The Obama administration is feverishly working with foreign lawmakers and officials on a new Trans-Pacific Parternship (TPP) trade agreement. Yet what may seem like business as usual is anything but.
The President has made it a point to keep any details of the agreement completely secret, so much so that what amounts to a gag order has been placed on anyone who has anything to do with the bill. Even members of Congress are unable to discuss the contents of the bill with each other or in public, and anyone who is invited to discussions over the bill must leave cell phones and staff members behind. Since not even Republicans have yet to spill the beans about the details of the agreement, one can only assume that those attending the meetings are doing so under threat of criminal prosecution or worse if they talk.
This, of course, begs the question: What is so important to the Obama administration that it has to be kept secret from the American public until after the agreement has been passed?
What could possibly be so critical to national security that the purportedly “most transparent” Presidential administration in history says no one can talk about it?
A Multinational Trojan Horse: The Trans-Pacific Partnership
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 20:45 Peel back the layers of the TPP and you’ll find what some believe to be a “corporate Trojan horse.” Disguised as “free trade,” the TPP’s provisions and tactics undermine Constitutional safeguards and national sovereignty. But there’s also a silver lining. The TPP exposes who, in the marbled halls of political power, is working for whom. It forces politicians to put their cards on the table, and by their hands you will know them. Packaged as a gift to the American people that will renew industry and make us more competitive, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a Trojan horse. It’s a coup by multinational corporations who want global subservience to their agenda. Buyer beware. Citizens beware.from TheAlexJonesChannel:
In current military terminology, the “human domain” or “human domain analytics” refers to the “global understanding of anything associated with people.”Breaking down into four specific categories, mastery of the human domain results from obtaining total information awareness on a mass scale.
Who You Are – Collected information includes names, addresses, biometrics, social media accounts .
What You Do – Travel history, communications, financial transactions and movement of physical assets.
Who You Know – Relational information including family, friends, associates and organizations.
Context – Contextual data such as demographics, politics, cultural norms and religion.
Read More @ Infowars.com
Reports are now filtering in that preparations
for a direct military assault on Syria are being made by Turkey in
concert with the Saudis and Qataris. These reports are suggesting that
the military offensive will take place within the next few days. Some
reports speculate that such action could take place further down the
road in late June.At this moment, Turkish forces are reportedly gathering at the nation’s southern border and Syria’s northern border in a fashion that can signify little except the posturing for military action.
While this article is in no way attempting to make predictions regarding possible military action, to provide dates, or even the hint that these possible attacks will definitively take place, the stage has clearly been set for some time for us to contemplate the possibility of such an attack.
Read More @ ActivistPost.com
Isolated? China & Russia Celebrate Victory Day Together, Obama Absent
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 22:15 "When a Chinese honor guard joins a military parade in Russia’s capital this weekend, watched by China’s President Xi Jinping, it will mark more than just a symbolic recognition of the two countries' contributions to the Allied victory in 1945... They've basically come to a consensus that despite their differences over some national interests, they really face the same common enemy..."
from Sovereign Man:
I generally try to record a podcast each week, but I fell off the
wagon recently because of the big event we just hosted in Cancun.
I thought there would be no better way to get back on track than to ask famed investor Dr. Marc Faber to join me for today’s episode.
If you haven’t heard of Marc Faber, he’s a professional investor who runs the site GloomBoomDoom.com, and was probably most aptly described by the Sunday Times as “a blunt-spoken Swiss who says the things nobody wants to hear…”
Read More/Audio Interview…
I generally try to record a podcast each week, but I fell off the
wagon recently because of the big event we just hosted in Cancun.I thought there would be no better way to get back on track than to ask famed investor Dr. Marc Faber to join me for today’s episode.
If you haven’t heard of Marc Faber, he’s a professional investor who runs the site GloomBoomDoom.com, and was probably most aptly described by the Sunday Times as “a blunt-spoken Swiss who says the things nobody wants to hear…”
Read More/Audio Interview…
Hundreds Leave "Boss-less" Zappos As "Get-Paid-To-Quit" Scheme Backfires
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 21:30 Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh wasn't satisfied with how quickly his company was transitioning to an "unconventional" boss-less corporate culture, so he sent a memo to his 1,500 employees reminding them that Zappos will pay unsatisfied workers to quit. The result: some folks quit...
Police Abduct 10 Children From A Family In Kentucky Because Of Their "Off The Grid" Lifestyle
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 17:00 If the government does not like the way that you are raising your kids, they will come in and grab them at any time without giving any warning whatsoever. Of course this is completely and totally unlawful, but it has been happening all over America.
