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Chinese Rating Agency Warns Coming Crisis Is Worse Than 2008, Blames US ‘Printing Press’

February 6, 2015February 6, 2015 by Infinite

2008 will look like a cakewalk in comparison to what lies ahead.

– Chinese Rating Agency Warns Coming Crisis Is Worse Than 2008, Blames US “Printing Press” (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

The head of China’s Dagong Rating Agency, Guan Jianzhong, had some very blunt words for the world’s investors and policymakers overnight. As ITAR-TASS reports, Jianzhong warned , “the world economy may slip into a new global financial crisis in the next few years… that is even worse than in 2008.”

Read moreChinese Rating Agency Warns Coming Crisis Is Worse Than 2008, Blames US ‘Printing Press’

Shunned Greece Agrees To Boost Economic Cooperation With Russia

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

– Shunned Greece Agrees To Boost Economic Cooperation With Russia (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

It’s been an odd few days for Greece’s new PM Alexis Tsipras. From being lambasted by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, shunned by Angela Merkel’s henchmen, holding hands with Jean-Claude Juncker, and losing a key funding channel from Mario Draghi; Tsipras’ anti-austerity platform has been ‘supported’ by Barack Obama and he has been invited for a visit to Russia by Vladimir Putin, and reminded that Russia is willing (and able) to provide financial aid if asked by finance minister Anton Siluanov. So headlines this evening from ekathimerini should not be entirely surprising that Putin and Tsipras have agreed to boost cooperation in the economy and energy, tourism, culture and transport sectors; and discussed the possible creation of a pipeline to carry natural gas from Russia to Europe via Turkey and Greece.

Read moreShunned Greece Agrees To Boost Economic Cooperation With Russia

BOMBSHELL: CDC Whistleblower Who Admitted Covering Up MMR Vaccine Links to Autism Granted Immunity, Will Testify

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

H/t reader squodgy:

“I hope the BigPharma Drug Companies don’t make his meals in the meantime.”

– BOMBSHELL: CDC Whistleblower Who Admitted Covering Up MMR Vaccine Links to Autism Granted Immunity, Will Testify (The Daily Sheeple, Feb 4, 2015):

Flashback to late August 2014:

Shocking revelations about alleged CDC misconduct in a study investigating the link between autism and vaccines have been made even worse by an active campaign to censor and silence the issue in the media.

That CDC whistleblower is back in the news (in the alternative, independent news, anyway).

Read moreBOMBSHELL: CDC Whistleblower Who Admitted Covering Up MMR Vaccine Links to Autism Granted Immunity, Will Testify

An Uninvited Guest’s Speech At The UK Arms Industry’s Annual Dinner (Video)

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

04.02.2015

Description:

The UK arms industry’s Annual Dinner took place on 3rd February 2015 at the London Hilton on Park Lane. The £246-a-head banquet was attended by arms industry executives and more than 40 MPs.

This industry, which profits from selling arms to repressive regimes and conflict zones including Saudi Arabia, Israel and Bahrain, is supported and subsidised by the UK government.

Activists from Campaign Against Arms Trade were there to greet the arriving arms dealers and deliver an impromptu speech asking them to reconsider their choice of career…

Greece: The Big Picture Update, And Why Deutsche Bank Thinks Europe Will Fold

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

– Greece: The Big Picture Update, And Why Deutsche Bank Thinks Europe Will Fold (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

The Greek situation summaries Greece by Deutsche Bank’s George Saravelos have consistently been among the best in the entire sellside. His latest Greek update, which is a must read for anyone who hasn’t been following the fluid developments out of southeast Europe, which fluctuate not on an hourly but on a minute basis, does not disappoint.

But while his summary of events is great, what is of far greater significance is his conclusion, namely that ultimately Europe will fold: “we consider the most likely outcome to be a Eurogroup offer of a new Third program” and “given that the current program expires this February the offer to negotiate a new Third program may provide political room for the government to sit on the negotiating table. At the same time such an offer is very likely to be attached to strict conditions, with the willingness to accommodate t-bill issuance an open question. Developments overnight suggest that this has become less likely, imposing maximum pressure on the government to reach agreement within a matter of weeks.”

Read moreGreece: The Big Picture Update, And Why Deutsche Bank Thinks Europe Will Fold

TransAsia Airways Flight 235 Crash is a COMPLETE HOAX (Video)

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

H/t reader squodgy:

“This clip, reminiscent of the analysis of the London Bombings by Muad D’ib exposing awful photoshop work, does show strong evidence that nothing is as it seems.”

