JUMLAH HUTANG Amerika Syarikat MELONJAK kpd HAMPIR $ 60 TRILLION, Ramalan RECESSION yg BARU . . .

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bOLLy ENn - Amerika - kerajaan, perniagaan, & orang - hutang hampir $60 trillion, menurut data ekonomi terbaru dari theThe St Louis Rizab Persekutuan. Dan hutang swasta - bukan pinjaman kerajaan - adalah sebab terbesar defisit yang besar.

Jumlah hutang Amerika Syarikat pada akhir suku pertama 2014, pada 31 Mac berjumlah hampir $59.4 trillion - sehingga hampir $ 500 bilion daripada akhir suku keempat 2013, menurut data. Jumlah hutang (gabungan kerajaan, perniagaan, gadai janji, dan hutang pengguna) adalah $2.2 trillion 40 tahun lalu.

"Dalam 50 tahun yang singkat, hutang telah pergi daripada menjadi mewah untuk beberapa untuk satu kemudahan bagi ramai untuk ketagihan bagi kebanyakan penyakit untuk semua," James Butler menulis dalam sebuah Bebas Pengundi-pengundi Network (IVN) op-ed. "Ia adalah virus yang telah merebak ke setiap aspek ekonomi kita, daripada pengguna yang menggunakan kad kredit untuk membeli gula-gula bar $ 0,75 dalam mesin layan diri untuk kerajaan meminjam $17 trillion untuk menjaga lampu."

Total US debt soars to NEARLY $60 trn, foreshadows 

new recession . . .

America - its government, businesses, and people - are nearly $60 trillion in debt, according to the latest economic data from thethe St. Louis Federal Reserve. And private debt - not government borrowing - is the biggest reason for the huge deficit.

Total US debt at the end of the first quarter of 2014, on March 31 totaled almost $59.4 trillion - up nearly $500 billion from the end of the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the data. Total debt (the combination of government, business, mortgage, and consumer debt) was $2.2 trillion 40 years ago.

“In 50 short years, debt has gone from being a luxury for a few to a convenience for many to an addiction for most to a disease for all,” James Butler wrote in an Independent Voters Network (IVN) op-ed. “It is a virus that has spread to every aspect of our economy, from a consumer using a credit card to buy a $0.75 candy bar in a vending machine to a government borrowing $17 trillion to keep the lights on.”

Menurut kajian 2012 yang disiarkan dlm Economist, pertumbuhan pesat dalam hutang swasta adalah peramal yang lebih baik daripada kemelesetan daripada peningkatan hutang awam, pertumbuhan dlm bekalan wang, atau ketidakseimbangan perdagangan.

Kredit pengguna di Amerika Syarikat meningkat sebanyak 22 % peratus dalam tempoh 3 tahun kebelakangan ini, mencapai rekod tinggi $3.18 trillion pada bulan April, Fed melaporkan pada hari Jumaat.

Menggunakan kad kredit (atau pusingan kredit) meningkat sebanyak $8.8 billion, manakala kredit bukan pusingan seperti pinjaman kereta dan pinjaman pelajar yang dibuat oleh kerajaan melonjak sehingga sebanyak $ 18 bilion pada bulan April. Kredit bukan pusingan melonjak sebanyak 8.2 % peratus berbanding tahun lepas, manakala kredit pusingan hanya meningkat 2.2 % peratus berbanding tempoh masa yang sama.

"Untuk sementara selepas kemelesetan ia adalah bergaya untuk memotong kad kredit anda dan keluar dari hutang," Michael Snyder menulis dalam sebuah InfoWars op-ed. "Tetapi trend yang memakai off dengan cepat, tidak ia?"

According to a 2012 study published in the Economist, rapid growth in private debt is a better predictor of recessions than increases in public debt, growth in money supply, or trade imbalances. Consumer credit in the US rose by 22 percent over the last three years, reaching a record-high $3.18 trillion in April, the Fed reported on Friday.

