The Tragic Ending To Obama's Bay Of Pigs: CIA Hands Over Syria To Russia One week ago, when summarizing the current state of play in Syria, we said that for Obama, “this is shaping up to be the most spectacular US foreign policy debacle since Vietnam.” Yesterday, in tacit confirmation of this assessment, the Obama …
October 2015 archive
Oct 10
Today’s News October 10, 2015
The Deep State: Source Of All Negativity Submitted by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, I’d like to address some aspects of the Greater Depression in this essay. I’m here to tell you that the inevitable became reality in 2008. We’ve had an interlude over the last few years financed by trillions of new currency units. However, …
Oct 09
Today’s News October 9, 2015
Dollar Demolition Extends To 6th Day As EM/Asian FX Soars Most In Over 6 Years As the odds of a Fed rate-hike this century drift asymptotically back towards zero, the stability-desirous central bankers of the emerging world are suddenly facing soaring currencies as hot money floods back into Emerging Asian markets. The Rupiah and Ringgit …
Oct 08
Today’s News October 8, 2015
Syrian Crisis: What Will Happen Next? Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, The Syrian crisis and the confluence of clashing interests there was entirely predictable. In fact, I wrote an article on my former website in 2010 outlining the potential for Syria as a high value catalyst for global conflict titled “Will Globalists Trigger Yet …
Oct 07
Today’s News October 7, 2015
Commodity Trading Giants Unleash Liquidity Scramble, Issue Record Amounts Of Secured Debt Earlier today, in its latest attempt to restore confidence in its brand and business model after suffering a historic stock price collapse, Glencore – whose CDS recently blew out to a level implying a 50% probability of default – released a 4 page …
Oct 06
Today’s News October 6, 2015
World's Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Forced To Begin Liquidating Assets One of the biggest stories of this summer, as previewed originally here in November of 2014, has been the dramatic shift in the direction of capital flow from toward emerging markets (and China), to away from emerging markets (and China). The reason for this …
Oct 05
Today’s News October 5, 2015
Lawrence Wilkerson: "The American 'Empire' Is In Deep, Deep Trouble" Former US army colonel and Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson unleashed a most prescient speech on the demise of the United States Empire. As Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith notes, Wilkerson describes the path of empires in decline and shows how the US …
Oct 04
Today’s News October 4, 2015
The Media-Opoly: Cancelled, From Saturday Night, It's Conspiracy Theory Rock! A day after we ran “Meet Your “Independent” Media, America“, in which we showed how prime time entertainment like 60 Minutes is strategically and voluntarily “planted” with propaganda trolls and “concerns” thus crushing any “unbiased” credibility mainstream US media may have, we dug into the …
Oct 03
Today’s News October 3, 2015
A Mosaic Of Facts – Media Weapons Of Mass Delusion Can you tell truth from lies in mass media? RT’s Miguel Francis-Santiago delves deep to try to understand the intricacies of information war. He meets media experts and puts together the Mosaic of Facts, showing how public opinion is manipulated, not just over the Ukrainian …
Oct 02
Today’s News October 2, 2015
If You Work Here, Quit Before You Are Fired: The 20 Largest US Layoff Announcements Of 2015 Earlier today, in the latest laughable attempt to boost confidence in a clearly recessionary economy, the BLS reported that a paltry 277,000 Americans had sought unemployment benefits. Why laughable? Because at the very same time, Challenger Gray which …
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