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1  Local / Esquina Libre / Estadounidenses piden la renuncia del embajador Noah Mamet en Argentina on: March 20, 2016, 02:30:57 PM
http://www.telesurtv.net/imreporter/Estadounidenses-Piden-la-Renuncia-del-Embajador-Noah-Mamet-en-Argentina-por-Denegaciones-de-Pasaportes-20160317-0028.html




En 2014 varios miembros del Partido Demócrata denunciaron en privado que Noah Mamet, fundador y Presidente de Noah Mamet y Asociados, se aprovechó de sus clientes y sacó partido de sus vínculos con Jim Messina para obtener la embajada en Buenos Aires, un trabajo para el que lamentablemente no está calificado.

Esta semana el Huffington Post Club alegó que Mamet hizo uso de sus conexiones con la multimillonaria familia hollywoodense Wasserman y realizó cuestionables aportes de campaña usando nombres de familiares y seudónimos de otras personas durante la campaña de Obama 2012.

Mamet también había consultado específicamente a al menos un cliente sobre la mejor forma de obtener una embajada, antes de obtener una para él mismo. Una lista de clientes en www.nmapartners.com, cuyo enlace fue eliminado, incluye al empresario Stephen Cloobeck, al filántropo Jay Snyder y al director del City National Bank Russell Goldsmith.

Los registros de visitas muestran que Mamet visitó la Casa Blanca en 28 ocasiones entre 2009 y 2015. En al menos cuatro de esas ocasiones, Cloobeck, Snyder, y la filántropa Lynda Thomas lo acompañaron en reuniones con funcionarios de la Casa Blanca.

A fines de 2015, después de que Mamet hubiera asumido su puesto, el Vice Cónsul de la embajada de EE.UU. Brendan O'Brien escribió una carta privada afirmando que un ciudadano norteamericano con un pasaporte estadounidense vigente no necesariamente tenía derecho a renovarlo y volver a los Estados Unidos.

Los norteamericanos expatriados en Argentina cuestionan las competencias de Noah Mamet y las de sus subordinados Christopher Creaghe, Brendan O'Brien y Holly Wilkerson para representar sus intereses.

Los argentinos han organizado un movimiento que demanda la destitución de Noah Mamet de la embajada en su país y la finalización de la intromisión estadounidense en su política. Se organizaron masivas manifestaciones para exigir su expulsión. La prensa angloparlante permanece ajena a lo que sucede.

Han surgido alegaciones en los medios argentinos acerca de que Mamet estaría cooperando con los servicios de inteligencia israelíes para incriminar a la ex presidente Kirchner por un asesinato que no cometió, en la víspera de una audiencia sobre negociaciones secretas con Irán. Un análisis de los documentos de Wikileaks demuestra que el fallecido Alberto Nisman recibía órdenes de la embajada de los EE.UU. en un esfuerzo determinado a culpar a Irán por el bombardeo terrorista de la Asociación Mutual Judía de Buenos Aires en 1992.

Expertos norteamericanos en libertades civiles como John Whitehead están preocupados por las implicancias de una embajada que demora indefinidamente la renovación de un pasaporte norteamericano sin el debido proceso legal.


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2  Economy / Economics / Most Important Banking Corruption Information Documents on: March 06, 2016, 01:54:45 PM


Banking Corruption: Facts, Information

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For the best, most concise introduction to banking corruption information, explore the below financial and banking cover-up summaries. In the first summary you will learn that the U.S. Federal Reserve is neither truly federal nor a full reserve. You'll also be introduced to the "fractional reserve system," which allows bankers to create money out of thin air. The other two excellent summaries relate the history of banking and money, as excerpted from the landmark history text Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by esteemed professor Carroll Quigley. Dr. Quigley reveals the hidden agendas of powerful elite groups in the unfolding history of our world.

Three-page banking corruption facts and information summary
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http://www.WantToKnow.info/articles/tragedy_hope_banking_money_history
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http://www.WantToKnow.info/articles/quigley_carroll.tragedy_hope_banking_money_history

Best Free Banking Corruption Facts and Information Videos

Monopoly Men: Is there a secret history of the world suppressed by those who control the major media? Are there secret societies of greedy bankers whose agenda has been to manipulate every major war and economic depression? Is there a shadowy elite surreptitiously pulling the strings to bring about their own self-serving political agenda? This highly educational documentary from "The Phenomenon Archives" explores these intriguing questions and more.

http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/monopoly_men – 45 minutes

