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Friday, July 8, 2016
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Morning Charts 07/07/2016
only post.
Sorry covered up. I feel terrible and apologize, but next week we'll get things back to normal. I know y'all get it. Kids vaca all that stuff.
I'll make time this morning for a quick thought on direction, but I'm really unplugged and enjoying it. Like way unplugged. Couple of positive convos with folks here a bout things making me a bit more hopeful about peeps in touch with reality I'll share later.
If I had to guess a gap thru the round number would be in order in the morning. If not they've more than covered for Brexit and are content to let price stabilize a bit above 2064. On the 30m chart the black channel may be back in play. There is also a possible IHnS. I don't like it but it's there. Not really sure. I'll have to blow up some charts and start from scratch to get my bearings back.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
Sorry covered up. I feel terrible and apologize, but next week we'll get things back to normal. I know y'all get it. Kids vaca all that stuff.
I'll make time this morning for a quick thought on direction, but I'm really unplugged and enjoying it. Like way unplugged. Couple of positive convos with folks here a bout things making me a bit more hopeful about peeps in touch with reality I'll share later.
If I had to guess a gap thru the round number would be in order in the morning. If not they've more than covered for Brexit and are content to let price stabilize a bit above 2064. On the 30m chart the black channel may be back in play. There is also a possible IHnS. I don't like it but it's there. Not really sure. I'll have to blow up some charts and start from scratch to get my bearings back.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Morning Charts 07/06/2016 SPX /es
Early post on an FOMC day.
On to the lie -
Freedom watch -
Constitution of the day -
More to come below.
Have a good day
GL and GB!
On to the lie -
Freedom watch -
Constitution of the day -
More to come below.
Have a good day
GL and GB!
Visiting Azerbaijan-- Some Basics
Two of my favorite congressmen advised me on my trip to Azerbaijan-- and one did even more than that, which I'll explain in a moment. The other congressman urged me to visit a statue in Baku of the current president's father, the former president (dictator), Heydar Aliyev. Statues of human beings are rare in Muslim-majority countries to begin with; it's something the religion proscribes, but Azerbaijan is a very secular country and there are statues of admired people all over. This particular one of Papa Aliyev depicts him sitting with one leg crossed and the sole of his shoe partially showing. Showing the sole of a shoe is generally perceived as an insult because the feet are often seen as unclean and shoes are always removed before entering a mosque or a home. My congressional friend told me he had asked his guide at the time if the statue was somewhat offensive to the Muslim population? The guide said yes, that was the point, to show that Azerbaijan's government is secular even though over 90% of the population is Muslim. Blunt-- but dictatorial oligarchs can be that way-- and often are.
The other congressman urged me to go see Gobustan (prehistoric caves, a nearby museum and, in the same region, Azerbaijan's famous mud volcanoes), the ancient Zoroastrian Atashgah Fire Temple in Surakhani, and Yanar Dag (the burning mountainside). We went to all of them and it was a much better use of time than just hanging around Baku (or Moscow).
Gobustan is about 40 miles southwest of Baku and we hired a taxi to take us there. The whole area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, primarily because of its easily-accessible caves with their rock art engravings showing life in prehistoric times, some dating back 40,000 years.
Azerbaijan has hundreds of mud volcanoes and I have a feeling the few dozen we saw might not have been the most impressive ones. They were hard to get to-- no paved roads-- and not really erupting, more like bubbling and burping out mud. Every twenty years or so one of them really explodes shooting fire and mud hundreds of feet into the air. So far, this wasn't one of those years. But we did get to climb around the hillocks and Roland dipped his hands into the bubbling mud.
The Atashgah Fire Temple is very close to Baku, a site dated as far back as 730 AD but destroyed and rebuilt several times since. What we saw was a pentagonal complex from the 17th century, which has a courtyard surrounded by cells for pilgrims and monks and a fire alter structure in the middle. It's the principal Zoroastrian site of pre-Islamic Azerbaijan and the guide I hired made sure to tell me that famous Zoroastrians included Indira Gandhi, Freddie Mercury, Zubin Mehta and Meher Baba.
Yanar Dag was kind of a dud. It's a not especially impressive natural gas fire that burns eternally on the side of a hill and I was mixing it up in my mind with a similar but bigger phenomenum in Derweze, Turkmenistan, on the other side of the Caspian Sea, east of Azerbaijan, called the Gates of Hell.
Not many American tourists go to Azerbaijan. We nearly didn't ourselves. But our trip to Russia looked like we had planned on too many days in Moscow-- even with a trip to the Golden Ring towns of Vladimir and Suzdal-- so we decided on a side trip to Baku. It's not very far by plane and Azerbaijan has a good airline with new, well-maintained planes and it's relatively inexpensive-- both the plane flights and everything in the city itself. But it isn't easy to get to because of the visa situation. You have to have a visa and Azerbaijan inadvertantly-- I think inadvertently-- makes it difficult by channeling would-be tourists to Travisa, a private company/middleman that "helps" travelers get visas. Except they don't. They just charge a inordinate amount of money and get in the way, making it more difficult to get the visas. I had a nightmare experience with them once before-- when I was forced to use them for an Indian visa-- and I would never voluntarily use them.
When you want a Russian visa, you have no choice any longer except to go through one of these "helpful" contractors, Invisa Logistics Service (ILS), although scammers like Travisa are happy to charge you for sending your application on to ILS. When you apply for an Azerbaijani visa, there is a strong implication that there is a similar mandate and that you must go through Travisa, an implication that Travisa doesn't discourage. When I tried getting my Azerbaijani visa through Travisa, nothing worked and lots of time was wasted. They also kept trying to get me to give them money with the warning that if I couldn't get the visa for any reason-- which looked likely judging by their jaw-dropping incompetence-- they still kept the money. Excuses ranged from their online application doesn't work with Apple computers to I can't use their in-office computer-- after they asked me to drive to their office to do just that-- because they couldn't give me the pass code for their WiFi network because of "security." I decided to give up and go to Georgia or Armenia instead when someone who overheard my conversation with the unhelpful staffer who was guaranteeing I couldn't go to Azerbaijan, told me to just go to the Azerbaijan consulate in L.A. and that it would be faster and cheaper. And it was. And easy as pie. That's your free tip of the day. Get your visa directly from the Azerbaijan consulate and skip the Travisa horror show.
Roland, meanwhile, had his passport tied up in the regular Travisa hell-- weeks and weeks of complete nonsense and wasted time. Like, two weeks wasted on "you have to change the name of your hotel from the Leningrad Hotel to the St. Petersburg Hotel." But the name of the hotel is the Leningrad Hotel. It doesn't matter. You can't get a visa if you write you're going to a hotel named for Lenin. His application and passport went back and forth across the country three times before we realized there was no way he could get the Russian visa done in time to also get the Azerbaijani visa. That's where it's helpful to have a good congressman. For a civilian it's impossible-- in takes a minimum of 10days-- but for a congressman asking for a constituent... it takes a few hours. Roland got his visa just hours before he departed and off we went... to a country with the good sense to not patronize a glitzy, gaudy new Trump Tower that was forced to close down in less than a week due to lack of business.
