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Warning: Is Crude Oil Signalling Another Recession?

During the last US market collapse of 2007-2009, Crude Oil took it on the chin. Collapsing from $150 to $40 or (74%) in 2008 alone. Even though it recovered substantially since it’s low, it has been stuck in the trading range since the early 2011.  Today, funds are starting to cut their long oil exposure. 

Money managers cut net-long positions by 25,775 futures and options combined in the week ended March 18, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. It was the biggest drop since June. Long positions slumped 6.6 percent after reaching a record earlier in the month. Shorts increased 7.6 percent

Start of a new trend?  Not yet. Crude oil continues to trade within its range without as much as breaking to the upside or downside over the last few years. However, I believe that trend is about to change. As our mathematical and timing work indicates, the US Equity markets will go through a severe bear market between 2014-2017. Pushing the US economy into another recession. When that happens, I expect Crude Oil to break down out of its trading range and fall into at least a $60 range. 

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Bloomberg Reports:Speculators Cut Bullish Oil Bets by Most in Nine Months

Hedge funds reduced their bets on rising West Texas Intermediate crude prices by the most in almost nine months as U.S. inventories climbed and concern eased that sanctions against Russia will disrupt oil supplies.

Money managers cut net-long positions by 25,775 futures and options combined in the week ended March 18, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. It was the biggest drop since June. Long positions slumped 6.6 percent after reaching a record earlier in the month. Shorts increased 7.6 percent.

Crude supplies advanced for a ninth week in the seven days ended March 14 to a three-month high as production increased to the most in 26 years and refineries processed the least oil since October. The U.S. and European Union announced sanctions after voters in Crimea chose to leave Ukraine and become part of Russia, the world’s biggest energy exporter.

“Market players are stepping back and the record longs continue to be shed,” said John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital LLC, a New York-based hedge fund that focuses on energy. “Overall inventories have increased a lot as refineries are doing maintenance.”

Crude dropped 33 cents to $99.70 on the New York Mercantile Exchange in the period covered by the CFTC report. It ended below $100 in each of the five days and slid to $97.99 on March 12, the lowest settlement since Feb. 6.

Prices rose 0.6 percent to $99.46 on March 21 after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation to absorb Crimea, brushing aside sanctions. WTI rose 7 cents to $99.53 a barrel at 9:15 a.m. in London today.

Growing Supply

U.S. stockpiles increased by 25.6 million barrels, or 7.3 percent, in the nine weeks ended March 14 to 375.9 million barrels, the highest level since Nov. 29, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Domestic production climbed to 8.22 million barrels a day in the week ended March 14, the most since May 1988. Refineries processed 15 million barrels a day, the least since Oct. 18. The operating rate dropped to 85.6 percent of capacity as companies retooled plants before gasoline demand climbs with warmer weather.

Phillips 66 said on March 17 that its Los Angeles refinery was conducting planned maintenance. The plant has a capacity of 139,000 barrels a day. Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) was performing planned work at the 206,000-barrel-a-day refinery at Robinson, Illinois, a person familiar with the matter said on March 13.

Refinery Repairs

Suncor Energy Inc. said on March 14 that it has begun maintenance at the Commerce City, Colorado, plant. The refinery near Denver has a capacity of 103,000 barrels a day.

“It’s the refinery maintenance season,” said Carl Larry, president of Oil Outlooks & Opinions LLC in Houston. “The concern is definitely on the U.S. economy and the fundamentals.”

President Barack Obama authorized sanctions against officials and businessmen close to Putin as Russia completed its annexation of Crimea. Among the targets was billionaire Gennady Timchenko, a co-founder of Gunvor Group Ltd., an oil-trading firm. The U.S. named Putin as an investor in the company. Gunvor said Putin has never held a stake.

Timchenko sold his stake in the company to partner Torbjorn Tornqvist, according to a company statement. The transaction took place March 19, the day before the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the 61-year-old billionaire.

