Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Radioactivity from Fukushima reactors turns up off B.C. coast from Real Thing TV:

Ed note....I wonder if it makes salmon taste like chicken???



PETER SCHIFF: Fed-Propped Oil Prices Tumble — Stocks & Real Estate Are Next

from Peter Schiff:


No JAIL TIME For ‘MAFIA’ Banksters: JP Morgan Settles FOREX CURRENCY MANIPULATION Lawsuit in U.S.

Traders would use such names as The Cartel, The Bandits’ Club and The Mafia to swap confidential orders, and set prices through manipulative tactics such as “front running,” “banging the close” and “painting the screen.”
by Jonathan Stempel, Reuters:
JPMorgan Chase & Co has become the first bank to settle a U.S. antitrust lawsuit in which investors accused 12 major banks of rigging prices in the $5 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market.
The largest U.S. bank will pay about $100 million, a person familiar with the matter said. Lawyers for the bank and the investors said a settlement had been reached in a letter filed on Monday with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
JPMorgan settled after mediation with Kenneth Feinberg, who also oversees a General Motors Co program to compensate drivers whose vehicles had faulty ignition switches.
Read More @ Reuters.com

Andrew Hoffman – What’s Next For 2015

from FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com:
Another Manipulation Monday with Andrew Hoffman. Listen in as we discuss:
Andy’s 2015 predictions, and how they relate to the current markets…
1. Retail Armageddon –
2. Return of the PIIGS –
3. First signs of Yen Hyperinflation –
4. Oil collapse contagion –
5. Mining industry paralysis
6. Falling commodity prices –
7. Collapsing currencies –
8. Revenge of the people.
9. The Re-emergence of Real Money
Plus, this morning’s utter collapse of interest rates and oil – and what it means regarding the coming “Yellen Reversal.”
And oh yeah, gold and silver surging – particularly in Europe and Switzerland where gold jumped above 1,000/oz and 1,200/oz respectively, this morning.
Click Here to Listen

Worst Start To A Year Ever, Stocks Down 5 Days In A Row






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The Currency Markets Are Flashing Red Alert

by Graham Summers, Gold Seek:
We’ve been warning that stocks were susceptible to a sharp drop for several weeks now. Stocks are notoriously “dumb” when it comes to major market moves.
Consider that stocks, even at current lofty levels, have a global market capitalization of slightly over $60 trillion.
In contrast, the global bond market is well over $100 trillion.
And the global currency market trades OVER $5.3 trillion per day.
As a result, stocks ALWAYS “get it” last.
With that in mind, the S&P 500 was rejected at the upper trendline of a megaphone pattern.
Read More @ GoldSeek.com



How Do You Say "Death Cross" In French?

It's not been a great couple of years for French President Hollande, with joblessness soaring to record highs almost unabated since he took office, he has now been forced to scrap his "super-tax" plan to solve the socialist utopia's problems.But joblessness is the symptom of the 'death cross' that is occurring in France as bankrupticies soar to record highs and firms' profitability craters. And as Bloomberg's Maxime Sbaihi notes, French households continue to use rising real wages to increase savings rather than consumption. There’s no reason why this should change as surveys indicate that consumers remain worried by the near-term outlook.

GLD Drain Continues In 2014

from TF Metals Report:

Though gold was only down a little more than 1% in 2014, the drain of the GLD, which began in 2013, continued in earnest.
We’ve been documenting the drain of the GLD “inventory” for over two years. There have been a number of posts written, a few examples are listed here:
Well, the pillaging and plundering continued in 2014, even if not at the same furious pace seen in 2013. As mentioned above, after the raid of New Year’s Eve, gold actually posted a slightly negative return for 2014, down 1.4%. However, global physical demand continued unabated with China leading the way at nearly 2,100 metric tonnes: https://www.bullionstar.com/blog/koos-jansen/yearly-shanghai-silver-volume-transcends-comex-again-sge-withdrawals-nearly-2100t/
Read More at TFMetals.com




Europe's Monetary Madness

If you want to know where the global experiment in massive money printing is heading - just take a look at the monetary madhouse in Europe. And that particular phrase has full resonance once again as it becomes more apparent by the hour that Europe and the Euro were not fixed at all. Indeed, beneath the surface of Draghi’s “whatever it takes” time out, the crisis has been metastasizing into ever more virulent deformations.


Will 2015 Be A Year Of Economic Disaster? 11 Perspectives

Will 2015 be a year of financial crashes, economic chaos and the start of the next great worldwide depression? Over the past couple of years, we have all watched as global financial bubbles have gotten larger and larger. Despite predictions that they could burst at any time, they have just continued to expand. But just like we witnessed in 2001 and 2008, all financial bubbles come to an end at some point, and when they do implode the pain can be extreme.
 


