FEB 15 16 SIT EC y POL
1-SANDERS
CALLS OUT CLINTON, blasts DNC on donations policy reversal. Sanders was
reacting to reports that the DNC (Democratic National Committee) has quietly
reversed the long-standing ban on donations from lobbyists and
political action committees, put in place by Barack Obama when he became the
party’s nominee in 2008. This puts Clinton in an awkward position, as the
former Secretary of State recently argued that she was more supportive of the
current president’s policies than Sanders. Clinton stands to benefit from the
party’s policy change far more than the Vermont Senator. According to the Center
for Responsive Politics (CRP), the Clinton campaign has raised
$725,000 from lobbyists in this election cycle. CRP data also shows that, between 2000 and 2008, Clinton received
more than $30 million from lobbyists and lawyers. In December, Sanders had to sue to regain access to the
party’s database after the Clinton campaign accused his people of improperly
accessing their data. Last week, after Sanders won the New Hampshire
primaries by a large margin, Clinton still went home
with more delegates thanks to the party’s “super-delegate” system.
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[ No need to sue them again .. is PEOPLE’s MOV that will put
down this oligarchical system .. we will continue voting Sanders and then we
will make the 1% respect democracy and the will of this Nation .. DEMOCRACY
& PEACE WILL PREVAIL !! ]
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2-Syria Proxy War against IS Reached Climax. Military Escalation, Towards a US-NATO Sponsored Ground Invasion? Washington’s strategy consists in spearheading a broader regional war by inciting Turkey, Saudi Arabia as well as Israel to do the “dirty work for us”. Until recently, Syrian Government Forces together with their allies (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah) have been confronting so-called “opposition rebels” largely composed of “moderate” terrorists and mercenaries, with US-NATO intelligence and special forces forces operating covertly within their ranks.
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ZERO HEDGE
ZERO HEDGE
ECON0OMICS
Where
Deflation Comes From. by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 02/15/2016 : Attempting to boost inflation, or boost demand,
before letting the debt deflation run its course through restructuring and
defaults leads only to 'further' distortion, and 'further' impoverishes
society’s poorer (at some point to a large extent the former middle
classes) whose lower spending, as nary a soul seems to comprehend, is
the origin of the deflation to begin with.
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BRIEF EXTRACT.
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Rather than
effective remedies, we’ve had inane policies like QE, which purport to solve
the crisis by inflating asset prices when inflated asset prices were one of the
symptoms of the bubble that caused the crisis. We’ve seen Central Banks pump up
private bank reserves in the belief that this will encourage more bank lending
when (a) there’s too much bank debt already and (b) banks physically can’t lend
out reserves.
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What may also play a role is that the upper rungs tend to
be blind to anything outside of their own circles, that because they 1) have their hands on a nation’s wallets and 2)
they see themselves as the most important segment of any given society, they
elect to try and solve the problem inside their own circles -and truly believe
this is feasible-.
This can of course
not possibly work. Because they’re hugely outnumbered. They don’t have nearly
enough influence on money flows in their societies. If they can’t sell the
bottom, let’s take a number, 80%, of society sufficient produce or gasoline or
homes or trinkets, the entire society seizes up the way an engine does that
runs out of oil.
The top makes its
fortune for a while getting the bottom ever deeper into debt, only to
inevitably find that this kills off the entire economy.
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The
Inevitability Of Dramatic Inflation. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 : Actually, this time
it will be different, but not in the way we would hope. Rather
than wait for the crashes and subsequent significant deflation to occur, the
Fed and the ECB have already announced a plan to introducenegative interest
rates. They describe this plan as being intended to
discourage saving and force people to buy goods, causing the economy to boom...
just as in Weimar Germany almost one hundred years ago. But, as history shows,
this is never the outcome. Once a population discovers that dumping
currency is preferable to holding it, the green-eyed monster comes knocking.
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"WHAT
GOES UP CAN ALSO COME DOWN".
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 : Our governments and
central banks have created a financial environment where
traditional savers receive little to no interest on their cash deposits, and an
economic environment whereby sophisticated investors are slowly withdrawing
investment. This combination is creating deflationary trends around the world,
and it is causing the Velocity of Money to plummet. Ironically, this
central-bank induced economic combination, is causing central banks and
governments to do even more of the same. Insanity at its best.
