How Concerned Should You Be About Zika? by Glynn Cosker Wednesday May 4th, 2016 at 5:40 PM
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With all the new research and findings regarding the Zika and Ebola viruses, many are wondering how similar they are to the HIV virus. The latest reports indicate that the Zika virus is transmitted via blood, semen and saliva—so is this similar to HIV? Should you worry?
A lawyer with dual Russian-Polish citizenship whose father played for the Russian national football team is charged with espionage, Polish media say.
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Russia warns of retaliation if NATO makes more deployments in Eastern Europe
Reuters MOSCOW Russia will take retaliatory measures if NATO deploys four extra battalions in Poland and the Baltic states and it will reinforce its western and southern flanks with three new divisions by the year-end anyway, officials said. U.S. Defense ... NATO Military Intelligence on Russia 'Not Good Enough': BreedloveNewsweek US defense secretary says Russia is 'nuclear saber-rattling'San Francisco Chronicle NATO alliance gets new supreme commanderGoDanRiver.com GlobalPost -UPI.com -The Nation. -U.S. News & World Report all 67 news articles » |
NATO alliance gets new supreme commanderby John-Thor Dahlburg | AP
NATO’s new supreme allied commander, U.S. Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, said Wednesday the alliance should consider what weaponry it could provide so Ukraine can better combat a pro-Moscow insurgency.
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The mother of a baby girl who was miraculously rescued from a collapsed building in Nairobi is found dead in the rubble.
In his speech, the head of Egypt's State Information Service also blamed video games and violent movies. In response, the Arab world erupted on social media.
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Russia arrests groups for planning attacks in Moscow region: agencies
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Prince's team requested emergency support from a leading addiction specialist just a day before the singer died, the doctor's lawyer reveals.
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Judge OKs deposition plan in Hillary Clinton email case
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US Judge: Clinton May Be Ordered to Testify in Records Case
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Why Oil Prices Will Likely Drop Below $40 Soonby Rakesh Upadhyay / Oilprice.com
The 70 percent rise in crude oil prices from the lows of $27.1 per barrel to a high of above $46/b in a matter of three months is being driven by speculative activity—make no mistake about it. The speculators have latched on to every bit of rumor and news to bid prices higher, and this has nothing to do with the real fundamentals.
However, speculation can boost prices only to a certain extent in the short-term. After this, the fundamentals take over. The extent of speculation is enormous, though the daily production of oil in the U.S. is around 9 million b/d, the WTI crude oil contract trades more than 100 times the produced quantity, as highlighted in this January 2016 post.
The trading volume is generated by the algo traders, day traders, and scalpers who are in and out of their positions many times a day. Due to their enormous volume, they set the direction of prices in the short-term.
However, these traders are neither involved in the production nor do they take physical delivery of oil; they are usually active only in the near-term contracts until expiry; after which the users of oil take deliveries.
The oil producers have used the sharp rise to hedge part of their production for 2016 and 2017 as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
However, Citi Research points out that the oil producers have hedged only 36 percent of their estimated production for 2016, compared to 50 percent in the previous years.
If prices creep up further, the producers will not only hedge more, they are likely to increase production to mend their balance sheet.
Pioneer Natural Resources has hedged 50 percent of its expected 2017 output and has conveyed its intention to add five to ten horizontal drilling rigs if prices recover to $50/b, with a positive outlook for oil fundamentals. Earlier on, too many U.S. shale oil drillers had indicated that they will be back at around $50/b levels.
Oilprice.com: Oil Prices Fall Back as Rally Hits a Ceiling
Though the bulls have latched on to the largest U.S. rig count drop in the past six weeks, their bullishness might be short-lived because if prices reach above $50/b, we might see anincrease in the oil rig count, reversing the current trend.
Lithium prices have tripled over the last few years as the electric car boom starts to take hold. A number of companies are uniquely positioned to generate huge gains for early in investors.
The short-term trend changed with the idea of a production freeze by Russia and OPEC, but the Doha meeting turned out to be a non-event.