ISIS Now Hiring Bankers: In Bid For Legitimacy, Rogue State Opens Bank

After seeking doctors, lawyers, and engineers, The Islamic State - expanding on its desire to launch a gold-backed currency - is reported to have opened its first bank in the Iraqi city of Mosul and delivered a budget for its 'territory'. All this is being done, according to Al Jazeera, in an effort to move beyond its image of a terrorist organisation and consolidate its aim of becoming a legitimate state (perhaps stop beheading western media?) "A strategy to make concrete decisions and actions to create a nation state is in place," notes one professor, but as another analyst explains, "ISIS is financing itself partly through a pyramid scheme, and this has begun to falter.”
 


Energy Crisis As Early As 2016

"...we believe the current low crude oil price could be overkill and result in the next “Energy Crisis” by early 2016. Enjoy these low gasoline prices while they last."


Crude Dips Into $40s; 10-Year Dips Below 2%; President Hits the Road

by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street on Parade:
Yesterday was not an illustrious start to the first full week of the new year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 331 points on global deflation worries; U.S. crude oil dropped below $50 for the first time since 2009, with West Texas Intermediate touching $48.47 at one point on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note, whose yield is a harbinger of future economic activity, traded below 2 percent and is yielding 1.97 percent in early morning trade today.
In a strong signal that other economies are weakening around the globe, 10-year sovereign debt instruments in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands and the U.K. set record low yields yesterday.
Against that backdrop, columnist Paul Krugman might have wished he hadn’t penned these opening words on page A17 of the New York Times yesterday: “Suddenly, or so it seems, the U.S. economy is looking better. Things have been looking up for a while, but at this point the signs of improvement — job gains, rapidly growing G.D.P., rising public confidence — are unmistakable.”
Read More @ WallStreetonParade.com

If gold’s going to be a winner in 2015 then silver will be the real champion as financial markets implode

by Peter Cooper, Silver Seek:
Gold and silver prices have jumped since the start of 2015 as safe haven and dollar diversification plays. But this will be nothing compared to the upside gain to come as financial markets really lose it. Precious metal investors know from long experience that when gold prices go up silver does even better and vice-versa.
Silver is in a tighter market than gold and with a smaller available supply then a rise in demand has a disproportionate impact on its price. It’s also an alternative to gold as prices rise because it is cheaper. The gold-to-silver price ratio is historically very high at the moment at 75, so silver prices have plenty of room to outperform and close up this gap.
Read More @ SilverSeek.com


 

US Selling Another 170 M-1 Abrams Tanks To Iraq After ISIS Captured 40 Last Summer

Remember when shortly after ISIS' stunning and rapid ascent to power it was revealed that a key reason for the terrorist organization's blistering success were the M-1 Abrams tanks, armored transport trucks, Howitzers and countless Humvees made in the US, sold to Iraq and subsequently captured by ISIS? It appears that the US has decided to restock ISIS, if only indirectly. As Matthew Aid's Strategypage.com discloses, the US is now selling a whopping 170 M-1 tanks to Iraq in order to restock the 40 lost to ISIS last summer, and then some. And since ISIS will promptly recapture a substantial portion of this latest batch, the US now appears to have found a fully covert, backdoor ISIS-restocking supply channel: one where Iraq pays to US military contrators (using US taxpayer aid money) such as General Dynamics, and subsequently the inventory mysteriosuly finds its way to barbaian, headcutting terrorists.


ED Note... probably some of the same tanks...saves shipping costs...


This Oil Thing Is The Real Deal

It’s no longer about which factors bring down oil prices, that’s old news; it’s about what oil prices bring down. The oil price drop is a much bigger event than the US subprime housing crisis, it’s bigger than everything put together that happened in 2008. And this time, central banks are lame sitting ducks. Omnipotence is a harsh mistress. She tends to backfire.
 


BATFE Ruling Creates New Hurdle To Private Gun Manufacture

by Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post:
It only took two days before the anti-gun American bureaucracy began chipping away at the Second Amendment in areas where Congress and the President, despite being backed by billion dollar NGOs and Foundations, have so far been unsuccessful.
On January 2, 2015, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) issued its ruling regarding “whether Federal Firearms Licensees (FFL), or unlicensed machine shops, may engage in the business of completing, or assisting in the completion of, the manufacture of firearm frames or receivers for unlicensed individuals without being licensed as a manufacturer of firearms.”
The ruling that was made in order to address the issue that ATF Ruling 2015-1 has called into question – whether or not the ability of American citizens to produce their own weapons, pass them down, and modify those weapons in specific capacities will remain a viable option.
Read More @ Activist Post



