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Hollywood stars spied for America, says ex-CIA lawyer


Sunday Times
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 05:52 UTC
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Rizzo claims there are CIA officers who are tasked with working with Hollywood stars
A new book claims intelligence agents worked undercover on films, and one top actor asked to be paid in cocaine [no one better to provide cocaine than the CIA!]
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Attention

Over 1000 Iraqis killed during January


Arab News
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:54 UTC
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© AFPSmoke rises from an Army vehicle following an attack by armed militants in the Anbar city of Fallujah on January 26, 2014
More than 1,000 people were killed Iraq in January, figures showed Friday, as the country grapples with a surge in attacks and battles militants holding territory on Baghdad's doorstep.

The violence, the country's worst since 2008, comes with elections looming in less than three months amid fears Iraq may be slipping back into the all-out conflict that left tens of thousands dead years earlier.

World powers have urged the Shiite-led government to reach out to disaffected minority Sunnis but Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki has taken a hard line and trumpeted wide-ranging security operations that he and other officials insist are having an impact.

The new figures, compiled by the ministries of health, interior and defense, showed that 1,013 people were killed in January, including 795 civilians, 122 soldiers and 96 policemen.

That was the highest toll since April 2008, when 1,073 people were killed, at a time when Iraq was slowly emerging from a brutal Sunni-Shiite sectarian war that left tens of thousands dead and scores of others displaced.
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Cult

Abraham Foxman: You can't call a Jew a traitor, unless you're an anti-Semite


Redress Information & Analysis
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Pakistan TVJonathan Pollard
It's official. If you're an American traitor and you're arrested, tried and convicted for treason, but you also happen to be a Jew, then it's not treason, it's anti-Semitism.

That's according to Abraham Foxman, the infamous national director of the so-called "Anti-Defamation League", a New York-based group that seeks to engender Jewish paranoia and thereby encourage Jewish emigration to Israel.

The New York Times today cites Foxman as saying that the reason why the American traitor Jonathan Pollard is serving a life sentence is because he is a Jew.

Pollard was a civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy when he gave thousands of classified documents to Israel. He was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to life in prison.
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Dollar Gold

Sell gold, crash JP Morgan

Kid Dynamite
Kid Dynamite's World
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
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There's been a lot of chatter in the precious metals blogger community lately about how the big banks like JP Morgan have swung from a short position in COMEX gold futures to a long position in COMEX gold futures. One commentator, Turd Ferguson, has proved to himself that JP Morgan is *net* long gold and will actually lose money if the price of gold falls.

Strangely, though, Turd Ferguson, who prides himself on leading an "Army" of precious metals warriors against the corruption and manipulation enacted by an Evil Cartel, concludes that this means that JP Morgan will not let the price of gold fall further, so, surprise surprise, now (like every other time!) is a great time to buy gold. Turd's math suggests that if gold were to fall to the predicted-by-some level of $1050/oz, then JP Morgan would lose $1.5 Billion, and well, we all know that JP Morgan doesn't want to lose $1.5 Billion, so that cannot and will not happen.

To that, dear Precious Metals Minions, I say: BOLLOCKS. Back in the day, not so long ago, Gold and Silver Warriors were willing to fight for what they believed in. When we learned that JP Morgan had a huge short position in COMEX futures, we did what any logical group of like-minded stalwarts would do: we banded together to BUY SILVER - CRASH JP MORGAN. This brilliant campaign, originated by General Max Keiser, was a steadfast show of solidarity amongst the Silver Warriors, and a sign to the Morgue and the rest of the Evil Empire that we would not stand by and watch their outright manipulation of our markets. As General Keiser noted:
"This campaign has 100% chance of working; it falls into the category of a self-fulfilling prophecy. As more individuals buy silver and gold, all attempts to replenish the system with more paper money will only cause the purchasing power of the silver and gold to increase - thus prompting more people to buy more"
Well, dear readers and Precious Metals Patriots, it's time for you to do a service for your Army again. There is only one logical solution about what we must do in reaction to this "news" that JP Morgan has massive long exposure to the price of gold:
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Piggy Bank

Dow dumps to 2nd worst January in 24 years


Zero Hedge
Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:03 UTC
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Another volatile day ended with the Dow is down around 5% in January - the worst start to a year since 2009 (and 2nd worst since 1990) and the worst month since May 2012 (a 3-sigma miss of the average +1.5% per month gain since 2009's lows). Japan, Brazil, and Russia suffered greatly on the month as gold miners, Egypt?, and US Biotech did well. There is a huge 380bps spread between the performance of the Industrials and the Transports YTD. Gold had its best month in the last 5; Treasuries rallied with 10Y yields dropping their most since May 2012; USD rallied the most in 8 months with JPY's biggest rally (and Nikkei's biggest loss) since April 2012.

