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How bad is Hillary Clinton’s image? This bad...
Fifty-six
percent of Americans view her unfavorably, according to the Huffington Post pollster trend.
One-third of New York Democratic primary voters say she
is neither honest nor trustworthy.
Like, all of them.
Among men, she is at minus 40. Among
women, she is at minus 9. Among whites, she is at minus
39. Among white women, she is at minus 25. Among
white men, she is 17 positive, 72 negative. Her favorability among
whites at this point in the election cycle is worse than President Obama’s ever has been. . . . Among African Americans nationally the NBC–Wall Street
Journal poll shows her with a net positive of 51 points. But that’s down
13 points from her first-quarter average and is about at her lowest ever. Among
Latinos, her net positive is just two points, down from plus 21 points
during the first quarter.
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Posted on April 24, 2016 by Robert Barsocchini .
Democrats who tell us we must vote for Hillary as the ‘lesser
of two evils’ are speaking from a position of privilege and racism.
Their privilege
means they don’t have to live under the Corporate Empire’s bombs, terrorism,
and aggression, which they often support, and
their racism means they have little if any consideration for the unpeople
who do.
Thus, Hillary and Donald are NOT two separate
entities that represent different levels of domestic evil – evil is evil and that
can affect them – and they see Donald as worse.
TRUE, Donald and
Hillary are both evil, but to people who
reject ethnocentrism and solipsism, they are essentially one evil: RACIST,
US corporate imperialists eager to keep spilling foreign blood and killing
anyone who gets in the way of a dollar. (For those unaware, here
is Hillary’s long and heinous record on this.) Yes, there are
some nuances: Don may be worse for the environment, but Hillary is more likely to cause a nuclear
confrontation. Neither method of global destruction is ‘less
evil’.
The lesser evil, then, is to ignore these monsters and their misguided supporters and build a movement to supplant both them and the system of bribery
and oligarchy they have helped create, and in which they
thrive and fester.
⇒ Keep Reading
⇒ Keep Reading
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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
On
April 28th, The US Equity "Bull Market" Will Become The Second
Longest Ever S- by Tyler Durden on 04/24/2016
As BofA's Michael Harnett reminds us, on Thursday, April
28th, the US equity "bull market" becomes second longest ever. Next Thursday the current bull market
will be 2607 days old, exceeding the bull market of June 1949 to August 1956 by
one day; the longest bull market ever was October 1990 to March 2000 (3452
days). The following chart shows the evolution of the three Great Bull Markets.
Here are three point from Hartnett for those curious what
may come next.
The Path from No. 2 to No. 1
- First, the last years of the longest ever equity bull market (i.e. the late-90s) were marked by cross-asset volatility and a bubble; that remains a plausible risk scenario.
See chart 9: THE
UBBER BARBELL OF 1999 at : http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2016/04/20/anniv%201.5.jpg
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Note how asset markets have struggled to produce upside
since the era of excess liquidity came to an end and/or illustrates how low
expected returns of bills, bonds, equities, and indeed all risk assets have
become thanks to “financial repression”.
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The total return from a portfolio of equities, bonds,
commodities, cash split percentage-wise .. Since the end of QE3 the same portfolio
would have fallen 3.4% to a value of $192. Note this also shows a
diminishing “wealth effect” for the economy, another reason to be long Main
Street, short Wall Street.
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See chart 9: TOTAL RETURN
INDEX OF A NEUTRAL BENCHMARK PORTAFOLIO at: http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2016/04/20/anniv%202.jpg
Third, another factor behind the fatigue is earnings,
which as the following chart shows, have also faded in recent quarters (even
excluding the energy sector). Our shift in recent years from “raging bull”
to “sitting bull” to “volatility bull” reflects low probability of the Higher
EPS & Lower Rates in coming quarters.
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Yellen’s secret meeting at the White House followed an
emergency secret Federal Reserve Board meeting. The Fed then held another
secret meeting to discuss bank reform. These secret meetings come on the heels
of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s estimate that first quarter GDP growth
was .01 percent, dangerously close to the official definition of recession.
Thus the real reason for all these secret meetings could be a panic that the
Fed’s eight year explosion of money creation has not just failed to revive the
economy, but is about to cause another major market meltdown.
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THE
ECONOMY AS IT IS, OR THE ECONOMY AS IT "SHOULD BE". S- by Tyler
Durden on 04/24/16
The mainstream view of the unemployment statistics
suggest that any weakness in the US economy, manufacturing or beyond, will be
temporary and shallow because employment growth remains robust. In fact,
the payroll reports are irrelevant. Actual economic analysis and fruitful
interpretation lies only in ignoring them. Viewing the economy only through the
lens of the BLS figures leads to a world that just doesn’t exist; it’s
why policymakers, economists, and the media can’t seem to gather that the
recovery ended years ago.
