Top Jihadist Claims Brussels, Paris Are Terror Rehearsals for “BIG ATTACK COMING TO THE U.S.”

The deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels last week and in Paris last November are dress rehearsals for a coming “big” attack inside the United States, a leading Islamic State-allied militant claimed in an exclusive interview.

Ansari is a well-known Gazan Salafist jihadist allied with Islamic State ideology. During the interview with Klein, Ansari seemed to be speaking as an actual IS member, repeatedly using the pronoun “we” when referring to IS and even seemingly making declarations on behalf of IS.

IS has been reluctant to officially declare its presence in Gaza for fear of a Hamas clampdown, but the group is known to be active in the coastal enclave and Ansari is a suspected IS leader. IS-aligned militants have taken responsibility for recent rocket fire from Gaza aimed at Israel.

Klein asked Ansari whether IS maintains cells inside the U.S. and if the terrorist group is “planning anything in America.”

Ansari responded:


Aaron, the battle with America is a very long one, a very tough one, a very hard one. America has a black record with the mujahedeen, and this black record will not be purified but with blood, and lots of blood. Only blood will cleanse what America did to the mujahedeen. And I can confirm that our leadership made it very clear that what happened in Paris, what happened in Brussels was only a small rehearsal before the big thing that will happen in America.

This is the commitment; this is the engagement of our leadership to the mujahedeen. I cannot give details and the truth is that I don’t know the small details – how many agents we have and where we have them. This depends on our leaders, the Caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the general military commander, Abu Omar al-Shishani. They will decide when and where to strike in the United States.

But I can tell you that when we are in touch with our different components, with the leaders of the Islamic State. They confirm, they make it very sure and very clear that it is only a question of time when there will be a strike in America. And as I said before, what you saw in Paris, what you saw in Brussels will be only a small rehearsal in comparison with what will happen in the United States.




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“We Want Chicken And Chips, Not Pasta!” Shameless “Refugees” At The Italian Shelter

Literally, these people were rioting because they did not get “chicken and chips.”

If I was a child and made demands like what these “refugees” are making, I would be very lucky if I got anything that night to eat. VERY lucky. I knew better because I learned the potential consequences very quickly, and thankfully I did not have this problem.

No true “refugee” is going to refuse food on the basis that they want something they call “better.” They just take it and are happy with what they have.

Think about it- we have been showing repeatedly how these people are never satisfied, and what reason is there to think that anything can satisfy them? Their true goals are to strip their host society, Western Europe, of all its wealth and transfer it to themselves. If they are able to accomplish this, they will still be unhappy because having nothing else to take from others, they will begin fighting among themselves to satiate their insatiable greed. European society will no longer remain except as a memory in a textbook, and the lands will be transformed into the moral, cultural, and civilizational cesspools out of which these people emerged.

From Nuova Venezia:

Protest from the migrants housed in the hotel Al Bragosso di Sant’Anna. They did not want pasta seasoned in their own way: they expected chicken and chips, which they are accustomed to eating each Sunday when they are in Chioggia. 

But perhaps, it wasn’t just that. The dispute was triggered at the time of Sunday dinner when, instead of the usual dish of chicken and chips, pasta arrived with something else. The intention of the managers of the institution was to provide some variation in the menu, because it was Easter. It’s not clear if this “celebration” had been communicated to the refugees (who are almost all Muslims) and in what way, or if it was interpreted by them, erroneously, as a worsening of the dietary regime. Almost all of them were set against it and refused to eat the pasta, demanding in a loud voice that they be given their usual chicken and chips.

The protest then took on another tone: the migrants grabbed the Italian flag that the managers of the hotel had hung up (a while ago) inside one of their common areas. In short, the dispute had reached very high levels and threatened to go on for a long time, with unpredictable consequences. 

At that point the forces of order were called, police and carabinieri, who arrived at Sant’Anna in force (three patrols) and succeeded, in a short space of time, in calming the refugees and stopping the disorder. Then, around 10pm, all eat the pasta (reheated) that had been brought to them two hours before.

