martes, 29 de octubre de 2013

IT'S TIME FOR THE U.S. TO DUMP THE SAUDIS




If Saudis wants to pull back from its deep and unhealthy relationship with the US  we should welcome such a move.
by Ron Paul  WATCH VIDEO  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HAl7RqQlb4s  IN:


Last week it was reported that Saudi Arabia decided to make a “major shift” away from its 80 years of close cooperation with the United States. The Saudi leadership is angry that the Obama administration did not attack Syria last month, and that it has not delivered heavy weapons to the Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow the Assad government. Saudi Arabia is heavily invested in the overthrow of the Assad government in Syria, sending money and weapons to the rebels.

However, it was the recent diplomatic opening between the United States and Iran that most infuriated the Saudis. Saudi Arabia is strongly opposed to the Iranian government and has vigorously lobbied the U.S. Congress to maintain sanctions and other pressure on Iran. Like Israel, the Saudis are fearful of any US diplomacy with Iran.

This additional strain in U.S./Saudi relations came at the 40 year anniversary of the Arab oil embargo of the US over its support of Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur war. At the time, the embargo caused quite a bit of trouble for Americans, including gas shortages and long lines at the filling stations. A repeat of this move, however, would not have the same effect on the US economy. Though it would not be desired, these are not the 1970s and oil is now a more fungible commodity no longer solely in Arab hands.

Why does Saudi Arabia insist that the United States fight its battles? The Saudis are strongly opposed to the governments in Syria and Iran so they expect the U.S. to attack. It is their neighborhood, why don’t they fight their own wars? Israel shares the same position in the region as Saudi Arabia: it has been fighting to overthrow Assad in Syria for years, and Israeli leadership constantly pushes the U.S. toward war on Iran. They are both working on the same side of these issues but why do they keep trying to draw us in?

We have unwritten agreements to defend Saudi Arabia and Israel, which keeps us heavily involved militarily in the Middle East. But when the U.S. becomes so involved, we are the real losers — especially the American taxpayers, who are forced to finance this global military empire. Plus, our security guarantee to Saudi Arabia and Israel creates a kind of moral hazard: there is little incentive for these two countries to push for more peaceful solutions in the region because the U.S. military underwrites their reckless behavior. It is an unhealthy relationship that should come to an end.

If Saudi Arabia and Israel are so determined to extend their influence in the region and share such similar goals, why don’t they work together to stabilize the region without calling on the U.S. for back-up? It might be healthy for them to cooperate and leave us out of it.

One of Osama bin Laden’s stated goals was to bankrupt the U.S. by drawing it into endless battles in the Middle East and south Asia. Unfortunately, even from beyond the grave he continues to successfully implement his policy. But should we really be helping him do so? If Saudi Arabia wants to pull back from its deep and unhealthy relationship with the United States we should welcome such a move. Then we might return to peace and commerce rather than sink under entangling alliances.

WATCH this video: Jerry Robinson explains how the “unwritten agreements” between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia could impact you  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Enm0CBx52g4   IN

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domingo, 27 de octubre de 2013

A CORRER, A CORRER QUE EL DOLAR SE VA A JODER



A CORRER, A CORRER QUE EL DOLAR SE VA A JODER

Lo dice un Americano, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts  que fue  Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (during Reagan term)  and is now associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. Leamos los extractos  que aquí les dejo. Tomado de “AMERICA: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap”  Por Paul Craig Roberts / The 4th Media News | Saturday, October 26, 2013.

Introduccion
por Hugo Adan, octubre 27, 2013

La tesis central de Paul Craig Roberts es que: “the US has lost economic and political power, and that loss is irreversible”.   

Si creo que la caida es irreversible, pero tambien creo que el alarmismo exagerado es inservible. Estamos frente a pesimismos de conveniencia en algunos casos (los que crean alarma para vender oro falso) y en otros, del ritual a un mito que desde hace mucho tiempo se predica. Para mi ningun problema nace sin solucion y estoy seguro que las "inteligencias" van a encontrar alguna solucion al problema que crearon: me refiero a una caida suave, no aparatosa. 

Algunos de estos ya dijeron que la caida de este imperio nada tiene que ver con Roma ni con la Rusia de Gorbachev ni Yelsin. Lo que aqui vamos a tener es una transicion similar a la britanica (poco a poco). Otros hablaron de caida elefantiasica, 1ro el animal deja de caminar, arrastra las patas para al final no levantarse. 

