugate the Arab world."
The
most famous example, of course, is Trump's proposal to ban Muslim immigration.
People
around the world condemned it because they thought the idea of discriminating
against people based on their religion was reprehensible. It also tapped into a
broader international fear about Trump's candidacy: that by accepting Trumpism,
America itself would become like him.
"For
a putative leader of a nation of immigrants to talk in this way is a watershed
moment for the United States," the
Guardian, Britain's left-wing daily, wrote in an editorial. "In Mr
Trump’s America, the famous words associated with the Statue of Liberty would
have to be amended to welcome 'your tired and huddled masses — but no
Muslims.'"
(Scott Olson/Getty Images)
But
for people in many countries, Trump isn't just a problem because of what he
stands for. It's what he actually might do to them once in office that's scary.
Countries
around the world depend on a broadly stable global order, which itself depends
on a superpower that at the very least doesn't behave erratically.
But
Trump has promised everything but stability. His policy proposals include confiscating
Syrian and Iraqi oil in areas controlled by ISIS, cozying up with
Vladimir Putin, and imposing 45
percent tariffs on Chinese goods that would almost certainly start a trade
war. And his entire case for his foreign policy is often premised on
the idea that he's unpredictable.
Trump
has called NATO "obsolete,"
and threatened to destroy the alliance unless America's European allies pay the
United States in return for the troops America stations on the continent.
"Either they pay up, including for past deficiencies, or they have to get
out. And if it breaks up NATO, it breaks up NATO," Trump said at a campaign
rally.
Nice
alliance you've got there — shame if anything were to happen to it, he's
telling the world.
He's
also suggested that Japan and South Korea should pay for their security
alliances with the United States. But there, he went even further, suggesting
that these countries should maybe just get their own nuclear weapons so the
United States doesn't have to protect them anymore.
These
aren't little policy changes. These alliances are literally the foundation of
the post–World War II American strategy, supported (in varying forms) by every
president and both parties.
The
basic idea is that American security alliances around the world deter
aggression by hostile powers, like Russia and China, and cement peaceful ties
between allies because they're on the same broad side. American
alliances create a web of peace around the world, preventing wars between great
powers and promoting free global commerce. Everybody wins, at least
theoretically.
Trump's
point of view threatens to torpedo this system. By telling allies that the US
will only support them if they pay up, he's abandoning American promises to
defend them. American allies will come to believe that American protection
hinges on the whims of an unstable and unpredictable leader.
That
is terrifying for people in these countries, who have premised their entire
security policies on the existence of American protection. If America won't
protect them, might they then be vulnerable to attack? The alliance system,
which depends on credible American security guarantees, will start to unravel.
It's
hard to overstate how epochal this is. Trump is, without very much thought,
threatening to change the fundamental security equation for some of America's
closest allies. To take them from protected to vulnerable, with seemingly no
appreciation of the consequences.
"This
is basically like, 'Hey, maybe we should think about communism,'" Jennifer
Lind, a professor at Dartmouth who studies East Asia, said of Trump's comments
about Japan and South Korea in
March. "With one blasé comment, this entire foundation of US grand
strategy is just blasted away."
It's
no surprise, then, that the reaction to Trump in the foreign press goes beyond
disgust and anger to fear. Trump's foreign policy is all about unpredictable
and radical breaks with the status quo — but the world depends on America to be
the exact opposite of that.
IN CASE OF TRUMP NOMINATION, BREAK GLASS
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434768/donald-trump-republican-nomination-victory-would-cause-tremendous-damage
“We all have our flaws, but Dennis Hastert has very
few,” DeLay ... and “sophisticated” liberal media outlets who give “pedophiles
a place at the ...
Leading
Republicans send letters in support of Dennis Hastert ...
Boing Boing-Apr 24, 2016
Tom
DeLay Ties Gays To Pedophiles But Says Dennis Hastert ...
Right Wing Watch-Apr 25, 2016
Republicans
Defend Pedophile Dennis Hastert Ahead of Sentencing
CDA News-Apr 25, 2016
Tom
DeLay thinks we're being too hard on alleged child molester ...
Death and Taxes-Apr 23, 2016
Boehner’s Unreasonable Attack on Cruz http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434736/ted-cruz-john-boehners-attack-was-wrong { boner’s a dick … quite seriously, he’s
also a failed house speaker … by the numbers or any other criterion … earliest
sign should have been the moment he was handed the gavel and a torrent of tears
erupted … his image, projected visage is realistically that he is at least half
in the bag 24/7 … he always has that vacuous look of bewilderment that
invariably is the natural concomitant of intoxication; yet, we know that can’t
be so … quite simply, it’s just that ‘he’s all that’ … DUMB! … but those free
mar ill lago golf junkets certainly had their intended effect … look at the
dire results … to the state of the nation in light of every broken promise by
boner … }
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com
Donald Trump may say he's concerned about the little
guy, but his tax plan would give the wealthy far bigger breaks than the middle
class or working Americans. The presumptive Republican nominee stirred up a
firestorm Sunday when he said that taxes on the wealthy would likely go up
during negotiations of his plan with Congress. He later clarified that he was
open to raising the top rate he proposed for the rich, but they would still pay
less than they do now. Trump has left himself a lot of room to negotiate since
his plan calls for big cuts in the top tax rates. The billionaire businessman
boasts that he would slash everyone's taxes, but his proposal is far more
generous to the upper crust than
Carl Icahn is putting his money where his mouth is.
Last month, the billionaire investor took to CNBC’s airwaves to argue that “a
day of reckoning” was coming for American stock markets unless the federal
government stimulates the economy with more spending. In a recent filing with
the SEC, Icahn Enterprises iep showed that the investor isn’t fooling around,
announcing that it had a net short position of 149%. During an earnings call on
May 5th, Icahn Enterprises CEO Keith Cozza underscored these views.
The
OPEC Epoch is Over – Where Are Oil Prices Headed Now?
Posted by
: Knave Dave
Post date:
05/13/2016 - 13:31
OPEC is dead, and that’s the biggest news for oil in this
new century.
ObamaCare
Employer Mandate Set to Cripple Small Businesses
Posted by:
Fundist
Post date:
05/13/2016 - 13:30
With transition relief ending to the employer
mandate for small businesses in 2016 (and their larger brethren in 2015 –
though still classified as small businesses by...
Is the Fed
Finally Coming Clean About Inflation?
Posted by:
Phoenix Capital...
Post date:
05/13/2016 - 10:39
Cracks are beginning to emerge in the Big Lie.
This
Amazing Silver Trend Will Make Short Term Price Movements Irrelevant
Posted by
: SRSrocco
Post date:
05/10/2016 - 13:50
While precious metals investors are concerned about the
short-term price movements in silver, the real focus should be on this
interesting silver market trend.
Posted by:
Pivotfarm
Post date:
05/10/2016 - 19:08
War? That splendid means of conflict (armed, please) between
at least two nations for a multitude of reasons.
Gold And
Silver Bullion ‘Super Bull Market’ Initiated Says David Morgan
Posted by:
GoldCore
Post date:
05/10/2016 - 12:04
“We are finally in the very beginning of the new bull market which will be the most exciting as the third leg up is the one that is the most rewarding. In fact few will believe just how high the...
With
the FBI's noose closing around Hillary and her closest State Department cohorts
as the Federal agency nears the end of its criminal probe, some are getting
increasingly concerned about what they will and will not say on the record. One
such person is Hillary's former State Department Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills,
who according
to the WaPo walked out of an interview with federal investigators when an
FBI official began to discuss a topic considered off-limits.
As a Western revolutionary, Obama has been relentless in his efforts
over the last seven years to
use all the machinery and influence of government, whether illegally (since
2012, the U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously ruled 13 times that Obama’s
actions have been unconstitutional) or legally, to fundamentally
transform America into the neo-Marxist democracy he and his father
have long dreamed about.
It
was a hedge fund portfolio pitched by Hillary Clinton’s son-in-law, Marc
Mezvinsky, as an opportunity to bet on a Greek economic revival. Now, two
years later, the Greece-focused fund is shutting down, after losing nearly 90%
of its value. Investors were told last month that the fund would close. The
fund, Eaglevale Hellenic Opportunity, had raised $25 million from investors to
buy Greek bank stocks and government debt.
“What’s happened in Afghanistan over the last 13 years has been the flourishing of a narco-state that is really without
any parallel in history,”
One would have to be blinded from either denial or ignorance not see the
escalating political and military tension between the U.S. and Russia/China. While the U.S. media spins the story into a
tall-tale in which BRIC nation leaders are the provocateurs, the truth is that
the U.S. has transformed its illegitimate “war on terror” into war on the world
in a last-gasp attempt hold onto the economic and geopolitical
hegemony it has enjoyed for several decades.
Einstein's
defintion of insanity was "doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting a different outcome." It appears, judging
by the world's central bankers' utter failure to ignite anything but
speculative bubbles in risk assets they are all insane and, while the
phenomenon of negative rates is relatively new in Europe and Japan (in other
words they can decalre it too soon to judge), it has been four years
since Denmark went full NIRP-tard, and inflation has done nothing but collapse.
Simply put, as
Charles Hugh-Smith detailed previously, what NIRP communicates
is: this sucker's going down, so sell everything and hoard
your cash and precious metals.
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/10/2016 - 19:47
Many
overseas investors may think last night’s chaos is driven by the weak April
import/export data announced during the weekend. We can tell you that
it’s not. The local Chinese traders take the “anonymous authorities”
article very seriously and his (Mt Lui He) opinion will have much deeper impact
for China in the coming quarters.
Dear
broke American consumers which once made up the world's most vibrant middle
class: please stop being such a nuisance and source of confusion to nice Op-Ed
columnists at the WaPo, the WSJ and, of course, the Fed and their $4.5 trillion
in direct injections into the offshore bank accounts of America's wealthiest
1%, and instead go ahead and splurge all your savings on trinkets, gadgets and
gizmos you don't need. Only that way will Obama's recovery be truly
complete.
Democracy, this
is not...
Japanese
banks may soon pay borrowers to accept loans if they can raise funds at even
cheaper rates. Negative interest-rate lending is increasingly becoming a
reality since the Bank of Japan started levying charges on idle cash. Lenders
can now borrow for three months in the Tokyo interbank market at a record-low 6
basis-point annualized rate, versus 17 basis points since the BOJ move in
January. They may eventually be able to be paid to borrow and then profit by
paying less to lend, according to Credit Suisse Group AG, JPMorgan Chase &
Co. and SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. This is also known as shoving money
down people's throats... and then paying them for it.
By all accounts Bernhard Gubser was living the American Dream. Born in Switzerland he moved to the Land of the Free
in the early 1980s to work at an international shipping company based in
Laredo, Texas. Eventually Mr. Gubser worked his way up to be President of the
company and began traveling around the world to expand the business. He
became a naturalized citizen of the United States in the 1990s, something that
would eventually cost him $1.35 million...
Recently,
we exposed the
main reason people will be voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton:
simply to block the other candidate from winning. Now we find the motivation
behind the responses: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are set to be the
two most disliked general election candidates of modern times.
Central
bankers have been waging a war against savers. What those central
bankers want you to do is either (1) spend money to increase demand, or (2) buy
stocks to increase capital. Well, it sure looks like American
consumers are not doing the former...
http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm
June 27, 2016 to
September 30, 2016
http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm
Jun
23, 2016
http://www.snopes.com/2016/06/23/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit
In late April 2016, rumors began to
circulate online holding that Republican presidential Donald Trump had either
been sued over, or arrested for, raping a teenaged girl. One of the earliest
versions of the rumor was published on 2 May 2016 by the Winning Democrats
web site, which reported that:
The
first major scandal to hit the Trump campaign besides the typical “what a
racist, such a sexist, yada yada yada,” came from a lawsuit stemming from the
infamous sex parties held by billionaire and known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The woman named in the suit is Katie Johnson, who says Trump took her virginity
in 1994 when she was only 13 and being held by Epstein as a slave.
Johnson
says in the complaint that Trump and Epstein threatened her and her family with
bodily harm if she didn’t comply with all of their disgusting demands. The
Trump campaign has been on this immediately, calling it absolute nonsense and
not even remotely true or possible.
Many aggregated reports
cited a 28 April 2016 article that described the circumstances under which the
lawsuit had been filed:
Presidential
frontrunner Donald Trump is fighting what could be the biggest election season
bombshell yet — explosive court claims that he raped a woman when she was a
teen.
The
woman — identified as Katie Johnson — filed documents in a California court on
April 26, accusing Trump and billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein of “sexual
abuse under threat of harm” and “conspiracy to deprive civil rights,”
RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
She
filed the lawsuit herself — without legal representation — and is suing for $100
million.
Most
early iterations of the rumor mentioned a civil lawsuit, not criminal charges,
but at some point around June 2016 the rumor evolved to suggest that Trump had
been (or would imminently be) criminally charged with the rape of a young girl.
A copy of the California lawsuit (filed on 26 April 2016) shared via the Scribd
web site outlined the allegations, which included the accusation that Trump and
another man had (over 20 years earlier) "sexually and physically"
abused the then 13-year-old plaintiff and forced her "to engage in various
perverted and depraved sex acts" (including "forcible rape")
after luring her to a "series of underage sex parties" by promising
her "money and a modeling career":
http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm
Michael
Snyder: http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream50816.htm
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Trump campaign plane flying with expired
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Donald Trump's Jet, a Regular on the
Campaign Trail, Isn't Registered to Fly New York Times
Oops! Trump Is Traveling On a Jet That's
Not Registered to Fly TheBlaze.com
From the great
contemporary composer (‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, Etc.) Andrew Lloyd Weber, from
his great musical ‘Cats’ (get ‘Cats: The Movie’ if you missed the live show), the
great song ‘Memory’, background score/excerpt to a few cats http://albertpeia.com/cats.wmv
Police: Dog mauls 3-day-old baby to death 10News Digital Team
I also like horses; though not similar to nor to the extent
of my love for cats http://albertpeia.com/seabiscuit.htm
Pentagon Troops: It’s Us or Trump
OUCH!
NEWSWEEK EXPOSES TRUMP AS THE BUSINESS FRAUD HE IS.
Trump’s
big line is he should be president because he is a successful businessman.
After reading this devastating Newsweek story, no Trump apologist can
ever say that again.
The
story goes through the bankruptcies of course, but there are defaults, people
ripped off, and lie upon lie upon lie upon lie.
My
favorite stuff from the article:
There is just so much more. I want
to give a few quotes:
Lost contracts, bankruptcies,
defaults, deceptions and indifference to investors—Trump’s business career is a
long, long list of such troubles, according to regulatory, corporate and court
records, as well as sworn testimony and government investigative reports. Call
it the art of the bad deal, one created by the arrogance and recklessness of a
businessman whose main talent is self-promotion.
He is also pretty good at
self-deception, and plain old deception. Trump is willing to claim success even
when it is not there, according to his own statements. “I’m just telling you,
you wouldn’t say that you're failing,” he said in a 2007 deposition when asked
to explain why he would give an upbeat assessment of his business even if it
was in trouble. “If somebody said, ‘How you doing?’ you're going to say you're
doing good.” Perhaps such dissembling is fine in polite cocktail party
conversation, but in the business world it’s called lying.
Trump tells everyone he is a
gazillionaire. How does he decide his net worth?
Trump is quick to boast that his
purported billions prove his business acumen, his net worth is almost
unknowable given the loose standards and numerous outright misrepresentations
he has made over the years. In that 2007 deposition, Trump said he based
estimates of his net worth at times on “psychology” and “my own feelings.” But
those feelings are often wrong—in 2004, he presented unaudited financials to
Deutsche Bank while seeking a loan, claiming he was worth $3.5 billion. The
bank concluded Trump was, to say the least, puffing; it put his net worth at
$788 million, records show. (Trump personally guaranteed $40 million of the
loan to his company, so Deutsche coughed up the money. He later defaulted on
that commitment.)
And the money quote:
Trump’s many misrepresentations of
his successes and his failures matter—a lot. As a man who has never held so
much as a city council seat, there is little voters can examine to determine if
he is competent to hold office. He has no voting record and presents few
details about specific policies. Instead, he sells himself as qualified to run
the country because he is a businessman who knows how to get things done, and
his financial dealings are the only part of his background available to assess
his competence to lead the country. And while Trump has had a few successes in
business, most of his ventures have been disasters.
It’s a long article, but it puts the lie to Trump’s lie that he is a
successful businessman. He’s just a guy who inherited money. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/02/1555822/-OUCH-Newsweek-exposes-Trump-as-the-business-fraud-he-is?detail=emailclassic&link_id=2&can_id=b37f0d17c2664b6de453a1615f09be93&source=email-donald-trump-is-a-bad-father-tremendously-bad-the-worst-2&email_referrer=donald-trump-is-a-bad-father-tremendously-bad-the-worst-2&email_subject=donald-trump-is-a-bad-father-tremendously-bad-the-worst
Trump, in Ashburn, Va: "I hear that baby crying. I like
it."
[2 min later]
"Actually I was only kidding, you can get the baby out of here."
THE
HORRIBLE, UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH ABOUT DONALD J. TRUMP
Donald
Trump’s terrible secret? That Donald Trump has no terrible secret.
Oh,
sure. He’s probably covering up a thousand failed business deals, completely
lying about how much he makes, massively inflating his donations to charity, in
debt up to his weasel-covered ears to the Russian mob, and keeping future
wife No. 6 in an apartment along with a vest made from Harambe.
But
those are minor issues compared to the one terrible thing we now know for
sure: There is only one version of Trump. It’s not just that
there is no pivot … this is the pivot. From jackass to
mega-jackass. The only strategy that Trump knows: Be worse.
Even
noting that Donald Trump called President Obama the “founder of ISIS” doesn’t begin
to capture the real lunacy of his latest statement.
CNBC: Do you think it’s
appropriate to call the sitting president of the United States the founder of a
terrorist organization that wants to kill Americans?
Trump: He was the founder of ISIS.
Absolutely. He was the founder, absolutely the founder. In fact, he gets
… in sports they have awards … he gets the most valuable award. I
mean. Him and Hillary. She gets it too. Is something wrong with saying that?
What? Are people complaining that I’m saying that he was the founder of
ISIS?
The RNC is begging Trump to change direction, calm down, or just shut
the hell up.
Republican National Committee
(RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus reportedly told GOP nominee Donald Trump last
week if he didn't change the direction of his presidential campaign, the party
would instead pivot to focus more on down-ballot races, Time reported.
The whole Republican Party is
suddenly very much in favor of a wall. It’s just that they want to build
it around Trump.
Priebus told Trump during a phone call that internal party polls show his
campaign is going in the wrong direction, GOP officials told Time.
The RNC chairman reportedly told
the Republican nominee that it would have been better if he had gone to his
Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida in the days since the Republican convention.
The best thing that could happen
to the Trump campaign would be for Trump to abandon it. Go home. Take a
break. Go join Eric and Donald Jr. on their latest hunt for pandas.
Sign
the pledge: I will Get Out The Vote to defeat Trump
“Look, all I do is tell the truth.
I’m a truth-teller,” he said. “All I do is tell the truth, and if at the end of
90 days I fall in short because I’m somewhat politically correct [sic] even
though I’m supposed to be the smart one and even though I’m supposed to have a
lot of good ideas, it’s okay.”
Parsing this is no easier than any
other block of Trumpese, but it appears to say that Trump might lose because he
was too nice and too smart.
Sure. Whatever. But on this much
we can all agree with Reince Priebus: Donald Trump should just go away.
Text
messages from the New Jersey Governor’s senior aides seem to indicate top
staffers had knowledge of a scheme to punish a local mayor with lane closures
at the George Washington Bridge.
At a
December, 2013 press conference, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie laughed off
accusations that he or his top staffers were involved in a scheme to create
traffic jams with lane closures on the George Washington Bridge. Federal
investigators alleged Christie’s staff were trying to punish Fort Lee’s
mayor, Mark Sokolic, for failing to endorse Christie in the 2013
gubernatorial race.
“Mistakes were made,” he said, before assuring reporters that his senior staff
and campaign team were not involved.
“I’ve made it very clear to
everybody on my senior staff that if anyone had any knowledge about this that
they needed to come forward to me and tell me about it, and they’ve all assured
me that they don’t.” – Chris Christie
But newly released court documents cast doubt on Christie’s version
of events. Text messages sent between aides seem to indicate Christie lied
about not having knowledge of senior staff’s involvement.
“Are you listening? He just flat
out lied about senior staff and [former campaign manager Bill] Stepian not
being involved,” said Christina Genovese Renna, in a text message to campaign
employee Peter Sheridan, as they watched the press conference.
“I’m listening,” he replied,
adding: “Gov is doing fine. Holding his own up there.”
“Yes. But he lied,” Renna replied.
“And if emails are found with the subpoena or ccfg emails are uncovered in
discovery if it comes to that it could be bad.” “Ccfg” is apparently an acronym
referencing Christie’s election campaign.
The
filed court document was a "Complaint for Claim Relief Due to: Sexual
Abuse Under Threat of Harm and Conspiracy to Deprive Civil Rights," and
its claim for relief sought $100 million in damages:
As
is commonly noted, anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason; the existence of a
lawsuit is not itself evidence that proves the claims contained within it.
According
to RadarOnline's initial reporting, the lawsuit filed in California on 26 April
2016 was dismissed over technical filing errors, with the plaintiff
failing in her attempt to avoid incurring the cost of the litigation:
A
judge recommended on April 29 that “Katie Johnson” should have to pay her own attorneys’
fees and court costs related to the $100 million lawsuit she brought against
Trump and billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein over alleged sexual assault
charges. Then on May 2, a U.S. District judge ordered the entire lawsuit thrown
out.
“Johnson”
had previously filed forms asking to be let off the hook for the costs of the
lawsuit, claiming she had only $300 to her name ... such an allowance — known
as in forma paupers — is only given in civil rights cases in California, and
the judge ruled that she “failed to state a claim for relief” on a civil rights
basis, even though she “utilized the form provided by the Central District of
California for civil actions.”
“Even
construing the ... pleading liberally, Plaintiff has not alleged any race-based
or class-based animus against her, and consequently, her ... allegations fail
to state a claim upon which relief may be granted,” the judge wrote ... the
address listed on the paperwork leads to an abandoned property, and the phone
number goes straight to voicemail.
On
20 June 2016, New York City-based blog Gothamist reported that the
plaintiff had filed a similar complaint in a New York State federal court. In
that filing, the plaintiff requested injunctive relief of $75,000 in damages
(per Gothamist) along with fees:
A
federal lawsuit filed in New York accuses Republican presidential candidate
Donald Trump of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl more than 20 years ago, at
several Upper East Side parties hosted by convicted sex offender and notorious
billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein.
The
suit, first reported by the Real Deal, accuses Trump and Epstein of luring the
anonymous plaintiff and other young women to four parties at Epstein's
so-called Wexner Mansion at 9 East 71st Street. Epstein allegedly lured the
plaintiff, identified in the suit only as Jane Doe, with promises of a modeling
career and cash.
Another
anonymous woman, identified in additional testimony as Tiffany Doe,
corroborates Jane's allegations, testifying that she met Epstein at Port Authority,
where he hired her to recruit other young girls for his parties. Trump had
known Epstein for seven years in 1994 when he attended the parties at Wexner,
according to the suit. He also allegedly knew that the plaintiff was 13 years
old.
Jane
Doe filed a similar suit in California in April, under the name Katie Johnson,
also accusing Trump and Epstein of rape. That suit was dismissed on the grounds
of improper paperwork — the address affiliated with her name was found to be
abandoned. Today's suit confirms that the plaintiffs are one and the same.
The
online outlet that first reported the second filing in New York in June 2016
explained why it might be allowed to proceed even though the statute of
limitations for bringing suit has expired:
It
should be noted that anyone can file a civil complaint in federal court. The
statute of limitations in New York for civil rape cases is five years, but
[the] complaint argues that the time limit should be waived, noting that the
plaintiff was too frightened to report the abuse because Trump had threatened
that if she did “her family would be physically harmed if not killed.”
“Both
defendants let plaintiff know that each was a very wealthy, powerful man and
indicated that they had the power, ability and means to carry out their
threats,” the complaint claims.
A
copy of the New York-based suit was also uploaded to Scribd, and in the second filing the plaintiff was represented by
an attorney who had learned of her allegations via a gossip web site. In a
statement attached to her filing, the plaintiff (i.e., Jane Doe) asserted:
I
traveled by bus to New York City in June 1994 in the hope of starting a
modeling career. I went to several modeling agencies but was told that I needed
to put together a modeling portfolio before I would be considered. I then went
to the Port Authority in New York City to start to make my way back home. There
I met a woman who introduced herself to me as Tiffany. She told me about the
parties and said that, if I would join her at the parties, I would be
introduced to people who could get me into the modeling profession. Tiffany
also told me I would be paid for attending.
The
parties were held at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant
Jeffrey Epstein. Each of the parties had other minor females and a number of
guests of Mr. Epstein, including Defendant Donald Trump at four of the parties
I attended. I understood that both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew I was 13
years old.
Defendant
Trump had sexual contact with me at four different parties in the summer of
1994. On the fourth and fnial sexual encounter with Defendant Trump, Defendant
Trump tied me to a bed, exposed himself to me, and then proceeded to forcibly
rape me. During the course of this savage sexual attack, I loudly pleaded with
Defendant Trump to stop but he did not. Defendant Trump responded to my pleas
by violently striking me in the face with his open hand and screaming that he
would do whatever he wanted,
Immediately
following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to reveal
any of the details of Defendant Trump's sexual and physical abuse of me, my
family and I wold be physically harmed if not killed.
The
filing also included a statement from "Tiffany Doe" (i.e., the woman
referenced in plaintiff's statement above who brought her to the parties)
attesting that:
I
personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was forced to
have with Mr. Trump during this period, including the fourth of these
encounters where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop.
I
personally witnessed the one occasion where Mr. Trump forced the Plaintiff and
a 12-year-old female named Maria [to] perform oral sex on Mr. Trump and
witnessed his physical abuse of both minors when they finished the act.
It
was my job to personally witness and supervise encounters between the underage
girls that Mr. Epstein hired and his guests.
Washington Post
DENVER - Donald Trump's
campaign is in a tumultuous state, with at least two staffers resigning this
week and joining a growing list of personnel who have parted ways with the
campaign in recent months.
Related Donald Trump presidential campaign,
2016 »
GOP Operative Quits Trump Campaign Just
Two Weeks Into The Job Huffington Post
Trump aide quits during third week on
job, calls experience 'interesting' Politico
… Editor’s note: Donald
Trump regularly incites political violence
and is a serial liar,
rampant xenophobe,
racist, misogynist
and birther
who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an
entire religion — from entering the U.S.
Aziz Ansari: Why Trump Makes Me Scared
for My Family New York Times
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Lawsuit Charges Donald Trump with Raping a 13-Year-Old Girl
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Narcissism, disagreeableness,
grandiosity—a psychologist investigates how Trump’s extraordinary personality
might shape his possible presidency.
By Dan
P. McAdams …Who, really, is Donald
Trump? What’s behind the actor’s mask? I can discern little more than
narcissistic motivations and a complementary personal narrative about winning
at any cost. It is as if Trump has invested so much of himself in developing
and refining his socially dominant role that he has nothing
left over to create a meaningful story for his life, or for the nation. It
is always Donald Trump playing Donald Trump, fighting to win, but never
knowing why.
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Donald Trump accused
of raping
13yo girl
in new lawsuit RT-Jun 22, 2016
WHY THE NEW CHILD RAPE CASE FILED AGAINST DONALD TRUMP SHOULD NOT BE IGNORED …
‘3. The new Jane Doe child rape claim against Mr. Trump is consistent
with verifiable facts about Mr. Trump and his friend Jeffrey Epstein, and has a
powerful witness statement attached to it.
A
third woman accused Mr. Trump of rape very recently. According to the Daily Mail, a woman
filed an April 2016 lawsuit claiming that when she was thirteen years old she
was held as a sex slave to Mr. Trump and his friend Jeffrey Epstein. The woman
claimed to have a witness, “Tiffany Doe,” to the incidents. She filed the case in
pro per, that is, without the assistance of a lawyer.
The
case was dismissed by the court for technical filing errors. She then obtained
a lawyer and the case was modified and refiled
in New York federal court, against Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein.
I’ve
carefully reviewed this federal complaint. It is now much stronger than the one
she filed on her own, which makes sense because she now has an experienced
litigator representing her. Jane Doe says that as a thirteen year old, she was
enticed to attend parties at the home of Jeffrey Epstein with the promise of
money modeling jobs. Mr. Epstein is a notorious “billionaire pedophile”
who is now a Level 3 registered sex offender - the most dangerous kind, “a
threat to public safety” — after being convicted of misconduct with another
underage girl.
Jane
Doe says that Mr. Trump “initiated sexual contact” with her on four occasions
in 1994. Since she was thirteen at the time, consent is not an issue. If Mr.
Trump had any type sexual contact with her in 1994, it was a crime.
On
the fourth incident, she says Mr. Trump tied her to a bed and forcibly raped
her, in a “savage sexual attack,” while she pleaded with him to stop. She says
Mr. Trump violently struck her in the face. She says that afterward, if she
ever revealed what he had done, Mr. Trump threatened that she and her family would
be “physically harmed if not killed.” She says she has been in fear of him ever
since.
New
York’s five year statute of limitations on this claim - the legal deadline for
filing — has long since run. However, Jane Doe’s attorney, Thomas Meagher,
argues in his court filing that because she was threatened by Mr. Trump, she
has been under duress all this time, and therefore she should be permitted
additional time to come forward. Legally, this is calling “tolling” - stopping
the clock, allowing more time to file the case. As a result, the complaint
alleges, Jane Doe did not have “freedom of will to institute suit earlier in
time.” He cites two New York cases which I have read and which do support
tolling
Two unusual documents
are attached to Jane Doe’s complaints - sworn declarations attesting to the
facts. The first is from Jane Doe herself, telling her horrific story,
including the allegation that Jeffrey Epstein also raped her and threatened her
into silence, and this stunner:
Defendant Epstein then attempted to strike me about the head with his
closed fists while he angrily screamed at me that he, Defendant Epstein, should
have been the one who took my virginity, not Defendant Trump . . .
And
this one:
Defendant Trump stated that I shouldn’t ever say anything if I didn’t
want to disappear like Maria, a 12-year-old female that was forced to be
involved in the third incident with Defendant Trump and that I had not seen
since that third incident, and that he was capable of having my whole family
killed.
The
second declaration is even more astonishing, because it is signed by “Tiffany
Doe”, Mr. Epstein’s “party planner” from 1991-2000. Tiffany Doe says that her
duties were “to get attractive adolescent women to attend these parties.”
(Adolescents are, legally, children.
Tiffany
Doe says that she recruited Jane Doe at the Port Authority in New York,
persuaded her to attend Mr. Epstein’s parties, and actually witnessed the
sexual assaults on Jane Doe:
I personally witnessed the Plaintiff being forced to perform various
sexual acts with Donald J. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Both Mr. Trump and Mr.
Epstein were advised that she was 13 years old.
It
is exceedingly rare for a sexual assault victim to have a witness. But Tiffany
Doe says:
I personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was
forced to have with Mr. Trump during this period, including the fourth of these
encounters where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop.
Tiffany
Doe corroborates, based on her own personal observations, just about everything
in Jane Doe’s complaint: that twelve year old Maria was involved in a sex act
with Mr. Trump, that Mr. Trump threatened the life of Jane Doe if she ever
revealed what happened, and that she would “disappear” like Maria if she did.
Tiffany
Doe herself says that she is in mortal fear of Mr. Trump to this day:
I am coming forward to swear to the truthfulness of the physical and sexual
abuse that I personally witnessed of minor females at the hands of Mr. Trump
and Mr. Epstein . . . I swear to these facts under the penalty for perjury even
though I fully understand that the life of myself and my family is now in grave
danger.
Given
all this, and based on the record thus far, Jane Doe’s claims appear credible.
Mr. Epstein’s own sexual crimes and parties with underage girls are well
documented, as is Mr. Trump’s relationship with him two decades ago in New York
City. Mr. Trump told a reporter a few
years ago: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun
to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and
many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it, Jeffrey enjoys his
social life.”
Powerfully,
Jane Doe appears to have an eyewitness to all aspects of her claim, a
witness who appears to have put herself in substantial danger by coming
forward, because at a minimum Mr. Epstein knows her true identity.
Jane
Doe has not granted any interviews, and we don’t know anything about her
background, or Tiffany Doe’s, or the details of their stories. Much information
needs to be revealed to fully assess this case. Perhaps they will be
discredited on cross-examination. Perhaps they will recant. But if we’re going
to speculate in that direction, we should speculate in the other direction as
well. Perhaps Jane Doe and her lawyer will have more evidence and witnesses
to corroborate her claim. Perhaps witnesses from Mr. Epstein’s notorious
parties will come forward. We just can’t know any of that at this point.
But
based on what we do know now, Jane Doe’s claims fall squarely into the long,
ugly context of Mr. Trump’s life of misogyny, are consistent with prior sexual
misconduct claims, are backed up by an eyewitness, and thus should be taken
seriously. Her claims merit sober consideration and investigation.
We
live in a world where wealthy, powerful men often use and abuse women and
girls. While these allegations may shock some, as a lawyer who represents women
in sexual abuse cases every day, I can tell you that sadly, they are common, as
is an accuser’s desire to remain anonymous, and her terror in coming forward.
What
do you call a nation that refuses to even look at sexual assault claims against
a man seeking to lead the free world?
Rape
culture.
We
ignore the voices of women at our peril.’
Don't
be fooled: Trump's populist economic rhetoric is a fraud - Conor Lynch
SAN DIEGO - Hillary Clinton lacerated Donald Trump in a
much-anticipated foreign policy speech Thursday, effectively launching her
general-election campaign by declaring him “temperamentally unfit” to lead the
most powerful nation in the world.
"There's no risk of people losing their lives if
you blow up a golf-course deal."
By Prachi Gupta
With her eyes toward the general election, on Thursday, Democratic
Party front-runner Hillary Clinton took aim at Donald Trump. In
a scathing, uncharacteristically blunt speech delivered
in San Diego, Clinton addressed America's national security
and, specifically, the threats America will face if Trump becomes
commander in chief. Through Clinton and Trump have been taking jabs
at each other all year, her remarks Thursday were the strongest attack yet
against the presumptive Republican nominee. Here are her 13 most
powerful lines:
1. "Donald Trump's ideas aren't
just different — they are dangerously incoherent. They're not even really ideas
— just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies."
2. "This is not someone who
should ever have the nuclear codes — because it's not hard to imagine Donald
Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin
skin."
3. "We cannot put the security
of our children and grandchildren in Donald Trump's hands. We cannot let him
roll the dice with America."
4. "He
says he doesn't have to listen to our generals or our admirals, our ambassadors
and other high officials, because he has — quote — 'a very good brain.''"
5. "He says he has foreign
policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia."
6. "It's no small thing when he
calls Mexican immigrants 'rapists and murderers.' We're lucky to have two
friendly neighbors on our land borders. Why would he want to make one of them
an enemy?"
7. " There's no risk of people
losing their lives if you blow up a golf-course deal. But it doesn't work
like that in world affairs. Just like being interviewed on the same episode of 60 Minutes as Putin was,
is not the same thing as actually dealing with Putin. So the stakes in
global statecraft are infinitely higher and more complex than in the world of
luxury hotels. We all know the tools Donald Trump brings to the table — bragging,
mocking, composing nasty tweets — I'm willing to bet he's writing a few right
now."
8. "And I have to say, I don't
understand Donald's bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have
no love for America. He praised China for the Tiananmen Square massacre; he
said it showed strength. He said, 'You've got to give Kim Jong Un
credit' for taking over North Korea — something he did by murdering
everyone he saw as a threat, including his own uncle, which Donald described
gleefully, like he was recapping an action movie. And he said if he were
grading Vladimir Putin as a leader, he'd give him an A. Now, I'll leave it
to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants. I just wonder
how anyone could be so wrong about who America's real friends are. Because it
matters. If you don't know exactly who you're dealing with, men like Putin will
eat your lunch."
9. "A Trump presidency would
embolden ISIS. We cannot take that risk. This isn't reality television —
this is actual reality."
10. "So it really matters that
Donald Trump says things that go against our deepest-held values. It matters
when he says he'll order our military to murder the families of suspected
terrorists. During the raid to kill bin Laden, when every second counted, our
SEALs took the time to move the women and children in the compound to safety.
Donald Trump may not get it, but that's what honor looks like. And it also
matters when he makes fun of disabled people, calls women 'pigs,' proposes
banning an entire religion from our country, or plays coy with white
supremacists. America stands up to countries that treat women like animals, or
people of different races, religions, or ethnicities as less human."
11. "What happens to the moral
example we set — for the world and for our own children — if our president
engages in bigotry? And by the way, Mr. Trump — every time you insult
American Muslims or Mexican immigrants, remember that plenty of Muslims and
immigrants serve and fight in our armed forces. Donald Trump could learn
something from them."
12. "Now imagine Donald Trump
sitting in the Situation Room, making life-or-death decisions on behalf of the
United States. Imagine him deciding whether to send your spouses or children
into battle. Imagine if he had not just his Twitter account at his disposal
when he's angry, but America's entire arsenal. Do we want him making those
calls — someone thin-skinned and quick to anger, who lashes out at the
smallest criticism? Do we want his finger anywhere near the button?"
13. "This election is a choice
between two very different visions of America. One that's angry, afraid,
and based on the idea that America is fundamentally weak and in
decline. The other is hopeful, generous, and confident in the knowledge
that America is great — just like we always have been."
Is
Donald Trump a fascist?
It's
becoming a
common
question,
and prominent neoconservative columnist Robert Kagan is the latest to lob the accusation, declaring,
"This is how fascism comes to America, not with jackboots and salutes
(although there have been salutes, and a whiff of violence) but with a
television huckster, a phony billionaire, a textbook egomaniac 'tapping into'
popular resentments and insecurities, and with an entire national political
party — out of ambition or blind party loyalty, or simply out of fear — falling
into line behind him."…
Deputy Politics Editor
“It was not me on the phone. It
was not me on the phone,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said
on the “Today” show, dismissing the line of questioning as “low” and
unimportant. Earlier Friday, the Washington
Post published a surreal, 14-minute phone
call from 1991 between a man who said his name was John Miller — and who sounds
like Trump — discussing Trump’s dating life. “He gets called by everybody in
the book in terms of women,” the man says in the recording, which was with Sue
Carswell, a reporter at People magazine. “Actresses, people that you write
about, just call to see if they can go out with him,” he soon adds. Trump, a real estate scion, was
frequently covered by New York’s tabloids in the 1980s and 1990s, years before
he burst on to the national scene as the star of “The Apprentice.” He is widely described as
having used two alter egos (yes, as indicated by ben carson and that multiple
personality thing going on with trump)— “John Miller” and “John Barron” — in
order to be his own publicist. At the time, Carswell reported that both New
York Post columnist Cindy Adams and Marla Maples, Trump’s second wife who is
discussed in the phone call, identified the voice in the recording as Trump’s. “Astoundingly, and sadly, the
most telling response came from Marla Maples herself,” Carswell wrote for People in 1991.
“After she listened to a fragment and identified Trump, she was flabbergasted.
It was the first time she had heard him publicly declare the relationship
over.” But on Friday morning,
Trump said the recording was a “scam.” “I don’t know anything about it,”
he said on “Today.” “You’re telling me about it for
the first time,” the mogul continued. “And it doesn’t sound like my voice at
all. I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice. And you can
imagine that. And this sounds like one of the scams.” Anchor Savannah Guthrie continued
to press Trump on the topic. “The Post says that you
acknowledged a couple decades ago that in fact that was you. But it was a
joke,” she told him. “I don’t think it was me. It
doesn’t sound like me. I don’t know even what they’re talking about,” Trump
replied. Trump, asked about the recording
a couple more times, criticized the questions and asked to move on to other
topics. “Wow. You mean you’re going so
low as to talk about something that took place 25 years ago about whether or
not I made a phone call?” he pushed ‘’back. “Let’s get on to more current
subjects,” he added. ABC's
George Stephanopoulos pressed Donald Trump on Friday in one of the most
combative exchanges yet over the Manhattan billionaire's tax returns.
"It's none of your business," Trump said when the ABC host asked
about his tax rate. The presumptive GOP nominee has faced increased scrutiny
over releasing his tax returns since he told The Associated Press on
Tuesday that he wasn't planning on releasing them ahead of the election,
citing an ongoing audit. Why It's Important For Trump
To Release His Tax Returns David French May 24, 2016
2:05 PM @DavidAFrench You're the only man who can save us from future calamity.
Let’s be clear about our nation’s plight: At this moment, American voters face a
choice between two historically corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent
politicians. One of them helped create the most dangerous foreign-policy
environment since the Cold War, a world in which our nation faces the largest
and most savage jihadist fighting force in modern times, a re-arming and
potentially nuclear Iran, and the re-emergence of threats from Russia and
China. The other would respond to that crisis with a collection of announced
policies that range from the insane (intentionally killing women and children
to punish terrorists, sending Exxon to pacify the Middle East, blocking even
our Kurdish allies from entering the United States) to the reckless (ending the
NATO alliance that has been the foundation of Western security for nearly 70
years). One of them promises an economic policy worse than the status quo:
raising taxes, increasing government spending, and pushing the same tired
progressive agenda that has helped stagnate middle-class wages and dramatically
expand dependence on government. The other casually proposes economic changes
that could plunge the nation into yet another deep recession, threatening
destructive trade wars, questioning the full faith and credit of the United
States, and outlining a tax plan that could add as much as $10 trillion to the
national debt. Both candidates have promised a form of amnesty, the Democrat
pledging to expand Obama’s lawless executive actions while the “Republican”
promises a form of touchback amnesty that would ultimately legalize millions of
illegal immigrants. Both are walking impeachment risks who would bring horror
shows of unending scandal and shame to the Oval Office. RELATED: What Chance
Would a Third-Party Candidate Have? The American people need the chance to make
a better choice. Given the stakes of the election, to simply leave the race to
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is to guarantee a terrible presidency marked
by incompetence and cronyism. There is just one hope — however slim — of
avoiding this national disaster: America needs a third option. And at this
point, Mitt Romney is the only man who combines the integrity, financial
resources, name recognition, and broad public support to make a realistic
independent run at the presidency. He’s conservative, he’s got an enviable
record in business and government, and he’s demonstrated a unique capacity for
turning around failing enterprises. Oh, and there’s one other thing: Romney has
been proven right. Share article on Facebook share Tweet article tweet In 2012,
Obama mocked him for declaring that Russia was America’s principal geopolitical
foe. Romney was right. Well before the rise of ISIS, even as the Obama
administration was trumpeting Iraq as a success story and wrapping its arms
around the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Romney predicted that Obama’s policies
would lead to escalating violence and chaos in the Middle East. He was right.
Romney predicted a continued middle-class squeeze. He was right. He predicted
an “almost $20 trillion” deficit. He was right. And while none other than
Donald Trump was mocking him for being too harsh on immigration, he was right.
RELATED: After Eight Years of Obama, America Needs Someone Better than Trump or
Clinton I understand why Mitt wouldn’t want to run. He’s lost twice, running
for president is grueling at best, and the vitriol of 2016 makes 2012 look like
a gentlemen’s debating club. He would be savaged and vilified by the
progressive left and by Trump’s ragged coalition of working-class white voters
and Vichy Republicans. He’d be blamed for hurting Trump if Clinton won. For
Mitt Romney, there is little upside. For the nation, however, there is little
downside. If either Trump or Clinton win, America loses. A third-party Romney
bid would introduce the chance of a different outcome, giving millions of Americans
the important option to choose a man of integrity as their president. It’s not
just politically important that voters have at least one honest choice, and
that parents can tell their children that they stood against the debasement of
American politics and the bankruptcy of our national character; it’s culturally
critical. More Mitt Romney Are Conservatism's Problems Skin Deep? Trump Doubles
Down on Theory Romney's Not Really Mormon 'Do the Right Thing': Kasich Makes
His Closing Argument in Ohio I’m the first to admit bias. I know the Romneys,
and my wife and I worked tirelessly to assist Mitt’s campaigns in 2008 and
2012, even forming a group called “Evangelicals for Mitt” to convince fellow
Evangelicals that a Mormon was the right choice for the White House. But to
know the man is to understand his deep sense of patriotism and lack of regard
for his own personal interests. I appeal to that sense of patriotism now. Yes,
I know he has much to lose. The country, however, has much to gain. For
millions of Americans, the race for the White House is a choice between the two
most-disliked, least-honest politicians in the United States. But there’s still
time for a better option. No one else is stepping up to risk his political
future, Mitt. The country you love needs you now more than ever. — David French
is an attorney, and a staff writer at National Review. No exaggerating
Exaggerator at the Preakness … Creator Rings Belmont Bell http://albertpeia.com/seabiscuit.htm Bill
Gross Goes Against His Insticts, Turns Bearish on Bond Markets
05/26/2016 - 16:30 These
investors are forecasting doom and gloom in our future and envisioning a time
of collapsing prices in the markets. They should not be ignored, nor should
they be dismissed.
Here’s
a question that might have you pondering: Is gold a commodity? More
importantly, are we doing a disservice to the gold industry by calling gold a
commodity? These may sound like silly...
If
we don’t return to the rule of law soon, the average American’s confidence will
be undermined and alternatives will be sought. It is amazing that the
greed of banks, to save a recording... U.S. SAN DIEGO
- Hillary Clinton lacerated Donald Trump in a much-anticipated foreign policy speech
Thursday, effectively launching her general-election campaign by declaring him
“temperamentally unfit” to lead the most powerful nation in the world. "There's no risk of people losing their lives if
you blow up a golf-course deal." By Prachi Gupta With her eyes toward the general election, on Thursday, Democratic Party
front-runner Hillary Clinton took aim at Donald Trump. In
a scathing, uncharacteristically blunt speech delivered
in San Diego, Clinton addressed America's national security
and, specifically, the threats America will face if Trump becomes
commander in chief. Through Clinton and Trump have been taking jabs
at each other all year, her remarks Thursday were the strongest attack yet
against the presumptive Republican nominee. Here are her 13 most
powerful lines: 1. "Donald Trump's ideas aren't
just different — they are dangerously incoherent. They're not even really ideas
— just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies." 2. "This is not someone who
should ever have the nuclear codes — because it's not hard to imagine Donald
Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin
skin." 3. "We cannot put the security
of our children and grandchildren in Donald Trump's hands. We cannot let him
roll the dice with America." 4. "He
says he doesn't have to listen to our generals or our admirals, our ambassadors
and other high officials, because he has — quote — 'a very good brain.''" 5. "He says he has foreign
policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia." 6. "It's no small thing when he
calls Mexican immigrants 'rapists and murderers.' We're lucky to have two
friendly neighbors on our land borders. Why would he want to make one of them
an enemy?" 7. " There's no risk of people
losing their lives if you blow up a golf-course deal. But it doesn't work
like that in world affairs. Just like being interviewed on the same episode of 60 Minutes as Putin was, is
not the same thing as actually dealing with Putin. So the stakes in global
statecraft are infinitely higher and more complex than in the world of luxury
hotels. We all know the tools Donald Trump brings to the table — bragging,
mocking, composing nasty tweets — I'm willing to bet he's writing a few right
now." 8. "And I have to say, I don't
understand Donald's bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have
no love for America. He praised China for the Tiananmen Square massacre; he
said it showed strength. He said, 'You've got to give Kim Jong Un
credit' for taking over North Korea — something he did by murdering
everyone he saw as a threat, including his own uncle, which Donald described
gleefully, like he was recapping an action movie. And he said if he were
grading Vladimir Putin as a leader, he'd give him an A. Now, I'll leave it
to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants. I just wonder
how anyone could be so wrong about who America's real friends are. Because it
matters. If you don't know exactly who you're dealing with, men like Putin will
eat your lunch." 9. "A Trump presidency would
embolden ISIS. We cannot take that risk. This isn't reality television —
this is actual reality." 10. "So it really matters that
Donald Trump says things that go against our deepest-held values. It matters
when he says he'll order our military to murder the families of suspected
terrorists. During the raid to kill bin Laden, when every second counted, our
SEALs took the time to move the women and children in the compound to safety.
Donald Trump may not get it, but that's what honor looks like. And it also
matters when he makes fun of disabled people, calls women 'pigs,' proposes
banning an entire religion from our country, or plays coy with white supremacists.
America stands up to countries that treat women like animals, or people of
different races, religions, or ethnicities as less human." 11. "What happens to the moral
example we set — for the world and for our own children — if our president engages
in bigotry? And by the way, Mr. Trump — every time you insult American
Muslims or Mexican immigrants, remember that plenty of Muslims and immigrants
serve and fight in our armed forces. Donald Trump could learn
something from them." 12. "Now imagine Donald Trump
sitting in the Situation Room, making life-or-death decisions on behalf of the
United States. Imagine him deciding whether to send your spouses or children
into battle. Imagine if he had not just his Twitter account at his disposal
when he's angry, but America's entire arsenal. Do we want him making those
calls — someone thin-skinned and quick to anger, who lashes out at the
smallest criticism? Do we want his finger anywhere near the button?" 13. "This election is a choice
between two very different visions of America. One that's angry, afraid,
and based on the idea that America is fundamentally weak and in
decline. The other is hopeful, generous, and confident in the knowledge
that America is great — just like we always have been." Is
Donald Trump a fascist? It's
becoming a
common
question,
and prominent neoconservative columnist Robert Kagan is the latest to lob the accusation, declaring,
"This is how fascism comes to America, not with jackboots and salutes
(although there have been salutes, and a whiff of violence) but with a
television huckster, a phony billionaire, a textbook egomaniac 'tapping into'
popular resentments and insecurities, and with an entire national political
party — out of ambition or blind party loyalty, or simply out of fear — falling
into line behind him."…
Deputy Politics Editor
Donald Trump bristled during a Friday interview when he was asked about a
recently unearthed audio recording of him allegedly discussing his own love
life in third-person. “It was not me on the phone. It
was not me on the phone,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said
on the “Today” show, dismissing the line of questioning as “low” and
unimportant. Earlier Friday, the Washington
Post published a surreal, 14-minute phone
call from 1991 between a man who said his name was John Miller — and who sounds
like Trump — discussing Trump’s dating life. “He gets called by everybody in
the book in terms of women,” the man says in the recording, which was with Sue
Carswell, a reporter at People magazine. “Actresses, people that you write
about, just call to see if they can go out with him,” he soon adds. Trump, a real estate scion, was
frequently covered by New York’s tabloids in the 1980s and 1990s, years before
he burst on to the national scene as the star of “The Apprentice.” He is widely described as
having used two alter egos (yes, as indicated by ben carson and that multiple
personality thing going on with trump)— “John Miller” and “John Barron” — in
order to be his own publicist. At the time, Carswell reported that both New
York Post columnist Cindy Adams and Marla Maples, Trump’s second wife who is
discussed in the phone call, identified the voice in the recording as Trump’s. “Astoundingly, and sadly, the
most telling response came from Marla Maples herself,” Carswell wrote for People in 1991.
“After she listened to a fragment and identified Trump, she was flabbergasted.
It was the first time she had heard him publicly declare the relationship
over.” But on Friday morning,
Trump said the recording was a “scam.” “I don’t know anything about it,”
he said on “Today.” “You’re telling me about it for
the first time,” the mogul continued. “And it doesn’t sound like my voice at
all. I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice. And you can
imagine that. And this sounds like one of the scams.” Anchor Savannah Guthrie continued
to press Trump on the topic. “The Post says that you
acknowledged a couple decades ago that in fact that was you. But it was a
joke,” she told him. “I don’t think it was me. It
doesn’t sound like me. I don’t know even what they’re talking about,” Trump
replied. Trump, asked about the recording
a couple more times, criticized the questions and asked to move on to other topics. “Wow. You mean you’re going so
low as to talk about something that took place 25 years ago about whether or
not I made a phone call?” he pushed ‘’back. “Let’s get on to more current
subjects,” he added. ABC's
George Stephanopoulos pressed Donald Trump on Friday in one of the most
combative exchanges yet over the Manhattan billionaire's tax returns.
"It's none of your business," Trump said when the ABC host asked
about his tax rate. The presumptive GOP nominee has faced increased scrutiny
over releasing his tax returns since he told The Associated Press on
Tuesday that he wasn't planning on releasing them ahead of the election,
citing an ongoing audit. Why It's Important For Trump
To Release His Tax Returns David French May 24, 2016
2:05 PM @DavidAFrench You're the only man who can save us from future calamity.
Let’s be clear about our nation’s plight: At this moment, American voters face
a choice between two historically corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent
politicians. One of them helped create the most dangerous foreign-policy
environment since the Cold War, a world in which our nation faces the largest and
most savage jihadist fighting force in modern times, a re-arming and
potentially nuclear Iran, and the re-emergence of threats from Russia and
China. The other would respond to that crisis with a collection of announced
policies that range from the insane (intentionally killing women and children
to punish terrorists, sending Exxon to pacify the Middle East, blocking even
our Kurdish allies from entering the United States) to the reckless (ending the
NATO alliance that has been the foundation of Western security for nearly 70
years). One of them promises an economic policy worse than the status quo:
raising taxes, increasing government spending, and pushing the same tired
progressive agenda that has helped stagnate middle-class wages and dramatically
expand dependence on government. The other casually proposes economic changes
that could plunge the nation into yet another deep recession, threatening
destructive trade wars, questioning the full faith and credit of the United
States, and outlining a tax plan that could add as much as $10 trillion to the
national debt. Both candidates have promised a form of amnesty, the Democrat
pledging to expand Obama’s lawless executive actions while the “Republican”
promises a form of touchback amnesty that would ultimately legalize millions of
illegal immigrants. Both are walking impeachment risks who would bring horror
shows of unending scandal and shame to the Oval Office. RELATED: What Chance
Would a Third-Party Candidate Have? The American people need the chance to make
a better choice. Given the stakes of the election, to simply leave the race to
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is to guarantee a terrible presidency marked
by incompetence and cronyism. There is just one hope — however slim — of
avoiding this national disaster: America needs a third option. And at this
point, Mitt Romney is the only man who combines the integrity, financial
resources, name recognition, and broad public support to make a realistic
independent run at the presidency. He’s conservative, he’s got an enviable
record in business and government, and he’s demonstrated a unique capacity for
turning around failing enterprises. Oh, and there’s one other thing: Romney has
been proven right. Share article on Facebook share Tweet article tweet In 2012,
Obama mocked him for declaring that Russia was America’s principal geopolitical
foe. Romney was right. Well before the rise of ISIS, even as the Obama
administration was trumpeting Iraq as a success story and wrapping its arms
around the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Romney predicted that Obama’s policies
would lead to escalating violence and chaos in the Middle East. He was right.
Romney predicted a continued middle-class squeeze. He was right. He predicted
an “almost $20 trillion” deficit. He was right. And while none other than
Donald Trump was mocking him for being too harsh on immigration, he was right.
RELATED: After Eight Years of Obama, America Needs Someone Better than Trump or
Clinton I understand why Mitt wouldn’t want to run. He’s lost twice, running
for president is grueling at best, and the vitriol of 2016 makes 2012 look like
a gentlemen’s debating club. He would be savaged and vilified by the
progressive left and by Trump’s ragged coalition of working-class white voters
and Vichy Republicans. He’d be blamed for hurting Trump if Clinton won. For
Mitt Romney, there is little upside. For the nation, however, there is little
downside. If either Trump or Clinton win, America loses. A third-party Romney
bid would introduce the chance of a different outcome, giving millions of
Americans the important option to choose a man of integrity as their president.
It’s not just politically important that voters have at least one honest
choice, and that parents can tell their children that they stood against the debasement
of American politics and the bankruptcy of our national character; it’s
culturally critical. More Mitt Romney Are Conservatism's Problems Skin Deep?
Trump Doubles Down on Theory Romney's Not Really Mormon 'Do the Right Thing':
Kasich Makes His Closing Argument in Ohio I’m the first to admit bias. I know
the Romneys, and my wife and I worked tirelessly to assist Mitt’s campaigns in
2008 and 2012, even forming a group called “Evangelicals for Mitt” to convince
fellow Evangelicals that a Mormon was the right choice for the White House. But
to know the man is to understand his deep sense of patriotism and lack of
regard for his own personal interests. I appeal to that sense of patriotism
now. Yes, I know he has much to lose. The country, however, has much to gain.
For millions of Americans, the race for the White House is a choice between the
two most-disliked, least-honest politicians in the United States. But there’s
still time for a better option. No one else is stepping up to risk his
political future, Mitt. The country you love needs you now more than ever. —
David French is an attorney, and a staff writer at National Review. No exaggerating
Exaggerator at the Preakness: http://albertpeia.com/seabiscuit.htm Bill
Gross Goes Against His Insticts, Turns Bearish on Bond Markets
05/26/2016 - 16:30 These investors are forecasting
doom and gloom in our future and envisioning a time of collapsing prices in the
markets. They should not be ignored, nor should they be dismissed.
