The Death Of A Nation: Japanese Births Drop To Lowest Ever, Deaths Hit All Time High

The Death Of A Nation: Japanese Births Drop To Lowest Ever, Deaths Hit All Time High (ZeroHedge, Jan 2, 2015):

Supporters and opponents of Abenomics may debate the metaphorical death of Japanese society as a result of the terminal hyper-Keynesian, hyper-monetarist policies implemented by Abe and Kuroda for the past 2 years until they are blue in the face, but when it comes to the literal death of Japan, there is no debate: as the FT succinctly puts it “deaths outnumbered births in Japan last year by the widest margin on record, underscoring the scale of the challenge facing the government as it tries to ensure a dwindling pool of workers can support growing ranks of pensioners.”

2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia

2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia

2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia (Sputnik International, Dec 31, 2014):

By Pepe Escobar

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.

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Jeb Bush Resigns All Board Memberships, Showing 2016 Presidential Run Is Increasingly Likely

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Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton?

Good luck America!


Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has resigned all of his corporate and non-profit board memberships, his office announced Wednesday. The move is seen as a precursor to a likely 2016 presidential bid.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has resigned all of his corporate and non-profit board memberships, his office announced Wednesday. The move is seen as a precursor to a likely 2016 presidential bid.

Jeb Bush Resigns All Board Memberships, Showing 2016 Presidential Run Is Increasingly Likely (International Business Times, Jan 1, 2015):

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s office announced Wednesday that he has resigned from all of his corporate and nonprofit board memberships, effective Dec. 31, ahead of what seems like an increasingly likely presidential bid in 2016.

The disclosure, which came in an email from a Bush aide to the Washington Post, also revealed that Bush is reviewing his involvement in other businesses in which he is a principal or part owner, including consulting firm Jeb Bush & Associates, and Britton Hill Partnership, a business advisory group.

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Nearly half of Brits on prescription drugs – report

How to increase your risk of dying? Take a statin drug:


What prompted this post? An article in Clinical Nutrition revealed that compared to elderly patients with cholesterol levels of 200mg/dl, those with cholesterol levels of 183mg/dl had a significantly higher death rate. (1) The authors found that for every 1mg/dl increase in serum cholesterol, the death rate was reduced by 0.4%. You read that correctly—elevated cholesterol levels protect the elderly from death. The Honolulu Heart Program found that men aged 71-93 years in the lowest total cholesterol group had a 64% increase risk in death as compared to men with the highest cholesterol levels.(2) The Honolulu study was reported in 2001. It is too bad the media does not trumpet these results.



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Nearly half of Brits on prescription drugs – report (RT, Dec 30, 2014):

Nearly half of all Britons are taking prescription medication on a regular basis according to new figures produced by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

According to the HSCIC, 50 percent of women and 43 percent of men are taking specialised drugs to combat physical and mental illnesses, with cholesterol-lowering statins and anti-depressants being among the most common drugs taken by Brits.

According to the HSE report, doctors issued on average 18.7 prescriptions per person in England during 2013, costing the NHS more than £15bn per year.

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US Debt Soars By $100 BILLION On LAST DAY Of 2014, Hits Record $18.14 TRILLION

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–  Total US Debt Rises Over $18 Trillion; Up 70% Under Barack Obama (ZeroHedge):


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US Debt Soars By $100 Billion On Last Day Of 2014, Hits Record $18.14 Trillion (ZeroHedge, Jan 2,  2014):

It seems like it was only yesterday when we reported that, in yet another sleight of hand for the US Treasury and Social Security Administration, US debt rose by $32 billion on the last day of November sending total US debt above $18 trillion for the first time ever.  As we further noted, it also meant “that total US debt has increased by 70% under Obama, from $10.625 trillion on January 21, 2009 to $18.005 trillion most recently.”

Fast forward to today when we are happy to report that according to the US Treasury, America’s debt-funded spending spree, while supposedly slowing down if looking at the declining monthly budget deficit report, never actually has.

As of the last day of 2014, total US debt soared by $98 billion in one day (driven again by Social Security debt surging on the last day of the month to a record $5.117 trillion), and closing off 2014 with a new all time high total of $18.141 trillion in Federal debt – an increase of $136 billion in the month of December and $790 billion for all of 2014.

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Source: US Treasury

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AND NOW: Computer Glitch Prevents US’ Most Advanced F-35 Fighter Jet From Firing Until 2019

You can’t make this stuff up!

