ISIS Coverup: US Centcom Accused Of Lying To President, Congress, Public About Airstrikes, Ground Fight

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 12:31 According to current and former officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, US Central Command may have been involved in a year long effort to obscure the fact that America’s strategy to combat ISIS simply was not effective. "At the least, the prospect that senior officials intentionally skewed intelligence conclusions has raised questions about how much Mr. Obama, Congress and the public can believe the military’s assessments." 

How You Were Tricked Into 'Supporting' The Syrian War

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 15:25 Those who don’t understand history are doomed to repeat it, those that do understand are doomed to watch in horror while everyone else repeats it.

Obama Blames Social Media As Russian PM Blasts "Irresponsible US Policy" For Strengthening ISIS

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 13:05 "The Islamic State has grown that strong due to the irresponsible policy of the United States," exclaimed Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev this morning, demanding that "really consolidated efforts" are needed to counter ISIS' terrorist threats. This comes just hours after President Obama toughened his rhetoric, vowing that the global coalition formed to destroy ISIS "will not relent," adding, rather oddly, that the group responsible for the Paris terror attacks is "a bunch of killers with good social media."
 
 

Inside Vladimir Putin's Multi-Billion Dollar, Triple-Decker War Room

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 14:50

Trump Tops Clinton As Cruz Crushes Crashing "Clueless" Carson

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 14:15 The latest poll following the attacks in Paris, by Fox News, shows Donald Trump moving ahead of Democrat-front-runner Hillary Clinton (in a head-to-head match up if the election were held today), but it is the turmoiling below the surface of the GOP nominations that is garnering most headlines. After a week or two of hope for GOP leadership, as Ben Carson appeared to catch up to Trump, the retired neurosurgon's lies and weakness on foreign policy ("he clearly has no idea what he's talking about," as one Iowa GOP insider noted), have sent his poll numbers reeling... and Cruz surging.

Brussels Lockdown Day 2: Police Hunt "Two Terrorists," Jihadi John Accomplice As Civilians Urged To "Remain At Home"

Global Trade Just Snapped: Container Freight Rates Plummet 70% In 3 Weeks

Spot rates for transporting containers from Asia to Northern Europe have crashed a stunning 70% in the last 3 weeks alone. This almost unprecedented divergence from seasonality has only occurred at this scale once before 2008!

Brazil's Disastrous Debt Dynamics Could "Create Contagion" For Emerging Markets, Barclays Warns

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 10:00 “Brazil is confronting a toxic combination of a primary budget deficit, high public debt (relative to EM countries), very high real interest rates (the Selic stands at 14.25%), sluggish trend growth, a negative commodity price shock and potential contingent liabilities for the sovereign, which together spell trouble for public debt dynamics.”

Here Is The Complete Scenario In Which The Fed Hikes Rates, Starts A Recession, And Launches QE4

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 07:18 The Fed, in its reflexive attempt to boost confidence in the economy, is not only engaging in massive policy error, but is about to unleash a recession which will promptly force it to cut rates again (to negative) and start another episode of QE.

US, French Aircraft Carriers Rush Toward Syrian Coast To Find Numerous Russian Warships Already There

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/21/2015 - 22:00 In a few weeks time the east Mediterranean is about to become a warship and aircraft carrier parking lot, with the Truman and de Gaulle side by side, just as we predicted it would be a month ago when we said that the summer of 2013 naval scenario is unfolding once again, and where another half a dozen (at least) Russian warships are already located in what has all the makings of a historic Gulf of Tonkin redux.

South Pacific Showdown? Japan May Send Warships To China Islands

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/21/2015 - 19:00 "Tokyo will consider dispatching its Self-Defense Forces to the South China Sea, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday, suggesting a possible role for Japan in patrolling those tense waters."

"Barrel Bombs" And Bullshit: The Tangled Threads Of Washington Lies About Syria And Russia

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/21/2015 - 22:00 There are so many strands of lies and distortions that it is now almost impossible for Official Washington to disentangle itself from all the false narratives that the neocons and the liberal hawks have spun in support of their various “regime change” strategies. So, the American people are left with the mainstream U.S. news media endlessly repeating storylines that are either completely false or highly exaggerated. Official Washington’s many false narratives about Russia and Syria have gotten so tangled that they have become a danger to the struggle against jihadist terrorism and conceivably a threat to the future of the planet.

Two Gepolitical Wrongs Do Not Make A Right

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/21/2015 - 21:30 The corruption of compromise summed up in 57 words...


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This Is How Far America Has Fallen

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" – Partrick Henry, American Founding Father, 1775
"They value their civil liberties more than they value life. I disagree with that. You want to be free and dead? I’d rather be not free and alive" – Billionaire Hillary Clinton donor Haim Saban, 2015

Stagflation Ahead: Goldman Is "Unreservedly Disappointed" With Latin America

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/21/2015 - 20:30 By now, everyone knows Brazil is stuck in a stagflationary nightmare that's made immeasurably worse by the country's seemingly intractable political crisis. But what about the rest of Latin America? Goldman takes a close look at the regional outlook for the next four years and finds a decidedly unfavorable growth-inflation mix.

The Syrian Refugee Situation Summed Up (Using M&Ms)

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Largest Immigration Wave In Modern History Ends: More Mexicans Are Leaving The US Than Entering

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/21/2015 - 18:30 The 'Great Recession' was evidently so bad for the economy that it stopped the net influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico. For the first time since the 1940s, more Mexicans have been leaving the U.S. to return home than arriving, a reversal that brings down the curtain on the largest immigration wave in modern American history. As WSJ reports, the Pew Research Center figures released Thursday suggest that the surge in legal and illegal Mexican immigration that helped transform America - and remains a contentious issue on the presidential campaign trail - may have peaked for good.

