OCT 18 15 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
Yes,
The US Government Really Is Bankrupt. by
Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, .
S- by Tyler Durden on 10/18/2015 [
[“ the only
way the government can make its liabilities go away is by defaulting on the
promises it has made to its citizens?” How is
this going to be done? … no real answer or not well explained ?.. So. No reliable hypothesis ]
[ Here extracts: ]
The government’s own numbers
show that official liabilities, including debt held by the public and federal
retirement benefits, total $20.7 trillion. Yet the government’s assets,
including the value of the entire federal highway system, the national parks,
cash balances, etc. totals just over $3 trillion.
In total, their ‘net worth’ is
NEGATIVE $17.7 TRILLION… a level that completely dwarfs the housing crisis.
If you include the government’s own
estimates of the Social Security shortfall, this number declines to NEGATIVE
$60 TRILLION.
More importantly, though, isn’t it
a little bit scary to consider that the government’s #1 asset is its ability to
steal money from you?
Or that the only way the
government can make its liabilities go away is by defaulting on the promises it
has made to its citizens?
That’s their only way out: steal
from you, and default on you.
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Bernie Sanders’s entry into the
presidential race has sparked a nationwide conversation about socialism and
its potential to remedy the real and perceived pathologies suffered by
Americans. The underlying problem with socialists like Bernie Sanders is
that they do not actually believe (or understand) in economics at all. As
Ludwig von Mises himself has pointed out, socialism is not an economic
theory — it is a theory of redistribution.
[Regarding
the essence of socialism as future society I want you to read again what I
wrote in Sep 29-14: http://nd-hugoadan.blogspot.com/2014/09/por-que-somos-socialistas-part-1.html
Por que somos
socialistas?
If you want to read the
original source in English you can open either 1- Selected
Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy & go to the last chapert.
2- Karl
Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social ...; 3- Sociological
Theory - Minnesota State University Moorhead
Por que somos socialistas?
Introduccion
Porque aspiramos a una sociedad más humana. Porque no solo queremos sentirnos humanos y solidarios cuando estamos frente a las desgracias de otros seres humanos. Por qué esperar que alguien sufra horrendos abusos para sentirnos solidarios? Por qué aceptar que hemos sido “individualizados” al extremo de ser insensibilizados por la violencia oficial y sus guerras?
Introduccion
Porque aspiramos a una sociedad más humana. Porque no solo queremos sentirnos humanos y solidarios cuando estamos frente a las desgracias de otros seres humanos. Por qué esperar que alguien sufra horrendos abusos para sentirnos solidarios? Por qué aceptar que hemos sido “individualizados” al extremo de ser insensibilizados por la violencia oficial y sus guerras?
Por qué aceptar que la TV corporativa y los Sres del gobierno usen la
violencia, crÃmenes y abusos fuera del
paÃs para implementar “foreign policies” que son aún más criminales y
violentas? .. es el caso del apoyo al ISIS.
Por qué aceptar que las ancianas del sur de Ukrania sean bombardeas por
los terroristas neonazis de Kiev y en lugar de enviar ayuda a ellas, les
enviamos más bombas y armas a los criminales de Kiev?.
Por qué aceptar que solo los banqueros y los ricos socialicen sus
infortunios económicos con QEs e inmensos paquetes de ayuda (bailouts) que la
nación paga hoy con la austeridad y el colapso de nuestra moneda.
Sin duda la crisis y las guerras nos están deshumanizando por completo y
solo el socialismo nos da explicación y alternativas al respecto. Por esto
somos socialistas y estoy seguro que Ud también lo será si lee un extracto del
Marx joven (cuando aún no era comunista, sino solo socialista).
El extracto de abajo le pertenece a Bottomore-Rubel, en su libro
“Sociologia y Filosofia Social”, 5ta parte: La sociedad Futura y la cita
original de que fue extraÃdo de “La Sagrada Familia” de Marx.
Leamos la fuente original de estos textos.
Aqui la version en español :
Aqui la version en español :
“Cuando se estudian las teorÃas materialista de la bondad original del
hombre; de la igualdad de las aptitudes intelectuales del hombre, de la
omnipotencia de la educacion, la experiencia y el hábito; de la influencia de
las circunstancias externas sobre el hombre;
de la gran importancia de la industria, el valor, arte y placer, etc.,
no se necesita mucha penetración para ver que todo esto nos vincula al
socialismo
“Si el hombre extrae todos sus conocimientos del mundo sensible y de su
experiencia de este mundo sensible, deberemos organizar el mundo empÃrico de
tal manera que el hombre experimente y asimile lo que es realmente humano, que
se experimente el mismo como hombre, como ser humano.
