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Russia Warns May Send Troops To Ukraine After Congress Unanimously Votes To Give Lethal Aid To Kiev

While the market, and America’s media, was focusing over the passage of the Cromnibus, and whether Wall Street would dump a few hundred trillion in derivatives on the laps of US taxpayers once again (it did), quietly and unanimously both houses passed The Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, which authorizes “providing lethal assistance to Ukraine’s military” as well as sweeping sanctions on Russia’s energy sector.

The measure mandates sanctions against Rosoboronexport, the state agency that promotes Russia’s defense exports and arms trade. It also would require sanctions on OAO Gazprom (GAZP), the world’s largest extractor of natural gas, if the state-controlled company withholds supplies to other European nations (yes, the US is now in the pre-emptive punishment business, and is enforcing sanctions on a “what if” basis).

But while one may debate if additional sanctions will do much to impact a Russian economy which is already impaired due to the plunging ruble, the clear escalation is that unlike previously, when the US limited itself – at least on paper – to non-lethal assistance to the Ukraine, now the US is finally preparing to send in weapons, and potentially “military advisors” as well. We say “on paper”, because in late November hacked US documents revealed the extent of secret US “Lethal Aid” for the Ukraine army. And since America’s under-the-table support for Ukraine’s insolvent armed forces has been revealed, there is little point in pretending to keep a moral upper hand (especially in light of recent “other” revelations involving the US, most notably its intelligence services).

And as has happened for the entire duration of the second Cold War, any action by the US was promptly met with a just as provocative reaction by Russia. In this case, a leftist member of the Russian Duma said the US Senate’s decision to arm the Kiev regime should prompt ‘adequate measures’ from Russia, such as deploying military force on Ukrainian territory before the threat becomes too high.

In other words, in addition to the global energy meltdown which is about to send oil exporting nations into a state of shock matched only by owners of US High Yield energy bonds, the Ukraine conflict, which the algos and carbon-based Portfolio Manager forgot about, is about to re-escalate, with Russia now set to recreate the Crimea annexation after it officially sends its troops on Ukraine soil.

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Those planning on visiting (or merely driving around) Washington or New York City today may want to consider a plan B. As Reuters reports, “thousands of demonstrators were expected in Washington and New York on Saturday to protest the killings of unarmed black men by U.S. police and to urge Congress to protect citizens. Organizers said the protests would be among the largest over police tactics and the killings of black males by officers in New York, Cleveland and Ferguson, Missouri. “It’s open season on black people now,” New York march co-organizer Umaara Elliott said in a statement. “So we demand that action be taken at every level of government to ensure that these racist killings by the police cease.”

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Watching the looting and mayhem in Ferguson, MO was just as tedious as watching the movie “Ground Hog Day” over and over and over — St. Petersburg, Cincinnati, Benton Harbor, Oakland, Ferguson, and on and on. What do they all do have in common — the opportunity to loot and destroy property.

While I was sitting and watching the mayhem reruns I thought to myself: Why the inability of lower class blacks to understand the criminal justice system, proper conduct, or for that matter, much of anything of consequence that most of us take for granted? When one considers the possibilities, there really is only one logical conclusion — they lack the intelligent and incentive to understand. Far too many blacks simply exist with little or no purpose, goals, or ambition. Life is bad for the black underclass but they add to their own misery by shunning educational opportunities, siring kids with no thought of nurturing them, and being all too willing to be “kept” – the slave mentality of the 18th and 19th century. The reality is that blacks, in the main, brought their previous existence to America with them. One doesn’t have to have a PhD in Sociology to see the relationship between residents of our inner cities and stagnation of black African culture.

That is not to say that there are no intelligent blacks. There some very intelligent blacks and many reasonably smart blacks. The problem is that those two groups are merely “standard deviations” from the normal. Many scholars have written studies and books which explain the findings of psychometric studies relating to cognitive ability of different races. However, those findings are not what people want to hear, so they are typically ignored. But the studies do explain the lack of impulse control, violence, criminal behavior, and lack of desire or ability to augment into the mainstream of the society that we live in.

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A New York lawyer left a suicide note admitting that he had run a $5 million Ponzi scheme and called the investments “all an illusion,” prosecutors said on Friday.

Charles Bennett, 56, who was rescued Nov. 3 after he jumped into the Hudson River, was arrested and charged with securities and wire fraud in Manhattan federal court.

Police officers recovered a note Bennett signed called “A Sad Ending to My Life” in which he confessed he “managed to completely squander the hard-earned money” of his family and friends, according to court documents.

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