Economic / Financial: Stick Save Into The Close Wednesday: Dave's Daily
Economic / Financial: Stick Save Into The Close Wednesday: Dave's Daily
Another ‘Come on’ day on fraudulent wall street! This time it’s the
unexpected downward revision to previous market-frothing retail sales
report and poor retail sales and plunge in mortgage applications and then
there’s the fed minutes pointing to extended bad economy. See Dave Fry’s
(Daily) summary below referencing in euphemistic fashion, yet another
ongoing manipulation also known as fraud. (Absent prosecutions, they’ll
continue to do what comes natural to frauds on wall street). Great
opportunity to sell / take profits since much worse, also called reality
beyond the b*** s***, to come. Then there’s also the bad but typical news;
viz., retail sales, mortgage apps, economic outlook down, and yesterday
deficits, trade and budget, up.
Stick Save Into the Close Wednesday: Dave's Daily ‘There's a clash
between ongoing worse than expected economic data and better than
expected earnings. Seasonally, it's generally been a good time for bulls
with earnings rolling out. Some, like Intel's Tuesday after the close had
their CEO downright giddy. Ironically, the stimulants for Tuesday's rally
were earnings reports from Alcoa and CSX, but while nobody was paying
much attention both stocks closed flat to mixed. That was weird. Economic
data Wednesday revolved around poor Retail Sales data and a continuing
implosion in mortgage applications. Also, the Fed Minutes were released
showing governors pondering an economic slowdown. The WSJ published
an excellent article detailing why individual investors have left stock
market sectors leaving it to (ahem) "professionals". This makes
manipulative activities easy for Da Boyz. So, with volume light again
launching an end-of-day "stick save" prevented indices from doing that
"sell thing" that is antithetical to current marching orders. Although the
indices finished higher breadth was decidedly negative …’
Fed Cuts Growth Outlook Concerns over Europe, domestic data lead
policy-setting committee to tone down 2010 GDP forecast, raise
unemployment expectation. The Federal Open Market Committee has a
dimmer view of the economic outlook these days, in the wake of the
sovereign debt crisis in Europe and mixed data back home. "The FOMC
greeted the European crisis and the ensuing soft patch of data with
repose," says JPMorgan Chase analyst Michael Feroli. "Nonetheless, the
increased sense of downside risk led the committee to conclude that in
addition to planning for an exit strategy, some contingency planning for
more stimulus would also be prudent, just in case."...
Are the jobs gone for good? The facts about this downturn are very grim
Many readers have been contacting me with reminders that the most
important story in America right now – the shockingly high level of
long-term unemployment – is about far more than the latest statistics.
What Does The Financial Reform Bill Do Other Than Being Completely And
Utterly Worthless? Is it possible to write a 2,300 page piece of
legislation that accomplishes next to nothing and is pretty much
completely and utterly worthless? The answer is yes.
U.S. Regulatory Bill Nears Passage With Republican Support The U.S.
Senate plans to pass the financial-regulation bill on July 15 as
Democrats secured the 60 votes needed to enact the biggest rewrite
of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression.
Bloomberg Poll Finds Americans No Longer Drinking Kool Aid, 71% See
Economy “Mired In Recession” According to the latest broad poll
conducted by Bloomberg, Americans, except for those on Wall Street
of course, have never been more pessimistic on the economy, despite
the administration’s efforts to push stocks to 36,000 by Halloween.
Why BP is readying a ’super weapon’ to avert escalating Gulf nightmare In
a desperate attempt to stop a huge area of the Gulf ocean floor from
possibly rupturing due to subterranean methane gas (leading to a
calamity no human has ever seen) BP has ripped a page from science
fiction books.
(7-14-10) Dow 10,366 +3 Nasdaq 2,249 +7 S&P 500 1,095 +0 [CLOSE- OIL
$77.04 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS
$2.74 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS $3.13 REG./ $3.31 MID-
GRADE/ $3.38 PREM./ $3.72 DIESEL)/ GOLD $1,207 [video] Gold
Surges Stocks/Gold Comparison (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER
$18.29 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,526 (+56% for year 2009) /
DOLLAR= .78 EURO, 88 YEN, .65 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low
can you go - LOWER)/ 10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.05% …..… AP Business
Highlights ...Yahoo Market Update... ] T. Rowe Price Weekly
Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies - Domestic / International This
Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope
MARKET MANIPULATION AND HOW THE LATEST BUBBLE-FRAUD
PRE-COMING CRASH IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED 3-11-10 6
Theories On Why the Stock Market Has Rallied 3-9-10 [archived
website file] Risks Lurk for ETF Investors The bull market that
never was/were beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold
Property Values Projected to Fall 12% in 2010 Jan 31, 2010
The Week Ahead: Risk Is Off the Cliff; Unwind Has Begun Jan 31,
2010 01-13-10 Forecast for 2010 from Seeking Alpha Contributor
THE COMING MARKET CRASH / CORRECTION 1-28-10 Maierhofer
(01-15-10) 11 Clear Signs Economy Sinking Economic Black
Hole 1-22-10: 20 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is
Simply Not Going To Recover Current Economic / Fiscal Charts
Trendsresearch.com forecast for 2009 1-7-10 Crash is coming!
‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’ Must Read Economic /
Financial Data This Depression is just beginning The
coming depression… thecomingdepression.net MUST READ:
JEREMY GRANTHAM’S QUARTERLY UPDATE 25 January 2010 (850
on the S&P) by TPC The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner
than you think Sliding Back Into the Great Depression
ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS
WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!
NATIONAL / WORLD
Requiem for the Antiwar Movement Cindy Sheehan | Last week, the
Democratically controlled House of Representatives voted to give
Barack Obama 33 billion more dollars to prosecute two idiotic and ill-
advised wars.
Top Clinton Official: Only A Terror Attack Can Save Obama A former senior
advisor to President Bill Clinton says that the only thing which can
rescue Barack Obama’s increasingly tenuous grip on power as his
approval figures continue to plunge is a terror attack on the scale of
Oklahoma City or 9/11, another startling reminder that such events
only ever serve to benefit those in authority.
http://www.albertpeia.com/wallstreetlunacy2ndqtr10108.htm
Exports are up, but where are the jobs? (Washington Post) Gone with the
wind? Sorry, I must have been thinking of million dollar movies. Seriously
though, I dare say everyone knows they were gone with that ‘bi-partisan
executive / congressional, think-tank, cia / nsa ill wind’ that others might
refer to as flatulence / passing gas, also called NAFTA, and also proudly
hailed by the foregoing as ‘strategy’. They’re gone, and never to return.
Moreover, the flipside of the exports, viz., imports, doesn’t bode well
despite the fraudulent wall street b*** s*** and their chorus of cheerleaders
in washington. Some might say self-delusion but I would say fraud covers
all.
WHICH WAY IS THE MARKET GOING NEXT? Gomes: ‘Having been a technical analyst for the
first 10 years of my investing career and a fundamental analyst for the past 15 years, I'm a
believer that technical patterns form as fundamentals unfold. As such, if you know something
about both, you can confirm both against each other. At this point in time, I see a market that is
technically reaching up toward its 200 day moving average (2,250 for the NASDAQ). I also see a
50 day moving average that is threatening to drop below that 200 day moving average.
Technically, that is usually a very bad sign for the market. The question is, "will the 50DMA drop
below the 200DMA?" I think the answer is inevitably "yes". The thing about the moving averages,
is that you can see which points of data are about to fall off. Meanwhile, you can make
reasonable assumptions regarding the points of data that will take their place. By doing so, you
can construct a range of probabilistic scenarios. In this case, some high numbers are about to
come out of the 50DMA, making it go lower. Meanwhile, some low numbers are about to come
out of the 200DMA, making it go higher. Since both are VERY close to each other right now, it's
safe to assume that the 50DMA will indeed fall below the 200DMA. So, that's probably bad news
for the market...technically. Fundamentally, it appears that Q2 turned out well for most
companies. However, most of the investing world knows this and stocks have rallied about 8% on
the news. Ever hear the saying "buy the rumor, sell the news"? Well, the rumor has been bought
and the news is just starting to flow in. This means that we have to look at the NEXT bit of news
to figure out what rumor the market will be buying or selling. To me, it's clear that the global
economic environment will come back to the front burner as the #1 driver of stock prices...and
that's bad news for stocks. A good Q2 does not mean that the future is bright. Rather, I believe
that Q2 will represent the peak of earnings health. Starting in Q3, good earnings will become a bit
harder to come by. Why?
1) Economic indicators are dropping fast. For all intents and purposes, the unemployment rate
has not budged. Meanwhile, store shelves are stocked again, PCs have been upgraded, etc. In
other words, the pent-up demand that drove the current rebound has almost run its course. What
little remains no longer has the power to drive the economy as it has over the past 18-months.
2) "Follow the money". This is one of the most powerfully simple rules on Wall Street. When
money is flowing into the economy (i.e. via lower interest rates or stimulus $$$), it's usually good
for stocks..and vice versa. At present, interest rates can't go much lower and the numerous
stimulus programs are losing effectiveness. This means that the money is no longer flowing in.
Worse yet, the money that was spent is not generally viewed as having been money well spent.
This does not bode well for a new stimulus package to come anytime soon. In other words,
money is not flowing in AND doesn't appear poised to flow in anytime soon. In fact, state and
municipal budgets are being cut (money flowing OUT), while they raise local sales and income
taxes (more money flowing out). if federal taxes go up in 2011, as planned, even more money will
be flowing out. If you follow that, you should be flowing out of the stock market. In short, barring a
new stimulus package of other major money-flowing event, I believe the economy slips back
toward recession. Whether or not we double-dip, we will almost certainty slip in that direction.
