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RT DOCUMENTARIES & LATEST SHOWS
Documentary. ECUADOR
THE POISONED RAINFOREST. January 23, 2015, during the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Chevron received the "Prize of
Shame". The award highlights the world's most irresponsible
corporations. NGOs blame Chevron for "the ecological disaster caused by
the oil exploitation in Ecuador. http://www.rt.com/shows/documentary/314335-ecuador-poisoned-rainforest-texaco/
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only be viewed on RT’s live feed. Time
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Documentary. ISIS
vs Christ In early 2015, a small Egyptian village was
dealt a cruel blow. ISIS killed 20 men from Al-Ur because they were
Christian. Now their families take comfort from their faith as they to come to
terms with the loss. http://www.rt.com/shows/documentary/314064-isis-christ-egypt-martyrs/
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ZERO HEDGE
The
IMF Just Confirmed The Nightmare Scenario For Central Banks Is Now In Play. S-by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2015
That ECB governing council member Ewald Nowotny said about
the ECB hitting a supply brick wall, was right. … the ECB asset-backed
securities purchasing program"hasn’t been as successful as we’d hoped."…
Why? "It’s simply because they are running out. There are simply too few
of these structured products out there."… So six months later, the ECB
begrudgingly admitted what we said in March 2015, in "A
Complete Preview Of Q€ — And Why It Will Fail", was correct. .. The centrally-planned house of cards is
finally starting to shake uncontrollably. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-04/imf-just-confirmed-nightmare-scenario-central-banks-now-play
[ Central planning did not exist in the west .. what they had
was a decentralized system coordinated by the greed of big corp .. these big
corp played casino or lottery with the economy and some time they win.. and if
they fail, they request -as it happens today- a bailout with a QE, know called
a QT.. this scenario was never controlled by Central Banks .. there was not
such central command .. the system was a collage of conflicted interests easy
to be dismembered as it happen today when the over production feed by slaved
work in China did not match the raise in salaries expected (excpetion Germany
& 2 Scandinavian countries) .. since there was not purchasing power to buy
the over production the neoliberal system collapse … and all assurances given
by Insurance Co failed .. nothing to be secured during heavy time of volatility
.. the neoliberal system nest pa march, it has to be replaced .. and the IMF
cannot do anything save the already death system .. only a RIP ]
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"It's
All Gold"- Saudi King Arrives In DC, Books All Rooms At The Four Seasons.
S- by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2015
Over the past month or so, we’ve spent quite a bit of time
detailing the effect the death of the petrodollar has had on Saudi Arabia’s
financial position. Recapping briefly, Riyadh’s move to Plaxico itself in an
effort to bankrupt the US shale space late last year has forced the kingdom to
draw down its petrodollar reserves to ensure that ordinary Saudis aren’t
affected by plunging crude. Add in a proxy war (or two) and you get a budget
deficit of 20% to go along with the first current account deficit in ages. The
cost of maintaining the riyal’s peg to the dollar doesn’t help either.
The king will reportedly discuss a number of rather pressing
issues with the Obama administration including Riyadh's involvement in Yemen,
where, as we detailed on Thursday, a former US counterterrorism "success
story" is now on the verge of splitting
into two separate countries. Of course the Iran nuclear deal will also come
up, especially in light of the fact that, as The New York Timesnoted
earlier this week, "Republicans are considering legislative options to
counter the deal, including the possible reimposition of sanctions the
agreement is supposed to lift," now that the President has secured the
support he needs to sustain a veto of a GOP challenge.
Perhaps more importantly, the two leaders will also discuss
Syria and oil prices, with the latter issue now having a rather outsized impact
on America's shale producers as well as on US majors' capex plans. Needless to
say, the real question from a geopolitical perspective is whether Obama and
King Salman come to any closed-door agreements on Syria where, as Al
Jazeera delicately puts it, the US and Saudi Arabia are set to orchestrate
a "managed political transition."
