APR 22 16 SIT EC y POL
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Posted on April 21, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog
Public opposition to the sovereignty killing corporate
giveaway marketed as a free trade deal known as the Trans Pacific Partnership
(TPP) has become so widespread that all the leading candidates for the
U.S. Presidency are publicly against it. Specifically,
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are virulently opposed, while Hillary Clinton
is pretending to be against it in order to harvest votes.
Essentially, the more time the
American public has to learn about this scam, the more they are against it.
Which is precisely why the Obama administration wants to push it through as
quickly as possible.
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Posted on April 21, 2016 by Eric Zuesse.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/
This is the result of
her action: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/11/drugs-dams-and-power-the-murder-of-honduran-activist-berta-caceres/
This is how she did
it: http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clintons-six-foreign-policy-catastrophes/5509543?print=1
And this is what she
says about it, in retrospect: http://www.salon.com/2016/04/15/hillary_clinton_is_lying_about_the_criminal_u_s_backed_coup_in_honduras_it_should_be_as_scandalous_as_libya/
If the Democratic
Party, for which I have voted throughout my life, nominates Hillary Clinton for
President, then I (being neither ignorant, nor stupid, nor psychopathic) will
consider the Democratic Party, and the people who vote for it, as being now run
by psychopaths, and as relying upon votes from individuals who are ignoramuses
and/or idiots — I’ll never again support the national Democratic Party. I
haven’t been, and will not be, a Republican (and anyone who is, after Bush’s
2003 invasion of Iraq, is beneath even basic decency), but if Hillary becomes
the Party’s nominee, then the Democratic Party is just as rotten, from its top
on down, as the Republican Party is — and, with Hillary as its Presidential
nominee, anyone who would be denying the fact of its rottenness, under such a
circumstance, would necessarily be either ignorant, stupid, or psychopathic.
That’s an undeniable scientific fact about the Party, if it runs a person such
as that, as its Presidential nominee.
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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
US
Manufacturing Plunges To 7 Year Lows As PMI "Dashes Hope That Q1 Weakness
Was Temporary". Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 04/22/2016
Following Japan's record low PMI, Europe's modest pick-up,
and China's bounce, this week's Philly Fed crash was more indicative as US
Manufacturing (flash) PMI printed 50.8 (from 51.5 in March and notably missing
52.0 expectations). T If Obama was seeking to infuriate even more people,
or to push the odds of Brexit even higher with the
Op-Ed he posted yesterday ahead of his London visit, he may have succeeded.
Responding
to President Obama's "Just Say No" to Brexit Op-Ed, the
Mayor of London - Tory big-hitter Boris Johnson - bites back at the "part-Kenyan's
ancestral dislike of the British Empire", exclaiming that
America would never surrender so much power to Brussels -"It is
incoherent. It is inconsistent, and yes it is downright hypocritical."
Conjuring Churchillian patriotism, the controversial comments from the
outspoken Brit conclude, the benefits of Brexit mean "we can thrive
as never before – and therefore be even better and more valuable allies of the
United States." his is the lowest print since September 2009
with New Orders sliding (weakest since Dec 2015), and Employment at its
weakest since June 2013. As Markit notes, "US factories reported their
worst month for just over six-and-a-half years in April, dashing hopes that
first quarter weakness will prove temporary."
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Not pretty - but
probably transitory, right?
Hmm, but everyone says the labor
market is great?
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Commenting on the flash PMI data, Chris
Williamson, chief economist at Markit said:
“US factories reported their worst
month for just over six-and-a-half years in April, dashing hopes that first
quarter weakness will prove temporary.
“Survey measures of output
and order book backlogs are down to their lowest since the height of the global
financial crisis, prompting employers to cut back on their hiring.
“The survey data are broadly
consistent with manufacturing output falling at an annualized rate of over
2% at the start of the second quarter, and factory employment
dropping at a rate of 10,000 jobs per month.
“With prior months’ survey data
pointing to annualized GDP growth of just 0.7% in the first quarter, the deteriorating
performance of manufacturing suggests that growth could weaken closer towards
stagnation in the second quarter.
“The survey responses reveal an
increase in business uncertainty in relation to both the economic and political
outlook during the month, which is weighing on spending and investment
decisions and exacerbating already-weak demand both at home and abroad.”
But apart from that, everything is awesome - it must be,
because stocks are within reach of all-time highs?
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Depression,
Debasement, & 100 Years Of Monetary Mismanagement. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/22/2016
There must be some dark corner of Hell warming up for
modern, mainstream economists. They helped bring on the worst bubble ever...
with their theories of efficient markets and modern portfolio management. They
failed to see it for what it was. Then, when trouble came, they made it worse. But
instead of atoning in a dank cell, these same economists strut onto the stage
to congratulate themselves.