Again, the inflection in commercial bankruptcies,
especially retail firms, and the notable and sustained dropoff in retail sales
makes sense; the BLS’s calculated strength in hiring in retail and the whole
economy does not.
It also cuts against the idea
that this is some temporary problem even though temporary (or transitory) now
stretches toward a third year.
Unlike the view from the unemployment rate, a broader
range of less imputed data suggests that economic weakness overall may have
past that point of being self-reinforcing; that what Schlumberger’s CEO
describes of oil services and indeed the whole oil patch is the future for many
more industries. We just don’t know how far into the future that growing
possibility might be (slope and all that).
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What should be painfully
obvious by now is that the major employment numbers have made themselves
irrelevant.
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Again, the payroll reports are irrelevant.
Actual economic analysis and fruitful interpretation lies only in ignoring
them. Viewing the economy only through the lens of the BLS figures leads to
a world that just doesn’t exist; it’s why policymakers, economists, and the
media can’t seem to gather that the recovery ended years ago. Recognizing
that situation pulls the economy of 2016 as it is back within the
boundaries of reason, leaving “unexpected” out of all of it.
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POLITICS
"Money was a lazy b*tch, until you put it to
work! And look how it works! Look how it grows! Materializes out of nowhere!
As leaders, innovators, captains of finance, you will always be subject of
the jealous resentment, the petty tantrums of the unwashed masses, the
insolvent, the irresponsible, the invidious, the losers. They will envy
you, your successes, they will despise you, but they secretly want to be like
you! Irresponsible single mothers, uneducated immigrants, lead-drinking ghetto-strutters,
homeless, crying, babies, starving senior citizens, obnoxious, entitled African
Americans who object to having bullets pumped into their bodies by police:
all these people are angry, entitled, and making noise, and they are
endangering our democracy and economy, our greatness."
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Bernie
Sanders Is A "Testament To American Suckerdom". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/24/16
While pro-Bernie progressives are free to create their own
communities in Ron Paul’s world, Ron Paul libertarians are compelled by
force to participate in Bernie’s world. That is the fundamental difference
between liberty and socialism, between voluntaryism and collectivism, between
statism and private property. Nothing prevents progressives from living as they
wish now, except the very things they viciously oppose: decentralization,
secession, and local control.
[[ FACT 1 is the migration of current voters who fed up with
the money-corruption of democracy spread by both Hillary & Trump –the
representatives of the 1%- and fed up with the main owners of the current economic & political
system in Washington (the establishment). They are migrating toward honesty and
fairness represented now by Sanders.
FACT 2. The
migrants are not only socialist who use to vote for their small party (among
them the Green Party), they are also progressive people
inside the GOP like Ron Paul and others. None of them are communists.
FACT 3. The migrants are also many progressive and
liberal people who simply did not vote for either member of the bipartisan system (Dems or Reps) , but they are citizens who have the right to vote and want
participate now, perhaps attracted by the socialist message spread
by Sanders, or just the context against the rich & against war.
FACT 4- They
are not millennials, they are mature people who create & run their own
small business and work independent from big corp and are not part of any workers
Union, though they have small associations. They run productive business and
are not involved in any speculation-fraud enterprise. I’ve meet many of them in
Chicago, in Portland, in Wisconsin and here in Penn. They
are migrating from usual abstentionism toward participation. They are
part of the middle class who face the
real dollar devaluation and the shrinking market. They do not belong to the “Suckerdom” depicted
in this article, they are real Americans who wants to save the country from the
collapse that we are now.
Those are the migrants that
have been excluded by the Dems party of Hillary in NY and those are the
people whose participation is changing the whole political panorama. They are
the ones who are signing and joining either the socialist party and/or the NATIONAL Front to rebuild America. When
Hillary exclude them in NY she shot her feet at national level. She will be
defeated in CA and a new socialist party will emerge from the Dems party. Many
people who registered as democrat will abandon this party, myself
including. We
will NOT vote Hillary!!, .. NO WAY.]]
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Why
Voters Will Stay Angry Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/24/2016
From the supporters of Donald Trump to the street protesters
of southern Europe, voters around the world are mad as hell. Inequality,
immigration, and the establishment's perceived indifference are firing up
electorates in a way that's rarely been seen before. As the following
charts from Bloomberg show, the forces shaping the disruption of
global politics have been building for years and aren't about to diminish...
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Trump is faced with the possibility that he may have to
ultimately weather a brokered convention in Cleveland this July in order to
finally secure it.
Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode
Island all hold primaries on Tuesday, and all will go a long way in determining
whether or not Trump can get to the magic number of 1,237 (delegates needed to
win the nomination outright). The key to the Trump nomination, however, may
hinge upon how he does in the state of Pennsylvania.