Transformer Explosion At The Indian Point Nuclear Facility Near New York Is 'Contained'
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 21:08 The words "explosion", "New York", "black smoke", and "nuclear" strike fear into the heart of most people but according to Entergy - who runs Indian Point, "the nuclear facility has been safely shutdown following a transformer failure." Reports of a loud blast at the nuclear facility just 38 miles north of New York, with dense black smoke rising from Unit 3 are no concern and represent "no danger to public health and safety." The plant, which dates back to 1962 (although the currently used reactors were installed later in the 70s) had just been brought back online on Friday, after being shut down for a steam leak repair.
Russell Napier Explains What's In Store For Gold If Cash Is Outlawed
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 19:45 "If banknotes are outlawed you will be forced to hold money that is a liability of a commercial bank (deposits) and refused access to money that is the liability of the central bank (bank notes)... In such a world, zero-yielding gold would be a high-yielding instrument. If the authorities ever sought to restrict access to banknotes, then gold would suddenly find itself enfranchised as money for the first time in many decades. So, given the scale of these competing forces, it is just too early to say what might happen to the gold price, but the allure of gold will grow the more it becomes clear that central bank fiat has failed and the age of government fiat is dawning."
Putin Celebrates 70th Anniversary Of Victory Over Hitler, Warns Of Dangers From Unipolar World
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 19:40 "... in the last decades, the basic principles of international cooperation have come to be increasingly ignored. These are the principles that have been hard won by mankind as a result of the ordeal of the war. We saw attempts to establish a unipolar world. We see the strong-arm block thinking gaining momentum. All that undermines sustainable global development. The creation of a system of equal security for all states should become our common task. Such system should be an adequate match to modern threats, and it should rest on a regional and global non-block basis. Only then will we be able to ensure peace and tranquillity on the planet."
The Charts That Matter - Everything's Relative
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 19:15 "It's all relative," as Einstein likely said once, and the following 18 charts from Investir.ch's Loic Schmid highlight a few clear divergences - Overweight cash as "the end is near" for US equities, buy dips on weakness in EU debt and gold, position for increasing vol...
The "Wrong" Reason Why Bernanke Is Making Bank
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 18:30 Why would financial firms pay so much for blogger Ben Bernanke’s thoughts? Aside from the marketing benefits we noted, there is one good reason. In essence, you’d want to know what Bernanke would think if he were wrong or ill-informed about some important economic issue. That is something money managers understand in a way that academics and policymakers do not, for being wrong – and knowing what to do next – is a critical skill for the professional. Getting the most information from Bernanke, either in a one-on-one or just reading his work online, boils down to just two questions: “What doesn’t he know” and “What is he sure of that is actually wrong?”
Hillary 2016 (Summed Up In 1 Cartoon)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 17:45 How many more shoes need to drop?
Record Numbers Of Americans Renounce US Citizenship
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 16:14 According to the IRS, in the first quarter of 2015 a record 1,335 Americans renounced their citizenship, 26% more than in the previous quarter, and 18% more than the previous all time high quarter which was in Q2 of 2013. If one anualizes the Q1 number, the number of 2015 expatriates is set to hit roughly 5,340, or a 56% increase to what was already the record expatriation year of 2014, in which 3415 Americans punched a hole through their passport.Wall Street Is One Sick Puppy
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 15:40
In
welfare state America its virtually certain that through one artifice
or another taxes will go up and the national debt burden will rise to
crushing heights in order to keep the baby boomers’ entitlements
funded. While Keynesians and Wall Street stock peddlers are
clueless about the implications of this - it actually doesn’t take too
much common sense to get the drift. Namely, under a long-term path of
fewer producers, higher taxes and more public debt, the prospects for
rejuvenating the previous historically average rates of real output
growth are somewhere between slim and none - to say nothing of the super-normal rates implied by the markets’ current bullish enthusiasm.
Why There Is No Treasury Liquidity In One Chart
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/09/2015 - 15:04 The amount of ten-year equivalents held by the Fed decreased to $1.835 trillion from $1.849 trillion in the prior week, which reduces the amount available to the private sector to $3.944 trillion from $3.919 trillion in the prior week. There were $5.778 trillion ten-year equivalents outstanding, up from $5.768 trillion in the prior week. After the Treasury issuance, maturing securities, rising interest rates, and Fed operations during the week, the Fed owned about 32.05% of the total outstanding ten year equivalents.
by Dave Kranzler, Inevstment Research Dynamics:
Update: MELT-UP EXTRAORDINAIRE. Dow up 242 points; SPX up 24 points. All on a phony number and big downward revision to last month’s phony number.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, armed with the highly unreliable Census Bureau employment data sample (you, the Taxpayer pay for the this tragicomedy), released its extraordinarily overanalyzed and extraordinarily useless non-farm payroll report today. According to Bloomberg, the Wall St. brain trust consensus estimate was for 220k jobs “added” to the economy. The “actual” reported number was 223k.
