"What Do We Do Now?" - Anti-Trump Alliance Self-Destructs Within Hours

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2016 - 21:11
Before the ink on the "anti-Trump alliance deal" even dry, Kasich suggested during a campaign stop in Philadelphia that his voters should still vote for him in Indiana, which was one of the places the so-called plan was calling for him to fall back on so Cruz had a chance to win. At a campaign stop in Philadelphia, Kasich said "I've never told them not to vote for me. They ought to vote for me." which no matter how one looks at it is thoroughly confusing considering this is precisely what the so-called alliance urged against.

"The Men Behind The Curtain Are Being Revealed" – CEO Says Real-World Pricing To Return To Gold & Silver Markets

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2016 - 18:33 "They are being revealed, most certainly... whether anybody actually takes a fall for it is a whole other discussion... It’s good someone is being held accountable in some form or fashion and at least we understand what we’re dealing with... If you start getting some of the manipulation to come out of the market for fear that people are going to get called out on it, then you can allow the fundamentals to play out... and the real world pricing is being seen in the precious metals space..."

Cash-Starved ISIS Offers Incentive Pay For Fighters: $50 Per "Female" Sex Slave

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2016 - 22:40 Faced with a cash crunch and significant military losses, ISIS has reached the point where the rank and file are becoming frustrated. In order to stop the defections, ISIS dug deep in its bag of incentives and decided to employ the carrot and stick method. First we learned of the stick, which is to literally freeze members to death if they're caught trying to defect. Now, we learn what the carrot is. A wage voucher obtained by the post details out the fact that ISIS is now paying soldiers extra cash for each additional family member, and as a sick and twisted added bonus, anyone who has a sex slave gets another $50... USD of course.

Seymour Hersh: Saudis Paid Pakistan to Hold bin Laden To Prevent U.S. Interrogation

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2016 - 22:15 "The Saudis bribed the Pakistanis not to tell us [that the Pakistani government had Bin Laden] because they didn’t want us interrogating Bin Laden (that’s my best guess), because he would’ve talked to us, probably. My guess is, we don’t know anything really about 9/11. We just don’t know. We don’t know what role was played by whom."

Malaysian Ringgit Tumbles After 1MDB Default Raises Spectre Of Sovereign Failure

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2016 - 21:52 Update: after widening by 2bps earlier, Malaysia CDS is now +4 at 167bps and starting to move as macro "analysts" finally catch up on the entire story and comprehend the implications.
Malaysian CDS rose to near 3-month highs and the Ringgit has spiked over 300 pips - back near recent lows - after the Malaysian slushfund government investment fund 1MDB is reportedly in default. This is exactly the scenario we laid out last week that initially sent the currency lower and CDS higher, as the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund has by all appearances started a potential waterfall default on Malaysian sovereign debt (due to cross-default triggers at the sovereign).

It Is Harder To Become A Chinese Civil Servant Than Get Into Princeton

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2016 - 21:50 A record-setting 115,831 Chinese people lined up for Hubei province's civil services exam on Friday... all knowing that the 6,500 open positions meant the chances of acceptance were lower than that of getting into Princeton or Yale...

A Look Inside Europe's Largest Foreigner "Ghetto"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2016 - 21:30 On the heels of State Department spokesman John Kirby's renewed proclamation that "US is committed to admitting more refugees," we thought this brief clip from France's picturesque Mantes La Jolie (in the western suburbs of Paris) - Europe's largest "ghetto" - would be useful...

Doug Casey Warns: "It's The Next Stage Of The Greater Depression..."

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2016 - 21:25 "What these central banks and governments are doing is incredibly irresponsible and stupid, printing these currency units up by the trillions... so there’s going to be a panic into gold. ...They’ve created a super-bubble in bonds, a bubble in stocks, and meanwhile commodities have collapsed and are below production costs in many cases. ...The economy is going to be very, very bad... It’s the next stage of what I call the Greater Depression."

A Bird's-Eye View Of How The US Economy Is Falling Apart (In 4 Simple Charts)

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2016 - 21:00 Whether you support him or not, my guess is that most middle-aged Americans are very surprised about Bernie Sanders' popularity. However, it shouldn’t be a surprise given the economic stress many Americans face. The four charts below capture the essence of what I’m talking about...

"We Haven't Seen This Is In Our Lifetimes" - CEO Says "Alberta Is In A Depression"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2016 - 19:18 "Well, if you're involved in the oil patch directly, drilling activity or anything like that I think we've gone beyond recession and it's more a depression. The facts are that this latest round of commodity price collapse that happened the first part of this year I think really put the nail in the coffin for the industry."