3) If you follow the money in Europe, you will run for the hills. Europe has decided to spin
180-degrees and shift from stimulus to austerity (if you don't know the definition, look it up -- you'll
likely hear it again -- and not just from me). Effectively the opposite of stimulus, austerity will pull
money away from the European economies...which tells us to pull money away from stocks.
Worse yet, the effect of the EU/IMF bailout is already wearing off. Greek yields are rising again
and Portuguese credit ratings have been reduced.
4) Global bubbles are bursting. Most notably, home sales in China and Canada are starting to
fall. Remember what happened when the U.S. housing market cracked? That's right -- that's what
started this mess in the first place.
5) Politically, this period in time has a tendency to be bad for stocks. There is uncertainty
around the mid-year elections...and the market hates uncertainty. Historically, the political picture
doesn't become clear until October, at which point we might expect a rally. Until then, expect the
democrats to do everything they can to retain their jobs in November. That means, "stop pissing
off the public"...and the public seems pretty pissed about how the stimulus $$$ worked out for
them (or more accurately, how it DIDN'T work out for them). Thus, the political pressure will lean
against further stimulus until after the elections.
The Bottom Line: I believe that the market will start to reflect these concerns very soon. These
are real fundamental concerns, which you can see reflected in the technicals. As the market
reaches the 50DMA and the 200DMA, it will be inclined to retreat (barring some new, hugely
positive news). Meanwhile, the 50DMA is 90%+ likely to cross below the 200DMA, giving the
market more reason to retrench. At some point, if the economy sinks far enough and if the market
drops far enough, political pressure for more stimulus will mount. At that point, money will flow
back into the economy. But that time is not now. Now, money is flowing away like the tide...and
so should your invested capital. I'm not always right, but I do my best, based on the information
before me. Based on what I see right now, the most logical conclusion is to expect a long, ugly
summer for stocks. If I see information that changes that view, I'll be sure to post an update to this
post. Disclosure: I have short positions against the market
But still it’s ‘hands off fraudulent wall street’ to theirs, the nation’s, and the
world’s detriment. Firms subpoenaed in attempt to regain Fannie,
Freddie losses (Washington Post). But there’s a reason:
The following youtube video is well worth the look and explains how and
why the frauds on wall street have gotten away with their devastating
fraud thus far. The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally
prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed. ( UPDATE:
MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... CIVIL RIGHTS
PANEL TO PURSUE FED PROBE IN BLACK PANTHER CASE... ‘In
emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over
the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black
Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in
the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants
and white victims ...’ US v. AZ... Cases against Wall Street lag
despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud Washington Post |
Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the
meltdown. ):
While boner and barton are indeed jokes / vegetables that bespeak the
single-digit approval rate for congress, obama’s failure to deliver on
promises with as well, endless war spending despite defacto
bankruptcy of the nation and a watered down nothing financial
regulation bill for talking points but little substance, make him as big a
joker. This well researched / produced video tells the real story :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=eAaQNACwaLw&feature=PlayList&p=2EFAB57B44063742&playnext
_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1 ‘THE OBAMA DECEPTION’ – well
worth the view.
If not for the likes of ie., Dell Computer, most (ie., those die hard Mac,
Iphone, Ipad, etc., aficionados among others) would say microsoft’s
already in the clouds, so to speak. Microsoft takes aim at the cloud
(Washington Post)
No help in sight for jobless (Washington Post) Well, from their perspective,
they really don’t feel your pain, and, it gives the frauds on wall street
another b*** s***, market frothing, false talking point in the form of ‘fewer
continuing claims for unemployment’. Then there’s that ‘ depression thing’.
The Debt Party Is Over ‘… In a Ponzi scheme, the end comes when the
marginal investor decides to do something else with his money. Then the
house of cards stars falling apart. …’
Mattis: 'It's fun to shoot people' Washington Post - Ed O'Keefe - Jul 9, 2010
By Ed O'Keefe President Obama's pick to lead military operations in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and the Middle East is an experienced
ground combat commander, but also earned a stern rebuke in 2005 for
controversial comments about combat operations. Gen. James
Mattis is named head of US Central Command Los Angeles Times
Blunt General Appointed to Lead Forces in Mideast New York Times
Technical Indicators Trigger Major Sell Signal ‘…In summary, the bearish
picture is confirmed by technical indicators, a fundamental outlook,
sentiment gauges, and valuations.Based on what the market considered
fair market valuations at prior historic market bottoms, one can conclude
how far stocks have to drop to reach the previously attained level of fair
valuations …’
Simon Maierhofer: ‘On Friday July 9, 2010, 4:32 pm EDT It rarely ever happens, but when it
does, it's serious. It has only happened nine times in 10 years. We are referring to crossovers
between the 200-day and 50-day simple moving averages (SMAs).Very few technical indicators
receive as much attention and media coverage as the 50 and 200-day SMAs. The 200-day MA is
perceived to be the dividing line between a stock that is technically healthy and one that is not.
It's a Big Deal It's a big deal when a stock or an index drops below the 200-day SMA. It's an
even bigger deal when the 50-day SMA of any given stock or index drops below the 200-day
SMA. Such a crossover reflects internal weakness - at least in theory. We'll discuss in a moment
how the actual numbers match up with theoretic assumptions. On June 22, 2010, the S&P 500
(SNP: ^GSPC) and Dow Jones (DJI: ^DJI) dropped below the 200-day SMA. One day later the
Nasdaq (Nasdaq: ^IXIC) followed. On July 2, 2010, the 50-day SMA for the S&P (NYSEArca:
SPY - News) dropped below the 200-day SMA. On July 6, the Dow Jones (NYSEArca: DIA -
News) followed. As of today, the Nasdaq (Nasdaq: QQQQ - News) is barely hanging on. This
sounds like a doomsday scenario. Does a rigid analysis show that there is validity to 200-day and
50-day SMA crossover buy/sell signals? Let's investigate.Crossovers - Lagging but Notable
Many argue that the SMA crossover is a delayed signal that emphasizes past weakness more
than it foreshadows future declines. To an extent, that is true. There are other warning signals
that point to a market turn long before the SMA does. For example, on April 16, 2010, the ETF
Profit Strategy Newsletter noted an extremely low put/call ratio along with other bullish sentiment
extremes. The newsletter stated that 'the message conveyed by the composite bullishness is
unmistakably bearish. Once prices start to fall and investors get afraid of incurring losses, the
only option is to sell (due to the low put/call ratio). Selling, results in more selling. This negative
feedback loop usually results in rapidly falling prices.' Prices did fall rapidly. The 22 trading days
following the April 26 high, erased eight months worth of gains. It took a 17% drop for the SMA
crossover to trigger a sell signal. When the ETF Profit Strategy Newsletter issued a strong buy
signal on March 2, 2009, it emphasized that the developing rally would be a counter trend rally
followed by a steep decline and maintained this viewpoint even though prices kept rallying
relentlessly into the April highs. The SMA crossover now expresses the possibility that even lower
prices are ahead. 200 and 50-day SMA Crossovers - How Accurate? How about the SMA
crossover track record? Over the past 10 years, there have been nine S&P SMA crossovers with
five sell and four buy signals. We have yet to see the results of the most recent sell signal.
However, of the eight previous signals, six were correct. Average gains following each signal
were 14.91%. $10,000 invested according to the buy/sell recommendations given right after the
first sell signal was triggered on October 30, 2000 at S&P 1,399, would be worth $24,769 today.
More Than just Crossovers If it sounds too good to be true, it often is. As is the case with so
many technical indicators, crossovers need to be viewed in context with other indicators. In other
words, take a step back and evaluate how crossovers fit into the larger picture. The larger picture
(going back to 2007) reveals that trading volume associated with market declines has been
generally high, while trading volume seen during rallies has been generally low; a bearish sign.
Does Wednesday's 3.13% Rally Invalidate the Sell Signal? On Wednesday, the S&P rallied 32
points or 3.13%. The Dow rallied 2.82%, while the Nasdaq rallied 3.13%. Does this mean the bull
market is back on track?Since the April market top, we've seen about a handful of 2-3% bounces.
All associated gains were erased within a matter of days. Chances are this time will be the same.
In fact, some sort of bounce was to be expected. On July 5, the ETF Profit Strategy Newsletter
stated 'considering that the S&P is butting against the 100-week SMA, lower accelerations band,
38.2% Fibonacci retracement levels, round number resistance at 1,000, and weekly s1 at 994,
there is a good chance we will see some sort of a bounce develop from the 990 - 1,015 area.
Weekly r1 at 1,066 and pivot at 1,063 should serve as resistance.' This bounce is in its later
stages right now. What's Next? Let's revisit the larger picture. Out of the nine leading industry
sectors, seven have seen their 50-day SMA cross below the 200-day SMA - financials
(NYSEArca: XLF - News), technology (NYSEArca: XLK - News), consumer staples (NYSEArca:
XLP - News), materials (NYSEArca: XLB - News), utilities (NYSEArca: XLU - News), energy
(NYSEArca: XLE - News) and healthcare (NYSEArca: XLV - News). The consumer discretionary
(NYSEArca: XLY - News) and industrial sector (NYSEArca: XLI - News) are the only holdouts. All
nine sectors, however, trade below their 200-day SMA. Fundamentals, sentiment readings and
valuations also point south. Some of the fundamentals we have discussed in these pages are
crafty accounting practices designed to hide huge losses racked up by big financial institutions
not yet realized along with a continually bad unemployment picture. Sentiment surrounding the
April highs recorded extremes not seen since the 2000, 2007, and even 1987 market top. There
are multiple sentiment measures (such as the VIX, cash allocation, put/call ratio, percentage of
bullish/bearish advisors, mutual fund cash levels, etc.). Each sentiment measure is one piece of
the puzzle. The more pieces of the puzzle you have, the clearer the picture becomes. Leading up
to the April highs, nearly all sentiment indicators peaked, painting a complete bearish picture. In
summary, the bearish picture is confirmed by technical indicators, a fundamental outlook,
sentiment gauges, and valuations. Based on what the market considered fair market valuations at
prior historic market bottoms, one can conclude how far stocks have to drop to reach the
previously attained level of fair valuations. The ETF Profit Strategy Newsletter includes a detailed
analysis of four valuation metrics with a track record of accuracy, along with the implied target
range for an ultimate market bottom. This is provided in addition to its short, mid and long-term
forecast. When the market speaks, it behooves investors to listen. Fighting the tape has often
proven to be foolish, as the market will always have the final word.’