As predicted, the S&P 500 melted up.
Read More @ InevstmentResearchDynamics.com
Update: MELT-UP EXTRAORDINAIRE. Dow up 242 points; SPX up 24 points. All on a phony number and big downward revision to last month’s phony number.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, armed with the highly unreliable Census Bureau employment data sample (you, the Taxpayer pay for the this tragicomedy), released its extraordinarily overanalyzed and extraordinarily useless non-farm payroll report today. According to Bloomberg, the Wall St. brain trust consensus estimate was for 220k jobs “added” to the economy. The “actual” reported number was 223k.
As predicted, the S&P 500 melted up.
Read More @ InevstmentResearchDynamics.com
from Armstrong Economics:
On one of your blogs yesterday you wrote the most chilling comment
I’ve ever read on your site, to the effect that you don’t want to live
in the world that we’re going into (provided we get there, of course).
It’s most chilling for a host of obvious reasons, as well as a personal one to me, in that it reflects my own sentiment 100%, which is all the more frightening because I’m a generation younger. I can only imagine what must be going thru your mind in regards to your grand kids…
This world that we’re plunging into was vividly illustrated to me 2 days ago when a person in front of me at the register paid for an 80 cent candy bar with plastic. For some reason, everything you write about came into place when I saw that and my heart sank to below the bottom of the ocean.
Read More @ ArmstrongEconomics.org
On one of your blogs yesterday you wrote the most chilling comment
I’ve ever read on your site, to the effect that you don’t want to live
in the world that we’re going into (provided we get there, of course).It’s most chilling for a host of obvious reasons, as well as a personal one to me, in that it reflects my own sentiment 100%, which is all the more frightening because I’m a generation younger. I can only imagine what must be going thru your mind in regards to your grand kids…
This world that we’re plunging into was vividly illustrated to me 2 days ago when a person in front of me at the register paid for an 80 cent candy bar with plastic. For some reason, everything you write about came into place when I saw that and my heart sank to below the bottom of the ocean.
Read More @ ArmstrongEconomics.org
by Mike Adams, Natural News:
When contemplating the purpose of the JADE HELM military exercises
being planned on U.S. soil — with Texas being declared by the military a
“hostile territory” — it’s important to wipe your memory clean so that you don’t remember all the times we’ve been lied to by the establishment.
JADE HELM may or may not be a practice run for martial law in America, but with JADE HELM Memory Wipes, who cares?
To help the sheeple easily assimilate into the new society run by psychopathic bureaucrats, we created JADE HELM Memory Wipes, now available at selected Wal-Mart locations. They’re free when you purchase any vaccine, and they even help augment the lobotomization of your brain caused by vaccine ingredients like mercury and aluminum. By simply rubbing JADE HELM Memory Wipes on your forehead, you will forget all of American history, the existence of the Constitution and everything you learned in history class about the dangers of any military operating on domestic soil.
Read More @ NaturalNews.com
When contemplating the purpose of the JADE HELM military exercises
being planned on U.S. soil — with Texas being declared by the military a
“hostile territory” — it’s important to wipe your memory clean so that you don’t remember all the times we’ve been lied to by the establishment.JADE HELM may or may not be a practice run for martial law in America, but with JADE HELM Memory Wipes, who cares?
To help the sheeple easily assimilate into the new society run by psychopathic bureaucrats, we created JADE HELM Memory Wipes, now available at selected Wal-Mart locations. They’re free when you purchase any vaccine, and they even help augment the lobotomization of your brain caused by vaccine ingredients like mercury and aluminum. By simply rubbing JADE HELM Memory Wipes on your forehead, you will forget all of American history, the existence of the Constitution and everything you learned in history class about the dangers of any military operating on domestic soil.
Read More @ NaturalNews.com
Get ready for another FBI handler backed...False Flag Event...
from Off Grid Survival:
This morning the Pentagon raised its security level at all U.S. military bases over the threat from Islamic State terrorists.
Although the military will not say if the threat condition was raised due to a specific warning or piece of intelligence, the fact that all U.S. military bases are now at what they call “Force Protection Bravo”, suggests the military is preparing for something.
