DIC 31 15 SIT EC y POL
La derrota final del ISIS está cerca.
Russian Strategic Military Intervention
Vindicated by ISIS Surrenders in Syria. Russia’s military intervention to help
its Arab ally at the end of September has been the seminal event of the year.
After three
months of sustained Russian aerial operations in support of the Syrian Arab
Army against an array of foreign-backed mercenaries, there is an unmistakable
sense that the «terrorist backbone has been broken»,
as Russian President Vladimir Putin recently put it.
This past
week sees several local truces being implemented across Syria with evacuation
of militants from towns which they have held under armed siege. The civilian populations in these locations
have been effectively held hostage as human shields by the militants, thus
preventing Syrian army advances up to now.
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ZERO HEDGE
POLITICS
15
News Stories From 2015 You Should Have Heard About But Probably Didn't .by
Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org, Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015
[ Here
there are several points that account for neo-nazi policies ]
..
Extracts:
2015 was
discouraging for more reasons than most of us can count:
1-CISA
Pushed Through the Senate, Effectively Clamping Down on Internet Freedom: For years, Congress has attempted to legalize corporate
and state control of the internet. .. In October, Congress passed CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing
Act, but as the Electronic Freedom Foundation explained: “CISA is fundamentally flawed. The bill’s broad immunity
clauses, vague definitions, and aggressive spying powers combine to make the
bill a surveillance bill in disguise. Further, the bill does not address
problems from the recent highly publicized computer data breaches that were
caused by unencrypted files, poor
computer architecture, un-updated servers, and employees (or contractors) clicking malware links.”
Just before Christmas, Congress went even further, adding an amendment to the annual omnibus budget bill that
strips CISA’s minimal privacy provisions even more. That budget bill was
approved, though Representative Justin Amash of Michigan has vowed
to introduce legislation to repeal the CISA provisions when Congress
reconvenes. .. But CISA wasn’t the only attack on citizens’ privacy this year.
Though lawmakers touted the USA Freedom Act as a repeal of the mass
surveillance state, in reality, it simply added a bureaucratic step to the process by which
government agencies obtain private information.
2-CIA
Whistleblower Sent to Prison for Revealing Damning Information to a Journalist: While the government has no problem invading the privacy
of its citizens, it offers swift backlash for those who attempt to violate its
own clandestine operations. Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent, had his first
altercation with the CIA when he sued for racial discrimination in 2001. He was subsequently
fired. Years later, the CIA filed espionage charges against him for speaking
with New York Times journalist, James Risen. Sterling had revealed a botched CIA scheme, Operation Merlin, to infiltrate Iranian
intelligence that ultimately worsened the situation, gave Iran a nuclear
blueprint, and was deemed by some to be espionage, itself. Rather than
acknowledge the woeful misstep, the CIA arrested him, charged him, and ultimately sentenced him to 42
months in prison… Sterling joins the ranks of Edward Snowden, Chelsea
(formerly Bradley) Manning, and others.
3-Press
Freedom Continued to Deteriorate: An annual report from the World Press
Freedom Index saw the United States slip 29 spots from last year, landing 49th out of 180
total. In January, journalist Barrett Brown was sentenced
to five years in prison for exposing the findings of hacker Jeremy Hammond.
Brown was charged with obstructing justice, aiding and abetting, and separate
charges of allegedly threatening the FBI in a rant. Hammond, who exposed
severe violations of privacy on the part of Stratfor, a CIA contractor, was
sentenced to ten years in prison.
4-In an
ongoing trend, otherwise peaceful, non-violent individuals were harassed by
police and courts — not for exposing secret information, but for providing
information to potential jurors about their rights in the courtroom. One Denver jury nullification activist, followed by another, was charged with multiple felonies for
handing out pamphlets that explain a juror’s right to vote “not guilty” in a
verdict, even if the defendant is clearly guilty.
5-
Six-Year-Old Autistic Boy Killed by Police: 2015 established not only that the
justice system remains broken, but the the enforcement class — police officers
— continues to terrorize citizens. In one underreported case, a six-year-old
boy was fatally caught in the crossfire of a police shootout against
his father, who was unarmed. In another case, an African-American motorist
was shot and killed by University of Cincinnati police over a missing front license plate.
