In the following interview Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of treasury under President Ronald Reagan, says that the neocons in Washington are a dangerous group of people. They can drag America and the world into war and chaos, the likes of which are manifest in Syria. Pravda Report YouTube Channel: What is your forecast for the situation in Syria? Do you think that the World War III can still start because of the clash of interests around that country?

I dislike the products of electoral politics for a number of reasons, and presently have no horse in the ongoing race.

For the longest time, it was "the most hated rally ever" and, as even the Davos crowd has now admitted, with good reason: it was all central bank manipulation and intervention, both of which are about to lose all potency forcing even the billionaires to admit that "the trade now is to hold as much cash as possible." As the WSJ summarized three weeks ago, the billionaires' "mood here was irritated, bordering on affronted, with what they say has been central-bank intervention that has gone on too long."

Submitted by Dex Dunford via OilPrice.com,

Already reeling from low prices, officials with Mexico’s state-run Pemex are also fighting an ever intensifying battle against pipeline theft as organized crime tries to gain a foothold in the country’s newly reformed energy sector.

From loosely organized groups of locals to feared drug cartels, those who believe there is a significant amount of illicit profit to be made here are coming out of the woodwork—and for starters they are eyeing pipelines.

We were stunned 10 days ago when, out of the blue, it seemed as if Deutsche Bank had finally figured it out: namely that constant central bank intervention is leading to increasingly more dire outcomes... such as a surge in DB CDS and its stock price plunging to record lows.

The bank which had been crushed over the past month, released a solemn appeal to the ECB and BOJ, in which it made it quite clear that any additional easing and continuous easy money will only hurt both DB and its peer banks.