Month: October 2015

Mario Draghi Admits Global QE Has Failed: “The Slowdown Is Probably Not Temporary”

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“The conditions in the economies of the rest of the world have undoubtedly proved weaker compared with a few months ago, in particular in the emerging economies. Global growth forecasts have been revised downwards. This slowdown is probably not temporary.”

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– Mario Draghi Admits Global QE Has Failed: “The Slowdown Is Probably Not Temporary”:

Undoubtedly, the most amusing this about the prospect of more easing from the ECB (as telegraphed by Mario Draghi last week) and the BoJ (where Haruhiko Kuroda just jeopardized his status as monetary madman par excellence by failing to expand stimulus) is that both Europe and Japan both recently slid back into deflation despite trillions in central bank asset purchases. 

In other words, the market expects both Draghi and Kuroda to double- and triple- down on policies that clearly aren’t working when it comes to altering inflation expectations and/or boosting aggregate demand. Indeed, both Goldman and BofAML said as much last week. For those who missed it, here’s Goldman’s take

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29 people arrested on sex trafficking charges in 13 cities, 8 states

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– 29 people arrested on sex trafficking charges in 13 cities, 8 states:

Federal authorities arrested 29 people in 13 cities across eight states on sex trafficking charges, as part of a sweeping southern states operation called “Safe Haven,” according to US officials.

The undercover operation involved a loosely affiliated operation that coordinated the movement of Latino females throughout the southeast of the US, according to authorities. The traffickers within the operation were independent operators who coordinated the delivery of women for sexual purposes.

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Dead comet with skull face to hurtle by Earth on Halloween

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– Dead comet with skull face to hurtle by Earth on Halloween:

A massive space rock that will shave by Earth on Halloween looks like a dead comet with a skull face, NASA said after gaining a closer look at the spooky space object.

Astronomers initially thought the object was an asteroid when they spotted it in early October, and named it Asteroid 2015 TB145.

But using the US space agency’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, experts “have determined that the celestial object is more than likely a dead comet that has shed its volatiles after numerous passes around the sun,” NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement late Friday.

Scientists have also spotted an eerie skull-like resemblance on the face of the rock, based on radar data from the National Science Foundation’s 305-meter (1,000-foot) Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

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More Than 13 Feet Of Snow Mount Rainier, WA By Monday Evening

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– More than 13 feet of snow Mount Rainier, WA by Monday evening:

Four meters of snow in just four days!

As of yesterday morning, NOAA was predicting between 122 and 162 inches of snow (10 to 13½ FEET!) on Mt. Rainier at higher elevations.

Combined with 65 mph winds and temperatures in the 20-30 degree Fahrenheit range, wind chills will drop to near zero Fahrenheit.

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Russia’s Putin Says Global Warming Is ‘A Fraud’

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Putin Defies The West, Leads BRICS Alliance Away From NWO Reservation

– Russia’s Putin Says Global Warming Is ‘A Fraud’:

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes global warming is a “fraud” — a plot to keep Russia from using its vast oil and natural gas reserves.

Putin believes “there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries, including Russia,” Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and Putin critic, told The New York Times.

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Withdrawals Of Gold From NY Fed Jump To 20 Tons In September, Total 276 Tons Since 2014

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– Withdrawals Of Gold From NY Fed Jump To 20 Tons In September, Total 276 Tons Since 2014:

In September, the total physical gold held in custody at the NY Fed dropped another 19.9 tons in September, down to 5,919.5 tons. This was a doubling in gold withdrawals from 10 tons in August, and is the highest withdrawal since January. At just under 5,920 total tons in NY Fed inventory, this is the lowest amount of gold held in NY Fed custody in decades.

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Obama Announces “Boots on the Ground” in Syria, Despite Promising “No Boots on the Ground” 16 Times

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– Obama Announces “Boots on the Ground” in Syria, Despite Promising “No Boots on the Ground” 16 Times:

The following was reported by Reuters earlier today.

The United States will deploy dozens of special operations forces to northern Syria to advise opposition forces in their fight against Islamic State, a major policy shift for President Barack Obama and a step he has long resisted to avoid getting dragged into another war in the Middle East.

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Pentagon Commits To Doling Out $80 Billion For Another Bomber

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– Pentagon Commits To Doling Out $80 Billion For Another Bomber:

So much for the ‘age of austerity.’ While in the middle of dealing with the trillion-dollar boondoggle known as the F-35 project, the Department of Defense has committed to spend another $80 billion on bomber it does not need. The next generation long range strike bomber (LRS-B) will be the first new bomber since the Cold War.

The contract from the US Air Force was awarded to Northrop Grumman, who beat out Lockheed Martin and Boeing to build a bomber that is not expected to be operational until the 2020s. The current estimated cost for the bombers is $564 million each (and you can expect that number to go up).

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Russia: US may have delusion of winning war with Russia

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– Russia: US may have delusion of winning war with Russia:

A senior Russian government official says some in the U.S. may have a delusion of winning a war with Russia with new conventional weapons without resorting to nuclear arms.

Dmitry Rogozin, a deputy prime minister in charge of military industries, said in remarks carried Friday by Russian news agencies that “for the first time ever, the American strategists have developed an illusion … that they may defeat a nuclear power in a non-nuclear war.” He added that “it’s nonsense, and it will never happen.”

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Saudi prince arrested on private plane with 2 tons of drugs

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– Saudi prince arrested on private plane with 2 tons of drugs:

Lebanese security forces are interrogating a Saudi prince on charges of carrying drugs on his private plane after they allegedly retrieved 2 tons of narcotics from the aircraft, local media reported.

Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was detained on Monday in Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport.

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AND NOW: Energy Dept Says PUMPKINS Cause Climate Change

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– Energy Dept Says PUMPKINS Cause Climate Change:

Millions of pounds of Halloween pumpkins end up in the trash, becoming part of the more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste produced in the United States every year, says the Energy Dept website.

Municipal solid waste decomposes into methane, “a harmful greenhouse gas that plays a part in climate change, with more than 20 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide,” Energy says.

Read moreAND NOW: Energy Dept Says PUMPKINS Cause Climate Change

Obamacare Is A Disaster: Co-Op Insurers Across America Are Collapsing, And Now There Is Fraud

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– Obamacare Is A Disaster: Co-Op Insurers Across America Are Collapsing, And Now There Is Fraud:

Two weeks ago we reported that in what at the time was still a rather isolated incident, Colorado’s largest nonprofit health insurer (aka co-op), Colorado HealthOP is abruptly shutting down, forcing 80,000 Coloradans to find a new insurer for 2016.

At the time, we said that the health insurer had been decertified by the Division of Insurance as an eligible insurance company because the cooperative relied on federal support, and federal authorities announced last month they wouldn’t be able to pay most of what they owed in a program designed to help health insurance co-ops get established.

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Laughing Abortionists ‘Pull Out Baby Hearts After Abortion, Just For Fun. It’s Cute’ (VIDEO)

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– Laughing abortionists ‘pull out baby hearts after abortion, just for fun. It’s cute’ *VIDEO*:

Admit they “strive” to extract “intact” heads to sell

An eleventh undercover video was released Tuesday by the Center For Medical Progress, again capturing officials at Planned Parenthood admitting to selling aborted body parts, and laughing about it.

This time an abortion doctor for Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas. discusses harvesting the “intact” heads of late term aborted babies for research.

“My aim is usually to get the specimens out pretty intact,” the doctor, Amna Dermish, tells the actors posing as potential fetal tissue buyers.

Dermish also admits that she sometimes alters the abortion procedure in an effort to preserve the fetus for harvesting.

Read moreLaughing Abortionists ‘Pull Out Baby Hearts After Abortion, Just For Fun. It’s Cute’ (VIDEO)

S&P Downgrades Saudi Arabia On Slumping Crude, Ballooning Fiscal Deficit

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– S&P Downgrades Saudi Arabia On Slumping Crude, Ballooning Fiscal Deficit:

“We expect the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s general government fiscal deficit will increase to 16% of GDP in 2015, from 1.5% in 2014, primarily reflecting the sharp drop in oil prices. Hydrocarbons account for about 80% of Saudi Arabia’s fiscal revenues.”

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The Shale Massacre: Chevron Fires Another 7,000 After Laying Off 1,500 Three Months Ago

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– The Shale Massacre: Chevron Fires Another 7,000 After Laying Off 1,500 Three Months Ago:

Even though Chevron said in July that its cost-cutting initiatives would be “completed by mid-November of 2015” it decided to surprise everyone moments ago when on its earnings call it announced it would not only slash its capex by another 25%, but will shortly distribute another 7,000 pink slips. The reason: another terrible quarter in which the $2 billion in earnings were a 73% plunge from a year earlier.

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Labour MP Gerald Kaufman accuses Government of being swayed by ‘Jewish money’

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– Labour MP Gerald Kaufman accuses Government of being swayed by ‘Jewish money’:

He also said ‘more than half’ of the recent stabbing attacks against Jews in Israel had been fabricated

Labour MP Sir Gerald Kaufman has allegedly accused Israel of fabricating some recent stories about knife attacks against Jews in Israel, and claimed the Conservative party is influenced by “Jewish money,” in a speech at a pro-Palestine event at Parliament.

As reported by The Jewish Chronicle, Kaufman, MP for Manchester Gorton and Father of the House, told the audience at a Palestine Return Centre event that the Government has become more pro-Israel in recent years due to donations from Jewish groups.

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Britain: Young people suffering their ‘worst economic prospects for several generations’

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– Young people suffering their ‘worst economic prospects for several generations’:

Young people are suffering the “worst economic prospects for several generations” as a worrying age inequality gap is opening up in Britain, according to a major state-of-the-nation report.

In its biggest review yet of equality across the country, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) identified the winners and losers in modern Britain.

Younger people have been hit by the greatest drop in income and employment in recent years compared with older age groups. They also face even greater barriers to achieving economic independence and success than they did five years ago.

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Police ‘to be given powers to view everyone’s entire internet history’

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– Police ‘to be given powers to view everyone’s entire internet history’:

Police are to be given the power to view everyone’s entire internet history in a new surveillance bill to be published next week, according to reports.

The proposed legislation will make it a legal requirement for telecoms and internet service providers to retain all of the web browsing history for all customers for a period of 12 months, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Authorities such as the police, intelligence services and the National Crime Agency would be able to access specific web addresses people had visited, but would need approval from a judge to view the content of websites, emails and social media messages.

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First They Jailed the Bankers, Now Every Icelander to Get Paid in Bank Sale

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– First They Jailed the Bankers, Now Every Icelander to Get Paid in Bank Sale:

Iceland — First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki.

If Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has his way — and he likely will — Icelanders will be paid kr 30,000 after the government takes over ownership of the bank. Íslandsbanki would be second of the three largest banks under State proprietorship.

“I am saying that the government take [sic] some decided portion, 5%, and simply hand it over to the people of this country,” he stated.

Read moreFirst They Jailed the Bankers, Now Every Icelander to Get Paid in Bank Sale