MAR 2 16 SIT EC y POL
HILLARY
IS A CANDIDATE FOR THE “POLITICAL MACHINE”: Four Reasons Why a Hillary Clinton
Presidency Is “A Real Possibility” By Timothy Alexander Guzman .
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[ Interesting.. but.. her
“Political Machine” is now in crisis . I will explain this later on. Hugo Adan]
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Meanwhile READ Tim Guzman 4
reason:
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1- Hillary is guilty in the ‘Benghazi-Gate’ and she will NOT
go to Prison. This mean that she is supported by the
establishment.
2- She is supported
by big crook Bankers and mafia speculators in Wall Street. See huge list
3- She is supported
by the big Main-Stream Media “known as presstitude”.
4- She is supported
by war mongers from the Bush era known as “neocons” (including R Kagan, the financier) and pro-Israel
rightist lobbyists from AIPAC.
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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
Capitalism
Requires World War : Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/02/2016 : Capitalism
requires World War because Capitalism requires profit and cannot afford the
unemployed. The point is capitalism could afford social democracy after the
rate of profit was restored thanks to the depression of the 1930’s and the
physical destruction of capital during WW2. The underlying nature of
Capitalism is cyclical.
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[ Nuke war will be the end of history .. capitalism will not
survive .. cyclical? It was, not anymore ]
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Global
Central Banks Continue Longest Gold-Buying-Spree Since Vietnam War. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 03/02/2016 : While "greed was good" in the '80s, it
appears "gold is good" in the new normal. As much as the barbarous
relic is despised by all the mainstream money-peddlers in public (aside from
those who have left the familia like Alan Greenspan), it seems to be
loved in private. Central banks have been net buyers of gold for eight
straight years, according to IMF estimates, the longest streak since the
first troops were deployed in The Vietnam War.
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[ So, Ms Lagarde hide a lot of data to the world.. she is now
Ms lagar-tija .. watching from the top of a rock .. incredible ]
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What Percent Are You?. . Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/02/2016. :
Are you the 1% or the 99%? How about among
millennials? Or high-school dropouts? The
Wall Street Journal shows how your income compares with your fellow
Americans.
Earning $25,780 would put you below 50% of Americans
reporting individual income in 2014.
What percent are you? Are you the 1% or the 99%? Earning
$25,780 would put you below 50% of Americans reporting individual income in
2014.
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Keynes:
How A Witch Doctor Convinced The World He's A Neurosurgeon. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/02/2016 : In the Middle
Ages, no matter what ailed you, the doctor had one cure: attaching leeches to
your body. Today, modern medicine has discredited leeches as a cure-all. We
look back on it and laugh. “How could we have been so stupid?" Some
things haven’t changed much. The average person is still willing to blindly
accept conventional thinking—maybe even more so than he was in the past. Today,
he hears the financial equivalent of “more leeches!” and agrees. Conventional
wisdom and economic “experts” continually prescribe treatments that we will no
doubt look back on and say, “How could we have been so stupid?”
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Great
Depression Redux: First Currency War, Now US Unleashes Trade War With China.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/02/2016 : Given the vicious
downward spiral of competitive devaluation that is washing around the world's
economic bathtub, it appears - just as we saw during The Great Depression -
that currency wars have given way to mal-investment-fueled protectionism as
US launches the first missile in the trade wars with a massive 266% tariff on
imports of cold-rolled steel. “There’ll be a short-term benefit,“ said John
Packard of Steel Market Update. ”However, in the long run, the U.S. mills
are always going to want more tariffs, and it’s questionable how much more
[protection] they can get."
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Oil
Options Traders Ain't Buying It - Bearish Bets Biggest In A Year. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 03/02/2016 : Despite Andy Hall's
statement that "the bottom is in," for crude (and oil
analysts unicorn-like forecast of $47 by year-end), it seems oil options
traders disagree significantly.