Money, Power & Wall Street - A penetrating 2012 PBS video documentary revealing severe manipulations of Wall Street and the big bankers in regards to the financial meltdown of 2008 and beyond. Incredible interviews of top players show they did little to nothing to stop the global financial crisis. Deep insiders who saw it coming also blow the whistle on their former employers.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/money-power-wall-street – 4 one-hour episodes

The Ascent of Money - An engaging PBS documentary on the power and influence of money and banking on global history. The Ascent of Money has four parts, each one hour in length. The first two parts are excellent in revealing the hidden history of money in our world, though the third and fourth parts on more recent history are much weaker.





http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/featured/the-ascent-of-money... – 4 one-hour episodes

The Money Masters – How International Bankers Gained Control of America: This 3 1/2 hour historical documentary traces the origins of the political power structure that now rules the nations of our world. The current global hierarchical power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. Though a bit pedantic at times and with a few errors in fact, this informative video still gives an excellent overall picture of how the truth about money's influence in history is kept well hidden.




http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=moneymasters – 210 minutes (transcript available here)














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3  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Terrorism in 2015: Following a False Flag Formula on: February 28, 2016, 03:34:38 AM
No conspiracy theory required, just Newton's Third Law of Physics.  An object that collapses at the speed of gravity can meet no resistance or it will slow down.  If there is no resistance, all support structures in the 3 towers had to be neutered.  2 airplanes hitting 2 towers can not provide the energy required at exactly all the right joints throughout the structure, at just the right sequential moments in time, to cause completely perfect  failure floor by floor, down to the ground in 10 seconds, of 3 towers.   
4  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Terrorism in 2015: Following a False Flag Formula on: February 28, 2016, 03:04:22 AM
When France bombed Syria just 48 hours after their Friday the 13 massacre in Paris, it was as obvious as the sun rising that there was coordination because logistically that was not enough time to react to an unanticipated event. 

Same thing has happened numerous times recently, where legislation or a speech or other action taken allegedly in response to an act of terrorist violence, had to have been planned in advance.  And, in Syria at that point, the Russians were obliterating ISIS so militarily it was the ideal moment for France to send its Air Force to slow the Russians down or at least control a piece of the airspace.  Too much coincidence going on.  Ukraine was the same. 

That passenger plane was shot down at the ideal moment to push the sanctions on Russia through in Europe.  Too much coincidence. 

If you have any doubts about what happened on September 11, search for WTC 7 on youtube and see for yourself.  No airplanes there.
5  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Terrorism in 2015: Following a False Flag Formula on: February 28, 2016, 02:40:40 AM
sources

http://digwithin.net/2016/01/04/terrorism-in-2015/

http://pilotsfor911truth.org/

http://www.ae911truth.org/
6  Other / Politics & Society / Terrorism in 2015: Following a False Flag Formula on: February 28, 2016, 02:15:46 AM
Terrorism in 2015: Following a False Flag Formula

by Kevin Ryan

In 2015, there were 385 terrorist incidents around the world according to Wikipedia. Of these, 94% were attributed to Muslim perpetrators or occurred in Muslim countries surrounding the world’s most resource-rich region. The geographic pattern behind these and previous attacks suggests that terrorism is more a function of the need to seize resources than it is about religious or political beliefs. The terrorist events of 2015 continue to fuel speculation that most terrorism is government-sponsored and focuses on achieving political objectives.

Most of the terrorist attacks in 2015 were attributed to groups located in the relatively small region of southwestern Eurasia that has been the focus of competition for resources among the world’s superpowers. The political will to drive seizure of those resources requires Western governments to generate a fear of terrorism in their own societies so that “responses” can happen without interference from the public. Maintaining the fear is what appears to be the primary objective behind the fewer, better publicized, attacks in Western countries.

Since 9/11, terrorist acts in Western countries have exhibited a formulaic set of common features that suggest the government might have been involved in the crimes. Here are ten such features.

    Evidence against the accused is usually composed of hearsay claims or dubious documents that originate with military or law enforcement sources.
    The hearsay evidence typically includes vague accusations that the suspects were in contact with, had “links” to, or made recent pledges of allegiance to, terrorist leaders.
    The documentary evidence includes things like passports conveniently left at the scene or social media postings that imply a commitment to terrorism.
    There is an overly obvious attempt to associate the terrorists with Islam.
    The suspects are usually dead by the time the first reports come out.
    People who knew the accused often say they had absolutely no idea that their friend/neighbor/family member was involved or interested in terrorism in any way.
    The testimony of eyewitnesses is ignored as authorities provide contradictory stories that quickly become the official, media-driven accounts.
    Eyewitnesses often describe the attackers as armed and outfitted like highly trained, and well-supported, special operations soldiers.
    The attacks usually coincide with military or law enforcement exercises that mimic what happens.
    The incidents are used to justify rapid military attacks against countries of strategic interest before any investigation is conducted.