A Market Forecast That Says ‘Take Cover’ New York Times | We have
entered a market decline of staggering proportions — perhaps the biggest
of the last 300 years.
Light Volume Temptations: Dave's Daily ‘Volume still matters, doesn't it? It
seems not as the financial media ignores our light volume market in favor
of writing bullish headlines. With hedge funds mostly sidelined according
to reports posted here yesterday, the primary buyers must be trading
desks on Wall Street and a handful of algo traders. It's tempting to come off
the sidelines and join the fun but perhaps it's just the trap they're laying for
you. A headline at Reuters read this afternoon: "Weaker Economic Views
Equals Stronger 3-Year Note Sale". So, if equity markets are forward-
looking one must wonder what these few buyers are seeing beyond a
short-term trade. Headline writers say its strong earnings growth that will
prop markets coupled with rosy outlooks. That would have to be the case
otherwise this is just a sucker's rally. As stated, volume was holiday-like
light (40% below average) making it really easy for the machines to take
over trading, and so they did ... ‘
David Icke onTV: Humanity’s Last Chance Infowars.com | Alex talks with
writer, public speaker, and former well-known BBC television sports
presenter David Icke. As the United States Collapses, Media
Worships LeBron James Infowars gives the inside scoop on
basketball MVP LeBron James’ pivotal trade decision. America Is
In A Societal Meltdown Chuck Baldwin | America is in the midst of a
complete and total spiritual, societal, cultural, moral, and political
meltdown. Obama Selects General Who Likes Killing Muslims to
Centcom Kurt Nimmo | Gen. Mattis has the same habit of speaking his
mind as McCrystal.
The Lights Are Going Out For Free Speech On The Internet Type the
keywords “Internet censorship” into Google News and you will
immediately understand to what degree the world wide web is under
assault from attempts by governments globally to regulate and stifle
free speech. From Australia to Belarus, from Turkey to Vietnam, from
Pakistan to Egypt, from Afghanistan to Iran, huge chunks of the
Internet are going dark as the Chinese model of Internet regulation is
adopted worldwide. [Has everybody lost their minds? Referring to the
china model as something to be emulated. It’s true they are more
productive than america, generally, but their business model is almost
prehistoric and the direct consequence of the great american sell-out
for money (the ‘pass through’ or direct) by those who’ve pledged
otherwise (walmart, congress, clinton, bush, wobama, etc.). Even
some of their simplest products are junk (but priced incredibly low to
make the relative value) and seem to have adopted that GM strategy of
planned obsolescence, breakdown, etc., to spur sales. Then there’s
the communist faux capitalism paradox, suppression, oppression,
etc., which has even the defacto bankrupt, pervasively corrupt, fallen
america blindly following. Quite simply, their ancient business model
is slave labor. As for Iran, they are a relatively small nation under
collective siege.]
US taxpayers’ Afghan aid money buys rich Afghans’ Dubai villas You
already might have heard that it costs the United States $1 million for
each solider per year in Afghanistan, to cover the cost of the soldiers’
benefits, troop transports and other materiel. Billions of dollars
secreted out of Kabul Spiegel Online | Billions of dollars are being
secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected Afghans buy luxury
villas in Dubai and then there are the american recipients who are a bit
more careful with their stash.
The New Civil Wars Within the West Gregory R. Copley | Internecine civil
wars are underway almost everywhere within the West, and most
virulently in the United States of America. On Why America’s 234th
Birthday May Not Have Many More To Follow Zero Hedge | It is my
firm belief that we have come to the “end of the road” for the financial
system.
Iran says planes denied fuel in Germany, UK, UAE Reuters | The claim
could not be independently confirmed and was met abroad by
skepticism. [Europe really fell fast. They make Christians look like the
dumbest people in the world, along with the likes of ie., UAE if true
(and defacto bankrupt america). After all, this ‘all for israel’ mantra is
contraindicated inasmuch as the hebrews deny the very foundation of
the Christian religion and indeed were behind his crucifixion].
Banks are Still at the Derivatives Casino (at Seeking Alpha) [video]
Washington's Bungled Bank Bailout (at TheStreet.com) ECRI Weekly
Leading Index Growth Lowest in 13 Months Be on the Right Side of
S&P Earnings Estimate Cuts
Inventory Cycle Has Run Its Course Harrison – ‘… This is the scenario I
have been predicting for months now.
• Double Dip Recession and the Obama 2011 Budget (February 2010):
The long and short is that – come Summer – the inventory cycle’s
thrust will have dissipated. And if companies are not hiring by this
time and consumer spending is not increasing more robustly, then
the state budgets, the strategic defaults and all of the rest of that
becomes a serious obstacle. In my view, more likely than not, this
will lead to another recession late in 2010 or in 2011. And nothing in
the President’s budget changes this outlook.
• The mindset will not change; a depressionary relapse may be
coming (March 2010): the inventory cycle’s impact on GDP growth
will attenuate. By the second half of 2010, inventories will not add
considerably to GDP.
• US GDP growth rate is unsustainable; recovery will fade (April 2010):
The inventory cycle is already starting to fade. That means weak 1 or
2% growth at best by Q4 2010. Unless job growth picks up
tremendously by the second half of the year, this recovery is in
trouble.
David Rosenberg says the ISM leads jobs. And, the latest jobs numbers
were weak.
I would be nonplused about the recent ISM data if it weren’t for the column
highlighted in red. Notice how the momentum for everything is slowing.
Not just the overall index, but new orders, production and employment …’
50 Random Facts That Make You Wonder What In The World Has Happened
To America The Economic Collapse | For those who still love this land
(and there are a lot of us) it is heartbreaking to watch America slowly
die. BP, Homeland Security, and Cops Work Together to Deny First
Amendment Kurt Nimmo | BP, Homeland Security, the FBI’s Joint
Terrorism Task Force, and local cops will now decide if it is
acceptable for journalists to take photographs. Will G20 Police
Succeed In Covering Up Reports of Rape and Torture? Infowars.com |
Can authorities be allowed to cover-up the Abu-Ghraib style
incarceration methods Toronto police engaged in during the G20
summit this past weekend, where women were arrested and
subsequently raped by male cops? Emergency S.O.S.: America
Falling to Foreign Bank Takeover – Fourth of July Alex Jones breaks
down the takeover by offshore banking powers– newly empowered by
Congress’ banking “reform,” expanded taxes worldwide, as well as
accelerated moves towards ending the Dollar’s reserve status,
including urging from a recent United Nations report. More than
one-quarter don’t know who US gained independence from Every
Fourth of July, Americans gather to celebrate the country’s
declaration of independence from … um, what country was that
again?
Turn On, Tune In...Nah, Just Drop Out … Discouraged workers at a new
cycle high And small wonder. The median unemployment duration went to
a new all-time high (since the 1940s, anyway, when that series begins) and
shows no signs of slowing its ascent … (Chart, source Bloomberg)…
Ron Paul: 114 Flip Flop on Audit The Fed Causing Bill to Fail 229 – 198 Ron
Paul’s attempt to audit the Federal Reserve, which was previously co-
sponsored by 320 members of the House (HR 1207), failed by a vote of 229-
198. All Republicans voted in favor of the measure with 23 Democrats
crossing the aisle to vote with Republicans. 122 co-sponsors of HR 1207,
all Democrats, jumped ship and voted against the measure. The Future
of Audit the Fed Congressman Ron Paul discusses the latest in the efforts
to get a full and complete audit of the Fed as well as the future of Fed
transparency. Like Congressman Paul says, we’ve accomplished a lot of
good with our movement, and there’s many reasons to be optimistic for the
future. Ditch the Buck! Dollar demise ‘a matter of months’ A report by
the United Nations says the American dollar should be ditched as the main
global reserve currency. It said that the global financial meltdown has
exposed systematic weaknesses, one of which is the reliance on the
greenback. G-20 is Relying on China To Drive the World Economy … But
China Isn’t Looking So Hot The G-20 is apparently relying on China to
drive the world economy.
50 Random Facts That Make You Wonder What In The World Has Happened To America -
The Economic Collapse July 2, 2010 Our world is changing at a pace that is so
staggering these days that it can be really hard to fully grasp the significance of what we
are witnessing. Hopefully the collection of random facts below will help you to “connect the
dots” just a little bit. On one level, the facts below may not seem related. However, what
they all do have in common is that they show just how much the United States has
fundamentally changed. Do you ever just sit back and wonder what in the world has
happened to America? The truth is that the America that so many of us once loved so
much has been shattered into a thousand pieces. The “land of the free and the home of
the brave” has been transformed into a socialized Big Brother nanny state that is oozing
with corruption and has accumulated the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the
world. The greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen is falling apart before
our very eyes, and even when our politicians actually try to do something right (which is
quite rare) the end result is still a bunch of garbage. For those who still love this land (and
there are a lot of us) it is heartbreaking to watch America slowly die.
The following are 50 random facts that show just how dramatically america has changed….
#50) A new report released by the United Nations is publicly calling for the establishment of a
world currency and none of the major news networks are even covering it.
#49) Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered California State Controller John Chiang to reduce state
worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law — $7.25 an hour for most state
workers.