“Si el egoÃsmo ilustrado es el principio de toda moralidad, es preciso
que el interés privado de cada hombre coincida con el interés general de la
humanidad.
“Si el hombre no es libre, en sentido materialista, es decir, si no es capaz
de evitar tal o cual hecho, pero es positivamente libre para expresar su
verdadera individualidad, entonces, en vez de castigar a los hombre por sus
delitos, se deberá destruir las condiciones sociales que engendran el delito y
dar a cada individuo el objetivo y las posibilidades que necesita en la
sociedad para desarrollar plenamente su vida.
“Si al hombre lo forman las circunstancias, deberemos formar estas
circunstancias humanamente. Si el hombre es por naturaleza un ser social, solo
puede desarrollar su verdadera naturaleza dentro de una sociedad humana y el poder de su naturaleza no deberá
medirse por el poder de los individuos privados sino por el de la sociedad.”
[SF (1845) MEGA I/3, pp.307-308] Para leer el texto completo abrir: Texto completo - Dialnet
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America's "Inevitable" Revolution & The
Redistribution Fallacy. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 10/18/2015
"There are so many fault
lines that the nation seems consumed by a conflict of all against all...
there is an inevitable “revolution” coming because our politics, culture,
education, economics and even philanthropy are so polarized that the
country can no longer resolve its differences."
[
Regarding inevitable REV: a good entrance to this topic is “Sociological Paradigms
and Organizational Analysis” written by Gibson Burrel & GarretMorgan. Get the latest
edition. There you will finds the 2 types of sociology in current time:
Sociology of Radical Change (radical humanism & radical structuralism) vs.
Sociology of Regulation & Status quo (interpretivism & functionalism)
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The Fall Of The Unipower: Russia Is Defeating More Than ISIS
In Syria. Submitted by Tyler Durden
on 10/17/2015
Until Putin’s speech the world was
intimidated by the Washington Bully. Resistance
to Washington brought swift retribution. In the Middle East and Africa it
brought economic sanctions and military invasions that destroyed entire
countries. In France and other US vassal states it brought multi-billion dollar
confiscations of bank net worth as the price of not following Washington’s
policies toward other countries. Other countries felt powerless in the face of
the arrogant hegemonic Unipower, which from time to time replied to
noncompliance with threats. President
Putin of Russia brought all that to end on September 28. He stood up before
the world in the presence of the overflowing hubris of the hegemon and belled
the cat.
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[ According the CNN is not enough to support terrorism.. the
nation should be convinced that is the right cause to do it .. and the Russians
are the enemies ]
“As Russia continues its relentless air campaign in support
of the Assad regime in Syria. CNN's Fareed Zakaria wants you to know that's
it's enough already with the Vladimir Putin “
Fareed, you seem to have forgotten that it wasn't Russia who
trained and armed the groups who plunged Syria into civil war, it was the US
and its regional allies, said www.zerohedge.com
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China
Vs. United States: A Visual Tale Of Two Economies. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 10/17/15
[ China overtook the US in economic Strength ]
The United States has had the world’s largest economy for
about 140 years, and it roughly accounts for 22% of global GDP. However,
in recent times China has overtaken the US by at least one measure of total
economic strength, which is GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP).
Either way you slice it, the economies are the two strongest globally in
absolute terms. That’s where the similarities end.
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Dollar
Moves Shake The World: "Federal Reserve Could Start A Currency War".
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/17/2015
[ a currency war, is a war on
Americans.]
There is a war, a currency war, and the war is, ultimately, on Americans..
Rather than living under a sound currency, modern Americans live under an
economic despotism. … In many respects, Americans have fallen far, and hard,
from the liberty they once had.
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Mapping
And Cataloguing The History Of ISIS-Inspired Attacks Across The Globe. S-
by Tyler Durden on 10/17/15
his is what happens when the West and its regional allies
in the Mid-East attempt to destabilize governments by supporting extremists. Via The
New York Times:
TIMETABLE OF ISIS ATTACKS
Aug 20, 2015
Egypt An ISIS affiliate claimed responsibility
for bombing a branch of the Egyptian security agency.
Aug 12
Egypt An ISIS affiliate said it had beheaded a
Croatian expatriate worker because of Croatia's "participation in the war
against the Islamic State."
Aug 10
New Jersey A New Jersey man was arrested for
allegedly trying to organize support for ISIS.
Aug 8
Mississippi A newlywed Mississippi couple were
arrested on charges that they tried to travel abroad to join ISIS.
Aug 7
Saudi Arabia ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide
bombing at a mosque that killed at least 15 people, including 12 members of a
Saudi police force.
