JAN 20 SIT EC y POL
GLOBAL RESEARCH
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Trolling Russia. By Israel Shamir . It is possible that
the US will get more than what it bargained for in the Ukraine.
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Chomsky:
Paris Attacks Show Hypocrisy Of West's Outrage. By Noam Chomsky. Ignored in the "war against terrorism" is the
most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times -- Barack Obama's global
assassination campaign targeting people suspected of perhaps intending to harm
us some day.
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Where Has All This Islamic Fundamentalism Come From? . The Anti-Empire Report. By William Blum
Most of it comes – trained, armed, financed, indoctrinated – from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.
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The US Is
Desperate. By Dmitry Orlov. The US is betting that the low oil
prices will destroy the governments of the three major oil producers that are
not under their political and/or military control.
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Are
Plunging Petrodollar Revenues Behind the Fed’s Projected Rate Hikes?. If
This Doesn't Make You Mad.... By Mike Whitney. Unemployment looks great
until you pick through the data and see it’s all a big fraud.
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Martin
Luther King: An American Hero. By Paul Craig Roberts. Many
Americans will continue to believe that having failed to tar King as a
communist and womanizer, the establishment decided to remove an inconvenient
rising leader by assassination.
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First
African American to Walk on the Moon!?. Americans Forget Martin Luther King and
What He Did
Video. Mark Dice interviews beachgoers in San Diego about MLK for Martin Luther King Day.
Video. Mark Dice interviews beachgoers in San Diego about MLK for Martin Luther King Day.
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4TH MEDIA
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W-B WASHINGTON BLOG
Even
Central Bankers Now Admit QE Doesn’t Work
Posted on January 21, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog . The former head
of the Bank of England – Mervyn King – said today that more QE will not help the economy. Also
today, William White – the brilliant
economist who called the 2008 crisis well ahead of time, slammed QE. The former long-term head of
the Federal Reserve (Alan Greenspan) says that QE has failed to help the
economy. The original inventor of QE agrees. Numerous academic studies confirm this.
And see this.
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THE
DIRE STATE OF OUR NATION (What You Won’t Hear from the Politicians). Posted
on January
21, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog . By John
Whitehead, constitutional and human rights attorney. 18 FACTS:
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How Do You
Unmanipulate a Manipulated Economy?. Posted on January 20, 2015 by Charles Hugh Smith If you doubt the economy is dependent on
monetary and statistical manipulation, then ask yourself what will happen to
the economy should the Federal Reserve’s zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) be
rescinded, and interest rates return to historic norms. An economy optimized
for indebtedness and speculation is akin to a spoiled kid who is rewarded for
sitting around playing video games and eating chocolate cake and potato chips.
The sugar-high of the chocolate-cake diet feeds the psychological addiction of
playing counter-productive, meaningless games all day, and the kid’s expanding
waistline and deteriorating fitness go unnoticed. That the game-playing and
junk food diet are ultimately destructive are lost on the spoiled kid.
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SPUTNIK & RT
Lavrov on Obama speech: Efforts
to isolate Russia will fail. http://rt.com/news/224651-lavrov-russia-isolation-usa/
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Two ways of
terrorism: theirs v ours - Chomsky lambasts US for drone attacks and media
deaths 147
RT
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PRESSTV
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US
police use radar to see inside homes. At least 50 US law enforcement agencies are secretly using radars
that enable them to see inside the houses.
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‘Israel, al-Nusra cooperating in
Golan’. Tel Aviv is reportedly cooperating with
the al-Nusra Front terrorist group in the battle against the Syrian government.
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‘Yemen
heading to real independence’. An analyst says the current revolution by
Ansarullah movement in Yemen is going to bring true independence back to this
country.
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'Iran
slams acts of terror, blasphemy' . Iran’s Rouhani decries any act of
violence as well as disrespecting religions.
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Gitmo
prisoner details US brutality. A former Guantanamo prisoner has explained
brutal US torture programs in a book.
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Israel
‘works hand in glove with ISIL’. A political analyst says Israel is
supporting the Takfiri ISIL group through conducting military operations in
Syria.
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Obama
threatens to veto Iran sanctions [What a way of keeping the
ineffective-simulation job of the VP.
Any time OB talks on Iran, we check his welcomed policy on his partner
Netanyahu-nuke-head]
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Obama
delivers State of the Union speech [see my posting “the land of the free:
18 facts]
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Coffee
may keep some skin cancers away [if coffee is color café y viene en grano
para molerlo en casa, it makes protect
you not only from cancer, from many things. Recomiendo el café de Cusco-Peru]
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Obama
talks to Hollande prior to SOTU. US President Barack Obama talks to his
French counterpart François Hollande prior to his State of the Union speech.
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Hillary
candidate of the past: Jeb Bush [both of you are the loved dinos of the
criminal US oligarchy. Most people won’t vote them in the next election. The
People’s Front or abstention is our game]
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Peace
talks conference held in Damascus. Representatives of Syrian political
factions gather in Damascus to discuss a solution to the country’s conflict.