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Fed's Williams says: NO
SIGNS OF FRAGILITY IN U.S. ECONOMY.. And reality says...
Isn't it amazing how easily 'we' can forget about the truly
dismal state of the economy when stocks are rising...?
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Sports
Authority Files For Bankruptcy, Will Close One Third Of Its Stores. S-
by Tyler Durden on 03/02/16
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 03/02/2016 - 07:27
- Trump, Clinton capture key wins on Super Tuesday (Reuters)
- Hillary Clinton Triumphs in Delegate-Rich Super Tuesday States (WSJ)
- S&P 500 Futures Follow Oil Lower, Erase Gain After Super Tuesday (BBG)
- Oil below $37 as U.S. inventory rise counters output freeze plan (Reuters)
- Wall Street's big short: President Donald J. Trump (Reuters)
- Ex-Chesapeake CEO McClendon Indicted Over Lease Bid Rigging (BBG)
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POLITICS
America's
Ruling Classes: No Fear, No Caution, No Prudence. Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 03/02/2016 : Could it be that America's ruling classes, its Imperial
state and the Federal Reserve, no longer rule their own destiny? Could
their smug confidence be their undoing? Only two things could upset the
ruling class apple cart: a financial crash that the Fed can't stop, much
less reverse, and Donald Trump winning the presidency.
[ We are in fear now .. including Trump ..if
win, he doesn’t know how to handle the establishment .. and the guys here ..
doesn’t know how to swallow a big hipo .. they are in limbo & we are in
limbo too. ]
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How
The U.S. Government And HSBC Teamed Up To Hide The Truth From A Pennsylvania
Couple. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/02/2016.
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The reason both the Democratic and Republican
establishments are in full on panic mode about the rise of Donald Trump and
Bernie Sanders is a deep seated fear that the plebs have finally woken
up. [what this has to do with the next? .. not logic in this writing..]
Although the Department of Justice and HSBC thought the money
laundering case was settled ancient history, a determined chemist from
Pennsylvania is throwing a wrench into their plans and it could have major
implications.
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[ I don’t got it .. what happen .. is she incriminated? ..
votes recounted? .. what? ]
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Extracts
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The reason both the Democratic and Republican establishments are in
full on panic mode about the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is a deep
seated fear that the plebs have finally woken up.
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Democrats rail against big corporations, while Republicans rail against
big government. This scheme has been used to successfully divide and conquer
the public for decades while big government and big business successfully schemed
to divert all wealth and power to an ever smaller minuscule
segment of the population — themselves.
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It took awhile,
but the people are finally starting getting it and they are royally pissed off.
One
of the primary mechanisms for this historic elite theft has been the creation
of a two-tiered justice system in which the rich, powerful and connected are
never prosecuted for their criminality. Instead, the government actively
protects them by pretending corporate entities commit crimes as opposed to
individuals. Of course, this is impossible, but yet it’s how the government
handles white collar crime. The Orwellian named “Justice Department” casually
utilizes deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs), in which companies pay a
little fine and the criminals themselves walk away with not just their freedom,
but ill gotten monetary gains as well.
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Nowhere is this most apparent than when it comes to the big banks. The individuals
who work at these criminal cartels can literally do anything they want with
total impunity. One of the most egregious examples of this was the $1.9 billion
settlement arranged with HSBC for laundering Mexican drug cartel money and
dealing with sanctioned countries. If you or I did this we’d be sitting in a
concrete box eating porridge through a straw for the rest of our lives, but
when “masters of the world” at big banks do it, the parent company just
pays a slap on the wrist fine and life goes on. That’s how oligarch justice
works.
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Although the Department of Justice and HSBC thought
the money laundering case was settled ancient history, a determined
chemist from Pennsylvania is throwing a wrench into their plans and it could
have major implications.
The Wall
Street Journal reports:
WEST CHESTER, Pa.—When Dean Moore ran into roadblocks with a request for
mortgage relief, he did what many people do: He sat down at his kitchen table
to bang out an angry letter.
