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ECONOMICS
This
Crash Will Be Bigger Than 2008 - Here's Why. Submitted by Tyler Durden
on 02/20/2016 : "The world has never seen this and there is no
one that knows the eventual consequences of this... This is desperation! The
central banks have run out of ammunition and tools...all they have now is
just talk."
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The
Chilling Ways The Current Global Economy Echoes The 1930s Depression Era.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/20/2016 : The imbalances that
low rates and elasticity produce may “return us to the modern-day equivalent
of the divisive competitive devaluations of the interwar years; and,
ultimately, [trigger] an epoch-defining seismic rupture in policy regimes,
back to an era of trade and financial protectionism and, possibly, stagnation
combined with inflation.”
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Currency
And The Collapse Of The Roman Empire. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/19/2016: At its peak, the
Roman Empire held up to 130 million people over a span of 1.5 million square
miles. How could such a powerful empire collapse? Simple, the real
effects of debasement took time to materialize... and then exploded.
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POLITICS
Trump
Steamrolls South Carolina; Hillary Barely Beats Bernie. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 02/20/2016 : Update
3: For once the pundits
and exit polls were right: shortly after the close of the South Carolina
primary polls it was revealed that Trump has a crushing, double digit
lead, with about 34% of the vote; followed by Cruz and Rubio who are currently
fighting for second spot with 22% of the vote each. Jeb Bush is fighting for a
double digit number, as well as for his professional career which may be cut
short after tonight.
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Update: moments
ago first Fox News, and shortly thereafter NBC, AP and other major US news
networks, projected Hillary Clinton
would be the winner of the Democratic Nevada Caucus.
As CNN
notes, Clinton began to organize six months ahead of Sanders and “a loss,
or even another close finish with Sanders in Nevada, would further chip away at
the aura of invincibility that once surrounded her path to the nomination.”
Poll RCP Clinton 48.7 Sanders
46.3 difference: Clinton +2.4
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"Everyday
American" Pleads With Hillary To Release Transcripts "So We Can Trust
You Again". Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 02/20/2016 : "How can
we trust that this isn't just more political rhetoric. Please, just release
those transcripts so that we know exactly where you stand."
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For
Hillary, It's Deja Boom All Over Again. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 02/20/2016 : Many in the markets have seen the worrying analog of
2008 stocks to the current malaise, but for
Hillary Clinton, there is a much more horrific deja vu-ness about the collapse
in her 'lead' over Bernie...
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Guest
Post: Great Power Realignment - To Russia? Submitted by Tyler Durden
on 02/20/2016 : . The
end result may be "peace," but of the Machiavellian sort. "Peace,"
Machiavelli
wrote, is the set of conditions imposed by the winner on the loser of the last
war. The Turks and the Russians understand him. The Americans? Perhaps not so much.
EXTRACTS
Check: Great Power Realignment - To Russia? by Shoshana Bryen
Feb 20, 2016 . Shoshana Bryen is Senior Director of the Jewish Policy
Center.http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7453/us-russia-syria-realignment
- As the Russians insist that the Assad government is the only legitimate government, all anti-Assad fighters -- ISIS, al Qaeda-related, or U.S.-backed or Turkish-backed "moderates" -- are, by definition, terrorists.
- Russian -- and in particular Syrian -- tactics are appalling. Washington would rather not be associated with them, but has a horror of the vacuum that might emerge if Assad is swept aside. Mainly, the U.S. has hung its hat on the International Syria Support Group. The U.S. is muddled, as usual, without a clear goal, clear allies or fixed positions beyond support for a "political process."
- The U.S. is looking less and less relevant, as historic Great Powers do what they have historically done best -- fight for their national interests as they define them. President Obama appears to be conceding the lead to Russia and Russian aims.
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SATURDAY RESULTS IN NEVADA in pro-Clinton press
2016 Nevada Democratic Caucuses Winner: Hillary Clinton
Beats Bernie Sanders
Nevada is the first test of strength with minority voters FOR
BOTH CANDIDATES.
Saturday, Nevada Democrats will decide what appears to be a razor thin race between former secretary of state
Hillary Clinton and Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont — a
repeat of a near-tie
in the Iowa Democratic Caucuses that revealed an ideological split in the
Democratic party and a more difficult nomination path for Clinton than anyone
expected.
Both Nevada and South Carolina schedule Republican and
Democratic caucuses and primaries on different dates. Nevada Republicans will
caucus on Tuesday, Feb. 23, and South Carolina’s Democratic presidential
primary is Saturday, Feb. 27.
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South
Carolina, primary offers the first true test of Democratic candidates’ strength among black
voters. Clinton’s lead in South Carolina has been shrinking since
mid-November as Sanders makes inroads into the so-called Clinton firewall of African-American voters.
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My comment: Given the time and resources spend by Hillary, the 2.4 lead at 10pm, Sat, goes against her expectation (more than 10 points difference). Then this repeat what happens in IOWA : a weak victory , with flavor of defeat to her. More details will come when we check the dynamic of this caucus. In general all caucuses are easy to be manipulated and are full of fraud and unreliable ways of counting votes. I'm waiting for more details on this caucus. To me primaries are more reliable. Let's see what happen in South Carolina, though I expect the strongest collapse of Hillary lead in the primaries of the super-Tuesday. Hugo Adan
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MIDDLE EAST & WORLD ISSUES
The World Is Red. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/20/2016 : “There
is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit
expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as
the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later
as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.”
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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United
Nations Tacitly Supportive of Syria “Opposition” Terrorists, Humanitarian Aid
Withheld, Deliberate Malpractice in Kafarya and Foua By Vanessa Beeley
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
The Media are Misleading the Public on Syria.
By Stephen Kinzer. Control de Media or the Media control us. Coverage
of the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in
the history of the American press.
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Terror in
Turkey: Is Erdogan Playing Washington?. By Finian Cunningham. Turkey
wants to go into Syria not to fight terrorism, as claimed, but rather to assist
their covert “brothers-in-arms”
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Russian
Intelligence Report On Turkey’s Current Assistance To Daesh. By Voltaire Network. . Wounded ISIL fighters are being provided with
places to rest and receive treatment in areas of Turkey bordering Syria.
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Playing
Whack-a-Terrorist in Libya. By Paul R. Pillar. How
Hillary Clinton – turned a relatively prosperous and secular country into
another failed state.
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Why the
World Should Get a Vote in the Greatest Reality TV Show on Earth – the US
Election
By Laurie Penny. It’s like watching the Chuckle Brothers trying to lead a fascist rally.
By Laurie Penny. It’s like watching the Chuckle Brothers trying to lead a fascist rally.
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How
Scalia’s Absence Will Affect Pending Supreme Court Cases. By Marjorie Cohn.
Scalia favored unlimited corporate election spending.
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
Contra la austeridad y la deudocracia“Un Plan B para Europa es la
autoorganización popular y desobedecer a los acreedores". Enric Llopis
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ALC. Las bases sociales de las nuevas
derechas. Raúl Zibechi
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