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Stock Down

Is the market crazy? Treasuries are screaming crisis while stocks yawn

Eric Schneiderman
© UnknownNew York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman
One critical gauge of how fair and efficient a market is resides in the degree to which it reflects the composite wisdom of all participants. A rigged market, for example, reflects the composite wisdom of just those doing the rigging since they are privy to information that is not shared with all market players.

On March 30, bestselling author Michael Lewis appeared on 60 Minutes to summarize the findings in his newest book, Flash Boys, as follows: "stock market's rigged." Michael Lewis was talking about stock market manipulation by high frequency traders.

Increasingly, the U.S. bond market is delivering almost the same message as Michael Lewis. The U.S. Treasury market, which is experiencing a flight to safety (that suggests a slowing economy, lower corporate earnings and thus a lower stock market in the future) is essentially saying that the current composite wisdom of the stock market is either nuts or the market is, indeed, rigged.

Eye 1

The Parasitic Bilderberg 2014: List of participants: Mingling of military-intel, politicians, finance, oil, media, academia and Neocon think tanks

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© UnknownThe tip of a parasitic "iceberg"
The Bilderberg group has published a list of participants for its meeting this week in Copenhagen. We find, among the attendees:

- Several state officials, politicians and monarchs such as the Queen of Spain and the Princess of the Netherlands;

- Prominent figures of the oil industry like the Royal Dutch Shell CEO and BP's Group Chief Executive;

The relationship between War and the Global Economy as well as NATO enlargement will no doubt be addressed. In attendance are:

Comment: The Bilderberg group is just the tip of the iceberg. In terms of the parasitic growth SOTT and its readers see on a day to day basis, it's helpful to keep in mind that each of these "Bilderbergers" come together, from their chosen fields of merciless plunder, to form one of many pathological, ramified networks.

For a glimpse into the depravity of the parasites in the social body, check this out:

Isla Vista shooter Elliot Rodger: Window into ponerology

And for a look at the well researched cosmic connection to the steady decline of society due to pathological interests, see:

Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3


Quenelle - Golden

Best of the Web: Comedian John Oliver blamed for crashing FCC website after calling on Daily Show viewers to express views about CorpGov's plan to create two-tier Internet

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Comedian John Oliver
A pro-net neutrality rant at the end of a recent episode of HBO's news-comedy Last Week Tonight helped to cripple the website of the Federal Communications Commission this week.

Comedian and television host John Oliver is now being blamed for sending viewers of his new show en masse to the FCC's official website, in turn causing FCC.gov to collapse under the weight of a tremendous amount of internet traffic.

Oliver, who last year filled in for Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show, concluded Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight with a comedic monologue concerning the FCC and a proposal currently being considered by the regulating agency that, if approved, could pave the way for broadband internet providers to create a two-tier system that would effectively erode the concept of net neutrality as it exists today.

"Net neutrality is actually hugely important. Essentially it means that all data has to be treated equally, no matter who created it. It's why the internet is a weirdly level playing field," Oliver explained. "Ending net neutrality would allow big companies to buy their way into the fast lane, leaving everyone else in the slow lane."

Red Flag

Eric Holder announces revival of law enforcement group for domestic extremism

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© Reuters/Dave KaupA police officer guards the entrance to the scene of a shooting at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in Overland Park, Kansas.
The United States is reviving a law enforcement group to investigate those it designates as domestic terrorists, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

Following hate-motivated shootings such as the one at a Jewish Community Center in Kansas City, Missouri in April, federal prosecutors have pressed the need to coordinate intelligence about such criminals on a national level, Justice Department officials told Reuters.

In a statement, Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States remains concerned about threats from Islamic extremist groups, but the group will focus on other motives for attacks within U.S. borders.

Events like the April 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon, in which the attackers appeared to be influenced by extremist groups abroad, would not fall under the committee's jurisdiction.

