A HEGEMONIA SOBRE TODA A TERRA :

Global research - R.T. News - Sep 2015 - clik 1 - clik 2 
EUA joga bombas, daí Europa calada e submissa arca com 3 milhões refugiados, e com culpa.

Starting in 2011 in Libya, the United States dropped bombs on Libya in order to replace Muammar Gaddafi. The EU is now tearing itself apart with guilt-feelings at European nations’ responses to the refugee-crisis that was caused by this American bombing-campaign in Libya, and then by the one in Syria. Europe has also received refugees from the American-sponsored bombing-campaign in eastern Ukraine (the bombing-campaign that the 2014 American-installed anti-Russian Ukrainian government calls an ‘Anti-Terrorist Operation,’ or ‘ATO,’ which labels the residents in that pro-Russian area — where the residents reject the February 2014 U.S. coup — as ‘Terrorists’ and thus as being suitable to be bombed, and even firebombed). And yet, despite these millions of U.S.-caused refugees into Europe, European nations still permit U.S. troops to remain stationed on European soil decades after the entire reason for NATO’s very existence (which was protection of Europe against a communist invasion from the east) ended. 

(The Soviet Union’s equivalent Warsaw Pact had dissolved and ended in 1991, when the Soviet Union itself did — yet NATO continued on, and constantly touts ‘the Russian threat,’ just as it did the Soviet threat, as if there were no change when communism collapsed, as if the ideological reason for the Cold War had been fake all along. There is no justification whatsoever for «the New Cold War».) Russia is now responding to this new American-created hostility of Europeans against Russia, by its matching this newly transformed now anti-Russian NATO’s war-games against Russia, with similar Russian defensive maneuvers to prepare for an increasingly possible NATO invasion into Russia. So: the current refugee-crisis was, in fact, caused by America’s continuing obsession to destroy Russia — an obsession that the EU goes along with, and now suffers greatly from, not only because of loss of their Russian trading-partner, but because of the influx into Europe of millions of refugees that were caused by this New Cold War. This crisis was not caused by Russia’s defensive measures against an increasingly aggressive NATO. It was caused by U.S. aggressions, which the EU continues to endorse. 

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"Por décadas EUA incendeia a região, destruiu Iraque e Líbia, agora é a vez da Síria".

The head of Austria's opposition Freedom Party has censured the United States and the NATO for sparking the ongoing refugee crisis that has engulfed European countries. "The USA and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Libya with their military intervention, bombs and missiles; provided financial, logistical and military support to the opposition against President [Bashar al-] Assad in Syria, and thus made possible the destruction, chaos, suffering," and Takfirism in the region, Heinz-Christian Strache wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday. Strache also scorned what he called US President Barack Obama's suggestion that Europe should bear the main responsibility for dealing with the influx of asylum seekers hailing from conflict-stricken parts of the globe in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. "The USA for decades has started fires in the Middle East and then has … the chutzpah to claim that responsibility for the flood of refugees unleashed lies with Europe. That's geostrategic detribalization at its finest," he wrote.

YouTube VIDEO - Sep 2015 - clik 1 
Mas a sórdida mídia joga culpa no governo sírio e nos terroristas - mas omite que EUA os apoia.


YouTube VIDEO - Fox News - Sep 2015 - clik 1 
Teatro do absurdo: mídia quer que o eleito governo sírio pare de resistir aos terroristas.

Fox News recently decided to tackle the refugee crisis in Europe. Caitlin McFarland, a Fox News 'National Security Analyst' was quick to blame… Russia and China. Why? Because they're "sending weapons that have kept the civil war war going", and thus caused the refugee crisis. She of course made no mention of US weapons, special forces, and explicit drive for regime change in Syria...

But the Fox News anchor went one step further than McFarland's lie-by-omission by suggesting that the waves of refugees heading for Europe are being "sloughed off" onto Europe by the two Eurasian powers. Why? To "give Europe something to deal with." You will be hard pressed to find a clearer example of WASHINGTON policy revealed via US media talking points...

YouTube VIDEO - Sep 2015 - clik 1 

Rússia e Irã vão à guerra ao lado do governo sírio, contra ISIS.

O COLAPSO DO IMPÉRIO :

YouTube VIDEO - USA WatchDog - Greg Hunter - Sep 2015 - clik 1 - clik 2 
Bilionário Hugo Salinas: "Jamais houve isto: será caos, colapso do sistema. Tudo é papel sem valor".