#48) A police officer in Oklahoma recently tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed
and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn’t breathe because they considered her to be a
“threat”.
#47) In early 2009, U.S. net national savings as a percentage of GDP went negative for the first
time since 1952, and it has continued its downward trend since then.
#46) Corexit 9500 is so incredibly toxic that the UK’s Marine Management Organization has
completely banned it, so if there was a major oil spill in the North Sea, BP would not be able to
use it. And yet BP has dumped over a million gallons of dispersants such as Corexit 9500 into
the Gulf of Mexico.
#45) For the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and
the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in
2011.
#44) It has come out that one employee used a Federal Emergency Management Agency credit
card to buy $4,318 in “Happy Birthday” gift cards. Two other FEMA officials charged the cost of
360 golf umbrellas ($9,000) to the taxpayers.
#43) Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo received $389,000 from the U.S.
government to pay 100 residents of Buffalo $45 each to record how much malt liquor they drink
and how much pot they smoke each day.
#42) The average duration of unemployment in the United States has risen to an all-time high.
#41) The bottom 40 percent of all income earners in the United States now collectively own less
than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.
#40) In the U.S., the average federal worker now earns about twice as much as the average
worker in the private sector.
#39) Back in 1950 each retiree’s Social Security benefit was paid for by 16 workers. Today, each
retiree’s Social Security benefit is paid for by approximately 3.3 workers. By 2025 it is projected
that there will be approximately two workers for each retiree.
#38) According to a U.S. Treasury Department report to Congress, the U.S. national debt will top
$13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015.
#37) The federal government actually has the gall to ask for online donations that will supposedly
go towards paying off the national debt.
#36) The Cactus Bug Project at the University Of Florida was allocated $325,394 in economic
stimulus funds to study the mating decisions of cactus bugs.
#35) A dinner cruise company in Chicago got nearly $1 million in economic stimulus funds to
combat terrorism.
#34) It is being reported that a 6-year-old girl from Ohio is on the “no fly” list maintained by U.S.
Homeland Security.
#33) During the first quarter of 2010, the total number of loans that are at least three months past
due in the United States increased for the 16th consecutive quarter.
#32) According to a new report, Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed
countries on healthcare, but get lower quality and far less efficiency.
#31) Some experts are warning that the cost of bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
could reach as high as $1 trillion.
#30) The FDA has announced that the offspring of cloned animals could be in our food supply
right now and that there is nothing that they can do about it.
#29) In May, sales of new homes in the United States dropped to the lowest level ever recorded.
#28) In 1950, the ratio of the average executive’s paycheck to the average worker’s paycheck
was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has ranged between 300 to 500 to one.
#27) Federal border officials recently said that Mexican drug cartels have not only set up shop on
American soil, they are actually maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of
southern Arizona.
#26) The U.S. government has declared some parts of Arizona off limits to U.S. citizens
because of the threat of violence from Mexican drug smugglers.
#25) According to the credit card repayment calculator, if you owe $6000 on a credit card with a
20 percent interest rate and only pay the minimum payment each time, it will take you 54 years to
pay off that credit card. During those 54 years you will pay $26,168 in interest rate charges in
addition to the $6000 in principal that you are required to pay back.
#24) According to prepared testimony by Goldman Sachs Chief Operating Officer Gary Cohn,
Goldman Sachs shorted roughly $615 million of the collateralized debt obligations and residential
mortgage-backed securities the firm underwrote since late 2006.
#23) The six biggest banks in the United States now possess assets equivalent to 60 percent of
America’s gross national product.
#22) Four of the biggest U.S. banks (Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and
Citigroup) had a “perfect quarter” with zero days of trading losses during the first quarter of 2010.
#21) 1.41 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009 – a 32 percent increase over
2008.
#20) BP has hired private security contractors to keep the American people away from oil cleanup
sites and nobody seems to care.
#19) Barack Obama is calling for a “civilian expeditionary force” to be sent to Afghanistan and
Iraq to help overburdened military troops build infrastructure.
#18) On June 18th, two Christians decided that they would peacefully pass out copies of the
gospel of John on a public sidewalk outside a public Arab festival in Dearborn, Michigan and
within 3 minutes 8 policemen surrounded them and placed them under arrest.
#17) It is being reported that sales of foreclosed homes in Florida made up nearly 40 percent of
all home purchases in the first part of this year.
#16) During a recent interview with Larry King, former first lady Laura Bush revealed to the world
that she is actually in favor of legalized gay marriage and a woman’s “right” to abortion.
#15) Scientists at Columbia University are warning that the dose of radiation from the new full
body security scanners going into airports all over the United States could be up to 20 times
higher than originally estimated.
#14) 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for retirement.
#13) The FDIC’s deposit insurance fund now has negative 20.7 billion dollars in it, which
represents a slight improvement from the end of 2009.
#12) The judge that BP is pushing for to hear an estimated 200 lawsuits on the Gulf of Mexico oil
disaster gets tens of thousands of dollars a year in oil royalties and is paid travel expenses to
industry conferences.
#11) In recent years the U.S. government has spent $2.6 million tax dollars to study the drinking
habits of Chinese prostitutes and $400,000 tax dollars to pay researchers to cruise six bars in
Buenos Aires, Argentina to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior when drunk.
#10) U.S. officials say that more than three billion dollars in cash (much of it aid money paid for
by U.S. taxpayers) has been stolen by corrupt officials in Afghanistan and flown out of Kabul
International Airport in recent years.
#9) According to a report by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, the baggage check fees collected by U.S. airlines shot up 33% in the first quarter of
2010 to $769 million.
#8) Three California high school students are fighting for their right to show their American
patriotism - even on a Mexican holiday - after they were forced to remove their American flag T-
shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
#7) Right now, interest on the U.S. national debt and spending on entitlement programs like
Social Security and Medicare are somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 percent of GDP.
By 2080, they are projected to eat up approximately 50 percent of GDP.
#6) The total of all government, corporate and consumer debt in the United States is
now about 360 percent of GDP.
#5) A 6-year-old girl was recently handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper
tantrums at her elementary school.
#4) In Florida, students have been arrested by police for things as simple as bringing a plastic
butter knife to school, throwing an eraser, and drawing a picture of a gun.
#3) School officials in one town in Massachusetts are refusing to allow students to recite the
Pledge of Allegiance.
#2) According to one new study, approximately 21 percent of children in the United States are
living below the poverty line in 2010.
#1) Since 1973, more than 50 million babies have been murdered in abortion facilities across the
United States.
Fed Made Taxpayers Unwitting Junk-Bond Buyers Bloomberg | So-called assets included
collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed bonds. Dollar Plunges After
UN Call To Ditch Greenback The dollar plunged today following a United Nations
report which called for the greenback to be replaced as the global reserve currency
by the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights (SDRs). National
debt soars to highest level since WWII The federal debt will represent 62% of the
nation’s economy by the end of this year. Dollar should be replaced as
international standard, U.N. report says CNN | The dollar is an unreliable
international currency and should be replaced by a more stable system, the United
Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs said. Double Dip Picking Up:
Jobless Claims Spike To 472,000, On Expectations Of 455,000 Jobless claims were
a disaster, coming in at 472k, on expectations of 455k. Prior was revised, surprise,
surprise, higher to 459k from 457k. What is scariest is that between extended
benefits and EUC, now that Congress has turned off the perpetual insurance spigot
for the unemployed, dropped by -158,155 and -217,513.‘Jobless Recovery’ Myth as
Banksters RAPE and ENSLAVE the Public! GET OFF YOUR KNEES! We’re told that
this will be a ‘jobless recovery’ with further job losses expected before things get
better. Well, if you believe that nonsense I’ve got a fantastic sundrenched beach on
the growing ice packs of Antarctica to sell you. How on earth can there be anything
called a jobless recovery? The simple answer is that there can’t! Study: US media
redefined torture after US started practicing it The US news media radically
changed how it reported on the issue of waterboarding after it emerged that US
forces had used the practice, says a new study from Harvard University. The
Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Undercover Police engaged in Purposeful Provocation
Toronto is right now in the midst of a massive government / media propaganda
fraud. As events unfold, it is becoming increasingly clear that the ‘Black Bloc’ are
undercover police operatives engaged in purposeful provocations to eclipse and
invalidate legitimate G20 citizen protest by starting a riot. Government agents have
been caught doing this before in Canada.
In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit
families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011:
In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business
owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011:
Personal income tax rates will rise. The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent
(this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate will
rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise. Itemized deductions and
personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as higher
marginal tax rates. The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:
Higher taxes on marriage and family. The “marriage penalty” (narrower tax brackets for
married couples) will return from the first dollar of income. The child tax credit will be cut in half
from $1000 to $500 per child. The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married
couples relative to the single level. The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.
The return of the Death Tax. This year, there is no death tax. For those dying on or after
January 1 2011, there is a 55 percent top death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person
leaving behind two homes and a retirement account could easily pass along a death tax bill to
their loved ones.
Higher tax rates on savers and investors. The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this
year to 20 percent in 2011. The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in
2011. These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.
There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will first go into effect on
January 1, 2011. They include:
The “Medicine Cabinet Tax” Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no longer be able to use
health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA)
pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).
The “Special Needs Kids Tax” This provision of Obamacare imposes a cap on flexible
spending accounts (FSAs) of $2500 (Currently, there is no federal government limit). There is
one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of
special needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United
States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one
leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research
Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for
this type of special needs education.
The HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike. This provision of Obamacare increases the additional tax on
non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative
to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.
Third Wave: The Alternative Minimum Tax and Employer Tax Hikes
When Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of 2011, they’ll be in for a nasty
surprise—the AMT won’t be held harmless, and many tax relief provisions will have expired. The
major items include:
The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year. According to the
left-leaning Tax Policy Center, Congress’ failure to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of
AMT taxpaying families—rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million. These families will have to
calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher level. The AMT was created in
1969 to ensnare a handful of taxpayers.
Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear. Small
businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly-deduct, or “depreciate”) equipment
purchases up to $250,000. This will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can
expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, all of it will have to be
“depreciated.”
Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses. There are literally scores of tax hikes on
business that will take place. The biggest is the loss of the “research and experimentation tax
credit,” but there are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the loss of this
tax relief will cost jobs.
Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced. The deduction for tuition and fees will not
be available. Tax credits for education will be limited. Teachers will no longer be able to deduct
classroom expenses. Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut. Employer-provided
educational assistance is curtailed. The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for
hundreds of thousands of families.
Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed. Under current law, a retired person
with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA. This
contribution also counts toward an annual “required minimum distribution.” This ability will no
longer be there.
Investors get more gloomy & bearish We just had a very difficult three month stretch for
stocks. The S&P 500 fell 12% for the quarter as did NASDAQ. The Shanghai Composite,
China’s largest stock index, fell 22.9 in its local currency, the yuan. The MSCI EAFE Index
(foreign stocks) was down 14%. Given the negative news, it is not surprising that investors
are becoming more bearish on stocks. This chart from Bespoke is based on the weekly
Investors Intelligence survey, which is getting close to levels from a year ago. This is not
close the peak we reached in early 2009, but the mood is definitely more negative now:
[chart]
Double Dip on the Way There were many events contributing to yesterday’s sell-off, and
the most likely culprits around the globe included more protests in Greece, continued to
concerns about Europe at large, and a downward revision (due to a calculation error) of a
leading economic indicator reading in China for the month of April. But when it comes
down to it, our own economy has yet to stand on solid ground. While the recovery has
continued to be shaky at best, recent economic readings may be pointing to a double dip
recession. Yesterday’s batch of economic data seemed to be confirming that, as it brought
a very dismal reading on consumer confidence. June’s number stood at 52.9, far below
expectations of 62.5, and pointing to the consumers’ weariness about the job market, and
economic recovery in general. To go further, the previous reading for May was revised
downward, to 62.7 from 63.3. But the drop from May to June really sends the message
home: we’re not out of the woods yet. Earlier in the week, we saw personal savings rates
rise again, even while personal income growth was meager. Americans, despite bringing
home a little more cash, continued to save more for the expected rainy days, and have yet
to return to their spendthrift ways. After yesterday’s precipitous selling, one would expect
to see a bit of a bounce in today’s trading session. That wasn’t the case, however, as more
weak data continued to dampen economic hopes. Today’s culprit was the ADP private
sector job report. The report stated that private payroll gains were muted in June, with
only 13,000 jobs added – far less than the 60,000 expected by economists. While May’s
reading was revised slightly upwards (to 57,000 hires from previously reported 55,000),
today’s release does not bode well for the much anticipated report from the Bureau of
Labor Statistics due out on Friday. The non-farms payroll survey includes government
workers and has been inflated in recent months due to hiring for the 2010 Census …
[chart] …The June report, however, will reflect many of those workers being laid off in the
past month. In May, 431,000 jobs were added, but without support from temporary
government hires, economists are predicting job losses in June. Last week, consensus
estimates were for a loss of 70,000 jobs for the month. By yesterday, those estimates were
downgraded further, to 110,000. With the help of today’s ADP report, expectations have
continued to fall: economists now expect a reading of negative 125,000 …
Barron's: Why the Market Will Keep Sliding Perry D- Barron's has a nice summary of what
the future may hold in its "Up and Down Wall Street." It summarizes as well as anything
I've read recently where we're likely headed. Bugging the (stock) market is the increasingly
obvious disparity between what the Street's incorrigible cheerleaders see and prophesy
and what's actually happening in the real world...The double dip in housing may or may
not be a template of what's in store for the economy as a whole. But at the very least, it is
a precursor of other serious disappointments destined to feed the unease among the
jittery populace, which most emphatically includes investors.
--the well-publicized woes of the European bloc, which accounts for 20% of
the world's GDP, as further evidence that the global economy, as he puts it,
is downshifting.
--The period of easy comparisons in corporate results, he says, is coming
to a close,
--"Although the fundamentals in the U.S., Europe and Japan are worse,"
Dee spots plenty of downside in emerging markets and doesn't fancy the
notion of decoupling.
--Come another financial crisis, "the only policy response left will be to
print money." Which, of course, is what the gold bugs are counting on and
why bullion has glistened so brightly.
That about sums up the outlook. The nice insight here is that anxiety over future economic
malaise -- and the additional money printing that'll be done to mask it -- might be a bigger
factor than current inflationary pressure behind the surge in gold prices.
In other words, for the deflation-believers: deflation today? Perhaps. But big-time inflation
tomorrow.
Disclosure: No positions
NY Times’ Krugman: We Are Entering The Third Depression Recessions are common;
depressions are rare. [Correction: we’re already in a depression].
Stocks: Once More Up, Then the Big Down Smith -The ingredients for a classic head and
shoulders topping pattern in the stock market are all present. That suggests one more rise
and then a massive grinding move down to 2009 lows. Officially, of course, everything's
peachy with the economy. Europe is fixed, China is booming, consumer confidence is
rising, and we are encouraged to resume our borrow and spend ways as the economy will
not "double-dip" into recession. The economy will not slide into another recession, we are
reassured constantly, even though roughly 80% of Americans don't think we ever left the
recessionary quicksand. Please see "Two Scoop Special": Double-Dip Recession
Guaranteed (May 21, 2010) for more … Exactly what drivers are there for future gains in
corporate profits? I can't think of any, short of Martians landing and going on a shopping
spree with gold they manufacture in their spacecraft. On the negative side, we have:
1. The rising dollar is a huge headwind to sales in the eurozone and elsewhere.
2. The low-hanging fruit of pushing the workforce to produce more output for the same
salary/wages have all been picked.
3. The inventory build-out is done for everything but the iPhone 4 and iPad.
4. So-called "fiscal austerity" (when did living within one's means become some sort of
brutual "austerity"? Talk abour propaganda!) in the eurozone and U.S. states will remove
tens of billions of dollars from corporate sales.
5. Global overcapacity is alive and well. There is overcapacity in everything manufactured
except the iPhone 4, and that will be in glut by 2011 as well.
6. Uncle Sam is not distributing trillions of dollars quite as freely. There seems to be some
glimmer of awareness that there could be consequences of squandering trillions of
borrowed dollars on essentially worthless projects such as occupying Iraq, inflating the
housing market by socializing the entire mortgage market, propping up Fannie Mae,
Freddie Mac and FHA, etc.
7. Housing is rolling over now that the socialized mortgage market has been tentatively
allowed to go off life-support (it is wheezing and turning blue in the face, not signs of
vibrant health).
8. There is no pricing power anywhere once stimulus-goosed demand declines to organic
demand (flat to down) …
Inflation, Deflation or Hyperinflation? (Part 2) (There are charts, but no
matter what the scenario posited, this time the territory’s uncharted,
and the debacle / crisis like no other owing to the advent of
computerization will have enabled an obfuscating tool of
unprecedented proportion [worthless paper, huge frauds as already
extant], and a two-edged sword in the most negative sense
prospectively)
Iran nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri 'flees US captors' BBC News - A man
who says he is an Iranian nuclear scientist claims to have escaped
after being abducted by US agents. In a video shown on Iranian state
TV, he says he has escaped in the US state of Virginia and is now on
the run. Missing Iran scientist says he escaped US agents: report
Reuters Turkey Asks Iran to Return to Table Wall Street Journal
Momentum Book Update: The Market Is a Mess and the Long Bond Is
About to Break Out … Not only do us swing traders have to fight the urge
to chase price action up, but lay off the keyboard trying to catch falling
knives in the relative strength stocks which are holding up. If you tried to
buy support in your favorite names this week, you got your hands cut up.
