“Cancel All Student Debt” – The Petitions Begin

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“Dear President Obama, Senators, and Members of Congress:

Americans now owe $1.3 trillion in student debt. Eighty-six percent of that money is owed to the United States government. This is a crushing burden for more than 40 million Americans and their families.

I urge you to take immediate action to forgive all student debt, public and private.”

“Cancel All Student Debt” – The Petitions Begin (ZeroHedge, March 14, 2015):

With global moral hazard having long ago become institutionalized, and codified as “monetary policy”, catering almost exclusively to the TBTF entities in the financial sector, we were surprised it took as long as it did for Obama to announce (as he did last week), that the administration is now studying “new bankruptcy options” for student loan borrowers: code word for an across the board student debt moratorium, or forgiveness.

To wit from “Student Aid Bill of Rights: Taking Action to Ensure Strong Consumer Protections for Student Loan Borrowers“:

The President is directing his Cabinet and White House advisers, working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to study whether consumer protections recently applied to mortgages and credit cards, such as notice and grace periods after loans are transferred among lenders and a requirement that lenders confirm balances to allow borrowers to pay off the loan, should also be afforded to student loan borrowers and improve the quality of servicing for all types of student loans.  The agencies will develop recommendations for regulatory and legislative changes for all student loan borrowers, including possible changes to the treatment of loans in bankruptcy proceedings and when they were borrowed under fraudulent circumstances.

Read more“Cancel All Student Debt” – The Petitions Begin

Top Six Problems With The IPCC Version of ‘Climate Change’

Video Direct Link:https://youtu.be/4Ew05sRDAcU

Top 6 Climate Change Problems:

1 – The Climate is Changing Unexpectedly

Flash Boys’ Michael Lewis Is Right ‘Spoofing’ Proves Market Rigged On Daily Basis

Michael Lewis is Right “Spoofing” Proves Market Rigged on Daily Basis (ZeroHedge, March 14, 2015):

Accordingly, Michael Lewis is right markets are rigged, but he really is underestimating the extent of market manipulation, financial markets really are the wild west, investors should always be wary of how they are being taken advantage of in financial markets. The phrase Caveat Emptor ‘Let the buyer beware’ applies here.

Inside The Federal Reserve: ‘Money For Nothing’ – The Full Movie

Inside The Federal Reserve: “Money For Nothing” – The Full Movie (ZeroHedge, March 14, 2015):

Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chair’s every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful – and least understood – financial institution on earth. “Money For Nothing” is the first film to take viewers inside the Fed and reveal the impact of Fed policies – past, present, and future – on our lives. Join current and former Fed officials as they debate the critics, and each other, about the decisions that helped lead the global financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008. And why we might be headed there again

t is perhaps a testament to the ability of the oligarchy (that 1% which owns some 50% of all US assets), as we noted previously, to distract and distort newsflow from what really matters, that a century after the creation of the Federal Reserve, the vast majority of Americans are still unfamiliar with the most important institution in the history of the US – an institution that unlike the government is not accountable to the people (if only as prescribed on a piece of rapidly amortizing paper), but merely to a few banker stakeholders as Bernanke’s and Yellen’s actions over the past six years have demonstrated beyond any doubt. It is for their benefit that Jim Bruce’s groundbreaking movie “Money for Nothing” is a must see, although we would urge everyone else, including those frequent Zero Hedge readers well-versed in the inner workings of the Fed, to take the two hours and recall just who the real enemy of the people truly is.

