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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
Every dip this morning has been met with a
panic bid for stocks back to unchanged with Dow futures now having swung around 500 points intraday for no gain... as
VIX is monkey-hammered lower...
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LA DEBACLE EC GOLPEA y MAS QEs PARA LOS RICOS .. NADA PARA LOS
POBRES
"Large-scale asset purchases
and forward guidance about the future path of the
federal funds rate have almost no ability to offset a shock in current
circumstances, but down the road may be able to
provide enough additional accommodation to fully compensate for
a more limited [ability] to cut short-term interest
rates in some, but not all and maybe even not most,
circumstances."
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Yet
another economic writer has caved into to
illusion that central banks need to raise the inflation target to four percent.
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Pension funds of companies in the
S&P 500 are underfunded by over $375BN, in
aggregate, with the top 25 companies representing $225BN of the underfunding
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"... Then within two weeks, clean water supplies would run out. Within
four weeks to eight weeks, there wouldn’t be coal
delivered to power plants and electricity would start shutting down. And
when that happened, about a quarter of our pipelines
use electricity, and so natural gas plants wouldn’t be fed natural gas and
they’d start shutting down. It’s
a big interdependent system. That’s part of the problem..."
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When it’s clear the game has become rigged,
it’s easier and less risky to stop playing that game, and go play a
different game somewhere else... There is a huge disincentive to step boldly in the direction of sanity...
which serves as a dangerous feedback loop to
reinforce a false narrative that everything is awesome and under control.
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While the PhDs may
talk big about this new world economy where a move to universal welfare means jobs
and wages don’t matter - well that is nonsense. Jobs
and wages matter and they will always matter.
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Any
society that tolerates this systemic exploitation and corruption as "business
as usual" is not just sick - it's
hopeless.
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POLITICS
ACCUSING SOMEONE ELSE FOR OWN FAULS .. TOTALLY INDECENT!
In
response to Friday's allegations that Clinton started using a personal email
server following the advice of Colin Powell, the former Secretary of
State said Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been trying to use him to help justify her use of a private email server while she
was secretary of State, and accused her of "trying
to pin" her violation of department rules on him.
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What the world is witnessing,
without actually paying much attention, is the death of
our debt-based economy - that is, borrowing the means to thrive in the now
from a future that can’t really furnish it anymore.
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"It
is a sad day for journalism. It has never been so manipulative than it is today.
This is truly the end of everything that made America the
beacon of liberty for the world. It is just a
hallow shell. To think that the parents of these
journalists worked hard to make sure their children had a better life. They
have disgraced their parents."
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Be
careful what you hope-and-change for...
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"I've become increasingly shocked by
the vast scope of Hillary Clinton's criminality. It's criminality. Everybody knows it..."
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The richest man in the world…
just got richer-er…
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Instead of impeachment proceedings
and his ultimate resignation for the juvenile break in at the headquarters of
the nation’s other ruling crime syndicate, Nixon
should have been imprisoned for this deliberate and destructive act which has
led, in large measure, to the nation’s crushing and insurmountable debt burden,
reoccurring booms and busts, and now economic stagnation.
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The FBI’s year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s
private email server uncovered tens of thousands
more documents from her time as secretary of state that were not previously
disclosed by her attorneys. Worse
still, as Judicial Watch details, “it looks like
the State Department is trying to slow roll the release of the records."
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ME & WORLD ISSUES
US WARMONGERS DON’T SLEEP they
want to confront enemies directly.
Unless
the U.S. wants to confront these players directly, it has no choice but to accept that they
have lost a war they directly
and indirectly started through covert CIA operations that began in 2011 (and as some would argue, well before that).
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How much
longer will the citizens of the world put up with a situation in which
warmongers with ties to the military-industrial complex are allowed to stoke up
international tensions? The
next time you read or hear someone issue stark warnings about the “Russian
threat” - and why NATO needs to hike its spending to deal with it - just follow
the money trail. It’s likely
to be revealing.
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DEMOCRACY NOW
HILLARY y KERRY COJEAN DE LA PATA
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
War-Waging
in Jeopardy? The Desperation of the US Elite and the Return of Henry Kissinger By Umberto Pascali
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Neoliberal
Assault on Public Education, Health Care…: Why “Black August” Should Be
Celebrated Across the Americas By Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya
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In Part II, Abby
Martin uncovers what really happened throughout the 22-year legal battle
between the oil corporation and indigenous Amazonians, and chronicles the
shameful, scandalous history of Chevron Texaco and its retaliatory attacks
against its victims.
