APR 27 SIT EC y POL
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Posted on April 26, 2016
by Carl Herman .
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Xv3bzS69c5E
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Along with the documentation in the above video, let’s consider
Earth’s ongoing tragic-comedy history in Emperor’s New Clothes
obvious crimes:
- Unlawful and lie-began wars.
- Crimes Against Humanity
These crimes annually cost millions killed, billions harmed, and trillions
looted.
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THE WHITE HOUSE ELECTORAL SYSTEM IS "RIGGED"
More than two-thirds want to see the process changed.
71% of respondents said they prefer to pick their party’s
nominee directly.
Cutting out the use of super-delegates as intermediaries
& closed primaries
Judging
by the Reuters/Ipsos poll, more than half of America agrees with Trump
that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the
White House is "rigged" while more than two-thirds want to see the
process changed.
Some more results from the poll:
- Some 51 percent of likely voters who responded to the April 21-26 online survey said they believed the primary system was "rigged" against some candidates [case: Sanders.]
- Some 71 percent of respondents said they would prefer to pick their party’s nominee with a direct vote, cutting out the use of delegates as intermediaries.
Source : More
Than Half Of Americans Agree With Trump: The Presidential Nominating System Is
"Rigged".
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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
Where
It All Went Wrong Submitted
by Tyler Durden
on 04/27/2016 : The recovery was
always hollow or shallow, for a
short time in 2014 it just came in a more appealing package; so appealing, the
mainstream never looked beyond that cover. With 2015 a wreck and 2016 looking
at best more of the same, they just
keep right on reciting all the past cliches because to admit the actual
circumstances is just too traumatic.
Finally, interest
rates for borrowers remain low, due in part to the FOMC’s accommodative
monetary policy, and these low rates appear to have been especially
relevant for consumers considering the purchase of durable goods.
[emphasis added]
In other words, “stimulus” works because it works and
she’ll keep claiming it works no matter how definitively it is shown not to
have worked. As noted this
morning, durable goods orders have been contracting
Jobs and oil prices remained a staple of commentary and
spoken assurances as if they would be true long after it was obvious they were
not. The fact is, the difference at the outset, they should have known better
all along. The recovery was never more than the same façade put together of
housing (and stocks). It has been missing the only factor that matters all
throughout, the lack of which completely tore apart all those wondrously
hopeful inferences back in 2014. There has been no income.
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Economists and “markets” were projecting positive numbers
as if they were meaningful, when the view from national income and especially
earned income suggested very strongly otherwise. Thus, when GDP jumped in the middle of 2014 it was nothing more than
this same variability and wasn’t in any way an appropriate foundation upon
which to rest this expectation of “overheating” because it was never confirmed
in the one place it should have been (which Yellen herself knew on some level, as she kept referring to wages and income
as an element of caution). It was, again, hollow.
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The recovery was always hollow or shallow, for a
short time in 2014 it just came in a more appealing package; so appealing, the
mainstream never looked beyond that cover. With 2015 a wreck and 2016 looking
at best more of the same, they just keep right on reciting all the past
cliches because to admit the actual circumstances is just too traumatic.
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The big questions are: 1) Can an economy grow when its
banks, energy companies and tech giants are all losing ground? 2) Can a
hyper-leveraged global financial system survive if its main economies can’t
grow? The answer to both questions is almost certainly “no.”
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QUICK NEWS ON ECONOMICS
by zero hedge
FOMC
Preview: The Fed Is "Scared To Death" & "The Knock-On
Effects Could Be Spectacular".
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/27/2016 : Bloomberg's
Richard Breslow notes, The Fed is hopeful (that their always-wrong
forecasts come true this time) but they're also scared to death on the
consequences.
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The
"World's Biggest Short Squeeze" Has Spread From ETFs To Stocks.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/27/2016 : Hedge funds accelerated the pace of ETF
covering, only this time single stock names have also joined the party. In
other words, ETF covering is removing hedges, and single stock covering is
getting HF's into a net long position.
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Pending
Home Sales Tumble In The West As "Demand Is Starting To Weaken".
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/27/2016 : The
decoupling between new- and pending-home sales was also seen at the start of
last year, and ended badly for pending home sales...
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"We
Are Disappointed" - Goldman Removes Apple From "Conviction Buy"
List, Cuts Price Target From $155 To $136 Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/27/2016
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Futures
Ignore Apple Plunge; Oil Rises Above $45 As Yellen Looms. S-by Tyler
Durden on 04/27/16
For those who thought that the world's biggest company
losing over $40 billion in market cap in an instant on disappointing Apple
earnings, would have been sufficient to put a dent in US equity futures, we
have some disappointing news: with just over 7 hours until the FOMC reveals its
April statement, futures are practically unchanged, even though the Nasdaq
appears set for an early bruising in the aftermath of what is becoming a
disturbing quarter for tech companies. Instead of tech leading, however, the
upside has once again come from the energy complex where moments ago WTI rose
above $45 a barrel for the first time since November after yesterday's
unexpected 1.07 million barrel API inventory drawdown.