Read moreInside The Federal Reserve: ‘Money For Nothing’ – The Full Movie

Former Official: “More Than 40 ‘Hotspot’ Areas Where Extremely Contaminated Water Flows Directly Into The Ocean” At Fukushima

Former Official: “40+ areas where extremely contaminated water flows directly into ocean” at Fukushima — Bloomberg: “4 years out, Fukushima reactors still spewing… Fishermen alleging for a while that radioactive water spilling into Pacific… astounding nobody at Tepco has gone to jail” (AUDIO) (ENENews, March 13, 2015):

Bloomberg, Columnist William Pesek, Mar 10, 2015: Four years out, Fukushima reactors still spewingFishermen trawling the waters off Japan’s eastern coast have been alleging for a while that radioactive water was again spilling into the Pacific from the Fukushima power plant… On Feb. 24 [Tepco] admitted those suspicions were justified. And it turns out that Tepco knew about this latest radioactive leak since last May — and the giant utility said nothing for almost a year. In the 15 days since Tepco finally confessed, have investigators raided its Tokyo headquarters? Have regulators demanded that heads roll? Has Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used his bully pulpit to demand accountability?… Tokyo was a scary place to be in March 2011 amid Fukushima’s triple meltdown. Most frightening, though, was the utter lack of transparency from the authorities… Even in the context of Japanese cronyism, it’s astounding that nobody at Tepco has gone to jail…  At the very least, Tepco’s senior management should be fired without pensions and face charges from prosecutors…

Read moreFormer Official: “More Than 40 ‘Hotspot’ Areas Where Extremely Contaminated Water Flows Directly Into The Ocean” At Fukushima

Estonia Fears Being “Overrun By Russia In Minutes”, Sweden Sends Troops To Baltic Sea Island

Estonia Fears Being “Overrun By Russia In Minutes”, Sweden Sends Troops To Baltic Sea Island (ZeroHedge, March 13, 2015):

“Gotland is a big worry for us. It could be overrun by Russia in minutes and then all of us would be highly vulnerable to an attack,” warned one politician recently as it appears NATO fear-mongering and Russia sabre-rattling is having a significant effect on many of the Baltic Sea’s border nations. As The FT reports, Sweden will put troops back on the strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland after a decade-long absence and will also step up military exercises around the island involving the army, navy and air force. “Hunting submarines is a priority area,” Sweden’s defense minister explained, adding that “everything we do is a part of underlining Swedish sovereignty.”

Putin drops his American PR company

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The door is that way — Vladimir Putin fires his PR company.

Putin drops his American PR company (CNN Money, March 12, 2015):

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dropped his American PR company.

Ketchum, part of global marketing group Omnicom (OMC), worked for the Russian government for nine years. But that relationship is now over, apparently a victim of the growing hostility between Russia and the West triggered by the conflict in Ukraine.

“We decided not to renew the contract because of the anti-Russian hysteria, the information war that is going on,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNNMoney.

Read morePutin drops his American PR company

Valdimir Putin’s public absence related to the Russian Orthodox Lenten schedule

H/t reader squodgy:

“Well, I’ve searched all over for anything unemotive, and found all sorts, including panic over the UK Russian Embassy staff being recalled, and all Russian reporters being asked to remain in Moscow pending an official statement being made tomorrow, but the one which seemed least emotive and probably containing most truth is this….”


 

Is President Putin the victim of yet another CIA-fabricated internet hoax — ‘Putin is Dead’? (State of the Nation, March 12, 2015):

Valdimir Putin’s public absence related to the Russian Orthodox Lenten schedule

The West takes advantage of Putin’s religious downtime by circulating a false story regarding his death, when they know he’s in his annual Lenten period of monastic silence.

Russian President Faces Biggest Challenges Ever In 2015: Decisions About 9/11 Truth And The Ukraine Require Profound Spiritual Contemplation

The Millennium Report

The leadership of the Anglo-American Axis (AAA), led by a highly secular government in the USA, knows exactly where President Vladimir Putin is, just as the Russians always know where President Barack Obama is.  Given the highly advanced state of the art of information technology, as well as the extremely efficient workings of both Intelligence Agencies and Secret Services, the whereabouts of a major head of state has become fairly easy to determine… with absolute certainty.

This now normal state of affairs is exactly why the AAA is using the Mainstream Media to disseminate a patently false and malicious story about Putin’s death.  Since Putin is known to be a regular religious recluse, the West can confidently make mischief whenever he takes his extremely valuable monastic downtime.

