MAY 6 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
When
The Elites Wage War On America, This Is How They Will Do It. by
Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015. The consequences and
patterns of war, whether by one nation against another or by a government
against the citizenry, rarely change. However, the methods of war have evolved
vastly in modern times. Wars by elites against populations are often so
subtle that many people might not even recognize that they are under attack
until it is too late. Any defense the American people might muster against
elitist dismantling of constitutional liberties would inevitably turn to
"insurgency". So using CFR member Boot’s views on counterinsurgency
as a guideline, here is how the elites will most likely wage open war on
those within the American population who have the will to fight back.
The recent
exposure of the nationwide JADE HELM 15 exercise
has made many people suspicious, and with good reason. Federal crisis exercises have a strange
historical tendency to suddenly coincide with very real crisis events. We may
know very little about Jade Helm beyond government admissions, claims and
misdirections. But at the very least, we know what “JADE” is an acronym for: Joint Assistance for
Deployment and Execution, a program designed to create action and
deployment plans using computer models meant to speed up reaction times for
military planners during a “crisis scenario.”
As far as I know, no one has presented any hard evidence as
to what “HELM” really stands for, but the
JADE portion of the exercise explicitly focuses on rapid force deployment
planning in crisis situations, according to the government white paper linked
above.
I would further
note that Jade Helm exercises are also joint exercises with domestic agencies
like the FBI and the DEA. Again, why include domestic law enforcement
agencies in a military exercise merely meant to prepare troops for foreign
operations? I often
hear the argument that the military would never go along with such a program,
but people who take this rather presumptive position do not understand crisis
psychology.
So if Jade is
actually a crisis-planning system for the military and the military is training
for domestic operations, what is the crisis it is training to react to? It’s hard to say. I believe it will come
down to an economic disaster, but our economic and social structures are so
weak that almost any major event could trigger collapse. Terror attacks, cyberattacks,
pandemic, a stiff wind, you name it. The point is the government expects a
crisis to occur. And with the advent of this crisis, the ultimate war on the
American people will begin.
Here is how the
elites will most likely wage open war on those within the American population
who have the will to fight back. This comes from Max Boot : Lessons from the History of Guderrilla
welfare: see video https://youtu.be/WxMCcqRc9C0 and Invisible
army. [Here only sub-titles]
1- Control
Public Opinion. Boot stresses the absolute necessity for the
control of public opinion in defeating an insurgency.
2-Control The Public. Another main tenet Boot
describes as essential in defeating insurgency is the control of the general
population in order to prevent a revolution from recruiting new members and to
prevent them from using the crowd as cover.
3-Isolate Population Centers. There is a
reason why certain American cities are being buried in technologically
sophisticated biometric surveillance networks, and I think the Malayan example
holds the key.
4- Decapitate Leadership. The liberty movement
has always been a leaderless movement, which makes the “night of long knives”
approach slightly less effective.
5- Fourth-Generation Warfare. The final method
for war against the American people is one Boot does not discuss: the use of
fourth-generation warfare. Some call this psychological warfare, but it is far
more than that. Fourth-generation warfare is a strategy by which one section of
a population you wish to control is turned against another section of the
population you wish to control. It is warfare without the immediate use of
armies.
6- Know Thy Enemy. I have outlined the above
tactics not because I necessarily think they will prevail, but because it is
important that we know exactly what we are dealing with in order to better
defend ourselves.
Crisis is the best weapon the elites have at their disposal,
and exercises like Jade Helm show that they may use that weapon in the near
term. The defense that defeats crisis is preparation — preparation not just
for yourself, but for others around you. War is coming, and while we can’t know
the exact timing, we can assume the worst and do our best to be ready for it as
quickly as possible.
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China
To Establish Yuan-Denominated Gold Fix In Bid To Upend London Benchmark.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015. "China
conducted trial runs for the planned launch of a yuan-denominated gold fix last
month, in a sign the world's second-biggest bullion consumer was moving
closer to creating a benchmark price," Reuters says, in yet another
example of Beijing's rapidly expanding global influence.
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The
Complete UK Election Preview. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/06/2015. The UK General Election will be held tomorrow.
The polls close at 10 pm. We should have a pretty clear picture of the overall
seat count by 5 to 6 am on Friday morning. The result, as SocGen notes, is almost
certain to be a hung parliament. Then the fun will really start. However,
at the macro level the implications of the election may be less pronounced than
many anticipate. Monetary policy has been de-politicised through the
BoE’s independence, the formation of a coalition government is likely to
involve convergence towards centrist positions, and a minority administration
that pursues policies outside the mainstream would be unlikely to survive given
its fragile parliamentary basis. In either case, the political system is
unlikely to deliver radically different macroeconomic outcomes.
