AUG 21 SIT EC y POL
TIME TO WORK OUT A PLAN
C FOR GREECE By Pavlos Georgiadis. IPS INTER PRESS
SERVICE
Plan A – more of the same, evidently failed austerity
policies that made the country lose 25 percent of its GDP in five years – and a
Plan B – a poorly designed Grexit, with unpredictable consequences that could
mean the country’s sudden death. .. I t is clear that besides a “Plan A” (a
politically humiliating and financially unsustainable agreement) and a “Plan B”
(the risk of a Grexit), Greece is in dire need of working out a “Plan C” ..
based on civil engagement for participatory mapping and collective management
of the assets that influence what is currently under attack: the everyday lives
of the people. .. engaging the best actors in key social fields such as health,
food, education and social welfare, just to name a few. At this point, this is
absolutely necessary in order to maintain social cohesion and explore systemic
solutions during the difficult times to come. The starting point should
probably be in the fields of .. agriculture,
product manufacturing and Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
.. This new process can only be led by
the youth of Greece. Highly skilled, socially networked and internationally
educated, many of them are looking back to the land to seek ways out of
unemployment. .. All these years, these young Greeks have been deprived access
to bank loans, while others were transferring 250 billion euros outside the
country. ..
[ CONCLUSION: “I am
not sure whether the “Plan C” is the right name for this process”. MEANING:
Poorly defined Plan C .. though .. an endeavor to be considered & worked
out. ]
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ZERO HEDGE
America is a gulag. We
are ruled by a government that is devoid of all morality, all integrity, all
compassion, all justice. The government of the United States stands for one
thing and one thing only: Evil. You
are part of the new Captive Nation.
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Imagine that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
was a corporation, with its shares owned by the nation's major pharmaceutical
companies. How would you feel about the regulation of
medications? Whose interests would this corporation be serving? Or suppose
that major oil companies appointed a small committee to periodically announce
the price of a barrel of crude in the United States. How would that
impact you at the gasoline pump? Such hypotheticals would strike
the majority of Americans as completely absurd, but it's exactly how our
banking system operates.
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China
Tests Most Dangerous Nuclear Weapon of All Time. by
Zachary Zeck via The National Interest,
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/21/2015
Coincidence? As China enters the currency wars, crushing
carry around the world, it just happens that it also conducted a flight test of
its new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this month(and China’s
acquisition of a MIRVed capability is one of the most dangerous nuclear weapons
developments that no one is talking about). http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-21/china-tests-most-dangerous-nuclear-weapon-all-time
[ The defense of the “National Interest” is really the defense of interest of big
corporation profiting from wars abroad .. They want the FED expend more in
defense and we already have more than 10 times the whole expend by other
nations in “their national interest”.. this competition is a suicide, a path to
holocaust.. and it has to be stoped .. if China make a stinky far, doesn’t mean
we have to do the same. .. To me China
nor Russia are our enemies & I don’t trust nothing said on them by the US
war mongers
]
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Paul
Krugman "What Ails The World Right Now Is That Governments Aren’t Deep
Enough In Debt" Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 08/21/2015 [ Is he asking for more QEs to feed crook bankers greet? ]
"Believe it or not, many economists argue that the
economy needs a sufficient amount of public debt out there to function well.
And how much is sufficient? Maybe more than we currently have. That
is, there’s a reasonable argument to be made that part of what ails the
world economy right now is that governments aren’t deep enough in debt."
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Saudis
Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 08/21/2015
OPEC next gathers December 4 in Vienna, just over a
year since Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi announced at the previous OPEC
winter meeting the Saudi decision to let the oil market determine oil prices
rather than to continue Saudi Arabia’s role of guarantor of $100+/bbl oil.
Despite the intense financial
and economic pain this decision has inflicted on Saudi Arabia, its
fellow OPEC members, and other oil producers, the Saudis have given no
indication they plan to alter course. Given the Saudi decision’s positive
impact on their and their Gulf Arab allies’ relative position within OPEC and
its negative impact on OPEC outsiders, it is possible, perhaps even likely, the
Saudis will face an OPEC outsider revolt at the December 4 OPEC meeting.. with three
possible outcomes - Reconociliation, Separation, or Divorce.
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QUAND-HEDGE-TRADING BLAMED FOR CHINA’S MARKET CRASH. HFTs
Get Blamed For China's Market Crash, Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/21/2015
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Is
The Oil Crash A Result Of Excess Supply Or Plunging Demand: The Unpleasant
Answer In One Chart. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 08/21/2015
Courtesy of the following chart by BofA, we have the answer:
while for the most part of 2015, the move in the price of oil was a combination
of both supply and demand, the most recent plunge has
been entirely a function of what now appears to be a global economic
recession, one which will get far worse if the Fed indeed hikes rates
as it has repeatedly threatened as it begins to undo 7 years of ultra easy
monetary policy.