Russia produced 10.4 million barrels a day of oil in 2012 and exported 7.4 million, according to the EIA. The southern part of the Druzhba line carries 300,000 barrels a day of Russian crude through Ukraine to refineries in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Lower Wagers

Net-long positions in WTI crude held by money managers, including hedge funds, commodity pools and commodity-trading advisers, fell by 7.9 percent to 302,320. Long positions dropped to 334,104, while shorts increased to 31,784.

Bullish bets on gasoline decreased 1.4 percent to 57,343 futures and options. Futures slid 6.42 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $2.9028 a gallon on the Nymex in the reporting period and gained 0.4 percent to $2.9079 March 21. They were at $2.9043 today.

Regular gasoline at the pump, averaged nationwide, rose 0.2 cent to $3.525 a gallon on March 22, the first gain in three days, according to Heathrow, Florida-based AAA, the largest U.S. motoring group.

Money managers’ bullish wagers on U.S. ultra low sulfur diesel decreased 30 percent to 23,109. The fuel fell 4.55 cents to $2.9155 a gallon in the report week and dropped 12 cents to $2.9201 March 21. It was at $2.9140 today.

Natural Gas

Net-long wagers on four U.S. natural gas contracts dropped 2.4 percent to 408,941. The measure includes an index of four contracts adjusted to futures equivalents: Nymex natural gasfutures, Nymex Henry Hub Swap Futures, Nymex ClearPort Henry Hub Penultimate Swaps and the ICE Futures U.S. Henry Hub contract.

Natural gas futures fell 14.9 cents, or 3.2 percent, to $4.456 per million British thermal units on Nymex during the report week. They slid 1.3 percent to $4.313 on March 21 and were at $4.332 today.

“The fundamentals are weak for oil,” said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at the Price Futures Group in Chicago. “So far, Russia hasn’t been a big threat to oil supplies.”

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NATO: Russia Is About To Attack. Russia: No Attack Coming. Who Is Right?

According to NATO, Russia has amassed a strong military force right next to Ukraine, ready to attack at moment’s notice. Russia claims that no such force has been assembled and no attack is imminent. 

Who to believe?  

Both sides. Let me put it this way. Yes, Russia has amassed a strong military force right next to Ukraine, ready to be deployed at moments notice. Yet, as it stands today, Russia will not go in. The only thing that will trigger an incursion into Ukraine is more sanctions against Russia and/or Putin. If the West goes forward with any further sanctions, Putin will have no choice but to respond and show his “power”. That would mean a powerful military move into East Ukraine and it’s possible annexation. As such, it would be a good idea for the West to stop here if they don’t want this conflict escalating further. 

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Moscow: No troop build-up or undeclared military activity near Ukraine borders

Russia is observing all international agreements on troop limits in regions bordering Ukraine, the Russian Deputy Defense Minister said, adding that foreign missions’ inspections can confirm that.

The statement was made in response to reports by several foreign media outlets over concentrations of “thousands” of Russian servicemen on the Russian-Ukrainian border.

“By the way this issue has during the last month been regularly raised in telephone conversations between Russia’s Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu, and his foreign counterparts, including US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and even acting Ukrainian Defense Minister Igor Tenyukh,” Anatoly Antonov, the Russian Deputy Defense Minister said.

Sergey Shoigu has, in a very transparent manner, informed all of them about the real situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border. He also stressed that Russia has no intention to concentrate troops there, Antonov said.

Following recent probes by foreign missions in Russia of Ukraine’s bordering regions, foreign inspectors came to the conclusion that “Russian Armed Forces are not undertaking any undeclared military activity that would threaten the security of neighboring countries,” Antonov added.

The official said eight foreign inspection groups have recently visited Russia.

“Our venues and regions, where troops are stationed near Ukrainian borders, have twice been checked by the Ukrainian military,” the Deputy Minister said. “Besides, we have had on our territory inspectors from the US, Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Finland.”

Seven of those eight missions were interested in Russian regions bordering with Ukraine, Antonov said. Foreign inspectors were allowed to talk to chiefs of the Russian military units, make pictures of deployment sites and military vehicles, and control them during relocation.

