APR 12 18
SIT EC y POL
ND denounce Global-neoliberal debacle y propone State-Social
+ Capit-compet in Econ
GEO-POL NEWS
SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
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Keiser
Report Episode
1213 Surveillance capitalism,
cyberbullying and data brokers are all on the agenda for Max and Stacy this
week. Max also interviews Bill Ottman of Minds.com about competing with
Facebook and Twitter
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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
Latino America looking for alternatives to neoliberalism to
break with Empire:
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Ecuad Coyuntura
posconsulta popular Varios
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-¿La DEA no incauta 10
toneladas de droga? Alexander Escobar
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Deep on the US political crisis, their internal conflicts n
chances of WW3
Trump Warns Russia Missiles 'Will Be Coming'
in Syria
By Robert Burns, Josh Lederman & Catherine Lucey / AP Continue
By Robert Burns, Josh Lederman & Catherine Lucey / AP Continue
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Trump’s Rush to Judgment on Syria Chemical
Attack By Scott Ritter Continue
The United States and Russia appear to be heading toward a
direct military confrontation
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US and Allies Hold World in Terror Siege With
War Threat By Finian Cunningham
Trump, May and Macron are pushing a war in Syria
out of venal expedience. Continue
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Tony Blair and assorted Tories are revved up, to attack
Syria and Russia in Syria
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The Saudi-Israeli Liaison By Lawrence Davidson Continue
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Here’s How Much Facebook Donated to Every
Lawmaker Questioning Mark Zuckerberg
By Sarah Jeong and Shannon Liao Continue
By Sarah Jeong and Shannon Liao Continue
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Geopolitics & Econ-Pol crisis that leads to more
business-wars: its profiteers US-NATO
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ZERO HEDGE ECONOMICS
Neoliberal globalization is over. Financiers know it, they
documented with graphics
Econ situation TODAY
INCONCEIVABLE
World War III on the horizon, Russia
warning of possibility of conflict with US, and a tweet that said absolutely
nothing definitive sparked exuberant equity buying...
One quick question - if, as all the "smart" people
say, "the market hates uncertainty," what
exactly did it find so inspiring about the President's tweet "Never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at
all!" - Seems to us that stocks LOVE
Trumpian uncertainty... or was it just the machines running stops again?
SEE Charts:
Futures show the excitement best -
futures surged on Trump's tweet and then re-surged at the cash open - erasing
all losses in all major indices post-Trump's call for $100 billion tariffs...
See Chart:
Cash market stumbled on the headlines that Trump was meeting
about Syria and had 8 targets and comments from Russia... and finally some
headlines on Mueller were enough to send stocks lower into the close..
See Chart:
The S&P 500 briefly tagged
unchanged for the year today..
The big banks rallied handsomely on
the day (as earnings are set to begin)..
But we note that the smaller banks
have been notably underperforming the market - tracking the tumble in the yield
curve...
See Chart:
Treasury yields started to 'catch
up' to stocks today... (or was China selling?)
See Chart:
The Dollar rallied for the first day
since last Thursday...
See Chart:
Dollar gains were not enough to
spook crude, which bounced again, but PMs and copper gave up most the week's
gains...
See Chart:
Finally we note there's a lot of
hope in earnings expectations...
And while we keep seing the opening
ramp (8 days in a row now), there is a late-day selling pressure that is
signaling 'SMART' money ain't lovin' it...
See Chart:
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Highest
level since April 2011. It’s
not just the Brick & Mortar Meltdown anymore...
See Chart:
The chart below shows the year-over-year change in Chapter
11 filings. This eliminates the effects of seasonality. Red bars indicate that
filings rose from a year ago. Blue bars indicate that filings fell from a year
ago. Note the effects of the oil-and-gas bust in 2015
and 2016 and more recently the effects of the brick-and-mortar meltdown; but
now it’s not just the brick-and-mortar meltdown anymore:
See Chart:
Monthly Chapter 11 filings are volatile. To smoothen out the
volatility and eliminate the effects of seasonality we can look at the
year-over-year changes as a three-month rolling average. For example, the three-month average year-over-year change
for March is based on January, February, and March. And then the image becomes
clear: There is a problem, and it’s not a blip:
See Chart:
This is a
sign that the economy has arrived at the end of the “credit cycle.” The
Fed is trying to push up interest rates and tighten financial conditions. Weak
companies are starting to have a harder time refinancing their debts. And those
that succeed face higher borrowing costs. Some sectors
are getting hit harder than others, such as brick-and-mortar retail, which
had a terrible March. But this is now spreading in
other sectors, such as specialized subprime auto lenders.
Subprime auto-loan delinquencies
have surged to the highest rate since October 1996. Scores of smaller
specialized lenders have piled into this field after the Financial Crisis, some
of them backed by private equity firms. Three of them
have now collapsed into bankruptcy or were shut down. Allegations of fraud and
misrepresentations are swirling through the bankruptcy filings. Read… Subprime
Carmageddon: Specialized Lenders Begin to Collapse
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For the
first time in 6 years, the volatility of the S&P 500 is greater than the
volatility of most shorted stocks. This means it is now less important than
normal to track the institutional investor ownership of stocks, than to predict
what retail investors will do at any given moment.
