Turkey Detains Russian Ships In Black Sea, Blasts Moscow For Brandishing Rocket Launcher In Strait

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 - 10:59 The mutual escalation between Turkey and Russia continued on Friday after Ankara detained four Russian ships for a laundry list of "violations." Meanwhile, a soldier was seen standing on the deck of the Russian warship Caesar Kunikov brandishing a surface-to-air missile as the vessel made its way through the Bosphorus.

Jordanian Man Screaming He "Wants To Join Allah" Tries To Open Lufthansa Airplane Cabin Door In Mid Flight

A Lufthansa crew and passengers overpowered a Jordanian man with a US passport, who tried to open the cabin door on a Frankfurt-Belgrade flight on Sunday, while screaming that he wished to join Allah along with all the passengers, according to Serbian TV RTS.

Greece Is A Nation Under Occupation

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 - 11:35 Perhaps the best way to show what a mess Europe is in is the €3 billion deal they made with Turkey head Erdogan, only to see him being unmasked by EU archenemy Putin as a major supporter, financial and who knows how else, of the very group everyone’s so eager to bomb the heebees out after Paris. But Brussels thinks it’s found a whipping boy for all its failures. Greece. It’s fast increasing its accusations against Athens’ handling of the 100s of 1000s of refugees flooding the country. Everything that goes wrong is the fault of Greece, not Brussels. The EU has so far given Greece €30 million in ‘assistance’ for the refugee crisis, while the country has spent over €1.5 billion in money it desperately needs for its own people. But somehow it’s still not done enough.

BIS Warns That "Uneasy Calm" In Markets May Be Shattered By Fed Hike Imperiling $3.3 Trillion In EM Debt

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 - 10:06 "Very much in evidence, once more, has been the perennial contrast between the hectic rhythm of markets and the slow motion of the deeper economic forces that really matter. Markets can remain calm for much longer than we think. Until they no longer can."

Inequality In America: The Richest 20 Own More Wealth Than Half The Population

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/06/2015 - 09:25 Inequality of wealth is inequality of power. A study just released finds that "America’s 20 wealthiest people — a group that could fit comfortably in one single Gulfstream G650 luxury jet — now own more wealth than the bottom half of the American population combined, a total of 152 million people in 57 million households.” How much political power do the people who would be inside that jet — and their friends — actually have?

Putin Accuses US Of ISIS Oil Coverup

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/05/2015 - 23:00 "When US officials say they don't see how the terrorists' oil is smuggled to Turkey... it smells badly of a desire to cover up these acts."

European Refugee Crisis Explained in 100 Seconds

from teleSUR English:

This year, thousands have fled conflict and unsustainable lives across the Mediterranean, here teleSUR English looks at the figures.

The Inevitable Return of Risk

from Outsider Club:

It looks like the insanely prolonged pregnant pause may finally come to an end.
With the job report that just came out, there is a good possibility that Yellen and the Fed will finally raise rates in a couple weeks.
Of course, if some small hikes occurred as the economy steadied itself over the last six years, there wouldn’t be so much irrational fear of a hike from 0.15% to 0.4%, but there is nothing anyone can do about that now.
All that can be done is to drop an icebreaker. The monetary equivalent of commenting on the weather after an awkward, long silence in a conversation.
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YouTube Police Bans Documentary Exposing Climate Change

from THElNFOWARRlOR:

Moscow Says US Knows Who Killed Russian Pilot

from The Sleuth Journal:

Sputnik News reports Russia’s Defense Ministry says its “Su-24 pilot died because of an attack from the ground when he was landing,” adding that “during a rescue operation, (a) Russian marine was also killed.”
Foreign Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said “Moscow has all grounds to suggest that the US has obtained the exact data (about individuals on the ground involved in) firing…on the Russian pilot.”
A US Defense Ministry spokesman lied, claiming “(w)e don’t have anything on this issue.” Putin remains justifiably livid about what happened, compounded by Erdogan’s refusal to apologize. Fascist despots never say they’re sorry.
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Russia’s Big Guns Reach Syria’s Front Lines

from Dahboo:

Fox News Reporter Corners WH Spokesman With Perfect Question That Exposes Obama’s Agenda

from Western Journalism:

There’s one thing that gun owners and gun enthusiasts know about California gun laws: California has some of the strongest gun laws, gun regulations and gun prohibitions of any state in the union.
The hostile environment that California has created for gun enthusiasts has led many gun manufacturers, gun shops, and gun enthusiasts to pick up and leave in search of a state that in their view better respects Second Amendment rights and freedoms, or not do business in the state. In fact, some might say California is very close to having a complete ban of all firearms.
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Recession Watch: Hidden Messages in the Jobs Report

from Wolf Street:

The headline number of today’s job report is the same old same old — which tells us something important: this recovery is nearing its end.
This recovery has been slow and steady. It has frustrated the bulls who in 2009 predicted a V-shaped recovery — and since have incessantly predicted a “take-off” really soon. Corporate profits, CEOs’ income, and asset prices have been the only booms. And it has frustrated the bears, who predicted no recovery in 2009-2010, and since then frequently predicted either a fall back into recession or inflation, or both. We got none of these scenarios.
The slowness of the recovery is its most amazing characteristic. Most of the major economic indicators show this, but none more clearly than jobs and income. Here is year over year (YoY) growth in non-farm jobs during the past three cycles.
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6 Positive Signs That Mainstream Media is Collapsing

from Zen Gardner:

There is an information awakening taking place right now, and mainstream media is being outed for what it really is: corporate and government controlled propaganda. People are turning to alternative news sources more swiftly than ever now, and as a result, the old guard of media is collapsing at free-fall speeds.
Here are 6 positive signs of the collapse of mainstream media:
1. Mainstream Media is Owned by a Handful of Corporations and the People Know It
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San Bernardino Shooter Was US Government Worker Pledged Allegiance To ISIS

from Spiro:

Islamic State said on Saturday that a married couple who killed 14 people in California in an attack the FBI is investigating as an “act of terrorism” were followers of the militant group based in Syria and Iraq.