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On an island far from the mainland, the Valaam monastery is one of the Russian Orthodox Church’s holiest and most isolated sites.

The AAA knows that Putin is facing the biggest decisions of the year.  They are also well aware of his yearly religious practices in which he seeks out the highest spiritual guidance in order to make the best decisions, both personal and governmental.  What better way to disrupt his necessary monastic ritual than to spread fabricated rumors — worldwide — that he has passed away.

Of course, the CIA uses their main tool Facebook to viralize the MSM psyop.

Facebook (FB) is now well known to squelch so many truth-tellers in the process of ‘managing’ (read controlling) their massive social media platform.  They are notorious for shutting down truth-disseminating initiatives with the flip of a Facebook switch.  Who hasn’t heard of an instance where someone or some organization was rolled by FB?  Rolled into FB page termination, that is!

However, when someone wants to viralize a vicious rumor on behalf of the U.S. Federal Government & Company, Facebook is right there — front and center — offering their social network services with great enthusiasm.  As follows:

By all accounts the Internet rumor that Russian President Vladimir Putin died is nothing more than a hoax started with a Facebook Page titled “‘R.I.P. Vladimir Putin,” which garnered almost 1 million likes when it hit the Internet on Tuesday, March 10, 2015. The ‘About’ page stated the following:

“At about 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday (March 10, 2015), our beloved politician Vladimir Putin passed away. Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952 in Saint Petersburg. He will be missed but not forgotten. Please show your sympathy and condolences by commenting on and liking this page.”[1]

Let’s face it, Vladimir Putin is now the most watched person in the world, and you-know-who does not like that?  Not one bit!  Putin is watched very closely not only in the West, but throughout the East as well.  However, it is clear that the West has him under the most powerful, multi-media microscope in the world — 24/7.

It goes without saying that the CIA, MI6 and MOSSAD are working in very close coordination on this black operation, just as they usually do concerning all things PUTIN. Here’s the Israeli Intelligence Services’ (MOSSAD) ‘secret’ website — DEBKA.com — for disseminating misinformation, disinformation and false information whenever the psyop requires such.

Unconfirmed Russian Internet rumors that Vladimir Putin is dead

Of course, the UK’s MI6 uses its MSM news platform of choice — REUTERS — to disseminate it’s own version of Putins fake illness story.  The purposefully planted “health problem” story was quite strategically circulated in advance of the fraudulent death story as a setup.  In that way the fabricated ‘death’ story would be more easily accepted by the global readership.   As follows:

According to AllNewsPipleline.com (ANP) the following drama was directed by Reuters.com, predictably as ever.

Add to the weirdness, we see a Reuters article, found on a Google search, screenshot below, reported on the postponement of Putin’s scheduled visit to Kazakhstan saying “It looks like he has fallen ill,” an unnamed source in Kazakhstan’s government told the agency, yet when the Google search link is clicked, it returns an error “Page not found”, with “Our apologies, the requested page was not found. Please double-check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you’re having trouble finding a page in Reuters.”[1]

What follows are the screenshots which the folks at ANP thankfully captured as proof of how deep this thing really goes. REUTERS, the oldest and largest of all the MSM outlets founded by and with the Rothschild family fortune, is the grandaddy of all the original Fleet Street publications.  It functions as the quintessential Mainstream Media outlet which publishes most of the English-generated propaganda throughout the world.  Just like the BBC, REUTERS also seeds the internet with untold numbers of anti-Russian news reports and false stories.

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What is particularly interesting is that REUTERS’ Canadian affiliate decided to leave a similar setup piece on the internet as seen in the link below.

Putin delays Kazakh visit, no health problems says Kremlin

AllNewsPipeline deserves much of the credit for doing all the internet investigation around this ongoing CIA PSYOP.  Having researched many of the various elements, it was then quite easy for The Millennium Report to connect the many telling dots.