The chart below by Yardeni Research, a provider of independent investment and economics research, shows that in 2016, the oil inventories continue to rise, confirming that the supply glut continues.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) STEO report expects the supply glut to reduce in the second half of the year; however, if prices remain high, production might increase adding to the supply glut.
Oilprice.com: Weak Data, Strong Dollar Pressure Crude Lower
Though Nigeria, Kuwait, and Venezuela’s production has been hit hard due to various reasons, OPEC’s production of 32.64 million b/d is very close to its highest level of 32.65 million b/d recorded in January 2016, according to Reuters survey records since 1997.
“The market is massively oversupplied,” said Eugen Weinberg, analyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt. “This rally doesn’t have strong legs,” reports Reuters.
There isn’t much by way of fundamentals to rely upon for the rally to continue. Closer to $50/b, additional supply will start trickling in and buyers will be wary to buy at higher prices. With no excuses at hand, the speculators will find it difficult to prop prices higher.
The short-term speculative pop in crude is about to end and the long-term fundamentals will take over. Prices should drop closer to $36 to $38/b in the near future.
This article originally appeared on Oilprice.com
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European and Portuguese police say they have dismantled a mainly Russian criminal gang laundering money through the football sector in Portugal.
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Sotheby's unveils a 1,109 carat, tennis ball-sized rough diamond that is estimated to be worth more than $70 million. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
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The 1,109-carat Lesedi la Rona diamond is among the largest gem-quality diamonds ever discovered. The diamond, which will be auctioned by Sotheby's in London in June, is estimated to sell for over $70 million.
Tuesday on the NewsHour, a look at what’s at stake as Indiana voters cast their ballots in a crucial primary. Also: Education Secretary John King on raising standards, inside daily life amid the Syrian civil war, relatives of Western jihadists hope to stop others, Leicester City beats 5,000:1 odds to win the Premier League, the vital role of grandparents and a poet on the Vietnam War.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says a ceasefire in Aleppo, Syria, is now in effect and has led to a decrease in the number of violent attacks.
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May 4, 2016, 9:24 AM (IDT)
Kenya's police announced Tuesday that it had arrested several members of a terror cell linked to ISIS who are suspected of planning a terrorist attack using biological weapons, especially anthrax. The suspects include medical interns at hospitals in Kenya where they had full access to biological warfare materials.
May 4, 2016, 10:39 AM (IDT)
Washington and Moscow have made dramatic progress over the last few days in marathon telephone talks between Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on ending the war in Syria. Russia agreed for the first time to discuss the possibility that Syrian PresidentBashar Assad will step down, and the conditions under which such a process will take place.
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STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - The combat death of an American Navy SEAL in Iraq shows that despite recent gains against the Islamic State in Iraq, "this fight is far from over," U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday.
Carter spoke at the outset of a closed-door meeting in Germany with ...
Defense Secretary Ash Carter began talks here Wednesday with members of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria, as defense ministers examine ways to bolster the military campaign against the Islamic State group as well as terror threats facing Europe.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The deputy commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Iranian forces will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the United States and its allies if they "threaten" the Islamic Republic, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday.
The comments by Gen. Hossein Salami, carried on state ...
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Md. police mum on growing use of cellphone tracking technology
WTOP Citing unusual secrecy agreements with the FBI or the need to protect an investigatory tool, most local law enforcement agencies using the equipment in Maryland refuse to answer questions about what happens to this data, or other rules governing its use. and more » |
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LSD, Hookers, Hit Men, and the Top Levels of the CIA
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BERLIN (AP) - Switzerland's defense minister says his department was targeted by hackers in January and is indicating that the motive was industrial espionage.
Guy Parmelin was quoted Wednesday as telling the daily Tages-Anzeiger that the cyberattack happened while he was at the World Economic Forum in Davos in late ...
