MAY 25 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
Greece
Was 20 Votes Away From Defaulting This Weekend. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015
Over the weekend, in
a surprisingly close vote showing just how deeply the ruling Greek Syriza party
has splintered, the hard line "Left Platform" a faction within
Syriza, proposed that Greece stop paying its creditors if they continue with
"blackmailing tactics" and instead seek "an alternative
plan" for the debt-racked country. Its motion called for the government to
default on the IMF loans rather than compromise to creditor demands, among
which a change to value-added tax rates, further liberalization of the labor
market and changes to the pension system, including further cuts to pensions
and wages. According
to the NYT, which reported the vote first, the proposal was narrowly
rejected, with 95 people voting against and 75 in favor.
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How
The Saudis Wag The Washington Dog. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015.
In real democracies,
governments would do what the citizens who put them in office want them to do. The
United States and other Western democracies make a mockery of that ideal.
But, even so, there are limits; governments cannot defy public opinion on
matters of great moment indefinitely. Enabling the Saudi ruling class,
and the rulers of the other Gulf states, to direct American foreign policy to
the extent that they do, and to get away with whatever they please, is hardly
the least of it; but neither is it the only cause for concern.
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Guest
Post: Gray Skies And Memorial Day Reflections. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015
True appreciation is measured by our depth of experience
and understanding. Today, less
than 1 percent of the population reaps the benefits resulting from the service
and sacrifice of the less than 1 percent of the population who serve the
politicians elected by the majority of people who separate, and have no direct
involvement with, these two segments of society. And this disconnection and
separation is no accident.
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China Sets Up Gold Investment Fund For Central Banks Posted by: GoldCore on 05/25/2015
China has announced the establishment of a new international
gold fund with over 60 countries as members. The large fund, which expects to
raise 100 billion yuan or $16 billion, will develop gold mining projects across
the economic region known as the New Silk Road. [More in :
China
Establishes World's Largest Physical Gold Fund ]
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Chinese
State Paper Warns "War Will Be Inevitable" Unless U.S. Stops Meddling
In Territorial Dispute.Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015
Just to confirm that
if the US had hoped it could threaten Beijing into submission and force the
Politburo into curbing its expanionist appetit, it was dead wrong, the nationalist Global Times, a paper owned
by the ruling Communist Party’s official newspaper, the People’s Daily, said in
a Monday editorial that war was “inevitable” between China and the United
States unless Washington stopped demanding Beijing halt the building of
artificial islands in the disputed waterway.
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Meet
The Veteran Who’s Been Reduced To Peddling For Change Online To Buy A New Leg. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/25/2015
It’s amazing when
you think about it– a combat veteran who lost a leg supposedly fighting for
‘freedom’ can’t have the medical procedure he needs because a destructive
government bureaucracy. That’s what freedom means today in America. And
nobody’s fighting for it. Soldiers are off risking life and limb for oil
companies, banks, and defense contractors. And citizens are distracted with
bread and circuses. All the while, government power continues to expand at the
expense of the individual.
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The
Happiness Industry: How Government And Big Business Manipulate Your Moods For
Profit. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/25/2015
Psychology is very often how societies avoid looking in
the mirror. A major structural
reason for the surging interest in happiness is somewhat more disturbing, and
concerns technology. Until relatively recently, most scientific attempts to
manipulate how someone else was feeling occurred within formally identifiable
institutions, such as psychology laboratories, hospitals, workplaces, focus
groups, or some such. This is no longer the case. In July 2014, Facebook
published an academic paper containing details of how it had successfully
altered hundreds of thousands of its users’ moods, by manipulating their news
feeds. There was an outcry that this had been done in a clandestine
fashion. But as the dust settled, the anger turned to anxiety: would
Facebook bother to publish such a paper in future, or just get on with the
experiment anyway and keep the results to themselves?
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There
Is No Longer A Market: Citigroup Confirms What Zero Hedge Has Said Since 2009. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/25/2015
"Zero Hedge
long ago gave up discussing corporate fundamentals due to our long-held tenet
that currently the only relevant pieces of financial information are contained
in the Fed's H.4.1, H.3 statements... it is flow not stock that matters"
- Zero Hedge, January 2010
"If there were any lingering doubt, this week’s
gyrations demonstrate neatly that it is central bank liquidity, not
fundamentals, driving markets. It is the flow, not the anticipated stock, of QE
which counts." - Citigroup,
May 2015
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The
Case For Nationalizing Monsanto.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015.