In 2015, two acts of terrorism in the U.S. were attributed to white men who survived and were not said to be associated with Muslims. These were the June shooting of nine African Americans in a South Carolina church and the November killing of three people at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado. But the remaining six terrorist events in the West were all attributed to Muslims. Here are quick summaries of how those terrorist events exhibited the features listed above.

paris-attacks-2Paris in January—The Charlie Hebdo and Kosher Grocery attacks: The first of two major terrorist acts in Paris resulted in a considerable number of as-yet unanswered questions. Not the least of these was that the military-style attackers wore balaclavas to conceal their identities yet left a passport for quick identification. The attackers took pains to associate themselves with Islam yet also displayed professional training like that of special operations soldiers.

Copenhagen in February—Two people were shot dead in separate shootings that were allegedly motivated by art that was disrespectful to Muslims. Police said that Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein committed both crimes and that he died during the second attack. El-Hussein was reported to be well known to Danish intelligence and had been in and out of prison. Despite being sentenced to two years in December 2014 for “serious violence,” he was released in January 2015 and was allegedly engaged in the shootings just two weeks later. Danish citizens have raised questions about the possibility of this being a false-flag attack.

Texas in May—At an anti-Islamic art exhibit featuring images of the Prophet Mohammed in Garland, Texas, two heavily armed gunmen wearing body armor began shooting. One school security officer was shot in the ankle before both of the alleged attackers were killed. The two men had police records and one was the subject of an FBI investigation.

Australia in October—In Parramatta, a 15-year old boy was said to shoot a police employee after visiting a mosque and listening to a lecture by an extremist Islamist leader (according to police). Although Australian authorities called it an act of political terrorism, like most 15-year olds the boy was not politically active and the lecture he attended was about “charity and how to worship God and help others.” His family and friends had no idea that he had any violent tendencies.

Paris in November—In a coordinated series of attacks, terrorists killed 130 people. Just two days later, before an investigation was completed, France began a new bombing campaign in Syria. Only one of the ten suspects, Saleh Abdeslam, survived the attacks. He was first questioned and released by French authorities, even when it was known that he had rented a car used in the crimes. It was reported that Belgian authorities later let him escape. In November it was revealed that Paris police were engaged in a mass shooting exercise the very morning of the attacks.

California in December—The San Bernardino Shootings: The only eyewitness to the shootings said the perpetrators were three tall, athletic, white men in combat-style gear. The witnesses to the getaway said they saw three men in black masks fleeing the scene with rifles in hand. Another said it was three white men in military gear. The attackers got into a black SUV with tinted windows and “calmly” left the scene. Despite these eyewitness reports, the official account quickly became that two small, brown-skinned Muslim people committed the crimes. A few days later, President Obama promoted the new myth without proper investigation or trial and took pains to remind the nation that, “Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11.”

Citizens later learned that there are glaring questions that remain unanswered about the San Bernardino shootings but the media frenzy in support of the government account had already become an entrenched myth. Even as the New York Times retracted reporting on the subject and the Washington Post admitted that American law enforcement officials were “famous for feeding contradictory and unfounded information to the media,” the myth continued to go unchallenged.

Despite the fact that government-sponsored false flag terrorism has been well documented as a fact throughout modern history, terrorism remains a powerful tool for controlling public opinion. The events of 2015 have shown that the propaganda tools for presenting terrorism are being continually refined. The formula used by government and media to report new accounts of terrorism may one day become so well tuned that it will be effective in presenting anyone as a terrorist with little or no actual evidence. It would therefore be wise for all citizens to question all acts of terrorism in order to prevent greater abuses of power.
7  Other / Politics & Society / Government Officials Admit Turkey Has REPEATEDLY Carried Out False Flag Terror. on: February 17, 2016, 09:53:39 PM
Gov Officials Admit Turkey Has REPEATEDLY Carried Out False Flag Terror


Turkey has repeatedly carried out false flag attacks.

For example:

(1) The Turkish Prime Minister admitted that the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence.

(2) The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this) (Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch this BBC special.

