Thursday, March 26, 2015

Kansas Fed Plunges To 2-Year Lows, New Orders Crash: "Economy Not As Strong As Media Portrays"


How can it be? Services PMI was at 6-month highs. The Kansas City Fed Index tumbled to -4 in March (against expectations of +1) and was last below this level in Feb 2013. KC Fed has now missed for 6 of the last 8 months and the report is a disaster across the board. New orders plunged to -20 (2nd lowest print since Lehman), order backlogs imploded, average workweek collapsed to -17 (lowest since Lehman), and future capex expectations fell to a five-year low. As one respondent noted, "we do not see the economy as being as strong as a portrayed in the national media reports."



Yemen Ground Invasion By Saudi, Egyptian Troops Imminent

Moments ago AP reported that Egyptian military and security officials told The Associated Press that the military intervention will go further, with a ground assault into Yemen by Egyptian, Saudi and other forces, planned once airstrikes have weakened the capabilities of the rebels. "The assault will be by ground from Saudi Arabia and by landings on Yemen's Red and Arabian Sea coasts. The aim is not to occupy Yemen but to weaken the Houthis and their allies until they enter negotiations for power-sharing, the officials said."





Germanwings Co-Pilot "Deliberately Destroyed" Airplane, Identified As 28-Year Old German Citizen

In one of the most chilling segments of this morning's press conference describing what was found on the cockpit voice recorder, screams were heard from passengers and crew as the realisation of what was about to happen struck them all. Prosecutor Brice Robin's findings state that when the German Captain left the cockpit - following what appeared to be - the 28-year-old German co-pilot (who was alive to the end) refused to re-open the door and began an "intentional", "controlled", and "steady" descent as he "seems to have sought to destroy the plane." Nothing indicates that this was a terrorist incident.


Bankers Hate Peace

from Washington’s Blog:
The possibility of an Iran nuclear deal depressing weapons sales was raised by Myles Walton, an analyst from Germany’s Deutsche Bank, during a Lockheed earnings call this past January 27. Walton asked Marillyn Hewson, the chief executive of Lockheed Martin, if an Iran agreement could “impede what you see as progress in foreign military sales.” Financial industry analysts such as Walton use earnings calls as an opportunity to ask publicly-traded corporations like Lockheed about issues that might harm profitability.
Hewson replied that “that really isn’t coming up,” but stressed that “volatility all around the region” should continue to bring in new business. According to Hewson, “A lot of volatility, a lot of instability, a lot of things that are happening” in both the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region means both are “growth areas” for Lockheed Martin.
Read More @ WashingtonsBlog.com


Is Ted Cruz planned to become the 1st President of a North American Union?

by Lori Stacey, Examiner:
Despite all the absurd analysis being touted in the mainstream by many so-called “experts” Ted Cruz is no more a natural born citizen of the United States than a man born on the moon. So why is this shooting star that appeared suddenly out of the abyss being pushed so hard to become the next political savior of America? The only thing that his background and connections would be perfectly set-up for as a born Canadian of Cuban decent (most likely fluent in Spanish due to his father’s heritage) would perhaps be President of a new North American Union.
To justify my point, we should probably take a closer look at who really is Ted Cruz and who is his wife? Their names are really Rafael Edward Cruz and Heidi S. (Nelson) Cruz. Many people touting “Ted” as the latest hero may not have even known that much about them.
Read More @ Examiner.com
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Why You Should Not Vote For Ted Cruz In 2016

from WeAreChange:





Another Middle East War Breaks Out: Saudis Begin Bombing Yemen, US Military Taking Action

Update: *OBAMA AUTHORIZED LOGISTICAL AND INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT TO GULF, U.S. MILITARY TAKING MILITARY ACTION TO DEFEND SAUDI BORDER, TO DEFEND AGAINST HOUTHI VIOLENCE (so US weapons are being used on both sides)
John McCain - "This is as bizarre as it is misguided – another tragic case of leading from behind.
Earlier today we reported that, on very short notice, Saudi Arabia had moved heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with Yemen, "raising the risk that the Middle East’s top oil power will be drawn into the worsening Yemeni conflict." In other words, Saudi Arabia was preparing for war. Moments ago all these warnings were borne out when Al-Arabiya reported that the latest middle-east war is now official after Saudi Arabia and Arab Gulf States had launched a bombing campaign against Yemen.