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| Heydar Aliyev shows the soles of his shoe |
The other congressman urged me to go see Gobustan (prehistoric caves, a nearby museum and, in the same region, Azerbaijan's famous mud volcanoes), the ancient Zoroastrian Atashgah Fire Temple in Surakhani, and Yanar Dag (the burning mountainside). We went to all of them and it was a much better use of time than just hanging around Baku (or Moscow).
Gobustan is about 40 miles southwest of Baku and we hired a taxi to take us there. The whole area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, primarily because of its easily-accessible caves with their rock art engravings showing life in prehistoric times, some dating back 40,000 years.
Azerbaijan has hundreds of mud volcanoes and I have a feeling the few dozen we saw might not have been the most impressive ones. They were hard to get to-- no paved roads-- and not really erupting, more like bubbling and burping out mud. Every twenty years or so one of them really explodes shooting fire and mud hundreds of feet into the air. So far, this wasn't one of those years. But we did get to climb around the hillocks and Roland dipped his hands into the bubbling mud.
The Atashgah Fire Temple is very close to Baku, a site dated as far back as 730 AD but destroyed and rebuilt several times since. What we saw was a pentagonal complex from the 17th century, which has a courtyard surrounded by cells for pilgrims and monks and a fire alter structure in the middle. It's the principal Zoroastrian site of pre-Islamic Azerbaijan and the guide I hired made sure to tell me that famous Zoroastrians included Indira Gandhi, Freddie Mercury, Zubin Mehta and Meher Baba.
Yanar Dag was kind of a dud. It's a not especially impressive natural gas fire that burns eternally on the side of a hill and I was mixing it up in my mind with a similar but bigger phenomenum in Derweze, Turkmenistan, on the other side of the Caspian Sea, east of Azerbaijan, called the Gates of Hell.
Not many American tourists go to Azerbaijan. We nearly didn't ourselves. But our trip to Russia looked like we had planned on too many days in Moscow-- even with a trip to the Golden Ring towns of Vladimir and Suzdal-- so we decided on a side trip to Baku. It's not very far by plane and Azerbaijan has a good airline with new, well-maintained planes and it's relatively inexpensive-- both the plane flights and everything in the city itself. But it isn't easy to get to because of the visa situation. You have to have a visa and Azerbaijan inadvertantly-- I think inadvertently-- makes it difficult by channeling would-be tourists to Travisa, a private company/middleman that "helps" travelers get visas. Except they don't. They just charge a inordinate amount of money and get in the way, making it more difficult to get the visas. I had a nightmare experience with them once before-- when I was forced to use them for an Indian visa-- and I would never voluntarily use them.
When you want a Russian visa, you have no choice any longer except to go through one of these "helpful" contractors, Invisa Logistics Service (ILS), although scammers like Travisa are happy to charge you for sending your application on to ILS. When you apply for an Azerbaijani visa, there is a strong implication that there is a similar mandate and that you must go through Travisa, an implication that Travisa doesn't discourage. When I tried getting my Azerbaijani visa through Travisa, nothing worked and lots of time was wasted. They also kept trying to get me to give them money with the warning that if I couldn't get the visa for any reason-- which looked likely judging by their jaw-dropping incompetence-- they still kept the money. Excuses ranged from their online application doesn't work with Apple computers to I can't use their in-office computer-- after they asked me to drive to their office to do just that-- because they couldn't give me the pass code for their WiFi network because of "security." I decided to give up and go to Georgia or Armenia instead when someone who overheard my conversation with the unhelpful staffer who was guaranteeing I couldn't go to Azerbaijan, told me to just go to the Azerbaijan consulate in L.A. and that it would be faster and cheaper. And it was. And easy as pie. That's your free tip of the day. Get your visa directly from the Azerbaijan consulate and skip the Travisa horror show.
Roland, meanwhile, had his passport tied up in the regular Travisa hell-- weeks and weeks of complete nonsense and wasted time. Like, two weeks wasted on "you have to change the name of your hotel from the Leningrad Hotel to the St. Petersburg Hotel." But the name of the hotel is the Leningrad Hotel. It doesn't matter. You can't get a visa if you write you're going to a hotel named for Lenin. His application and passport went back and forth across the country three times before we realized there was no way he could get the Russian visa done in time to also get the Azerbaijani visa. That's where it's helpful to have a good congressman. For a civilian it's impossible-- in takes a minimum of 10days-- but for a congressman asking for a constituent... it takes a few hours. Roland got his visa just hours before he departed and off we went... to a country with the good sense to not patronize a glitzy, gaudy new Trump Tower that was forced to close down in less than a week due to lack of business.
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| There's a mosque between my hotel and the funicular |
Monday, July 4, 2016
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Sunday, July 3, 2016
4th of July 2016
Independence Day. Think about that for a while. Put it into real context. Think about the Constitution and the freedoms it provides. Apply it to where this country is today and where we're headed. I think our forefathers would be really pissed if we let their sacrifices be wasted.
Happy 4th!
GL and GB America
Happy 4th!
GL and GB America
Friday, July 1, 2016
Where Not To Eat In Moscow
I never ate at New York's Taras Bulba on West Broadway in SoHo. Last year Vogue called it a "great Ukrainian restaurant" and it well may be but the one I ate in in Moscow 2 weeks ago was the worst restaurant I tried during my whole time in Russia. The chain was started in 1999 in Moscow and there are 16 restaurants there, one in Kiev and one in New York. One is down the street from the Baltschug Kempinski, where I stayed, and the concierge recommended it as a good place for hearty Russian food nearby. A stone's throw from the Kremlin, how bad could it be, I figured. Maybe I should gotten the clue when we walked in and found it empty save one table of drunk German tourists, but I didn't.
The food wasn't just supremely mediocre, the bill was triple what it should have been. When I asked why there where three times more items on the bill-- in Russian of course-- than what we ordered, they explained that when you order, say, fish and potatoes and a vegetable the way it's listed on the menu, they charge you for each component, although there's certainly no indication of that on the menu. As Roland said, "thank God they didn't charge us for the dill and the salt." So not only was it a bad dinner in a creepy atmosphere with bad service, it was extremely expensive, even though you'd never think that by looking at the menu.
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| This was the day I stressed out my peripheral neuropathy by walking too much |
People who want to know where to eat a good meal in Moscow have to be told the truth: St. Petersburg, just a few hours by bullet train. We tried Café Pushkin and the food was good and the service perfect, but there was literally some guy walking around dressed as Pushkin trying to interact with the diners. We were also steered towards Dr. Zhivago at the Hotel National and that was also supremely mediocre in all ways. I heard that Varvary, a molecular gastronomy place, is really good but we never made it there and the whole idea of eating stopped appealing to me after a few days in Moscow.
