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‘Zombie Ships’ – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Index Suggests

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– “Zombie Ships” – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Suggests:

One glance at The Baltic Dry Index’s collapse is all that most need to see the painful state of the global shipping industry. However, as gCaptain reports, reality is even worse as the boom in so-called “zombie ships” suggests there is no recovery in sight for the beleaguered containership charter market, which is facing its biggest crisis since the 2008 financial crash.

It looks bad…

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And it’s not just over-supply… (trade is slowing rapidly)…World trade volume rose by only 0.5% YoY in October and was up 2.4% YoY in the first 10 months of 2015, while world trade value in USdollar terms declined by 12.2% YoY in October and was down 11.8% YoY in the first 10 months of 2015.

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But, as gCaptain details, reality is even worse for the world’s shipping industry…

Analysts agree there is no recovery in sight for the beleaguered containership charter market, which is facing its biggest crisis since the 2008 financial crash.

However, unlike that bleak period for shipping, which ultimately resulted in a strong recovery for charter rates, this time the fundamentals are quite different.

Read more‘Zombie Ships’ – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Index Suggests

Israeli defense minister says ISIS funded with ‘Turkish money’

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He just forgot to mention somehow that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a Mossad agent and that ISIS is an operation run by the CIA and the Mossad.

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– Israeli defense minister says ISIS funded with ‘Turkish money’:

Israel’s defense minister has alleged that the Islamic State terror group has long been funded with “Turkish money.”

“As you know, Daesh (Islamic State, previously ISIS/ISIL) enjoyed Turkish money for oil for a very, very long period of time. I hope that it will be ended,” Moshe Yaalon told reporters in Athens on Tuesday after meeting his Greek counterpart, Panos Kammenos, Reuters reports.

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Denmark Approves Confiscation Of Refugees’ Valuables, Delay Of Family Reunifications

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Migrants, mainly from Syria, prepare to board a train headed for Sweden, at Padborg station in southern Denmark

– Denmark approves confiscation of refugees’ valuables, delay of family reunifications:

The Danish parliament has passed measures aimed at deterring refugees from seeking asylum, including the confiscation of their valuables and a delay in family reunifications. The move has received widespread condemnation from human rights organizations.

Asylum seekers arriving in Denmark will now have to hand over cash exceeding 10,000 kroner (US$1,450) and any personal items valued at more than that amount. This is more than three times the 3,000 kroner ($435) that was originally proposed.

However, wedding rings and other sentimental items will be exempt from confiscation.

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Tony Blair: Brexit Would Spell The End Of The UK

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Trust this bloody bastard …

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… or …

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– Blair: Brexit would spell the end of the UK:

Scotland would use a British exit of the European Union to break away from the United Kingdom, former Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned.

Speaking to French radio station Europe 1, Blair said he was “very worried” about the result of the upcoming referendum.

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IRA terrorist behind 1993 Belfast bombing was ‘MI5 informant’ – leaked documents

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IRA terrorist behind 1993 Belfast bombing was MI5 informant

– IRA terrorist behind 1993 Belfast bombing was ‘MI5 informant’ – leaked documents:

Northern Ireland’s police watchdog is investigating allegations that the IRA operative who planned the 1993 Shankhill Road bombing was an MI5 informant who gave intelligence that could have helped security forces stop the atrocity.

Nine civilians, including two children, were killed in the attack on a fish shop in Belfast’s loyalist heartland in 1993. The bombing became one of the most notorious atrocities of The Troubles, prompting a wave of sectarian revenge murders in its wake.

Inside job? 

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MI6 And ‘Overseas Terrorism’: A Special Relationship

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H/t reader squodgy:

“As I dig deeper it becomes clear that our Western political structure starts at the top with our ‘owners’, royalty & banksters, then comes the dirty brigade, the secret services, whose job it is to carry out whatever they are told by the former & get as much dirt as possible on the next group, the politicians.

After that it’s just gongsearchers & little piggies.”

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– MI6 and ‘overseas terrorism’: A special relationship:

Last week, Siddharta Dhar, a Hindu-born Muslim convert, made front page news as the latest British citizen to turn up in Syria draped in ISIS imagery and toting an AK.

He may or may not be the masked Brit who starred in a recent ISIS snuff movie, but, like pretty much all those who preceded him, he was well known to the British security services.