I’ll continue to rely on the understanding of my own emotions as they have
served me well. When we opened higher on Monday morning I knew I was
in the right place, cash, as the market was just way overbought. If you
bought most relative strength names last week, by the end of this week you
were well underwater. So where do we go from here? I’ve got no clue, the
market is a mess, the charts are a mess, and the long bond is about to
break out. If that happens all bets are off, we could see an “event”. If the
smart money is lining up at the exits and moving into bonds, there’s a
good chance they see something coming down the pipe …
SUITING UP FOR A POST-DOLLAR WORLD John Browne ‘The global financial crisis is
playing out like a slow-moving, highly predicable stage play. In the current scene, Western
governments are caught between the demands of entitled welfare beneficiaries and the
anxiety of bondholders who fear they will be stuck with the bill. As the crisis reaches an
apex, prime ministers and presidents are forced into a Sophie's choice between social
unrest and bankruptcy. But with the "Club Med" economies set to fall like dominoes, the
US Treasury market is not yet acting the role we would have anticipated. Our argument
has always been that the US benefits from its reserve-currency status, allowing it to
accumulate unsustainable debts for an unusually long period without the immediate
repercussions of inflation or higher borrowing costs. But this false sense of security may
be setting us up for a truly monumental crash. There is fresh evidence that time is running
out for the dollar-centric global monetary order. In fact, central banks outside the US are
already making swift and discrete preparation for a post-dollar era.To begin, the People's
Bank of China has just this week decided to permit a wider trading range between the
yuan and the dollar. This is the first step toward ending the infernal yuan-dollar peg. While
the impetus behind this abrupt change remains a mystery, I have a sneaking suspicion
that, as my colleague Neeraj Chaudhary explained in his commentary last week, the
nationwide labor strikes were a prime motivator. In response to the 2008 credit crunch, the
Fed printed so many dollars that the People's Bank of China was forced to drive Chinese
inflation into double digits to maintain the peg. The pain has fallen on China's workers,
who have seen their wages stagnate while prices for everything from milk to apartments
have skyrocketed. This week's move indicates that, regardless of its own policy motives,
the Communist Party can no longer afford to keep pace with the dollar's devaluation. The
result will be a shift in wealth from America to China, which may trigger a long-anticipated
run on the dollar, while creating investment opportunities in China. Just days before
China's announcement, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev rattled his monetary sabre by
telling the press of his intention to lead the world toward a new monetary order based on a
broad basket of currencies. Giving strength to his claim, the Central Bank of Russia
announced that it would be adding Canadian and Australian dollars to its reserves for the
first time. Analysts suggest that the IMF may follow suit. While Russia floats in the limbo
between hopeless kleptocracy and emerging economy, it does possess vast natural
resources and a toe-hold in both Europe and Asia. In other words, it will be a strategically
important partner for China as it tries to cast off dollar hegemony. Speaking of Europe, the
major powers there are moving toward a post-dollar world by rejecting President Obama's
calls to jump on America's debt grenade. The prescriptions coming from Washington
translate loosely to: our airship is on fire, so why don't you light a candle under yours so
that we may crash and burn together. Given that dollar strength is largely seen as a
function of euro weakness (as Andrew Schiff discussed in our most recent newsletter,
debt troubles in the eurozone's fringe economies have created a distorted confidence in
the greenback. However, as you might imagine, Europe has higher priorities than being
America's fall guy. Led by an ever-bolder Germany, the European states are wisely
choosing not to throw themselves on our funeral pyre, but to wisely clean house in
anticipation of China's rise. In another ominous sign for the dollar, the Financial Times
reported Wednesday that after two decades as net sellers of gold, foreign central banks
have now become net buyers. What's more, more than half of central bank officials
surveyed by UBS didn't think the dollar would be the world's reserve in 2035. Among the
predicted replacements were Asian currencies and the euro, but - by far - the favorite was
gold. This is supported by Monday's revelation by the Saudi central bank that it had
covertly doubled its gold reserves, just about a year after China made a similar admission.
There is no reason to assume these are isolated incidents, or that the covert trade of
dollars for gold doesn't continue. To the contrary, this is compelling evidence that foreign
governments are outwardly supporting the status quo while quietly preparing for the
dollar's almost-inevitable devaluation. What people like Paul Krugman believe to be a
return to medieval economics may, in fact, be the wave of the future. In peacetime,
hardened troops will likely tolerate a blowhard general for an extended period; but when
the artillery opens up with live ordnance, an ineffectual leader risks rapid demotion. The
newspapers are now riddled with hints that foreign governments have lost faith in
Washington and the dollar reserve system. It seems to me only natural that after a century
of war, inflation, and socialism, the next hundred years would belong to those people who
hold the timeless values of hard money and fiscal prudence. Unfortunately, our
policymakers are not those people.’
Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency
Powers President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the
Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if
the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was
approved by a key Senate committee yesterday Congressman
Rohrabacher: Almost All House Republicans Think Iraq War Illegal,
Immoral Andrew Napolitano’s new Saturday show on the Fox
Business Network is set to send shock waves through the political
establishment this weekend when his guest – Republican
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher – reveals that almost all House
Republicans now believe that the invasion of Iraq was not only a
mistake, but also illegal and immoral. New Financial Overhaul
Gives Government Broad New Powers To Seize Financial Firms The
government would have broad new powers to seize and wind down
large, failing financial firms and to oversee the $600 trillion derivatives
market. Israeli Leaders Sued in Belgium for War Crimes
Israeli Leaders Sued in Belgium for War Crimes Former Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert, Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister
Ehud Barak were among those charged with war crimes committed
during the Gaza war in the winter of 2008-09, the French daily Le
Monde reported. Congress OKs sanctions on Iran’s energy, banks
Congress on Thursday approved tough new unilateral sanctions
aimed at squeezing Iran’s energy and banking sectors, which could
also hurt companies from other countries doing business with
Tehran.
Cybersecurity Measures Will Mandate Government “ID Tokens” To Use
The Internet The move to shut down and regulate the Internet, the
only source of uncensored news and truth, under a new government-
controlled system has accelerated into high gear with the
announcement that the government’s cybersecurity strategy revolves
around issuing Internet users with ID “tokens” without which they will
not be able to visit websites, the latest salvo against web freedom
which, in combination with Senator Joe Lieberman’s ‘kill switch’ bill,
will serve to eviscerate the free Internet as we know it.
Turkey, the World Leader of Nations, bans israeli military flight from its
airspace as freeze deepens The Guardian -Turkey has banned an
israeli military flight from its airspace in apparent retaliation for
Israel's interception of the Free Gaza flotilla last month, in which nine
pro-Palestinian Turkish activists were killed. Turkey restricts israeli
use of airspace CNN International Turkey bars israeli planes ABC
Online netanayahu rules out apology to Turkey over deadly raid
(AFP)
G-8 ‘fully believes’ Israel will attack Iran, says Italy PM Haaretz | World
leaders “believe absolutely” that Israel may decide to take military action
against Iran. Britain will not defeat Taliban and should open talks,
says head of Army London Telegraph | Britain and its allies will not defeat
the Taliban with military force and should soon open peace talks with
insurgents in Afghanistan, the head of the Army said yesterday.
Russell: This Is One Of The Largest Tops In Stock Market History Richard
Russell has grown very vocally bearish in recent months. Earlier this
year, Russell warned that the stock market was once again becoming
grossly overvalued despite its relentless new highs. Pragmatic
Capitalism June 24, 2010 Richard Russell has grown very vocally
bearish in recent months. Earlier this year, Russell warned that the
stock market was once again becoming grossly overvalued despite its
relentless new highs. He has maintained that the bear market never
ended and that the world is far too indebted to exit the bear market.
He also believes the bear will not end until all fiat currencies have
failed. Although I disagree with him on many aspects of the micro I
agree with his larger macro outlook. This bear market is not over.
The secular bear market lives on. Mr. Russell thinks we might be on
the verge of a terrible collapse:
“We’re now in the process of building one of the largest tops in
stock market history. The result, I think, will be the most disastrous
bear market since the ‘30s, and maybe worse.
Question: “What could possibly be behind such a bear market?” you
ask. “The stock market is stirring up optimism on a weekly, if not daily
basis, by not falling apart.”
Answer: This is the “rest” or “dead zone” I was talking about. Bear
markets don’t conclude in a day, a week or a month. Months will go
by, often adding to the bulls’ optimism.I think the key element behind
this great bear market will be the complete destruction of all fiat
currencies. This has been a long time coming. Fiat currencies are
“wealth” created by man. They are created without sacrifice, without
labor, without risk, and without sweat. Basically they are an immoral
device, created by secretive bankers. If you watch the figures
carefully, you’ll note the subtle deterioration. For instance, the
advance-decline ratio, although up slightly for the week, had a
relatively weak performance with the Dow up several hundred points
over the course of the week. And we broke the trendline in May (see
the chart below showing the cumulative advance-decline line for
NYSE Common Stock only, which is what we publish in our figures
(courtesy of DecisionPoint — www.decisionpoint.com). The vertical
lines are Jan 2008, Jan 2009 and Jan 2010 as you move to the right on
the chart. [CHART] My old friend, Bob Prechter, is talking about Dow
400. I used to think this was an absurd joke. I no longer think it’s a
joke. The ultimate result will be a primary bear market shocking in
duration and extent. …’
Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border Arutz
Sheva | The Israeli Air Force recently unloaded military equipment at a
Saudi Arabia base, a semi-official Iranian news agency claimed
Wednesday. It’s time for the world to take a close look at the despotic,
totalitarian regime that presently exists for the grandeur and wealth of a
few while hiding behind Islam as they betray same and Muslims
everywhere. The time has come for regime change in Saudi Arabia to yield
a nation of and for the people of Saudi Arabia and the glory of Islam.
[It should be noted, and there have been a multitude of other instances,
that I’m getting substantial ‘attacks’ vis-à-vis my internet connection
which has slowed dramatically these posts. I don’t think the
interference is either accidental or just coincidental but consistent
with that similarly experienced by critics of corrupt defacto bankrupt
america of which I am one and not alone in that regard – slowing,
militating against the devastating truth about america. It should be
noted that yet another attempt by the criminal american government
and related partners in crime to silence an unwavering critic (to really
understand america is to not be able to stand pervasively corrupt and
defacto bankrupt america and her failed criminal cohort nations /
lapdogs, ie., uk, eu, israel, etc.), in contravention of first amendment
rights / protections, and as in the RICO case [
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpe
naltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ] to
cover up substantial crimes in which the government was / is also
involved. Some delays but a work-around is in progress. I won’t forget
this and a price will be paid, as continues to be true. (6-22-10)THE
WORK-AROUND-IN-PROGRESS I ALLUDED TO IS NOW FOR THE
MOST PART SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED BY WAY OF A DSL
CONNECTION AND A DELL COMPUTER.]
Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial
fraud Washington Post | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street
accountable for the meltdown. Drudgereport: States Take Aim at
Pension Costs... ...Bank failure pace more than double last
year REPORT: Madoff tells cellmates of $9 billion stash... they
all have them … Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows
to target financial fraud THOMAS SOWELL: Is USA Now On
Slippery Slope To Tyranny?
When will the SEC prosecute for market rigging? Michael Schmidt | Are the
large gold bullion banks working in collusion with the US Federal
Reserve to artificially torpedo the key rival to US dollar hegemony?
China To Overtake USA In Manufacturing FT | The US remained the
world’s biggest manufacturing nation by output last year, but is
poised to relinquish this slot in 2011 to China – thus ending a 110-year
run as the number one country in factory production.
