Month: November 2015

Obama To Openly Welcome Criminals As Government Workers

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– Obama To Openly Welcome Criminals As Government Workers:

President Obama has just unleashed a new executive order to remove admission of a criminal history from job applications, or in The White House’s words, to reduce potential discrimination against former convicts in the hiring process for federal government employees. As NBC News reports, this is a further step towards what many criminal justice reformers call “ban the box” – the effort to eliminate requirements that job applicants check a box on their applications if they have a criminal record – and continues Obama’s emphasis on assisting criminals who want to re-enter society as part of his continuing agenda items from his “My Brother’s Keeper Task Force.”

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S&P Puts Too-Big-To-Fail US Banks On Ratings Downgrade Watch

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– S&P Puts Too-Big-To-Fail US Banks On Ratings Downgrade Watch:

Having watched the credit markets grow more and more weary of the major US financials, it should not be total surprise that ratings agency S&P just put all the majors on watch for a rating downgrade:

*JPMORGAN, CITIGROUP, GOLDMAN SACHS, STATE STREET CORP, MORGAN STANLEY MAY BE CUT BY S&P

Despite all the talking heads proclamations on higher rates and net interest margins and ‘strongest balance sheets’ ever, S&P obviously sees something more worrisome looming. This comes just hours after Moody’s put Bank of Nova Scotia on review also (blaming the move on concerns over increased risk appetite).

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The disappearing middle class is threatening American mega brands

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Caterpillar, the Auto Loan default crisis & the BDI are the canaries in the mine, not bloody chocolate!”

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(Feeding your kids such crap is killing them, literally.)

– The disappearing middle class is threatening American mega brands:

The disappearing middle class is challenging many major American brands.

The Hershey Company on Wednesday reported flat sales for the most recent quarter and cut its profit outlook for the year.

Company executives blamed the disappointing results in part on the changing income landscape in the US.

“We think that consumer bifurcation has been an important driver,” Hershey CEO John Bilbrey said on an earnings call, referring to the growing gap between upper-income and lower-income consumers.

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Syrian rebels use caged captives as ‘human shields’

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– Syrian rebels use caged captives as ‘human shields’:

Prisoners believed to be regime officers used as shield near Damascus as Assad forces intensify bombing of rebel areas.

Syrian rebel groups have locked people in cages and driven them to areas near Damascus to use as human shields against heavy government air raids.

A video posted online by the Shaam News Network, an opposition media outlet, showed prisoners in iron cages being driven on the back of pickup trucks through what it said was the area of Eastern Ghouta, northeast of the capital.

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Apocalypse now: has the next giant financial crash already begun?

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– Apocalypse now: has the next giant financial crash already begun?:

The 1st of October came and went without financial armageddon. Veteran forecaster Martin Armstrong, who accurately predicted the 1987 crash, used the same model to suggest that 1 October would be a major turning point for global markets. Some investors even put bets on it. But the passing of the predicted global crash is only good news to a point. Many indicators in global finance are pointing downwards – and some even think the crash has begun.

Let’s assemble the evidence. First, the unsustainable debt. Since 2007, the pile of debt in the world has grown by $57tn (£37tn). That’s a compound annual growth rate of 5.3%, significantly beating GDP. Debts have doubled in the so-called emerging markets, while rising by just over a third in the developed world.

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Why is Wheat Such a Problem in the Modern Diet?

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– Why is Wheat Such a Problem in the Modern Diet?:

Wheat, which used to be considered a “staff of life,” in recent times, has become a dietary scourge for numerous men, women, and children. What happened, especially when there are so many processed foods that contain wheat or wheat derivatives?

First and foremost, we ought to realize that wheat grown today is a hybridized version of heirloom wheat during the early 20th century. Einkorn [1], which probably was the oldest variety of wheat known and grown for thousands of years, has fallen out of favor even though it contains a lower percentage of gluten.

According to Tropical Traditions’ article, “Einkorn Ancient Grain,”

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Austrian Politician Under Fire After Agreeing That “Zionist Money Jews Are The Global Problem”

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For your information.