Turkish false flag attacks carried out pursuant to this program include – by way of example only:

    The murder of the Turkish Prime Minister (1960)

    Terror attacks in Turkey kill hundreds (1971)

    Shootings in Istanbul, Turkey (1977)

(3) A top Turkish general admitted that Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their enemy. He explained: “In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.” In response to the surprised correspondent’s incredulous look the general said, “I am giving an example”.

(4) High-level American sources admitted that the Turkish government – a fellow NATO country – carried out the chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish government admitted on tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian government.

Two members of the Turkish parliament stated:

    Sarin was sent to Syria from Turkey via several businessmen.

    ***

    The purpose of the attack was allegedly to provoke a US military operation in Syria which would topple the Assad regime …

Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh – who uncovered the Iraq prison torture scandal and the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam  – previously reported that high-level American sources tell him that the Turkish government carried out the chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government.

As Hersh noted:

    ‘We knew there were some in the Turkish government,’ a former senior US intelligence official, who has access to current intelligence, told me, ‘who believed they could get Assad’s nuts in a vice by dabbling with a sarin attack inside Syria – and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat.’

Indeed, it’s long been known that sarin was coming through Turkey.

(5) While Turkey pretends it’s fighting ISIS, Turkey is actually one of the main supporters of ISIS.

And if you think the USA is above using false flag terror, look up Operation Northwoods and watch any Youtube video of World Trade Center 7
8  Economy / Economics / Markets Ignore Fundamentals And Chase Headlines Because They Are Dying on: February 17, 2016, 06:29:27 PM

Normalcy bias is a rather horrifying thing. It is so frightening because it is so final; much like death, there is simply no coming back. Rather than a physical death, normalcy bias represents the death of reason and simple observation. It is the death of the mind and cognitive thought instead of the death of the body.  

Ever since the derivatives collapse of 2008 the public has been regaled with wondrous stories of recovery in the mainstream to the point that such fantasies have become the “new normal”. These are grand tales of the daring heroics of central bankers who “saved us all” from impending collapse through gutsy monetary policy and no-holds-barred stimulus measures.

Alternative economists have not been so easy to dazzle. Most of us found that the recovery narrative lacked a certain something; namely hard data that took the wider picture into account. It seemed as though the mainstream media (MSM) as well as the establishment was attempting to cherry-pick certain numbers out of context while demanding we ignore all other factors as “unimportant.”

We just haven’t been buying into the magic show of the so called “professional economists” and the academics, and now that the real and very unstable fiscal reality of the world is bubbling to the surface, the general public will begin to see why we have been right all these years and the MSM has been utterly wrong.

Mainstream economists have done absolutely nothing in the way of investigative journalism and have instead joined a chorus cheerleading for the false narrative, singing a siren’s song of misinterpreted statistics and outright lies drawing the masses ever nearer to the deadly shoals of financial crisis.

Why do they do this? Are they part of some vast conspiracy to mislead the public?

Not necessarily. While central banks and governments have indeed been proven time and again to collude in efforts to cover up financial dangers, most economists in the media are simply greedy and ignorant. You have to remember, they have a considerable stake in this game.

Many mainstream economists tend to have sizable investment portfolios and they base their careers partly on the successes they garner in the annual profits they accumulate playing the equities roulette. They also have invested so much of their public image into their pro-market and recovery arguments that there is no going back. That is to say, they have a personal interest in using their positions in the media to engineer positive market psychology (if they are able) so that their portfolios remain profitable. Not to mention, their professional image is at stake if they ever acknowledge that they were wrong for so long about the underlying health of the real economy.

This atmosphere of deluded self interest also generates a cult-like collectivist attitude. There is a lot of mutual back scratching and mutual ego stroking in the MSM; a kind of inbred conduit of regurgitated arguments and unoriginal talking points, and people in the club rarely step out of line because they not only hurt their own investment future and career, they also hurt everyone in their professional circles.  Meaning, no more cocktail party invitations to the Forbes rumpus room…

This is not to say that I am excusing their self interested lies and disinformation. I think that many of these people should be tarred and feathered in a public square for attempting to dissuade the public from preparing in a practical way for severe economic instability. I do not think they see themselves as being responsible to the people who actually take their nonsense seriously and their attitude needs adjustment. I am only explaining how it is possible for an entire profession of supposed “experts” to be so wrong so often. Mainstream financial analysts WANT to believe their own lies as much as many in the public want to believe them.