Meanwhile, over at The White House blog:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-04/red-carpet-rolled-out-saudi-king-arrives-washington-books-all-222-rooms-four-seasons . IMAGE
URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user92183/imageroot/2015/09/Typo%3F_0.png
[ no es el amor al
“ugly” cerdo bien perfumado- .. es el amor a los chicharrones ..
a los petro$$ que ya no sirven ni para limpiar el asco que deja el cerdo criminal de
Yemen. … Alguna vez un Pdte americano dijo que apoya a los dictadores de
fuera porque “son mis hijos de p…” Esto incluye al cerdo Saudi ]
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With Labor Day upon us, newspapers across the US will
be printing op-eds calling for a mandated “living wage” and higher wages in
general. In many cases, advocates for a living wage argue for outright
mandates on wages; that is, a minimum wage set as an arbitrary level
determined by policymakers to be at a level that makes housing, food, and
health care “affordable.” All in all, it’s quite a bizarre strategy the
living-wage advocates have settled on. It consists of raising the prices of
consumer goods via increasing labor costs. Real wages then go down, and, at the
same time, many workers lose their jobs to automation as capital is made
relatively less expensive by a rising cost of labor. While the goal
of raising the standard of living for workers and their families is laudable,
it’s apparent that living wage advocates haven’t exactly thought things
through.
[ Failed??.. not yet .. save your crocodile tears.. Moral
argument?? .. if the raise of salaries compensate the loses the working classes
got in this decaying system.. and if such raise create a balance with the
amount of money given away to rich people in America, the 1%, the bankers &
big Corp from Wall Street via the QEs coming.. know called QT.. This is the
time to implement a new Glass-Steagle Act.. but it seems the Fed Govt plans to
serve the 1% .. that is not a moral argument
]
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[ Both QE & QT are evil twins.. they serve the same
interest: the greed of big bankers & big Corps ]
QT will be a fresh dose of domestic QE. That means the Fed
will not only have to shelve its plan to allow its balance sheet to run down (a
plan I never thought remotely feasible from the moment it was announced), but
to launch QE4, and watch its balance sheet swell towards $10 trillion. Of
course, these monetary crosscurrents should finally be enough to
capsize the U.S. dollar.
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Bread
& Circuses: The Shady, Slimy & Corrupt World Of Taxpayer Funded Sports
Stadiums. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 09/04/2015
Like pretty much everything in the modern U.S. economy,
wealthy and connected people fleecing taxpayers in order to earn even greater
piles of money is also the business model when it comes to sports
stadiums. … Many cities have tried to make voter approval mandatory before
these building boondoggles get started, but in almost all cases these efforts
are thwarted by a powerful coalition of businessmen and corrupt politicians.
Sound familiar? Yep, it a microcosm for pretty much everything else in
America these days.
[ It is Circus with degraded bread .. since 2008 the bread
quantity & quality have been degraded little by little, as happens with
other consumer products in America .. so we’re paying more price for less ]
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Here
Are The "Unlikely" Cities Bloomberg Says Will Drive The US Economy.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2015
"STEM (science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics), health, and business majors are the highest paying." Here's
where to look for lucrative STEM employment.
[ What I see in Pgh PA is the creation of new “universities” in
which they do not care for STEM.. just a “for profit business” intending to get
money from the poor middle classes.. Certainly rich students go to Univ who
really care for STEM .. but if there is not labor market for them .. the
graduated has to do gardening in the house of their parents .. STEM abilities
become wasted time & money ]
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The most incredible aspect of Hillary’s e-mail scandal is
the media’s total dismissal of a simple fact — Hillary DID NOT
use the government’s e-mail system — she used her own. She claimed she
was unaware that you could have two e-mails on one phone. That alone
shows that she is not qualified to be president.
[ The last statement is true ..
but may be true also that Mrs Clinton didn’t have money to silence Mr Martin
Armstrong’s voice .. perhaps his arm was not strong but too big , as defected
by DU.. los gitanos no se sacan la suerte entre ellos .. crook people knew well
their tricks to waste time talking themselves ]
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Weekend
Reading: View From The Edge. by
Lance Roberts via STA Wealth Management, S- by Tyler
Durden on 09/04/2015
"Time will tell who is right. But
remember that we live in an era where computer trading dominates the American
stock market. The "robots" that are making a lot of trading calls
aren't sitting around pondering China's economy. They are paying attention to
whether stocks fall below key levels. What are those levels? No one knows
exactly. But these two metrics are worth watching. If these thresholds
are crossed, both computer and human traders will consider it a game-changer
point."