Mexican business magnate Hugo Salinas Price says that there are “many more” devaluations coming for China’s currency. Salinas Price thinks that many other countries will cut the value of their currencies because the world economy is in deep trouble. Salinas Price contends, “When China does this, that is very serious. Already, the United States is receiving huge quantities of Chinese goods. It has an enormous trade deficit with China, and now that they devalued, it’s going to get worse. There is going to have to be a corresponding move on the part of the United States. . . . This is going to be the beginning of a breakdown in international trade. Is the United States going to stand by because China continues to devalue? How much has the Chinese currency been devalued, not even 8%. That’s not going to help the Chinese much. When you have a devaluation, it has to be about 40%. Then it really has teeth in it. I think the Chinese will continue to devalue.”  Salinas Price points out the real problem comes from countries printing money out of thin air and goes on say, “This entire fiat money circus the world has been on is coming to a head. I see many comments from diverse people, and the problems are just mounting up. You have Greece with 11 million people, and if they get this last bit of money, they will have some $400 billion of debt. How can 11 million people work off a debt of $400 billion? It just can’t be done. The people running the euro are in dreamland.”

It’s not just Greece or the European Union. Salinas Price, an 83 year old billionaire, says, “The world has never been in such a plight. The world has never gotten into such a situation—never. The United States receives goods from China and sends them dollars, and they can send them any amount of dollars. . . . There is no longer balanced trade in the world. There are imbalances that are built into the system. What that has lead up to is this present chaos. This is going to come apart in a very ugly way sooner or later.”  The other big problem is the huge amount of bond debt floating around in the world. The central banks are trying to “stop a deluge of liquidations.” Salinas Price explains, “It means that the owners of the debt get wiped out. Somebody owns all that debt. It can’t be liquidated. It’s going to go into default, and that will mean a loss for all those holders of debt. . . . People think they have jillions of dollars or euros or whatever currency, and it’s all going to come to nothing, it can’t be liquidated. The debtors cannot pay. . . .Greece is the whole world. The whole world is in huge debt, which is unpayable. . . . So, this thing is like a cloud that is hanging up there, and then it begins to rain. The whole debt is going to come down like a cloud burst. We are going to be drowning in worthless paper. . . . I think the world is going to have an epileptic fit.”  On gold, Salinas Price says, “I have a feeling we may be at a bottom in gold. I also think when we see a rising trend of gold, that will be the last rising trend that we see. It will lead to a new monetary order in the world. . . . When it starts rising again, it is going to rise a heck of a lot, and that will be the last rise in the price of gold because after that comes a new monetary order. I don’t think the world can wait or there will be anymore declines in the price of gold because of speculation. This is the last gasp for gold. . . . It will be leading up to a new world order.”

O COLAPSO DO IMPÉRIO :

YouTube VIDEO - R.T. News - Sep 2015 - clik 1 
"Problemas dos EUA têm origem doméstica; China é só pretexto".

Peter Schiff: U.S. problems are ‘homegrown’, China is not the problem. Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, to discuss the volatility in Chinese and US markets. Peter sees the US problem as both worse and homegrown. He expects the Fed to eventually respond with yet more quantitative easing.

YouTube VIDEO - R.T. News - Sep 2015 - clik 1 
"Economia não se recupera se antes não purgar uma recessão, mas o FED não deixa".


You Tube VIDEO - Info Wars - Sep 2015 - clik 1 
"FED está blefando:  logo mundo verá que juros não sobem, aí vende dólar - e aí é colapso".


YouTube VIDEO - Fox Business - Sep 2015 - clik 1 
"FED não pode subir juros: iria estourar a bolha economica que ele mesmo insuflou".

O COLAPSO DO IMPÉRIO :

YouTube VIDEO - Sep 2015 - clik 1 
"Bancos centrais atacando os sintomas, e não as causas".

Central Banks Address The Symptoms, Not The Causes - Marc Faber

O COLAPSO DO IMPÉRIO :

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EUA, Jim Rickards: "economia ficando mais e mais fraca, daí FED não vai elevar os juros".

Jim Rickards chief global strategist at West Shore Funds – to talk about the US economy.

