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WARNING: Stocks And Bonds May Be Setting For A Nasty Sell-Off This Summer As The Fed Start Phasing Out Mortgage Bond Purchase And A Widespread Recession Is Looming

The Past Two Weeks Were A Preview Of The ‘Horror Movie’ Coming To The Bond Market This Summer

Over the past few weeks, attention in financial markets has once again turned to the prospect of the Federal Reserve tapering back its monetary stimulus, spurred on by public speeches from Fed presidents and articles fromWSJ reporter Jon Hilsenrath, who is viewed as close to the central bank.

As concerns that the Fed may begin [...]

BREAKING: North Korea Launches Short-Range Missiles

Steve Herman ‏@W7VOA 10m

#DPRK reported to have launched some short-range missiles into sea. #Korea

Steve Herman ‏@W7VOA 10m

Yonhap says #DPRK launched 3 short-range missiles into East Sea (aka Sea of Japan).

Confirmed:

South Korea’s Ministry of Defense has detected three launches of short-range guided missiles by North Korea, it said.

Two launches were fired on Saturday morning and another one in the afternoon, reports Yonhap news agency. The missiles were fired from the east [...]

The Truthseeker – Wall Street $$$$S The World

Meet the Wall Street-International Monetary Fund Brothers of Destruction; why Ben Bernanke can’t count; the 10-year hangover from the Tequila Trap; and the fox guarding the chicken coop. Seek truth from facts with Econned author Yves Smith, Web of Debt author Ellen Brown, former senior financial regulator Bill Black, Balkans specialist Nebojsa Malic, and globalization debunker Dr. Carlos Encinas

We Have Blown The Largest Bubble In The History Of Mankind

Mac Slavo
May 17th, 2013
SHTFplan.com

 

Were you to look at official government statistics that calculate our rate of price inflation for food, energy, clothing, and other consumer goods, you’d think that prices were as stable today as they were under the gold standard.

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the CPI (Consumer Price Index) inflation rate remains well below the Federal Reserve’s 2.5% threshold. Insofar as the government is concerned America’s [...]

SYSTEMIC CRISIS 2013: WITH RECORD STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHS, THE PLANET’S IMMINENT PLUNGE INTO RECESSION

by leap2020.eu

Despite a feeling of relative calm given by both the media and the American and Japanese financial markets going from record to record, the world economy is slowing down badly and a widespread recession is looming. The various players are fully aware of it and, in the face of the challenges of an imminent collapse, countries or regions are putting various strategies in place to try and limit the consequences. [...]

BREAKING: U.S. to reach debt limit Saturday!!! Lew asks Congress for debt increase, says it’s ‘not open to debate’

The U.S. will reach its debt limit on Saturday, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told congressional leaders in a letter on Friday, but said the U.S. is taking extraordinary measures to keep paying bills. Lew said those measures, including previously announced suspension of sales of state and local Treasury securities, won’t be exhausted until “after Labor Day.”

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-to-reach-debt-limit-saturday-lew-2013-05-17-13913025?link=MW_home_latest_news

Lew asks Congress for debt increase, says it’s ‘not open to debate’

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew [...]

Trader Alert: The Euphoria Phase of The Bull Market Is Now Entering Its Final Parabolic Phase That Always Crash

We Are Headed Directly Into A Brick Wall Where Everything Just Stops

Every market is going in the wrong direction in preparation for what is coming.  Yes I know, this is always how it works when bubbles are being blown. Money is pouring into bonds in particular, stocks are being propped up and margin balances swollen, people are also being prodded into “selling” their Gold (paper obligations).

As I see it, we are headed [...]

Charlie Rangel outraged: ‘Wrong to Abuse the Tax System’

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D., N.Y.), who was notably censured for not paying 17 years worth of taxes on rental income from a Dominican Republic villa he owned, said Friday morning, “This is wrong to abuse the tax system.”

BREAKING – Israel prepares for war in the Golan heigts – Foxnews

News Channel “Fox News”, presented a video which shows IDF soldiers emerging from Syrian territory. Those who know and read between the lines, can understand that the story was probably in conjunction with the approval of the IDF and may aim to send a message to Assad.

 

Israel might strike Syria again soon, report says 

The Wall Street Journal late Thursday cited US officials as saying that Israel could strike a weapon [...]

‘Absolutely Not Illegal’!! IRS stalled conservative groups, but gave speedy approval to Obama foundation… ‘IS THIS STILL AMERICA?’

IRS Commissioner: Activity ‘Absolutely Not Illegal’

IRS commissioner Steven Miller said the IRS’s targeting of conservatives “is absolutely not illegal”:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/irs-commissioner-activity-absolutely-not-illegal_724747.html

 

IRS stalled conservative groups, but gave speedy approval to Obama foundation

When the Barack H. Obama Foundation sought tax-exempt status to raise money for good works in Kenya, the Internal Revenue Service provided quick help.