Here’s
a question that might have you pondering: Is gold a commodity? More
importantly, are we doing a disservice to the gold industry by calling gold a
commodity? These may sound like silly...
If
we don’t return to the rule of law soon, the average American’s confidence will
be undermined and alternatives will be sought. It is amazing that the
greed of banks, to save a recording... Michael
Snyder: http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream52616.htm http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream52016.htm
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Police: Dog mauls 3-day-old baby to death 10News Digital Team Trump campaign plane flying with expired
registration Washington Post Trump campaign plane flying with
expired registration. The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to
know about new stories from PowerPost. Donald Trump's Jet, a Regular on the
Campaign Trail, Isn't Registered to Fly New York Times Oops! Trump Is Traveling On a Jet That's
Not Registered to Fly TheBlaze.com From the great
contemporary composer (‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, Etc.) Andrew Lloyd Weber, from
his great musical ‘Cats’ (get ‘Cats: The Movie’ if you missed the live show),
the great song ‘Memory’, background score/excerpt to a few cats http://albertpeia.com/cats.wmv Pentagon Troops: It’s Us or Trump A Harvard
University professor published an editorial in The Washington Post on Sunday
that compared the surprising rise of Republican http://albertpeia.com/conservativesagainsttrump.htm I’ve
been constrained to create a separate page devoted exclusively to the
ravings/misdeeds of the psychotic trump … Great thanks should be accorded Mitt
Romney for his courage in stating the factual reality that trump’s a fraud and
cites merely some of trump’s great business failures/cons/scams to back up his
true statement ‘a business genius he (trump) is not’ … Why courage? Because
trump’s at most a typical new york/new jersey mobster, mingling/coddling/intertwined
with the proverbial gangs of new york/new jersey/waterfront … he just recently
threatened no less than Speaker of the House Paul Ryan … then there’s the
racist rants/alignments; and as well, that ‘great wall of trump’s ‘hina , etc.‘ http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm Michael
Snyder: http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream42616.htm
http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream32616.htm After Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination
on Tuesday night, the BBC rounded up the reactions from the global press to
Trump's victory. You've seen similar coverage from the foreign press throughout
Trump's rise, the tone of which has been a mixture of panic, terror, and
gallows humor. "Trump seems to be a nightmare for everyone here,"
Hanin Ghaddar, managing editor of Now, an English news site based in Lebanon,
said in March. After Donald Trump secured the Republican
nomination on Tuesday night, the BBC rounded up
the reactions from the global press to Trump's victory. Aside from some
gloating in authoritarian Russia and China, the reaction was pretty shocked. "The craziest US presidential
election campaign begins," Germany's Die Welt daily wrote. "The
unthinkable has come to pass." You've seen similar
coverage from the foreign press throughout Trump's rise, the tone of which has
been a mixture of panic, terror, and gallows humor. France's
Channel 2 once aired a debate titled, "That Donald Trump could become
president of the United States: should we laugh or cry?" In January, the
leading German magazine Der Spiegel published an issue titled,
"Madness: American Agitator Donald Trump." It's not just Europe. "Trump seems
to be a nightmare for everyone here," Hanin Ghaddar, managing editor of Now,
an English news site based in Lebanon, said in March. One
of South Korea's largest newspapers, JoongAng
Ilbo, declared itself "dumbfounded" that someone with Trump's
views could be a "leading candidate in the U.S. presidential race."
South Africa's City
Press published a piece titled, "God help us all if Trump wins." Why? Because Trump plays into many
countries' worst fears about America. Part of it is that he embodies the
world's worst anti-American stereotypes: vulgar, violent, cash-obsessed,
racist. Trump is everything many people hate about the United States, so it's
no surprise some are infuriated by his rise. But it's not just ethos —
it's also what he proposes to do to many countries, particularly American
allies. Trump's actual foreign policy vision represents a fundamental break
with decades of American foreign policy. Given that a lot of American allies
depend on those very decades-old policies for their own security, Trump's rise
is more than just cartoonish. For them, it's legitimately terrifying. One
of the most insightful things I've read on foreign views of Trump is by German
political theorist Yascha Mounk, currently teaching at Harvard. "If
a communist propaganda ministry had commissioned a gifted cartoonist to draw a
typically-American rogue, he would have invented a figure like 'The
Donald,'" Mounk writes in the German newspaper Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung. "A man who embodies the wealthy, boorish
philistine, from his self-important attitude to the way his hair is folded this
way and that, and someone for whom nothing is sacred — other than money,
bosoms, success and power." Germans,
Mounk writes, see Trump as "a symptom of a distinctly American
disease": In
no other democracy in the world, it is said, could voters be so openly
motivated by greed, show so little concern for less-privileged fellow citizens
and be so politically ignorant. Only in hate-filled, under-educated 'Ami-land'
could someone like Trump be successful. Mounk
describes Trump as fitting stereotypes of Americans held not just in Germany
but in places around the world. A 2005 Pew
survey of people in 16 nations found that majorities in most countries
described Americans as "greedy" and "violent." A 2005 study
in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology looked at data from 48 non-American
samples, finding that they described the typical American as (among other
things) "arrogant" and "achievement-oriented." Trump
is a man who describes everything he has as "the best," is obsessed
with "winning," and tells his followers that the protesters they beat
up had it coming. He once literally
said, "My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy for money — but now I
want to be greedy for the United States." Now,
most non-Americans don't only see the bad in America — and a lot of the time,
these stereotypes are fodder for jokes rather than taken seriously. But
in Trump, they see the bad parts of America swamping the parts of it they
admire. That's not just in personality, but also the policies he proposes.
Trump's personal qualities would become the ones that define American
governance. "For
[some], Trump's mere existence confirms their worst suspicions of the United
States," Joyce
Karam, the Washington bureau chief for the Arabic daily Al-Hayat,
writes. "In a region already predisposed to anti-Americanism,
Trump’s Islamophobic and racially charged message is reinforcing long-held
suspicions that America is a racist, imperialist nation that wants to exploit
and subjugate the Arab world." The
most famous example, of course, is Trump's proposal to ban Muslim immigration. People
around the world condemned it because they thought the idea of discriminating
against people based on their religion was reprehensible. It also tapped into a
broader international fear about Trump's candidacy: that by accepting Trumpism,
America itself would become like him. "For
a putative leader of a nation of immigrants to talk in this way is a watershed
moment for the United States," the
Guardian, Britain's left-wing daily, wrote in an editorial. "In Mr
Trump’s America, the famous words associated with the Statue of Liberty would
have to be amended to welcome 'your tired and huddled masses — but no
Muslims.'" (Scott Olson/Getty Images) But
for people in many countries, Trump isn't just a problem because of what he
stands for. It's what he actually might do to them once in office that's scary. Countries
around the world depend on a broadly stable global order, which itself depends
on a superpower that at the very least doesn't behave erratically. But
Trump has promised everything but stability. His policy proposals include confiscating
Syrian and Iraqi oil in areas controlled by ISIS, cozying up with
Vladimir Putin, and imposing 45
percent tariffs on Chinese goods that would almost certainly start a trade
war. And his entire case for his foreign policy is often premised on
the idea that he's unpredictable. Trump
has called NATO "obsolete,"
and threatened to destroy the alliance unless America's European allies pay the
United States in return for the troops America stations on the continent.
"Either they pay up, including for past deficiencies, or they have to get
out. And if it breaks up NATO, it breaks up NATO," Trump said at a
campaign rally. Nice
alliance you've got there — shame if anything were to happen to it, he's
telling the world. He's
also suggested that Japan and South Korea should pay for their security alliances
with the United States. But there, he went even further, suggesting that these
countries should maybe just get their own nuclear weapons so the United States
doesn't have to protect them anymore. These
aren't little policy changes. These alliances are literally the foundation of
the post–World War II American strategy, supported (in varying forms) by every
president and both parties. The
basic idea is that American security alliances around the world deter
aggression by hostile powers, like Russia and China, and cement peaceful ties
between allies because they're on the same broad side. American
alliances create a web of peace around the world, preventing wars between great
powers and promoting free global commerce. Everybody wins, at least theoretically. Trump's
point of view threatens to torpedo this system. By telling allies that the US
will only support them if they pay up, he's abandoning American promises to
defend them. American allies will come to believe that American protection
hinges on the whims of an unstable and unpredictable leader. That
is terrifying for people in these countries, who have premised their entire
security policies on the existence of American protection. If America won't
protect them, might they then be vulnerable to attack? The alliance system,
which depends on credible American security guarantees, will start to unravel. It's
hard to overstate how epochal this is. Trump is, without very much thought,
threatening to change the fundamental security equation for some of America's
closest allies. To take them from protected to vulnerable, with seemingly no
appreciation of the consequences. "This
is basically like, 'Hey, maybe we should think about communism,'" Jennifer
Lind, a professor at Dartmouth who studies East Asia, said of Trump's comments
about Japan and South Korea in
March. "With one blasé comment, this entire foundation of US grand
strategy is just blasted away." It's
no surprise, then, that the reaction to Trump in the foreign press goes beyond
disgust and anger to fear. Trump's foreign policy is all about unpredictable
and radical breaks with the status quo — but the world depends on America to be
the exact opposite of that. IN CASE OF TRUMP NOMINATION, BREAK GLASS “We all have our flaws, but Dennis Hastert has very
few,” DeLay ... and “sophisticated” liberal media outlets who give “pedophiles
a place at the ... Leading
Republicans send letters in support of Dennis Hastert ... Tom
DeLay Ties Gays To Pedophiles But Says Dennis Hastert ... Republicans
Defend Pedophile Dennis Hastert Ahead of Sentencing Tom
DeLay thinks we're being too hard on alleged child molester ... Boehner’s Unreasonable Attack on Cruz http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434736/ted-cruz-john-boehners-attack-was-wrong { boner’s a dick … quite seriously, he’s
also a failed house speaker … by the numbers or any other criterion … earliest
sign should have been the moment he was handed the gavel and a torrent of tears
erupted … his image, projected visage is realistically that he is at least half
in the bag 24/7 … he always has that vacuous look of bewilderment that
invariably is the natural concomitant of intoxication; yet, we know that can’t
be so … quite simply, it’s just that ‘he’s all that’ … DUMB! … but those free
mar ill lago golf junkets certainly had their intended effect … look at the
dire results … to the state of the nation in light of every broken promise by
boner … } In a
parody of Cut Video's 100 Years of Beauty series, our stunning model, Chili,
demonstrates how trends have changed for our little furry friends over the last
10 decades. Chili sure does have a lot of cat-titude! Chili comes to us from
the fine folks at the ASPCA. To help out, whether you're looking to volunteer,
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HIS SUPREME COURT LIST… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-supreme-court-nominees-senate-republicans_us_573f3da4e4b045cc9a70d19a
Is
Donald Trump a fascist? It's
becoming a
common
question,
and prominent neoconservative columnist Robert Kagan is the latest to lob the accusation, declaring,
"This is how fascism comes to America, not with jackboots and salutes
(although there have been salutes, and a whiff of violence) but with a
television huckster, a phony billionaire, a textbook egomaniac 'tapping into'
popular resentments and insecurities, and with an entire national political
party — out of ambition or blind party loyalty, or simply out of fear — falling
into line behind him."… Deputy Politics Editor May 13, 2016 Donald
Trump bristled during a Friday interview when he was asked about a recently
unearthed audio recording of him allegedly discussing his own love life in
third-person. “It
was not me on the phone. It was not me on the phone,” the presumptive
Republican presidential nominee said on the “Today” show, dismissing the line
of questioning as “low” and unimportant. Earlier
Friday, the Washington Post published a surreal, 14-minute phone call from 1991 between a man who
said his name was John Miller — and who sounds like Trump — discussing Trump’s
dating life. “He
gets called by everybody in the book in terms of women,” the man says in the
recording, which was with Sue Carswell, a reporter at People magazine. “Actresses,
people that you write about, just call to see if they can go out with him,” he
soon adds. Trump,
a real estate scion, was frequently covered by New York’s tabloids in the 1980s
and 1990s, years before he burst on to the national scene as the star of “The Apprentice.” He
is widely described as having used two alter egos (yes, as
indicated by ben carson and that multiple personality thing going on with
trump)— “John Miller” and “John Barron” — in order to be his own publicist. At
the time, Carswell reported that both New York Post columnist Cindy Adams and
Marla Maples, Trump’s second wife who is discussed in the phone call,
identified the voice in the recording as Trump’s. “Astoundingly,
and sadly, the most telling response came from Marla Maples herself,” Carswell wrote for People in 1991. “After she listened to a fragment
and identified Trump, she was flabbergasted. It was the first time she had
heard him publicly declare the relationship over.” But
on Friday morning, Trump said the recording was a “scam.” “I
don’t know anything about it,” he said on “Today.” “You’re
telling me about it for the first time,” the mogul continued. “And it doesn’t
sound like my voice at all. I have many, many people that are trying to imitate
my voice. And you can imagine that. And this sounds like one of the scams.” Anchor
Savannah Guthrie continued to press Trump on the topic. “The
Post says that you acknowledged a couple decades ago that in fact that was you.
But it was a joke,” she told him. “I
don’t think it was me. It doesn’t sound like me. I don’t know even what they’re
talking about,” Trump replied. Trump,
asked about the recording a couple more times, criticized the questions and
asked to move on to other topics. “Wow.
You mean you’re going so low as to talk about something that took place 25 years
ago about whether or not I made a phone call?” he pushed ‘’back. “Let’s get on
to more current subjects,” he added. ABC's
George Stephanopoulos pressed Donald Trump on Friday in one of the most
combative exchanges yet over the Manhattan billionaire's tax returns.
"It's none of your business," Trump said when the ABC host asked
about his tax rate. The presumptive GOP nominee has faced increased scrutiny
over releasing his tax returns since he told The Associated Press on
Tuesday that he wasn't planning on releasing them ahead of the election,
citing an ongoing audit. Why It's Important For Trump
To Release His Tax Returns David French May 24, 2016
2:05 PM @DavidAFrench You're the only man who can save us from future calamity.
Let’s be clear about our nation’s plight: At this moment, American voters face
a choice between two historically corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent
politicians. One of them helped create the most dangerous foreign-policy
environment since the Cold War, a world in which our nation faces the largest
and most savage jihadist fighting force in modern times, a re-arming and
potentially nuclear Iran, and the re-emergence of threats from Russia and
China. The other would respond to that crisis with a collection of announced
policies that range from the insane (intentionally killing women and children
to punish terrorists, sending Exxon to pacify the Middle East, blocking even
our Kurdish allies from entering the United States) to the reckless (ending the
NATO alliance that has been the foundation of Western security for nearly 70
years). One of them promises an economic policy worse than the status quo:
raising taxes, increasing government spending, and pushing the same tired
progressive agenda that has helped stagnate middle-class wages and dramatically
expand dependence on government. The other casually proposes economic changes
that could plunge the nation into yet another deep recession, threatening
destructive trade wars, questioning the full faith and credit of the United
States, and outlining a tax plan that could add as much as $10 trillion to the
national debt. Both candidates have promised a form of amnesty, the Democrat
pledging to expand Obama’s lawless executive actions while the “Republican”
promises a form of touchback amnesty that would ultimately legalize millions of
illegal immigrants. Both are walking impeachment risks who would bring horror
shows of unending scandal and shame to the Oval Office. RELATED: What Chance
Would a Third-Party Candidate Have? The American people need the chance to make
a better choice. Given the stakes of the election, to simply leave the race to
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is to guarantee a terrible presidency marked
by incompetence and cronyism. There is just one hope — however slim — of
avoiding this national disaster: America needs a third option. And at this
point, Mitt Romney is the only man who combines the integrity, financial
resources, name recognition, and broad public support to make a realistic
independent run at the presidency. He’s conservative, he’s got an enviable
record in business and government, and he’s demonstrated a unique capacity for
turning around failing enterprises. Oh, and there’s one other thing: Romney has
been proven right. Share article on Facebook share Tweet article tweet In 2012,
Obama mocked him for declaring that Russia was America’s principal geopolitical
foe. Romney was right. Well before the rise of ISIS, even as the Obama
administration was trumpeting Iraq as a success story and wrapping its arms
around the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Romney predicted that Obama’s policies
would lead to escalating violence and chaos in the Middle East. He was right.
Romney predicted a continued middle-class squeeze. He was right. He predicted
an “almost $20 trillion” deficit. He was right. And while none other than Donald
Trump was mocking him for being too harsh on immigration, he was right.
RELATED: After Eight Years of Obama, America Needs Someone Better than Trump or
Clinton I understand why Mitt wouldn’t want to run. He’s lost twice, running
for president is grueling at best, and the vitriol of 2016 makes 2012 look like
a gentlemen’s debating club. He would be savaged and vilified by the
progressive left and by Trump’s ragged coalition of working-class white voters
and Vichy Republicans. He’d be blamed for hurting Trump if Clinton won. For
Mitt Romney, there is little upside. For the nation, however, there is little
downside. If either Trump or Clinton win, America loses. A third-party Romney
bid would introduce the chance of a different outcome, giving millions of Americans
the important option to choose a man of integrity as their president. It’s not
just politically important that voters have at least one honest choice, and
that parents can tell their children that they stood against the debasement of
American politics and the bankruptcy of our national character; it’s culturally
critical. More Mitt Romney Are Conservatism's Problems Skin Deep? Trump Doubles
Down on Theory Romney's Not Really Mormon 'Do the Right Thing': Kasich Makes
His Closing Argument in Ohio I’m the first to admit bias. I know the Romneys,
and my wife and I worked tirelessly to assist Mitt’s campaigns in 2008 and
2012, even forming a group called “Evangelicals for Mitt” to convince fellow
Evangelicals that a Mormon was the right choice for the White House. But to
know the man is to understand his deep sense of patriotism and lack of regard
for his own personal interests. I appeal to that sense of patriotism now. Yes,
I know he has much to lose. The country, however, has much to gain. For
millions of Americans, the race for the White House is a choice between the two
most-disliked, least-honest politicians in the United States. But there’s still
time for a better option. No one else is stepping up to risk his political
future, Mitt. The country you love needs you now more than ever. — David French
is an attorney, and a staff writer at National Review. No exaggerating
Exaggerator at the Preakness: http://albertpeia.com/seabiscuit.htm Bill
Gross Goes Against His Insticts, Turns Bearish on Bond Markets Posted by : Sprott
Money Post date: 05/26/2016 -
16:30 These investors are
forecasting doom and gloom in our future and envisioning a time of collapsing
prices in the markets. They should not be ignored, nor should they be
dismissed. Posted by: Gold
Money Post date: 05/26/2016 -
14:27 Here’s a question that might
have you pondering: Is gold a commodity? More importantly, are we doing a
disservice to the gold industry by calling gold a commodity? These may sound
like silly... David
Dayen’s 'Chain of Title' Confirms What You Always Suspected: The Game is Rigged Posted by: 4closureFraud
Post date: 05/26/2016 -
17:13 If we don’t return to
the rule of law soon, the average American’s confidence will be undermined and
alternatives will be sought. It is amazing that the greed of banks, to
save a recording... Posted by
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Post date:
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Statistics from Nigeria's Central Bank Posted by:
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05/21/2016 - 08:00 Without a major currency reform (read: the installation of a
currency board), the weakness of Nigeria’s naira will not end anytime soon.
This is bad news for inflation, which, according to my Cato... Gold Stock
Pullback Is Imminent – Don’t Get Shaken Out! Posted by:
Palisade Research Post date:
05/20/2016 - 18:41 What goes up, must come down... is a correction in the cards
for gold? Looking at previous gold bull markets, a pullback normally
occurs four months into a full fledged rally.Are we seeing the... 407,000 private sector workers are about to lose most of their pensions. When private pension
plans go broke, they go broke. Public pension expect a bailout. This isn't your average everyday stupid... this is 'advanced' stupid! These
waxing and waning empires are dangerous as their vulnerabilities and
short-comings become exposed, and their territories challenged. That
fact that Putin is being prodded from within Russia to be less diplomatic and
more aggressive in posturing for war is downright unsettling. Many of
our most dangerous American leaders are all-too willing to poke the bear and evoke
a reaction. While
the common narrative is now that Donald Trump is dividing the United States
along racial lines, it would appear that 200 years of widespread
immigration (some more integrative and some less) - as the following
stunning animated graphic shows - the proverbial melting pot, after
8 years of an African-American president, during which black inequality has
worsened dramatically, is boiling over by its own volition. Government as we know it is doomed. It will not recognize this reality until markets
and/or citizens force it. This time is likely close and the process will not be
painless. The more government ignores what is inevitable the greater the pain
will be. One hopes that civilization does not enter an economic and anarchical
Dark Ages. To the extent that government refuses to respond to the
fantasy world they have created, the more likely that is to be the outcome. "We
created chaos. We
abandoned that chaos... We created ISIS!" The
United States conducted a drone strike on Saturday against the leader of Afghan
Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, likely killing him on the Pakistan side of the
remote border region with Afghanistan in a mission authorized by U.S. President
Barack Obama. The assassination could further fracture the Taliban - an outcome
that experts cautioned might make the insurgents even less likely to
participate in long-stalled peace efforts. Alternatively, it could lead to far
more violent and deadly retaliation against the US both in Afghanistan and
around the world. This
is how Goldman is responding to all of its clients' questions about the
upcoming presidential election and how to trade it. "They don’t feel tired and they don’t know fear..." At
a time when large numbers of Americans say they are fed up with politics and
politicians, why is it that the nation’s chief politician, President Obama,
seems to skate above it unscathed? Reporters who criticize or dig too
deep are cast by the administration as spoilsports or, worse, cut off
from sources. With Donald Trump now the media obsession—and most in
the media don’t like him—it is easy to see why Mr. Obama’s performance over the
past seven-plus years is still not a major issue in the 2016 campaign. And
that’s the way he likes it. When
it comes to financial assets, Apollo's legendary founder Leon Black has been
gloomy for years, and said in a recent Milken Conference that his firm has been
"selling
everything that is not nailed down." The billionaire (who at last
check was worth around $4.7 billion) however appears to have a soft spot for
Hollywood A-lister real estate. Because we were surprised to learn that the
buyer of Tom Cruise's $40 million 10,000 square foot Beverly Hills home is none
other than Leon Black. While
the warning flags are raging in Illinois and Connecticut, JPMorgan's
Michael Cembalest states that New Jersey's problems are "not
mathematically solvable." The stunning admission from a
status-quo-sustaining bank that is “very focused on the total indebtedness of
US states," should be worrisome enough but as Cembalest explains the
answer to a debt problem is not always piling up more debt - "when
debt reaches a certain level, the can kicking is over and difficult decisions
need to be made;" the issue is to address the
root of the problem, which can be a delicate and at times politically incorrect
topic. "If
you think you’ve seen this movie before it’s because you have. Like during
2015, the Fed appears bent on pushing rate expectations higher, and the operative
question is whether markets are sufficiently calm for the Fed to use the June
2016 meeting to pave the way for a July hike. We think the answer is
no.... and the outlier appears to be the S&P500, where
valuations appear excessive given the breakeven/real yield framework." Much
of The Deep State's growth is recorded in the pages of the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR). This tracks all the laws laid down by successive
governments. A privilege, a special tax break, a rule, a prohibition,
a piece of meat here, a piece of meat there… and soon the foxes are eating high
on the hog. But what’s meat for the foxes is poison for the
economy. What
Bubble? Triple-Wide Mobile Home Sells For $5.3 Million In Malibu The
most stunning part of the deal is that the same property sold for $4
million only a year ago. What could possibly go wrong flipping
mobile homes for millions in a softening economy? In light of of all
of this, we expect to see a pilot for "Flip This Malibu Mobile"
coming to a network very soon. The deadly-but-forgotten government gun-running
scandal known as “Fast and Furious” has lain dormant for years, thanks to White
House stonewalling and media compliance. But newly uncovered e-mails have
reopened the case, exposing the anatomy of a coverup by an administration that
promised to be the most transparent in history. A federal judge has forced the
release of more than 20,000 pages of emails and memos previously locked up
under President Obama’s phony executive-privilege claim. A preliminary review
shows top Obama officials deliberately obstructing congressional probes into
the border gun-running operation. Fast and Furious was a Justice Department
program that allowed assault weapons New
York Post Business Politics Thursday night, speaking with friendly Fox News host Sean
Hannity, Donald Trump outlined his theory that his presidential campaign
attracts journalistic scrutiny from the Washington Post as part of a larger
conspiracy to help Amazon avoid sales taxes and threatened to take revenge on
the ecommerce giant if he is elected president. Specifically, Hannity asked
Trump about a report that the Post is assigning 20 reporters to dig into the
various phases of his life, and whether he is prepared for the kind of scrutiny
that comes with a presidential campaign. Yeah - it's interesting that you say
that, because every hour we're getting calls from reporters from the Washington
Post asking ridiculous questions and I will tell you, this is owned as a toy by
Jeff Bezos who controls Amazon. Amazon is getting away with murder tax-wise. Trump just boasted that he pays as little in
taxes as possible. Here’s why. The
sleeper has awakened ... no, not Maudib of Frank Herbert's fictional 'Dune'
fame; but rather, more in the genre
of Fred Forsythe, John LeCarre(David Cornwall), and Robert Ludlum ... as in
Moscow's sleeper agent (‘defacto or dejure’
matters little) has awakened [(for the benefit of trump's 'learned, informed,
intelligent, educated and unwavering core supporters'
...hmmmm...), Moscow is the capital of Russia (and the former Soviet Union)]
... One, and only one nation benefits
from the exit of america from NATO ... If you guessed Russia ... you guessed
right ... maybe deal-meister/artist trump
has rights to new berlin wall/iron curtain construction contracts ... WOW! ...
Then there's (trump fan) denny
rodman's bro, kim jun ill of No.Korea, whom trump will court saying that South
Korea and Japan could also
get nukes ... sounds like a plan, don ... NOT! ... america's nukes will work
just fine on north korea ... Russia's
sleeper agent trump has awakened - 'Redrum' dawn? (that's murder spelled
backwards ... ‘shining’, sea to shining sea,
hmmm) ... If THEY don’t take trump the mobster down, if THEY let the ‘say
anything dissembler’ get away with what he has
already gotten away with, no citizen, nor leader in america or any other
affected nation should even minimally follow much
less sacrifice for misguided, misdirected american policy. After Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination
on Tuesday night, the BBC rounded up the reactions from the global press to
Trump's victory. You've seen similar coverage from the foreign press throughout
Trump's rise, the tone of which has been a mixture of panic, terror, and
gallows humor. "Trump seems to be a nightmare for everyone here,"
Hanin Ghaddar, managing editor of Now, an English news site based in Lebanon,
said in March. After Donald Trump secured the Republican
nomination on Tuesday night, the BBC rounded up
the reactions from the global press to Trump's victory. Aside from some
gloating in authoritarian Russia and China, the reaction was pretty shocked. "The craziest US presidential
election campaign begins," Germany's Die Welt daily wrote. "The
unthinkable has come to pass." You've seen similar
coverage from the foreign press throughout Trump's rise, the tone of which has
been a mixture of panic, terror, and gallows humor. France's
Channel 2 once aired a debate titled, "That Donald Trump could become
president of the United States: should we laugh or cry?" In January, the
leading German magazine Der Spiegel published an issue titled,
"Madness: American Agitator Donald Trump." It's not just Europe. "Trump seems
to be a nightmare for everyone here," Hanin Ghaddar, managing editor of
Now, an English news site based in Lebanon, said in March. One
of South Korea's largest newspapers, JoongAng
Ilbo, declared itself "dumbfounded" that someone with Trump's
views could be a "leading candidate in the U.S. presidential race."
South Africa's City
Press published a piece titled, "God help us all if Trump wins." Why? Because Trump plays into many
countries' worst fears about America. Part of it is that he embodies the
world's worst anti-American stereotypes: vulgar, violent, cash-obsessed,
racist. Trump is everything many people hate about the United States, so it's
no surprise some are infuriated by his rise. But it's not just ethos —
it's also what he proposes to do to many countries, particularly American
allies. Trump's actual foreign policy vision represents a fundamental break
with decades of American foreign policy. Given that a lot of American allies
depend on those very decades-old policies for their own security, Trump's rise
is more than just cartoonish. For them, it's legitimately terrifying. "If
a communist propaganda ministry had commissioned a gifted cartoonist to draw a
typically-American rogue, he would have invented a figure like 'The
Donald,'" Mounk writes in the German newspaper Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung. "A man who embodies the wealthy, boorish
philistine, from his self-important attitude to the way his hair is folded this
way and that, and someone for whom nothing is sacred — other than money,
bosoms, success and power." Germans,
Mounk writes, see Trump as "a symptom of a distinctly American
disease": In
no other democracy in the world, it is said, could voters be so openly
motivated by greed, show so little concern for less-privileged fellow citizens
and be so politically ignorant. Only in hate-filled, under-educated 'Ami-land'
could someone like Trump be successful. Mounk
describes Trump as fitting stereotypes of Americans held not just in Germany
but in places around the world. A 2005 Pew
survey of people in 16 nations found that majorities in most countries
described Americans as "greedy" and "violent." A 2005 study
in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology looked at data from 48 non-American
samples, finding that they described the typical American as (among other
things) "arrogant" and "achievement-oriented." Trump
is a man who describes everything he has as "the best," is obsessed
with "winning," and tells his followers that the protesters they beat
up had it coming. He once literally
said, "My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy for money — but now I
want to be greedy for the United States." Now,
most non-Americans don't only see the bad in America — and a lot of the time,
these stereotypes are fodder for jokes rather than taken seriously. But
in Trump, they see the bad parts of America swamping the parts of it they
admire. That's not just in personality, but also the policies he proposes.
Trump's personal qualities would become the ones that define American
governance. "For
[some], Trump's mere existence confirms their worst suspicions of the United
States," Joyce
Karam, the Washington bureau chief for the Arabic daily Al-Hayat,
writes. "In a region already predisposed to anti-Americanism,
Trump’s Islamophobic and racially charged message is reinforcing long-held
suspicions that America is a racist, imperialist nation that wants to exploit
and subjugate the Arab world." The
most famous example, of course, is Trump's proposal to ban Muslim immigration. People
around the world condemned it because they thought the idea of discriminating
against people based on their religion was reprehensible. It also tapped into a
broader international fear about Trump's candidacy: that by accepting Trumpism,
America itself would become like him. "For
a putative leader of a nation of immigrants to talk in this way is a watershed
moment for the United States," the
Guardian, Britain's left-wing daily, wrote in an editorial. "In Mr
Trump’s America, the famous words associated with the Statue of Liberty would
have to be amended to welcome 'your tired and huddled masses — but no
Muslims.'" (Scott Olson/Getty Images) But
for people in many countries, Trump isn't just a problem because of what he
stands for. It's what he actually might do to them once in office that's scary. Countries
around the world depend on a broadly stable global order, which itself depends on
a superpower that at the very least doesn't behave erratically. But
Trump has promised everything but stability. His policy proposals include confiscating
Syrian and Iraqi oil in areas controlled by ISIS, cozying up with
Vladimir Putin, and imposing 45
percent tariffs on Chinese goods that would almost certainly start a trade
war. And his entire case for his foreign policy is often premised on
the idea that he's unpredictable. Trump
has called NATO "obsolete,"
and threatened to destroy the alliance unless America's European allies pay the
United States in return for the troops America stations on the continent.
"Either they pay up, including for past deficiencies, or they have to get
out. And if it breaks up NATO, it breaks up NATO," Trump said at a
campaign rally. Nice
alliance you've got there — shame if anything were to happen to it, he's
telling the world. He's
also suggested that Japan and South Korea should pay for their security
alliances with the United States. But there, he went even further, suggesting
that these countries should maybe just get their own nuclear weapons so the
United States doesn't have to protect them anymore. These
aren't little policy changes. These alliances are literally the foundation of
the post–World War II American strategy, supported (in varying forms) by every
president and both parties. The
basic idea is that American security alliances around the world deter
aggression by hostile powers, like Russia and China, and cement peaceful ties
between allies because they're on the same broad side. American
alliances create a web of peace around the world, preventing wars between great
powers and promoting free global commerce. Everybody wins, at least
theoretically. Trump's
point of view threatens to torpedo this system. By telling allies that the US
will only support them if they pay up, he's abandoning American promises to
defend them. American allies will come to believe that American protection
hinges on the whims of an unstable and unpredictable leader. That
is terrifying for people in these countries, who have premised their entire
security policies on the existence of American protection. If America won't
protect them, might they then be vulnerable to attack? The alliance system,
which depends on credible American security guarantees, will start to unravel. It's
hard to overstate how epochal this is. Trump is, without very much thought,
threatening to change the fundamental security equation for some of America's
closest allies. To take them from protected to vulnerable, with seemingly no
appreciation of the consequences. "This
is basically like, 'Hey, maybe we should think about communism,'" Jennifer
Lind, a professor at Dartmouth who studies East Asia, said of Trump's comments
about Japan and South Korea in
March. "With one blasé comment, this entire foundation of US grand
strategy is just blasted away." It's
no surprise, then, that the reaction to Trump in the foreign press goes beyond
disgust and anger to fear. Trump's foreign policy is all about unpredictable
and radical breaks with the status quo — but the world depends on America to be
the exact opposite of that. IN CASE OF TRUMP NOMINATION, BREAK GLASS “We all have our flaws, but Dennis Hastert has very
few,” DeLay ... and “sophisticated” liberal media outlets who give “pedophiles
a place at the ... Leading
Republicans send letters in support of Dennis Hastert ... Tom
DeLay Ties Gays To Pedophiles But Says Dennis Hastert ... Republicans
Defend Pedophile Dennis Hastert Ahead of Sentencing Tom
DeLay thinks we're being too hard on alleged child molester ... "We have good reason to believe that
there's a bombshell in Donald Trump's taxes," Romney told Fox News host
Neil Cavuto on Wednesday. "What do you mean?" Cavuto
asked Romney. Romney said: Well, I think there's something there.
Either he's not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is, or he hasn't been
paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay. Or perhaps he hasn't been
giving money to the vets or the disabled, like he's been telling us he's been
doing. Romney's statement came after Cavuto
asked him why he had not yet made an endorsement in the Republican presidential
race. As Trump has continued to march toward the nomination, Republican Party
establishment members have rallied around the candidacy of Sen. Marco Rubio of
Florida. Romney said he'd like to see the taxes of
each candidate. "Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and
Ted Cruz have not shown us their back taxes," Romney said. "This was
an issue on my campaign." Indeed, the Obama campaign and its
Democratic allies in 2012 made Romney's taxes a signature issue. Then-Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid famously speculated that Romney didn't pay any
taxes for a decade. Romney eventually released two years'
worth of returns that showed he had paid an effective rate of less than 15%. He
called on the Republican candidates to do the same but zeroed in on Trump's
supposed hesitance to do so. "The reason I think there's a
bombshell in there is that every time he's asked about his taxes, he dodges or
delays and says, 'Well, we're working on it,'" Romney said of Trump. Trump mocked Romney as a "tough guy" on Twitter later
Wednesday. "Mitt Romney, who totally blew an election that should have been
won and whose tax returns made him look like a fool, is now playing tough
guy," the mogul wrote. Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday that he
would release his returns "at some point, probably." He has also
bristled at the notion, as Romney suggested, that any of his financial
statements might show that he is not as wealthy as he has claimed. He told Hewitt: We'll be working on it. Everything is very much, you know, I gave my
financials ahead of schedule, much ahead of schedule. I had a long time to give
them, and I gave them immediately. And they were very complex, also, and very
big, and they turned out to be extremely good, much better, actually, than people
thought. But
he hasn’t given us a lot of reason to believe that. In fact, despite Trump’s protests
to the contrary, he has a long history of saying and doing racist things. It's
not really surprising that he's won the support and praise of the country’s white supremacists. Here’s
a running list of some of the most glaringly racist things associated with
Trump. We’re sure we’ll be adding to it soon. When Trump was serving as the
president of his family's real estate company, the Trump Management
Corporation, in 1973, the Justice Department sued the company for alleged
racial discrimination against black people looking to rent apartments in
Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. The lawsuit charged that the
company quoted different rental terms and conditions to black rental candidates
than it did with white candidates, and that the company lied to black
applicants about apartments not being available. Trump called those accusations
“absolutely ridiculous” and sued the Justice Department for $100 million in
damages for defamation. Without admitting wrongdoing, the
Trump Management Corporation settled the original lawsuit two years later and
promised not to discriminate against black people, Puerto Ricans or other
minorities. Trump also agreed to send weekly vacancy lists for his 15,000 apartments
to the New York Urban League, a civil rights group, and to allow the NYUL
to present qualified applicants for vacancies in certain Trump properties. Just three years after that, the
Justice Department sued the Trump Management Corporation again for allegedly discriminating against black applicants by telling them
apartments weren’t available. Three times in a row on Sunday,
Trump sidestepped opportunities to renounce white nationalist and former
KKK leader David Duke, who told his radio audience last week that voting
for any candidate other than Trump is "really
treason to your heritage." When asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if
he would condemn Duke and say he didn’t want a vote from him or any other white
supremacists, Trump claimed that he didn’t know anything about white
supremacists or about Duke himself. When Tapper pressed him twice more, Trump
said he couldn’t condemn a group he hadn’t yet researched. By Monday, Trump was saying that in fact he does disavow Duke, and that
the only reason he didn't do so on CNN was because of a "lousy
earpiece." Video of the exchange, however, shows Trump responding
quickly to Tapper's questions with no apparent difficulty in hearing. It’s preposterous to think that
Trump doesn't know about white supremacist groups or their sometimes violent
support of him. Reports of neo-Nazi groups rallying around Trump go
back as far as August. His white
supremacist fan club includes the Daily Stormer, a leading neo-Nazi news
site; Richard Spencer, director of the National Policy Institute, which aims to
promote the “heritage, identity, and future of European people”; Jared Taylor,
editor of American Renaissance, a Virginia-based white nationalist magazine;
Michael Hill, head of the League of the South, an Alabama-based white
supremacist secessionist group; and Brad Griffin, a member of Hill’s League of
the South and author of the popular white supremacist blog Hunter Wallace. Long before calling Mexican
immigrants “criminals” and “rapists,” Trump was a leading proponent of
“birtherism,” the racist conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not
born in the United States and is thus an illegitimate president. Trump claimed
in 2011 to have sent people to Hawaii to investigate whether Obama was
really born there. He insisted at the time that the researchers “cannot believe
what they are finding.” Obama ultimately got the better of
Trump, releasing his long-form birth certificate and relentlessly
mocking the real estate mogul about it at the White House Correspondents’
Association dinner that year. But Trump continues to insinuate
that the president was not born in the country. “I don’t know where he was born,”
Trump said
in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday.
(Again, for the record: He was born in Hawaii.) Like many racial instigators,
Trump often answers accusations of bigotry by loudly protesting that he
actually loves the group in question. But that's just as uncomfortable
to hear, because he's still treating all the members of the group -- all the
individual human beings -- as essentially the same and interchangeable.
Language is telling, here: Virtually every time Trump mentions a minority
group, he uses the definite article the, as in “the Hispanics,” “the
Muslims” and “the blacks.” In that sense, Trump’s defensive
explanations are of a piece with his slander of minorities. Both rely on
essentializing racial and ethnic groups, blurring them into simple, monolithic
entities, instead of acknowledging that there's as much variety among Muslims
and Latinos and black people as there is among white people. How did Trump respond to the
outrage last year that followed his characterization of Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists? “I'll take jobs back from China,
I'll take jobs back from Japan,” Trump said during
his visit to the U.S.-Mexican border in July. “The Hispanics are going to
get those jobs, and they're going to love Trump.” "The Hispanics are going to
get those jobs, and they're going to love Trump." Donald Trump, July 2015 How did Trump respond to critics
of his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.? “I'm doing good for the Muslims,” Trump
told CNN in December. “Many Muslim friends of mine are in agreement with
me. They say, ‘Donald, you brought something up to the fore that is so
brilliant and so fantastic.’” Not long before he called for a
blanket ban on Muslims entering the country, Trump was proclaiming his
affection for “the Muslims,” disagreeing with rival candidate Ben Carson’s
claim in September that being a Muslim should disqualify someone from running
for president. “I love the Muslims. I think
they're great people,” Trump
said, insisting that he would be willing to name a Muslim to his
presidential cabinet. How did Trump respond to the
people who called him out for funding an investigation into whether Obama was
born in the United States? "I have a great relationship
with the blacks,” Trump
said in April 2011. “I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.” In 1993, when Trump wanted to open
a casino in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that would compete with one owned by the
Mashantucket Pequot Nation, a local Native American tribe, he told the House subcommittee on Native American Affairs that "they
don't look like Indians to me... They don't look like Indians to Indians." Trump then elaborated on those
remarks, which were unearthed last year in the Hartford Courant, by saying
the mafia had infiltrated Indian casinos. In 1989, Trump took out full-page
ads in four New York City-area newspapers calling for the return of the
death penalty in New York and the expansion of police authority in response to
the infamous case of a woman who was beaten and raped while jogging in
Manhattan’s Central Park. “They should be forced to suffer
and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes,” Trump wrote,
referring to the Central Park attackers and other violent criminals. “I want to
hate these murderers and I always will.” The public outrage over the
Central Park jogger rape, at a time when the city was struggling with high
crime, led to the wrongful conviction of five teenagers of color known as the
Central Park Five. The men’s convictions were
overturned in 2002, after they'd already spent years
in prison, when DNA evidence showed they did not commit the crime.
Today, their case is considered a cautionary tale about a politicized criminal
justice process. Trump, however, still
thinks the men are guilty. At a November campaign rally in
Alabama, Trump supporters physically
attacked an African-American protester after the man began chanting “Black
lives matter.” Video of the incident shows the assailants kicking the man after
he has already fallen to the ground. The following day, Trump implied
that the attackers were justified. "Maybe [the
protester] should have been roughed up," he mused. "It was
absolutely disgusting what he was doing." Trump’s racial incitement has
already inspired hate crimes. Two brothers arrested
in Boston last summer for beating up a homeless Latino man cited Trump’s
anti-immigrant message when explaining why they did it. “Donald Trump was right -- all
these illegals need to be deported,” one of the men reportedly told police
officers. Trump did not even bother to
distance himself from them. Instead, he suggested that the men were
well-intentioned and had simply gotten carried away. "I will say that people who
are following me are very passionate,” Trump said. “They love this country and
they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.” When Trump addressed the Republican
Jewish Coalition in December, he tried to relate to the crowd by invoking the
stereotype of Jews as talented and cunning businesspeople. "I'm a negotiator, like you
folks," Trump
told the crowd, touting his book The Art of the Deal. "Is there anyone who doesn't
renegotiate deals in this room?" Trump said. "Perhaps more than any
room I've spoken to." But that wasn’t even the most
offensive thing Trump told his Jewish audience. He implied that he had little
chance of earning the Jewish Republican group’s support, because his fealty
could not be bought with campaign donations. "You’re not going to support
me, because I don’t want your money," he said. "You want to control
your own politician." Ironically, Trump has many close
Jewish family members. His daughter Ivanka converted
to Judaism in 2009 before marrying the real estate mogul Jared Kushner.
Trump and Kushner raise their two children in an observant Jewish home. It's maybe not surprising that
Trump has brought so much racial animus into the 2016 election cycle, given his
family history. His father, Fred Trump, was the target of folk singer Woody
Guthrie's lyrics after Guthrie lived for two years in a building owned by Trump
pere: "I suppose / Old Man Trump knows / Just how much / Racial hate / He
stirred up / In the bloodpot of human hearts." And last fall, a news report from
1927 surfaced on the site Boing Boing, revealing that Fred Trump was arrested that year following a KKK riot
in Queens. It's not clear exactly what the elder Trump was doing there or what
role he may have played in the riot. Donald Trump, for his part, has categorically denied (except when he's ambiguously denied) that anything of the sort ever
happened. Editor's note: Donald Trump is
a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban
all Muslims -- 1.6 billion members of an entire religion -- from entering the
U.S. (REUTERS/Mike Segar) "We
have good reason to believe that there's a bombshell in Donald Trump's
taxes," Romney told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Wednesday. "What
do you mean?" Cavuto asked Romney. Romney
said: Well,
I think there's something there. Either he's not anywhere near as wealthy as he
says he is, or he hasn't been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to
pay. Or perhaps he hasn't been giving money to the vets or the disabled, like
he's been telling us he's been doing. Romney's
statement came after Cavuto asked him why he had not yet made an endorsement in
the Republican presidential race. As Trump has continued to march toward the
nomination, Republican Party establishment members have rallied around the candidacy of Sen. Marco Rubio of
Florida. Romney
said he'd like to see the taxes of each candidate. "Donald
Trump and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have not shown us their back taxes,"
Romney said. "This was an issue on my campaign." Indeed,
the Obama campaign and its Democratic allies in 2012 made Romney's taxes a
signature issue. Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid famously speculated that Romney didn't pay any
taxes for a decade. Romney
eventually released two years' worth of returns that showed he had paid an
effective rate of less than 15%. He called on the Republican candidates to do
the same but zeroed in on Trump's supposed hesitance to do so. "The
reason I think there's a bombshell in there is that every time he's asked about
his taxes, he dodges or delays and says, 'Well, we're working on it,'"
Romney said of Trump. Trump
mocked Romney as a "tough guy" on Twitter later
Wednesday. "Mitt Romney, who totally blew an election that should have been
won and whose tax returns made him look like a fool, is now playing tough
guy," the mogul wrote. Trump
told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday that he
would release his returns "at some point, probably." He has also
bristled at the notion, as Romney suggested, that any of his financial
statements might show that he is not as wealthy as he has claimed. He told Hewitt: We'll be working on it. Everything is very much, you know, I gave my
financials ahead of schedule, much ahead of schedule. I had a long time to give
them, and I gave them immediately. And they were very complex, also, and very
big, and they turned out to be extremely good, much better, actually, than
people thought. Romney,
who has long been critical of Trump, emerged back into the public discussion
over the 2016 presidential race on Wednesday when he was quoted discussing the year's political environment. "We're
just mad as hell and won't take it anymore," he said of the electorate on
Tuesday, according to The Washington Post. "The failure of
current political leaders to actually tackle major challenges, or to try at
least, or to go out with proposals," he added, speaking at Babson College
in Wellesley, Massachusetts. ‘…The publication this
week listed a string of the Republican’s high-profile busts. “Trump Steaks lacked
sizzle, Trump Ice bottled water has dried up,” the editorial said. "Trump
Airlines never turned a profit, and defaulted on its loans. You can’t order a
Trump and tonic because nobody makes Trump Vodka anymore. “Trump Entertainment
Resorts filed for bankruptcy in 1999. And 2004. And 2009. And 2014. Trump
University closed its doors in 2011, but is still facing lawsuits for ripping
off students for packaging a trumped-up self-help seminar as an actual
education.” The Union-Leader has endorsed Chris Christie in the GOP New Hampshire
primary. Trump responded at the time by arguing Christie cannot win the party’s
nomination and that the state of New Jersey is currently “a disaster." …(more)’ THE
MYTH AND THE REALITY OF DONALD TRUMP’S BUSINESS EMPIRE By Ana
Swanson So
many claims have been made about Donald Trump's business career during the presidential
campaign — from Trump’s dramatic statements about his own success, to
Marco Rubio’s fiery attacks during the Republican debate Thursday night. The
questions remain: Is Trump really a titan of American business, a model of
entrepreneurial success and self-invention? Or is he a reality TV star who has
spent his career playing around with businesses built with inherited money,
while ceaselessly courting celebrity along the way? The
truth appears to be somewhere in between. His business decisions over the
years show that Trump is a mix of braggadocio, business failures, and
real success. Trump
has dabbled in everything from real estate to steak, casinos and beauty queens,
and he serves as an executive for more than 500 companies. Yet on top of his real business
success, he has built an architecture of self-aggrandizement. “I play to
people’s fantasies,” Trump
wrote in his 1987 book “The Art of the Deal.” “I call it truthful
hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of
promotion.” Given
all the “truthful hyperbole” out there about Trump, it’s hard to know what to
believe. Here are five of the most important things to know about Trump’s
business career. Trump
has forged a successful real estate career over 45 years, profiting from
flagship buildings like the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the Trump
Tower Chicago, and Mar-a-Lago, a private club in Palm Beach, Fla. His Trump
Organization owns a portfolio of
buildings, hotels and golf courses around the world. Yet
his real estate business isn’t exactly the dominant force he
suggests. Despite a national reputation as a New York property mogul, Trump
doesn’t make it into top 10 lists of the city’s real estate players. While
his dealings in hotels and golf courses around the world appear to be success —
his companies are privately held, so details are scarce — forays into casinos,
airlines, professional football and other industries have ended badly. Trump's gamble: A failed bet in Atlantic City His
casino business, which produced the four bankruptcies that political opponents
often hammer him about, is probably his most infamous flop. Though Trump paints
these Chapter 11 bankruptcies as if they were a good deal, saying they allowed
him to get out of a failing Atlantic City business at a strategic time,
the 1991 bankruptcy proceedings brought him close to losing much of his
personal fortune. As Drew Harwell and Jacob Bogage wrote
for the Post, Trump had to put millions of dollars of his own money into
struggling companies, sold his yacht and his airline, gave up substantial
ownership stakes and decision making roles, and even agreed to limits on his
own personal spending. Today,
Trump describes these bankruptcies as if no one was hurt in the process,
except high rollers and sharks. He says that he has started hundreds of
companies, but only used bankruptcy proceedings four times. And he claims that
Atlantic City has been a losing proposition for most
entrepreneurs. "Almost every hotel in Atlantic City has either been
in bankruptcy or will be in bankruptcy," Trump said during the third Republican debate. Michael
d’Antonio, who wrote a recent biography of Trump, says that is an incomplete
assessment. “But
there were many people who weren’t wealthy who lost money on those
bankruptcies,” he said. “Anyone who invested in a bond fund or who bought
individual securities that were linked to his casinos lost money.” According
to the New York Times, Wall Street banks remain hesitant
to deal with Trump, due to the previous bankruptcies and his litigious
nature. Federal Election Commission disclosures have shown that 15 companies associated
with Trump owe more than $270 million to banks. Trump responds to these critiques by saying that he doesn't
use Wall Street because he doesn't need the money — he's rich enough to do his
own financing. Another
long and strange story is Trump’s involvement with professional football in the
1980s. In 1984, Trump bought the New Jersey Generals, a team in the nascent and
briefly-lived United States Football League, which played its games in the
spring, after the Super Bowl. In
New York Times writer Joe
Nocera’s account, Trump’s aim was in large part to have the league
acquired by the National Football League, in the same way that the American
Football League merged with the NFL in 1966. Trump led a charge to
move the league's games from the spring to the fall, when they would go
head-to-head with the NFL. Instead of merging with the NFL, the
USFL simply flopped. “I
think he’s very good at real estate, I don’t think he’s very good at other
things,” says biographer D'Antonio. “He tried to run an airline and failed
at that. He tried to run casinos and failed four times. That’s not evidence of
brilliance when it comes to operating a complex business.” Trump
has acknowledged
a tendency to get bored easily with business ventures. “The same
assets that excite me in the chase, often, once they are acquired, leave me
bored,” Trump
wrote in one of his books. “For me, you see, the important thing is
the getting, not the having.” One
of Marco
Rubio’s top zingers in the debate last week was that if Trump
hadn’t gotten an inheritance of $200 million from his father, he’d be “selling
watches” in the streets of Manhattan. Rubio got the figures about Trump’s
inheritance wrong —
$200 million is actually what Trump’s dad’s fortune was estimated at in the
1970s, not Trump’s inheritance — but Trump clearly benefited from the wealth
and connections of his father, Fred Trump. One
of the richest people in America in the 1970s, Fred Trump built
a real estate empire developing
apartments for middle-class families in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island
after World War II. After the younger Trump graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1968, he joined his dad’s firm and, in 1971,
took over the business. He built on his dad’s success, deploying
leveraged capital on risky ventures that paid off: the Grand Hyatt
Hotel on East 42nd Street, the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, and
Trump Plaza on 61st and Third Avenue. What
Trump benefited most from initially was his dad’s credit-worthiness, says
D’Antonio. “When he wanted to go into business on his own, his father’s credit was
available to him, and that was worth tens of millions of dollars.” Still,
there are questions over how much wealth Trump created. In the debate last
week, Trump claimed that he took a loan of $1 million from his father and he
turned it into a fortune of $10 billion. But The Post's fact
checkers say that neither claim is quite right. The
$1 million loan doesn’t include any of the benefits Trump received from
his family’s connections and joining his father’s real estate business after he
graduated from college, and it doesn’t count an estimated $40 million
inheritance in 1974. The $10 billion figure, which is what Trump claims as his
current net worth, is also disputed. Bloomberg News has
estimated Trump's net worth at only $2.9 billion, while Forbes
put it at $4.1 billion. Since Trump’s businesses aren’t public, the true figure
isn’t clear. As
my colleague Max Ehrenfreund has argued, even if Trump has many billions
of dollars, there's an open question over whether that reflects true business
acumen. Business
Week estimated Trump’s net worth at $100 million in 1978. If Trump had merely
put that money in an index fund based on the Standard & Poor's 500 index —
the kind many Americans use to save for retirement — he would be worth $6
billion today. Trump
has a kind of Midas touch: Many of the businesses he comes in contact with
end up with his last name on them, often in large,
gilded capital letters. Of the 515 companies that Trump has a part in
running, 268 bear his last name, according to
a filing with the Federal Election Commission. D’Antonio
says the strategy of branding and franchising is unusual for a businessperson,
and more reminiscent of a professional athlete. “Donald is brilliant about
turning himself into a walking brand, and he seized that opportunity pretty
early,” he says. Trump’s
penchant for deploying his name has been a successful marketing strategy, but
it also appears to satisfy a deeper desire for fame and accomplishment. In
addition to the Trump hotels and casinos, there are Trump-branded steaks
(developed for the Sharper Image catalogue, but still served in Trump hotel
restaurants), a Trump
board game, the now-defunct Trump
magazine and Trump Airlines, and a line of shirts and ties called the
Donald J. Trump Signature Collection. Trump has put his name on water,
Israeli energy drinks, cologne, Virginian wine, vodka, furniture – “almost
anything that might be sold as high quality, high cost, and high-class,”
D'Antonio writes. The
Trump brand family also includes the strange saga of Trump University, which
has been the subject of intense criticism by his political rivals. As the
Post’s Emma Brown wrote in September, Trump University was not a university
at all, but a series of motivational workshops and real estate industry
tips that were held in hotel ballrooms beginning in 2004. Students
paid several thousand dollars for a three-day course, and up to $35,000 for
more extensive mentoring and workshop packages. Some were under the impression
that they would be mentored by Trump himself, but in the end the closest they
got was a cardboard cutout of Trump they could take a picture with. What is Trump University? Trump
still faces lawsuits from the venture, including a $40 million suit from the New
York attorney general for defrauding students and operating an unlicensed
university. Trump
responded to comments about Trump University in Thursday's debate by calling
the lawsuits "nonsense." "It's
something I could have settled many times. I could settle it right now for very
little money, but I don't want to do it out of principle," he said.