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Yesterday news –in fact last night- in case you miss it:
Despite surging commodity prices in China - which must be
real and represent demand growth and price increases, right? - Aussie
core inflation slowed to the weakest on record as headline prices
unexpectedly fell last quarter (CPI -0.2%). RBA Rate-cut odds tripled
instantly sending AUD down over 1.2% (its biggest drop in 2 months). Perhaps,
just perhaps, that collossal credit injection in Q1 via China did not make it
into the AsiaPac economy after all and merely fueled a speculative frenzy in
commodities that merely "looks" like a recovery?
THIS DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A RECOVERING Chinese economy is helping...
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POLITICS
More
Than Half Of Americans Agree With Trump: The Presidential Nominating System Is
"Rigged". Submitted by
Tyler
Durden on 04/27/2016
This is not a surprise to our readers: just two weeks ago we
posted an article "The Year Americans Found Out Their
Elections Are Rigged" which
promptly went viral. And, Judging by the Reuters/Ipsos
poll, more than half of America agrees with Trump that the system U.S.
political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is
"rigged" while more than two-thirds want to see the process changed.
Some more results from the poll:
- Some 51 percent of likely voters who responded to the April 21-26 online survey said they believed the primary system was "rigged" against some candidates.
- Some 71 percent of respondents said they would prefer to pick their party’s nominee with a direct vote, cutting out the use of delegates as intermediaries.
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ME & WORLD ISSUES
Venezuela
Economy Literally Grinds To A Halt As Maduro Orders "Five Day
Weekend" For Public Workers. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 04/27/2016: The two-day
work week, after the government added Wednesdays and Thursdays as non-working
days to save more power.
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- Trump, Clinton press closer to general election showdown (AP)
- Acela primaries: Winners, losers (Hill)
- Trump Says He's `Presumptive Nominee' as Clinton Wins Four (BBG)
- In the battle for Hollywood endorsements - and cash - Clinton rules (Reuters)
- U.S. Oil Rises Above $45 a Barrel for First Time Since November (BBG)
- Spin: Near-Zero Growth Happens Often in Slow-Motion U.S. Economy (BBG)
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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US
Supreme Court Ruling: Seizure of Two Billion Dollars in Iranian Assets.
“Highway Robbery” By Pars Today,
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Media
Disinformation and America’s Wars: Liars Versus Truthers. The “Progressive
Left” Has Been Coopted By Mark Taliano,
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Syria - Russia Rejects Kerry's New Attempts
To Shield The Terrorists. By Moon Of Alabama
The U.S. has long considered al-Qaeda a secret ally in its
attempt to destroy the Syrian state.
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
would Abolish Europe’s Sovereignty
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The Empire
of Chaos Strikes Back. By Pepe Escobar
Beware the wrath of an Empire of Chaos scorned. That’s
what’s in play now against the BRICS
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The Return
of the Coup in Latin America. By Manuel E. Yepe
“The negative opposition in Congress is part of the ongoing
coup the US and its local puppets are carrying out against Venezuela,
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COUNTER PUNCH
Pepe Escobar . Hillary:
Wall Street’s Golden Girl
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Lawrence Ware – Lauren Whiteman. Tell
the Negroes to Wait: Obama, Black Lives Matter, and Compromising with White
Supremacy
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James McEnteer. Ecuador:
the Geopolitics of Generosity
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Censored,
Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed: The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the
American Police State. Posted
on April 27, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog.
By John Whitehead, the Rutherford
Institute.
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the
assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness,
every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984
In past ages, those
who dared to speak out against tyranny—viewed as an act of treason—were
blinded, castrated, disfigured, mutilated, rendered mute by having their
tongues cut out of their heads, and ultimately crucified.
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In the American
police state, the price to be paid for speaking truth to power (also
increasingly viewed as an act of treason) is surveillance, censorship, jail and
ultimately death.
It’s a diabolically
ingenious tactic for muzzling, disarming and ultimately eliminating one’s
critics or potential adversaries.
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In
an Age of Privilege, Not Everyone Is in the Same Boat Companies are
becoming adept at identifying wealthy customers and marketing to them, creating
a money-based caste system.
With disparities
in wealth greater than at any time since the Gilded Age, the gap is widening
between the highly affluent — who find themselves behind the velvet ropes of
today’s economy — and everyone else.
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The Haven’s 95
staterooms were located so high up in the forward part of the ship that even
guests in comparatively expensive staterooms might remain unaware of its
existence. Depending on the season, a room in the Haven might cost a couple
$10,000 for a weeklong cruise vs. $3,000 for an ordinary stateroom elsewhere on
the ship.
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hat tip: Luke Rudkowski and WeAreChange
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Along with the
documentation in the above video, let’s consider Earth’s
ongoing tragic-comedy history in Emperor’s New Clothes obvious crimes:
- Unlawful and lie-began wars.
- Crimes Against Humanity
These crimes annually
cost millions killed, billions harmed, and trillions
looted.
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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Utopía y práctica política en “El Estado y la
Revolución” Fdo Martínez Heredia
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PRESS TEV
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