Saudi Arabia Imposes Naval Blockade On Red Sea Strait, Deploys 150,000 Troops As Iran Condemns Military Action

As noted earlier, the biggest significance of any Yemen conflict has little to do with its own domestic oil production, which at 133,000 bpd is negligible, but due to its location, which not only shares a border with Saudi Arabia, but more importantly due to the Bab el-Mandeb strait which connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden: it is the fourth-biggest shipping chokepoint in the world by volume (3.8 million barrels a day of oil and petroleum products flowed through it in 2013) and is just 18 miles wide at its narrowest point. It’s located between Yemen, Djibouti, and Eritrea, and connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. And since to Saudi Arabia preserving the logistics of oil supply is critical, it is hardly surprising that as Egypt's Ahram Gate reported earlier, the Saudi-led Firmness Storm coalition imposed a naval blockade on Bab El-Mandab strait earlier today. The Saudi navy's western fleet has also secured Yemen's main ports including Aden and Midi.



Middle East Proxy War: Presenting The Massive "Decisive Storm" Coalition

On one side of the latest proxy war in the Middle East are Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebel forces and their prominent backer, Iran. On the other side are the Suuni states led by Saudi Arabia and henceforth dubbed as the "Decisive Storm" coalition. Here they are.
 




Bonds & Crude Dump, The Dollar & Stocks Jump As Top Houthi Leaders Reportedly Killed

After overnight strength in oil (post-Yemen) and bonds and gold (and weakness in stocks), the last few minutes have seen some of this reverse as chatter crosses the wire of the death of top Houthi leadership in Yemen. Oil prices are tumbling, the dollar is surging, and bond yields are spiking. Stocks are starting to creep off the lows...





Initial Jobless Claims Drop Back Below Dreaded "300k" Level

After last week's initial jobless claims drop - which nevertheless held the 4-wk average above 300k - this week saw the number drop once more. Against expectations of 290k, claims printed 282k, leaving the 4-week average at 297k, conveniently below the 300k mark. This means that since the end of QE3, initial jobless claims are unchanged as the trend of improvement has clearly stalled.


 


Futures Tumble As Yemen War Starts; Oil, Gold Surges

In a somewhat surprising turn of events, this morning's futures reaction to last night's shocking start of a completely unexpected Yemen proxy war, which has seen an alliance of Gulf State launch an air, and soon land, war against Yemen's Houthi rebels, is what one would expect: down, and down big. This is surprising, because on previous occasions one would expect the NY Fed, or its pet hedge fund, Citadel, or the BOJ or ECB (via the CME's "Central Bank Incentive Program") to aggressively buy ES to prevent a slide, something has changed, and for the BTFDers, that something may be very fatal with the e-Mini rapidly approaching a 1-handle yet again. The offset to tumbling stocks, as previously observed, is oil, with WTI soaring over 6% in a delayed algo response to the Qatar headlines.
 




33 Strange Facts About America That Most Americans Would Be Shocked To Learn

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. 


Washington’s Latest Attempt to Torch the Peace Process

from The Wealth Watchman:
Seeking Whom They May Devour
There’s alot of wisdom in the old phrase, “Don’t go burning bridges!”, isn’t there?
Life, after all, is made richer and simpler by good, old-fashioned human interaction! Those who go about their lives, building bridges, and finding solutions and common ground, will be truly blessed. It’s not hard to see why, either.
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US Economy Heads Toward Zero Growth in Q1

from Wolf Street:
The consistency with which nearly every report on the US economy has deteriorated over the last few months is astonishing. Only the jobs report has been spared that sharp downdraft. So we blame the weather, which in parts of the US was truly atrocious, while in other parts, particularly in California, it was gorgeous.
Too gorgeous. This is supposed to be our rainy season, but every day the sun is out as we’re heading into our fourth year of drought. Yet the drought isn’t what keeps people from shopping or companies from ordering equipment. So out here, we’re baffled when the weather gets blamed.
Read More @ Wolfstreet.com

The Price Of Ground Beef Has DOUBLED Since The Last Financial Crisis

by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
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.
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Advancing a Constructive Agenda for US-Russia Relations – Washington, D.C. Event

by Eric Dubin, The News Doctors:
Precious few Americans are aware that Western media is lying up a propaganda storm about Russia and Putin on par with some of the greatest and most pervasive propaganda efforts in history. But if you think the media is bad, academia is worse. Self-censorship and not wishing to challenge group think runs rampant, to the point where it really isn’t all that surprising that America’s foreign policy establishment remains largely clueless about the conflict in the Ukraine.
Today and tomorrow, an important US-Russia forum will be held in Washington, D.C. Events like this help break some of the ice in the academic community, and will hopefully move the insular, ignorant American establishment in the direction of a fact-based, reasoned assessment of genuine Russia security interests and the reality of American and NATO aggression towards Russia.
Read More @ Thenewsdoctors.com