St. Petersburg, on the other hand, must have a tradition of good food and good service because there were plenty of good restaurants all over town. Palkin on Nevsky Prospect was perfect-- great Russian food, awesome service, fantastic ambience and good value. There's a great seafood restaurant called Russkaya Rybalka where, if you choose, you can catch your own dinner. I didn't but the dinner was really great, as well as inexpensive. There was a pretty good vegetarian-oriented place near St. Isaac's Cathedral called The Idiot and that neighborhood also boasts Dom, which isn't quite as good as Palkin but close enough, and a decent Italian restaurant, Percorso, in the Four Seasons hotel. But, to tell you the truth, the restaurants in St Petersburg are just plain as good as the ones in Moscow aren't.
Back to Korchma Taras Bulba for a moment. It purports to serve "authentic Ukrainian cuisine, prepared with the exact recipe that was handed down for centuries from generation to generation, and now from our grandparents to our grandchildren [with] a unique interior design that will make you feel like you were brought back a hundred years to a cozy Ukrainian home." Well, it was named for a fictional character invented by Gogol as a national Ukrainian hero in an 1835 historical novella that was judged by the tsarist censors as being too Ukrainian and anti-Russian enough to be revised in 1842. I saw it-- the revised story-- as a film starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis when I was a kid. Bulba is painted as a kind of Ukrainian George Washington freeing his country from the yoke of the Turks and then the Poles, while engaging in the Ukrainian national trait of persecuting the Jews.
Open Weekend Post 07/02-03/2016
You know the drill, share the love and the knowledge.
If you see it share it. I will as well.
Have a great holiday weekend.
GL and GB.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Morning Charts 06/30/2016 SPX /es
Early post
On to the lie -
More to come below.
Have a good holiday weekend.
GL and GB!
On to the lie -
More to come below.
Have a good holiday weekend.
GL and GB!
I'm Back From Russia-- With A Couple of Observations
I spent most of June in Russia and Azerbaijan, mostly Moscow and St. Petersburg. It was my first trip to either country. St. Petersburg, was a city founded in 1703 to be Russia's window to the West, and Moscow, founded in around 1150, is less European. Over 12 million people live in Moscow; only 4.8 million live in St Pete. (By contrast, NYC has 8.5 million people and L.A. has around 4 million.) People don't smile much in Moscow and they all seem to have poker faces. St. Petersburg seems more like a European city in every way. But even in St. Pete there's an underlying anti-Western attitude. I met a 20 year old soccer player and spent some time with him. Although he aspires to live in Miami and speaks English well, he seemed offended when he asked me if I like Petersburg better than L.A. and I said no, I like L.A. better. And when I asked him if he likes American music, he immediately dismissed the very idea as absurd-- and then told me he likes rap music.
Simon Shuster offered some hints at Time Magazine about where that antipathy towards America (and the West) comes from. Russia has been encouraging, perhaps subtly, extreme violence, heavily trained and weaponized violence, around football matches in Europe. Putin denies any involvement but a member Parliament, Igor Lebedev, deputy chairman of the Russian soccer foundation "urged the hooligans on Twitter to "keep it up."
The phrase they chanted during the violence-- Russkie Vperyod! (Forward, Russians!)-- happens to be emblematic of the brand of throwback patriotism that emerged from Putin's most recent run for re-election, in 2012.I'd be remiss if I didn't pass along a warning. I traveled with 2 friends, Roland and David. All 3 off us had all of our electronics hacked. David got home and found someone had withdrawn a considerable amount of money from his bank account. My e-mail list was bombarded with nonsense from the hackers and I had to change my passwords. Roland has to buy a new phone because his was so badly screwed up. So... yes Russia is wonderful to visit but, think about unplugging while you're there.Ahead of that vote, the Kremlin decided that the only way to galvanize a weary electorate was to play on the old fears and prejudices of the Cold War. It worked: Putin's popularity rose along with animosity toward the West. Ever since, a series of crises in Russia's relations with the West have helped the state's powerful propaganda channels [including high school curricula, I discovered] nurture a national siege mentality, portraying Russia as the victim of a bullying and treacherous West whose primary aim is to bring the country to its knees.
Khrushchev's grave
St. Petersburg is a gorgeous city, with one incredible public building after another, architecturally far more spectacular than anything in America. You can compare it to Paris, not to any American city. But just below the surface this was a different kind of dynamic-- low wages. Helsinki, capital of Finland, is very close to St Petersburg, just 242 miles-- 3.5 hours by train, 50 minutes by air. But the two cities are very different. In Finland, wages and labor standards are very high. Stuff is expensive but the standard of living is very high. Both cities have airports very close to town. It costs $15 to take a taxi to the airport in St. Pete. It's $55 in Helsinki.
Income inequality is very big in Russia and much less so in Finland. We use something called a Gini coefficient to measure income inequality. The Gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1, where 0 corresponds with perfect equality (where everyone has the same income) and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality (where one person has all the income-- and everyone else has zero income). These are the wealth Gini coefficients comparing not just Finland and Russia, but several countries to offer some context:
• Finland- 0.615So... the U.S. isn't the worst.
• Canada- 0.688
• U.K.- 0.697
• Russia- 0.699
• U.S.- 0.801
• Zimbabwe- 0.845
Morning Charts 06/30/2016 SPX /es
Well, this is yet to be determined, but this post - Soros: Brexit Has "Unleashed" A Financial Crisis Similar to 2008 could or could not be realistic. We've discussed this as possibly being the first domino or possibly the STB "event". DB and potential contagion may be the biggest problem right now. Remember don't look where they tell you to - look everywhere else for the real issues.
What we do know is that the Keynesian debt system run by the global elite to suck out and centralize as much wealth as possible is failing. Decades of debt, fiat currencies, fractal lending and much more have set up the bowling pins for a perfect strike. The UN and globalist agenda to heard the sheeple/chattle against their will, strip them of their freedoms and impose their righteousness on them is backfiring at the same time. Making us poor, subservient debt slaves is about to backfire. The Elites Have Lost The Right To Rule.
STB has for years warned of the coming collapse and the police state, their agenda and much more. It's getting down to crunch time and I hope you are prepared. Things are escalating. Some of the recent tragedies have been planned and some out of their control as portions of their proxy for submission and fear have gone rogue. I feel like we all really need to be on the alert for a larger false flag or event on the magnitude of a 9/11 or greater. More on this to come as I need to get back to the warning/fear mongering days of STB posts. I've been calm and quiet too long.
On to the lie -
Reversal? I actually like the idea here. Who knows? Only they do as they are in total control. Holiday ramp out of nowhere to calm the masses is all I see. Keep their illusion alive and well which keeps the sheeple at bay. They can't let the markets fail - plain and simple as that.
I updated a few charts last night and should have time to get on a few more over the next week. There isn't really any magic showing up in them right now short term. but long term some things are working. LT s/r is the best technical thing going right now in this crazy volatile topping process.
SPX Daily - We're still in the STB anatomy of a rollover. We're at one of those points where nothing makes sense and everyone is in complete denial that failure is immanent.
SPX 30m - I can only recall one other time when price traded between an island top and island bottom and it was insignificant - this isn't. The green/blue areas are the island gaps. All the other yellow areas are open gaps. Never seen anything like this before. My main gist for a reversal here is the backtest of black channel support just above 2064 s/r at the 62% retracement - it's just a very logical reversal/continuation point technically.