One of the root pieces of disinformation in the mainstream that feeds all other lies is the disinformation surrounding falling global demand. MSM pundits cannot and will never fully admit to the cold hard reality of collapsing demand within the global economy. If they are forced to admit to falling demand, then the facade of a steady or recovering U.S. economy crumbles.

I covered the facts behind falling global demand for raw goods and consumer goods last year in part one of my six-part article series, “One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes.” The hard evidence and numbers I presented have only become more important in recent months.

For example, U.S. inventories are building and freight shipments are declining in the U.S. as retailers cite falling demand for goods as the primary culprit. Official retail sales numbers for the holiday season of 2015 have come in flat. When one takes into account real inflation in prices, consumer sales are actually far in the negative. According to the more accurate methods the U.S. government used to use in their calculations of CPI in the 1980s, we are looking at annual price inflation rate of around 7%. Price inflation does not necessarily equal improved sales.

Energy usage has been crushed since 2008. Despite a growing population and supposedly a growing economic system, oil consumption in 2014 according to the World Economic Forum dropped to levels not seen since 1997.

This is the exact opposite of what should be happening and it is the opposite of mainstream projections for oil consumption made back in 2003. This is why inventories and storage for oil across the globe are reaching capacity in a manner never seen before. American demand for oil is not growing exponentially as expected because Americans cannot afford to support such growth anymore. Falling energy demand at these extreme levels is an undeniable indicator of a failing economic system.

Of course, mainstream economists in their desperation to keep market psychology rolling forward and the equities casino producing profits seek to spin this problem as an “oversupply” issue rather than a demand issue. And this is where the disparity in their arguments begins to bleed through.

Here is the problem presented in the mainstream; what came first, the chicken or the egg? Did falling demand lead to oversupply and thus a fall in prices? Or, is demand remaining steady and is overproduction the cause of falling prices?  Yes, let’s confuse the issue instead of looking at the obvious.

As already linked above, it was falling demand which came first in 2008, and demand which continues to fall in relation to past trends. Have producers failed to reduce oil production to match falling demand? Yes. But this does not change the fact that oil demand today is well below levels needed to sustain the kind of economic growth markets have come to expect. Mainstream economists attempt to distract by making hyper-focusing on supply, or twisting the discussion into an either/or scenario. Either it is a supply problem, or it is a demand problem, and they assert it is only a supply problem. This is not reality.

In fact, both can and often do exist at the same time, though one problem usually feeds the other. Falling demand does tend to result in oversupply in any particular sector of the economy. The bottom line, however, is that in our current crisis in demand is the driving force and supply is a secondary issue. Supply is NOT the driving force behind the volatility in oil markets. Period.

This same chicken and egg distraction rears its ugly head in discussions on shipping markets as well.

The mainstream claim that the historic implosion of the Baltic Dry Index is nothing more than a problem of “too many ships” operating in the cargo market has been throttled, dissected and debunked so many times that you would think that it is surely dead. But the lie just will not die.

Mainstream propaganda houses like The Economist and Forbes continue to produce articles on a regular basis which deny the issue of falling demand for raw goods and claim that oversupply of vessels is the root cause of the BDI losing around 98 percent of its value since its highs in 2008.

I haven’t seen any of these articles offer actual stats or evidence to back their claims that oversupply of ships is the culprit and that demand is not a legitimate issue. But beyond that, why does the mainstream seem so hell bent on dismissing the BDI as a reliable economic indicator? Well, because shipping rates fall when demand falls, thus, when the BDI falls, it signals a lack of global demand. This is a fact they refuse to accept. When the BDI falls by 98 percent since the 2008 highs preceding the derivatives crisis, this signals a disaster in the making.

So, let’s stamp out the “too many ships came first” disinformation once and for all, shall we?

Shipping companies like Maersk Lines have already publicly admitted that falling global demand is the core problem behind falling rates and that supply is a secondary driver. They view the current financial crisis to be “worse than 2008”.

The fact that the largest shipping company in the world is warning of falling demand does not seem to be having any effect on the mainstream talking heads, though.

So, what do major shipping companies do when demand is falling and too many ships are operating on the market? Do they field those ships anyway and drive rates down even further? No, that makes no sense.

What companies do is either leave ships idle in port or scrap them. According to BIMCO (Baltic And International Maritime Council), 2015 was the busiest year since 2012 for the scrapping of older ships to make way for new arrivals. This process of scrapping ships or storing them idle destroys the argument that too many ships are driving falling rates in the BDI. In fact, as chief shipping analyst Peter Sand of BIMCO stated last year:

    The increase in Capesize scrapping comes at a much needed time for the market. Looking at the development so far this year the fleet growth has actually been negative, with a reduction of 0.8 %.