The letter has thrust Mr. Moore, a chemist, and his wife, Ann Marie
Fletcher-Moore, a part-time bookstore manager, into a high-stakes battle over
whether HSBC Holdings PLC
must release a secret report on its compliance with a $1.9
billion money-laundering settlement.
A “secret” report. You’ve got to be kidding me.
The disclosure would be the
first ever for this type of case and would shine a light on an increasingly
common practice for banks accused of breaking the law. Instead of being
prosecuted, banks typically enter into settlements under which they often agree
to be overseen
by monitors whose detailed judgments are kept secret. Judge Gleeson’s
order has the potential to dial back that confidentiality, opening a new
channel of information that prosecutors say could threaten the viability of
such settlements in future cases.
If you don’t get by now that America is a banana republic, there’s
little hope for you.
HSBC and Justice Department
prosecutors have opposed the release, saying it wouldn’t do much to help Mr.
Moore with his mortgage predicament. Judge Gleeson, in his order to unseal the
report, said that was irrelevant.
Big banks and the U.S. government are simply 100% in bed together.
Constantly scheming to prevent citizens from learning the truth.
The bank is appealing the
ruling, but already it may be having an impact. HSBC disclosed last week that
the January report by independent monitor Michael Cherkasky found instances of
potential financial crime and had “significant concerns” about the bank’s pace
of progress in complying with the money-laundering settlement.
A legitimate government that cared about the people would want the
public to know this, but not the U.S. government.
The Moores say the experience has been surreal. The couple lives in this
Philadelphia suburb with their four children, two dogs and a 15-year-old rabbit
and had never spent much time in court other than for jury duty. They have
nevertheless held their own against a phalanx of lawyers from the British bank
and the Justice Department. A recent hearing in a Brooklyn federal court
“was like ‘Law and Order,’” said Mrs. Fletcher-Moore, who is 50 years old.
HSBC admitted in its 2012 settlement that it failed to catch at least
$881 million in drug-trafficking proceeds laundered through its U.S. bank and
that its staff stripped data from transactions with Iran, Libya and Sudan to
evade U.S. sanctions.
The mortgage was administered by HSBC, and the Moores say they wrote to
the bank starting in 2008 asking it to temporarily lower the 7% interest rate. They
said the lender appeared receptive, only for its representatives to misplace
documents needed to complete their application for a loan modification several
times.
Frustrated, the Moores researched the bank online last year and stumbled
upon news of the money-laundering settlement and the monitor’s secret report. The
Moores say they believe the report details faulty internal controls like those
they encountered when trying to modify their loan.
If his ruling stands, it
would be “the first time we get to see what happens after a bank settles a
prosecution,” said Brandon
Garrett, a professor at University of Virginia’s law school who has studied the
monitor system.
Which is exactly what the U.S. government doesn’t want people to see.
HSBC and the Justice Department are still fighting to keep the report
private and have appealed Judge Gleeson’s ruling to the Second Circuit Court of
Appeals. An appeals court ruling could be months away. “I feel like a very
small boat in a very large ocean,” Mr. Moore wrote at one point, in a letter
responding to some of their arguments.
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For more on the corrupt U.S. justice system, see:
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Just another day in the…
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Super Tuesday Recap: Trump "Schlongs" GOP Field, Hillary Extinguishes "The Bern". Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/02/2016 : Donald Trump is going to "make America great again." And Hillary Clinton is going to fight for "everyday Americans." And after Tuesday, you're going to have to choose between them.
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How
Wall Street Is Preparing For "President Trump". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 03/02/2016 : Reuters
writes, it is time for Wall Street to add "the juggernaut that is
Donald J. Trump to the list of what-ifs that is worrying Wall Street."
