A secret detention center where serious human rights abuses took place have been discovered in Sri Lanka.  The center is said to exist within the Tricomalee Nava base in east Sri Lanka, after a June 2015 report by the International Truth and Justice Project, Sri Lanka (ITJPSL) released a 134-page report on on-going human rights violations and past cases in Sri Lanka. The report titled An Unfinished War: Torture and Sexual Violence in Sri Lanka 2009-2014 says that family members were not told the whereabouts of relatives being held at the facility.

The world’s most powerful media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, is in the oil business nowadays. Murdoch is the founder of News Corp and Fox news who inherited his ‘news’ empire from his father. He now part owns an oil company with Lord (Jacob) Rothschild that is about to start drilling in disputed land between Israel and Syria. The Australian born American tycoon loves to promote war, chaos, fear, pleasure and nonsensical ‘talking points’ as news on his media outlets. His influence and power over politicians, and vice-versa, has always been legend.

Via Finanz und Wirtschaft's Christoph Gisiger,

Howard Marks, Chairman and founder of Oaktree Capital, warns that investor behavior has entered the zone of imprudence and thinks that China is the biggest threat for the US economy.

Merck is pushing for a dog flu epidemic this year and it could be because human flu numbers as well as flu vaccinations are way down. The big pharma company has started to put up signs warning that “dogs can get flu, too.” They clearly hope that by putting up signs people will be encouraged to take their beloved pets in for a flu shot. TruthKings reports Does anyone actually believe that it is a coincidence that we have a dog flu epidemic in the same year we have lower flu shot turnout from people and lower instances of the flu for people in general?

Back in January we laid out the "two most crowded trades" in the hedge fund community as we entered 2015. The first was being long the US dollar, a trade which as we updated two weeks ago has gotten so big, it is now the biggest consensus trade by a factor of 3x...

... one which when it finally does blow up, will wipe out many macro and micro "hedge" funds who have been frontrunning the Fed's rate hike since mid-2014, and the second Yellen hints at a rate cut or worse the shockwave from the USD liquidation will be felt around the globe.