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Disney illegally replaced US workers with temporary immigrants – lawsuit

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– Disney illegally replaced US workers with temporary immigrants – lawsuit :

Entertainment giant Disney is being sued by two former tech employees who claim in separate lawsuits that it colluded with global consulting companies to supplant American workers with immigrants through abuse of temporary H-1B visas.

Former Disney World employees Dena Moore and Leo Perrero ? two of 250 Disney tech workers who were laid off about a year ago ? filed lawsuits in federal court on Monday in Tampa, Florida, against Disney and consulting firms HCL and Cognizant, which were responsible for bringing in the immigrant workers. The former employees filed a similar complaint that seeks class-action status.

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Hillary Clinton made $3 million for ‘speeches’ to 12 ‘bail-out’ banks while ALWAYS CRIMINALLY SILENT on reneged official promises to end poverty

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– Ms. Clinton made $3 million for ‘speeches’ to 12 ‘bail-out’ banks while ALWAYS CRIMINALLY SILENT on reneged official promises to end poverty:

hat tip: The Intercept

The big deal about Ms. Clinton is the same for all “leaders” of both US political parties:

Ms. Clinton acted in Orwellian opposition to her Oath-sworn job as US Secretary of State with ongoing violations of the US Constitution through US Wars of Aggression, various US War Crimes, and support of other nations’ Wars of Aggression.

Consider her job to uphold the Department of State’s Mission Statement as she engaged in armed attacks around the world:

Read moreHillary Clinton made $3 million for ‘speeches’ to 12 ‘bail-out’ banks while ALWAYS CRIMINALLY SILENT on reneged official promises to end poverty

US Launches Airbase In Syria

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– US Launches Airbase In Syria:

Military Times reports:

U.S. special operations troops have reportedly taken over an airfield in northeastern Syria, potentially clearing the way to flow more American military support to friendly militias fighting the Islamic State group.

A small team of U.S. troops is setting up a base camp at Rmeilan Air Base in the Syrian Kurdish region near Syria’s Iraqi and Turkish borders, according to local reports.

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Putin Crushes BBC Propagandist! (Video)

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H/t reader squodgy:

“The slimy toad called John Simpson, a revered BBC ‘propagandist’ is owned and spat out by Vlad.

Beautiful.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_684321825&feature=iv&src_vid=-KHCNk9BYy4&v=pwmSzHnaelc

900 Bass In 153 Countries - Empire

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6 Million Bitcoins Hacked

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I’ve said before that I am not a friend of bitcoin.

I do not recommend bitcoin, because it is a virtual currency and once the system goes down all those bitcoins may just go “puff” and disappear in the ether, unlike physical gold and silver. 

I also find it kind of suspicious that Bilderberg members are promoting it and that the alternative media is going so (positively) hysterical about it.

However, I may be proven to be completely wrong.

 

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– 6 Million Bitcoins Hacked:

Paul Vernon, also known as Big Vern, is the founder of Cryptsy—the international cyber currency company (bitcoins). More than a year ago, Cryptsy was hacked by the developer of Lucky7Coin. During this time, the company was recovering it’s respect and reputation i.e. paying back money to user’s wallet.

How did the hacker (developer of Lucky7Coin) manage to access Cryptsy and steal bitcoins? The hacker injected Trojan malware into Cryptsy, which helps hackers gain access to the confidential data, allowing the hacker to grab the cyber currencies i.e. bitcoins.

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China’s Shanghai Composite Index Crashes 6.4% In Last Hour Panic Selling, Has Now Plunged 22% In 2016 Alone

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– China Crashes To 13 Month Low After Last Hour Panic Selling; Crude, Futures Tumble Then Surge:

It has been another volatile, illiquid, whipsawed session, driven by the only two things that have mattered so far in 2016, China and oil…. and stop-hunting algos of course.

A quick look at the former first reveals that after sliding gradually all session, Chinese stocks puked in the last hour of trading with the China’s Shanghai Composite Index plunging 6.4% to 2,750, the most since the first week of January, and falling to the lowest level since December 2014. The composite has now plunged 22% in 2016 alone and is the world’s worst-performing primary equity index this year.

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‘Gangs’ Of ‘All-Male’ Moroccan Migrant Children ‘Take Over’ Stockholm Train Station; Steal, Grope, Beat Women

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“Stockholm police estimate that at least 200 Moroccan street children move in the area around the main train station in the centre of the capital, sleeping rough, and living off criminal activity. They grope girls between their legs, and slap them in the face when they protest. All police officers are aware of this.”