Connecticut vegetable lieberman: China Can Shut Down The Internet, Why
Can’t We … (great logic from a totalitarian zionist)? Senator joe Zelig the
zionist israeli lieberman, co-author of a bill that would give President
Obama a ‘kill switch’ to shut down parts of the Internet, attempted to
reassure CNN viewers yesterday that concerns about the government
regulating free speech on the web were overblown, but he only stoked
more alarm by citing China, a country that censors all online dissent
against the state, as the model to which American should compare itself.
Mexican drug cartel threatens to harm U.S. police officers who bust drug
shipments while off-duty New York Daily News | Mexican cartels added
a new twist to the drug war this week by threatening to kill U.S. cops
who seize their goods. Former Israeli top spy calls for strike on Iran
Israel should launch a pre-emptive strike to prevent arch-foe Iran
from going nuclear, a former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence
agency said on Monday. Israel’s Planned Attack on Iran from
Caucasus Base A week ago, Israel leaked to the press that they had
permission from Saudi Arabia to use their air space to attack Iran. The
Saudi’s quickly denied this.
$34 Billion Asset Manager Says Market Prices Are Manipulated, Accuses
NYSE Of Intellectual Property Theft, Debunks HFT “Liquidity Provider”
Lies
Soros Says ‘We Have Just Entered Act II’ of Crisis Bloomberg | Soros said
the current situation in the world economy is “eerily” reminiscent of the
1930s. Gerald Celente: U.S. Financial Markets to Collapse by End of 2010
Infowars.com | Gerald Celente is a renowned trend forecaster, publisher of
the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes
predictions about the global financial markets and other events of
historical importance. Jobless Claims in U.S. Decreased Last Week to
456,000 Bloomberg | More Americans than anticipated filed applications for
unemployment benefits last week.
Greek Default Seen by Almost 75% in Poll Doubtful About Trichet Global
investors have little confidence in Europe’s efforts to contain its debt crisis
or in European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, with 73
percent calling a default by Greece likely. 12 Reasons Why The U.S.
Housing Crash Is Far From Over Over the past several months, many in
the mainstream media have hailed the slight improvement in the U.S. real
estate market as a “housing recovery”. US Needs Austerity Too: Hedge
Fund Strategist The United States will have to adopt austerity measures
similar to the ones taken in Europe, because the problems faced are largely
the same, Timothy Scala, macro-strategist at Sophis Investments, told
CNBC.com. Market Analyst: ‘BP’s Not Going to Last as a Company
More Than a Matter of Months’ We’ve heard politicians, even conservative
Republicans, suggest BP would be held completely responsible for the
devastation caused by the oil spill plaguing the Gulf of Mexico, even if it
means its very existence.
Why To Question the 2010 Stock Market Rally [Why To Question the 2010
Stock Market Rally – Web Site Archived with Charts Click Here - In the
past year, we've written a lot about the similarity between the rally of
early 1930 and the one we had through April of this year. The early
1930 rally came after the market had fallen nearly 50% in the fall of
1929. The spring 1930 rally took the market up nearly 50% again, to a
level that was only about 20% below the previous peak. That rally, of
course, was also the biggest sucker's rally in history. After the market
peaked in April 1930, it crashed again, eventually ending up down 89%
from the 1929 high and more than 80% from the 1930 high. The market
did not reach the 1930 high again for another quarter of a century. The rally
that recently ended in April 2010 came after a crash that was actually
slightly more severe than the 1929 crash (53% versus 48%). It took the
market up nearly 80% from the low! The recent rally also lasted longer
than the 1930 rally did--a year, as opposed to 6 months … ]
REMEMBER: In 1930, They Didn’t Know It Was “The Great Depression” Yet
In the past year, we’ve written a lot about the similarity between the
rally of early 1930 and the one we had through April of this year.
Investment Banker: It’s Going To Get Nasty – Buy Land, Barbed Wire
And Guns A top investment banker has warned that the economic
fallout of the sovereign debt crisis could get so nasty over the next
five years that people would be wise to abandon the markets and
instead buy land, barbed wire and guns.
‘What Does China Want?’ They want to speak to Rosanne Rosanna Danna,
of course! ‘Asian markets tumble on fears over Hungary’ …Riiiiight!
Hungary’s the thing! … Rosanne Rosanna Danna, formerly of SNL fame
wanted in Asia to chime in with what her mama always used to say, ‘ It’s
always something ‘ . Of course, it matters little to the frauds on wall street
what the something is said to be since the reality is … ‘This is a global
depression. This is a secular bear market in a global depression. This was
a manipulated bull (s***) cycle in a secular bear market. This has been a
typically manipulated bubble as has preceded the prior crashes with great
regularity that the wall street frauds and insiders commission and sell into.
This is a typical wall street churn and earn pass the hot potato scam / fraud
as in prior crashes.’ ( It should be noted, and there have been a multitude
of other instances, that I’m getting substantial ‘attacks’ vis-à-vis my
internet connection which has slowed dramatically these posts. I don’t
think the interference is either accidental nor just coincidental but
consistent with corrupt defacto bankrupt america’s critics of which I am
one and not alone in that regard – slowing, militating against the
devastating truth about america.) Europe is Heading for a Depression
Despite a nearly-$1 trillion rescue operation, financial conditions in the
eurozone continue to deteriorate. All the gauges of market stress are
edging upwards and credit default swaps (CDS) spreads have widened to
levels not seen since the weekend of the emergency euro-summit. Key
Indicators of a New Depression With the mainstream media focusing on the
country’s leveling unemployment rate, improving retail sales, and nascent
housing recovery, one might think that the US government has
successfully navigated the economy through recession and growth has
returned. Get Ready for a Double Dip … but many warning flags point
towards significant deterioration in the U.S. and global economy going
forward and so I think that by the end of the year or early 2011, we could
very well be facing a new leg down in the world’s economic situation … [I’d
say too optimistic since, to reiterate: This is a global depression. This is a
secular bear market in a global depression. This was a manipulated bull
(s***) cycle in a secular bear market. This has been a typically manipulated
bubble as has preceded the prior crashes with great regularity that the wall
street frauds and insiders commission and sell into. This is a typical wall
street churn and earn pass the hot potato scam / fraud as in prior crashes.]
The Worst Money Supply Plunge Since The Depression Means A Double
Dip Is Now A ‘Virtual Certainty’ The stock of U.S. money as measured by
‘M3′ money supply fell to $13.9 trillion from $14.2 trillion during the three
months ending in April. [ This is still an extraordinarily high level but … I
don’t buy it. I believe the printing presses have been working overtime to
pump out ever more worthless fiat currency and with the many trillions of
worthless fraudulent paper still out there and marked to anything. I further
believe the same is being surreptitiously used to supplant the fraudulent
paper, the consequences of which will be devastating, of course, as is
invariably so in depressions in any event. This scenario would also mean
huge fraud accomplis. ] Fiat Money Supply Contracting at Great
Depression Level The bankster operative who helped destroy Glass-
Steagall is back. Larry Summers, Obama’s top economic adviser, has told
Congress to “grit its teeth” and approve a fresh fiscal boost of $200 billion
to keep growth on track, reports the Daily Telegraph. Fiat Money Supply
Contracting at Great Depression Level Kurt Nimmo | The Federal Reserve
stopped publishing M3 figures back in 2006.
Sell in May and Go Away, Indeed [ I wasn’t kidding; and, I’m still not
kidding when I say: This is a great opportunity to sell / take profits
because there’s much worse to come! ]
THE FORECASTS:
Harry Dent, Jr. Economy will be in a Depression by 2011
The worst of this next depression is likely to hit between mid-2010 and mid-
2013, especially around early 2011, but if the banking system continues to
implode a deep downturn or depression could begin sometime in 2009
instead of 2010.
Dow will Fall to 3,800 – 4,500 by 2012
Nasdaq will Fall Below 1,100, its 2002 low, by late 2010 or mid-2012 at the
latest.
Inflation will Increase until mid- 2010 and then turn to Deflation
Interest Rates will Increase
U.S. Dollar will Decline
Housing will Decline by 40 – 60% from Today’s Levels
Greatest Economic and Banking Crisis since the 1930s will Occur Between
2010 and 2012
Russell Napier is the author of the book “Anatomy of the Bear”, a professor
at the Edinburgh Business School and a consultant to CLSA Ltd. which is
one of the top research houses in Asia. Napier’s research indicates (and I
paraphrase) that: The S&P 500 will Decline to 400 by 2014 (the Dow 30 to
3800)
The S&P 500 will then undergo a major crash that will see U.S. equity
prices bottom at almost 50% below current levels (i.e. to 400 or less; the
Dow 30 to 3800 or less) sometime around 2014 as Tobin’s “q” drops to 0.3
signaling the end of the bear market, as it has done at the end of the four
largest U.S. market declines in 1921, 1932, 1949 and 1982.
U.S. Treasury Sales Collapse Leading to End of U.S. Dollar as Reserve
Currency
Robert R. Prechter Jr. is author of a number of newsletters and books
including “Elliott Wave Principle” (1978) in which he predicted the super
bull market of the 1980s; “At the Crest of the Tidal Wave – A Forecast of the
Great Bear Market” (1995) in which he predicted a slow motion economic
earthquake, brought about by a great asset mania, that would register 11
on the financial Richter scale causing a collapse of historic proportions;
and “Conquer the Crash: You can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary
Depression” (2002) in which he described the economic cataclysm that we
are just beginning to experience and advised how to position one’s self
financially during that period of time.
Depression is Imminent
The Dow Jones Industrial Average will go down to at least 1000, most likely
to below 777 which was the starting point of its mania back in August 1982,
and quite likely drop below 400 at one or more times during the bear
market.