O COLAPSO DO IMPÉRIO :

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As 6 mentiras que você vai ouvir, à medida que o colapso avança:

O establishment fez todos os esforços para ocultar os fundamentos do público através de distorções de grande alcance das estatísticas económicas. Contudo, os dias da desinformação eficaz em termos do sistema financeiro estão a chegar ao fim. Quando investidores e o público geral começa a absorver a realidade de que a economia global está na verdade a testemunhar um vasto cenário de crise e reconhece que os números reais são fraudulentos, este é o único recurso que banqueiros centrais e governos controlam a fim de convencer o público de que a crise que testemunha não é realmente uma crise. Isto equivale a dizer que o establishment tentará marginalizar os sinais de colapso que já não puder ocultar, como se tais sinais fossem de importância "mínima". Tal como ocorreu durante o início da Grande Depressão, haverá legiões de mentiras à medida que nos aproximamos da hora zero. Eis a questão: como SEMPRE disse, o colapso económico não é um evento singular, é um processo. A economia global tem estado no processo de colapso desde 2008 e nunca abandonou esse caminho. 

Aqueles que eram ignorantes aceitaram estatísticas do governo pelo seu valor facial e o manipulado mercado touro como legítimo, recusando-se a reconhecer o fundamental. Agora, com mercados a sofrerem recentemente uma das maiores quedas livres desde o crash de 2008/2009, eles estão a verificar a loucura das suas suposições, mas isso não significa de modo algum que as aceitarão ou que se desculparão por elas. Se há uma lição que aprendi bem durante meu tempo no Liberty Movemente, é nunca subestimar o poder do preconceito da normalidade (normalcy bias).

Aqui estão algumas mentiras que você ouvirá com o acelerar do colapso:

1) - A crise foi provocada pelo contágio chinês 

O crash da China tem importância não porque esteja a levar todas as outras economias ao crash. Ele tem importância porque a China é o maior importador/exportador do mundo e é um teste ácido para a saúde financeira de todos os outros países. Se a China está em queda, isto significa que não estamos a consumir e, se não estamos a consumir, então devemos estar falidos. O crash da China anuncia as nossas próprias condições económicas muito piores. É PORQUE os mercados ocidentais estão em desintegração juntamente com o da China, apesar das presunções dos media de referência. A verdade é que crash nas acções globais, o qual sem dúvida continuará ao longo dos próximos meses apesar de quaisquer adiamentos da ZIRP por parte do Fed é um resultado da decadência universal na infraestrutura orçamental. Praticamente toda nação individual neste planeta, toda economia soberana, permitiu que bancos centrais e internacionais envenenassem todos os aspectos dos seus respectivos sistemas com dívida e manipulação. Isto não é um problema de "contágio", é um problema sistémico de todas as economias por todo o mundo. 

2) - Cortes de taxa da China travarão o crash 

Não, não travarão. A China cortou taxas cinco vezes desde Novembro último e isto nada fez para deter a maré do seu colapso do mercado. Não estou certo da razão porque alguém pensaria que um novo corte de taxa conseguiria algo mais do que talvez um alívio da continuação da avalanche. 

3) - Não é um crash, é apenas o fim de um "Ciclo de Mercado" 

Esta é a mais ignorante das não explicações que já ouvi. Não existe tal coisa como um "ciclo de mercado" quando os mercados são suportados parcial ou totalmente por manipulação de moeda fiduciária. O nosso mercado não é de modo algum um mercado livre, portanto ele não pode comportar-se como um mercado livre e, assim, ele é um mercado atrofiado sem ciclos identificáveis. Oscilações em mercados de até 5%-6% para cima ou para baixo (por vezes ambos no mesmo dia) não fazem parte de um ciclo normal. Elas são um sinal de uma volatilidade cancerosa que decorre de uma economia à beira do desastre. 