Comment: Anyone who speaks out against the fascist U.S. government can be labeled an extremist or terrorist thereby giving the psychopaths all the freedom they need to control what we can say, how we gather together and with who. See: Fascism is HERE! NOW! Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007


Mr. Potato

What a sloozer! Kerry wants Snowden to come back

Dumbass
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Secretary of State John Kerry chided National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden on Wednesday, telling him he "should man up and come back to the United States."

Kerry's comments came as Snowden's extensive interview with NBC's Brian Williams is set to air Wednesday night. Kerry was asked about an excerpt from the interview in which Snowden said he was trained by the U.S. government as a "spy," something that countered the Obama administration's previous assertions he was a low-level analyst.

Kerry dismissed Snowden's comments as twisting language, and he criticized Snowden for seeking asylum in "authoritarian" Russia.

"If he has a complaint about what's wrong with American surveillance, come back here and stand in our system of justice and make his case," Kerry said.

Comment: All this coming from a complete moron: Senator John Kerry Got Every Single Fact Wrong About Global Warming and National Security


Life Preserver

Whistleblower at Texas Veteran's hospital sez system is run like a 'crime syndicate'

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For years, employees at a Texas VA complained that their bosses were cooking the books. For years, the VA insisted there was no widespread wrongdoing

Editor's Note: This story has been updated with new information.

Last week, President Obama pledged to address allegations of corruption and dangerous inefficiencies in the veterans' health-care system. But before the president could deliver on his pledge, the scandal has spread even further. New whistleblower testimony and internal documents implicate an award-winning VA hospital in Texas in widespread wrongdoing - and what appears to be systemic fraud.

Emails and VA memos obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast provide what is among the most comprehensive accounts yet of how high-level VA hospital employees conspired to game the system. It shows not only how they manipulated hospital wait lists but why - to cover up the weeks and months veterans spent waiting for needed medical care. If those lag times had been revealed, it would have threatened the executives' bonus pay.

Comment: It's likely that the current health care system will collapse in the near future and become even more unaffordable to the masses. The best solution is the avoid the disastrous health care system altogether and educate yourself on what is truly healthy.


Stock Up

The Geopolitics of the Eurasian Economic Union

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The "Soft Power" Strategy

The deal signed last week by Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to create a Eurasian Economic Union is yet another countermeasure against US and European attempts to isolate Russia. By moving towards closer economic cooperation, Russia hopes to build, piecemeal if necessary, a common Eurasian economic space that will ultimately rival the US and Europe in terms of economic influence.

However, the ultimate goal of this sort of cooperation goes far beyond just economic power. Rather, Russia is the key facilitator of a series of multilateral arrangements created in the last fifteen years that Putin (and much of the world) hopes will ultimately move the world towards a multipolar global order. While this is undoubtedly on the agenda for Russia and its ally Belarus, Kazakhstan is a complicated partner as it is deeply involved with the West in terms of business, investment, education, and a number of other critical areas.

The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) presents a host of possibilities for economic cooperation and development. From energy reserves to the all important pipeline infrastructure, the new arrangement will, over time, have a greater and greater impact on energy exports and consumption both in Europe and Asia as China looks to further secure its energy future. Moreover, the EEU will impact vital trade routes and commercial and private transportation options, in addition to promoting political, military, and security cooperation among the members, and in the region generally. Essentially then, the EEU should be understood as yet another blow to US hegemony in Asia and the former Soviet space.

Comment: Indeed, would the West be so mad as to do something like this...?

The Truthseeker: U.S. plans 'first strike' on Russia


Rocket

First denied, now confirmed: Kiev air force fires over 150 missiles at civilian administration building in Lugansk

Kiev has admitted showering the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk with dozens of missiles from the air, saying that its Air Force helicopters and jets "fired more than 150 missiles" in Monday's military action.

Ukraine fighter jet
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According to a statement by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the intense bombing was meant to "support the Ukrainian Border Guards," which the Lugansk militia have been trying to take under control.

"All in all, for fulfilling the combat support of the Ukrainian border guards the army aviators fired more than 150 missiles, carried out three jet sorties and five helicopter sorties," the statement says.

The air support was backed by fighter jets launching decoy flares to prevent the attacking aircraft from being targeted from the ground.