Here is one more British-controlled MSM outlet which is routinely used to seed the internet with false stories and fraudulent reporting.  Every single word of the article below is both deliberate and calculated.  Truly, the tabloids that were once located on Fleet Street in the City of London were masters of such yellow journalism.

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Conclusion

The agents of the Judeo-Anglo-American Axis will do just about anything to knock Putin off balance.  They are well aware of his deep spiritual leanings.  They are especially cognizant of how necessary it is to deprive Putin of his extremely important periods of fasting, prayer and meditation.

The Russian Orthodox Lenten Season is a particularly significant time for intensified spiritual practices.  The fasting schedule alone encourages more opportunities for a heightened spiritual awareness which then positively affects one’s capability to meet life’s mundane challenges much more effectively.  However, an unbroken period of deep contemplation and other spiritual practices are necessary for a successful outcome.

What easier way to distract President Putin from his annual monastic ritual than to steal his attention with a “PUTIN is DEAD” internet campaign.  Particularly when they know he is so attentive to the needs of the Russian people, is this plot cynical and contemptuous. You know the CIA is getting quite desperate when they become so transparent in their ill-doings.

The Millennium Report
March 12, 2015

Special Note

Vladimir Putin makes regular pilgrimages to the Valaam Monastery not too far from the Finnish border.  In fact he took a “highly protected and secretive 4-day visit to the Valaam Monastery” in April of 2014 during the height of tensions shortly after the U.S.-coordinated coup d’état in Kiev.  This was another time when Putin was reported as AWOL by the Western MSM.

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“The Valaam Monastery is a stauropegic (subordinated directly to a Patriarch or Synod, rather than to a local Bishop) Russian Orthodox Church monastery in Karelia, located on Valaam, the largest island in Lake Ladoga, the largest lake in Europe, and is often referred to as the “spiritual home” of Putin.”

Author’s Note

The leaders who populate the top tiers of the Anglo-American Axis are notorious for their lack of religious affiliation or spiritual orientation.  Their actions, words and decisions reflect this extremely unfortunate state of affairs.  Because of this, the ruling cabal of the West does not understand Vladimir Putin.  His actions and inactions are quite perplexing and often inscrutable. He will remain an enigma to them until their collective posture undergoes a radical transformation.

Glossary

Anglo-American Axis:
The Anglo-American Axis is represented, first and foremost, by the major English-speaking countires of the world: USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. The European member nations of NATO, such as Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are also closely aligned with the AAA as are all the Scandinavian countries. So are the Asian Pacific Rim nations of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar also owe their allegiance to the AAA but some of these may be changing. The World Shadow Government is an ultra-secret, supranational organization which completely controls the Anglo-American Axis, as well as the European Union, NATO, among many other institutional entities which constitute the Global Control Matrix.

Endnotes

[1] There Is Something Very Strange About The Vladimir Putin Death Hoax Story

References

https://www.facebook.com/businessinsider/posts/10152671636774071

The Internet Thinks Putin Is Dead

“Vladimir Putin dead 2015” : Russian president killed by internet death hoax

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The Coming Chinese Crackup

FYI.


The Coming Chinese Crackup (ZeroHedge, March 13, 2015):

Authored by David Shambaugh, originally posted at The Wall Street Journal,

On Thursday, the National People’s Congress convened in Beijing in what has become a familiar annual ritual. Some 3,000 “elected” delegates from all over the country—ranging from colorfully clad ethnic minorities to urbane billionaires—will meet for a week to discuss the state of the nation and to engage in the pretense of political participation.

Some see this impressive gathering as a sign of the strength of the Chinese political system—but it masks serious weaknesses. Chinese politics has always had a theatrical veneer, with staged events like the congress intended to project the power and stability of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP. Officials and citizens alike know that they are supposed to conform to these rituals, participating cheerfully and parroting back official slogans. This behavior is known in Chinese as biaotai, “declaring where one stands,” but it is little more than an act of symbolic compliance.

