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ZERO HEDGE
This
Is Why The US Just Lost Its Superpower Status According To Larry Summers.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/06/2015. "This past
month may be remembered as the moment the United States lost its role as the
underwriter of the global economic system... With US commitments unhonoured
and US-backed policies blocking the kinds of finance other countries want to
provide or receive through the existing institutions, the way was clear for
China to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank," the former
Treasury Secretary says, in a sharp rebuke of US foreign policy.
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Mapping
The World's Atomic Inventory. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/06/2015. "Amid the wave of bellicose rhetoric that has
swelled in Moscow since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, officials as high
up as President Vladimir Putin have been making open nuclear threats, a public saber-rattling
with weapons of mass destruction largely unseen even in the days of the Cold
War."
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We've
Never Seen This Before In The Gold Market. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/06/2015. It might prove to be a one-off. But one group in
the gold industry this week forged ahead with a unique strategy - which might
just change the market. The group is India’s largest jewellery-maker,
Rajesh Exports. Which said that it is taking an unusual step in securing gold
supply for its operations. Buying gold mines.
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Beppe
Grillo Disarms The 7 Unfounded Fears Of A Euro Exit. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/06/2015. Having previously warned that "the
eurozone chess game is entering its final stage," and exclaimed
that "we
are not at war with Russia or ISIS, we are at war with the Troika,"
Italy's erstwhile populist leader, Italy's Five Star Movement's Beppe Grillo
unveils his Plan B by destroying seven unfounded myths with regard an exit
from the euro...
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John
Hussman Explains Why QE Has Done Nothing To Help You. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/06/2015. Money doesn’t go “into” the stock market – it goes
through it from a buyer to a seller. The resulting price changes are purely
changes in the relative value that people place on these pieces of paper, and
amount to changes the amount of “paper wealth” in the economy. These changes should
emphatically be distinguished from the real wealth of the economy, and the
underlying stream of cash flows that will be generated over time.
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Mission
Accomplished? ISIS Leaders Are All Ex-Saddam Hussein Army Officers. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/06/2015 . Almost all the
top leaders in the Islamic State are former officers in the Iraqi army. As
WaPo reports, the current leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, reshaped the original
al-Qaeda affiliate by recruiting from Saddam Hussein’s disbanded army...
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America's
Poor Spend 60% Of Their Income On Food & Housing Proving CPI Is Meaningless.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/06/2015. "For many
Americans, the rise in food and housing prices is a tough squeeze. That’s
because even in an era with low overall inflation low-income Americans spend a
disproportionate share of their money on food and housing," WSJ notes,
proving that once again, poor people aren't allocating their funds correctly.
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How
To Alleviate The Alleged "Worker Shortage" - Stop Subsidizing
Non-Work. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/06/2015. The great conundrum of the U.S. economy today is that
we have record numbers of working age people out of the labor force at the
same time we have businesses desperately trying to find workers. So why
aren’t workers filling these available jobs - or getting the skills necessary
to fill them. We would posit five impediments to putting more Americans back to
work - First, government discourages work...
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Valuing
(Greek) Banks: A Sum-Of-The-Parts Approach. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/06/2015. Traditional banks were built to gather deposits.
Their design and infrastructure is geared towards that; they are maladapted to
today’s interest rate environment. P2P platforms and other non-bank lenders are
eating their lunch. Absent some radical rethinking of their operations model,
they are about to go the way of the dodo. Of course, markets are not efficient;
it will take time for competitors to move in. Traditional banks, however, have
few weapons to fend them off: their brands (much less valuable for
loan-origination than for deposit-gather purposes) and their (hugely expensive)
legacy infrastructure. It took almost a century for the dodo bird to become
extinct.
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Greece
Calculates Germany Owes It A Third Of Its GDP In WWII Reparations. With
almost 70% of Europeans already believing that Greece is a drag on the EU
economy, this morning's statement by Greek Alternate Finance Minister
Dimitris Mardas - coming just a week after the war-raparations committee was
set-up, telling lawmakers in Parliament that he has calculated
that Germany owes Greece EUR 278.7 billion in World War II reparations,
will surely deepen the rift (at almost 40% of Germany's EUR 735 billion
GDP) whether right or wrong.