Here Is Why Gold & Silver Are Soaring As Global Stock Markets Plunge

from KingWorldNews:
As the Gold/Oil ratio moves sharply in favor of gold, it’s particularly positive for the mining companies because it means the price of what they sell is going up relative to the costs of mining it, because energy is an enormous cost. So I think your point is well taken. People do not understand how positive a fundamental this is going to be for these companies. The major mining companies have been hurt by the high cost related to oil and production. This is now heading in the other direction in big, big way.
I don’t think people fully comprehend how positive this is for gold and silver producers and the underlying shares. The high energy costs vs the gold price can clearly be seen on the chart above, particularly on both sides of the 2006 zone (see chart above). Well, now that situation has reversed in a massive way in favor of gold.
John Embry continues @ KingWorldNews.com



They See It Coming…Ready or Not?

by Bill Holter, Miles Franklin:
2014 was a year of posturing. The U.S. “postured” by trying to lure Mr. Putin and Russia into a war. First it was over Syria and then later over Ukraine. The Russians postured by not taking the bait and buying time. Yes, Russia has suffered with a devaluing currency, lower oil revenues, and an economy running on less than eight cylinders. China has stayed out of the public spotlight during this period but privately stood behind Russia, I will explain this a bit later.
I mentioned “buying time”, by necessity, Russia has done this as a tactic I believe to slow down the implosion of the Western financial system. On the face of it, I know this sounds ridiculous …why would Russia want to prolong the Western system. The answer is very simple, they, nor China were ready. They may not even be fully “ready” now but at least the financial infrastructure is in place for when it does happen.
Read More @ MilesFranklin.com



Concerning Study: High-Fructose Corn Syrup More Toxic than Sugar, Reduces Lifespan

Yet this still may not be the most concerning news
by Mike Barrett, Natural Society:
The commonly used ingredient high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has been linked to numerous health issues, leading countless individuals to shun any products containing the ingredient. Well new research shows that this is in fact the right move, finding that consuming high fructose corn syrup in ‘normal’ quantities is more toxic than sucrose or table sugar, leading to a reduced lifespan and hampered reproduction.
The study showed that when fed a diet containing 25% of calories from added fructose and glucose carbohydrates found in corn syrup, female mice died at a rate 1.87 times higher than female mice on a diet in which 25% of calories came from sucrose (table sugar). What’s more, the mice on the fructose-glucose diet produced about 26% fewer offspring.
Read More @ Natural Society



BO POLNY: 2015 Arrives and a World Stock Market Collapse Begins

from Silver Doctors:
The coming Collapse will be THE big one and there will be nowhere to hide except in PHYSICAL Gold and Silver. Robert Fitzwilson of the Protola Group stated it best…
“Even cash in a collapsing Keynesian maelstrom could well turn out to represent its intrinsic value, which is zero.”
To the stackers, keep stacking for when the dust settles PHYSICAL will sparkle!
Mr. Jim Willie stated it so eloquently… “The manipulation is finite, and it is coming to an end. When the Shanghai shock comes, ALL THE PAPER GOLD STRUCTURES WILL FALL; all the FOREX derivatives will collapse…”
Read More @ SilverDoctors.com



Saturday, January 3, 2015

There Is No Recovery From America’s Economic Extinction Level Event

by Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show:
The massacre of Greek citizens under their Goldman Sachs controlled puppets, continues and Greeks are dying while the banks are getting paid for their bad credit swap derivatives. Greece is on the verge of a grass roots led civil war. Why should America be any different than Greece? The reason that the banking and retirement accounts of Greece have been destroyed is because Greece was chosen by the banksters to pillage their economy in order to help pay off their derivatives debt.
Think of Greece as being an appendage and the appendage belongs to a man who has a staff infection which is rapidly spreading through his system. To save the patient from dying, the patient must first have his hand amputated. When the doctors are unable to stop the infection from spreading, Spain and Italy are the next amputations to be performed as the other hand is amputated.
Read More @ Thecommonsenseshow.com

2015 Reminder: Government Word is Worthless

from Washington’s Blog:

As US government figures and departments, such as the “FBI” (which, according to its own documents, tried to “destroy Martin Luther King, Jr.”), continue to make and act on “official pronouncements”, let’s remember that these people have less than no credibility.  They have used lies, extreme violence, and stolen property to build themselves the most massive garrison/exploitation/surveillance state in human history, and are thus the very last people who should be taken at their word.
We can review innumerable current and recent lies and their consequences, but we should always keep in mind that they are nothing new.
Read More @ WashingtonsBlog.com

Fukushima News – Fukushima Corium Found In Pacific-“Plutonium Floating On The Surface”

from MissingSky101:

 Shut Up Officer

from The Burning Platform:
“With the increasing number of ambush-style attacks against our officers, I am deeply concerned that a growing anti-government sentiment in America is influencing weak-minded individuals to launch violent assaults against the men and women working to enforce our laws and keep our nation safe,” said Craig Floyd, chairman and CEO of the memorial fund.
“Enough is enough,” he said in a statement. “We need to tone down the rhetoric and rally in support of law enforcement and against lawlessness.”
Bite me Craig.
Here are the facts. There were 126 on-duty deaths reported among all officers in 2014. There are approximately 1 million sworn officers between federal, state, county and local government entities (and another couple of million employees who are not sworn; that is, they are not officers and do not have arrest powers, such as dispatchers and clerks.)
Read More @ TheBurningPlatform.com