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EXTRACTS
What goes up can also come down
Notice the enormous gap
that has developed between the two groups over the last 6 years. This is the
part that isn’t talked about by the big banks, fund companies and advisors with
their clients.
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The debt crisis was never really resolved. Instead, governments
decided to simply transfer the debt problem from the private sector to the
public sector.
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This is important as
it is one of the key reasons for the current crisis.
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This combination is
creating deflationary trends around the world, and it is causing the Velocity
of Money to plummet. Ironically, this central-bank induced economic
combination, is causing central banks and governments to do even more of the
same. Insanity at its best.
At some point very
soon, this financial-spin-top will lose a few riders and the key one to watch
is the government bond sector. Chart 5 illustrates the size and difference
between the bubbles in our all too recent past.
And as they say in
California – the next one will be a big one. As the bubble in government bonds
blows higher and higher, the following investment groups will become
considerably risky:
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- Government bonds
- Bank & insurance stocks
- Pension funds
- Target Date Mutual Funds
- Bank & insurance stocks
- Pension funds
- Target Date Mutual Funds
Practically every
investor in the world has exposure to the bond market, as well as bank and
insurance stocks. Some investors have little exposure while others have a lot
of their eggs in this seemingly low-risk basket.
First, note the
following amount of global debt outstanding.
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Next, note that over
$58 TRILLION is owed by governments, and over $45 TRILLION is owed by banks and
insurance companies.
And finally,
understand that regulators say government bonds are recognised as risk-free
investments and therefore should make up the majority of a bank’s capital.
So, if you accept
our view that government bonds are in a bubble phase and that eventually this
bubble will burst, governments as well as anyone holding government bonds will
be affected the most.
And because banks
and insurance companies invest their required capital in government bonds, they
are extremely vulnerable to a popping of the government bond market. To
summarise, the groups who hold a whole bunch of government bonds include:
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- Bank &
insurance companies
- Pension funds
- Target Dated Mutual Funds
- Pension funds
- Target Dated Mutual Funds
Continue
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According
To These 2 Charts, A Default Cycle In The US Is Now Inevitable. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 : "Over the past 100
years, when defaults have risen above 4%, they have typically continued to rise
close to 10% (i.e. a full default cycle). This is because of the tendency for
credit stress to become self-fuelling: a rise in expected defaults pushes up financing
costs, which tips some marginal borrowers over the edge, further increasing
defaults and so on.
From Deutsche Bank
Over the past 100 years, when defaults have risen
above 4%, they have typically continued to rise close to 10% (i.e. a full
default cycle). This is because of the tendency for credit stress to become
self-fuelling: a rise in expected defaults pushes up financing costs, which
tips some marginal borrowers over the edge, further increasing defaults and so
on.
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SocGen: "The Market, Today, Is Clearly Hoping The Authorities Will Step In". Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 : “The market, today, is clearly hoping the authorities will step in.... whilst QE typically pushed investors out of bonds into riskier assets, negative interest rates could potentially do the exact opposite. "
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 02/15/2016 -
- China’s
Yuan Makes Largest Gain Since 2005 on PBOC Cue (WSJ)
- Japan's
Nikkei soars over 7%, for its biggest gain since 2008 (BBG)
- Global
shares rise as firmer Chinese yuan eases deflation fears (Reuters)
- Banks'
Surge Takes Europe's Stock Rally Into 2nd Day; HSBC Rises (BBG)
- Oil
extends rally on prospects OPEC could act to counter low prices (Reuters)
- Europe's
Higher-Yielding Bonds Benefit as Global Turmoil Eases (BBG)
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Global
Stocks Soar On Stimulus Hopes After Miserable Chinese, Japanese Data; Short
Squeeze. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 02/15/2016 : Bloomberg. "It’s a mix of hope of
intervention from the Asian central bank, short squeeze and also a relief in
some energy and banking sectors, the most shorted sectors." And there
are your catalysts for today's surge: hope of more central bank intervention
and a global short squeeze.
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POLITICS & US POLYCIES
Justice
Scalia Found Dead "With Pillow Over His Head", But No Autopsy Ordered. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 : [ ASSESINATED? It could be .. Or: just a tactic to delay the
nomination of the next one. .. If murder.. Interesting to see how a top-rank
person can be rid-off so easily in the US.]
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"We
discovered the judge in bed, a
pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled" www.zerohedge
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So - a sad death with
the elderly judge passing quietly in his sleep - completely reasonable.