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Halliburton
Fires One Third Of Global Staff: "What We Are Experiencing Today Is
Unsustainable". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/22/2016
Halliburton president Jeff Miller exclaimed: "What
we are experiencing today is far beyond headwinds; it is unsustainable."
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The
Stunning Chart Showing Where All The Commodity Gains Have Come From. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/22/2016
"The market is moving so quickly, yesterday felt
just like the stock market in June last year before the crash," warns
one Asian trader reflecting on the chaotic rush of Chinese speculators into the
industrial metals commodities market Echoing the frenzy that fueled China's
parabolic stock market rise (and subsequent collapse), Bloomberg notes one
local China broker admits "we’ve seen a lot of people opening
accounts for commodities futures recently," adding rather
ominously, "the great ball of China money is moving away from bonds
and stocks to commodities." The spikes in everything from rebar to
iron ore, however, according to Goldman "is not driven by a
sustainable shift in fundamentals."
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What
this looks like!!
We
leave it to Tiger Shi, a managing partner at Bands Financial Ltd in Hong Kong
to conclude:
“The market
is moving so quickly, yesterday felt just like the stock market in June last
year before the crash... I think how it goes up, that’s how it will come
down."
Trade
accordingly.
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Lithium
Stocks Soar After "Epic Launch" Of Tesla Model 3. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/22/2016
Shares of Lithium companies have surged after Tesla boosted its outlook
for electric vehicles powered by batteries that use the element, sending the
Solactive Global Lithium Index up by about a third since the middle of February.
And it does not look set to slowdown, as OilPrice.com's
James Stafford notes, the unveiling of Tesla’s Model 3 electric car was
no less than the lifting of the final curtain on a game-changing energy
revolution. And if we follow that revolution to its core, we arrive at lithium
- our new gasoline for which the feeding frenzy has only just begun.
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Why
Are Bankrupt Oil Companies Still Pumping?. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/22/2016
A central tenet in the thesis by analysts about the oil markets
rebalancing has been that as prices declined, oil companies would be forced
into bankruptcy. That in turn would lead to declining production, and
eventually a rebalancing of supply and demand in the market, followed by higher
prices. That process is already taking longer than many expected, and it looks
like more time is needed. That additional time to balance the market is
being driven by an unexpected factor; bankrupt oil companies are still
pumping.
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The
Metal Ratios Are An Ominous Sign For US Inflation Trends. S-by Tyler
Durden on 04/22/16
The gold/silver ratio recently took out 2009 highs and the
gold/copper ratio is at its highest level since 2009. This is a
negative signal that US inflation, using CPI, could be headed for another leg
lower. Since 2008, the gold/silver ratio has had a -73% correlation to the
year-over-year change in US CPI (with a 2-quarter forward lag for the
gold/silver ratio) . So as the gold/silver ratio increases, the
year-over-year change in the CPI tends to fall.
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POLITICS
IS HILLARY CLINTON THE DEMOCRATS'
RICHARD NIXON? Submitted by Tyler Durden on
04/21/2016
Authored by Eric Zuesse,
Richard Nixon’s similarities to Hillary Clinton are
remarkable:
:
1: Both were highly successful politicians who
had exceptionally negative net-approval ratings from the U.S.
public,
2: Both were unsuccessful in their first run
for the Presidency,
3: Both were highly distrusted, except by the voters
within their own Party.
4: Both went into their Presidential campaign
years) as being “the candidate with experience.”
5: Both were war-hawks and proponents of a
big military, but were also liberals on social policies and regulatory policies
6: Whereas Nixon, lied that he had ‘a secret plan to end the Vietnam war' Hillary
Clinton, lied by saying that she has a plan to end the war in
Russia-allied Syria. [So, both are liars.]
.
7: Both Richard Nixon and Hillary Clinton
were/are famous for being secretive, and for distrusting everyone except
his/her proven-loyal personal entourage
8: Both Nixon and Clinton famously use curse-words profusely in private, and treat their
subordinates like trash, and rule them by fear.
9: Both of them had/have established records
backing coups abroad, in order to impose the will of America’s
President, no matter how bloody
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Virginia
Governor Allows Convicted Felons To Vote In Boost To Hillary's Election Odds.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/22/2016
As the Richmond Times Dispatch reports,
Governor Terry McAuliffe today signed an order to restore voting rights to more
than 200,000 convicted felons in Virginia. The order applies to nonviolent and
violent felons, and according to a confidential draft of research for the order
obtained by the Richmond Times Dispatch, is authorized under the Constitution
of Virginia. Why this surprising announcement now? As Reuters says, the "move
that could help the Democratic nominee in November's presidential election."
