China Stock Rout "Rocks" Property Market: "Massive" Cancellations Expected

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2015 - 21:15 Due to significant retail participation and the fact that the equity mania in China has served as a distraction for a nation coping with decelerating economic growth and a bursting property bubble, some (and we were among the first) began to suggest that the broader economy and indeed, social stability, may be at risk in China if stocks continued to fall. The extent to which this suggestion represented a real concern (as opposed to the ravings of a tin foil hat fringe blog) was underscored by the extraordinary measures China adopted in a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding and, later by several sellside strategists who began to warn about possible spillovers into the real economy. Now, with Beijing still struggling to restore the stock bubble, the first signs of knock-on effects are beginning to emerge.

Everything goes! Greek government mortgages the country’s airports, banks and infrastructure to EU debt collectors

by J. D. Heyes, Natural News:
Some last-minute deal-making to ensure that Greece’s bailout debt is fully repaid is not likely to sit well with the Greek electorate.
A week ago, voters in Greece overwhelmingly rejected a deal, rebuffing European leaders who were demanding new austerity measures and a piece of Greece’s soul.
In the end, it looks as though that’s what EU creditors are going to get anyway.
As reported by Zero Hedge, a new deal negotiated by the Greek government of Alexis Tsipras will only further enrage Greeks who were already decrying the loss of the country’s sovereignty to creditors who are simply trying to get their money back.
Read More @ NaturalNews.com

New Search Engine Filters Out CIA’s Mainstream Media

by Bernie Suarez, Activist Post:
A new search engine GoodGopher.com is now available for the average truth seeker and critical thinker to enjoy a clean, unbiased search of a topic without interference and contamination with CIA’s mainstream media, mental junk food, propaganda “news”. This fresh new approach to searching online for information will now catch news infected with mainstream media and purge it out of the search engine system to keep your news options clear and focused on what actually happened.
If successful, this move takes the concept of online information searching and the information war in a new direction. One in which we have the option to begin to drown out the mental noise that blocks humanity’s progress and one where we continue to create solutions for ourselves to make our lives better. Now is the time to remove government and transnational corporations out of your life as much as possible and ideally even make them obsolete.
Read More @ ActivistPost.com

Historic Iran Nuke Deal Resets Eurasia's "Great Game"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2015 - 22:00 This is it. It is indeed historic. And diplomacy eventually wins. In terms of the New Great Game in Eurasia, and the ongoing tectonic shifts reorganizing Eurasia, this is huge: Iran — supported by Russia and China — has finally, successfully, called the long, winding 12-year-long Atlanticist bluff on its “nuclear weapons.” And this only happened because the Obama administration needed 1) a lone foreign policy success, and 2) a go at trying to influence at least laterally the onset of the new Eurasia-centered geopolitical order.

Trumpism: The Ideology

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2015 - 19:45 It’s not too interesting to say that Donald Trump is a nationalist and aspiring despot who is manipulating bourgeois resentment, nativism, and ignorance to feed his power lust. It’s uninteresting because it is obviously true. It’s so true that stating it sounds more like an observation than a criticism. However, 'Trumpism' is an ideology that is very much present in American life, though hardly acknowledged. It lives mostly hidden in dark corners, and we don’t even have a name for it. You bump into it at neighborhood barbecues, at Thanksgiving dinner when Uncle Harry has the floor, at the hardware store when two old friends in line to checkout mutter about the state of the country. The ideology is a 21st century version of right fascism - one of the most politically successful ideological strains of 20th century politics. Though hardly anyone talks about it today, we really should.

Peak "Reach For Yield"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2015 - 19:00 By removing liquidity via massive purchases of high quality (and in some cases) low quality collateral, the impact on investors of central bank repression of interest rates around the world can be summed up in three simple words: "reach for yield." These three ever-so-simple words provide blanket excuse for 'investors' to pile head long into far riskier investments than they ever would before and considerably lower levels of compensation than they would ever have accepted before... but hey, as long as the central bankers have got their backs, there will always be a greater fool? However, as BofA notes, the mania for "yield reaching" is showing signs of fatigue with the biggest cumulative outflows since 2008...

No Silver Shortage, Huh? …Now QSB Suspends Sales As DEMAND Crushes Supply

by SGT, SGT Report.com:
Several SGT report readers alerted us to this one: Quality Silver Bullion announced this weekend that at least for the immediate future, they are no longer taking any more new orders for PHYSICAL silver or gold. In a market where properly hedged precious metals dealers care not about that daily price fluctuations in precious metals, profiting only from the thin markup above spot plus cost premium, this is an interesting development. Because no matter how well any company hedges against price fluctuations, how does one sell product one does not have?

QSB goes on to say “This situation is not unique to QSB.”
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WW3 Granted A Clear Path By Obama

from TheAlexJonesChannel:

Where Did 110 Tonnes of CME Hong Kong Gold Go?

from Perth Mint:
In March 2015 the CME launched a gold kilobar futures contract. As with all futures contracts, vaulters apply to be a warehouse and as part of that they have to report registered and eligible stocks in their vaults. Currently there are three vaults reporting figures:

• Brinks – 820,204 ounces
• Malca-Amit – 36,909 ounces
• Loomis International (ie Via Mat) – 17,779 ounces

The figures above are pretty representative of the average balances held by these three since the contract started trading. It is interesting that the Hong Kong warehouses have never reported any registered stock – it is all eligible. Compared to the CME’s US warehouses however, the 874,893 ounces of gold held within the Hong Kong warehouses is only 10% of the US stock of 8,751,688.
I hadn’t given the Hong Kong contract or its warehouses much thought until Ronan Manly, who writes for BullionStar, drew my attention to this submission by the CME to the CFTC “self-certifying the listing of a Gold Kilo Futures contract”.
Read More @ PerthMint.com.au

Ayatollah Smacks Obama

from Bill Still:

Why 100,000 German Bee Keepers Want to Ban GMOs

by Christina Sarich, Natural Society:
The German Beekeepers Association (DIB), which represents almost 100,000 beekeepers, has called for a nationwide ban on GMO cultivation according to reports from the German NGO keine-gentechnik.de.
This call for a ban follows controversial legislation that has allowed EU member states to opt-out of GM cultivation even though it has been approved at the European Union level.
Though GM supporters have been angry about the new law, calling it ‘unfounded’ and stating that it ‘lacks scientific justification,’ many non-GMO supporters (including bee keepers) point to the dangers that have repeatedly come up regarding genetically modified foods. Not to mention the damage caused by herbicides and pesticides used to grow them and the decimation of pollinating (otherwise known as beneficial) insects.
Read More @ NaturalSociety.com

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