August 2015 archive

China's "Judgment Day" Arrives – Malicious Sellers Slam Stocks Below Communist Floor Chinese media are describing tonight’s market action as “Judgment Day” for China, as SCMP’s George Chen explains, the crusade of ‘malicious short sellers’ against the Communist central planners and their ‘funds’ is in full swing. The “manage-the-economy-by-technical-analysis” strategy appears to have failed as …

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Lehman's Gift To Jeb Bush For Funneling Pension Money: A $1.3 Million Consulting "Job" Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, At this point, it almost feels like kicking someone while he’s down. Jeb Bush can’t even stand up to Donald Trump, let alone his own growing series of scandals. In the latest revelation from …

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Chinese Stocks Crash 10% In 2 Days Despite Stable Yuan, Margin Debt Drops First Time In 8 Days At the end of the morning session there is more blood on the streets as The PPT never turned up… *INVESTORS SELLING CHINA SHARES ON WEAKER YUAN: CHANGJIANG SEC. *CHINA GOVT INACTION ON STOCKS CLD SPUR SELLING: …

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Greek Deposits Become Eligible For Bail-In On January 1, 2016 Earlier today, tucked away from the public eye’s, there was another round of drama involving Greek securities this time focused on Greek senior bank bonds which promptly tumbled back to post-referendum/pre-bailout #3 levels. The catalyst was Friday’s pronouncement by Jeroen Dijsselbloem who said depositors will …

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Travails Of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold & The Imperial Dollar Via Jesse's Cafe Americain, "We are imperial, and we are in decline… People are losing confidence in the Empire." This is the key theme of Larry Wilkerson's presentation.  He never really questions whether empire is good or bad, sustainable or not, and at what …

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CeNTRaL PLaNNiNG! Government Wants To "Implant Recipients Of Welfare Assistance With Satellite-Tracked Chips" Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, Implantable RFID tracking chips. You know, to stop terrorism. And to keep tabs on all the welfare queens, in order to keep tax dollars accountable. There will be other rationales, too. But really, governments just want …

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Peddling The Corruption Of Liberty Submitted by Tibor Machan via Acting-Man.com, Liberty’s Detractors Ever since the idea of individual liberty has achieved some measure of credibility over the world, those who would be unseated by its limited triumph had to find some way to discredit it or trump it somehow. One way was to re-christen …

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Freedom And Central Planning Can Never Coexist Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, The average person is a statist, whether he realizes it or not. It is important that liberty activists recognize and accept this fact because the truth of our limitations as a movement determines the kinds of solutions into which we should ultimately …

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Ireland Refuses To Extradite Man To US Because Prison System Is Too Inhumane Submitted by Cassius Methyl via TheAntiMedia.org, Throughout the world, the U.S. prison system is often seen as inhumane and excessively large. The American prison system is so reviled, in fact, that Irish officials recently refused to extradite an alleged terrorist to the U.S. …

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The FBI Considers The IRS & DOJ, Domestic Terrorists Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com, Eventually it was bound to happen.  The ever increasing ambiguous laws that allow the government to prosecute, or worse, simply negate all Constitutional protections of its citizens would come back to hang them.  In an unusual circumstance, what is essentially one …

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