Subjective views aside, there was another, more actionable
take from Goldman, which pointed out that in a surprising twist, heavily
shorted names are now showing lower than expected volatility. In fact, "for the first
time in 6 years, the volatility of the S&P 500 has been greater than the
volatility of the most shorted stocks."
See chart:
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The old America we knew, where living
standards more than doubled each generation,has ceased to exist as new evidence suggests the percentage
of Americans living in multigenerational households is at its highest since the post–World War II
economic expansion.
See Chart:
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US POLITICS
Seudo democ y sist
duopolico in US is obsolete; it’s
full of frauds & corruption. Urge cambiarlo
An
initiative to split the state of California into three different states
has gathered enough support via
signatures to qualify as a ballot measure in November...
See Map:
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Special
Counsel Robert Mueller and his team are preparing to move forward with the
Russia probe without interviewing the president - an announcement that comes
just hours after Trump applauded his legal team's "engagement" with
the special counsel...
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"Behind the scenes, there is a powerful foreign policy
establishment determined to maintain and reclaim
US unilateral “leadership” of the world. They don’t like the fact
that the US is losing influence, prestige and power around the world."
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This is by
far their ‘nuclear’
option...
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“We cannot
exclude any possibilities [of war between Russia and the U.S.] unfortunately
because we saw messages that are coming from Washington. They were very
bellicose.”
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Cruise missiles have been employed by the United States military (mostly
the Navy) regularly, ever since their introduction during the Gulf War of 1991. Though they have been used as a tactical weapon
in full scale wars, cruise missiles have mostly been used in limited strikes.
See Chart at:
OR at the
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"Chaos reigns in the United States, spreading to its
closest allies. The war amongst
Western elites is in full swing, manifesting itself from commercial wars to failed diplomacy, empty threats of war, corruption,and
announced military withdrawals and attacks."
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"...the Deep State has taken
the Donald hostage, and with ball-and-chain finality. Whatever
pre-election predilection he had to challenge the Warfare State has
apparently been completely liquidated."
See Map :
Who controls what
We will leave for others to explain the unexplainable. To wit, why in the world would Bashar Assad, who was on the
verge of a complete victory over the last redoubt of rebel enemies that
could threaten his regime, use chemical weapons on civilians and children when
all except a few hard-core fighters had already agreed to get on buses and
evacuate Douma entirely?
See Map
That's
right. There is no opposition left in Douma and it has been liberated by the
Syrian army, including release
of the 3,200 pro-government hostages who had been paraded around the town in
cages by the Saudi Arabia funded warriors of Islam who had terrorized it.
According to the Syrian government,
no traces of chemicals or even bodies have been found. They could be
lying, of course, but with the OPCW investigators on the way to Douma who in
their right mind would not wait for an assessment of what
actually happened last Saturday?
That is, if you are not caught up in the anti-Russian
hysteria that has engulfed official Washington and the mainstream media.
Indeed, the Syrian government has now
even welcomed the international community to come to Douma, where the
Russians claim there is absolutely nothing to see:
Speaking with EuroNews, Russia's
ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizov, said "Russian
military specialists have visited this region, walked on those streets, entered
those houses, talked to local doctors and visited the only functioning hospital
in Douma, including its basement where reportedly the mountains of corpses pile
up. There was not a single corpse and even not a single person who came in for
treatment after the attack."
"But we've seen them on the video!" responds EuroNews correspondent
Andrei Beketov.
"There was no chemical attack in Douma,
pure and simple," responds Chizov. "We've
seen another staged event. There are personnel, specifically trained - and you
can guess by whom - amongst the so-called White Helmets, who were already
caught in the act with staged videos."
In short, if they are lying, it would not be hard to
ascertain. Presumably, the Donald could even send Jared Kushner--flack
jacket and all---to investigate what actually happened at Douma.
Alas, the Donald has apparently opted for war instead in a desperate
maneuver to keep the Deep State at bay.
Either way, we think he's about done, and in Part 2 we will explore why what's about to happen
next should be known to the history books, if there are any, as "Mueller's War".
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WORLD ISSUES and M-East
Global depression is on…China, RU, Iran search for State
socialis+K- compet. D rest in limbo
There are
at least two European nations which remember that when it gets cold in the
winter, there is one country they call on to provide the natural gas they need
for heating.
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Vitaly
Churkin, Russia's ambassador at the United Nations, said he unfortunately
"cannot exclude any possibilities" when asked about the danger of war
between the US and Russia.
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Russia has
deployed a mix of upgraded soviet aircraft, along with the latest and greatest
in modern Russian aviation, at Khmeimim airbase, including Mi-24 attack
helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles.
See Charts
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With war
likely set to break out in Syria at any moment, a question many Americans are
asking is... where is Syria? We provide the answer to that and much more.
See Map:
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There are 751 members of the
European Parliament. It means that the Soros friends have more than one third of seats...
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DEMOCRACY NOW
US politics crisis: Trump captured by Deep state to
reproduce old cronyism without alter-plan
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PRESS TV
Global situation described by Iranian observers..
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