Ridding the world of Monsanto via a state buy-out would
be a boon to humanity, and doing so for a mere $57 billion would be a bargain - especially when you consider the $3
trillion the state has squandered on endless wars of choice and the trillions
of dollars the Federal Reserve and the government have squandered propping up
the self-serving, parasitic cartel of too big to jail banks.
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Israel
Refuses To Pay Old Oil Debt To Iran, Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015. Israel is
refusing to comply with an order by a Swiss court that it pay $1.1 billion that
it has owed to Tehran since before Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution for its share
of a jointly owned oil pipeline. “Without referring to the matter at
hand, we’ll note that according to the Trading with the Enemy Act it is
forbidden to transfer money to the enemy, including the Iranian national oil
company,” the Israeli Finance
Ministry said in a statement.
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Another
Decapitator-in-Chief Of America's Working Class. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/24/2015
It seems comical,
yet ill-omened, how Barack Obama is herding the already decimated middle class
along a path sure to reach economic oblivion, while maintaining support from
much of the old guard of school-government-trade unionists which has kept the
Democratic Party afloat during the last five decades in a conservative sea
dominated by currents of old-time religion and misguided patriotism. ISIS’
literal style of decapitation is repugnant and shocking. US’ self-imposed
economic decapitation may not appear at first as shocking, but the end result
will be as gruesome to America’s working class: not the proletariat of
old, but most everyone holding both blue and white collar jobs.
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Arab
Spring 2.0: Wahhabis Go Nuclear
. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/24/2015
This won't end
well... As far as the Empire of Chaos goes, Divide and Rule remains the
sweetest game in town.
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On
Memorial Day, Who Is America's True Superhero. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/24/2015
On such a
'patriotic' weekend, we thought it appropriate to consider who is the 'MVP'
superhero of our time. Captain America? No. How about Ironman? No. What
about Superman? Nope... The most valuable superhero of our time is a
dark, deranged masked-human dressed in black...
ISIS Planning US Nuclear Attack In Next 12 Months: Report. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015
Three weeks after the first
supposed attack by Islamic State supporters in the US, in which two ISIS
"soldiers" wounded a security guard before they were killed in
Garland, Texas, the time has come to raise the fear stakes. In an article
posted in the terrorist group's English-language online magazine Dabiq (which
as can be see below seems to have gotten its design cues straight from Madison
Avenue and is just missing glossy pages filled with 'scratch and sniff' perfume
ads ) ISIS claimed that it has enough money
to buy a nuclear weapon from Pakistan and "carry out an attack
inside the United States next year."
[ No creo que sean los hijastros del padrino quienes planean
ese ataque. Son los nuevos padrinos –esos que se han apoderado de América como ocurrió
ayer a inicios del siglo pasado con las
mafias super-armadas en el control de drogas y alcohol en Chicago-NY y otras
ciudades- me refiero hoy a los grandes banqueros, los mafiosos de Wall Street y
las corporaciones directamente envueltas en la producción de armas nucleares y guerras.. esos son los que están planeando el
ataque nuclear contra RU y China. Los trogloditas del ISIL no tienen ni para
comprarse jabón y bañarse –sus pestilencias inundan el mundo entero, es cierto-
pero esos imbéciles solo saben apretar
el gatillo de armas que les son donadas por el imperio. Si nuestro aliado Pakistan les da armas a los mercenarios del ISIL no seria para bombardear America, sino RU y China .. Acusar al ISIL del
ataque es como acusar los militares enviados a bombardear Hiroshima y
Nagazaki. No son ellos el enemigo, son los grandes potentados de América los que ponen en
riesgo la paz mundial sabiendo que eso nos convertirá a todos los americanos en la
1ra victima]
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China
Stocks Surge, Europe/US Purge, & Portuguese Bonds Are Crashing. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015
Between
escalating Grexit concerns and Podemos 'victory' in Spain, European bond and
stock markets shuddered somewhat today. EURUSD continues to close lower
- back below 1.1000. All major bourses across Europe are in the red with
Greece and Spain worst (ASE -3%) but the most notable shift is a collapse in
Poruguese bonds. Illiquidity has always been an issue for PORTUG bonds but
today's near 4 point collapse in 10Y bond prices (and 48bps spike in spreads)
is dramatic to say the least. Bond yields and spreads are now higher than
before Draghi announced Q€ in January and dramatically higher since bond-buying
began. If EU leaders proclaim they can see no contagion from Greece, show them
these charts. Finally, despite cash markets being closed, US equity futures
also suffered (despite an exuberant BTFD rip higher in China overnight).