Question Everything

from ZenGardner:
Young human beings need to trust and pay attention to their parents, just like young mammals do in the animal kingdom. Our lives can depend on doing that. But most of us are trained from a young age to trust not just our parents but also authority figures of all kinds and to believe what they tell us is true. That system works fine as long as the authority figures in our lives are benevolent and honest. But what happens if those authority figures become corrupt or degenerate into violent criminals? The answer is evident throughout our current society. That very trust that kept us safe as small children (assuming we had good parents) has now become the means of our destruction.
Read More @ ZenGardner.com

They Fear A Wide Awake Humanity

from TruthNeverTold:

Does Friday’s Close Pass of 1000′ Wide Asteroid Correlate w/ This Week’s Tsunami Preparedness Drills?

by Shepard Ambellas, Intellihub:
The California Broadcasters Association in conjunction with NOAA and Cal OES conducted a rather oddly timed tsunami drill Wednesday for coastal regions in Southern and Central California.
In fact the drill, which officials said in some cases didn’t even include the word “test”, confused residents, and came near the end of California Tsunami Preparedness Week just ahead of an approaching 1000 foot wide killer asteroid that’s set to graze earth on Friday at a a safe distance of 2,779,894 miles.
However despite the fact that NASA and other agencies have already reported the potentially hazardous asteroid will make a safe pass on Friday, by a little over 11 lunar distances, tsunami response drills were conducted this week in various regions around the globe including “Alaska, California, CNMI, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands”, according to Cal OAS and other sources, possibly relating directly with 2014-YB35′s coming pass on Friday.
Read More @ Intellihub.com


Obama Continues to be Humiliated by the Rising Anti-Dollar Alliance

from Sovereign Man:
Now it’s Austria, Switzerland, and Australia that have joined dozens of other countries around the world in the anti-dollar alliance.
These nations, which also include most US ‘allies’ in Western Europe like Germany, France and the UK, have all signed on to be founding members of China’s new Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
The AIIB is the biggest disruption to the global monetary system since the end of World War II.
For decades, global finance has been completely dominated by the United States… and the US dollar.
This is the reason why a transaction for oil between Bangladesh and Brazil will close and settle in US dollars. It’s why a French aircraft manufacturer will sell its jets to European airlines… not in euros, but in US dollars. It’s why a contract for aluminium traded in London will clear in US dollars.
Read More @ SovereignMan.com

This Will Be Catastrophic And Have A Devastating Impact On America

from KingWorldNews:
Things have been getting very interesting on a number of fronts recently. Last week’s FOMC meeting, which I always take with a grain of salt, was fascinating because I think the Fed was finally forced to face economic reality and essentially acknowledge that their prior optimism on the U.S. economy was misplaced. I believe that things are materially worse than the Fed is admitting at this point.
Rate Hike Would Be Catastrophic
But the one obvious takeaway from the whole exercise last week is that the ongoing mantra of an imminent rate hike has been exposed to be more propaganda. With a fading economy, strong dollar, ballooning debt and recent overall weakness in the price of commodities, a rate hike would absolutely catastrophic.
John Embry continues @ KingWorldNews.com

So You Think The Military Won’t Kill U.S. Citizens?

from TheAlexJonesChannel:


Monsanto Asks World Health Organization to ‘Retract’ Cancer Link

by Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society:
Just days after the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer released a report publicly declaring the well-known link between Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide and cancer, the GMO leviathan is already calling on the entire agency to issue a ‘retraction.’
Recently, Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide – the most widely used and best-selling herbicide in the U.S. and one of the world’s most popular weed-killers – has been labeled a probable carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Now Monsanto is fighting that assessment. As reported by The Lancet:
“In March, 2015, 17 experts from 11 countries met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC; Lyon, France) to assess the carcinogenicity of the organophosphate pesticides tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon, and glyphosate (table). These assessments will be published as volume 112 of the IARC Monographs.”
Read More @ NaturalSociety.com