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Sen. Levin urges State Department to put Afghan Taliban on list of terror
groups (Washington Post) Oooooh! … Sounds like a plan … and
emanating from washington (and a thriving Michigan jew no less) …
who says they don’t do anything? … And, consistent with that
apocalyptic vision set forth in the Bible [albeit a book of truth from a
very limited perspective (for which literal interpretations are
misleading); after all, the Wise Men thought it was a movable star that
was guiding them and shone the bright ‘spotlight’ upon the manger
with the Christ]; the jews and some other entity against the rest of the
world for that final Armageddon … oh, they’ll make that happen … it
gets them through their day with every step closer to apocalypse but
not to the place called heaven will they go. The end of this world? You
might say america / israel / and theirs are feverishly working on just
that, one way or another!
(Previously) I’d say this alito vs. wobama is a tempest in a teapot inasmuch
as alito is more than just a lightweight, hack, liar, fraud etc., as set forth in
the comments. alito is a criminal who should have served / should be
serving time in prison for obstruction of justice, bribery, among other RICO
violations. To alito, drug money is as green as corporate money and worth
his vote as well. In addition to being an inept [I looked in on the one mob
case he had brought, bungled, lost (accidently on purpose?) since I was
suing some mob-connected under RICO and the court (I had known /
previously met outside of court the judge Ackerman through a client) was
absolute bedlam and a total joke since incompetent corrupt alito brought in
all 20 mob defendants (rather than prosecute one or a few to flip them first)
who feigning illness had beds/cots in the courtroom along with their moans
during testimony and had the jury in stitches)] and corrupt (see below and
particularly the summary provided to the FBI under penalty of perjury [
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenalty
ofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ] ) u.s.
attorney.
You’re naïve to think that the so-called supreme court is any different from
the rest of the meaningfully lawless and pervasively corrupt american
‘system’. I knew well an accomplished trial lawyer, fellow american college
of trial lawyers / and a bar examiner, who pondered from time to time
becoming a judge “so he’d never have to work again” – his words.
the loser here is alito.lost his composure not good for a judge especially
afederal or supreme justice .loser big time this will live with guy for a very
time.roberts and the other justices will have a talk with him that is a
given.this relly larger than o one day news cycle.
Posted by: donaldtucker | January 28, 2010 1:12 AM |
Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ agency ‘runs military’ US House Rep. Ron Paul
says the CIA has has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US
government, and the intelligence agency needs to be “taken out.” I
also personally believe there has been a defacto coup d’etat which
has manifested in various substantial, blatant, brazened frauds, ie.,
wall street, missing 360 tons of $100 bills in Iraq, war profiteering, etc.,
without any fear of prosecution, and of course concomitant decline for
u.s. as the treasury is looted. But I also believe its scope is beyond
just the CIA with many complicit within the corrupted 3 branches of
u.s. government (fed judges, us attorneys, illegal system, etc.) plus
the military and private big money, ie., Goldman Sachs / wall street
men, etc., among other organized crime. america is defacto bankrupt
in every way!
Rendition: Where the War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs Patrick
Henningsen | It’s time to ditch the policies we have come to tolerate for
decades before they consume what is left of our moral core. I’ve
experienced the corrupt inter-relationship of the government (all 3
corrupt branches) and the illegal drug trade / obstruction of justice /
bribery first hand, particularly the courts / u.s. attorneys offices (ie.,
alito – now u.s. supreme court justice – quid pro quo for his
complicity / cover-up), feds; see immediately after article excerpt for
links / summary.
[ http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenalt
yofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ].
america’s just a fraudulent and failed defacto bankrupt nation.
There must be such things as parallel universes (I don’t really believe that,
because there isn’t) or how else do you explain the disconnect
between reality, current and prospective, and the wet dreams posited
to keep the war funding / corporate welfare programs alive in
collectively what has already become a trillion dollar boondoggle (not
counting prospective medical costs, etc.) and promises to go much
higher. Even israel apologist Cohen of The Washington Post alludes
to the Vietnam analogy. However, even if there were real goals beyond
the poppy / heroin trade which the Taliban had all but eradicated
(there isn’t); even if america wasn’t defacto bankrupt (america is);
even if america wasn’t killing innocent civilians in large numbers (war
criminal nation america is); even if america’s allies haven’t similarly
helped to bankrupt themselves by way of this war (they have); even if I
hadn’t told you so (I did) ….. this war still was, is, and remains a very
bad idea!
How does anyone take the u.s. seriously in light of their credibility
problems, war crimes, etc.? What nuke technology israel didn’t steal
from the u.s., the u.s. gave them along with missile, armaments, etc..
and paid for with taxpayer money that u.s. taxpayers and the defacto
bankrupt nation don’t have.
It's time to expel israel from the UN Without doubt, the israeli attack on the
Gaza-bound "Freedom Flotilla" in the dawn of Monday, May 31, 2010 is
one of the most savage crimes in recent history. It seems the ruling
power in Tel Aviv has been afflicted with a variant of mad cow
disease; otherwise, how could it be so cruel to unleash such a beastly
raid on the "Mavi Marmara," the Turkish flagship of a flotilla carrying
medical and humanitarian supplies to the hapless people of Gaza
Strip?
You think Iraq was bad? Invading Iran ‘would be lunacy’ Ivan Eland,
Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent
Institute in Washington DC, gives his opinion on new sanctions
imposed on Iran.
Billo Says:
Lunacy? Keep in mind that this country is run and controlled by lunatics.
Our press government and military seem to take their orders from Israel.
Isarel wants to be known as a pack of “mad dogs. Do we want “mad dogs”
controlling us?
Here we see a bunch of phony accusations against Iran just like we did in the run up to
the bogus wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan. The boy has cried wold ten
thousand times. It’s time to identify the “lunatics” and kindly take away the car keys. If
you won’t let your friends drive drunk, why do we let a bunch of “lunatic” enemies run
this place.
Glen Reply:
But it is also to their great credit that the Iranians have not made their own
threats.
Everyone knows there are 3 WMD threats, Nuclear Biological and chemical.
The scariest of which is Biological.
Any attack done under the threat of immediate biological retaliation would
deter only the insane.
Watch out america home of the insane, home of the leaders who want an
80% population reduction.
General McChrystal’s Burning Contempt for the Puppet Obama The farce
that is the war in Afghanistan is coming apart at the seams. General
Stanley McChrystal’s sharp comments about Obama, Biden, and the
administration published by Rolling Stone are not so much about
disrespect, as the script-reading corporate media talking heads would
have it, but rather about a policy in disarray in Afghanistan.
A Plague Upon The World: The USA is a “Failed State” Dr. Paul Craig
Roberts | The American people are lost in la-la land. They have no idea that
their civil liberties have been forfeited. US citizen killed on flotilla
reportedly shot four times in head Raw Story | A forensic report said
Furkan Dogan was shot at close range, with four bullets in his head and
one in his chest, according to the Anatolian news agency. The explanation
foisted off on the americans by war criminal israelis is probably something
on the order of ‘they just wanted to make sure they missed him’.
Roberts: ‘AIPAC purchases US elections’ Russia Today | Paul Craig
Roberts says that there will be nothing that is going to be done by the
United States to change the relationship with Israel.
‘US funding terrorist group against Iran’ Press TV | A member of a terrorist
organization operating in Iran says that a US State department radio station
originally put him in touch with the group.
NASA wants mission to bring Martian rocks to Earth (AP) Why? They
already have that and more:
Launch of secret US space ship masks even more secret launch of new
weapon
buzz aldrin wants to colonize Mars … Riiiiight buzzed! Better check with
DePalma to see if he already has the footage in the can since you
won’t be able to use the moon footage for the new boondoggle
video ...
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War in Afghanistan and Iraq costs America $1trillion From the Old | On May
30th at 10:06 the United States reached the point where they have
spent $1trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Sinking of the
Cheonan: A Classic False Flag Operation Russia Today | Sinking of
the warship was really intended to convince Japan not to move US
forces off Okinawa as well as divert the attention of Americans from
the dire economic situation at home. . Israel: IDF Troops Who
Murdered Unarmed Innocent People Are ‘Brave Heroes’ The
government of israel, aided by many quarters of the international
media, is attempting to spin today’s deadly IDF assault on a
humanitarian aid ship carrying supplies to Gaza as the fault of the
murdered activists on board the vessel, ludicrously characterizing
machine-gun carrying Israeli troops who killed over a dozen innocent
people as the victims of the incident.
Murder on the high seas JERUSALEM: Israeli marines stormed aid ships
bound for Gaza on Monday and at least 10 rights activists were killed,
triggering a diplomatic crisis and an emergency session of the UN
Security Council. European nations, as well as the United Nations and
Turkey, voiced shock and outrage at the bloody end to the
international campaigners' bid to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza
Strip
Israeli American Microbiologist Linked to Deadly Fungus Kurt Nimmo | A
report links labs in the United States and Israel to the Cryptococcus
gatti fungus that has killed several people in the United States.
"What this means is that Neanderthals are not totally extinct. In some of us,
they live on," Paabo … With regard to that extinction thing, I’d say
they’re still working on it (ultimately, decades, extinction, the
distinction, without a difference). Actually, prior to studying the
compelling subject of Biological Anthropology (Michael Park text), I
too had some misconceptions about the group known as Neandertals
(recent spelling drops the ‘h’) and actually mis-referenced same by the
stereotypical image of members of said clade even as the debate
continues as to whether they are within the species homo sapiens or a
separate species. I believe these to be distinctions without important
differences, so humble the origins and evolution of man truly are.
Parenthetically, I wonder what that anthropological scientist Heidi
Klum thinks on the subject.
Previously I wrote:
FOUND: MISSING LINK BETWEEN APES AND MAN.... These stories, and
the many like it, are old news and I subscribe to the more studied view
that there is no “missing link” per se and in my view they are
distinctions without significant differences. I previously wrote:
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