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$400 Billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jet ‘10 Years Behind’ Older Jets

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– Computer glitch prevents US’ most advanced F-35 fighter jet from firing until 2019 – report (RT, Jan 1, 2014):

The Pentagon’s fighter jet F-35 may not be fully operational until 2019 due to a newly discovered computer glitch. The $400 billion ultra-sophisticated jet, the most expensive in US history, was expected to enter service in 2015.

F-35 is the fifth generation combat aircraft which is designed in three variations for US Air Force, Navy and Marines to replace out of date aircraft. It was planned to join the Marines in 2015 and Air Force in 2016.

Read moreAND NOW: Computer Glitch Prevents US’ Most Advanced F-35 Fighter Jet From Firing Until 2019

Obama Sanctions North Korea For Sony Hack Which Was Perpetrated By Disgruntled Former Employee

Obama Sanctions North Korea For Sony Hack Which Was Perpetrated By Disgruntled Former Employee (ZeroHedge, Jan 2, 2014):

US foreign policy just jumped the shark: a few days after both the FBI and the US State department were humiliated when it was revealed that it wasn’t North Korea but a disgruntled, laid off Sony employee that was responsible for the “hack”, and when the best possible course of action would have been to simply let this latest embarrassing incident fade from memory, moments ago Obama – currently not working out next to a rainbow or flashing his support of “Shaka” –  just signed his first executive order of 2015, imposing even more sanctions against North Korea.

From Bloomberg:

President Obama signs order imposing additional sanctions on North Korea in response to country’s “efforts to undermine U.S. cyber-security and intimidate U.S.businesses and artists exercising their right of freedom of speech,” according to Treasury Dept statement.

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Oliver Stone’s New Movie: “Ukraine: The CIA Coup” Coming To A Theater Near You

Oliver Stone’s New Movie: “Ukraine: The CIA Coup” Coming To A Theater Near You (ZeroHedge, Jan 2, 2014):

US filmmaker Oliver Stone is currently engaged in production of a documentary about Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, who fled the country following the February coup last year. As Sputnik reports, Stone’s Facebook page notes, “[I] Interviewed Viktor Yanukovych 4 hours in Moscow for new English language documentary produced by Ukrainians. He [Yanukovych] was the legitimate President of Ukraine until he suddenly wasn’t on February 22 of this year.” The outspoken director then added, “the truth is not being aired in the West… many believe foreign elements were introduced by pro-Western factions with CIA fingerprints on it.”

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From Oliver Stone’s Facebook page,

Excuse my absence these past weeks. A combination of overwork, prepping the Snowden movie in Germany & England, a side trip to Moscow, and a devastating head cold have laid me low. Recovering over Christmas in California; winter sun helps.

Interviewed Viktor Yanukovych 4 hours in Moscow for new English language documentary produced by Ukrainians. He was the legitimate President of Ukraine until he suddenly wasn’t on February 22 of this year. 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. Many witnesses, including Yanukovych and police officials, believe these foreign elements were introduced by pro-Western factions– with CIA fingerprints on it.

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Greenland ice sheet gained record amounts of ice this season

Greenland ice sheet gained record amounts of ice this season (Ice Age Now, Jan 2, 2015):

Also breaks record for one-day gain in ice mass.

The Greenland ice sheet has gained record amounts of ice this season (300 billion tons) , says the steven goddard website.

It also boasted a record one-day accumulation of 12 billion tons in mid-September.

Greenland ice sheet gained record amounts of ice this season

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Who’s Being Targeted for Assassination by Drone?

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Who’s Being Targeted for Assassination by Drone? (ZeroHedge, Jan 2, 2014):

Spiegel reports this week that drug dealershttp://www.infiniteunknown.net/2015/01/02/whos-being-targeted-for-assassination-by-drone/ and low-level Taliban members were targeted for death by drone:

NATO didn’t just target the Taliban leadership, but also eliminated mid- and lower-level members of the group on a large scale. Some Afghans were only on the list because, as drug dealers, they were allegedly supporting the insurgents.