[ Meanwhile we have
to pray old saints that don’t make miracles anymore.. what an idiocy! ]
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No
Inflation Friday: The Government Admits Its Own Statistics Are Phony. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2015
We can look at official statistics to get a sense of
inflation, but these numbers are totally meaningless. When I was a
kid, my father earned enough money to support his family with a single salary.
We had a house, a car, an occasional vacation, and we never missed a meal. All
on one income. But those days are long gone. Now it’s almost obligatory
to live in a dual-income household just to make ends meet. The official
statistics never paint this picture.
[ Our neoliberal
system is collapsing .. do not look behind.. history can kill you.. If you
insist in history.. search for FDR New Deal and his Glass-Steagall ACT.. that
will renew your sense of life ]
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Fallout
From Petrodollar Demise Continues As Qatar Borrows $4 Billion Amid Crude Slump.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2015
As Bloomberg reports, Qatar is now doing the same, "raising
money from local banks as the slump in oil prices buffets the finances of the
Middle East’s largest oil and gas exporters.". READ also: End
Of Cheap Fossil Fuels Could Have More Severe Consequences Than Thought
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Why
Capital Is Fleeing China: The Crushing Costs Of Systemic Corruption. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2015 [Capital Is Fleeing
China? vs. crook US capital is banned in China ]
Corruption isn't just bribes and influence-peddling: it's
protecting the privileges of the few at the expense of the many. Rampant
pollution is corruption writ large: the profits of the polluters are being
protected at the expense of the millions being poisoned. What China
will be left with a poisoned land stripped of talent and capital.
[ If the US bomb China .. is the US that will be left with a
poisoned land stripped of talent and capital]
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Pentagon
Admits Russian Spy Ship Discovered Near US Submarine Base, Heading For Cuba.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2015 [ Is this pure
psychopathic paranoia or calculated plan to attack RU? ]
On
the heels of the unprecedented proximity of 5 Chinese naval ships in the Bering
Sea, U.S. military satellites have been tracking a Russian spy
ship - capable of cutting undersea communications cables and other
sensors - since it was spotted in the north Atlantic last month off the
coast of Kings Bay, Ga., home to the U.S. Navy’s East Coast ballistic
missile submarine fleet. As FOX News reports, The
Pentagon says the ship is transiting toward its next destination - Cuba.
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While conspiracy theories of Trump's run as a disruptive
influence in the Republican ranks to 'help' Hillary seems to be floundering
following his pledge and jibes yesterday, it appears the two have more in
common than anyone could have believed. It turns out Hillary
Clinton and Donald Trump are distant cousins - sharing royal blood that runs
deep in their family lines. No wonder The Oligarchy is so
comfortable ruling over us serfs.
[ More than close cousins they are two sides of the same dirty
coin.. the billionaire oligarchy dreaming to alternate in power to reproduce the neoliberal system .. just
when this system became obsolete ]
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Copper prices are in free-fall this morning, slammed lower
by the "good-enough" jobs data. But we suspect the real reason lies
elsewhere... According to Gartman “WE MAY HAVE ALREADY SEEN COMMODITY
BOTTOM” Image URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2015/09/20150904_copper1.jpg
"I do think that the
worst is absolutely behind us because all anyone ever talks about is how awful
the commodity market is. I think for the first time in a long time it's proper
to be bullish commodities; they may still go down some but I have my severe
doubts." Gartman http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-04/why-copper-collapsing
[ This trend will affect severely the Economy of Chile, Peru
& other exporters of copper ]
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Record
94 Million Americans Not In The Labor Force; Participation Rate Lowest Since
1977. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 09/04/2015
According to the BLS, the main reason why the unemployment
rate tumbled to the lowest since April 2008 is because another 261,000
Americans dropped out of the labor force, as a result pushing the total number
of US potential workers who are not in the labor force, to a record 94 million,
an increase of 1.8 million in the past year, and a whopping 14.9 million since
the start of the second great depression in December 2007.