I hope the garbage peddlers at Forbes and The Economist caught that — negative growth of ship supply, not massive over-growth of ship supply. The scrapping increase was also across the board for other models of ships, not just the Capsize, and the increase of cargo capacity by new ships has been negligible.  Yet, shipping rates continue to plummet to historical lows.  Only falling demand, as Maersk Lines admits, explains the crash of the BDI in light of this information.

China in particular has been offering considerable incentives to those companies that do scrap older ships, to the point that some are even scrapping semi-new ships in order to cash in.

Now, this is not to say there is not an “oversupply” of ships. There are indeed many ships within cargo fleets that are not in operation. But again, this is because demand has declined so completely that even with increased scrapping and idling, shipping companies cannot keep up.  Falling demand OCCURRED FIRST, and oversupply nothing more than a symptom of this root problem.

So, mainstream hacks, can we please put the “too many ships” nonsense to rest and get on with a real discussion on obvious issues of demand?  Stop focusing on the symptoms and examine the cause for once.

These are just a few of the hundreds of fundamental problems plaguing the global economy today, and they are all problems that the mainstream continues to ignore or dismiss out of hand. Which brings us to the now accelerating volatility in stock markets.

Stock markets are crashing, there is no other way to paint it. They are crashing incrementally, but crashing nonetheless. When you have violent swings in equities and commodities between 5 percent and 10 percent a day, then something is very wrong with your economy and has been wrong for some time. If global consumption and demand were really steady or growing, then you would not see the kind of systemic backlash in the financial system that we are now seeing.  If companies listed on the Dow were making legitimate profits due to a healthy consumer base and enjoying solid expansion, stocks not be increasingly volatile.  If investors and mainstream analysts actually looked at the real numbers in demand (among other things), then the strange behavior in markets would be easy for them to understand. They will not look at such numbers until it is too late.

Instead, markets have chosen to chase headlines, and here is where the ugly circle of normalcy bias and cognitive dissonance completes itself. There are no positive indicators within the fundamentals today to energize market faith or market investment. So, investors and algorithmic trading computers track news headlines instead. The MSM hacks now have the power (along with central banks and governments) to create massive stock rallies with one or two carefully placed news tags, such as “Russia To Discuss Oil Production Cuts With OPEC.”

Market speculators and trading computers jump on these headlines without verifying if they are true. In most cases, they end up being false or just hearsay from an “unnamed source.” And so, the markets then crash further down into the abyss, waiting for the next headline to bolster activity even for a day.

The sad truth is, if any of these headlines turned out to be legitimate, their effect would still be meaningless in the long run as the overwhelming weight of the fundamentals continues to topple poorly placed optimism. Now that the investment world no longer has the certainty of central bank intervention as a useful tool, they don’t know if bad news is good news or if good news is bad news. The fact that the system is moving into a death spiral without the psychological crutch of central bank stimulus measures should tell you all you need to know about the supposed recovery since 2008.

No society wants to admit economic failure or economic sabotage, and this is why the con-game is able to continue in the face of so much concrete truth. Ultimately, the market trends and economic trends will flow into the negative. In the meantime, expect massive market rallies, rallies which will then disintegrate in a matter of days. And, whatever happens, never take what mainstream economists say very seriously. They have failed the public for long enough.
9  Economy / Economics / Iran Does not have a Rothschild Central Bank. Neither does Syria. Nor did Libya. on: February 13, 2016, 01:13:39 PM
Facts:

Libya wanted to mint a gold dinar to replace the petrodollar in 2009

So did Iraq in 2002

ISIS and all the Muslim terrorists get their weapons from Turkey, Israel and Saudi.  These three get their weapons from the USA



Rothschilds want Iran’s banks


Could gaining control of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) be one of the main reasons that Iran is being targeted by Western and Israeli powers? As tensions are building up for an unthinkable war with Iran, it is worth exploring Iran’s banking system compared to its U.S., British and Israeli counterparts.

Some researchers are pointing out that Iran is one of only three countries left in the world whose central bank is not under Rothschild control. Before 9-11 there were reportedly seven: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Iran. By 2003, however, Afghanistan and Iraq were swallowed up by the Rothschild octopus, and by 2011 Sudan and Libya were also gone. In Libya, a Rothschild bank was established in Benghazi while the country was still at war.