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ME& WORLD ISSUES
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London
Mayor Slams "Part-Kenyan" Obama's "Hypocritical" Brexit
Diatribe. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/22/2016
If Obama was seeking to infuriate even more people,
or to push the odds of Brexit even higher with the
Op-Ed he posted yesterday ahead of his London visit, he may have succeeded.
Responding
to President Obama's "Just Say No" to Brexit Op-Ed, the
Mayor of London - Tory big-hitter Boris Johnson - bites back at the "part-Kenyan's
ancestral dislike of the British Empire", exclaiming that
America would never surrender so much power to Brussels -"It is incoherent.
It is inconsistent, and yes it is downright hypocritical."
Conjuring Churchillian patriotism, the controversial comments from the
outspoken Brit conclude, the benefits of Brexit mean "we can thrive
as never before – and therefore be even better and more valuable allies of the
United States."
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Washington
Launches Its Attack Against BRICS. The Destabilization of Brazil and Argentina
By Paul Craig Roberts
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Earthquakes
Caused by US Shale Oil and Gas Fracking. Methane Leakage from Gas Pipelines By Steve Horn,
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BRICS
Under Attack: Western Banks, Governments Launch Full-Spectrum Assault on Russia By Eric Draitser,
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In
the Wake of Ecuador’s Earthquake: “Zero” Humanitarian Aid from the US,
Palestine Sends Rescue Team By Telesur,
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RT SHOWS
CrossTalk. Brazilian
coup? . Brazil is in acute political crisis – the president has
already been impeached by the country’s lower house of parliament, and now the
Senate will decide her fate. We are told it is all about corruption in a
country consumed by...
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Watching the Hawks . American
democratic dysfunction & #ScorchedEarthDay (E227) . Tyrel
Ventura, Tabetha Wallace, & Sean Stone discuss how voting, the American
Republic’s most cherished system, has had serious issues in the past two
decades.
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The Big
Picture . The
Sanders' fundraising revolution continues . Thom Hartmann
tonight discusses Bernie raising $46 million in March, which is $19 million
more than Hillary raised, and more than all the GOP candidates combined with
Common Cause’s Stephen Spaulding, how...
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SophieCo . McAfee:
If FBI gets backdoor to people's phones, US society will collapse .
They said that the war never changes – but what if it does? The introduction of
digital technologies, the cyberspace of the World Wide Web has introduced new
battlefields. Law enforcement, drug trade, political fights and terrorism have
gone...
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Redacted Tonight . Has
the President seen the 28 pages?! Sam Sacks talks with Lee Camp .
In this episode of Redacted Tonight VIP, Lee sits down with former Redacted
cast member and current kick-butt journalist Sam Sacks. They discuss Sam’s news
site, The District Sentinel, what Bernie’s loss in New York could mean for
the...
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Worlds Apart. Give
peace a chance: PLO secretary-general talks Middle-East . An old
Yiddish proverb has it that a bad peace is better than a good war, which is
hard to argue with unless it serves as an excuse for the absence of a good
peace. After decades of fruitless talks, is a solution still attainable in
the...
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WASHINGTON BLOG
If you had to make a sudden visit to the emergency room,
would you have enough money to pay for it without selling something or
borrowing the funds from somewhere? Most Americans may not realize this,
but this is something that the Federal Reserve has actually been tracking for
several years now. And according to the Fed, an astounding 47 percent
of all Americans could not come up with $400 to pay for an emergency room visit
without borrowing it or selling something. Various surveys that I have
talked about in the past have found that more than 60 percent of all Americans
are living to paycheck to paycheck, but I didn’t realize that things were quite
this bad for about half the country. If you can’t even come up with $400
for an unexpected emergency room visit, then you are just surviving from month
to month by the skin of your teeth. Unfortunately, about half of us are
currently in that situation. ⇒
Keep Reading
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Posted on April 22, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog
By Craig Murray, former British ambassador to
Uzbekistan and Rector (i.e. president) of the University of Dundee. Craigmurray.org.uk.
...