“We did our best to meet our partners’ requests by allowing them to inspect all of the sites they wanted to. We have nothing to hide,” Antonov said.

The deputy minister said he was hoping that participants of those inspecting missions would inform their countries’ leaderships of what is really going on at the border between Russia and Ukraine.

“We believe this would to large extent facilitate release of tension, something the head of the Pentagon, Hagel, called for during his recent phone conversation with Minister Shoigu.”

Germans, French ‘nullified military co-op with Russia under pressure’

Berlin’s and Paris’ moves to halt military cooperation with Moscow are derailing the bilateral efforts of recent years and are completely unconstructive, Antonov said. However, according to the defense official, the two did so under pressure from their NATO ally. 

“Obviously, the proverbial ‘Atlantic solidarity’ has made our French and German partners come up with loud statements against Russia,” Antonov said. 

“Refusing from contacts and delegatory exchange though military departments brings to naught the positive tendencies established in the recent years, including the cooperation on Afghanistan, the dialogue on transparency of military activity and military-technical cooperation. We perceive the decision of the German side as taken under pressure and unconstructive,” Antonov stressed.

Both Russian and German defense ministries have recently undertaken some “serious efforts” in mutually beneficial cooperation, the official noted. He also highlighted the “unprecedented” bilateral work with France, including that of the Air Forces and Airborne Forces, noting that a “new impulse of cooperation” had been planned for 2014.

Addressing media on Sunday, Antonov stressed that Russia and its European partners are equally interested in military cooperation. It is “very easy to ruin what has been done by our countries [in the field of military cooperation] and it will be very difficult to restore relations,” he said. 

The Russian side hopes that Germany and France will review the situation on the Ukrainian border upon receiving reports from the international inspectors and will move to restore the severed ties, Antonov said. For now, Moscow will act in accordance with the “existing realities,” he added.

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Weekly Update & Stocks To Short. March 22nd, 2014. InvestWithAlex.com

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Weekly Update & Summary: March 22nd, 2014

Overall it was a good week for the market with the Dow Jones up +237 points (+1.48%) and the Nasdaq up +31 points (0.74%) for the week. Structurally, the market did very well, leaving only one big gap behind at around 16,050. I believe the market will go back to close this gap when the bear market initiates.

FUNDAMENTAL & MARKET ANALYSIS: 

As per our timing and mathematical work below, the market will continue to shift gears from bull market to bear market throughout 2014. Longer term, this bear market will last between 2014-2017 as I have indicated many times before. While it’s internal structure will not be as violent and as steep as the 2007-2009 bear market leg, investors should anticipate the market to lose 35-40% when it’s all said and done.

(If you would be interested in learning exactly when this bear market will start and its internal structure, please Click Here) 

In last week’s update we talked about some of the best ways to approach the bear market and what you should and shouldn’t be doing. To see that report please Click Here. In this week’s update we will take a look at some of the best stocks to short and how you should approach the entire process.  

Step #1: Find Highly Speculative and/or Overpriced Stocks.

The list below should get you going. Click on it to see larger image.

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Step #2: Find Force Multipliers

In addition to performing technical and fundamental analysis, look for force multipliers. These are the stocks that move at X to market. For example, if the Nasdaq index moves 4%, a stock with 3X force multiplier will move 12%. All you have to do is compare index moves with the individual stock moves during the same period of time. The higher the multiplier, the higher rate of return you should anticipate.

If you believe the market is going decline substantially, it makes a lot of sense to take a short position in such stocks. If the market declines 20%, it is highly probable such stocks will decline 40-60%. Yet, this is not without risk. At times stocks move at X to market due to their fundamental outperformance. In such cases, the declines will be less than overall market. That is why fundamental and technical analysis become so important. You must first figure out if the stock is simply overpriced/overhyped or if there is substance to its outperformance.

Step #3: Take Position

Whatever your trading strategy is, once the bear market starts, execute it. As you know, shorting is inherently riskier and should be treated that way. Keep tight stop losses and execute your risk management strategies to the best of your ability.