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– “Gangs” Of “All-Male” Moroccan Migrant Children “Take Over” Stockholm Train Station; Steal, Grope, Beat Women:

 

On Sunday, we learned that despite the best efforts of German cartoonists, some refugees are still having a hard time understanding how to behave at public pools.

European authorities, increasingly desperate to salvage the “yes we can” refugee narrative in the face of mounting evidence that it may be well nigh impossible to integrate two vastly divergent cultures, have scrambled to put together integration guides and design brochures and pamphlets aimed at “explaining” Western European societal norms to the millions of asylum seekers that now call the bloc home.

Read more‘Gangs’ Of ‘All-Male’ Moroccan Migrant Children ‘Take Over’ Stockholm Train Station; Steal, Grope, Beat Women

Swedish asylum worker, 22, is stabbed to death ‘in frenzied attack’ at a CHILD migrant centre as refugee boy, 15, is arrested for murder amid rising tensions over violence and sex assaults

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– Swedish asylum worker, 22, is stabbed to death ‘in frenzied attack’ at a CHILD migrant centre as refugee boy, 15, is arrested for murder amid rising tensions over violence and sex assaults:

  • Alexandra Mezher, 22, fatally stabbed at migrant centre where she worked
  • Her family, who are originally from Lebanon, described her as ‘an angel’ 
  • Boy aged 15 living at the centre has been arrested on suspicion of murder 
  • Incident comes as Swedish police demand more resources to stem rising violence in the country which they say is linked to the migrant crisis
  • Number of Swedish women have reported being assaulted by migrants

A 15-year-old asylum seeker living in a refugee centre in Sweden has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an employee at the shelter was fatally stabbed.

Alexandra Mezher, 22, was attacked today at around 8am at a centre for unaccompanied migrant children aged between 14 and 17 in Molndal, on Sweden’s west coast. 

Read moreSwedish asylum worker, 22, is stabbed to death ‘in frenzied attack’ at a CHILD migrant centre as refugee boy, 15, is arrested for murder amid rising tensions over violence and sex assaults

20 Dead, 200 Hospitalized After Reports US Lab ‘Leaks’ Deadly Virus In Ukraine

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– 20 Dead, 200 Hospitalized After Reports US Lab “Leaks” Deadly Virus In Ukraine:

Amid the so-called “ceasefire” in Ukraine, yet ongoing shelling in many regions, the Donbass news agency reports that more than 20 Ukrainian solders have died and over 200 soldiers are hospitalized after an apparent leak of a deadly virus called “California Flu” from a US lab near the city of Kharkov.

As Donbass News International reports,

More than 20 Ukrainian soldiers have died and over 200 soldiers are hospitalized in a short period of time because of new and deadly virus, which is immune to all medicines. Donetsk People’s Republic intelligence has reported that Californian Flu is leaked from the same place where research of this virus has been carried out.

The laboratory is located near the city of Kharkov and its base for US military experts.

Information from threatening epidemic is announced by Vice-Commander of Donetsk Army, Eduard Basurin.

Leak of deadly virus in Ukrainian side was published first time on 12.1.2016:

Read more20 Dead, 200 Hospitalized After Reports US Lab ‘Leaks’ Deadly Virus In Ukraine

Texas Economy Collapses – Dallas Fed Survey Crashes To 6-Year Lows As “D” Word Is Uttered

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– Texas Economy Collapses – Dallas Fed Survey Crashes To 6-Year Lows As “D” Word Is Uttered:

For the 13th month in a row, The Dallas Fed Manufacturing Outlook was contractionary with a stunning -34.6 print following December’s already disastrous collapse back to -20.1, post-crisis lows. With “hope” having plunged back into negative territory (-2.2) in December, January saw a complete collapse to -24.0 as one respondent exclaimed, “we expect the continued depression in the oil and gas industry to negatively impact our customer base and result in significant demand reduction.“

Bloodbath…

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And its across the board with production, employment, and shipments all collapsing…

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China Warns ‘Social Stability Threatened’ As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About To Lose Their Jobs

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Here is another Masonic handshake …

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(Click on image to enlarge.)

Putin and Obama are both Freemasons and Rothschild/Illuminati puppets. (See HERE.)

(Some more Masonic handshakes you haven’t seen on this site before down below.)

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– China Warns “Social Stability Threatened” As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About To Lose Their Jobs:

In late September, we were stunned to read (and report) that in the first mega-layoff in recent Chinese history, the Harbin-based Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group, or Longmay Group for short, the biggest met coal miner in northeast China had taken a page straight out of Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg’s playbook and fired 100,000 workers overnight, 40% of its entire 240,000 workforce.