The UK government
insists on continuing the massive supply – £2.8
billion since the start of the attack – of high tech weapons for Saudi
Arabia to use against civilians in Yemen, despite opposition from the EU
Parliament and every major human
rights group. Furthermore UK special forces are operating inside Yemen in
support of the onslaught. Thousands of civilians have died as a result,
including many children. ⇒
Keep Reading
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Posted on April 21, 2016 by Eric Zuesse.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/
This is the result of
her action: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/11/drugs-dams-and-power-the-murder-of-honduran-activist-berta-caceres/
This is how she did
it: http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clintons-six-foreign-policy-catastrophes/5509543?print=1
And this is what she
says about it, in retrospect: http://www.salon.com/2016/04/15/hillary_clinton_is_lying_about_the_criminal_u_s_backed_coup_in_honduras_it_should_be_as_scandalous_as_libya/
If the Democratic
Party, for which I have voted throughout my life, nominates Hillary Clinton for
President, then I (being neither ignorant, nor stupid, nor psychopathic) will
consider the Democratic Party, and the people who vote for it, as being now run
by psychopaths, and as relying upon votes from individuals who are ignoramuses
and/or idiots — I’ll never again support the national Democratic Party. I
haven’t been, and will not be, a Republican (and anyone who is, after Bush’s
2003 invasion of Iraq, is beneath even basic decency), but if Hillary becomes
the Party’s nominee, then the Democratic Party is just as rotten, from its top
on down, as the Republican Party is — and, with Hillary as its Presidential
nominee, anyone who would be denying the fact of its rottenness, under such a
circumstance, would necessarily be either ignorant, stupid, or psychopathic.
That’s an undeniable scientific fact about the Party, if it runs a person such
as that, as its Presidential nominee.
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Posted on April 21, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog
Public opposition to the sovereignty killing corporate
giveaway marketed as a free trade deal known as the Trans Pacific Partnership
(TPP) has become so widespread that all the leading candidates for the
U.S. Presidency are publicly against it. Specifically,
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are virulently opposed, while Hillary Clinton
is pretending to be against it in order to harvest votes.
Essentially, the more time the
American public has to learn about this scam, the more they are against it.
Which is precisely why the Obama administration wants to push it through as
quickly as possible.
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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Estado, partido y estrategia en el
actual periodo histórico Democ
Soclialista
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Marx y la dialéctica en El
capital. Damian Vekelo
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[[ Como transformar
la derrota en victoria? Esa es la pregunta de orden. En
toda guerra de clases siempre hay derrotas. La pierde quien no organiza,
concientiza y moviliza a la clase y sus aliados. Todo Gbno es dictadura y esta
solo es democrática si el Pdo que conquista el poder no reemplaza a la clase
(caso Stalin) ni es reemplazado por ella (caso Mao). Hoy lo que tenemos a nivel
mundial es dictadura de la peor especie,
la de elites que lucran con el capital buitre, sus fraudes, saqueos y guerra.
Para que el socialismo por venir sea democrático tenemos que crear los puntos
de encuentro entre Gbno, capital productivo y clase trabajadroa. Por lo pronto
queda claro que no son el Pdo ni las consultas Popul via Referemdum la esecnia
del socialismo, esos son solo sus instrumentos. Ya nadie quiere una dictadura
de millonarios ni de elites políticas de un Pdo arriba; menos aun se quiere la
dictadura la de los iletrados de abajo. Lo que se busca es la articulación entre Pdo y Clase s oprimidas a
partir de su movilización (para depurar a los arribistas dentro del Pdo y para crear abajo
poder popular (capacidad de tomar decisiones balanceadas, sin que domine la
dictadura del “pueblo” de abajo, ni las elites de arriba). Si creamos una clase
que pueda resolver problemas locales sin depender del Gbno Local, ni regional
ni nacional (via asociaciones y/o cooperativas) habremos creado conciencia de
clase en si y para si. De esto se trata en BRA, China y en mundo entero. No de
pedirle a Dilma, a Putin o a Obama que nos resuelva nuestro problemas. Ellos
tienen sus agendas de clase y de país y si pueden abandonar a las clases y
naciones oprimidas (ocurrió en Cuba ayer y hoy en Siria). Si no hay
articulación que nos vincule a nivel Internacional, las grandes potencias
volverán a usarnos para servir sus propias agendas. Tenemos que crear los
instrumentos- el Pdo y Frente- para nuestra auto-defensa. Solo entonces
estaremos en capacidad de decidir nuestro propio futuro. Aquí en el US tuvimos
el mismo dilema : el de convertir la derrota en NY en victoria y lo estamos
logrando. Son muchos ya los que organizan celulas de Pdos socialistas y pronto
tendremos en las calles de America un Mar de ciudadanos movilizados conttra el sistema
bi-partidario y por la 3ra opción. Esa es la tarea del momento, luego vendrá
nuestra retirada oficial del Pdo demócrata y el republicano. Entonces la
victoria de la fase electoral será del pueblo. ]]
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