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FBI Nabs Man Suspected of Poisoning Produce at Grocery Store
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Measuring Change at the CIA
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NATO's new supreme allied commander, U.S. Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, said Wednesday the alliance should consider what weaponry it could provide so Ukraine can better combat a pro-Moscow insurgency.
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NSA and CIA searches of US citizens' data have doubled since 2013
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Hillary Clinton FBI Investigation: Indictment May Come After November's Election, Leading To A New Impeachment ...
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New York's iconic Stonewall Inn, where the modern gay rights movement took root, will become the first national monument honoring the history of gays and lesbians in the U.S. under a proposal President Barack Obama is preparing to approve.
Representatives of the Russian Federation on Wednesday demanded answers from the United States after a Russian national died over the weekend while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
Russian's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a representative with the country's consulate in California said Wednesday that they ...
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper recently said that ISIS has the capability to carry out a Paris-style attack in the United States.
Similar to ISIS’ coordinated blasts abroad, Clapper told CNN in an interview published Wednesday that jihadists have the ability to use terrorist cells throughout the U.S. to perpetrate “dozens of casualties.”
“That’s something we worry about a lot in the United States, that they could conjure up a raid like they did in Paris or Brussels,” Clapper said in an interview with CNN’s Peter Bergen.
Though President Obama did not nix the possibility of an attack, he told Bergen during the same interview that the U.S. does face less of a threat than Europe. Regardless, he said the “Paris-style” and “Brussels-style” attacks still pose a challenge to U.S. intelligence officials.
National security adviser Susan Rice vaguely added that the administration would continue to do its “utmost” to prevent a terrorist attack “whether or not” ISIS has the capability to do so.
Last week, Clapper warned that ISIS had jihadist cells set up in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, adding that U.S. intelligence officials “continue to see evidence” of ISIS plotting in those nations.
Unlike in Europe, Clapper told CNN Wednesday that ISIS itself is not an existential threat to the U.S., but could “infiltrate people or incite people” who are already in the nation to carry out assaults.
The terrorist group used similar methods to carry out its November attacks in Paris that killed 130 people along with its March blasts in Brussels that killed 35.
Clapper’s comments arrived one week after Obama pledged to send 250 additional troops to Syria to coordinate with local forces in degrading the terrorist group.
The post ISIS Has Ability to Execute Paris-Style Terrorist Assaults in U.S., Clapper Says appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Personal cybersecurity tips from retired CIA and FBI vets
Minneapolis Star Tribune It's become an increasingly important task for wealth managers and financial advisors to remind their clients of the importance of personal data protection. So last week the Minneapolis office of Evercore Wealth Management held an informational lunch ... |
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US Republican presidential candidate John Kasich will drop out of the race, sources from the Ohio governor's campaign said early Wednesday afternoon (local time). The withdrawal of Kasich will leave frontrunner Donald Trump as the party's sole candidate for president.
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FBI Cyber Division Chief Advises Companies Not to Pay Ransom for Release of Data
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Navy SEAL killed during a firefight in Iraq was part of a quick reaction force that moved in to rescue U.S. military advisers from an Islamic State attack, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The attack triggered a massive coalition air response that destroyed equipment, buildings and killed up to 60 militants.
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Ed Klein: FBI sources believe Hillary Clinton is 'guilty as sin' on emails
Washington Times Mr. Klein said it's his understanding from his Justice Department and FBI sources “that they believe she's guilty as sin.” “I think we're dealing with a very volatile situation on the Democratic side,” Mr. Klein said on “Tim Constantine's Capitol Hill ... and more » |
The United States and Russia have persuaded Syria's government and moderate rebels to extend the country's fragile truce to the northern city of Aleppo, the State Department said Wednesday,although sporadic clashes continue.
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48 gang members charged in FBI sweep
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This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that formed Iraq, Syria and the other fragile nations of the modern Middle East. The past few weeks have provided dramatic new evidence, if more were needed, that the old colonial framework created by Britain and France isn’t working.
A federal judge said Wednesday he may order Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used a private email server as secretary of state to evade public records disclosures.
