JUN 11 SIT EC y POL :
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TIME
RT
US encircling Russia with bioweapons labs,
covertly spreads them – Russian FM. Published time: June 11, 2015
The accusations of mishandling biological weapons voiced by
the Russian Foreign Ministry refer to a recent report that the US military
shipped live anthrax by mistake. Last week, the Pentagon admitted sending
samples of the highly dangerous disease to at least 51 labs in 17 US states and
three foreign countries.
The delivery “posed a high risk of outbreak that
threatened not only the US population, but also other countries, including
Canada and Australia. Of great concern is the shipment of bacteria to a US
military facility in a third country, the Osan Air Base in South Korea,”
the Russian ministry said in a statement.
For Russia such incidents are of particular concern, because
one of its neighbors, Georgia, hosts a research facility for high-level
biohazard agents. The Richard G. Lugar Center for Public and Animal Health
Research near Tbilisi is an undercover American bioweapons lab, a branch of the
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Russia believes.
“American and Georgian authorities are trying to cover up
the real nature of this US military unit, which studies highly dangerous
infectious diseases. The Pentagon is trying to establish similar covert
medico-biological facilities in other countries [in Russia's neighborhood],”
the Russian ministry said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry's indictment comes amid a wider
list of accusations against the US over what Moscow sees as American violations
of various international agreements dealing with weapons control,
non-proliferation and disarmament.
The statement came in response to a US annual report on the
issue, which accused Russia of various wrongdoings. Moscow considers such
reports “megaphone diplomacy.” Such tactics aren’t aimed at resolving any
differences, but instead support America's pretense to be the ultimate judge of
other nation's behavior, the ministry said. http://rt.com/news/266554-us-bioweapons-encircle-russia/
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MERS virus spreading
across Asia, South Korea fails to contain outbreak, Published time: June
11, 2015 http://rt.com/news/266464-mers-virus-hong-kong/
Hong Kong issued a red alert and advised against traveling
to South Korea, where an epidemic of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is
gaining pace. The virus is spreading despite attempts to contain the outbreak.
In Korea, the number of infected people passed 100 this
week, reaching 122 on Thursday. Tenth patient died from the disease, health
officials said on Thursday. Most of the victims are elderly patients with other
health problems unrelated to the virus. Over 3,250 people remain in quarantine.
Two people in Hong Kong who traveled to South Korea recently
are being tested for possible MERS contagion, the authorities said on Thursday.
Previously 31 people were tested negative in Hong Kong.
Earlier a man tested positive for the disease in China after
coming from S. Korea, and a man in Taiwan was taken to hospital with symptoms
consistent with MERS.
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ZERO HEDGE
Europe
Gives Greece 24 Hours To Comply; Germany Draws Up Capital Control Plans.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
"Greece was warned by a group of European Union
officials in Brussels it had less than 24 hours to come up with a serious
counter-proposal," Bloomberg says. Meanwhile, Reuters reports that
Germany is "holding 'concrete consultations' on what to do in the case of
a bankruptcy of the Greek state."
[ Zero hedge publicó
hoy un Art sobre la experiencia de Iceland
(menos de 400 mil habitantes) lo que hoy difÃcilmente podria ser applicable a Grecia, con mas de 10 Mllns de hab… Lease: Iceland
Imprisoned Its Bankers And Let Banks Go Bust: What Happened Next In 3 Charts.
En un art de
ayer zero hedge sugeria Why Greece Must Leave the IMF. … El caso es que nadie sabe cual es el plan del actual
gobierno de Grecia, … lo único claro es que si el acoso de Alemania y el IMF
continuan, la unica opcion de Grecia es esa: Salir del IMF y de la Union
Europea … lo que podrÃa ser un golpe fuerte a la población griega, pero
transitorio …, pues es lo que espera Rusia –si se lo pide Grecia- para brindarles
el apoyo que ellos solicitan. Por cierto
RU también obtendrÃa beneficios Ec y geo-polÃticos si este nuevo aliado se
integra al proyecto euro-asiatico que lidera China .. Sin duda: Grecia lleva
las de ganar si deja la UE ]
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Paul
Ryan Channels Pelosi: "You Have To Pass ObamaTrade To See What’s In
ObamaTrade". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
If you still think that the establishment Republicans in
Congress represent real opposition to President Obama’s policies, you’re either
extremely brainwashed or extremely stupid. Honestly, we wonder what it will
take for some people to wake up. How many times do you need to be used, abused
and conned by slimy politicians before you can shake off your political
Stockholm Syndrome? Today's example is from chief ObamaTrade proponent Paul
Ryan who gaffed Pelosi-like when he admitted (with regard to the super-secret
TPP) "It’s declassified and made public once it’s agreed to," in
other words - “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in
it.”