Credit card use (or revolving credit) rose by $8.8 billion, while non-revolving credit like auto loans and student loans made by the government surged up by $18 billion in April. Non-revolving credit jumped by 8.2 percent over the last year, while revolving credit only rose 2.2 percent over the same time period.

“For a while after the recession it was trendy to cut up your credit cards and get out of debt,” Michael Snyder wrote in an InfoWars op-ed. “But that fad wore off rather quickly, didn’t it?”

Snyder berkata 56 % peratus daripada semua rakyat Amerika mempunyai penarafan kredit subprima, dan bahawa bayaran kereta bulanan purata di Amerika Syarikat adalah $ 474. Beliau menambah bahawa 52 % peratus daripada pemilik rumah overextended gadai janji mereka dan "walaupun tidak mampu rumah yg mereka hidup dalam sekarang."

Hutang mencederakan yang palingnya orang dewasa muda. Millennials berkata mereka menghabiskan sekurang-kurangnya separuh paychecks bulanan mereka membayar hutang, satu tinjauan baru-baru ini Wells Fargo ditemui.

Dan 2 tahun daripada kolej, separuh daripada semua graduan masih bergantung kepada ibu bapa mereka atau ahli keluarga yang lain untuk beberapa jenis bantuan kewangan, menurut University of Arizona kajian, yang juga mendapati bahawa hanya 49 % peratus daripada graduan bekerja sepenuh masa .

"Sama ada pasaran buruh yang lemah semakin meningkat keperluan untuk sokongan antara generasi - pemandu mungkin dalam ekonomi hari ini - data kami jelas menunjukkan bahawa ramai orang dewasa muda hari ini mungkin tidak memperolehi cukup untuk membuat ia sendiri, walaupun bekerja sepenuh masa, "laporan itu.

Kebanyakan hutang yg remaja hadapi ialah hutang pinjaman pelajar, yg berjumlah lebih daripada $1.2 trillion, menurut Federal Reserve. Hutang itu, kira-kira $124 billion adalah lebih daripada 90 hari yang bermasalah.

"Apa yang kita lakukan utk anak2 muda kita adalah yang keji. Kita tlh menggalakkan mereka untuk mendaftar untuk sepanjang hayat perhambaan hutang sebelum mereka memahami adalah tentang apa itu hidup, "Snyder menulis.

Pejabat Anggaran Kongres meramalkan bahawa ekonomi negara akan gerai pada 2017 kerana rakyat Amerika akan terus berbelanja, tetapi gaji dan kekayaan tidak akan naik - yang membawa kepada peningkatan ketidaksamaan pendapatan di negara ini, Guardian dilaporkan.

"Itu jurang yang semakin meningkat antara pendapatan dan penggunaan telah diisi oleh peminjam," kata Guardian. "Ini adalah dinamik hutang dalam memimpin-up untuk kemelesetan. Tetapi mereka juga adalah dinamik yang membawa keluar dari krisis, dan berterusan hari ini dengan akhir tiada di sisi. "

Ahli ekonomi tidak bersetuju mengenai cara untuk menghindari krisis yang akan berlaku. Namun ketagihan Amerika untuk perbelanjaan kredit tidak akan membantu.

"Masalahnya ialah, hutang menyaksikan lebih banyak, pendapatan lebih masa depan mesti digunakan untuk membayar hutang dan faedah, yang mengurangkan wang yang kita perlu menghabiskan pada sesuatu. Kerja-kerja ini utk memperlahankan ekonomi, "Butler menulis.

"Akhirnya, kesan negatif beban hutang menjadi lebih kuat daripada kesan positif perbelanjaan ditambah dan kemelesetan adalah dicetuskan. Atau lebih teruk lagi"

Snyder noted that 56 percent of all Americans have a subprime credit rating, and that the average monthly car payment in the US is $474. He added that 52 percent of homeowners are overextended on their mortgages and “cannot even afford the house that they are living in right now.”

Debt is hurting young adults the most. Millennials say they are spending at least half their monthly paychecks on paying off debt, a recent Wells Fargo survey found. And two years out of college, half of all graduates are still relying on their parents or other family members for some sort of financial help, according to a University of Arizona study, which also found that only 49 percent of graduates are working full-time.