A mi mas me gusta la metafora del Titanic. En esta transicion las 1ras ratas que abandonaran el Titanic van a ser los mas ricos, los menos americanos de hoy. Las capas medias y el pueblo se las arreglaran para crear un nuevo sistema. Asi que hay imperio para rato, salvo que el Titanic choque con un tempano "nuclear",  entonces y solo entonces la guerra aceleraria la caida rapida. 

Mientras tanto, se trata de ayudar a organizar la independencia ideologica, politica y economica del pueblo frente a los grandes banqueros y las grandes corporaciones (los duenios del pais) que se sirven de democratas y republicanos, a los que financian por igual.  La posibilidad de armar una alternativa democratica: un Frente independiente frente al "dirty couple", esta ya en camino, pero la trampa electoral (la alternancia entre democratas y republicanos, que en esencia son lo mismo) es  un hecho realmente existente que solo se puede desmontar CREANDO el FRENTE CON UN PROGRAMA Y PLAN DE ACCION TRABAJABLE EN EL CORTO PLAZO.  Esto es lo que preocupa hoy, el actuar localmente sin perder de vista lo global. 

Aqui va el art de Craig Roberts, con partes descriptivas de la actual crisis que son interesantes.  Lo que viene en double brackets es mio. Abrir:
 
http://www.4thmedia.org/2013/10/26/as-ye-sow-so-shall-ye-reap-chickens-come-home-to-roost/


[[LOS PAISES DEL BRICS SE ALISTAN PARA SALIR DEL DÓLAR]]

The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) are taking steps to create their own method of settling trade accounts in order to protect themselves from the looming dollar implosion,

China has forcefully called for a “de-Americanized world.” After watching the “superpower” offshore a large part of its GDP to China and then add to the diminished tax base the burden of $6 trillion in wars that brought no booty and served no US interest, China has concluded that American power is spent. The London Telegraph thinks “it is only a matter of time before the renminbi replaces the dollar as the primary currency for trading commodities and resources.”

The Obama regime attempted to attack Syria based on the sort of lies that the Bush regime used to invade Iraq, only to be slapped down by the British Parliament and Russian government. This rebuke was followed by the childishness of the government shutdown and threat of default. Consequently, the Washington morons have lost their monopoly on economic and political leadership.

A few days ago the British government announced a historic agreement that permits British investors direct access to China’s markets and allows Chinese banks to expand their operations in Great Britain.

In Australia, the US dollar will no longer be used as the currency in which to settle the Australian trade accounts with China. Instead of dollars, trade will be settled in the Chinese currency.

This means that the US dollar is being displaced as world currency. The only market that America dominates is the market for financial fraud.

When industrial, manufacturing, and tradeable professional service jobs are offshored, they take US GDP and tax base with them. The foreign country gets the benefit of the relocated economic activity. Due to the revenues lost from jobs offshoring, there is a large gap between federal revenues and federal expenditures.

As Washington’s irresponsible behavior has raised so many doubts about the dollar’s value and the government’s commitment to stand behind its massive debt, foreign countries with trade surpluses with the US are less and less willing to recycle those surpluses into the purchase of US Treasury debt.

Today the two largest holders of US Treasury debt are not investors or even foreign central banks. The two largest holders are the Federal Reserve and the Social Security Trust Fund.

As for those $6 trillion wars, that’s to pay for national defense to protect us from women, children, and village elders in far away countries devoid of air forces and navies, and to provide those recycled taxpayer monies from the military/security complex that find their way into political contributions.

Obamacare is causing the premiums on private insurance polices to rise substantially, almost doubling in some situations unless people move to the uncertain exchanges, and Obamacare’s raid on Medicare payroll tax revenues has resulted in a cut in Medicare payments to health care providers. The result is a further reduction in consumer discretionary income and a further drop in the economy. This in turn means a larger federal budget deficit and the need for the Federal Reserve to purchase more debt.

Another reason the Federal Reserve is faced with increasing, not tapering, quantitative easing (money printing) is the decline in foreign purchases of US Treasury bills, notes, and bonds.

According to reports, not only are foreign governments, such as China, ceasing to buy US Treasury debt, China has started to sell off its holdings, substituting gold in the place of US Treasury debt.