Ken Rogoff Warns Economic Sanctions Don't Work; Fears Violence, Not Bargaining

With Western economic sanctions against Russia, Iran, and Cuba in the news, Ken Rogoff thought it was a good time to take stock of the debate on just how well such measures work. The short answer is that economic sanctions usually have only modest effects at best. In a world where nuclear proliferation has rendered global conventional war unthinkable, economic sanctions and sabotage are likely to play a large role in twenty-first-century geopolitics. Rather than preventing conflict, Pericles’s sanctions in ancient Greece ultimately helped to trigger the Peloponnesian War. One can only hope that in this century, wiser heads will prevail, and that economic sanctions lead to bargaining, not violence.


US Debt Soars By $100 Billion On Last Day Of 2014, Hits Record $18.14 Trillion









The Gloves Come Off: Germany Says Grexit "Manageable" As Tsipras Demands Greek Debt Writeoff

Today, concerned that Tsipras' ascent to power will mean precisely that, namely more "blackmail" by Greece of Germany and the Eurozone, as a Grexit opens the way for a collapse of the monetary union and a return to the DEM which would cost Germany far more than continuing the annual charade of keeping Greece in the Euro, Spiegel is out with another piece saying "Bundesregierung hält Ausscheiden Griechenlands aus dem Euro für verkraftbar", or loosely translated, the Federal Government considers Greece's exit from the euro manageable. Why is this coming out today? Because moments ago, Tsipras made it quite clear just what he will demand once he gets the power: "Germany had most of nominal value of debt written off in 1953, same should be done for Greece in 2015", adding that Greece wants writedown on nominal value of Greek debt. And so the gloves come off, and the real bluffing begins.






China's "Illusion Of Prosperity" Exposed: Forget Ghost Cities, Meet Ghost Factories

Having exposed the 20+1 charts of China's demise previously, we move to Exhibit (a) in the "illusion of prosperity" that keeps the dream (looking) alive to the outside (mostly Western get-rich-quick fast-money) world - China's Zombie Factories...

GLOBAL SILVER DEMAND GROWTH: Coin & Bar Take First Place By Wide Margin

from SRSrocco Report:

When it comes to global silver demand growth over the past decade, the coin and bar investment category is the big winner.  Unfortunately, the media tends to focus on growth of industrial silver consumption, while investment demand continues to take a back seat.
For example, the Silver Institute hired CRU Consulting to put a report together on the growth of industrial silver demand until 2018.  In the December 2014 Industrial Silver Report, CRU believes global industrial silver demand will increase 27% (from 2013), an additional 142 million ounces (Moz) by 2018.
Read More…

Russian Woes Continue As Ruble Plumbs New Depths

from Oil Price:
Russia’s Economic Development Ministry reports that the country’s economy shrank for the first time in five years in November, measuring 0.5 percent lower in November than it did in the same month the previous year because of dramatic drops in both investment and manufacturing.
“A sharp slowdown in manufacturing had the main negative effect on GDP dynamics in November,” the Economic Development Ministry said in the announcement on its website. It said there also were serious drops in wholesale trade, agriculture and construction.
Read More @ OilPrice.com

It IS Happening Here: “Permanent Gun Confiscation” Ordered After Veteran Sought ‘Voluntary’ Treatment for Insomnia

by Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan:
For those who have always believed that it can’t happen here, think again, because it IS happening, and things are only going to get worse as data surveillance becomes a way of life.
Gun confiscation at the hands of medical records sharing is now officially a reality, with serious consequences for the individuals involved.
Now, under ObamaCare, the United States is on pace to swiftly become a snitch society that would make East Germany and Soviet Russia blush.
Read More @ SHTFPlan.com

COPS SHOT in NY – LEAD UP to MARTIAL LAW – or – they’ll be SORRY NOW

from David Vose:
The Two Police Shot in New York has the whole world in panic. Is this what they want? If a Mass murder at a middle school didn’t give them what they wanted, gun control. And, if a Bomb in Boston didn’t cause nation wide Martial law, yet. How about a series of Police being Shot by civilians. This will be the war on America. The Police will not say, oh, we are sorry, we won’y murder your people in the streets anymore. No. They will just order MORE tanks and More Cops to patrol and rough us up. They will now declare that if an officer tells you to stand at attention and show your papers, you will do so immidiately or, you will be shot on the spot. No questions asked. It is only going to take a few more incidents before we will feel the pressure. We must not fight fire with fire. lets use Love and the facts, lets demonstrate peacfully and stop voting these people into office. We need to organize friends


Why is it illegal for communities to protect themselves from harm?

