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Hillary Clinton’s
major result was produced while she was the U.S. Secretary of State, her
refusing at that time to call the coup in Honduras on 28 June 2009, a “coup.” By her refusing to call it a coup, Barack Obama, was enabled to continue financial aid to the
Honduran Government, and this financial aid, in turn, enabled the
coup-installed regime to become stabilized and to remain in place, despite the
rest of the world’s government’s having condemned it.
THE MURDER OF BERTA CACERES, the native leader of the nation: Here is one recent result of her
action regarding Honduras: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/11/drugs-dams-and-power-the-murder-of-honduran-activist-berta-caceres/
This is how she did
it — how she (with follow-through by the U.S. President) produced 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/
In other words: She’s not apologetic about what she did and
what its disastrous consequences were — she
ignores them.
However, even if she
were apologetic about it (as she is apologetic about her having voted
for the 2003 invasion of Iraq), that wouldn’t really make any difference,
because — again — what’s actually important
isn’t her lying words; it’s not her lying that it
wasn’t a coup, or her saying that she regrets having voted to invade Iraq, or
her saying that she opposes Obama’s proposed ‘trade’ deals, or other lies from
her — it’s her record of decisions and actions that made a real difference,
proving what her actual intentions are. (And, for example: if she really
regrets having voted in 2002 to invade Iraq, then why was she so ecstatic about her and Obama’s
2011 invasion of Libya, and why is she so insistent now on eliminating
Assad in Syria?) She has a rather consistent
record of catastrophes, and it speaks louder than any of her mere lies.
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ECONOMICS in http://www.washingtonsblog.com/
Posted on April 23, 2016 by Charles Hugh Smith
Workers of all ages are caught in a vise. Older workers need to keep working longer
in an economy which values younger workers (and their cheaper healthcare
premiums). Younger workers are caught in the vice of “you don’t have enough
experience” and “how do I get experience if nobody will hire me?”
Middle-aged workers
are caught between the enormous Millennial generation seeking better jobs and
the equally numerous baby Boom generation seeking to work a few more years to
offset their interest-starved retirement funds. (Thank you, predatory and
rapacious Federal Reserve for siphoning all our retirement fund interest to
your cronies the Too Big to Fail Banks.)
Workers 55 and older are working
longer. Here is the labor participation rate for 55+ workers:
And here’s why so many workers has to work longer–earned
income’s share of the GDP has been in a free-fall for decades as Fed-funded financiers and corporations
skim an ever greater share of the nation’s GDP. (Thanks again, Federal Reserve,
for hollowing out our economy to benefit the few at the expense of the many.)
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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
From
One Extreme To Another: Record Oil Shorts Are Now Record Oil Longs. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on
04/23/2016
Less than three months following our warning about a
"constant oil short squeeze", it is time to unveil the next warning:
one of a potentially big drop in the oil price as now record speculative oil
longs proceed to cover on the other side, unleashing a selling scramble lower.
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US
Taxpayer Is Now A Major Counterparty To Wall Street Derivatives S- by Tyler
Durden on 04/23/2016
Somehow, without the American public’s awareness, the
U.S. government is on the hook to two failed companies for $445.6
billion dollars. And that may be just the tip of the iceberg of this
story.
According to a study released by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York in March of last year, U.S. taxpayers have already injected $187.5
billion into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two companies that prior to
the 2008 financial crash traded on the New York Stock Exchange, had
shareholders and their own Board of Directors while also receiving an implicit
taxpayer guarantee on their debt. But in an astonishing acknowledgement on
February 25 of this year, the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan
investigative arm of Congress, issued an audit report of the U.S.
government’s finances,revealing that the government’s “remaining
contractual commitment to the GSEs, if needed, is $258.1 billion.”
This suggests that somehow, without the American
public’s awareness, the U.S. government is on the hook to two failed companies
for $445.6 billion dollars. And that may be just the tip of the iceberg of this
story.
While that is factually true, the other potentially more
important part of this story is the counterparty exposure the Wall Street banks
had to Fannie and Freddie’s derivatives if the firms had been allowed to fail.
The New York Fed’s staff report of March 2015 concedes the
following:
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac held
large positions in interest rate derivatives for hedging. A disorderly failure
of these firms would have caused serious disruptions for their derivative
counterparties.”
Exactly how big was this derivatives exposure and which
Wall Street banks were being protected by the government takeover of these public-private
partnerships that had spiraled out of control into gambling casinos?
Did the bailout of Fannie and Freddie save the same cast
of characters on Wall Street as were saved under the bailout of AIG (which
funneled more than half the money out
the backdoor to Wall Street banks and hedge funds who were
counterparties to AIG)?
According to a current report from the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency, those same banks (minus Deutsche and Lehman)
account for the vast majority of derivatives in the U.S.
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy one week after the
government placed Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship. Merrill Lynch was
taken over by Bank of America the same week. If you’re looking for a potential
list of names of Wall Street players that needed a quick bailout of Fannie and
Freddie, the above list is an excellent start.
Thanks to Occupy Wall Street and Senator Bernie Sanders,
the public knows two concrete things about Wall Street: banks got bailed out, we got sold out and, the business model
of Wall Street is fraud.
But until we have a President in the Oval Office
who believes that the citizens of a genuine democracy deserve the right to sift
through the documents of the most epic fraud in the history of financial
markets so they can reach their own conclusions, all we really have are
slogans, including the one that says we live in a democracy.
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POLITICS
FBI
May "Leak" Clinton Email Probe If DOJ Blocking Continues . S- by Tyler
Durden on 04/23/16
The feud between the FBI and the Department of Justice over
whether or not to proceed with charges against Hillary Clinton in the ongoing
email investigation just took an unexpected turn: "an anonymous and unauthorized release of FBI investigative
materials could result if officials at the agency believed prosecution of
Clinton was stymied for political reasons,"said Chuck Grassley.
