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ZERO HEDGE
Mid-East
Coup: As Russia Pounds Militant Targets, Iran Readies Ground Invasions While
Saudis Panic. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 10/01/2015
[ FACT: The
ISIL-US-NATO “normality” in the Mid-East
has been altered with the Russian intervention & its wiping out of Islamic terrorists. The Asad State
rule will be restored & the Syrian migrants will be call from Europe back
home. A new political system will emerge in Siria after elections are been
called. This is the RU plan & everybody agree on it. Of course not the Saudis
& Israelis that supported the ISIL, they are US-NATO “partners” in the evil
current normality. They will try to sabotage such plan, as this article explain
& support. However, the international community is in favor of wiped out
the Islamic terrorist and they welcome the RU intervention. RU will keep this
support alive during the battle in the field by respecting HR of the civilian
population. The correlation of forces worldwide will decide the future of the
MI-East ]
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Extracts from this article. :
Iran has long provided covert and overt support to the Assad
regime via financial transfers, logistical support from the Quds, and via the
involvement of Hezbollah in the Assad government’s fight to regain control of
the country.
As we’ve documented extensively over the past several weeks,
what appears to have happened here is that Iran, unable to simply invade Syria
in support of Assad (because doing so would obviously be a disaster in terms of
preserving the optics around the P5+1 nuclear deal), turned to Moscow which has
in the past used Russia’s Security Council veto to block the referral of the
war in Syria to the Hague and which is a known ally of both Tehran and
Damascus.
While it’s unclear exactly what the pitch was to Putin,
Russia clearly saw an opportunity to advance The Kremlin’s geopolitical agenda
at a key time in history. Moscow is keen to put on a brave face amid the most
contentious standoff with the West since the Cold War (as a result of the
conflict in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea) and amid the related effort
to preserve Gazprom’s market share in Europe
It is thus extremely significant that Baghdad has agreed
to share intelligence with Syria and Russia, as that effectively means the
Iran-backed Shiite militias battling for control of Iraq will enjoy the support
of the Russian military.
What should be obvious here is that this is a coordinated
plan.
The Kremlin has effectively agreed to bring the might of
the Russian air force to bear on Assad’s opponents in Syria and on Sunni
militants in Iraq in support of Iranian ground troops and because the US and
its allies have failed so miserably in terms of fielding anti-Assad rebels who
don't turn out to be extremists, Putin gets to pitch the whole thing as a "war
on terror." It would be difficult to design a more elegant power play.
Do not expect Saudi Arabia and Israel to remain on the
sidelines here.
[ In my opinion, if
they interfere they will be smashed ]
If Russia ends up bolstering Iran's position in Syria (by
expanding Hezbollah's influence and capabilities) and if the Russian air force
effectively takes control of Iraq thus allowing Iran to exert a greater
influence over the government in Baghdad, the fragile balance of power that has
existed in the region will be turned on its head and in the event this plays
out, one should not expect Washington, Riyadh, Jerusalem, and London to simply
go gentle into that good night.
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If
You Work Here, Quit Before You Are Fired: The 20 Largest US Layoff
Announcements Of 2015. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 10/01/2015
For those eager to push aside the endless government
propaganda and concerned about the rapidly deteriorating economy, here is a
list of the Top 20 biggest private-sector job cut announcements of 2015. Our
advice: for anyone who is still employed at any of the following
corporations, if you can find a job elsewhere (because the "recovery"
and all), do it before you too become a seasonally-adjusted pink-slip.
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[The health system & the school system is in chambers ..
We need to rebuilt America ]
In a certain sense, then, the character assassination
directed at the price gouger is akin to shooting the messenger pointing to the
brokenness of our healthcare system. Perhaps it is to that system that
the shaming should be directed. And we may wish to do that fast.
[ We need to get out
from the neoliberal system and the pro-war plan to survive. . This is obsolete ]
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Wall
Street Banks Admit They Rigged CDS Prices Too. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 10/01/2015
[ Corruption is a tsunami in the Us.. it inundates everything ]
As Bloomberg reports, "JPMorgan Chase & Co. is
set to pay almost a third of a $1.86 billion settlement to resolve accusations
that a dozen big banks conspired to limit competition in the credit-default
swaps market, according to people briefed on terms of the deal."