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Even
The Fed Admits Bureau Of Labor Statistics Data Is Now MeaninglessSubmitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/06/2015 - 12:51
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Spin-O-Nomics
In A World Of Unraveling Globalism. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/06/2015. The USA set the
tone for 21st century magical finance, in which “wealth” was “created” by
digital accounting fraud. The effects at home are visible on our
landscape of suburban hyperwaste and decrepitating older towns and cities.
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Warren
Buffett, Slumlord – Predatory Loans, Kickbacks & Preying On The Poor. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/06/2015. In so many ways, Warren Buffett and modern America
are the same thing. An idea packaged and marketed so brilliantly, most of
humanity unquestionably believes the myth. However, when you look
beneath the surface, it becomes increasingly clear that neither of them
actually come close to what’s printed on the package.
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March
Consumer Spending Hits Three-Year Low For Average Americans. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/06/2015. With more than three quarters of US workers trapped
in what we will call “wage growth hell,” and whose only chance at seeing a pay
hike appears to rest on holding out for a promotion that’s probably not
forthcoming, it doesn’t exactly come as a surprise that self-reported
consumer spending hit a three-year low for March.
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Guaranteed
Financial Security Is A Fantasy.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/06/2015. Guarantees based on
extracting higher taxes, borrowing trillions of dollars and creating trillions
more out of thin air only guarantee eventual systemic implosion.
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Greek
Minister Slams Troika's "Unbelievable Prejudice" As EU Proclaims
Tsipras' Government "Cannot Survive". Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/06/2015. The rhetoric,
threats, and promises continue to increase as Greece, its international
creditors (i.e. Troika), and its potential pivot partners from Russia to China
to Iran all vie for attention. With EU officials proclaiming "[the
Greek] government cannot survive," suggesting Tsipras divorce himself
from the extreme left of his party; and with 68% of Europeans polled
believing Greece is a drag on the EU economy, Greece's last best hope
perhaps remains with a pivot to another Troika (Russia, China, and Iran) as
energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis denounced Greece’s international
creditors for treating the country with "unbelievable prejudice and as a
colony." This all on the day when FinMin Varoufakis 'promises'
Christine Lagarde that Greece will repay its IMF loan on April 9th (somehow?).
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/06/2015 - 07:35
- Political Battle Ramps Up Over Iran Nuclear Deal (WSJ)
- Greece moves to quell default fears, pledges to meet 'all obligations' (Reuters)
- Isolated Greece pivots east to Russia, China and Iran. But will it work? (Telegraph)
- Frustrated officials want Greek premier to ditch Syriza far left (FT)
- Greek political unrest and deepening debt crisis fuel talk of snap election (Guardian)
- Rand Paul’s Challenge: Charting His Own Course (WSJ)
- In Greenspan Conundrum Redux, Odds Are on Bond Traders’ Side (BBG)
- Yemen's Aden suffers amid clashes, aid deliveries delayed (Reuters)
- Record Gasoline Output to Curb Biggest U.S. Oil Glut in 85 Years (BBG)
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NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL
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PRESSTV
Palestine
wants end to Israel occupation.
Tue Apr 7, 2015 Palestine says it seeks a UNSC timetable for the termination of
Israel’s occupation.
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Israel
repeats military threat on Iran.
Tue Apr 7, 2015 A senior Israeli official threatens Iran with military action
in the wake of the recent agreement between Tehran and six global powers.
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Nasrallah
censures Saudi war on Yemen. Mon
Apr 6, 2015 Lebanon's Hezbollah leader calls for an immediate end to the
Saudi-led invasion of Yemen.
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Terrorists
kill 8 Iranian border guards. Mon
Apr 6, 2015 Eight Iranian border guards have been killed by terrorists near the
border with Pakistan.