Except as San Antonio Express - which first broke
the news of Scalia's death on Saturday afternoon - reports, that "someone" was John
Poindexter, owner of the 30,000-acre luxury ranch who is reported to have said
the following...
"We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over
his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled," said Poindexter.
"He was lying
very restfully. It looked like he had not quite awakened from a nap," he
said.
Scalia,79, did not have a pulse and his body was cold,and
after consulting with a doctor at a hospital in Alpine, Poindexter concluded resuscitation would have been
futile, He then contacted federal authorities, at first encountering a
series of answering services because he was calling on a weekend.
Adding further to the
questions surrounding the death, there
will be no autopsy performed on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,a
source familiar with the case confirmed to CNN.
The decision for no autopsy was made both by the
family and the Texas Justice of the Peace, the source said.
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Scalia’s death marks
only the second time in sixty years a justice has died before retiring from the
Court, and leaves the Court split 4-4 between fairly conservative and fairly
liberal, during a heated presidential election year.
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Is The Supreme Court Irrelevant?. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 : With the passing of Justice Scalia, the media has embarked on a frenzy of speculation about the political battles that are part and parcel of the President nominating a replacement Supreme Court justice. While the political chum makes for good copy, the bigger question is rarely (if ever) asked: is the Supreme Court even relevant to the truly significant issues facing the nation?
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MIDDLE EAST
DeBeers
Cartel Deathwatch: Russia Set To Flood Diamond Market With Firesale Of 167,500
Carats. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 : First it
was the OPEC oil cartel which died a slow, painful, death. Now, another
historic cartel may be on its last legs: the DeBeers diamond cartel, because
according to Russian daily
Izvestia, as part of Russia plan to combat its creeping budget deficit,
Russia’s state minerals depository, Gokhran, will conduct two auctions on
February 29 and March 10, in which it plans to sell as much as 167,500
carats of diamonds.
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World
Economic Climate Index Tumbles. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 02/15/2016. Global growth leading indicators are screaming
it, Baltic Dry Index is screaming it, PMIs are screaming it, BRICS are living
it, and now Ifo surveys are showing it: global economy is heading
into a storm.
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Obama
Starts Mid-East Nuke Race As Israel Says Gulf States Pursuing Bombs. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 02/15/2016 : "We see signs that countries in the Arab
world are preparing to acquire nuclear weapons, that they are not willing to
sit quietly with Iran on brink of a nuclear or atomic bomb."
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"A
Dramatic Escalation Appears Imminent" In Syria Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 02/15/2016 : The problem for the USA is that it has no
good option to achieve its overriding goal in Syria: to “prevent Russia from
winning”. In the delusional minds of the AngloZionist rulers, Russia is
just a “regional power” which cannot be allowed to defy the “indispensable
nation”. And yet, Russia is doing exactly that both in Syria and in the Ukraine
and Obama’s entire Russia policy is in shambles. Can he afford to
appear so weak in an election year? Can the US “deep state” let the Empire be
humiliated and its weakness exposed? In fact, in the next few
days, we are probably going to witness a dramatic escalation of the
conflict in Syria.
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Why
Tomorrow's "Secret" Meeting Between Russian, Saudi Oil Ministers Will
Not Lead To A Cut In Production .Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 02/15/2016 : Tomorrow the endless "headline
hockey" will come to an end, following what is now a confirmed
"secret" meeting between the two oil superpowers when, as Bloomberg
reports, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister will meet with his Russian counterpart
in Doha on Tuesday"to discuss the oil market."
[ THERE should NOT be any meeting if Saudis don’t take
out their soldiers from Syrian border. Saudis must put in their … their carrot
& stick. Otherwise RU will help them on this purpose. ]
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"They're
All Bandits!" Russia Will Not Stop Syria Airstrikes Regardless Of
Ceasefire. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 : "They are
all bandits and terrorists. They move around amongst themselves for various
reasons: They get paid more somewhere else, or somebody has a falling out with
somebody else. So it is very difficult for us to tell the difference between
the very moderate ones and the not-so-moderate ones, the good from the bad.”
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Turkey Vows "Harshest Reaction" To Kurdish Advance In Syria As Missiles Hit Hospitals, School. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2016 : “YPG elements were forced away from around Azaz. If they approach again they will see the harshest reaction. We will not allow Azaz to fall.”