The Global Warming Hoax, Paris Climate Accord and NWO Global Governance

by Joachim Hagopian, Lew Rockwell:
“Global warming is the biggest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.”
Longtime meteorologist and Weather Channel founder John Coleman
With last Friday’s Earth Day marked by the US among 170 nations out of the planet’s 190 nations signing last December’s UN Paris climate change agreement at the United Nations, the topic “global warming/climate change” is once again all abuzz these days. Additionally, in less than a week a documentary entitled “The Climate Hustle” is being released in movie theaters nationwide on May 2nd debunking the notion that humans have caused global warming from the alleged increased CO2 greenhouse effect. This new film arrives as the answered rebuttal exactly a decade after ex-VP Al Gore’s Oscar-winning “Inconvenient Truth” pushed the global warming agenda to unprecedented heights. Gore was rewarded with a Nobel Peace Prize for his propagandist sci-fi movie. Recall his “true planetary emergency” calling for “drastic measures” to reduce the greenhouse gases before “reaching the point of no return” within ten years. Well, his ten years have come and gone and for all his over-predicting of end-of-the-world crises due to global warming, Gore and his alarmist minions have virtually no evidence of any warming to show for all their doom and gloom catastrophic warnings.
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The Tokyo Whale Is Buying Up Huge Stakes in Japan Inc.

by David Stockman, David Stockmans Contra Corner:
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has been propping up Japanese stocks through its voracious appetite for exchange traded funds (ETFs).
(Bloomberg) — They may not realize it yet, but Japan Inc.’s executives are increasingly working for a shareholder unlike any other: the nation’s money-printing central bank.
While the Bank of Japan’s name is nowhere to be found in regulatory filings on major stock investors, the monetary authority’s exchange-traded fund purchases have made it a top 10 shareholder in about 90 percent of the Nikkei 225 Stock Average, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg from public data. It’s now a major owner of more Japanese blue-chips than both BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager, and Vanguard Group, which oversees more than $3 trillion.
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Behind The Massive Vaccine Scandal In China … And Don’t Think America Is Safe

by Jon Rappoport, Activist Post:
A vaccine scandal has erupted in China.
Time Magazine reports (“China Vaccine Scandal Prompts Angry Backlash From Parents and Doctors,” 3/22/2016):
“Furious parents and health care professionals in China are demanding to know how almost $90 million of improperly stored and potentially fatal vaccines were distributed across some two-thirds of the country over the past five years, in the latest public-health scandal to raise serious questions over the efficacy of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule.
“According to state media, a mother and daughter from eastern China’s Shandong province have been caught peddling 25 kinds of unrefrigerated vaccines — including for polio, mumps, rabies, hepatitis B, encephalitis and meningococcal diseases — to medical facilities across 24 Chinese provinces since 2010.
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Document 17: The Smoking Gun Which Links Saudi Arabia to 9/11

from TRUNews:
(TRUNEWS) While reviewing 9/11 documents previously declassified in July 2015, blogger Brian P. McGlinchey discovered a new link between Saudi Arabia and the 2001 terror attacks.
In the seventeenth of the 29 documents released under the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) appeal 2012-48, McGlinchey uncovered that the FBI had located the flight certificate for Ghassan Al-Sharbi — a known al-Qaeda member who trained with the 9/11 hijackers. The report said the Embry Riddle certificate was buried in an underground cache in Pakistan, and was inside an official envelope marked from the Saudi Embassy in Washington.
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Interesting Silver Debate: Do Old Indicators Matter Or Is Physical About To Overrun Paper?

by John Rubino, Dollar Collapse:

For as long as most gold and silver investors can remember, the paper markets — that is, banks and speculators placing bets with futures contracts — have set the price of those metals. And within the paper markets, “the commercials” — fabricators and big banks — have time-and-gain fooled speculators like hedge funds into piling in (both long and short) at exactly the wrong time.
The data series that tracks this relationship is known as the commitment of traders report (COT), and it’s been a pretty reliable indicator of precious metals’ short-term trajectory.
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Unhappy America: Will The United States Collapse Due To An Internal Societal Meltdown?

by Michael Snyder, End of the American Dream:

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for the United States of America?  All great nations eventually fall, and the United States is not going to be any exception.  Many of those that write about the decline of our once great country tend to focus on external threats, and there are certainly many that could be talked about.  But perhaps even more ominous is the internal societal meltdown that we see happening all around us.  According to Real Clear Politics, recent surveys show that 67 percent of Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track, and only 26 percent of Americans believe that it is headed in the right direction.  So even though we are tremendously divided as to what the solutions are, the vast majority of us can see that something is deeply, deeply wrong with America.
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The great cholesterol con finally unravels: Researchers find lowering cholesterol has NO EFFECT on risk of heart disease or death

by David Gutierrez, Natural News:
Common dietary advice is to avoid saturated fats and instead consume polyunsaturated fats, like those found in vegetable oils. But this dietary consensus is starting to crack in the face of study after study showing no health benefit to avoiding saturated fat.
The most recent study was conducted by researchers from the universities of North Carolina and Illinois, in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health, and published in the British Medical Journal. It found that while a diet that replaced saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat did cause blood cholesterol to drop, this led to no change in the risk of heart disease or death.
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