Equities vs 'Everything Else' - Deutsche Bank Warns "One Of These Sides Has To Be Wrong"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 13:40 The hardest questions we are trying to reconcile here are how is that possible to see all these signs of weakness under the surface – including weak commodities, tightening credit, retrenching consumer spending – being balanced by very strong equity markets and upbeat employment picture. One of these sides has to be wrong in its assessment of the current macro environment, and seeing both of them extending well into the future appears unlikely to us.

France Releases Picture Of Third Stadium Suicide Bomber

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 13:14 France doesn't know who he is yet, so if you think you might have seen this guy at any point in the past several months (you know, like if you happen to have been rafting in the Mediterranean lately or maybe if you were recently hanging out with friends in Molenbeek and noticed someone making a suicide belt in the kitchen), you're encouraged to contact French intelligence immediately...

Reflections On The Great Monetary Fiasco

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 11:55 All great monetary fiascos are forged upon a foundation of misperceptions and flawed premises. There’s always an underlying disturbance in money and credit masked by supposed new understandings, technologies, capabilities and superior financial apparatus. The notion back in 2006 and 2007 that the world was at the brink of a major crisis was considered absolute wackoism. Incredibly – and well worth contemplating these days - virtually no one saw the deep structural impairment associated with the protracted Bubble in “Wall Street Finance.” An even more momentous monetary fiasco has been perpetrated since the 2008 crisis, constructed upon a foundation of even more outlandish misperceptions and flawed premises.

Nigel Farage Warned Hollande In 2013, EU Warmongery Will Mean "Unending, Unwinnable Misery" For Europe

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 11:27 "The EU is increasingly about war," exclaimed the outspoken UKIP leader in 2013 in front of Francois Hollande and his European parliamentarian peers... "taking on fundamentalist, radical Islam in battle is something that will launch ourselves... on a decade of unending, unwinnable misery."

The Long, Cold Winter Ahead

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 10:44 With enough monetary deception anything’s possible. But, nonetheless, gravity still exists.

Brazil's Disastrous Debt Dynamics Could "Create Contagion" For Emerging Markets, Barclays Warns

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2015 - 10:00 “Brazil is confronting a toxic combination of a primary budget deficit, high public debt (relative to EM countries), very high real interest rates (the Selic stands at 14.25%), sluggish trend growth, a negative commodity price shock and potential contingent liabilities for the sovereign, which together spell trouble for public debt dynamics.”

Megalomaniacs Are 100% Out-of-Control

from The Daily Coin:

Over the past few days we have seen and heard a lot of speculation as well as a lot of documented evidence that points to the Paris attacks as being a false flag event. For those not familiar with a false flag here is the definition:
“False flag terrorism” occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy. Or as Wikipedia defines it:
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This BBC Host Just DEMOLISHED ‘Islamist Scumbags’ In Under 2 Minutes

from Western Journalism:

Andrew Neil, host of BBC One program This Week, opened with a passionate monologue that has since gone viral.
“Welcome to This Week, the week in which a bunch of loser jihadists slaughtered 132 innocents in Paris, ‘to prove,’ the future belongs to them, rather than a civilization like France.”
“Well I can’t say I fancy their chances,” he said, proceeding to list many of France’s greatest intellectuals, artists, and contributions to civilization.
“Cutting edge science, world class medicine, fearsome security forces, nuclear power… Versus what? Beheadings, crucifixions, amputations, slavery, mass murder, medieval squalor, a death cult barbarity that would shame the Middle Ages.”
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Congressman Chides Refugees, Says If He Were Syrian, He Would Stay and Fight

by Michah Lee, The Intercept:
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., appearing on talk radio this week to discuss his opposition to resettling Syrian refugees, said the “first thing” that needs to be done is to “get away from” referring to the individuals fleeing Syria as “refugees.”
Perry explained that while “some of them” are leaving a civil war, he would have stayed.
“With all due respect, if there’s a civil war in my country, I stay and fight for my country,” Perry said during a discussion with Clarence M. Mitchell IV, known as “C4,” the host of a program carried by WBAL radio in Baltimore.
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Russia Decimates ISIS Oil Infrastructure with Biggest Bombing Raid in Decades, Missile Strikes

by Jay Syrmopoulos, Activist Post:
After the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Russian airliner, President Vladimir Putin doubled down on the destruction of ISIS. With the United States still refusing to coordinate airstrikes against ISIS, the Russians have chosen to step up their already blistering assault upon the Islamic State.
Over the last 48 hours, Russia has destroyed an Islamic State controlled oil refinery, a fleet of 500 ISIS controlled oil tankers used to smuggle oil out of Syria, and launched a massive sea-based cruise missile attack.
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FDA Has Approved GM Salmon for Consumption, and It Won’t Be Labeled

by Christina Sarich, Natural Society:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just approved the sale of genetically modified salmon – the first GM animal allowed on the market.
The FDA says that AquaBounty’s product will not require special labeling because it is nutritionally equivalent to conventional farm-raised Atlantic salmon, though this has not been proven. It should be no surprise that the parent company of AquaBounty, Intrexon Corp, saw stock shares rise by 7.3% to $37.55 in afternoon trading. Unless we fire everyone in the FDA immediately, and ban all salmon, the company has essentially blackmailed us all into eating GM fish.
This recent approval is an especially-big deal when we consider the possibility that the Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act could soon go through Congress and strip GMO labeling from all foods completely.
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