That about covers it. If you believe the bear market is just around the corner (as we do), get yourself ready if you are interested in participating on the short side. Identify stocks to short, zero in on force multipliers, execute and minimize risk. Good luck and profit greatly. If you would be interested in learning exactly when this bear market will start and its internal structure, please Click Here.  

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS:

Ukraine continues to dominate the news.

While the markets were able to ignore the news this week, that might change over the next few weeks and into April. As I have mentioned here before,  Putin was willing to walk away with Crimea and call it a day if the West wasn’t hell bent on sanctions. Unfortunately, I don’t believe the West is done, just yet, with either Ukraine or sanctions. If they continue to slap Putin with sanctions he will have no choice but to respond with a military force in Ukraine over the next few weeks. 

Let me put it this way. If the West (US or EU) slam Russia or Putin with further sanctions, Putin WILL invade Eastern Ukraine.  There will be no fighting and Eastern Ukraine will quickly ask to become a part of Russia. This will create a downward spiral in foreign relations, a massive geopolitical risk and a possible selloff in US equities(see timing & mathematical section).

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:

Long-Term: The trend is still up. Market action in January-February could be viewed as a simple correction in an ongoing bull market. 

Intermediary-Term: Since February 5th, intermediary term picture shifted from negative to positive. Giving us a technical indication that both the intermediary term and the long term trends are up. Yet, that in itself can be misleading as per our timing analysis discussion below.

Short-Term: While the short-term trend remains bullish, it might be misleading as per our timing analysis discussion below.  

Again, even though all 3 trends are bullish for the time being, that might be misleading. Please read our Mathematical and Timing Analysis to see what will transpire over the next few weeks.    

MATHEMATICAL & TIMING ANALYSIS: 

(*** Please Note: This time around about 90% of the information contained within this section has been deliberately removed as it contain too much technical information. Particularly, exact dates and prices of the upcoming turning points. As well as trading forecasts associated with them. I deem such information to be too valuable to be released onto the general public.  As such, this information is only available to my premium subscribers. If you are a premium subscriber please Click Here to log in. If  you would be interested in becoming a subscriber and gaining access to the most accurate forecasting service available anywhere, a forecasting service that gives you exact turning points in both price and time, please Click Here to learn more.Don’t forget, we have a risk free 14-day trial).  

Based on our mathematical and timing work the next turning point is located at

Date: XXXX 
Price: XXXX

XXXX

Others are getting very close.   

The list below is for your reference point. It entails my investment strategy over the next few weeks for my own investment purposes. While you are free to follow what I do, please do so at your own risk. Do not take this as a trading advice.    

Stock

Entry Point ($)

Action To Take

QQQ

88

XXXX

XXXX

1160-1180

XXXX

XXXX

515

XXXX

XXXX

74

XXXX

XXXX

21

XXXX

XXXX

420

XXXX

XXXX

35

XXXX

XXXX

65

XXXX

XXXX

120

XXXX

XXXX

100

XXXX

XXXX

112

XXXX

Otherwise, I suggest the following positioning over the next few days/weeks to minimize risk while positioning yourself for a forecasted market action. (This is continuation of our previous positioning).

If You Are A Trader: XXXX

If No Position: XXXX

If Long: XXXX

If Short:  XXXX

CONCLUSION: 

An incredibly important week is coming up. Only one scenario remains on the table. I have also described the point force we are looking at and exactly what you should do. Wiith increased volatility, multiple interference patterns and an incredibly important long-term turning point we must be very careful and risk averse here.  Those anticipating the moves and those who can time them properly will be rewarded appropriately.

Please Note: XXXX is available to our premium subscribers in our + Subscriber Section. It’s FREE to start. 

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Stock Market Update. March 21st, 2014. InvestWithAlex.com

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A down day with the Dow Jones down -31 points (0.19%)  and the Nasdaq down -42 points (0.98%) 

While the market rallied early on it spent the rest of the day closing the gap which it opened up in the morning. While the Dow held up relatively well, the Nasdaq lost 1% of it’s value, amplifying the divergence over the last couple of day. This not atypical when marketing topping formations develop themselves. Simply put, various markets and industries top out on different days, sometimes different months. Today’s move on iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology (IBB) and it’s break into a technical downtrend is a clear indication of that. 