"The people that took the course all signed -- most -- many -- many signed
report cards saying it was fantastic, it was wonderful, it was beautiful." While
Trump was never accused of doing anything illegal, he worked
extensively with companies controlled by the mafia on properties in New
York and Atlantic City, including Trump Tower and Trump Plaza. Some
would say that was the only way to develop property in New York in the 1970s
and 1980s – the mob controlled many parts of the city’s construction industry,
including concrete, labor unions and trash disposal. Still, the extent of
Trump's involvement is certainly unique. “No serious presidential
candidate has ever had Trump’s depth of documented business relationships with
mob-controlled entities,” The Post’s Robert
O’Hara Jr. wrote. Trump has said that he did not know these
companies' mafia connections, adding that they were "unbelievably
good contractors in terms of doing the work." As
Republican opponents have pointed out, Trump’s businesses may have hired
undocumented and guest workers — allegations that now prove awkward for a
presidential candidate running on an anti-immigration platform. Construction
workers at Trump’s new D.C. hotel told The
Washington Post that some workers were undocumented, while the
New York Times reported that Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach
rejected hundreds of applications from Americans only to bring in hundreds
of Romanian guest workers. As
Rubio recounted in the debate Thursday night, Trump also faced a long-running
lawsuit over the use of undocumented workers at the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue
in Manhattan. The building was allegedly built by undocumented Polish workers
who were paid $5 an hour or less, when they were paid at all. The case dragged
on for decades. The judged ruled that Trump knew that Polish workers were
working off the books and were paid illegally and sub-standardly. Trump
appealed, and the case was ultimately settled in 1999. There
were other strange incidents. The lawyer who represented the Polish workers
claimed that someone named "John Baron" had called to threaten him
with a lawsuit if he kept causing trouble, as Michael Daly writes
for The Daily Beast. Trump denied making the call, but he used the
pseudonym John Baron throughout his career. He suggested
the name “John Barron” for the main character in a never-produced TV show
called “The Tower” that was loosely based on Trump’s life, and he and Melania
later named their son Barron. When
Rubio brought up the Polish workers in Thursday's debate, Trump responded by saying he had hired tens of thousands of people in his
lifetime, and that, at the time, "the laws were totally different. That
was a whole different world." In
the 1980s, Donald Trump was short on cash but eager to get Holiday Inn involved
in a new casino project in Atlantic City. The construction wasn’t far along,
but the Holiday Inn executives were coming to town, and Trump wanted to impress
them. So he ordered a construction crew to dig up piles of dirt and drive them
around on the site as energetically as possible. When the Holiday Inn
executives arrived, they were impressed and agreed to invest, Trump
recalls in “The Art of the Deal.” Trump's
greatest talent turns out to be not building businesses, but constructing a
larger-than-life public figure. D’Antonio says he thinks Trump has worked to
create a strong brand mostly because his ego "needed the
attention." However, Trump also figured out how to make the attention
profitable as well. Trump's
personal brand got a huge boost from “The Apprentice,” the reality TV show
in which Trump came off as a straight-talking truth-teller – “a decider who
insisted on standards in a country that had somehow slipped into handing out
trophies just for showing up,” as The
Post’s Mark Fisher writes. In a recent book, Trump wrote that he didn’t do
the show for money, but rather because of the “brand presence.” Through
his career, Trump has had a knack for converting his outrageousness into
profit. Now, says D’Antonio, Trump is trying to convert it into votes. Trump captures the nation’s attention on the campaign trail You might also like: The uniquely American appeal of Donald Trump’s favorite insult How to change someone’s mind, according to science Your reaction to this confusing headline reveals more about you
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RealClearPolitics In our 693rd issue: In most issues of EFFector, we give an overview of all the work we’re
doing at EFF right now. This week, we present a deep dive on the FBI’s fight
with Apple over its customers’ privacy. A
U.S. federal magistrate judge has ordered Apple to undermine the security of an iPhone
that was used by one of the perpetrators of December’s San Bernardino
shootings. If carried out, the order would compromise the security of every
Apple customer in the world. Fortunately, Apple is fighting back and standing
up for its users, and EFF is filing an amicus brief in support of Apple’s
position. The
government is doing more than simply ask for Apple’s assistance. For the first
time ever, the government is telling Apple to write brand new code that
eliminates the security features of its own products—features that benefit
everyone who uses Apple products or even communicates with iOS users.
Essentially, the government is asking Apple to create a master key so that it
can open a single phone. And once that master key is created, we’re certain
that both our government and others will ask for it again and again. There’s
been a lot of confusion about what exactly the FBI is asking Apple for. In short, the FBI
wants Apple to do three things: The
FBI’s goal is to guess Syed Rizwan Farook’s passcode to unlock his phone. If it
just tries entering passcodes, though, it might erase the device’s keys, at
which point the data may never be recoverable. Hence, it’s telling Apple to
write special software to allow unlimited guesses. The FBI claims that it has
the right to make this request under the 1789 All Writs Act, a claim that many legal experts have questioned. The
problem with the FBI’s request is twofold. First, the risk of this piece of
software getting into unauthorized hands is very high, and the damage that it
could do is obvious. Second,
writing this code would probably encourage more government requests—potentially
from other governments around the world. Even if you trust the U.S. government,
once this master key is created, governments you don’t trust will
surely demand that Apple undermine the security of their citizens as well. Last year, thousands of you signed a
petition urging President Obama to speak out for uncompromised security.
The President has not given a real response, but the need to defend
encryption is more urgent than ever. Fight for the Future
has organized a series of rallies in many major cities across the country.
There will be rallies at most Apple Stores today at 5:30 pm local time. This
case is not about FBI vs. Apple. It's about every consumer’s right to use
secure technologies, and every technology company’s right to protect its
customers’ privacy. Join us. PBS: Judge's order to Apple over
attacker phone encryption unlocks privacy concerns “We
know who the shooters were. We know who they were talking to. The FBI already
has the metadata. They chose this case because they want precedent that they
can order a company to design a particular feature at their whim.” EFF’s Nate
Cardozo explains why the FBI’s order has very little to do with Farook’s phone
and everything to do with setting a new precedent. New York Times: An Unprecedented
Order That Puts Us All at Risk There
is no such thing as a master key that only the good guys can use. EFF attorney
Sophia Cope shows how carrying out the FBI’s order could open iPhone users to
large-scale threats, both from criminals and from authoritarian world
governments. PBS Frontline: Who's Right In
Apple's Fight with the FBI? “Privacy
nihilism is seductive, but deeply misguided. Privacy is not dead, and only
those who wish to kill it claim otherwise.” EFF attorney Nate Cardozo debates
James Andrew Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
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University professor published an editorial in The Washington Post on Sunday
that compared the surprising rise of Republican A Harvard University professor published an editorial in The Washington Post on Sunday
that compared the surprising rise of Republican presidential candidate to Adolf
Hitler seizing power in Germany. "Like any number of us raised
in the late 20th century, I have spent my life perplexed about exactly how
Hitler could have come to power in Germany," professor and political
theorist Danielle Allen wrote. "Watching Donald Trump's rise,
I now understand," she added. She then went on to explain
"how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country." She
urged Trump's critics not to stand by passively as he gains support among
Republican primary voters. Allen wrote: Trump is rising by taking
advantage of a divided country. The truth is that the vast majority of voting
Americans think that Trump is unacceptable as a presidential candidate, but we
are split by strong partisan ideologies and cannot coordinate a solution to
stop him. Similarly, a significant part of voting Republicans think that Trump
is unacceptable, but they too, thus far, have been unable to coordinate a
solution. Trump is exploiting the fact that we cannot unite across our
ideological divides. Hitler rose to power on a
nationalist message. He told the German people that they were exceptional and
played on feelings of disenfranchisement. Allen also called for Ohio Gov.
John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson to drop out of the race for the
so that their support could consolidate behind Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who
she argued could pose a viable threat to Trump's candidacy. Read the full Washington Post editorial here > Danielle Allen is a political theorist at Harvard University and a
contributing columnist for The Post. Like any number of us raised in the late 20th century, I have spent my
life perplexed about exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany.
Watching Donald Trump’s rise, I now understand. Leave aside whether a direct
comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate. That is not my point. My point
rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country. To understand the rise of Hitler and the spread of Nazism, I have
generally relied on the German-Jewish émigré philosopher Hannah
Arendt and her arguments about the banality of evil. Somehow people can
understand themselves as “just doing their job,” yet act as cogs in the wheel
of a murderous machine. Arendt also offered a second answer in a small but
powerful book called “Men in Dark Times.” In this book, she described all
those who thought that Hitler’s rise was a terrible thing but chose “internal
exile,” or staying invisible and out of the way as their strategy for coping
with the situation. They knew evil was evil, but they too facilitated it, by
departing from the battlefield out of a sense of hopelessness. [George Will: Trump relishes wrecking the GOP] One can see both of these phenomena unfolding now. The first shows
itself, for instance, when journalists cover every crude and cruel thing that
comes out of Trump’s mouth and thereby help acculturate all of us to what we
are hearing. Are they not just doing their jobs, they will ask, in covering the
Republican front-runner? Have we not already been acculturated by 30 years of
popular culture to offensive and inciting comments? Yes, both of these things
are true. But that doesn’t mean journalists ought to be Trump’s megaphone.
Perhaps we should just shut the lights out on offensiveness; turn off the mic
when someone tries to shout down others; reestablish standards for what counts
as a worthwhile contribution to the public debate. That will seem counter to
journalistic norms, yes, but why not let Trump pay for his own ads when he
wants to broadcast foul and incendiary ideas? He’ll still have plenty of access
to freedom of expression. It is time to draw a bright line. How Donald
Trump won the South Carolina GOP primary, in 60 seconds One spots the second experience in any number of water-cooler
conversations or dinner-party dialogues. “Yes, yes, it is terrible. Can you believe
it? Have you seen anything like it? Has America come to this?” “Agreed,
agreed.” But when someone asks what is to be done, silence falls. Very many of
us, too many of us, are starting to contemplate accepting internal exile. Or we
joke about moving to Canada more seriously than usually. But over the course of the past few months, I’ve learned something else
that goes beyond Arendt’s ideas about the banality of evil and feelings of
impotence in the face of danger. [Five
myths Donald Trump tells about Donald Trump] Trump is rising by taking advantage of a divided country. The truth is
that the vast majority of voting Americans think that Trump is unacceptable as a presidential candidate, but
we are split by strong partisan ideologies and cannot coordinate a solution to
stop him. Similarly, a significant part of voting Republicans think that
Trump is unacceptable, but they too, thus far, have been unable to coordinate a
solution. Trump is exploiting the fact that we cannot unite across our
ideological divides. The only way to stop him, then, is to achieve just that kind of
coordination across party lines and across divisions within parties. We have
reached that moment of truth. Republicans, you cannot count on the Democrats to stop Trump. I believe
that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination, and I intend to vote
for her, but it is also the case that she is a candidate with significant
weaknesses, as your party knows quite well. The result of a head-to-head
contest between Clinton and Trump would be unpredictable. Trump has to be
blocked in your primary. Jeb Bush has done the right thing by dropping out, just as he did the
right thing by being the first, alongside Rand Paul, to challenge Trump. The
time has come, John Kasich and Ben Carson, to leave the race as well. You both
express a powerful commitment to the good of your country and to its founding
ideals. If you care about the future of this republic, it is time to endorse
Marco Rubio. Kasich, there’s a little wind in your sails, but it’s not enough.
Your country is calling you. Do the right thing. Ted Cruz is, I believe, pulling votes away from Trump, and for that
reason is useful in the race. But, Mr. Cruz, you are drawing too close to
Trump’s politics. You too should change course. Democrats, your leading candidate is too weak to count on as a firewall.
She might be able to pull off a general election victory against Trump, but
then again she might not. Too much is uncertain this year. You, too, need to
help the Republicans beat Trump; this is no moment for standing by passively.
If your deadline for changing your party affiliation has not yet come,
re-register and vote for Rubio, even if, like me, you cannot stomach his
opposition to marriage equality. I too would prefer Kasich as the Republican
nominee, but pursuing that goal will only make it more likely that Trump takes
the nomination. The republic cannot afford that. [Catherine Rampell: Donald Trump thinks you’re
stupid. Yes, you.] Finally, to all of you Republicans who have already dropped out, one
more, great act of public service awaits you. As candidates, you pledged to
support whomever the Republican party nominated. It’s time to revoke your
pledge. Be bold, stand up and shout that you will not support Trump if he is
your party’s nominee. Do it together. Hold one big mother of a news conference.
Endorse Rubio, together. It is time to draw a bright line, and you are the ones
on whom this burden falls. No one else can do it. Marco Rubio, this is also your moment to draw a bright line. You too
ought to rescind your pledge to support the party’s nominee if it is Trump. Donald Trump has no respect for the basic rights that are the foundation
of constitutional democracy, nor for the requirements of decency necessary to
sustain democratic citizenship. Nor can any democracy survive without an
expectation that the people require reasonable arguments that bring the truth
to light, and Trump has nothing but contempt for our intelligence. We, the people, need to find somewhere, buried in the recesses of our
fading memories, the capacity to make common cause against this formidable
threat to our equally shared liberties. The time is now. Read more: Ruth Marcus: Donald Trump’s utterly ridiculous
budget plan Anne Applebaum: Donald Trump’s campaign of
conspiracy theories Michael Gerson: Donald Trump and the politics of
the middle finger NOW WATCH: ‘Turn off the lights!’ — watch Trump turn a lighting outage
into a bizarre political talking point New Hampshire’s largest newspaper
reignited its feud with Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump late
Thursday, criticizing his “decades of failure” in business. “If you challenged Donald Trump to
a game of ‘Trump: The Game,’ he’d lose,” the New Hampshire Union-Leader editorial quipped.“Losing is
what he does,” it said. “After inheriting his father’s
real estate empire, Trump has used crony capitalism and eminent domain to
increase it. But Trump’s attempts to set up his own businesses have been
striking failures.” The scathing editorial comes just
six days before New Hampshire’s primaries on Tuesday. Trump, who is polling
well ahead of the rest of the GOP field in the state, is hoping for a
rebound after placing second in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night. The outspoken billionaire has
repeatedly battled the Union-Leader over its coverage of him this election
cycle. He
mocked the paper as “dying” under the leadership of publisher Joe McQuaid
after the editorial board sharply criticized Trump’s campaign late last year. Trump
also took credit when the Union-Leader was cut as a debate co-host. The publication this week listed a
string of the Republican’s high-profile busts. “Trump Steaks lacked sizzle, Trump
Ice bottled water has dried up,” the editorial said. "Trump Airlines never
turned a profit, and defaulted on its loans. You can’t order a Trump and tonic
because nobody makes Trump Vodka anymore. “Trump Entertainment Resorts filed
for bankruptcy in 1999. And 2004. And 2009. And 2014. Trump University
closed its doors in 2011, but is still facing lawsuits for ripping off students
for packaging a trumped-up self-help seminar as an actual education.” The Union-Leader has endorsed
Chris Christie in the GOP New Hampshire primary. Trump responded at the time by
arguing Christie cannot win the party’s nomination and that the state of New
Jersey is currently “a disaster." Politics Donald Trump is the candidate of the white working
class. His popularity with this cohort was recognized
early in his candidacy. The preponderance
of commentary on the Trump
phenomenon since then, whether favorable
to the tumescent
real-estate mogul and reality
television star or not,
has proceeded from this assumption. These
analyses affirm Trump’s allure to white, working-class voters as central to his
candidacy. It is the pillar on which his dominant standing in the polls rests.
If Trump wins the Republican nomination, it will be through their support. Trump
does respectably among college-educated Republicans. In Quinnipiac
University’s most recent poll of the Republican race, Trump received the
support of 30 percent of respondents who had a college degree, more than any
other Republican. This was an improvement from earlier
this month, when Trump trailed Marco Rubio in this demographic. But if
three-tenths of college-educated Republicans back Trump, then seven-tenths of
them don’t. To put it another way: the vast majority of Republicans with
college degrees oppose Donald Trump. Trump does have a positive favorability
score among college Republicans of 55 to 37 percent. Yet his net rating is the
lowest of any GOP candidate. Ted Cruz (61 to 27 percent), Marco Rubio (75 to 15
percent), and John Kasich (62 to 9 percent) all best Trump on this measure. Trump also does worst on the question
of which candidate “you would definitely not support for the Republican
nomination for president.” Twenty-eight percent of all Republican voters would
refuse to back him, which improves to 26 percent when only Republican college
graduates are considered. Trump has a hard ceiling with the
latter group that manifests in survey after survey. College graduates
constituted 54 percent of Republican turnout in the New Hampshire primary.
Trump won this group with 29 percent of the vote. This is a good number. But it
also means the other 71 percent went for Trump’s rivals. In Iowa, Trump fared worse. College
graduates made up 51 percent of the GOP caucus electorate. Trump could do no
better than third, winning 21 percent of college-educated Iowa Republicans.
Both Rubio (28 percent) and Cruz (25 percent) bested him in this crucial
demographic. All told, fourth-fifths of Iowa Republicans who graduated college
opposed Trump. As Tim Alberta notes in his exegesis
of the exit polls from the first two nominating contests, these results
suggest “the formation of an anti-Trump coalition among college-educated
Republicans.” Trump’s “weak link,” as Ron Brownstein calls it, followed him to South Carolina, where Rubio beat Trump 27
to 25 percent among voters with at least a four-year degree. There is no reason to believe Trump’s
fortunes with college-educated Republican voters will improve—and this is just
Republicans. With college-educated voters as a whole, Trump is poison. Pure,
lethal poison. The preceding chart, also drawn from
Quinnipiac’s latest polling, is illuminating. For one thing, it shows that
Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, is 13 points
underwater with college-educated voters. Yet she is a homecoming queen compared
to Trump, who is an unfathomable 37 points in arrears with college-educated
voters. Cruz is also anathema to college graduates. They even look askance at
Rubio now, while earlier
this month they were enamored of him. Only Bernie Sanders gets positive
marks from this group. A candidate’s standing with college
graduates is significant because it correlates with how well he or she performs
on head-to-head ballot tests against other candidates. Here the news is no
better for Trump. He would get crushed among college voters, and consequently
lose the election. This chart reveals just how poorly
Trump would do with college graduates against Hillary Clinton. While he loses
to Clinton by one point overall, his deficit soars to 15 points with college
graduates. This is a gap Trump’s vaunted working-class support can’t fill.
According to Quinnipiac, he only leads by five points with voters who don’t have
college degrees, 45 to 40 percent. Cruz, not usually categorized as a
champion of the working class, does better with them against Clinton than Trump
does. The Texas senator gets 48 percent of working-class voters to 39 percent
for the former secretary of state. His deficit among college voters is only 13
points (52 to 39 percent), though, so he leads Clinton 46 to 43 percent. Rubio
polls best against Clinton with both groups, trailing 40 to 46 percent with
college voters and leading 50 to 37 percent with non-college voters. This
translates to a 48 to 41 percent lead for the Florida senator overall. The “diploma divide” among Republican
voters was a key factor in the 2012 primary, and it has recurred in 2016. In
2012, college-educated Republicans lined up behind Romney, while those without
degrees fragmented among several candidates. But in 2016, as David Wasserman noted
in December, it is college-educated Republicans who have divided their support
while those without degrees have coalesced behind Trump. Consequently, Trump
leads the GOP field because even though he gets only a quarter of Republicans
who graduated from college, he gets two-fifths of those who didn’t. The problem for Trump (or any candidate) is that
winning non-college graduates while losing degree holders does not a winning
coalition make. The problem for Trump (or any candidate)
is that winning non-college graduates while losing degree holders does not a
winning coalition make. All it does is guarantee defeat. Per the 2012 exit polls,
Romney won college graduates 51 to 47 percent over President Obama. It was the
only educational cohort Romney won on his way to a four-point loss. Trump supporters might counter that he
would make up for it by winning overwhelming support from working-class voters.
This is wrong for two reasons. The first reason is that, as seen in the
Quinnipiac poll, Trump only breaks even with non-college graduates in the
general election. The second reason is that there simply aren’t enough
working-class voters to make up for the catastrophic losses among
college-educated voters Trump is destined to incur. Voting propensity is strongly
correlated with educational attainment. The more educated one is, the more
likely one is to vote. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the two most reliable voting
groups in the United States are voters with bachelor’s degrees and those with
post-graduate degrees. The following chart, drawn from the
2012 election review by the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey,
shows that these two groups turned out at rates of 75 percent and 81 percent,
respectively. Even those who attended but did not finish college had a voting
rate higher than 60 percent. The rate for high school graduates was just over
50 percent, and it declined sharply for those who did not finish high school. There is simply no way a candidate can
win a presidential election now by losing the biggest turnout group by ten or
more points, as polls consistently show Trump doing. College graduates cannot
stand Trump, and this surely is no small factor in him having the
highest negative rating of any presidential candidate Gallup has ever
tested. Sixty percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Trump. That kind
of radioactivity usually requires a Geiger counter to measure. College graduates vote more, and there
are more of them who vote. According to the 2012 exit polls, 47 percent of
voters had at least a four-year degree. Another 29 percent spent at least some
time enrolled on campus. That adds up to 76 percent. The overlap is not
perfect, but if working-class voters are defined as voters with no more than a
high school education, then Trump’s hopes rest on taking larger and larger
bites from a cherry. Even the pit has been consumed.
Psephologists and pundits have fixated on “the mystery of the missing white
voters” ever since Sean Trende noticed their disappearance after the 2012
election. In a recent series on the Trump phenomenon, Trende posits that the
candidate most likely to appeal to these missing voters is Trump, as they were,
for the most part, rural blue-collar whites with an affinity for populism who
in another age voted for Ross Perot. There simply aren’t enough working-class voters to
make up for Trump’s catastrophic losses among college-educated voters. As Nate
Cohn puts it, Trump’s base consists of irregularly voting nominal Democrats
from the industrial north, the South, and Appalachia. The problem, Trende
writes, is that there simply aren’t enough of them to win even if you hold
everything else constant. The alternatives are either to win more non-white
support or increase the GOP’s already staggering edge with white voters. There’s the rub. Trump could
theoretically get more non-white voters (perhaps by appealing to black voters
more than Romney did). Or, more plausibly, he could boost turnout among
blue-collar whites with his stances against free trade and immigration. But he
would do so almost certainly at the expense of support from white-collar
voters. Liam Donovan framed the dilemma well in
a recent article in National Review: “Trump can run up the
popular-vote score all he wants riding white-working-class resentment. It won’t
help him when he gets buried in swing counties such as Fairfax, Hamilton,
Hillsborough, and Arapahoe. Sure, he can target the Rust Belt, but big margins
in Western Pennsylvania or the Upper Peninsula won’t matter if he can’t play in
Bucks or Oakland Counties.” Trump won’t play in Bucks County. He
won’t for reasons Trende articulates in the
final part of his excellent series. He argues that Trump is the avatar of
what he labels “cultural traditionalism.” Cultural traditionalists share
certain attitudes “about the importance of family, religion, achievement,
intellectual advancement, diversity (at least within categories deemed
important by elites), patriotism, and nationalism” distinct from, and often
diametrically opposed to, those of their counterparts, the “cultural
cosmopolitans.” In voting terms, there are more cultural
cosmopolitans than there are cultural traditionalists, and by a considerable
margin. The GOP establishment is made up for
the most part of cultural cosmopolitans, while many of its voters are cultural
traditionalists. Out of this untenable tension sprang Trump. The cultural
traditionalists love him not least because he is a giant middle finger to the
cosmopolitans. The nation’s metropolitan areas and
suburbs, though, are populated by cultural cosmopolitans, affluent,
college-educated professionals who cringe whenever Trump promises to ban
Muslims or deport every illegal immigrant in the country. As we have already
seen, there are, at least in voting terms, more cultural cosmopolitans than
there are cultural traditionalists, and by a considerable margin. As we have
also seen, they loathe Donald Trump. They are never going to vote for someone
who so grievously offends their sensibilities. A Trump backer might rejoin that I am
merely speculating that college-educated Republicans would not flock to Trump
if he became the nominee. Supporters of one candidate during a primary often
say they won’t support his opponent but rally around the party flag for the
general election. This is a fair point. It is hard to prove a negative,
especially one that hasn’t happened yet. There is some evidence, however, to
indicate Trump may not benefit from this normal pattern. On Election Day, Akin lost college graduates 50 to 44
percent, a seven-point swing. There are few analogues to Trump in
recent years. One who resembled the magnate, at least in his capacity for
intemperate remarks, was Todd Akin. In the
last poll conducted before he devoured his leg, Akin led his 2012 Missouri
Senate race against incumbent Claire McCaskill by 11 points. This included a one-point
advantage with college graduates, 46 to 45 percent. Yet on Election Day,
Akin lost college graduates 50 to 44 percent, a seven-point swing. Moreover, 15
percent of Republican voters defected and voted for McCaskill. Another GOP Senate candidate who made
foolish remarks about abortion in 2012 was Richard Mourdock of Indiana. He
managed to win college-educated voters, but like Akin he bled considerable
Republican support: 14 percent of Hoosier Republicans backed Democrat Joe
Donnelly, who won. In 2010, Sharron Angle, the
controversial GOP Senate nominee in Nevada, lost
11 percent of Republicans to Harry Reid. Her Colorado
counterpart, Ken Buck, saw 10 percent of Republicans shift to Michael Bennett. Most instructive, perhaps, is the 2008
presidential election, which saw Barack Obama win 9 percent of Republicans
and an astounding 20 percent of self-described conservatives. Given the
aspirational qualities of Obama’s candidacy, we should not be surprised he had
so much cross-ballot appeal. Nine or 10 percent is not much in a decisive
contest like his first presidential campaign, but in a close election or a
swing state it could be the difference between victory and defeat. Trump doesn’t make inflammatory
comments about rape or abortion. That’s because he’s too busy making them about
everything else: immigration, foreign policy, economics, his rivals,
journalists, you name it. His peanut
gallery roars, but the rest of the country is unimpressed.
A Trump-inspired descent
into white identity politics would be a cataclysm for the GOP because it
would alienate the very voters it needs if it wants the White House back. It
must get at least a few voters for whom cultural affinity outweighs partisan
affiliation. There is no way to win without them. Trump’s campaign, on the
other hand, depends on pursuing voters who don’t exist at the cost of those who
do. Trump’s campaign depends on pursuing voters who don’t
exist at the cost of those who do. It is well and good to appeal to the
working class. It behooves the GOP to do so. There is great merit in
criticizing the GOP and its leadership and policy cadres, which often seem to
care about little more than hunting such mythical beasts as the flat tax while
pretending to pay lip service to any number of causes dear to its rank and
file. I have myself avowed that the GOP establishment (and donor class) deserve
“incineration.”
But Trump should not be the instrument of vengeance. For that sword, once
drawn, will be sheathed only with difficulty. By now you have surely begun to suspect
that I oppose Trump. You’re right. I oppose him on philosophical and
ideological grounds. But I also oppose him for practical reasons. Nominate
Trump, and the GOP would lose college-educated voters for at least a generation,
and possibly forever. With them would go the prospect of ever again winning
states like Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida. So, without them, would
the GOP be finished as a national party, and perhaps as any kind of party at
all. The data speaks in a clear voice and it
speaks a simple message: the Republican Party can have Donald Trump or it can
have a future, but it cannot have both. Photo Christopher
Halloran / Shutterstock.com Photo Source: Quinnipiac University Poll, 17 February
2016. Varad Mehta is a historian. He lives in suburban
Philadelphia. Having told Jimmy Kimmel that he "would love to"
appoint Sarah Palin to his cabinet, The
Washington Post asks (and answers), just what would a trump cabinet
look like? ‘AN
UTTER FRAUD. AN ABSOLUTE AND UTTER FRAUD,’ MCGINNISS CALLS PALIN IN AN INTERVIEW ABOUT THE BOOK
WITH NBC. Joe McGinniss Sarah Palin Book, 'The Rogue,' Makes
Controversial Claims About Former Alaska Governor ‘Joe McGinniss's new book, The Rogue:
Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, hits bookstores next week, but its controversial claims about the former Alaska governor are
already making waves. In the book, McGinniss writes that
Palin had a one-night stand in 1987 with future NBA basketball
player Glen Rice nine months before she married her husband Todd. He quotes a
friend who said Palin "had a fetish for black guys for a while." "She was a gorgeous woman.
Super nice. I was blown away by her," Rice tells McGinniss in the book,
NBC reports. "Afterward, she was a big crush that I had." McGinniss's book also alleges that
Palin had an extramarital affair with her husband's business partner, Brad
Hanson, in the mid-1990s, and snorted cocaine off a 55-gallon oil drum while
snowboarding. "An utter fraud. An absolute
and utter fraud," McGinniss calls Palin in an interview about the book with NBC. "At best, she's a
hypocrite," McGinniss tells NBC's Savannah Guthrie. "At worst, she's
a vindictive hypocrite." McGinniss famously moved into a house next door to Palin's Wasilla, Alaska home
to write his book -- prompting the Palins to accuse him of stalking them. They built a high fence along their property to protect their
privacy. In response to McGinniss's book,
Todd Palin gave a statement to NBC saying that McGinniss "spent the
last year interviewing marginal figures with an axe to grind in order to churn
out a hit piece to satisfy his own creepy obsession with my wife." "I'd ask the fathers and
husbands of America to consider our privacy when one summer day I found this
guy on the deck of the rental property, just 18 feet away next door to us,
staring like a creep at my wife while she mowed the lawn in her shorts,"
Palin said. McGinniss says that anything he
learned about Palin by living next door did not make it into the book, but he
does become a character in the story himself. The New York Times writes
in its review: Soon Mr. McGinniss is settling in to enjoy the fuss
his mere presence has created. "Normally, for a news story to continue
beyond the first 24-hour news cycle, something newsworthy must occur," he
writes loftily, but "The Rogue" is filled with proof to the contrary.
What was his hate mail like? He quotes it. What did Glenn Beck call him? That’s
here too. Who took umbrage at this venom and chose to help him? One man offered
him a hideout, despite Mr. McGinniss's slight skepticism about his motives.
"But you don’t know me," Mr. McGinniss protested. McGinniss's book is scheduled to
hit bookstores on Tuesday, Sept. 20.’ The
Rogue: Searching For The Real Sarah Palin' Cover Revealed Call it
Palin Noir. Joe McGinniss' upcoming biography of Sarah Palin has a cover design
more fitting for a detective novel. It has a bold... Joe
McGinniss, Palin Neighbor & Author, Leaving Wasilla To Write Book ANCHORAGE,
Alaska — Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months
on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his... SOME
PERSONAL POSITIONS SET FORTH ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEBSITE SUMMARIZED HERE FOR THE
RECORD TO PRECLUDE ACCUSATION OF HYPOCRISY Michael Krieger | What’s even more
incredible than the latest Hersh article, is the U.S. government’s pathetic
attempt to deny it. Michael Snyder | Pulitzer Prize winning
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has uncovered one of the biggest lies in
modern American history. Prison Planet.com | Pulitzer Prize winner, Seymour Hersh, calls out
the establishment’s press for being “pathetic, more than obsequious, they are
afraid to pick on [Obama]“ Steve Watson | Government workers routinely threatened with
“directed reassignment” by superiors. The
lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then
Holland, and Austria, and now - as we
noted was possible previously - Texas has
enacted a Bill to repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a
newly established state gold bullion depository..."People
have this image of Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is
exactly where they would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes
a section to prevent forced sEIZURE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
IS THIS THE FIRST STEP DOWN A ROAD TO SECESSION? 1-26-16: t_rump: ‘…my supporters are smart and
loyal…I could go out on 5th Avenue and shoot someone and they’d
still support me…my poll numbers wouldn’t change’… {When I first heard this
sick, outlandish, psychopathic quote I was reluctant to comment upon/post it
thinking it must be slickly out of context…it’s not!…as a matter of fact, it’s
even worse in context…he meant it!…to be sure, he rivals hitler with his
similarly sick devotees buying into his ‘psychopathy’…(so over the top that
even the presence of the full moon can’t justify trump’s dangerous lunacy-don’t
forget, nuclear weapons exacerbate a globally perilous and precarious doomsday
scenario…(how embarrassing for trump supporters, backers, apologists and
particularly, america …!)} Posted
by : Capitalist
Exploits Post
date: 02/25/2015 - 18:17 Financial markets and investing reflect the same
characteristics as my attempt at keeping fit Gold: The Good, Bad, and Truly Ugly Posted
by: Sprott Money Post
date: 02/25/2015 - 18:15 Although it may be unrealistically optimistic, I
believe my paraphrase of a Churchill quote: “Central Bankers will
eventually do the right thing and return to a gold standard after they have... 12 Reasons Why Ritholtz and Many Experts Are Mistaken
On Gold Posted
by: GoldCore Post
date: 02/25/2015 - 09:15 Being involved in the fairly niche business of an
international gold brokerage for nearly 12 years now, we find ourselves
continuously engaged in conversation with people who demonstrate an... The one chart which, both literally and
metaphorically, will determine how much longer the USD will reign as the
world's reserve, is the following. As Ukraine's socio-economic situation goes from wost
to worst-er, today's announcement by President Poroshenko that the government
will take actions to stabilize the currency (which as we
previously noted, appears to be heading for hyperinflation)
has Ukrainians rushing for the exits into precious metals... with only one goal
in mind - wealth preservation. "While some called us book-burning Nazis, Page 274 of “Civics in Practice” states, “Citizens
must be alert to propaganda” and glittering generalities is a “type of
propaganda which often uses words such as freedom and patriotism.” This
world government indoctrination is augmented on Page 425, where a geographical
map of North America eliminates the United States, and places our great nation
in nine new “cultural nations.” For pointing this out, one public speaker at the School Board textbook
workshop called us “narrow-minded, racist Bible-thumpers.”" While faith in Japanese 'economics' is starting to
falter (borne out by the split in the BoJ and endless macro data
disappointments), trust in TEPCO and its governmental operators must be
about to hit a new record low. Having promised and given up on the ice-wall
strategy to stop radioactive water leaking into the ocean, Bloomberg
reports TEPCO
officials have admitted that it’s investigating the cause of a spike in
radiation levels (23,000 becquerels/liter vs the legal limit of 90) in
drainage water that it believes subsequently leaked into the Pacific ocean
from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant. The bigger problem, as NBC reports, TEPCO failed to report the leak for 10
months! Janet Yellen is very alarmed that some members of Congress
want to conduct a comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve for the first time
since it was created. During testimony this week, she made “central bank
independence” sound like it was the holy grail. Even though every other
government function is debated politically in this country, Janet Yellen
insists that what the Federal Reserve does is “too important” to be influenced
by the American people. Does any other government agency ever dare
to make that claim? If the Fed is doing everything correctly, why should Yellen
be alarmed? What does she have to hide? It appears all the emerging/emerged economies of the
world that are supposed to be the dynamic growth engines to lead the world to
escape velocity are, well, not. Perhaps no better example is Brazil where
hyper-growth expectations have disappeared into a black hole as business and
consumer confidence collapsed this week to historical lows. As Goldman noted, "This
poses major headwinds for private consumption and overall activity in the
coming months." Within the Earth’s crust, there is 1 gram of silver
for every 12.5 tonnes of earth (27,600 lbs). This makes silver very difficult
to find. The total amount of silver mined in global history is enough
to create a 52m cube. So who controls that supply? Amid the to-ing and fro-ing of John Kerry and the
nuclear program negotiations, it seemed quite ironic that Iran would unleash a
major naval drill near the strategically vital entrance of the Persian Gulf. As AP reports, more than a dozen swarming Iranian
speedboats assaulted a replica of a U.S. aircraft carrier, as the
Guard's navy chief, Adm. Ali Fadavi, who last month boasted that his force is
capable of sinking American aircraft carriers in the event of war, said on
state television, "American aircraft carriers are very big ammunition
depots housing a lot of missiles, rockets, torpedoes and everything else." No; Mr. Obama has not seen “the great light,” remaining as blind in Middle East affairs as he has
been in his belligerent, anti-Russia approach in Eastern Europe. He,
like Don Quixote, is still riding his Rocinante as he charges the windmills.
Saint Paul did see the great light and is now known as Apostle of the
Gentiles. As for Obama, given his present lackluster status, it’s
unlikely he will be politically canonized, much less be known someday as
Political Apostle of either Americans or Non-Americans. Times, they are a'changing. For the first time in 75 years, according to
multiple reports, CBS News
reports, a new edition of Adolf
Hitler's "Mein Kampf" will be bound for sale in bookstores in Germany.
While the book, long known as "the Nazi bible," is widely available
in the U.S. and much of the English-speaking world, it was for years banned
from being reprinted in Germany over fears it would reignite the passions that
plunged the country into World War II. Still, amid rising
anti-semitism across Europe and a surge in nationalism, the timing is odd and
as the head of Munich's Jewish community exclaimed, "this book is most
evil." In the global geopolitical chess game, does size
matter? Behavioral economics suggests that a little QE can
change human behavior at the margins, but no amount of QE is enough to change human
nature at its core. The
High Priests of the IMF, the Fed, and the ECB are blind to this because all of
modern economic theory – ALL of it – is based on a single bedrock assumption:
humans are economic maximizers. Yes, we are maximizers of reward. But we are also minimizers of
regret. We seem destined to learn the hard way... once again...
that you can’t change human nature by government fiat. But individual investors
and allocators can listen and learn from these old good ideas, and that’s how
you survive the Golden Age of the Central Banker. Back in March 2014 we
forecast that it in the
aftermath of the US State Department-sponsored military coup in Kiev, it was
only a matter of time before Ukraine (all of its sovereign gold having since
"vaporized")
succumbed to full blown hyperinflation and economic implosion. Less than a year
later, precisely this outcome has finally played out, and as a result, the
entire nation has finally entered its economic endgame, one which has two
conclusion: either it joins Greece in becoming a ward of Europe (of which it is
not an official member) and the IMF (thank you Joe Q Public taxpayer), or it
quietly fades away into insolvent "failed state" status. Nasdaq 5,000 or bust (or maybe ...and bust). The following clip came to mind as we see the Nasdaq
ceaselessy inflated day after day, defended as 'different this time' on every
mainstream media channel, and increasingly focused on fewer and fewer large
stocks... While Crude Oil and Dr. Copper are often cited as
economic indicators, as we noted
previously, in fact
Lumber prices are the most correlated with ISM and GDP of all industrial
commodities (h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer). That is a problem. Lumber
prices are tumbling - breaking to 18-month lows today. We have seen this
picture before, and it did not end well... Mikael Thalen | Feds tell military veteran to “be
quiet” for a year to avoid charges. Paul Joseph Watson | And why are liberals endorsing
this huge threat to online freedom? Paul Joseph Watson | Secret plan to grease skids for
censorship & licensing to operate a website. Rob Dew | Canadian scientists and the U.S. Navy say flu shot ineffective. Prison Planet.com | Agency also refuses to publicly release proposed
regulations. Steve Watson | MSNBC/Telemundo rented Miami town hall for staged
propaganda event. Paul Craig Roberts | The lies are too much even for
Henry Kissinger. Washington Post | The agency provided few details
about the program and declined to answer basic questions about it. Breitbart | Cato’s president John Allison introduced
Paul as: “The next President of the United States of America.” Paul Joseph Watson | Coronary heart disease is sexy. WORLD NEWS Unidentified drones reappear over Paris for second
night London Telegraph | At least five more sightings of mystery drones over
central Paris for second consecutive night, stoking security fears in French
capital just weeks after Charlie Hebdo attack. MH370: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight ‘Was
Deliberately Flown Towards Antarctica’ Huffington Post | The theories continue to come thick and fast. Russia plans to create own space station by 2024 RT | Russia has been looking at the possibility of creating its own
space station by 2024. Collapse of Russia will prove major test for US –
Stratfor RT | American think-tank Stratfor has issued a new ‘Decade Forecast.’ 27% of British Muslims have sympathy for Charlie
Hebdo terrorists BBC | 24% DISAGREED that acts of violence against those who publish
images of the Prophet Muhammad can “never be justified”. ·
MONEY WATCH Feds Spend $226,364 on ‘Gender Affirmation’ for
Jailed Transwomen Washington Free Beacon | NIH study of ‘culturally relevant’
interventions in San Francisco. The War On Success: Why America Is Doomed Zero Hedge | This is the war on success that our government is waging. Why Does Maryland Have The Most Millionaires Per
Capita? The Answer Might Make You Angry Michael Snyder | The fat cats in Washington D.C. are living the high
life, and they are doing it at your expense. Mac Slavo | On the surface, the United States is currently one of the
stronger global economies. ·
PRISON PLANET Report: UK Cops Drew Tasers On Over 430 Kids In 2013 Adan Salazar | Officers fired on youths between 10 and
17-years-old 37 times. Canadian Spies Collect Domestic Emails in Secret
Security Sweep The Intercept | Canada’s electronic surveillance agency is covertly
monitoring vast amounts of Canadians’ emails as part of a sweeping domestic
cybersecurity operation, according to top-secret documents. Nick Gillespie | A full-throated defense of classical liberal and
libertarian theorizing. Facebook frontline: Kiev calls up ‘online army’ amid
information war RT | It has reportedly called on bloggers to create accounts to spread
information useful to Kiev. COMMENTARY Fear of Terrorism Can Destroy Your Health … But
There’s Good News Washington’s Blog | Fear of Terrorism Can Kill You. The News: mind control through “cognitive dissonance” Jon Rappoport | From the viewpoint of elite television news, controlling
the minds of its audience depends on what’s politely called “cognitive
dissonance”. US, UK, Kiev in Violation of Minsk Agreement? Lew Rockwell Blog | Both are blatantly breaking the agreements along
with the government in Kiev. Obama’s Extremism Summit Promoted Big Government
Extremism New American | With the Obama administration’s controversial “extremism”
summit now over, critics from across the political spectrum are outraged. ·
MULTIMEDIA Police appeal for help identifying mystery tunnel
digger Global News | Toronto police are asking the public for help tracking
down who built a chamber or tunnel a conservation officer stumbled upon near
York University. Michael Krieger | Take a look at how contemptuously and dismissively
these parents’ concerns are dealt with at the Collier Country School Board Workshop. Christian Singer Claims Jay-Z Hosts Eyes Wide
Shut-Style Occult Parties Paul Joseph Watson | Attendees asked to dress in nothing but black
trench coat. ·
U.S. NEWS U.S. military decimated under Obama, only ‘marginally
able’ to defend nation The Washington Times | The U.S. military is shedding so many troops and
weapons it is only “marginally able” to defend the nation. Democrats: We’ll Block DHS Funds Until Boehner
Surrenders Daily Caller | Top Democrats said Feb. 23 they will hold the homeland
security budget hostage until the GOP’s House caucus agrees to quit its popular
anti-amnesty efforts. College indoctrination on steroids: Capitalism must
be overthrown for sake of humanity Bizpac Review | American universities are pumping out loyal socialist
soldiers. ·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY Sim card maker Gemalto says it was hacked by GCHQ and
NSA but encryption keys are safe London Independent | Intelligence agencies tried to steal important data
as it was passed between phone networks and Sim card maker. Capitalist forces could create ‘uncontrollable’
artificial intelligence – scientist RT | Artificial intelligence (AI) needs to develop human emotion if
humanity is to avoid the potential existential threat posed by machines capable
of consciousness, a leading scientist has warned. Nestle Drops Artificial Colors and Flavors – But
Still Wants to Own the Water Mike Barrett | Could the shift be genuine? SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE The fat cats in Washington D.C. are living the high life, and they are
doing it at your expense. Over the past decade, there has been one area
of the country which has experienced a massive economic boom. Thanks to wildly out of control government spending, the Washington D.C. region is absolutely swimming
in cash. In fact, at this point the state of Maryland has the most
millionaires per capita in the entire nation and it isn’t even close. If
you have never lived there, it is hard to describe what the D.C. area is
like. Every weekday morning, hordes of lawyers, lobbyists and government
bureaucrats descend upon D.C. from the surrounding suburbs. And at the
end of the day, the process goes in reverse. Everyone is just trying to
get their piece of the pie, and it is a pie that just keeps on growing as
government salaries, government contracts and government giveaways just get
larger and larger. Of course our founders never intended for this to
happen. They wanted a very small and simple federal government.
Sadly, today we have the most bloated central government in the history of the
planet and it gets worse with each passing year. (Read More....) When the coming economic crisis strikes, more than
half the country is going to be financially wiped out within weeks. At
this point, more than 60 percent of all Americans are living paycheck to
paycheck, and a whopping 24 percent of the country has more credit card debt
than emergency savings. One of the primary principles that any of these “financial
experts” that you see on television will teach you is to have a cushion to fall
back on. At the very least, you never know when unexpected expenses like
major car repairs or medical bills will come along. And in the event of a
major economic collapse, if you do not have any financial cushion at all you
will be a sitting duck. Yes, I know that there are millions upon millions
of families out there that are just trying to scrape by from month to month at
this point. I hear from people that are deeply struggling in this economy all the time. So I don’t blame them for not
being able to save lots of money. But if you are in a position to build
up an emergency fund, you need to do so. We have been experiencing an
extended period of relative economic stability, but it will not last. In
fact, the time for getting prepared for the next great economic downturn is
rapidly running out, and most Americans are not ready for it at all. The
following are 14 signs that most Americans are flat broke and totally
unprepared for the coming economic crisis… (Read More....) Janet Yellen is very alarmed that some members of
Congress want to conduct a comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve for the
first time since it was created. If the Fed is doing everything
correctly, why should Yellen be alarmed? What does she have to hide?
During testimony before Congress on Tuesday, she made “central bank
independence” sound like it was the holy grail. Even though every other
government function is debated politically in this country, Yellen insists that
what the Federal Reserve does is “too important” to be influenced by the
American people. Does any other government agency ever dare to make that
claim? But of course the Federal Reserve is not a government
agency. It is a private banking cartel that has far more power over our money
and our economy than anyone else does. And later on in this article I am
going to share with you dozens of reasons why Congress should shut it down. (Read More...) The immense power wielded by the Federal Reserve is clearly demonstrated
whenever Janet Yellen speaks publicly. On Tuesday, her comments about
interest rates sent stocks to brand new record highs… Yellen, in her semi-annual testimony before the
Senate banking committee, used a word familiar to investors when she reiterated
that the central bank will be “patient” on raising interest rates for the first
time since the 2008 financial crisis. Traders took that as a sign that interest
rates would remain unchanged until autumn. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 92.35 points
(0.5%) to 18,209.19, while the Standard & Poors 500 gained 5.82 points
(0.3%) to 2,115.48, both eclipsing Friday’s record closes. But Yellen was also unusually defensive on
Tuesday. The “Audit the Fed” bill that is being sponsored by Rand Paul
(among others) has her really freaked out. The following comes from the Hill… Appearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Yellen
was on the defensive, as Republicans questioned how the Fed conducts monetary
policy and Democrats put forward ideas for getting tougher on Wall Street. In the midst of all of it, Yellen generally argued
the Fed was designed as an independent entity for a reason — and it would be
best not to change it. “Central bank independence in conducting monetary
policy is considered a best practice for central banks around the world,” she
said. “Academic studies, I think, establish beyond the shadow of a doubt that
independent central banks perform better.” In fact, she went so far as to mention the “Audit the
Fed” bill by name… A GOP-controlled Congress has given the bill its best
chances yet of passage, and that renewed interest led Yellen to deliver her
most spirited opposition yet. “I want to be completely clear,” she said. “I
strongly oppose Audit the Fed.” Yellen argued the audit measure would allow
politicians to second-guess the Fed’s decisions, which, in turn, would weaken
the central bank. And the ultimate victim of that process, she said, would be
the U.S. economy. So what is she so concerned about? We are all accountable to someone. What is so wrong about the Federal Reserve being
accountable to Congress? Why can’t we find out what is really going on inside
the Fed? And of course it isn’t just Yellen that is freaking
out. Just consider these comments from
Richard Fisher, the president
of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas… “It is always politically convenient to make
something sound mysterious, if not malevolent, by claiming it is opaque,”
Fisher said in a speech to the Economic Club of New York that is part of an
effort by Fed officials to fight the legislation. “My suspicion is that many of those in Congress
calling for ‘auditing’ the Fed are really sheep in wolves’ clothing,” he said.
“Having proven themselves unable to cobble together with colleagues a working
fiscal policy or to construct a regulatory regime that incentivizes rather than
discourages investment and job creation — in other words, failed at their own
job — they simply find it convenient to create a bogeyman out of an entity that
does its job efficiently.” Obviously this is a very, very touchy subject over at
the Fed. It is quite clear that they do not want the rest of
us to be able to see what they are really up to. And the truth is that if the American people really
did know how the Federal Reserve works and what it has been doing behind closed
doors, most Americans would want it shut down tomorrow. At the end of the day, the reality of the matter is
that we don’t even need a Federal Reserve. I really like how David
Stockman made this point the
other day… At the end of the day, American capitalism does not
need recycled political hacks like Jerome H. Powell or clueless school marms
like Janet Yellen to thrive. If we need a Fed at all, it is the one designed by
Carter Glass 100 years ago. That is, a “bankers bank” that was
intended to provide standby liquidity at a penalty spread above the free
market interest rate in consideration for good collateral originating from
inventory and receivables in the real economy. Under that arrangement, there would be no monetary
central planning or pointless attempts to manage the level of GDP, the number
of new jobs, the rate of housing starts, the fluctuations of the CPI or
the amplitudes of the business cycle. There would also be no
pegging of the money market rate, no helping hand for Wall Street gamblers, no
cheap debt to enable profligate politicians to kick-the-can down the road
indefinitely. In short, what the nation really needs is not an
“independent” Fed, but one that is shackled to a narrow and market-driven
liquidity function. The
rest of its current remit is nothing more than the self-serving
aggrandizement of the apparatchiks who run it; and who have now managed to
turn the nation’s vital money and capital markets into dangerous, unstable
casinos, and the nations savers into indentured servants of a bloated and
wasteful banking system. The Federal Reserve has been around for just over a
hundred years, and it has done an absolutely abysmal job for the American
people. I want to share with you some facts and figures that
I have shared
before, but they bear
repeating. Please share this list of 100 reasons why the Federal Reserve
should be shut down with everyone that you know… #1
We like to think that we have a government “of the people, by the people, for the
people”, but the truth is that an unelected, unaccountable group of central
planners has far more power over our economy than anyone else in our society
does. #2
The Federal Reserve is actually “independent” of the government. In fact,
the Federal Reserve has argued vehemently in federal court that it is “not an agency” of the
federal government and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. #3
The Federal Reserve openly admits that the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks
are organized “much like private corporations“. #4
The regional Federal Reserve banks issue
shares of stock to the
“member banks” that own them. #5
100% of the shareholders of the Federal Reserve are private banks. The U.S. government owns zero shares. #6
The Federal Reserve is not an agency of the federal government, but it has been
given power to regulate our banks and financial institutions. This should
not be happening. #7
According to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Congress is the one that is supposed to
have the authority to “coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign
Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures”. So why is the
Federal Reserve doing it? #8
If you look at a “U.S. dollar”, it actually says “Federal Reserve note” at the
top. In the financial world, a “note” is an instrument of debt. #9
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive
Order 11110 which authorized
the U.S. Treasury to issue “United States notes” which were created by the U.S.
government directly and not by the Federal Reserve. He was assassinated
shortly thereafter. #10
Many of the debt-free United States notes issued under President Kennedy are still in circulation today. #11
The Federal Reserve determines what levels some of the most important interest
rates in our system are going to be set at. In a free market system, the
free market would determine those interest rates. #12
The Federal Reserve has become so powerful that it is now known as “the fourth branch of government“. #13
The greatest period of economic growth in U.S. history was when there was no central bank. #14
The Federal Reserve was designed to be a perpetual debt machine.
The bankers that designed it intended to trap the U.S. government in a
perpetual debt spiral from which it could never possibly escape. Since
the Federal Reserve was established 100 years ago, the U.S. national debt has
gotten more than 5000 times larger. #15
A permanent federal income tax was established the exact same
year that the Federal Reserve
was created. This was not a coincidence. In order to pay for all of
the government debt that the Federal Reserve would create, a federal income tax
was necessary. The whole idea was to transfer wealth from our pockets to
the federal government and from the federal government to the bankers. #16
The period prior to 1913 (when there was no income tax) was the greatest period
of economic growth in
U.S. history. #17
Today, the U.S. tax code is about 13
miles long. #18
From the time that the Federal Reserve was created until now, the U.S. dollar
has lost 98
percent of its value. #19
From the time that President Nixon took us off the gold standard until now, the
U.S. dollar has lost 83
percent of its value. #20
During the 100 years before the Federal Reserve was created, the U.S. economy rarely had any problems with inflation. But since the Federal Reserve was
established, the U.S. economy has experienced constant and never ending
inflation. #21
In the century before the Federal Reserve was created, the average annual rate
of inflation was about half a percent. In the century since the Federal
Reserve was created, the average annual rate of inflation has been about
3.5 percent. #22
The Federal Reserve has stripped the middle class of trillions of dollars of
wealth through the hidden tax of inflation. #23
The size of M1 has
nearly doubled since 2008
thanks to the reckless money printing that the Federal Reserve has been doing. #24
The Federal Reserve has been starting to behave like the Weimar Republic,
and we all remember how that ended. #25
The Federal Reserve has been consistently lying to us
about the level of inflation in our economy. If the inflation rate was
still calculated the same way that it was back when Jimmy Carter was president,
the official rate of inflation would be somewhere between 8 and 10 percent today. #26
Since the Federal Reserve was created, there have been 18 distinct recessions or depressions: 1918, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1929, 1937, 1945, 1949,
1953, 1958, 1960, 1969, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1990, 2001, 2008. #27
Within 20 years of the creation of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. economy was
plunged into the Great Depression. #28
The Federal Reserve created the conditions that caused the stock market crash
of 1929, and even Ben Bernanke admits
that the response by the Fed to that crisis made the Great Depression even
worse than it should have been. #29
The “easy money” policies of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan set the stage
for the great financial crisis of 2008. #30
Without the Federal Reserve, the “subprime mortgage meltdown” would probably
never have happened. #31
If you can believe it, there have been 10 different economic recessions since 1950. The Federal Reserve created the
“dotcom bubble”, the Federal Reserve created the “housing bubble” and now it
has created the largest bond bubble
in the history of the planet. #32
According to an official government report, the Federal Reserve made 16.1
trillion dollars in secret
loans to the big banks during the last financial crisis. The following is
a list of loan recipients that was taken directly from page 131 of the report… Citigroup – $2.513 trillion #33
The Federal Reserve also paid those big banks $659.4 million in “fees” to help “administer” those secret loans. #34
During the last financial crisis, big European banks were allowed to borrow an “unlimited” amount of money from the Federal Reserve at ultra-low interest
rates. #35
The “easy money” policies of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have created
the largest financial bubble this nation has ever seen, and this has set the stage for the great
financial crisis that we are rapidly approaching. #36
Since late 2008, the size of the Federal Reserve balance sheet has grown from
less than a trillion dollars to more than 4 trillion dollars. This is complete and utter insanity. #37
During the quantitative easing era, the value of the financial securities that
the Fed has accumulated is greater than the total amount of publicly held debt
that the U.S. government accumulated from the presidency of George Washington through the
end of the presidency of Bill Clinton. #38
Overall, the Federal Reserve now holds more
than 32 percent of all 10
year equivalents. #39
Quantitative easing creates financial bubbles, and when quantitative easing
ends those bubbles tend to deflate rapidly. #40
Most of the new money created by quantitative easing has ended up in the hands of the very wealthy. #41
According to a prominent Federal Reserve insider, quantitative easing has been
one giant “subsidy” for Wall Street banks. #42
As one CNBC article stated, we are seeing absolutely rampant inflation in “stocks and bonds and art and Ferraris“. #43
Donald Trump once made the following statement about quantitative easing: “People like me will benefit from this.” #44
Most people have never heard about this, but a very interesting study conducted for the Bank of England shows that quantitative
easing actually increases the gap between the wealthy and the poor. #45
The gap between the top one percent and the rest of the country is now the
greatest that it has been since
the 1920s. #46
The mainstream media has sold quantitative easing to the American public as an
“economic stimulus program”, but the truth is that the percentage of Americans
that have a job has actually gone down
since quantitative easing first began. #47
The Federal Reserve is supposed to be able to guide the nation toward “full
employment”, but the reality of the matter is that an all-time record 102 million working age Americans do not have a job right now. That number has
risen by about 27 million since the year 2000. #48
For years, the projections of economic growth by the Federal Reserve have consistently overstated
the strength of the U.S. economy. But every single time, the mainstream media
continues to report that these numbers are “reliable” even though all they
actually represent is wishful thinking. #49
The Federal Reserve system fuels the growth of government, and the growth of
government fuels the growth of the Federal Reserve system. Since 1970,
federal spending has grown nearly 12 times as rapidly as median household income has. #50
The Federal Reserve is supposed to look out for the health of all U.S. banks,
but the truth is that they only seem to be concerned about the big ones.
In 1985, there were more than 18,000 banks
in the United States. Today, there are only 6,891 left. #51
The six largest banks in the United States (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America,
Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) have collectively
gotten 37
percent larger over the past
five years. #52
The U.S. banking system has 14.4 trillion dollars in total assets. The
six largest banks now account for 67
percent of those assets and
all of the other banks account for only 33
percent of those assets. #53
The five largest banks now account for 42
percent of all loans in the
United States. #54
We were told that the purpose of quantitative easing is to help “stimulate the
economy”, but today the Federal Reserve is actually paying the big banks not to lend out 1.8 trillion dollars in “excess reserves” that they have parked at the
Fed. #55
The Federal Reserve has allowed an absolutely gigantic derivatives bubble to
inflate which could destroy our financial system at any moment. Right
now, four of the “too big to fail” banks each have total exposure to
derivatives that is well in excess of 40
trillion dollars. #56
The total exposure that Goldman Sachs has to derivatives contracts is more than 381 times greater than their total assets. #57
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has a track record of failure
that would make the Chicago Cubs look good. #58
The secret November 1910 gathering at Jekyll Island, Georgia during which the
plan for the Federal Reserve was hatched was attended by U.S. Senator Nelson W.