6-
Earth Enters Sixth Mass Extinction: 2015, like many years before, was disastrous for the
environment. .. In Flint, Michigan, lead levels in the water led to increased
rates of contamination in children’s blood, prompting the mayor to declare a state of emergency. A
massive methane gas leak in the San Fernando Valley, located just north of Los
Angeles, has sickened residents and forced countless families to relocate.
Authorities have been unable to stop the leak.
7- Civilian
Casualties in Western Wars Continue: Though ISIS and other terrorist
groups were rightly condemned for killing civilians in 2015, the West pointed
fingers while committing the same crimes. In fact, one U.N. report released in
September found U.S. drone strikes have killed more civilians in Yemen than al-Qaeda. Another
analysis released this year concluded Obama’s ongoing drone wars have killed more people than were murdered during the Spanish
Inquisition.
8- Insurrection
at the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency Over Misleading Reports on ISIS:
Over the summer, dissent grew within the ranks of the DIA, the Pentagon’s
internal intelligence agency. In September, news broke that 50 intelligence analysts filed a report with the Department
of Defense’s Inspector General to expose their superiors’ alleged manipulation
of intelligence. The intention of the coverup was reportedly to downplay the
threat of ISIS and the U.S.’s losing effort to fight it, all to maintain the
Obama administration’s narrative the bombing campaigns have been successful.
9- Activists
Inch a Small Step Closer to Exposing the Actors Behind 9/11: Though few
Americans heard about it, in August, a New York judge allowed a trial to move forward that could expose a potential
government cover-up in the notorious terrorist attack. The ruling was
tepid, allowing a 60 to 90 day window for the case to be dismissed or proceed.
A later ruling hindered the effort, citing a lack of evidence; but activists have not stopped fighting for the
release of 28 redacted pages from the 9/11 commission report that allegedly
implicate Saudi Arabia (a majority of the hijackers on 9/11 were of Saudi origin).
10- The FDA Approved OxyContin for Use in Children: Though the approval of the powerful, addictive painkiller for use in
11-year-olds and younger children was unsurprising to those who follow the
agency’s track record, the FDA’s justification was shocking. After
lawmakers wrote a letter expressing concern to the FDA, the agency’s
spokesperson, Eric Pahon, said the news was, in fact, not that serious because it
was already standard practice.. .. Pahon said. “Doctors were already prescribing it to children,
without the safety and efficacy data in hand with regard to the pediatric
population.”
11- The
Federal Government Admitted Cannabis May Help Fight Brain Cancer: the National Institute on Drug Abuse
made waves this year when it published a document acknowledging the healing properties of cannabidiol,
.. it noted that “marijuana can shrink one of the most serious types of
brain tumors”.
12.
Nestle Paid $524 to Plunder the Public’s Water Resources: This year, Anti-Media reported on the insidious relationship between Nestle and
the Forest Service in California. The investigation found not only that Nestle
was using an expired permit to turn exponential profit on 27 million gallons of
water, but that a former Forest Service official went on to consult for the company.
13- Establishment Caught Manipulating News to Fit Narratives: Following the death of Freddie Gray in
Baltimore, contentious protests broke out, eventually resulting in limited
rioting and looting. However, while the media attempted to paint protesters as
aggressive, it failed to report officers’ prolonged prohibition of their
physical movement, to say nothing of the riot gear police showed up wearing.
After being unable to move, a brick was thrown, but the media failed to report
the instigation and discrimination law enforcement imposed that ultimately led
the students and protesters to grow unruly.
14- TPP: In one of the most widely-contested
pieces of legislation in recent memory, the Trans-Pacific Partnership moved
forward, often in secret. The TPP has been condemned as a corporate power grab that ensures profit for pharmaceutical companies, among many other loathed
industries. From clamping
down on internet freedom to effectively sanctioning sex trafficking, TPP signals an
ominous fate for the future of freedom.