July 29
New York A man from Buffalo was arrested and
charged with trying to join ISIS.
July 28
Florida A Florida man was charged with planning to
bomb a public beach in Key West to show his support for ISIS.
July 22
Italy The Italian police arrested two men
accused of plotting attacks on national landmarks in Italy and of posting
threatening messages online in support of the Islamic State.
July 21
United Kingdom A man
who was allegedly planning on traveling to Syria to join ISIS was charged with
plotting to run over an American serviceman stationed in Britain and then
killing him with a knife.
July 20
Turkey A Turkish citizen believed to have had ties to
ISIS killed at least 32 people at a cultural center.
July 19
Saudi Arabia The Saudi Interior Ministry announced that
security forces had arrested more than 400 people believed to be connected to
ISIS over the past few months.
July 16
Egypt In what appeared to be the first attack on
a naval vessel claimed by Sinai Province, the ISIS affiliate said it destroyed
an Egyptian naval vessel and posted photographs on social media of a missile
exploding in a ball of fire as it slammed into the vessel.
July 12
Kosovo Following exhortations by ISIS to poison
Kosovo's food and water supplies, five people were in custody, suspected of a
plot to contaminate the water supply in the capital, Pristina.
July 11
Egypt ISIS claimed responsibility for an
explosion outside the Italian Consulate’s compound in downtown Cairo that
killed one person.
July 10
Turkey In early-morning raids in Istanbul and Sanliurfa
Province, Turkish police seized automatic rifles, large ammunition packs and
military uniforms and arrested 21 suspected ISIS members.
July 4
Boston The son of a Boston police captain, described
as mentally ill and devoted to the Islamic State, was arrested for allegedly
plotting a series of deadly attacks.
July 1
Egypt Militants affiliated with the Islamic State
killed dozens of soldiers in simultaneous attacks on Egyptian Army checkpoints
and other security installations in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula.
June 26
Tunisia At least one gunman disguised as a vacationer
attacked a Mediterranean resort, killing at least 38 people at a beachfront
hotel — most of them British tourists — before he was shot to death by the
security forces.
June 26
Kuwait A suicide bomber detonated explosives at one
of the largest Shiite mosques in Kuwait City during Friday Prayer.
June 17
Yemen An ISIS branch claimed responsibilty for a
series of car bombings in Sana, the capital, that killed at least 30
people.
June 13
New York A college student in Queens was
charged with conspiring to support a foreign terrorist organization after an
investigation found he was planning to attack various New York City landmarks
on behalf of ISIS.
June 11
Massachusetts Two men were charged in Boston with conspiring
to help ISIS. A third man was fatally shot the previous week by law enforcement
officials who said he had threatened them with a large knife.
June 9
Egypt ISIS's Sinai province claimed
responsibility for firing rockets toward an air base used by an international
peacekeeping force.
June 3
Afghanistan ISIS is suspected of beheading 10 members
of the Taliban.
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WASHINGTON BLOG
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If
the world were 100 people, and all assets 100 M&Ms: experiencing the 1%
owning more than all 99% combined. Posted on October 18, 2015 by Carl Herman
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Syria - The
New South Aleppo Campaign. By Moon Of Alabama
Yesterday the Syrian Arab Army supported by Iraqi and
Iranian forces and the Russian air force launched a surprise attack to the
south and east of Aleppo
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The
Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria. By
Matt Peppe
Four days have passed without a single piece of
corroborating evidence to the laughable Fox News report.
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The Vietnam’s leaders have embraced the aggressive
US-Japanese militarist policy against China; this betrayal of the people’s
struggle will have long-lasting negative consequences.
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'America is
a Bomb Waiting to Explode'. By
Sam Gerrans
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Another
“Conspiracy Theory” Becomes Fact: The Great Oil Market Collapse Is All About
Crushing Russian Control Over Syria. By Tyler Durden,
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America’s
War against the “Islamic State” (ISIS) is Over: US-led Warplanes Attack Power
Plant in Aleppo By Hazem Sabbagh,
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PRESS TV
'Obama
pursues Bush policies in Mideast'. Sun Oct 18, 2015 US President Barack Obama has
pursued some of the same policies of the neoconservative Zionists in the George
W. Bush administration.
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Obama
orders lifting of Iran sanctions . Sun Oct 18, 2015 US President Barack
Obama directs his administration to take steps towards lifting Iran sanctions.
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Iran
urges collective anti-terror measures. Sun Oct 18, 2015 A senior
Iranian official says collective measures are needed in the battle against
Takfiri terrorists.
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