Does that mean the bear market has already started?

I have long maintained that the US Equity markets will go through a sever bear market between 2014-2017. Unfortunately, the information on exactly when this bear market will start (to the day) is available only to my subscribers. If you would be interested in gaining that information as well as the internal composition of the bear market over the next 3 years, please Click Here. Don’t forget, we have a 14 day free trial offer. 

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Shocking Truth Revealed: Sun Declares War On Earth

In a bit of interesting scientific news, the Earth was almost hit by devastating and massive solar flares back in 2012. 

“Had it hit Earth, it probably would have been like the big one in 1859, but the effect today, with our modern technologies, would have been tremendous,” Janet Luhmann, part of the STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Observatory) team a University of California Berkley researcher, said to Reuters.

Specifically, a blast that powerful could bring down electrical grids, knock down satellites and GPS technology, and ultimately cost nations billions of dollars in damages. Considering modern society’s reliance on such technology to function, it would be extremely disruptive.

For the love of God, can you imagine what would have happened if those “algos” black boxes on Wall Street would have been fried. You know, I don’t even want to think about that. Not having the American Idol or The Biggest Loser on TV for a few days would be bad enough. When we reached out to John McCain for a comment he responded with “I declare war on the sun”. 

On a more serious note, its a great article (see below) and something we should all know. Give it some attention.

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Near miss: Enormous solar blast could have devastated Earth in 2012

Citizens of Earth had no idea how close the planet was to getting slammed with a devastating solar flare back in July 2012, but scientists claim we only missed the damaging event by nine days.

As noted by Reuters, scientists found that a series of coronal mass ejections – powerful eruptions on the sun’s surface that send waves of magnetized plasma through the solar system – occurred last year sometime between July 22 and 23. The blasts traveled through Earth’ orbit, but narrowly missed colliding with the planet.

According to a new report published in the Nature Communications journal on Tuesday, if the solar eruptions occurred just nine days earlier, they would have likely hit Earth and caused a great deal of damage to the planet’s magnetic field. Fortunately for us, the Earth was on the other side of the sun by that point.

Scientists believe the blast would have equaled the might of the most powerful magnetic storm ever recorded: the Carrington event of 1859, which took down telegraph services around the world.

“Had it hit Earth, it probably would have been like the big one in 1859, but the effect today, with our modern technologies, would have been tremendous,” Janet Luhmann, part of the STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Observatory) team a University of California Berkley researcher, said to Reuters.

Specifically, a blast that powerful could bring down electrical grids, knock down satellites and GPS technology, and ultimately cost nations billions of dollars in damages. Considering modern society’s reliance on such technology to function, it would be extremely disruptive.

 

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AFP photo/EPFL

 

Last year, a study produced with the Atmospheric and Environmental Research group found that a solar flare equivalent to Carrington could cost the world $2.6 trillion.

“An extreme space weather storm – a solar superstorm – is a low-probability, high-consequence event that poses severe threats to critical infrastructures of the modern society,” said Ying Liu, a physicist at China’s State Key Laboratory of Space Weather to Forbes.

“The cost of an extreme space weather event, if it hits Earth, could reach trillions of dollars with a potential recovery time of 4-10 years,” Liu added. “Therefore, it is paramount to the security and economic interest of the modern society to understand solar superstorms.”

Although flares occur every day during the sun’s solar maximum – a period in the sun’s cycle highlighted by increased solar activity – they are rarely as powerful as the one that struck Earth in 1859. Still, the amount of damage they can inflict means preparation is tough but necessary,

“People keep saying that these are rare natural hazards, but they are happening in the Solar System even though we don’t always see them,” Luhmann told Forbes. “It’s like with earthquakes – it is hard to impress upon people the importance of preparing unless you suffer a magnitude 9 earthquake.”

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What Do Economists & Hookers Have In Common

Daily Ticker Asks: What keeps some of the greatest minds in economics up at night?