from Jon Rappoport:
The supposed answer to that question is the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution, Article 6, paragraph 2:
“This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”
By inference, the individual states declare their own supremacy when local communities try to nullify or avoid state statutes.
Read More @ Jonrappoport.wordpress.com

Land of the Spied On? Army Surveillance Blimps Launching over MD as 30,000 Cameras Watch D.C. Schools

by Melissa Melton, The Daily Sheeple:
America is the “land of the free, home of the brave” in name only.
The majority of us who have long ago realized that ignorance is not bliss have known this for quite a while now. In reality, we’re living in an increasingly sophisticated electronic concentration camp the likes of which would make George Orwell spin in his grave fast enough to cause spontaneous combustion.
Some have suggested America is now “the most surveilled society in human history,” and on what possible basis could anyone disagree?
Read More @ TheDailySheeple.com

The Year US-Led Capitalism Became Exposed As Root Of Global Conflict

by Finian Cunningham, The News Doctors:
TND Editor’s Note: The United States has a “mixed” economic system, and it’s probably safe to say at least 70% of the economy is crony-capitalist in nature, and that includes the excesses of imperialism and subjugation, the focus of much of Mr. Cunningham’s essay. Part of the solution to America’s problems requires the restoration of true capitalism so forgive me if I grow tired of otherwise brilliant people like Mr. Cunningham continuing to fall down on this subtle fact. Normally, an editorial note wouldn’t be necessary, and much flies on TND we don’t agree with. That just comes with the process of ensuring a healthy stream of ideas. But getting the definition of our problems correct on this critical issue can’t be passed over.
Historians may look back on 2014 as a defining watershed in geopolitical events, the year when the limit of American power was exposed as a waning entity and the contemporary root of global conflict.
Read More @ TheNewsDoctors.com

Why You Should Be Prepared for Both Inflation and Deflation

by Jim Rickards, Daily Reckoning.com:
Today’s investment climate is the most challenging one you have ever faced. At least since the late 1970s, perhaps since the 1930s. This is because inflation and deflation are both possibilities in the near term. Most investors can prepare for one or the other, but preparing for both at the same time is far more difficult. The reason for this challenging environment is not difficult to discern.
Analysts and talking heads have been wondering for five years why the recovery is not stronger. They keep predicting that stronger growth is right around the corner. Their forecasts have failed year after year and their confusion grows. Perhaps even you, who have seen scores of normal business and credit cycles come and go for decades, are confused.
Read More @ DailyReckoning.com

Fleckenstein Warns 2015 Is The Year The Fantasy Dies

from KingWorldNews:
Fleckenstein: “People are going to lose confidence in the central banks and there is going to be an ugly dislocation when that happens. Will they come back for another round (of money printing)? I’m sure the Fed will come with QE again when it turns out this one doesn’t work….
“But for the moment the people who believe in the fantasy of central banks delivering economic Nirvana, and that they can levitate financial markets forever, those people who believe that are winning the battle, and those of us who say that this is going to end in disaster aren’t.
Bill Fleckenstein Audio Interview @ KingWorldNews.com

 

Friday, January 2, 2015

The Four Things You Can Count On Following the Collapse of the Dollar

by Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show:
It is easy to misinterpret the signals of our economy from afar when we see people driving cars everywhere and we tend to think that our economy as not being that bad. However, the fact remains that 40 years ago Americans owned those cars that we see them driving. Today, we are renting them as 40% of us are leasing our vehicles. As we drive up and down our neighborhoods, we see people living in houses and we lie to ourselves and use this as a false barometer to convince ourselves that everything is OK. However, many of these homes we see people living in, have lost all of their equity. The logical answer to the question “When will we have a depression”, should be answered by stating “We have an $18 trillion dollar annual deficit and that is the good news. We have $240 trillion dollars of debt from unfunded liabilities and we have a stunning $1.5 quadrillion dollar debt. So, you better grab all the food, water, guns and ammunition that you can and run for the hills”! But as long we see people driving in cars and living in houses, most Americans are going to deny the truth. And the last thing that I wanted to do on the first day of a new year, was to be the harbinger of doom and gloom. Yet, I feel compelled to speak the truth, on this New Year’s Day, because I might be able to get one more person to take the steps necessary to help increase the odds of their survival in response to what is coming. History shows that one can count on four things occurring following the collapse of the dollar.
Read More @ Thecommonsenseshow.com


US Debt Soars By $100 Billion On Last Day Of 2014, Hits Record $18.14 Trillion




Ted Butler: Has JPMorgan Accumulated The LARGEST PHYSICAL SILVER POSITION IN HISTORY!?!

from Silver Doctors:
A couple of weeks ago, a long time subscriber correctly pointed out that I seemed to be speculating more than usual in my conclusion that JPMorgan was the big buyer of Silver Eagles and had accumulated as many as 300 million oz of silver, including Eagles and bullion. The subscriber noted that I usually relied on hard core facts that could be documented and not on speculation.
As it turns out, I believe there are sufficient number of hard facts behind my speculation, but I had failed to point them out.
So let me present the facts, as I see them, that point to JPMorgan having amassed the largest physical silver position in history.
Read More @ SilverDoctors.com