Islam forbids the charging of interest, a major problem for the Rothschild banking system. Until a few hundred years ago, charging interest was also forbidden in the Christian world and was even punishable by death. It was considered exploitation and enslavement.

Since the Rothschilds took over the Bank of England around 1815, they have been expanding their banking control over all the countries of the world. Their method has been to get a country’s corrupt politicians to accept massive loans, which they can never repay, and thus go into debt to the Rothschild banking powers. If a leader refuses to accept the loan, he is oftentimes either ousted or assassinated. And if that fails, invasions can follow, and a Rothschild usury-based bank is established.

Iran Central Bank

The Rothschilds exert powerful influence over the world’s major news agencies. By repetition, the masses are duped into believing horror stories about evil villains. The Rothschilds control the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the IMF, the World Bank and the Bank of International Settlements. Also they own most of the gold in the world as well as the London Gold Exchange, which sets the price of gold every day. It is said the family owns over half the wealth of the planet—estimated by Credit Suisse to be $231 trillion—and is controlled by Evelyn Rothschild, the current head of the family.

Objective researchers contend that Iran is not being demonized because they are a nuclear threat, just as the Taliban, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Qadaffi were not a threat.

What then is the real reason? Is it the trillions to be made in oil profits, or the trillions in war profits? Is it to bankrupt the U.S. economy, or is it to start World War III? Is it to destroy Israel’s enemies, or to destroy the Iranian central bank so that no one is left to defy Rothschild’s money racket?

It might be any one of those reasons or, worse—it might be all of them.
10  Local / Esquina Libre / Espionaje contra Petroleras on: February 13, 2016, 12:49:04 PM
ABRUMADO NSA se sorprendió al descubrir "MINA DE ORO" En ejecutivos del petróleo de Venezuela


Un documento reservado de AGENCIA NACIONAL DE SEGURIDAD, fechado en 2011, describe cómo, por "pura suerte", un analista pudo acceder a las comunicaciones de los altos funcionarios de la petrolera estatal de Venezuela, Petróleos de Venezuela.

Más allá del tema de espiar a una empresa, el documento destaca un defecto significativo en los programas de vigilancia de masas: la forma en la recolección indiscriminada puede cegar en lugar de iluminar. También ilustra la facilidad técnica y burocrática con la que los analistas de la NSA son capaces de acceder a las comunicaciones digitales de determinados objetivos extranjeros.

El documento, proporcionado por la NSA denunciante Edward Snowden, es un artículo de marzo 23 de 2011 en el boletín interno de la NSA, SIDtoday. Está escrito por un analista de desarrollo de señales que relata cómo, además de suerte, se involucró en un "montón de trabajo duro" para descubrir que la NSA había obtenido acceso a enormes cantidades de comunicaciones internas de Petróleos de Venezuela, al parecer sin que nadie en el NSA haber notado previamente esta vigilancia "mina de oro".

Que la NSA, sin el conocimiento de sí mismo, estaba recogiendo las comunicaciones confidenciales de altos funcionarios petroleros de Venezuela demuestra uno de los peligros de la vigilancia masiva: La agencia recoge datos de las comunicaciones tanto de todo el mundo que a menudo no se da cuenta de lo que tiene. Por eso, muchos expertos sostienen que la vigilancia de vigilancia de masas hace que sea más difícil de detectar tramas terroristas en comparación con un enfoque de vigilancia específica: Una agencia que recoge miles de millones de eventos de comunicación todos los días va a dejar de comprender el significado de lo que posee.

Esta nueva revelación de la NSA espiar, declarada como parte de la asociación de la intersección con teleSUR, se produce tan sólo semanas después de que el Wall Street Journal informó que el gobierno de Estados Unidos ha puesto en marcha "una serie de investigaciones de amplio alcance" en la presunta corrupción en Petróleos de Venezuela, o PDVSA. Que la NSA había obtenido acceso a las redes de comunicaciones electrónicas de los principales funcionarios de PDVSA se plantea la cuestión de si el espionaje de la agencia ha ayudado en secreto las investigaciones criminales sobre la corrupción, así como otras acciones gubernamentales dirigidas a la empresa.

El acceso a estas comunicaciones oficiales de PDVSA se produjo en un momento crítico en las relaciones EE.UU.-Venezuela, que se han cargado desde que Hugo Chávez fue elegido por primera vez presidente en 1998 y sobre todo desde un fallido intento de golpe de Estado de 2002 por grupos financiados por EE.UU... Dos meses después del descubrimiento de este acceso espionaje, el Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. anunció la imposición de sanciones económicas contra PDVSA, acusando a la compañía de la negociación con Irán en violación de las restricciones estadounidenses unilaterales.