This means that the bonds must be purchased by the Fed or interest rates will rise as the increased supply of bonds on the market drives down bond prices. The only way the Fed can purchase a larger supply of bonds is by printing more money, that is, by more quantitative easing.

With the world moving away from using the dollar to settle international accounts, as the Fed prints more dollars the rate at which foreign holders of dollar assets sell off their holdings will rise.

The selling of dollars drives down the exchange value of the US dollar and results in rising US inflation. The Fed can print money with which to purchase Treasury debt, but it cannot print foreign currencies with which to purchase dollars.

The decline in the dollar’s exchange value and the domestic inflation that results will force the Fed to stop printing. What then covers the gap between revenues and expenditures? The likely answer is private pensions and any other asset that Washington can get its hands on.

Initially, private pensions will be taxed at a rate to recover the tax-free accumulation in the pensions. The second year a national emergency will be used to confiscate some share of pensions. Those relying on the pensions will find themselves with less income. Consumer spending will decline. The economy will worsen. The deficit will widen.

You can see where this is going, and there seems to be no way out. Policymakers, economists, and corporation executives are in denial about the adverse effects of offshoring, which they still, despite all the evidence, maintain is good for the economy. So nothing will be done about offshoring.

Republicans will blame the budget deficit on welfare and entitlements, and if those are cut consumer spending will decline further, widening the budget deficit. Inflation will rise as incomes fall, and social cohesion will break down.

Now you know why Homeland Security purchased 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition, enough ammunition to fight the Iraq war for 12 years, has its own para-military force and 2,700 tanks.

If you think the “terrorist threat” in America warrants a domestic armed force of this size, you are out of your mind. This force has been assembled to deal with starving and homeless people in the streets of America.

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QATAR SEDE DEL PRÓXIMO MUNDIAL UN GRAVE INSULTO A LA HUMANIDAD Y AL FÚTBOL EN PARTICULAR.



QATAR  SEDE DEL PRÓXIMO MUNDIAL UN GRAVE INSULTO A LA HUMANIDAD Y AL  FÚTBOL EN PARTICULAR.

Hugo Adan Zegarra ( HAZ)


Este articulo refiere el fútbol como guerra versus el fútbol como ejercicio de libertad,  coordinación y el logro de  metas .


Si hoy existe un sistema en movimiento , ese es el fútbol . Uno puede ver cómo se malgastan recursos o se convierten estos inputs en resultados o outputs positivos en solo  90 ' (o algo mas si estamos en las finales y se tiene que jugar extra-tiempo). El Fútbol es como sistema en sí mismo y por su interconexión con otros sistemas, una maravilla que puede verse en vivo y en directo desde el palco de un TV set y unirse a la felicidad que este deporte produce a escala mundial, ese es el significado de una copa mundial.


Todos los sistemas del globo son capturados por la emoción y el suspenso que produce este deporte y que súbitamente estalla en alegría al mismo tiempo, a nivel mundial, cuando una combinación hermosa de un equipo produce un gol. El Fútbol muestra lo hermoso de la vida humana y de la paz mundial. El fútbol es como un laboratorio con las luces encendidas , que permite a todo el mundo ver cómo un recién nacido , un nuevo comienzo en este deporte , trabaja su existencia.


Allison , Malcolm erróneamente dijo : " El fútbol profesional ya no es un juego. Es una guerra, una guerra que saca a relucir instintos primitivos del ser humano que nos remontan a miles de años atrás "   Tal vez Allison se refirió al fútbol de los EE.UU. .  http://www.philosophyfootball.com/quotations.php


El futbol profesional y real se juega con los pies y una bola redonda de cuero, es así como se juega la copa del mundo que captura la atención de la humanidad entera. Se trata de una serie de partidos en los que la libertad del equipo es lo que prevalece sobre autocrático , narcisista y egoísta en la toma de decisiones. El fútbol es hasta ahora el deporte más decente , creativo y justo donde la humanidad entera compite por la victoria. El único deporte donde los países mas pobres pueden vencer a los más ricos. El futbol es todo lo contrario a la brutalidad de la guerra . Si lo vemos con el prisma geo-político en lo que a toma de decisiones se refiere, el fútbol es el reino de la pluralidad y la toma de decisiones participativa, donde la cooperación es la característica más sobresaliente .