"Whether or not a weak labor market is increasing the need for intergenerational support -- a likely driver in today's economy -- our data clearly showed that many young adults today may not be earning enough to make it on their own, even when working full time," the report stated.

Most of the debt that young adults face is student loan debt, which totals more than $1.2 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. Of that debt, approximately $124 billion is more than 90 days delinquent.

“What we have done to our young people is shameful. We have encouraged them to sign up for a lifetime of debt slavery before they even understand what life is all about,” Snyder wrote.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the economy will stall by 2017 because Americans will continue spending, but wages and wealth won’t be going up - leading to increased income inequality in the country, the Guardian reported.

“That ever-increasing gap between income and consumption has been filled by borrowing,” the Guardian said. “These were the debt dynamics in the lead-up to the recession. But they are also the dynamics leading out of the crisis, and continuing today with no end in sight.”

Economists have not agreed on how to stave off the impending crisis. But Americans’ addiction to spending on credit will not help.

“The problem is, the more debt we have, the more future income must be used to pay the debt and its interest, which reduces the money we have to spend on things. This works to slow the economy,” Butler wrote.

“Eventually, the negative effect of the debt load becomes stronger than the positive effect of the added spending and a recession is triggered - or worse.”

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KeEMASan 1%: Great Britain MISKIN TERUK berbanding SEBELUM INI . . .

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bOLLy ENn - Termiskin 20 % peratus daripada isi rumah di UK mendapat hanya $ 9,530 setiap tahun, kadar yg mendadak lebih rendah daripada di negara-negara lain dengan pendapatan purata yang sama, menurut kajian baru.

Beberapa rakyat Britain mungkin akan bersetuju dengan pemerhatian bahawa "hidup ini lebih buruk (di UK) daripada ia adalah untuk yang ke-5 termiskin di hampir setiap negara lain Eropah barat laut," tetapi ini adalah yang sebenarnya kesimpulan Pusat Bayar Tinggi, sebuah ‘independent British think-tank’, telah dibuat dalam kajian yang baru dikeluarkan.

Menggunakan angka dari OECD Indeks Kehidupan yang lebih baik, laporan itu menun-jukkan bahawa purata pendapatan isi rumah UK $ 53,785, yang membentuk 20 % peratus terkaya di UK, menduduki tempat yg ke-3 di negara-negara Kesatuan Eropah, ketinggalan di belakang Jerman dan Perancis.

Tetapi itu adalah di mana persamaan ekonomi antara UK dan EU terhenti menjerit.

OECD menganggarkan pendapatan purata 20 % peratus bahagian bawah isi rumah UK pada hanya $ 9530, yang jauh lebih rendah daripada 20 % peratus yang paling miskin di Perancis ($ 12,653), Jerman ($ 13,381), Belgium ($ 12,350), Belanda ($ 11,274) dan Denmark ($ 12,183).

Laporan tersebut mendedahkan penurunan pesat Britain dari kesaksamaan ekonomi dalam hanya beberapa dekad.

"Sejak 1960, Britain telah pergi daripada menjadi lebih menjimatkan sama daripada Sweden untuk menjadi salah satu negara yang paling tidak sama rata di negara maju," menurut Pusat Bayar Tinggi. "Daripada 32 anggota Pertubuhan bagi Kerjasama Eko-nomi dan Pembangunan (OECD) hanya Portugal, Israel, Amerika Syarikat, Turki, Mexico dan Chile lebih tidak sama rata daripada United Kingdom."

The GOLDEN 1%: Britain's POOR Worse than EVER . . .

The poorest 20 percent of UK households earn just $9,530 annually, a dramatically lower rate than in other countries with a similar average income, according to new research.

Few Britons would probably agree with the observation that “life is much worse (in the UK) than it is for the poorest fifth in virtually every other northwest European country,” but that is exactly the conclusion the High Pay Centre, an independent British think-tank, has made in a newly released study.