I don’t know, hookers and booze? 

I was wrong….as always. According to the Daily Ticker it’s a lot of things. If you really want to know what keeps the “most brilliant” minds awake, you can read the article below. From my vantage point neither hookers nor economists know what they are talking about. If they did, they would be on Wall Street managing billions of dollars, not argue if the GDP of growth Zimbabwe will be 2.7% or 2.8% in 2027. 

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What keeps some of the greatest minds in economics up at night

The world is a scary place. Planes are disappearing, regions are seceding, countries are overthrowing governments and income inequality is growing larger everyday. There’s a lot  to worry about during the wee hours of the night.

Yahoo Finance’s editor-in-chief Aaron Task asked some of the biggest and brightest economic minds today what keeps them up at night. Watch the video above and read on below for their anxiety-inducing answers. 

Jared Bernstein, former chief economist for Vice President Joe Biden

“What really worries me”, says Bernstein, “is hysteresis.” That may sound like a strange medical ailment but it’s actually what happens when a cyclical economic problem morphs into a structural problem.

Related: Fed hawks are ‘out of sync with the data’: Jared Bernstein

“We’ve had a lot of long-term unemployment and if that were just a cyclical problem when the economy came back those unemployed people would come back into the job market and your labor force would grow again,” he says. “But if the down cycle lasts long enough then those folks are permanently out of the job market and that kind of a permanent restructuring of growth and livelihoods, that keeps me up at night.”

Sheila Bair, former chair, FDIC; now director, Banco Santander

Monetary policy is what keeps Bair up at night. “During the crisis we had this toxic brew of very easy monetary policy and very relaxed regulatory policy and while regulation has lightened up, monetary policy has become more aggressive,” she says.

Related: ‘Banks need more capital – the good times won’t last forever’: Sheila Bair

This could lead to excesses and imbalances. “The Fed is getting out but … can they get out? Can the markets get off of that drug and stabilize and find their own equilibrium without us having a very ugly transition?”

Richard Vague, chair, Governor’s Woods Foundation

The Chinese economy worries Vague, who chairs this non-profit philanthropic organization based in Philadelphia. He’s specifically concerned about China’s ability to deal with its overcapacity problem. “I think the effects [could] be manageable, but if they stumble it could have a ripple effect,” he says.

Alice Rivlin, former vice-chair of the Federal Reserve and senior fellow, Brookings Institute

Rivlin is bothered by the U.S. government’s inability to compromise. “We have a constitution which requires compromise across several different lines,” she says. “Nothing gets done in this country unless we compromise across political lines.”

Related: Fed guidance to become more vague under Yellen: Alice Rivlin

Compromise, says Rivlin, has gotten a bad name recently. “I think that is the most serious thing we face.”

Simon Johnson, former chief economist, IMF; now professor of entrepreneurship, MIT

“I think the Russia and Ukraine situation is very unstable,” says Johnson.

Related: Banks pass stress test but they’re not taking regulations seriously: Simon Johnson

According to Johnson the U.S. and European response has not been helpful. “This is a real flashpoint and a danger to the European economy.”

Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform

Grover Norquist’s fears are more abstract. He is worried about electro-magnetic pulses and solar flares or “some rogue country tossing a nuke up and frying all of our cars and handhelds.”

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Did The US Navy Land Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 At It’s Diego Garcia Base In The Indian Ocean? (Part 3)

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Why am I following this crazy conspiracy theory? Well, quite frankly because it makes a lot more sense than some of the reports coming out of more traditional places. As of today, no one has the slightest clue as to what happened to the flight. Further, this theory is just as good (if not better) than widely circulated traditional media reports. Even though Australians claim to have found “something”, that something may or may not be there and it may or may not have anything to do with Flight 370. Questions remain. 

Apparently, these reports are coming out of Russian Intelligence (who tend to know their stuff). To summarize, Malaysia Airline Flight 370 was intercepted by the US Navy right before it entered Chinese airspace and flown remotely to Diego Garcia US Naval Base in the Indian Ocean. It has been circulated before that the US Military has the technology to intercept and remotely control (like a drones) most of Boeing planes (Boeing is one of the largest US Defense Contractors). 

