APR 8 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
Apocalyptic
Economics: How Mass Death Boosts Wages. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/08/2015. To the 99%: Choose your poison: death or
unemployment.
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Yemen
Rebels Spotted Outside The Local Central Bank (Carrying Welding Equipment).
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/08/2015 the Houthis who, thanks to a few hundred
million worth of “lost” US weapons are already well armed, and thanks to Iran
are also well trained, are now set to get a capital injection courtesy of the
Yemen central bank much as AQAP did just last week when militants raided banks
to the east in Mukalla and very much like ISIS did last year in Mosul when the
group also captured US arms.
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Caught On Tape: South Carolina Cop Shoots Unarmed Man 8 Times In The Back. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/08/2015. Activists plan to protest in South Carolina today, according to Reuters, after a white police officer was caught on video fatally shooting a 50-year-old black man in the back as he ran away following a traffic stop. The officer has been charged with murder and the FBI and U.S. Justice Department are investigating the shooting, the latest in a series of incidents that have raised questions about U.S. policing and race relations.
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Hillary
Clinton's Interactive Web Of Money. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/08/2015. Of the 425 large corporate
donors to the Clinton Foundation,
the
Wall Street Journal found 60 of
those donors lobbied the State Department during Hillary Clinton's tenure.
Certainly Politics
in America is controlled by money in America. .. But He Does it Too!.. of
course, and none of that, however accurate, makes it right.
Politics in America is
controlled by money. What is clear is
that the Clinton candidacy is built on a global network of organizations
(“charities”) that act as fronts and cut-outs to move large sums of money
between wealthy corporate and foreign government donors who benefit from being
nice to one or more of the Clinton’s. Apart from any good work the Clinton
charities may or may not accomplish, they seem to have at least a secondary
purpose as a huge money funnel.
See, there’s crime,
there’s organized crime, and there’s big league, global organized Bond-villain
crime. That might help in sorting out how to think in an age when everyone
commits crimes.
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Iran
Enters Hornets Nest: Parks Two Warships Off Yemen Coast Immediately Next To Two
US Aircraft Carriers. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/08/2015. The 34th fleet of the Iranian Navy has left for
the Gulf of Aden and Bab al-Mandab Strait in line with the country’s policy of
safeguarding naval routes for vessels in the region. The flotilla,
which comprises the Bushehr logistic vessel and Alborz destroyer, left Iran’s
southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Wednesday, Navy Commander Rear Admiral
Habibollah Sayyari said on the sidelines of a ceremony to deploy the
fleet. And now the punchline: the two Iran warships will now be located
in the immediate vicinity of not only two US aircraft carriers, CVN-71 Teddy
Roosevelt and CVN-70 Vinson, but well as the big-deck amphibious warship Iwo
Jima which as reported before is providing marine support should the situation
demand it.
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The
California Drought Is The Fault Of Capitalism (If We Ignore Economics &
Math). Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/08/2015. California is suffering from a shortage because
the government foolishly sets limits on the price of water (and imposes
all sorts of other restrictions on the distribution infrastructure). In a
free market for water, the price would adjust to balance supply and demand,
allowing people to ration it according to their own tastes. If someone really
loved long showers, he could still take them, he would just pay a lot more
and we would be spared the absurdity of Jerry Brown telling people they can’t
water their lawns or wash their cars.
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Vietnam
Shuns US, Joins Russia-Led Economic Union. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/08/2015. With many of the world's nations drawing closer to
the China-led AIIB, and The Greeks in Moscow today, the news that
Vietnam has agreed all of the principle aspects in creating a free trade
zone between the countries of the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union, will
likely come as yet another blow to Washington.
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15
Years Of Stimulus - Nothing To Show. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/08/2015. At this point 15 years ought to count for something.
After all, we have now used up one-seventh of this century. So you can’t say
its too early to tell what’s going on or to identify the underlying trends. So,
after another Jobs Friday: here is the tally: The number of breadwinner
jobs in the US economy is still 2 million below where it was when Bill Clinton
still had his hands on matters in the Oval Office.