Russian companies halt food shipments as economic collapse accelerates

by J. D. Heyes, Natural News:
As ugly as the current collapsing economy in Russia is already, it might be about to get a whole lot uglier — and much more dangerous, both for average Russians and the world.
Up to this point, most of the world’s and media’s focus has been on the economics of the Russian currency collapse, which has been fed largely by a rapid decline in oil prices (fully half of Russia’s GDP is dependent upon energy sales) and Western-led sanctions for Moscow’s military aggression in Crimea and Ukraine. Also, many geopolitical analysts have been keeping an eye on Russian President Vladimir Putin, and have tried to predict what he might do.
Read More @ NaturalNews.com

WW3 – Hillary Clinton Will Lead Us To World War 3 – Paul Craig Roberts

From Super Documentary TV:


‘CIA fingerprints’ all over Kiev massacre – Oliver Stone

from RT:
The armed coup in Kiev is painfully similar to CIA operations to oust unwanted foreign leaders in Iran, Chile and Venezuela, said US filmmaker Oliver Stone after interviewing Ukraine’s ousted president for a documentary.
Stone spent four hours in Moscow talking to Viktor Yanukovich, who was deposed from power during the February 2014 coup, the filmmaker wrote on his Facebook page.
Details to follow in the documentary, but it seems clear that the so-called ‘shooters’ who killed 14 police men, wounded some 85, and killed 45 protesting civilians, were outside third party agitators,” he said. “Many witnesses, including Yanukovych and police officials, believe these foreign elements were introduced by pro-Western factions – with CIA fingerprints on it.”
Read More @ RT.com

BOOM! BBC Busted Using Sandy Hook’s ‘Noah Pozner’ As Pakistan Massacre Victim!

from Dahboo777:
While much furor and speculation has surrounded the Sandy Hook event, those questioning mainstream media have turned up a great deal of subterfuge and trickery on the part of establishment outlets. As usual, no explanations of these oddities are ever offered beyond the usual ad hominem attack of “conspiracy theorist.” However, once again, as if an inside joke, the BBC has run a report on the Taliban and recent deaths that absurdly shows a picture of “Noah,” the child from the Sandy Hook massacre. The image is visible here at 2:03. They might as well have thrown in Elian Goanzalez to boot!

1000+ people killed by cops in 2014, FBI Trying to Falsely Report Actual Numbers

by Heather Callaghan, Activist Post:
Another year has come to an end, which means another set of Unified Crime Reports (UCR) will be published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The reports are supposed to be the most authoritative set of data on crime in the US.
As has become the habit with most federal documents, the numbers are cooked. They could have honestly just made them up. In 2013, the FBI reported that there were 461 people killed by cops in the US.
461 seems to be a fairly good number. It fits with the estimates of 500 per year that most believe to be accurate. The problem is that the actual number of people killed by cops in 2013 is much higher.
Read More @ Activist Post

 

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Former White House Official Warns The World Is Dangerously Close To Collapse

from KingWorldNews:
Eric King: “What is the great danger facing the world as we head into 2015?”
Dr. Malmgren: “There is a risk that this period of history might end up being parallel to 1922 – 1923 in Germany. As you recall, that was a period when the central banks started really expanding the money supply and thinking they could control the outcome at a later date. It turned out they couldn’t and it really got out of control in a couple of years. Then we had the dreadful hyperinflation that we refer to in the Weimar Republic….
King World News note: The Weimar Republic hyperinflation chart below shows one gold Mark collapsing in value from a level of one Mark for one gold unit in 1918, all the way to an astonishing one trillion Marks for the same unit of gold by 1923.
Rick Rule Continues @ KingWorldNews.com

The New York Federal Reserve Has Signaled the End of the Dollar Is Near

by Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show:
Ultimately, this article is written for individuals who are naive enough to believe that 2015 will look and feel like 2014. The banksters have positioned world events, both militarily and economically, to make 2015 a pivotal year in world history.
Goldman Sachs Leads the Charge to Armageddon
Twenty one months ago, in response to the undeniable Goldman Sachs chicanery with regard to the manipulation of the gold market, I wrote the following:
Read More @ Thecommonsenseshow.com

The Confiscation of Bank Deposits and The Derivative Debt — Ellen Brown

from GlobalResearchTV:
Last month’s G20 Summit in Australia came and went without the protests and riots we’ve come to expect at the summit in recent years. But as author and researcher Ellen Brown notes, the real fireworks happened behind closed doors, where the group rubber stamped new regulations that will make Cyprus style bank bail-ins a worldwide reality.

