viernes, 16 de diciembre de 2016

DIC 16 16 SIT EC y POL



DIC 16 16  SIT EC y POL


ZERO HEDGE
ECONOMICS

Stocks Suffer Worst Week Since Election As Banks, Bullion, & Bonds Sink

While Gold spiked today on China, it remains the biggest laggard post-Fed (though even bank stocks are now red)...


See all charts at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-16/stocks-suffer-worst-week-election-banks-bullion-bonds-sink
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"Trump Trade" Leads To Ninth Biggest Weekly Inflow To Equities, More Bad News For Active Managers


The "Trump Trade" continued with global equity funds receiving $21 billion in inflows in the past week according to Bank of America, as investors rushed into reflation assets, while money flowed out of bonds for seventh week in a row. For one more week news for the "active managed" community was negative: of the $20.7 billion in equity inflows, $31 billion was in the form of ETFs, which meant another $10 billion in outflows from mutual funds and other active vehicles.
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"When Gold Goes Above 1430 We Whack It"


As it goes in silver, so it goes in gold. In London at least.  In a bid to have UBS reinstated as a defendant in a London Gold Fix antitrust lawsuit, plaintiffs documents submitted to a New York Court last week include explosive chat room transcripts of UBS and traders from different banks encouraging each other to “push,” “smack,” and “whack” gold prices.
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Obama "Housing Recovery" Crushes "Blacks, Young Adults" As Homeownership Rates Crash
As the Obama administration continues to applaud its "housing recovery", homeownership rates among "Young Adults" and "Blacks" are down 18% and 16%, respectively, since 2004...And while that's definitely a big "Change," its somewhat lacking on the "Hope."


See all the charts and explanation at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-16/obama-housing-recovery-crushes-blacks-young-adults-homeownership-rates-crash
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Stunning Visualization Of The Flow Of International Trade

Trade is an essential part of economic prosperity, but how much do you know about global trade?

The interactive visualization you see in this post was created by data visualization expert Max Galka from the Metrocosm blog. (Also check out his new project, Blueshift, which allows users to upload data and visualize it on maps with no coding required.)
Trade is an essential part of economic prosperity, but, as Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins asks, how much do you know about global trade?
VIDEO URL  https://youtu.be/WPLnMsAhrxg 

The stunning visualization below helps to map international trade on a 3D globe, plotting the exchange of goods between countries. It enables the abstract concept of trade to become more tactile, and at the same time the visuals make it easier to absorb information.

EXPLORING THE MAP
The great thing about interactive maps is that they allow you to take control.
Here are a few things we found particularly interesting, as we scanned through the map:
  • When looking at the globe as a whole, trade is concentrated into obvious hubs. The United States, Europe, and China/Japan are the most evident ones, and they are all lit up with color.
  • There are also obvious have-nots. Take a look at most of the countries in Africa, or click on an individual country like North Korea to see a lack of international trade.
  • In fact, North Korea is completely vacuous, except for one lonely dot floating to China every so often. After taking a quick look at the data, it seems China takes in over 60% of North Korea’s exports, which are mostly raw materials such as coal, iron ore, or pig iron.
  • Now click on South Korea, and the situation is completely different. By the way, South Korea exports $583 billion of goods per year, while the hermit nation does just $3.1 billion per year.
  • This map also shows how dependent some countries are on others for trade. Look at Canada, a country that sends close to 75% of its exports to the United States. Mexico has a similar situation, where it does most of its business with the U.S. as well.
  • This is a stark contrast to Cuba, which doesn’t trade enough with any one partner to have it visualized on this scale at all. Cuba has exports of only $1.7 billion, and its largest trading partner is China, which only takes in $311 million of goods per year.
Want to see more on international trade? Check out this set of maps that shows China’s rising dominance in trade, or the flow of oil around the world.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-16/stunning-visualization-flow-international-trade
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Weekend Reading: Copious Cognitions

If this market rally seems eerily familiar, it’s because it is. In fact, the backdrop of the rally reminds me much of what was happening in 1999...
Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

“If this market rally seems eerily familiar, it’s because it is. In fact, the backdrop of the rally reminds me much of what was happening in 1999.