SPX Weekly - Well someone wanted a drop-n-pop to set the negative divergences on the weekly. Why did price stop 1990 so abruptly and with precision? See that blue channel support going back to the '09 low? There is your answer. I'm gonna work on cleaning up the ST weekly chart. I believe a lot of keys will lie in this time frame.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
What we do know is that the Keynesian debt system run by the global elite to suck out and centralize as much wealth as possible is failing. Decades of debt, fiat currencies, fractal lending and much more have set up the bowling pins for a perfect strike. The UN and globalist agenda to heard the sheeple/chattle against their will, strip them of their freedoms and impose their righteousness on them is backfiring at the same time. Making us poor, subservient debt slaves is about to backfire. The Elites Have Lost The Right To Rule.
STB has for years warned of the coming collapse and the police state, their agenda and much more. It's getting down to crunch time and I hope you are prepared. Things are escalating. Some of the recent tragedies have been planned and some out of their control as portions of their proxy for submission and fear have gone rogue. I feel like we all really need to be on the alert for a larger false flag or event on the magnitude of a 9/11 or greater. More on this to come as I need to get back to the warning/fear mongering days of STB posts. I've been calm and quiet too long.
On to the lie -
Reversal? I actually like the idea here. Who knows? Only they do as they are in total control. Holiday ramp out of nowhere to calm the masses is all I see. Keep their illusion alive and well which keeps the sheeple at bay. They can't let the markets fail - plain and simple as that.
I updated a few charts last night and should have time to get on a few more over the next week. There isn't really any magic showing up in them right now short term. but long term some things are working. LT s/r is the best technical thing going right now in this crazy volatile topping process.
SPX Daily - We're still in the STB anatomy of a rollover. We're at one of those points where nothing makes sense and everyone is in complete denial that failure is immanent.
SPX 30m - I can only recall one other time when price traded between an island top and island bottom and it was insignificant - this isn't. The green/blue areas are the island gaps. All the other yellow areas are open gaps. Never seen anything like this before. My main gist for a reversal here is the backtest of black channel support just above 2064 s/r at the 62% retracement - it's just a very logical reversal/continuation point technically.
SPX Weekly - Well someone wanted a drop-n-pop to set the negative divergences on the weekly. Why did price stop 1990 so abruptly and with precision? See that blue channel support going back to the '09 low? There is your answer. I'm gonna work on cleaning up the ST weekly chart. I believe a lot of keys will lie in this time frame.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Morning Charts 06/29/2016 SPX /es
Futures continue to rise. Remember Bad=Good? Well Brexit is bringing the hope of intervention right back along with false or imaginary data points. What a bunch of idiots. This can only last so long. They can only pump so much hopium up the backside of this market till it explodes. When it does it won't be pretty. Time or when or how long can they keep the charade alive is the only mystery.
The charts in yesterday's post still work today - 2040ish and then 64 are apparently back in play. Still no real form but no lack of volatility. Overnight low volume ramps are back as well lifting when it is easiest. Reality has been rearing its ugly head though not allowing them to ramp or elevate with the ease they used to. Right now I'm leaning on this move up being a retracement or back test move. 1990 was defended. They can't let this market fail.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
The charts in yesterday's post still work today - 2040ish and then 64 are apparently back in play. Still no real form but no lack of volatility. Overnight low volume ramps are back as well lifting when it is easiest. Reality has been rearing its ugly head though not allowing them to ramp or elevate with the ease they used to. Right now I'm leaning on this move up being a retracement or back test move. 1990 was defended. They can't let this market fail.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Morning Charts 06/28/2016 SPX /es
What's the one word that stands out in this headline? Global Stocks Rebound, US Futures Jump On Expectation Of "Coordinated Intervention By Central Banks". And what similar or related word is in this headline? This Is What Draghi Said To Spark Speculation Of Another Global Central Bank Bailout. Expectation and speculation are the two words I'm looking for. If you had gone with intervention and bailout, you would have been close. What? Did you expect anything other than the new normal? It's all they know how to do, intervene. Everyone is conditioned to it and fully expects it. We all know that one day it won't work any longer and the game will end, so enjoy the ride till then. When it ends things are gonna get beyond historically ugly.
And if you believe the newest rosy GDP numbers, then you're dumber than someone that would vote for the Hildabeast.
On to the lie -
Well 1990 was a good target, and a reversal or retracement off that point was also somewhat expected. Remember - 'they' can't let it crash. It's all they got between us and them and total loss of control. Now, bully is by no means out of the woods yet. They are losing control and the ability to manufacture ramps via their traditional methods (other than short squeezes).
SPX 60m - I expanded the chart to the left to gather a bit more data. This shows the s/r at 1990 better. Price moves rather quickly between 64 and 90 (yellow area) doesn't it? And what happens to price under 90? Well, they don't want to experience that - so they stick save! See that lower black descending support diagonal? That's a good target line if this fall continues. Also, looking at the chart - one would favor a breakdown here based on recent performance and failed policy.
SPX 30m - No form to the breakdown. I don't think you can rule out a backtest of 64. That island gap just above 2100 will bother me till it's closed.
Freedom watch -
It's all now a battle vs. the elites. EU v. Brexit = Class War
Which is way overdue.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
Monday, June 27, 2016
GIGABYTE Achieves Another 2x World Records and Multiple Global Firsts
Even after Computex the GIGABYTE Team has still been hard at work pushing the limits of the GIGABYTE Motherboards.
This week GIGABYTE posts another 5 records, below you can see the breakdown and performance of GIGABYTE's Z170 Motherboard.
GIGABYTE's Newest World Records:
GIGABYTE's Global Firsts:
WPrime 32M
Be sure to check HWBot and GIGABYTE's Facebook page for more contests & competitions to win awesome GIGABYTE Prizes.
This week GIGABYTE posts another 5 records, below you can see the breakdown and performance of GIGABYTE's Z170 Motherboard.
GIGABYTE's Newest World Records:
GIGABYTE's Global Firsts:
WPrime 32M
Be sure to check HWBot and GIGABYTE's Facebook page for more contests & competitions to win awesome GIGABYTE Prizes.
Morning Charts 06/27/2016 SPX /es
Well, here is your road map - Key Events In The Coming Week: All About Brexit. Tons of data and Fed speakers Wed - Fri. Of course it will be a week full of Brexit spin, and they won't be able to distract from this disaster (but they may use it to hide other things/actions).
On to the lie -
SPX 60m - No patterns yet. Simply have to follow the larger support resistance points for now with the round numbers to see where it wants to stop.
SPX 60m - A good look at the cliff she sits on.
SPX 2hr - No pattern yet and looks like 2025 support could crack this morning. They don't want to, but 1990 S really needs to be the target if the PPT and the PTB can't take momo back.
Freedom watch -
Well, at least a TBTF is willing to admit what the MSM would not dare mention - Deutsche Bank: "There's No Escaping The Fact That This Is A Class War". You have to immediately point to the elite, the PTB and the UN (globalization failure - Agenda 21/30) with their Brexit failure. With the potential failure of the EU a whole new (actually old) ballgame gets cranked back up - globalism will change back to global domination.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
On to the lie -
SPX 60m - No patterns yet. Simply have to follow the larger support resistance points for now with the round numbers to see where it wants to stop.