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The operations were based on the lists maintained by the CIA and NATO — Obama’s lists. The White House dubbed the strategy “escalate and exit.” McChrystal’s successor, General David Petraeus, documented the strategy in “Field Manual 3-24? on fighting insurgencies, which remains a standard work today. Petraeus outlined three stages in fighting guerilla organizations like the Taliban. The first was a cleansing phase …. Behind closed doors, Petraeus and his staff explained exactly what was meant by “cleansing.” German politicians recall something that Michael T. Flynn, the head of ISAF intelligence in Afghanistan, once said during a briefing: “The only good Talib is a dead Talib.” Under Petraeus, a merciless campaign began to hunt down the so-called shadow governors and local supporters aligned with the Islamists.

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Top Israeli Central Banker is The Real Power In The Federal Reserve

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Top Israeli Central Banker is The Real Power In The Federal Reserve (Blacklisted News, Jan 2, 2015):

 Source: Politico

Fed Chair Janet Yellen pushed for him to be her No. 2 in a move that was viewed as a show of confidence and strength as she prepares to lead the Fed through one of it most challenging periods, managing the wind down of massive stimulus programs put in place following the financial crisis.

The pairing was dubbed a central banking “dream team” by Fed watchers.

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Greece covered in snow, but the free press in Europe don’t report this

Greece covered in snow, but the free press in Europe don’t report this (Ice Age Now, Jan 2, 2015):

However it is front page news in China: “Greece welcomes New Year blanketed in snow”.

ATHENS, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) — Greece welcomed the New Year gripped by extreme weather conditions of heavy snowfall, rain, strong wind and sub-zero temperatures which have caused major disruptions in traffic nationwide.

The thermometer has dropped to minus 16 Celsius degrees in the region of Macedonia and Thrace in northern Greece and minus 1 Celsius in the southern part of the country.

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?iSpy: GCHQ targets tech grads for fast track scheme

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?iSpy: GCHQ targets tech grads for fast track scheme (RT, Jan 2, 2015):

Britain’s GCHQ surveillance agency is to target top science and tech graduates to fast-track them into spying and intelligence before they enter the private sector.

The program is loosely based on other fast track schemes such as Teach First, which requires graduates to work in challenging schools before taking up commercial jobs.

It draws its inspiration from the success of Israel’s recruitment of budding tech entrepreneurs into the Israeli Defense Force’s Unit 8200, the military’s surveillance unit. A number of tech graduates who had joined the Unit have gone on to found successful firms – some worth around $10 billion.

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100-Year-Old Surgeon, WWII Vet Who Retired At Age 95 Attributes His Health And Longevity To Vegan Diet

Dr. Ellsworth Wareham, 100, a celebrated heart surgeon, still mows his lawn and trims his bushes. He credits his longevity in large part to his vegan diet, which he adopted midlife.
Dr. Ellsworth Wareham, 100, a celebrated heart surgeon, still mows his lawn and trims his bushes. He credits his longevity in large part to his vegan diet, which he adopted midlife. (Photo courtesy Loma Linda University Medical Center)

100-year-old surgeon, WWII vet who retired at age 95 shares secrets to longevity (FOX News, Dec 16, 2014):

Today, being a surgeon is like being a commercial airline pilot: One must complete hundreds of hours of educational training before flying solo with human lives in his or her hands. But back in 100-year-old Dr. Ellsworth Wareham’s day, surgeons studied diagrams and simulated human procedures on dogs before operating on a patient by themselves.

Wareham, of Loma Linda, Calif., was one of the earliest doctors to practice open heart surgery in the United States, and the first at Loma Linda University, whose cardiothoracic surgery program has been ranked among the top heart hospitals in the United States.

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‘The World in 2015’ Shows Obama Waving As World Explodes (Video)


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The popular financial magazine The Economist has a new app called “2015 Year Ahead” that has LOTS of interesting images, first and foremost, Obama Waving as the World Explodes!
Let’s explore some more of this very interesting and unusual picture.

LINK TO PICTURE: http://ec.nikkeibp.co.jp/item/image/h…

The World In 2015

British couple stranded in NYC with £130,000 medical bill, son born prematurely

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British couple stranded in NYC with £130,000 medical bill, son born prematurely (RT, Jan 2, 2015):

A British couple have been left stranded in New York City for the next three months with a £130,000 ($200,000) medical bill after their son was born 11 weeks earlier than expected.

Katie Amos, 30, and her fiancée Lee Johnston, 29, were not prepared for their son Dax to be born at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan during a Christmas trip to the city. The couple had planned the trip as a last holiday before their baby arrived.