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One of the big problems with China's FX move is that
although they've "only" seen a 3% currency fall (in the onshore Yuan)
since their announcement last week, as Deutsche's Jim Reid explains... others
have subsequently followed suit either deliberately or via market pressure. Emerging
Market FX has been falling for 9 straight weeks but the last 2 have
seen a dramatic escalation in the carnage...
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Plunge
Protection Teams Of The World, Unite!.
by
Charles Hugh-SMith of OfTwoMinds blog.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/21/2015
Central bankers are watching Marx's dictumall that is
solid melts into air play out in global stock markets with a terror
informed by the scalding memories of 2008's global financial
meltdown. The herd must be turned away from selling by any means
available, and at this point, that means coordinated buying by all the world's
Plunge Protection Teams.
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Blood
On The Streets Of Europe - Stocks Crash By Most In 4 Years, Bond Risk Surges.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/21/2015
Carnage - everywhere. A surging EUR - as CNHcarry
traders unwind en masse - has led to an unwind across most risky assets in
Europe. This week saw EuroStoxx 600 - the broad index - crash
almost 6%, its biggest drop since September 2011. Perhaps most stunningly,
Germany's DAX was the biggest loser - collapsing 7.4% on the week. European
bonds are are also seeing risk increase dramatically with Portugal and Italy
worst (aside from Greece's blowout). Europe'sVIX topped 30 this
week, as US VIX surges.
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The S&P 500 index has broken below the crucial
psychological 2,000 level for the first time since late January. This
is the biggest collapse in stocks since June 2013 (bigger than October's plunge
- which was only rescued by Bullard's threat of QE4). What is perhaps most
worrisome for the trend-followers - theS&P is now down year-over-year
for the first time since May 2012... which once again brought The Fed out
with moar QE.
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Another
Black Swan? Syriza Outcasts Form New Political Party, Will Push For Grexit.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/21/2015
Members of Syriza's Left Coalition, led by Panagiotis
Lafazanis who once plotted to storm the Greek mint, seize the country’s
reserves, and arrest central bank governor Yannis Stournaras, have broken away
and formed their own political party which they say will support Grexit and
stand firm in the face of German "blackmail."
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US
Manufacturing PMI Tumbles To 22 Month Low: "Lack Of Growth" And
Deflation Blamed. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 08/21/2015
“August’s survey highlights a lack of growth momentum and
continued weak price pressures across the U.S. manufacturing sector, which adds
some fuel to the dovish argument as policymakers weigh up tightening policy in
September. With the headline PMI swiftly losing ground after a modest
rebound during July, the latest figure now points to the weakest overall pace
of manufacturing growth for almost two years."
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Perhaps the most important price point in the entire
equity market was broken today... The odds of the post-2009 bull market
continuing unimpeded are now significantly reduced.
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What
Drought? Nestle Pays Only $524 To Extract 27,000,000 Gallons Of California
Drinking Water. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 08/21/2015
Nestle has found itself more and more frequently in the
glare of the California drought-shame spotlight than it would
arguably care to be - though not frequently enough, apparently, for the
megacorporation to have spontaneously sprouted a conscience.
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"YTD investor performance has been plagued by “non-stop
pain trades” as liquidity expectations weaken and investment horizons shorten.
For example, July/August saw the S&P 500 media sector lose $100bn of market
cap in 15 trading days, as well as significant losses in Asian and Emerging
Market currencies following the Chinese yuan devaluation."
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Fears
Of Another Mid-East War After Israel Conducts Air Strikes In Syria. by Tyler
Durden on 08/21/15
Militants, allegedly acting on the orders of an Iranian
commander, fired rockets into Israel on Thursday, prompting a swift response
from the Israeli military which launched a series of airstrikes across the
border in Syria killing at least four.
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 08/21/2015 - 07:49
- No End
in Sight for Oil Glut (WSJ)
- Dozens
of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest (Reuters)
- China
August Manufacturing Activity Hits Lowest Level Since 2009 (WSJ)
- German
Manufacturing Strengthens as Economy Shifts Up a Gear (BBG)
- Israel
responds to rocket attack with protest and air strikes (FT)
- ASX
carnage: 2015 fast becoming a year to forget (Canberra
Times)
- Hong
Kong Stocks Enter Bear Market After Falling From April Peak (BBG)
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Deere
Rocked By Bursting Of U.S. Farmland Bubble: Sales Miss, Profit Tumbles,
Forecast Cut. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 08/21/2015
"Lower commodity prices and falling farm incomes are
continuing to pressure demand for agricultural machinery, with the
declines most pronounced in higher-horsepower models. Conditions are more
positive in the U.S. livestock sector, supporting some improvement in the sales
of smaller sizes of equipment. Based on these factors, industry sales
for agricultural equipment in the U.S. and Canada are forecast to be down about
25 percent for 2015."