– U.S. Media Controlled By Just Six Corporations (INFOGRAPHIC)

– Six Jewish Companies Control 96% of the World’s Media

– A Jewish Defector Warns America: Benjamin Freedman Speaks On Zionism – Part I, Part II And Part III

– The History of the House of Rothschild

Flashback:

ON RECORD: Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘America is something that can easily be moved.’ ‘The world won’t say a thing.’ ‘The world will say we’re defending.’ (Video)

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– Austrian Politician Under Fire After Agreeing That “Zionist Money Jews Are The Global Problem”:

Austrian lawmaker Susanne Winter did something she probably shouldn’t have last week.

It started when someone named Oehlmann Hans- Jörg wrote the following on Winter’s Facebook page:

“The Zionist money Jews are the global problem. Europe, and in particular Germany, are now getting what they deserve from Zionist Jews, particularly rich Zionist Jews in the USA, for the century-long persecution of Jews in Europe. According to the Zionists, Europe, particularly Germany, should be cut off as economic competitors to the US.”

While it’s not entirely clear what Hans- Jörg is trying to communicate there in terms of specifics, the overall message seems clear and Winter apparently supports it. Here’s her response:

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AGENDA 2030: The UN Plans To Implement Universal Biometric Identification For All Of Humanity

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– The UN Plans To Implement Universal Biometric Identification For All Of Humanity By 2030:

Did you know that the United Nations intends to have biometric identification cards in the hands of every single man, woman and child on the entire planet by the year 2030?  And did you know that a central database in Geneva, Switzerland will be collecting data from many of these cards?  Previously, I have written about the 17 new “Global Goals” that the UN launched at the end of September.  Even after writing several articles about these new Global Goals, I still don’t think that most of my readers really grasp how insidious they actually are.  This new agenda truly is a template for a “New World Order”, and if you dig into the sub-points for these new Global Goals you find some very alarming things.

For example, Goal 16.9 sets the following target…

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“For Every Job Created In The US This Decade, US Corporations Spent $296,000 On Stock Buybacks”

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– “For Every Job Created In The US This Decade, US Corporations Spent $296,000 On Stock Buybacks”:

Yesterday in “$20 Trillion In Government Bonds Yield Under 1%: The Stunning Facts How We Got There“, we did just that: showed several “facts” demonstrating how, as Bloomberg puts it this morning, “QE Helped Wall Street Steamroll Main Street.”

It appears many missed the findings of how central planning has now gone full retard, so here again, are the facts:

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ELECTION RIGGED IN TURKEY, NOVEMBER 2015

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– ELECTION RIGGED IN TURKEY, NOVEMBER 2015:

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Turkish election November 2015 – burnt ballot papers. LiveLeak.com.

The November 2015 election in Turkey, won by the secretly pro-Israel Erdogan, was rigged.

The opinion polls had suggested that Erdogan would lose.

“Nearly all opinion polls indicate that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will again fail to get the parlaimentary seats needed to form a majority government.”

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China Arrests Three High Frequency Traders For “Destabilizing The Market And Profiting From Volatility”

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– China Arrests Three High Frequency Traders For “Destabilizing The Market And Profiting From Volatility”:

Last night we reported the shocking news that none other than “China’s Carl Icahn” (or its “Warren Buffett” depending on the news source), Xu Xiang – who has ranked China’s 188th richest man with $2.2 billion in net worth according to the Hurun rich list – had been arrested in what was the latest crackdown against “malicious short sellers”, with Bloomberg adding that Shanghai police raided hedge fund Zexi Investment on Sunday, taking away computers and other materials, “in the latest attempt by Chinese authorities to crack down on strategies blamed for exacerbating a $5 trillion stock-market rout.”

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Xu Xiang being taken into custody as part of the investigation into market manipulation

According to the FT, Xiang “was the the leading light of the “Limit-up Kamikaze Squad”, a group of hedge fund managers known for their fearless speculation.”