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GOLD AT $10,000 PER OUNCE? CIA ADVISOR JIM RICKARDS MAKES THE CASE

Virtual machine guns, robo-security guards and drones

From burglar alarms that identify intruders, to robotic guards and even 'gun' turrets, homeowners of the future will have far more imaginative options to protect their property than today.

A report about the future of home security predicts a future that's a cross between the Minority Report and The Crystal Maze in which burglars would have to run a high-tech gauntlet to make off with goods.

For example, burglar alarms could shout at intruders by name, while indelible sprays could mark them out in case of escape, and drones could give chase.

In a vision of the future, burglar alarms could shout at intruders by name, while indelible sprays could mark them out in case of escape, and drones could give chase (illustrated)

The report, by future trends experts Futurizon, was commissioned by security company ADT.

In a survey, the Florida-based firm found only four out of ten people feel safe being at home, while one in ten believe their home is at greater risk today than it was only five years ago.

However, the report, authored by futurologist Dr Ian Pearson, predicts a plethora of hi-tech solutions will be available in as little as a decade's time.

In the short term, it envisages that tiny hidden cameras will soon be commonplace around the home and residential neighbourhoods and could even stop burglaries before they happen.

They would use facial-recognition software to spot known criminals and sound the alarm, in a scenario reminiscent of The Minority Report.



Burglar alarms in the future will be able to identify intruders in a home and address them by their own name, while tiny cameras installed everywhere could send visuals to experts to catch them (illustrated)

It forecasts the birth of an 'automated Neighbourhood Watch', where the new generation of intelligent alarm systems installed in homes will communicate with each other, collecting details of the behaviour of a suspicious stranger on the street or alerting others to danger.

More outlandishly, burglar alarms may emit a low frequency sound or high-intensity strobe light to disorientate intruders and force them to leave empty-handed.

The report said: 'Directional sound could deliver personalised warnings to burglars that they are being recorded and authorities aware.

'If they are known criminals, warnings could even address them by name.'

Inside the home, burglars could be stopped in their tracks by virtual security tricks.

Dr Pearson wrote: 'Machinegun posts, electric fences, mines and high powered lasers won't be permitted in the real world, but that doesn't stop augmented reality use.'

The technology could also be used to protect children's rooms in a fun way, while teaching the importance of security.


The report envisages that tiny hidden cameras will soon be commonplace around the home and residential neighbourhoods and could even stop burglaries before they happen, by using face recognition software to spot known criminals and sound the alarm. This is reminiscent of The Minority Report (shown)



While robotic security guards already exist, they will get cheaper, letting users monitor their homes remotely and open doors and turn lights off and on to make a house look inhabited, for example. This picture shows one example - ADT Smart Home - that could let homeowners see a burglary taking place at their property

And while robotic security guards already exist, they will get cheaper, letting users monitor their homes remotely and open doors and turn lights off and on to make a house look inhabited, for example.

Elsewhere, smart 'polymers' on fences would trigger alarms by detecting pressure from anyone trying to climb over.

'Smart water pistols in gardens could mark any intruders with hard-to-remove chemical markers,' the report continued.

This would make it easy for the police to later identify culprits, if they managed to out-run the robotic security guards and drones.

The report envisages that low-flying drones will be able to follow the criminals as they make their get-away and capture video evidence.

These thief-tracking drones could be launched by security firms and the police from nearby rooftops to get visuals and even spray chemical identifiers onto burglars or any vehicles they use to escape.

Gail Hunter, a spokesperson for ADT, said: 'As technology continues to develop and become available, everyone will be able to make their homes almost impenetrable, without feeling like they're living in a fortress.'