For us this was the sign that China’s long awaited “hard landing” had finally arrived, because as China’s paper of record, China Daily, added then: “now, many migrant workers struggle to find their footing in a downshifting economy. As factories run out of money and construction projects turn idle across China, there has been a rise in the last thing Beijing wants to see: unrest.“

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Sprint Fires 2500: 8% Of Its Entire Workforce

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– Sprint Fires 2500: 8% Of Its Entire Workforce:

Anyone who dares to question Obama’s grand renaissance is supposedly peddling fiction. Meanwhile, in today’s latest mass layoff event (which, oddly enough, has become a daily thing during the “recovery”) some 2,500 Sprint workers  – 8% of the company’s 31,000 total employees – have already received, or are about to be “peddled” pink slips.

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Alaska: Thousands Of Birds Found Dead Along Shoreline (CNN – Video)

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Watch the video here:

– Thousands of birds found dead along Alaskan shoreline:

As he walked on a beach in the western Prince William Sound town of Whittier, seabird biologist David Irons was startled when he saw hundreds of white lumps on the black rock beach.

They were dead seabirds, in what he would discover were likely record numbers, a sign the ecosystem was being troubled by abnormally warm ocean water.

The dead birds, common murres that had starved, were lined up and left where the tide had dropped them on the shore.

“We have never found close to 8,000 birds on a 1-mile long beach before,” Irons said of his early January discovery. “It is an order of magnitude larger than any records that I am aware of.”

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See also:

– Fukushima? 10,000 Dead Squid Wash Up On Chile Beach

Billion Dollar Baby Bye Bye – Theranos Lab Found ‘Deficient’

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If you take a look at the board of directors (below) you’ll find that none other than Henry Kissinger is a board member.

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– Billion Dollar Baby Bye Bye – Theranos Lab Found “Deficient”:

It seems billion dollar baby of Silcon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes, is facing yet another unicorn-slaying moment as the fairy-take ending for Stanford drop-out looks increasingly distant after a WSJ report that U.S. health inspectors have found serious deficiencies at Theranos Inc.’s laboratory in Northern California, according to people familiar with the matter. With a board full of big swinging dicks about to be exposed for the greater fools they truly are, failing to fix the problems could put the Theranos lab at risk of suspension from the Medicare program.

We reported on the beginning of the end of the multi-billion dollar dream here, when its core “new technology” – known as a Capillary Tube Nanocontainer (CTN) – was exposed as essentially unacceptable for use.

And now, as The Wall Street Journal reports, U.S. health inspectors have found serious deficiencies at Theranos Inc.’s laboratory in Northern California, according to people familiar with the matter.

The problems were found during an inspection by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the chief federal regulator of clinical labs, at the blood-testing company’s facility in Newark, Calif. Failing to fix the problems could put the Theranos lab at risk of suspension from the Medicare program.

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Migrant crisis: Greece Warned To Stop Migrants Crossing From Turkey Or It Will Be ‘Quarantined’ Outside The EU’s Borderless Schengen Area

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– Migrant crisis: Germany warns Greece to stop refugee surge:

Germany, Austria, Belgium, Sweden and Denmark will warn today that Greece has six weeks to stop migrants crossing from Turkey or it will be “quarantined” outside the European Union’s borderless Schengen area.

A meeting of European interior ministers will discuss plans for Greece to be sealed off for two years behind a new EU external border in the Balkans.

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Comparisons To 2008 Spark Gold’s Fear Trade

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– Comparisons To 2008 Spark Gold’s Fear Trade:

Plunging oil prices, rising market volatility, surging global debt—it’s all beginning to remind some investors of 2008. Earlier this month, billionaire former hedge fund manager George Soros warned of an impending financial crisis similar to the last major one, which sent shockwaves throughout global markets.      

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I’ve already shared with you the fact that gold has historically had a low correlation with equities. This point is worth reiterating: When equities have zigged, gold has zagged. And with volatility high in global markets right now, many investors are choosing to rotate a portion of their portfolios into the precious metal.

This was the advice of my friend Marc Faber, who recently warned investors in his influential “Gloom, Boom & Doom Report” newsletter that global stocks could fall an additional 40 percent on mounting liquidity and debt problems. In the event such a crisis occurs, Marc says, investing in gold—which, again, has been shown to be inversely correlated with stocks—might be one way to protect one’s wealth.

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