Aldrich, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department A.P. Andrews and a whole
host of representatives from the upper crust of the Wall Street banking
establishment. #59
The Federal Reserve was created by the big Wall Street banks and for the
benefit of the big Wall Street banks. #60
In 1913, Congress was promised that if the Federal Reserve Act was passed that
it would eliminate the business cycle. #61
There has
never been a true
comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve since it was created back in
1913. #62
The Federal Reserve system has been described as “the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world“. #63
The following comes directly from the
Fed’s official mission statement: “To provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable
monetary and financial system.” Without a doubt, the Federal Reserve has
failed in those tasks dramatically. #64
The Fed decides what the target rate of inflation should be, what the target
rate of unemployment should be and what the size of the money supply is going
to be. This is quite similar to the “central
planning” that goes on in
communist nations, but very few people in our government seem upset by this. #65
A couple of years ago, Federal Reserve officials walked into one bank in Oklahoma
and demanded that they take down all the Bible verses and all the Christmas buttons that the bank had been displaying. #66
The Federal Reserve has taken some other very frightening steps in recent
years. For example, back in 2011 the Federal Reserve announced plans to identify “key bloggers” and to monitor “billions
of conversations” about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs.
Someone at the Fed will almost certainly end up reading this article. #67
Thanks to this endless debt spiral that we are trapped in, a massive amount of
money is transferred out of our pockets and into the pockets of the
ultra-wealthy each year. Incredibly, the U.S. government spent more than 415 billion dollars just on interest on the national debt in 2013. #68
In January 2000, the average rate of interest on the government’s marketable
debt was 6.620
percent. If we got back
to that level today, we would be paying more than a trillion dollars a year
just in interest on the national debt and it would collapse our entire
financial system. #69
The American people are being killed by compound interest but most of them
don’t even understand what it is. Albert Einstein once made the following statement
about compound interest… “Compound
interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it …
he who doesn’t … pays it.” #70
Most Americans have absolutely no idea where money comes from. The truth
is that the Federal Reserve just creates it out of thin air. The
following is how I have previously
described how money is
normally created by the Fed in our system… When the U.S. government decides that it wants to
spend another billion dollars that it does not have, it does not print up a
billion dollars. Rather, the U.S. government creates a bunch of U.S. Treasury
bonds (debt) and takes them over to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve creates a billion dollars out of
thin air and exchanges them for the U.S. Treasury bonds. #71
What does the Federal Reserve do with those U.S. Treasury bonds? They end
up getting auctioned off to
the highest bidder. But
this entire process actually creates more debt than it does money… The U.S. Treasury bonds that the Federal Reserve
receives in exchange for the money it has created out of nothing are auctioned
off through the Federal Reserve system. But wait. There is a problem. Because the U.S. government must pay interest on the
Treasury bonds, the amount of debt that has been created by this transaction is
greater than the amount of money that has been created. So where will the U.S. government get the money to
pay that debt? Well, the theory is that we can get money to
circulate through the economy really, really fast and tax it at a high enough
rate that the government will be able to collect enough taxes to pay the debt. But that never actually happens, does it? And the creators of the Federal Reserve understood
this as well. They understood that the U.S. government would not have
enough money to both run the government and service the national debt.
They knew that the U.S. government would have to keep borrowing even more money
in an attempt to keep up with the game. #72
Of course the U.S. government could actually create money and spend it directly
into the economy without the Federal Reserve being involved at all. But
then we wouldn’t be 17 trillion dollars in debt and that wouldn’t serve the
interests of the bankers at all. #73
The following is what Thomas Edison once had to say about our absolutely insane
debt-based financial system… That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to
add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He
thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own
money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 —
that is what it amounts to, with interest. People who will not turn a shovelful
of dirt nor contribute a pound of material will collect more money from the
United States than will the people who supply the material and do the work.
That is the terrible thing about interest. In all our great bond issues the
interest is always greater than the principal. All of the great public works
cost more than twice the actual cost, on that account. Under the present system
of doing business we simply add 120 to 150 per cent, to the stated cost. But here is the point: If our nation can issue a
dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good
makes the bill good. #74
The United States now has the largest national debt in the history of the world, and we are stealing roughly 100 million
dollars from our children and our grandchildren every single hour of every
single day in a desperate attempt to keep the debt spiral going. #75
Thomas Jefferson once stated that if he could add just one more amendment to
the U.S. Constitution it would be a ban on all government borrowing… I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment
to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction
of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its
Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government
the power of borrowing. #76
At this moment, the U.S. national debt is sitting at $18,141,409,083,212.36. If we had followed the advice of Thomas
Jefferson, it would be sitting at zero. #77
When the Federal Reserve was first established, the U.S. national debt was
sitting at about 2.9 billion dollars. On average, we have been adding more than that to the national debt
every single day since Obama has been in the White House. #78
We are on pace to accumulate more new debt under the 8 years of the Obama
administration than we did under all of the other presidents in all of U.S.
history combined. #79
If all of the new debt that has been accumulated since John Boehner became
Speaker of the House had been given directly to the American people instead,
every household in America would have been able to
buy a new truck. #80
Between 2008 and 2012, U.S. government debt grew by 60.7
percent, but U.S. GDP only
grew by a total of about 8.5
percent during that entire
time period. #81
Since 2007, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio has increased from 66.6 percent to 101.6 percent. #82
According to the U.S. Treasury, foreigners hold approximately 5.6
trillion dollars of our debt. #83
The amount of U.S. government debt held by foreigners is about 5 times
larger than it was just a
decade ago. #84
As I have written about previously, if the U.S. national debt was reduced to a stack of
one dollar bills it would circle the earth at the equator 45 times. #85
If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his entire fortune to the U.S.
government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for 15
days. #86
Sometimes we forget just how much money a trillion dollars is. If you
were alive when Jesus Christ was born and you spent one million dollars every
single day since that point, you still would not have spent one trillion
dollars by now. #87
If right this moment you went out and started spending one dollar every single
second, it would take you more than 31,000 years to spend one trillion dollars. #88
In addition to all of our debt, the U.S. government has also accumulated more than 200 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. So where in the world
will all of that money come from? #89
The greatest damage that quantitative easing has been causing to our economy is
the fact that it is destroying worldwide faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S.
debt. If the rest of the world stops using our dollars and stops buying
our debt, we are going to be in a massive amount of trouble. #90
Over the past several years, the Federal Reserve has been monetizing a staggering amount of U.S. government debt even though Ben Bernanke once promised that he would
never do this. #91
China recently announced that they are going to quit stockpiling more U.S.
dollars. If the Federal
Reserve was not recklessly printing money, this would probably not have
happened. #92
Most Americans have no idea that one of our most famous presidents was
absolutely obsessed with getting rid of central banking in the United
States. The following is a February
1834 quote by President Andrew
Jackson about the evils of central banking… I too have been a close observer of the doings of the
Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am
convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs
of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you
lost, you charged it to the Bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from
the Bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be
true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin
fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of
vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out and, by the Eternal,
(bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out. #93
There are plenty of possible alternative financial systems, but at this point all 187
nations that belong to the
IMF have a central bank. Are we supposed to believe that this is just
some sort of a bizarre coincidence? #94
The capstone of the global central banking system is an organization known as
the Bank for International Settlements. The following is how I described
this organization in a previous
article… An immensely powerful international organization that
most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the
entire globe. It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it
is the central bank of central banks. It is located in Basel,
Switzerland, but it also has branches in Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is
essentially an unelected, unaccountable central bank of the world that has
complete immunity from taxation and from national laws. Even Wikipedia admits
that “it is not accountable to any single national
government.” The Bank
for International Settlements was used to launder money for the Nazis during
World War II, but these days the main purpose of the BIS is to guide and direct
the centrally-planned global financial system. Today, 58 global central
banks belong to the BIS, and it has far more power over how the U.S. economy
(or any other economy for that matter) will perform over the course of the next
year than any politician does. Every two months, the central bankers of
the world gather in Basel for another “Global Economy Meeting”. During those
meetings, decisions are made which affect every man, woman and child on the
planet, and yet none of us have any say in what goes on. The Bank for
International Settlements is an organization that was founded by the global
elite and it operates for the benefit of the global elite, and it is intended
to be one of the key cornerstones of the emerging one world economic system. #95
The borrower is the servant of the lender, and the Federal Reserve has turned
all of us into debt slaves. #96
Debt is a form of social control, and the global elite use all of this debt to
dominate all the rest of us. 40 years ago, the total amount of debt in
our system (all government debt, all business debt, all consumer debt, etc.)
was sitting at about 2 trillion dollars. Today, the grand total exceeds
56 trillion dollars. #97
Unless something dramatic is done, our children and our grandchildren will be
debt slaves for their entire lives as they service our debts and pay for our
mistakes. #98
Now that you know this information, you are responsible for doing something
about it. #99
Congress has the power to shut down the Federal Reserve any time that it would
like. But right now most of our politicians fully endorse the current
system, and nothing is ever going to happen until the American people start
demanding change. #100
The design of the Federal Reserve system was flawed from the very
beginning. If something is not done very rapidly, it is inevitable that
our entire financial system is going to suffer an absolutely nightmarish
collapse. Posted
by : williambanzai7 Post
date: 02/24/2015 - 12:30 #AskJPM Posted
by: George Washington Post
date: 02/23/2015 - 19:26 CIA vs. Greek Democracy, the Magna Carta, the
Constitution, the Father of Free Market Capitalism and the U.S. Judicial System Central Banks Are Losing Control Posted
by: Phoenix
Capital... Post
date: 02/24/2015 - 13:01 With the Fed and other Central banks now leveraged
well above 50-to-1, even those entities that were backstopping an insolvent
financial system are themselves insolvent. Located in a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west
side is where, according to the Guardian, one can find the domestic
equivalent of a CIA "black site" - an illegal, off-the-books
interrogation compound used by Chicago special police units, one which renders
"Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked
inside"; a place whose former occupants say is where you end up
when you are "disappeared"; a place which confirms that when
it comes to the eternal "who is better - us or them" debate,
there really is no difference: "It brings to mind the
interrogation facilities they use in the Middle East. The CIA calls
them black sites. It’s a domestic black site. When you go in, no one
knows what’s happened to you.” It's a Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib rolled
into one. In short: it is a place where the US constitution and basic human
rights have absolutely no access. The rich get richer and stock buybacks; the
poor get poorer and pink slips. Rinse. Repeat. "If people lose their willingness to recognize
that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from
morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our
agency in determing our futures... I suspect that governments today are more concerned with the loss of
their ability to control and regulate the behavior of their citizens than they
are with their citizens' discontent." With China's return from the Lunar New Year
celebrations, it appears precious metals are benefitting from some pent-up
demand. Gold, and its high-beta cousin Silver have jumped in the Asia session
and are now the best performing asset post-Yellen testimony. US equity
futures have drifted lower from the cash close and copper has given
back most of its gains... "...when he gets thanked it can feel self-serving for the thankers, suggesting that he did it for them, and that they somehow understand the sacrifice, night
terrors, feelings of loss and bewilderment. Or don’t think about it at all." Rather than saying “thank your for your service,” it
appears increasingly clear the appropriate sentiment should be something
like, “I’m really sorry American leadership carelessly sacrificed your life
for no good reason.” As the dash-for-trash continues in US equities,
Neuberger Berman sums up the state of investing currently, "there has
certainly been little reward for owning high-return, superior business models
that are conservatively financed," as Bloomberg notes, Fed policy has
had the “unintended consequence” of boosting the stocks of companies with heavy
debt and little or no earnings. Typically after a recession, such companies
lose out to firms that generate more cash and have better balance sheets; this
time, no “Darwinian” shakeout happened and low-quality stocks ruled.
Managers say they haven’t changed, the market has. The post-1945 European settlement had many successes.
But it is now crumbling. It needs drastic modification. That requires statesmen
of the calibre of the men of 1945. It is time for politicians who wish to earn
a place in history and upgrade themselves to statesmanhood to step up to the
challenge. Modestly higher than the 'contractionary' 49.7 print
in Janauary, February's Markit (flash) China Manufacturing PMI printed at 50.1
(beating expectations of a drop to 49.5). However, before global investors pop the
proverbial champagne corks of global recovery, we note that employment's
drop accelerated, New Export Orders contracted the most since June 2013,
and prices continued to fall. Of course, HSBC is careful to note that
"more policy easing is still warranted" because they believe,
"domestic economic activity is likely to remain sluggish and external
demand looks uncertain." For now Chinese stocks are holding losses after
the lunar new year and the Yuan has weakened further near 30 month lows
- once again testing the upper 2% fix band. This is the war on success that our government is
waging... Before the world morphed into what it has become, the
relationship between stock prices and intraday ranges was somewhat positively
correlated (as one would imagine) - higher prices and a steady vol means
absolute ranges will trend higher. However, the last few years - and most
especially the last few months - as equity index prices soared, so
intraday ranges collapsed. In fact, the last 3 times a new low range
was made, that marked a local high in stock prices. Along with the fact that
the VIX term structure is the steepest since the pre-Bullard collapse,
hedging - as opposed to BTFTAH - seems more appropriate in the short-term at
least. With more than 60 percent of all Americans are living
paycheck to paycheck, and a whopping 24 percent of the country has more credit
card debt than emergency savings, when the coming economic crisis strikes, more
than half the country is going to be financially wiped out within weeks.
If you are trusting in the government to save you when things fall apart,
you will be severely disappointed. One big problem... or two? So did Greece write the Greek reform memo or was it
someone from the European Commission? "The best environment for man is the environment
of liberty." - former
President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus Liberty is a fundamental human right; it is the
cornerstone of our existence. But liberty is under attack from all
directions, whether through higher state control or individuals
themselves. Liberty is in search for its protector. Joe Biggs | Residents being “disappeared” into
elusive interrogation compound. Mikael Thalen | “I pass two or three out a night. It
feels good as an officer to be able to help.” Paul Joseph Watson | Coloring agent in soft drinks
causes tumors in rats. Kit Daniels | Feminists don’t care about real rape victims. Paul Joseph Watson | “The order goes far beyond
protecting net neutrality”. FrontPageMag | “This fear is based on ignorance of
Islam,” Michael Skråmo said. Adan Salazar | Business owner accuses company of colluding with
federal government. Steve Watson | Attorney: “This is nothing less than treating a
mentally ill patient like she’s a reptile.” Steve Watson | 78-Year-Old Was Attempting To Give Treats To
Grandchildren. Paul Joseph Watson | Federal agency interviews
Americans abroad before allowing them to fly home. WORLD NEWS New terror alert for France after ‘at least’ five
drones are spotted flying above Paris landmarks Daily Mail | French security sources where unable to catch the operators
of the drones. Zero Hedge | As the cease-fire deal hangs torn and tattered in the
Debaltseve winds, the nation is a mess. Outgoing UN IPCC Chief reveals global warming ‘is my
religion and my dharma’ Climate Depot | “Yes, the IPCC has, in fact, been led by an
environmentalist on a mission.” Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim
contradicted by Mossad London Guardian | Gulf between Israeli secret service and PM revealed in
documents shared with the Guardian along with other secrets including CIA bids
to contact Hamas. ISIS kidnaps at least 90 Assyrian Christians in
northeast Syria – report RT | Islamic State has kidnapped at least 90 Assyrian Christians in
northeast Syria, Reuters reported, citing a monitoring group. ·
MONEY WATCH Janet Yellen attacks bill to audit the Fed Financial Times | Yellen strongly rejected the plan. No Deal: Gazprom Refuses to Supply Gas Until Ukraine
Actually Pays For It Sputnik | Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said Tuesday that Ukraine’s request
for 114 million cubic meters of gas to be delivered in two days would lead to
full shutdown of fuel deliveries if the payment is not received. Zero Hedge | “There’s no price discovery anymore by the market…
governments impose prices on the market.” Local bankers emerge as Fed ally in fight against
audit bill Reuters | Local bankers are joining the fight against a congressional
proposal to audit the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy decisions. ·
PRISON PLANET Mac Slavo | The NSA, the feds and law enforcement aren’t the only ones
monitoring cell phone data and mobile devices. Apple Patents Technology to Locate Switched-Off
iPhones Sputnik | Technology giant Apple has patented technology that makes it
possible to track the phone’s location even after the gadget has been shutdown. Op-Ed: DHS may shut down but TSA will continue
groping testicles Digital Journal | The Department of Homeland Security might be shutting
down soon but that won’t stop the department from reigning its tyranny on the
American people. Michael Krieger | Toymaker Mattel has unveiled a high-tech Barbie that
will listen to your child. COMMENTARY Obama’s Extremism Summit Promoted Big Government
Extremism New American | With the Obama administration’s controversial “extremism”
summit now over, critics from across the political spectrum are outraged. Obama’s ‘Deal’ Would Allow Iran To Start Building
Nuclear Bombs In About 10 Years
Michael Snyder | Should Iran be permitted to build as many nuclear bombs
as it wants just a decade from now? 75% of Air and Rain Samples Contain Monsanto’s Round
Up Christina Sarich | Biotech isn’t just tainting the food supply. 14 Signs That Most Americans Are Flat Broke And
Totally Unprepared For The Coming Economic Crisis Michael Snyder | When the coming economic crisis strikes, more than half
the country is going to be financially wiped out within weeks. ·
MULTIMEDIA Christian Singer Claims Jay-Z Hosts Eyes Wide
Shut-Style Occult Parties Paul Joseph Watson | Attendees asked to dress in nothing but black
trench coat. WATCH: Black middle schooler slams Barack Obama in
epic YouTube speech The American Mirror | President Obama may enjoy the approval of 84% of
blacks, but don’t count CJ Pearson among them. Boo-Hoo! Whining Feminists Admit Defeat Paul Joseph Watson | Mass media desperate to rescue debunked feminist
narrative. ·
U.S. NEWS Feminists Ignore Woman Violently Gang Raped During
Home Invasion Kit Daniels | Feminists don’t care about real rape victims. Muslim immigration to USA outpacing immigration from
Mexico, Central America Investors.com | Poses Serious National Security Threat. Franklin Graham Blasts Ordinance Allowing
Transgenders To Use Any Public Restroom Truth Revolt | If you’re a parent of a young child in Charlotte, North
Carolina, you may soon want to take your child home to use the restroom, rather
than use any public restroom. ·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY UK Study Finds Fluoridated Water May Cause
Depression, Weight Gain Adan Salazar | “I think it is concerning for people living in those
areas,” says study’s author. Victory: Hershey to Remove GMO Ingredients from Milk
Chocolate Mike Barrett | What’s more, the company is pledging to shift to ‘simple
ingredients.’ Fluoride in drinking water may trigger depression and
weight gain, warn scientists London Telegraph | Around 15,000 people could be suffering needlessly
from thyroid problems because of fluoride in drinking water, the University of
Kent has warned. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE February 24th, 2015 February 24th, 2015 February 24th, 2015 February 24th, 2015 February 24th, 2015 February 24th, 2015 February 24th, 2015 February 23rd, 2015 February 23rd, 2015 Posted
by : Sprott Money Post
date: 02/23/2015 - 16:30 We may all be witnessing the beginning of the end of
the European Union. For years, experts have stated that it is unsustainable for
Greece to stay in the European Union. For years, those experts... Posted
by: George Washington Post
date: 02/23/2015 - 19:26 CIA vs. Greek Democracy, the Magna Carta, the
Constitution, the Father of Free Market Capitalism and the U.S. Judicial System Posted
by: williambanzai7 Post
date: 02/23/2015 - 21:37 Banzai7's Oscon Round Up According to the WSJ, "prosecutors in
the Justice Department’s antitrust division are scrutinizing the price-setting
process for gold, silver, platinum and palladium in London, while the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission has opened a civil investigation, these people said.
The agencies have made initial requests for information, including a
subpoena from the CFTC to HSBC Holdings PLC related to precious-metals trading,
the bank said in its annual report Monday. Who is involved in this latest
gold-rigging scandal? Why everyone! ... which makes it immediately obvious why
the European regulator had to promptly cover up the whole affair. Under
scrutiny are Bank of Nova Scotia , Barclays PLC, Credit Suisse Group AG ,
Deutsche Bank AG , Goldman Sachs Group Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.,
Société Générale SA, Standard Bank Group Ltd. and UBS AG , according to one of
the people close to the investigation. Conspiracy 'Theory' becomes Conspiracy 'Fact. "There's no price discovery anymore by the market... governments impose prices on the market." -
Pippa Malmgren, former member of the U.S. President’s Working Group on
Financial Markets. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/23/2015 - 22:25 Photographs indicate that massive construction
projects are underway on the newly build islands at Fiery Cross and Johnson
South Reefs, while less extensive but still serious construction is ondoing at
Hughes, Gaven, and Cuarteron Reefs. Given the extent to which future
control over the shipping lanes of the South China Sea will impact the global
balance of power, China’s island construction is worthy of our attention. According to the WSJ, "prosecutors in
the Justice Department’s antitrust division are scrutinizing the price-setting
process for gold, silver, platinum and palladium in London, while the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission has opened a civil investigation, these people said.
The agencies have made initial requests for information, including a
subpoena from the CFTC to HSBC Holdings PLC related to precious-metals trading,
the bank said in its annual report Monday. Who is involved in this latest
gold-rigging scandal? Why everyone! ... which makes it immediately obvious why
the European regulator had to promptly cover up the whole affair. Under
scrutiny are Bank of Nova Scotia , Barclays PLC, Credit Suisse Group AG ,
Deutsche Bank AG , Goldman Sachs Group Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.,
Société Générale SA, Standard Bank Group Ltd. and UBS AG , according to one of
the people close to the investigation. Conspiracy 'Theory' becomes Conspiracy 'Fact. "There's no price discovery anymore by the market... governments impose prices on the market." -
Pippa Malmgren, former member of the U.S. President’s Working Group on
Financial Markets. Photographs indicate that massive construction
projects are underway on the newly build islands at Fiery Cross and Johnson
South Reefs, while less extensive but still serious construction is ondoing at
Hughes, Gaven, and Cuarteron Reefs. Given the extent to which future
control over the shipping lanes of the South China Sea will impact the global
balance of power, China’s island construction is worthy of our attention. Oops! Amid new money-laundering allegations against
HSBC's Swiss arm, The Guardian
reports that leaked
files show that CEO Stuart Gulliver sheltered US$7.6 million in a Swiss account
through a Panamanian company. While a spokesperson for the bank said
that taxes were paid on these funds in Hong Kong, when asked why he used a
Panamanian company to hold the funds, given Swiss accounts already offer
secrecy, they declined to comment. With Gulliver stating, "the
business has been transformed and standards are now up to scratch," we
prsume, of course, that the PR spin will be: who better to refocus the
'new' HSBC on battling tax fraud than someone who has been there and done
that... "The economy is booming, according to recent
data. GDP grew by 2.6% annualized in the last quarter. And yet oil prices have
dropped faster than they did in the crisis of 2008. The US dollar is at record
strength. And the gold price has spiked in many currencies ... Something’s not
right here." So says Eric Sprott in his latest report observing what may
lie in store for oil and gold in the near future. With proxy wars mounting and "isolated"
Russia ratifying The BRICS Bank this week, we are sure Washington is preparing
to double-down on 'costs' (to Europeans) as Reuters reports, Russia has offered Iran its latest
Antey-2500 missiles (ironically after a deal to supply less powerful
S-300 missiles was dropped under Western pressure in 2010). While the United
States and Israel lobbied Russia to block the missile sale, the head
of Russian state defense conglomerate, Sergei Chemezov, says, "as far
as Iran is concerned, we offered Antey-2500 instead of S-300. They are
thinking. No decision has been made yet." This is the biggest problem facing the world today,
namely that at least 9 countries have debt/GDP above 300%, and that a
whopping 39% countries have debt-to-GDP of over 100%! It was one year ago last weekend that a violent coup
overthrew the legally elected government of Ukraine. More than 5,000 have been killed and many of those
were civilians bombed in their cities by Kiev. What if John McCain had
stayed home and worried about his constituents in Arizona instead of
non-constituents 6,000 miles away? What if the other US and EU politicians had
done the same? What if Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt had
focused on actual diplomacy instead of regime change? If they had done so,
there is a good chance many if not all of those who have been killed in the
violence would still be alive today. Interventionism kills. Fed Chair Yellen will be presenting her semi-annual
monetary policy testimony - sometimes called the "Humphrey-Hawkins"
testimony - on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Goldman expects Yellen not
to stray far from the message of the January FOMC statement and meeting
minutes, seeing it unlikely she will preempt the Committee by sending a
strong signal on whether "patience" will be removed from the
statement at the March meeting. The testimony will probably not be a
major market mover. Nonetheless, to the extent there are risks to our
"don't rock the boat" expectation, Goldman thinks they are skewed
toward a slightly more dovish tilt. Despite endless proclamations that the world has
'escaped' the financial crisis, the data (and actions) simply do not back that
up. The constant propagandizing of either a) US is economically strong and will
drive the world's growth engine (factually incorrect), or b) the rest of the
world is about to revert to higher growth seems entirely anathema to the fact
that in 2015, we have seen a wave of monetary easing - most recently today by
Israel. That makes it 20 central banks that have cut rates (or eased
policy) in the last few weeks - covering over 50% of the world's population. Earlier this month, we highlighted the fact that the
latest Samsung Smart TV can and will listen to your conversations, and will
share the details with a third party. Well a couple of weeks later, and we
learn that Mattel’s latest high-tech Barbie doll will bring the “internet of
things” right into your child’s playpen... "the high-tech toy will
listen to your child, record its words, send them over the internet for
processing, and talk back to your kid." As Russia celebrates 'Defender Of The Fatherland'
Day, they had an interesting
message on the side of the parade's missiles: "To be personally
delivered to Obama." When, amid the plunging stock market in October
as we neared the end of QE3, Jim Bullard said QE4 was possible; not only
did markets then undertake the longest and most consistent streak of gains in
history, he appears to have entirely changed the market's reaction
function to data... When the German/Eurogroup decision came to throw
either their own biggest banks, or the grandmas of a co-member nation of the
currency union under the bus, they didn't even hesitate since they have control
over the perfect vehicle for such tasks: the ECB (an allegedly neutral
institution that in reality peddles political influence in a way that
guarantees the poorer countries will always wind up footing the bill). For
those of you who don’t want to wake up one day to find their own grandmas
crushed under the same bus the Greek yiayia’s are under as we speak, it would be
beneficial to ponder how perverse this all is, not just the isolated events but
the entire underlying system that produces them. Banks are more
important than people, certainly grandmas. Because when in doubt how to best start a war, lie. Paul Joseph Watson | Attendees asked to dress in
nothing but black trench coat. Kit Daniels | West behind overthrow of Ukrainian government, former congressman
says. Paul Joseph Watson | Victim offering no resistance
gets blasted with 50,000 volts. Prison Planet.com | Tune in Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 11:30am CST! Kurt Nimmo | Feds launch propaganda campaign as new phase of war on terror ramps
up Kit Daniels | Austin, Texas, and other cities showering illegals with free goodies. Steve Watson | “I don’t know what it is I’m signing,
but it’s all good.” Daily Caller | A federal judge has ordered the
federal government to grant U.S. civil rights to illegals who are caught at the
border. Paul Joseph Watson | Journalist set to release
bombshell story. WORLD NEWS Ron Paul: U.S., EU Behind Ukraine Coup Kit Daniels | West behind overthrow of Ukrainian government, former congressman
says. Saudi Newspaper Claims Islamic State May Get Libya’s
Chemical Weapons Kurt Nimmo | WMDs effectively drum up public consensus for war even when they do
not exist Document Reveals Growth of Cyberwarfare Between the
U.S. and Iran NY Times | A newly disclosed National Security Agency document
illustrates the striking acceleration of the use of cyberweapons. Saudi King’s Counter-Terror Event Hosted by Group
Accused of Terror-Financing, Promoting Intolerance CNS News | For years has been denying U.S. government charges of
associations with terrorism. France deploys aircraft carrier against ISIS in Iraq
– ministry RT | France has deployed its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier against
the Islamic State. ·
MONEY WATCH Local bankers emerge as Fed ally in fight against
audit bill Reuters | Local bankers are joining the fight against a congressional
proposal to audit the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy decisions. Whatever Became of Economists? Paul Craig Roberts | And the American economy. If The Troika Says “Nein” Tomorrow, Here’s What The
“New Drachma” Will Look Like Zero Hedge | The Greeks have already drawn up the “New Drachma” notes…
just in case… Mac Slavo | Something big is going to happen. ·
PRISON PLANET Watch As Florida Police Tase Elderly Man With His
Hands Up Free Thought Project | A shocking video uploaded to YouTube on Sunday
shows an elderly gentleman with his hands up, posing no risk or threat to the
officers, get tased in front of horrified witnesses. Secrecy around police surveillance equipment proves a
case’s undoing Washington Post | The case is emblematic of the growing, but hidden, use
by local law enforcement of a sophisticated surveillance technology borrowed
from the national security world. ‘Teetering’ Dems now chasing after WHITE votes; ‘by
calling people racists?’ Bizpac Review | The Democratic Party is learning that if it wants to win
elections, capturing the majority might be important. COMMENTARY Cops Fire 18 Bullets at Innocent Man Suffering From
Mental Illness, Paralyzing Him
CourthouseNews.com | Police needlessly shot and paralyzed a man who
experienced a mental breakdown after being taken off anti-psychotic medication,
a lawsuit claims. Prison Planet.com | Mainstream economists are sounding the alarm. Most Americans Are Slaves And They Don’t Even Know It Michael Snyder | Most Americans spend their lives working for others,
paying off debts to others and performing tasks that others tell them that they
“must” do. The New Madrid Earthquake That Will Divide The United
States In Half Michael Snyder | Once upon a time, North America almost divided along a
very deep subsurface rift. ·
MULTIMEDIA WATCH: Black middle schooler slams Barack Obama in
epic YouTube speech The American Mirror | President Obama may enjoy the approval of 84% of
blacks, but don’t count CJ Pearson among them. Boo-Hoo! Whining Feminists Admit Defeat Paul Joseph Watson | Mass media desperate to rescue debunked feminist
narrative. Shocking Video Shows College Students Condemning Free
Speech And The 1st Amendment Truth Revolt | Just how important is the First Amendment to students
today? ·
U.S. NEWS Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones to Debate Energy
Dependence Prison Planet.com | Tune in Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 11:30am CST! Dozens of Cities Host “Welcoming Committees” For
Illegals Kit Daniels | Austin, Texas, and other cities showering illegals with free goodies. Four dead, one seriously injured in Texas shooting Reuters | Four people were dead and one woman was in serious condition
on Monday after gunfire erupted at two homes in Killeen, Texas, according to
local police. ·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY Science Discovers Molecule that ‘Stops Alzheimer’s in
its Tracks’ Mike Barrett | A naturally occurring molecule may be the answer in
stopping Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages. Processed Foods Indisputably Linked To Auto-Immune
Disease Christina Sarich | U.S. fast foods have twice the salt of other
countries. Government Researchers Are Working on Letting You
Plug Your Brain Straight into the Internet Vice | Having a small electronic device plug into your DNA and enhance
your eyesight with a Terminator-style display is not that far-fetched. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE 'FUTURE OF ENTIRE INTERNET AT STAKE' COMCAST, Al Sharpton Hit With $20
Billion Racial Discrimination Lawsuit... CIA looks to expand its online
spying capabilities... YAHOO exec, NSA chief clash over
online data privacy... Water Thefts on Rise in
Drought-Stricken California... Most Americans spend their lives working for others, paying
off debts to others and performing tasks that others tell them that they “must”
do. These days, we don’t like to think of ourselves as “servants” or
“slaves”, but that is what the vast majority of us are. It is just that
the mechanisms of our enslavement have become much more sophisticated over
time. It has been said that the borrower is the servant of the lender,
and most of us start going into debt very early into our adult years. In
fact, those that go to college to “get
an education” are likely to
enter the “real world” with a staggering amount of debt. And of course
that is just the beginning of the debt accumulation. Today, when you add
up all mortgage debt, all credit card debt and all student loan debt, the
average American household is carrying a grand total of 203,163
dollars of debt.
Overall, American households are more than 11 trillion dollars in debt at this point. And even though most Americans
don’t realize this, over the course of our lifetimes the amount of money that
we will repay on our debts is far greater than the amount that we originally
borrowed. In fact, when it comes to credit card debt you can easily end
up repaying several times the amount of money that you originally
borrowed. So we work our fingers to the bone to pay off these debts, and
the vast majority of us are not even working for ourselves. Instead, our
work makes the businesses that other people own more profitable. So if we
spend the best years of our lives building businesses for others, servicing
debts that we owe to others and making others wealthier, what does that make
us? (Read More....) Once upon a time, North America almost divided along
a very deep subsurface rift. Today, that rift system and the faults
associated with it are known as the New Madrid fault zone. This fault
zone is six times larger than the San Andreas fault zone in California and it covers
portions of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Mississippi. Back in 1811 and 1812, four of the largest earthquakes in
U.S. history struck that area of the country. The movement of the ground
was so powerful that it changed the course of the Mississippi River and it rang
church bells in Boston, Massachusetts. So could such an earthquake (or
worse) strike today? Well, last year the U.S. Geological Survey released
a report that warned that the New Madrid fault zone has the “potential for larger and more powerful quakes than
previously thought“, and the
USGS also admits that the number of significant earthquakes in the middle part
of the country has more than quintupled in recent years.
We also know that the U.S. government and large corporations are so concerned
about the potential for a major New Madrid earthquake that they have held major
exercises that simulate one. Scientists tell us that it is just a matter
of time until another superquake hits the region, and personally I am one of
the millions of Americans that believe that we will eventually see a New Madrid
earthquake that will divide the United States in half. That is one of the
reasons why I included a New Madrid earthquake in my novel. But others are skeptical. They point out that we have not
seen a truly devastating earthquake in that region for more than 200
years. So why be concerned about one now? (Read More...) Posted
by : smartknowledgeu Post
date: 02/22/2015 - 06:51 Diversity and the divergent thinking that arises from
diverse perspectives are the most important teachers of critical thinking, and
critical thinking, in turn, is the most important teacher of... Worst Spying In World History – Worse Than Any
Dystopian Novel – Is Occurring RIGHT NOW Posted
by: George Washington Post
date: 02/21/2015 - 22:56 NSA Spying Worse than Stasi or Nazi Germany, J. Edgar
Hoover … Or Orwell’s 1984 Posted
by: CalibratedConfidence Post
date: 02/22/2015 - 05:29 Apparently it is beneficial to have Dick Grasso
(former NYSE Chief Executive and Chairman) along with Jack Sander (former CME
Chairman) and General John Abizaid (former head of US Central Command) on... "We really cannot exit this [era of QE and ZIRP]
without some significant market event... The end has to come at some point... Gold will go measurably higher... In any market that is so one sided, that is
accelerating so rapidly, that trend will end… it will most likely end in a fairly violent
fashion." Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/22/2015 - 21:45 With record heat (and drought) in the west and record
cold (wet and snow) in the east, the global warming game-playing continues
every day but the climate-gate rhetoric has increased vociferously since we first
noted three weeks ago, the data
that has been so relied upon to 'prove' global warming's trend was in fact
manipulated. What The
Telegraph called "the most extraordinary scandal of our times"
- that of the "seasonally-adjusted" seasonal raw global temperature
data - is about to be investigated by Congress. As Daily Caller
reports, California
Republican Rep. Dana Rohrbacher exclaimed "expect there to be
congressional hearings into NASA altering weather station data to falsely
indicate warming & sea rise." With the S&P 500 now in positive territory for
the year and the mainstream media back in normal cheerleading mode,
it is worth noting that 1) "Most shorted" stocks have outperformed
the broad market this year, 2) the last 3 weeks have seen the biggest short
squeeze in almost 4 years, and 3) Hedge funds are now at a record high
57% net long. We suspect, given the looming Humphrey-Hawkins and March
FOMC and the short-term 'gap' between the market and fun-durr-mentals,
volatility will be on the rise again. Everyone’s heard of trickle down economics, but
how about “trickle down QE”? Here’s Citi to explain how a hypothetical
credit strategist will visit your fictional office and use the concept of
trickle down QE to convince an imaginary you to go long euro HY credit via
synthetic exposure to Crossover mezz tranches (you can’t make this stuff up)... Financial repression "is going on on several
fronts conducted by different people for their own agendas, though they all
seem to be mutually supporting... There is a lot of collusion -
the cancer which started in the US Financial System has spread globally...
You now have two parties with the same head and reporting to the same masters. There
is no longer any countervailing power." For the last few years - and most especially the last
few months - all eyes have been focused on Greece. From record poverty rates to
record suicide rates and levels of youth unemployment, post-election emboldened
hopes for a phoenix-like rebirth of a nation from the flames of Eurogroup
repression were seemingly dashed on Friday. However there is another nation,
that begins with the letter 'G' and that is at the heart of the EU-Greece talks
that is suffering seemingly silently. As Newsweek
reports, poverty
in Germany is at its highest since the reunification of the country in 1990,
with 12.5 million residents now classified as 'poor'... Either all futures market participants are comically
inept or demand is the variable that shifted hard. Those are the only two possibilities. The problem, as several sources told Reuters last
week, is that there
simply aren’t a lot of willing sellers. Ironically, the ECB’s own policy maneuvers are ultimately
responsible for creating this situation. That is, the fallout from
previous forays into ultra accommodative monetary policy is now hampering the
implementation of quantitative easing - call it the ultimate easy money
paradox. It's different this time... "decoupled"
"cleanest dirty shirt" "goldilocks" - oh wait! "NATO is doing its utmost to present Russia as
an enemy of the West and thereby justify its existence," Zemmour wrote in Le Figaro Magazine.
"Fortunately, France and Germany in due time blocked Ukraine’s accession
to NATO, and that’s a positive fact. "Now when they finally coordinated
their positions on establishing relations with Moscow, they should not stop
halfway and should move towards forming a tripartite alliance with Russia,"
he said, recalling numerous efforts in the past by "kings, emperors and
presidents" of the three countries to set up such an alliance." Such
a bloc "will be the only chance for Europe to get rid of the
United States protectorate and become, in the words of General de Gaulle, a
‘Free Europe’." First it was ruthless snow (in the winter), then we
got a port blockade (caused by well-paid US workers demanding even more), and
now, unveiling the last pillar of the holy trifecta of economic disappointment
scapegoats, earlier today the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,
aka the "Department of Fear", Jeh Johnson said that in a video the Al
Qaeda-linked terrorist group al Shabaab called for attacks on US shopping
malls, specifically citing the Minnesota mall, and that the agency is taking this
threat against the Mall of America “very seriously” and that people should be
“particularly careful” when visiting the mall in Minnesota. It was unclear just
how being "careful" would protect one from ad hoc explosive
detonations and other mass murder event, but that's a bridge the Department of
Fear will cross when it gets to it. Thanks to global disinflationary pressures driven by
the savings glut, an oil glut, and universally high (peak) debt levels
(crushing the transmission mechanisms of textbook economists), central planners
have gone full ease-tard in 2015. From a 'balanced' 10 easing, 9
tightening bias (~1:1) in December, Morgan Stanley illustrates in the following
chart there are now 16 central banks easing and only 4 with a tightening bias
(4:1) as it appears the one-trick pony brigade are trying moar of what
didn't work the first, second, and last times in an effort to prove this time
is different... After U.S.
State Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf announced that the long-term strategy
in the fight against ISIS was to create jobs for potential jihadists, countless terrorists began filling out
applications. Here are a few examples (along with a blank application for
potential jihadists on the job hunt)... When it comes to the ongoing Greek question, I see a
lot of people eagerly jump to conclusions, after the ‘debt deal’, that I don’t
think are justified; certainly not yet. The overall conviction in the press
seems to be that Syriza has given in on just about all fronts, and Germany and
Dijsselbloem are the big winners. But since that may well be the exact position
Syriza wants ‘the other side’ to be in, where they think they have prevailed,
one will have to try and think a few steps ahead before judging the situation.
There’s far more grey area here than many pundits seem to assume, easily 50
shades of it. Washington Times | Schlafly makes her case in a 2015
update to her landmark book. RT | The Syrian government has said a Turkish
incursion into the north of the country was an act of “flagrant aggression.” Anthony Gucciardi | Public awakens to what’s really
in their food. Daily Express | Three parent babies could risk the
future of the human race. ABC Australia | Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear
plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water into the sea. Zero Hedge | There is absolutely nothing on the table
that could be considered a concession. Washington’s Blog | The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace
For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth. Michael Krieger | With another Bush and another
Clinton likely on the ballot, there’s basically only one candidate running. The Hill | The Obama administration will seek an
emergency court order to move forward with President Obama’s executive action
on immigration. Posted
by : Sprott Money Post
date: 02/21/2015 - 07:01 Unsustainable. Self-destructive. Readers have heard
these terms again and again over the past 6+ years. They accurately encompass
the status of our societies/economies (unsustainable), and... Since 9/11, The U.S. Has Been Involved In More Than 5
Wars … And They’ve All Been Disasters Posted
by: George Washington Post
date: 02/20/2015 - 13:28 Why Does America Keep “Losing” Its Wars? Dollar Bulls to Yellen: A Little Help Here, Please Posted
by: Marc To Market Post
date: 02/21/2015 - 10:40 Outlook for the US dollar and other markets in the
week ahead. Some Greeks wondered what the government had
achieved. "We went through two months of agony, emptied the banks,
to realize we are still a debt colony," 54-year-old electrician
Dimitris Kanakis told Reuters. "The paymasters call the shots."...
Pensioner Paradisanos Rigas siad: "It looks to me that nothing has
changed. Later on they'll throw us some bones and say everything is fine.
Syriza will be saying we put up a fight, while the other side will be saying
you did nothing. And I think that it will be the same, just more of the
same." "We don't want to scare everybody, but we are
preparing for full-scale war," warns Vadym Prystaiko - Ukraine's deputy foreign minister - telling CBC
during a stunning interview
that "what we expect from the world is that the world will stiffen up
in the spine a little." Prystaiko concludes, "we would
like [The West] to send lethal weapons to Ukraine... weapons to allow us to
defend ourselves." We would do well to consider the possibility of war
strategies when it comes to the global stockpiling of petroleum reserves. In the years leading up to the German invasion of
Poland, the world witnessed dramatic decreases in the price of oil as well as
massive increases in petroleum inventories, especially as the Texas fields
began to produce. These shifts in the global oil markets ran parallel to the
deflation which had begun in October, 1929, and as such, we can see the same
pattern repeating today as oil prices collapse, inventories are
growing, and world wide deflation is deepening. Three years after the Tohoku earthquake in Japan,
citizens and the international community are left wondering if Japan really
does have the situation in Fukushima under control... "TEPCO's own
engineers are clueless... nobody knows how much [radiation] is washing into the
ocean." A quick recap of the key implications of Friday’s
Greek “deal”, and what it means for the future of the Eurozone, the common
currency and capital markets. "...those companies were among the many that
gave to the Clinton family’s global foundation set up by her husband, former
President Bill Clinton. At least 60 companies that lobbied the State Department during her
tenure donated a total of more than $26 million to the Clinton Foundation, ...Mrs. Clinton’s connections to the companies
don’t end there. As secretary of state, she created 15 public-private
partnerships coordinated by the State Department, and at least 25 companies contributed to those
partnerships." "Our media is not run by the government, and nor
does it engage in widespread censorship. Instead, the media is run by a tiny
group of politically motivated moguls, themselves in league with other private
interests through advertising or personal networks....Rather than being a means
to hold the powerful to account and fairly report issues, the media is the
ultimate political lobbyist for our elite. We desperately need more
opponents of the status quo in the mainstream media. The reason we don’t have
any is because – in our deeply compromised democracy – the media is so often
there to serve the interests of the rich." "... should interest rates rise later this year,
some households and corporations may find themselves overleveraged as
interest rates and borrowing costs rise. When looking at interest rate
sensitivity by loan product, we see that auto loans rates are the most
sensitive to changes in the fed funds target rate. In addition, we can see that
for each one-percentage point rise in the fed funds rate, the interest rate on
a 48-month new car loan rises 0.61 percentage points." Government mandated fiat currency simply does not
work in the long run. We
have empirical evidence galore – every fiat currency system in history has
failed, except the current one, which has not failed yet. The modern fiat money
system is more ingeniously designed than its historical predecessors and has a
far greater amount of accumulated real wealth to draw sustenance from, so it
seems likely that it will be relatively long-lived as far as fiat money systems
go. In a truly free market, fiat money would never come into existence
though. Greenspan was wrong – government bureaucrats cannot create something
“as good as gold” by decree. “When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to
get up and dance. We’re
still dancing.” "Depressingly, our instinct is that those new
forecasts are more likely too conservative than too aggressive. Longer-term,
sweet dreams really aren't made of this." "Are the playing cat and mouse?" Or,
"Is this some form of brilliant display of game theory that we mere
mortals can’t understand?" If it is borne out to be true that what is being reported throughout
many media channels is the fact that Greece has indeed nearly forfeited all its
positions in-turn for some changes in language as to appear they have indeed
stood up to their nemesis “and won” will not only be disappointing, in our opinion
it will embolden central bankers and Keynesian devotees everywhere to view the
monetary world with even more self-aggrandized thoughts and actions. "...Large areas of the United States that
used to experience few or no earthquakes have, in recent years, experienced a
remarkable increase in earthquake activity.. This rise in seismic activity,
especially in the central United States, is not the result of
natural processes... Instead, the increased
seismicity is due to fluid injection associated with new technologies that
enable the extraction of oil and gas from previously unproductive reservoirs." Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is seriously
considering a run for the White House in 2016, said Wednesday that the
National Security Agency’s program that collects bulk telephone records was
“hugely important,” throwing his support behind the practice as
Congress debates whether to reauthorize or limit it. At an event on foreign
policy hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Mr. Bush, a Republican,
said, “For the life of me, I don’t understand the debate” over the
metadata program. An Egyptian student living in Milan, who walked
around the city for five hours dressed as an imam, has released a video showing
how he was insulted along the way. Dressed in an imam’s robe and carrying a copy of the Koran, Hamdy
Mahisen made the video below, published by La Repubblica, as part of a social
experiment to see how tolerant people in Milan are of Muslims. Along
the way, he attracted odd stares and insults such as "Taliban
shit!". One onlooker said, "Shit, have you seen the Isis?" while
another remarked, "Imagine if he has a gun under his tunic". Washington’s Blog | The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace
For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth. Michael Krieger | With another Bush and another
Clinton likely on the ballot, there’s basically only one candidate running. The Hill | The Obama administration will seek an
emergency court order to move forward with President Obama’s executive action
on immigration. Mac Slavo | Earlier this week John Williams warned
that hyperinflation will begin to appear in America sometime in 2015. RT | A massive blaze has engulfed one of the tallest
residential buildings in the world. Prison Planet.com | David and Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
discuss the origins of the VAERS Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Jon Bowne | President opens the flood gates while
ignoring the threat from radical jihadists. Paul Joseph Watson | Mass media desperate to rescue
debunked feminist narrative. Kit Daniels | Women are not individuals with inalienable rights but are merely
statistics, according to her argument. Mikael Thalen | “We decided to change the names of
any birds that could have stirred up a debate.” WORLD NEWS CIA-planted ‘evidence’ may force IAEA review of
Iran’s alleged nuke arms program – report RT | Doctored blueprints for nuclear weapon components supplied to Iran by
the CIA 15 years ago could force the IAEA to review its conclusions on Iran’s
atomic program. ] US “Easing Into” War with Syria Using ISIS Boogeyman Tony Cartalucci | The US is a few “accidental” airstrikes away from
total war with Syria. ] Kiev accuses Russia of sending more tanks to east
Ukraine Reuters | Kiev accused Russia on Friday of sending more tanks and troops
into eastern Ukraine. ] White House Summit on Violent Extremism Opens With
Muslim Prayer – No Other Faiths Represented CNS News | A Muslim prayer was recited at the start of the second day of
the White House summit on “Countering Violent Extremism.” ] Britain ‘at mercy’ of Putin in a war against Russia,
former defence chiefs warn London Independent | Russian aircraft have been flying near Britain’s
airspace. ] ·
MONEY WATCH Greece and the Endgame of the Neocolonial Model of
Exploitation Charles Hugh Smith | With the bankruptcy of Greece now undeniable, we’ve
finally reached the endgame of the Neocolonial-Financialization Model. ] The Hill | The Federal Reserve is pushing back against mounting
criticism of the central bank, even as those pushing for reforms ratchet up
their attacks. ] Greek Deposit Run Accelerates Ahead Of Monday’s Bank
Holiday Zero Hedge | As much as EUR 25bn euros have left Greek banks since the
end of December. ] It’s Germany vs. Greece, And The Very Survival Of The
Eurozone Is At Stake Michael Snyder | Is this the beginning of the end for the eurozone? ] ·
PRISON PLANET Bye-Bye Police Tanks? Law-Makers Propose
Anti-Police-Militarization Bill
Free Thought Project | A bill introduced in Montana, HB 330, which would
attempt to reign in the growing militarization of law enforcement is making its
way through the House. ] Eric Garner’s family hasn’t received a dime from
online fundraisers – report RT | Tens of thousands of dollars have been raised online for the family
of Eric Garner. ] It’s all about ‘image’: National Guard was
deliberately held back as Ferguson burned Bizpac Review | Top officials deliberately kept the National Guard from
protecting property during the November looting. ] Snowden docs reveal mass cell phone hack through
‘Great SIM Heist’ RT | The US and Britain broke into the network of the world’s largest
SIM card maker to compromise global communications. ] COMMENTARY Worst Spying In World History – Worse Than Any
Dystopian Novel – Is Occurring RIGHT NOW Washington’s Blog | NSA Spying Worse than Stasi or Nazi Germany, J.
Edgar Hoover … Or Orwell’s 1984. ] Big Pharma Dangles Life and Death Over Patients’
Heads Tony Cartalucci | Breakthroughs in gene therapy mean a single shot could
cure you … permanently … but for a price. ] Gen. Wesley Clark: ‘ISIS Got Started With Funding
From Our Closest Allies’ Daniel McAdams | Clark is back with another very interesting blurt. ] Since 9/11, The U.S. Has Been Involved In More Than 5
Wars … And They’ve All Been Disasters Washington’s Blog | Why Does America Keep “Losing” Its Wars? ] ·
MULTIMEDIA Shocking Video Shows College Students Condemning Free
Speech And The 1st Amendment Truth Revolt | Just how important is the First Amendment to students
today? Shock Video! Gov. Caught Lying About Vaccine Dangers Prison Planet.com | Bombshell report destroys the hoax that vaccines
are perfectly safe and effective. ] Special Report: Obama Depicted As Rape Suspect Joe Biggs | Was there any truth to a local news affiliate’s production
error? ] ·
U.S. NEWS Obama taunts Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul during
Democrats’ winter meeting Washington Times | President Obama taunted Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell Friday for saying that the economy began to pick up due to the GOP
taking full control of Congress. ] Feminist: Allowing Women to Carry on Campus “Devalues
Sexual Assault” Kit Daniels | Women are not individuals with inalienable rights but are merely
statistics, according to her argument. ] Ron Paul: “Good News” That Secession Is Happening BuzzFeed | “The good news is it’s gonna happen. It’s happening.” ] ·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY Great Lakes Likely to Have Most Ice This Year Since Records
Began Gateway Pundit | An aerial view shows most of Lake Superior is already
covered by ice. The last time ice coverage was over 80 percent in back-to-back
years was in the 1970s. ] 500lb meteor spotted over Pennsylvania (VIDEO) RT | Americans in New York, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania reported
seeing a fiery, 500-pound meteor soar through the sky. ] Another huge nail in the coffin of psychiatry Jon Rappoport | Psychiatry isn’t a science. It isn’t even close. It’s a
hoax. ] SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE Posted
by : Sprott Money Post
date: 02/20/2015 - 07:05 For the past quarter century; the most
effective “stimulus” for the U.S. economy has been a fall in gasoline prices.
This is no great surprise, given that the United States had been ... Since 9/11, The U.S. Has Been Involved In More Than 5
Wars … And They’ve All Been Disasters Posted
by: George Washington Post
date: 02/20/2015 - 13:28 Why Does America Keep “Losing” Its Wars? Posted
by: williambanzai7 Post
date: 02/20/2015 - 08:28 An important announcement from the ECB.. Nearly one-third of all the homeless people in
America live in these ten cities... Here is what Schauble meant when he said that the
"Greeks
Certainly Will Have A Difficult Time To Explain The Deal To Their Voters": under the conditionality of the Troika's
approval, the Tsipras government now has to walk back essentially all
the promises it made to the Greek people - promises which by some accounts
amount to over €20 billion in additional spending - or the Troika, pardon
Institutions, will yank the entire deal and the Grexit can then commence.
And that's the bottom line. It's also the reason Schauble was gloating: because
he gave the Greek government just enough rope with which to hang itself. And so it begins... the intentional demonization of a growing
segment of the U.S. population that rightly believes the government is run by a
collective of thieving, corrupt, immoral sociopaths. Commingling dissent,
violence and “right wing” ideology will be key in the ultimate division of
government critics in these United States, and a successful attempt to scare
people away from questioning a clearly degraded and parasitic status quo. It appears President Obama's "costs"
imposed on Russia have boomerang'd just too much for Europe to take. As Reuters
reports, The EU is
seeking to create a single energy market, based on cross-border connections to
improve security of supply and reduce dependence on Russia, which
supplies roughly one third of EU energy. The headline pivot away from
Putin, likely misses the fact that there is very little a stagnating Europe can
do, even in the medium term, to 'reduce' dependence on Washington's nemesis. Just weeks before Mario Draghi's "whatever it
takes" trillion-euro Q€ bond-buying-fest is set to come true, The ECB
faces a problem they likely never expected - unwilling sellers.
On the heels of our analysis showing central banks will monetize over 100% of government
bond issuance this year, Reuters reports that mere weeks before the ECB begins their program,
banks, pension funds and insurers across the continent are hoarding
them for regulatory or accounting reasons. "We prefer to hold
on to them," said Antoine Lissowski, deputy CEO at French insurer CNP
Assurances. "The ECB's policy ... is reaching its limits
now." Right now there is a world war taking place right in
front of us but all we see
on cable news are the nightly military skirmishes on the periphery of the
conflict. The real war is economic, financial and currency related and the
empire is already over-extended in debt, military operations and financial
manipulation. Surely the near-term dollar strength is evidence that while
defeat is not imminent and that all markets can be manipulated for a season,
ultimately real global market forces will prevail. Just remember that all
empires eventually become over-extended financially, economically or militarily
and the consequences of retribution and blowback are real and deadly to
innocent populations. Remember The Meltdown of 2008? It's different this
time... The signals are clear: the world has already entered a downturn in
economic activity. Therefore we can expect accelerated money-printing and the
imposition of more negative interest rates in a forlorn attempt to avert
economic reality. We know, we know... volume doesn't matter... but if "There Is No Alternative" and there
is mountains of "money on the sidelines" then why is average trade
size plunging (cough algos cough) and volume collapsing in lockstep with each
and every new record high in stocks? Having, as we previously explained, been given 'just enough
rope' by the Germans, we
thought it worth looking at just what Greece capitulated on
(or perhaps a shorter version - what they did not capitulate on) and how
Tsipras and Varoufakis will sell this to their fellow politicians... and most
of all people. A bank which has €54.7 trillion, or a little over $62
trillion at today's exchange rate, in derivatives - a number that is 20
times greater than the GDP of Germany - just failed a central bank
stress test due to lacking governance and risk management controls and, just
maybe, has insufficient capital? What can possibly go wrong. The following chart should clarify just why to the
"1%", including their protectors in the "developed
market" central banking system, their tenured economist lackeys,
their purchased politicians and their captured media outlets, the topic of a
return to a gold standard is the biggest threat conceivable. This past week has been a virtual tennis match watching
the evolution of the Greek bailout negotiations. No Deal, Deal, No Deal, Deal. However, despite the fallout that would likely come
from a Greek "exit," the markets have largely managed to
ignore the risk and hit an all-time high this week. Market valuations, bullish
sentiment and complacency are all pushing higher as the focus remains on the
ignition of the ECB's QE program as a stimulus for the markets. In fact, this
is so much the case that the net percentage of managers overweight Eurozone
equities is at the highest level on record. Having put Russia on review in mid-January, Moody's
has decided (somewhat unsurprisingly) to downgrade Russia's
sovereign debt rating to Ba1 (from Baa3) with continuing negative outlook.