Trader's Almanac - every down January on the S&P 500 since 1938, without exception, has preceded a new or extended bear market, a 10% correction, or a flat year. As we also noted here, The JAJO Effect
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Chess

Ukraine and the rebirth of fascism in Europe

Eric Draitser
Stop Imperialism
Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:07 UTC
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The violence on the streets of Ukraine is far more than an expression of popular anger against a government. Instead, it is merely the latest example of the rise of the most insidious form of fascism that Europe has seen since the fall of the Third Reich.

Recent months have seen regular protests by the Ukrainian political opposition and its supporters - protests ostensibly in response to Ukrainian President Yanukovich's refusal to sign a trade agreement with the European Union that was seen by many political observers as the first step towards European integration. The protests remained largely peaceful until January 17th when protesters armed with clubs, helmets, and improvised bombs unleashed brutal violence on the police, storming government buildings, beating anyone suspected of pro-government sympathies, and generally wreaking havoc on the streets of Kiev. But who are these violent extremists and what is their ideology?

Comment:

In Ukraine, fascists, oligarchs and western expansion are at the heart of the crisis

IMF sponsored "Democracy" in the Ukraine

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Bandaid

Best of the Web: Between the NSA's power and the IRS's revenge, how can Americans not be worried about the opinions they express?

Michael Walsh
New York Post
Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:23 UTC
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Feel like Big Brother is watching you these days? You're not alone.

"This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario," wrote the late William Safire of The New York Times in 2002, in the panicky aftermath of 9/11. "Here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive . . . will go into what the Defense Department describes as 'a virtual, centralized grand database.' "

Comment: Before they are able to express their opinion, the Americans need to educate themselves, see what is actually going on around the world, and finally express exactly how they feel about their dire situation. This might be a good place to start (warning, you might not be able to watch it fully to the end):



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Brick Wall

Russia's Central Bank revokes licenses, including My Bank

Jason Corcoran
Bloomberg News
Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:34 UTC
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© BellenewsRussia’s central bank
Russia's central bank shut down Moscow-based lenders My Bank and Priroda Bank as it accelerated an industry cleanup, according to statements on its website.

The regulator said it also revoked the licenses of two regional non-bank credit organizations, OOO RNKO Traditsiya and OAO NDKO MTSM.

My Bank, a top 200 lender by assets, had its license canceled because of "significant misreporting of data and inability to meet creditors' obligations," according to a central bank statement. Priroda Bank was cited for involvement in "suspicious transactions" and not providing sufficient reserves for possible loan losses, the central bank said in separate statement.

The central bank has accelerated its crackdown since Nov. 29 when it revoked the license of Master-Bank, Russia's 41st largest lender by assets, for money-laundering violations. Mid-size lenders Project Financing Bank and Smolensky Bank were also shut on Dec. 13, and Investbank was closed after failing capital-adequacy reviews.

The central bank has revoked about 35 banking licenses since July 1 when Elvira Nabiullina succeeded Sergey Ignatiev as governor, compared with three in the first half of 2013. Nabiullina is striving to tighten regulation of banks and curtail net capital outflow that was forecast at about $55 billion last year.
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Stock Down

Paul Craig Roberts: US engineering financial chaos

Eric King
King World News
Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:49 UTC
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Today a former US Treasury official told King World News that the United States government is purposefully creating financial chaos all over the world in order to destabilize enemy countries and create a flight into the US dollar. This is an incredibly important interview, where the former US Treasury official lays out exactly what Washington and the US Fed are intentionally doing to the world.

Eric King: "This emerging markets mess, your thoughts here because there is (so much) turmoil around the world at this point."

Dr. Roberts: "Eric, there are different ways you can look at the emerging markets mess. One is that all the liquidity that the Fed created, some of it flowed into emerging markets, and now that the Fed is indicating an end to quantitative easing the money is flowing out. As it does it causes the sale of those currencies in those countries and they plummet, and this causes all kinds of financial chaos. That's one way to look at it (the way the mainstream media propaganda is leading people to believe).

Comment: In 2010, here at SOTT, we also had a very interesting discussion with Paul Craig Roberts:

The SOTT Report: Interview with Paul Craig Roberts

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Ukrainian premier submits resignation


Yahoo! News
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:41 UTC
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© AP/Efrem LukatskyUkrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has gone on sick leave with a respiratory ailment, his website said on Thursday, with the issue of a new prime minister still undecided. Yanukovich's prime minister, Mykola Azarov, resigned on Tuesday in the midst of mass street unrest and the president has yet to appoint a successor. Serhiy Arbuzov, who was Azarov's first deputy, has stepped in as interim prime minister.
The prime minister of crisis-torn Ukraine has submitted his resignation.

In a statement Tuesday on the government website, Mykola Azarov offered his resignation in order to encourage what he called "social-political compromise."
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