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For CNBC, 2014 Was The Worst. Year. Ever.

Good!!

Personally, I wish CNBC even more success” in 2015!


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For CNBC, 2014 Was The Worst. Year. Ever. (ZeroHedge, Jan 1, 2015):

Another year of putting lipstick on the zombie known as the global economy, kept walking only thanks to $11 trillion in liquidity injections by the world’s central banks and tens of trillions of new Chinese credit created out of thin air and promptly misallocated and embezzled, and the results are in. The bottom line: according to Nielsen, is that despite the S&P recording a whopping 53 all time highs, and the Dow rising over 18,000, the channel that was once must watch financial TV for mom and pop, and has since devolved into endless cheerleading of failed policies and rigged markets, namely CNBC, just suffered its worst year in, well, ever.

But don’t worry: the “retail investor” who has now fully given up on the “market”, will surely be back this year, and with it CNBC’s ratings.

In the meantime, here are the facts:

The Entire Farcical 2014 Market Summarized In One Chart

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The Entire Farcical 2014 Market Summarized In One Chart (ZeroHedge, Jan 1, 2015):

If someone had just woken up and missed all of 2014, one look at the following chart of the S&P is all they need to know what happened:

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In brief: the 45-degree “bottom left to top right” levitation on negligible volume that started several years ago, continued throughout 2014 with virtually no substantial incidents. In fact, every time there was an interruption, some central banker – be it Bullard or Yellen – stepped in and talked the market right back up, something even the BIS mocked a few weeks ago when it said:

… it would be imprudent to ignore that markets did not fully stabilise by themselves. Once again, on the heels of the turbulence, major central banks made soothing statements, suggesting that they might delay normalisation in light of evolving macroeconomic conditions. Recent events, if anything, have highlighted once more the degree to which markets are relying on central banks: the markets’ buoyancy hinges on central banks’ every word and deed.

Which is also the explanation why for the 6th year in a row hedge funds have underperformed what was once a “market”, and is now merely a “confidence building policy instrument.”

Read moreThe Entire Farcical 2014 Market Summarized In One Chart

Who Is Behind The Oil War, And How Low Will The Price Of Crude Go In 2015?

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Who Is Behind The Oil War, And How Low Will The Price Of Crude Go In 2015? (Economic Collapse, Dec 31, 2014):

Who is to blame for the staggering collapse of the price of oil?  Is it the Saudis?  Is it the United States?  Are Saudi Arabia and the U.S. government working together to hurt Russia?  And if this oil war continues, how far will the price of oil end up falling in 2015?  As you will see below, some analysts believe that it could ultimately go below 20 dollars a barrel.  If we see anything even close to that, the U.S. economy could lose millions of good paying jobs, billions of dollars of energy bonds could default and we could see trillions of dollars of derivatives related to the energy industry implode.  The global financial system is already extremely vulnerable, and purposely causing the price of oil to crash is one of the most deflationary things that you could possibly do.  Whoever is behind this oil war is playing with fire, and by the end of this coming year the entire planet could be dealing with the consequences.

Ever since the price of oil started falling, people have been pointing fingers at the Saudis.  And without a doubt, the Saudis have manipulated the price of oil before in order to achieve geopolitical goals.  The following is an excerpt from a recent article by Andrew Topf

Read moreWho Is Behind The Oil War, And How Low Will The Price Of Crude Go In 2015?

“Audit The Fed” Bill Gains Momentum, Yellen Starts Damage Control

Don’t hold your breath!


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–  “Audit The Fed” Bill Gains Momentum, Yellen Starts Damage Control (ZeroHedge, Jan 1, 2015):

After years of being blocked by Democratic leader Harry Reid, The Washington Times reports, the Senate will finally get a chance next year to vote on legislation to force a broad audit of the Federal Reserve’s decision-making. Ron Paul’s flagship legislative efforts have been picked up by his son and now has the backing of the leader of the new Republican majority, Sen. Mitch McConnell, whose office says the legislation will earn a floor vote. While the bill is not a sure thing, it appears to have The Fed worried as Reuters reports, Yellen and other Fed officials are lobbying Capitol Hill to drop the audit push.

As The Washington Times reports,

After years of being blocked by Democratic leader Harry Reid, the Senate will finally get a chance next year to vote on legislation to force a broad audit of the Federal Reserve’s decision-making.