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Billionaire
Koch Brothers Won't Attack Trump In Primaries After Murdoch Calls For Party
Unity. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 03/02/2016 : t appears it is not just the bookies that see
Trump's nomination as a done deal. Even the money behind the establishment
is folding now as Reuters
reports the mega-donor billionaire Koch brothers have said they have "no
plans to get involved in the primary." This follows another
mega-donor, Rupert Murdoch's call to "unify the party" as Trump
tries to make peace with the "establishment."
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ME & WORLD ISSUES
British
Pension Provider Warns Of "Death Of Retirement". Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 03/02/2016
British workers will have to work until they are 81
if they want to build up savings that guarantee their parents' standard of
retirement, according to a new
study by pension provider Royal London. Without significantly higher levels
of engagement in pensions, the report concludes rather ominously, "we
may be witnessing the death of retirement."
[ The funeral business will go up .. heart attack Drs will be
very bussy .. suicide will be programed..]
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WHY GLOBALIZATION REACHES LIMITS . Very good article on the collapse of neoliberalismo. By Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/02/2016. :
We have been living in a world of rapid globalization, but
this is not a condition that we can expect to continue indefinitely.
Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-02/why-globalization-reaches-limits
[ Nice but.. where this graphic comes from? ]
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[ Nice but.. where this graphic comes from? ]
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See figure 1 at:
Recently, US imports seem to be down. Part of this
reflects the impact of surging US oil production, and because of this, a
declining need for oil imports. Figure 2 at https://gailtheactuary.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/total-us-imports-and-imports-ex-oil-as-ratio-to-gdp.png
Where Does Demand For Imports Come From?
Many of the goods and services we import have an adverse
impact on US wages. For example, if we import clothing, toys, and furniture,
these imports directly remove US jobs making similar goods here.
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Even if a job isn’t directly lost, the competition with
low wage nations tends to hold down wages. Over time, US wages have tended to
fall as a percentage of GDP.
Figure 3 shows that labor is the most affected by this
system. See US Ratio of wages and
salaries to GDP at https://gailtheactuary.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/us-ratio-of-wages-and-salaries-to-gdp.png
Another phenomenon that has tended to occur is greater
disparity of wages. Partly this disparity represents a dangerous inequality .
Figure 4 ahoe that earnings for the top 10% have tended to increase since 1981,
while wages for the bottom 90% have stagnated. See Fig 4 at: https://gailtheactuary.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/income-top10-percent-comared-to-bottom-90.jpg
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Inasmuch as the US dollar was the world’s reserve
currency, this increase in debt did not have a seriously adverse impact on the
economy. The problem, however, is that at some point it becomes impossible to
raise the debt level further. The ratio of debt to GDP becomes unmanageable.
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Consumers, because their wages have been held down by competition with wages
around the world, cannot afford to keep adding more debt. Businesses find that
slow wage growth in the US holds down demand. Because of this slow growth in
the demand, businesses don’t need much additional debt to expand their
businesses either.
Commodity Prices Are Extremely Sensitive to Lack of
Demand
Commodities, by their nature, are things we use a lot of.
It is usually difficult to store very much of these commodities. As a result,
it is easy for supply and demand to get out of balance. Because of this, prices
swing widely.
Demand is really a measure of affordability. If wages are
lagging behind, then an increase in debt (for example, to buy a new house or a
new car) can substitute for a lack of savings from wages. Unfortunately, such
increases in debt have not been happening recently. The problem started as
early as 2012, but has been especially bad in the past year.
The way the governments of several countries have tried
to fix stagnating economic growth is through a program called Quantitative
Easing (QE). This program produces very low interest rates. Unfortunately, QE
doesn’t really work as intended for commodities. QE tends to increase the
supply of commodities, but it does not increase the demand for
commodities.
This goes on and on
Conclusion
We have identified two different limits to globalization.
One of them has to do with limits on the amount of goods and services that
developed countries can absorb before those imports unduly disrupt local
economies, either through job loss, or through more need for debt than the
developed economies can handle. The other occurs because of the sensitivity of
many developing nations have to low commodity prices, because they are
exporters of these commodities.
