Following Vladimir Putin's 'endorsement' of The Donald, explaining his hope for "a more substantial, deeper relationship," with America, Trump has reciprocated the show of respect by thanking the Russian president for the "great honor." This mutual back-patting stunned MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough, who exclaimed, Putin "is a person who kills journalists, political opponents and invades countries," to which Trump responded, silencing Scarborough, "he's running his country, and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in our country."
The New York Times Just Memory-Holed This Devastating Obama Admission
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act
Update: CISA is now the law: OBAMA SIGNS SPENDING, TAX BILL THAT REPEALS OIL EXPORT BAN"They’re kind of pulling a Patriot Act." When Obama signs the $1.1 trillion Spending Bill in a few hours, as he will, it will be official: the second Patriot Act will become the law, and with it what little online privacy US citizens may have had, will be gone.
Peter Schiff: "Mission Accomplished"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 20:29 "The new rounds of rate cutting and Quantitative Easing that the Fed will have to unleash will echo the military "surge" in Iraq in 2007. Those fresh troops were needed to roll back the chaos that the Administration had ignored for so long. But just as that surge only bought us a few years of relative calm, look for the gains brought about by our next monetary surge to be even more transitory. That is a development for which virtually no one on Wall Street is preparing."
The Farsi Awakens
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 22:00 If you like your nuclear-capable weapons, you can keep your nuclear-capable weapons...In Desperate Push to Retain Drone Pilots, the U.S. Air Force Will Offer $125,000 Re-Enlistment Bonus
from Liberty Blitzkrieg:
The fact that the U.S. Air Force has been struggling to attract and
retain drone pilots has been well documented. For example, take the
following excerpts from a November article in the LA Times:
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The fact that the U.S. Air Force has been struggling to attract and
retain drone pilots has been well documented. For example, take the
following excerpts from a November article in the LA Times:Experienced pilots and crews complain of too much work, too much strain and too little chance for promotion operating the Predator and Reaper drones that provide surveillance and that fire missiles in Iraq, Syria and other war zones. Partly as a result, too few young officers want to join their ranks.Some pilots also complain of the anguish and emotional damage that comes with murdering women and children while pretending to be in a video game.
The Air Force has struggled with a drone pilot shortage since at least 2007, records show. In fiscal year 2014, the most recent data available, the Air Force trained 180 new pilots while 240 veterans left the field.
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The US military has conducted 16 clandestine tests with samples of anthrax and one experiment with bubonic plague since 2009, a joint US-South Korean investigation has revealed. Samples were tested at a US military base, but also in South Korea’s capital, Seoul.
"Quad Witches, Bitches" - Stocks Crash On OpEx
by Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post:
A recent successful hacking of three ISIS supporters’ Twitter accounts has revealed that the source of these accounts is not located in Syria or Iraq but in the UK and Saudi Arabia.
According to a report by the UK Mirror, a group of four hackers known as VandaSec hacked the ISIS accounts and linked them back to the Department of Work and Pensions in the UK. Indeed, according to the hackers, the accounts are being run from Internet addresses that can be traced back to the DWP.
The Mirror reports that VandaSec showed them the IP addresses used by a group of three separate jihadists (digital ones at least) to access their Twitter accounts. What appeared at first to suggest that the IP addresses were based in Saudi Arabia soon revealed that the addresses linked back to the DWP in the UK.
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A recent successful hacking of three ISIS supporters’ Twitter accounts has revealed that the source of these accounts is not located in Syria or Iraq but in the UK and Saudi Arabia.
According to a report by the UK Mirror, a group of four hackers known as VandaSec hacked the ISIS accounts and linked them back to the Department of Work and Pensions in the UK. Indeed, according to the hackers, the accounts are being run from Internet addresses that can be traced back to the DWP.
The Mirror reports that VandaSec showed them the IP addresses used by a group of three separate jihadists (digital ones at least) to access their Twitter accounts. What appeared at first to suggest that the IP addresses were based in Saudi Arabia soon revealed that the addresses linked back to the DWP in the UK.
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The most hated man on the Internet was arrested yesterday.If you haven’t heard this story, his name is Martin Shkreli. He’s the guy who rose to infamy a few months ago when he increased the price of a life-saving medication by over 5,000%.
Something tells me he’s not going to win any humanitarian awards anytime soon.
(Then again, Shkreli has probably killed fewer people than Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama, so there’s still hope.)
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Canadians Sell Cans Of "Rocky Mountain Air" To Choking Chinese
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 20:00 The Chinese are so desperate for clean air - amid the most disgusting pollution in history - that they have turned to buying cans of fresh air to breathe during the most smog-filled days. With low oil prices crushing their economy, Canada has begun to export another resource as CNBC reports Alberta-based Vitality Air is selling "Rocky Mountain air" to the Chinese for $10 to $20 per can.
by Kit Daniels, Infowars:
“Climate isn’t the same as weather,” according to the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee, a claim which challenges the
dictionary’s definition of “climate.”