Read moreChina Arrests Three High Frequency Traders For “Destabilizing The Market And Profiting From Volatility”

Billionaires Troll Middle Class With “14 Things Successful People Do Before Breakfast” Listicle

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– Billionaires Troll Middle Class With “14 Things Successful People Do Before Breakfast” Listicle:

At first we though the Twitter account of the World Economic Forum, best known for its annual Davos boondoggle catering only to billionaires, had been hacked.

Either that, or the world’s billionaires (who previously were so very concerned about rising inequality they have since greenlighted numerous new cases of QE and a few dozen rate cuts to push stocks, and inequality, to even recorder highs) now have nothing better to do than to troll everyone else, not only by parading with their wealth (and lamenting rising global CO2 levels after creating a traffic jam with their private jets in Davos, Switzerland), but by, drumroll, release a listicle laying out “14 Things Billionaires Do Before Breakfast.”

No, we are not joking. Here it is.

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Here is the summary of what appears to have been a serious “article”:

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Partner Of “China’s Carl Icahn” Executed By Local Police After Attempting Escape Following Insider Trading Charges

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– Partner Of “China’s Carl Icahn” Executed By Local Police After Attempting Escape Following Insider Trading Charges:

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Ok, this is China: crazy things happen all the time. But where things got outright ridiculous, was when moments ago when as China National Radio reports, Wu Shuang, a partner of Xu Xiang’s at Zexi, and also an insider trading suspect, was shot and killed by Chinese police when he “resisted and tried to escape.”

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90% Of The World’s Glaciers Are GROWING

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– 90 percent of the world’s glaciers are growing:

NASA admits Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing – Confirms what I’ve been saying all along.

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A new NASA study, released on Friday, admits that ice is accumulating in Antarctica.

Satellite measurements show an 82-112 gigaton-a-year net ice gain. That’s 82-112 billion tons per year! Nine zeroes!

112,000,000,000 tons. Per year.

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How Arbitration Clauses Are Stripping American Citizens Of Their “Constitutional Right To Go To Court”

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– How Arbitration Clauses are Stripping American Citizens of Their “Right to Go to Court”:

By inserting individual arbitration clauses into a soaring number of consumer and employment contracts, companies like American Express devised a way to circumvent the courts and bar people from joining together in class-action lawsuits, realistically the only tool citizens have to fight illegal or deceitful business practices.

Thousands of cases brought by single plaintiffs over fraud, wrongful death and rape are now being decided behind closed doors. And the rules of arbitration largely favor companies, which can even steer cases to friendly arbitrators, interviews and records show.

The sharp shift away from the civil justice system has barely registered with Americans. F. Paul Bland Jr., the executive director of Public Justice, a national consumer advocacy group, attributed this to the tangle of bans placed inside clauses added to contracts that no one reads in the first place.

“Corporations are allowed to strip people of their constitutional right to go to court,” Mr. Bland said. “Imagine the reaction if you took away people’s Second Amendment right to own a gun.”

– From yesterday’s New York Times article: Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice

I’ve followed the dangerous trend of the increased corporate use of arbitration clauses in contracts for several years now, and yesterday’s New York Times investigation into their civil liberties destroying nature, is one of the best pieces I’ve seen on the subject to date.

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Bank of America Admits – Central Bank Policy Enriched Wall Street While “Steamrolling” Main Street

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“When a country embarks on deficit financing (Bush-Obamanomics) and inflationism (Quantitative easing) you wipe out the middle class and wealth is transferred from the middle class and the poor to the rich.
– Ron Paul

“Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.”
– Ron Paul

Redistribution

– Bank of America Admits – Central Bank Policy Enriched Wall Street While “Steamrolling” Main Street:

Wall Street is counting its winnings from seven years of easy money.

The results represent a clear victory for Wall Street over Main Street, according to the team of Michael Hartnett, BofA’s chief investment strategist.

“Zero rates and asset purchases of central banks have, thus far, proved much more favorable to Wall Street, capitalists, shadow banks, ‘unicorns,’ and so on than it has for Main Street, workers, savers, banks and the jobs market,” the BofA team wrote.

