JUL 23 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
US
Recession Imminent - World Trade Slumps By Most Since Financial Crisis.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2015
As goes the world, so goes America (according to 30
years of historical data), and so when world trade volumes drop over 2%
(the biggest drop since 2009) in the last six months to the weakest since June
2014, the "US recession imminent" canary in the coalmine is drawing
her last breath...
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Liberty
Movement Needs More Innovations To Counter Technological Tyranny. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2015
The great lesson from history that each consecutive
generations seems to forget is that the tools of tyranny used outward will
inevitably be turned inward. That is to say, the laws and weapons governments
devise for supposed enemies abroad will ALWAYS and eventually be used against
the people they are mandated to protect. There is no centralized system so
trustworthy, no political establishment so free of corruption that the blind
faith of the citizenry is warranted. If free people do not remain vigilant
they will be made slaves by their own leadership. This is the rule, not the
exception, and it applies to America as much as any other society.
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The
World Economy Visualized. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2015
If itsy bitsy pie slice – Greece (.33%) – can create this
much worldwide economic havoc because of their unpayble level of debt, imagine what will happen when the truth
is revealed about France (3.81%), Italy (2.88%), and Spain (1.88%).
The world has run out of money to consume their shit. Japan (6.18%) is in the midst of a
demographic and debt death spiral. The U.S. (23.32%) is living on borrowed time
and the continued dominance of the USD. How long will it last? We
are inhabiting in a world stacked with TNT run by monkeys with matches.
Today’s data visualization is the most simple breakdown
of the world economy that we’ve seen. Not only is it split to show the GDP of dozens of countries in relation
to one another based on size, but it also subtly divides each economy into its
main sectors: agriculture, services, and industry.
The lightest
shade in each country corresponds to the most primitive economic activity,
which is agriculture. The medium shade is industry, and the darkest shade
corresponds to services, which tends to make up a large portion of GDP of
developed economies in the world economy.
To take it one step
further, the visualization also shades the countries by continental geography,
to easily see the relative economic contributions of North America, Europe,
South America, Asia, Oceania, and Africa.
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How
Monsanto, Exxon Mobil, & Microsoft Lobbyists Are Bundling Funds For Hillary. Tyler
Durden on 07/23/15
The pantsuit
revolutionary is at it again. Once again demonstrating her populist chops
by employing the services of lobbyists to bundle millions in campaign funds.
It’s no wonder opinion
polls on her have been plunging as of late.
[ This “democracy” is not about voting, it is about buying
elections by crooks like Clintons who plan to sell the nation to big-evil
companies.. The same happens with the Republicans ]
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China
Furious Over Rig Pictures: "What Japan Did Provokes Confrontation". by Tyler
Durden on 07/23/15
"What Japan did
provokes confrontation between the two countries, and is not
constructive at all to the management of the East China Sea situation and the
improvement of bilateral relations."
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What's
The Real Reason The Fed Is Raising Rates? (Hint: It's Not Employment). Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/23/2015
Sometime this fall,
the Federal Reserve will begin a new tightening cycle. Publicly, Federal
Reserve officials appear to be confident that the American labor market may be
overheating or that inflation may be on the way in. Is this the case? In
looking at Employment, Industrial Production, Consumer Prices, Capacity
Utilization, Retail Sales, and the West Texas Intermediate price of oil,
there's no evidence that the Fed should raise rates. What is the Fed
worried about? Probably, and almost exclusively, it's financial asset price
appreciation.
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Earlier we asked in
"one may wonder if NATO-member Turkey's land invasion of Syria, which many
have said was long overdue following months of rhetoric and belligerent
posturing, under the pretext of ISIS "liberation", has just
begun." A following report from the WSJ largely answers our question:
citing unnamed defense officials, WSJ
reports that after months of negotiations, "Turkey has agreed to
let the U.S. military carry out airstrikes against Islamic State fighters from
a U.S. air base near the Syrian border."
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3
Things: Steel, Sentiment, & Productivity. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2015
Innovation in
technology reduces the need for labor. More individuals are sitting outside the
labor force increase the demand for available jobs. Increased competition for
available jobs suppresses wage growth. It is a virtual spiral
that continues to apply downward pressure on an economy based nearly 70% on
consumption. Importantly, what
small increases there have been in unit labor costs have primarily come at the
expense of higher benefit and healthcare costs rather than an increase in
wages. As
discussed previoulsy, for roughly 80% of the working labor force, wages
have declined over the last five years. Janet Yellen is right that wages will
have a hard time increasing without a pick up in productivity. The issue is
that innovation IS the problem, not the solution. That is unless we
begin to include the productivity of robots.