The DCCC made the claim in a handout entitled A Democrat’s Guide to Talking to Climate Change Skeptics, which, as the title implies, is meant to advise Democrats on how to criticize those who question “global warming.”
“Climate isn’t the same as weather,” the guide claims. “Individual cold or hot days don’t mean much – but the average global temperature has risen over the last century, and 14 of 15 hottest years on record occurred since the year 2000.” But Dictionary.com defines “climate” as “the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region.”
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from Professor Doom1:
“Climate isn’t the same as weather,” according to the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee, a claim which challenges the
dictionary’s definition of “climate.”
The DCCC made the claim in a handout entitled A Democrat’s Guide to Talking to Climate Change Skeptics, which, as the title implies, is meant to advise Democrats on how to criticize those who question “global warming.”
“Climate isn’t the same as weather,” the guide claims. “Individual cold or hot days don’t mean much – but the average global temperature has risen over the last century, and 14 of 15 hottest years on record occurred since the year 2000.” But Dictionary.com defines “climate” as “the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region.”
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from Professor Doom1:
On Conspiracy Theories
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 19:30 Perhaps the first step in rectifying our situation is to begin to look at the world not as it could be, but how it is. To see things for what they are, to discard the falsehoods, no matter how pleasant they may seem in order to embrace the truth regardless of how painful it may be. And that’s not a theory, that’s a reality.
Argentinians Are Now Poorer Than Citizens Of Equatorial Guinea After Massive Devaluation
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 19:00 As FT reports, “Argentines woke up on Thursday richer than Poles, Chileans and Hungarians [but] by bedtime they were not only poorer than all three, but also more pecunious than Mexicans, Costa Ricans and the good people of Equatorial Guinea.”
CEO To Yellen: "Let Us Tell You What We Are Seeing!!"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 18:35 "I don’t mean to make anybody too worried about this stuff, right? ... We can speak less about stuff and pretend like everything’s just always great. It makes me think hey, should we be calling Yellen... and saying, let us tell you what we are seeing."
Yet Again, The Media Got The Facts Wrong About The San Bernardino Attacks
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 18:30 On Wednesday, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations said the agency has no evidence the married couple accused of killing 14 people in San Bernardino, California earlier this month had any connection to an active terror cell. This admission from the FBI directly contradicts media reports that immediately claimed the San Bernardino shooters were linked to Daesh (ISIS) via social media.
Islamic Blitzkrieg Coming To Germany, Arrested Jihadist Warns
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 18:01 As Spiegel reports, an ISIS turncoat now in German custody says that "during his time in the Syrian warzone, he frequently heard people talking about attacks in the West and says that pretty much every European jihadist was approached with the same questions he had been asked." "They want something that happens everywhere at the same time."
The Market’s Gamblers Are Pumping Air
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 17:30 The Fed pricked the financial bubblethis week as expected. Janet Yellen’s press conference couldn’t have been more perfect as it confirmed that the money printers have come to a stark dead end. The fact is, the global economy is deflating rapidly and the U.S. is sliding into recession. But our Fed chairman is clueless about what’s happening. She and her posse of money printers are going to get bushwhacked by reality in the year ahead.
ISIS Axis Assemble! Turkey To Establish Military Base In Qatar
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 17:00 "Turkey and Qatar face common problems and we are both very concerned about developments in the region and uncertain policies of other countries. We confront common enemies. At this critical time for the Middle East cooperation between us is vital."
Weekend Reading: All About Janet
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 16:30 "In a worst case scenario, the real economy effects of the oil sector and the earnings slowdown hit the frothy commercial real estate and REIT sector, which in turn begin the widening of the contagion begun by energy high yield. Combine this with the sudden stop to lower quality energy credits I believe is inevitable and you likely have stall speed – or even recession. And that’s where subprime auto ABS, student loan securitization and US munis come into the picture for the US domestic economy. Those markets get hit in recession."
'Twas The Hike Before Christmas
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 - 15:55 Commodities managers searched in despair; for solace, in cupboards, but cupboards were bare; BRIC managers looked at each other in shock, with a new acronym for EM markets – COCK.
from Gold Core:
Gold fell to the lowest level in dollar terms since 2009 yesterday after the Fed’s “historic” 25 basis point interest rate rise on Wednesday. The rate hike has been heralded as the “end of cheap money.” This may or may not be the case but what is more important for precious metal buyers is the impact of potential rising rates on gold prices.
