MAY 23 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
Secret
Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To
Overthrow Syria's President Assad. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015
The revelation from an internal US intelligence document
that the very US-led coalition supposedly fighting ‘Islamic State’ today,
knowingly created ISIS in the first place, raises troubling questions about
recent government efforts to justify the expansion of state anti-terror powers.
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The
Original Chechnya Bombers - The CIA, The Saudis And Bin Laden. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015
What if Putin is Telling The Truth? On April 26 Russia’s main national TV
station, Rossiya 1, featured President Vladimir Putin in a documentary to the
Russian people on the events of the recent period including the annexation of
Crimea, the US coup d’etat in Ukraine, and the general state of relations with
the United States and the EU. His words were frank. And in the middle of his
remarks the Russian former KGB chief dropped a political bombshell that was
known by Russian intelligence two decades ago... Putin stated that the
terror in Chechnya and in the Russian Caucasus in the early 1990’s was actively
backed by the CIA and western Intelligence services to deliberately weaken
Russia.
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Hillary
Clinton's Speech Requirements: Private Jets, Presidential Suites And Lots Of
Cash. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015
Spoiler alert: these
are not the requirements of an "everyday American"...
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FBI
Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked Via Unconstitutional Patriot Act
Phone Spying. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015
"FBI agents
can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key
snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department’s inspector general
said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of
the law operating... Inspector General Michael E.
Horowitz said that between 2004 and 2009, the FBI tripled its
use of bulk collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows government
agents to compel businesses to turn over records and documents, and
increasingly scooped up records of Americans who had no ties to official
terrorism investigations."
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Traders
Are Buying Gold & Silver At Fastest Pace In Over A Decade. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015.
The last time large speculators were as aggressively
buying silver as last week was September 1997. The net long non-commercial positioning in Silver futures, according to
the CFTC rose almost 22,000 contracts last week to a 3-month high (which is
closing in on the 'longest' since 2005). Gold, not be out-precious'd also
saw major buying. Net speculative longs in gold added over 45,000 contracts
- the most since July 2005 - lifting net long positions to their highest in
3 months. Perhaps, just perhaps, as Alhambra's
Jeffrey Snider notes, this is due to Yellen putting the 'dollar' back on
suicide watch.
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In
Unprecedented Move, California Farmers With Guaranteed Rights Cut Water Use By
25%. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015
In an attempt to
frontrun even more draconian measures resulting from California's record
drought, farmers in the state's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta who have
California's oldest water rights proposed to voluntarily cut their water use by
25% to avoid the risk of even harsher restrictions by the state later this
summer should the water situation deteriorate further. State officials promptly
accepted the offer, even if it is ultimately moot since there is no way to
enforce it.
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Is
Greece Still A Country If Someone Else Owns Its Assets?. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015
Foreign investment is of course common around the world
and is generally seen as a good thing. Americans mostly like it, for instance, when Japanese investors bid up
shares of US companies or Chinese expats pay above asking price for Manhattan
apartments. With only a few exceptions we take the money and don’t look back. But
there must be a limit, a point where foreign interests own so much of a country
that they call the shots and the locals become in effect their serfs. Greece
might be the test case that shows us where that point is...
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"New
Silk Road" Could Change Global Economics Forever, Part 1. by
Robert Berke via OilPrice.com, Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/23/2015.
China is building the world’s greatest economic
development and construction project ever undertaken: The New Silk Road. The project aims at no less than a
revolutionary change in the economic map of the world. It is also seen by many
as the first shot in a battle between east and west for dominance in Eurasia.
For the world at large, its decisions about the Road are nothing less than
momentous. The massive project holds the potential for a new renaissance in
commerce, industry, discovery, thought, invention, and culture that could well
rival the original Silk Road. It is also becoming clearer by the day that
geopolitical conflicts over the project could lead to a new cold war between
East and West for dominance in Eurasia.
Initial Project:
A look at the first project, currently under development,
provides a good example of how China plans to proceed.
Coming soon, Part 2: Cold War
or Competition on the New Silk Road.
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These
Are The 50 Top Hedge Fund Long And Short Positions. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015.
At the end of every quarter there is a scramble by the
financial public to peek at what the biggest hedge fund holdings were as of 45
days ago. And yet, one wonders why: as Goldman notes, "the low dispersion
market continues to challenge stock-pickers as the average hedge fund lags the
S&P 500 for the seventh straight year (2% vs. 4% YTD)." In fact, even
the barbarous relic known as gold has outperformed the average hedge fund YTD.
Then again, as we have said since 2012, the only informational value comes not
from looking at hedge fund longs, but their biggest shorts, since short
squeezes remain perhaps the only source of major outperformance. So for all
those curious, here are the biggest hedge fund shorts as of March 31, 2015.
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Constitution
1 - 0 Government: NSA Starts Winding Down Bulk Data Collection. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015
As
we detailed earlier, in a chaotic scene during the wee hours of Saturday,
Senate Republicans blocked a bill known as the USA Freedom Act - backed
by President Barack Obama, House Republicans and the nation's top law
enforcement and intelligence officials - which would have preserved the
government's ability to search phone company records for suspected spies and
terrorists. As
AP reports, the failure to act means the NSA will immediately begin
curtailing its previously-secret bulk data collection progreams with The
DoJ noting that while it will take time to taper off the collection process,
that process began Friday (according to an administration official). Sen. Rand
Paul called the Senate's failure to allow an extension of the surveillance
programs a victory for privacy rights, adding "we should never give
up our rights for a false sense of security."
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Cold
War 2.0: Visualizing All Recent "Close Encounters" Between Russian
And NATO Warplanes. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015
Lately, not a day seems to pass without news of NATO jets
being scrambled to intercept/reroute a Russian warplane or reconnaisance jet.