Read moreThe Coming Chinese Crackup

Veterans Today: Shockwaves (Part III) – “The Incredibly Defiant And Incredibly Evil Operational Head of the Khazarian Mafia, Bibi Netanyahu”

FYI.


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The incredibly defiant and incredibly evil Operational head of the Khazarian Mafia (KM), Bibi Netanyahu. This is the monster who ordered the 9-11-01 attack on America which killed 3,000 Americans outright with 39,000 dying from radiation caused cancers afterwards with 70,000 now fighting for their lives with radiation caused cancers. This man is evil beyond imagination and represents an the Worldwide Organized Crime Cabal known to Intel insiders as the Khazarian Mafia (KM). Numerous insiders believe that the Khazarian Mafia (KM) is inhuman, evil beyond words, and completely dedicated to destroying all societies of the World and mass murdering 90% of humans everywhere, especially Americans who they are in the process of now completely asset stripping and exporting all industry and manufacturing in order to eliminate as many jobs as possible. Unless these Parasitical Psychopathic Monsters are stopped cold, America will soon be destroyed economically, and up to 90% of all Americans will be  mass-murdered in DHS run FEMA Camps, or by their KM engineered nuclear WW3.

Shockwaves (Part III) (Veterans Today, March 12, 2015)

Disease outbreak on US West Coast is largest ever seen in any population of animals – Tens of millions dead – Scientists believe radiation from Fukushima to blame

Expert: Disease outbreak on US West Coast is largest ever seen in any population of animals — Tens of millions dead — Official: Gov’t needs to declare emergency before extinction occurs — Many scientists believed radiation from Fukushima to blame (VIDEO) (ENENews, March 14, 2015):

McClatchy, Mar 13, 2015 (emphasis added): With millions of starfish dying all along the West Coast [and] disintegrating into mush [Congressman Denny Heck wants NOAA] to declare “sea star wasting syndrome” an emergency before the starfish becomes extinct.

National Geographic, Jan 23, 2015: [It’s killed] tens of millions of sea stars.

Cornell Prof. Drew Harvell, sea star researcher, Mar 13, 2015: “There has never been an outbreak of disease in natural populations of animals that I know that’s been this large.”

Newport Beach official Michelle Clemente: “All of our area’s sea stars have disintegrated

Read moreDisease outbreak on US West Coast is largest ever seen in any population of animals – Tens of millions dead – Scientists believe radiation from Fukushima to blame

One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 2

From the article:

“That the manner in which we live today is about to drastically change, and that this coming change is being hidden from us deliberately by those who wish to use a tactic of financial shock and awe to their ultimate advantage.”

Related info:

One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 1


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One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 2 (ALT-MARKET, March 11, 2015):

Consumer spending in the U.S. accounts for approximately 70 percent of gross domestic product, though it is important to note that the manner in which “official” GDP is calculated is highly inaccurate. For example, all government money used within the Medicare coverage system to pay for “consumer health demands,” as well as the now flailing Obamacare socialized welfare program, are counted toward GDP, despite the fact that such capital is created from thin air by the Federal Reserve and also generates debt for the average taxpayer. Government debt creation does not beget successful domestic production. If that was a reality, then all socialist and communist countries (same thing) would be wildly enriched today. This is simply not the case.

That said, the swift decline in manufacturing jobs in the U.S. over the past two decades, including a considerable 33 percent overall decline in manufacturing jobs from 2001 to 2010, leaves only the consumer and service sectors as the primary areas of employment and “production.” The service sector provides about three out of every four jobs available in America, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Read moreOne Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 2

Peak Pathetic – Chinese Authorities Claim Control Over the Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation Process

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Peak Pathetic – Chinese Authorities Claim Control Over the Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation Process (Liberty Blitzkrieg, March 13, 2015):

The future belongs to China.

China is the next great nation.

The 21st century will be dominated by China.