Read more“Audit The Fed” Bill Gains Momentum, Yellen Starts Damage Control

A Russian Viewpoint – 2014 ‘End of Year’ Report And A Look Into What 2015 Might Bring

Full article here:

2014 “End of Year” report and a look into what 2015 might bring (The Vineyard Of The Saker, Dec 30, 2014):

Introduction:
By any measure 2014 has been a truly historic year which saw huge, I would say, even tectonic developments. This year ends in very high instability, and the future looks hard to guess. I don’t think that anybody can confidently predict what might happen next year. So what I propose to do today is something far more modest. I want to look into some of the key events of 2014 and think of them as vectors with a specific direction and magnitude. I want to look in which direction a number of key actors (countries) “moved” this year and with what degree of intensity. Then I want to see whether it is likely that they will change course or determination. Then adding up all the “vectors” of these key actors (countries) I want to make a calculation and see what resulting vector we will obtain for the next year. Considering the large number of “unknown unknowns” (to quote Rumsfeld) this exercise will not result in any kind of real prediction, but my hope is that it will prove a useful analytical reference.

Read moreA Russian Viewpoint – 2014 ‘End of Year’ Report And A Look Into What 2015 Might Bring

Record Snowfall in Pueblo, Colorado

Record Snowfall in Pueblo, Colorado (Ice Age Now, Dec 31, 2014):

And temperature record tied

The 2.3 inches of snow that fell on Dec 29 broke a 41-year-old record for the date, according to the National Weather Service in Pueblo, Colorado. (The original article used the word “shattered,” but I don’t think that word really applies here.)

The previous record snowfall for the day of 2 inches was set in 1973.

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7 Examples of Police State Technology Making Our Rights Obsolete as we Head into 2015

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7 Examples of Police State Technology Making Our Rights Obsolete as we Head into 2015 (SHFTplan, Dec 31, 2014):

Things are not looking pretty for the land of the free.

The year 2014 has made it very clear that privacy is under threat, and the situation is not likely to improve. Mass surveillance – which became a national issue via the Edward Snowden leaks – is not subsiding or under reform; instead, is becoming more bold and complex with each passing day.

It would take several books to catalog the myriad ways in which the rights of The People have been casually infringed by various levels of government just in years since 9/11 and the introduction of the PATRIOT Act.

And it’s not only are federal agencies like the NSA, Homeland Security and the FBI that are taking liberties with our… umm… liberties; it is local police, too. The rise of technology is rapidly fueling these agencies with data and “intelligence” with very little oversight and even less pause for reflection to use these powerful abilities wisely and yes, judiciously.

Read more7 Examples of Police State Technology Making Our Rights Obsolete as we Head into 2015

The End Is Near! (Of Gold Price Manipulation, That Is…)

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The End Is Near! (Of Gold Price Manipulation, That Is…) (Gold Eagle, Jan 1, 2015):

The gold manipulation has been nasty and severe, bringing investors to their knees. This is exactly what TPTB wish to accomplish. They wish to discourage all precious metals investors, have them sell all they have and put it into the stock market.

Do not be persuaded. For the prince of darkness roameth about seeking all whom he may devour. And for the once noble US, with all its freedoms and virtue, it has been sold to the highest bidders and controls our Congress.

They may even push gold and silver to the lowest of lows in 2015. But it can’t stay there and a grand reversal HAS to happen. Here’s why.

Read moreThe End Is Near! (Of Gold Price Manipulation, That Is…)

US Ally, Saudi Arabia Beheads 87 In 2014, Up Over 10% From 2013

US Ally, Saudi Arabia Beheads 87 In 2014, Up Over 10% From 2013 (Zerohedge, Dec 31, 2014):

It was a good year for those long ‘beheadings’. After a solid 79 head-removals in 2013, 2014 surged 10% higher with a recent record 87 beheadings overall (following a surge since August for crimes such as “drug smuggling, witchcraft, or sorcery”). The ‘State’ responsible for all these executions… not ISIS, but US ally, Saudi Arabia…

As BNO News reports,

A Pakistani man convicted of smuggling a large amount of heroin has been decapitated by sword in Saudi Arabia, the government reported on Wednesday, disregarding concerns raised by human rights activists and raising the number of people executed there this year to 87.

Read moreUS Ally, Saudi Arabia Beheads 87 In 2014, Up Over 10% From 2013

Jim Willie: DOLLAR DEATH: Global Trade Using Dollars Down 50%!

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Jim Willie: DOLLAR DEATH: Global Trade Using Dollars Down 50%! (Grams Gold, Dec 26, 2014):

This transcript of the interview with Jim Willie in early December 2014 highlights the importance of gold on the world stage, as well as other important events that are taking place.In the video interview titled, “No Prisoners in the Global Money War,” Willie says, “I think we have acceleration on the systemic breakdown globally. There is no asset foundation to the US banking system anymore. It’s just a bunch of ‘spinning derivatives on computer trades’.