05.02.2015

See slow motion zoomed images exposing the CGI effects plane…

It Will Now Cost You 0.75% To Save Money In Denmark: Danish Central Bank Cuts Rates For FOURTH Time In Three Weeks

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

– It Will Now Cost You 0.75% To Save Money In Denmark: Danish Central Bank Cuts Rates For FOURTH Time In Three Weeks (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

It has become a weekly thing now. In its desperation to preserve the EURDKK peg, the Danish central banks has cut rates into negative, then cut them again, then again last week, and moments ago, just cut its deposit rate to negative one more time, pushing NIRP from -0.5% to -0.75%, its fourth “surprise” rate cut in the past 3 weeks!

From the press release:

Effective from 6 February 2015, Danmarks Nationalbank’s interest rate on certificates of deposit is reduced by 0.25 percentage points to -0.75 per cent. The lending rate, the discount rate and the current account rate remain unchanged at 0.05 per cent, 0.0 per cent and 0.0 per cent, respectively.

Read moreIt Will Now Cost You 0.75% To Save Money In Denmark: Danish Central Bank Cuts Rates For FOURTH Time In Three Weeks

Layoffs Surge 17.6% YoY, Shale State Joblessness Soars, Initial Jobless Claims Rise

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

– Layoffs Surge 17.6% YoY, Shale State Joblessness Soars, Initial Jobless Claims Rise (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

It all makes perfect sense. Challenger announced this morning that layoffs in January soard 17.6% year-over-year with planned job cuts at the highest level in almost 2 years… Jobless claims in Shale states continues to trend higher as oil prices collapse… but initial jobless claims beat expectations – hovering near cycle lows – though did rise modestly WoW.

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RadioShack Files For Bankruptcy

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

Update:

– RadioShack files for bankruptcy; Sprint to take over some stores (Reuters)

– RadioShack Files For Bankruptcy (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

As credit markets have been indicating for 15 months, 94-year-old consumer-electronics chain RadioShack has finally pulled the ripcord…

*RADIOSHACK FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION AS LOSSES MOUNT

*RADIOSHACK WILTS UNDER BIG-BOX, ONLINE COMPETITION

RadioShack lists $1.2bn in assets and $1.38bn in debt. Additionally, Bloomberg reports that a post-bankruptcy deal is being worked on with Sprint.

Read moreRadioShack Files For Bankruptcy

‘Just the beginning’: Jordan sends dozens of fighter jets to strike ISIS in Syria

February 6, 2015February 6, 2015 by Infinite

– Israel Acts As ISIS’ Air Force … Repeatedly Bombs Syria

– US-Led Jets Bomb Grain Silos In Syria, ‘Civilians Killed’

– ‘Just the beginning’: Jordan sends dozens of fighter jets to strike ISIS in Syria (RT, Feb 6, 2015):

Jordan has promised to strike the Islamic State with “everything we have,” sending dozens of fighter jets to target the militant group’s positions in retaliation to the brutal murder of a captured Jordanian pilot.

“This is just a beginning…tens of…fighter jets have struck their hideouts,” the country’s army said in a statement.

Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on Thursday told CNN that his country was “upping the ante” and going after the Islamic State (formerly ISIS / ISIL) militants “with everything that we have.”

Economic Collapse – How Bad Will It Get? (Video)

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

H/t reader squodgy:

“Interesting interview which actually addresses the issues we will have to deal with.”

05.02.2015

CME Hikes Silver, Brent, RBOB Margins

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

– CME Hikes Silver, Brent, RBOB Margins (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

In case algos still haven’t gotten the message to jump all aboard into the S&P, here comes the CME with a gntle nudge in the form of 90 pages of margin hikes including Brent, RBOB and, just in case there is still anyone who wishes to trade paper precious metals against the BIS, silver. In fact, at first glance it appears the only future whose margin was not hiked was stocks: apparently stocks are never volatile enough for a margin hike.

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OPERATION INDIGO SKYFOLD: The Most Secret Covert Black Operation In World History

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

H/t reader squodgy:

“Are the peasants revolting?”

– OPERATION INDIGO SKYFOLD: The Most Secret Covert Black Operation In World History (State of the Nation, Feb 4, 2015):

Chemtrail Pilot Blows The Cover Of OPERATION INDIGO SKYFOLD

A Courageous Chemtrail Pilot Exposes the Global Geoengineering Program

“Maybe my fellow pilots will read or hear about this, and decide to come forward as well.”

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2015 AND 2016 COLLAPSE TIMELINE

February 6, 2015 by Infinite

H/t reader squodgy:

“How depressing to learn we might actually be being manipulated to such a high degree…..”

– 2015 AND 2016 COLLAPSE TIMELINE (State of the Nation, Jan 18, 2015):

Debt Default and Dollar Meltdown,
Derivative Explosion and Deflation Implosion
are Timed According to a Controlling Calendar
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Biggest Short Squeeze Since 2011 Sends Stocks Surging, USDollar Purging — The Death Cross Of American Society

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

– Biggest Short Squeeze Since 2011 Sends Stocks Surging, USDollar Purging (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015)

– The Death Cross Of American Society (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

Presented with little comment aside to ask (rhetorically of course), who is The Fed working for?