I’m sure all of you have heard variations of the above prediction over the past decade or so. I know I have.

Perhaps China will be the next great nation, but perhaps not. I’ll tell you one thing, unless the political environment changes a lot over there, a world defined by the Chinese perspective is not a world I want to live in.

The relative lack of political and internet freedom in China is well known, as is the egregious treatment of the Tibetan people. Despite having controlled Tibet since 1949, and the subsequent intentional migration of ethnic Han Chinese into the region in order to dilute the culture, Chinese authorities remain paranoid and filled with fear. So much so that the government is panicking at recent statements by the Dalai Lama that he may not be reincarnated. This screws up the government’s plan to name the next Dalai Lama and use him as a puppet stooge for the regime. Truly embarrassing.

Read morePeak Pathetic – Chinese Authorities Claim Control Over the Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation Process

Europe Has A Modest Proposal For Greece: ‘Don’t Pay Wages For One Or Two Months’

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Europe Has A Modest Proposal For Greece: “Don’t Pay Wages For One Or Two Months” (ZeroHedge, March 13, 2015):

The Greek liquidity, pardon “cash flow” problems are so bad, not only Zero Hedge, but also Bloomberg has launched a daily maturity tracker of how much money Greece has to pay either to the IMF or to prefund T-Bill rollovers. This is what Bloomberg blasted out earlier today:

Greece is preparing for another week of hurdles that ends with a ~EU2b repayment on March 20. Most economists say that it will be difficult for Greece to get past end of March without fresh EU funds. Here’s a timeline of the most important events scheduled this week:

  • Monday, March 16: Greece to repay about EU577m in IMF loans
  • Wednesday, March 18: Greece’s debt agency PDMA to sell 13- week treasury bills

Which explains why as we reported yesterday, Greece passed a law to plunder pension funds, one which would allow the government to fully invest reserves of pension funds and other public entities kept in Bank of Greece deposit accounts in Greek sovereign notes.

Read moreEurope Has A Modest Proposal For Greece: ‘Don’t Pay Wages For One Or Two Months’

The Obama Family’s 2014 Christmas Vacation To Hawaii Cost Taxpayers More Than $3.6 Million In FLIGHT EXPENSES ALONE

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The Cost To Taxpayers Of Obama’s Christmas In Paradise (ZeroHedge, March 13, 2015):

Despite Janet Yellen’s best efforts to eradicate poverty in America by explaining why it’s important to be rich, we learned today, courtesy of the UMich Consumer Sentiment survey, that low-income citizens not only still exist, but they in fact spoiled the March print by feeling exactly 6.5% less optimistic about their situation than they did last month.

As depressing as that is, the good news is that according to the survey, rich people are still feeling optimistic about their buying plans (presumably because they have money). If you need further confirmation that things are still going well for some US citizens, consider the following, from Sputnik News:

The Obama family’s 2014 Christmas vacation to Hawaii cost taxpayers more than $3.6 million in flight expenses alone, according to Air Force records obtained by Judicial Watch.

The president grew up in Hawaii, and Christmas there is an annual family tradition. The most recent trip marked the seventh consecutive time the Obamas have spent the holidays in Hawaii – the sixth as the first family. All told, those Christmas vacations have cost taxpayers $15.5 million just in transportation expenses, according to figures obtained by Judicial Watch over the past three years…

Read moreThe Obama Family’s 2014 Christmas Vacation To Hawaii Cost Taxpayers More Than $3.6 Million In FLIGHT EXPENSES ALONE

Debt Ceiling Drama Is Back: Two Days Until US Borrowing Capacity Is Exhausted

“Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren,” Obama said in a 2006 floor speech that preceded a Senate vote to extend the debt limit. “America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.”
– Barack Obama

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Debt Ceiling Drama Is Back: Two Days Until US Borrowing Capacity Is Exhausted (ZeroHedge, March 13, 2015):

And so, a little over a year after the last debt ceiling melodrama, in which the US kicked the can on its maximum borrowing capacity to this Sunday, March 15, in the meantime raking up total US public debt to $18.149 trillion the soap opera with the self-imposed borrowing ceiling on America’s “credit card” is back, and the US is once again faced with sad reality of its debt ceiling (now at well over 100% of America’s upward revised GDP of $17.7 trillion). The reason: two days from today Congress’s temporary suspension of the debt ceiling, which was approved in February 2014, ends.