Read moreJim Willie: DOLLAR DEATH: Global Trade Using Dollars Down 50%!

The Confiscation Of Bank Deposits And The Derivative Debt – Making Cyprus-Style Bail-Ins A Worldwide Reality (Video)


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Last month’s G20 Summit in Australia came and went without the protests and riots we’ve come to expect at the summit in recent years. But as author and researcher Ellen Brown notes, the real fireworks happened behind closed doors, where the group rubber stamped new regulations that will make Cyprus style bank bail-ins a worldwide reality.

This is the GRTV Feature Interview with Ellen Brown and your host, James Corbett.

The Imperial Collapse Playbook

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The Imperial Collapse Playbook (ClubOrlov, Dec 30, 2014):

Some people enjoy having the Big Picture laid out in front of them—the biggest possible—on what is happening in the world at large, and I am happy to oblige. The largest development of 2014 is, very broadly, this: the Anglo-imperialists are finally being forced out of Eurasia. How can we tell? Well, here is the Big Picture—the biggest I could find. I found it thanks to Nikolai Starikov and a recent article of his.

Now, let’s first define our terms. By Anglo-imperialists I mean the combination of Britain and the United States. The latter took over for the former as it failed, turning it into a protectorate. Now the latter is failing too, and there are no new up-and-coming Anglo-imperialists to take over for it. But throughout this process their common playbook had remained the same: pseudoliberal pseudocapitalism for the insiders and military domination and economic exploitation for everyone else. Much more specifically, their playbook always called for a certain strategem to be executed whenever their plans to dominate and exploit any given country finally fail. On their way out, they do what they can to compromise and weaken the entity they leave behind, by inflicting a permanently oozing and festering political wound. “Poison all the wells” is the last thing on their pre-departure checklist.

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Carla Shuford: 54-Year Bone Cancer Survivor

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Carla Shuford: 54-Year Bone Cancer Survivor (The Gerson Institute, April 16, 2014):

Carla Shuford grew up on a small dairy farm in North Carolina. Though the organic movement was not as established as it is today, in the mid-1950s her father decided to stop using pesticides in his garden in favor of adopting organic farming practices.

Though in retrospect it seems incredibly prescient, her father had no idea yet that this decision would become instrumental in saving his daughter’s life.

In 1958, at age 15, Carla Shuford was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma, which had metastasized to her lymph nodes. Osteogenic sarcoma is the second most common type of primary bone cancer, which typically presents in the leg or shoulder. It is most commonly diagnosed in children and adolescents.

Read moreCarla Shuford: 54-Year Bone Cancer Survivor

The Gerson Therapy: Dr. Jameth Sheridan Interviews Charlotte Gerson (Video)

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Aug 29, 2014

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This interview was shot in 2013 at the Charlotte Gerson Health Restoration Center in Encinitas, CA. Dr. Sheridan is a long time fan and supporter of the Gerson Institute and was eager for the chance to do a one-on-one interview with Charlotte.

Fear we are returning to a time in history where it is a common occurrence to fight for one’s life?

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Fear we are returning to a time in history where it is a common occurrence to fight for one’s life? (ZeroHedge, May 10, 2012):

“There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That’s just the facts of life.” – Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates

So, you are a successful trader, speculator, investor, money manager, and is typical, have little patience. Something has been bothering you. You have been reading Zero Hedge long enough that you are now absolutely convinced that TEOTWAWKI is indeed nigh, and it could well be quite violent. You have also decided that you want to do something to prepare, beyond getting short the equity markets and going long gold and silver coins, but you do not know what to do, exactly. The HELP function on your Bloomberg terminal is, unsurprisingly, not helpful. A quick review of the government and Red Cross emergency preparedness websites tells you nothing about guns. This is problematic, as you fear that we all might be returning to a time in history where it is a common occurrence to fight for one’s life, and you know that we usually do that in today’s day and age with guns, or a knife close in.

What to do?

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2014 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year

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2014 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year (ZeroHedge, Dec 31, 2014):

A quick glance at the 20 most popular stories of 2014 as determined by you, our readers, shows something troubling: despite the just concluded 6th consecutive year of a rising S&P 500 – the longest such stretch since 1999 of what otherwise would be deemed optimism – despite what should be a steadily improving economy and improving social and economic conditions, what readers founds most fascinating, and troubling, was the increasing preponderance of social disobedience, of covert, proxy or outright wars, and of civil unrest: all phenomena that accompany a world sliding deeper into distress, not as most central banks and their puppet media would have us believe, a global recovery.

