Explosions, Gunfire As Belgian Police Conduct Ongoing Anti-Terror Raids After Overnight Arrests

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2016 - 08:19
"The tactic of detaining people first and asking questions later will likely become increasingly common. There will be lots more of them. They are going to be what's called over-broad. They are going to just try to find people or evidence that may stop the next terrorism attack, and they will figure out who they have under custody."

US Kills ISIS Second-In-Command For 3rd Time In 2 Years - Press Conference Live Feed

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2016 - 10:38 A physics teacher by trade, Mosul-born al-Qaduli was ISIS before ISIS was ISIS. He served as a deputy to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Islamic State’s “godfather”) and was jailed by the US in Iraq in 2012. Upon his release, he joined ISIS and reportedly was Bin Laden’s choice to lead the group after Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri were killed in 2010. And he's no stranger to being dead...

Possible Signs Of False Flag In Brussels Now Emerging

by Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post:

Yet another terrorist attack in Europe has been blamed on Islamic extremists and ISIS and yet another instance of the suspects in the attacks having been previously known to security services and intelligence agencies in the years, months, weeks, and days leading up to the event. That is exactly what happened in Brussels, Belgium on March 22, 2016.
Lending credence to those who suggest that the Brussels attacks were false flags (meaning directed, orchestrated, or allowed by Western intelligence agencies), it is being reported that, yet again, the perpetrators were known to police and security services prior to the attack. This suggests a number of possibilities in the false flag vein such as:

1. That the security services knew an attack was being planned and allowed it to continue.
2. That the intelligence agencies organized the attack from the very beginning.

Building a case for the false flag argument sees a number of points to be made that, while not conclusively proving that such is the case, they do provide a good reason to question the official narrative.
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Caught On Tape: Bomb Robot Tests "Neutralized" Belgian Terror Suspect

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2016 - 10:27 Amid the gunfire and explosions in Brussels, 'someone' needed to test if the suspect was carrying a bomb when he was "neutralized." Robots replacing human jobs is a positive after all...

Trump Is Right - Dump NATO Now

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2016 - 10:18 If you want to know why we have a $19 trillion national debt and a fiscal structure that will take that already staggering figure to $35 trillion and 140% of GDP within a decade, just consider the latest campaign fracas. That is, the shrieks of disbelief in response to Donald Trump’s sensible suggestion that the Europeans pay for their own defense.

Thanks Obamacare: This Is What Americans Spent Most Money On In 2015

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2016 - 09:46 We have been covering the consumption tax, pardon, endless spending black hole that is Obamacare for over a year, so we doubt it will come as a surprise to anyone that in 2015 healthcare was the second biggest use of US consumer funds, soaking up a record $1.9 trillion in real dollars, and more importantly for US economic "growth", the single biggest source of incremental spending by nearly a factor of two.

U.S. GDP Rose 1.4% In Final Estimate Of Q4 Growth As Corporate Profits Plunged

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2016 - 08:59 While the final revision to Q4 2015 GDP was so irrelevant it was released on a holiday when every US-based market is closed, even the futures, it is nonetheless notable that according to the BEA in the final quarter of 2015 US GDP grew 1.4%, up from the 1.0% previously reported, and higher than the 1.0% consensus estimate matching the highest Q4 GDP forecast. The final Q4 GDP print was still well below the 2.0% annualized GDP growth reported in Q3.

Holiday Market Summary

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2016 - 07:55 With all of Europe and the U.S. closed for holiday, what little market action there was overnight came out of Asia, where China once again was engaged in its last hour "National Team" market manipulation, which saved the SHCOMP from a red close after the now traditional last hour buying spree pushed the Shanghai Composite from red on the session an hour before close to near the highs of the day.


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Tough Guy Ted Warns "Sniveling Coward" Trump: "Leave My Wife Alone"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/24/2016 - 23:59

Microsoft's Twitter Chat Robot Quickly Devolves Into Racist, Homophobic, Nazi, Obama-Bashing Psychopath

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/24/2016 - 23:58 Overnight we got a vivid example of just how quickly "artificial intelligence" can spiral out of control when Microsoft's AI-powered Twitter chat robot, Tay, became a racist, misogynist, Obama-hating, antisemitic, incest and genocide-promoting psychopath when released into the wild.