Read moreDebt Ceiling Drama Is Back: Two Days Until US Borrowing Capacity Is Exhausted

What A Mess … SecDef’s Office: F-35 Progress Worse Than Feared

H/t reader squodgy:

“What a mess…
If the American middle class could see the billions of their taxes being poured into this bottomless pit of incompetence & corruption which results in no more than a 72% overall success target achievement they would surely cry.”


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SecDef’s Office: F-35 Progress Worse than Feared (Defense Industry Daily, March 13, 2015):

Those expecting the F-35 to meet its operational capabilities in the near-term will not be breathing much easier now that Office of the Secretary of Defense has published its progress report for the F-35 external link. It’s a hot mess. The glass-half-empty analysts over at POGO have their own analysis external link of the report here, which essentially parrots the OSD report, but uses more adjectives and an indignant tone.

Read moreWhat A Mess … SecDef’s Office: F-35 Progress Worse Than Feared

Peak Crony Capitalism: First Citi Writes US Financial Laws, Now Boeing Tells Ex-Im Bank What To Do

Peak Crony Capitalism: First Citi Writes US Financial Laws, Now Boeing Tells Ex-Im Bank What To Do (ZeroHedge, March 13, 2015):

Today’s most under the radar news, just as Citigroup was to Congress, and the swaps push out language, so Boeing, that primary recipients of the generosity of America’s Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, has been caught red-handed drafting the rules of none other than the Ex-Im bank itself! According to the WSJ: “when the Export-Import Bank sought to respond to critics with tighter rules for aircraft sales, it reached out to a company with a vested interest in the outcome: Boeing Co., the biggest beneficiary of the bank’s assistance.” Or nothing more than a criminal conflict of interest, which, once again, is at the expense of America’s infinite bailout piggybank: it’s taxpayers.

Flash Boys’ Michael Lewis Warns “The Problem’s Not Just HFT, The Problem Is The Entire System”

–  Flash Boys’ Michael Lewis Warns “The Problem’s Not Just HFT, The Problem Is The Entire System” (ZeroHedge, March 13, 2015): 

As HFT shops begin to turn on each other, it seems appropriate to reflect on the impact that Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys book had on exposing the ugly truth that many have been discussing for years in US (and international) equity (and non-equity) markets. As Lewis concludes, after explaining the attacks he has suffered from the HFT industry, “If I didn’t do more to distinguish ‘good’ H.F.T. from ‘bad’ H.F.T., it was because I saw, early on, that there was no practical way for me or anyone else… to do it. …  The big banks and the exchanges [have] been paid to compromise investors’ interests while pretending to guard those interests. I was surprised more people weren’t angry with them.”

Kremlin Rejects Rumor Of Putin Illness, Shows Footage Of Today’s Meeting

Hmmh. So far I have never wasted a single thought on Putin not being well.

But to me he doesn’t look good at all in these pictures.

His handshake doesn’t look like it could ‘break hands’ …

‘His handshakes break hands’: Press secretary dismisses Putin illness rumors

… and looking at his posture, … hmmh … , this looks so unlike the martial arts trained Putin I know.

When I once saw a photo where you could take a closer look at his Iris, I saw that his left Iris indicates a problem with the kidney.


