California Law Allowing Government To Seize Legal Guns Goes Into Effect January 1st

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 13:30
Beginning January 1, gun regulations in California will give authorities the right to seize a person’s weapons for 21 days if a judge determines the potential for violence exists.
What could possibly go wrong?

Ad Shows Army Prepping for Martial Law: “This Is Not Battle Training. This Is Riot Control”

by Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan:

Will martial law be declared on American soil?
Will economic collapse and urban riots result in the final and total loss of civil liberties right here at home?
It could happen, and it is one of the “eventualities” that the military is preparing for, though they are constitutionally barred from being used domestically against the American people.
Part of the U.S. Army’s latest ad campaign, broadcast frequently during football games and sporting events, and widely across many television programs, includes a 30-second spot that shows soldiers training with shields used for domestic riot control.
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Now Comes The Great Unwind - How Evaporating Commodity Wealth Will Slam The Casino

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 16:35 The unfolding correction of the visible excesses of the credit inflation - such as overinvestment and malinvestment - will destroy incomes and profits; the Great Unwind of the less visible effects, such as the sovereign wealth fund liquidations, are a giant pin aimed squarely at the monumental worldwide bubbles in stock, bonds and real estate.

Stocks End 2015 In The Red, Worst Year With Oil Since 1984

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 16:05

Government Propagandist-In-Chief Condemns Political Incorrectness As "The Furthest Thing From Brave"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 11:42 Some have called Cass Sunstein "America's Goebbels" since he sugggested that the government "formally hire credible private parties to engage in counterspeech," and was engaged by President Obama as 'Information Tzar'. So today's op-ed from the government's propagandist-in-chief, condemning those who choose to push back against political correctness, should be read with a Bernaysian perspective as Sunstein attempts to delegitimize any and every effort to argue against the government's view of the world.

America In 2015 (The Chart)

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 15:50

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly From 2015

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 15:30

Turks Warn "We're One Step Away From Civil War" On Erdogan Crackdown

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 15:28 “The tanks fire all day and we have nowhere left to hide,”...

Bill Clinton Made $8 Million From Speeches To Companies With Matters Pending Before Hillary's State Dept

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 15:11 As WSJ reports, "more than two dozen companies and groups and one foreign government paid former President Bill Clinton a total of more than $8 million to give speeches around the time they also had matters before Mrs. Clinton’s State Department."

Massive Fire Breaks Out In Dubai Hotel During New Year Fireworks Display - Live Feed

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 14:59

Billionaires Battle: Buffett Beats Musk In Nevada

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 14:50 In a clash of the billionaire titans, Warren Buffett just defeated Elon Musk. The fight was over solar net-metering in Nevada...

Gray, Gays, Trump, & Paris - The Year In News

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 14:30

Well-Paid Pandering Pundits And The Fantasy Of Reform

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 14:10 Any serious reform has to start with the dissolution of the existing political parties and the Federal Reserve. Anything less is self-serving, pandering fantasy.

WTI Fades Fast After Rig Count Decline Continues

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 13:15 After melting up to pre-API levels this morning, crude prices are falling back (and therefore so are stocks) as Baker Hughes reports another weekly decline in rig count. After surging by 17 three weeks ago, the 2 rig decline in oil rigs in America continues to track the lagged crude oil price.

"Carson Campaign In Chaos" As Two Top Aides Resign

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 12:53

Yellen, You Have A Problem: The "Rate Hike Corridor" Just Broke

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 12:52 Moments ago the effective Fed Funds rate tumbled from yesterday's 0.35% to just 0.12%, confirming that indeed the rate hike corridor can and has been breached at least once, and only two weeks into the Fed's rate hike experiment.

Chinese Company Blames Upcoming Default On Gangsters, Mysterious Loss Of "Important Documents"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 12:34 The latest Chinese company to mysteriously "misplace" its books and as a result be unable to make an upcoming bond payment is China Shanshui Cement: "a former director of Shandong Shanshui, together with a group of gangsters, barged into the Headquarters by force on 27 December 2015, destroyed the properties in the offices therein and assaulted the employees of Shandong Shanshui."

Darkness Falls Upon Norway’s Key Figures Going Into 2016

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 12:16 As we move into winter, darkness has fallen up on us. Oil, ca. 65% of the nation’s economy, will not see the required $70 barrel anytime soon. American innovation, once again, turns a scarce resource into an abundant commodity. Despite optimistic Norwegian media articles, the potential for $20 per barrel looms. Production overwhelms demand while inventories rise to record highs. Although, still considered the best place to live, the cracks, in the oil based economy, are forming.

Iran Defies Obama, Orders Expansion Of Missile Program

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 11:56 Earlier today, we outlined Washington's plan to slap new sanctions on Iran in connection the October test-firing of Tehran's next generation, surface-to-surface ballistic-missile Emad. It didn't take long for Iran to hit back, with President Rouhani now reportedly ordering the Defense Ministry to "expedite" missile development.

Is Trump Winning? - Don't Show Hillary (Or Bernie) This Chart

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 11:35 As the fervor of the US Presidential campaign begins to heat up, it appears - despite all the hand-wringing and prosecution of the status quo - that the incumbents are losing... and losing large. According to Bloomberg's Consumer Comfort survey, Republicans are near the most confident relative to Democrats since Obama was re-elected.

Gold Undervalued Due To Massive Stock Dilution & Debt

by Steve St. Angelo, SRS Rocco:
The market price of gold would be considerably higher if it wasn’t for the massive stock dilution and debt in the gold mining industry. Basically, the gold mining industry issued billions of new shares and debt to help replace production and to compensate for rising costs. Thus, investors of gold mining stocks got raped so the market could enjoy an artificially lower gold price.
Nothing like Free Market Capitalism at work.
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Sy Hersh Blockbuster: Top US General Ignored Obama, Led Secret Plot to Protect Assad and Bring Russia Into Syria War

from Russia-Insider:

President Obama’s top military commander secretly orchestrated intelligence sharing with military leaders in Germany, Israel and Russia to thwart the president’s policy to remove Bashar Assad from power in Syria and lay the groundwork for Russia’s military entrance into the Syrian civil war, because he believed Obama’s anti-ISIS strategies were hopelessly misguided.
That is just one of the astounding takeaways from a 6,800-word expose by venerated investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh, that was just published in the London Review of Books.
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