Wall Street vs Main Street

As BofAML warns, if Main St. doesn’t recover this year on the back of the powerful cyclical combo of lower oil/rates/currencies then the specter of “policy failure” will haunt investors, and currency wars, debt default and deficit financing will become macro realities.

Putin Invites Tsipras To Visit Russia

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

– Putin Invites Tsipras To Visit Russia (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

While Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis’ comments that “we will never ask for financial assistance in Moscow,” which notably does not deny acceptance of aid if offered, and Greek Minister of Energy Panagiotis Lafazanis adding that Athens opposes the embargo imposed on Moscow, “we have no disagreement with Russia and the Russian people,” it is perhaps not surprising that, as Vedemosti reports, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with the new Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras, congratulated him on taking office, and invited him to Russia.

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Greece Refuses To Back Down: ‘Government Will Do As Promised’ Alexis Tsipras Says

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

– Greece Refuses To Back Down: “Government Will Do As Promised” Tsipras Says (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

With an increasingly vitriolic tone, the new Greek government has come out swinging today with leader Alexis Tsipras making it clear that he will implement the election pledges the people of Greece voted for:

A NEW GREEK GOVT WILL BARGAIN TOUGH, AND PUT A FINAL END TO THE TROIKA AND ITS POLICIES

WE MANAGED TO DECONSTRUCT THE EUROPEAN STATUS QUO THAT WANTS MORE AUSTERITY AND LESS DEMOCRACY

It took one week, Tsipras chides, to get European leaders to talk about the real problems and Greece will negotiate hard to “put an end to Troika.”

Read moreGreece Refuses To Back Down: ‘Government Will Do As Promised’ Alexis Tsipras Says

Bulk Shipping Bankruptices Begin As Baltic Dry Collapse Continues

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

– Bulk Shipping Bankruptices Begin As Baltic Dry Collapse Continues (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

With one of the world’s leading dry bulk shipping companies, Copenhagen-based D/S Norden, having made huge losses for the last 2 years and expected to report dramatic losses in 2014 also, it is hardly surprising that the smaller bulk shipping firms are struggling as The Baltic Dry Index collapses ever closer to record all-time lows. As Reuters reports, privately-owned shipping company Copenship has filed for bankruptcy in Copenhagen after losses in the dry bulk market, with the CEO exclaiming, “we have reached a point where there is not more to do.” We suspect, given the crash in shipping fees, that this is the first of many…

On Thursday the index stood at 564, close to the historic low level of 554 set in July 1986.

As Reuters reports,

Privately-owned shipping company Copenship has filed for bankruptcy in Copenhagen after losses in the dry bulk market, its Chief Executive Michael Fenger told Reuters.

Read moreBulk Shipping Bankruptices Begin As Baltic Dry Collapse Continues

Schauble And Varoufakis Meeting Ends: ‘We Didn’t Even Agree To Disagree’

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

From the article:

SCHAEUBLE: MY PRESS SPOKESMAN ADVISED ME TO SAY “WE AGREED TO DISAGREE”

VAROUFAKIS SAYS “WE DIDN’T EVEN AGREE TO DISAGREE”

– Schauble And Varoufakis Meeting Ends: “We Didn’t Even Agree To Disagree” (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

Less than 24 hours after the ECB showed it would only play hardball from now on, there were some hopes that either the Greek position would soften or that Germany would indicate it may agree to at least a modest compromise to avoid the worst possible outcome.

Alas, as the following photo from the ongoing press conference between the finance ministers of Greece and Germany shows…

… it was not meant to be.

Read moreSchauble And Varoufakis Meeting Ends: ‘We Didn’t Even Agree To Disagree’

Ukraine Currency Plunges Over 30% After Central Bank Gives Up On Indicative Rate

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

– Ukraine Currency Plunges Over 30% After Central Bank Gives Up On Indicative Rate (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

It had been a while since a member of the US state department had visited ground zero of its second most disastrous intervention in the past year (the first being the embarrassment that is ISIS) namely Kiev, Ukraine, the same place where precisely a year ago US assistant SecState Victoria Nuland was recorded in a hacked conversation saying to “Fuck the EU”, and revealed as the mastermind behind the violent Ukraine coup. Which is perhaps why today US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev on Thursday “in a signal of firm US support for the country amid growing international alarm at a surge in fighting.”

In addition to whispering words of support to the local government, whose army has been on the defensive in past weeks in east Ukraine having lost several key outpusts, Kerry also unveiled $16 million in fresh US humanitarian aid.