The reasons: *MOODY'S SAYS RUSSIA EXPECTED TO HAVE DEEP RECESSION
IN '15, CONTINUED CONTRACTION IN '16 We assume the low external debt, considerable
reserves, lack of exposure to US Treasuries, and major gold backing were not
considered useful? Moody's concludes the full statement (below) by noting that
they are unlikely to raise Russian sovereign debt rating in the
near-term. Jon Bowne | President opens the flood gates while
ignoring the threat from radical jihadists. Paul Joseph Watson | Mass media desperate to rescue
debunked feminist narrative. Kit Daniels | Women are not individuals with inalienable rights but are merely
statistics, according to her argument. Mikael Thalen | “We decided to change the names of
any birds that could have stirred up a debate.” Kurt Nimmo | Reasons to believe ISIS is not a genuine group. Kurt Nimmo | Compared to Ronald Reagan while surrounded by neocons. London Guardian | Mother Jones magazine accuses
O’Reilly of having his own ‘Brian Williams problem’ by claiming to have acted
heroically in war zones when he was actually far from the action. Washington Free Beacon | Dietary Guidelines Advisory
Committee calls for taxing dessert, ‘electronic tracking’ of time spent
watching TV. Paul Joseph Watson | While Islamic State brags about
sleeper cells within U.S., DHS frets about right-wingers. Bizpac Review | Its easy to take shots at people you
are fairly certain won’t behead you. WORLD NEWS Kiev accuses Russia of sending more tanks to east
Ukraine Reuters | Kiev accused Russia on Friday of sending more tanks and troops
into eastern Ukraine. White House Summit on Violent Extremism Opens With
Muslim Prayer – No Other Faiths Represented CNS News | A Muslim prayer was recited at the start of the second day of
the White House summit on “Countering Violent Extremism.” Britain ‘at mercy’ of Putin in a war against Russia,
former defence chiefs warn London Independent | Russian aircraft have been flying near Britain’s
airspace. Russia deploying next-gen Nebo-M radar complexes to
counter NATO threat RT | Russia has begun deploying the next generation of Nebo-M
anti-missile radar facility systems. U.S., Turkey Sign Deal to Openly Arm ISIS-Linked
Syrian Rebels Kit Daniels | NATO countries to support rebels, many of whom have pledged
allegiance to ISIS. ·
MONEY WATCH The Hill | The Federal Reserve is pushing back against mounting
criticism of the central bank, even as those pushing for reforms ratchet up
their attacks. Greek Deposit Run Accelerates Ahead Of Monday’s Bank
Holiday Zero Hedge | As much as EUR 25bn euros have left Greek banks since the
end of December. It’s Germany vs. Greece, And The Very Survival Of The
Eurozone Is At Stake Michael Snyder | Is this the beginning of the end for the eurozone? Germany Slams Greek Bailout Extension Proposal As
“Trojan Horse” – Full Text Zero Hedge | As leaked by Reuters moments ago…. ·
PRISON PLANET Eric Garner’s family hasn’t received a dime from
online fundraisers – report RT | Tens of thousands of dollars have been raised online for the family
of Eric Garner. It’s all about ‘image’: National Guard was
deliberately held back as Ferguson burned Bizpac Review | Top officials deliberately kept the National Guard from
protecting property during the November looting. Snowden docs reveal mass cell phone hack through
‘Great SIM Heist’ RT | The US and Britain broke into the network of the world’s largest
SIM card maker to compromise global communications. Innocent College Student Subject to Restraining Order
for Resembling Alleged Rapist
Mikael Thalen | Female student has innocent male banned from majority of
campus. COMMENTARY Big Pharma Dangles Life and Death Over Patients’
Heads Tony Cartalucci | Breakthroughs in gene therapy mean a single shot could
cure you … permanently … but for a price. Gen. Wesley Clark: ‘ISIS Got Started With Funding
From Our Closest Allies’ Daniel McAdams | Clark is back with another very interesting blurt. Since 9/11, The U.S. Has Been Involved In More Than 5
Wars … And They’ve All Been Disasters Washington’s Blog | Why Does America Keep “Losing” Its Wars? The U.S.-Backed Government In Ukraine Is Starting To
Lose The Civil War Michael Snyder | The mainstream media in the U.S. is being very quiet
about this, but the truth is that the U.S.-backed government in Kiev is
starting to lose the civil war. ·
MULTIMEDIA Shocking Video Shows College Students Condemning Free
Speech And The 1st Amendment Truth Revolt | Just how important is the First Amendment to students
today? Shock Video! Gov. Caught Lying About Vaccine Dangers Prison Planet.com | Bombshell report destroys the hoax that vaccines
are perfectly safe and effective. Special Report: Obama Depicted As Rape Suspect Joe Biggs | Was there any truth to a local news affiliate’s production
error? ·
U.S. NEWS Feminist: Allowing Women to Carry on Campus “Devalues
Sexual Assault” Kit Daniels | Women are not individuals with inalienable rights but are merely
statistics, according to her argument. Ron Paul: “Good News” That Secession Is Happening BuzzFeed | “The good news is it’s gonna happen. It’s happening.” Dinesh D’Souza Refuses to Apologize for His
Obama-Ghetto Remarks (Video) Gateway Pundit | Predictably, the left came unglued and lashed out at
Dinesh for his “racist” ghetto remarks. ·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY 500lb meteor spotted over Pennsylvania (VIDEO) RT | Americans in New York, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania reported
seeing a fiery, 500-pound meteor soar through the sky. Deaths from Prescription Painkillers Triple in 20
Years – What’s Going On? Ella Jameson | The deaths of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Heath Ledger may
have grabbed headlines, but there is a far larger tragedy behind America’s
recreational painkiller epidemic. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE Posted
by : Capitalist
Exploits Post
date: 02/19/2015 - 19:40 Everything has to come to an end, sometime... The Grexit Into Gold-backed Drachma Conspiracy Theory
- or - Plan Z Posted
by: Reggie Middleton Post
date: 02/19/2015 - 13:57 Here's a plan where the drachma will be more
desirable than the euro after Greece defaults on anything euro denominated and
backs its redeemable drachma with fractional gold. Upon default euros drop... Usury, 0% Interest Rates, and Worthless Currencies Posted
by: Sprott Money Post
date: 02/19/2015 - 11:12 A regular reader recently raised a subject (on our
Forum) which should be a frequent topic of discussion in our ultra-corrupt
societies, but isn’t: usury. Everyone knows the meaning of the word:... Three months ahead of schedule, Russia
announces the launch of its own 'SWIFT'-alternative, linking 91 credit
institutions initially, suggests de-dollarization is considerably
further along than many expected (especially as Russia dumps US
Treasuries at a record pace). Is this the beginning of the end for the
eurozone? On Thursday, Germany rejected a Greek request for a six-month
loan extension. The Germans insisted that the Greek proposal did not
require the Greeks to adhere to the austerity restrictions which previous
agreements had forced upon them. But Greek voters have already very
clearly rejected the status quo, and the new Greek government has stated
unequivocally that it will not be bound by the current bailout
arrangement. So can Germany and Greece find some sort of compromise that
will be acceptable to both of them? It certainly does not help that some
Greek politicians have been comparing the current German government to the
Nazis, and the Germans have fired back with some very nasty comments about the
Greeks. Unfortunately for both of them, time is running out. The
Greek government will run out of money in just a couple of weeks, and without a
deal there is a very good chance that Greece will be forced to leave the
euro. In fact, this week Commerzbank AG increased the probability of a
“Grexit” to 50 percent. And if Greece does leave the eurozone, it could
spark a full blown European financial crisis which would be absolutely
catastrophic. (Read More....) The mainstream media in the U.S. is being very quiet about this, but the
truth is that the U.S.-backed government in Kiev is starting to lose the civil
war. This week, the separatists captured the very important railway junction
of Debaltseve despite the fact that a ceasefire is supposed to be in
place. Buoyed by a constant influx of Russian weapons and supplies, the
separatists have gained a clear upper hand in the conflict. But this was
not supposed to happen. When protest groups that were funded, organized
and advised by organizations in the United States violently overthrew the
democratically elected Ukrainian government, the Obama administration was
hoping that the Ukrainian people would rapidly embrace their new pro-western
leaders. Instead, the nation was plunged into a very bitter civil war
that could go on for many years. And as the battlefield stands right now,
the government in Kiev will probably be forced to concede even more territory
in the months ahead as more weapons and fighters arrive from Russia. The
Obama administration could decide to intervene by shipping large amounts of
weapons and supplies to the Ukrainian government, but that could turn the civil
war in Ukraine into a proxy war between the United States and Russia. And
the thing about proxy wars is that sometimes they turn into real wars. (Read More...) "X" continues to mark the spot of the death
of global investor rationality... It may be hard to believe, but either one of the two
status quo choices for U.S. President currently being force-fed down the
American public’s throat will be almost unquestionably more imperial and
warlike than Barack Obama. The reason is simple. Any society that
apathetically stands by as one President after the other tramples on the
Constitution will be subject to a litany of increasingly tyrannical, and even
insane, leaders. If you still had any doubt, today we learn that
Jeb Bush is actively surrounding himself with the exact same people who under
the George W. Bush administration, masterminded the terrible tragedy known as
the Iraq war. Goldman recently warned that they are "more
worried than we have been since the start of the Euro area crisis," and
judging by the extraordinary surge in "Grexit" headlines,
it appears this time is different from 2012... "Using Bitcoin is an effete act of rebellion, a
weak signifier of resistance like wearing a hoodie or getting a tattoo that’s
well covered by your work clothes. Bitcoin is fashion, more than a fad but less than
lasting." Strong words.
Let’s dig in. With reports of near mutiny in Syriza's ranks amid
the back-bending they have done to try to meet Germany's demands - only to be
abjectly denied by a non-ultimatum-setting Schaeuble - it is perhaps time to
prepare (ahead of tomorrow's apparent "G" day) for the possibility
that Greece creates a systemic event. As Goldman recently warned, there are
aspects that leave us more worried than we have been since the start of
the Euro area crisis with a tight schedule to avert a disorderly
outcome. Risk markets so far have traded in a resilient (well managed) manner
but risks of an accident remain and here is how Goldman suggests you
hedge that exposure. Official Greek deposit data began tumbling in
December (outflows around EUR3bn), and accelerated
in January in the run up to the Syriza election (proxied by JPMorgan at over
EUR 12bn). During the last
two weeks, however, the absence of ATM lines and visible bank runs has been
curiously lacking as, at least on the surface, there appears to be no panic.
However, as Dody
Tsiantar reports, sources
in the Greek banking sector have told Greek newspapers that as much as EUR 25bn
euros have left Greek banks since the end of December with outflows surging
this week. Perhaps they are getting anxious that authorities will take
Cypriot advantage of the Bank Holiday that is planned in Greece on
Monday. The past 48 hours have become a free-for-all flame
war involving the titans of British media, including the BBC, the Guardian, the
Times and, the paper that started it all, the Telegraph. Several hours ago, the
first (of meny) skeletons in the closet busted loose and is suddenly
threatening to expose some of the dirtiest laundry of UK high society. It would appear that monetizing more than 100% of your
debt and constant daily reassurances that everything is awesome are not enough
to create real world economic growth. Japanese manufacturing PMI
slipped to 51.5 in February (missing expectations of 52.2), its lowest since
July 2014 as New Orders & Employment slowed. Perhaps most worrying
for the deflation-death match Abe is wagering, Output prices tumbled.
Japanese stocks don't care of course, having entirely decoupled from JPY when
The BoJ scared the FX carry markets with its 'hawkish' bias and 5-4 vote. The global financial system desperately needs a big,
bloody sovereign default - a
profoundly disruptive financial event capable of shattering the current rotten
regime of bank bailouts and central bank financial repression. Needless to say,
Greece is just the ticket: A default on its crushing debt and exit from the
Euro would stick a fork in it like no other. But don’t count on the
Greeks. Three hours ago, when the NY Fed trading desk was
patting itself on the back for another day without hitches or major glitches in
the "market" (except for that HFT-snafu in the USDCAD of course), one
person was live-tweeting his arrest. The person is Antonio Ledezma, who
is not only the mayor of Caracas but the leader of Venezuela's, and around 5:20
pm local time, he was taken to the intelligence service’s headquarters in
Caracas after the local police broke into his office and arrested him. The
moment of the arrest was captured on video. Meet Guan Tao. He oversees the foreign exchange of China’s $4
trillion stockpile of reserves (so he has an incredibly unique view of capital
flows and currency movements in and out of the country), and he just admitted
that capital flight from China is accelerating suggesting that
outflows could be considerably higher than official channels show. With the bankruptcy of Greece now undeniable, we've
finally reached the endgame of the Neocolonial-Financialization Model. There are no more markets to exploit with
financialization, and the fact that the mountains of debt are unpayable can no
longer be masked. At this point, the financial Aristocracy has an
unsolvable dilemma: writing off defaulted debt also writes off
assets and income streams, for every debt is somebody else's asset and
income stream. When all those phantom assets are recognized as worthless,
the system implodes. Fed's Yellen
(12/17): "The decline we've seen in oil prices is
likely to be, on net, a positive." Fed's Yellen
(02/18): "Persistently low oil prices could dampen
the overall expansion of economic activity." And this is the woman we trust to run the world? Mikael Thalen | Female student has innocent male
banned from majority of campus. Kit Daniels | NATO countries to support rebels, many of whom have pledged
allegiance to ISIS. Paul Joseph Watson | “American individualism is dead”
says founder of organization backed by UN. Adan Salazar | State joins growing movement to ditch
federal standards. Paul Joseph Watson | Sexual assaults skyrocket after
countries open their doors to “multiculturalism”. Weekly Standard | “A massive tax increase on the
middle class”. Zero Hedge | The totalitarian arm of the ever-growing
government appears to know no limit. Kit Daniels | School concerned about “global warming” and, in contrast, students
falling behind due to snow. Joe Biggs | Military hasn’t publicly announced alleged spill as of this morning. Steve Watson | Frustration boils over as Homeland
Security goons laugh at freedom lover. WORLD NEWS U.S., Turkey Sign Deal to Openly Arm ISIS-Linked
Syrian Rebels Kit Daniels | NATO countries to support rebels, many of whom have pledged
allegiance to ISIS. Italy Puts Troops on the Street in Response to
Islamic State Threat Kurt Nimmo | IS threatens to flood Europe with 500,000 migrants as “psychological”
attack ISIS Believes Jesus Will Come to Their Aid;
Journalist Paul Joseph Watson | Terror group envisions apocalyptic final battle in
Jerusalem. Ted Cruz: Obama Has Become ‘An Apologist For Radical
Islamic Terrorists’ Daily Caller | Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz accused President Obama
of being “an apologist for radical Islamic terrorists” on “The Kelly File”. State Dept. Spokeswoman: ‘Christian Militant Group’
Among ‘Extremist Threats We Face’ CNS News | People talk a lot about Islamic extremism and ISIS/ISIL (the
guys who behead Christians, among others), but what about Joseph Kony and his
Lord’s Resistance Army? ·
MONEY WATCH Germany Slams Greek Bailout Extension Proposal As
“Trojan Horse” – Full Text Zero Hedge | As leaked by Reuters moments ago…. Russia Dumps Most US Paper Ever As China Reduces
Treasurys Holdings To January 2013 Levels Zero Hedge | Back in December, Socgen spread a rumor that Russia has
begun selling its gold. De-Dollarization Accelerates: Russia Launches
SWIFT-Alternative Linking 91 Entities Zero Hedge | Back in 2013, The NSA was first exposed for secretly
‘monitoring’ the SWIFT payments flows. “In The End Capital Controls Will Probably Have To Be
Imposed” – Eurogroup Official
Zero Hedge | A comparable statement about any other peripheral Eurozone country
would be met with howls of murderous rage. ·
PRISON PLANET Woman Calls Cops For Help Against Intruders, Cops
Show Up And Shoot Her Dead Steve Watson | Mother of two complied with police, but they shot
her anyway. Billionaire Mark Cuban Says Net Neutrality Will ‘Fuck
Everything Up’ Recode.net | Billionaire investor and ABC “Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban
unloaded on the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to fundamentally
change how it oversees the open Internet. Cop Beats High School Kid So Bad Even the Cop’s Own
Department Told the Family to File a Complaint Free Thought Project | A cell phone video captured the brutal beating of
a high school student by a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy. Protecting and Serving – Florida Police Raid
90-Year-Old Woman’s Home; Find No Drugs but Wreck Home Michael Krieger | A 90-year old’s home was destroyed by police
conducting a raid but it appears they got the wrong house. COMMENTARY A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World Alt Market | Popular media today, including television and cinema, are
rife with examples of what is often referred to as moral relativism. Atheist Group Wants to Stop Bible Distribution New American | The FFRF found it relevant that one of the Gideons
placing the Bibles —James Faught — is the son of a Republican state
representative. Michael Snyder | There are those who believe that life was first brought
to Earth from far across the universe. Jon Rappoport | The people who play at loving modern democracy are
deceiving themselves and everyone around them on purpose. ·
MULTIMEDIA Shocking Video Shows College Students Condemning Free
Speech And The 1st Amendment Truth Revolt | Just how important is the First Amendment to students
today? Shock Video! Gov. Caught Lying About Vaccine Dangers Prison Planet.com | Bombshell report destroys the hoax that vaccines
are perfectly safe and effective. Special Report: Obama Depicted As Rape Suspect Joe Biggs | Was there any truth to a local news affiliate’s production
error? ·
U.S. NEWS After Blizzard Closes Campus, Harvard Spends $800,000
to Combat “Global Warming” Kit Daniels | School concerned about “global warming” and, in contrast, students
falling behind due to snow. BREAKING: Whistleblower Reveals Deadly Nerve Agent
Spill At Kentucky Army Base Joe Biggs | Military hasn’t publicly announced alleged spill as of this morning. Judge Napolitano: Rare, ‘devastating’ court ruling
against Obama killed amnesty plan ‘forever’ Bizpac Review | The federal judge’s ruling late Monday that blocked
President Obama’s executive amnesty for illegal immigrants could put off the
action “forever.” ·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY Alien star system buzzed the Sun BBC News | An alien star passed through our Solar System just 70,000
years ago, astronomers have discovered. Geoengineering Is Being Pushed By Politicians and
Scientists … But It May Do MORE HARM THAN GOOD Washington’s Blog | Scientists Suggested Melting the Arctic Ice Cap to
Stop a New Ice Age. Report Finds We Are Eating ‘2,500 Tons of Fake Food’ Anthony Gucciardi | From fake antifreeze vodka to phony butter. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE There are those who believe that life was first
brought to Earth from far across the universe. In fact, this week there
were headlines in news sources all over the world about how British scientists had discovered
“evidence” that extraterrestrials may have seeded life on this planet.
And as you will see later on in this article, some of the “most brilliant minds
in science” have been promoting this theory for a long time. But now the
support for an extraterrestrial origin for life on Earth seems to be reaching a
crescendo. In addition to unprecedented scientific support, we are being
constantly bombarded by messages in popular culture that our planet has been in
contact with aliens in the past and that they are about to make contact
again. This is a theme which we see in dozens of novels, television
shows, movies and video games. So could it be possible that we are being
“prepared” to believe that extraterrestrials seeded life on our planet?
And as you will see below, there are even many that actually believe that Jesus
was an alien. Yes, that probably sounds very strange, but there are some
very important people that are actually convinced that this is true. (Read More...) Posted
by : Phoenix
Capital... Post
date: 02/18/2015 - 09:30 EU leaders were proposing capital controls, border
controls, and even limiting the amount of money that could be removed from
ATMs throughout Europe back in 2012. They'll do it again... Posted
by: hedgeless_horseman Post
date: 02/18/2015 - 14:33 Do I know how to beg...effectively? Do I know how to
barter...effectively? How good of a liar am I...really? Posted
by: Sprott Money Post
date: 02/18/2015 - 09:23 Be prepared! Three months ahead of schedule, Russia
announces the launch of its own 'SWIFT'-alternative, linking 91 credit
institutions initially, suggests de-dollarization is considerably
further along than many expected (especially as Russia dumps US
Treasuries at a record pace). From “24” to “Breaking Bad” to “The Walking Dead,”
American minds are being saturated with propaganda selling the idea that crisis
situations require a survivor to abandon conscience. What we see developing is an extremely dangerous
philosophy that rests on the foundation that victory (or survival) is the
paramount virtue and that it should be attained at any cost. Moral
compass becomes a “luxury” that “true” apex survivors cannot afford,
an obstacle that could eventually get one killed, believing that the “survival
of the fittest” is more important than the survival of the principled. However,
if we cast aside our principles in the name of victory, then, ironically, we
have still lost everything. If there is such a thing as the
“greater good,” truth and honor must be the apex of that vision. With the world's oldest central bank - Sweden's
Riksbank - taking the plunge into negative rates, there have been 19
'eases' by central banks this year, Morgan Stanley warns of
"ghosts of the 1930s." With competitive 'easing' stoking fears
of international currency wars, The Telegraph
notes however that looser
monetary policy is not the order of the day everywhere in the world, and herein
lies potential danger for the world economy. “In the coming year, I hope that all people in Hong Kong will take
inspiration from the sheep’s character and pull together in an accommodating manner
to work for Hong Kong’s future... Sheep are widely seen to be mild and gentle animals
living peacefully in groups." With historically low long-term interest rates, the
opportunity cost of holding gold and silver are close to zero or even negative, in other words you would “lose” money if you buy
bonds (the benchmark) instead of gold and silver. When people realize that
their money is not “safe” with the banks they will start withdrawing cash from
their accounts and buy physical gold and silver instead. Depending on
circumstances this could possibly bring down the (fractional) banking system.
Why keep money in an account that gives you a negative return?
Swiss banks are already witnessing stronger than normal interest for physical
gold. Even with extended draconian measures created by
India to prevent capital account outflows as a result of uncontrolled gold
imports (which still take place only "under the table"), a whopping
1000 tons of gold ended up in the form of gold trinkets in 2014 mostly in
India, and to a lesser extend in China. All of that is about to change: earlier
today India's Economic Times reported that the RBI, surely facilitated by the
drop in oil prices - a key import for India - has finally lifted its ban on
imports of gold coins and medallions by banks and trading houses. The RBI
in a notification also said banks are permitted to import gold on consignment
basis, anbd perhaps most impoytantly, "Banks are free to grant
gold metal loans." This is key because as we wrote in January
2013 before the ban on gold imports took palce, the amount of gold loans being
created in India was simply exponential. Back in December, Socgen spread a rumor
that Russia has begun selling
its gold. Subsequent IMF data showed that not only was this not correct, Russia
in fact added to its gold holdings. But there was one thing it was selling:
some $22 billion in US Treasurys, a record 20% of its total holdings, bringing
its US paper inventory to just $86 billion in December - the lowest since
June 2008. - The flow-chart every Fed member carries with them at
all times to ensure they know exactly how to react to the ever-changing
macro-economic and geopolitical backdrop in global markets to ensure maximum
employment and stable prices... "Suffice it to say that
current equity markets are no place for long-term investors,
and that even a resumption of risk-seeking investor preferences would demand a
considerable safety net. For now, we believe the best interpretation of recent
market action is as a hopeful, low-volume short-squeeze to marginal new
highs, despite early deterioration in market internals following a period
of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions. This
pattern is much like we observed in September 2000 and October 2007." With seasonal adjustments wreaking havoc on the data,
Japanese imports (collapsed 9% YoY) and exports (soared 17% YoY), leaving Japan
with a trillion-yen deficit. This is the 31st month in a row... the
longest stretch since 1954... "2015 could the year when worldwide investors,
traders and normal people lose a total faith in central bankers," Marc Faber tells Boom-Bust's Erin Ade, forcing
investors to "re-evaluate their views on gold." Faber begins
this brief interview with an excellent summary of the great rotation of
money-printing around the world and how USD strength will excuse-wise lead,
inevitably, to The Fed re-opening the spigot (something that today's FOMC
Minutes show they are dovishly inching towards). I assume that the overall costs (and risks) of Greece
saying "Goodbye To All That" are considered too high by both the
Eurogroup and the new Greek government. (In practice: a 5- day bank holiday, issuance of
Drachmas, the conversion of euro assets into Drachmas and the announcement that
90% of outstanding debt will no longer be honoured.) Eventually, there
will be a compromise aimed primarily at gaining time. The Eurogroup will continue
to allow the minimum financing of the Greek state ("extension") and
say that they will need time to think how a "debt restructuring"
could like like. Mr Tsipras and Mr Varoufakis will be content having secured
"bridge funds" for another 6-9 months while still in possession of
the trump card "Grexit". For the 56th day of the last 58, The Baltic Dry Index
dropped. At 509, this is now
down over 65% from the dead cat bounce highs in November 2014 and - yet again -
a new all-time record low for the cost of shipping freight. It is no surprise
then that, as Lloydlist
reports, bulker
newbuilding orders slumped in January. When the Baltic Dry tumbled in
2012, the glut of
ships then caused a 49% plunge in orders for shipbuilding - as JPMorgan said at the time, "you
just have too many yards and too few orders," and given the
artificial signals provided by credit-inflated commodities since, we can only
imagine the overhang now. "That misconduct happens isn’t shocking. What is: When the FDA finds scientific fraud or
misconduct, the agency doesn’t notify the public, the medical establishment, or
even the scientific community that the results of a medical experiment are not
to be trusted. On the contrary. For more than a decade, the FDA has shown a
pattern of burying the details of misconduct. As a result, nobody ever finds out which data is
bogus, which experiments are tainted, and which drugs might be on the market
under false pretenses." Presented with little comment aside to remind readers
what the State
Department thinks, "we
can't beat ISIS by killing them" they need jobs... David Knight | Will a small tech elite pit themselves against the
rest of humanity in a 21st “Artilect” war of gigadeath? Kurt Nimmo | Congress wants Twitter to treat IS tweets the same as child porn Kit Daniels | President claims radical groups can be stopped if governments listen
to them. Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | Federal
government has ignored Islamic threat while obsessing about domestic extremism
for years. Steve Watson | Transhumanist wing of nutbag military
agency cooking up dystopian projects. Kurt Nimmo | CFR-linked group says ISIS will cross Mediterranean by “rudimentary
boat.” Paul Joseph Watson | Liberals struggle with how to
respond to Islamic extremism. Michael Snyder | Every day now, there are fresh news
stories about Christians being slaughtered by ISIS in the Middle East. Free Thought Project | A Wichita mother and local
business owner has taken to YouTube to express her anger. WORLD NEWS Obama Suggests Islamic Extremists Have “Legitimate
Grievances” Kit Daniels | President claims radical groups can be stopped if governments listen
to them. Kiev says troops withdrawn from Debaltsevo, rebels
claim military ‘surrender en masse’ RT | Kiev troops surrounded in the city of Debalstevo have started to
surrender en masse. A Silly Blunder or Back to the Future? CNN Annexes
Ukraine to Russia Sputnik | The US broadcaster CNN has given the world another riddle. U.S. Agrees To Serve As Al Qaeda’s Air Force Washington’s Blog | Why Are We Backing the Bad Guys? China’s Censorship Agency Releases Theme Song Kit Daniels | Song promotes censored Chinese Internet where “each individual
represents the whole nation.” ·
MONEY WATCH “In The End Capital Controls Will Probably Have To Be
Imposed” – Eurogroup Official
Zero Hedge | A comparable statement about any other peripheral Eurozone
country would be met with howls of murderous rage. Rich Dad Poor Dad Author: Biggest Crash Is Coming Prison Planet.com | Alex Jones talks with best selling Author Robert
Kiyosaki about what he thinks the next shoe to drop will be. Michael Krieger | The Telegraph’s recent coverage of HSBC amounts to a
form of fraud on its readers. Hans-Werner Sinn: “Impose Capital Controls In Greece
Now To Avoid Another Cyprus” Zero Hedge | There is a saying: “strike while the rehypothecated iron is
hot”, and nobody is better at it than Germany. ·
PRISON PLANET Police Implement Program to Snoop Around Private
Property, Leaving Notices “To Keep You Safe” Free Thought Project | What if you got a formal letter notifying you
that the police had been snooping around your property? FCC Commissioner: Proposed FCC, FEC Regs ‘Pretty
Dangerous’ Breitbart | “There’s not much within the four corners of the document
that hint at anything regarding content.” Cops Have Killed Every 8 Hours in 2015, Sending At
Least Three People to Early Graves Per Day Free Thought Project | As of February 15, only a month and a half into
2015, there has been at least 136 individuals killed by police in the United
States. MI5 accused of covering up sexual abuse at boys’ home London Guardian | Court case to address alleged cover-up of British
state involvement at the Kincora children’s home in Northern Ireland. COMMENTARY Jon Rappoport | The people who play at loving modern democracy are deceiving
themselves and everyone around them on purpose. UN “Peace” Forces in Haiti Prey on Civilians,
Children New American | Rather than protecting local civilians, United Nations
“peacekeeping” forces in Haiti are behaving as ruthless predators. Stossel Sets ‘Clueless Celebrities’ Straight on
Thinking Che Guevara is ‘Cool’
Truth Revolt | “Guevara, in the name of Communism, killed lots of
people.” The CDC: mind control on a vast scale Jon Rappoport | The CDC: mind control on a vast scale. ·
MULTIMEDIA Shock Video! Gov. Caught Lying About Vaccine Dangers Prison Planet.com | Bombshell report destroys the hoax that vaccines
are perfectly safe and effective. Special Report: Obama Depicted As Rape Suspect Joe Biggs | Was there any truth to a local news affiliate’s production
error? PC Stupidity: Chapel Hill Murders vs Copenhagen
Terror Paul Joseph Watson | Leftists seek refuge of political correctness to
hide from threat of Islamic extremism. ·
U.S. NEWS Creepy ‘Uncle Joe’ ups the ick factor in latest
swearing-in ceremony photo Bizpac Review | Too creepy for words. Bill Maher turns on Obamacare: ‘Its like your
prostate cancer is being handled by Comcast now’ Bizpac Review | How opinions change when reality rears it’s ugly head. Elderly Man Facing 10 Years Over Unloaded, Flintlock
Pistol Kit Daniels | Prosecutors want retired teacher to serve at least 3.5 years for
possessing 250-year-old pistol. ·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY David Knight | Will a small tech elite pit themselves against the
rest of humanity in a 21st “Artilect” war of gigadeath? Artificial intelligence and nanotechnology ‘threaten
civilisation’ London Guardian | Technologies join nuclear war, ecological catastrophe,
super-volcanoes and asteroid impacts in Global Challenges Foundation’s risk
report. Study Confirms Organic Food Has LOWER Pesticide
Levels than Conventional Christina Sarich | And yes – pesticides on food does affect your health. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE The most savage group of Islamic terrorists that any
of us have ever seen has taken over large portions of Iraq, Syria and Libya. As they go along, they are gleefully
beheading, crucifying and torching innocent civilians. They believe that
they are living in the end times, and that they are part of a great Islamic
army that will defeat “the forces of Rome” and bring about a glorious new age
during which Islam rules the entire planet. But Barack Obama and his
minions absolutely refuse to use the words “Islam” or “Muslim” when discussing
ISIS. Instead, as you will see below, the Obama administration insists
that the reason that ISIS exists is because of a lack of “job opportunities” in
that area of the world. If we could just find enough good jobs for the
terrorists, apparently the entire problem of Islamic terror would just fade
away according to them. This kind of twisted politically correct thinking
is going to be one of the things that leads to the downfall of this
country. Tens of thousands of crazed maniacs are not setting people on
fire and beheading innocent civilians because they can’t find gainful
employment. Rather, the truth is that these radicals are obsessed with an
apocalyptic version of Islam which dominates every moment of their lives.
If we deny why they are doing what they are doing because it does not fit with
our view of how the world is supposed to work, then we are never going to have
any hope of defeating this evil. And without a doubt, ISIS is evil. (Read More....) Every day now, there are fresh news stories about
Christians being slaughtered by ISIS in the Middle East. So where is the
outrage from the White House? Where is the outrage from the Islamic
world? If Islam truly was a “religion of peace”, prominent Islamic
leaders all over the globe would be loudly condemning ISIS whenever another
slaughter of Christians took place. And a White House statement about the
beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by ISIS the other day did not have
the word “Christian” in it a single time. ISIS is painting the Middle
East red with the blood of Christians, and most of the world seems to care
very, very little. If thousands of people from some politically-favored
group or religion were being savagely killed, the outcry would be
deafening. But because Christians are being killed, it is not such a big
deal. So exactly what does that say about how the world views Christians
in 2015? (Read More...) The most popular movie in America is about bondage,
sexual domination and violent sex. Fifty Shades of Grey, the best-selling
novel about a sexually abusive relationship between an extremely wealthy
businessman and a young female college student, has sold more than 100 million
copies worldwide since it was first released. This past weekend, it
pulled in an astounding 81.7 million
dollars at the box
office. Clearly, it has struck a chord with the American people.
But should women actually be watching Fifty Shades of Grey? It has been
said that if you put garbage in, you get garbage out. The novel has been
described as “pornography for women”, but the movie is supposedly toned
down. But even with the editing, the film still contains 20 minutes of
sex scenes. And of course we aren’t just talking about normal sex
scenes. Fifty Shades of Grey goes to great lengths to explore the twisted
world of sexual abuse, bondage and humiliation. It makes violent sex seem
“mainstream”, and it is deeply affecting our culture. So what does it say
about our society that it is so wildly popular? (Read More...) U.S. public schools have become houses of horror for
many special needs students. According to the Virginia Commission on Youth,
special needs students account for only 12 percent of all public school
students in the United States, but they “represent 75 percent of those physically restrained and 58 percent of
those secluded“. At
some schools, physical restraints used on special needs children include
handcuffs, duct tape and bungee cords. And often the scream rooms that these
children are “isolated” in are so horrifying that it scars many of them for
life. One of the key measures for any society is how it treats those that are
most vulnerable. And the way that we are treating our special needs children
is sorely lacking. Hopefully articles like this one will help bring
awareness and change. (Read More...) A feminist blogger has created a massive uproar by
detailing her decision to kill her male child in an article entitled “I Aborted My Baby – Because it was a Boy“. She initially believed that she was going to
have a girl, and she was making all sorts of plans for her future. But
when an ultrasound showed that it was going to be a boy, she decided that she
must have an abortion because she “couldn’t bring another monster into the
world”. And she says that she would do it again “if the curse
returns”. So what would cause a woman to want to kill her own child just
because it is a boy? How twisted has feminism in America become if this
is the result? (Read More...) Posted
by : williambanzai7 Post
date: 02/17/2015 - 14:02 Walk this way... The Ultimate Crisis Will Be a Central Banking Crisis Posted
by: Phoenix
Capital... Post
date: 02/17/2015 - 13:26 The final and ultimate round of the Crisis that begin
in 2008 will occur when faith is lost in the Central Banks. Posted
by: GoldCore Post
date: 02/17/2015 - 07:52 The global economy is thoroughly integrated and
processes and knowhow are increasingly delivered on distributed architecture
made up of lattices of public and private networks. This approach has... America appears to have found something else to blame
the Russians (or North Koreans) for... The Weather. As The Daily Mail reports, CIA chiefs fear hostile nations are trying
to manipulate the world’s climate... seriously. None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules
occasionally. Indeed, there
was a time when most Americans thought nothing of driving a few miles over the
speed limit, pausing (rather than coming to a full stop) at a red light when
making a right-hand turn if no one was around, or jaywalking across the street.
My, how times have changed. Today, there’s little room for indiscretions,
imperfections, or acts of independence. In such an environment, you’re
either a paragon of virtue, or you’re a criminal. If you haven’t figured it out
yet, we’re all criminals. This is the creepy, calculating yet
diabolical genius of the American police state: the very technology we hailed
as revolutionary and liberating has become our prison, jailer, probation
officer, Big Brother and Father Knows Best all rolled into one. "There is a great game of poker taking place for
the future of this currency," Nigel Farage exclaims as he deservedly takes a small victory lap
over his warnings of the anti-democratic nature of the dis-union that has been
created. As his warnings that "the EU will crush, and kill, and destroy
nation state democracy," have gone unheeded, this last week has seen
The Eurogroup's behavior justify everything Farage has feared... Juncker:
"there can be no democratic choice against the Euro." From 'Armageddon' to 'Day After Tomorrow' to
'Independence Day', many have speculated as to the eventual demise of human
life on the planet but - according to Dennis Pamlin of the Global Challenges Foundation, no scientists had "compiled a list of global
risks with impacts that, for all practical purposes, can be called infinite,”
until now. The following list of 12 possible ways that human
civilization might end - ranked from least to most likely, come with a
warning, "we don’t want to be accused of scaremongering but we want to
get policy makers talking." We suspect Paul Krugman will be happy at
the economic growth potential... One thing is becoming clear: Greece will almost
certainly not last until the proverbial D-Day on February 28 before it either
i) runs out of money, ii) is forced to sign a "bailout extension"
deal with the Eurogroup thus crushing its credibility with the people, or iii)
exits the Eurozone. Needless to say, two of the three above options are very
unpleasant for Greek savers, assuming any are left. And it is those savers that
the Eurozone is directly targeting when it does everything in its power to
provoke a bank run with statement such as these: "The situation of the
banks is getting more and more difficult every day," said a European
official. "In the end, in order to safeguard the banking system,
capital controls will probably have to be imposed." Operation Choke Point is an initiative of the DoJ that was announced in
2013 which investigates bank interactions with certain businesses believed to
be at higher risk for fraud and money laundering. When first disclosed it was
heavily criticised for bypassing due process with critics warning that "it's
a thinly veiled ideological attack on industries the Obama administration
doesn't like, such as gun sellers," and precious metals dealers.
However, as Mike Maloney explains, it is far worse than that... "it
violates the most fundamental principles of the rule of law and accountable,
transparent government." Back in 1940, the US plan was to "entrap" Japan
to declare war on the US - a declaration which the US would have long
anticipated - which would then allow America to engage Europe and Hitler as
part of its broader entry into World War II from which it had been previously
separated. The plan worked out when just over a year later, Japan bombed Pearl
Harbor. Today, some 75 years later, is that same plan being redrawn? Parsing the Russian media (corporate and social)
illustrates the stunningly different way the issue of western sanctions is
discussed. As we show below, there are six notable factors that leave an
entirely unavoidable conclusion: western sanctions have exactly zero
chance of achieving any change at all in Russian foreign policy and exactly
zero chance of weakening the current regime. In fact perhaps the
opposite. When Obama interrupted the Grammy's to discuss sexual
abuse and rape victims, he probably did not have this in mind... State Department spokesperson Marie Harf explains to
no lesser pillar of unbiased reporting than Chris Matthews that - as opposed to
President Obama's 'bomb them into oblivion' perspective, "we can't
kill our way out of this war [with ISIS]... we must address the root causes -
like joblessness." Even Matthews is stunned at this perspective,
exclaiming "we're never going to chieve that in 50 lifetimes, there'll
always be poor muslims." But, as the administration appears to be
suggesting, even every radical muslim deserves $10.25 an hour to work at
Baghdad McDonalds... While Obama desperately tries to stick to his now
crushed "Nobel peace prize winner" image, by not succumbing
to an all-out land war in the one nation where his progressive
"pacifism" brought him fame (and according to some, the presidency),
namely Iraq, the rest of militant, "interventionist" US foreign
policy is rapidly starting to resemble that waged by the most brutally rabid,
neo-con Republican leader. Case in point an absolute stunner reported minutes ago by the WSJ, according to which the White House has decided to
provide pickup trucks equipped with mounted machine guns and radios for
calling in U.S. airstrikes to some moderate Syrian rebels aided by American
B-1B bombers! The "conundrum" between lower
gasoline prices and retail sales is not really one at all. Furthermore, the
real story behind the weakness in retail sales also suggest that something is "amiss"
within the broader economic backdrop. When combined with the
deterioration in earnings, the risk of a "gotcha" moment in
the market has risen markedly. Presented with no comment... In the 40 years since US President Richard Nixon made
what was then considered a bold move, visiting Mao Zedong in Communist China,
both countries have changed dramatically. The US has become increasingly
socialistic, more focused on Big Government and more of a totalitarian state;
shifting from the world’s foremost creditor nation to the world’s foremost
debtor nation. By contrast, China has opened up considerably, with billions of
people becoming upwardly mobile, in response to China becoming more capitalistic.
Increasingly, the US is acting like a country in decline, whilst China
is acting like a country on the rise. While representatives have reportedly tried to block the
release of footage of Michael
Bloomberg's remarks at The Aspen Institute on Feb 6th, audio has
surfaced of the former New York City mayor’s controversial
comments about getting "guns out of the hands of minorities." Paul Joseph Watson | Perpetually offended morons
explode with faux outrage. Mikael Thalen | Jihadists who pledged allegiance to
ISIS to control American bombers in Syria. Adan Salazar | Resident says city law “criminalizes
compassion.” Paul Joseph Watson | 420 pound TV star says society
needs to “make things bigger” to conform to her lifestyle. Kit Daniels | Song promotes censored Chinese Internet where “each individual
represents the whole nation.” Prison Planet.com | MSM lies neutralized by hardcore
truth. Kit Daniels | Prosecutors want retired teacher to serve at least 3.5 years for
possessing 250-year-old pistol. Kurt Nimmo | State Department says killing people builds economies. Gateway Pundit | The Civil Rights movement in the Age
of Obama has descended in to blatant anti-white racism and bullying of
children. WORLD NEWS China’s Censorship Agency Releases Theme Song Kit Daniels | Song promotes censored Chinese Internet where “each individual
represents the whole nation.” Ukraine troops and rebels miss deadline to start
weapons pullback London Guardian | Warring sides had been due to begin withdrawing heavy
weapons from frontline on Tuesday under ceasefire agreement. ISIS killers were ‘high-fiving’ after execution – US
volunteer with Kurdish troops
RT | “They were all high-fiving each other and waving at us.” Leading Ukrainian Nazi Will Visit Washington Next
Week Seeking Weapons Washington’s Blog | Ukraine is running out of bullets, guns, and other
necessary equipment to achieve his goal. White House Avoids Mentioning That 21 Beheaded
Christians Were Christians CNS News | Absent from a 192-word statement from White House press
secretary Josh Earnest condemning the brutal killings were the words
“Christian,” “Coptic,” “Islam” or “Muslim.” ·
MONEY WATCH Hans-Werner Sinn: “Impose Capital Controls In Greece
Now To Avoid Another Cyprus” Zero Hedge | There is a saying: “strike while the rehypothecated iron is
hot”, and nobody is better at it than Germany. Russian Farmer Pays His $610 Bank Loan with Manure Daily Sheeple | The precipitous fall of the Ruble has hit everyone
pretty hard in Russia. Greece Rejects Bailout Deal – Deadline To Avoid
Financial Chaos In Europe Is March 1st Michael Snyder | Europe is on the verge of a horrifying financial
meltdown, and there are only a few short weeks left to avert total disaster. HSBC Bank: Secret Origins To Laundering The World’s
Drug Money GreatGameIndia | HSBC Bank : Secret Origins To 26/11 Mumbai Attacks. ·
PRISON PLANET FCC Commissioner: Proposed FCC, FEC Regs ‘Pretty
Dangerous’ Breitbart | “There’s not much within the four corners of the document
that hint at anything regarding content.” Cops Have Killed Every 8 Hours in 2015, Sending At
Least Three People to Early Graves Per Day Free Thought Project | As of February 15, only a month and a half into
2015, there has been at least 136 individuals killed by police in the United
States. MI5 accused of covering up sexual abuse at boys’ home London Guardian | Court case to address alleged cover-up of British
state involvement at the Kincora children’s home in Northern Ireland. Firing Squad Executions Approved By Utah House Of
Representatives AP | An American state has voted in favour of resuming executions by
firing squad. COMMENTARY The CDC: mind control on a vast scale Jon Rappoport | The CDC: mind control on a vast scale. Should Women Watch Fifty Shades Of Grey? Sexual Abuse
And Humiliation Go Mainstream
Michael Snyder | The most popular movie in America is about bondage,
sexual domination and violent sex. Fake Disney measles outbreak: send in the clowns Jon Rappoport | 150 measles cases. No deaths. Muslim HOAX: Is it really ‘open season’ on Islam in
America? Bizpac Review | A Texas student has admitted she lied when she told police
a white man targeted her because of her Muslim beliefs. ·
MULTIMEDIA Special Report: Obama Depicted As Rape Suspect Joe Biggs | Was there any truth to a local news affiliate’s production
error? PC Stupidity: Chapel Hill Murders vs Copenhagen
Terror Paul Joseph Watson | Leftists seek refuge of political correctness to
hide from threat of Islamic extremism. Video: ISIS Parades Captured Peshmerga Soldiers
Through Kirkuk in Cages Gateway Pundit | ISIS released video this week showing 17 Peshmerga
fighters in cages. ·
U.S. NEWS Elderly Man Facing 10 Years Over Unloaded, Flintlock
Pistol Kit Daniels | Prosecutors want retired teacher to serve at least 3.5 years for
possessing 250-year-old pistol. Look what Greta Van Susteren found BURIED in New York
Times on page 6 Bizpac Review | Does anyone still look to the New York Times for fair,
unbiased news anymore? Mac Slavo | If you are an undocumented alien who has entered this
country illegally, the laws don’t really apply to you. ·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY Mars mystery: Enormous plumes detected erupting on
Red Planet RT | Mysterious plumes over 150 miles high have been recorded erupting
on Mars by amateur astronomers – and the strange discovery has scientists
stumped. Over 100 Measles Vaccine Deaths, Zero Measles Deaths,
Since ’04 New American | Over the last decade in the United States, the deaths of
over 100 children — at the very least — have been linked to receiving a measles
vaccine. Moscow-Based Security Firm Reveals What May Be The
Biggest NSA “Backdoor Exploit” Ever Zero Hedge | Since 2001, a group of hackers – dubbed the “Equation
Group” by researchers from Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab – have infected computers
in at least 42 countries. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE Europe is on the verge of a horrifying financial
meltdown, and there are only a few short weeks left to avert total
disaster. On Monday, talks that were supposed to bring about yet another
temporary “resolution” to the Greek debt crisis completely fell apart.
The new Greek government has entirely rejected the idea of a six month extension
of the current bailout. The Greeks want a new deal which would enable
them to implement the promises that have been made to the voters. But
that is not going to fly with the Germans, among others. They expect the
Greeks to fulfill the obligations that were agreed to previously. The two
sides are not even in the same ballpark at this point, and things are starting
to get very personal. It is no secret that the new Greek government does
not like the Germans, and the Germans are not particularly fond of the Greeks
at this point. But unless they can find a way to work out a deal, things
could get quite messy very rapidly. The Greek government has about three
weeks of cash left, and any changes to the current bailout arrangement would
have to be approved by parliaments all over Europe by March 1st. And the
stakes are incredibly high. If there is no deal, we could see a Greek
debt default, Greece could be forced to leave the eurozone and go back to the
drachma, the euro could collapse to all time lows, all the banks all over
Europe that are exposed to Greek government debt could be faced with absolutely
massive losses, and the 26 trillion dollars in derivatives that are directly tied to the value of the euro
could start to unravel. In essence, if things go badly this could be
enough to push us into a global financial crisis. (Read More....) Posted
by : williambanzai7 Post
date: 02/16/2015 - 22:05 The End of the Global Debt System Approaches Posted
by: Phoenix
Capital... Post
date: 02/16/2015 - 13:49 The 2008 Crisis was not THE Crisis. The 2008
Crisis was largely a banking crisis focused on securities. The REAL Crisis will
hit when the bond bubble collapses. The Greeks Are Running Towards Gold As The Retail
Demand Increases By 123% Posted
by: Sprout Money Post
date: 02/16/2015 - 12:11 Gold in euro terms is telling the whole story... In a world in which the NSA's fingerprints are
already on every form of electronic communication and information exchange, the latest revelation - conveniently presented by a
Russian-based security firm - may have just implicated the US digital supespy
agency in the biggest "backdoor" infiltration scandal of all time...
and with it crushed the future revenue potential of countless US
technology corporations. Ultimately, then, we are still left with the
same three-step process to reach a conclusion to the Greek crisis. The more each of these steps is delayed, the
shorter the timespans available and the greater the risks of failure. Washington is stepping up its campaign to censor the
internet. It had to come, and will succeed. It will put paid forever to
America’s flirtation with freedom. We are hard pressed to think of a
society in such internal decline that has turned itself around, and we cannot
imagine how America might do so. One sure thing is that, once the
internet is gelded, there will be no hope at all. And the assault
has begun. UPDATE: *EU FINANCE MINISTERS' TALKS WITH GREECE OVER
FOR TODAY, GREECE SAYS WON'T TAKE ORDERS ON BAILOUT That didn't last long. It seems - just as earlier in
the week - the ability for either side in this Euro-system death match game of
chicken to find any common ground to even start negotiations remains lost: GREEK
GOVT OFFICIAL SAYS THAT "THERE CANNOT BE A DEAL TODAY", EUROGROUP
DISCUSSED "UNREASONABLE", "UNACCEPTABLE" DRAFT TEXT
INSISTING ON EXTENDING BAILOUT. In fact, reports sya that the
text presented was a reversal of last Thursday's agreement...
The Germans are now calling for Tsipras to replace Varoufakis
at the negotiating table. EURUSD is tumbling and S&P Futures are falling
fast. In case anyone didn’t get ISIL’s message from their
latest video in which 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians have their heads sawn off, here
it is: “We’re executioners, not warriors.” The Big Prize, of course, is the
grand fortress of Saudi Arabia. The kingdom is surrounded by Islamic maniacs
now and if Saudi Arabia falls apart, it’s game over for modern life as
the West has known it (and much of Asia now, too). But Europe is a
gigantic debt minefield that no one can really walk across. Other parts of it
than Greece are just waiting to blow up, and will, and it’s unclear whether
Europe is even paying attention to the blood-red welcome mat that was
laid out in Libya last weekend. There is a saying: "strike while the
rehypothecated iron is hot", and nobody is better at it than Germany,
which hours after the latest disappointing Eurogroup summit failed - again - to
reach a solution on the third iteration of the Grexit dilemma, has decided to
pour even more gas on the fire in the form of infamous Euroskeptic, the
president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Hans-Werner Sinn who in an FT op-ed beckons someone, supposedly Europe's federalist, if
non-existant, powers which in the mind of the German have control over Greek
sovereignty, to immediately 'impose capital controls in Greece or
repeat the mistake of Cyprus." "In today’s distorted oil markets, prices do not
reflect reality. They are driven instead by financial speculation, which
outweighs the real-life factors of supply and demand. Financial markets tend to
produce economic bubbles, and those bubbles tend to burst. Remember the dotcom
bust and the subprime mortgage crisis? Furthermore, they are prone to
manipulation. We have not forgotten the rigging of the Libor interest rate
benchmark and the gold price." - Igor Sechin, CEO of Rosneft This militarism will end one way or the other. Either enough Americans will wake up and demand an
end to Washington’s foreign adventurism, or we will go broke and be unable to
spend another fiat dollar on maintaining the global US empire. As London is to Moscow, so Miami is to Rio... Following the re-election of Dilma Rousseff
- the center-left president that is generally loathed by Brazil's elites - the WSJ reports, rich Brazilians are relocating to South
Florida en masse. As one attorney notes, "mainly they feel
concerned about the instability of Brazil’s political environment; they don’t
want to be the last ones to leave,” with Brazilians among Miami’s top
three foreign buyers of high-price real estate, along with Argentines and
Venezuelans, two other troubled economies. As one Rio broker exclaims, "Miami
is the biggest Brazilian city outside of Brazil right now." What exactly was the reason for the Greek
disagreement? Now that both the acceptable, pre-revision (source), and rejected, post-revision (source) texts are available, we can find precisely which inserted and deleted words
infuriated the Greeks so much. Presenting: the red-line (or rahter blue-line)
comparison between the two drafts, none of which was ultimately signed by
anyone. In the 40 years since US President Richard Nixon made
what was then considered a bold move, visiting Mao Zedong in Communist China,
both countries have changed dramatically. The US has become increasingly
socialistic, more focused on Big Government and more of a totalitarian state;
shifting from the world’s foremost creditor nation to the world’s foremost
debtor nation. By contrast, China has opened up considerably, with billions of
people becoming upwardly mobile, in response to China becoming more
capitalistic. Increasingly, the US is acting like a country in decline,
whilst China is acting like a country on the rise. While certainly a revision is pending after today's
latest, disastrous Eurogroup meeting after which the two sides are further
apart from reaching a deal than a week earlier, here is the latest set of
questions asked by UBS clients on the topic of "what could go wrong"
with the biggest Swiss bank's mutedly optimistic outlook on the "global
recovery" (aided no doubt by the biggest intervention of central banks in
history) which is characterizes as "uneven", especially when one
considered that even UBS itself admitted last week that a
"dislocation" in the market (which is "underestimating Grexit Risks") is necessary in order to overcome the Greek
impasses. This is just the beginning of the oil crisis. The last time US weather was this bad, annualized
US GDP crashed from 2.3% to -2.9%. Joe Biggs | Was there any truth to a local news
affiliate’s production error? Paul Joseph Watson | Leftists seek refuge of political
correctness to hide from threat of Islamic extremism. Kurt Nimmo | Usual suspect SITE Group releases Christian beheading video. Mikael Thalen | Police claimed vitamin powder was
actually amphetamines. Adan Salazar | Citizens attempt to preempt laws that
would mandate forcible inoculation. Steve Watson | 74-Year-Old’s family have raised $170,000 from
well-wishers. Kurt Nimmo | Relentless propaganda produces support for war on ISIS. Paul Joseph Watson | “Soylent green is all natural,
it’s high in protein”. Washington Times | Only Paul can save us from
ruination. Paul Joseph Watson | Conservatives attempt to hijack
creepy hashtag. WORLD NEWS Zero Hedge | What is Russia doing in the East Mediterranean? Syrian children dressed up as Isis hostages in death
cage for anti-Assad protest London Independent | The protest mimicked the burning of Jordanian pilot
Muath al-Kasasbeh. Report: US cuts Israel out of Iran talks AP | White House denies Channel 2 report claiming US has stopped
updating Israel about developments in nuclear negotiations with Iran. US to Send More Troops to Joint Drills With Seoul,
Pyongyang Fears Invasion Sputnik | The annual military exercises are likely to contribute to
escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Egypt Strikes Back: Up to 50 ISIL Militants Reported
Killed in Libya Sputnik | According to state television Egyptian Air Force has killed
between 40 and 50 Islamic State militants during airstrikes in Libya. ·
MONEY WATCH HSBC Bank: Secret Origins To Laundering The World’s
Drug Money GreatGameIndia | HSBC Bank : Secret Origins To 26/11 Mumbai Attacks. $1bn hack heist: Kaspersky Lab exposes massive bank
attack, describes scheme to RT
RT | The already-confirmed cases of hacking have cost banks some $300
million, according to Kaspersky Lab. Greece’s showdown with Europe is here Mike Bird | Greece’s big day is finally here. Why The Price Of Oil Is More Likely To Fall To 20
Rather Than Rise To 80 Michael Snyder | This is just the beginning of the oil crisis. ·
PRISON PLANET MI5 accused of covering up sexual abuse at boys’ home London Guardian | Court case to address alleged cover-up of British
state involvement at the Kincora children’s home in Northern Ireland. Firing Squad Executions Approved By Utah House Of
Representatives AP | An American state has voted in favour of resuming executions by
firing squad. Chicago Cops Who Exposed Department Corruption,
Threatened with “Going Home in a Casket” Free Thought Project | “It’s no secret that if you go against the code
of silence, and you report corruption, it will ruin your career.” COMMENTARY Fake Disney measles outbreak: send in the clowns Jon Rappoport | 150 measles cases. No deaths. Muslim HOAX: Is it really ‘open season’ on Islam in
America? Bizpac Review | A Texas student has admitted she lied when she told
police a white man targeted her because of her Muslim beliefs. Ron Paul | Last week President Obama sent Congress legislation to
authorize him to use force against ISIS “and associated persons and forces”
anywhere in the world for the next three years. Big Brother Knows What You’ve Been Reading New American | Every book you read on your Kindle (or Kindle app) and
every word you highlight in those ebooks is recorded by Amazon. ·
MULTIMEDIA Video: ISIS Parades Captured Peshmerga Soldiers
Through Kirkuk in Cages Gateway Pundit | ISIS released video this week showing 17 Peshmerga
fighters in cages. Weird Video: Islamic Preacher Arrives in UK With
Police Escort Paul Joseph Watson | Strange chants characteristic of Sufi mysticism. ISIS Faked Jordanian Pilot Burning; Voice of Israel
Guest Paul Joseph Watson | “He’s clearly being directed every step of the way”. ·
U.S. NEWS Fate of ‘Audit the Fed’ rests in Dem hands The Hill | A long-running campaign to fully subject the Federal Reserve
to outside review could come down to a handful of moderate Democrats. By Standards Of Immigration Hawks, All 2016 GOP Contenders
Support ‘Amnesty’ Daily Caller | Anyone who has ever used the term “Shamnesty” — or, more
likely, “SHAMNESTY!!!!” — is going to hate the likely 2016 GOP presidential
field. All of it. What the media isn’t telling you about the father of
Chapel Hill shooting victims Bizpac Review | The media has left out some pertinent information. ·
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY UK Daily Mail | Aliens may have sent microorganisms to Earth inside
metal balls to create seed life on our planet, an astrobiologist has claimed. Study: Junk Food more Deadly than War, Famine,
Genocide Christina Sarich | Researchers reveal disturbing numbers. Sorry Monsanto: Organic Food Demand is Absolutely
Exploding Christina Sarich | Sales to reach $35 billion this year. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHIVE Our way of life is far more vulnerable than most
people would ever dare to imagine. A single major catastrophe could
fundamentally alter all of our lives at any moment. But since most people
have not experienced such a catastrophe during their entire lifetimes, most
people just assume that there will never be one. This is called “normalcy
bias” and it can lull us into a very false sense of complacency. The other day,
Michael Hanlon of the Telegraph wrote an article entitled “How will the world end? From ‘demonic’ AI to nuclear
war — seven scenarios that could end human race“. Below, I discuss each of those seven
scenarios along with five additional ones that I have added. We live in a
world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and as a society we have become
exceedingly dependent on the technology that we have surrounded ourselves
with. If something were to happen which would force us to live like our
grandparents and great-grandparents did, most of us would be in a tremendous
amount of trouble. And as our technology has advanced, so has the
potential that this technology will be used for war and destruction.