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Ron
Paul Rages: Janet Yellen is Right, She Can’t Predict The Future. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015
Some say that eliminating the welfare-warfare state and the
fiat currency system that props it up will cause the people pain. The truth is
the only people who will feel any long-term pain from returning to limited,
constitutional government are the special interests that profit from the
current system. A return to a true free-market economy will greatly improve
the lives of the vast majority of Americans.
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Greek
"Anti-Austerity" Wave Spreads In Dramatic Loss For Spanish Status Quo.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015.
With just 10 days until a June 5 IMF payment that Athens
almost certainly will not make unless it strikes a deal for the disbursement of
more bailout funds, things just got quite a bit more interesting on the EU
political front after Spain’s Popular Party was dealt a dramatic electoral
blow on Sunday by the leftist Podemos and center-right Ciudadanos.
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With
All Major Markets Closed For Holiday, Here Are The Major News. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/25/2015. With US markets
closed for the Memorial Day holiday, and some of the key European markets
likewise shuttered for public holiday including the UK, Germany and
Switzerland, it is difficult to find where one can observe or trade the
weekend's newsflow, which is once again centered on developments in Europe,
where on Sunday Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s People’s Party suffered
its worst result in a municipal election in 24 years while Greece continues
to threaten with default 5 some years after it should have officially pulled
the plug.
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FUTURE FAST FORWARD
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SPAIN y el principio del fin en las estructuras políticas del oprobio
DOS INTRODUCCIONES:
1- Las candidaturas ciudadanas dan un vuelco al
panorama político. Jose Durán Rodríguez y Gladys
Martínez López
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2-
España: gana la derecha, avanza el
centro-izquierda . Katu Arkonada. La victoria del Pdo Popular con
Ada Colau ( mas de 6 Mll de votos en Barcelona) cierra el ciclo del
bipartidismo en España.
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El 24-M comenzó el cambio . Manuel Garí
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La unidad popular empieza tras las
municipales. Aitor Riveiro (eldiario.es)
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La izquierda imperial y la neo-nazi :
IPS-WS- Bloomberg-BBC y THE ECONOMIST ignoraron el principio del fin del
bipartidismo en Spain, a pesar de la caída del mercado. La presstitude es miserable! Ocultan su cabeza y dejan al
descubierto su pestilente trasero, en claro insulto al avestruz.
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LATEST SHOW FROM RT
SOPHIECO. Iraqi Interior
Minister: Iran saved our country. The Iraqi Army is fighting tooth and
nail to stop the advance of Islamic State. Following a row of victories, which
have brought many hopes of war ending soon.
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Kirby
War of Words with Ademo Freeman. On policed brutality in America.
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Worlds
Apart. Common
insecurity? Ft. Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz, German Ambassador to Russia
(2002-2005)
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PRESSTV
‘Distrust
of US government at new high’. on
May 25, 2015 Former US governor Mike Huckabee says that American skepticism of
the government has reached the highest peak he has ever seen.
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‘US
air campaign against ISIL, worthless’. Mon May 25, 2015 A former CIA
contractor says the United States alleged efforts to combat ISIL via airpowers
is worthless.
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‘Turkey
to give air cover to Syria militants’. Mon May 25, 2015 The Turkish
foreign minister says Ankara and Washington have agreed in
"principle" to offer air protection to Syria militants.
[ Militants = US-NATO terrorist-mercenaries… financed and armed
by them . Evidence abound.]
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9
dead in Chicago weekend shootings . Mon May 25, 2015 Nine people have
been shot to death during the Memorial Day weekend across the US city of
Chicago.
[ La violencia es
pasto seco en America, por eso arde a la menor chispa. La explosiva desigualdad
y la insolente impunidad explican el hecho]
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‘Spain
People’s party not to gain vote’ . Mon May 25, 2015 An expert says in
the general elections, the People’s Party will not gain a majority would not be
governing Spain.
[Las raices crecen
de abajo para arriba y nadie podra negar que se ha sembrado la nueva planta]
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