But before we get into the details of what has now become an annual tradition for the last day of the year, those who wish to jog down memory lane, can refresh our most popular articles for every year during our brief 6-year existence, starting with 2009 and continuing with 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013: one for every year of the most artificial and fabricated “bull market” in history.

So without further ado, here are the articles that readers found to be the most popular of the past 365 days.

Read more2014 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year

Even CIA Admits Torture Doesn’t Work

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Even CIA Admits Torture Doesn’t Work (Washington’s Blog, Dec 31, 2014):

Even the Agency Which DID the Torture Says It Doesn’t Work

Seton Hall Law School Professor Jonathan Hafetz made an important point today :

CIA director, John O Brennan, admitted that the agency “has not concluded that it was the use of EITs [“Enhanced Interrogation Techniques aka torture] that allowed us to obtain useful information from detainees”.

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The [CIA]  – unlike its loudest defenders – is not endorsing torture as a means of gaining intelligence or keeping the country safe.

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The flurry of media appearances by Cheney and other torture defenders has created a false sense that there is a genuine divide over whether torture “works”.  But neither the CIA nor professional interrogators actually say that.

Indeed, the CIA has consistently said for many decades that torture doesn’t work:

Read moreEven CIA Admits Torture Doesn’t Work

Why Is The Fed Hiring An “Emergency Preparedness Specialist Familiar With DHS Directives”

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Why Is The Fed Hiring An “Emergency Preparedness Specialist Familiar With DHS Directives” (ZeroHedge, Dec 31, 2014):

A few weeks ago, we reported that for some still unexplained reason, the US Treasury is ordering “survival kits” to its employees overseeing the federal banking system. To wit:

The Department of Treasury is spending $200,000 on survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation. As FreeBeacon reports, survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States and includes a solar blanket, food bar, water-purification tablets, and dust mask (among other things). The question, obviously, is just what do they know that the rest of us don’t?

We still don’t know why. But what makes things even more surprising, and confusing, is that two days before the survival kit RFP soliciation became public on December 4, 2014, a just as curious notice was blasted by the Fed’s recruiting Twitter account:

So the Fed is hiring not just any “emergency preparedness specialist” but one familiar with DHS directives?

Big Banks Conspire with Giant Oil Company to Manipulate Currency Markets

Big Banks Conspire with Giant Oil Company to Manipulate Currency Markets (Washington’s Blog, Dec 31, 2014):

Banks and Energy Companies Rig Currency Markets

It has long been known that currency markets are massively rigged. And see this, this, and this.

But the banks not only shared confidential information with each other … they also shared it with a giant oil company.

Bloomberg reports this week:

With revenue of almost $400 billion last year and operations in about 80 countries, BP trades large quantities of currency each day. Traders at the company regularly received valuable information from counterparts at some of the world’s biggest banks — including tips about forthcoming trades, details of confidential client business and discussions of stop-losses, the trigger points for a flurry of buying or selling — according to four traders with direct knowledge of the practice.

Read moreBig Banks Conspire with Giant Oil Company to Manipulate Currency Markets

World’s 400 Richest Get Richer, Adding $92 Billion In 2014

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World’s 400 richest get richer, adding $92bn in 2014 (RT, Dec 31, 2014):

The 400 richest billionaires in the world added another $92 billion to their names in 2014 and now sit on assets worth $4.1 trillion, but Russia’s super-wealthy have been hit by economic problems resulting from the Ukraine crisis.

The biggest winner in 2014 was China’s Jack Ma, who co-founded the Alibaba Group Holding ltd, (BABA), China’s largest e-commerce company, Bloomberg reports.

Ma, who has a personal fortune of $28.7 billion, has added $25.1 billion to his wealth since the September initial public offering saw shares surge by 56 percent.

Other big winners in 2014 were Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg. Buffet increased his net worth by $13.7 billion as dozens of businesses he had brought over the past five decades produced record profits.

Read moreWorld’s 400 Richest Get Richer, Adding $92 Billion In 2014

180 motorists rescued in Southern California snow

180 motorists rescued in Southern California snow (USA Today, Dec 31, 2014):

Firefighters in Southern California completed the rescue early Wednesday of more than 180 motorists who were stranded when a winter storm brought snow to the San Bernardino Mountains.

The San Bernardino County Fire Department said in a news release that 136 people were rescued on State Highway 138 near the communities of Crestline and Mount Baldy, about 50 miles from Los Angeles.

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