According to the ministry, two self-defense checkpoints were destroyed in the attack.

Not all the Monday fighting was on the outskirts of Lugansk, apparently, as one Ukrainian missile hit the occupied Lugansk administration building, killing at least eight civilians inside and nearby. Kiev has already laid the blame on the self-defense forces for the "blast," which has undoubtedly been confirmed as an airstrike by the accounts of witnesses and the CCTV footage from the scene.


Comment: See also:


Vader

Russians are perceived as sub-human in the West

Untermenschen. That is what we are in the eyes of The West. Untermenschen. Subhumans.

Catherine Ashton, au nom de l’UE, a rencontré l’opposition ukrainienne. A gauche, Oleh Tyahnybok le député du parti néo-nazi Svoboda.
© ReutersCatherine Ashton meets Oleh Tyahnybok from the néo-nazi Svoboda party, Vitaly Klitchko the future mayor of Kiev and Yatsenyuk
I have watched the unfolding coup d'etat in Ukraine from it's very beginning in late November 2013 in Kiev. I have watched a steady stream of western dignitaries and politicians parade through Maidan Square in Kiev, each and every one of them publicly and vocally expressing their open support of the coup d'etat. I find it appalling that the sitting ambassador of the United States of America to the Sovereign Country of Ukraine, Geoffrey R. Pyatt, actively and publicly supported a violent coup d'etat against the sitting and legally elected government of Ukraine and to this day actively and publicly expresses open support for the illegal coup d'etat installed government in Kiev.

On 01 December 2013 my wife and I watched the Right Sector and Svoboda Party operatives attempt to take the Presidential Administration Building on Bankhova Street in Kiev under the active and visible command of Vitaly Klitchko and Petro Poroshenko, two sitting deputats of the Ukraine Rada (parliament). After that 3 hour riot ended with Bankhova Street being finally cleared by Berkut riot police who were under orders to not go beyond the end of Bankhova Street, I told my wife President Yanukovich would lose against the coup d'etat. She told me I was crazy. 2 1/2 months later we were shoveling sand in to bags in the middle of the night at the new block post just above Belbek Aerodrome as our Self Defense Forces in Sevastopol and Krimea built and manned block posts at the Krim/Ukraine border and the 5 roads in to Sevastopol.

The victors of the Maidan coup d'etat, Oleg Tyagnibok (a sitting deputat of Ukraine Rada) and Dmitro Yarush, leaders of Svoboda Party and Right Sector Party respectively, had stated, during a live interview on Channel 5 TV in Kiev on 27 February 2014, that they were going to lead their combined 5500 fighters from Miadan down to Krim and Sevastopol and 'kill every Russian there' combined with 'we will put every Russian in Krim to the knife'. We took them seriously and we knew they were heavily armed with AK 47's and RPGs, clearly seen in videos of the end and aftermath of the coup in Maidan. Those first two days and nights on the barricades we had only clubs for most of us.

Water

Elites aggressively taking control of the world's water supply

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A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new "water barons" - the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires - are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace.

Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz, and HSBC Bank, among others, are consolidating their control over water. Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush and his family, Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, Philippines' Manuel V. Pangilinan and other Filipino billionaires, and others are also buying thousands of acres of land with aquifers, lakes, water rights, water utilities, and shares in water engineering and technology companies all over the world.

The second disturbing trend is that while the new water barons are buying up water all over the world, governments are moving fast to limit citizens' ability to become water self-sufficient (as evidenced by the well-publicized Gary Harrington's case in Oregon, in which the state criminalized the collection of rainwater in three ponds located on his private land, by convicting him on nine counts and sentencing him for 30 days in jail). Let's put this criminalization in perspective:

Billionaire T. Boone Pickens owned more water rights than any other individuals in America, with rights over enough of the Ogallala Aquifer to drain approximately 200,000 acre-feet (or 65 billion gallons of water) a year. But ordinary citizen Gary Harrington cannot collect rainwater runoff on 170 acres of his private land.