JUN 15 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
Obama's
Anti-Russia Policy Escalates: DoD Tells Congress Nukes Are Still On The Table. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
The US is playing a dangerous game of nuclear brinkmanship.
Robert Scher, undersecretary of defense, has even floated the idea of a
nuclear first strike against Russia. Claiming that Russia has violated the
INF Treaty by testing a banned ground-launched cruise missile, Scher laid out
possible options in testimony before Congress...
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China
Mocks G7 As "Gathering Of Debtors", Warns "Confrontation Will Be
A Disaster For Europe". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
"Since the very beginning of the establishment of
the G7, it has been a rich-man's club that consists of Western major powers and
aims to maintain the collective hegemony of the US-led West. Whether the G7
will become a geopolitical tool or a Cold War relic largely depends on European
countries. Unlike the US, Europe shares a closer geopolitical and economic
links with Russia. If the G7 becomes a platform for the confrontation between
the West and Russia, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for Europe."
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Consumers
Are Not Following Orders. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
Last week the government reported personal income and
spending for April. After months of blaming non-existent consumer spending on
cold weather, shockingly occurring during the Winter, the captured
mainstream media pundits, Ivy League educated Wall Street economist lackeys,
and Keynesian loving money printers at the Fed have run out of propaganda to
explain why Americans are not spending money they don’t have. The corporate
mainstream media is now visibly angry with the American people for not doing
what the Ivy League propagated Keynesian academic models say they should be
doing. An economy built upon the consumption of iGadgets, Cheetos, meat lovers
stuffed crust pizza, and slave labor produced Chinese baubles, along with the
production of enough arms to blow up the world ten times over, and the doling
out of trillions to the non-productive class, is doomed to fail.
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China
Dumps Record $120 Billion In US Treasurys In Two Month Via Belgium. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2015
After a record $92.5 billion drop in March,
"Belgium" sold another $24 billion in April, bringing the total
liquidation to a whopping $116.4 billion for the months of March and April.
This means that after adding mainland China's token increase of $2 billion in
April after a $37 billion increase the month before, net of Belgium's
liquidation China has sold a record $77 billion in Treasurys in the most recent
two months.
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What
Comes Next, Part 2: The Looming Transformation. by
Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
The serial bubbles of the 2000’s are nothing more than what
was wrought of the 1920’s, in general. The monetary character of both is not
coincidence, as the failures that bookend each of these ages induces the
transformation: from monetary to fiscal and back to monetary again. That
looks like progress and accountability, but in each it only leads to more
extreme measures (relative to the last) to still achieve what Robert Owen
and Karl Marx conceived more than a century and a half ago. That leads us to
2015 and what is certainly the ragged end of the eurodollar standard. The
third socialist age was undone by August 2007, but that did not stop its
proprietors of “eurodollar socialism” under the name “investor capitalism” from
trying to rebuild and restore it to full capacity. The groundwork has
already been laid, and it is exactly what you would expect given the history
since 1907. There are no widespread details about a return to capitalism
and sound money practices, only how to overcome the third installation of that
timeless barrier thrown down in the collapse of each of the asset bubbles so
far – value.
Part
1 is here, the history of defining systemic operation since 1907.
The quest over equality or the “right” to impose optimal
outcomes is one that cannot go backward. The inevitable failures lead no
duty to re-assess overall, but only the means by which the results are to be
commanded.
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That has caused inordinate confusion about how to
describe the past forty years or so; many, especially those that yearn for the
second age, look to this third age as “capitalism”, including the very central
bank practitioners themselves. That was in great part a response to Milton
Friedman’s influence, but he failed to see that he was not leading marginal
systemic reality back to free markets but instead cultivating the conditions to
transfer socialist economic command back from fiscal to monetary.
A perfect example of this confusion is Paul Krugman.
This art continues… OPEN: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-15/what-comes-next-part-2-looming-transformation
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Visualizing
The Wealth Of Nations Over 2000 Years. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
From Year 1 to today, Angus Madison, a British
economist who specialized in measurement and analysis of economic growth and
development, combined modern research techniques with his own extensive
knowledge of economic history to estimate the historical spread of The
Wealth of Nations...
See graphic : The Wealth of the Nation
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Guess
Which Middle-East 'State' Just Beheaded Its 100th Person This Year?. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2015
Nope, not ISIS... US ally Saudi Arabia just
beheaded its 100th person of the year, as AFP reports, topping 2014's entire
year's total of 97 already...
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Bilderberg
2015 – Where Criminals Mingle With Politicians. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
"This is what happens when you let money run riot
and you allow industries to police themselves. This is what happens
when the rich and powerful are endlessly granted special privileges, celebrated
and permitted or even encouraged to place themselves above the law. And this is
what happens when ordinary people feel bored by and excluded from politics,
largely because their voices matter so little..."