There is great evil in the heart of man, and the potential to hurt others with
that evil has never been greater. And of course there are always other
“black swan events” to be concerned about as well. The following are 12
disasters that could bring about the end of the world as we know it… (Read More...) 1. ASTEROID STRIKE A single asteroid could potentially produce an “ELE” – an extinction
level event. And scientists are finding more asteroids that are
potentially a danger to Earth all the time. For example, just the other
day Russian researchers discovered a massive asteroid that will fly close to
our planet every three years… Scientists have calculated that 2014 UR116 asteroid
will fly in dangerous proximity to Earth every three years. If it collides with
the planet the energy of the explosion could be a thousand times greater than
the impact of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. Vladimir Lipunov, a leading scientist on the team
which discovered the asteroid this October, says the scientists now know its
orbit and its period which is 3 years, but they cannot say precisely when the
asteroid will approach the Earth. “We should track it constantly. Because if we have a
single mistake, there will be a catastrophe. The consequences can be very
serious,” he said in the documentary “Asteroids attack” posted on Roscosmos
website. If a very large asteroid does hit us in just the
right place, we could be talking about tens of millions of deaths and the
collapse of entire nations. The following is an excerpt from one of my previous
articles about what could happen if a very large asteroid were to come crashing
down just off the east coast of the United States… According to the University
of California at Santa Cruz website, if a massive asteroid were to crash into the Atlantic Ocean it could
produce a giant tsunami with a wall of water as high as 400 feet that would
slam into the east coast of the United States… If an asteroid crashes into the Earth, it is likely
to splash down somewhere in the oceans that cover 70 percent of the planet’s
surface. Huge tsunami waves, spreading out from the impact site like the
ripples from a rock tossed into a pond, would inundate heavily populated
coastal areas. A computer simulation of an asteroid impact tsunami developed by
scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast of the United
States. In case you were wondering, yes, that would be
absolutely catastrophic. 2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Could the machines one day rise up and take over? Personally, I am skeptical, but some of the brightest
minds in the world are deeply concerned about this. Just consider the
following excerpt from Michael
Hanlon’s article in the Telegraph… Humanity may have already created its own nemesis,
Professor Stephen Hawking warned last week. The Cambridge University physicist
claimed that new developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) mean
that within a few decades, computers thousands of times more powerful than in
existence today may decide to usurp their creators and effectively end
humanity’s 100,000-year dominance of Earth. This Terminator scenario is taken seriously by many
scientists and technologists. Before Prof. Hawking made his remarks, Elon Musk,
the genius behind the Tesla electric car and PayPal, had stated that “with
artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon,” comparing it unfavourably
with nuclear war as the most potent threat to humanity’s existence. 3. A GENETICALLY CREATED PLAGUE Ebola has kind of fallen out of the news in the
United States, but the virus is still spreading like wildfire over in Sierra Leone. But of potentially even greater concern is what could
happen if someone started releasing a weaponized form of Ebola, Smallpox or the
Marburg virus in our major cities. A bioweapon can be a brutally efficient killer.
It spreads silently and invisibly, and a full-blown pandemic could ultimately
kill hundreds of millions of people. And every single day, our ability to manipulate these
bugs grows. Many believe that it is only a matter of time before these
types of weapons are used as instruments of terror. When that era arrives, all of our lives will change
forever. 4. NUCLEAR WAR This is one that most Americans greatly
underestimate. Even though tensions with Russia are extremely high,
most of us just assume that “the Cold War is over” and that a nuclear war is
virtually impossible. Unfortunately, that is not even close to the truth. The following is an excerpt from my recent article
entitled “10 Signs That
Russia Is Preparing To Fight (And Win) A Nuclear War With The United States“… Back in 1967, the U.S. military possessed more than 31,000 strategic nuclear warheads. Now, we only have
1,642 deployed, and that number is scheduled to be further reduced to about
1,500. Sadly, reducing the size of our nuclear arsenal by
close to 95 percent is not enough for anti-nuke crusader Barack Obama. He
has spoken of unilaterally reducing the size of our strategic nuclear arsenal
down to just 300 warheads. During this same time period, the Russians have been
developing some very impressive stealth delivery systems which have the
capability of hitting targets inside the United States within just minutes of
an order being issued. This is particularly true of their submarine-launched
missiles. The newest Russian subs have the ability to approach our
coastlines without us even knowing that they are there. If the Russians
came to the conclusion that war with the United States was unavoidable, an
overwhelming first strike using submarine-based missiles could potentially take
out nearly our entire arsenal before we even knew what hit us. And if the
Russians have an anti-ballistic missile system that can intercept the limited
number of rockets that we can launch in return, they may be able to escape
relatively unscathed. In order for “mutually assured destruction” to work,
we have to see the Russian missiles coming and have enough time to order a
launch of our own. Thank to emerging technologies, the balance of power
has fundamentally shifted. The old way of thinking simply does not apply
anymore and the Russians understand this. 5. PARTICLE ACCELERATOR DISASTER Michael Hanlon considers this one to have a “very
low” probability, and I concur. Although our ability to destroy ourselves
is growing by leaps and bounds, I believe that any disaster involving the Large
Hadron Collider would be a localized event. But as we continue to try to “play God” and build
machines like this, we potentially open up gateways and expose ourselves to dangers
beyond anything that most of us ever imagined. 6. ‘GOD’ REACHES FOR THE OFF-SWITCH I thought that it was very interesting that Michael
Hanlon included this one in his article… Many scientists have pointed out that there is
something fishy about our universe. The physical constants – the numbers
governing the fundamental forces and masses of nature – seem fine-tuned to
allow life of some form to exist. The great physicist Sir Fred Hoyle once
wondered if the universe might be a “put-up job”. More recently, the Oxford University philosopher Nick
Bostrom has speculated that our universe may be one of countless “simulations”
running in some alien computer, much like a computer game. If so, we have to
hope that the beings behind our fake universe are benign – and do not reach for
the off-button should we start misbehaving. So could God step in and alter the course of history? Well, it has certainly happened before, and many are
convinced that it will happen again. Many Christians believe (myself included) that we are
moving into the period of time that the Bible refers to as “the last
days”. According to the Scriptures, there has never been a time as
horrible as the last days will be, and there never will be a time like it
afterwards. Of course the Bible also says that “the last days”
will not be the end of the world. But it will be the end of the world as we know it. 7. CLIMATE CATASTROPHE There are a lot of people out there that believe that
global warming caused by human activity is the greatest threat that humanity is
currently facing. I am not one of those people. The climate has
always been changing, and it will always be changing. And the amount of
carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gases” produced by human activity is a
negligible percentage of the total. In addition, scientists tell us that there were times
in the history of this planet when carbon dioxide levels were far, far greater
than they were today. So even if we were to move back in that direction
substantially, it would certainly not mean the end of our planet. However, that doesn’t mean that we are not going to
see tremendous changes in our weather in the years ahead. The primary
driver of climate change, the sun, is behaving very strangely right now.
If it continues to behave erratically, that could cause dramatic climate shifts. In addition, the increase in seismic activity that we
have been witnessing all over the planet could also greatly affect our
climate. Volcanic ash can have a tremendous cooling impact on global
weather patterns, and volcanoes that erupt on the ocean floor could potentially
cause ocean temperatures to rise substantially. Scientists tell us that
if ocean temperatures were to rise far enough, we could see billions of fish
dying. If such an event were to occur, a global famine would not be too far
behind. 8. SUPERBUGS THAT ARE RESISTANT TO ANTIBIOTICS Medical professionals are becoming increasingly
alarmed by the antibiotic-resistant superbugs that are starting to pop up all
over the place. So far it is not a catastrophic threat, but experts warn
that it could soon become one. The following is an excerpt from one of my
previous articles… The “wonder drugs” that we have been using since the
middle of the last century are rapidly losing their effectiveness, and medical
authorities are warning that the emergence of very powerful
antibiotic-resistant superbugs represents “one of the
gravest threats in the history of medicine“. Of course the “wonder drugs” that I am
talking about are known today as antibiotics. These drugs attack
bacteria, and when they first began to be developed back in the 1950s and 1960s
they were hailed as “miracles” that would save countless numbers of
lives. Well, it turns out that nature is having the last laugh. All
over the planet bacteria are developing resistance to these drugs, and
scientists are warning that they can’t really do anything to stop these
superbugs. With each passing year these superbugs are gaining ground, and
there appears to be not much hope on the horizon of being able to fight
them. In fact, no
new classes of antibiotics have been invented since 1987, and none are being developed right now.
Meanwhile, scientists are telling us that many current antibiotic treatments
will be completely obsolete by the year 2030. Are you starting to
understand why so many high profile members of the scientific community are
using the words “catastrophic threat” to describe this crisis? 9. CYBERWAR Did you see what just happened to Sony?
It is probably the most embarrassing and financially damaging incident in
company history. Of course the North Koreans are denying that they were
behind the attack, but there is a good chance that they were. Sadly, this could just be a preview of what is
coming. For example, what would happen if a cyberattack took
down all of our major banks? What would we do? Most people don’t realize this, but our banks are
already under assault every minute of
every single day… Wall Street banks are getting hit by cyber attacks
every single minute of every single day. It is a massive onslaught that
is not highly publicized because the bankers do not want to alarm the
public. But as you will see below, one big Wall Street bank is spending
250 million dollars a year just by themselves to combat this growing
problem. The truth is that our financial system is not nearly as stable
as most Americans think that it is. We have become more dependent on
technology than ever before, and that comes with a potentially huge downside. 10. ANOTHER FUKUSHIMA The Fukushima nuclear disaster showed all of us how a
single natural disaster can absolutely cripple a nuclear reactor. And of course things are still not under control at
Fukushima. It is already the greatest nuclear disaster in human history, and
it is still releasing even more nuclear material into the environment every
single day. Once this material gets into the food chain, it can
silently kill for generations. The following comes from an opinion piece
by Helen Caldicott that was published in the Guardian… Internal radiation, on the other hand, emanates from
radioactive elements which enter the body by inhalation, ingestion, or skin
absorption. Hazardous radionuclides such as iodine-131, caesium 137, and other
isotopes currently being released in the sea and air around Fukushima
bio-concentrate at each step of various food chains (for example into algae,
crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then humans; or soil, grass, cow’s meat
and milk, then humans). After they enter the body, these elements –
called internal emitters – migrate to specific organs such as the thyroid,
liver, bone, and brain, where they continuously irradiate small volumes of
cells with high doses of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many
years, can induce uncontrolled cell replication – that is, cancer.
Further, many of the nuclides remain radioactive in the environment for
generations, and ultimately will cause increased incidences of cancer and
genetic diseases over time. So what happens one day when a catastrophic natural
disaster in the United States or elsewhere in the world causes several
“Fukushimas” at the same time? That is something to think about. 11. A MASSIVE ERUPTION AT THE YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLANO Around the globe, there are some volcanoes that are
so absolutely massive in size that they are referred to as “supervolcanoes”. One of these supervolcanoes is in the United
States. The following facts about the Yellowstone supervolcano come from one of my previous articles… #1
A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone could be up to 1,000
times more powerful than the
eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. #2
A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone would spew volcanic ash 25 miles up into the air. #3
The next eruption of Yellowstone seems to be getting closer with each passing
year. Since 2004, some areas of Yellowstone National Park have risen by
as much as 10 inches. #4
There are approximately 3,000 earthquakes in the Yellowstone area every single year. #5
In the event of a full-scale eruption of Yellowstone, virtually the entire
northwest United States will be completely destroyed. #6
A massive eruption of Yellowstone would mean that just about everything within
a 100 mile radius of Yellowstone would be immediately killed. #7
A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone could also potentially dump a layer of
volcanic ash that is at least 10 feet deep up to 1,000 miles away. #8
A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone would cover virtually the entire midwest
United States with volcanic ash. Food production in America would be
almost totally wiped out. #9
The “volcanic winter” that a massive Yellowstone eruption would cause would
radically cool the planet. Some scientists believe that global
temperatures would decline by up to 20 degrees. #10
America would never be the same again after a massive Yellowstone
eruption. Some scientists believe that a full eruption by Yellowstone
would render two-thirds of the United States completely uninhabitable. #11
Scientists tell us that it is not a matter of “if” Yellowstone will erupt but
rather “when” the next inevitable eruption will take place. 12. A GIANT ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE FROM THE SUN This last one that I have added to the list is one of
the least understood. A giant electromagnetic pulse from the sun has the
potential to fry much of the technology that we have become so dependent upon. How would you survive in a world where nobody has
electricity, the Internet has been fried, the financial system is offline
indefinitely, nobody can make any phone calls and virtually all commerce across
the entire country has been brought to a complete standstill? A massive EMP blast has the potential to send all of
us back to the 18th century in a single instant. And just two years ago
there was a “near miss”
that almost got us. So don’t think that it can’t happen. In fact,
experts tell us that it is only a matter of time before it does. And when it does happen, it could turn our society totally upside down… According to Peter Vincent Pry, who advises Congress
on homeland security issues, a large enough geomagnetic solar storm could
produce effects similar to an electromagnetic
pulse (EMP) generated by a nuclear weapon that “could collapse power grids everywhere
on the planet and destroy EHV (extra high voltage) transformers and other
electronic systems that would require years to repair or replace.”
While the danger posed by a G5 solar storm gets mentioned occasionally at
Congressional hearings, there really hasn’t been any major action. Earlier this year, a Homeland Security adviser said America is not
ready for an EMP attack,
never mind a G5 solar storm, and it’s claimed that the U.S. power grid
fails more often than any
other in the world. If a large enough solar storm does impact the
United States, the damaged electronic systems can cause a cascade of failures
throughout the broader infrastructure, including banking systems, energy
systems, transportation systems, food production and delivery systems, water
systems, emergency services, and even the internet, so people may not even
realize at first what has happened. Effectively, the U.S. would be thrown back
to the pre-industrial age following a solar superstorm, and yet we are not
prepared for the worst. So what do you think about all of this? Are there any additional potential disasters that you
would add to this list? Please feel free to add to the discussion by posting
a comment below… If the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble
implodes, who should be stuck with the bill? Well, if the “too big to
fail” banks have their way it will be you and I. Right now, lobbyists for
the big Wall Street banks are pushing really hard to include an extremely
insidious provision in a bill that would keep the federal government funded
past the upcoming December 11th deadline. This provision would allow
these big banks to trade derivatives through subsidiaries that are federally
insured by the FDIC. What this would mean is that the big banks would be
able to continue their incredibly reckless derivatives trading without having
to worry about the downside. If they win on their bets, the big banks
would keep all of the profits. If they lose on their bets, the federal
government would come in and bail them out using taxpayer money. In other
words, it would essentially be a “heads I win, tails you lose” proposition. (Read More....) Good guys do not sadistically torture people.
Good guys do not threaten to sexually abuse the family members of their
prisoners, and they certainly do not forcibly ram things up the rear ends of
those in their custody. One of the greatest dangers that our country is
facing is the fact that we are not passing on what it means to be “American” to
future generations. Once upon a time, Americans were the good guys.
But now, instead of fighting the Nazis we are behaving just like them.
The details of the Senate torture report that was just released
are almost too horrifying to talk about. We must talk about them though,
because we are losing our soul as a nation. So please be warned – this
article is going to be quite graphic. The reason for this is so that we
can all take a long, hard, honest look at what we have become. After
everything that has happened, top politicians from both political parties are
still standing up and defending those that conducted and authorized this
torture. The rest of the world is watching this, and the number of people
that are absolutely convinced that America is pure evil is growing by the
day. By not loudly condemning this torture and bringing the perpetrators
to justice, we add fuel to the fire of those that hate this country, and we
make it more likely that Americans will be targets of violence all over the
planet. (Read More...) By Photo Credit Melody Newcomb DAVIS, Calif. — IT’S commonplace to call our cats
“pets.” But anyone sharing a cat’s household can tell you that, much as we might
like to choose when they eat in the morning, or when they come inside for the
night, cats are only partly domesticated.The likely ancestors of the domestic
dog date from more than 30,000 years ago. But domestic cats’ forebears join us in the
skeletal record only about 9,500 years ago. This difference fits our intuition about their
comparative degrees of domestication: Dogs want to be “man’s best friend”;
cats, not so much.Fossils are handy snapshots of the past, but a genomic
sequence is a time machine, enabling scientists to run evolutionary history
backward. The initial sequence of the domestic cat was completed in 2007, but a recent study to which I contributed compared the genomes of the domestic cat and the
wildcat (Felis silvestris) and sheds new light on the last 10,000 years of
feline adaptations.Domestic cats are not just wildcats that tolerate humans in
exchange for regular meals. They have smaller skulls in relation to their
bodies compared with wildcats, and are known to congregate in colonies. But in
comparison with dogs, cats have a narrower range of variation in size and
form.Wesley C. Warren, an author of the study, notes that domestic cats have
excellent hunting skills, like their wild ancestors. This, too, supports the
notion that cats are only semi-domesticated.Comparing the genomes of the
wildcat and the domestic cat added much to what we had known. Michael J.
Montague, the lead author, told me he’d anticipated that the two genomes would be
very similar, but our study found a specific set of differences in genes
involved in neuron development. This brain adaptation may explain why domestic
cats are docile.Scientists have long observed that domesticated species exhibit
a suite of strikingly similar traits, from floppy ears to smaller brains, than
those of their wild ancestors. Domestication may select for a few similar
traits encoded by genetic changes (like smaller brains), but these may produce
what we assume are secondary effects (like floppy ears).Once they were living
among us, cats didn’t need to think so much to stay alive; nor did they need
such large jaws after we started feeding them our processed scraps. Hence
smaller skulls. The same dynamic holds for dogs: Wolves beat dogs in general
intelligence tests.By examining patterns in our animals’ genomes, we’ve
confirmed that the same sets of genes seem to be targeted again and again in
evolution. As far back as Charles Darwin, domestic animals in particular have
yielded insights about evolution because we know what sorts of selection
pressures they were subject to. After all, it was us they were primarily
adapting to.Which brings us to the genome of one critical tame animal:
ourselves, humans. The Nobel
Prize-winning zoologist
Konrad Z. Lorenz once suggested that humans were subject to the same dynamics
of domestication. Our brain and body sizes peaked during the end
of the last ice age, and declined with the spread of agriculture. Instead of poring over the meager fossil record, we
can survey patterns of variation across tens of thousands of living
individuals. Genomics now provides evidence that humans have been subject to a
great deal of natural selection over the past 10,000 years. A beautiful example is
the ancestors of Tibetans’ absorption of small portions of the genome of ancient human relatives adapted for
living at high altitude. Our cultural flexibility and creativity since the end
of the ice age have not freed humans from evolutionary forces, but have opened
up novel and startling paths. Thinking of domestication as an evolutionary
process that occurs through “artificial” selection creates a false dichotomy of
nurture and nature that plays into a conceit of human exceptionalism. In fact,
the idea that we are apart from nature, that it is ours to tame and exploit, is
an outmoded approach.A more useful interpretation is that over the past 10,000
years, humans fashioned their own ecosystem. We were part of a natural process
that altered the landscape. In that light, we can think of the domestic cat as
an ecological response to the emergence of parasites (rodents attracted by
early Neolithic granaries). The same forces that reshaped the genomes of our
domesticates also reshaped ours.No longer roving in small bands subsisting on
game and unprocessed plants, we settled down in villages, harvesting the same
crops year after year. For millenniums, peasants fed on what we might today term
porridge, of various types. Our teeth became smaller — indeed, both dogs and humans show
evidence of adaptation to starchy diets.Just as the fur of our mammalian
domesticates, freed from the constraint of needing to fade into the landscape,
became a riot of diverse colors, human pigmentation started to change and many
populations became light-skinned. With a cheek-by-jowl existence, humans and their
animals began sharing diseases, remolding the immunity of whole populations,
but leaving those who did not experience this co-evolution untouched and
vulnerable. Possibly, some pathogens incubated in cats, like Toxoplasma gondii, may even alter human behavior.Many of us conceive of our relationship to our pets
as analogous to that between a parent and child. But the natural history tells
a more pragmatic tale. Cats emerged in the context of profound ecological changes
to the post-ice-age landscape wrought by humans.We were the authors of those
changes, but in the process of telling that story, we became protagonists
within it. One of the essential steps in knowing ourselves, and seeing where we
are going, is to look around and take note of how we’ve reshaped those nearest
to us, and they us. Razib Khan, a doctoral candidate in genomics at the University
of California, Davis, writes about genetics, evolution, history, politics and
philosophy. A version of this op-ed appears in print on November
25, 2014, on page A27 of the New York edition with the headline: Our Cats,
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Louis, New Orleans Make List Of World's Most Violent Cities... Murder is more
common in Latin America than in any other part of the world. That's the most striking takeaway from a ranking of the most violent
cities compiled earlier this year by Mexico's Citizens' Council for Public Security and
Criminal Justice. The ranking
doesn't count deaths in war zones or cities with unavailable data. Thirty-four of the 50 worst cities were located in the region, including
repeat murder capital of the world — San Pedro Sula, Honduras — which saw 187 homicides per 100,000
inhabitants in 2013 and is getting steadily worse. A full one-third of global homicides occur in Latin America even though the region
has just 8% of the world's population, according to United Nations
data. Drug trafficking, gang wars, political instability, corruption, and
poverty combine to cause the region's elevated violence. US cities also made the list, led by Detroit at No. 24 and New Orleans
at No. 26. A woman walks by a
mural that reads in Spanish "Wave of violence and blood" in Culiacan,
the capital city of Mexico's Sinaola state, Thursday, May 15, 2008. A protest in São Luís, Brazil. Amazon Indians talk
to police at the entrance to the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction
site, as they continued their occupation of the area in Vitoria do Xingu, near
Altamira in Para State, May 5, 2013. A Brazilian drug gang
member nicknamed Poison, 18, poses with a gun atop a hill overlooking a slum in
Salvador, Bahia State, April 11, 2013. A soldier stands
outside at the Maria Lamas Farache-Frasqueirao stadium before the Mexico's
national soccer team's training session in Natal, June 14, 2014. A Colombian soldier
organize packs of confiscated cocaine in a laboratory near Palmira, Valle del
Cauca province August 20, 2004. Venezuelan police
officers stand guard outside the morgue where the bodies of prisoners killed in
a riot were taken in Barquisimeto,Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. João Pessoa, Brazil The body of a man
lies covered on a pavement after being killed during a shootout at the El
Guarda market in Guatemala city Sept. 8, 2011. Riot policemen face
off with demonstrators near a burnt vehicle during a protest near the Estadio
Castelao, where the Confederations Cup semi-final match between Spain and Italy
is being played, in Fortaleza June 27, 2013. A Honduran police
officer guards an injured prisoner, standing inside a cell at the Hospital
Escuela. Brazil's drug lord
Luiz Fernando Costa, also know as "Fernandinho Beira Mar" (Freddy
Seashore), arrives at Federal Police Headquarter in Brasilia March 24, 2006. Colombian special
investigators carry the body of a car bomb victim in Cali city Sept. 1, 2008. A body lies in the
street in Acapulco, Mexico. In this May 15, 2013
photo, National Guard soldiers frisk a man at a checkpoint as part of the
"Secure Homeland" initiative in Petare, one of the most dangerous
neighborhoods of Caracas, Venezuela. Police fire tear gas
to break up a protest in San Pedro Sula, Honduras November 29, 2009. Honduras
chooses a new president on Sunday but neither ousted Honduran President Manuel
Zelaya nor arch-rival and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti are running in the
election, which could give a new president the chance to take Honduras beyond
the political gridlock that has divided the Central American nation and cut off
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cafe The idea that the United States is on the brink of a
horrifying economic crash is absolutely inconceivable to most Americans.
After all, the economy has been relatively stable for quite a few years and the
stock market continues to surge to new heights. On Friday, the Dow and
the S&P 500 both closed at brand new all-time record highs. For the
year, the S&P 500 is now up 9 percent and the Nasdaq is now up close to 11
percent. And American consumers are getting ready to spend more
than 600 billion dollars this
Christmas season. That is an amount of money that is larger than the
entire economy of Sweden. So how in the world can anyone be talking about
economic collapse? Yes, many will concede, we had a few bumps in the road
back in 2008 but things have pretty much gotten back to normal since
then. Why be concerned about economic collapse when there is so much
stability all around us? (Read More....) Unfortunately, this brief period of stability that we have been enjoying
is just an illusion. The fundamental problems that caused the financial crisis of 2008 have
not been fixed. In fact, most of our long-term economic problems have
gotten even worse. But most Americans have such short attention spans these days. In
a world where we are accustomed to getting everything instantly, news cycles
only last for 48 hours and 2008 might as well be an eternity ago. In the United States today, our entire economic system is based on debt. Without debt, very little economic activity happens. We need
mortgages to buy our homes, we need auto loans to buy our vehicles and we need
our credit cards to do our shopping during the holiday season. So where does all of that debt come from? It comes from the banks. In particular, the "too big to fail banks" are the heart of
this debt-based system. Do you have a mortgage, an auto loan or a credit card from one of these
"too big to fail" institutions? A very large percentage of the
people that will read this article do. And a lot of people might not like to hear this, but without those banks
we essentially do not have an economy. When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, it almost resulted in the
meltdown of our entire system. The stock market collapsed and we
experienced an absolutely wicked credit crunch. Unfortunately, that was just a small preview of what is coming. Even though a few prominent "experts" such as New York Times
columnist Paul
Krugman have declared that
the "too big to fail" problem is "over", the truth is that
it is now a bigger crisis than ever before. Compared to five years ago, the four largest banks in the country are
now almost 40
percent larger. The
following numbers come from a recent article in the
Los Angeles Times... Just before the financial crisis hit, Wells Fargo
& Co. had $609 billion in assets. Now it has $1.4 trillion. Bank of America
Corp. had $1.7 trillion in assets. That's up to $2.1 trillion. And the assets of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the
nation's biggest bank, have ballooned to $2.4 trillion from $1.8 trillion. At the same time that those banks have been getting
bigger, 1,400 smaller banks have completely disappeared from the banking
industry. That means that we are now more dependent on these
gigantic banks than ever. At this point, the five largest banks account for 42
percent of all loans in the
United States, and the six largest banks account for 67
percent of all assets in our
financial system. If someone came along and zapped those banks out of
existence, our economy would totally collapse overnight. So the health of this handful of immensely powerful
banking institutions is absolutely critical to our economy. Unfortunately, these banks have become deeply
addicted to gambling. Have you ever known people that allowed their lives
to be destroyed by addictions that they could never shake? Well, that is what is happening to these banks.
They have transformed Wall Street into the largest casino in the history of the
world. Most of the time, their bets pay off and they make lots of money. But as we saw back in 2008, when they miscalculate
things can fall apart very rapidly. The bets that I am most concerned about are known as
"derivatives". In essence, they are bets about what
will or will not happen in the future. The big banks use very
sophisticated algorithms that are supposed to help them be on the winning side
of these bets the vast majority of the time, but these algorithms are not
perfect. The reason these algorithms are not perfect is because they are
based on assumptions, and those assumptions come from people. They might
be really smart people, but they are still just people. If things stay fairly stable like they have the past
few years, the algorithms tend to work very well. But if there is a "black swan event" such
as a major stock market crash, a collapse of European or Asian banks, a
historic shift in interest rates, an Ebola pandemic, a horrific natural
disaster or a massive EMP blast is unleashed by the sun, everything can be
suddenly thrown out of balance. Acrobat Nik Wallenda has been making headlines all
over the world for crossing vast distances on a high-wire without a safety
net. Well, that is essentially what our "too big to fail" banks
are doing every single day. With each passing year, these banks have
become even more reckless, and so far there have not been any serious
consequences. But without a doubt, someday there will be. What would you say about a bookie that took $200,000 in
bets but that only had $10,000 to cover those bets? You would certainly call that bookie a fool. But that is what our big banks are doing. Right now, JPMorgan Chase has more than 67 trillion
dollars in exposure to derivatives but it only has 2.5 trillion dollars in
assets. Right now, Citibank has nearly 60 trillion dollars in
exposure to derivatives but it only has 1.9 trillion dollars in assets. Right now, Goldman Sachs has more than 54 trillion
dollars in exposure to derivatives but it has less than a trillion dollars in
assets. Right now, Bank of America has more than 54 trillion
dollars in exposure to derivatives but it only has 2.2 trillion dollars in
assets. Right now, Morgan Stanley has more than 44 trillion
dollars in exposure to derivatives but it has less than a trillion dollars in
assets. Most people have absolutely no idea how incredibly
vulnerable our financial system really is. The truth is that these "too big to fail"
banks could collapse at any time. And when they fail, our economy will fail too. So let us hope and pray that this brief period of
false stability lasts for as long as possible. Because when it ends, all hell is going to break
loose. There has always been a substantial level of
incompetence at federal agencies, but under the Obama administration
incompetence has risen to unprecedented levels. This year the
incompetence of the Secret Service, the Veterans Administration, the Department
of Homeland Security and the CDC have all made national headlines. And it
is hard to forget how the launch of Obamacare was such a failure that it became
a global joke. We live at a time when our government officials can’t seem
to do anything right. When Americans complain about the government, most
of the time they focus on how corrupt and wicked our politicians have become,
and that should not be downplayed whatsoever. But just replacing those
politicians is not going to fix what ails our government. The quality of
the workers throughout the government bureaucracy has fallen so
dramatically that our federal agencies can no longer be depended upon to
perform even the most basic governmental functions competently. The
following are 10 examples of the extreme incompetence that now pervades the
federal government… (Read More...) #1 The Secret Service Once upon a time, the Secret Service was considered to be one of the
finest security organizations in the entire world. But these days, they
seem to be too busy partying and chasing
prostitutes around to do
their jobs properly. For instance, multiple intruders have recently been able to cross the
White House lawn and walk right into the White House without being stopped
by anyone. Here is just one example… An intruder made his way across the White House lawn
and through the building almost to the Obama living quarters before being
stopped by a Secret Service officer who was off duty: This chilling news is
more than just a kind of melodramatic movie scenario come true. Next to the military, the Secret Service is probably
the most highly regarded institution within the executive branch. Or it was. Now we learn its agents can’t catch a guy running
across the White House lawn; can’t stop the guy at the front door; can’t get to
him before he gets to the stairs that lead to the rooms where the president’s daughters
sleep. #2 The Obamacare Website The launch of Obamacare overall has been a complete
and total disaster, but the launch of the Obamacare website in particular was
such a dramatic failure that it is hard to put into words. The Obama administration spent more than 2 billion dollars on
healthcare.gov and trumpeted it as the future of healthcare in America, but the
website was a technical nightmare. The following is how one news outlet described it… Healthcare.gov has shutdown, crapped out, stalled,
and mis-loaded so consistently that its track record for failure is challenged
only by Congress. #3 Dropping Weapons To ISIS Terrorists It is well known that ISIS is using captured U.S.
vehicles and weapons to take
over vast stretches of territory in Iraq and Syria. So what do we do? U.S. planes drop even more
weapons into the region to aid in “the fight against ISIS”, but ISIS is ending
up with many of those weapons too… At least one bundle of U.S. weapons airdropped in
Syria appears to have fallen into the hands of ISIS, a dangerous misfire in the
American mission to speed aid to Kurdish forces making their stand in Kobani. An ISIS-associated YouTube account posted a new video
online Tuesday entitled, “Weapons and munitions dropped by American planes and
landed in the areas controlled by the Islamic State in Kobani.” The video was
also posted on the Twitter account of “a3maq news,” which acts as an unofficial
media arm of ISIS. The outfit has previously posted videos of ISIS fighters
firing American made Howitzer cannons and seizing marijuana fields in Syria. ISIS had broadly advertised its acquisition of a
broad range of U.S.-made weaponsduring its rampage across Iraq. ISIS videos
have showed its fighters driving U.S. tanks, MRAPs, Humvees. There are
unconfirmed reports ISIS has stolen three fighter planes from Iraqi bases it
conquered. #4 The Immigration Crisis The Obama administration has refused to secure our
borders and has openly encouraged mass illegal immigration from Central and South America. As a result, our border patrol is absolutely
overwhelmed. Tens of
thousands of women and children
are turning themselves over to border patrol agents and asking for
asylum. They expect to be taken care of and given a new life in this
country. As a result, “processing centers” along our southern border are
packed to the gills with women and children living in absolutely deplorable
conditions as the federal government figures out what to do with them. #5 The VA Scandal Under the Obama administration, military veterans
have been treated like human garbage. For years they have been denied the care that they need,
and many Americans were absolutely shocked when they learned that countless
veterans have died waiting to get an appointment at one of our VA
facilities. Needless to say, this scandal has greatly shaken the confidence that the public has in the Veterans
Administration… The Veterans Administration was viewed favorably by
68 percent of those polled last year. But it too has since been swept up in a
scandal over long wait times for veterans seeking care and records that were
falsified to camouflage the problems. In the CBS poll, just 30 percent rated
the VA as doing a good job. #6 The SEC Many wonder why the SEC never seems to go after the
big Wall Street banks. Well, perhaps one of the reasons is because many
SEC employees have been too busy watching porn all day long… One senior attorney at SEC headquarters in Washington
spent up to eight hours a day accessing Internet porn, according to the report,
which has yet to be released. When he filled all the space on his government
computer with pornographic images, he downloaded more to CDs and DVDs that
accumulated in boxes in his offices. An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites
1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her
computer hard drive. Another SEC accountant used his SEC-issued computer
to upload his own sexually explicit videos onto porn websites he joined. And another SEC accountant attempted to access porn
sites 16,000 times in a single month. #7 The Environmental Protection Agency You know that things are bad at your agency when
employees have to be told not to poop in the hallways… It appears, however, that a regional office has
reached a new low: Management for Region 8 in Denver, Colo., wrote an email
earlier this year to all staff in the area pleading with them to stop
inappropriate bathroom behavior, including defecating in the hallway. In the email, obtained by Government Executive,
Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor mentioned “several incidents” in
the building, including clogging the toilets with paper towels and “an
individual placing feces in the hallway” outside the restroom. Confounded by what to make of this occurrence, EPA
management “consulted” with workplace violence “national expert” John
Nicoletti, who said that hallway feces is in fact a health and safety risk. He added
the behavior was “very dangerous” and the individuals responsible would
“probably escalate” their actions. And just like the SEC, there has been a lot of porn
watching going on at the EPA too. The following is from a recent Washington Post article… In May, the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector
general disclosed that a senior-level employee was caught spending as much as
six hours of his day looking at porn. The IG found that the employee had
downloaded and viewed more than 7,000 pornographic files. The Justice
Department is investigating further for possible prosecution. Four months later, the employee has not been fired
and is still collecting government pay, Environment & Energy
Publishing reported last week. That prompted Rep. Mark
Meadows (R-N.C.) to introduce a bill the day Congress left town to make
it a uniform federal government law that employees cannot look at porn at work. #8 NASA Generally, NASA has been regarded as one of the more
competent government agencies. That is why it is so alarming that a
rocket recently exploded just before liftoff at a NASA
facility in Virginia… An unmanned commercial rocket headed for the
International Space Station to deliver supplies exploded just after launching
Tuesday, filling the sky with a massive fireball. The Antares rocket supplied by contractor Orbital
Sciences blew up moments after liftoff at NASA’s space launch facility on the
Eastern Shore of Virginia, the space agency said. The explosion destroyed the rocket and spacecraft and
immediately raised questions about the future of NASA’s reliance on private
commercial ventures to carry vital payloads into space to supply and support
the orbiting space station. #9 The Federal Reserve The Federal is NOT a government agency, but it claims such a close relationship with the
government that I have added it to this list. Since the Federal Reserve was initially created, the
U.S. dollar has become more than 20 times less valuable, and the U.S. national
debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger. More recently, the Federal Reserve’s quantitative
easing program has been an unmitigated failure. The Federal Reserve
created 3.5 trillion dollars out of thin air and pumped it into the financial
system, but all of that money has done next to nothing for the real
economy. The percentage of Americans that are employed is about the same
as it was during the depths of
the last recession, the
homeownership rate in this country has been falling for seven years in a row, and half of all Americans now make less than $28,031 a year. #10 Ebola This is the one area where the incompetence of the
federal government could be the most dangerous. Originally we were told
by the CDC that Ebola could only be spread by “direct contact” with the bodily
fluids of someone else. But now we have learned that the government
believes that Ebola is “aerostable“,
and we have also learned that researchers have discovered that Ebola can remain
on surfaces for up to 50 days. If Ebola does start spreading widely in this country, giving
people bad information could accelerate the spread of the disease. And Barack Obama continues to
refuse to ban all non-essential air travel between the United States and the nations in West
Africa where Ebola is raging out of control. As far as Obama is concerned, incompetence is the
best case scenario. There is absolutely no excuse for not protecting the
American people from what could become the greatest health crisis that any of
us have ever seen. If a major Ebola pandemic does erupt in this country,
the blood of countless numbers of Americans could potentially be on his hands. So what do you think? Are there other examples of incompetence that you
would add to this list? Please share your thoughts by posting a comment
below… Posted
by : Cognitive
Dissonance Post
date: 11/02/2014 - 13:41 The perks that come with
being kept will not survive the breaking of the keep. Bread, Circuses, & Bombs - Decline Of The
American Empire { Yes, this
is indeed quite true … After all, keep
in mind the adage, ‘rome wasn’t destroyed in a day’ … In the scheme of things,
to be sure, it’s also true that america ‘died fast’ relative to other so-called
‘empires’ … and it was really the pervasive corruption at the highest levels
and in all branches of the u.s. government that irrevocably cast that die … History may not repeat exactly because technology,
resource discoveries, and political dynamics change the nature of society, but it
does rhyme because the human foibles of greed, lust for power, arrogance, and
desire for conquest do not vary across the ages. The corruption, arrogance, hubris, currency
debasement, materialism, imperialism, and civic decay that led to the ultimate
downfall of the Roman Empire is being repeated on an even far greater scale today
as the American Empire flames out after only two centuries. The pillars of
western society are crumbling under the sustained pressure of an immense
mountain of debt, created by crooked bankers and utilized by corrupt
politicians to sustain and expand their welfare/warfare state. Recklessness,
myopia, greed, willful ignorance, and selfish disregard for unborn generations
are the earmarks of decline in this modern day empire of debt, delusion and
decay. Submitted by Jim Quinn via
The Burning Platform blog, “Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no
man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed
out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains
itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: Bread and Circuses.” – Juvenal – Satire (100 A.D.) Roman satirist and poet Juvenal was displaying contempt for a degraded Roman citizenry that had shunned
civic responsibility, shirked their duties of citizenship within a republic,
and had chosen to sell their votes to feckless politicians for assurances of
bread and circuses. Rather than govern according to noble principles based upon
reason, striving for public policies that led to long term sustainability and
benefitting the majority of citizens, politicians chose superficial displays
and appeasing the masses utilizing the lowest common denominator of "free'
food and bountiful spectacles, pageants, and ceremonies in order to retain
power. The Roman Empire’s decline stretched across centuries as the gradual loss of
civic virtue among its citizenry allowed demagogues to gain power and
barbarians to eventually overrun the weakened empire. While the peasants were
distracted with shallow exhibitions of palliative pleasures, those in power
were debasing the currency, enriching themselves, and living pampered lives of
luxury. The Roman leaders bought public approval and support, not through
exemplary public service, but through diversion, distraction, and the
satisfaction of base immediate needs and desires of the populace. Satisfying
the crude motivations of the ignorant peasants (cheap food and entertainment)
is how Roman politicians bought votes and retained power. Free wheat, circus
games, and feeding Christians to lions kept the commoners from focusing on
politicians pillaging and wasting the empire’s wealth. History may not repeat exactly because technology,
resource discoveries, and political dynamics change the nature of society, but
it does rhyme because the human foibles of greed, lust for power, arrogance,
and desire for conquest do not vary across the ages. The corruption, arrogance, hubris, currency
debasement, materialism, imperialism, and civic decay that led to the ultimate
downfall of the Roman Empire is being repeated on an even far greater scale today
as the American Empire flames out after only two centuries. The pillars of
western society are crumbling under the sustained pressure of an immense
mountain of debt, created by crooked bankers and utilized by corrupt
politicians to sustain and expand their welfare/warfare state. Recklessness,
myopia, greed, willful ignorance, and selfish disregard for unborn generations
are the earmarks of decline in this modern day empire of debt, delusion and
decay. “Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence
– those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and
moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are over-consuming
the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.” – Aldous Huxley – Island Rome was eight and a half centuries old when Juvenal scornfully
described the degenerative spiral of the Roman populace. Still, the Western
Empire lasted another three centuries before finally succumbing to the
Visigoths and Vandals. The far slower pace of history and lack of other equally
matched competing nation states allowed Rome to exist for centuries beyond its
Pax Romana period of unprecedented political stability and prosperity, which
lasted for two centuries. Prior to becoming an empire, the Roman Republic was a
network of towns left to rule themselves with varying degrees of independence
from the Roman Senate and provinces administered by military commanders. It was
ruled, not by Emperors, but by annually elected magistrates known as Roman
Consuls. The Roman citizens were a proud people who had a strong sense of civic
duty and made government work for the people. During the 1st century B.C. Rome suffered a long series of internal
conflicts, conspiracies and civil wars, while greatly extending their imperial
power beyond Italy through military conquest. After the assassination of Julius
Caesar and the ascension of Augustus to emperor in 27 BC, after a century of
civil wars, Rome experienced an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity.
During this era, the solidity of the Empire was furthered by a degree of
societal stability and economic prosperity. But it didn’t last. The successors
to Augustus contributed to the progressive ruination of the empire. The
repugnant reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero reflected the true
nature of the Roman people, who had relinquished their sovereignty to
government administrators to whom they had granted absolute powers, in return
for food and entertainment. It was the beginning of the end. The American Republic began as a loose confederation of states who ruled
themselves, with little or no direction from a central authority. The Articles
of Confederation, ratified in 1781 by all 13 States, limited the powers of the
central government. The Confederation Congress could make decisions, but lacked
enforcement powers. Implementation of most decisions, including modifications
to the Articles, required unanimous approval of all thirteen state
legislatures. After winning the war for independence from England, the U.S.
Constitution, which shifted power to a central authority, was ratified in 1789.
The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, was passed in
1791 with the purpose of protecting individual liberties and insuring justice
for all. Their function was to safeguard the citizens from an authoritarian
federal government. These imperfect documents would benefit and protect the
rights of the American people only if applied by moral, just, incorruptible,
noble, honorable leaders and enforced by an educated, concerned, vigilant
citizenry. As with the Roman Empire, the quality of leadership has rapidly
deteriorated over the last two centuries and now wallows at disgustingly low
levels. These leaders are a reflection of a people who have abandoned their
desire for knowledge, responsibility for their lives, work ethic, belief in
freedom and the U.S. Constitution. The Juvenal of our times was H.L. Mencken who aptly and scornfully described the citizenry in
1920 as an ignorant mob who would eventually elect a downright moron to the
presidency. He was right. “The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small
areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way
through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when
the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and
third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt,
then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and
mediocre—the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind
is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such
men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely,
the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and
glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at
last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” – H.L. Mencken A Republic was formed 225 years ago, as opposed to a
monarchy, by men of good intentions. They weren’t perfect, but their goals for the new nation were honorable
and decent. Ben Franklin had his doubts regarding whether we could keep a
republic. He had good reason to doubt the long-term sustainability of this
experiment. Freedom is not something bestowed on us by men of higher caste. We
are born into this world free, with the liberty to live our lives as we see
fit, the opportunity to educate oneself and the freedom to succeed as far as
our capabilities and efforts allow. Only a self-reliant, virtuous, moral, civic
minded people are capable of enjoying the fruits of freedom. Once corruption,
self-interest, greed, and dependency upon government bureaucrats for sustenance
become prevalent, the populace seeks masters who promise safety and security in
return for sacrificing essential liberty and basic freedoms. The country has defeated foreign invaders, withstood financial
calamities, endured a bloody civil war, benefitted immensely from the discovery
of oil under its soil, became an industrial power, fought on the winning side
of two world wars, and since 1946 has become the greatest imperial empire since
Rome fell to the barbarians. Over the course of our 225 year journey there has
been a gradual relinquishment of the citizens’ sovereignty and autonomy to an
ever more overbearing central government. Lincoln’s unprecedented expansion of
Federal government authority during thwe Civil War marked a turning point, as
state and local rights became subservient to an all-powerful central authority.
Individual liberty has been surrendered and freedoms forfeited over a decades
long insidious regression of a once courageous, independent, self-sufficient
citizenry into a mob of cowering, willfully ignorant dependents of the deep
state. From the inception of the country there has been a
constant battle between the banking interests and the common people. Bankers have used fraudulent fractional reserve
banking to speculate for their own benefit, made risky loans, and created every
financial crisis in the country’s history. The profits from excessive risk
taking are retained by the bankers. The inevitable losses are borne by
taxpayers with the excuse that the financial system must be saved and
preserved. The storyline never changes. The beginning of the end of the American
Empire can be pinpointed to the year 1913, only 124 years after its inception.
Private banking interests captured the monetary system of the empire with the
secretive creation of the Federal Reserve. The power of the central state was
solidified with the implementation of the personal income tax, allowing
politicians to bribe their constituents with modern day “bread and circuses”,
paid for with money taken at gunpoint from them by the central state. We are
now nothing but the hollowed out shell of a once noble Republic. A century of central banking and heavy taxation of the people by bought
off politician puppets has coincided with a century of war, depressions,
currency debasement, overconsumption, obscene levels of consumer debt,
trillions of excessive debt financed government spending, hundreds of trillions
in unfunded entitlement liabilities, and a persistent decline in standard of
living for the masses due to Federal Reserve manufactured inflation. We
have failed to heed the lessons of history. We have repeated the
blunders committed by the Romans. The American Empire will not be murdered by an
external force because it is too busy committing suicide. The moneyed interests, corporate oligarchs and their
hand-picked politician front men see themselves as conquering heroes. Their
colossal hubris and arrogance is only matched by the ignorance, gullibility,
quivering fear of bogeymen, and susceptibility to propaganda of the general
populace. The Wall Street bankers and feckless politicians are not gods, they
are only men. Death is the great equalizer for emperors and peasants alike. The
only thing that remains is your legacy and whether you positively impacted the
world. It can be unequivocally stated that those in power today are leaving a
legacy of despair, destruction, and debt. Empires are born and empires die. The American Empire will not be sustained for eight
centuries, as the swiftness of modern civilization, nuclear proliferation,
religious zealotry, and sociopathic leadership ensures we will flame out in a
blaze of glory before reaching our third century. The spirit of independence,
idealism, self-reliance, entrepreneurship, knowledge seeking, advancement, and
goodwill towards our fellow citizens that marked the height of our fledgling
country has succumbed to a malaise of government dependency, cynicism, living
on the dole, financial Ponzi schemes, willful ignorance, materialism, delusion,
and myopic self-interest. The moral decline of the American populace has been
reflected in the deteriorating quality of leaders we have chosen over the last
century. Prosperity was taken for granted and no longer earned. We abdicated
our civic responsibility to corrupt financiers and power seeking politicians.
As time has passed, the ruling elite have grown ever more powerful and wealthy,
at the expense of the peasantry. These sociopaths see themselves as god-like
emperors, on par with the vilest of the Roman emperors. Historians will mark 1980 as another turning point, when the nation
capitulated to the financiers and ceded control of our destiny to Wall Street
bankers, the military industrial complex, and globalist billionaires. The final
deformation from a productive society built upon savings, capital investment,
and goods production to a borrowing, gambling, and consumption society built
upon debt and profiteering by powerful corporate and banking interests had
commenced. The peak of this warfare/welfare state insanity was reached in 2000
and the road to decline and decay is now littered with the figurative corpses
of a gutted middle class and the literal corpses of men, women and children
across the globe, killed during our never ending imperial conquests. The ruling
elite sense the futility and foolishness of their folly, but their insatiable
appetite for wealth, power, triumph and glory blind them to the destructive
consequences of their actions upon the nation and their fellow man. Power and
dominion over others is a powerful aphrodisiac for our current day emperors and
self-preservation at all costs is their mantra. While they bask in their perceived triumph and glory,
achieved through rigging the financial and political systems in their favor,
they should heed the faint whisper in their ear that all glory is fleeting. “For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning
from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the
procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered
territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments.
The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in
chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the
chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a
golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.” – George S. Patton, Jr. The decline of the Roman Empire can be attributed to a number of
supportable hypotheses, which have been documented by historians over time.
They include: In Part Two of this tale of two empires, I’ll
document the parallels between mistakes made, eternal human foibles, military
misfortunes, financial misconduct, and moral decay, that denote the decline of
the Roman and American Empires. George Orwell ranks among the most profound social
critics of the modern era. Some of his quotations, more than a half a century
old, show the depth of understanding an enlightened mind can have about
the future. Submitted by Justin King (of The Anti-Media) via The Burning
Platform blog, George Orwell ranks among the most profound social
critics of the modern era. Some of his quotations, more than a half a century
old, show the depth of understanding an enlightened mind can have about the
future. 1) “In our age there is no such thing
as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics
itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” Though many in the modern age have the will to bury
their head in the sand when it comes to political matters, nobody can only
concern themselves with the proverbial pebble in their shoe. If one is
successful in avoiding politics, at some point the effects of the political
decisions they abstained from participating in will reach their front door.