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The
Looming Medicaid Time-Bomb. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 10/01/2015
..the demographic time bomb is about to go off -
that is, the growth of the elderly population far exceeding the growth of the
working age population by several orders of magnitude - and then the
weak economy, the huge expansion of entitlements under the health care law, and
the dramatic increases of the costs of those entitlements, including for
labor, .. what could possibly go wrong?
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[ WHAT IS WRONG IS
THE INTERFERENCE OF THE PRIVATE
FOR-PROFIT-BUSINESS INSIDE THE REALM OF PUBLIC RIGHTS, that
is, the right of all American citizens to have access to health support. According to the private
sector –abbreviate here as PHARMA : “the huge expansion of entitlements under the
health care law, is the cause of the crisis in the health system”. That was &
is the argument for raising the age of eligibility for Medicare & for drastically cutting
retirement and health benefits and for slashing education, and other critical social
spendings.
Is the publicly
financed health and pension benefits
that will become unaffordable, said the Pharma. CUT IT, is their demand. If cut were the solution, not only these obligations, but all
federal government spend (military & wars affairs included), must be also examined
for cuts and slashes.
SIMPLE FACT cutting of
public-sector health care spending without affecting the private-sector health
care spending is politically & sociologically impossible in American
democracy. It will imply the State-Nation to abandon its goal of protecting
access to care for the elderly, disabled, and poor. THE BASIC FOR HEALTH
CARE SPENDING REFORM IS DEPARTING FROM THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO SUCH HEALTH
ENTITLEMENT CRISIS.
According to Henry J. Aaron from http://www.brookings.edu is the Budget
deficits the main problem in America.
How? The cost of interest on mushrooming
debt could become unaffordable. Lenders at home and abroad could lose faith in
the U.S. capacity to repay, causing a real crisis that would create a huge financial
turmoil.
TO BLAME THE PROBLEM ON
ENTITLEMENT SPENDING, INCLUDING SOCIAL SECURITY IS INCORRECT & NON ETHICAL
AT ALL . HERE THE FACTS.
1- Current deficit primarily results from the recession—tax
revenues are down and spending is up. SOLUTION: Tobin
tax to all financial transactions (primary focus on financial speculation in
Wall Street & similar &on Pharma crook business of preventing generic
medicines )
2- Demographics is a non-determining
factor. By 2050, annual federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid is projected
to nearly triple, growing by almost 8 percent of total national income. The
number of beneficiaries and the per person cost of care are both projected to
increase. However, over the same period,
spending on Social Security and all other entitlements (including veterans
benefits, the earned income credit and food stamps) is projected to barely
grow—by only about 0.5 percent of total national income.
3- According to UN
charters all nations are committed to delivering approximately the same
standard of care to older people, the disabled and the poor as is available to
everyone else. It means that reforming health care delivery under Medicare and
Medicaid requires a system-wide reform. That was a president’s message.
4- Adding charges on
beneficiaries can fill some of the gap, but not much. And cuts in Social
Security aren’t the answer. U.S. benefits are already low by international
standards. We are the super power nation with the less amount of people
protected in terms of health.
5- Our State-Nation is
obliged by domestic Laws to honor the commitment to provide comparable health
care to everyone. One way of doing it is to enforce higher taxes.
6. By common standard
ethics we should recognize that health care is a “positive” right apart from
other rights & justice arguments. "The fundamental question here is
distributive justice," says Martin Cook.
The right to health care exists, although it differs fundamentally from
traditional rights of free speech or religion. Such rights, known as
"liberty" or "negative" rights, protect individuals from
interference in the exercise of personal activities, but THE RIGHT TO HEALTH
CARE IS A "POSITIVE" OR AN "ENTITLEMENT" RIGHT. Entitlement
rights are limited by a society's willingness and ability to provide the
entitlement. In other words, they depend on a society's resources and the
choices it makes regarding National budget and how those resources are used.