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In this episode of
Rattling the Bars we examine various prison strikes in the U.S. and the common
thread of inhumane prison conditions
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While wages decline
and conditions are undermined for European workers, those refugees who make it
to Europe become the most vulnerable of the working classes, says Professor
Feyzi Ismail
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This interview with
celebrated civil rights leader Shirley Sherrod brings together the many dialogues
around a 'sharing economy' and race, including the problematic nature of land
ownership in the US and building a cooperative South
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
US Hawks Advance a War Agenda in Syria. By Daniel Lazare
The U.S. government, having illegally sent American troops
into Syria, is now threatening to attack the Syrian military if it endangers
those troops
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Russia
Won't Let Terrorism Triumph in Syria, China to Help By Stephen Lendman
Transforming the Islamic Republic into a US vassal state
would give America and Israel unchallenged Middle East dominance.
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A Lawless
Plan to Target Syria’s Allies By
Ray McGovern
Washington’s disdain for international law, was underscored
by ex-CIA acting director Michael Morell voicing plans for murdering Iranians
and maybe Russians in Syria. [ Don’t be intimidate by nuke black-mail .. tit for tat is the only option.]
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Can Russia
Survive Washington’s Challenge? By
Paul Craig Roberts
Erdogan will not want to align with Russia if he thinks
Russia is not up to Washington’s challenge.
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Writer Vanessa Beeley put together this video to expose the
White Helmets.
VIDEO URL https://youtu.be/s8_cPE30z-I?t=182
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CNN Town
Hall Green Party Jill Stein & Ajamu Baraka VIDEO https://youtu.be/lIPu31PHIHo
Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein and her running mate Ajamu Baraka on Wednesday participated in a CNN town hall meeting for the first time.
Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein and her running mate Ajamu Baraka on Wednesday participated in a CNN town hall meeting for the first time.
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COUNTER PUNCH
Media of the Day Chris
Hedges Interviews CounterPuncher Rob Urie
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Steven M. Druker The
Deceptions of the GE Food Venture
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RT SHOWS
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Posted on August 22, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog By Michael Snyder, the Economic Collapse Blog.
In 1960, the city of
Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen.
Nearly two million people lived there, and it had the
highest per capita income in the United States. That may be hard to
believe, because today it actually has one of the lowest per capita incomes of all of our major
cities. Over the decades more than a
million people have left the city, and thousands of abandoned homes have been
torn down. But there are still tens of thousands of abandoned
dwellings that remain standing. Once Detroit was the envy of the entire planet,
but now it has become a global joke. Sadly, Detroit is far from alone, because
there are other formerly great manufacturing cities that have declined just as
fast as Detroit has.
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Posted on August 22, 2016 by Charles Hugh Smith
In noting that our society is
sick, our economy exploitive and our politics corrupt, I’m not saying anything
you didn’t already know.
Everyone who isn’t being paid to deny the obvious in public (while fuming
helplessly about the phony cheerleading in private) knows that our society is a
layer-cake of pathologies, our economy little more than institutionalized
racketeering and our politics a corrupt auction-house of pay-for-play,
influence-peddling, money-grubbing and brazen pandering for votes.
The fantasy promoted by
do-gooders and PR hacks alike is that this corrupt system can be reformed with
a few minor policy tweaks. If you want a brief but thorough explanation of Why Our
Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform, please take a look at my book (link
above).
If you want an example of how the
status quo has failed and is beyond reform, it’s instructive to examine the
pharmaceutical industry,
which includes biotech corporations, specialty pharmaceutical firms and the
global corporate giants known as Big Pharma.
I hope it won’t come as too great
a surprise that the pharmaceutical industry isn’t about cures or helping needy
people–it’s about profits. As
a Big Pharma CEO reported in a brief moment of truthfulness, We’re in
Business of Shareholder Profit, Not Helping the Sick
⇒ Keep Reading
⇒ Keep Reading
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
Turquía se acerca a Rusia sin romper
con EEUU Nazanín Armanian
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El Congreso Nacional Africano se
desvanece Immanuel
Wallerstein
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PRESS TV
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FBI
uncovers 15,000 Clinton’s emails Selected one?
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