1999
  • Fed was hiking rates as worries about inflationary pressures were present.
  • Economic growth was improving 
  • Interest and inflation were rising
  • Earnings were rising through the use of “new metrics,” share buybacks and an M&A spree. (Who can forget the market greats of Enron, Worldcom & Global Crossing)
  • Stock market was beginning to go parabolic as exuberance exploded in a “can’t lose market.”

If you were around then, you will remember.”

Of course, this is what we were told this week by Janet Yellen, and the Fed, as they finally lifted rates for the first time in 2016 with the expectation the economy will continue to perform “well,” the current rate is only modestly below the “neutral” rate, and the rate hike is a vote of confidence in the economy. Or course, the irony is when she stated the Fed is expecting to hike rates 3-times next year.  Considering their previous track record for lifting rates, it is astonishing the market continues to “buy” the nonsense.


As I penned last weekend, the ramp up in the market against a backdrop of a “fear” of rising inflationary pressures, when none really exists, is a dangerous brew for the markets. With interest rates and the U.S. Dollar already heavily front running the Fed in the tightening of monetary policy, there is a very high risk of an “accident” occurring which takes investors by surprise.
Here is what I am reading this weekend.

Fed, Economy & More Trump
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Markets
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Interesting Reads
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Source  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-16/weekend-reading-copious-cognitions
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POLITICS

Julian Assange Crushes Obama Narrative: "Our Source Is Not The Russian Government"

Hannity:  "Let me be clear, Russia did not give you the Podesta documents or anything from the DNC?"
Assange:  "That's correct."
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NSA Whistleblower Destroys Obama's Russia Narrative - "Hard Evidence Points To An Inside Leak, Not Hacking"

“If [the CIA] are going to allege something like that they should show the trace route, and the path it went and how, and through which path those packets went from the DNC to the Russians to WikiLeaks. They failed to do that.  That tells me that what they are saying is a pack of crap.  They are just concocting these things to support the existing administration and to also support the move toward a new Cold War.”
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FBI Said To Back CIA Assessment That Russia Intervened To Help Trump Win

Moments ago, the WaPo, whose main mission over the past month has been to pin Clinton's presidential failure first on Russia and then on Vladimir Putin, reported that FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. have backed a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the presidency.

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The Lessons Of Aleppo (For Trump)

"Do not even consider getting into a new Middle East war - unless Congress votes to authorize it, the American people are united behind it, vital U.S. interests are clearly imperiled, and we know how the war ends and when we can come home. For wars have a habit of destroying presidencies."
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George Soros Is Funding Facebook's "Third-Party Fact Checking" Organization Targeting "Fake News"

Yesterday, Facebook announced plans to use a "third-party fact checking organization" known as The Poynter Institute to flag "fake news."  Imagine our complete shock when we discovered that the funding sources behind Poynter included the who's who of Billionaire leftists like George Soros.
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WORLD ISSUES and ME

Offshore Yuan Crashes To Record Low


The derisking following headlines of China seizing a US underwater drone has sparked further weakness in the offshore Yuan, slamming USDCNH to record lows...
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Putin Lashes Out At Obama: "Show Some Proof Or Shut Up"

Putin has had enough of the relentless barrage of US accusations that he, personally, "hacked the US presidential election" and on Friday his spokesman told reporters in Tokyo that "you need to either stop talking about it, or finally show some kind of proof. Otherwise it just looks very indecent."
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What Did The Russian People Know About The US Election Result?