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ME & WORLD ISSUES
Hybrid
War Hyenas Are Tearing Brazil Apart.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/23/2016
So Wall Street, US Big Oil and the proverbial “American
interests” win this round at the circus – thanks to the, once again
proverbial, vassal/comprador elites. Chevron execs are already salivating with
the prospect of laying their hands on the pre-salt oil deposits; that was
already promised by a trusted vassal in the Brazilian opposition. The
coup goes on. The real hyenas haven’t yet pounced. So it's far from over.
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Japan's
Keynesian Death Spiral - How Central Planners Crippled An Economy .Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 04/23/2016
The greatest tragedy of the 2008–2009 financial meltdown
was not that it happened.The collapse of asset prices was the necessary
result of near zero interest rates. No, the most devastating aspect of
the financial meltdown is that central planning alchemy lost no
credibility. .. The latest victim of the interventionists and
micromanagers is the nation of Japan. A once genuinely productive and
innovative nation has, over the years, slowly succumbed to the cancerous rot of
interventionism.
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Obama's
Legacy, In His Own Words: "I Saved The World From A Great Depression" Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/23/2016 [ Y por que las
ratas escapan del Titanic?.]
As
part of his World Apology Tour visit to Britain,President Obama took time
to answer questions from London students. When asked about his presidential
legacy, Obama said he was proud of the healthcare reforms, and added that "saving
the world from a Great Depression – that was quite good."
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"It's
A Trojan Horse" - Thousands Of Germans Protest TTIP Trade Deal One Day
Before Obama Visit Submitted
by Tyler Durden on
04/23/2016
One day before Obama visits Angela Merke in Germany to pitch
the TTIP trade agreement, thousands of German protesters have once again come
out on the streets of Hannover to say 'No' to the controversial TTIP US-EU
trade deal. Many in Germany fear it will reduce consumer protection and
undermine workers’ protection. In an interview with Bild, Obama said that
"the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is one of the best
ways to promote growth and create jobs." Ironically, this comes just
as support for the TTIP is tumbling on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Meanwhile
In China, More Bubble Insanity. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/23/16
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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“Organized
Networks of International terrorism… inside Syria”: Damascus Envoy at Peace
Talks Condemns “State Sponsors of Terrorism” By R. Raslan
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Fear and Loathing in the Arabian Nights.
By Pepe Escobar
Washington has been threatening Riyadh to freeze Saudi
assets all across the spectrum if the House of Saud does not “cooperate” in the
oil price war against Russia.
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Why Is the
Progressive Left Helping the Elite Elect Hillary? . By Paul Craig
Roberts
The election of Sanders or Trump is important, because it
demonstrates that American citizens - have no confidence in the two corrupt
political parties
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Bernie
Sanders and Hillary Clinton: The Palestinian Defender vs. the Israel Apologist
By Marjorie Cohn.
There is a vast difference between Sanders and Clinton on
Israel. Make no mistake.
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Why Secrecy
Rules Apply different to Everyone . By Philip Giraldi
Federal agencies relentlessly pursue suspected
whistleblowers, while self-serving politicians escape punishment. [ Case : Hillary ]
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Hillary Clinton’s major result was produced while she was the
U.S. Secretary of State, her refusing at that time to call the coup in Honduras
on 28 June 2009, a “coup.” By her refusing to call it a coup, the U.S.
Government, under Barack Obama, was enabled to continue financial aid to the
Honduran Government, and this financial aid, in turn, enabled the
coup-installed regime to become stabilized and to remain in place, despite the
rest of the world’s government’s having condemned it.
Here is one recent
result of her action regarding Honduras: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/11/drugs-dams-and-power-the-murder-of-honduran-activist-berta-caceres/
This is how she did
it — how she (with follow-through by the U.S. President) produced 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/
In other words: She’s
not apologetic about what she did and what its disastrous consequences were —
she ignores them.
However, even if she
were apologetic about it (as she is apologetic about her having voted
for the 2003 invasion of Iraq), that wouldn’t really make any difference,
because — again — what’s actually important isn’t her lying words; it’s not her
lying that it wasn’t a coup, or her saying that she regrets having voted to
invade Iraq, or her saying that she opposes Obama’s proposed ‘trade’ deals, or
other lies from her — it’s her record of decisions and actions that made a real
difference, proving what her actual intentions are. (And, for example: if she
really regrets having voted in 2002 to invade Iraq, then why was she so ecstatic about her and Obama’s
2011 invasion of Libya, and why is she so insistent now on eliminating
Assad in Syria?) She has a rather consistent
record of catastrophes, and it speaks louder than any of her mere lies.
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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“Brasil fue confrontado con el colapso final
del sistema de representación polÃtica tradicional”. Gabriel Brito Viento Sur
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Brasil. Caso Dilma. Gana la hipocresÃa. Sean Purdy
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Keiser
report 905 "Somos lo que ocultamos":
Los tratados de comercio que esconden los Gobiernos Vea también Keiser report 904 : ¿Todo es robo en la banca moderna? https://actualidad.rt.com https://actualidad.rt.com/programas/keiser_report/205584-tratados-comercio-ocultan-keiser-report
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Ent. a Fdo Lugo. "El caso de Brasil puede
extenderse a otros paÃses latinoamericanos" https://actualidad.rt.com/programas/entrevista/205374-entrevista-fernando-lugo-expresidente-paraguay VIDEO URL: https://youtu.be/ht8ICuHZfHk
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PRESS TV
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‘Nuke
tests will stop if US drills do’ if US-S-Korea does
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Hillary
has always been 'a crooked person', said her friend Trump
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