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There are many other limiting factors. Fresh water is a
major problem, throughout much of the developing world. Adding more people and
more industry makes the situation worse.
One problem with globalization is a long-term tendency to
move manufacturing production to countries with ever-lower standards in many
ways: ever-lower pollution controls, ever-lower safety standards for workers,
and ever-lower wages and benefits for workers.
Adequate wages are critical to making any system work.
As the system has tended increasingly toward globalization, politicians have
tended to focus more and more on the needs of businesses (speculation) and
governments, and less on the needs of workers. At some point, the lack of
buyers for the output of the system will tend to bring the whole system down.
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Thus, at some point, the trend toward globalization and
automation must stop. We need buyers for the output from the system, and this
is precisely the opposite of the direction in which the system is trending. If
a way is not found to fix the system, it will ultimately collapse. At a
minimum, the trend toward increasing imports will end–if it hasn’t already.
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Striking
Admission By Former Bank Of England Head: The European Depression Was A
"Deliberate" Act. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 03/02/2016 : Telegraph
reports today, according to the former head of the Bank of England Europe's
economic depression "is the result of
"deliberate" policy choices made by EU elites.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Billionaire Trump won seven of the
11 states with Republican
contests, including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee,
Vermont and Virginia. Billionaire Clinton took seven
out of 11 states where Democrats went to the polls, including Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. In Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won his home state, as well
as Colorado, Minnesota and Oklahoma.
NBC News projected that Clinton would win 525 delegates and
Sanders 335, bringing their total of elected delegates to 641 and 401
respectively. Clinton has a huge lead of 425 to 22 among so-called
super delegates—members of Congress, state officials and members of the
Democratic National Committee—giving her a combined
total of 1,066, about half way to the total required for nomination.
Sanders offers no alternative because, he is committed
to the Democratic Party and supporting its presidential nominee, .. that is Clinton
and her right-wing, pro-Wall Street program. Sanders also defends the Obama
administration, which has presided over an intensification of social inequality
at home while expanding the military operations of American imperialism around
the world.
The growing intimacy between the Republican Party and
semi-fascist elements has long been the dirty secret of official
American politics. Both in the Democratic Party and the corporate-controlled
media have cover this up, downplaying periodic eruptions such as the
presidential campaigns of Patrick Buchanan, with close ties to Southern
Republicans and white supremacist groups.
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[ Interesting.. but.. her
“Political Machine” is now in crisis . I will explain this later on.
Hugo Adan]
Meanwhile READ Tim Guzman 4
reason:
1- Hillary is guilty in the ‘Benghazi-Gate’ and she will NOT
go to Prison. This mean that she is supported by the
establishment.
2- She is supported
by big crook Bankers and mafia speculators in Wall Street.
3- She is supported
by the big Main-Stream “known as presstitude”.
4- She is supported
by war mongers from the Bush era known as “neocons” (including R Kagan, the financier) and pro-Israel
rightist lobbyists like AIPAC.
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
The New Mind
Control. Must Read - By Robert Epstein. The internet has spawned subtle
forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say,
think and do.
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Europe’s
Slow Motion Debacle. By Pepe Escobar. The whole refugee crisis – an
existential crisis for Europe – is being used by Ankara as a bargaining chip
for an elaborate extortion racket.
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Hillary
Clinton Is A Psychopath And A War Criminal. By Prof. Francis Boyle. Refugees are
fleeing because the United States government has been destroying their states,
as we’ve already discussed.
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Trump, Dog
Whistles, and the Republican Full Monty. By Paul Edwards. He gives his folks
red meat and they roar for it.
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Neoconservatives
Declare War on Donald Trump. By Zaid Jilani. Trump has done much to trigger the
scorn of neocon pundits.