SPX 60m - A good look at the cliff she sits on.
SPX 2hr - No pattern yet and looks like 2025 support could crack this morning. They don't want to, but 1990 S really needs to be the target if the PPT and the PTB can't take momo back.
Freedom watch -
Well, at least a TBTF is willing to admit what the MSM would not dare mention - Deutsche Bank: "There's No Escaping The Fact That This Is A Class War". You have to immediately point to the elite, the PTB and the UN (globalization failure - Agenda 21/30) with their Brexit failure. With the potential failure of the EU a whole new (actually old) ballgame gets cranked back up - globalism will change back to global domination.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
Friday, June 24, 2016
Open Weekend Post 06/25-26/2016
You know the drill, share the love and the knowledge.
If you see it, share it. I will as well.
Have a good weekend.
GL and GB!
Lunita
Lunita is as cuddly as can be!She is a new syle of baby I had in my heart to try for quite a while. She is small, soft and heavy, filled more with sand than wool in her limbs and body. She is quite floppy and has a more waldorf like simple face.Lunita is a prototype and already has a family, but there will be more babies lin her likeness as RTG dolls soon. Price will be 150 dollars.
Suki
Suki is such a sweet baby! She loves hugs, kisses and cuddles. She enjoys playing calmly with her toys, but what she likes most is kittens! Little kittens make her laugh in delight!
Suki is a custom and already has a family.
She is made with sweet smelling sheep's wool, needle felted and soft sculpted. Her skin is DWE in sunkissed color and her hair is a mohair wig.
Jacy
Jacy completly stole my heart!
She is a custom dolly and her mama wanted a south american baby. She sent me some beautiful photographs as inspiration and I understood that she wanted a peruvian baby, with all that pretty colors and textures which are a strong characterist of that beautiful people.
I really fell in love with the theme! It never occured to me before to make a peruvian
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Morning Charts 06/24/2016 SPX /es
Brexit. Holy shit. Cameron gone. I don't get many wrong, but I was positive the elite would not allow this. Maybe it's not over yet. I'm mostly stunned that the sheeple still have a voice. This is the most positive populist event in decades. The chattle are fighting back and this was the first ground they've taken back. Nigel victory speech.
On to the lie -
SPX Daily -
SPX 60m - This move will take us to the edge of the abyss.
More to come below.
Have a good weekend.
GL and GB!
Morninng Charts 06/23/2016 SPX /es
Brexit day! Not really worth discussing anything else. As noted, I believe stay will win simply on the fact that 'they' count the votes. Reminder, don't be distracted.
On to the lie -
Looks like markets are trying to price in a Bremain - someone explain to me why that's market positive over a Brexit? There is not one thing globally that is market positive (other than intervention).
SPX 30m - Looks like I'm not gonna get that setup this morning. Futures parked it right under the round number. Looks liek cash will do the same. This is a possible reversal point as round number triple top and backtest of busted wedge resistance will meet the open pop.
Freedom watch -
If you have not seen the full Trump speech you can see it here. This is only the beginning of his assault on the elite. My only hope is that he does not hold back. If they think that was an attack, that was only the beginning. He could rail her for 10 years daily and still not cover all of her crimes and lies.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
On to the lie -
Looks like markets are trying to price in a Bremain - someone explain to me why that's market positive over a Brexit? There is not one thing globally that is market positive (other than intervention).
SPX 30m - Looks like I'm not gonna get that setup this morning. Futures parked it right under the round number. Looks liek cash will do the same. This is a possible reversal point as round number triple top and backtest of busted wedge resistance will meet the open pop.
Freedom watch -
If you have not seen the full Trump speech you can see it here. This is only the beginning of his assault on the elite. My only hope is that he does not hold back. If they think that was an attack, that was only the beginning. He could rail her for 10 years daily and still not cover all of her crimes and lies.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Morning Charts 06/22/2016 SPX /es
Not gonna harp on the gloom and doom. Waiting on the Brexit vote is all there is to do. I'll advise not to lose sight of everything else that's falling apart. Distraction is their best game right now.
On to the lie -
SPX 5m -
Freedom watch -
Cherry on top of the fuckedupness of this planet right now - 'Scientology CNN'
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
On to the lie -
SPX 5m -
Freedom watch -
Cherry on top of the fuckedupness of this planet right now - 'Scientology CNN'
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Morning Charts 06/21/2016 SPX /es
Nothing to say up here. Brexit dominates everything. We're in a holding pattern.
On to the lie -
SPX 15m - Brexit has everything even more screwed up. Nothing you can do that will be sensible prolly till Friday or Monday. Don't forget, they distract you so well, When Brexit Has Come And Gone, The Real Problems Will Remain
Freedom watch -
Crisis of Character - Clinton tell all is just another testimony to her criminal nature among other things. Of course she'll skate right thru the storm.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
On to the lie -
SPX 15m - Brexit has everything even more screwed up. Nothing you can do that will be sensible prolly till Friday or Monday. Don't forget, they distract you so well, When Brexit Has Come And Gone, The Real Problems Will Remain
Freedom watch -
Crisis of Character - Clinton tell all is just another testimony to her criminal nature among other things. Of course she'll skate right thru the storm.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
Monday, June 20, 2016
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Morning Charts 06/20/2016 SPX /es
I'm not buying it either. I think it is a last ditch effort to save the elite's global takeover plan. It's a great example of what 'they' can do when 'they' want - "The Next Few Days Will Be Dominated By Fear" - Why One Trader Isn't Buying Today's Massive Stock Surge. If they don't leave the globalists win and another nail is pounded into our ultimate enslavement coffin.
The establishment is also taking on the Amexit here as they continue to fight Trump. Republican Operatives Launch All-Out Effort To Unbind Delegates, Deny Trump Nomination. The establishment is facing great challenges (as they should) and showing their true colors. We want our freedom and life back and they want total control. You have no idea how important these votes are for our future.
Also see It's Not Just The "Brexit" Vote: Key Economic Events In The Coming Week
On to the lie -
SPX 60m - Well, if this is what defending critical s/r at 64 looks like (talking about the pop after the open), then what in the world are they gonna pull even lower when this thing lets go? Bottom line, as we discuss almost daily, they can not let it fail. No sense in charting anything till after this open and possibly week are over.
Freedom watch -
As noted above - there is also to much at stake to allow Trump - Martin Armstrong On Assassination Conspiracies: "There's Too Much At Stake To Allow Brexit". Folks - listen - this is about GLOBAL DOMINATION. This is about elite control. This is about EVERYTHING for you and me and our kids futures. This is about whether we have any choice in anything anymore.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
The establishment is also taking on the Amexit here as they continue to fight Trump. Republican Operatives Launch All-Out Effort To Unbind Delegates, Deny Trump Nomination. The establishment is facing great challenges (as they should) and showing their true colors. We want our freedom and life back and they want total control. You have no idea how important these votes are for our future.