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Americans
Sign Petition For "Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike" Against Russia.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
Forget Caitlyn Jenner, distracted Americans have moved on
and are now gladly signing a petition to launch a pre-emptive nuclear
strike against Russia "to show them who is the real super-power."
Watch this
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/CNr5czZKEdk
[ el war mongerism es una
plaga en este pais .. eso solo indica que aquà no faltan idiotas .. sobran ]
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Trapped In A Bubble.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
When in a hole, stop digging. But when in a bubble,
keep blowing. Our ruling and wealthy elite are worried that they
are stuck in their own ponzi scheme or bubble and are suffering from the
general problem of all ponzis and bubbles – how to get out.
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How Obama Will Centrally-Plan Your Neighborhood: Here Comes The "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" Rule. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
Because centrally-planning the market and the double
seasonally-adjusted economy was not enough, the Obama administration is now set
to create a wealth-adjusted community utopia. According
to The Hill, the administration is moving forward with regulations designed
to help diversify America’s wealthier neighborhoods, such as building
affordable housing in more affluent areas. The name of Obama's latest proposal
to have the government centrally-plan your community? The Affirmatively Furthering
Fair Housing rule. A name that only the person who penned the US
Freedom Act could have come up with.
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Pope
Pissed After Feds Force FATCA Down Vatican City Bankers' Throats. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
While Pope Francis has called for an end of "the cult
of money and the dictatorship of an economy," The Vatican City has been
forced into sharing information with the US. Despite the oft-quoted Book of
Proverbs prose that "[T]he borrower becomes the lender's slave,"
in the case of the world's largest borrower - the US government - it still acts
like everyone’s master, including dictating the most ridiculous terms on
financial agreements like this.
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The
Warren Buffet Economy, Part 2: Why Its Days Are Numbered. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
As
we noted in Part 1, this central bank fueled boom will ultimately be
paid for in the form of a prolonged deflationary contraction. On the
morning after, of course, it will be asked why the central banks were permitted
to engineer this fantastic financial and economic bubble. The short answer
is that it was done so that monetary central planners could smooth and optimize
the business cycle and save world capitalism from its purported tendency toward
instability, underperformance and depressionary collapse. In Part 2, the
whole case for this sweeping and unprecedented Keynesian demand management by
the monetary authorities was a crock. Accordingly, the days of the Warren
Buffet economy are indeed numbered.
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Report
From Russian Cybersecurity Firm Links Israel To Nuclear Talk Spy Virus.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has released a
detailed report that outlines how spyware (which some suggest originated in
Israel) was used to infiltrate the hotels that hosted the Iran nuclear
negotiations. From the report: "Earlier this year, during a security
sweep, Kaspersky Lab detected a cyber intrusion affecting several of its
internal systems. Following this finding, we launched a large-scale
investigation, which led to the discovery of a new malware platform. Notably,
some of the new 2014-2015 infections are linked to the P5+1 events and venues
related to the negotiations with Iran about a nuclear deal."
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Gazprom
Seeks A Way Around Ukraine By 2019. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015.
Gazprom has vowed to entirely cut out Ukraine as a
transit hub for natural gas exports to Europe. “We will not export gas
via Ukraine after 2019. The customers will get gas at (newly) agreed delivery
points,” Gazprom’s Deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said
on June 9.
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'Who'
Really Runs Your State?. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
A state's economy is nothing without the businesses that
call it home. However, these companies are not created equally - bigger
businesses naturally have outsized influence, generating more revenue,
employing more people and (at least theoretically) paying more taxes. So
given that corporations are now 'people', who really runs your state
in this crony-capitalist land of the free?
Some may be surprising: Chevron (not Apple) runs
California, Costco (not Microsoft) runs Washington, and Sands run Nevada.
Some are less so: Berkshire Hathaway runs Nebraska,
GM runs Michigan, and ExxonMobil runs Texas.