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Massive evacuations as floods hit Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand

Massive evacuations as floods hit Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
People carry their belongings as they escape flood waters from heavy seasonal rains on a street in Dayeuhkolot, West Java, December 23, 2014 – photo Antara Foto. About 100,000 people in affected regions of Indonesia’s West and Central Java had to leave their homes.

Massive evacuations as floods hit Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand (RT, Dec 28, 2014)

Rothschild Banking Dynasty Valued At $100 Trillion – List Of Banks Owned By The Rothschild Family

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The Money Changers: Rothschild Banking Dynasty Said To Be Worth $100 Trillion (21ST CENTURY WIRE, Nov 3, 2012):

Since America’s inception… there has been a lingering notion that European Illuminati bankers seek to bring America to its knees and return it to the fold of the Crown of England, which centuries ago became the key political vassal for the Eight Families who own majority stock in every private central bank in the world — Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kuhn Loeb, Lehman, Goldman Sachs, Warburg, Lazard and Israel Moses Seif.

Many US Presidents warned of the intrigues of the cabal, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams; and later Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.  The latter two were assassinated for trying to nationalize the Federal Reserve via the issuance of Treasury Department-backed (publicly-issued) currency.

As cited in my Big Oil & Their Bankers… book and by others, the Eight Families own 52% of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, far and away the most powerful Fed Bank.  Their ownership is disguised under names like JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Do I exaggerate when I claim that there are Eight Families?  Well, yes, actually these oligarchs have interbred to the point that they are now, for all practical purposes, one big family, with the Rothschilds being the most powerful.  Their net worth alone is estimated at well over $100 trillion. These people, whose latest justification for lording over us is that they are descended from Jesus Christ himself, are, for obvious reasons, counter-revolutionary.  In their collective if obtuse minds, there are no good revolutions.  Democracy is antithema.  Government is something that only gets in the way.  It must be discredited and bought.  The American Revolution really pissed these inbreds off.  In Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the Crown of England still holds sway via the Governor General.  Most European countries retained their monarchies.  In America, we had a revolution, democracy and government.

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List of Banks owned by the Rothschild family (Information Awareness, April, 3, 2013)

Midwest and East Brace for Brutal Cold Next Week

Midwest and East Brace for Brutal Cold Next Week (Ice Age Now, Jan 2, 2015):

It is possible temperatures fail to climb above zero F (-17.8C) on one or more days in northern New England next week, warns accuweather.com. “Highs may be in the single digits across upstate New York and central New England with night time lows well below zero.”

“Temperatures may hold in the single digits around Chicago and the teens around Chicago or lower on multiple days.”

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

Good!!

Personally, I wish CNBC even more success” in 2015!


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For CNBC, 2014 Was The Worst. Year. Ever. (ZeroHedge, Jan 1, 2015):

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.

But don’t worry: the “retail investor” who has now fully given up on the “market”, will surely be back this year, and with it CNBC’s ratings.

In the meantime, here are the facts:

The Entire Farcical 2014 Market Summarized In One Chart

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The Entire Farcical 2014 Market Summarized In One Chart (ZeroHedge, Jan 1, 2015):

If someone had just woken up and missed all of 2014, one look at the following chart of the S&P is all they need to know what happened:

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In brief: the 45-degree “bottom left to top right” levitation on negligible volume that started several years ago, continued throughout 2014 with virtually no substantial incidents. In fact, every time there was an interruption, some central banker – be it Bullard or Yellen – stepped in and talked the market right back up, something even the BIS mocked a few weeks ago when it said:

… it would be imprudent to ignore that markets did not fully stabilise by themselves. Once again, on the heels of the turbulence, major central banks made soothing statements, suggesting that they might delay normalisation in light of evolving macroeconomic conditions. Recent events, if anything, have highlighted once more the degree to which markets are relying on central banks: the markets’ buoyancy hinges on central banks’ every word and deed.

Which is also the explanation why for the 6th year in a row hedge funds have underperformed what was once a “market”, and is now merely a “confidence building policy instrument.”

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

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Who Is Behind The Oil War, And How Low Will The Price Of Crude Go In 2015? (Economic Collapse, Dec 31, 2014):

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.

Ever since the price of oil started falling, people have been pointing fingers at the Saudis.  And without a doubt, the Saudis have manipulated the price of oil before in order to achieve geopolitical goals.  The following is an excerpt from a recent article by Andrew Topf

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