The IRS approved charitable status for the foundation, which was run by President Obama’s brother and named after his father, in [...]

Bankers Fixing The System story about banking industry in 2012 BBC documentary

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Bankers Fixing The System story about banking industry in 2012 BBC documentary
With gripping first-hand accounts from banking insiders, regulators and politicians this film tells the story of two recent multi-billion pound trading disasters that rocked the City. It shows that some bankers are still taking reckless risks, five years after the crash that brought the world’s economy to its knees. Risk is the engine of growth but reckless risk can [...]

WAL-MART WARNS OF ECONOMIC DISASTER… ARE YOU PREPARED?

by Phoenix Capital Research

 

If you want to get a sense of what’s happening in the world, your best bet is to ignore Government data and focus on corporate revenues.

Why revenues? Because earnings can be massaged any number of ways (depreciation methods, laying off staff to cut costs, depletion of loan loss reserves for banks, etc.). But you cannot fake actual money coming in the door.

With that in mind, I want [...]

JIM ROGERS: EU GOES DOWN THE TUBE AS POLITICIANS SPEND CASH THEY DON’T HAVE

Switzerland’s cherished banking secrecy is under threat. In the ongoing battle against tax evasion, EU finance ministers have agreed to put pressure on the non-member nation to share its banking data with the Union. Investor Jim Rogers told RT that instead of trying to crack tax havens, EU leaders should address the real problems – like their own unchecked spending habits.

U.S. Government clamps down on Bitcoin — Fears ‘lack of control’

US authorities have frozen the account of the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, which helps move the customers’ cash online. The booming digital currency has hit bureaucratic blocks ever since its rapid growth came to the attention of government.

Truly Frightening: Dane Wiggington EXPOSES CHEMTRAILS Over The USA

Ex-Military Bio-Environmental Engineer Kristen Meghan Blows Whistle On Air Force Chemtrails

 

 

Flashback: Democrats Schumer, Franken urged IRS to target tea party in 2012

Long before the Internal Revenue Service revealed it had improperly targeted conservative 501(c)(4) groups, a group of Democratic senators led by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer urged the IRS to do just that.

The IRS’s admission last Friday that it had singled out tea party and other groups for extra audits and delays has raised concerns that President Barack Obama’s administration quietly attempted to stymy opponents through intimidation. But many prominent [...]

BREAKING: Car plows into crowd at Trail Days parade in Virginia, ‘mass casualty’ event declared

Car plows into crowd at Trail Days parade in Virginia, ‘mass casualty’ event declared

Numerous pedestrians struck by vehicle in Damascus, VA (Trail Days) – 4 medical helicopters and almost a dozen ambulances assisting. -SF01

https://twitter.com/L0gg0l/status/335825994323726336

Some updates!

Scannerfood @scannerfood 6m
Per unconfirmed sources at the scene “Elderly man in Cadillac possibly having have a medical emergency lost… fb.me/xvzfRILg
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Scannerfood @scannerfood 9m
Expect local hospitals to be on total diversion, local hospitals paging out additional personnel for [...]

Average students should skip college and become PLUMBERS because they will earn as much money without debt, says Bloomberg

The billionaire has advised ‘so-so’ students to avoid expensive college fees and learn a practical skill like plumbing
Plumbing is also good because it can’t be outsourced or done by computer, he advised

New Yorkers are used to Mayor Bloomberg trying to nanny them with laws about soda sizes and smoking, but now the billionaire has taken to dishing out career advice.

Speaking on his weekly radio show on Friday, Bloomberg suggested that [...]

Obama administration knew IRS was harassing tea party groups since JUNE

Appointee in charge of screening tax-exempt applications is now in charge of implementing new Obamacare taxes
Ousted Steven Miller defends himself, insists that targeting of conservatives was ‘foolish mistakes,’ not political gamesmanship
May 10 leak that launched the scandal was ‘prepared,’ Miller acknowledges
Former IRS commissioner testified last year that there was ‘absolutely no targeting’ going on
Democrats on the panel blame 2010 ‘Citizens United’ Supreme Court ruling for creating a flood of tax-exemption [...]

Italy’s New Government Approval Rating Plummets From 43% To 34% In Three Weeks, Protests Return

It was less than a month ago that the new Italian government of the pseudo-technocrat Letta, of Bilderberg 2012 and Aspen Institute fame, was voted in by a majority of the PD and the PDL parties (the latter agreeing so Berlusconi would get an extension of his much needed political immunity from assorted prison sentences). It may not last too long. As Reuters reports, it took just 20 days for Letta’s approval rating to plunge by [...]

Terrified passengers escape alive as USAIRWAYS flight makes belly landing at Newark airport

A US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a dramatic belly landing at Newark International Airport last night.