– From the Bloomberg article: Here’s How Much QE Helped Wall Street Steamroll Main Street 

In a refreshing bit of honesty from “Too Big to Fail and Jail” Wall Street firm Bank of America, the American peasants are informed about a reality with which they are all too familiar. That the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve Bank bailed out the rich and powerful, while leaving average citizens high and dry.

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AND NOW: Hillary Clinton Is “Too Big To Jail”

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– As Benghazi inquiry fades, Clinton still faces legal questions about emails:

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“She’s too big to jail,” said national security attorney Edward MacMahon Jr., who represented former CIA employee Jeffrey Sterling in 2011 in a leak case that led to an espionage prosecution and 3½-year prison term. He cited a pattern of light punishments for top government officials who have mishandled classified information while lower level whistleblowers such as Sterling have faced harsh prosecutions for revealing sensitive information to expose waste, fraud or abuse in government.

At least 671 emails that Clinton sent or received through her private server contained classified material, according to the State Department’s latest update Friday from its ongoing review of more than 30,000 emails. Her aides also sent and received classified information.

In response to a public records lawsuit, the department released another 7,200 pages of Clinton’s emails after partially or entirely redacting any containing sensitive U.S. or foreign government information on a range of issues.

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US Army Tests Swarms Of Drones In Major Exercise

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Drones awaiting deployment during an exercise at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Sept. 3, 2015.

– US Army tests swarms of drones in major exercise:

The U.S. Army has for the first time tested swarms of consumer drones during a major military training exercise and determined the low-cost technology is at a stage where it could be used offensively.

Off-the-shelf drones have brought what was previously complex and expensive technology into the reach of consumers, and the military was curious to see how much of a threat that might pose.

So it brought consumer quadcopters and octocopters to the Network Integration Evaluation war games that concluded earlier this month at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, and Fort Bliss, Texas.

During the exercise, which is used by the Army to help evaluate new technology, the drones were deployed as a swarm to simulate a threat. Later, the Army expanded the trials to discover whether it might be able to make use of the same technology.

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Putin’s Approval Rating Reaches A New High

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– Putin’s Approval Rating Reaches A New High:

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Vladimir Putin’s approval rating in Russia has soared to yet another all time high; leaving all those who don’t like Putin or were hoping for some sort of regime change in Russia continue to be out of luck. One reason why we are even posting about this is that the Western press has also reported on the event, employing a somewhat less neutral tone of voice. What makes the sour grapes style reporting in the Western media especially funny is that while it is true that the Kremlin exerts extraordinary influence on the media in Russia, one wonders in what way their reportage on Syria is different from the reporting in the happily self-censoring US mainstream media on the Iraq war, especially in the run-up to said war.

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Finnish Social Insurance Institution Drawing Up Plans For Citizens’ Basic Income Model

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– Kela to prepare basic income proposa: 

The Finnish Social Insurance Institution is to begin drawing up plans for a citizens’ basic income model. The preparation’s director Olli Kangas says that full-fledged basic income would net Finns some 800 euros a month.

The Finnish Social Insurance Institution (Kela) will soon begin work on a presentation for basic income, regional news group Lännen Media reports. Once implemented, the model could revolutionise the Finnish social welfare system.

If implemented, the so-called basic income would replace other benefits people currently receive, and would therefore be rather high, Kela’s Research Department Manager Olli Kangas told Lännen Media.

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Homicide Rates Cut in Half Over Past 20 Years (While New Gun Ownership Soared)

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– Homicide Rates Cut in Half Over Past 20 Years (While New Gun Ownership Soared):

The Pew Research Center reported last week that the murder rate was cut nearly in half from 7 per 100,000 in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2013. Over the same period, overall gun deaths (including accidents and suicides) have fallen by one-third from 15.2 to 10.6 per 100,000.
In spite of this, Pew reports, the American public believes that homicides and gun deaths are increasing in the United States. Those who think violence is getting worse should probably watch less television and look around them instead. The murder rate in the US is currently similar to 1950s levels.Meanwhile, the number of privately owned guns (and gun commerce in general) in the United States has increased substantially in recent decades.

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