Using figures from the OECD Better Life Index, the report shows that average UK household incomes of $53,785, which makes up the wealthiest 20 percent in the UK, ranked third in EU countries, lagging behind Germany and France.

But that is where the economic similarities between the UK and the EU come to a screeching halt.

The OECD estimates the average income of the bottom 20 percent of UK households at just $9,530, which is significantly lower than the poorest 20 percent in France ($12,653), Germany ($13,381), Belgium ($12,350), the Netherlands ($11,274) and Denmark ($12,183).

The report revealed Britain’s rapid decline from economic equality in just a few decades.

“Since 1960, Britain has gone from being more economically equal than Sweden to being one of the most unequal countries in the developed world,” according to the High Pay Centre. “Of the 32 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) only Portugal, Israel, the United States, Turkey, Mexico and Chile are more unequal than the UK.”

Source: High Pay Centre study

Malah, kata ‘the think-tank’ tersebut taraf hidup UK terpinggir adalah lebih dekat kepada orang-orang negara-negara bekas blok Timur, seperti Slovenia dan Republik Czech.

Laporan itu menyatakan bahawa "ketidaksamaan tidak berlaku secara kebetulan," tetapi timbul daripada pilihan politik, sosial dan budaya yang sengaja dalam bidang seperti "cukai, perbelanjaan awam, perhubungan perusahaan, toleransi awam gaji yang tinggi dan yang rendah."

"Angka-angka cadangkan kita perlu lebih prihatin tentang ketidaksamaan dan bagai-mana kemakmuran dikongsi, dan juga pendapatan purata atau langkah2 agregat seperti KDNK," seperti Financial Times memetik Deborah Hargreaves, pengarah Pusat Bayar Tinggi. "Hakikat bahawa yang kaya lebih kaya di UK daripada banyak negara lain menyembunyikan fakta bahawa golongan miskin lebih miskin."

Ia harus diperhatikan bahawa kajian2 lain tlh menunjukkan bahawa tahap kemiskinan UK adalah kira-kira setanding dengan atas negara-negara EU.

Kajian Luxembourg Pendapatan Pangkalan Data, sebagai contoh, yang menunjukkan bahawa peratusan ke-20 UK dan isi rumah Perancis mempunyai pendapatan yg sama. Dan kedua-duanya adalah hanya sedikit kurang teruk berbanding dengan isi rumah yang sama di Jerman.

Namun kedua-dua kajian menunjukkan bahawa yang miskin di UK mempunyai taraf hidup yg lebih rendah daripada golongan miskin di Belanda, Sweden, Norway, Finland dan Denmark.

In fact, the think-tank said marginalized UK living standards are much closer to those of former Eastern bloc countries, such as Slovenia and the Czech Republic.

The report noted that “inequality does not happen by chance,” but arises from deliberate political, social and cultural choices in areas like “taxation, public spending, industrial relations and public tolerance of high and low pay.”

“These figures suggest we need to be more concerned about inequality and how prosperity is shared, as well as average incomes or aggregate measures like GDP,” as the Financial Times quotes Deborah Hargreaves, director of the High Pay Centre. “The fact that the rich are richer in the UK than many other countries hides the fact that the poor are poorer.”

It should be noted that other studies have shown that UK poverty levels are about on par with the top EU economies.

The Luxembourg Income Study Database, for example, suggests that the 20th percentile of UK and French households have very similar incomes. And both are only slightly less worse off than equivalent households in Germany.

Yet both studies show that the impoverished in the UK have lower living standards than the poor in the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.

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"KEEMASAN 1 % Peratus"

Ketidaksamaan pendapatan telah terbukti mempunyai kesan langsung ke atas jumlah pendapatan persentil yang paling rendah bagi isi rumah.

Di UK, 1 %  peratus terkaya mengambil 13 % peratus daripada jumlah pendapatan, iaitu nisbah lebih besar daripada di negara-negara Eropah Barat yang lain.