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Ukraine
Bonds Plunge After 'American' FinMin Escalates Default Threat. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
In the last 3 days, Ukraine's short-term bond prices
have crashed 9%. .. As
Bloomberg reports, the
country will stop making payments on its debt if talks don’t make progress,
Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko told reporters in Washington Wednesday. Bondholders
are “deeply concerned” about Jaresko’s stance, a creditor group led by
Franklin Templeton said in a statement today.
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Another
Tale From The Oligarch Recovery: Why The Poor Pay $4,150 For A $1,500 Sofa.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
“I’ve never seen a customer base or an economy like
this..."
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The
Rich Have Never Been Richer: US Household Assets Hit $99 Trillion. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
Moments ago the Fed's latest Flow of
Funds report confirmed what the Philly
Fed noted recently (and what blogger and Citadel trader Ben Bernanke
vehemently denies): that the Fed keeps making America's uber rich ever richer,
when in the first quarter thanks mostly to yet another $1.1 trilion increase in
the value of financial assets (read stock market), the asset holdings of
US households (or at least a very small subsection of them) rose by $1.6
trillion to a record $99 trillion.
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Junk
Fees and Debt: The Funding Template For American Cities. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
As many of us have observed over the past few years,
local governments in America are caught in the pincers of rapidly rising
pension and healthcare costs and stagnant tax revenues. The only
"fixes" that don't alienate vested interests or tax-burdened voters
are dramatic increases in junk fees, i.e. "fees for use," and
borrowing money by selling bonds. We've prepared a template that will fit
virtually any American city and county in the decade ahead. Look
for a variation of this in your mailbox next year, and every year after 2016.
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IMF
Crushes Greek Deal Hopes, Says "No Progress Made", Halts Talks After
Major Differences Remain. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
And just like that we are back to the rumor drawing board.
IMF'S RICE SAYS NO PROGRESS MADE TOWARD DEAL WITH GREECE,
IMF HAS MAJOR DIFFERENCES WITH GREECE IN KEY AREAS: SPOKESMAN
IMF'S TECHNICAL TEAM ON GREECE HAS LEFT BRUSSELS, RICE SAYS
IMF'S TECHNICAL TEAM ON GREECE HAS LEFT BRUSSELS, RICE SAYS
But "two Bloomberg sources" said yesterday a deal
was almost assured. What gives?
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Business
Inventories Jump Most In 11 Months, Push Sales-Ratio Into Recessionary
Environment. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
Business inventories-to-sales ratios remain in the flahing
red recessionary environment as inventories surge more than expected in
April. The biggest "field of dreams" appears to be Clothing and
Building Materials. The 0.4% rise (against 0.2% expectations) of business
inventories is the highest since May 2014. Motor Vehicles saw a 1.2%
rise MoM in inventories (and 5.9% YoY) leading the surge in the "if
we build it, credit will enable everyone to buy it" economy.
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Experts
Agree - Best Option Now: Keep America As Comfortable As Possible Till End.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
Saying there were no other options remaining and
that continued intervention would only prolong the nation’s suffering, experts
concluded Tuesday that the best course of action is to keep the United
States as comfortable as possible until the end. “At a time like this, it’s
completely understandable to wish for some kind of 11th-hour miracle, but
expecting the U.S. to somehow magically return to the way it was in its prime
isn’t healthy or realistic.”
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Big
Pharma Revealed As Puppetmaster Behind TPP Secrecy. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
When it came to the highly confidential TPP, it was unclear
just which corporations were dominant in pulling the strings. Now thanks to
more documents
published by Wikileaks, and analyzed
by the NYT, it appears that "big pharma" is the mastermind behind
the Trans Pacific Partnership, which if passed will "empower big
pharmaceutical firms to command higher reimbursement rates in the United States
and abroad, at the expense of consumers" according to "public health
professionals, generic-drug makers and activists opposed to the trade
deal."
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South
Korea Cuts Rates To Record Low Amid MERS Fears, Slumping Exports. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 06/11/2015
Amid slumping export growth and the second-largest MERS
outbreak on record, the Bank of Korea overnight cut its benchmark policy rate
by 25bps to 1.5%, a record low.
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Initial
Jobless Claims Rise, Unchanged For 6 Months; Continuing Claims Surge Most In 6
Months Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
Following last week's dip back towards record lows, initial
jobless claims rose very modestly this week to 297k (slightly worse than
expected). This leaves initial jobless claims practically unchanged for the
last 6 months, despite the surge in JOLTS that we saw in recent months.
