Secret Service Agent: Obama Wiretapping Scandal To ‘Explode’ This Week...

by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, Your News Wire:
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino claims that the Obama wiretapping scandal is going to “blow wide open” this week.
According to Bongino, the mainstream media is making a huge mistake in mistakingly assuming that the #Obamagate scandal will fizzle into nothing.
Bongino worked for former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama in the Presidential Protection Division.
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CIA Turned Samsung Smart TVs into Listening Devices, WikiLeaks Dump Reveals

“Weeping Angel” malware activates microphone while TV appears off
by Mikael Thalen, Infowars:
Hackers within the Central Intelligence Agency have developed malware which can turn Samsung Smart TVs into listening devices, leaked documents published by WikiLeaks Tuesday reveal.
The malware, coined “Weeping Angel” – released as part of WikiLeaks’ “Vault 7” data dump – appears to have been created during a 2014 joint workshop with Britain’s equivalent spy agency MI5.
The attack, which seems to require physical access to the TV and an infected USB drive, enables a “Fake-Off mode” that allows the microphone to be accessed remotely even after the TV has been seemingly turned off. The malware also suppresses the TV’s LED lights, removing any suspicion that the device is still active.
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Former NSA Whistleblower: "Trump Is Absolutely Right, Everything Was Being Monitored"

Legendary NSA whistleblower William Binney (and creator of NSA's global surveillance system) confirmed to Fox News, that President Trump is "absolutely right" to claim he was wiretapped and monitored... he was.

Wikileaks Unveils 'Vault 7': "The Largest Ever Publication Of Confidential CIA Documents"; Another Snowden Emerges

WikiLeaks has published what it claims is the "largest ever publication of confidential documents on the CIA." It includes more than 8,000 documents as part of ‘Vault 7’, a series of leaks on the agency which expose the agency's massive hacking arsenal.

"Shit's Starting To Break" - Stock Slide Escalates Amid Copper, Credit, & Crude Carnage

Beware The Ides Of March

It is unfortunate that so many have forgotten what “investing” actually means. Given that investors have piled into the market since the beginning of the year, the question simply becomes who is doing the selling?

"Unequivocally Good?" - California Gas Prices Top $3, Highest In 2 Years

If the plunge in gas prices was "unequivocally good" for Americans' pocketbooks, then we wonder what the PhDs will make of the fact that California gas prices just broke above $3 for the first time since 2015 - soaring at 28% YoY (the fastest since Q1 2011, which sparked a plunge in economic growth).

Jeff Gundlach's Latest Webcast "The Byrds": Live Updates

Having taken a one month break since his latest February webcast, the time has come for DoubleLine's Jeff Gundlach to take the microphone again for his latest address to his investors (and everyone else) - titled this time "The Byrds", and hopefully provide some insight into this increasingly more confusing market.

Pat Buchanan Exposes The Beltway Conspiracy To Break Trump

Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal. The scandal is this: Who inside the government of the United States is trying to discredit, damage or destroy the President of the United States? For these are the real subversives.

WTI Dips (But RBOB Rips) As Crude Inventories Surge More Than Expected

Despite the desperate jawboning of the Saudis and OPEC today - trying to tell everyone to ignore Russia - crude ended the day at its lows, testing towards $52 handle. When API reported a much bigger than expected crude build, WTI prices tumbled. RBOB prices surged though as Gasoline inventories drewdown by the most since April 2014.

Snowden: What The Wikileaks Revelations Show Is "Reckless Beyond Words"

"The CIA reports show the USG developing vulnerabilities in US products, then intentionally keeping the holes open. Reckless beyond words. Why is this dangerous? Because until closed, any hacker can use the security hole the CIA left open to break into any iPhone in the world." - Edward Snowden

Of Sock Puppets And Vomiting Ghosts

"...memories in finance are short..."

"It's A Train Wreck": Conservative Groups Savage GOP Healthcare Plan

As discussed earlier, the Obamacare repeal and replace effort, derisively called by some either "Obamacare Lite", "RyanCare", "ObamaCare 2.0",  and even Trumpcare". is running into major hurdles as prominent consevative groups threaten to derail Trump's broader economic agenda.

Will The Real Donald Trump Please Stand Up?

Yes there is the Fed, French Elections, Greece, OPEC and dozens of other stories driving the market – but for the next few weeks, what seems to matter most is Which Donald Trump Shows Up?

US Credit Card Debt Sees Biggest Drop In Over Four Years

The credit-card fueled spending spree came to a screeching halt in January, when according to the latest just released consumer credit data from the Fed, revolving credit tumbled by $3.8 billion. This was the first decline since February of 2016, and the biggest drop since December 2012.

The 2nd Commandment Of Trading

"You can always buy it back" is one of the '10 Trading Commandments'. It is meant to encourage good risk management – cutting your losses before they kill you. But it is easier said then done and thanks to some useful academic work now we know why.