Top Pendapatan Pangkalan Data DUNIA melaporkan jumlah pendapatan di UK pada tahun 2011 (tahun yang paling baru-baru ini untuk rekod yang ada) pada £ 1 trilion. Oleh itu, bahagian 13 % peratus yg diambil oleh yang kaya 1 % peratus yg bersamaan dengan kira-kira £ 130 billion setahun.

"Jika bahagian yang ditangkap oleh 1 % peratus itu adalah sama seperti di Belanda dan Denmark, ia akan menjadi bernilai £ 60 bilion," laporan itu menekankan. " £ 70 billion perbezaan diedarkan di seluruh baki 99 % peratus di UK akan meletakkan tambahan £ 2,700 di dalam poket setiap isi rumah."

Bahagian 6 % peratus daripada jumlah pendapatan meraih oleh golongan kaya 1 % peratus di Belanda dan Denmark adalah yang paling rendah yang dicatatkan oleh DUNIA pangkalan data pendapatan atas; Walau bagaimanapun, bahagian di negara-negara lain seperti Sweden (7 % peratus), Norway (8 % peratus) dan Perancis (8 % peratus) juga jauh lebih rendah daripada tahap UK.

Jika jumlah pendapatan di antara 99 % peratus dan 1 % peratus daripada penduduk UK telah terbelah dengan cara yang sama seperti di negara2 Eropah dan Scandinavia, 99 % peratus itu akan menjadi "beribu-ribu pound lebih baik setiap tahun," kata laporan itu.

The "GOLDEN ONE Percent"

Income inequality has been proven to have a direct effect on the total earnings of the lowest percentile of households.

In the UK, the wealthiest one percent takes 13 percent of total income, which is much greater ratio than in other Western European countries.

The World Top Incomes Database reported total incomes in the UK in 2011 (the most recent year for which records are available) at £1 trillion. Thus, the 13 percent share taken by the richest one percent equates to about £130 billion per year.

“If the share captured by the one percent were the same as in the Netherlands and Denmark, it would be worth £60 billion,” the report emphasized. “The £70 billion difference distributed across the remaining 99 percent of the UK would put an extra £2,700 in the pockets of every household.”

The 6 percent share of total incomes grabbed by the richest one percent in the Netherlands and Denmark is the lowest recorded by the world top incomes database; however, the share in other countries such as Sweden (seven percent), Norway (eight percent) and France (eight percent) is also much lower than UK levels.

If total income between the 99 percent and the one percent of UK’s population was split up in the same way as in European and Scandinavian countries, the 99 percent would be “thousands of pounds better off each year,” the report said.

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OBAMA Mengumumkan 275 tentera untuk DiHANTAR ke IRAQ untuk KESELAMATAN Kedutaan di BAGHDAD . . .

bOLLy ENn - Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama tlh mengumumkan 275 tentera Amerika Syarikat akan dikerahkan ke Iraq untuk menyediakan keselamatan untuk Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Baghdad sebagaimana pemberontak Sunni terus menguji pasukan keselamatan negara dalam usahanya lebih dekat dengan ibu negara.

"Kuasa ini akan menggerakkan untuk maksud melindungi rakyat Amerika Syarikat dan hartanah, jika perlu, dan dilengkapi untuk pertempuran," kata Obama dalam surat yg dihantar kepada House & pemimpin Senat. "Kuasa ini akan kekal di Iraq sehingga keadaan keselamatan menjadi seperti bahawa ianya tidak diperlukan lagi."

Setiausaha Akhbar White House ini berkata penggunaan anggota tentera Amerika Syarikat adalah "selaras dengan Kuasa Perang Resolusi."

"Anggota akan memberi bantuan kepada Jabatan Negeri itu berkaitan dgn penempatan semula sementara beberapa kakitangan dari Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Baghdad dengan Konsulat Besar Amerika Syarikat di Basra dan Erbil dan kepada Unit Sokongan Iraq di Amman," kata setiausaha akhbar di satu kenyataan ‘statement’.