More Islamic Terror Coming: ISIS Has Sent 400 Trained Fighters Into Europe To Conduct Terror Attacks

by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:

The recent attacks in Paris and in Brussels were just the tip of the iceberg of a massive wave of Islamic terror that is soon coming to Europe.  As you will see below, the Associated Press is reporting that ISIS has specially trained “at least 400 attackers” and has already sent them into Europe with specific instructions to conduct terror operations.  So Barack Obama may not think that we have anything to be concerned about, but the facts on the ground tell us a completely different story.  Thanks to Europe’s openness to “war refugees” from Syria, it is very easy for radical jihadists to get into countries such as France, Belgium and Germany.  And once they are on European soil, there are plenty of other disgruntled Islamic refugees that they can recruit to their cause.  Europe stands on the precipice of the greatest terror crisis that it has ever known, and the attacks that are coming next are likely to be far more deadly than anything we have seen so far.
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DESPITE THE SHELLACKING OF GOLD, THE GLD SURPRISINGLY ADDS 2.08 TONNES TO ITS INVENTORY

by Harvey Organ, HarveyOrganblog:
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen:
Gold: $1,221.40 down $2.30 (comex closing time)
Silver 15.19 down 7 cents
In the access market 5:15 pm
Gold $1217.00
silver: 15.18
(pay no attention to this access knockdown/there is nobody to sell to/all left for the Good Friday holiday)
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Three Reasons to Be Bearish Right Now

from Wolf Street:

There are so many reasons to be bearish right now, I can’t count all of them. Dozens of indicators are flashing “warning” signs. The market looks dangerous. Almost everything is pointing toward an intermediate-term decline coming soon.
And if it plays out the way it did when we had the same setup in November, stocks may give up all of the gains they’ve enjoyed over the past few weeks. So you need to be cautious right now. Here are three reasons why…
One, the S&P 500 is tracing out an identical pattern to what it did last October — just before the S&P 500 fell 5% in two weeks and 18% in three months. Take a look at the one-year chart of the S&P 500…
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Leonardo DiCaprio Attacks Republicans For Denying Global Warming

from Infowars:
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio took time during a recent movie promotion to lecture the world on why US Republican candidates should be dismissed wholesale.
Speaking at “The Revenant” premiere at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo yesterday, DiCaprio stated the US needed to “do its part” in fixing climate change, and that includes voting Democrat.
“We need somebody, certainly in the most powerful country in the world, who believes in modern science, who believes imperical truths,” the actor stated. “We should not have a candidate who doesn’t believe in modern science to be leading our country. Climate change is one of the most concerning issues facing all of humanity and the United States needs to do its part.”
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The Bubble Will Burst, But Fed Is Waiting For Politics “With Trump Lurking Around”

by Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan:

It’s no conspiracy. The music will soon stop and the economy will take a big hit when the bubble bursts – even the timing has been chosen.
The Fed has been pumping easy money and buying time with future pain for years now, but the worm is turning. Only, the turn is taking a pause so as to avoid helping – yes – Donald Trump and his bid for the presidency.
SHTF just reported on the startling revelation that not only has quantative easing changed the financial landscape in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, but it has been directly responsible for a full 93% of market action since that time.
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SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts – On the Slippery Slopes of Pigmanistan

from Jesse’s Café Américain:
We have become so frivolous, so easily distracted, and so wantonly shallow that we are all becoming Tom and Daisy now. We get by, like addicts, on partisan fear and hatred. It is unfortunate but most have nothing to fall back on after the bread and circuses have run their course— no money, no love of anything but themselves, and no firm moral beliefs and principles. Nothing but the abyss.
So far this dip we saw today in the wondrously mispriced risks of the US markets is just a pause, merely another day in the dismal lands of Pigmanistan. Let’s see if they can keep pumping this pig up to one of the more difficult levels of overhead support. And a pig of a market this is. The ‘smart money’ has been selling the rallies for the last couple of weeks. I wonder if they will be able to hang on until the end of the first quarter.
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