Read moreUkraine Currency Plunges Over 30% After Central Bank Gives Up On Indicative Rate

Venezuela Runs Out Of Condoms: A Pack Now Costs $755 (If You Can Find It)

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

– Venezuela Runs Out Of Condoms: A Pack Now Costs $755 (If You Can Find It) (ZeroHedge, Feb 4, 2015):

Over the years we have had our fair share at the epic social(ist) experiment that is Venezuela. Below is a random selection of stories over the past years or two, which truly capture the essence of Venezuela’s socialist revolution:

Unfortunately, the country whose president two weeks ago said that “Venezuela Must Deepen Socialism To Improve Economy“, which is the political equivalent of “we must do even more QE to fix record wealth inequality”, may have just hit rock bottom when Venezuelans, who already must line up for hours to buy the simplest of daily necessities (which they can obtain without being arrested in the process if they are lucky) now have to pay $755 for a pack of condoms.

“The country is so messed up that now we have to wait in line even to have sex,” lamented Jonatan Montilla, a 31-year-old advertising company art director. “This is a new low.”

Read moreVenezuela Runs Out Of Condoms: A Pack Now Costs $755 (If You Can Find It)

The Latest US Invasion Of Iraq Begins: US Military Search And Rescue Teams Arrive In Northern Iraq

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

– The Latest US Invasion Of Iraq Begins: US Military Search And Rescue Teams Arrive In Northern Iraq (ZeroHedge, Feb 4, 2015):

Despite numerous explanations that no boots-on-the-ground will be on-the-ground in Iraq in the war against Islamic State, it appears, as CNN reports, that the US military has moved Search-and-Rescue (S&R) assets to Northern Iraq as part of a “constant rebalancing” depending on the evolving airstrike-only mission.

Of course, as the ‘unnamed source’ was so quick to explain, this was in no way a response to threats from The UAE to pull out of the coalition unless S&R assets were placed in Iraq since, cynically speaking, the UAE demands are only the result of US demands that it demand it anyway.

Read moreThe Latest US Invasion Of Iraq Begins: US Military Search And Rescue Teams Arrive In Northern Iraq

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: The New Greek Government May Be Assassinated

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

– Paul Craig Roberts – The New Greek Government May Be Assassinated (King World News, Feb 4, 2015):

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“So when Putin and Russia offered help for the Greek’s financial situation, they handed the Greeks a card that can’t be trumped. The question is: Do the Greeks dare to play that card? The stakes are high and it’s extremely dangerous to go against Washington for all the reasons I just told you.”

Read moreDr. Paul Craig Roberts: The New Greek Government May Be Assassinated

Baltic Dry Down 90% Of Days Since Cramer “Stressed Its Importance”; Crashes To New 29-Year Low

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

– Baltic Dry Down 90% Of Days Since Cramer “Stressed Its Importance”; Crashes To New 29-Year Low (ZeroHedge, Feb 4, 2015):

And the collapse just keeps going… since Thanksgiving, The Baltic Dry has fallen on 43 or the 47 days, down over 60% from the “China growth is back and all-is-well” hope-filled days of late October (when Jim Cramer “stressed the importance of watching the Baltic Dry Freight Index,” as his bullish thesis confirmation). At 569, The Baltic Dry is inching ever closer to what will be the lowest level ever (554 on 7/31/1986) for the global shipping cost indicator…

One or two more days like this and it will be the all-time low…

VIDEO: Cancer epidemic underway in Fukushima — Rates up 6,000% says head of cancer research center — “This is definitely a holocaust … everything’s being swept under the rug”

February 5, 2015 by Infinite

– VIDEO: Cancer epidemic underway in Fukushima — Rates up 6,000% says head of cancer research center — “This is definitely a holocaust… everything’s being swept under the rug” — “Very, very frightening… my family members are brainwashed” (ENEnews, Feb 4, 2015):

Fukushima resident Chieko Shiina, supporter of the Fukushima Collaborative Clinic (translated by Carole Hisasue), Jan 24, 2015 (emphasis added):

At 8:00 — Already, 85 children have had surgeries for thyroid cancer, there are 112-113 children who are suspected of having cancer. When children get cancers it progresses very quickly. The former person in charge of health, Yamashita Shunichi, said it would be only a 1 in a million chance of children getting any kind of cancer because of radiation. But he was lying. Right now, it’s like 1 in 3,000 — it’s an epidemic… The head of the National Cancer Research Center estimated right now in Fukushima the rate of cancer has gone up 61 times. And yet the gov’t and also the hospitals related to the gov’t are saying this is not because of radiation… How long does the gov’t think that we’ll be silent about this? In light of this epidemic, my anger will never die down. And then to think about the parents of the small children – how worried they must be.
Read moreVIDEO: Cancer epidemic underway in Fukushima — Rates up 6,000% says head of cancer research center — “This is definitely a holocaust … everything’s being swept under the rug”