7- The American
problem with the health care budget is the we have a conflict of interests
between those who monopolize the production of medicines & the control of
prices in our current “free market system”
vs. the patient- consumers that cannot afford the devastating costs for
their illness through private insurance coverage. This people specially the
elders have the right to be protected from the State-Nation. “Some 37 million
Americans, mostly working people and members of their families, carry no health
insurance, but earn just enough to be disqualified from receiving publicly
funded medical care”. Such problems invite a basic question about our health
care system—IS IT ETHICAL? We are maintaining a system that unevenly distribute
the health care. A system that can wipe out the savings of an entire
family. .. an unethical system that insist in preventing care to the poorest in
America. A system that instead is protecting
big corporations who finance elections, presidents & senators. Those are the ones who want to cut the
“expansion of entitlements under the health care law” in America. ]
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It's
One Indivisible System: Empire, The State, Financialization, & Crony
Capitalism. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 10/01/2015 [ This art departs from some basics on “systems theory” ]
The system is a machine in which each gear serves the
whole. So go ahead and try to "reform" the system by extracting
whatever gear you don't approve of: the Deep State components, the Security
State organs, the Federal Reserve, cartels/monopolies enforced by the State,
the suppression of democracy, crony capitalism, whatever. The system is
interdependent. Each subsystem needs the others to function.
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This
Is The Endgame, According To Deutsche Bank. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 10/01/2015
[ How to avoid recession If nothing is done to change their neoliberal
rulers in power ]
"The system failed in 2008/09 and rather than allow
a proper creative destruction cleansing, policy makers have been aggressively
propping it up ever since. We think the end game is that when the next
global recession hits, then QE/zero rate world will be re-appraised."
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The Upside Of
The VW Debacle. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 10/01/2015
[ Una dama alemana decÃa hoy en TV que se avergüenza de manejar un VW sabiendo que el diesel
contribuye a la polución del ambiente..
Yo creo que si viene aquà a los EE.UU se va a espantar de la cantidad de
carros usando diesel .. Aquà los yupies y los ricos orgullosos exhiben sus
hammer y a las empresas de construcción nadie
les obliga a colocar los dispositivos de
ley para aminorar la polución diesel
de sus inmensos carros ]
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Wikileaks
Exposes Secret Deal To Get Saudi Arabia On UN Human Rights Council. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/01/2015 [ El UK en esto.. no es extraño.. pero es una inmensa vergüenza ]
Two years after the controversial appointment of Saudi
Arabia to the U.N. Human Rights Council, leaked diplomatic cables have
revealed the U.K. was a key player in the election of the Gulf State - despite
the Saudis’ appalling human rights record. What is surprising is
the next chapter in the farcical saga...
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A
"Slight" Contradiction In Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 10/01/2015
[ Slight?. Esos
antropófagos se están comiendo entre ellos! .. Lo cierto es que la familia real
Saudi está mas cagada que palo de
gallinero viejo ]
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 10/01/2015 - 07:28
- After Rough Quarter, Investors Buckle Up (WSJ)
- From heroes to bystanders? Central banks' growth challenge (Reuters)
- Russian Airstrike in Syria Targeted CIA-Backed Rebels, U.S. Officials Say (WSJ)
- Kremlin says Syria air strikes target list of groups, not just Islamic State (Reuters)
- That’s information warfare? Russia accused of killing civilians in Syria (RT)
- Euro zone factory growth eases in August despite modest price rises (Reuters)
- How Glencore's Crazy Month Makes Greek Banks Look Tame (BBG)
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[ “white collar crime.”.. esta fracesita me recuerda el Film
de Robert de Niro “Mid Night Run” , one
of his best films.. a comedy-thriller of good taste & great ending ]
In a recent appearance before Congress, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates declared that the
US Department of Justice is going to ratchet up its prosecution of
individuals employed in corporations as part of a larger push against “white collar crime.” Within the next year, we should
expect to see mid-level business and finance executives doing “perp walks” in
front of the news media, as federal prosecutors will charge them with various
“economic crimes” in hopes that they will implicate their superiors. All of
us by now know the drill and in a time of anemic economic growth complete with
business failures, it won’t be hard to find scapegoats.
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NEWS
IN SPANISH
Opinión. Una economÃa polÃtica de la ciencia y la
tecnologÃa. Theotonio Dos Santos
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España. Capitalismo excelente. Dos historias alemanas: Volkswagen y
el reino de España. Albert Recio Andreu
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