More often than not, by that time the person has already whatever whisper of a
voice the government has
allowed them. 2) “All the war-propaganda, all the
screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not
fighting.” Examining the nightly news in the run up to almost
any military intervention will find scores of talking heads crying for blood to
flow in the streets of some city the name of which they just learned to
pronounce. Once the bullets start flying, those that clamored for war will
still be safely on set bringing you up-to-the-minute coverage of the carnage
while their stock in
Raytheon climbs. 3) “War against a foreign country only happens
when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.” It’s pretty self-explanatory and while it may be hard
to swallow, it’s certainly true. All it takes is a quick look at who benefited from
the recent wars waged by the United States to see Orwell’s quip take life. 4) “The very concept of objective truth
is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” My most prized books are a collection of history
books from around the world. I have an Iraqi book that recounts the glory of
Saddam Hussein’s victory over the United States in 1991. I have books from
three different nations claiming that one of their citizens was the first to
fly. As some of the most powerful nations in the world agree to let certain
facts be “forgotten,”
the trend will only get worse. History is written by the victor, and the victor
will never be asked if he told the truth. 5) “In a time of deceit, telling the
truth is a revolutionary act.” Even without commentary, the reader is probably picturing
Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning. The revolutions of the future will not be
fought with bullets and explosives, but with little bits of data traveling
around the world destroying the false narratives with which governments shackle
their citizens. 6) “Journalism is printing what someone
else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” Make no mistake about it; if an article does not
anger someone, it is nothing more than a piece. Most of what passes for news
today is little more than an official sounding advertisement for a product,
service, or belief. 7) “In real life it is always the anvil
that breaks the hammer…” In every conflict, it is not the side that can
inflict the most damage, but the side that can sustain the most damage that
ultimately prevails. History is full of situations in which a military “won
the battles but lost the war.” 8) “The nationalist not only does not
disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable
capacity for not even hearing about them.” Haditha. Panjwai. Maywand District. Mahmudiyah. These
names probably don’t ring a bell, but it is almost a certainty that the reader
is aware of the brutality that occurred in Benghazi. The main difference is
that in the first four incidents, those committing the acts of brutality were
wearing an American flag on their shoulder. 9) “Threats to freedom of speech,
writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their
effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the
citizen.” Everyday there is a new form of censorship or a new
method of forcing people into self-censorship, and the people shrug it off
because it only relates to a small minority. By the time the people realize
their ability to express disapproval has been completely restricted, it may be
too late. That brings us to Orwell’s most haunting quote. 10) “If you want a picture of the
future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” Once the people are indoctrinated with nationalistic
beliefs, and the infrastructure to protect them from some constantly-changing
and ever-expanding definition of an enemy is in place, there is no ability for
the people to regain liberty. By the time all of the pieces are in place, not
only is opportunity to regain freedom, but the will to achieve freedom has also
evaporated. The reader will truly love Big Brother. Image Credits:
Wikimedia Commons Despite the fact that the term “conspiracy theory”
has been weaponized by the establishment as a perjorative slur against anyone
who questions the official narrative of any government pronouncement, there are
innumerable examples throughout history of conspiracies that were proven to be
true. Let’s take a look at ten examples; 1) Operation AJAX and false flag terror The notion that governments and intelligence agencies
carry out acts of false flag terrorism has long been derided by the
establishment media as a conspiracy theory, despite there being a plethora of
historically documented instances. After decades of denial, in August 2013 the CIA
finally admitted its role in staging the coup in Iran which led to the
overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 under the umbrella of Operation AJAX. Under AJAX, the CIA oversaw covert operations which
included acts of false flag terror which claimed the lives of some 300 people. 2) Gulf of Tonkin On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson went on
national television and told the nation that North Vietnam had attacked U.S.
ships. “Repeated acts of violence against the armed forces
of the United States must be met not only with alert defense, but with a
positive reply. That reply is being given as I speak tonight,” Johnson
declared. Congress soon passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,
which provided Johnson with pre-approved authority to conduct military
operations against North Vietnam. By 1969, over 500,000 troops were fighting in
Southeast Asia. Johnson and his Secretary of Defense, Robert
McNamara, had bamboozled Congress and the American people. In fact, North
Vietnam had not attacked the USS Maddox, as the Pentagon claimed, and the
“unequivocal proof” of an “unprovoked” second attack against the U.S. warship
was a ruse. 3) Operation Gladio: State Sponsored Terror Blamed on
the Left Following the Second World War, the CIA and Britain’s
MI6 collaborated through NATO on Operation Gladio, an effort to create a “stay behind army” to fight communism in the event of a Soviet invasion
of Western Europe. Gladio quickly transcended its original mission and
became a covert terror network consisting of right wing militias, organized
crime elements, agent provocateurs and secret military units. The so-called
stay behind armies were active in France, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway,
Germany, and Switzerland. Gladio’s “Strategy of Tension” was designed to portray leftist political groups
in Europe as terrorists and frighten the populace into voting for authoritarian
governments. In order to carry out this goal, Gladio operatives conducted a
number of deadly terrorist attacks that were blamed on leftists and Marxists. In August of 1980, Gladio operatives bombed a train station in Bologna, killing 85 people. Initially blamed on the Red Brigades,
it was later discovered that fascist elements within the Italian secret police
and Licio Gelli, the head of the P2 Masonic Lodge, were responsible
for the terror attack. Other fascist groups, including Avanguardia Nazionale
and Ordine Nuovo, were mobilized and engaged in terror. Operation Gladio ultimately claimed the lives of
hundreds of people across Europe. According to Vincenzo Vinciguerra, a Gladio terrorist serving a life-sentence for
murdering policemen, the reason for Gladio was simple. It was designed to force
these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater
security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and
the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict itself
or declare itself responsible for what happened. 4) Operation Northwoods In the covert war against the communist regime in
Cuba under the CIA’s Operation Mongoose, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
unanimously proposed state-sponsored acts of terrorism in side the United
States. The plan included shooting down hijacked American airplanes, the sinking of U.S. ships, and the shooting of
Americans on the streets of Washington, D.C. The outrageous plan even included
a staged NASA disaster that would claim the life of astronaut John Glenn. Reeling under the embarrassing failure of the CIA’s
botched Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, president Kennedy rejected the plan in
March of 1962. A few months later, Kennedy denied the plan’s author, General
Lyman Lemnitzer, a second term as the nation’s highest ranking military
officer. In November of 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in
Dallas, Texas. 5) The Gleiwitz Incident The Gleiwitz incident refers to a false flag
operation carried out by the Nazis on 31 August 1939 during which SS troops
staged an attack on a German radio station and then blamed Polish troops. German operatives dressed in Polish military garb
seized the radio station, located near the Polish border, before broadcasting a
short propaganda message in Polish. They then killed concentration camp victims
who were also dressed in Polish uniforms and left them at the scene, making the
incident look like an act of Polish aggression. The very next day Germany
invaded Poland, with Hitler citing the incident as one of the pretexts. Nine days before the incident, Hitler had told his
generals, “I will provide a propagandistic casus belli. Its credibility doesn’t
matter. The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth.” 6) Tobacco companies deliberately added addictive
chemicals to cigarettes Conspiracies are not always of a governmental nature,
they can also be targeted at consumers. As the BBC
reported, tobacco companies
in the United States were caught deliberately engineering cigarettes for
addiction by including chemicals that artificially increased the addictive kick
of the product and made it taste better. Clive Bates, director of ASH, said the discovery
exposed a “scandal in which tobacco companies deliberately use additives to
make their bad products even worse”. 7) Operation Fast and Furious Operation Fast and Furious, under which the Obama
administration smuggled weapons to Mexican drug lords in an apparent effort to
trace the guns and bust the drug gangs, was in fact part of a conspiracy to
demonize the second amendment. Documents obtained by CBS News in December 2011 prove that ATF agents discussed how
they could tie guns involved in Mexican violence to gun dealers based in the
U.S with a view to passing stricter gun control regulations. One law enforcement source told CBS News that the
emails suggested the ATF created the problem itself as part of a political
ploy. “It’s like ATF created or added to the problem so
they could be the solution to it and pat themselves on the back. It’s a
circular way of thinking,” the source said. 8) NSA spying & mass surveillance In the 1990′s, when anti-surveillance activists
and media personalities were warning about the NSA’s huge domestic spying
operation, they were treated as paranoid conspiracy theorists. Well over a decade before the Snowden revelations,
the NSA was busy intercepting and recording all electronic communications
across the entire world under the Echelon program. In 1999, the Australian government admitted that they were part of an NSA-led global intercept and surveillance
program called Echelon in alliance with the US and Britain that could listen to
“every international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission,” on
the planet. In addition, a 2001 European Parliament report stated that “within Europe all e-mail, telephone and fax
communications are routinely intercepted” by the NSA. 9) CIA Drug Trafficking The Central Intelligence Agency has been implicated
in drug trafficking operations all over the world as well as domestically, most
notably during the Iran-Contra affair, under which Contra personnel smuggled
cocaine into the U.S. with the blessing of the CIA which was then distributed
as crack cocaine in Los Angeles, with the profits being funneled back to the
Contras. Former Los Angeles Police Department officer Michael
Ruppert also testified that he had witnessed CIA drug trafficking. Top Mexican drug lords like Jesus Vicente Zambada
Niebla have also gone public to assert that they were hired by the U.S.
government for drug trafficking operations. There is a voluminous body of evidence that confirms the CIA and U.S. banking giants are
the top players in a global drug trade worth hundreds of billions of dollars a
year, information made public by the likes of Gary Webb. 10) The CIA’s heart attack gun During Senate testimony in 1975 into illegal
activities by the CIA, it was revealed that the agency had developed a dart gun
capable of causing a heart attack. “At the first televised hearing, staged in
the Senate Caucus Room, Chairman Church dramatically displayed a CIA poison
dart gun to highlight the committee’s discovery that the CIA directly violated
a presidential order by maintaining stocks of shellfish toxin sufficient to
kill thousands,” a Senate web page explains. “The lethal poison then rapidly enters the
bloodstream causing a heart attack. Once the damage is done, the poison
denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very unlikely to detect that the heart
attack resulted from anything other than natural causes. Sounds like the
perfect James Bond weapon, doesn’t it? Yet this is all verifiable in
Congressional testimony,” writes Fred Burks. “The dart from this secret CIA weapon can penetrate
clothing and leave nothing but a tiny red dot on the skin. On penetration of
the deadly dart, the individual targeted for assassination may feel as if
bitten by a mosquito, or they may not feel anything at all. The poisonous dart
completely disintegrates upon entering the target.” Burks suggests that Mark Pittman, a reporter who predicted the financial crisis and exposed Federal
Reserve misdoings which led to a Bloomberg lawsuit against the bankster cartel,
may have been assassinated with the CIA weapon. Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the middle class is
slowly being suffocated by rising food prices. Every single dollar in
your wallet is constantly becoming less valuable because of the inflation the
Fed systematically creates. { Inflation
much higher than reported, for a multitude of reasons, not the least of
which are politics/election..., cost-of-living adjustments to minimize payouts
– ie., social security, etc. } And if you try to build wealth by saving money
and earning interest on it, you still lose because thanks to the Federal
Reserve's near zero interest rate policies banks pay next to nothing on savings
accounts. The Federal Reserve wants you to either spend your money or to
put it in the giant casino that we call the stock market. But when
Americans spend their paychecks they are finding that they don't stretch as far
as they once did. The cost of living continues to rise at a much faster
pace than wages are rising, and this is especially true when it comes to the
price of food. (Read More....) Putin accuses US of undermining global stability In an
emotional speech before international political experts, Putin unleashed
scathing criticism of the United States for what he called its disregard of
international law ….. { Or,
non-international law … See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm . } TRUMP TO ROMNEY: DON'T EVEN
THINK ABOUT IT... { Who is a mobster/bribester/fraud like trump to be taken
at all seriously much less be more credible than mafia/organized crime, etc..
t_rump has been a significant part of american decline … he’s total
b***s***/fraud! … and, he’s a great reason to vote DEMOCRAT! Remember, if it’s
good for trump, it’s bad for the nation! } POPE: SATAN SEDUCES BY
DISGUISING EVIL AS GOOD... by Elise Harris CNA/EWTN News.- On Monday’s feast of the archangels Pope Francis
spoke of the ongoing battle between the devil and mankind, encouraging
attendees to pray to the angels, who have been charged to defend us. …… (part omitted) { This is a lovely
thought; but, the reality is that the Christ was with malice aforethought,
viz., intent, as would be so if here again today, and many times over,
viciously crucified even as He begged with luciferian shadow of inflicted pain
they be forgiven for their dastardly act … The further reality is that even if
the murder of Christ is a thing forgotten, though not, in the vast scheme of
things eternal, mankind has long since consumed that indulgence; and quite
simply, Pope Francis, though well meaning, should while praying for their
souls, realize mankind as universally insignificant … As regards the
destruction of man, I’d reasonably say man’s already done quite a good job of
it, to themselves, with a little help from the satan himself, though never
taking too much prodding toward that end and inherently needing no real help at
all … Psalm 8? Devil’s motive? Sounds like a classic case of jewish/hebrew
rationalization/sophistry, invariably in no short supply, ie., the denial of
Christ the Messiah they ultimately wanted/made dead, etc. … Man superior to
Angels? Man’s not even superior to, ie., a feral cat … As for beelzebub, the basest of creatures,
and the so-called battle with GOD, if the universe likened to a universal
court, the animal/satan would be constrained to throw himself on the mercy of
the court while pleading no contest; though mercy will not be forthcoming
…} “They … defend the God-man, the superior man, Jesus
Christ who is the perfection of humanity, the most perfect." RICO Summary to FBI Under
Penalty of Perjury I truly had no ‘dog in
this fight’, although it’s now clear from whence those tiny terriers called
scotties got their name (like all dogs they eat their own s**t, also known as a
trait) … From an evolutionary perspective one cannot fail to notice the
backbone deterioration / weakness inherent to scottish people … yet, we now can
understand why scottish men wear skirts / dresses (they call them kilts) … From
a psychological perspective, this predictable outcome could additionally be
explained by a syndrome that falls somewhere between ‘battered wife’ and
‘stockholm’ with the consequent realization that the psychological damage is
quite permanent with historical implications for a brow-beaten people, all for
the sake of a few quid/pounds and prosecutions here and there foregone … I
personally really don’t care; but scots really should since this is an
unequivocal day of shame for them … a day that for them is forever and will
live in infamy … How totally pathetic! } { Difficult to believe (quite pathetic) … but, given what happened to William
Wallace (Braveheart), one really must
wonder about scots, in general, from an evolutionary perspective (backbone
deterioration/weakness. As in that scenario, the bribes/self-interested
cowardice is presently in no short supply … great scot … NOT! } PALIN FAMILY ALLEGEDLY INVOLVED IN A BRAWL A majority of the Palin family — Sarah, Todd, Bristol, and Track — was
allegedly involved in a booze-filled brawl over the weekend in which the former
vice presidential candidate reportedly screamed, “Don’t you know who I am?” According to reports from local bloggers, the Palin crew showed up at a
party in Wasilla following a day at the Iron Dog snowmobile race. According
to local blogger Amanda Coyne,
witnesses at the scene said Palin’s eldest son, Track, showed up to the party
in a stretch Hummer. He then confronted a man who had previously dated one of
his sisters, according to Coyne and another blog called Immoral Minority. “That led to some pushing and shoving, which escalated somehow to the
family being asked to leave the premises,” Immoral
Minority, reported. “Word is that Bristol has a particularly strong right hook, which she
employed repeatedly, and it’s something to hear when Sarah screams, “Don’t you
know who I am!” Coyne reported. “This isn’t some damned Hillbilly reality show!” a party-goer allegedly
yelled, making a possible reference to “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” a failed reality
series that ran for nine episodes between Nov. 2010 and Jan. 2011. “As people were leaving in a cab, Track was seen on the street,
shirtless, flipping people off, with Sarah right behind him, and Todd somewhere
in the foreground, tending to his bloody nose,” a witness told Coyne. Anchorage police declined to provide details told Immoral Minority that
none of the parties involved wanted to press charges. No arrests were made. Anchorage police did not immediately respond to The Daily Caller’s
request for a police report. School assigns 6th grade
students essay -- comparing Bush to Hitler! { Interesting … Well, the
similarity is they were both crazy; but, the big difference is that bush would
be a diagnosed schizophrenic ( with positive symptoms – those conversations
with GOD … GOD wastes no time with burnt-out war criminals ) … both psychopaths
… indeed! Military expenditure: $618.7 billion The $619 billion military expenditure in the U.S. nearly outpaced the
combined spending of every other country on this list in 2013. At the start of
2013, the U.S. had nearly 8,000 nuclear warheads in reserve. Since 2001, U.S.
military spending has risen from $287 billion to $530 billion. In recent years,
however, U.S. military outlays fell from 4.8% of GDP in 2009 to 3.8% in 2013.
Reduction in military expenditures was due to a greater emphasis on fiscal
austerity and the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. In
fact, military expenditure fell nearly 6% in 2012, followed by a 7.8% reduction
in 2013. Despite efforts to curtail the size of the military, the U.S. supplied
nearly $6.2 billion in arms to foreign allies, a figure second only to Russia.
The U.S. was also a large arms importer, bringing in $759 million worth of
arms, among the higher rates world-wide. Aug. 31, 2014 FILIPPO
MONTEFORTE—AFP/Getty Images Nuns are an endangered species. They are dying and
not being replaced. If you think the news is bad now, a world without nuns would be a far
worse place. The nuns that I know are much too humble to tout their achievements
and all of the good they contribute to society, but make no mistake, they are
an integral part of the fabric that holds our civilization together. In 2014 there were just 49,883 religious Catholic sisters in the United
States, down 13% percent from 2010 according to figures from the Center for Applied Research in
the Apostolate. To put it in greater perspective, that is a 72% decline since
1965. Because nuns don’t brag about all of the good that they do or hashtag
how awesome they are on Facebook, many people have no idea about the things
they accomplish on a daily basis. You probably haven’t heard about Sister Joan Dawber. Sister Joan, a
Sister of Charity of Halifax, runs a safe house in Queens for victims of human
trafficking—former sex and labor slaves. She takes these women in when they
have no one else to protect them and risks her life to help them rebuild
theirs. About 20 minutes away by car from Sister Joan’s safe house, Sister Tesa
Fitzgerald works tirelessly to raise the children of mothers who are
incarcerated. When those women get out of prison Sister Tesa helps them get
clothes, jobs and an apartment. Those women credit Tesa with nothing less than saving
their lives. Most people don’t know about Sister Nora Nash, a Franciscan Sister who
lives just outside of Philadelphia. As her order’s Director of Corporate Social
Responsibility, Sister Nora wakes up every single morning determined to make
corporations more responsible to the human race. Sister Nora and her assistant
director, Tom McCaney have taken to task the grocery store chain Kroger over
the rights of farm workers, Hershey’s chocolate company over child labor,
McDonald’s over childhood obesity, Walmart on raising their minimum wage and
Wells Fargo over predatory lending practices. Nash wakes up every single
morning determined to make corporations more responsible to the human race.
Then she follows through on it. For more than four decades Sister Jeannine Gramick has been tireless in
her fight for gay rights through her organization New Ways, despite coming
under intense scrutiny from the Vatican. Sister Dianna Ortiz made headlines in 1989 when she abducted, tortured
and raped while working as a teacher in Guatemala. After living through that
horror, instead of allowing herself to sink into a terrible depression, she
headed up an organization to help thousands of torture survivors around the
globe find the will to keep living. It’s a problem that you haven’t heard about these women. You would think
that, during a time when the Church has suffered from great criticism and
weathered very public scandals, it would be celebrating these incredible
achievements. Think again. The Vatican doesn’t celebrate these women. In fact, it has done the very
opposite. Attacks on American nuns have been happening since 2008, when the
Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of
Apostolic Life initiated an “Apostolic Visitation,” a euphemism for
investigation, of the nuns. To put it in perspective, previous “visitations” conducted by the Church
were designed to investigate things like the priest sex abuse scandal. The nuns nicknamed it the Great Nunquisition and in the past eight years
they’ve come under scrutiny from the church patriarchy. A 2012 Vatican document highlighted the Church’s problem with the
Leadership Council of Women Religious, the largest group of nuns in the United
States. The document claimed that the LCWR was “silent on the right to life
from conception to natural death” and that Roman Catholic views on the family
and human sexuality “are not part of the LCWR agenda in a way that promotes
church teachings.” Today’s nuns are simply too progressive for the Vatican. The Vatican
chooses not to celebrate nuns and it chooses not to empower them. Pope Francis has been hailed as a progressive icon. Yet on the subject
of women in the Church, he remains loyal to a long-held and antiquated stance:
he doesn’t think women should become priests. Nuns are dying out because their population is aging and young women are
not joining their ranks in the numbers they once did. The young women who could be the nuns of tomorrow share a lot of the
same values as the nuns of today. They are fiercely dedicated to the concept of
social justice and doing good in the world. Seven in 10 millennials consider
themselves social activists, and 72% of them are eager to participate in a nonprofit young professional group. They want to be of service. I recently spoke to a young woman who was discerning to be a Catholic sister,
but changed her mind before she took perpetual vows of poverty, chastity and
obedience. I asked her why and the answer was very simple and yet disheartening. “I want to work for an employer that values what I do.” She plans to work for an NGO. She wanted to be of service to the world,
but she also wanted to feel empowered in her job. Why would a generation of young women raised to believe that they can be
anything join an institution that tells them there is something they absolutely
cannot be, that there is a certain level they will never reach? Many of the
women who are nuns today joined the vocation because it was a way to become
highly educated, travel the world and dedicate themselves to a higher good
without being beholden to a husband or children. Young women today can do that with a passport and a Kickstarter account. I am constantly reminded of something Sister Maureen Fiedler, a feminist
and the host of the public radio program Interfaith Voices told me when I
interviewed her for my book: the fact that Jesus was, and is, an
“equal-opportunity employer.” He loved everyone the same. If Catholic nuns are to survive in this country, something has to give.
The Vatican needs to treat the nuns with more respect. The rules will have to
evolve. Women will need to be given more power and leadership roles in the
church. Speaking at the annual LCWR assembly earlier this month, Franciscan
Sister Ilia Delio described exactly what it means to be a nun today: “We are
about drawing in the poor, the lonely, the marginalized, all those seeking to
be part of a whole,” she said. “This is nothing more and nothing less than the
most awesome vocation. It is awesome. The nuns are awesome. But if the Vatican doesn’t start
treating them as such, there is no incentive for more young women to aspire to
join their ranks. Jo Piazza is
the author of the new book, If Nuns Ruled the World, which
shatters the stereotypes of American Catholic nuns and profiles 10 daring
sisters. A veteran journalist whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Slate, the
Daily Beast and Yahoo, Piazza holds a masters degree in Religious Studies from
New York University. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/03/2014 - 22:35 Has there ever been a nation more hooked on drugs
than the United States?
And I am not just talking about illegal drugs – the truth is that the number of
Americans addicted to legal drugs is far greater than the number of Americans
addicted to illegal drugs. As you will read about below, more than 30
million Americans are currently on antidepressants and doctors in the U.S.
wrote more than 250 million prescriptions for painkillers last year.
Sadly, most people got hooked on these drugs very innocently. They
trusted that their doctors would never prescribe something for them that would
be harmful, and they trusted that the federal government would never approve
any drugs that were not safe. And once the drug companies get you
hooked, they often have you for life. You see, the reality of the matter is that some of these “legal drugs”
are actually some of the most addictive substances on the entire planet.
And when they start raising the prices on those drugs, there isn’t much that
the addicts can do about it. It is a brutally efficient business model,
and the pharmaceutical industry guards their territory fiercely. Very
powerful people will often do some really crazy things when there are hundreds
of billions of dollars at stake. The following are 22 facts about
America’s endless pharmaceutical nightmare that everyone should know… #1
According to the New York Times, more than 30
million Americans are
currently taking antidepressants. #2
The rate of antidepressant use among middle aged women is far higher than for
the population as a whole. At this point, one out of
every four women in their 40s and 50s is taking an antidepressant medication. #3
Americans account for about five percent of the global population, but we buy more than 50 percent of the pharmaceutical drugs. #4
Americans also consume a whopping 80 percent of all prescription painkillers. #5
It is hard to believe, but doctors in the United States write 259 million prescriptions for painkillers each year. Prescription
painkillers are some of the most addictive legal drugs, and our doctors are
serving as enablers for millions up0n millions of Americans that find
themselves hooked on drugs that they cannot kick. #6
Overall, pharmaceutical drug use in America is at an all-time high.
According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of
all Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and 20 percent of all
Americans are on at least five prescription drugs. #7
According to the CDC, approximately 9 out of every 10 Americans that are at least 60 years old say that they have taken at
least one prescription drug within the last month. #8
In 2010, the average teen in the United States was taking 1.2 central
nervous system drugs.
Those are the kinds of drugs which treat conditions such as ADHD and
depression. #9
A very disturbing Government Accountability Office report found that approximately one-third of all foster children in the United States are on
at least one psychiatric drug. #10
An astounding 95 percent of the “experimental medicines” that the
pharmaceutical industry produces are found not to be safe and are never
approved. Of the remaining 5 percent that are approved, we often do not
find out that they are deadly to us until decades later. #11
One study discovered that mothers that took antidepressants during pregnancy
were four times more likely to have a baby that developed an autism spectrum
disorder. #12
It has been estimated that prescription drugs kill approximately 200,000 people in the United States every single year. #13
An American dies from an unintentional prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes. According to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, accidental prescription drug overdose is “the
leading cause of acute preventable death for Americans”. #14
In the United States today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and
cocaine combined. #15
According to the CDC, approximately
three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the United
States because of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs. #16
The number of prescription drug overdose deaths in the United States is five times higher than it was back in 1980. #17
A survey conducted for the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that more
than 15 percent of all U.S. high school seniors abuse
prescription drugs. #18
More than 26 million women over the age of 25 say that they are “using
prescription medications for unintended uses“. #19
If all of these antidepressants are helping, then why are more Americans
killing themselves? The suicide rate for Americans between the ages of 35
and 64 increased by nearly 30 percent between 1999 and 2010. The number of Americans
that die by suicide is now greater than the number of Americans that die as a
result of car accidents every year. #20
Antidepressant use has been linked to mass shootings in America over and over and over again, and yet the mainstream media is eerily quiet about
this. Is it because they don’t want to threaten one of their greatest sources
of advertising revenue? #21
The amount of money that the pharmaceutical industry is raking in is
astronomical. It has been reported that Americans spent more than 280
billion dollars on
prescription drugs during 2013. If many of these drugs were not so addictive, the pharmaceutical
companies would make a lot less money. And pharmaceutical drug addicts
often don’t fit the profile of what we think a “drug addict” would look
like. For example, CNN shared the
story of a 55-year-old grandmother named Cynthia Scudo that become addicted to
prescription painkillers… For Scudo, her
addiction began — as they all do — innocently enough. She sought relief
from hip pain, possibly caused by scarring from cesarean sections she had
delivering several of her children. Her then-husband
recommended a physician. “There was no
physical therapy offered,” she said of the doctor’s visit. “The first reaction
was, let’s give you some drugs.” He put her on
OxyContin. By the second week,
she was physically addicted. She was popping so
much of the painkiller and other drugs such as anti-anxiety Valium that they
equated to a dosage for three men. There is lots and lots of
money to be made from addiction. In fact, if the U.S. health care system
was a totally separate nation it would actually be the 6th largest economy on the entire globe. We are talking about
piles of money larger than most people would ever dare to imagine. And with so much money floating around, it is quite easy for the
pharmaceutical industry to buy the cooperation of our politicians and of the
media. Some time when you are watching television in the
evening, consciously take note of how often a pharmaceutical commercial comes
on. It has gotten to the point where we are literally
being inundated with these ads. They are already making hundreds of billions of dollars, and they think
that there is room for even more growth. Will they ever be satisfied?
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\* MERGEFORMATINET How
in the world does the government expect us to trust the economic numbers that
they give us anymore? For a long time, many have suspected that they were
being manipulated, and as you will see below we now have stone cold proof that
this is indeed the case. But first, let's talk about the revised GDP
number for the first quarter of 2014 that was just released. Initially,
they told us that the U.S. economy only shrank by 0.1 percent in Q1. Then
that was revised down to a 1.0 percent contraction, and now we are being informed
that the economy actually contracted HYPERLINK
"http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/bad-to-worse-us-economy-shrank-more-than-expected-in-q1"
\o "by a whopping 2.9 percent" \t "_blank" by a whopping 2.9 percent during the first quarter. So what are we actually
supposed to believe? Sometimes I almost get the feeling that government
bureaucrats are just throwing darts at a dartboard in order to get these
numbers. Of course that is not actually true, but how do we know that we
can actually trust the numbers that they give to us? HYPERLINK
"http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/stone-cold-proof-that-government-economic-numbers-are-being-highly-manipulated"
\o "(Read More....)" (Read More....) Washington’s Blog | Video of Rebel Buk Launchers
Headed Back to Russia? No – Images From Ukraine-Held Territory Since May. { Even in the absence of debunking evidence,
or Russia’s proffer, given the reality of america’s (the west’s, but america
particularly) actions, not words, and a governmental policy of prevarication
and fraud (on top of bankrupt desperation), I can’t see how anyone could
possibly believe anything america says … See, ie., HYPERLINK "http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf"
\t "_blank" http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf HYPERLINK
"http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm" \t
"_blank" http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
HYPERLINK "http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm" http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm } Tony Cartalucci | Russia has now shown its satellite pictures
and radar information from the Donetsk, Ukraine region during the July 17, 2014
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash.
HYPERLINK "http://albertpeia.com/fortknoxfairytale.htm" http://albertpeia.com/fortknoxfairytale.htm { I’ve previously said that america’s ‘fort
knox gold’, etc., has been looted for quite some time; note, the germans still
can’t get their ‘long since looted’ gold out of america; another more blatant
examples of american fraud was the 360 tons of $100 bills ($13 billion) flown
into Iraq and which literally ‘disappeared without a trace’/stolen, in yet
another affront to the beleaguered u.s. taxpayer. } Typical americona … See, ie.,
HYPERLINK
"http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf"
\t "_blank" http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf HYPERLINK
"http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm" \t
"_blank" http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm
HYPERLINK "http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm" http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm .
HYPERLINK
"http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/05/world/meast/mideast-tensions/" \t
"_blank" Palestinian teen burned
alive, autopsy shows Jerusalem (CNN) -- Mohammed Abu Khedair, a
Palestinian teenager who was abducted and killed in Jerusalem this week, died
from being burned alive and hit with a blunt object to the head, according to
Palestinian General Prosecutor Mohammed ... HYPERLINK
"http://www.prisonplanet.com/america-is-the-only-country-with-a-favorable-view-of-israel.html"
\o "Permanent Link to America Is the Only Country with a Favorable View of
Israel" America
Is the Only Country with a Favorable View of Israel Washington’s Blog |
The U.S. Is the Only Country Which Supports Israel No Matter What It Does. { Yet,
america pays a big, unaffordable price for same since america’s signature is
perceived as upon every israeli missile, bomb, bullet and consequential death
thereby … There are some who wonder how hitler could have happened; yet, it’s Christ-killing israeli actions that made such
hitlerian policies so globally popular … insanity breeding insanity … evolution
of ‘life’ on planet earth … watch the change in israeli attitude as they run
low on americon supplied iron-dome among other missiles/weaponry … Ultimately,
it’s america that pays the price in every way for israeli intransigence … just
more of the same for an america in decline; viz., bad policy, bad results … }
HYPERLINK
"http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-26/if-americans-knew-what-was-happening-israel-%E2%80%A6"
If Americans
Knew What Was Happening In Israel … Posted by: HYPERLINK
"http://www.zerohedge.com/users/george-washington" \o "View user
profile." George
Washington Post date: 07/26/2014 -
00:33 … If my fellow
Americans understood the history of Israel and Palestine, their views would
change overnight … and they would demand that Israel no longer be given
unconditional support and blank checks to do whatever they want: Postscript: Former Israeli Minister: HYPERLINK
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0kWAqZxJVE" \o "Calling people
who criticize Israeli policy \“anti-semitic. It’s a trick … we always use
it\”" \t "_blank" Calling people who criticize Israeli policy
“anti-semitic. It’s a trick … we always use it”.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.infowars.com/intl-teams-find-no-violations-by-russia-along-ukrainian-border/"
\o "Permanent Link to Intl. teams find ‘no violations’ by Russia along Ukrainian
border" Intl.
teams find ‘no violations’ by Russia along Ukrainian border by
HYPERLINK
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Accusations of Russia breaking 1987 arms control
treaty an element of U.S. ... Russia Beyond the Headlines The U.S. authorities' claims accusing
Russia of breaking the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty are
groundless and act as an element of Washington's information warfare, the
senior vice-president of Russia's Center for Political Studies . { Based upon
my cursory review of such matters (I’ll not waste my time with in depth
research regarding same), this seems a logical and adaptive response by Russia
to the deployment at the behest of the u.s. (military industrial complex) of
shields (low flying cruise missiles can negate their purported
‘effectiveness’). }
HYPERLINK
"http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-28/martin-armstrong-warns-civil-unrest-rising-everywhere-wont-end-pretty"
Economist Warns Civil Unrest Rising Everywhere...
HYPERLINK
"http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/06/29/violent-night-leaves-at-least-13-shot-in-all-five-boroughs"
Violent Night In NYC: 13 Shot Across 5 Boroughs...
HYPERLINK "http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/watch-group-young-woman-brutalize-teen-brooklyn-prospect-park-graphic-video-article-1.1848446"
VIDEO: Group of women beat 15-year-old girl while onlookers
egg on...
HYPERLINK
"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/06/28/ebola-west-africa-outbreak/11615045/"
Ebola outbreak most deadly ever in West Africa...
HYPERLINK
"http://hsrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AnDakN88tk3bD9CU2HGtkIubvZx4;_ylu=X3oDMTQ2cWVwcGRrBGJwb3MDNgRjY29kZQN0b2RheV91cG9scl9jb21iBGNwb3MDMTE3BGN0AzMEZwNiNWQ2MTk3Yy1iYzY1LTNkMGEtYjE5MC1hMTAyNDhhOWQ2NjcEaW50bAN1cwRwa2d0AzQEcG9zAzEEc2VjA3RkLXN0cm0Ec2xrA3RpdGx
Could 5%
Unemployment Soon Be a Reality? The May jobs report showed unemployment standing at
6.3%. But could a 5% rate be in the offing? Jeffrey Stibel, Dun &
Bradstreet Credibility Corp. CEO, joins the News Hub. { Oh, absolutely … the
entire u.s. workforce will be a total of 100 with 5 of same out of a job … then
4 of the 5 will drop out of the work force/stop looking bringing the ue rate to
1% … then a newborn baby will enter the u.s. work force and will be employed as
a rattle-tester bringing the ue rate to 0% after the 5th of the
previous 5 drops out of the work force … Quite obviously, things are really
humming in the u.s. economy … }
HYPERLINK "http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-size-of-the-derivatives-bubble-hanging-over-the-global-economy-hits-a-record-high/bubble-photo-by-brocken-inaglory"
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\* MERGEFORMATINET The
global derivatives bubble is now 20 percent bigger than it was just before the
last great financial crisis struck in 2008. It is a financial bubble far
larger than anything the world has ever seen, and when it finally bursts it is
going to be a complete and utter nightmare for the financial system of the
planet. According to HYPERLINK
"http://www.bis.org/publ/otc_hy1405.htm" \o "the Bank for
International Settlements" \t "_blank" the Bank for
International Settlements, the total notional value of derivatives contracts around the world has
ballooned to an astounding 710 trillion dollars ($710,000,000,000,000).
Other estimates put the grand total well over a quadrillion dollars. If
that sounds like a lot of money, that is because it is. For example, U.S.
GDP is projected to be in the neighborhood of around 17 trillion dollars for
2014. So 710 trillion dollars is an amount of money that is almost
incomprehensible. Instead of actually doing something about the insanely
reckless behavior of the big banks, our leaders have allowed the derivatives
bubble and these banks to get larger than ever. In fact,
HYPERLINK
"http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/we-are-in-far-worse-shape-than-we-were-just-prior-to-the-last-great-financial-crisis"
\o "as I have written about previously" as I have written about
previously, the big
Wall Street banks are collectively 37 percent larger than they were just prior
to the last recession. "Too big to fail" is a far more massive
problem than it was the last time around, and at some point this derivatives
bubble is going to burst and start taking those banks down. When that day
arrives, we are going to be facing a crisis that is going to make 2008 look
like a Sunday picnic. HYPERLINK
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\o "(Read More....)" (Read More....)
HYPERLINK "http://www.coasttocoastam.com/" http://www.coasttocoastam.com Wed
05-21-14 First Half: Investigative
reporter HYPERLINK "http://whowhatwhy.com/" \t
"_blank" Russ Baker
will address how our domestic war on terror is eroding our right to due process
and fair trials.
HYPERLINK "http://whowhatwhy.com/" http://whowhatwhy.com Posted
by : HYPERLINK "http://www.zerohedge.com/users/goldcore"
\o "View user profile." GoldCore Post
date: 05/25/2014 - 14:44 China and Russia signed an historic agreement in
Shanghai this week - the ramifications of which have yet to be appreciated ...
Reserve currency status does not last forever. Empires rise and fall....
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Could 5% Unemployment
Soon Be a Reality?
The May jobs report showed unemployment standing at 6.3%. But could a 5% rate
be in the offing? Jeffrey Stibel, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. CEO,
joins the News Hub. { Oh, absolutely … the entire u.s. workforce will be a
total of 100 with 5 of same out of a job … then 4 of the 5 will drop out of the
work force/stop looking bringing the ue rate to 1% … then a newborn baby will
enter the u.s. work force and will be employed as a rattle-tester bringing the
ue rate to 0% after the 5th of the previous 5 drops out of the work
force … Quite obviously, things are really humming in the u.s. economy … } HYPERLINK
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WaLL STReeT IS
WaR STReeT... Posted
by: HYPERLINK
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profile." williambanzai7 Post
date: 05/26/2014 - 09:46 And War is a racket... Michael Sincere
HYPERLINK "http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cat-gets-medieval-on-dog-saves-kid-becomes-internet-sensation-2014-05-14?link=MW_latest_news"
\t "_blank" Cat gets medieval on dog, saves kid, becomes Internet sensation Eric Zuesse | Why are Americans puzzled that foreigners
consider the U.S. to be the nation that’s the biggest threat to world peace? Liberty Blitzkrieg blog | During this week’s Senate
hearings, Janet Yellen was asked by Senator Bernie Sanders if the U.S. was a
capitalist democracy or has morphed into an oligarchy. INCLUDEPICTURE
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\* MERGEFORMATINET By Michael Snyder, on April 29th, 2014
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\* MERGEFORMATINET No,
the economy is most definitely not "recovering". Despite what
you may hear from the politicians and from the mainstream media, the truth is that
the U.S. economy is in far worse shape than it was prior to the last
recession. In fact, we are still pretty much where we were at when the
last recession finally ended. When the financial crisis of 2008 struck,
it took us down to a much lower level economically. Thankfully, things
have at least stabilized at this much lower level. For example, the
percentage of working age Americans that are employed has stayed
HYPERLINK
"http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Employment-Population-Ratio-2014.jpg"
\o "remarkably flat for the past four years" remarkably flat for the
past four years.
We should be grateful that things have not continued to get even worse.
It is almost as if someone has hit the "pause button" on the U.S. economy.
But things are definitely not getting better, and there are a whole host of
signs that this bubble of false stability will soon come to an end and that our
economic decline will accelerate once again. The following are 17 facts
to show to anyone that believes that the U.S. economy is just fine... #1
The homeownership rate in the United States has dropped to the lowest level
HYPERLINK
"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-29/u-s-homeownership-rate-falls-to-the-lowest-since-1995.html"
\o "in 19 years" \t "_blank" in 19 years. #2
Consumer spending for durable goods has dropped HYPERLINK
"http://www.profitconfidential.com/economic-analysis/u-s-economy-enter-recession-next-12-months-less/"
\o "by 3.23 percent" \t "_blank" by 3.23 percent since November. This is a clear sign that an
economic slowdown is ahead. #3
Major retailers are closing stores at the fastest pace that we have seen
HYPERLINK
"http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-21/retail-store-closures-soar-2014-highest-pace-lehman-collapse"
\o "since the collapse of Lehman Brothers" \t "_blank"
since the
collapse of Lehman Brothers. #4
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, HYPERLINK
"http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-real-unemployment-rate-in-20-of-american-families-everyone-is-unemployed"
\o "20 percent" \t "_blank" 20 percent of all families in the United States do not have a
single member that is employed. That means that one out of every five
families in the entire country is completely unemployed. #5
There are HYPERLINK
"http://economyincrisis.org/content/all-sign-point-to-a-servant-economy"
\o "1.3 million fewer jobs" \t "_blank" 1.3 million fewer jobs in the U.S. economy than when the last recession
began in December 2007. Meanwhile, our population has continued to grow
steadily since that time. #6
According to HYPERLINK
"http://www.nelp.org/page/content/lowwagerecovery2014/" \o "a
new report from the National Employment Law Project" \t "_blank"
a new report
from the National Employment Law Project, the quality of the jobs that have been
"created" since the end of the last recession does not match the
quality of the jobs lost during the last recession... #7
After adjusting for inflation, men who work full-time in America today
HYPERLINK
"http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/men-who-work-full-time-earn-less-40-years-ago"
\o "make less money" \t "_blank" make less money than men who worked full-time in America 40 years
ago. #8
It is hard to believe, but HYPERLINK
"http://www.mybudget360.com/goodbye-american-middle-class-median-income-household-wages/"
\o "62 percent" \t "_blank" 62 percent of all Americans make $20 or less an hour at this
point. #9
HYPERLINK
"http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/9-of-the-top-10-occupations-in-america-pay-an-average-wage-of-less-than-35000-a-year"
\o "Nine of the top ten occupations in the U.S." Nine of the top ten
occupations in the U.S.
pay an average wage of less than $35,000 a year. #10
The middle class in Canada now HYPERLINK
"http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-middle-class-in-canada-is-now-doing-better-than-the-middle-class-in-america-is"
\o "makes more money" makes more money than the middle class in the United States does. #11
According to one recent study, HYPERLINK
"http://abcnews.go.com/Business/shocking-facts-financial-security-americans/story?id=23224877"
\o "40 percent of Americans could not" \t "_blank" 40 percent of all Americans could not come up with $2000 right
now even if there was a major emergency. #12
Less than one out of every four Americans has enough money put away
HYPERLINK
"http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/index.html?iid=HP_Highlight"
\o "to cover six months of expenses" \t "_blank" to cover six months of
expenses if there was
a job loss or major emergency. #13
An astounding HYPERLINK
"http://business.time.com/2014/01/30/nearly-half-of-america-lives-paycheck-to-paycheck/"
\o "56 percent" \t "_blank" 56 percent of all Americans have subprime credit in 2014. #14
As I wrote about the other day, there are now HYPERLINK
"http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/epidemic-of-hunger-new-report-says-49-million-americans-are-dealing-with-food-insecurity"
\o "49 million Americans" \t "_blank" 49 million Americans that are dealing with food insecurity. #15
Ten years ago, the number of women in the U.S. that had jobs outnumbered the
number of women in the U.S. on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin.
But now the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps
HYPERLINK
"http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/food-stamp-recipients-outnumber-women-who-work-full-time"
\o "actually exceeds" \t "_blank" actually exceeds the number of women that have jobs. #16
HYPERLINK
"http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/18-stats-that-prove-that-government-dependence-has-reached-epidemic-levels"
\o "69 percent" \t "_blank" 69 percent of the federal budget is spent either on entitlements
or on welfare programs. #17
The number of Americans receiving benefits from the federal government each
month exceeds the number of full-time workers in the private sector
HYPERLINK
"http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/18-stats-that-prove-that-government-dependence-has-reached-epidemic-levels"
\o " by more than 60 million" \t "_blank" by more than 60 million. Taken individually, those numbers are quite
remarkable. Taken collectively, they are absolutely breathtaking. Yes, things have been improving for the wealthy for
the last several years. The stock market has soared to new record highs
and real estate prices in the Hamptons have skyrocketed to unprecedented
heights. But that is not the real economy. In the real
economy, the middle class is being squeezed out of existence. The quality
of our jobs is declining and prices just keep rising. This reality was
reflected quite well in a comment that one of my readers left
HYPERLINK "http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/epidemic-of-hunger-new-report-says-49-million-americans-are-dealing-with-food-insecurity"
\o "on one of my recent articles" on one of my recent articles... It is getting worse each passing month. The food bank
I help out, has barely squeaked by the last 3 months. Donors are having to pull
back, to take care of their own families. Wages down, prices up, simple math
tells you we can not hold out much longer. Things are going up so fast, you
have to adopt a new way of thinking. Example I just had to put new tires on my
truck. Normally I would have tried to get by to next winter. But with the way
prices are moving, I decide to get them while I could still afford them. It is
the same way with food. I see nothing that will stop the upward trend for quite
a while. So if you have a little money, and the space, buy it while you can
afford it. And never forget, there will be some people worse off than you. Help
them if you can. And the false stock bubble that the wealthy are
enjoying right now will not last that much longer. It is an artificial
bubble that has been pumped up by unprecedented money printing by the Federal
Reserve, and like all bubbles that the Fed creates, it will eventually burst. None of the long-term trends that are systematically
destroying our economy have been addressed, and none of our major economic
problems have been fixed. In fact, as I showed in
HYPERLINK
"http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/we-are-in-far-worse-shape-than-we-were-just-prior-to-the-last-great-financial-crisis"
\o "this recent article" this recent article, we are actually in far worse shape than we were
just prior to the last major financial crisis. Let us hope that this current bubble of false
stability lasts for as long as possible. That is what I am hoping for. But let us not be deceived into thinking that it is
permanent. It will soon burst, and then the real pain will
begin. Paul Craig Roberts | The US economy is a house of
cards. Every aspect of it is fraudulent, and the illusion of recovery is
created with fraudulent statistics. { Totally fraudulent! This is absolutely
true! ) Washington’s Blog | “We Are No Longer a Nation Ruled
By Laws”. { I warned everyone of this truth from my direct experience and
observation: Kurt Nimmo | Political correctness reigns supreme as hypocrite rallies on
basketball court. { Problem is, it’s
not correct, politically or otherwise! } Don Sterling and Rod
Serling Truly an unlikely
pair Now barely can come
up for air Yes Don, ‘tis true as
you say spics drink (do
drugs) and hang out While niggers smell,
do the same, and carrying vermin flout The norms of
civilized behavior The sanctity of
peaceful living Sterling is savior america in decline is
appalled The truth out,
Sterling gets mauled How long will lost
angles america last As all are aghast Unfold and embrace
Sterling’s tome Reality and truth his
tool He’s certainly no
fool Sterling’s now
entered Serling’s american twilight
zone { I must honestly say, from direct experience over a
considerable amount of time and in a wide variety of circumstances and
geographic locations including LA particularly as relevant here, the
uncivilized niggers are so deleterious to whatever locations they inhabit,
occupy, or are present; that they are so, euphemistically speaking, unpleasant
and inherently criminal, lazy, unproductive, and mentally challenged if not
clearly mentally ill, it should be said in defense of Sterling who no doubt
with LA in mind merely expounded upon the truth of the foregoing reality in a
very innocuous way, however politically incorrect in this period of american
decline. They’re just typical bulls*** niggers! }
HYPERLINK "http://www.prisonplanet.com/globalist-tool-glenn-beck-sells-out-humanity.html"
\o "Permanent Link to Globalist Tool Glenn Beck Sells Out Humanity"
Globalist Tool
Glenn Beck Sells Out Humanity { I’m surprised people even
listen to him … among the limited stations for which there’s reception here, I
sampled him … and will never listen to him again … the guy’s a flake and a dry
drunk like dumbya bush with all the psychotic baggage that entails … } Prison
Planet.com | Glenn Beck refers to himself as the only source for truth news.
That is, if you like getting your news straight from the White House, CIA and
Council on Foreign Relations.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.prisonplanet.com/michelle-obamas-one-night-stay-in-chinese-hotel-costs-us-taxpayers-220000.html"
\o "Permanent Link to Michelle Obama’s one-night stay in Chinese hotel
costs US taxpayers $220,000" Michelle Obama’s one-night stay in Chinese hotel
costs US taxpayers $220,000 BizPac Review | American
taxpayers forked out almost a quarter of a million dollars for Michelle Obama’s
one-night stay in a luxury hotel during her recent trip to China.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.prisonplanet.com/obamas-2014-golf-outings-cost-taxpayers-nearly-3m.html"
\o "Permanent Link to Obama’s 2014 Golf Outings Cost Taxpayers Nearly
$3M" Obama’s
2014 Golf Outings Cost Taxpayers Nearly $3M CNS News |
President Obama’s golf outings in 2014 cost taxpayers nearly $3 million.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.prisonplanet.com/media-refuses-to-identify-party-affiliation-of-new-jersey-democrat-caught-in-racist-rant.html"
\o "Permanent Link to Media Refuses To Identify Party Affiliation Of New
Jersey Democrat Caught In Racist Rant" Media Refuses To Identify Party Affiliation Of New
Jersey Democrat Caught In Racist Rant Daily Caller | New Jersey city council chairman and
mayoral candidate Marie Strumolo Burke was caught on tape lamenting her city’s
descent into a “fucking nigger town”.{ She should be elected for talking
reality! }
HYPERLINK
"http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d79ffff8-cfb7-11e3-9b2b-00144feabdc0.html"
CHINA TO SURPASS AMERICA AS WORLD'S LARGEST ECONOMY...
HYPERLINK
"http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/edward-snowden-nsa-spies-more-on-americans-than-russians-20140430"
Snowden: NSA Spies More on Americans Than Russians...
HYPERLINK
"http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/30/Black-Teenagers-Assault-White-Teenager-on-Bus"
SHOCK VIDEO: Black Teens Beat White Student on School Bus... { Typical niggers! }
HYPERLINK
"http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-biden-vacation-tab-reaches-40m-2.9m-alone-for-two-obama-2014-golf-outings/article/2547892"
Obama-Biden vacation tab reaches $40 million...
HYPERLINK
"http://www.infowars.com/house-panel-subpoenas-va-secretary-shinseki-for-phoenix-hospital-documents/"
\o "Permanent Link to House panel subpoenas VA Secretary Shinseki for Phoenix
hospital documents" House panel subpoenas VA Secretary Shinseki for
Phoenix hospital documents { It is absolutely preposterous
to blame the VA for the predictable consequence of misguided war/war crimes/military industrial complex welfare programs;
viz., ‘long tail’ medical/disability/rehabilitation costs. These are
costs/services that are incurred well beyond the ‘short money gains’ of
misguided, illegal, unnecessary conflicts based upon lies, fraud, etc.. Let
those who instigated, benefited from said conflict pay/disgorge gains/pay
penalties/damages to fund these tragic consequences; viz., bushes, cheneys,
neocons, un-yellow-cake-token nigger powell, et als; including those who voted
for these nation-destroyin/draining debacles. Essentially, treat them as
world/national torts for those fearing appropriate application of criminal laws
to such horrendous acts/behavior. } Fox News | Secretary faces calls for his resignation. HYPERLINK
"http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-05-29/bush%E2%80%99s-anti-terror-chief-bush-cheney-and-rumsfeld-committed-war-crimes-iraq"
Bush’s
Anti-Terror Chief: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Can Be Tried at the Hague for the
War Crimes They Committed In Iraq Posted by: HYPERLINK
"http://www.zerohedge.com/users/george-washington" \o "View user
profile." George
Washington Post date: 05/29/2014 -
14:22 ... Obama Has Committed
War Crimes As Well
HYPERLINK
"http://www.infowars.com/americans-live-on-a-statistical-reservation/"
\o "Permanent Link to Americans live on a statistical reservation"
Americans live
on a statistical reservation { Indeed! Outrageous! Real
rates are from 20-50% from direct observation and experience. } Max Keiser | Misstating food inflation numbers helps the top 1 percent.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.infowars.com/uk-government-ignores-scotlands-opposition-to-gm-crops/"
\o "Permanent Link to UK Government Ignores Scotland’s Opposition to GM
Crops" UK
Government Ignores Scotland’s Opposition to GM Crops { Well,
absent Scotland’s long overdue independence move, I’d then be constrained to
say they deserve that and worse. } Sustainable Pulse | UK environment secretary breaches agreement.
HYPERLINK
"http://washingtonexaminer.com/overseas-private-investment-corporation-gave-a-20-million-loan-to-ukrainian-porsche-dealership-owned-by-biden-friend-and-donor/article/2548216"
Feds give $20 million loan to company owned by Biden
'friend' and donor...
HYPERLINK
"http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/fed-chair-unsure-if-capitalism-or-oligarchy-describes-us"
YELLEN: I 'DON'T KNOW WHAT TO CALL OUR SYSTEM'... 'It's
none of your business': George Stephanopoulos and Donald Trump have testy
exchange on tax returns
The Huffington Post
MITT ROMNEY, RUN FOR
PRESIDENT
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435800/mitt-romney-third-party-campaign-president-urgently-neededBrowser The Cat Allowed To Stay At Texas Library
Clinton:
Trump is 'dangerously incoherent,' 'temperamentally unfit' to be president Washington Post [ Indeed he is … all that … BAD! …
Hillary is Spot On and Right ! ]
THE 13 BEST LINES
FROM HILLARY CLINTON'S BLISTERING SPEECH ABOUT DONALD TRUMP
Donald Trump threatens Amazon as payback
for Washington Post articles he doesn't like
Trump might have been his
own publicist
‘It was not me’: Donald Trump denies being own publicist in surreal audio
recording from 1991
'It's
none of your business': George Stephanopoulos and Donald Trump have testy
exchange on tax returns
The Huffington Post
MITT ROMNEY, RUN FOR
PRESIDENT
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435800/mitt-romney-third-party-campaign-president-urgently-needed
The
great song ‘Living Thing’ from the underrated but great ‘Electric Light
Orchestra’: http://albertpeia.com/livingthing.wmv
Police: Dog mauls 3-day-old baby to death 10News Digital TeamHarvard
professor compares Donald Trump's rise to Hitler's
2-15-16 Influential and
Authoritative National Review dumps trump
DON THE NOM... Some Would Rather Disown GOP Party Than Vote Trump... Tea Party Writer: I'd Rather 'Go
Down In Flames'... GOP 'BROKEN'... Crisis Even Worse Than It Looks... RNC Head: Unite Around Donald... GOP's Plan C: Search For Third-Party Kamikaze Candidate
Begins... #NeverTrump To Decide If Never Means Never...
Think
America's terrified of Donald Trump? Check out how the rest of the world's
reacting.
Trump is what many foreigners see as the
worst parts of America
But it's also Trump's foreign policies that
scare people
A Trump presidency really would mean a
change to America's place in the world
Next Up in Policy & Politics
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434768/donald-trump-republican-nomination-victory-would-cause-tremendous-damage
Republicans
rush to defend Dennis Hastert, plead court for leniency ...
Salon-Apr
25, 2016
Boing Boing-Apr 24, 2016
Right Wing Watch-Apr 25, 2016
CDA News-Apr 25, 2016
Death and Taxes-Apr 23, 2016
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com…
Great thanks should be accorded Mitt Romney for his courage in stating the
factual reality that trump’s a fraud and cites merely some of trump’s great
business failures/cons/scams to back up his true statement ‘a business genius
he (trump) is not’ … Why courage? Because trump’s at most a typical new
york/new jersey mobster, mingling/coddling/intertwined with the proverbial gangs
of new york/new jersey/waterfront … he just recently threatened no less than
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan … then there’s the racist rants/alignments; and
as well, that ‘great wall of trump’s ‘hina , etc.‘. 4-29-16 Similarly, great thanks should be
accorded Indiana Governor Pence for his courage in endorsing Ted Cruz (and VP
designate Carly Fiorina) based upon a respect for a constitutionally based rule
of law … Why courage? Because trump’s at most a typical new york/new jersey
mobster … Gov.
Mike Pence endorses
Ted Cruz p Indianapolis Star {Keep in mind, even
new yorker giuliani did not and upon being ‘called’ on it, would not endorse
trump though supporting trump and saying he’d vote for trump … Other former
Mayors, ie., Ed Koch, Michael Bloomberg, in the ‘new york know’ were/are
negative on trump … guliani? … well, native new yorker, his father an enforcer
for the mafia … , would indeed find it difficult to rationalize not supporting
trump … }
Paul
Ryan: I 'Laughed Out Loud' After Donald Trump Threatened Me Mediaite Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told
reporters Thursday that he “laughed out loud” after Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump threatened him Wednesday …
Victorious
Donald Trump Threatens Paul Ryan Huffington Post- Trump did not elaborate on why or how Ryan
would pay a big price if the two can't get along.
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THE SUPREME CON
Donald Trump threatens Amazon as payback
for Washington Post articles he doesn't like
TRUMP
MIGHT HAVE BEEN HIS OWN PUBLICIST
‘It was not me’: Donald Trump denies being
own publicist in surreal audio recording from 1991
'It's
none of your business': George Stephanopoulos and Donald Trump have testy
exchange on tax returns
The Huffington Post
MITT
ROMNEY, RUN FOR PRESIDENT
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435800/mitt-romney-third-party-campaign-president-urgently-needed407,000
Workers Stunned As Pension Fund Proposes 60% Cuts, Treasury Says "Not
Enough"
America's
"Advanced Stupid" In 2 Stunning Charts
WWIII?
A "Hybrid Geo-Financial War" Between NATO and Russia Is Dangerously
Escalating
Visualizing
200 Years Of US Immigration
"Government
Ain't Fixable But It Will Correct!"
The
Secret (US-Instigated) History Of ISIS
Taliban
Leader Mansour Killed In US Drone Strike Inside Pakistan
Suddenly
Trump And Hillary Is All Goldman's Clients Want To Talk About
Meet
AnBot: China's Tireless, Unquestioning, Taser-Wielding "Robocop"
A
Retired White House Correspondent Explains "How Obama Gets Away With
It"
PE
Legend Leon Black Is Buyer Of Tom Cruise's $40 Million Bevely Hills Mansion
State
Of The States: New Jersey's Problems Are Not "Mathematically
Solvable"
Why
Deutsche Bank Thinks A Fed Rate Hike Would Unleash A Stock Market Crash
How
The Deep State's Cronies Steal From You
The
scandal in Washington no one is talking about
The world economy is running on monetary fumes
Donald
Trump to Ben Carson: You’re Fired… From My VP Team
Politics
Donald
Trump threatens Amazon as payback for Washington Post articles he doesn't like
DON THE NOM... Some Would Rather Disown GOP Party Than Vote Trump... Tea Party Writer: I'd Rather 'Go
Down In Flames'... GOP 'BROKEN'... Crisis Even Worse Than It Looks... RNC Head: Unite Around Donald... GOP's Plan C: Search For Third-Party Kamikaze Candidate
Begins... #NeverTrump To Decide If Never Means Never...
Think
America's terrified of Donald Trump? Check out how the rest of the world's
reacting.
TRUMP
IS WHAT MANY FOREIGNERS SEE AS THE WORST PARTS OF AMERICA
One of the most insightful things I've read
on foreign views of Trump is by German political theorist Yascha Mounk,
currently teaching at Harvard.
But it's also Trump's foreign policies that
scare people
A Trump presidency really would mean a
change to America's place in the world
Next Up in Policy & Politics
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434768/donald-trump-republican-nomination-victory-would-cause-tremendous-damage
Republicans
rush to defend Dennis Hastert, plead court for leniency ...
Salon-Apr
25, 2016
Boing Boing-Apr 24, 2016
Right Wing Watch-Apr 25, 2016
CDA News-Apr 25, 2016
Death and Taxes-Apr 23, 2016
Mitt Romney suggests there's a "bombshell" in Donald Trump's
taxes CBS News
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday called on
Republican candidates to release their tax returns — and speculated there could
be a "bombshell" in those of frontrunner Donald Trump. HERE
ARE 9 EXAMPLES OF DONALD TRUMP BEING RACIST
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump may have failed to disavow the Ku Klux Klan this weekend, but he'll
have you know he is not racist. In fact, he claims to be “the least
racist person that you have ever met,” and last summer he pulled out the old standby about not having a racist bone in his body.The Justice Department sued his company -- twice -- for not renting to
black people
He refused to condemn the white supremacists who are campaigning for him
He
questions whether President Obama was born in the United States
He treats racial groups as monoliths
He trashed Native Americans, too
He encouraged the mob justice that resulted in the wrongful imprisonment
of the Central Park Five
He condoned the beating of a Black Lives Matter protester
He called supporters who beat up a homeless Latino man “passionate”
He stereotyped Jews as good negotiators -- and political masterminds
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday called on
Republican candidates to release their tax returns — and speculated there could
be a "bombshell" in those of frontrunner Donald Trump. 1) He has a talent for real estate,
but that hasn’t always translated well to other industries.
2) Trump is not a self-made man.
3) Everything Trump touches turns
to "Trump."
4) Trump’s record includes
some unsavory episodes.
5) Trump's genius is building
a brand, even a mythology.
Former Mexican president says he will not pay for Donald
Trump's 'f—— wall' Washington Post Former Mexican president
Vicente Fox is fiercely opposed to his country paying for the massive wall that
Donald Trump wants to build on the border between their two countries, saying
in an interview that Trump is "a crazy guy" and "a false
prophet" who ...
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2-22-16 Harvard
professor compares Donald Trump's rise to Hitler's
2-15-16 Influential and
Authoritative National Review dumps trump
Harvard
professor compares Donald Trump's rise to Hitler's
Trump captures the nation’s attention on the
campaign trail
The Republican presidential candidate focuses on the Super
Tuesday state primaries after a win in South Carolina.
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Influential and
Authoritative National Review dumps trump
http://albertpeia.com/conservativesagainsttrump.htm
NH paper on Trump: 'Losing is what he does’ By Mark Hensch
"Trump promises that if he were
president, we would win so much, we’d get bored and ask him to lose. And
Trump has been losing for decades.Why
Donald Trump Can’t Win The White House
Yet these analyses, revealing as they are, overlook a salient fact. The verdict
of working-class voters will not be the only one rendered on Trump, or the most
important one. However popular Trump may be with the working class, he is as
unpopular with voters who have graduated from college, a group without whose
backing the GOP has no shot at regaining the White House.Let’s Compare
Donald Trump to Everyone Else
College-Educated
People Vote More
Donald Trump’s
Missing White Voters
Evidence Trump
Haters Won’t Switch Sides
Donald Trump
Means the End of the Republican Party
Superbowl 2016 Commentary
Michael Snyder: http://albertpeia.com/michaelsnyderEconomicCollapseEndAmericanDream30516.htm
1-26-16:
t_rump: ‘…my supporters are smart and loyal…I could go out on 5th
Avenue and shoot someone and they’d still support me…my poll numbers wouldn’t
change’… {When I first heard this sick, outlandish, psychopathic quote I was
reluctant to comment upon/post it thinking it must be slickly out of
context…it’s not!…as a matter of fact, it’s even worse in context…he meant
it!…to be sure, he rivals hitler with his similarly sick devotees buying into
his ‘psychopathy’…(so over the top that even the presence of the full moon
can’t justify trump’s dangerous lunacy-don’t forget, nuclear weapons exacerbate
a globally perilous and precarious doomsday scenario…(how embarrassing for
trump supporters, backers, apologists and particularly, america …!)}
HOW EMBARRASSING FOR CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS, THE NATION, ET CETERA! … Art of a
deal?