The Russians knew!!....
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DEMOCRACY NOW


A Legislative Coup in NC? Rev. William Barber on GOP Stripping Power from New Democratic Governor
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Andrew Bacevich: Trump's "Israel First" Policy Will Likely Lead to More Violence in Region
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GLOBAL RESEARCH


Vladimir Putin was Never Head of the KGB, Nor Did He Order the Hacking of the DNC  By Michel  Chossudovsky
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Constitutional Crisis, Movement to Undermine President-elect Donald Trump’s Accession to the White House?  Michel Chossudovsky
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 INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE


While Decrying “Massacre” in Aleppo, US Steps up Bloodshed in Mosul  By Bill Van Auken
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The "Elite" Coup Of 2016  By Moon Of Alabama  There is an "elite" coup attempt underway against the U.S. President-elect Trump
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Ah, So Putin Didn’t Hack Those Emails After All   By Mike Whitney
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Why Are the Media Taking the CIA’s Hacking Claims at Face Value?  By James Carden
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Donald Trump's Israel Ambassador is Hardline Pro-settler Lawyer  Peter Beaumont and Julian Borger
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COUNTER PUNCH


Gary Leupp  The Cold War, Continued: Post-Election Russophobia
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Jeffrey St. Clair  That Magic Feeling: the Strange Mystique of Bernie Sanders
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Missy Comley Beattie   Waste No More Time On Clinton
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS


Rania Khalek: Jihadists US Empowered in Syria Are Going To Attack Us
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201612161048671660-jihadists-us-empowered-syria-attack/
LISTEN:  Rania Khalek Interview with Eugene Puryear Part1
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Fake News? Obama’s Russia Myths Debunked
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612171048678443-obama-press-conference-russia-factchecking/
Related
Putin Gave Obama 'Clear Response' on Alleged Russian Interference in US Vote
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612161048637101-putin-obama-us-vote/
Related
 President Obama’s End of the Year News Conference
https://sputniknews.com/us/201612161048672776-president-obama-press-conference/
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US Arming Opposition Rebels in Syria Allied With Al-Qaeda - Congresswoman
https://sputniknews.com/us/201612171048679754-us-armed-syria-al-qaeda/
Related
US Lawmaker Gabbard Discussed With Donald Trump Daesh, Syrian War
https://sputniknews.com/us/201611211047686604-gabbard-trump-daesh-syria/
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RT SHOWS
CrossTalk   ‘Russia card’
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SophieCo   Either Europe changes the rules, or we lose the EU – Norbert Hofer to RT
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The Big Picture  Why Trump’s win is Koch coup against our democracy
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WASHINGTON BLOG


Recovering America’s History of Progressive Populism
Posted on December 16, 2016 by Charles Hugh Smith

There is only one narrative in the mainstream media about populism: it destroys democracy and leads straight to fascism. This is an ignorant and false narrative. Here’s a typical example of the mainstream anguish that the elites’ preferred narratives are falling apart because they’ve left the bottom 95% behind: How Democracies Fall Apart: Why Populism Is a Pathway to Autocracy

Granted, this is an international context for populism, but this is no excuse for overlooking America’s history of progressive populism. Are the “experts” beating the drum that populism inevitably leads to autocracy so poorly educated about American history that they don’t know that populism can be powerfully progressive, or are they being willfully blind to serve their elitist masters?

It’s time we recover America’s history of progressive populism. It’s awfully easy for elites and their toadies (witting or unwitting) to dismiss the citizenry who reject elitst narratives as “deplorables,” just as it is easy for them to dismiss populist resistance to their control as being “undemocratic.”

This is of course the exact opposite of the truth: populism is the result when the institutions of “democracy”–i.e. the machinery of elite control–have failed to respond to the concerns and opinions of non-elites.

Having been rendered impotent and voiceless in the elite-dominated machinery, the bottom 95% have no alternative but to join a populist movement–a movement that in America often takes the form of a third party or an insurgency in an established political party (for example, Sanders and Trump).
⇒ Keep Reading
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH


Partidario de Clinton creó noticias falsas en "MSNBC" para desacreditar documentos de WikiLeaks 
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EE.UU.  El Pentágono necesita urgentemente una guerra para mantener su poderío  Vicky Peláez
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Economía Seguirá protegiendo el IMF la delincuencia financiera? 
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El fracking y los desplazamientos forzados en México
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La crisis italiana puede generar una nueva crisis del euro  Sergi Cutillas
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Mercosur   La afrenta de la triple alianza contra el proceso bolivariano  Alex Anfruns
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WikiLeaks    Rusia no está detrás de correos filtrados de Clinton
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Obama sigue deportando a jóvenes centroamericanos. ¿Qué hará Trump?  Danica Jorden
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Colombia   La autopista de la paz  Héctor Alonso Moreno
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Cuba El invierno del patriarca, ¿una primavera democrática para Cuba? M C Rosas
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Esperando a Trump   Jorge Beinstein
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Obama: "EE.UU. responderá a los 'hackeos' y no se anunciará públicamente"
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¿El yihadismo se financia en América Latina?
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China captura un dron submarino de la Marina de EE.UU.
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Los guerrilleros de las FARC y sus últimos días en la clandestinidad (EXCLUSIVA)
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Keiser report 1006  El reto que afrontan quienes causaron la crisis financiera mundial tras la victoria de Trump
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PRESS TV


FBI now backs CIA analysis on Russia
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‘US, Saudi, Israel teamed up against Syria’
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‘FBI, NSA staff among Yahoo hack
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No alternative to inter-Syrian talks, Russia
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US becoming vulnerable to Russia:  said Obama

[[The loser of the Syrian war, claiming now stupid supremacism.
Wake up OB: regimen change in Syria is over. If you want to set a
Road to WW3 for him to walk in it, it won’t work. Trump has the
right to a 2nd term and he will got it If he avoid WW3. You wrong if
you believe Trump is an idiot.. Trump defeated you & Hillary in one
single shot with your own means: fraud & bla-blah. Who is the idiot?
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NO EVIDENCE NO CASE. New electoral system needed by 2020
CLINTON BLAMES RUSSIA, FBI FOR ELECTION DEFEAT
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/12/16/498201/US-hillary-clinton-cyber-attack-FBI-US-presidential-election-Donald-Trump-James-Comey

Hillary commits fraud during the primaries & obstructs Justice pursuit
by FBI director James Comey. Now she wants to accuse the FBI, besides
Russians, of favoring Trump. Without hard evidences in either case? ...
That is a puzzle for idiots … Nobody in his right mind will take it.

The fact is that both of them commit fraud, Hillary in the primaries and  
Trump in the finals. So, none of them is qualified to run in a new round
of elections, if happens. Both of them broke Laws (Trump evaded taxes)

The case is worse with Hillary: she is guilty en the Libyan affair. Deleting
tapes is obstruction of justice and the killing of a US ambassador is
criminal negligence (personnel who die did demand help from her).
The killing of a Lybian President is a violation of International rules,
and receiving money from Saudis to facilitate such massacre is a
violation of US rules. Besides there are evidences of arms & tech
 given to Saudi terrorists. They used to spread terrorism worldwide
(specially  Syria). In sum,Hillary’s complicity in terrorism, her frauds
and crimes are still unpunished. Her indictment should be continued  
and jail is the place that she deserves.

Besides, it is false that she won the popular vote in the finals, they both
Hillary and Trump were against the recount pursuit by Jill Stain. Hillary
did it with the support of Obama & members of the Judiciary system
that are against Trump. She cannot invoke the recount at convenience,
that is totally dishonest. The recount was sabotaged with her complicity.
She cannot mention “popular vote” in her favor because of such sabotage
and because she killed the popular vote in favor of Sanders during the
primaries, and she did it via super-delegates maneuvers. That is fraud too.

Certainly we deserve a new round of election, but not with super-packs to
buy elections, nor duopoly system , and much less with super-delegates
and obsolete rules.  UNFORTUNATELY, the national situations is so critical
that an election can break the whole Unity  of the Nation. We have to
wait and meanwhile pay attention to a new electoral system proposed by
qualified people of the Nation. Before its approval in the Senate and the
Juficial System, the Nation should give their voice via Referendum.
Now we should keep Trump as President while we fight town by town,
State by State for a new Electoral rules. The previous one was broken by
crook people like Hillary. She cannot make claims  on rules she broken,
and WE SHOULD AVOID THIS TYPE OF PROBLEMS HAPPEN AGAIN.
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West getting revenge for Aleppo victory:  The West's recent initiatives at the United Nations over the situation in Syria are the "saddest images of diplomatic and political hypocrisy,” Syria's envoy to the UN tells Press TV.  http://www.presstv.ir/  related: Aleppo liberation ‘significant blow’ to Saudi