Terrified passengers managed to escape the plane unharmed after the plane’s pilot – named by witnesses as Edward Powers – performed a heroic emergency landing.

Video footage of the turboprop twin-engine plane coming down on the runway showed a dramatic shower of sparks flying from its underbelly as it scraped [...]

VIDEO: Entire Audience at NJ Gun Hearing Disobeys Senators Orders, Recites Pledge

 

After a late start, and a “ten minute break” that lasted more than a half hour, the NJ Senate committee on gun control decides to cut off public comment on the proposed gun control bills at 4 o’clock. The chairman and most of the committee then refuse to honor the pledge of allegiance. This took place at the NJ Senate gun control hearings in Trenton on April 30, 2013.

Protests in Italy Against New Coalition; How Long Will Coalition Last?

The new coalition government in Italy is off to such a rocky start, it’s hard to say there ever was a honeymoon.

People want more jobs. Instead, the price for a coalition by former Prime Minister Mario Silvio Berlusconi was a rollback in property taxes.

Here is the result: Thousands rally in Rome against cuts.

 Thousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, have rallied in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the [...]

BREAKING – Tea Party and ACLJ to sue IRS!

“Jay Devereaux hadn’t paid much attention to the daily drumbeat of partisan politics in D.C. He wasn’t a Washington nerd, and didn’t know who said what during congressional hearings — nor did he care.

But when news broke that the government was using taxpayer money to bail out Wall Street banks, he started paying attention and didn’t like what he was hearing.

So the Florida father and information technology specialist decided to [...]

Gun ranges institute ammunition rationing due to “extreme ammo shortages”

Gun ranges are being forced to implement rationing policies in order to keep enough ammunition to meet some customer demand due to a prolonged ammunition shortage the likes of which many industry employees say they have never seen.

Blue Ridge Arsenal Inc. in Chantilly, Va. is one such range. For the last few months, they have limited customers to one ammunition box per shooting lane, no matter the number of people shooting [...]

54 of Colorado’s 62 elected sheriffs sue the State over new gun control laws!

A consortium of plaintiffs led by 54 of Colorado’s 62 elected county sheriffs filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state Friday in an effort to overturn two new gun control bills that are set to go into effect on July 1.

The plaintiffs have in their sights one law that effectively bans all firearm magazines, and one that requires a background check for every gun transfer when the gun will be [...]

CDC: 1 In 5 US Children May Have Mental Disorder

ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) – Nearly 1 in 5 children in the U.S. suffers from a mental disorder, and this number has been rising for more than a decade.

According to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to 20 percent of American children are suffering from mental disorders such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, depression and autism.

The CDC’s first study of mental disorders among children aged 3 [...]

Cell phone users ‘have no legitimate expectation of privacy’ – judge

RT
May 18, 2013

A federal judge recently ruled that if someone has their cell phone turned on, their location data does not deserve protection under the Fourth Amendment, meaning law enforcement can track individuals without a search warrant.

New York magistrate judge Gary Brown decided in favor of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents who were seeking his approval over a warrant on a doctor who they suspected was being paid for issuing [...]

SF Bacon Restaurant Shut Down for Smelling Like Too Much Bacon

 

Few food items have enjoyed a more surprising recent resurgence than the savory strips of pig fat known as bacon. It is being wrapped around entrees, used to swizzle cocktails, and even serves as a flavor of ice cream.

But now a popular pork-focused restaurant in the Upper Haight must close its doors Friday following months of failed negotiations with neighbors over neighborhood concerns about porcine aroma and grease disposal.

Department of [...]

IRS ASKED GROUP ABOUT ‘CONTENT OF THEIR PRAYERS’

 

During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing today, Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., grilled outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the IRS targeting a pro-life group in Iowa.

“Their question, specifically asked from the IRS to the Coalition for Life of Iowa: ‘Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers,’” Schock declared.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/congressman-irs-asked-pro-life-group-about-the-content-of-their-prayers/article/2529924

Top resource CEO: Four fundamental facts to remember about gold

From BullionVault Gold News:

Some things to remember amid the volatility of the gold price…

WHEN VOLATILITY prevails in the gold market, I love seeing so many different opinions because it promotes critical thinking and healthy markets, writes Frank Holmes, CEO and chief investment officer of U.S. Global Investors.

But because gold is unlike any other commodity, many perspectives can be extreme, such as “goldenfreudes” who take pleasure in gold bugs’ pain.

I continue [...]

BIG WEATHER ALERT TO SEVERAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES!!! At least one person dead and hundreds of millions of euros in damage in ITALY!!!

Storm Forecast
Valid: Fri 17 May 2013 06:00 to Sat 18 May 2013 06:00 UTC
Issued: Thu 16 May 2013 22:12
Forecaster: PISTOTNIK
A level 1 was issued for parts of Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and the Ukraine mainly for large hail and excessive precipitation.