Also see It's Not Just The "Brexit" Vote: Key Economic Events In The Coming Week
On to the lie -
SPX 60m - Well, if this is what defending critical s/r at 64 looks like (talking about the pop after the open), then what in the world are they gonna pull even lower when this thing lets go? Bottom line, as we discuss almost daily, they can not let it fail. No sense in charting anything till after this open and possibly week are over.
Freedom watch -
As noted above - there is also to much at stake to allow Trump - Martin Armstrong On Assassination Conspiracies: "There's Too Much At Stake To Allow Brexit". Folks - listen - this is about GLOBAL DOMINATION. This is about elite control. This is about EVERYTHING for you and me and our kids futures. This is about whether we have any choice in anything anymore.
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Guest Post From Sally Fensome: Drugs Tourism-- Is It Worth It?
Vacations are times of hedonism, when we aim to expand our minds and to enjoy ourselves. If we’re heading to somewhere where drugs are more readily available and/or legal than here, then we may decide to push our boundaries a bit by experimenting with some of the local substances. Some people even travel expressly for this purpose. But is it a good idea? Is drugs tourism just harmless fun, or can it take a nasty, dark turn? As with everything, it all depends on what you do, what you do it for, and how deep you go.
Different Rules
If you want to experiment with substances, the USA is not the best place to do so. Our notorious ‘war on drugs’ means that you could face hefty sentences for even minor misdemeanors. The legalization of cannabis in certain states does, in all fairness, mean that you can take a road trip or an internal flight to get stoned without having to get a visa, but in general we’re still pretty strict. Far easier to head somewhere where certain drugs laws are not as tight, or where substance use is less policed. In many European nations, the use of recreational marijuana is either completely legal or barely policed, and attitudes towards it are far different to those we might find here. The same applies to many other ‘soft’ drugs in many parts of the world. If you spend a lot of time in these places, and make friends with the locals, you will almost inevitably find yourself adopting their way of thinking about what back home would be considered deviant drugs. It can be surprising when you head home and speak of your experiences to find your American friends bringing all of their homegrown prejudices to bear upon your drug use while abroad. However, in some cases, they may be justified. While there’s probably little risk from the free and easy use of things like marijuana, experimenting too deeply with harder drugs could leave you with some serious problems. Just because it’s legal (or easy to get away with) doesn’t mean that it’s safe.
Benefits Of Drug Tourism
We know what we’re meant to say-- ‘DRUGS ARE BAD, KIDS!’ And they are. But let’s not pretend that there aren’t some silver linings to the (blue) cloud. Heading out on a vacation and doing some relatively harmless drugs can be a great way for kids to learn that drugs aren’t really that great. It’s a good way to get experimental urges out of one’s system without landing oneself with a criminal record. It’s also a great way to make those crucial mistakes you need to make in order to learn. When you’re on a vacation, you’re typically in a reasonably safe social environment, surrounded by friends and family who’ll look after you. What’s more, if you’re somewhere where the drugs you want to try are legal, you’re likely to be sold them in a controlled location which will have absolutely no desire to see you in danger (or they could lose their licence). So it’s a safe way in which to learn by experience the joys and the downfalls of recreational drug use. However, this assumes that you’re sensible about it, don’t purchase from dodgy vendors, and don’t go near the really hard stuff. There are other reasons why people may benefit from drugs tourism. People with medical conditions may travel to experience the therapeutic effects of medical marijuana, and those with mental health problems are increasingly travelling to South America for the purportedly curative (but controversial) powers of ayahuasca.
Dangers Of Drug Tourism
Let’s start with the obvious: travelling abroad to do drugs could get you killed. Anything which messes with your mind and body as much as some of the substances out there is really, really dangerous. Particularly if you don’t know what you’re doing, and don’t understand enough of the local language to listen to instructions. If you’re not killed, you could end up with a nasty habit. So stay away from anything which is known to have addictive or life-threatening qualities! No matter how ‘normal’ it seems to use these substances in the area you’re travelling to! Oh, and speaking of ‘life threatening’, it’s worth noting that you can be executed in many nations for drugs offences. Moving down the scale, drugs tourism could see you arrested, and subjected to some pretty nasty penal regimes. While illegal drugs may be relatively easy to come by in certain parts of the world, their usage is deeply frowned upon. Some governments try to discourage drugs tourism by imposing harsh penalties upon foreigners caught using or smuggling drugs on their shores. We already mentioned execution. If you’re found ‘trafficking’ (which can mean anything from ‘smuggling through the airport’ to ‘holding in your hand’) drugs in Malaysia, the authorities will have no hesitation in sentencing you to death. And, yes, they really can do that to a foreign citizen. It’s not just Malaysia that you need to watch out for, either. Plenty of nations will drop on you like a ton of bricks for drugs tourism. If you’re lucky, you might just end up in prison for 30 odd years.
Think Of The Locals
If you’re considering a spot of drugs tourism, it pays to be considerate of the locals. Places like Amsterdam have been forced to consider putting restrictions on foreigners consuming marijuana there, as drugs tourists often a) can’t really handle it properly, and b) don’t have any respect for the locals. Drugs tourists all too often make the mistake of treating the nation they’re in as their own personal playground, and forgetting that real humans live, work, and belong to this place. The idea that any location is a ‘party town’ for you to go wild in risks you putting some local backs up in a serious manner. Not to mention the fact that drugs tourism can be exploitative and damaging to fragile local cultures. So, if you’re going to go off an experiment with substances in a foreign land, be as respectful as you can possibly manage!
Different Rules
If you want to experiment with substances, the USA is not the best place to do so. Our notorious ‘war on drugs’ means that you could face hefty sentences for even minor misdemeanors. The legalization of cannabis in certain states does, in all fairness, mean that you can take a road trip or an internal flight to get stoned without having to get a visa, but in general we’re still pretty strict. Far easier to head somewhere where certain drugs laws are not as tight, or where substance use is less policed. In many European nations, the use of recreational marijuana is either completely legal or barely policed, and attitudes towards it are far different to those we might find here. The same applies to many other ‘soft’ drugs in many parts of the world. If you spend a lot of time in these places, and make friends with the locals, you will almost inevitably find yourself adopting their way of thinking about what back home would be considered deviant drugs. It can be surprising when you head home and speak of your experiences to find your American friends bringing all of their homegrown prejudices to bear upon your drug use while abroad. However, in some cases, they may be justified. While there’s probably little risk from the free and easy use of things like marijuana, experimenting too deeply with harder drugs could leave you with some serious problems. Just because it’s legal (or easy to get away with) doesn’t mean that it’s safe.