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Robert Kiyosaki And Harry Dent Warn That Financial Armageddon Is Imminent

Financial experts Robert Kiyosaki and Harry Dent are both warning that the next major economic crash is in our very near future.  Dent is projecting that the Dow will fall to “5,500 to 6,000 by late 2017″, and Kiyosaki actually originally projected that a great crash was coming in 2016 all the way back in 2002.  Of course we don’t exactly have to wait for things to get bad.  The truth is that things are not really very good at the moment by any stretch of the imagination.  Approximately one-third of all Americans don’t make enough money to even cover the basic necessities, 23 percent of adults in their prime working years are not employed, and corporate debt defaults have exploded to the highest level that we have seen since the last financial crisis.  But if Kiyosaki and Dent are correct, economic conditions in this country will soon get much, much worse than this.

During a recent interview, Harry Dent really went out on a limb by staking his entire reputation on a prediction that we would experience “the biggest global bubble burst in history” within the next four years…

There will be… and I will stake my entire reputation on this… we are going to see the biggest global bubble burst in history in the next four years…

There’s only one way out of this bubble and that is for it to burst… all this stuff is going to reset back to where it should be without all this endless debt, endless printed money, stimulus and zero interest rate policy.

And of course he is far from alone.  Without a doubt, we are currently in the terminal phases of the greatest financial bubble the world has ever known, and it is exceedingly difficult to see any way that it will not end very, very badly.

Ultimately, Dent believes that we could see U.S. stocks lose two-thirds of their value by late next year…

The Dow, I’m projecting, will hit 5,500 to 6,000 by late 2017… just in the next year and a half or so. 

That’ll be most of the damage… then it will rally and there’ll be some aftershocks into 2020… my four cycles point down into early 2020 and then they start one after the other to turn up… I think the worst will be over by 2020, but the worst of that will be by the end of 2017.

If that does happen, it will be a far worse crash than what we experienced back in 2008, and the economic consequences will be absolutely terrifying.

Another highly respected financial expert that is making similar claims is Robert Kiyosaki.  My wife is a big fan of his books, and I have always held him in high regard.

But what I didn’t realize is that he had actually predicted that there would be a major financial crash all the way back in 2002…

Fourteen years ago, the author of a series of popular personal-finance books predicted that 2016 would bring about the worst market crash in history, damaging the financial dreams of millions of baby boomers just as they started to depend on that money to fund retirement.

Broader U.S. stock markets are recovering from the worst 10-day start to a year on record. But Robert Kiyosaki — who made that 2016 forecast in the 2002 book “Rich Dad’s Prophecy” — says the meltdown is under way, and there’s little investors can do but buy gold or silver and hope the Federal Reserve slows the slide.

I agree with Kiyosaki that one way that investors can shield their wealth is by getting gold and silver.  In a recent article, I explained exactly why I believe that silver in particular is ridiculously undervalued right now.

Kiyosaki also believes that the coming crash could be delayed a bit if the Federal Reserve decided to embark on another round of quantitative easing.  But even if that happens, Kiyosaki is absolutely convinced that eventually “it’s all going to come down”…

Kiyosaki told MarketWatch that the combination of demographics and global economic weakness makes the next crash inevitable — but the Fed could stave it off with another round of quantitative easing, which might stimulate the economy.

The Fed turned more dovish at its March meeting, with the central bank penciling in fewer interest-rate hikes this year than were previously part of its implied framework. The Fed signaled those hikes would happen more slowly than had been anticipated earlier, owing to a weak global economic environment and a volatile stock market.

“The big question [whether] we do ‘QE4,’” said Kiyosaki. “If we do, the stock market will come roaring back, but it’s not rocket science. If we stop printing money, it crashes; if we print money, it goes up. But, eventually, it’s all going to come down.”

Another voice that I have come to respect is Jim Rickards.  He is not quite as apocalyptic as Kiyosaki or Dent, but without a doubt he is deeply concerned about where the global economy is headed…

Global growth is slowing both because of weakness in developed economies like Europe and Japan, and weakness in some of the emerging markets champions such as China, Brazil and Russia. The limits of monetary policy have been reached.

The evidence is now clear that negative interest rates don’t stimulate spending; they are only good for devaluation in the ongoing currency wars. World trade is shrinking; a rare phenomenon usually associated with recession or depression.