A level 1 and level 2 were issued for Montenegro, Albania, Southern Serbia, Macedonia, and parts of Bulgaria and Greece mainly for large hail and severe wind gusts.
A level 1 [...]

Paul B. Farrell: $10 trillion in X-Prizes needed to save the world

By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch

 

Yes, X-Prize billionaires are failing their mission: “Making the Impossible Possible.” Now they need at least $10 trillion to save the world, and a far grander vision, the new “10X-Prizes.”

And their leader, Dr. Peter Diamandis, the co-author of “Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think,” the CEO driving today’s X-Prize Foundation (“Making the Impossible Possible”) and also the Chairman of Singularity University (“Solving [...]

ATTENTION: Here’s What Happens When You Get The New SARS-Like Virus MERS (Novel coronavirus)

The virus, previously dubbed the novel coronavirus (nCoV) and now called the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), is genetically similar to the notorious SARS virus that erupted in China and Hong Kong a decade ago.

Here is what happens when you get it:

There are still many things researchers don’t know about the new SARS-like virus now called MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus) that’s been infecting people in the Middle East.

There’s [...]

BREAKING: Russia Sends At Least 12 Warships To Syria

In a move considered aggressive by US and European officials, Russia has sent at least 12 warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Tartous, Syria.

The deployment appears to be a warning to Israeli and Western officials against military intervention in Syria’s bloody civil war, which has now claimed the lives of over 80,000 people.

Russia’s increased presence in the region — which began raising eyebrows in the US three [...]

SHOCK VIDEO: Ohio Security Guard Assaults People Taking Pictures

 

Mall Security Guard, Accident Onlooker Scuffle

http://www.wtrf.com/story/22233945/mall-security-guard-accident-onlooker-scuffle

Guantanamo Hunger Strike Enters 100th Day

Al Jazeera
May 17, 2013

Activists demanding the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison have marked the 100th day of a hunger strike there by submitting a petition to the White House containing some 370,000 signatures.

A group of activists wearing orange jumpsuits and black hoods like those used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay gathered outside the White House on Friday to call for the immediate closure of the controversial jail.

“Immoral, illegal, ineffective,” [...]

Welcome to the USA: Now stand in line for three hours

Welcome to America: now stand in line for three hours. Millions of British holidaymakers and business travellers heading for the US this summer face longer waits than ever to be processed by immigration.

Research by The Independent reveals that budget cuts at US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have sharply increased airport queues, with the worst delays in the “Sunshine State” of Florida.

The longest maximum average wait time for international arrivals [...]

10% of FACEBOOK’s users are not human… Zuckerberg’s dog Beast who has 1.5 MILLION followers

Facebook currently has more than one billion ‘monthly active users’
At least 100 million of these users are pets, brands and companies
Biggest growth in membership is in India, Brazil, Russia and Middle East
Much slower growth in Western Europe and North America
Half of the population of the UK and the U.S. are Facebook members
Investors fear that young people are losing interest in the site

 

Dogs, cats, horses, toasters: You name it, it has [...]

Systemic Malfunctioning of the Labor and Financial Markets

 

Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: Government has to step in and correct the imbalances of low wages and unregulated financial markets or a deeper recession and crisis is inevitable

Rush hour nightmare: Dozens injured when trains collide in Connecticut… Developing

Metro-North Trains Involved In ‘Major Derailment’ In Conn., Dozens Of Injuries

Gov. Malloy Says At Least 60 Injured, But None Are Life-Threatening

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (CBSNewYork) — Two Metro-North trains collided just east of the Fairfield Metro Station, authorities announced Friday evening.

“This is a very serious incident,” Gov. Dannel Malloy said during a briefing on Friday night.

According to Metro-North, an eastbound train, the 4:41 p.m. out of New Haven, derailed and collided with a westbound [...]

WY/TX/AL: TORNADO TOUCH DOWN IN ATHENS. UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF DAMAGES AND INJURIES!

Gregor Peter‏@L0gg0l8 min
Alabama, not Greece RT @911BUFF: ALABAMA: TORNADO TOUCH DOWN IN ATHENS. UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF DAMAGES AND INJURIES. #911BUFF

SevereStudios‏@severestudios28 min
Tornado Warning for Limestone County in AL until 2:45pm CDT. #alwx

Weather Underground‏@wunderground1 min
Tornado Warning for Limestone County in AL until 3:00 PM CDT

http://www.wunderground.com/US/AL/005.html

The Weather Channel‏@weatherchannel19 min
Trees, powerlines downed, additional damage around Steelcase, Inc. in Athens, AL, per @NWSHuntsville and EM.

The Weather Channel‏@weatherchannel32 min
Take cover in the city of Athens, AL. [...]