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Europe's
Refugee Crisis Solved? An Egyptian Billionaire Has A 'Solution'. S-by Tyler
Durden on 09/04/15
With
the refugee crisis in Europe reaching epidemic levels and European leaders
impotent, it appears an Egyptian Billionaire has a solution. As
Al-Arabiya reports, Naguib Sawiris has offered to buy an island
off Greece or Italy and develop it to help hundreds of thousands of people
fleeing from Syria and other conflicts.
[ What is the difference between “solitary confinement” and this solution for the refugees? .. or the
plan is to create a private prison with cheap-slaved people inside? .. or worse even if this billonaire is a muslim
neo-nazi and the real plan is to bomb the Island “by mistake” .. In whatever
case, billonaires are the most stupid animals regarding policy making .. This
won’t solve either the socio-economic problem of refugees .. or the moral
responsibility of the US-EU-NATO whose
wars created this mess ]
Read my short story
tell #57: “Me compre una isla full of slaves”
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NEOLIBERAL HAPPINESS? Read these ones: Dow
Dumps 600 Points From Last Friday's Panic-Buying Ramp, Drops 10% Year-To-Date. And this one: "We've
Run Out Of Buyers" - Half Of Homes In New York Are Now Losing Value.
Plus this one: Bull Or Bear?. And
this naïve hope: Must Be The
Weather? . All of them in todays http://www.zerohedge.com/ Friday 9/4/15
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If wage growth for
supervisory workers was indicative of the overall work force, the Fed could
indeed claim mission accomplished and hike not 0.25% but 2.5%. There is a
problem: supervisory workers only make up 17.5% of the US work force. As
such, their wage gains are anything but indicative of the vast 140 or so
million US workers. What about the wages for the remaining 82.5% of US
workers: the non-supervisory one. Here is the answer... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-04/not-so-fast-those-rising-wages
. An here the image URL with a different picture: http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2015/08/all%20wages_0.jpg
This means that on an inflation
adjusted basis, 82% of the US population can't even keep up with inflation!
Source : BLS
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Putin:
Assad Would "Accept" Snap Elections To Avoid "Total Chaos".
Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 09/04/2015
"There is a
general understanding that joint efforts in the fight against terrorism should
go hand by hand with the political process in Syria. Assad agrees to this and
has also agreed to early parliamentary elections and to include healthy
opposition."
[ Bloomberg provide two conflicting arguments on this topic: 1st
their interpretation of Putin words and 2nd a quote from Putin saying totally different
things… quoted above:
1- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has
agreed to early parliamentary elections and to share some power with his
opponents, a concession that may facilitate a broader international coalition
against Islamic State, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
2- “There is a general understanding that
joint efforts in the fight against terrorism should go hand by hand with the
political process in Syria,” Putin said. Assad “agrees to this,” and has also
agreed to early parliamentary elections and to include “healthy opposition” in
the government, said Putin, a key ally of the Syrian president. Four Syrian
lawmakers couldn’t be immediately reached for comment.
So Bloomberg is not a reliable
source on this matter and RT didn’t say anything on it. This might be another
false-flag .. from either side: US-RU]
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-04/putin-assad-would-accept-snap-elections-avoid-total-chaos
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Three words - retest the
lows!
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INCREDIBLE
LIE & PRETEXT FOR WAR: Chinese
Warships Came Within 12 Miles Of U.S. Coast. Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2015
As WSJ reports, "Chinese navy ships off the coast of Alaska in
recent days weren’t just operating in the area for the first time: They
also came within 12 nautical miles of the U.S. coast, making a rare foray
into U.S. territorial waters, according to the Pentagon."
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Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 09/04/2015 - 07:36
- Jobs
Report Could Seal the Deal on Rates (WSJ)
- The
Jobs Report and the August Curse: Jobs Day Guide (BBG)
- Migrants
hold out on Hungarian 'freedom train'; Orban says millions coming (Reuters)
- Migrant
Crisis Divides Europe (WSJ)
- German
industry orders fall in July on weak foreign demand (Reuters)
- Alibaba’s
Jack Ma, Joe Tsai to Borrow $2 Billion Against Shares (WSJ)
- U.K.