According to Russian intelligence the plane was intercepted due to it’s cargo hold. While no one knows what was on the plane (no cargo manifest has been released) a number of scientist and disease specialists were flown to Diego Garcia base for further consultations. Later, contents of Flight 370 cargo were destroyed in a fiery explosion. 

Fact or fiction? Read and decide for yourself. I have no idea….I just find the whole case fascinating.  Either way, we will never know. If the report is true, the US Government will be forced to crash the plane into the Indian Ocean to be “promptly found” at a later date to cover up the evidence. That might have already occurred. Either way, my condolences go out to the families. 

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Malaysia Airlines “Suspicious Cargo” Destroyed In Massive New Mexico Explosion

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

The GRU had previously, on 14 March, reported their “puzzlement” as to why the United States Navy “captured and then diverted” this Malaysia Airlines civilian aircraft from its intended flight-path to the Diego Garcia atoll, an assessment that has subsequently been verified by radar tracks showing the mysterious US military flights moving about this aircraft immediately prior to its “disappearance.” (See video below) The Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU) is reporting today that the “highly suspicious” cargo retrieved by the US from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that had been “disappeared” to one of the United States most secretive bases in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia, was flown this past week to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico where it was then destroyed in a “massive fireball.”

Flight 370, it is important to note, was already under GRU “surveillance” after it received a “highly suspicious” cargo load that had been traced to the Indian Oceannation Republic of Seychelles, and where it had previously been aboard the US-flagged container ship MV Maersk Alabama.

What first aroused GRU suspicions regarding the MV Maersk Alabama was that within 24-hours of its off-loading this “highly suspicious” cargo load bound for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the two highly-trained US Navy Seals assigned to protect it, Mark Daniel Kennedy, 43, and Jeffrey Keith Reynolds, 44, were found dead under“suspicious circumstances.”

After this “highly suspicious” cargo was off loaded from MV Maersk Alabama, on 17 February, the GRU reported it was then transferred to Seychelles International Airport where it was loaded on an Emirates flight bound for Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia, after first stopping over in Dubai, where it was subsequently loaded onto Flight 370 on 8 March for its scheduled flight to Beijing.

The GRU further reported, on 16 March, that after Flight 370’s “diversion” it was “nearly immediately” followed by some of the top disease scientists and experts from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDCP) embarking to Diego Garcia on at least four flights.

On 18 March, this new GRU report says, this “highly suspicious” cargo was flown from Diego Garcia to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico where it was destroyed in a 19 March explosion so massive it stunned the residents of this region due to the massive plume of smoke [photo 2nd left] Russian munitions experts speculate was caused by US military-grade Thermate (a variation of thermite) devices.

Important to note, this report says, is that the US appears to have been planning this operation involving Flight 370 since this “highly suspicious” cargo was first offloaded in the Republic of Seychelles on 17 February, as three days later, 20 February, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) placed an order for 1,200 sets of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) single use overgarments which are meant to protect the wearer from radiological contamination in the form of radiological particulates.

These PPE suits, which include hoods and boots, this report says, were delivered to the DTRA at their location on Kirtland Air Force Base, located in New Mexico, where they are tasked with protecting the United Statesagainst weapons of mass destruction.

Equally important to note, this report continues, is that the US Department of Health and Human Services, on 6 December, ordered 14 million 65 mg doses of Potassium Iodide, the standard treatment protocol for someone exposed to high levels of radiation, to be delivered to them by the end of January 2014.

As to the US-Chinese connection regarding the “highly suspicious” cargo aboard Flight 370 this report does not say, but does note that is of such concern that President Obama dispatched his wife to China as his“personal emissary” and stunned the American media by refusing to allow any reporters to accompany her.

As US forces begin flooding into the European Union to counter Russian forces amassing on the Ukrainian border, this report concludes, the “mysterious” events surrounding Flight 370’s “highly suspicious” cargo cannot be separated from Obama’s sudden announcement today to cancel his planned Persian Gulf summit, especially in light of Saudi Arabia’s 11 March branding of the Obama regime as a “terrorist organization” and this cargos having transversed this most volatile Middle East region.