Benefits Of Drug Tourism
We know what we’re meant to say-- ‘DRUGS ARE BAD, KIDS!’ And they are. But let’s not pretend that there aren’t some silver linings to the (blue) cloud. Heading out on a vacation and doing some relatively harmless drugs can be a great way for kids to learn that drugs aren’t really that great. It’s a good way to get experimental urges out of one’s system without landing oneself with a criminal record. It’s also a great way to make those crucial mistakes you need to make in order to learn. When you’re on a vacation, you’re typically in a reasonably safe social environment, surrounded by friends and family who’ll look after you. What’s more, if you’re somewhere where the drugs you want to try are legal, you’re likely to be sold them in a controlled location which will have absolutely no desire to see you in danger (or they could lose their licence). So it’s a safe way in which to learn by experience the joys and the downfalls of recreational drug use. However, this assumes that you’re sensible about it, don’t purchase from dodgy vendors, and don’t go near the really hard stuff. There are other reasons why people may benefit from drugs tourism. People with medical conditions may travel to experience the therapeutic effects of medical marijuana, and those with mental health problems are increasingly travelling to South America for the purportedly curative (but controversial) powers of ayahuasca.
Dangers Of Drug Tourism
Let’s start with the obvious: travelling abroad to do drugs could get you killed. Anything which messes with your mind and body as much as some of the substances out there is really, really dangerous. Particularly if you don’t know what you’re doing, and don’t understand enough of the local language to listen to instructions. If you’re not killed, you could end up with a nasty habit. So stay away from anything which is known to have addictive or life-threatening qualities! No matter how ‘normal’ it seems to use these substances in the area you’re travelling to! Oh, and speaking of ‘life threatening’, it’s worth noting that you can be executed in many nations for drugs offences. Moving down the scale, drugs tourism could see you arrested, and subjected to some pretty nasty penal regimes. While illegal drugs may be relatively easy to come by in certain parts of the world, their usage is deeply frowned upon. Some governments try to discourage drugs tourism by imposing harsh penalties upon foreigners caught using or smuggling drugs on their shores. We already mentioned execution. If you’re found ‘trafficking’ (which can mean anything from ‘smuggling through the airport’ to ‘holding in your hand’) drugs in Malaysia, the authorities will have no hesitation in sentencing you to death. And, yes, they really can do that to a foreign citizen. It’s not just Malaysia that you need to watch out for, either. Plenty of nations will drop on you like a ton of bricks for drugs tourism. If you’re lucky, you might just end up in prison for 30 odd years.
Think Of The Locals
If you’re considering a spot of drugs tourism, it pays to be considerate of the locals. Places like Amsterdam have been forced to consider putting restrictions on foreigners consuming marijuana there, as drugs tourists often a) can’t really handle it properly, and b) don’t have any respect for the locals. Drugs tourists all too often make the mistake of treating the nation they’re in as their own personal playground, and forgetting that real humans live, work, and belong to this place. The idea that any location is a ‘party town’ for you to go wild in risks you putting some local backs up in a serious manner. Not to mention the fact that drugs tourism can be exploitative and damaging to fragile local cultures. So, if you’re going to go off an experiment with substances in a foreign land, be as respectful as you can possibly manage!
Friday, June 17, 2016
Open Weekend Post 06/18-19/2016
You know the drill, share the love and the knowledge.
If you see it, share it. I will as well.
Have a good weekend.
GL and GB!
Morning Charts 06/17/2016 SPX /es
Want a sure sign the end is near (like really near)? As I've opined over the years, when they (banks) start turning and feeding on each other, it will be over. Is this the first sign of a major fracture? Let the CYAing and finger pointing begin. In Furious Tirade, Citi Lashes Out At "Utterly Misguided" Central Bankers, Invokes Weimar Republic's Von Havenstein
See ZH for all the important Brexit news. This has 'em freaking out. It's a must for liberty and freedom fighters across the globe.
On to the lie -
SPX 5m - I expect a dull day and for them to try their best to park it between 85 and 64 for as long as they can hang on. Still no larger guiding pattern to speak of that I can see. I'll get into the charts this weekend, maybe even blow a few up and add some new ones to make sure I'm seeing things correctly.
Freedom watch -
Usually never on a Friday, but this one is too good to pass up. When conspiracy theories become fact we must point them out and shout them from the mountain top. Everythin. like EVERYTHING, is rigged. BTW, I'd really prefer a Turmp-Sanders ticket. Not even the establishment could defeat that. Sanders Supporters Vindicated: Proof DNC Used Media To Rig Election for Hillary
More to come below.
Have a good weekend.
GL and GB!
See ZH for all the important Brexit news. This has 'em freaking out. It's a must for liberty and freedom fighters across the globe.
On to the lie -
SPX 5m - I expect a dull day and for them to try their best to park it between 85 and 64 for as long as they can hang on. Still no larger guiding pattern to speak of that I can see. I'll get into the charts this weekend, maybe even blow a few up and add some new ones to make sure I'm seeing things correctly.
Freedom watch -
Usually never on a Friday, but this one is too good to pass up. When conspiracy theories become fact we must point them out and shout them from the mountain top. Everythin. like EVERYTHING, is rigged. BTW, I'd really prefer a Turmp-Sanders ticket. Not even the establishment could defeat that. Sanders Supporters Vindicated: Proof DNC Used Media To Rig Election for Hillary
More to come below.
Have a good weekend.
GL and GB!
Thursday, June 16, 2016
The Trump Name Is Too Toxic For Azerbaijan, One Of The World's Most Corrupt Countries
I just got back from my first visit to Azerbaijan. I never expected to find such a wonderful place but it reminded me of a wealthier and more modern/Western Turkey. It's a little smaller than Maine and a little bigger than South Carolina with just over ten million inhabitants, more than New Jersey or Michigan and just about the same number as North Carolina. The rap on the country is that it's very wealthy but that all the wealth is concentrated in a few families' hands, cronies of the forever president, Ilham Aliyev, who first came to power in 2003 when his pop, Heydar Aliyev died. The elder Aliyev had been a former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party, a member of the Soviet Politburo and of the KGB before deposing Azerbaijan's first Democratically-elected president Abulfaz Elchibey.
Before that unpleasantness, Azerbaijan was the world's first Muslim-majority secular state and parliamentary democracy before being overrun by the Soviets in 1920, Lenin saying he was sorry but the Soviets needed the oil. Azerbaijan lived under the Soviet yoke until it declared independence in 1991. Now it's a rich little country and Baku, the modern, bustling capital, looks-- architecturally-- like a cross between Paris and Dubai. And into this mix waddled Donald Trump a couple years ago.
One of the mainstays of the kleptocratic regime, Transportation Minister, Ziya Mammadov, who went from a lowly railway worker to a billionaire/Mafioso owns a lot of Azerbaijan. His son, Anar, is a shady character and a perfect fit for The Donald. It was only a matter of time before they found each other, which they did when Anar decided to rent Trump's name for his glitzy new hotel. He paid Trump between $2.5 and $2.8 million for the right to slap "Trump Tower" on his building and to get some consultations from Ivanka. In November, 2014, the Trump Organization announced that Trump Tower Baku was part of it's hotel empire and The Donald himself boasted that "Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku represents the unwavering standard of excellence of The Trump Organization and our involvement in only the best global development projects. When we open in 2015, visitors and residents will experience a luxurious property unlike anything else in Baku-- it will be among the finest in the world." Ivanka added that "This incredible building reflects the highest level of luxury and refinement, with extraordinary architecture inspired by the Caspian Sea and sophisticated interiors that seamlessly blend contemporary style with timeless appeal. We are looking forward to bringing our unparalleled Trump services and amenities to Azerbaijan.”
