JUL 9 16 SIT EC y POL
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On Wednesday, two
shocking videos of police officers fatally shooting civilians surfaced. The day
before, many were appalled to hear the Director of the FBI announce that
Hillary Clinton would not be charged for mishandling classified information. The two events may seem unrelated,
but at bottom, they concern the same fundamental problem: impunity.
Impunity is the essence of
power.
Power isn’t simply about the exertion of unjust force. It is
about what happens next, after the exertion. Does the perpetrator generally get
away with, or not? Systematically getting away with
it – or impunity – is where power truly lies. .. Impunity is power,
and as Lord Acton said, power corrupts.
The Impunity of High Office
State impunity not only corrupts
the regime’s low-level enforcers, but its elite policy makers as well. The FBI let Hillary Clinton off the hook
for secrecy violations she committed as Secretary of State, even though
these were much more egregious than violations that have earned lower-level
personnel decades in prison. She used technology that was more open to being
compromised by spies and hackers, while at the same less open to legal and
public scrutiny.
But the kinds of activities she was hiding are far more
criminal than the fact that she hid them. As Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton played a key role in bringing war to such places as Libya, Syria, and Honduras, and in
escalating the war in Afghanistan. She is complicit in causing untold death and misery.
Yet, thanks to her connections
and her position in the state power apparatus, she faces no consequences for
her crimes, and is free to acquire
even more immunity and power as a likely President of the United States.
It is the “sovereign immunity”
she enjoys as an officeholder that has made Hillary Clinton so reckless and
cavalier about the havoc she has wreaked around the world. If she
thought she might ever be held accountable for upending entire countries, she
would have likely been far less warlike in her policies.
From
policing to foreign policy, impunity corrupts, and absolute impunity corrupts
absolutely.
[ This is that created the environment for people to defy “The Impunity of the Badge” ]
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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
"America is driving toward the abyss and it’s time we hit the brakes..."
The effects of wage stagnation, income inequality and
economic insecurity seem to be playing a part in creating the current
combustible atmosphere.
“When people wake up in the
morning trying to figure out how they are going to pay the bills, how they are
going to put food on the table for their family, it leads to an anxiety that
then leads to bad judgment and bad choices,” said Sharpton.
The strained
political atmosphere is hardly calming the waters either. To liberals, the
success of Donald Trump in
winning the Republican nomination has been rooted in an antagonistic attitude
toward minorities, women and other groups. To conservatives, the comments of
Democrats such as President Obama and Hillary Clinton about
controversial cases involving police have undercut public confidence in law
enforcement with unpredictable consequences.
Virtually no one on either side of the divide believes
that a coming-together is imminent —
especially when violence perpetrated by or against police might erupt again at
any time, and the political world is moving full-speed ahead with a
presidential campaign that is likely to be heated and bitter.
“The sides are pulling
apart, they are certainly not pulling together,” said Hosko.
Hutchinson said: “I am deeply
troubled because I do not see a way to bridge the gap that is there.”
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"In the wake of the weaker-than-our-expected 1Q
results and recent macro headwinds, we are trimming our S&P 500 EPS
forecasts by 3% in 2016 and 2% in 2017. Given the S&P 500’s 15% rally since
mid- February, we are concerned that much of the improvement in earnings growth
may already be priced in, especially with signs that earnings revision trends
may be rolling over."
We forecast S&P 500 earnings growth to trend from 7%
in 2015 to 0% in 2016 and 4% in 2017. At 2098, the S&P 500 currently trades
at 17.9x our 2016E EPS while our year-end target of 2000 implies a 16x multiple
on our 2017E EPS.
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It remains an article
of orthodox faith that low
interest rates mean "stimulus" and success, but history is proving yet again otherwise.
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POLITICS
There is just one
problem with Hillary pushing the narrative that she was "too stupid"
for her careless actions to have been the result of premeditation. As the
following leaked email exchange shows, Hillary makes it all too clear that not only did she know precisely what she was
doing - and thus the implications of short-circuiting government regulations
- but just for the sake of convenience, she was willing to
overrule the classified designation and flaunt government regulations.
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The FBI continues to
benefit from decades of pop culture and government whitewashing which portrays
the FBI and other federal agencies as professional and effective. Always a product of left-wing and Progressive
desires for more government intervention and a weakened private sector, the FBI
continues to benefit from the perception that it functions in the service of
the “public.” With James Comey’s recent demonstration of the FBI’s
political motivations and origins, we have gained yet another insight into how
the FBI works, and public service has
very little to do with it.
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ME & WORLD ISSUES
"For many years
we've watched a set of market based indicators across seven major asset classes to help
gauge cyclical conditions and S&P reward/risk. We can't think of a time the S&P was more disjointed from these other
asset class price moves than in recent days."
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It’s been almost 10
years in the making, but the fate of
one of Europe’s most important financial institutions appears to be sealed. But, if the deaths of Lehman Brothers and
Bear Stearns were quick and painless, the coming demise of Deutsche Bank has been long, drawn out, and painful.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Elections
2016: The Clinton-Trump Mudslinging Campaign is Underway. Hillary Sought “Secret
Info” for Son-in Law’s Hedge Fund. By Prof Michel
Chossudovsky,
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Sending
a Strong Signal to Washington: Russia and China to Hold Drills in the South
China Sea By Shan Jie,
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Video:
Announced Truce Collapses, Syrian Army Repels Joint Forces of Al-Nusra, Free
Syrian Army and Turkoman Units By South Front,
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The
Trillion Dollar “Nuclear Weapons Question” the Media Have Neglected to Ask
Presidential Candidates By Prof.
Lawrence S. Wittner,
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THE REAL NEWS NETWORK http://therealnews.com/t2/
Ex-Cop Michael Wood says we shouldn't be surprised by the
Dallas attacks when police forces all over the nation operate with impunity
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In a defeat for the Sanders
movement, the Democratic Platform Committee votes 106-74 to reject opposition
to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. [ TPP is a betrayal
to the nation.]
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In the wake of the
deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, hundreds gathered in Baltimore
to demand justice for victims of police brutality
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Gerald Horne and Paul
Jay discuss the roots of police killing people of color in the American history
of slavery, the elite policy that produces poverty and racism, and the laws
that police officers are expected to enforce in order to maintain
superexploitation and economic inequality
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
[ For the US-corp
business of selling guns yes. For war.. no chances of surviving 3 days]
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We’re Waging Two Wars In Syria . By
Tulsi Gabbard
The war to overthrow
the Syrian government must end now.
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Police Used Bomb To Kill Dallas Shooting
Suspect By Dave Gershgorn
[ The first use of a robot to kill in America .. a black rebel
slave was used as rabbit.]
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Dallas Shootings: Don’t Mention the (Race)
War! By China Matters
[ Violence is not "torn
apart" that it divided. It will held together one of its parts.]
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[ Wicked can be a drunk person in a bar .. Khan-Farrak said
“she is a political serial killer”]
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LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME Video ..
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Who are the companies who profit by selling guns to NATO
allies?
What is the business behind all this rhetoric on NATO vs
Russia?
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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Chile "Luchar
por los derechos de los trabajadores y por la renacionalización del cobre"
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COL ¡SOS Mujeres! . No del medioevo ..
pero hoy prisioneras en una carcel
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[ paredón para la oligarquía del fraude, despojo y especulación
financiera? ]
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PRESS TV
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