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In
Dramatic Decision Judge Finds Fed Bailout Of AIG Was "Illegal",
Government "Violated Federal Reserve Act". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
"Starr alleges in its own right and on behalf of other
AIG shareholders that the Government’s actions in acquiring control of AIG
constituted a taking without just compensation and an illegal exaction, both in
violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.... Having
considered the entire record, the Court finds in Starr’s favor on the
illegal exaction claim. As the Court noted during closing arguments,
a troubling feature of this outcome is that the Government is able to avoid any
damages notwithstanding its plain violations of the Federal Reserve Act. "
- U.S. Court of Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler
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Magna
Carta Now: Riots, Real Justice, & Reaching Our Own Runnymede Moment.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2015
Will
The ECB Finally Use The Greek "Nuclear Option" This Wednesdsay?. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
With both sides digging in and unwilling to budge, will
Europe revert back to its strategy from day 1, namely creating a slow
initially, then fast bank run in Greece, one which leads to gradual then sudden
capital controls, resulting in civil discontent and disobedience and
ultimately, a violent overthrow of the Greek government.
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Grexit
Contagion Uncontained: Peripheral Bond Risk Surges As Greek Banks Collapse.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2015
Right now it’s pretty clear that the temperature is rising. People
are starting to wake up to the fact that, when it really counts, they’re no
more free than a medieval serf. They pay taxes at gunpoint. They have no
access to real justice. And many of the most important aspects of their lives,
from the value of their savings to their medical care to the way they’re
allowed to educate their own children, are tightly controlled. If the surge
in riots and anti-government violence is any indicator, it looks like history
may be repeating itself. And we may soon be reaching our own Runnymede moment.
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Hillary
Clinton Backs Fast-Track On Obama's Trade Deals. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
Despite weeks of reassurances and repetitions that Grexit is
"contained" - it's not! Bond spreads for Portugal, Italy, and
Spain are blowing out (now up 35-50bps in the last 2 days). While Draghi
desperately soaks up selling pressure, Spanish bond yields have surpassed US
yields for the first time since October. But while bonds are turmoiling
(Bunds/TSYS -5-7bps, everything else ugly), the real carnage is in Greece. Greek
bank bonds are pushing to new record lows and the broad ASE is down over 13%
from last week's exuberant surge when Greece was fixed again (based on a
Reuters headline rumor).
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Eurozone
To Impose Capital Controls On Greece If No Deal By Weekend: German Press.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2015
Just as we hinted earlier when we reported that the ECB may
use the "nuclear option" on Wednesday and yank Greek ELA, here comes
German Suddeutsche Zeiting with a report that Eurozone countries have reached a
Greek emergency plan which calls for the imposition of capital controls on
Greece if no deal is concluded by the weekend.
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Will The ECB Finally Use The Greek "Nuclear Option" This Wednesdsay?. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2015
With both sides digging in and unwilling to budge, will
Europe revert back to its strategy from day 1, namely creating a slow
initially, then fast bank run in Greece, one which leads to gradual then sudden
capital controls, resulting in civil discontent and disobedience and
ultimately, a violent overthrow of the Greek government.
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Grexit
Contagion Uncontained: Peripheral Bond Risk Surges As Greek Banks Collapse.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2015
Despite weeks of reassurances and repetitions that Grexit is
"contained" - it's not! Bond spreads for Portugal, Italy, and
Spain are blowing out (now up 35-50bps in the last 2 days). While Draghi desperately
soaks up selling pressure, Spanish bond yields have surpassed US yields for the
first time since October. But while bonds are turmoiling (Bunds/TSYS -5-7bps,
everything else ugly), the real carnage is in Greece. Greek bank bonds are
pushing to new record lows and the broad ASE is down over 13% from last week's
exuberant surge when Greece was fixed again (based on a Reuters headline
rumor).
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Our Phantom
Economy. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
Just as Rome in terminal decline had its phantom legions,
we have a phantom "recovery," phantom democracy, phantom GDP and
phantom unemployment rate.Those who believe that phantom recoveries and
phantom metrics can be substituted for reality are in for a shock in the next
downturn.
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Europe
Warns Of "State Of Emergency" As Greek Stalemate Drags On. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 06/15/2015
With talks between Greece and creditors at what appears to
be an intractable stalemate, Germany's EU Commissioner warns that a "state
of emergency" could leave Greeks without energy and medicine. Meanwhile,
PM Alexis Tsipras has pledged to defend democracy "in the place where it
was born."
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015 - 07:22
- Tsipras Hardens Greek Stance After Collapse of Talks (BBG)
- Obama Fights to Save Trade Bill (WSJ)
- German Stock Market Pain Seen Just Beginning Should Greece Exit (BBG)
- Russia to boost forces in western flank if U.S. stations arms in east Europe (Reuters)
- Lab Nears Settlement Over Pricey Medicare Drug Tests (WSJ)
- China's $358 Billion in Margin Loans Points to Next Bear Market (BBG)
- Draghi Faces EU Court Ruling on 2012 Bond Plan as Greece Teeters (BBG)
- Sex, lies and debt potentially exposed by U.S. data hack (Reuters)
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European
Stocks Slide, Greece Tumbles But US BTFDers Emerge After Collapse In Greek
Bailout Talks. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
European shares remain lower, close to intraday lows, with
the banks and autos sectors underperforming and food & beverage, retail
outperforming. Tsipras hardens Greek stance after collapse of bailout talks.