[this circus -of spying themselves- is a stupid simulacrum game: waste of time.
The Fact is that is that US-Israel-UK & Saudis-Qatar +key-org of mercenaries
recruited by NATO are leading war forces
against Syria. So, not funds, not arms to ISIS will be the solution.. but this
is impossible now. Todays Nato’s aim is to disarm or neutralize Iran. Iran is
their main target later on. So, the only way to deal with stupid simul-game is
to fund & arm the anti-NATO forces. Meanwhile: no peace, no war, no talks.
Just start hitting Saudis & Israel -the weakest parts of their web- at two levels: war & UN-ICC diplomacy]
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'Only
white lives' matter to Obama. The US deployment of soldiers [to “do their duti”]
means “only white lives matter” to Obama, says an African American activist. [true
& clear like clean water]
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UN
slams ISIL over civilian executions. The UN harshly criticizes the ISIL
terrorist group for the brutal execution of civilians in Iraq.
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Yemen
on verge of breakthrough. In this edition of The Debate we will focus on
the latest state of affairs in Yemen
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UK
MPs debate nuclear submarine fleet. Lawmakers debate the future of
Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet. [Since sell them to Saudis will be too nasty
business, then stick them in the asses of the top UKis military ranking; if you
need more, borrow some from your partner OB]
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ZERO HEDGE
'Everything
Is Awesome' SOTU Post-Mortem: "It's Not Government's Job To Make Everybody
Rich". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/20/2015. The only thing we did not get from tonight's State of
The Union speech was a "Mission Accomplished" flag... oddly some of
the 6,493 words (the lowest word-count of his Presidency) were not entirely
'factual'...
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Saxo
Bank Warns "This Is The Endgame For Central Banks". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/20/2015. Major central banks claim to be independent, but
they are totally under the control of politicians and that’s all well and good in principle
until the economy spins out of control – at zero-bound growth and rates central
banks and politicians becomes one in a survival mode where rules are broken
and bent to fit an agenda of buying more time. What comes now is a new reality...
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The
Road To The Welfare State: Why 50% Of "Exceptional" America Gets
Checks From Uncle Sam Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/20/2015. Until and unless
America undergoes some sort of awakening that turns the public against its
blandishments, or some sort of forcing financial crisis that suddenly restricts
the resources available to it, continued growth of the entitlement state looks
very likely in the years immediately ahead. And in at least that respect,
America today does not look exceptional at all.
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Presenting
The 2015 "Shadow Of Crisis Has Passed" State Of The Union - Live
Webcast & Full Speech Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/20/2015. it is entirely clear
that his proposals have no chance of becoming law. As Eric Cantor suggests [OB
bla-bla] will merely serve to inflame the GOP. From
taxes to cyber security and from community college to housing... in 50-65
minutes, all will be clear... [INFLAME the GOP? .. this is not the straw that will
break one single hump –out of many- of the stinky camel .. they are not playing
a zero-sum-game -what one gets is taking
from the opposite- this is a zero-minus-game, they both are losers. .. OB is only
adding one shovel of dust to the funeral of both Mrs Clinton & Bush]
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by
Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog, Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/20/2015. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-20/11-facts-wont-be-tonights-state-union
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Investors
Are Losing Faith And "Markets Will Riot" Warns Albert Edwards. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/20/2015. “It doesn’t matter how much QE is spewing out of the
US,” he said. “The markets will lose confidence that the policymakers are in
control of events, just as they did in 90's Japan. They lost faith that the
policymakers were in control. This is the biggest risk out there.”
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"This
Is A Race To The Bottom Where No Fiat Currency Wins". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/20/2015. 2015 is showing signs that change is afoot. As
Santiago Capital's Brent Johnson notes in this brief presentation, while being
'wrong' for the last 2 years on gold has been painful, is it any less crazy to
believe that it will turnaround that to believe the hype that The Fed will
raise rates once again (just like it promised in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
and now 2015...) - who is really losing their credibility? With the
world's fiat currencies waging war and dislocations mounting, gold is no longer
the 'David' underdog fighting against the 'Goliath' central banks... but is -
as Alan Greenspan opined - "the premier currency. No fiat currency,
including the dollar, can match it."
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"Whiplash"
& The Death Of The Last Industrialist. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/20/2015. An oil price
spike will cause another round of demand destruction, because the consumers,
devastated by the bankruptcies and the job losses from the collapse of the oil
patch, will soon be bankrupted by the higher price. And that will cause the
price of oil to collapse again. And so on until the last industrialist dies...
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The
"Deflationary Vortex": Global Dollar Economy Suffers Biggest Plunge
Since Lehman, Down $4 Trillion.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/20/2015. local currencies (at
least those which are not the USD) have been plunging against the greenback on
the back of the expectations that the Fed will hike rates some time in the
summer or later in 2015. Which also means that in "dollar economy"
terms, i.e., converted in USD, things are not nearly as good. In fact, as the chart below shows, the global
dollar economy is not only shrinking fast, but it is doing so at the fastest
pace since the Lehman collapse, having lost a whopping $4 trillion, or a
whopping 5% drop, in just the last 6
months!