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Ukraine’s
annual inflation rises to 45.8%.
Mon Apr 6, 2015 Official figures show that the annual inflation in Ukraine hits
45.8%.
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Russia
'dismayed' by airstrikes on Yemen. Mon Apr 6, 2015 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he is
“dismayed” over the Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen.
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Oil
prices surge 5%. Mon Apr 6, 2015 Crude prices have climbed to the
highest level in more than a week after Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude
exporter, increased prices for shipments to Asia.
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'Saudi
Arabia waging US proxy war'. Mon Apr 6, 2015 Saudi Arabia and some of
its Arab allies in the Persian Gulf are fighting a proxy war for the United
States in the region.
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‘Lifting
sanctions not end economic woes’. Mon Apr 6, 2015 Iranian Minister of
Economic Affairs and Finance says the removal of anti-Iran sanctions will not
resolve all of the country’s economic problems.
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Netanyahu
seeks ‘nuclear monopoly’ . Mon Apr 6, 2015 Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu seeks a “nuclear monopoly” in the Middle East, an American
scholar says.
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‘Saudi
war on Yemen, US-led operation’. Mon Apr 6, 2015 An activist says
Washington is providing Riyadh with arms and logistical support, which turns
this Saudi-led aggression into a US operation.
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World’s
currency reserves shrinking. Mon Apr 6, 2015 A Bloomberg report reveals
that global currency reserves are shrinking with the strengthening dollar
reducing the value of other reserve currencies.
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‘Iraqi
forces, Kurds to free Nineveh’ . Mon Apr 6, 2015 The Iraqi PM says
government forces will cooperate with Kurdish Peshmerga forces to liberate
Nineveh province.
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Yemen – The
Big Picture
By Peter Koenig
Yemen, like Ukraine, is just another square on the geopolitical chess board which the exceptional nation aims to dominate.
By Peter Koenig
Yemen, like Ukraine, is just another square on the geopolitical chess board which the exceptional nation aims to dominate.
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Imagery and
Empire Understanding the Western Fear of Arab and Muslim Terrorists
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Either tacitly or openly, both Arabs and Muslims are portrayed as uncivilized subjects.
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Either tacitly or openly, both Arabs and Muslims are portrayed as uncivilized subjects.
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Devil is in
Western Interpretation of Iran Nuclear Deal
By Finian Cunningham
Contrary to what Iran's top diplomat Mohammad Zarif is saying, it is far from clear that all sanctions against his country will be annulled immediately in the coming months.
By Finian Cunningham
Contrary to what Iran's top diplomat Mohammad Zarif is saying, it is far from clear that all sanctions against his country will be annulled immediately in the coming months.
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Manufacturing
a ‘Good Adversary’ in Tehran
By Gareth Porter
The Obama administration insists Iran will remain an adversary even if an agreement is reached on the nuclear issue, citing Iran’s alleged role in supporting terrorism and as a “troublemaker” in the region.
By Gareth Porter
The Obama administration insists Iran will remain an adversary even if an agreement is reached on the nuclear issue, citing Iran’s alleged role in supporting terrorism and as a “troublemaker” in the region.
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Eurasian
Emporium or Nuclear War?
By Pepe Escobar
Russian “aggression” is a myth. Moscow’s strategy, so far, has been pure self-defense.
By Pepe Escobar
Russian “aggression” is a myth. Moscow’s strategy, so far, has been pure self-defense.
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China-led
Development Bank Challenges US Economic Interests
By John Perkins
Despite pressure from Washington, major U.S. allies have agreed to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, known as AIIB.
By John Perkins
Despite pressure from Washington, major U.S. allies have agreed to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, known as AIIB.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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As
Saudi Dictator Continues US-Coordinated Bombardment, al Qaeda Gains Yemen
Foothold By Robert Barsocchini,
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FUTURE FAST FORWARD
A
Good Deal, A Long Time Coming - By Scott Ritter (7/4/15). Huffington Post. Basic info.
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