Bolton: FBI Will ‘Explode’ If Hillary Not Indicted Over Email Scandal Due to Politics

from Breitbart:
Speaking in a radio interview on Sunday, John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, stated he believes the FBI will “explode” if Hillary Clinton ultimately is not indicted for her email infractions due to what he described as politics triumphing over the legal system.
Bolton was being interviewed for “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM.
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If Hillary Isn’t Indicted, the Rule of Law and the Republic Are Dead

by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds:

Once the Oligarchy is above the law, the Republic is already dead.
To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway: How did you lose your Republic? Two ways, gradually and then suddenly. The Romans experienced this when their Republic was extinguished by Empire.
The erosion of the Republic was gradual: slowly but surely, the lower classes’ representation in governance was curtailed; the Oligarchy of the wealthy and powerful cemented their privileges at the expense of the many; Oligarchs rose above the laws that were supposed to apply to all, and executive power was consolidated in top administrators and the wealthy at the expense of the Senate.
When Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army to seize control of Rome, the Roman Republic ceased to exist. Gradually and then suddenly: this is how Republics become Empires.
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Bloomberg Explains Why "Nobody Believes This Rally"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 11:54 "I’m not buying anything; I’m sitting on my hands and waiting. I would definitely sell this rally because it’s totally central-bank driven and has nothing or very little to do with fundamentals."..."The question everyone should be asking is what has really changed in the last three months? Global concerns, while slightly less, are still there."

If you don’t buy silver NOW, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life

by Taki T., Secular Investor:

Silver is one off the most undervalued and hated assets in the world. 99% of the investors are still in the dark about silver. But like everything on the financial markets: more pressure to keep the price down only gets you bigger gains when the price explodes.
There are way too many paper silver assets backed by physical silver. In other words, debt is masqueraded as assets while only few investors hold true stores of value. It’s a monster in disguise. When the paper party is over, you’ll see who’s wearing no clothes.
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"Let's Be Honest, Trump Is A Loser!": Elizabeth Warren Loses It, Goes Ballistic On The Donald

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 13:20

Cuban Caption Contest: "Che-Che-Changes" Edition

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 14:55 “I don’t know Obama in person... but he came to power in an election, not a revolution. He was supported by corporate America,” Guevara says. “The colour of skin is one thing, the colour of ideology is another.”

The Updated Bill of Rights

from Washington’s Blog:

Tell Ambassador Noah Bryson Mamet He Can’t Deny Americans Our Passports
Written in 1789, year of the French Revolution that beheaded the king and queen of France, the American Bill of Rights was accepted as law of the new land called the United States on December 15, 1791.   Much has happened since then. Both the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence were inspired by Oliver Cromwell’s Glorious Revolution and the Magna Carta. In 1215, the Magna Carta was issued by King John and established the precedent that no monarch was above the law. The rule of law has been a core concept of Anglo-Saxon civilization ever since. Colonists born in British America felt entitled to the same rights as Englishmen in England.
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Ron Paul Exposes Conservatives' Budget Plans As Big Spending & Anti-Liberty

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 14:40 Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

Mystery Billionaire Members Of "Stop Trump" Campaign Revealed

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 14:22 Earlier this month in “GOP Leaders, Tech Execs Plot Against Trump At Secret NeoCon Island Meeting,” we discussed the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum, a secretive event held on Sea Island, Georgia. At this year’s gathering the main topic, according to Huff Post, was “how to stop Trump.” Thanks to FEC filings out Sunday we discover still more evidence that conspiracies to stop The Donald are proliferating.

Spot The Sucker: Brazil Stocks Edition

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 14:07 If you are a foreign investor in Brazilian equities and you can't look at the net purchases chart shown here and tell us who the sucker is, well then you are the sucker.

Apple Rebrands iPhone 5S, Offers It For Double The Price, Unveils Nylon Wrist Band

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 13:52 Peak innovation? Meet the iPhone SE (Suckers' Edition?)

Fed Warns Brexit Poses Contagious Risk To US Economy, Spikes GBP Volatility To Record Highs

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 13:40 As the battle between Brits' fiercely historic "independence" and the establishment's Project Fear, anxiety is building over the looming Brexit decision. Despite rallies in most markets over the past few weeks, UK-related risk premia remain extremely-elevates with British corporate bond risk notably decoupled from EU's credity risk but it is the FX markets where the biggest dislocations are with Cable volatility at its most elevated ever relative to EUR. While equity markets remain unimpressed by the FX and credit market concerns, Fed's Lockhart warns "BREXIT POSES RISK THAT CAN SPILL BACK TO U.S. ECONOMY."