It sort of opened. Trump's partner, Anar, has been described by U.S. diplomats as "notoriously corrupt" and as working to launder money for the Iranian military. They hired a full staff and started renting rooms but never had a promised grand opening.
Before that unpleasantness, Azerbaijan was the world's first Muslim-majority secular state and parliamentary democracy before being overrun by the Soviets in 1920, Lenin saying he was sorry but the Soviets needed the oil. Azerbaijan lived under the Soviet yoke until it declared independence in 1991. Now it's a rich little country and Baku, the modern, bustling capital, looks-- architecturally-- like a cross between Paris and Dubai. And into this mix waddled Donald Trump a couple years ago.
One of the mainstays of the kleptocratic regime, Transportation Minister, Ziya Mammadov, who went from a lowly railway worker to a billionaire/Mafioso owns a lot of Azerbaijan. His son, Anar, is a shady character and a perfect fit for The Donald. It was only a matter of time before they found each other, which they did when Anar decided to rent Trump's name for his glitzy new hotel. He paid Trump between $2.5 and $2.8 million for the right to slap "Trump Tower" on his building and to get some consultations from Ivanka. In November, 2014, the Trump Organization announced that Trump Tower Baku was part of it's hotel empire and The Donald himself boasted that "Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku represents the unwavering standard of excellence of The Trump Organization and our involvement in only the best global development projects. When we open in 2015, visitors and residents will experience a luxurious property unlike anything else in Baku-- it will be among the finest in the world." Ivanka added that "This incredible building reflects the highest level of luxury and refinement, with extraordinary architecture inspired by the Caspian Sea and sophisticated interiors that seamlessly blend contemporary style with timeless appeal. We are looking forward to bringing our unparalleled Trump services and amenities to Azerbaijan.”
It sort of opened. Trump's partner, Anar, has been described by U.S. diplomats as "notoriously corrupt" and as working to launder money for the Iranian military. They hired a full staff and started renting rooms but never had a promised grand opening.
Trump often talks of hiring the best people and surrounding himself with people he can trust. In practice, however, he and his executives have at times appeared to overlook details about the background of people he has chosen as business partners, such as whether they had dubious associations, had been convicted of crimes, faced extradition or inflated their resumes.Now all the employees have been laid off and everyone around Baku says they want to wait a little while for people to forget the Trump taint before they re-brand the building and re-open it as something else-- anything else. even a Motel 6 would be a better bet than something related to Trump at this moment.
...In the Azerbaijani case, Garten said the Trump Organization had performed meticulous due diligence on the company's partners, but hadn't researched the allegations against the Baku partner's father because he wasn't a party to the deal.
"I've never heard that before," Garten said, when first asked about allegations of Iranian money laundering by the partner's father, which appeared in U.S. diplomatic cables widely available since they were leaked in 2010.
Garten subsequently said he was confident the minister alleged to be laundering Iranian funds, Ziya Mammadov, had no involvement in his son's holding company, even though some of the son's major businesses regularly partnered with the transportation ministry and were founded while the son was in college overseas. Ziya Mammadov did not respond to a telephone message the AP left with his ministry in Baku or to emails to the Azerbaijan Embassy in Washington.
Garten told the AP that Trump's company uses a third-party investigative firm, which he did not identify, that specializes in background intelligence gathering and searches global watch lists, warrant lists and sanctions lists maintained by the United Nations, Interpol and others.
...Any American contemplating a business venture in Azerbaijan faces a risk: "endemic public corruption," as the State Department puts it. Much of that money flows from the oil and gas industries, but the State Department also considers the country to be a waypoint for terrorist financiers, Iranian sanctions-busters and Afghan drug lords.
The environment is a risky one for any business venture seeking to avoid violating U.S. penalties imposed against Iran or anti-bribery laws under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
...Garten said the Trump Organization had performed background screening on all those involved in the deal and was confident Mammadov's father played no role in the project.
Experts on Azerbaijan were mystified that Trump or anyone else could reach that conclusion.
Anar Mammadov is widely viewed by diplomats and nongovernmental organizations as a transparent stand-in for the business interests of his father. Anar's business has boomed with regular help from his father's ministry, receiving exclusive government contracts, a near monopoly on Baku's taxi business and even a free fleet of autobuses.
"These are not business people acting on their own — you're dealing with daddy," said Richard Kauzlarich, a U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan under President Bill Clinton in the 1990s who went on to work under the Director of National Intelligence during the George W. Bush administration.
"Whatever the Trump people thought they were doing, that wasn't reality," Kauzlarich said.
Anar Mammadov, who is believed to be 35, has said in a series of interviews that he founded Garant Holdings' predecessor-- which has arms in transportation, construction, banking, telecommunications and manufacturing-- in 2000, when he would have been 19. Anar received his bachelor's degree in 2003 and a master's in business administration in 2005-- both from a university in London.
Mammadov's statement that he founded the business in 2000 appeared in a magazine produced by a research firm in partnership with the Azerbaijani government. In other forums, he has said he started the business in 2005, though several of its key subsidiaries predate that period.
Morning Charts 06/16/2016 SPX /es
Things are really messed up and are possibly in a culmination phase - Not sure how much longer their lies and deception can last. Even Grandma the other day finally seemed to be in a not the Fed norm exceptionalism state of things,
On to the lie -
SPX 30m - Well, yesterday turned from talking about a possible gap up open to take out 2085 resistance to a gap down open to take out 2064 support. with 64 in the middle we need to watch to see if they have the poster to consolidate between 40 and 85. I've been leaning down, timed the top pretty good the other day but as usual will walk this thing down. Looks bad, it is bad, but it is also their market. Just remain calm and don't get too far ahead of yourself thinking something must happen.
Freedom watch -
This dude does some really good videos on some difficult subjects. I suggest you listen to this and take in what he says and process it in your own way. Subject matter is getting way out there, but sometimes accepting reality is the most difficult thing to do - The Secret AGENDA Behind The Orlando Mass Shooting (2016)
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!
"Furthermore, number of employees tumbled, New Orders fell to 4 month lows, and average workweek remains deep in contraction. Additionally, 'Hope' fell as the six month outlook dropped to 3 month lows. But apart from all that, yay... Philly Fed is up."
On to the lie -
SPX 30m - Well, yesterday turned from talking about a possible gap up open to take out 2085 resistance to a gap down open to take out 2064 support. with 64 in the middle we need to watch to see if they have the poster to consolidate between 40 and 85. I've been leaning down, timed the top pretty good the other day but as usual will walk this thing down. Looks bad, it is bad, but it is also their market. Just remain calm and don't get too far ahead of yourself thinking something must happen.
Freedom watch -
This dude does some really good videos on some difficult subjects. I suggest you listen to this and take in what he says and process it in your own way. Subject matter is getting way out there, but sometimes accepting reality is the most difficult thing to do - The Secret AGENDA Behind The Orlando Mass Shooting (2016)
More to come below.
Have a good day.
GL and GB!



