Gerald Celente – This Is Going To Radically Change The World

from KingWorldNews:
On a day where stocks are dipping, today the top trends forecaster in the world spoke with King World News about a developing situation that is going to radically change the world in which we live.
Gerald Celente: “Look at what’s happening with the Asian Investment Bank. Of course when the United Kingdom said they were going to join it, there was a lot of pressure from the United States for them not to join it and yet they did anyway. There are now 35 initial members and it’s ready to launch.
So it will be official by next Tuesday, March 31st. This Asian Investment Bank is going to be a competitor to the IMF and the World Bank. Again, the United States has been putting pressure on its allies not to join but one by one they are joining anyway.”
Gerald Celente continues @ KingWorldNews.com

Cornell University: ISIS terrorist training coaches welcomed on campus as long as they are vaccinated

by Mike Adams, Natural News:
Cornell University welcomes ISIS terrorists to come to its campus and conduct terror “training camps” for students, admits the university’s assistant dean Joseph Scaffido in an undercover sting video filmed by Project Veritas. But the university absolutely does not allow unvaccinated students to be present on campus, according to its public health requirements web page.
At Cornell University, in other words, terrorists are welcomed, but only if they are fully vaccinated first. Meanwhile, healthy, unvaccinated children are banned from the campus because they might pose a “danger” to public health, we’re told.
Cornell University’s “tolerance” policies extend to terrorist groups that target innocent civilians for mass death campaigns using explosive devices, but they do not extend to healthy children of parents who choose to avoid exposing their children to the toxic substances still used in vaccines in America: Mercury, aluminum, MSG, formaldehyde, human fetal tissue and superbug-producing antibiotics.
Read More @ NaturalNews.com


Facebook Reveals its Master Plan – Control All News Flow

by Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkrieg:
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.
The new proposal by Facebook carries another risk for publishers: the loss of valuable consumer data. When readers click on an article, an array of tracking tools allow the host site to collect valuable information on who they are, how often they visit and what else they have done on the web.
And if Facebook pushes beyond the experimental stage and makes content hosted on the site commonplace, those who do not participate in the program could lose substantial traffic — a factor that has played into the thinking of some publishers. Their articles might load more slowly than their competitors’, and over time readers might avoid those sites.
Read More @ Libertyblitzkrieg.com


Clinton Foundation’s Link to Ukrainian Oligarch Revealed

from AMTV:



Do Russia/NATO Military Drills Signal Something Ominous?

by Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post:
While most individuals assume that both historical and future events arise as a result of a series of massive and seismic actions, the truth is often that a whimper precedes the bang. While many events are indeed sparked by a single definitive act, it is also true that, in the events leading up to the defining moment, rarely does the general public realize that they are walking along the path to such an event. Even rarer is the individual who realizes that this path was already carved out by high-level players in the halls of banks, corporations, governments, and secret societies long before the destination is ever reached.
For instance, most scholars present the events leading up to World War I as an immediate reaction to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by a shadowy semi-secret society that was not fundamentally connected to any other secret establishment. The truth, however, is that not only was the Black Hand a part of a Revolutionary Freemasonic structure and the war itself a carefully orchestrated plot that involved the personal attention and assembly of King Edward VII as well as British and French Freemasonic Lodges, but it was not solely a reaction to the assassination of Ferdinand.
Read More @ ActivistPost.com

US Border Patrol Agents Burn Man Alive, While US Gov’t Burns Constitution & Bill of Rights

…There was a time in America, not too many decades ago, when cops were known as “peace officers”. When Border Patrol agents were busy protecting our BORDERS instead of harassing, assaulting and executing American citizens. How did we get here?
by Semper Fidelis, The Phaser.com:
WARNING: The video below is deeply disturbing. Please do NOT watch it if you are not prepared to see the execution of an American citizen at the hands of US Border Patrol agents.
I was made aware of this horrific video today by Paul Joseph Watson who tweeted, “another wonderful advertisement for the US Border Patrol.” Unfortunately, for the young man who was MURDERED by the US Border Patrol in March of 2012 on Interstate 8 in Pine Valley, California, that’s the understatement of the century.
According to NBC SanDiego.com:
A plainclothes agent is seen using a flashlight to break the passenger side window. He then raises up his Taser and shoots inside. Immediately, an explosion rocks the car, throwing the agent against the hillside behind him.
The passenger inside, a US citizen, was a lost, exhausted young man named Alex Martin who, according to his family’s attorney, was driving for 22 hours on his way back home from Texas when he got lost in Pine Valley, California. Court documents indicate that Border Patrol agents tried to pull him over for driving the wrong way on Interstate 8.
Read More @ ThePhaser.com

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