15.-
Sharp Uptick in Islamophobia: Amid the carnage of the Paris terror attacks, the recent shooting in
San Bernardino, and the surge in Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Western
nations, attacks against Muslims skyrocketed in 2015. In the United States, Muslims have
been attacked for praying in public, wearing traditional head scarves, and for simply being
out in public. Sikhs have been caught in the crossfire for the crime of being brown and
wearing cloth on their heads — and thus being confused with Muslims
2015
was a year of chaos, violence, hate, and an ongoing struggle of freedom versus
oppression. In many
ways, it was like the years, decades, and even centuries and millenia that came
before. But amid the conflict and often discouraging headlines, humanity has
continued to persevere, offering resistance to seemingly all-powerful forces
and paving the way for, if nothing else, potential peace, freedom, and
respect for human life.
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California
Law Allowing Government To Seize Legal Guns Goes Into Effect January 1st. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/31/2015
Beginning
January 1, gun regulations in California will give authorities the right
to seize a person’s weapons for 21 days if a judge determines the potential for violence
exists. Beginning January 1, gun regulations in
California will give authorities the right to seize a person’s weapons for 21
days if a judge determines the potential for violence exists. What could possibly go wrong?
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Government
Propagandist-In-Chief Condemns Political Incorrectness As "The Furthest
Thing From Brave". Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015
Some
have called Cass Sunstein "America's
Goebbels" since he sugggested that the government "formally hire credible
private parties to engage in counter-speech," and was engaged by President
Obama as 'Information Tzar'. So today's op-ed from the government's
propagandist-in-chief, condemning those
who choose to push back against political correctness, should be read
with a Bernaysian perspective as Sunstein attempts to delegitimize any and every effort to argue against the government's
view of the world.
..
[ If that is true, then Obama “the information zar” is more
powerful than Jesus.. this saint resurrected Lazarus after one week of
decomposition .. Obama did it after 7 decades. What?..you don’t believe it? ..
This is a matter of faith.. and ..if you are a religious person, you should discuss our faith on the new Goebbels
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ECONOMICS
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2-This
Is What Stocks Do During Hyperinflation they lost just over 20% of their value in the past year.
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3-Yellen,
You Have A Problem: The "Rate Hike Corridor" Just Broke the rate hike corridor can and
has been breached at least once, and only two weeks into the Fed's rate
hike experiment.
4-America In
2015 (The Chart) Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/31/2015
2015 - the
year when The Fed hiked rates for the first time in a decade to confirm its own
narrative that "everything is awesome" and the US economy can
handle 'normalization'.
And/Or
2015 - the worst
collapse in US macro-economic data since 2008 on both an absolute and
relative to expectations basis.
…
It was
different this time. The 'new normal' pattern has been an optimistic start to the year which
then disappoints into mid-year only to resurge and surprise meteoroconomists in
the second half of the year as government fiscal year-end spending and some
form of stimulus invariably drove surveys back into optimistic territory.
That
didn't happen in 2015.
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was not supposed to happen... See chart
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US
Tumbles Into Manufacturing Recession With Abysmal Chicago PMI Report. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015
America has never - ever - avoided a recession when
Chicago's Business Barometer has collapsed to these levels. At 42.9, missing the expectations of 50.0 by
the most ever, down from 48.7 in November, the final US economic data point of
the year sums up perfectly what a disaster Yellen has hiked rates into.
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The Good,
The Bad & The Ugly From 2015. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/31/2015
The
Good: On the
heels of a 40% jump in 2014, Venezuela’s main IBC Stock Index was up a
cool 280% this year. Although,
due to currency devaluation, you’d be lucky if you kept any of those 28,000
basis points.
The Bad: Coal stocks were an example of another trend that
persisted this year. After closing 2014 some 87% off of its 2008 high, the Dow
Jones U.S. Coal Index lost another 80% in 2015. That’s why we don’t go
bottom-feeding when selecting investments.
The
Ugly: There were
much worse markets in 2015, but the S&P 500 was just plain ugly for
anyone trying to figure it out. For one, as of the 2nd to last day of the
year, the index was exactly 0.2% away from its 2014 closing price. Furthermore,
along the way, it suffered stints of maddening behavior.