[ The purpose of all “democratic election” is to recycle the
current dominant system. However there are times when popular elections,
specially REFERENDUMS, are used to change the system. It happens in Chile
anti-Pinochet mass mov (1972), in Peru mass Mov against Fjimori (2000), in 2001
elecction of Argentina to put down Videla-neoliberal puppets. The re-election of FDR in America is
also the case. They demand a lot of independent people participation out
of the regular party system. The one in UK will just
recycle the old corrupted and chaotic system
.]
Here are the possible outcomes (along with
SocGen's probabilities)...
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Peter
Schiff: The Embarrasment Of Fed Transparency. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/06/2015. In the eight years that the Fed has issued GDP
forecasts in the prior Fall, only once, in 2010, did the actual
economic performance come in the range of its expectations. A more sinister
possibility is that the Fed is not really forecasting at all
but cheerleading. By forecasting strong growth, the Fed may
be hoping to engender optimism, with more spending and hiring hopefully to
follow. Kind of like a field of dreams recovery -- if the Fed forecasts
it; it will come. Based on what we have seen thus far in the year,
fantasies about a 2015 recovery should be evaporating.
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Ultra-Secrecy
Surrounds Barack Obama's New Global Economic Treaty. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/06/2015. "If you want to hear the details of the
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to
pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified
briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door. If you’re a
member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement
of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched
over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving. And
no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read."
[This is the time
when WHAT IF analysis became useful. It is the only way to go beyond wishful
thinking and mere speculation. It is a tech approach that correlates selected
macro variables from politics, economics, sociology and social psychology to
answer a single foreign policy question. The software used in Pitt wasn’t based
in SPSS, it was based on the old Macintosh “what if program”. It was circulated
the last decade of the previous century among researcher-teams of Pitt. I did
belong to a team financed by the WB. I
guess there are more quick & sophisticated ones right now. I know that WB
scholars were using a very advanced one in 2002-3. In 2004 a Prof from CMU
created a new one; a very handy one. Secrecy in foreign policy issues?. There
is not such a thing as secrecy. There are choices available to different parts of a
macro-system and all dependents on the human resources they have to picked up,
and depends on the real value of economic resources a nation have for the coming
future.]
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Meet
The FBI's Secret 'Eye In The Sky' Overseeing The Baltimore Riots. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015. The FBI provided
"aerial support" to the Baltimore Police Department during last
month's riots, The Washington Post reports. The operation, uncovered
accidentally by a man sitting in his backyard and one of his Twitter followers,
involved two small planes flying "precise formations" over West
Baltimore over the course of three nights. Did Ohio-based Persistent
Surveillance Systems provide the 'eye in the sky'?
[ LA TIA, Hugo Adan. Mayo 6, 2015
La tÃa es una araña blanca que teje una inmensa web en la parte alta de la puerta de entrada a una choza de selva amazónica. Los machiguengas dicen que la tÃa tiene mil ojos y estos selváticos agradecen que la tÃa les cuide la casa del infierno de mosquitos que ingresan por la noche. Saben que algunos de esos mosquitos se alimentan de la sangre de humanos. Además, la tÃa avisa de un posible vendaval con lluvia fuerte que puede poner en peligro la choza. En donde se oculta la tÃa cuando eso está por venir? Sin duda en el interior de la casa y eso no preocupa a nadie. Lo que si preocupa es que algún niño travieso trate de destruir la web lanzándole piedras. El niño es severamente castigado si se lo ve que está haciendo eso o intentando hacerlo. Uno de 3 hermanos traviesos murió por la picadura letal de una tÃa, su veneno es peor que el de una serpiente o de una matinga (lagartija venenosa que salta de rama en rama para vengarse de alguien que le destruyo la bolsa donde dormÃa). El niño que murió picado fue exactamente el que tiro las piedras; los otros dos hermanos ni nadie más fueron picados por la tÃa. Es la prueba que arguyen