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The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), once seen as a cornerstone of America’s
energy security, is losing its shine in Washington.
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Has
The Land War Begun: Turkish Tanks Are Firing Into Syria. by Tyler
Durden on 07/23/2015
As the following
clip from Turkey's DHA news agency shows, one may wonder if NATO-member
Turkey's land invasion of Syria, which many have said was long overdue
following months of rhetoric and belligerent posturing, under the pretext of
ISIS "liberation", has just begun.
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Central
Banks Have Shot Their Wad - Why The Casino Is In For A Rude Awakening, Part I. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/23/2015
There has been a lot
of chatter in recent days about the plunge in commodity prices - capped
off by this week’s slide of the Bloomberg commodity index to levels
not seen since 2002. That epochal development is captured in the chart below,
but most of the media gumming about the rapidly accelerating “commodity
crunch” misses the essential point. To wit, the central banks of the
world have shot their wad. The Bloomberg Commodity index is a
slow motion screen shot depicting the massive intrusion of worldwide
central bankers into the global economic and financial system. Their
unprecedented spree of money printing took the aggregate global central
bank balance sheet from $3 trillion to $22 trillion over the last 15 years. The
consequence was a deep and systematic falsification of financial prices on a
planet-wide scale.
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Initial Jobless Claims Plunge To Lowest Level In 42 Years. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2015
Time for a rate hike?
While July 4th adjustments
may indeed be a factor, it appears things have hardly ever been better -
according to this data anyway.
Charts: Bloomberg
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Even
The Stronger Areas Of The Market Are Starting To Weaken. by Tyler
Durden on 07/23/2015
We’ve spent the past few days in this space noting the
recent thinning of the stock market advance. That is, despite the
major averages continuing to hover near their 52-week highs, the internals
are becoming uglier by the day. The main takeaway from this trend is
that, should the relatively few areas of the market that are keeping it
afloat begin to weaken, there will be precious little support left to prevent a
significant correction. Indeed, we are beginning to see signs of
deterioration now even among the stronger areas of the market.
For example, the
technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 (NDX) has been one of the stalwarts of this bull
market rally, leading the recovery of the past few weeks to new all-time highs.
However, even among its ranks, the NDX is really starting to thin out. =è IT CONTINUES …
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Caterpillar
Explains Why It Is A Global Recession. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2015
- In Asia/Pacific, the sales decline was primarily due to lower sales in China and Japan.
- Decreases in Latin America were primarily due to continued weak construction activity
- Sales declined in EAME primarily due to the unfavorable impact of currency, as sales in euros translated into fewer U.S. dollars.
- Sales declined in North America as weakness in oil and gas-related construction was largely offset by stronger activity in residential and nonresidential building construction.
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Grexit
Remains Most Likely Outcome For JPMorgan. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2015
On Wednesday
evening, Greece took another step toward transforming itself into a vassal
state of Brussels when lawmakers passed a second set of prior actions ahead of
formal discussions around a third program. As Deutsche Bank noted earlier this
week, there’s something quite absurd about the adoption of the new bailout
terms being left to a government whose leader openly opposes the deal. And
Deutsche Bank isn’t alone in their skepticism. JP Morgan has more on why no
one "should put the odds of Greece staying in the euro above 50%".
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 07/23/2015 - 07:24
- Greek PM keeps lid on party rebellion to pass bailout vote (Reuters)
- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Remains Popular Despite Tough Bailout Deal (WSJ)
- Beijing's stock rescue has $800 billion bark, small market bite (Reuters)
- Capital exodus from China reaches $800bn as crisis deepens (Telegraph)
- Why Investors Shy Away From China’s $6.4 Trillion Bond Market (WSJ)
- Oil Rigs Left Idling Turn Caribbean Into Expensive Parking Lot (BBG)
- Bank of America replaces CFO in management shake-up (Reuters)
- The Financial Buzz? Pearson to sell Financial Times (Reuters)
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"No
Longer Confined To The Lunatic Fringe": SocGen Admits Markets Are
Completely Manipulated Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2015
"If in the
short run, to paraphrase Benjamin Graham, equities are a voting machine, then
it seems many of these votes are being coerced by interventionists.Central
bankers the world over have become obsessed with asset prices, to the extent
that the notion of central banks making outright purchases of equities is no
longer confined to the lunatic fringe."
