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In New Video, ISIS Warns Russia That "Blood Will Spill Like Ocean," While IS Sinai Threatens Israel
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/12/2015 15:00 -0500“Soon, very soon,“the blood will spill like an ocean.”
"We will uproot the state of the Jews. You and Fatah, and all of the secularists are nothing. You will be overrun by our creeping multitudes,”
Which 2 Nations Received 75% Of America's $5.9 Billion Foreign Military Financing?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/10/2015 22:30 -0500According to the U.S. State Government 2013-2015 Foreign Assistance report, an estimated $5.9 billion was spent on foreign military funding alone in fiscal year 2014. This is equivalent to 17% of the estimated $35 billion spent on total global aid discussed in our previous article. U.S. foreign military aid to countries ranged from $200,000 to $3.1 billion. Of the top 10 recipients, two countries received 75% of the $5.9 billion.
On The Verge Of The Great Unraveling, Looking Back From 2050
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/10/2015 22:00 -0500Empires, like adolescents, think they’ll live forever. In geopolitics, as in biology, expiration dates are never visible. When death comes, it’s always a shock. "At the beginning of the great unraveling, in 2015, I was still a young man. Like everyone else, I didn’t see this coming. Today, in 2050, fewer and fewer people can recall what it was like to live among those leviathans... Thirty-five years and endless catastrophes later on a poorer, bleaker, less hospitable planet, it’s clear that we just weren’t paying sufficient attention. Had we been listening, we would have heard the termites. There, in the basement of our common home, they were eating the very foundations out from under us. Suddenly, before we knew quite what was happening, all that was solid had melted into air."
Supreme Court Justice Slams Cops For "Shoot First, Think Later" Mentality
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/10/2015 21:00 -0500“By sanctioning a ‘shoot first, think later’ approach to policing, the Court renders protections of the Fourth Amendment hollow.”
What America Has Devolved To: "Online Begging Has Become The New Economy"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/08/2015 22:10 -0500There was a time when there were needs, and there were wants, and we knew the difference. Now? Now, no such boundaries exist. Your 4,000 Facebook friends should know if you can’t pay for your rent - or your plastic surgery. And who knows? They may just pay up.
Dear Fellow Americans: Do You Have Any Idea What’s Being Done In Your Name In Syria?
Submitted by George Washington on 11/05/2015 13:37 -0500If Americans Only Knew ...
"It's None Of Saudi Arabia's Business": Iran Lashes Out At US, Allies After Syria Talks
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/02/2015 13:06 -0500"There's no point in other countries getting together and deciding about a system of government and the head of that state. This is a dangerous innovation which no government in the world would accept being imposed on itself. The solution to Syria's problem is elections."
Sunday Humor: Israel Accidentally Carves Russian Warplane Into Pumpkin For Halloween Facebook Post
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/01/2015 14:00 -0500Epic fail...
Should America Fight For The Spratlys?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/31/2015 18:50 -0500It appears that Washington, ever a seething cauldron of bright ideas, is looking for a shooting war with China, or perhaps trying to make the Chinese kowtow and back down, the pretext being some rocks in the Pacific in which the United States cannot possibly have a vital national interest. Or, really, any interest. If Washington somehow won a naval war with China, so what? It would provide the satisfactions of vanity, but China’s danger to the US imperium lies in increasing economic power and commercial expansion through Asia, where it holds the high cards: it is there, Washington isn’t.
Paul Brodsky: "Expect The Unexpected. It Might Be Time To Duck And Cover"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/30/2015 18:53 -0500Most investors don’t take kindly to change. “The market” chooses to stay in the here and now; each human component vibrant and alert while the whole is passive and inert…like a herd of wildebeests, protected by its mass and collective wisdom that each one of them is statistically safe from lions as long as they stay together.
The US Spends $35 Billion In Global Economic Aid (But Where Does All This Money Really Go?)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/29/2015 21:00 -0500The United States provided approximately $35 billion in economic aid to over 140 countries in fiscal year 2014. The question is: Who received the largest slice of the pie from the U.S.?
Embracing The Dark Side: A Short History Of The Pathological Neocon Quest For Empire
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/28/2015 21:30 -0500Nearly all empires end due to over-extension. If brave people from Ottawa to Baghdad simply say “enough” within a brief space of time, hopefully this empire can dissolve relatively peacefully like the Soviet Empire did, leaving its host civilization intact, instead of dragging that civilization into oblivion along with it like the Roman Empire did. But beware, the imperial war party will not go quietly into the night, unless we in their domestic tax base insist that there is no other way. Russia’s entry into Syria has thrown all of the neocons’ schemes into disarray, as even Jordan, that favorite proxy force in Israel’s dreams of regional dominance, has begun coordinating with Russia, in spite of its billion dollars a year of annual aid from Washington. Et tu Jordan?!
Frontrunning: October 28
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/28/2015 06:42 -0500- Global shares rise as Riksbank helps ease Fed wait (Reuters)
- Asian Stocks Retreat Before Fed as Material Shares Lead Losses (BBG)
- For Fed, a Rates Puzzle Looms (WSJ)
- What the Superforecasters Say About When the Fed Will Lift Rates (BBG)
- U.S. Looks at Proposals to Step Up Fight Against Islamic State (WSJ)
- China Steel Head Says Demand Slumping at Unprecedented Speed (BBG)
- VW slumps to first quarterly loss in at least 15 years (Reuters)
5 Questions For Bernie Sanders Supporters
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/24/2015 21:32 -0500If you are seeking more freedom and prosperity, ask yourself if that is what you will get by voting for any of the current candidates. If you are seeking to reclaim the moral high ground the United States may have once had, ask yourself if these policies will do just that. Remember, not everyone is an idiot, a Republican, or an apathetic sheeple. Some of us simply disagree with Bernie’s economics and solutions.
America - In Search Of A Cause?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/24/2015 13:30 -0500America is a nation divided, not only upon the means we should use to attain our ends in the world, but upon the ends themselves.