los nativos para decir que la tÃa tiene mil ojos, pero que jamás podrÃa gobernar en el interior de sus casas. Cuando hay que limpiar el interior de la casa los nativos saben que hay rincón que no hay que tocar. Allà puede estar la hembra del arácnido que cuida la casa en la parte alta de la puerta. Los nativos machiguengas conviven con la muerte como los citadinos de NY con la CIA, la DEA y otros arácnidos también letales que se alimentan de los narcos, los mafiosos y otros mosquitos desagradables del contexto social. Me tocó vivir en una choza machiguenga cuando hice trabajo voluntario de alfabetización integral (ALFIN) en Peru y hoy me toca vivir con estos otros arácnidos en el US. Con una arañita de casa me hice amigo, bajaba cuando me veÃa entrar a la cocina, pero no cuando venÃa con mi esposa que la querÃa matar, no bajaba. Ya la habÃa intentado matar con una escoba pero sin suerte. Ambas se tenÃan miedo. Cuando mi tia -asi le puse de nombre- bajaba a tomar agüita yo le ponÃa la palma de la mano y antes de colocarla en el sink jugaba con ella dos veces al yo-yo y luego la ponÃa cerca del agua dentro del sink. Un dia no la encontré a mi tia; mi esposa logro barrerla. Me sentà triste, no tenÃa con quien jugar pues mis hijos ya se habÃan ido a las universidades. A los otros arácnidos de Pitt no los veo, pero sé que existen, que se meten a mi Toshiba y a veces les pongo unas pornos para que se entretengan. Se que estos arácnidos tienen mil ojos como la tÃa de los machigengas, pero jamás podrán gobernar mi casa ni decidir la suerte del conjunto de mi entorno social. A muchos no nos gusta estos arácnidos, podrÃamos incinerarlos con fuego si quisiéramos, pero .. y quien nos librarÃa de los mosquitos de la noche?. Quien nos avisarÃa de una tormenta por venir?. Y que si al quemar su telaraña, quemamos la casa?]
La tÃa es una araña blanca que teje una inmensa web en la parte alta de la puerta de entrada a una choza de selva amazónica. Los machiguengas dicen que la tÃa tiene mil ojos y estos selváticos agradecen que la tÃa les cuide la casa del infierno de mosquitos que ingresan por la noche. Saben que algunos de esos mosquitos se alimentan de la sangre de humanos. Además, la tÃa avisa de un posible vendaval con lluvia fuerte que puede poner en peligro la choza. En donde se oculta la tÃa cuando eso está por venir? Sin duda en el interior de la casa y eso no preocupa a nadie. Lo que si preocupa es que algún niño travieso trate de destruir la web lanzándole piedras. El niño es severamente castigado si se lo ve que está haciendo eso o intentando hacerlo. Uno de 3 hermanos traviesos murió por la picadura letal de una tÃa, su veneno es peor que el de una serpiente o de una matinga (lagartija venenosa que salta de rama en rama para vengarse de alguien que le destruyo la bolsa donde dormÃa). El niño que murió picado fue exactamente el que tiro las piedras; los otros dos hermanos ni nadie más fueron picados por la tÃa. Es la prueba que arguyen los nativos para decir que la tÃa tiene mil ojos, pero que jamás podrÃa gobernar en el interior de sus casas. Cuando hay que limpiar el interior de la casa los nativos saben que hay rincón que no hay que tocar. Allà puede estar la hembra del arácnido que cuida la casa en la parte alta de la puerta. Los nativos machiguengas conviven con la muerte como los citadinos de NY con la CIA, la DEA y otros arácnidos también letales que se alimentan de los narcos, los mafiosos y otros mosquitos desagradables del contexto social. Me tocó vivir en una choza machiguenga cuando hice trabajo voluntario de alfabetización integral (ALFIN) en Peru y hoy me toca vivir con estos otros arácnidos en el US. Con una arañita de casa me hice amigo, bajaba cuando me veÃa entrar a la cocina, pero no cuando venÃa con mi esposa que la querÃa matar, no bajaba. Ya la habÃa intentado matar con una escoba pero sin suerte. Ambas se tenÃan miedo. Cuando mi tia -asi le puse de nombre- bajaba a tomar agüita yo le ponÃa la palma de la mano y antes de colocarla en el sink jugaba con ella dos veces al yo-yo y luego la ponÃa cerca del agua dentro del sink. Un dia no la encontré a mi tia; mi esposa logro barrerla. Me sentà triste, no tenÃa con quien jugar pues mis hijos ya se habÃan ido a las universidades. A los otros arácnidos de Pitt no los veo, pero sé que existen, que se meten a mi Toshiba y a veces les pongo unas pornos para que se entretengan. Se que estos arácnidos tienen mil ojos como la tÃa de los machigengas, pero jamás podrán gobernar mi casa ni decidir la suerte del conjunto de mi entorno social. A muchos no nos gusta estos arácnidos, podrÃamos incinerarlos con fuego si quisiéramos, pero .. y quien nos librarÃa de los mosquitos de la noche?. Quien nos avisarÃa de una tormenta por venir?. Y que si al quemar su telaraña, quemamos la casa?]