Most pundits on Wall Street are nearly universal in seeing the rate increase as negative for gold. Especially vocal in this regard has been Goldman Sachs. One headline this week, screamed ‘Gold sags as higher U.S. rates are ‘very negative’ for bullion’. However, the consensus is likely once again wrong and it is important to examine the widely held belief that rising rates are bad for gold, by looking at the data and the historical record.
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Gold fell to the lowest level in dollar terms since 2009 yesterday after the Fed’s “historic” 25 basis point interest rate rise on Wednesday. The rate hike has been heralded as the “end of cheap money.” This may or may not be the case but what is more important for precious metal buyers is the impact of potential rising rates on gold prices.
Most pundits on Wall Street are nearly universal in seeing the rate increase as negative for gold. Especially vocal in this regard has been Goldman Sachs. One headline this week, screamed ‘Gold sags as higher U.S. rates are ‘very negative’ for bullion’. However, the consensus is likely once again wrong and it is important to examine the widely held belief that rising rates are bad for gold, by looking at the data and the historical record.
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from Washington’s Blog:
There can be little doubt now: America’s decades-long catastrophic failures to make significant progress in eliminating even a single one of the numerous jihadist groups around the world is due to the American government’s secret under-the-table crucial ongoing assistance to those groups, and this American-government support has intentionally encouraged recent terrorist events especially in Syria, Libya, and other countries that had been allied with Russia — but which might be flipped ‘our’ way, by those jihadists. In such countries (America’s ‘enemies’), the U.S. government calls the jihadist groups ‘moderates’ and ‘pro-democracy.’ But in Christian, Jewish, and Shiite-Muslim dominant countries, they’re instead called “terrorists,” which is what they actually are. George Orwell called such linguistic tricks for fooling any nation’s mass of suckers, “Newspeak,” but America’s version is more sophisticated than his fictional one was. And so is America’s version of Orwell’s “Big Brother” more sophisticated than his — and now we know what it actually is, because of this:
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There can be little doubt now: America’s decades-long catastrophic failures to make significant progress in eliminating even a single one of the numerous jihadist groups around the world is due to the American government’s secret under-the-table crucial ongoing assistance to those groups, and this American-government support has intentionally encouraged recent terrorist events especially in Syria, Libya, and other countries that had been allied with Russia — but which might be flipped ‘our’ way, by those jihadists. In such countries (America’s ‘enemies’), the U.S. government calls the jihadist groups ‘moderates’ and ‘pro-democracy.’ But in Christian, Jewish, and Shiite-Muslim dominant countries, they’re instead called “terrorists,” which is what they actually are. George Orwell called such linguistic tricks for fooling any nation’s mass of suckers, “Newspeak,” but America’s version is more sophisticated than his fictional one was. And so is America’s version of Orwell’s “Big Brother” more sophisticated than his — and now we know what it actually is, because of this:
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by Gary Christenson, via Gold Silver Worlds:
“Meth” or Methamphetamine is a common recreational drug used, according to Wikipedia, to induce feelings of euphoria, increase sexual desire, and stimulate weight loss, among others.
QE or Quantitative Easing, injecting liquidity, bond monetization, and “printing money” are common Keynesian economic prescriptions used to inflate economies, enable deficit spending and boost financial profits, among others. Some call it monetary madness.
There are many disturbing similarities and it is clear that excessive use of both Meth and QE are destructive.
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“Meth” or Methamphetamine is a common recreational drug used, according to Wikipedia, to induce feelings of euphoria, increase sexual desire, and stimulate weight loss, among others.
QE or Quantitative Easing, injecting liquidity, bond monetization, and “printing money” are common Keynesian economic prescriptions used to inflate economies, enable deficit spending and boost financial profits, among others. Some call it monetary madness.
There are many disturbing similarities and it is clear that excessive use of both Meth and QE are destructive.
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from The Daily Sheeple:
A strange video is making waves in alternative media circles after it revealed that at least one United Nations Multinational Force Observer is currently operating on U.S. soil.
The fifteen second video clip shows a UN employee inside his vehicle after getting gas in northeastern Pennsylvania. The concerned citizen who filmed the exchange attempts to ask the man what type of work would require him to be in the country, to no avail.
So what is exactly is a UN Multinational Force Observer and why would they be operating inside the U.S.?
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A strange video is making waves in alternative media circles after it revealed that at least one United Nations Multinational Force Observer is currently operating on U.S. soil.
The fifteen second video clip shows a UN employee inside his vehicle after getting gas in northeastern Pennsylvania. The concerned citizen who filmed the exchange attempts to ask the man what type of work would require him to be in the country, to no avail.
So what is exactly is a UN Multinational Force Observer and why would they be operating inside the U.S.?
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