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Saudi
Arabia: Nothing But A Lot Of Sand & Hot Air Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/24/2016
Take away Saudi Arabia’s oil and all that’s left are a
couple of Islamic shrines and a lot of sand and hot air.
[ Does “take away”
means : bomb them ? .. If that is the case
.. Trump is the right man who said so and he will it ( I guess) .. Saudis oligarchy caused to
much damage to US and also to our backyard, the Latino countries that will save
us our economy .. we can’t depend anymore on China. .. So, do it.]
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ME & WORLD ISSUES
The
British Response To Obama "Why Should We Take Advice From A President Who
Has Surrendered The World To Chaos?". Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 04/24/2016
London Mayor Boris Johnson who first slammed Obama's "hypocritical" Brexit diatribe and accused Obama "ancestral dislike of the
British empire – of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender" on
being part-Kenyan.
..
However, a far more tempered op-ed appeared in The Telegraph
by Janet Daley, one in which she does
not invoke Obama's African heritage, but rather his achievements, or lack
thereof, in the global arena, and asks point blank:"Why should we take
advice from a president who has surrendered the world to chaos?"
When this referendum began, what seems an eternity ago, I
was unsure how I would vote. Membership of the EU on a day-to-day basis is
pretty much all gain for me, because I am an affluent professional who benefits
from the supply of inexpensive domestic help, willing tradesmen and convenient
travel that the EU provides. Unlike those whose wages are being undercut by
cheap imported labour, or who cannot afford to buy their own homes because of
the pressure on housing from unlimited immigration, I have lost nothing.
But I believe in democratic legitimacy, which means paying
attention to people who do not have my advantages. So should I go for
self-interest, or for political principle? Watching this campaign, with its
unscrupulous attempts to bully and terrorise a brave and conscientious
electorate, has made up my mind. I shall be voting for Leave.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Posted on April 24, 2016 by Robert Barsocchini .
Democrats who tell us we must vote for Hillary as the ‘lesser
of two evils’ are speaking from a position of privilege and racism.
Their privilege
means they don’t have to live under the Corporate Empire’s bombs, terrorism,
and aggression, which they often support, and
their racism means they have little if any consideration for the unpeople
who do.
Thus, to them, Hillary and Donald are two separate
entities that represent different levels of domestic evil – evil that
can affect them – and they see Donald as worse.
TRUE, Donald and
Hillary are both evil, but to people who
reject ethnocentrism and solipsism, they are essentially one evil: RACIST,
US corporate imperialists eager to keep spilling foreign blood and killing
anyone who gets in the way of a dollar. (For those unaware, here
is Hillary’s long and heinous record on this.) Yes, there are
some nuances: Don may be worse for the environment, but Hillary is more likely to cause a nuclear
confrontation. Neither method of global destruction is ‘less
evil’.
The lesser evil, then, is to ignore these monsters and their misguided supporters and build a movement to supplant both them and the system of bribery
and oligarchy they have helped create, and in which they
thrive and fester.
⇒ Keep Reading
⇒ Keep Reading
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Posted on April 23, 2016 by Eric Zuesse.
According
to Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (German Economic News), on April 23rd,
U.S. President Barack Obama is “demanding the active deployment of the
Bundeswehr [Germany’s armed forces, including their Army, Navy, and Air Force]
to NATO’s eastern borders” at Poland and the Baltic republics, to join the
quadrupling of America’s forces there, on and near those borders of Russia.
(This is an
extreme violation of what Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to when he
ended the Soviet Union and its NATO-mirror organization the Warsaw Pact, but
it’s actually culminating a process that began shortly after he agreed to
America’s terms, which included that NATO “not move one inch to the
east.”)
NATO’s surrounding
Russia with hostile forces is supposedly defensive against Russia — not
an offensive operation. During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, America’s
President JFK didn’t consider Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev’s plan to base
nuclear missiles in Cuba to be ‘defensive’ on the USSR’s part — and neither
does Russia’s President Vladimir Putin consider America’s far bigger operation,
of surrounding Russia with such weapons, to be ‘defensive’ and not
offensive. The
U.S. Government, and NATO, act as if Russia is surrounding them, instead of
them surrounding Russia — and their ‘news’ media transmit this lie as if it
should be taken seriously, not as its being a lie; but, in actual fact,
NATO has already expanded right up to Russia’s western borders.
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
To See the Real Story in Brazil. Look at Who
Is Being Installed as President — and Finance Chiefs
By Glenn Greenwald
By Glenn Greenwald
Michel Temer, Brazil’s vice president, is preparing to take
the helm of Brazil next month if the Senate decides to put President Dilma
Rousseff on trial. .
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The
Collapse Of The Western Fiat Monetary System May Have Begun . By
Peter Koenig
China and Russia have been preparing over the last few years
an independent financial system - Continue
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