The Italian and Swedish markets are the worst-performing larger bourses, the
U.K. the best. The euro is weaker against the dollar. Greek 10yr bond yields
rise; Spanish yields increase. Commodities decline, with copper, nickel
underperforming and natural gas outperforming. U.S. Empire manufacturing, net
TIC flows, NAHB housing market index, industrial production, capacity
utilization due later.
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Snowden,
Putin, Greece: It’s All The Same Story. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/15/2015
The narrative being sold through the media is that Greece is
to blame, that German taxpayers are on the hook for Greek debts (while
they’re really on the hook for German banks’ losing wagers). And that is,
no matter how you twist it, not the same story. It’s again just a narrative.
Brussels is toxic - and so is the IMF - and Greece should leave as soon as
possible, as should Italy, Spain, Portugal. We should all resist the
spin-induced attempts to demonize Putin, Athens and China any further, and
instead focus on the rotten apples in our own basket(s). In short, the propaganda we should be worried about is not
Russia’s, it’s our own. And it comes from just about every news article we’re
fed. We’re much less than six degrees removed from Orwell.
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HOW
OBAMA'S "TRADE" DEALS ARE DESIGNED TO END DEMOCRACY. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 06/14/2015. by Eric Zeusse, author of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican
Economic Records, 1910-2010 and of Feudalism,
Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics
The world is
already almost completely fascistic. The fact that these ‘trade’ deals are being
pushed right now, means that the people who are in power have concluded that,
already, ‘the free world’ is so dictatorial, that the chances that their
plan can now be imposed globally are about as good as is likely ever to be the
case again. The time is ripe for them to establish a global corporate
dictatorship. The political money this year will be flowing like never
before.
U.S. President
Barack Obama has for years been negotiating with European and Asian nations —
but excluding Russia and China, since he is aiming to defeat them in his war to
extend the American empire (i.e, to extend the global control by America’s
aristocracy) — three international ‘trade’ deals (TTP, TTIP, & TISA), each
one of which contains a section (called ISDS) that would end important aspects of the
sovereignty of each signatory nation.
Obama treason
n.1: Obama one single payer health insurance
Open video: https://youtu.be/fpAyan1fXCE
Obama treason
n.2: Demolishing democracy
& total corruption
Open video: https://youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig
The U.S. was discovered to be, and long to have been, a dictatorship,
in which the people who are not in the richest 10% have no impact whatsoever on
the nation’s policies. A
brief video above accurately summarized that study (by Gillens and Page) and explained why its
findings are that way.
The
world is already almost completely fascistic. As I previously reported, it
really, truly, is the case that the “World’s Richest 80 People Own Same Amount as World’s Bottom
50%.”
The fact that these ‘trade’ deals are being pushed right now, means
that the people who are in power have concluded that, already, ‘the free world’ is so dictatorial, that the chances that
their plan can now be imposed globally are about as good as is likely ever to
be the case again. The time is ripe for them
to establish a global corporate dictatorship. The political money this
year will be flowing like never before.
[ TOO LATE .. A NEW WORLD ORDER IS EMERGING LEAD by BRIGS
& RU-China – India-LA]
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NEWS IN SPANISH
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La protesta contra los partidos predominantes. Immanuel Wallerstein
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Chile. Las reformas que impulsa el gobierno
solo evidencian el carácter neoliberal de su programa
Jorge Franco
Jorge Franco
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América Latina, Unión Europea Declaración de Bruselas
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América Latina, Unión Europea Declaración Final de la Cumbre de Los Pueblos
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RT-SPUTNIK NEWS & LATEST VIDEO SHOWS
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PRESS TV
CIA
broke 'human experimentation' rules . Mon Jun 15, 2015.The CIA has
broken limits set in the agency's human-experimentation guidelines during
torture of terrorism suspects, a document shows
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'Lame
duck' Obama fights for trade deal .
Mon Jun 15, 2015 US President Barack Obama is fighting to persuade Congress
to pass a bill that would expand trade between the US and Pacific rim
countries.
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Global
stocks down amid Greece fears. Mon Jun 15, 2015 Global stocks have
fallen after aid-for-austerity talks between Greece and its creditors
collapsed.
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Israel denies UN investigator Gaza
entry. Mon
Jun 15, 2015 Israel blocks the UN rights envoy from Gaza as the world body is
to report on the Israeli war.
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UN
chief urges 2-week pause for Yemen. Mon Jun 15, 2015 UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for a two-week humanitarian pause in
war-ravaged Yemen during the fasting month of Ramadan.
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US
advancing ‘hegemony by nukes’. Mon Jun 15, 2015 The US nuclear arms are
cornerstone of its policies based on which it advances hegemony, an analyst
says.
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