This raise in the threat level is the first widespread threat level elevation since the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and comes a day after F.B.I. director James Comey suggested there could already be thousands of online supporters of the Islamic State in the U.S., similar to the two who attacked the art exhibit in Texas last weekend.
Read More @ OffGridSurvival.com
/ This morning the Pentagon raised its security level at all U.S. military bases over the threat from Islamic State terrorists.Although the military will not say if the threat condition was raised due to a specific warning or piece of intelligence, the fact that all U.S. military bases are now at what they call “Force Protection Bravo”, suggests the military is preparing for something.
This raise in the threat level is the first widespread threat level elevation since the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and comes a day after F.B.I. director James Comey suggested there could already be thousands of online supporters of the Islamic State in the U.S., similar to the two who attacked the art exhibit in Texas last weekend.
Read More @ OffGridSurvival.com
from Paul Craig Roberts:
May 8. Today’s payroll jobs report is more of the same. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics claims that 223,000 new jobs were created in April.
Let’s accept the claim and see where the jobs are.
Specialty trade contractors are credited with 41,000 jobs equally split between residential and nonresidential. I believe these are home and building repairs and remodeling.
The rest of the jobs, 182,000, are in domestic services.
Despite store closings and weak retail sales, 12,000 people were hired in retail trade.
Read More @ PaulCraigRoberts.org
May 8. Today’s payroll jobs report is more of the same. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics claims that 223,000 new jobs were created in April.
Let’s accept the claim and see where the jobs are.Specialty trade contractors are credited with 41,000 jobs equally split between residential and nonresidential. I believe these are home and building repairs and remodeling.
The rest of the jobs, 182,000, are in domestic services.
Despite store closings and weak retail sales, 12,000 people were hired in retail trade.
Read More @ PaulCraigRoberts.org
from TheAlexJonesChannel:
In a little-noticed brief filed last summer, lawyers for the House of Representatives claimed that an SEC investigation of congressional insider trading should be blocked on principle, because lawmakers and their staff are constitutionally protected from such inquiries given the nature of their work.
In a little-noticed brief filed last summer, lawyers for the House of Representatives claimed that an SEC investigation of congressional insider trading should be blocked on principle, because lawmakers and their staff are constitutionally protected from such inquiries given the nature of their work.
by Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show:
Jade Helm is spiraling out of control. By my reports, this
unconstitutional and illegal activity has spread to over 40 states, not
the seven states admitted to by Jade Helm personnel. Military and troop
movements are continuing as we are seeing armored vehicles on city
streets in New Hampshire. Michigan is receiving ISIS terrorist threats
and the Jade Helm contingent at Camp Grayling has pledged they will stop
any ISIS attack.
Since the pre-Civil War days, the country has never seen days such as what we are witnessing today. The United States of America is being occupied by soon-to-be martial law, military forces.
Read More
Jade Helm is spiraling out of control. By my reports, this
unconstitutional and illegal activity has spread to over 40 states, not
the seven states admitted to by Jade Helm personnel. Military and troop
movements are continuing as we are seeing armored vehicles on city
streets in New Hampshire. Michigan is receiving ISIS terrorist threats
and the Jade Helm contingent at Camp Grayling has pledged they will stop
any ISIS attack.Since the pre-Civil War days, the country has never seen days such as what we are witnessing today. The United States of America is being occupied by soon-to-be martial law, military forces.
Read More
by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:
One day, you’re just moving through life with everyone else in your
office or at your church, and then, for whatever reason, the reality of
how tenuous our current lifestyle is, hits you squarely between the
eyes. You realize that electricity and grocery stores and
transportation are all things that you’ve been taking for granted and
that these things could actually disappear. Maybe you’re concerned about
a natural disaster. Perhaps you saw something on the evening news. It
could even be a job loss that puts these things out of reach.
But whatever the reason, suddenly, you know in your heart that you need to prepare for a different type of future, just in case.
Read More @ TheOrganicPrepper.com
One day, you’re just moving through life with everyone else in your
office or at your church, and then, for whatever reason, the reality of
how tenuous our current lifestyle is, hits you squarely between the
eyes. You realize that electricity and grocery stores and
transportation are all things that you’ve been taking for granted and
that these things could actually disappear. Maybe you’re concerned about
a natural disaster. Perhaps you saw something on the evening news. It
could even be a job loss that puts these things out of reach.But whatever the reason, suddenly, you know in your heart that you need to prepare for a different type of future, just in case.
Read More @ TheOrganicPrepper.com
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