From February
3 to August 19, the S&P 500 never closed more than 2.2% away from the 2085
level, up or down. That’s over half the year, or 138 days! Then it dropped 11%
in a week! Then, in one month (October), it gained back the entire decline!
On top of
that, imagine you were using the 50-day moving average to stay on the correct
side of the trend, as many traders do. Well, the index crossed up or down
through the 50-day no less than 40 times – on a closing basis! Good luck with
that strategy.
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Frontrunning:
December 31. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015 - 07:42
- Oil ends 2015 in downbeat mood; hangover to be long, painful (Reuters)
- Recession, retrenchment, revolution? Impact of low crude prices on oil powers (Guardian)
- Midwest Flooding Might Make the Oil Glut Worse (BBG)
- From Oil Glut to Shortage? Some Say It Could Happen (WSJ)
- Ten Years After Blowup, Amaranth Investors Waiting to Get Money Back (WSJ)
- China Fires a Warning Shot at Yuan Speculators With Bank Bans (BBG)
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Summary: Red
Or Green For The Year: Decision Time For US Markets On Last Trading Day Of 2015.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/31/2015
It has come
down to this: a year in which the US stock market (led by a handful of shares
even as the vast majority of stocks has dropped) has gone nowhere, but took the
longest and most volatile path to get there, is about to close either red or
green for 2015 based on what happens in today's low-volume session following
yesterday's unexpected last half hour of trading "air pocket" which
brought the S&P back to unchanged for the year.
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Guest
Post: "American Capitalism" No Longer Serves Society. S-by Tyler
Durden on 12/30/15
America is
being destroyed by problems that are unaddressed. Unbridled greed,
short-term in nature, will continue to drive America into the ground.
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ME CRISIS
Turks
Warn "We're One Step Away From Civil War" On Erdogan Crackdown . Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 12/31/2015. “The tanks fire all day and we have nowhere left to hide,”.
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Iran
Defies Obama, Orders Expansion Of Missile Program. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 12/31/15
Earlier today, we outlined Washington's plan to slap new
sanctions on Iran in connection the October test-firing of Tehran's next
generation, surface-to-surface ballistic-missile Emad. It didn't take long for
Iran to hit back, with President Rouhani now reportedly ordering the Defense
Ministry to "expedite" missile development.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Creating
an “Independent Sunni State”: Washington Calls for the Partition and Fracturing
of Syria and Iraq. By Finian Cunningham. Russia’s military
intervention to help its Arab ally at the end of September has been the seminal
event of the year.
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War Fraud:
The Great Lies Behind Imperial Warfare in the 21st Century. By Mark Taliano.
The “War On Terror” and “The War On Drugs” are both fraudulent, and they are
both related
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America Is
Being Destroyed By Problems That Are Unaddressed. By Paul Craig Roberts. Clearly,
American capitalism no longer serves society, and the worsening distribution of
income and wealth prove it.
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Law, Order
and Social Suicide. By Robert C. Koehler. we live under the illusion
that social order is sustained by law . . . I mean, ahem.
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Plutocracy:
Political Repression In The U.S.A. . VIDEO DOCUMENTARY
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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ARG. Sin desconcentración de los medios
no es posible la pluralidad de voces. Redes , Coops y Carreras de Com
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ALC-EE.UU. Estados
Unidos agrava el drama mesoamericano . Nils
Castro
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Los tres componentes secretos de la
verdadera felicidad, al descubierto. 1. Relaciones cercanas con la familia. 2. Matrimonios
estables sin divorcios ni separación. 3. Mejor solteros que mal acompañados. Lo
1ro es utopia possible. Lo 2do depende de negociación educada y amigable. Lo
3ro, una verdad.
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Predicen la 'batalla final' del
Estado Islámico contra Occidente. Había que incinerar esas ratas.
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Los lios entre estud
secund se resolvían a golpes, con guantes y protector y con un árbitro. Habia
varias peleas de 3 rounds los viernes en la tarde, después de clases y todos gozábamos
el evento gratis. Cualquiera fuese el resultado terminaba en un abrazo. Así fue
como conseguí uno de mis mejores amigos. Solo había que mostrar que no se tiene
miedo a los golpes de la vida y que de la lucha depende todo.
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