Que tiene que ver toda la belleza de este deporte con Qatar, Lo que este bello deporte tiene que ver con Qatar, el anfitrión de la próxima copa del mundo ? . Nada, absolutamente nada . Qatar es uno de los reinos petroleros involucrado en crímenes contra la humanidad en Siria , sus reyes lideraron la financiaron de jihadistas que destruyeron el Estado-Nación Syria. Los potentados de la monarquía en Qatar'r tratar de lavarse la cara inhumana con el deporte más pacífico del mundo y esto es lo más detestable del tema, lo que jamás se debió permitir. Estamos en crisis económica es cierto, pero eso no significa que debemos abandonar nuestra dignidad humana. La FIFA debe revisar este caso y proceder a una nueva selección, aún estamos a tiempo.


Que el anfitrión de la próxima Copa Mundial sea Qatar, lo más retrogrado junto a los Saudis, en lo que va del del fundamentalismo jihadista de nuestro tiempo, es un insulto a los principios en los que se funda el fútbol. E hecho de que posean una riqueza natural, el petróleo, y que tengan muchos dólares mal habidos y peor usados, no le da derecho a destruir Estados y menos a usar el deporte más pacífico del mundo, para limpiar su imagen diabólica de terroristas.  


El fútbol no tiene nada que ver con los principios del conformismo y uniformidad dictados por el  régimen fundamentalista de Qatar. El fútbol se basa en la libertad , la diversidad ,  la  libre iniciativa , la creatividad,  la cooperación amistosa y la toma de decisiones compartida . Qatar es el opuesto a eso , es el país que en cambio está esclavizando gente para construir los estadios de  la próxima Copa  mundial del futbol.


Esos estadios manchados con sangre humana no se necesitan en este deporte, son un insulto a la humanidad entera y al fútbol en particular. Por razones  de dignidad y decencia humana la FIFA debe reconsiderar  dicha selección y nominar otro país como anfitrión. En mi modesta opinion sugiero que todos los paises que ingresaron a los octavos de final en el evento anterior sean considerados como posibles candidatos a anfitrión del próximo mundial del Fútbol


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Bits on PHILOSOPHY of FOOTBALL & QATAR AS HOST OF NEXT WORLD CUP



Bits on PHILOSOPHY of  FOOTBALL & QATAR AS HOST OF NEXT WORLD CUP
Hugo Adan Zegarra  (Haz)
http://nd-hugoadan.blogspot.com/

This is about football as war vs. football as exercise of freedom, coordination and goal achievement.

If a system in motion exists, that is football.  One can see how inputs are wasted or converted into positive outputs in 90’.  Football as system in itself and its interconnection with other systems can be seen vividly during a world cup. All systems are captured in suspense and suddenly exploding in happiness  at the same time at worldwide level when a beautiful gool is done. Football shows how beautiful life is, how human peace is. Football  is like a laboratory with lights on that allows the entire world to see how a new born –a new start in this sport- is brought into existence.

Allison, Malcolm wrongly said :  “Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years."   Perhaps he referred the USA football. http://www.philosophyfootball.com/quotations.php

Professional real foot-&-ball –as it is played in a world cup- is a set of games where freedom prevail over  autocratic, narcissist  and selfish decision making.  Football  is so far the most decent, creative and fair  popular competition  worldwide. It is just the opposite to the brutality of war. If we see it with  the prism of policy-making, football is the realm of  pluralism and participatory decision making, where cooperation is the most salient  feature.

What this beautiful sport has to do with Qatar, the selected host of the next world cup?.  Nothing, absolutely nothing.  Qatar is involved in crimes against humanity in Syria, where they financed the jihadist who destroyed such State-nation. Qatar’r royalty try to wash their inhumane face with the most peaceful sport.. that is nasty, and should not be allowed.  FIFA should review this case.

The dogmatic fundamentalist theocracy on Qatar is just an insult to the principles in which football is bases on.  Football has nothing to do with the tenets of compliance and uniformity of  this fundamentalist regimen in Qatar. Football is based on freedom, diversity, shared decision making, free- initiative, creativity and friendly cooperation. Qatar is the oposite, is instead slaving people to build stadiums to host the next world cup. That is an insult to football. FIFA should reconsider such selection.

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