Chaffetz To 'Self-Reliant' Americans: Time To "Choose Between iPhone And Healthcare"

“You know what, Americans have choices. And they’ve got to make a choice... maybe, rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to spend hundreds of dollars on, maybe they should invest in their own healthcare."

Bear Fund Traders Back In Hibernation

Assets in mutual funds designed to rise when stocks fall have dropped to an all-time low.

Why OPEC Is Colluding With Hedge Funds

"In meetings with traders, Mr. Barkindo has asked about the declining role of investment banks in commodity-futures trading and the increased use of automated trades, according to people who were present. He asked why U.S. banks were so quick to reinvest in American shale producers after the bust and what would happen if prices fell again."

Speculative Blow-Offs In Stock Markets - Part 2

"...the lagged effects of previous money supply growth excesses are still playing out, just as money supply and credit expansion seems to be coming under pressure. This is combined with a fantasy that is so unlikely, people apparently just cannot bring themselves to doubt its

Weak 3 Year Auction Tails Despite Highest Yield Since April 2010

In a somewhat surprising auction, despite trading tight and slightly special in repo this morning at -0.50% - traditionally an indicator of a squeeze into the auction - today's sale of $24 billion in 3 Year paper tailed modestly, printing at 1.63%, 0.6bps wide of the When Issued of 1.624% at 1pm.The yield was the highest going all the way back to April 2010, and

America's Desperate Mall Owners Turn To Grocers, Doctors & High Schools To Fill Empty Space

In a desperate bid to fill empty space, mall owners are being increasingly forced to turn to non-conventional tenants to fill empy space.  Which is great news for the American consumer who can now purchase cold cuts, have that mole removed and pick up a Louis Vuitton bag all in one convenient location.

Sessions, Tillerson, Trump-Tower Spying: Media Echo Chamber

by Jon Rappoport, No More Fake News:
Follow the bouncing echo show.
Jeff Sessions did talk with Russians or a Russian. About what? Who cares? He talked with a Russian. That’s all we need to know.

Rex Tillerson broke with Trump’s demand to slash the State Dept.’s budget by 37%. Then Tillerson said okay, he’d go along with the cuts in principle.
Trump said Obama was behind the surveillance of the Trump Tower.
The usual suspects, CNN and NBC and CBS and the NY Times and the Washington-CIA Post, etc., bounce these stories among each other and interview people who comment on the bounce, and so on and so forth, and whole thing builds to heavy accusations against the Trump administration, as if these matters are on the level of Watergate plus Benghazi plus Fast&Furious plus the Hillary email scandal plus Monsanto taking over the food supply plus the sale of 20% of US uranium to Putin…
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The Witch Hunt Spreads: CBS Scrutinises Le Pen for Supposed Russia Links

by Adam Garrie, The Duran:
Anderson Cooper apparently thinks you are a Russian agent if you take out a loan in Russia
Marine Le Pen recently gave an interview with US broadcaster CBS. The interview went largely as expected. Liberal interview Anderson Cooper tried to paint Le Pen as the the bride of Satan and Le Pen calmly and firmly defined her views as those supporting Laïcité and other established features of contemporary French society.
As is par for the course at this stage, Le Pen’s views on Russia were scrutinised. Since the default position of the western liberal elite is to view Russia as an antagonistic power, the burden of proof in such interviews, unreasonably falls on those who support reconciliation between the west and Russia to prove why Russia is not the aggressor but the antagonised power.
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Jarrett from within White House May Have Launched a Watergate Style Attack on Trump During Election

by Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics:

I have been hearing about the Obama Administration wiretapping and trying desperately to uncover links of Trump and Puttin without success for months. Obama was desperate to blame the Russians for Hillary’s loss. I have warned that Obama’s OFA was circumventing state level Democrats. The rumor mill alleges that this was a Valerie Jarrett operation which was directed from the White House – not the Justice Department as being claimed. The Obama officials are not denying the covert operation, but are trying to paint it as a legitimate investigation of Trump launched by Lynch at the Justice Department to give deniability to Obama. Jarrett was a Senior Adviser to Obama between 2009 up until January 20th, 2017. She is a Chicago lawyer who previously has been tied to Obama and served as a co-chair of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
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Attorney Larry Klayman: FISA Warrants Could Not Have Been Issued Without Knowledge of President Obama (VIDEO)

by Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit:
Author, lawyer and activist Larry Klayman went on with Steve Malzberg today on Newsmax TV.
Klayman told Steve his group is going to court to get the FISA warrant records on Trump Tower and Trump officials.
Steve Malzberg: Can we find out and how soon whether or not a FISA warrant was sought and issued?
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Democrats Now Demonize the Same Russia Policies that Obama Long Championed

by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept:
ONE OF THE most bizarre aspects of the all-consuming Russia frenzy is the Democrats’ fixation on changes to the RNC platform concerning U.S. arming of Ukraine. The controversy began in July when the Washington Post reported that “the Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces.”
Ever since then, Democrats have used this language change as evidence that Trump and his key advisers have sinister connections to Russians and corruptly do their bidding at the expense of American interests.
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