OCT 24 16 SIT EC
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ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS
Real consumer spending has only averaged a 2.0%
annual rate since the recovery started, which is nearly half the pace of the
prior 10-year average. What happened?
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Offshore Yuan crashes to a record low...
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Are we really set to revisit this disgusting Keynesian Endgame once again?
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Implied volatilities - the market's best guess at short-term-future
uncertainty - collapsed last week across every asset class from FX to equity.
For now, as Bloomberg's Richard Breslow notes, markets
seem comfortably calm amid the real storm of macro, micro, and geopolitical
risks, but many of the same 'calm'
markets are at critical technical levels putting them all "in play."
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When 2016 started off poorly for the US
manufacturing sector as a result of the pounding in the E&P sector, with
rising concerns about a recessionary impulse among US manufacturing industries,
the latest
Markit manufacturing report for October has allayed much of the slowdown
concerns with a headline print of 53.2, higher than the 51.5 expected, and up
1.7 points from September - the highest print since October of 2015.
POLITICS
POLITICS
Unaffected by elections. Unaltered
by populist movements. Beyond the reach of the law. Say
hello to America’s shadow government. A corporatized, militarized,
entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected
officials who are, in essence, running the country, this
shadow government represents the hidden face of a government that has no
respect for the freedom of its citizenry.
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Soros-Linked Voting Machines Cause Concern Over Rigged Election
Concern is growing over revelations that voting
machines in a significant number of states will be controlled by a company tied
directly to George Soros and his personal quest to create a nationless, borderless
global state. “If Malloch-Brown’s Soros ties weren’t troubling enough, he also
has ties to the Clintons through his work at two consulting firms.”
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The political organization of Virginia Gov.
Terry McAuliffe, an influential Democrat with longstanding ties to Bill and
Hillary Clinton, gave nearly $500,000 to the election campaign of the wife of
an official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation who later helped oversee the
investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email use.
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"When they leave the polls alone, I'm
leading. But you see these polls, they are polling Democrats,"
Trump said, adding that "It's called voter suppression, because people
will say, 'Aw, gee, Trump's out.' These thieves and crooks, the media, not all
of it but much of it, they are the most crooked, almost as crooked as Hillary. They may even be more crooked than Hillary because without
the media, she'd be nothing."
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WORLD ISSUES and ME
One
provocation follows another against the endless drumbeat of Western media
reports about “Russian aggression”. The war preparations greatly reduce European security and the chances
for revival of constructive dialogue between Russia and NATO – something Russia
has been calling for so many years.Instead, the bloc is doing its best to provoke an arms race with unpredictable
results.
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- The CEO Behind AT&T’s Huge Time Warner Deal (BBG)
- AT&T-Time Warner deal sparks calls for scrutiny in Washington (Reuters)
- Wall Street’s $40 Billion AT&T Pledge Offers Fees and Risks (BBG)
- Bernie Sanders: Obama Administration “Should Kill” The AT&T-Time Warner Deal (Deadline)
- Oil prices under pressure as Iraq resists joining output cut (Reuters)
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DEMOCRACY NOW
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Josh
Fox: Arrest of Journalists and Filmmakers Covering the Dakota Pipeline is a
Threat to Democracy
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Hillary’s
Big Lie: Did Russia Hack the Democratic National Committee (DNC) … Really? No,
According to Intelligence Experts… By
Washington's Blog
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Make
Nuclear Weapons Illegal. UN Resolution for a “Legally Binding Instrument to
Prohibit Nuclear Weapons” By Ray Acheson,
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
By Cooperating With Washington On Syria
Russia Walked Into A Trap By Paul Craig Roberts
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How Power Works By Chris Hedges
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COUNTER PUNCH
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Norman Pollack Militarism:
The Elephant in the Room
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Lara Gardner Why I’m Not
Voting
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
Soros-Linked Company Supplies Key Battleground States With
Voting Machines
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201610251046685928-soros-voting-machines/
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201610251046685928-soros-voting-machines/
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Podesta Leak: Clinton Campaign Tried to Curry Favor With
Major Sponsor Soros
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201610251046685928-soros-voting-machines/
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201610251046685928-soros-voting-machines/
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New WikiLeaks Clinton Reveal: Benghazi, Super PACs,
Encryption Policies
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201610141046348030-clinton-podesta-benghazi-super-pacs/
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201610141046348030-clinton-podesta-benghazi-super-pacs/
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RT SHOWS
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WASHINGTON BLOG
Posted on October 24, 2016 by Charles
Hugh Smith
Two charts illustrate Why Our
Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform: this chart of the S-Curve of
financialization, leverage, debt, central planning, regulatory capture and
globalization–that is, the engines of modern “growth”–depicts the
inevitable stagnation and decline of these dynamics as overcapacity, debt
saturation and diminishing returns take hold.
This chart illustrates the status
quo’s insistence on doing more of what has failed spectacularly: since all this worked in the boost
phase, the central planning Cargo Cult’s “leadership” is convinced it will all
work magically again, if only we do more of it.
The chart of the Seneca Cliff
illustrates how the S-curve of “growth” can continue expanding even as the
foundation weakens. As the foundations of real growth weaken–
productivity, collateral, social mobility, etc.–the system become increasingly
fragile and brittle. But this fragility is masked by the appearance of
stability until a crisis cracks it wide open.
The S-curve:
The Seneca Cliff:
There are two sets of solutions as stability and
financialized “growth” slide into instability and DeGrowth.
1. Acquire skills
that will be increasingly scarce and a network of collaborators, customers and
suppliers who value/make use of these skills.
2. Create a new mode
of production that doesn’t rely on central banks, states and global
finance to function: in effect, a decentralized, localized networked system
that exists in parallel with the centralized hierarchies of the current mode
of production which is centralized, industrialized, globalized,
financialized, neofeudal, neoliberal, neocolonial, and dependent on
ever-expanding leverage, debt, central planning, regulatory capture and fossil
fuel consumption.
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Continue reading http://www.washingtonsblog.com/
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
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“Puede haber violencia e inestabilidad tras la
victoria de una política tan corrupta como Clinton”
IP
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Las revelaciones de WikiLeaks que más comprometen a
Hillary Clinton https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/221441-revelaciones-wikileaks-comprometen-hillary-clinton
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PRESS TV
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