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It
Begins: US Government Issues $700,000 Fine Against A Digital Currency. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015 By going after Ripple
(a major player in the industry), FinCEN is trying to scare all the smaller
players into ratting out their customers. You don’t see rich, stable
countries doing this sort of thing.
[Obama has a misperception of this country: the fact that the
1% of the nation is super-rich, doesn’t mean that the whole nation is rich. Most
people are unhealthy and obese, so miserable. Our economy is not stable, it is
the most volatile in the world and people like to live the life of ostrich:
when they see dangers in the future they
put their head in the hole (in their pocket, to be exact). A recent survey said
that Two-Thirds
Of Workers Plan To Fund Retirement With Inheritance, HSBC Finds. “That 66%
of working age people indicated they plan to depend at least partially on an
inheritance they may or may not receive to fund their retirement. Ironically, a
quarter of respondents in the same survey said they planned to spend all of
their money before they die”. Most
people here do not make plans beyond expending their money during weekends. It
is an exception that non-rich people try to protect their future with other
that the collapsing dollar. Thus, we see
few -no-rich people, in an unstable country “doing that
sort of things”]
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There Will Be No 25-Year Depression. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015. The good news is that there will be no 25-year recession. Nor will there be a depression that will last the rest of our lifetimes.
The bad news: It will be much worse than that.
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Mapping
Income Mobility: The Best (And Worst) Places To Grow Up. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/06/2015. A new study from Harvard economists Raj Chetty and
Nathaniel Hendren seeks to quantify the financial impact of where America's
children are brought up. More specifically, Chetty and Hendren measure
"the percentage earnings gain from growing up in each county [in America]
relative to an average place for children in low-income families." Spoiler
alert: Baltimore is not a good place to spend your childhood if you are poor...
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German
Greens Propose Radical Greek Debt Solution. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/06/2015. "Austerity is broken and has failed...
Moreover, today’s short-term crisis management, which merely moves from one
payment to the next, needs to stop... Future reforms should no longer target
ordinary citizens, but above all the wealthy and the profiteers of
'nepotism'."
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Obama's
Real Motive Behind The Iran Deal: A Backdoor Channel To Sell Weapons To Saudi
Arabia. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/06/2015. For a long time there was confusion about the
"quo" to the Saudi Arabian "quid" over its agreement to
side with the US on the Iranian "nuclear deal" (which incidentally
looks like it will never
happen simply due to the Russian and Chinese UN vetoes). Then over the
weekend we finally got the answer: the details are quite familiar to anyone who
has seen the US Military-Industrial Complex in action: the US pretends to
wage an aggressive diplomatic campaign of peace while behind the scenes it is
just as actively selling weapons of war.
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Capital
Controls Hit Greek Banks: FX Trading Curbed As Credit Lines Cut. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015. While officials have
begun their own versions of capital controls by raiding
pension funds, confiscating
local government cash, and surcharges
on withdrawals (and transfer ceilings); it appears the market participants
themselves have now imposed their own share of capital controls. As Bloomberg
reports, international securities firms are curtailing trading with major
Greek banks - pulling credit lines and restricting FX trading limits - as
fear of Grexit looms.
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The
Problem Isn't Over-Production; It's Mal-Investment!. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/06/2015. Mr. Max Ehrendfreund, writing in the Washington
Post’s Wonkblog, believes that he has discovered something new: that the
world is producing too much and doesn’t know what to do with it. His
solution, of course, is to confiscate the overproduced products, such as oil
and cotton, from its rightful owners and give it to the people who need it.
This phony problem and its statist solution goes back at least as far at the
1930’s socialist calls for “production for use”
vs. the hated capitalist concept of “production
for profit“.
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Corporate
Kleptocracy: 6,300 Examples Of America's Malignant Malfeasance. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015. What follows is a
remarkable data base of Corporate Fines and Settlements. From blatant cartel
price-fixing or not disclosing the dangers of the company's heavily promoted
medications to destroying documents to thwart an investigation of wrong-doing,
the list is stunning and reads like a who's who of Corporate America and Top
100 Global Corporations. In other words, these were not wrist-slaps for
minor oversights of complex regulations - these are blatant violations of core
laws of the land and while the PR spins how corporate profits benefit widows
and orphans, this vast wealth is concentrated in the top 1% and the top 5%.
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Greek
Deal On Monday "Not Possible" MNI Reports Despite Troika Attempt To
Reconcile Differences. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/06/2015. With the crucial
May 12th €774mm Greek IMF payment looming (and thus even more critical
May 11th deadline for the Eurogroup's decision to release around €7bn in
additional funds to Greece), the
much-discussed 'splintering' of the Troika (The Institutions as the Greeks
would prefer we describe them) appears to be gradually un-splintering. Today's
statement from the EU talks that the members of the Troika "share
the same objective" may reassure some after the 'limbo' of serious
disagreements between the European Commission and The IMF. However, with
various 'red lines' remaining unaddressed, EU sources say a deal on
Monday is not possible.