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Chinese
Stocks Crash To "Red Line" Support, US Futures Rebound Then Sink Again.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/21/2015
Perhaps the biggest surprise about the overnight Chinese
stock rout is which followed the lowest manufacturing PMI since March 2009, is
that it happened despite repeat sellside pleas for a PBOC RRR cut as soon as
this weekend: usually that alone would have been sufficient to push the market
back into the green, and it almost worked when in the afternoon session stocks
rebounded after dropping as much as 4.7% below the "hard" floor of
3500, but then a second bout of selling just before the close took Chinese
stocks right back to the lows with the Shanghai Composite closing at 3,507,
down 4.3% on the day, having wiped out the entire 18% rebound from July 8 when
the PBOC first threatened both sellers and shorters with arrest.
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China's
"Judgment Day" Arrives - Malicious Sellers Slam Stocks Below
Communist Floor. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 08/20/2015
Chinese media are describing tonight's market action as
"Judgment Day" for China, as SCMP's George Chen explains, the
crusade of 'malicious short sellers' against the Communist central planners and
their 'funds' is in full swing. The
"manage-the-economy-by-technical-analysis" strategy appears to have
failed as Shanghai Composite has broken notably below its 200-day
moving average - which six times before has been defended aggressively.
Chinese Stocks are back at 7-week lows, just off the crash lows in July.
[ En el sur latino se
decia despues de la 2da Guerra Mundial que “si cae Colea .. cae pantalón”.
Ahora se dice “si cae China.. cae el bribon” .. en referencia al imperio
americano .. donde se acaba de anunciar que 19 Bancos están por cerrar. El QE 4 es inminente y la caída final del
dólar también ]
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NOTICIAS EN SPANISH
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RED TERCER MUNDO
La
volatilidad de las monedas ocupó el primer lugar de la información económica la
semana pasada. Malasia es uno de los países más afectados, pero muchos otros
enfrentan situaciones parecidas. Tres hechos interrelacionados tuvieron mucho
que ver en la situación de Malasia: la depreciación del yuan chino, el
fortalecimiento continuo del dólar y la rápida caída de la moneda local, el
ringgit. Leer más
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Experiencia de Ecuador con el Arbitraje Internacional de Inversiones Andrés Araúz G.
El autor, el ministro Coordinador de Conocimiento y Talento Humano de Ecuador, examina en este documento del Centro del Sur la experiencia de su país con los tratados internacionales de inversión y arbitraje, comenzado con la presentación de la Comisión de Auditoría sobre el tema. Leer más
El autor, el ministro Coordinador de Conocimiento y Talento Humano de Ecuador, examina en este documento del Centro del Sur la experiencia de su país con los tratados internacionales de inversión y arbitraje, comenzado con la presentación de la Comisión de Auditoría sobre el tema. Leer más
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Crisis política en Brasil: fin de un ciclo sin otro a la vista. Mario Osava
La crisis que atormenta a los brasileños es básicamente política y no permite vislumbrar una salida. Es el fin de un ciclo, según variados análisis, pero no hay indicios de que se esté gestando algo nuevo. Leer más
La crisis que atormenta a los brasileños es básicamente política y no permite vislumbrar una salida. Es el fin de un ciclo, según variados análisis, pero no hay indicios de que se esté gestando algo nuevo. Leer más
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REBELION. Org
Es posible
salir del facilismo?. Raúl Zibechi y Jorge Rath
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Ha perdido el norte Amnistía Internacional? (Segunda
parte). Norman G. Finkelstein
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Opinión. Territorios indígenas y descolonización.
Raúl Prada Alcoreza
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Libros Libres.
-Mov sociales y partidos políticos. Objetivos,
estrategias y relaciones. Jesús
Sánchez
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
“The Iranian
Threat” . Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace? . By Noam
Chomsky
The United States, as is well known, holds the world championship title
in regime change and Israel is no laggard either
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Insouciance
Rules The West. By Paul Craig Roberts
Unless the world wakes up and realizes that total evil has the reins in
the West, humanity has no future
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War
Begets War Refugees: The Moral Bankruptcy of Italy and NATO. By
Ramzy Baroud
Those who wage war should, at least, shoulder part of the moral
responsibility of addressing the horrible consequences that armed conflict inflicts
upon innocent people.
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It's
Time To Admit It. Israeli Policy Is What It Is: Apartheid. By
Bradley Burston
I used to be one of those people who took issue with the label of
apartheid as applied to Israel. Not anymore.
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Jeremy
Corbyn’s Surge Can be at the Heart of a Winning Coalition. By Seumas
Milne
The Corbyn movement offers the chance of a break with a disastrous
austerity regime – and for a real democratic opening.
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Why
US Police Are Out of Control. By Daniel Lazare
If you want a picture of the future, to paraphrase Orwell, imagine an
endless succession of Sandra Blands hanging in their cell – forever.
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GLOBAL
RESEARCH
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