Govt Targeted, Retaliated Against Drone Operators Turned Whistleblowers – Report

from RT America:

A report claims the US government threatened four previous Air Force drone operators turned whistleblowers with criminal prosecution, and also froze their bank and credit card accounts for coming forward to detail abuse and corruption within the program. RT’s Manila Chan speaks with the group’s lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, about their case and its impact on whistleblowers.

Big Banks CAUGHT in credit default swap conspiracy

by Jeff Nielson Bullion Bulls:
Conspiracy “nuts”?
First the Big Banks (meaning the One Bank) were caught conspiring to launder $TRILLIONS for the international drug cartels (AND so-called “terrorist” organizations). And they continue to be caught doing this, again and again.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
rt.com/usa/banks-big-us-laundering-165/
www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-31/money-…-pass-from-u-s-.html
Then the Big Banks were caught conspiring to manipulate the $500 TRILLION dollar LIBOR debt market. And they continue to rig this market, even after being caught.
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Seattle Bureaucrats Seek to Ban Single-Family Homes, Calling Them ‘Racist’

by J. D. Heyes, Natural News:
Do you live in a single-family dwelling? If you do, then you’re a bigot and a racist, according to some liberal whack jobs in Seattle.
As reported by GovtSlaves.info and The Seattle Times, the Seattle city council and mayor have seriously considered scrapping traditional neighborhoods that consist of single-family homes in an effort to drive people into collective housing – apartments and other types of multi-family dwellings – and for nothing as noble, perhaps, as “the environment” (though the reasoning doesn’t matter in a country where individual rights are supposed to trump those of liberal collectivists in government).
A change (that has been rejected thus far) to the liberal city’s zoning regulations, would have empowered the government to authorize the construction of multi-family housing units in all neighborhoods. And while some have labeled the idea nothing more than an outrageous Internet rumor, GovtSlaves.info noted, it is anything but.
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Extremism? Being Critical of Government is a Sign of Radicalization

from RT:

Directed History? Hey, We Told You So

by Anthony Wile, The Daily Bell:

The news is catching up to us. The Daily Bell was founded on the idea that Western culture was invaded by elite memes that shaped public opinion. Today that doesn’t seem so radical but even a decade ago when The Daily Bell’s approach was being formulated, most of the alternative media was apt to comment on the effects of such memes rather than on their production.
But we’ve always focused on the theoretical aspects of elite misinformation because from our point of view this was a fundamental issue of modern times. And now comes Dr. Udo Ulfkotte “a top German journalist and editor” to post a video that is beginning to function like a modern version of the famous missive “J’accuse!”
“I accuse!” was a letter written by writer Émile Zola and published on January 13, 1898 in the newspaper L’Aurore. It was addressed to French President Félix Faure and stated clearly that the jailing of Alfred Dreyfus was wrong. Dreyfus was then serving a life sentence for supposedly spying on France on behalf of Germany. It was Zola’s correct contention that corruption and anti-Semitism was behind Dreyfus’s banishment to the infamous penal colony at Devil’s Island.
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This is How Much Big Business Paid US Senators to Fast-Track the TPP Deal

by Alex Pietrowski, Activist Post:
Debate around the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) continues to mount. The recently-released 6,000 page agreement, encompassing 18,000 categories of goods and services and a region that accounts for 40 percent of the global economy, hasn’t been ratified by the U.S. Congress or Senate. Yet, the U.S. President has made his support clear with statements such as, “We are both soon to be signatories to the TPP agreement,” a comment Obama made on Nov. 19, 2015, after his bilateral meeting with new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Barack Obama’s confidence stems partially from the Trade Promotion Authority fast-tracking bill, which passed the U.S. Senate in May 2015, with a vote of 65-33. What has led to such strong support of the agreement?
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Would you expect anything less then Shit to flow from these ASSHOLES...

NYT Runs Anti-Second Amendment Op-Ed on Front Page

First time an editorial has appeared on front page in nearly a century
by Kurt Nimmo, Infowars:
The New York Times has not run an editorial on its front page since it opposed the Warren G. Harding’s presidential bid in 1920.

The San Bernardino rampage has changed that.

On Saturday the so-called newspaper of record placed an anti-Second Amendment editorial on its front page.

“End the Gun Epidemic in America” is collectively written by the newspaper’s editorial board.

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Putin Says Russia Will Be World’s #1 Exporter of Non-GMO Foods

by Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society:
Russia’s Vladimir Putin is taking a bold step against biotech giant Monsanto and genetically modified seeds at large. In a new address to the Russian Parliament Thursday, Putin proudly outlined his plan to make Russia the world’s ‘leading exporter’ of non-GMO foods that are based on ‘ecologically clean’ production.
Perhaps even more importantly, Putin also went on to harshly criticize food production in the United States, declaring that Western food producers are no longer offering high quality, healthy, and ecologically clean food.
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