Sarah Palin: ‘t_rump has a track record of (new york/new
jersey)success’pool/drain ‘On the Waterfront’ …Bristol Palin Interview Accidentally Reveals Mother's 15
Abortions WASILLA,
AK—Sarah Palin's political team was forced to do emergency damage control Monday
after the former Alaska governor's daughter Bristol accidentally divulged on
live television that her mother has undergone at least 15 abortions over the
past 30 years. "She's always telling me how special I am, especially
considering the five or six babies she aborted before I was born," Palin,
20, said during a CNN interview in which she was asked if she thought her
mother would make a good president. "Then of course there were the twins
she aborted shortly after having me, another four abortions after Willow
somehow survived hers—but anyway, she's a wonderful mom. She just gets pregnant
a lot and doesn't always want to have the baby." Palin also commended her
mother's strength in carrying three babies with Down syndrome to term, and then
even choosing not to give Trig up for adoption like the others.
The
great song ‘Living Thing’ from the underrated but great ‘Electric Light
Orchestra’: http://albertpeia.com/livingthing.wmv
From the
great contemporary composer (‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, Etc.) Andrew Lloyd
Weber, from his great musical ‘Cats’ (get ‘Cats: The Movie’ if you missed the
live show), the great song ‘Memory’, background score/excerpt to a few cats http://albertpeia.com/cats.wmv
I also like horses; though not similar to nor to the
extent of my love for cats http://albertpeia.com/seabiscuit.htm
Cat Shuts Up Dog http://www.rickey.org/cat-shuts-up-dog-hysterical-video/286241
Funny Cats Compilation
(Most Popular) Part 1 https://youtu.be/JxS5E-kZc2s?t=137
2:26Jeremy Triantafilo talks with
23ABC about dog attack, cat who saved him by 23ABCnews 8,230 views
Cat wins
Hero Dog award for saving kid from canine For the first time, a Los
Angeles shelter's Hero Dog award has gone to a cat.
Yet,
here’s a dog that compassionately spared this rather spunky, but naïve kitty;
and who more seasoned cats welcomes to the feline fold http://albertpeia.com/youngcatspared.mp4
http://albertpeia.com/somesummarizedpositions.htm
Some Michael Snyder Reports:
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U.S. Officials Panic About Seymour
Hersh Story; Then Deny His Claims Using Jedi Mind Tricks
The Bin Laden Raid Was A Work Of
Fiction, And Barack Obama Should Immediately Resign
Alice in Wonderland Bin Laden Story is
“One Big Lie”
Whistleblowers Soar To Record Levels
Under Obama; Being Punished For Speaking Out
‘Urban
Unrest’ Expert: U.S. on the “Cusp” of a Cycle of Riots
Paul Joseph Watson | More domestic disorder coming in
the aftermath of Ferguson & Baltimore.
Writing's
On The Wall: Texas Pulls $1 Billion In Gold From NY Fed, Makes It
"Non-Confiscatable"
I’ve been
constrained to create a separate page devoted exclusively to the
ravings/misdeeds of the psychotic trump … Great thanks should be accorded Mitt
Romney for his courage in stating the factual reality that trump’s a fraud and
cites merely some of trump’s great business failures/cons/scams to back up his
true statement ‘a business genius he (trump) is not’ … Why courage? Because
trump’s at most a typical new york/new jersey mobster,
mingling/coddling/intertwined with the proverbial gangs of new york/new jersey/waterfront
… he just recently threatened no less than Speaker of the House Paul Ryan …
then there’s the racist rants/alignments; and as well, that ‘great wall of
trump’s ‘hina , etc.‘ http://albertpeia.com/trumpsrump.htm
Feb2515
·
Understanding the Markets Through Ab
Workout [Thanks George Soros!]
·
·
Is This The
Most Important Chart For The Future Of The World's Reserve Currency?
This Is What
Happens To Gold In A Hyperinflationary Currency Crisis: Ukraine Edition
Caught On Tape:
Florida Parents Treated Like Children For Questioning School Curriculum
TEPCO Admits
Delaying Report Of Major Radiation Leak Into The Pacific Ocean For 10 Months
Janet Yellen Is
Freaking Out About "Audit The Fed" – Here Are 100 Reasons Why She
Should Be
Brazil Consumer
Confidence Collapses To Lowest. Ever.
Visualizing Who
Controls The World's Silver Supply?
Iran Televises
Major Naval Drill Against Fake US Aircraft Carrier In Persian Gulf
After Six Years
In Office, Has Obama Seen "The Great Light"?
After 75 Years,
Hitler's "Mein Kampf" Will Be Re-Printed In Germany
Russia's
Military Exercises Are 10 Times Larger Than NATO's
Regret? Why
Take A Chance
Ukraine Enters
The Endgame
Artist's
Impression Of The Inevitable Nasdaq Endgame
The Most
Important Commodity For Housing Is Screaming "Recession"
Exclusive: FBI Tries to Flip Open Carry
Activist After Arrest at Political Rally
If the FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Plan is
So Great, Why Can’t Anyone See It?
Why ‘Net Neutrality’ is a Trojan Horse
For Obama’s Web Takeover
Navy Proves Flu Shot Causes Flu
FCC Refuses to Testify Before Congress
Ahead of Internet Takeover
Obama’s Amnesty “Town hall” Closed To
Public, Will Feature Handpicked Illegals Asking Questions
Washington Has Resurrected The Threat
Of Nuclear War
Secret Service conducting drone
exercises in U.S. capital region
CATO President Rand Paul Will Be ‘Next
President Of The United States Of America’
Artist Photoshops Fat Celebrities to
Lecture Everyone About “Beauty Standards”
China moves against American
companies...
FCC CHAIR REFUSES TO APPEAR BEFORE
CONGRESS AHEAD OF INTERNET TAKEOVER...
LEFT GROUPS NOW FEAR: GOV'T NET GRAB
GOING TOO FAR!
Plan Could Lead to UN Takeover of
Internet...
SOROS CASH BEHIND PUSH...
Commisioner: 'Independence of agency
has been compromised'...
Lawless?
'Net neutrality' tweeked after
GOOGLE push...
Feb2415
Why Does Maryland Have The Most Millionaires Per
Capita? The Answer Might Make You Angry
14 Signs That Most Americans Are Flat Broke And
Totally Unprepared For The Coming Economic Crisis
Janet Yellen Is Freaking Out About ‘Audit The Fed’ –
Here Are 100 Reasons Why She Should Be
Morgan Stanley – $2.041 trillion
Merrill Lynch – $1.949 trillion
Bank of America – $1.344 trillion
Barclays PLC – $868 billion
Bear Sterns – $853 billion
Goldman Sachs – $814 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland – $541 billion
JP Morgan Chase – $391 billion
Deutsche Bank – $354 billion
UBS – $287 billion
Credit Suisse – $262 billion
Lehman Brothers – $183 billion
Bank of Scotland – $181 billion
BNP Paribas – $175 billion
Wells Fargo – $159 billion
Dexia – $159 billion
Wachovia – $142 billion
Dresdner Bank – $135 billion
Societe Generale – $124 billion
“All Other Borrowers” – $2.639 trillion
·
STiNKiN' DePoSiTS...
·
·
A Secret
"Black Site" Revealed In Chicago: "When You Go In, You Just
Disappear"
This Is Why
Hewlett-Packard Is Firing 58,000
Edward
Snowden's Libertarian Moment: We "Will Remove From Governments The Ability
To Interfere With [Our] Rights"
Gold &
Silver Bid In Asia Session As China Returns From Holiday
Another U.S.
Veteran Passionately Pleads: "Please Don't Thank Me For My Service"
If The Fed
Continues This, "There Won't Be Any Active Managers Left In 5 Years"
The Post-1945
Geopolitical Settlement Is Now Crumbling
China
Manufacturing PMI Suggests "Sluggish Domestic Activity & Uncertain
Export Demand"
The War On
Success: Why America Is Doomed
The Last 3
Times This Happened, Stocks Rolled Over
14 Signs That
Most Americans Are Flat Broke And Totally Unprepared For The Coming Economic
Crisis
The 'Big' Problem
In America (In 1 Cartoon)
About The
Authorship Of The Infamous "Greek Reforms" Memo
Our Freedom Is
Endangered
Janet Yellen's
Subtle Message To America
Ron Paul: U.S., EU Behind Ukraine Coup February 23rd, 2015
Chicago PD Blacksite Is Domestic
Guantanamo
Sheriff’s Deputy Spearheads Program to
Aid Local Homeless
New Study: Soda Ingredient Poses Cancer
Risk to Millions of Americans
Feminists Ignore Woman Violently Gang
Raped During Home Invasion
Ex-FCC Chief “Shocked” by Feds’ Attempt
to Regulate Internet
Sweden’s Multicultural Center Expert on
Islamophobia Joins ISIS
FedEx Refuses to Ship Revolutionary Gun
Making Tool
Video: “Barbaric” Sheriff’s Deputy
Drags Woman Through Courthouse By Shackled Feet
Cupcake Cop Pepper-Sprays Grandmother
In the Face, Dislocates Her Shoulder
Secret TSA Program Quizzes Travelers
Returning to U.S.
New Study: Soda Ingredient Poses Cancer Risk to
Millions of Americans
Janet Yellen attacks bill to audit the Fed
Ex-FCC Chief “Shocked” by Feds’ Attempt to Regulate
Internet
FBI, Cops Raid Republic of Texas Meeting, Fingerprint
Members, Seize Cellphones, Computers
Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim
contradicted by Mossad
Muslim immigration to USA outpacing immigration from
Mexico, Central America
Secret TSA Program Quizzes Travelers Returning to
U.S.
Christian Singer Claims Jay-Z Hosts Eyes Wide
Shut-Style Occult Parties
Ron Paul: U.S., EU Behind Ukraine Coup
Shock Video: Police Tase Elderly Man With His Hands
Up
Families of Americans murdered by
released illegals to testify before House...
Jeb: Immigrant workers would 'lift
our spirits dramatically'...
Families of Americans murdered by
released illegals to testify before House... SENATE REPUBLICANS WAVE WHITE FLAG
ON AMNESTY...
Clash in closed-door meeting...FCC VOTE DRAMA: REGULATE THE
INTERNET!
FLASHBACK 1998: HILLARY CLINTON SAYS
INTERNET NEWS NEEDS 'RETHINK'...
China's model for a censored web...
FED MOTHER: DON'T YOU AUDIT ME!Rev. Graham: America 'Morally
Crumbling Within'...
SHOCK: Woman, 93, sexually assaulted
in her own apartment by intruder...
IT BEGINS: JPMORGAN CHARGING FOR
DEPOSITS...
Homeownership Hits 20-Year Low...17,000 federal employees made more
than $200,000 last year...
ISIS abducts 90 Syrian Christians...
Saudi Arabia condemns man to death
for renouncing Islam...
REPORT: Saudis willing to help
Israel launch air strike...
Feb2315
·
Is Greece Being Forced into the Waiting
Arms of Russia?
·
·
Ron Paul:
U.S., EU Behind Ukraine Coup
February 23rd, 2015
Ten Banks,
Including JPM, Goldman, Deutsche, Barclays, SocGen And UBS, Probed For Gold
Rigging
Ex-Plunge
Protection Team Whistleblower: "Governments Control Markets; There Is No
Price Discovery Anymore"
What Is China
Building In The South China Sea?
Ten Banks,
Including JPM, Goldman, Deutsche, Barclays, SocGen And UBS, Probed For Gold
Rigging
Ex-Plunge
Protection Team Whistleblower: "Governments Control Markets; There Is No
Price Discovery Anymore"
What Is China
Building In The South China Sea?
"Do As I
Say, Not As I Do" HSBC's 'Reforming' CEO Sheltered Millions In Swiss Bank
Accounts
What's Next For
Oil And Gold: Thoughts From Eric Sprott, Rick Rule And Marc Faber
Despite
US/Israel Demands, 'Isolated' Russia Offers Iran Advanced Anti-Aircraft
Missiles
This Is The
Biggest Problem Facing The World Today: 9 Countries Have Debt-To-GDP Over 300%
Ron Paul:
"Interventionism Kills" Post-Coup Ukraine One Year Later
Yellen's
"Humphrey-Hawkins" Testimony Preview: "Don't Rock The Boat"
Recovery? Central
Banks Are Easing Policy For 50% Of The World's Population
Big Barbie Is
Watching You: Meet The WiFi-Connected Doll that Talks to Your Kids &
Records Them
To Obama, From
Russia With Love... And 20 Megatons
Why The Last Thing
US Equity Markets Want Is Good Data
Throw Your
Grandma Under The Bus
Israel's
Netanyahu Lied About Iran With Infamous "Clear Red Line" Threat,
Mossad Leak Reveals
Christian Singer Claims Jay-Z Hosts
Eyes Wide Shut-Style Occult Parties
Ron Paul: U.S., EU Behind Ukraine Coup
Shock Video: Police Tase Elderly Man
With His Hands Up
Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones to Debate
Energy Dependence
FBI Trained for Mall Attacks in U.S.
After Nairobi Westgate Carnage
Dozens of Cities Host “Welcoming
Committees” For Illegals
Video: People Will Sign Anything You
Ask Them To If You Wear An Obama T-Shirt
Obama-Nominated Judge: New Illegal
Immigrants Must Be Released
James O’Keefe: “I Am Afraid for My
Life”
FCC chief pressed to release web
rules...
Regs will make net as slow as in
Europe...
WSJ: From Internet to Obamanet...
Taps run dry in São Paulo...Leaked Email: Border Patrol Told to
Curtail Deportation Orders...
Muslim immigration to USA outpacing
immigration from Mexico, Central America...
Half of residents in NYC speak
language other than English at home...
40% of New Yorkers now
foreign-born,,,TX GOV: 20,000 ILLEGALS CROSSED IN
LAST 60 DAYS...
DEM: Amnesty Will Decide Who
Controls Country for Next 30 Years...WORK: First gay NFL player joins
'DANCING WITH THE STARS'...
Dems run away from Obamacare penalty
-- they imposed...
29-year-old cat is 'world's
oldest'...
Feb2215
America Has Been At War 93% of the Time
– 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776
Washington’s
Blog | The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth.
Most Americans Are Slaves And They Don’t Even Know It
The New Madrid Earthquake That Will Divide The United
States In Half
·
The Necessity of Diversity to
Understanding Truth
·
·
Alan Greenspan
Warns: There Will Be a “Significant Market Event... Something Big Is Going To
Happen”
If The Troika
Says "Nein" Tomorrow, Here's What The "New Drachma" Will
Look Like
Republicans To
Investigate NASA Over Climate Data Tampering
This Won't End
Well
Trickle-Down QE
Paul Craig
Roberts: The Cancer Of Financial Repression (And Why You Can't Do Anything
About It)
This European
Nation's Poverty Rate Just Hit A Record High (Spoiler Alert: Not Greece)
Oil's
"Surprise" Collapse: It's The Demand, Stupid
The Ultimate
"Easy Money Paradox": How The ECB's Previous Actions Are Assuring The
Failure Of Its Current Actions
1998 Redux: The
World According To Bulls
Prominent
French Journalist Calls For France-Germany-Russia Alliance
Department Of
Homeland Security Issues Warning After "Mall Of America" Terror
Threat
The
"Liquidity Glut" Springs Eternal: Global Central Bank Easing
Quadruples In 2015
Satirical
Sunday: "Jobs for Jihadists" Applications Flood State Department
50 Shades Of
Greece
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly
assails GOP establishment for trying to coronate Jeb Bush
‘Flagrant aggression:’ Damascus livid
after Turkey’s incursion onto Syrian soil
It’s Official, McDonald’s and Monsanto
Are Both ‘Losing Money Fast’
Three-parent babies could risk the
future of the human race, warn 55 Italian MPs
Fresh leak of highly radioactive water
detected at Fukushima nuclear power plant
What Ordinary Greeks Think Of Friday’s
Deal: “We Went Through Two Months Of Agony To Realize We Are Still A Debt
Colony”
America Has Been At War 93% of the Time
– 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776
Hilary Clinton Exposed Part 1 – How She
Aggressively Lobbied for Mega Corporations as Secretary of State
Obama to seek emergency order
restarting immigration programs
AMERICAN DIAPER
AND THE WINNER IS...
'THE BEST AND THE WHITEST'...
JOAN RIVERS SNUBBED IN OSCAR
TRIBUTE...
SNOWDEN DOC TRIUMPHS...
ACADEMY KEEPS 'SELMA' TO MUSIC
WIN...
PROTEST CANCELED AT REQUEST OF
DIRECTOR...
'BIRDMAN' TAKES TOP HONORS...
POLITICS, POLITICS, POLITICS...StingRay: Local
law enforcers secretive about use of devices that simulate cellphone towers...
Italy and
Vatican on guard after ISIS threat... TV's lost generation streams away...
WARNING OVER TOXIC FUMES IN PLANE CABINS...
Feb2115
America Has Been At War 93% of the Time
– 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776
Washington’s
Blog | The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth.
·
Rothschild vs. Rothschild
·
What Ordinary
Greeks Think Of Friday's Deal: "We Went Through Two Months Of Agony To
Realize We Are Still A Debt Colony"
Peace? Ukraine
"Preparing For Full-Scale War" With Russia, Demands The West Supply
Lethal Weapons
War And
Petroleum Reserves
De-Dollarization:
Russia Ratifies $100 Billion BRICS BankA BRICS Bank - as an IMF alternative and to enable nations to become
less dependent on the global reserve currency - was originally
discussed at The BRICS Summit in 2012.
Then at the 2014
BRICS Summit, the framework for The
BRICS Bank was approved as "a system of measures that would help
prevent the harassment of countries that do not agree with some foreign policy
decisions made by the United States and their allies."
Headquartered in Shanghai and chaired by Russia, this week saw what appears to
be the final step in the creation of BRICS New Deverlopment Bank as RT reports,
The Russian State Duma has ratified the $100 billion BRICS bank that’ll serve
as a pool of money for infrastructure projects in Russia, Brazil, India, China
and South Africa. It is expected to start fully functioning by the end
of 2015. Isolated?
Fukushima:
Playing With Nuclear Fire
What's Next For
Greece, The Euro, And Markets?
Hillary Clinton
Exposed: How She Aggressively Lobbied For Mega Corporations As Secretary Of
State
The Media Is
"Run By A Tiny Group Of Politically Motivated Moguls", And
"Controlled By The CIA"
And if for some reason the "elite" don't get their way with media
propaganda, there is always plan B. What is Plan B? For the answer see "German
Journalist Blows Whistle On How The CIA Controls The Media."Subprime Car
Loan Bubble 2.0 Full Frontal
Why Does Fiat
Money Seemingly Work?
Citi Warns Of
"Dancing", "Music" And "Complicated Things" For
The Second Time
- Citigroup CEO
Chuck Prince July 9, 2007
- Citigroup
Strategist Hans Lorenzen February 20, 2015Greece: The
Facts Remain In A Game Of Theories
USGS Confirms
Oklahoma Quakes Are Due To Fracking
Jeb Bush
Believes Unconstitutional NSA Spying Is "Hugely Important"
What Happens
When A Traditional Muslim Goes For A Walk In Milan
America Has Been At War 93% of the Time
– 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776
Hilary Clinton Exposed Part 1 – How She
Aggressively Lobbied for Mega Corporations as Secretary of State
Obama to seek emergency order
restarting immigration programs
Dollar Dump Begins: Russia Unloads 20%
Of Its Total U.S. Holdings In ONE Month
Massive fire engulfs Dubai ‘Torch’
residential tower
We’re Heading Towards Full Scale
Medical Tyranny
A Cowardly War: Obama’s Backdoor
Invasion
Boo-Hoo! Whining Feminists Admit Defeat
Feminist: Allowing Women to Carry on
Campus “Devalues Sexual Assault”
‘Racist Sounding’ Bird Names Banned in
Sweden
FLASHBACK: OBAMA Calls Bush
'Unpatriotic'...
Corruption, oppression -- and dark
rumors of imminent coup...
Putin: Russia's military strength
unmatchable...
Feb2015
·
The U.S. Economy is Dead
Where America's Homeless Live
Germany Gives
Greece Just Enough Rope: Varoufakis Says If Troika Rejects Reforms "The
Deal Is Dead And Buried"
The "War
On Terror" Turns Inward – DHS Report Warns Of Right Wing Terror Threat
Europe
"Isolates" Putin? Considers "Reframing" Energy Relations
With Russia
Why European
Bondholders Refuse To Sell To The ECB
Are You Ready
For Total Currency War?
The 7 Deadly
Sins Of America
A Nation Of
Truckers
The Signals Are Clear
The Lack Of Volume Is Deafening
How Greece Folded To Germany: The Complete Breakdown
The Are Two Big Problems With Deutsche Bank Failing
The Fed's Stress Test
Why The "1%" Hates The Gold Standard
5 Things To Ponder: Salmagundi Introspections
Moody's "Junks" Russia, Expects Deep
Recession In 2015
*MOODY'S SEE RUSSIA DEBT METRICS LIKELY DETERIORATING COMING YRS
A Cowardly War: Obama’s Backdoor
Invasion
Boo-Hoo! Whining Feminists Admit Defeat
Feminist: Allowing Women to Carry on
Campus “Devalues Sexual Assault”
‘Racist Sounding’ Bird Names Banned in
Sweden
Iranian VP: CIA Behind Islamic State
Jeb Bush Says He’s His “Own Man,” Not a
Sock Puppet for the Global Elite
Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly accused
of exaggerating war zone exploits
Feds: America Should Adopt
‘Plant-Based’ Diet
Feds: Anti-Government Groups a Bigger
Threat Than ISIS
Michelle Malkin calls out
Christian-mocking comic: Going to make fun of Muslims, too, hon?
4 Cities Set All-Time Record Lows...
DC hasn't seen this since 1885 -- or
ever?!
5-story 'ice volcano' forms at NY
geyser...
Great Lakes most ice since recorded
time...
AND ANOTHER BLAST NEXT WEEK...GIRLS TRAVEL TO SYRIA TO JOIN ISIS...
MOSCOW AND NATO ON COLLISION COURSE...
Tensions could escalate into all-out
war, says general...
Putin: Russia's military strength
unmatchable...OBAMACARE MESS: Feds Botch 800,000
Tax Forms...
Extend enrollment...
Confusion...
FLASHBACK: Navigators Warned Not to
Leave Tax Returns on Fax Machines...Oversight Committee Gives FCC
Deadline to Produce Internet Reg Emails...
DEFIANT: Obama to seek emergency
order restarting amnesty programs...
Border Patrol Continues to Act as if
Judge Hasn't Blocked...Man beaten to death less than block
away from NYC precinct...
RON PAUL PREDICTS: 'Going to be
defacto secession movement'...
'States going to refuse to listen to laws'...Feb1915
·
This WILL Happen!
De-Dollarization Accelerates: Russia Launches SWIFT-Alternative
Linking 91 Entities
It’s Germany vs. Greece, And The Very Survival Of The
Eurozone Is At Stake
The U.S.-Backed Government In Ukraine Is Starting To
Lose The Civil War
The Global Death Cross Just Got "Deathier"
Oligarch Rules: Jeb Bush Surrounds Himself With Architects Of
His Brother's Iraq War
Peak "Grexit"?
Guest Post: Bitcoin - The Effete Act Of Rebellion
Goldman's Best Single Idea For Hedging "Grexit" Risk
Greek Deposit Run Accelerates Ahead Of Monday's Bank Holiday
Stunning Images Of The "Siberian Express" FreezeNado
Guardian Slams Telegraph Suggesting HSBC Coverage Was Biased Due
To Owners' £250 MM Loan From Bank
"We're Gonna Need A 4th Arrow" Japanese Manufacturing
PMI Misses, Slips To 7 Month Lows
Today's Financial Thermopylae Beckons - But Don't Count On The
Greeks
Caught On Tape: Caracas Mayor, Who Live-Tweets His Arrest,
Detained In His Office By Maduro Police
Meet The Bureaucrat Who Had The Courage To Tell The Truth (&
Will Be Jobless Tomorrow)
Greece And The Endgame Of The Neocolonial Model Of Exploitation
Schizofedia: According To Yellen Plunging Oil Is Both Good And
Bad For The Economy
Innocent College Student Subject to
Restraining Order for Resembling Alleged Rapist
U.S., Turkey Sign Deal to Openly Arm
ISIS-Linked Syrian Rebels
Top Feminist Calls For ‘Collectivist
Revolution’
Arizona House Votes to Ban Common Core
Feminists Mute on Muslim Rape Epidemic
Sweeping Europe
Why Can’t the Public See Obama’s
Proposed Internet Regulations?
US Government Proposes “Sugary-Food
Tax” To Curb Obesity
After Blizzard Closes Campus, Harvard
Spends $800,000 to Combat “Global Warming”
BREAKING: Whistleblower Reveals Deadly
Nerve Agent Spill At Kentucky Army Base
Video: “Free Roamer” Loses It On Border
Patrol Checkpoint Officers 200 Miles Away From Border
MOSCOW AND
NATO ON COLLISION COURSE
BLAST:
Coldest Temps Since Late-1800s in East...
'Life-threatening'
Freeze Hits South...
Record
Lows Challenged in FL...
RIDICULOUS:
DC FEELS LIKE -20º
CHICAGO
SMASHES RECORD...
LIVE: CHILL MAP...Clintons
raised nearly $2 billion for foundation...
'Not-for-profit'
organization has huge overlap with political base...
Foreign
government donations...Number of
Corporations in USA Lowest in 40 Years...
RON PAUL
PREDICTS: 'Going to be defacto secession movement'...
'States going to refuse to listen to laws'...TROUBLES:
Britain
scrambles warplanes to intercept Russian bombers...
Germany
stuns market by rejecting Greek bailout extension...
Worried depositors rush to
pull cash out of banks...
Italy
prepares for ISIS strike by air...
Feb1815
Are We
Being Prepared To Believe That Extraterrestrials Seeded Life On Earth And That
Jesus Was An Alien? { Indeed Jesus was, what they refer to as an Alien
(space alien) ….. ! }
·
Europe Will Implement Both Border
and Capital Controls in the Coming Months
·
·
De-Dollarization Accelerates: Russia Launches SWIFT-Alternative Linking
91 Entities
A Moral Code For The Post-Collapse World
Central Banks Have Lost Control Of The World
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Publicly Tells Citizens to "Act
More Like Sheep"
Why ZIRP/NIRP Is Killing Fractional Reserve Banking &
Forcing Deposits Into Gold
India Lifts Ban On Bank Gold Imports: Gold Can Again Be Used As
Loan Collateral
Russia Dumps Most US Paper Ever As China Reduces Treasurys
Holdings To January 2013 Levels
An Inside Look At The Fed's Rate Decision Flow Chart
"Current Equity Markets Are No Place For Long-Term
Investors"
31st Japanese Trade Deficit In A Row, Longest Stretch In 60
Years
Marc Faber: "This Is The Year Investors Lose Faith In
Central Banks"
Why Greece Might Very Well Say “Goodbye To All That”
Shipbuilding Orders Slump As Baltic Dry Hits Fresh Record Low
NYU Professor Uncovers How The FDA Systematically Covers Up
Fraud & Misconduct In Drug Trials
Jobs For Jihadists - An Artist's Impression
The First AI
War Is Coming
Federal
Government Demands Social Media Censorship
Obama
Suggests Islamic Extremists Have “Legitimate Grievances”
Why
Obama Refuses to Call it ‘Islamic Terrorism’
DARPA
Developing Matrix-Like Brain Implant Powered From The Spine
Neocon
Think Tanks Floats ISIS Invasion of Europe by Sea
Danish
TV Host Lays Flowers For Dead Terrorist: “All is Forgiven”
ISIS
Is Painting The Middle East Red With The Blood Of Christians
Cops
No-Knock Raid, Stomp Necks, Destroy & Nearly Burn Down Home– To Find Broken
Pot Pipe
Holder
preparing to sue Ferguson police over charges of racial bias... { How
pathetic! }
Scott
Walker dines with ex-Reagan advisers in Manhattan...
NEWSMAX
Pledges $1 Million to Clinton Foundation?MARK
CUBAN: FCC INTERNET RULES WILL 'F*CK EVERYTHING UP'...
FEDS
'LOSING TRACK' OF ILLEGALS...
COULTER:
GOP DOUBLE-CROSSING TRAITORS...
CRUZ: WH
'Counterfeiting Immigration Documents'...
Gutierrez
Predicts Unprecedented 'Militancy'...
Obama
Struggles After Judge's Rebuke; May be hard to challenge...
RAMOS:
'Will Remember'...
Rubio
Folds: Fund 'Homeland Security'...BARNES:
The big lie of Obama's presidency...
Feb1715
When It
Comes To ISIS, Obama Is Utterly Clueless
ISIS Is
Painting The Middle East Red With The Blood Of Christians
Should
Women Watch Fifty Shades Of Grey? Sexual Abuse And Humiliation Go Mainstream
How Public
Schools Treat Special Needs Students: Handcuffs, ‘Scream Rooms’ And Duct Tape
Feminist
Aborts Male Child Because She ‘Couldn’t Bring Another Monster Into The World’
·
MiNSK THe 13TH...
·
·
Forget
Hacking - CIA Accuses Russia Of "Manipulating The World's Weather"
Creepy,
Calculating & Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
Nigel
Farage On "The Great Game Of Poker Over The Future of The Euro"
Apocalypse
How? Scientists Unveil 12 Risks That Threaten Human Existence
"In
The End Capital Controls Will Probably Have To Be Imposed" - Eurogroup
Official
Operation
Choke-Point Is Worse Than We Thought
Is Japan
Preparing For War?
What Russians
Think Of Western Sanctions
"No
Means No" Caption Contest
State
Dept: "We Can't Beat ISIS By Killing Them..." They Need Jobs
Obama To
Allow "Moderate" Syrian Rebels Call In B-1B Bombers For Air Support
Retail
Sales & The Market's Looming "Gotcha" Moment
Sounding
Presidential
Stocks
Close At Record Highs; Shrug Off Schaeuble Shocker
How To
Trade The Biggest Bubble Ever: Citigroup Explains
The US Vs.
China: A Study In Opposites
Michael
Bloomberg: "95% Of Murderers Fit One M.O. - Male, Minorities, Aged
15-25"
‘Walking
While Jew’: What They’re Not Telling You
Obama
to Give Jihadists the Ability to Order Airstrikes
Man Jailed
for Feeding Cats
Is
This the New Poster Child For 3rd Wave Feminism?
China’s
Censorship Agency Releases Theme Song
Video:
Are you crazy like Alex Jones?
Elderly
Man Facing 10 Years Over Unloaded, Flintlock Pistol
Obama
Admin. Says Muslims Join ISIS Because They Lack Job Opportunities
PHOTOS:
Black Lives Matter Protesters Bully & Harass White Children at Restaurants
OBAMA
LETTING ISIS IN?
Admin to
quadruple admission of Syrian refugees...
Program
called 'backdoor for Jihadists'...
Congress
alarmed...BOOM:
OBAMA HITS 50% AT GALLUP...
Family's
separate weekend trips cost $2.5 million...
CNN Exec
Called Out for Hosting Dinner...JUDGE
HALTS AMNESTY...
Temporary
Restraining Order...
'Homeland'
suspends preparations...
White
House to appeal...
Gutierrez:
'We Will Not Be Deterred'...
SHOCK
POLL: 70% of DEMS say jobs should go to Americans first...
LA TIMES
hires openly illegal alien journalist...ISIS BURNS
45 TO DEATH IN IRAQ...
'Planning
to use Libya as gateway to Europe'...
Italy
deploys 4,800 soldiers...Terrorists
Take Dozens of new Egyptians Hostage...
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BLAST SET FOR EAST...
Winter
Storm Grips South...
Sinkhole
Swallows Snow Plow...
CHILL MAP...
MSNBC
Chris Hayes: Global Warming Is 'Single Most Important Thing We Face'...
Bill Nye:
Say 'Climate Change' When Cold Out...
Feb1615
Greece
Rejects Bailout Deal – Deadline To Avoid Financial Chaos In Europe Is March 1st
For those
of you curious what it was like when your parents were just kids having fun...
·
·
Moscow-Based
Security Firm Reveals What May Be The Biggest NSA "Backdoor Exploit"
Ever
Greece:
What Happened Today, And What Happens Next
·
Step 1
consists of a request for a new program or an application for a 3rd ESM program
with Greece committing to some a prior conditionality.
·
Step 2
consists of negotiating the substance around this conditionality, in particular
the prior actions that would need to be fulfilled to disburse funding to
Greece.
·
Step 3
would consist of passing such prior actions through the Greek parliament and
ultimately servicing Greece's loan obligations.
Cometh The
Censor
Latest
Greek Negotiations Fall Apart; Risk Slides After Greece Says "Won't Take
Orders On Bailout"
World War
3, The Big Prize, & Europe's Gigantic Debt Minefield
Hans-Werner
Sinn: "Impose Capital Controls In Greece Now To Avoid Another Cyprus"
CEO Of
Rosneft Compares Oil Market Manipulation Which "Doesn't Reflect
Reality" To Gold Price Rigging
Ron Paul
Warns "US Militarism Will End One Way Or Another..."
For
Brazilians, Miami Real Estate Is All About Re-location, Re-location,
Re-location
Redlined
Comparison Of The Eurogroup Draft Varoufakis Was Ready To Sign, And The Draft
He Rejected
The US Vs.
China: A Study In Opposites
UBS
Answers "What Could Go Wrong"
Why The
Price Of Oil Is More Likely To Fall To 20 Rather Than Rise To 80
The 'New'
Greatest Obama "Error" Ever
The Last
Time This Happened, US GDP Crashed By 5%
On this Monday, February 16 edition of the Alex Jones
Show, Alex and David Knight covers the cult of personality surrounding President Obama and the
destruction of America's rule of law…
Special
Report: Obama Depicted As Rape Suspect
PC
Stupidity: Chapel Hill Murders vs Copenhagen Terror
Egypt
Enters War on ISIS After Questionable Beheading Video Surfaces
Man
Released after Months in Jail for Possession of Vitamins
White
House Petition Seeks to Ban Mandatory Vaccination Legislation
Sickos
Set Up Fundraiser For Cop Who Paralyzed Grandfather
Pentagon
Deploys Boots on the Ground for ISIS War
Americans
Sign Petition to Add “Soylent Green” to Michelle Obama School Lunches
Only Rand
Paul can save us
Cult
of Personality: #ILoveObama Trends on Twitter
JEW HELL
IN PARIS
ISIS on
doorstep of Europe...
Video
prompts Egypt to bomb...
Rev.
Graham: 'Storm is Coming'...DEMS
SQUEAL AS OBAMACARE TAXES BITE...
Chaos...Tighter online
controls in China point to wider clampdown...
BRUCE:
FCC, FEC look to ruin Internet...
COMMISSIONER:
PROPOSED REGS 'DANGEROUS'...Russian
researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program...
Surveillance
software hidden deep within hard drives...Michelle O
dodges accident to hit Aspen's ski slopes... {
Squeezing out every last taxpayer dime ... how typical/pathetic! }
Plans
spring break in Japan...
12
Disasters That Could Bring About The End Of The World As We Know It
New Law
Would Make Taxpayers Potentially Liable For TRILLIONS In Derivatives Losses New Law
Would Make Taxpayers Potentially Liable For TRILLIONS In Derivatives Losses Michael
Snyder { Me: Yeah ... it's really quite amazing (but predictable) that
Senator Warren would be the 'bad guy' in all of this for standing against this
wall street enriching paper/digital fraud bailout /debacle ... again ... though
promised by Washington, 'never again' ... Remember, as previously set forth
innumerable times in this site, only a small fraction of what wall street does
is a net economic positive in real economic terms (less than 5 percent) ...
Think of these technologically enabled lightning-fast worthless paper/digital
commissioned bubble frauds as 'liquidated babies' down the drain (wall street)
with the bath water, termites eating away at the foundation/fabric of the nation,
etc.. They must be prosecuted, disgorgement imposed for their gargantuan
frauds, not rewarded/bailed out/positively reinforced/conditioned for further
nation-destroying behavior ... }
Horrific
Torture Report Shows Why Much Of The World Considers America To Be The Nazis Of
The 21st Century { Yeah …
it’s really quite amazing (but predictable) that Senator Feinstein would be the
‘bad guy’ in all of this … What was she supposed to do … cover it up? … pretend
she didn’t do a job entrusted to her? … make the expenditure of time,
resources, and energy compiling this reality a mere folly and hence, a typical
government boondoggle? … Is anybody so foolish as to believe anything the
rebuttal /cia /bureaucratic cheerleaders say? (Oh well, cheerleaders, drunken ones
at that is something dumbya bush did at yale … not to be sexist -I’m not- but,
really, how embarrassing for a guy!) . As far as worsening the perception of
america in light of this report … WAKE UP! … can’t get worse than it already
is, is (the meaning of what is, is). Look … bush, cheney, et als are war
criminals; and, as in nazi germany, that ‘just following orders thing’ just
doesn’t cut it … Does anybody recall dumbya bush making a joke of the
non-existent wmd’s (one of those Washingtonian special dinner events, I don’t
recall which one) … we’re talking certifiable socio-psychopathic behavior as
was true of the nazis … }
The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Contributor
Our Cats, Ourselves
50. Valencia, Venezuela, had 30.04 homicides per
100,000 residents.
49. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, had 30.05 homicides per
100,000 residents.
48. Durban, South Africa, had 32.42 homicides per
100,000 residents.
47. Tijuana, Mexico, had 32.50 homicides per 100,000
residents.
46. Aracaju, Brazil, had 33.36 homicides per 100,000
residents.
45. St. Louis had 34.14 homicides per 100,000
residents.
44. Belo Horizonte, Brazil, had 34.73 homicides
per 100,000 residents.
43. Cuernavaca, Mexico, had 34.91 homicides per 100,000
residents.
42. Maracaibo, Venezuela, had 35.44 homicides per
100,000 residents.
41. Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa, had 35.76
homicides per 100,000 residents.
40. Macapá, Brazil, had 36.59 homicides per 100,000
residents.
39. Recife, Brazil, had 36.82 homicides per 100,000
residents.
38. San Juan, Puerto Rico, had 37.40 homicides per
100,000 residents.
37. Juárez, Mexico, had 37.59 homicides per
100,000 residents.
36. Baltimore had 37.77 homicides per 100,000
residents.
35. Medellin, Colombia, had 38.06 homicides per
100,000 residents.
34. Pereira, Colombia, had 39.81 homicides per
100,000 residents.
33. Cúcuta, Colombia, had 42.22 homicides per
100,000 residents.
32. Santa Marta, Colombia, had 42.44 homicides per
100,000 residents.
31. Manaus, Brazil, had 42.53 homicides per 100,000
residents.
30. Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, had 42.90 homicides per
100,000 residents.
29. Cuiabá, Brazil, had 43.95 homicides per 100,000
residents.
28. Goiânia, Brazil, had 44.56 homicides per 100,000
residents.
27. San Salvador, El Salvador, had 44.74 homicides
per 100,000 residents.
26. New Orleans had 45.08 homicides per 100,000
residents.
25. Campina Grande, Brazil, had 46 homicides per
100,000 residents.
24. Detroit had 46.99 homicides per 100,000
residents.
23. Belém, Brazil, had 48.23 homicides per 100,000
residents.
22. Victoria, Mexico, had 49.22 homicides per 100,000
residents.
21. Chihuahua City, Mexico, had 50.12 homicides per
100,000 residents.
20. Cape Town, South Africa, had 50.94 homicides per
100,000 residents.
19. Kingston, Jamaica, had 52.83 homicides per
100,000 residents.
18. Torreón, Mexico, had 54.24 homicides per 100,000
residents.
17. Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, had 54.27 homicides
per 100,000 residents.
16. Culiacán, Mexico, had 54.57 homicides per 100,000
residents.
15. São Luís, Brazil, had 57.04 homicides
per 100,000 residents.
14. Vitoria, Brazil, had 57.39 homicides per 100,000
residents.
13. Salvador (and RMS), Brazil, had 57.51 homicides
per 100,000 residents.
12. Natal, Brazil, had 57.62 homicides per 100,000
residents.
11. Palmira, Colombia, had 60.86 homicides per
100,000 residents.
10. Barquisimeto, Venezuela, had 64.72 homicides per
100,000 residents.
9. João Pessoa, Brazil, had 66.92 homicides per
100,000 residents.
8. Guatemala City, Guatemala, had 68.40 homicides per
100,000 residents.
7. Fortaleza, Brazil, had 72.81 homicides per 100,000
residents.
6. Distrito Central, Honduras, had 79.42 homicides
per 100,000 residents.
5. Maceió, Brazil, had 79.76 homicides per 100,000
residents.
4. Cali, Colombia, had 83.20 homicides per 100,000
residents.
3. Acapulco, Mexico, had 112.80 homicides per 100,000
residents.
2. Caracas, Venezuela, had 134.36 homicides per
100,000 residents.
1. San Pedro Sula, Honduras, had 187.14 homicides per
100,000 residents.
USA 10TH... Most People
Cannot Even Imagine That An Economic Collapse Is Coming
10
Examples Of The Extreme Incompetence That Now Pervades The Federal Government
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A Kept Culture
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http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm }·
Perpetual
warfare depleted the treasury and wasted the manhood of the empire. The use of
mercenary armies eventually led to the sacking of Rome by the very armies they
had employed.
·
Military
overexpansion and spending resulted in resources being diverted from
technological advancement, maintenance of the civil infrastructure, and
worthwhile investments to support economic growth.
·
Excessive
welfare spending, oppressive taxation and currency debasement widened the gap
between rich and poor, resulting in discontent, mistrust and rebellion.
·
The
emergence of an all-powerful centralized authoritarian government ruling by
mandate, racked by corruption, and kept in power by bribing its subjects with
promises of bread and circuses.
·
Emperors
and Senators became oligarchs and their conspicuous consumption provided proof
of their corruption and decadence. The widespread corruption and incompetence
of its leadership led to a waning in civic pride among the citizens.
·
The
decline in productive commercial and agricultural industries due to high taxes
on producers, used to support the military empire, contributed to the
circumstances that allowed barbarian invasions to succeed.
·
The
moral decay of the people was caused by the influx of slave labor from conquered
territories, resulting in a decline in middle class work ethic, and the
subsequent rise in the level of citizens on the dole. An economy based upon
slave labor precluded a middle class with buying power.
10 George
Orwell Quotes That Predicted Life In 2014 America
·
George Orwell
10 CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT CAME TRUE
When
questioning the official narrative proved crucial
Low
Inflation? The Price Of Ground Beef Has Risen 17 Percent Over The Past Year
“He presents things as if they were good, but his intention is destruction. And
the angels defend us,” the Roman Pontiff told those gathered for his Sept. 29
Mass in the Vatican’s Saint Martha residence chapel.
The Bishop of Rome began by pointing to the day’s readings taken from Daniel 7
in which the prophet has a vision of God the Father on a throne of fire giving
Christ dominion over the world, and Revelation 12, which recounts the battle in
which Satan, as a large dragon, is cast out of heaven by St. Michael.
Noting how these are strong images portraying “the great dragon, the ancient
serpent” who “seduces all of inhabited earth,” the Pope also drew attention to
Christ's words to Nathanael in the day’s Gospel from John when he tells him
“You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon
the Son of man.”
All of these readings, he said, speak of “the struggle between God and the
devil” which “takes place after Satan tries to destroy the woman who is about
to give birth to a son.”
“Satan always tries to destroy man: the man that Daniel saw there, in glory,
and whom Jesus told Nathaniel would come in glory,” the Roman Pontiff observed,
explaining that “from the beginning the Bible speaks to us of this: Satan's
(use of) seduction to destroy.”
“This is why the Church honors the angels, because they are the ones who will
be in the glory of God – they are in the glory of God – because they defend the
great hidden mystery of God – namely, that the Word was made flesh.”
It is therefore the responsibility of the People of God “to safeguard man, the
man Jesus,” the Pope went on, because “he is the man who gives life to all
men.”
However this is not easy because Satan has invented “humanistic explanations
that go against man, against humanity and against God” in order to destroy us.
“This struggle is a daily reality in Christian life, in our hearts, in our
lives, in our families, in our people, in our churches,” the Pope went on,
adding that “if we do not struggle, we will be defeated.”
“But the Lord gave this task primarily to the angels: to do battle and win,” he
said, drawing attention to the final song of Revelation which reads "now
have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of our God and the power of his
Anointed. For the accuser of our brothers is cast out, who accuses them before
our God day and night.”
Pope Francis concluded his homily by encouraging those present to pray to the
Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, and to recite the prayer to Saint
Michael often.
We should do this “so he may continue to do battle and defend the greatest
mystery of mankind: that the Word was made Man, died and rose again. This is
our treasure. That he may battle on to safeguard it.”{ Wow! I
wish I could say for the sake of scottish people everywhere that I was
surprised at the outcome … I was not … After all, William Wallace (Braveheart),
drawn and quartered was dying testament to the inherent venality and cowardice
of the scots who always seem to have a price, regardless what ( trump,
half-scot is a notorious bribester / mobster / fraud … ‘…Shallow
sean's latest 'crusade' (beyond the same note/key obvious debacle of
wobamacare) was defense of the indefensible mobster but friend of sean's,
donald trump (trump should be in jail). In defense of t_rump, he offers up the
itsy-bitsy, teeny weeny wohlman skating rink project as evidence of t_rump's
contribution to NYC (too small for high new york priority given the magnitude
of New York substantial problems, some largely the result of trumpish tastes,
ie., solid gold trump tower fixtures, etc., that trump's 'pre-packaged
bankrupcies' seem to fail to touch, and which extravagance must be paid for by
someone, but not him). Shallow sean's excoriation of new york city never seems
to link the obviousness of t_rump's grandstanding responsibility for same.
After all, someone ultimately has to pay for trump's disproportionate
non-value-added livin' large. No talk of trump's ingratiating bribe strategy
for protection ( ie., 'retainers' to law firms linked to state attorney
generals, viz., {kimmelman} wolf and sampson, chris droney's brother, his sister's
protection/corruption and quid pro quo from the federal bench, etc., and as
well, protection of drug-money laundering through his now nominal only casinos
… See, ie.,
Trump's a fraud! …’ }
GBP Spikes
As YouGov Poll Shows 52% "No" To Scottish Independence
10 countries spending the most on their military { Yes … america’s number 1 in crime, debt,
and military spending (for war crimes and destructive military
actions/provocations, etc. ), by far and away! }
1. United States
Expenditure as pct. of GDP: 3.8% (14th highest)
1-yr. spending change: -7.8% (12th lowest)
Total arms imports: $759 million (8th highest)
Total arms exports: $6.2 billion (2nd highest)
UPDATE: Israel Claims Nearly 1,000 Acres of West Bank Land...
'Largest appropriation in 30 years'...
MAG: Nuns are endangered species...
72% decline...The Great Nunquisition: Why the Vatican Is Cracking Down
on Sisters
·
Jo Piazza
Today's generation of nuns are progressive women, two
things the Church isn't used to
30 Million
Americans On Antidepressants And 21 Other Facts About America's Endless
Pharmaceutical Nightmare
Samsung Galaxy Note 4
vs. LG G3: Spec Showdown
PC Magazine Samsung
has unveiled a new Galaxy Note phablet, which is poised to stand against the LG
G3. Both are big, nearly 6-inch smartphones with beefy processors, stabilized
rear-facing cameras, and Android 4.4 KitKat.
HYPERLINK
"http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/stone-cold-proof-that-government-economic-numbers-are-being-highly-manipulated"
\o "Permanent Link to Stone Cold Proof That Government Economic Numbers
Are Being Highly Manipulated" Stone Cold
Proof That Government Economic Numbers Are Being Highly Manipulated
HYPERLINK
"http://www.prisonplanet.com/key-piece-of-video-evidence-for-russian-responsibility-for-malaysian-plane-shootdown-debunked.html"
\o "Permanent Link to Key Piece of Video \“Evidence\” for Russian
Responsibility for Malaysian Plane Shootdown Debun Key Piece of Video “Evidence” for Russian
Responsibility for Malaysian Plane Shootdown Debunked
HYPERLINK "http://www.prisonplanet.com/mh17-show-tell-its-the-wests-turn.html"
\o "Permanent Link to MH17 Show & Tell: It’s the West’s Turn"
MH17 Show & Tell: It’s the West’s
Turn
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/america-country-favorable-view-israel.html"
\o "America is the Only Country with a Favorable View of Israel"
America
is the Only Country with a Favorable View of Israel
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/israel-losing-support-biggest-ally-evangelical-christians.html"
\o "Permalink to Israel Losing Support from Its Biggest Ally: American
Evangelical Christians" Israel Losing Support from Its
Biggest Ally: American Evangelical Christians
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/all-6-former-israeli-secret-service-chiefs-slam-occupation-of-palestine.html"
\o "All 6 Former Israeli Security Chiefs Slam Occupation of Palestine
?" All 6 Former Israeli Security Chiefs Slam Occupation of Palestine
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/israeli-soldiers-testimonies-from-the-occupied-territories-2000-2010.html"
\o "? Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories
2000-2010" Israeli Soldiers’ Testimonies from the Occupied Territories
2000-2010
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/amnesty-international-israel-remains-occupying-power-gaza-thus-bound-law-occupation.html"
\o "Amnesty International: Israel
Remains the Occupying Power in Gaza and is Thus Bound By the Law Of
Occupation" Amnesty International: Israel Remains the Occupying Power in
Gaza and is Thus Bound By the Law Of Occupation
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/holocaust-survivors-criticize-israeli-policy-towards-palestinians.html"
\o "Holocaust Survivors Criticize Israeli Policy Towards Palestinians
?" Holocaust Survivors Criticize Israeli Policy Towards Palestinians
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/israeli-interior-minister-goal-operation-send-gaza-back-middle-ages.html"
\o "Israeli Interior Minister: \“The Goal of the Operation Is to Send Gaza
Back to the Middle Ages\”, \“Destroying All the Infrastr Israeli
Interior Minister: “The Goal of the Operation Is to Send Gaza Back to the
Middle Ages”, “Destroying All the Infrastructure Including Roads and
Water”
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/nurenberg-crimes.html" \o
"Israeli Lawyer Doesn’t Deny Nuremberg Crimes on Palestinians (What the
Nazis Did to the Jews)" Israeli Lawyer Doesn’t Deny
Nuremberg Crimes on Palestinians (What the Nazis Did to the Jews)
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/human-rights-watch-findings-gaza-massacre.html"
\o "Human Rights Watch Findings on Gaza Massacre" Human
Rights Watch Findings on Gaza Massacre
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/anyone-live-palestine-prior-formation-israel.html"
\o "Did Anyone Live In Palestine Prior to the Formation of Israel?"
Did
Anyone Live In Palestine Prior to the Formation of Israel?
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/war-in-gaza-war-over-natural-gas-reserves.html"
\o "War in Gaza = War Over Natural Gas? ?" War in Gaza
= War Over Natural Gas?
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/head-cia-unit-tasked-killing-bin-laden.html"
\o "Permalink to Head of CIA’s Sunni Militant Unit and Unit Tasked with
Killing Bin Laden: Islamic Terror Is Caused by U.S. Support for Tyrants in the
Middle Ea High-Level American Intelligence and Counterterror
Officials: Islamic Terror Is Motivated by U.S. Support for Tyrants in the
Middle East and U.S. Support for Israel
·
HYPERLINK "http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/israel-and-the-u-s-created-hamas-hezbollah-and-other-terrorists-via-blowback.html"
\o "Israel and the U.S. CREATED Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda ?"
Israel
and the U.S. CREATED Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/report-the-u-s-and-israel-support-terrorists.html"
\o "Mainstream Reports: The U.S. and Israel Support Terrorists ?"
Mainstream
Reports: The U.S. and Israel Support Terrorists
·
HYPERLINK "http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/05/the-u-s-is-supporting-the-most-violent-muslim-terrorists-in-order-to-wage-war-for-oil.html"
\o "The U.S. Is Supporting the Most Violent Muslim Terrorists In Order to
Wage War for Oil ?" The U.S. Is Supporting the Most Violent Muslim Terrorists
In Order to Wage War for Oil
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/isis-hamas-claims-credit-attacks-israel.html"
\o "Israel Is Bombing Gaza Back to the Stone Age to Get Hamas … But ISIS –
NOT HAMAS – Claims Credit for Attacks Against Israel" Israel Is
Bombing Gaza Back to the Stone Age to Get Hamas … But ISIS – NOT HAMAS – Claims
Credit for Attacks Against Israel
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/israel-has-violated-hundreds-of-un-resolutions.html"
\o "Hamas Shouldn’t Fire Rockets … But Israel Has Violated HUNDREDS of UN
Resolutions ?" Hamas Shouldn’t Fire Rockets … But Israel Has Violated
HUNDREDS of UN Resolutions
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/01/israeli-saudi-and-american-leaders-say-arabs-are-not-ready-for-democracy.html"
\o "Israeli, Saudi and American Leaders Say Arabs Are Not Ready for
Democracy ?" Israeli, Saudi and American Leaders Say Arabs Are Not Ready
for Democracy
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/01/gaza-war-isnt-on-the-other-side-of-the-world-the-u-s-is-right-in-the-middle.html"
\o "Gaza War Isn’t On the Other Side of the World: The U.S. is Right in
the Middle ?" Gaza War Isn’t On the Other Side of the World: The U.S. is
Right in the Middle
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/war-in-gaza-why-now.html" \o
"War In Gaza: Why Now? ?" War In Gaza: Why Now?
·
HYPERLINK
"http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/cnn-palestinians-want-die.html"
\o "? CNN: Palestinians Want to Die" CNN: Palestinians Want to Die
'This Won't End Pretty'... HYPERLINK
"http://www.philly.com/philly/health/HealthDay689205_20140626_1_in_10_Deaths_Among_Adults_Tied_to_Alcohol__CDC.html"
\t "_blank" in 10 Deaths Among Adults Tied to Alcohol: CDC THURSDAY,
June 26, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- One in 10 deaths among U.S. adults is linked
to excessive alcohol consumption, federal officials reported Thursday.
HYPERLINK
"http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-size-of-the-derivatives-bubble-hanging-over-the-global-economy-hits-a-record-high"
\o "Permanent Link to The Size Of The Derivatives Bubble Hanging Over The
Global Economy Hits A Record High" The Size
Of The Derivatives Bubble Hanging Over The Global Economy Hits A Record High
·
HYPERLINK "http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-05-25/%E2%80%9Cgeopolitical-earthquake%E2%80%9D-historic-china-russia-agreement-not-appreciated"
“Geopolitical
Earthquake” That Is Historic China Russia Agreement Not Appreciated
HYPERLINK
"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stocks-are-telling-you-a-bear-market-is-coming-2014-05-14?link=kiosk"
Bear market is
on the way
One big red flag is happening in the stock market now that signals a coming
downturn.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-signs-were-near-a-market-top-and-what-to-do-now-2014-03-07?link=kiosk"
• 7 signs of a
market top HYPERLINK
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\o "Permanent Link to Our People Massacre Civilians in Odessa, and
Politico Blames Putin" Our
People Massacre Civilians in Odessa, and Politico Blames Putin { It’s
really quite amazing … the reality is that the west and america particularly is
bankrupt financially, economically, politically, geo-politically, and morally.
When one realistically looks at the hard facts/truth of the west’s and
america’s particularly violent incursions and fomenting of unrest abroad beyond
the propaganda, cover-ups, and outright lies, only fools living in fools’
paradises buy into their complete and utter b***s*** which has been devastating
domestically and globally! }
HYPERLINK
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Janet Yellen Doesn’t Know" “Is
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17 Facts To Show To Anyone That Believes That The
U.S. Economy Is Just Fine
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Lower-wage
industries constituted 22 percent of recession losses, but 44 percent of
recovery growth.
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Mid-wage
industries constituted 37 percent of recession losses, but only 26 percent of
recovery growth.
·
Higher-wage
industries constituted 41 percent of recession losses, and 30 percent of
recovery growth.
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CIA AGENT EXPOSING HIGH-LEVEL ILLEGAL DRUG SMUGGLING LINKS
( BUSH, BARR, CLINTON ET ALS )
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Ode
to Don Sterling
Sterling
talked reality
That
fallen america’s still standing
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Cops Execute Unarmed, Fleeing Suspect, Claim They Felt Threatened { In
defense of the police, let me say that I spent some time in Long Beach and,
daylight hours, literally had bullets whizzing past my head … one of the
niggers involved ditched the gun in a trash bin while calmly walking away … the
police did get him … }
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'Every citizen has a duty to resist'...
$2.9 million for two golf outings...
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Fed Chair: 'Deficits Will Rise to Unsustainable Levels'...
HYPERLINK "http://www.cnbc.com/id/101654131" Faber:
Worried about crisis bigger than '08...