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"Autocracy"
Vs. "Democracy": Stunning Before And After Pictures Of Syria's
Largest City. Submitted by Tyler Durden on
02/14/2016 [ In
case you miss it.]
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As we documented last autumn in “Syria Showdown: Russia, Iran Rally Forces,
US Rearms Rebels As ‘Promised’ Battle For Aleppo Begins,” Syria’s largest city has been among
the hardest hit of the country’s urban centers over the course of the last five
years.
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Newsweek documented the destruction in a series of stark and
profoundly indelible images in 2012, perhaps the most striking of which was
this:
skip graphic; Press the title above in blue [in case you miss it]
Recapturing the city is critical to restoring Bashar
al-Assad’s grip on power.
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If Aleppo is liberated, the rebellion will be all but
crushed. The Alawite government would once again control the country’s urban
backbone in the west and, more importantly from a big picture perspective, Iran
would have scored a major victory in the effort to preserve the Shiite crescent
not to mention its supply lines to Hezbollah.
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Likewise, a victory at Aleppo would invalidate US claims
that Vladimir Putin was destined to get Moscow into a “quagmire” in Syria and the
Russians would score a major geopolitical coup by effectively replacing the
US as Mid-East superpower puppet master.
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Now that the eyes of the world are on Aleppo which may well
go down in history as the site where World War III began, we thought it an
opportune time to bring you the following before and after images which depict
what life was like in the city under the "brutal dictatorship" of
Bashar al-Assad and what life is like now that the US has exported democracy to
Syria.
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Democracy?
"Yes you can"... you can destroy the entire Middle
East...
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Sure you can do it Mr Nobel-
prize winner .. Until the ICC-reformed indict you as war
criminal & guilty of “crimes against humanity” ..Meanwhile.. you can continue
your “regime-change” addiction.
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Washington's
Dismal Comedy Of Terrors - When In Doubt Bomb Syria. Submitted by Tyler Durden
on 02/14/2016 : [ In case you miss it.]. Everyone has been
consulted about the future of Syria, except the Syrians themselves. Why?
Because simply, Syrians don’t matter. They are quite beside the point. Thanks
to fresh reporting by Seymour Hersh,
we now know that the subtext for Obama administration’s Syrian strategy, dating
back to Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, has been largely geared
toward ensnaring Russian in the Levantine quagmire. This is chaos
theory marketed as foreign policy.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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NATO Threatens Russia, “We are Rolling into
A New Cold War”. Speech by Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev
READ ALSO: Interview
with Russia’s Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev:
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Fake
US-Russia “Peace Diplomacy”. The Syrian Conflict Deepens…War between False
Friends and Misaligned Enemies.
By Binoy Kampmark,
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Iran
Will Defend Syria’s Airspace If Damascus Requests. Response to Reports that
Turkey and Saudi Arabia Preparing Joint Military Operations on Syrian Soil” By Press TV,
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Syria:
US and Israeli Weapons and Ammunition In Possession of Terrorists, Seized by
Government Forces By H. Said
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WASHIGNTON BLOG
Why
NIRP (Negative Interest Rates) Will Fail Miserably. Posted on February 15, 2016 by Charles Hugh Smith : What
NIRP communicates is: this sucker’s going down, so sell everything and hoard
your cash and precious metals.
The last hurrah of central banks is the negative interest
rate policy–NIRP. The basic idea of NIRP is to punish savers so severely
that households and businesses will be compelled to go blow whatever money they
have on something–what the money is squandered on is of no importance to
central banks.
All that matters is that people and enterprises are forced
to spend whatever cash they have rather than “hoard” it, i.e. preserve and
conserve their capital.
That this is certifiably insane is self-evident. If
an economy depends on bringing future spending into the present by destroying
savings, that economy is doomed regardless of NIRP, for eventually the cash
runs out and spending declines anyway. ⇒ Keep Reading
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
EE.UU. Monsanto fabricó el
fósforo blanco utilizado en los ataques israelíes a Gaza durante la Operación
Plomo Fundido. Justin Gardner
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Manifiesto: Sí a la libertad de
expresión, no a la discriminación religiosa y política, no a la ocupación de
Palestina . Firmantes: Silvio Rodríguez, Rosa Regás y Emir Sader entre otros ..
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PRESS TV
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Partition
only solution in Syria: Israel . The
partition of Israel is coming.. they misappropriated from Palestine and Israel.
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