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Google Encrypts Gmail To Stop The NSA

 It’s About Time. See full article below. 

“Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email.

“Today’s change means that no one can listen in on your messages as they go back and forth between you and Gmail’s servers — no matter if you’re using public WiFi or logging in from your computer, phone or tablet.”

Now it’s time for the rest of the tech companies to do the same.  

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Google encrypts Gmail to safeguard against NSA snooping

Google is doing its best to put a lid on the NSA’s prying eyes by using enhanced encryption technology to make its flagship email service airtight.

“Your email is important to you, and making sure it stays safe and always available is important to us,” Gmail engineering security chief, Nicolas Lidzborski, said in a blog post.

“Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email.

“Today’s change means that no one can listen in on your messages as they go back and forth between you and Gmail’s servers — no matter if you’re using public WiFi or logging in from your computer, phone or tablet.”

The internet giant’s announcement is the latest attempt to bolster the company’s widely used email service and follows a similar step in 2010, when the company made HTTPS the default connection option.

At the time, however, users had the option to turn this protection feature off. Starting from Friday, Gmail is HTTPS-only. The move is a response to a disclosure made by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower, Edward Snowden, that the agency had been secretly tapping into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world.

According to a secret January 9, 2013 accounting, millions of records were being sent every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the NSA’s Fort Meade, Maryland headquarters.

The NSA’s principal tool to exploit the Google and Yahoo data links is a project called MUSCULAR, operated jointly with the agency’s British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

To do so, the NSA and GCHQ rely on capturing information being sent between company data centers around the globe via fiber optic cables, intercepting those bits and bytes in transit by tapping in as information is moved from the “Public Internet” to the private “clouds” operated by the likes of Google and Yahoo. Those cloud systems involve the linking of international data centers, each processing and containing huge troves of user information for potentially millions of customers. Intelligence officers who can sneak through the cracks when information is decrypted — or never encrypted in the first place — can then see the information sent in real time and take “a retrospective look at target activity,”according to documents seen by the Washington Post.

In November, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said the alleged snooping operations were “outrageous” and perhaps even illegal.

“It’s really outrageous that the National Security Agency was looking between the Google data centers, if that’s true,” the Wall Street Journal quoted Schmidt, who has served as the Silicon Valley company’s chairman for over a decade, as saying.

“The steps that the organization was willing to do without good judgment to pursue its mission and potentially violate people’s privacy, it’s not OK,” Schmidt said. “The Snowden revelations have assisted us in understanding that it’s perfectly possible that there are more revelations to come.”

However, on Wednesday the top lawyer for the NSA told a civil liberties oversight board that all communications information and metadata collected by the agency pursuant to the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, whether the material was gathered by the agency’s internet data-mining program PRISM or by the “so-called ‘upstream’ collection of communications moving across the internet”, was done so with the direct knowledge of companies like Google and Facebook.

The NSA has previously claimed it only focuses on targets with foreign intelligence value. The agency can also request access via Google and other tech companies with the aid of a court order.

During an on-stage Q&A at the TED conference in Vancouver on Thursday, Google CEO Larry Page maintained that the NSA’s actions had not been done with the company’s knowledge and were a threat to democracy.

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Warning: Which Sector Will Lead The Upcoming Bear Market Down?

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Which industry Index will be the first to go in the upcoming bear market. Tech, Internet, Biotech, etc..? My bet is on Biotech as per today’s market action. Even though S&P is hitting an intraday all time high, Nasdaq’s Biotech index is breaking down as we speak. In fact, some of the “short biotech stocks” I outlined on this blog last week are down 10% in just 3 days.This works very well with our overall premise of 2014-2017 Bear Market. that is scheduled to start shortly. If you would like to know the exact date of bear market start as well as it’s internal structure, please Click Here.   

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Warning: Which Sector Will Lead The Upcoming Bear Market Down? Google