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Crude
Pumps (And Dumps) After DOE Show Biggest Inventory Draw In 8 Months. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015. Confirming last
night's API inventory data, DOE just reported a 3.882 million barrel
drawdown in total crude inventories (considerably more than the 1.5mm bbbl
draw expected). This is the biggest draw since early September. The
initial spike took WTI Crude prices above $62.50 but that is fading now...
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California
Adopts "Unprecedented" Restrictions On Water Use As Drought Worsens.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015. California water
regulators are getting worried. The state has now approved a set of sweeping
conservation measures designed to cut water consuption by up to 36% in some
areas to combat a severe drought that has now killed some 12 million trees and
threatens to turn California into a modern day Dust Bowl.
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US
Productivity Suffers First Consecutive Quarterly Plunge Since 1993. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015. Well this cannot be
good. US output per hour (for the non-farm businesses) - or non-Farm
productivity - plunged 1.9% in Q1. This follows a 2.1% slump in Q4 2014
and is the first consecutive quarterly plunge since 1993. This was
driven by a 0.2% decline in output as hours worked increased 1.7% with
manufacturing productivity suffering a 1.1% drop in Q1 (driven by a 1.2%
decline in output).
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ADP
Employment Tumbles To 15 Month Lows As Manufacturing Jobs Plunge. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 05/06/2015. Following March's
dismal drop in the ADP Employment report (the biggest miss in 4 years) and
missing for 3 straight months, April printed a very weak 169k (against
notably lowere expectations of a 200k rise). Even worse, February and March was
revised even lower. This is lower than the lowest economist estimate.
Large companies were particularly weak with smaller businesses adding the bulk
of the meager jobs print. The esteemed Mark Zandi blames this on "the
fallout from the collapse of oil prices and the surging value of the
dollar."
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 05/06/2015 - 07:06
- ‘Flash Crash’ Overhaul Is Snarled in Red Tape (WSJ)
- ECB Considers Tighter Noose on Greek Banks (BBG)
- Dollar Falls as U.S. Data Cast Doubt on Fed Policy Tightening (BBG)
- Market U-Turn Rams Hedge Funds (WSJ)
- Greece makes 200 million euro IMF payment due Wednesday (Reuters)
- Greek unemployment was 25.4 percent in February (Reuters)
- J.P. Morgan’s Barista-Turned-Banker Sees Good Things Brewing (WSJ)
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FUTURE FAST FORWARD
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Iran is Falling to a Nuclear Agreement Trap
By Akbar E. Torbat
While the regime leaders pretended that they had made a good agreement, Lausanne deal is a shameful agreement in Iran’s contemporary history.
By Akbar E. Torbat
While the regime leaders pretended that they had made a good agreement, Lausanne deal is a shameful agreement in Iran’s contemporary history.
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Chaos – not Victory – is Empire’s Name of the
Game
By Peter Koenig
The Washington / NATO strategy is not to 'win' a war or conflict, but to create ongoing - endless chaos.
By Peter Koenig
The Washington / NATO strategy is not to 'win' a war or conflict, but to create ongoing - endless chaos.
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The Choice Before Europe
By Paul Craig Roberts
Europeans have to decide whether the threat is Russia or Washington.
By Paul Craig Roberts
Europeans have to decide whether the threat is Russia or Washington.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
US
Military Personnel Caught “Stealing, Rigging Contracts and Taking Bribes” in
Iraq and Afghanistan
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The
TTP and TTIP Trade Agreements: “A Dystopian Future in which Corporations Rather
Than Elected Governments Call the Shots” By Eric Zuesse
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LATINO NEWS
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El mar, un cementerio. La tierra, una cárcel. Hhorror detrás de polÃticas europeas anti-inmigración
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PRESSTV
US
Navy ends escorts through Hormuz.
Wed May 6, 2015 The Pentagon says the US Navy ships will no longer
accompany US and UK flagged cargo vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz
near the Persian Gulf.
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S
Arabia’s ‘Operation Renewal of Atrocities’ . Wed May 6, 2015 S Arabia
on April 21 announced the end of the first phase of its military operation
against Yemen, but it's airstrikes have continued in a new phase.
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Houthis
gain ground in south Yemen. Wed May 6, 2015 Ansarullah fighters make
considerable advances in the southern Yemeni province of Aden.
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