Rather oddly, continuing claims rose by their most in 6 months last week to
2.265mm.
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Greek
Stocks Soar Most Since Election On Deal Hopes. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
Greek Stocks are up over 7% this morning as
yesterday's denied deal rumors have escalated into great deal hopes amid bank
deposit runs and ELA increases. For context this brings the Athens index back
to 3-day highs and is the biggest move since the optimistic surges we saw right
after Tsipras was elected in late-January...
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Poll
Finds Majority Of Greeks Ready To Fold To Troika, Even As Anti-Austerity
Protests Return. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
As unemployment rises to near 27%, a new poll shows more
than half of Greeks support giving in to creditors "if they insist on
it." Meanwhile, anti-austerity protests are back, with
communist-affiliated union members demonstrating at the finance ministry in Athens.
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015 - 07:25
- Pope urges Putin to make 'sincere, great effort' for Ukraine peace (Reuters)
- Merkel Tells Tsipras It’s Time to Back Talk With Policy Action (BBG)
- 'Greek tragedy' needs happy ending now: EU's Moscovici (Reuters)
- Vulture Funds Circle Greece Targeting Europe’s Best Trading Bet (BBG)
- Germany against third aid program for Greece under any circumstances, says daily (Reuters)
- Biggest OPEC Members Pump Record Oil With Rally in Jeopardy (BBG)
- Greek ruling reversing pension cuts will cost state 1 to 1.5 bln euros (Kathimerini)
- China’s Former Security Chief Zhou Yongkang Sentenced to Life in Prison (WSJ)
- MSCI backs itself into corner on China share inclusion (Reuters)
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Futures
Flat As Latest Greek Euphoria Questioned; Chinese Economy Bounces In Night Of
Rate Cuts. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
It has been a mostly quiet overnight session with Europe
solidly green on another bout of Greek hope even as Bundesbank's Weidmann
warned that Greek insolvency risks
are rising and Greece reporting that its unemployment rose once more from
26.1% to 26.6% in Q1, in which we got two more rate cuts by New Zealand (which
sent the Kiwi crashing the most since 2011) and South Korea (the Won initially
dipped only to rebound) but China stole the stage with its latest report on
retail sales, industrial production, and fixed investment all of which showed a
modest bounce from multi-year lows suggesting the PBOC's attempts to shock the
economy into growth may be starting to work (which is bad news for the market).
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Why
Greece Must Leave. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/11/2015
Greece should get out as fast as it can, all member
countries should, especially the poorer ones. There is no benign or even
economically viable future for any of them in the Union. A future inside the
union is infinitely more frightening than one outside. What is evident by
now is that the troika creditors don’t come to the table to negotiate, they
come to impose their will. And those countries that carry the most debt are
most vulnerable to the threats flung across the table. If you don’t get out, in
time Germany will decide what you can eat, what your children learn in school,
and how you are to behave. You will no longer live in sovereign nations.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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Vladimir
Putin: The Deterioration of EU-Russia Relations, Causes and Consequences,
Interview By President Vladimir Putin
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NEWS IN SPANISH
"Hay mas europeos en América Latina que
latinoamericanos en Europa y jamás hemos tenido leyes para expulsarlos". Entrevista a Evo Morales en el
marco de la II Cumbre UE-Celac (vÃdeo 27' 38'')
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Las Bases y las Cumbres. Fdo Dominguez. Desde la II Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y
Caribeños (Celac) y la UE
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La brutalidad y la crueldad del Estado de apartheid
están poniendo al mundo en contra de Israel. Gideon Levy
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Departamento de Justicia, FIFA e imperialismo. Editorial Workers World-Mundo Obrero
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PRESS TV
IMF:
Greece bailout talks deadlocked. Thu Jun 11, 2015 The IMF says talks on
Greece’s bailout program has broken up due to lack of progress.
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US
weighs more military bases in Iraq . Thu Jun 11, 2015 The United States is considering establishing
additional military bases in Iraq, according to the top American general.
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Kurds
make gains against ISIL in N Syria. Thu Jun 11, 2015 Kurdish forces in Syria advance towards the
ISIL-held town of Tal Abyad near Turkish border.
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Obama’s
Iraq gesture ‘not meaningful’. Thu Jun 11, 2015 The reintroduction of American military personnel to
Iraq will not make a “meaningful difference” on the ground, says a former chief
of the US mission in Iraq.
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