En ese momento, Venezuela también se enfrentaba a los casos de arbitraje miles de millones de dólares en tribunales internacionales presentadas por los gigantes petroleros estadounidenses Exxon Mobil y ConocoPhillips. Las empresas afirman que el gobierno de Chávez expropió ilegalmente las operaciones de perforación a gran escala en la faja del Orinoco y se los entregó a las filiales de PDVSA sin una compensación justa.
Espiar a PDVSA: El descubrimiento de "una mina de oro" por "pura suerte"
El analista de la NSA, que tropezó en este acceso malos auspicios comenzó su investigación. Como relata, abrió el sitio web de PDVSA en un navegador y escribió los nombres de los líderes de la compañía. A continuación, simplemente se conecta esos nombres en un puñado de herramientas internas de la NSA y bases de datos tales como la cadencia, la UTT y pinwale.
Rápidamente se compiló una enorme caché de clientes potenciales valiosos: más de 10.000 formularios de información de los empleados que contienen direcciones de correo electrónico, números de teléfono y otros datos de identificación - información que podría utilizarse para recuperar las comunicaciones almacenadas en enormes bases de datos de la agencia y para la futura orientación. El analista también obtuvo 900 combinaciones de usuario y contraseña, que le entregan al equipo de piratería parte superior de la NSA, Operaciones de acceso a la medida, para penetrar en la red de la empresa y de infectar las computadoras de su liderazgo con malware.
"Por pura suerte, (y un montón de trabajo duro) he descubierto una nueva e importante el acceso a un destino existente y estoy trabajando con TAO para aprovechar una nueva capacidad de la misión", escribió.
"Están capturar tanta información de su cable de grifos que incluso los analistas de la NSA no saben lo que tienen." Antes de este descubrimiento, los esfuerzos de espionaje de la NSA en contra de las operaciones de energía de Venezuela estaban produciendo muy poco fruto, pero no para falta de interés. Petróleo representa "más de la mitad de todos los ingresos del gobierno", escribió el analista, y por lo tanto, "para entender PDVSA es entender el corazón económico de Venezuela." Sin embargo, una revisión de 2010 mostró que la colección había ido "estancada".
Una "señal inequívoca" de que la NSA estaba fallando en este conjunto de objetivos, dijo, fue que "la mayoría de informes era procedente de la colección se justifica." Eso probablemente significaba que la única vigilancia de la NSA fue capaz de explotar venía de comunicaciones que transitan territorio de EE.UU. , lo que requeriría una orden de secreto por parte del Tribunal de Vigilancia de Inteligencia Exterior.
Para trinquete hasta vigilancia sin orden judicial, el analista decidió reconstruir la estrategia de recolección a partir de cero, se ejecuta lo que llamó un "reinicio de destino" en busca de "información en los más altos niveles posibles" de PDVSA: "a saber, el presidente y los miembros de la Junta de Administración”.


El analista inicialmente buscado esos nombres en pinwale, base de datos de la NSA de las comunicaciones digitales que han sido sacrificadas de forma automática a partir de los flujos masivos de datos interceptados usando un diccionario de términos de búsqueda, o "la orientación selectores", incluyendo direcciones de correo electrónico, direcciones IP e ID de usuario.
Esto produjo algunos e-mails de los líderes de PDVSA, pero los 10.000 perfiles de contacto de los empleados, incluidos los de entonces presidente de PDVSA, Rafael Darío Ramírez, y el ex vicepresidente de la compañía, Luis Vierma Felipe Pérez. "Ahora, incluso mis viejos ojos podían ver que estas cosas eran una mina de oro de selectores válidos", escribió el analista, lleno de previamente no controlado "el trabajo, el hogar y los teléfonos celulares, direcciones de correo electrónico, un montón!" En otras palabras, el analista tenía descubierto otra serie de cables para correr contra los conjuntos de datos de la NSA más grandes.
11  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Trading Club: / Forex / Commondities / Indicies / Stocks / - Ideas & Speculation on: February 11, 2016, 09:45:06 PM
As we say on Wall Street:  Buy the rumor, sell the news

and: buy low, sell high.

Easy, right? So why cant people do it?  Why do they always buy high and sell low?  Because of psychology.  The more expensive something is, the more they want it.
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