"Anggota tentera Amerika Syarikat ini memasuki Iraq dengan persetujuan Kerajaan Iraq. Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Baghdad masih terbuka, dan majoriti besar kehadiran Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Iraq akan kekal di tempat dan kedutaan akan dilengkapi sepenuhnya untuk menjalankan misi keselamatan negara."

White House telah dilaporkan menjatuhkan apa2 idea menghantar tentera Amerika ke Iraq.

"Presiden adalah sangat jelas bahawa kami tidak akan menghantar tentera Amerika Syarikat kembali ke dalam pertempuran di Iraq," kata jurucakap ‘said’ White House Caitlin Hayden dalam satu kenyataan. "Kes itu dan beliau telah meminta pasukan keselamatan negara untuk menyediakan pelbagai pilihan lain yang boleh membantu menyokong pasukan keselamatan Iraq."

White House tidak mengulas sama ada pengumuman keselamatan kedutaan mewakili berehat mungkin dari dasar pentadbiran Obama terhadap tentera kombat masa depan di Iraq.

Sementara itu, pentadbiran Obama dikatakan mempertimbangkan menawarkan kon-tinjen kecil Amerika pasukan khas tentera ke Iraq, pegawai Amerika Syarikat berkata Isnin.

Pelan ini akan menggabungkan seramai 100 askar dalam bukan tempur, melatih peranan untuk membantu tentera Iraq terhadap pejuang Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIS atau ISIL) yang telah mendapat tanah di utara dan barat negara, 3 pegawai Amerika Syarikat memberitahu AP kepada keadaan tidak mahu namanya disiarkan.

Kuasa2 khas pelan dilaporkan tinggi dalam senarai pilihan Amerika Syarikat sedang mempertimbangkan dalam menawarkan kerajaan Syiah yang dipimpin di Iraq bantuan terhadap pemberontak Sunni sebagai ISIS menolak ke arah ibu negara.

Terdahulu Isnin, Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry berkata - sebagai tambahan kepada bantuan keselamatan ‘security assistance’ seperti peluru berpandu Hellfire dan pesawat pengawasan telah dibekalkan ke Iraq - Amerika Syarikat sedang mempertimbangkan menggunakan yang dikendalikan atau tanpa pemandu serangan udara Drone untuk melawan momentum pemberontak.

Ia masih belum jelas sama ada pasukan khas tentera di misi memberi nasihat dan "latihan bukan operasi" akan dihantar ke Baghdad atau di tempat lain lebih dekat ke bandar-bandar dan kawasan-kawasan di mana ISIS dan kumpulan militan lain telah menubuhkan kawalan dalam sebuah negara yang terasa bahang daripada bahagian dan keganasan yang berterusan.

Tentera akan berada di bawah kuasa duta Amerika Syarikat, seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat berkata, dan bahawa mereka akan berada di sana untuk melatih pasukan keselamatan Iraq di pangkalan tentera.

Ia juga melaporkan ‘reported’ Isnin bahawa USS Mesa Verde, dengan 550 Marin di atas kapal, telah memasuki Teluk Parsi pada hari Isnin untuk operasi mungkin di Iraq.

Iraq telah meminta ‘requested’ penghantaran disegerakan senjata pesanan utama, termasuk puluhan jet pejuang F-16 menguncup dengan Lockheed Martin dan puluhan Apache helikopter Boeing, untuk menentang pejuang-pejuang pemberontak.

"Apa yg kami katakan ialah perlu ada rasa segera," Lukman faily, duta Iraq ke Amerika Syarikat, memberitahu The Wall Street Journal minggu lepas. "Kami kini menjangka Amerika Syarikat menghargai pengertian ini yang mendesak."

Satu cabang Al-Qaeda, ISIS, kumpulan hyper-fundamentalis aktif di Iraq dan Syria, jatuh dengan rangkaian pengganas global. Ia mendapat terkenal untuk taktik kejam, yang termasuk awam menyalibkan dan pemotongan kepala orang-orang yang melanggar tafsiran agama yang ketat.