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"Odious
Debt" Has Finally Arrived: Greece To Write Off "Illegal" Debt.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/08/2015. It was back in June
2011 when we first hinted that the time of Odious Debt is rapidly
approaching. Today, nearly four years later, Odious Debt is now a reality in
Greece, where Zoi Konstantopoulou, the head of the Greek parliament and a
SYRIZA member, released two videos which have promptly gone viral, designed to
promote the investigative parliamentary committee to look into the
circumstances surrounding the signing of the country’s two bailout agreements
that led Greece to implement its austerity measures. According to Greek
Reporter, Konstantopoulou has said that the newly established “Debt Truth
Committee,” will investigate how much of the debt is “illegal” with a view to
writing it off.
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Putin
And Tsipras Are Meeting: Here Are The Main HighlightsSubmitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/08/2015. While Germany has pre-emptively, and somewhat
defensively, come out proclaiming Russian aid to Greece as 'no big deal' - a
"routine event" - we suspect the signal that it would send would
not be entirely great for the EU (and Obama's) 'Russia is evil' meme.
Nonetheless, as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meets Russian President
Vladimir Putin today - just one day before The IMF loan repoayment is due,
topics for discussion vary from lifting sanctions (bilaterally) or bankrolling
a bailout to gas discount from Gazprom. Here's a summary...
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Neofeudalism
101: Strip-Mining The Upper Middle Class. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/08/2015. So what makes this structure Neofeudal? Simply
this: the tax donkeys who pay most of the tax support
the large class of modern-day serfs (working poor and state dependents) while
their labor generates the great wealth enjoyed by the Financial Aristocracy.
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/08/2015 - 07:26
- Shell Will Buy BG Group for $70 Billion in Cash and Shares (BBG)
- IMF warns of long period of lower growth (FT)
- Wall Street sanguine as it heads into worst earnings season in six years (Reuters)
- Switzerland First With 10-Year Bond at Negative Yield (WSJ)
- U.S. Dot-Com Bubble Was Nothing Compared to Today’s China Prices (BBG)
- Rahm Emanuel Re-Elected as Mayor of Fiscally Ravaged Chicago (BBG)
- Oil falls on U.S. stock build, record Saudi output (Reuters)
- White South Carolina policeman charged with murdering black man (Reuters)
- German Factory Orders Drop for Second Month (BBG)
- A third of Republicans support Iran nuclear deal (Reuters)
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PRESSTV
‘EU’s
re-imposition of Iran bans illegal’. Thu Apr 9, 2015 A commentator
criticizes the European Union (EU)’s recent decision to re-impose anti-Iran
sanctions.
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Nuclear
disarmament needs deadline: Iran . Thu Apr 9, 2015 Iran urges a
convention that will set a deadline for nuclear disarmament across the world.
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‘Saudi
Arabia dividing Muslim world’. Thu Apr 9, 2015 A political analyst says
Saudi Arabia is intent on dividing the Muslim world, and is being backed by the
United States.
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Canada
conducts first airstrike in Syria. Thu Apr 9, 2015 Canadian military
aircraft conduct a first airstrike in Syria, pounding a purported ISIL position
near Raqqa.
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Anti-Iran
bill ‘irresponsible’: US Sen. Thu Apr 9, 2015 Senator Barbara Boxer has
called on Congress not to “derail a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to deal
with Iran.
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‘Saudi
Arabia fights US war in Yemen’. Saudi Arabia is fighting the United
States’ war in Yemen since the Obama administration has decided to “lead from
the behind,” an American journalist says.
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EU
sanctions unconstructive: Iran. Wed Apr 8, 2015 The EU measure to
re-impose sanctions on an Iranian bank and 32 shipping companies is
“unconstructive”, Iran says.