The Prime Minister said that he did not believe Turkey would join the EU 'for decades'
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NOTE: To correctly reflect how Russian officials were implicated in the Spanish investigation, the following line in today’s Daily Vertical should be corrected to read as follows:
“What does it say about a state when its former prime minister, its former defense minister, its current deputy prime minister, and the current chair of its legislature’s finance committee are tied to the mob?”
Russia’s former prime minister (Viktor Zubkov), former defense minister (Anatoly Serdyukov), and current deputy prime minister (Dmitry Kozak) were named in the Spanish investigation, but are not subject to international arrest warrants.
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U.S. General Philip Breedlove, the outgoing NATO commander in Europe, has praised allied intelligence officers but also warned that the West’s desire to partner with Russia means military intelligence wasn’t good enough before the Ukraine crisis and “isn’t good enough now.”
Breedlove, who came into the role of commander in 2013 and was succeeded by General Curtis Scaparrotti on Tuesday, presided over a period of deteriorating relations between the West and Russia, including Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. He spoke to The Wall Street Journal prior to his departure to give his thoughts on how the Kremlin’s military posture had changed of late.
“Russia has proved itself to be a learning and adaptive military force. They performed pretty badly in Georgia,” he said, referring to the 2008 conflict that failed to bring a unanimous resolution to the wrangling over two separatist regions in Georgia’s north.
“I believe what we saw when they went into Crimea is that they had come a long way in correcting the deficiencies they saw in their abilities in Georgia,” he added.
Breedlove said it is important not to overstate Russia’s power, as it could cost NATO’s credibility. But he added that the country has made “drastic improvements in their abilities” since 2008.
According to Breedlove, Russia was not seen as an adversary to NATO when he stepped in as commander “because we were still in the mode of trying to make a partner out of Russia.”
“We weren’t very far into this conversation about how we would refocus our training and our exercises when we began to see Russia exercise its military power in invading and occupying the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea then later as it went into Donbas,” Breedlove said.
Although well-armed Russian-speaking forces have led the separatism push in Crimea and in Ukraine’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk—known collectively as Donbas—Russia denies they are officers on duty. Ukraine, U.S. and NATO allies have presented evidence bringing Russia’s denials into serious doubt.
When asked if allied military intelligence on Russia was good enough in 2013, Breedlove praised U.S. and allied efforts, but admitted it was not.
“Please allow me to answer but try to tell the whole story because the answer is no, it wasn’t good enough then, and no, it isn’t good enough now,” he said. “Our nation made policy decisions to refocus that limited asset into other areas, and frankly, by doing that, we lost contact with Russia at the operational and tactical level.”
Instead, the U.S. and its allies focused resources on Middle Eastern conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Meanwhile, they relied on Russia for cooperation.
“Now that we see that Russia has not accepted that hand of partnership but has chosen a path of belligerence, we need to readdress where we’re heading,” Breedlove said.
NATO is in the midst of its biggest reinforcement since the Cold War, focusing on shoring up defenses in Eastern Europe. It will assess the status of this reinforcement program at a summit in Poland in July.
At Breedlove’s retirement ceremony on Tuesday, when he handed the reigns to the allied forces to Scaparrotti, defense officials presented a hard line against Russia.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said NATO must show that “if they start a war, we have the capabilities and capacity to ensure they regret it.” Scaparotti, who comes in from leading U.S. forces in Korea, also pointed to Russia as one of NATO’s biggest challenges, saying NATO should be “ready to fight should deterrence fail.”
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NATO Military Intelligence on Russia 'Not Good Enough': Breedlove
Newsweek U.S. General Philip Breedlove, the outgoing NATO commander in Europe, has praised allied intelligence officers but also warned that the West's desire to partner with Russia means military intelligence wasn't good enough before the Ukraine crisis and ... New NATO supreme commander vows tough line on RussiaChannel News Asia New Commander, Old Story: NATO Considers 'Resurgent Russia' a ChallengeSputnik International all 68 news articles » |
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