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'Plan B' and
the Bankruptcy of US Syria Policy. By Gareth Porter. The
political elite in Washington has been buzzing about the “appearance of
allowing Russia to act with impunity” in Syria
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Hillary Clinton won, on Tuesday March 1st, six (6) states
that aren’t even in contest for the November general election for the U.S.
Presidency, but which are considered to be already in the bag for the given state’s
dominant political Party to win in the general election: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Texas. The Democratic Presidential nominee
(regardless whether Clinton or Sanders) will get zero Electoral College votes
from any of those states except Massachusetts, which is the only one of the
states that’s going to be voting for the Democratic nominee on November 8th.
However, since that’s also a state which will vote for the Democratic nominee
regardless of whether it’s Clinton or Sanders, her victories in all six of
those states mean zero regarding the candidate’s ability to win the general
election — the Electoral College.
However, Hillary did win 1 (one) really meaningful state:
Virginia. That state is among the ten toss-up states, the states that could vote
either way, Republican or Democratic, on November 8th. Hillary’s victory there
means a high likelihood that Virginia’s EC votes will be likelier to go to the
Democratic nominee if that nominee turns out to be Clinton, than if it turns
out to be Sanders. The number of EC votes that were at stake there was: 13.
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Central
Bankers Admit that Central Banks Have Failed to Fix the Economy. Posted on March 1, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog .
Between 2008 and 2015, central banks pretended that they had
fixed the economy. In 2016, they’re starting to admit
that they haven’t fixed much of anything. The current head of the Bank
of England (Mark Carney) said last week:
The global economy risks becoming trapped in a low
growth, low inflation, low interest rate equilibrium. For the past
seven years, growth has serially disappointed—sometimes spectacularly, as
in the depths of the global financial and euro crises; more often than not
grindingly as past debts weigh on activity ….
This underperformance is principally the product of weaker
potential supply growth in virtually all G20 economies. It is a
reminder that demand stimulus on its own can do little to counteract
longer-term forces of demographic change [background] and productivity growth. ⇒ Keep Reading
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“What are the odds that people
will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart
decisions–if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall
Street were all wrong; they’re still all wrong.” ― Michael
Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Corporate earnings reports for the fourth quarter are pretty
much in the books. The deception, falsification, accounting manipulation, and
propaganda utilized by mega-corporations and their compliant corporate media
mouthpieces has been outrageously blatant. It reeks of desperation as the Wall
Street shysters attempt to extract the last dollar from their muppet clients
before this house of cards collapses.
The CEOs of these mega-corporations accelerated their debt
financed stock buybacks in 2015 as stock prices reached all-time highs and are
currently so overvalued, they will deliver 0% returns over the next decade.
This disgraceful act of pure greed by the Ivy League educated leaders of
corporate America to boost their own stock based compensation is reckless and
absurd. ⇒ Keep Reading
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Hillary
Clinton: A Bigger Warmonger Than Bush & Cheney?. In case you miss it. Posted on March 1, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog
Bush and Cheney launched two disastrous and totally unnecessary wars which increased terrorism and undermined
America’s standing in the eyes of the world. Hillary Clinton is at least as bad
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She is largely responsible for the war in
Syria, which is plunging the Middle East and Europe into chaos. The New York
Times confirms that Clinton is responsible for the
violent regime change in Libya, which was also completely unnecessary.
Hillary is largely responsible for the bombing of Yugoslavia
… another wholly unnecessary war. Diana
Johnstone writes:
In her star-struck biography of the
First Lady, Hillary’s Choice, Gail Sheehy reported Hillary’s plea in
favor of bombing Yugoslavia in 1999 as a major point in her favor. According to
Sheehy’s book, Hillary convinced her reluctant husband to unleash the 78-day
NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs with the argument that: “You can’t
let this ethnic cleansing go on at the end of the century that has seen the
Holocaust.”
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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Ent a Gmo
Almeyda. "En Bolivia sin duda se ha avanzado, pero
no ha habido un cambio social profundo". Mario Hernandez
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