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Futures
Drift Higher, Dollar Slides In Quiet Session. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2015
A slow week devoid
of virtually any macro news - last night the biggest weekly geopolitical event
concluded as expected, when Greece voted to pass the bailout bill which
"the government does not believe in" just so the ECB's ELA
support for Greek depositors can continue - is slowly coming to a close, as is
the busiest week of the second quarter earnings season which so far has been
largely disappointing despite aggressive consensus estimate cuts, especially
for some of the marquee names, and unlike Q1 when a quarterly drop in EPS was
avoided in the last minute, this time we won't be so lucky, and the only
question is on what side of -3.5% Y/Y change in EPS will the quarter end.
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
There is another
side of the story in which Syria’s olive branches to the U.S. and Israel were
spurned and a reckless drive for “regime change” followed.
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No
"Compensation" to Israel for Iran Deal
By Sheldon Richman
By Sheldon Richman
Israeli government's
demand for "compensation" from the American taxpayers for the Iran
nuclear Deal.
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The Iran
Treaty US leader said: I WON.
IRAN leader said: I WON
Uri Avnery
Uri Avnery
WHAT if the whole
drama was only an exercise of deception? What if the wily Persians did not even
dream of building an atomic bomb, but used the threat to further their real
aims?
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So You Say
You Don't Want A Revolution?
By Dmitry Orlov
By Dmitry Orlov
Those Islamist
scholars who eagerly exclaim “That's not Islam! Islam is a religion of peace
and tolerance!” are missing the point: the ideology of ISIS/ISIL/Daash/Islamic
Caliphate is still Islam—revolutionary Islam.
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Saying No
to the Warmongers
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
The US warmongers
seem to view any Islamist state as ripe for toppling.
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A Hidden
World, Growing Beyond Control
By Danna Priest and William M.Arkin
By Danna Priest and William M.Arkin
The top-secret world
the government created in response to Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so
unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many
people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many
agencies do the same work.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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This dissertation
modelizes the Chinese government’s attitude to human rights into an
intelligible paradigm more fit for discussion and comparison. Synthesizing
official sources, it identifies a “Chinese Model of Human Rights” (CMHR)
defined by three main characteristics: collectivism, materialism and
sovereignism. It then evaluates this CMHR through three ideologically neutral
benchmarks: utility, legality and coherence. Author: Henri
Feron.
More on China approach on HR in the US,
OPEN:
China
issues report on U.S. human rights - Xinhua | English ... IN http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-06/26/c_134358928.htm
Related: If you want to compare
this data with the previous year, here
it is:
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NEWS IN SPANISH
Grecia. La verdadera naturaleza del tercer memorándum. Romaric Godin
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Ecuador. “La firma del tratado de libre comercio con la
Unión Europea atenta contra la paz y la seguridad de nuestros pueblos”. Mª Cruz Tornay
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Chile. -La politización sindical en el neoliberalismo
tardío y la coyuntura de reforma laboral. Karim
Campusano &
Sebastián Osorio
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EE.UU. -Conmoción por la muerte en prisión de una joven
afroamericana detenida por no poner el intermitente
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RT-
SPUTNIK & LATEST SHOWS
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Pepe
Escobar. The Imperial
Designs on Iran. Sputnik
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PRESS TV
'Israel
tests dirty nuke for US false flag' Thu Jul 23, 2015 Israel is testing "dirty nuclear devices"
which it could use in a "false flag attack" in the US to implicate
Iran, a former CIA contractor says.
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Iraq
closes in on ISIL-seized Ramadi.
Thu Jul 23, 2015 Iraqi government forces are closing in on the flashpoint city
of Ramadi.
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Kerry:
Iran accord only viable option .
Thu Jul 23, 2015 US Secretary of State John Kerry defends the Iran nuclear
conclusion as he faces tough questioning at a Senate committee hearing.
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UN
envoy in Syria to discuss peace plan. Thu Jul 23, 2015 The UN special envoy to Syria briefs the Syrian
foreign minister on efforts to end the crisis in the Arab country. [Another US diplomatic trap ? ]
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‘ISIL
bigger threat to US than al-Qaeda’ . Thu Jul 23, 2015 The ISIL terrorist group is a bigger threat to the
United States than al-Qaeda, says the FBI director.
[Does the US create a terrorist org to terrorize now its own
people.. what a sense of foreign policy? ]
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Glimmer
hope for Alzheimer patients. Thu
Jul 23, 2015 Alzheimer’S disease is incurable but new drug could delay the pace
of brain decline for patients.
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