The Terrible Truth about the Money in Your Pocket

by Joshua Krause, The Daily Sheeple:
Reach into your pocket right now and pull out one of those righteous dollar bills you own. Take a good look at, in all its green and symbol laden glory. Have you ever stopped and asked yourself “What is this really worth?”
If you asked an economist, he’d probably try to compare its value to a commodity or another currency. If you asked a blue collar worker he’d tell you that it’s food on the table. Or if you asked a white collar office drone, he or she would tell you that it’s freedom. If you asked a politician, he’d tell you that money equals votes (off the record of course). And if you asked a banker, well…he’d probably speak into his watch and say “I’ve got one that can see!”
Read More @ TheDailySheeple.com

Who Is Behind The Oil War, And How Low Will The Price Of Crude Go In 2015?

by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
Who is to blame for the staggering collapse of the price of oil?  Is it the Saudis?  Is it the United States?  Are Saudi Arabia and the U.S. government working together to hurt Russia?  And if this oil war continues, how far will the price of oil end up falling in 2015?  As you will see below, some analysts believe that it could ultimately go below 20 dollars a barrel.  If we see anything even close to that, the U.S. economy could lose millions of good paying jobs, billions of dollars of energy bonds could default and we could see trillions of dollars of derivatives related to the energy industry implode.  The global financial system is already extremely vulnerable, and purposely causing the price of oil to crash is one of the most deflationary things that you could possibly do.  Whoever is behind this oil war is playing with fire, and by the end of this coming year the entire planet could be dealing with the consequences.
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Food Stamps, Subprime and Hyperinflation

by Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, Silver-coin-investor:
The next generation will look back at the current period with utter astonishment. The archives will be riddled with debates and all manner of euphemisms for what led to the collapse of the world’s first and last fiat reserve currency.
It is a process well underway. Take a look at two seemingly unrelated, though current, economic-financial trends: Food stamps and subprime.
The case of spending compared with risk. Food assistance is but a tiny tributary broken off from a massive river of denial.
Read More @ Silver-coin-investor.com

Japan On Track For A Textbook Bust

by Claudio Grass, Global Gold, via The Daily Coin:
Recently, we wrote a paper about the dynamics behind the boom and bust cycles, based on the view of the Austrian School (the Austrian Business Cycle Theory, or ABCT). The key takeaway was that central banks don’t help in smoothing the amplitude of the cycles, but rather are the cause of cycles.
Business cycles are a direct result of excessive credit flow into the market, facilitated by an intentionally low interest rate set by the government.
The problem with ongoing monetary policies is that the excessive money supply sends the wrong signals to the market, which ultimately leads to misallocation of investments or ‘malinvestments’.
Read More @ TheDailyCoin.org

Scenes From a (Suddenly) Nude Beach

by John Rubino, Dollar Collapse:
Warren Buffett’s classic observation that “You only see who’s swimming naked when the tide goes out” is being tossed around more frequently these days, as the world gets yet another deflation scare. Zero Hedge just published a great piece on this topic, which should be read in its entirety. In the meantime here’s a summary of the story with a few added bits.
Let’s begin with the common sense premise that overly-easy money sends a false-positive signal to market participants, leading them to buy and build things that maybe shouldn’t be bought or built. Then, when money goes back to a more reasonable price, the bad decisions (malinvestment in economist-speak) are revealed and financial turmoil ensues.
Read More @ DollarCollapse.com

2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia

from The Burning Platform:
Fasten your seatbelts; 2015 will be a whirlwind pitting China, Russia and Iran against what I have described as the Empire of Chaos.
So yes – it will be all about further moves towards the integration of Eurasia as the US is progressively squeezed out of Eurasia. We will see a complex geostrategic interplay progressively undermining the hegemony of the US dollar as a reserve currency and, most of all, the petrodollar.For all the immense challenges the Chinese face, all over Beijing it’s easy to detect unmistakable signs of a self-assured, self-confident, fully emerged commercial superpower. President Xi Jinping and the current leadership will keep investing heavily in the urbanization drive and the fight against corruption, including at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Internationally, the Chinese will accelerate their overwhelming push for new ‘Silk Roads’ – both overland and maritime – which will underpin the long-term Chinese master strategy of unifying Eurasia with trade and commerce.
Read More @ TheBurningPlatform.com

Jim Rogers On Russia And Big Picture; Eric Coffin On Precious Metals & Miners: Jay Taylor’s “Turning Hard Times Into Good Times”

from The News Doctors:
World renowned investor, traveler and author Jim Rogers returns to discuss the current Anglo-American Empire’s conflict with Russia.
Having traveled in that country numerous times over the past few decades, Russia had until recently been one of his least favored countries but his view is now turning more positive. He will explain why. As fierce advocate of limited government and free market economics Rogers offers a blistering critique of current policies of the West that are sewing the seeds of its own destruction. He tells why he is happy he sold his mansion in Manhattan and moved to Singapore where he and his wife are raising their two daughters. Rogers also will tell us where he is putting his money as we head into 2015. Eric Coffin, one of the most astute junior exploration newsletter writers talks about prospects for making money in that beleaguered sector and names his top penny stock pick for 2015.
Read More @ TheNewsDoctors.com