Retailers Post Worst Sales Decline Since Financial Crisis (BBG)
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Previewing
The "Most Important Jobs Report Ever" - What Wall Street Expects.
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2015
Perhaps one of the most notable features of the upcoming
nonfarm payrolls report - which those with a flair for the dramatic have once
again dubbed the "most important ever" simply because it may
greenlight (or not) a Fed rate hike (any NFP print at 230K and above likely
assures a September move by the Fed - which Wall Street consensus sees rising
by 217K in August (although with Goldman a far below consensus 190K, and Wall
Street's biggest cheerleader Joe
LaVorgna predicting only 170K one has to wonder) is just how hard the
punditry is trying to talk it down, with everyone from Joe LaVorgna to
Bloomberg explaining why it is very likely that - due to seasonals only, and
nothing but seasonals - it will be a weak report, only to be revised higher.
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Futures
Slide More Than 1%, At Day Lows Ahead Of "Rate Hike Make Or Break"
Payrolls. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 09/04/2015
Moments ago, US equity futures tumbled to their lowest level
in the overnight session, down 22 points or 1.1% to 1924, following both Europe
(Eurostoxx 600 -1.8%, giving up more than half of yesterday's gains, led by the
banking sector) and Japan (Nikkei -2.2%), and pretty much across the board as
DM bonds are bid, EM assets are all weaker, oil and commodities are lower in
what is shaping up to be another EM driven "risk off" day. Only this
time one can't blame the usual scapegoat China whose market is shut for the
long weekend.
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YESTERDAY FLASHPOINT: Flashpoint:
White House Confirms Russian Presence In Syria, Warns It Is
"Destabilizing". Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 09/03/2015
[ So, the plan is to attack both of them: RU & China with a
1st strike at the same time … Does the Pentagon knows the
consequences of this attack.. if they expect no answer.. Nato’s are stupid ]
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Who
Is Responsible for the Refugee Crisis in Europe? Do not make stupid
questions. Just place your thesis & say for instance US-NATO wars
responsible for the refugee crisis in EU.
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Michael Hudson: Wall Street Parasites Have
Devoured Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
By Pam Marten
By Pam Marten
This is a dangerous book to the status quo. It is
truth-telling at its finest in America’s darkest age of entrenched lies.
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With large numbers of military forces operating in such
close proximity, anything could happen
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Barbed wire along the Hungarian border. Barbed wire at
Calais. Have we lost the one victory which we Europeans learned from the Second
World War – compassion?
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For individuals like myself, born inside the frontier and
soaked in its propaganda, the U.S. seems like A Very Important Thing.
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We expect the six year-long fake recovery to end much like
it did in 1929.
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NEWS IN SPANISH
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Cuba. La Revolución Cubana y las intervenciones del
imperialismo norteamericano en la década de los sesenta en América Latina. Jan Lust
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Colombia. -El logro de la paz será el triunfo más grande
del pueblo colombiano. Delegación de paz de las FARC-EP
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PRESS TV
‘US
expanding surveillance of Russia’. Fri Sep 4, 2015 Washington
has expanded surveillance operations against Moscow, a political analyst from
Virginia says.
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Yemeni
forces kill 66 foreign troops. Fri Sep 4, 2015 Yemeni forces kill at
least five Bahraini, 16 Saudi and 45 UAE troops in one day.
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'Iran
to help Afghanistan restore security'. Fri Sep 4, 2015 The Iranian
interior minister says Iran is ready to help restore peace and security to
Afghanistan.
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'Congress
run by corrupt Israel lobby'. Fri Sep 4, 2015 Opposition against the
Iran nuclear accord in Washington highlights Israel's “enormous” influence on
US foreign policy, a peace activist says.
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Wages
declining for US workers : Study. Fri Sep 4, 2015 Wages have declined
in the US since the 2009 recession and the lowest-paid workers are experiencing
the steepest declines, a new study says.
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Obama
hosts Saudi king at WH. Fri Sep 4, 2015 Obama will host Saudi Arabia’s
King Salman on Friday at the White House, where the two will discuss the Iran
agreement among other things.
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