An Output Freeze Is Still The Big Red-Herring For Oil

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 13:02 Update: SOME OPEC MEMBERS WON'T ATTEND DOHA MEET: EL-BADRI
Despite everything that could go wrong at Doha, oil prices are maintaining the new “high” on hopes of an output freeze, even if only at January levels. "Any such deal would still not be a game changer. It would really just maintain the excess supply that is now in place," warns one analyst, adding that it’s more about what they say than what they actually do in Doha.

Stocks Stumble After Lockhart Echoes Williams, Warns "Rate Hikes Justified As Early As April"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 12:51 Seemingly echoing Fed's Williams earlier hawkish comments, Atlanta Fed's Lockhart notes that full employment is "getting closert and closer," and warns that "rate hikes are justified in 2016, possibly soon," adding that LOCKHART SAYS RATE HIKE JUSTIFIED AS EARLY AS APRIL FOMC. It is clear the messagge that is being sent - don't keep buying stocks in anticipation of our 'put' (but don't sell 'em below 2000 either). Or is it a desperate attempt to reclaim some lost credibility?

Netflix' House of Cards Is Much More Realistic Than We'd Like To Admit (Spoiler Alert)

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 12:37 "We don’t submit to terror," the president says. "We make the terror."

JPMorgan Warns "Reduce Equity Exposure... Don't Chase Crude"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 12:16 "First quarter earnings will be difficult," warns JPMorgan's global head of equity strategy, suggesting investors consider reducing market exposure and/or "consider buying protection." While Rees is not quite as directly 'sell-it-all ' - adding that he hopes H2 earnings will pick up - his overall message, beneath the JPM vineer, is not bullishly biased. "We are not chasing the oil rally," Rees adds, noting the technical short-covering nature of this most recent move, adding that "the worst is not behind us."

The (Mis)Uses Of Disorder

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/21/2016 - 15:15 America is going to learn something about the uses of disorder before this year is out. One of these is to compel the construction of a coherent consensus as to what is actually happening in the world, apart from our wishes and fantasies. That is, if we are not torn apart in the process of getting to that.

RNC Condemns Bill Kristol’s Anti-Trump Third Party as ‘Helping to Elect Hillary Clinton’

by Patrick Howley, Breitbart:
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is throwing cold water on pundit Bill Kristol’s efforts to form a third party to challenge Donald Trump in the general election.
Bill Kristol, son of Irving, is trying to get retired senator Tom Coburn or retired Texas governor Rick Perry to run independently if the GOP Establishment can’t figure out how to broker the convention in Cleveland to deny Trump the nomination.
RNC spokesman Sean Spicer told Breitbart News that “any effort to facilitate a third party ultimately is helping to elect Hillary Clinton.”
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The FCC’s Plan To Take Over The Internet Has Begun

by John Merline, The Common Sense Show:

“It’s not a government takeover of the Internet.” That was the mantra of those who backed the Federal Communication Commission’s “net neutrality” rules, which the FCC approved a little over a year ago.
“Not only are the new rules not a government takeover,” argued one supporter in Variety, “they are well in keeping with how communications have been successfully fostered and regulated in America in the past.”
The rules were only meant to keep the Internet “free and open,” advocates said. All the government was doing was blocking ISPs from discriminating against users by charging more for faster speeds.
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Going Beyond The Obvious Horror: The Lessons Of Flint – Janet Phelan

by Janet Phelan, The News Doctors:

If you wonder how the US could be supporting Turkey that is waging a veritable war on its civil Kurdish population, maybe you should take a look at the way people are being treated in America frist. Back in the mid-twentieth century, the city of Flint, Michigan was a bustling industrial town. Home to General Motors car manufacturing plants, Flintonians enjoyed union wages with an average annual income higher than San Franciscans or Chicagoans.

When the General Motors plants began to close in the 1980s, a blue collar work force was left without the blue collar jobs. Unemployment soared. The plant jobs had attracted a largely black population and Flint, once a boom town, became a bust town. In 2011 a state of financial emergency was declared by Governor Rick Snyder.  Out of 80,000 industrial jobs, Flint was reportedly left with only 8,000.

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