History Lesson: America Is the Same ‘Ol Oligarchy It Was over a Century Ago

from TRUTHstreammedia:

(Truthstream Media) When Americans see charts like this one which illustrate that virtually all the food on grocery store shelves basically comes from no more than 10 megacompanies, or hear statements like this one from our own Attorney General Eric Holder who told the Senate Judiciary Committee that some banks are just too big to prosecute, or check out studies like this one out of Princeton which openly declare we are not a democracy but an oligarchy…it’s kinda hard to believe we aren’t an oligarchy (because we are).
Come on, even our Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen (you know, the lady that runs the place that prints our money and sells it to us with interest) has basically admitted it.
Read More @ TruthStreamMedia.com

Big Banks Conspire with Giant Oil Company to Manipulate Currency Markets

from Washington’s Blog:

It has long been known that currency markets are massively rigged. And see this, this, and this.
But the banks not only shared confidential information with each other … they also shared it with a giant oil company.
Bloomberg reports this week:
With revenue of almost $400 billion last year and operations in about 80 countries, BP trades large quantities of currency each day. Traders at the company regularly received valuable information from counterparts at some of the world’s biggest banks — including tips about forthcoming trades, details of confidential client business and discussions of stop-losses, the trigger points for a flurry of buying or selling — according to four traders with direct knowledge of the practice.
Read More @ WashingtonsBlog.com

Pink-haired ‘Nerd’ Uses 9/11 Truth Websites to Show NASA How Physics Works!

from AE 911 Truth:
In a recent episode of the TBS reality show King of the Nerds, a bubbly, pink-haired video game blogger named Danielle was the unlikely winner of one phase of a science-related competition that pitted her against a NASA engineer and three other contenders. The most intriguing aspect of her upset win was that Danielle used “9/11 conspiracy” websites to outsmart her rivals.
“I just beat a NASA scientist in physics,” a bemused Danielle beamed, then added, “What the f%^k?” She went on to thank “all the conspiracy theorists of America.”
Read More @ AE911Truth.org

UK banks ‘too weak’ to survive another recession

from Patriot Rising:
Former Bank of England governor Mervyn King has warned that British banks are too weak to weather another financial crisis, adding that government officials haven’t “got to the heart” of what went wrong in 2008.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, King criticized current measures being taken by the BoE to stabilize the economy, including keeping interest rates at a record low – currently at 0.5 percent – for more than five years.
“I don’t think we’re yet at the point where we can be confident that the banking system would be entirely safe,” he told the program.
Read More @ PatriotRising.com
 


For CNBC, 2014 Was The Worst. Year. Ever.

Another year of putting lipstick on the zombie known as the global economy, kept walking only thanks to $11 trillion in liquidity injections by the world's central banks and tens of trillions of new Chinese credit created out of thin air and promptly misallocated and embezzled, and the results are in. The bottom line: according to Nielsen, is that despite the S&P recording a whopping 53 all time highs, and the Dow rising over 18,000, the channel that was once must watch financial TV for mom and pop, and has since devolved into endless cheerleading of failed policies and rigged markets, namely CNBC, just suffered its worst year in, well, ever.

 


Weaponized Ebola? ISIS Militants Said To Contract Deadly Virus

Forget targeted US airstrikes, ISIS faces a new existential threat. Citing an unnamed source in a Mosul hospital, Iraq's official pro-government newspaper, al Sabaah, said Ebola arrived in Mosul from "terrorists" who came "from several countries" and Africa. Mashable further confirms, three outlets reported that Ebola showed up at a hospital in Mosul. For now, it's unclear if any disease experts or doctors in Mosul are even able to test for the Ebola virus; but it would mark the first time the virus had been detected in an area controlled by ISIS, a group that doesn't embrace science and modern medicine.

 


2014 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year

The sixth anniversary of Zero Hedge is just around the corner, and so, for the sixth year in a row we continue our tradition of summarizing what you, our readers, found to be the most relevant, exciting, and actionable news of the year, determined by the number of page views. Those eager for a brief stroll down memory lane of prior years can do so at their leisure, by going back in time to our top articles of 2009,2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. For everyone else, without further ado, these are the articles that readers found to be the most popular posts of the past 365 days.
 



US Ally, Saudi Arabia Beheads 87 In 2014, Up Over 10% From 2013

It was a good year for those long 'beheadings'. After a solid 79 head-removals in 2013, 2014 surged 10% higher with a recent record 87 beheadings overall (following a surge since August for crimes such as "drug smuggling, witchcraft, or sorcery"). The 'State' responsible for all these executions... not ISIS, but US ally, Saudi Arabia...