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Crushing
The U.S. Energy Export Dream. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/20/2015. Exporting crude oil
and natural gas from the United States are among the dumbest energy ideas of
all time. Exporting gas is dumb. Exporting oil is dumber.
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2015
SOTU: The Robin-Hood Distribution Plan. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/20/2015. Whether you agree or
disagree with our points below, or the President's "wealth
redistribution agenda" in tonight's SOTU address, is of little
matter. With both houses of Congress controlled by conservatives, the likelihood
of any of these proposals actually passing into law nears "zero."
This will leave the President with his nuclear option of "excutive
orders" to move his agenda down the field, but even that is likely to
be viciously contested in the months ahead.
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Ukraine
Claims Russian Forces At Border, Attack Conflict Zone; Russia Replies
"Complete Rubbish" Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/20/2015. After
reportedly rejecting Vladimir Putin's peace proposal and continuing heavy
shelling in the pro-Russian-held regions of Donetsk, Ukraine's military
spokesman Lysenko is reporting the Russian army is directly attacking
Ukraine forces in the north conflict zone. The fight over what is now a destroyed
Donetsk airport continues with Lysenko claiming to have stalled Russian
forces adding that three Russian battallions are approaching the Ukraine
border. CNN reports that the Russian Defense Ministry says, "Ukraine's
allegations that Russian troops are in Ukraine are complete rubbish."
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Obama's
"Partners" In Yemen Overthrown As Presidential Palace Falls To Local
Militiamen. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/20/2015. The "Statement
by the President on ISIL", in which he praised US anti-terrorist
tactics, giving Yemen and its "partners" as an example of
"successful" US foreign intervention. To wit: "This
counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to
take out ISIL wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for
partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists
who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that
we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years." He
may want to scrub that statement because just 4 months after reading that from
the Teleprompter, America's "partners on the Yemen front lines" have
officially fled quietly into that good night, abandoning the control of the
nation to local Shiite militiamen.
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The
US Military's Stunning Conspiracy Theory Emerges From The Archives: "ISIS
Leader Does Not Exist" Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 01/20/2015. Having noted that voter
angst has been riled, propagandized, and fear-mongered to the point at
which the most pressing priority for Congress is to 'fix' terrorism, it is
perhaps not entirely surprising that we discover - deep down in the archives -
that giving the public someone to 'hate' as opposed to something may
have been an entire fiction. As
The New York Times exposed in 2007, Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, the
titular head of the Islamic State, according to Brigadier General Kevin
Bergner - the chief American military spokesman at the time - never existed (and
was actually a fictional character whose audio-taped declarations were provided
by an elderly actor named Abu Adullah al-Naima). So he was a ghost back
then.... is he a ghost again, designed purely to put a face on ISIS and the
biggest bogeyman of the current global anti-terrorist mania?
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Silver
Tops $18, Gold Nears $1300 - Highest in 5 Months. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/20/2015
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US
Equities Give Up China GDP 'Beat' Gains As Oil Hits $46 Handle. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/20/2015. It was all so awesome. But this morning's plunge
in crude and copper (global growth?) finally knocked on into equity market
reality as the opening ramp quickly gave way to selling pressure and erased all
'wealth' created by Chinese data. US Treasury yields are 3-5bps lower with
30Y testing 2.39%.
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"Short-Term
Greedy & Long-Term Poorer". Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/20/2015. In what Bloomberg's
Richard Breslow calls "a sign of the times, and not a good one"
the weekend has been dominated by politicians commenting on the ECB. Not
only did Erdogan un-independently suggest Turkish policy action today (as we
noted here), but now Merkel, Hollande, Noonan etc. are all telling you what
the ECB should do or indeed will do and then telling you that, of course, the
ECB is independent. Central Banks have essentially become enormous
sovereign wealth funds manipulating the markets and very much in the thrall of
geo-political events. This is a very problematic development which is
an inevitable follow-on to the activism of central banks in their policy
conduct.
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First
Schlumberger Fires 9,000; Now Baker Hughes Unleashes 7,000 More Layoffs. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/20/2015. America's bettered energy sector which are bolting
down ahead of the crude storm, and firing thousands.
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 01/20/2015 - 07:40
- Obama to focus on middle class in State of Union address (Reuters) - all 4 of them?
- European Stocks Buoyed by ECB Hopes (WSJ)
- China's 2014 economic growth misses target, hits 24-year low (Reuters)
- Federer on Swiss Franc Shock: "Does It Mean I've Got to Win Now?" (BBG)
- First-time buyers help Christie’s reach record sales (FT)
- So it was the NSA? U.S. Spies Tapped North Korean Computers Prior to Sony Hack (BBG)
- Why Chinese Developer Kaisa's Default Risk Has Money Managers Spooked (BBG)
- Morgan Stanley Misses Estimates on Drop in Bond-Trading Revenue (BBG)
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