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Why
US backs Saudi invasion of Yemen?. Wed Apr 8, 2015 In this edition of
the Debate, Press TV focuses on the Saudi war on Yemen and Washington's active
support of the invasion.
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Yemen’s
issue needs ‘Yemeni solution’. Wed Apr 8, 2015 Iranian Foreign Minister
Mohammad Javad Zarif calls for a ceasefire in Yemen.
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Keep
Iran war option on table: GOPer . Wed Apr 8, 2015 A GOP senator has
urged the US president not to take the war option off the table while the P5+1
group of countries are negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program.
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Iran
rules out military sites inspection. Wed Apr 8, 2015 Iran's defense
minister dismisses Western media reports on the inspection of Iran’s military
sites.
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Pakistan
MPs nix Yemen involvement. Wed Apr 8, 2015 Pakistan’s parliament voices
strong opposition to the country’s involvement in the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
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‘US
shifting alliances in Mideast’ .Wed
Apr 8, 2015 A nuclear framework understanding with Iran shows that the Obama
administration is shifting its alliances in the Middle East, a US journalist
says.
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
The Iran
Nuclear Energy Agreement: Force Again Prevails Over Law
By Paul Craig Roberts
An agreement with Washington is a prelude to treachery. It puts the signer at ease while Washington prepares the signer’s doom. This is the way Washington operates.
By Paul Craig Roberts
An agreement with Washington is a prelude to treachery. It puts the signer at ease while Washington prepares the signer’s doom. This is the way Washington operates.
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"We
Specialize In Illegal Wars" Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges
"There is virtually no reporting by the American media"
Chris Hedges
"There is virtually no reporting by the American media"
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If you had somebody who, as president — who wanted to take
America down. Who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the world.
Turn our back on our allies and encourage our enemies, it would look exactly
like what Barack Obama is doing.
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Noam
Chomsky on the New York Times' Media Bias
By Noam Chomsky
The media reflects, uncritically, the approved doctrine: that the U.S. owns the world, and it does so by right.
By Noam Chomsky
The media reflects, uncritically, the approved doctrine: that the U.S. owns the world, and it does so by right.
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Autocrats
United Against Yemen
By Adil E. Shamoo
Media reports have largely echoed the charge that the Houthis are Iranian proxies. Yet this misleading cliché serves no other interest than to demonize Iran.
By Adil E. Shamoo
Media reports have largely echoed the charge that the Houthis are Iranian proxies. Yet this misleading cliché serves no other interest than to demonize Iran.
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White House
Reveals Desperate Lack of Support for TPP
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Widespread Environmental Opposition to TPP Leads to Embarrassing White House Statement Claiming Environmental Support – the Opposite of Reality.
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Widespread Environmental Opposition to TPP Leads to Embarrassing White House Statement Claiming Environmental Support – the Opposite of Reality.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
The BRICS Development Bank (NDB) & its Contingency
Reserve Arrangement (CRA) are dollar denominated entities. Unless they are
coupled with a multi-currency system of trade & credit, they do not
threaten dollar hegemony.
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Pentagon
Prepares Romania For Conflict With Russia, NATO Consolidates Control Of Black
Sea By Rick Rozoff,
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NOTICIAS
EN ESPAÑOL
EE.UU. bajo la lupa en La Habana. Iroel Sánchez y otros
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Los costes del nazismo alemán para Grecia (y
para España). Vicenç Navarro
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Los 25 objetivos de EEUU y Arabia en
Yemen. Nazanin Armanian http://www.nazanin.es/?p=11640 “Leading from Behind”, Dirigir desde
Atrás, y esta vez escondido tras la aviación SaudÃ, EEUU lanzaba, el 26 de
marzo, la “Operación Tormenta decisiva”, bombardeando el aeropuerto de Saná,
hospitales, escuelas, hogares, y campos de refugiados, dejando cientos de
muertos y heridos, entre ellos un centenar de niños.
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