Kebangkitan dan pengukuhan berhutang banyak kepada kekosongan kuasa serentak yang timbul selepas perang saudara di Syria meletus dan kekacauan yang berterusan di Iraq selepas pencerobohan Amerika Syarikat dan pekerjaan.

Menentang kerajaan Syiah Perdana Menteri Nouri al-Maliki di Baghdad dan Bashar Assad di Damsyik juga telah membolehkan organisasi Sunni untuk merekrut beribu-ribu orang di bawah matlamatnya untuk akhirnya menjadikan seluruh rantau ini menjadi khalifah Islam ultraconservative.

OBAMA Announces 275 troops to Deploy to IRAQ for Embassy SECURITY in BAGHDAD . . .

US President Barack Obama has announced 275 US troops will be deployed to Iraq to provide security for the US Embassy in Baghdad as Sunni insurgents continue to test the nation’s security forces in its push closer to the capital.

“This force is deploying for the purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and property, if necessary, and is equipped for combat,” Obama said in a letter sent to House and Senate leaders.“This force will remain in Iraq until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed.”

The White House press secretary said the deployment of the US Armed Forces personnel is “consistent with the War Powers Resolution.”

“The personnel will provide assistance to the Department of State in connection with the temporary relocation of some staff from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to the U.S. Consulates General in Basra and Erbil and to the Iraq Support Unit in Amman," the press secretary said in a statement. "These U.S. military personnel are entering Iraq with the consent of the Government of Iraq. The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad remains open, and a substantial majority of the U.S. Embassy presence in Iraq will remain in place and the embassy will be fully equipped to carry out its national security mission."

The White House had reportedly dropped any idea of sending US combat troops to Iraq.

"The president was very clear that we will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq," White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement. "That remains the case and he has asked his national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support Iraqi security forces."

The White House did not comment on whether the announcement of embassy security represents a possible break from the Obama administration’s policy against future combat troops in Iraq.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration is said to be considering offering a small contingent of American special forces soldiers to Iraq, US officials said Monday.

The plan would incorporate as many as 100 soldiers in a non-combat, training role to assist Iraqi forces against fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL) that have gained ground in nation’s north and west, three US officials told AP on the condition of anonymity.

The special forces plan is reportedly high on the list of options the US is considering in offering the Shiite-led government in Iraq help against the Sunni insurgents as ISIS pushes toward the nation’s capital.

Earlier Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that – in addition to security assistance like Hellfire missiles and surveillance drones already supplied to Iraq – the US is considering using manned or unmanned drone airstrikes to counter insurgent momentum.

It is yet clear whether the special forces soldiers on the advising and "non-operational training" mission would be sent to Baghdad or elsewhere closer to cities and areas where ISIS and other militant groups have established control in a nation reeling from continual violence and division.

The troops would be under the authority of the US ambassador, a US official said, and that they would be there to train Iraqi security forces on military bases.

It was also reported Monday that the USS Mesa Verde, with 550 Marines onboard, has entered the Persian Gulf on Monday for a possible operation in Iraq.

Iraq has requested the hastened delivery of major weapons orders, including dozens of F-16 fighter jets contracted with Lockheed Martin and dozens of Boeing’s Apache helicopters, to counter the insurgent fighters.

"What we are saying is that there needs to be a sense of urgency," Lukman Faily, Iraq's ambassador to the US, told The Wall Street Journal last week. "We now expect the US to appreciate this sense of urgency."

An offshoot of Al-Qaeda, ISIS, the hyper-fundamentalist group active in Iraq and Syria, fell out with the global terrorist network. It gained notoriety for its ruthless tactics, which include publicly crucifying and beheading those who violate their strict religious interpretations. Its rise and consolidation owe a great deal to the simultaneous power vacuum that arose after the Syrian civil war broke out and the ongoing tumult in Iraq after the US invasion and occupation.

Fighting against the Shia governments of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad and Bashar Assad in Damascus has also allowed the Sunni organization to recruit thousands of people under its aim of eventually turning the entire region into an ultraconservative Muslim caliphate.

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