And he is exactly right.  The economic downturn that we are witnessing is truly global in scope.  Brazil has plunged into an economic depression, the Italian banking system is in the process of completely melting down, and Japan has implemented negative interest rates in a desperate attempt to keep their Ponzi scheme going but it really isn’t working.  In fact, Japanese industrial production just crashed by the most that we have seen since the tsunami of 2011.

Here in the United States, investors are generally feeling pretty good right now because stocks have rebounded substantially in recent weeks.  However, Rickards is warning that this rebound is very temporary…

Stocks are clearly in a bubble. The stock market is ignoring the strong dollar, which in turn hurts exports and devalues overseas earnings. It is also ignoring declining corporate earnings, imminent defaults in the energy sector, and declining global growth in general.

Never mind. As long as money is cheap and leverage is plentiful, there’s no reason not to bid up stock prices, and wait for the greater fool to bid them up some more.

There is so much that we could learn from all these three men.

Sadly, just like we saw in 2008, most Americans are ignoring the warnings.

The mainstream media has conditioned the public to trust them, and right now the mainstream media is insisting that everything is going to be just fine.

So will everything be just fine as the months roll along?

We will just have to wait and see…

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Russia vows ‘totally asymmetrical’ response to major US troop build-up in Europe

Russia’s envoy to NATO has vowed a “totally asymmetrical” response if the alliance stands by a plan to deploy new armored units to Eastern Europe. Citing Russian “aggression” as a pretext, the US has announced “continuous troop rotations” starting 2017.

“We are not passive observers, we consistently take all the military measures we consider necessary in order to counterbalance this reinforced presence that is not justified by anything,” Moscow’s permanent representative at the alliance, Aleksandr Grushko, said in an interview with TV channel Russia-24 on Wednesday. “Certainly, we’ll respond totally asymmetrically.”

Grushko did not elaborate on his statement, but said Russia’s actions would correspond to its “understanding of the extent of the military threat, would not be extremely expensive, but also highly effective.”

“As of today, assessing as a whole what that the US and NATO are doing, the point at issue is a substantial change for the worse in the security situation,” he said.

The comments from Russia’s NATO envoy came shortly after the Pentagon announced a plan to increase its troop presence in “the European theater”of up to three fully-manned Army brigades by the end of 2017, one armored, one airborne and one Stryker brigade.

“This Army implementation plan continues to demonstrate our strong and balanced approach to reassuring our NATO allies and partners in the wake of an aggressive Russia in Eastern Europe and elsewhere,” Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove of the US European Command said. “This means our allies and partners will see more capability – they will see a more frequent presence of an armored brigade with more modernized equipment in their countries.”

The first such rotational armored brigade combat team would arrive in Europe in February next year. Each of the brigades will be on nine-month rotations and bring their own equipment to use for exercises across Europe. NATO also wants to enhance Europe’s current equipment and replace it with “the most modern the Army has to offer.” At the same time, the older gear would become the core of the previously unveiled “Army pre-positioned stocks,” which NATO would keep in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

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SO, WHERE IS THE COLLAPSE?

Planet X And "Sounds Of The Apocalypse

Europe Remains Stuck In Deflation For Second Month

The last time Europe had at least two consecutive months of deflation was in late 2014/early 2015 when the ECB launched its sovereign QE, and when prices staged a modest rebound into the rest of the year. One year later, it's more of the same, and as Eurostat revealed earlier today, after a headline price drop of -0.2% in February, March prices declined once more, this time by -0.1% in line with expectations, driven by a -8.7% plunge in energy prices.





The good news for the ECB, which earlier this month unleashed the first instance of corporate bond QE, is that if stripping out "volatile food and energy prices", core inflation accelerated in what Reuters dubbed mildly positive news for the European Central Bank as it struggles to revive anemic price growth.

As shown below, core inflation, a figure closely watched to gauge underlying trends, picked up to 0.9% from 0.8%, also in line with its recent trend and with expectations, alleviating some fears that low energy prices are feeding into the cost of other goods and services.




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