Kremlin Rejects Rumor Of Putin Illness, Shows Footage Of Today’s Meeting (ZeroHedge, March 13, 2015):

Following reports that after unexpectedly rescheduling two preannounced high level meetings, the social networks erupted with a cornucopia of theories and “confirmed” reports that the Russian president is sick, had a stroke, or has outright died. To be sure this is not the first time the 62-year-old’s health has been put into question, the last time being 2012 when rumors swirled again. However this time it got so bad even Bloomberg felt it was relevant to ask “Where is Vladimir Putin.” This morning the Kremlin answered.

Read moreKremlin Rejects Rumor Of Putin Illness, Shows Footage Of Today’s Meeting

Meet the “Dirty Brigades” – The U.S. Trained and Funded Iraqi Soldiers Accused of War Crimes

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Meet the “Dirty Brigades” – The U.S. Trained and Funded Iraqi Soldiers Accused of War Crimes (Liberty Blitzkrieg, March 12, 2015):

U.S.-trained and armed Iraqi military units, the key to the American strategy against ISIS, are under investigation for committing some of the same atrocities as the terror group, American and Iraqi officials told ABC News. Some Iraqi units have already been cut off from U.S. assistance over “credible” human rights violations, according to a senior military official on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff.

The U.S. is shipping almost $1 billion in weapons, as well as providing U.S. military trainers to instruct new Iraqi recruits. A special operations official in Baghdad, however, said it’s the government of Iraq that decides — not the Pentagon — which Iraqi units get U.S.-donated weapons, such as 43,000 M4 rifles and thousands of other light infantry weapons Congress approved for shipment in December.

“Ministry of Interior officials tortured detainees to death, according to reports from multiple government officials and human rights organizations,” read the annual report. The Bureau explicitly fingered the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Forces and Interior Ministry’s special police units — which the U.S. established, trained and armed from 2003-2011, and whose troops are seen in many of the atrocities images.

From the ABC News article: ‘Dirty Brigades’: US-Trained Iraqi Forces Investigated for War Crimes

This is another one of those “you can’t make this stuff up” articles, which perfectly highlights the complete idiocy and incompetence of American foreign policy. It’s no wonder nothing gets better, considering the corrupt status quo continues to merely rotate the same empty suits between various positions of power (see:Jeb Bush Exposed Part 1 – His Top Advisors Will Be the Architects of His Brother’s Iraq War). It’s literally like giving people with the mental capacity and wisdom of an infant, nuclear weapons and telling them to go crazy.

Read moreMeet the “Dirty Brigades” – The U.S. Trained and Funded Iraqi Soldiers Accused of War Crimes

Bodies Of US Soldiers Killed In Ukraine Float Ashore In Florida – Pensacola Black Hawk Down Crash is an Arch-Zionist Hoax

H/t reader squodgy:

“I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore Toto…..

This is a beautiful coincidence, a mock helicopter accident used to cover up US casualties of the Ukraine conflict.”


Pensacola Black Hawk Down Crash is an Arch-Zionist Hoax

Pensacola Black Hawk Down Crash is an Arch-Zionist Hoax (NODISINFO, March 12, 2015):

Revelation thanks to one of our posters

Make no mistake about it the purported crash of a Black Hawk helicopter in the Florida seas is an arch-Zionist fake, where no one died, and no one was injured. Sure it was. Some 11 (not four, five, six, eight, or 12, but “11”) of the nation’s finest died doing their duty. Sure, it was. In fact, it is nothing other than a terminally wretched PR stunt. Yet, it is said:

Bodies Of US Soldiers Killed In Ukraine Float Ashore In Florida (The Total Collapse, March 12, 2015):

A curious insert placed into today’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) report for President Putin states that the bodies of a number of US Marines killed during last months Battle of Debaltseve have begun “mysteriously” appearing upon a Gulf of Mexico beach in Florida.

According to this report, the MoD reported last month that the Obama regime had “effectively abandoned” at least 150 US troops embedded with over 5,000 Ukrainian forces in the rebel surrounded town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine from which thousands of shell-shocked Ukrainian soldiers managed to escape, and who later described their terrifying retreat from that apocalyptic rail town while being shot at point blank range.

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