[[ Syria has the sovereign right to defend the integrity of the whole nation invaded by armed foreigners. If the UN is unable to defend his core principle, what is that useful for?.  Either the UN is re-organized from inside (severely punishing  all  pro-war rulers who violated “La Carta Magna”) or the UN is declared obsolete and regional UN untis will be re-assembled (according to the alliance they got). BOLTON was the one who manage to put the UN at the service of US Empire and allies policies  of neoliberal globalization. 

These policies serve only an alliance of bankers and big Corp who concentrate 99% of capital & riches in their hands while the labor and middle case of the world live in complete misery. Current explosive inequality is going to burst soon and not because there is a proletarian class organized to deposed the 1%, but because the big sharks of capitalism cannot accumulate more without eating small capitalists and the rest of the fish. Small capitalist can forge alliance with regional labor to stop the big sharks. 

Big bankers are now crashing and their money-bonds dumped in trash (case London-Italy- Germany, etc). They cannot advance because other capitalist of the world has created regional networks of trade and production with their own banks, and these regional powers are armed too.  

So, we have a new reality: there is not one single hegemonic power at world level, but the UN is still serving the US NATO allies as this was still a unipolar system. In doing so, the UN is becoming obsolete. No point in obeying their commands, if they don;t represent the interests of the whole globe or the interest of special allies. When the UN only serves the interest of one block they destroy themselves.  To give order to this new reality (multi-polarism) we have to empower regional institutions instead of the UN. We have to do what Israel did with the UN resolutions, trashed in the toiled.

For the USA to survive inside this trend, we have to empower regions inside the FED, before CA and Texas or others, separate totally from the FED. The same should be done at the level of the UN: since regions already exist, we have to recognize their power and deal with them. This means that we have to dis-empower those institutions of the UN that Bolton empower  it. (I don’t know if he can be useful to do the opposite thing he did before). That is the current situation in the north.

In the South we have similar chaos: Mercosur does not represent the South, they represent the north bankers and their policies. We need to trash that alliance. We have to create new one in which economic concerns prevail –no mere politics.  

We can create the amazonas region with Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Col an Ven. And create the Pacific region at the same time with Chile, Peru y COL all united by a single train-road (la panamericana del pacifico) . The other option could be to retake the transpacific road and unite south Brazil with Bolivia and Peru. When the infrastructure for this works is complete we can return to the Mercosur project. 

I do believe that in the south we put on the socks over the boots. We have to do the opposite –forget the falso mercosur & its sock in Ururguay- and pay attention to investments in the above regions. And forget of course the traditional economic American supremacism. If they want to invest –with no privileges attached- fine; if they want to do the same as before, we have to do what Ecuatorians did it, take them out.  

If China, Russia an European want to invest in the South, fine, under the same lcondition, with not privilege for no one. Then after we can say that we can have a Mercosur independent from the north. In short, regional networks of business has to be re-elaborated in the north & South as soon as possible (asap). ]]
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US will retaliate against Russia: Obama Obama tickling Putin .. and this one not even laugh.

[ [ When a boxer is knocking down, his brain doesn’t work but his mouse does, and say “I wants to continue”. . Two thing could happen: the referee declare the game over to avoid further damage.. or the trainers through a white taw inside the ring demanding:  “stop the game”!. I wonder who is going to save Obama from further damage .. his wife instead of trainers, or a psychologist in the name of the crow ..instead of a referee. ]]
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'Settlement bill to have consequences for Israel : UN Chief [Imagine what the israeli chief may think]
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Chinese warship seizes US underwater  [is there science in  espionage?]
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Dick Cheney lobbying for Tillerson: Report  [ What a dick in the as of Trump? ]
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Debate: Aleppo evacuation
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Debate: liberation of Aleppo
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Debate: liberation of Aleppo
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