As a result, David
Cenciotti's The Aviationist blog has compiled the recent history of all the
"close encounters" between Russian and NATO warplanes since 2013.
Here are the results.
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ISIS:
Mapping A Militant Expansion. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015
As the US moves closer to putting boots on the ground in
Iraq and Syria to counter an ISIS "offensive", The New York Times
is out with a series of graphics which document the group’s spread.
To let the media tell it, ISIS has launched a successful
“offensive”
of late, taking control of Palmyra, a Syrian city that’s home to ‘treasures of
antiquity’, as well as Ramadi, which gives the group control of
“strategic highway linking Iraq and Syria.”
ISIS has also claimed
responsibility for a mosque bombing that claimed the lives of 21 Saudis on
Friday.
As the US moves closer to putting boots on the ground,
The New York Times is out with a series of graphics which document the group’s
spread.
[[SEE 3 MAPS & THE
CONCLUSION: HERE ONLY 2 MAPS & THE CONCLUSION
NOTICE: In the 2nd map ISIS do not control
nor govern the areas depicted in the 1st one,
And much less, the areas depicted
in the 3rd one as commented in the conclusion. ]]
MAP 1:
MAP 2:
Note that the last graphic — which depicts a giant globe
with highlights on “countries with groups that have pledged allegiance to ISIS”
— makes it look like ISIS has launched a Naziesque blitzkrieg on the way to
invading multiple countries. This, of course, is completely absurd. There are a
lot of groups who can claim membership in a lot of countries meaning that we
could produce a lot of these maps if we wanted to, but it wouldn’t mean that
any of said groups were on the verge of a Napoleonic global conquest.
But reality never got in the way of a good story.
[This seems to be NYT
propaganda in favor of ISIS]
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Steen
Jakobsen Warns, Brace For The Next Recession. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/23/2015
The financial world today is now an island on its own –
separated from the real economy, as
can be seen by the paradox of record high valuation in the stock market coinciding
with record low inflation, employment , productivity and no hope. There is
asset inflation, but deflation in the real economy. When the world has been
this long at the zero-bound, the misallocation, the inability to reform, and a
toolbox without new tools creates a mandate for change. "I expect
stocks to trade sideways for the balance of 2015 and have now sold all my
fixed income, increased my gold exposure, and I’m looking to buy mining
companies and overall to increase my exposure to commodities beyond the normal
allocation."
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Rand
Paul Blocks Extension Of Patriot Act, Future Of Illegal NSA Spying On Americans
In Limbo. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/23/2015
While an extension
of the Patriot Act, that landmark bill which ushered in the America's Big
Brother, "turnkey
totalitarian state" (previewed here long before Edward Snowden's
shocking revelations), is just a matter of time, supporters of the Fourth
Amendment scored a brief victory last night when following yet another marathon
10
hour filibuster and refusal to play by the script by Rand Paul, the Senate
failed to extend the Patriot Act, leaving the future of America's "war
against terrorists" but really against "enemies domestic",
i.e., anyone who uses email, has a cell phone or in any other electronic way
communicates with others, in limbo.
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Time
To Get Real About China. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/23/2015
The present Chinese leadership appears to be trying to
gain (regain?) more - if not full - control over the country’s economic system,
while at the same time (re-)boosting the growth it has lost in recent years. President Xi Jinping, prime minister Li
Keqiang and all of their subservient leaders – there are 1000?s of those in a
1.4 million citizens country- apparently think this can be done. We truly doubt
it. We don’t think that they ever understood what would happen if they
opened up the country to a more free-market, capitalist structure. That
doing so would automatically reduce their political power, since a free market,
in whatever shape and form, does not rhyme with the kind of control which the
Communist Party has been used to for decades, and which the current leaders
have grown up taking for granted.
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PRESSTV
No
deal on humiliating terms: Greece. Sun May 24, 2015 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says a bailout
deal with its international creditors on “humiliating terms” is not viable.
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Debate:
Turkey's support for terrorists in Syria. Sun May 24, 2015 This edition of "The Debate" focuses on
Turkey's support for Takfiri terrorists in Syria.
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US
Marine kept woman in wooden box .
Sun May 24, 2015 US police have shot and killed a former Marine accused of
holding a woman captive in a wooden box for months at his home in western
Missouri.
[ Este es solo 1 de muchos casos de
bestializacion de nuestros soldados en Guerras abroad. Cuando regresan no son
sometidos a examen psicológico ni a procesos de rehabilitación. La mayorÃa de
ellos son abandonados, lo indico un reporte. La familia que dejaron, sufren los
efectos de ello. El negocio de la guerra es inhumano e inmoral, me refiero a la
producción y venta de armas.]
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UK
modern slavery: 3000 kids from Vietnam. Sun May 24, 2015 Some 3,000 Vietnamese children are being enslaved by
criminal gangs in the UK.
[[Terrible!! .. this is a crime against humanity and the State
is responsible for it ..is this really true?. If not, the media owner should be
investigated and indicted]]
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Saudis
name Shia mosque bomber. Sun
May 24, 2015 Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry releases identity of the
ISIL-linked bomber who detonated his explosives at a Shia mosque in the eastern
city of Qatif.
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‘Russians
languishing in US prisons'. Sun
May 24, 2015 There are dozens of Russians who have committed no crimes but they
are languishing in US prisons, an American political analyst says.
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UK
Takfiris find new ways to join ISIL. Sat May 23, 2015 Britain’s would-be members of ISIL come up with new
routes to join the Takfiri fight in Iraq and Syria.
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‘Obama
remarks part of Iranophobia plot’. Sat May 23, 2015 Iran rejects allegations made by the US president that
the Islamic Republic seeks to exploit instability in the region.
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