4) - O Fed nunca elevará as taxas 

Não conte com isso. Declarações pública de entidades globais como o FMI, sobre a China por exemplo, têm argumentado que sua crise actual é simplesmente parte da "nova normal", um futuro no qual crescimento estagnado e padrões de vida reduzidos é o modo como as coisas serão. Espero que o Fed irá utilizar o mesmo exacto argumento para apoiar o fim das taxas de juro zero nos EUA, afirmando que o declínio da riqueza e dos padrões de vida americanos é uma componente natural da nova ordem económica mundial em que estamos a entrar. Esteja certo, marque minhas palavras, que dentro em breve o Fed, o FMI, o BIS e outros tentarão convencer o povo americano de que a erosão da economia e a perda do status de reserva mundial é realmente uma "coisa boa". Eles afirmarão que um dólar forte é a causa de todo o nosso sofrimento económico e que é necessária uma perda de valor. Enquanto isso, naturalmente, eles minimizarão as tragédias que resultarão quando a mudança rumo à desvalorização do dólar se abater sobre as cabeças do populacho. Uma alta da taxa pode não se verificar em Setembro. De facto, como previ no meu último artigo , o Fed já está a dar pistas de um atraso a fim de promover os mercados, ou pelo menos reduzir a actual carnificina a um nível mais administrável. Contudo, eles ELEVARÃO as taxas no futuro próximo, provavelmente antes do fim deste ano após algumas reuniões em alta tensão nas quais o mundo financeiro estará sentado à espera ansiosamente da palavra do alto. Por que elevaria taxas? Algumas pessoas não apreendem o facto simples de que a tarefa do Federal Reserve é destruir o sistema económico americano, não protegê-lo. Uma vez que se entende esta dinâmica, então tudo o que faz o banco central faz perfeito sentido. Um aumento de taxa ocorrerá exactamente porque é o que é necessário para mais uma vez desestabilizar a psicologia do mercado estado-unidense a fim de abrir caminho para o "grande recomeço económico" que o FMI e Christine Lagarde estão tão ansiosos por promover. 

5) - Esteja preparado para o QE4

Mais uma vez, não confie nele. Ou, no mínimo, não espere que um QE renovado tenha qualquer efeito duradouro sobre o mercado se for iniciado. Não há realmente sentido em apontar para o lançamento de um quarto programa QE, excepto ficar à espera de que o Fed de vez em quando instile esta possibilidade no media para enganar investidores. Primeiro, o Fed sabe que seria uma admissão aberta de que os últimos três QEs foram um fracasso absoluto e, apesar de a sua tarefa ser desmantelar a economia estado-unidense, não penso que procurem assumir culpa imediata por toda a confusão. O QE4 seria tão desastroso quanto o último programa de estímulo do BCE foi para a Europa, sem mencionar as últimas várias acções de estímulo do PBOC [Popular Bank of China]. Direi isto mais uma vez – estímulos com moeda fiduciária têm uma vida útil limitada e essa vida útil está ultrapassada para todo o globo. Os dias de mercados suportados artificialmente estão quase acabados e nunca voltarão. Vejo pouca vantagem para o Fed em trazer o QE4 para o quadro. Se o objectivo é descarrilar o dólar, essa actuação já está a caminho quando o FMI cuidadosamente estabelece o cenário para a entrada do Yuan no cabaz global de divisas do DES [Direitos Especiais de Saque] no próximo ano, ameaçando o status do dólar como reservas mundial. A China também continua a despejar centenas de milhares de milhões em Títulos do Tesouro (treasuries) dos EUA levando a uma corrida para um despejo dos mesmos por parte de outros países. O dólar como divisa é um morto ambulante e o Fed nem mesmo terá de imprimir no estilo da Alemanha de Weimar a fim de matá-lo. 

6) - Não é tão mau quanto parece 

Sim, é exactamente tão mau quanto parece se não pior. Quando o Dow pode abrir 1000 pontos abaixo na segunda-feira e a China pode perder todos os seus ganhos de 2015 no intervalo de algumas semanas apesar de medidas de estímulo institucionalizado que perduram há anos, então alguma coisa está muito errada. Isto não é um "soluço". Isto não é uma correcção que já atingiu o fundo. Isto é só o começo do fim. As acções não são um indicador previsional. Elas não seguem os fundamentos positivos ou negativos. As acções não entram em crash antes ou durante o desenvolvimento de uma economia enferma. As acções entram em crash depois de a economia já ter entrado em coma. As acções entram em crash quando o sistema já não tem salvação. Desde 2008, nada na estrutura da finança global foi salva e agora o edifício da banca central está ou incapaz ou não desejoso (acredito que ambos) de fornecer as ferramentas que nos permitam mesmo pretender que pode ser salvo. Vamos sentir o estrago agora, enquanto o establishment nos diz que tudo isso está dentro das nossas cabeças. 

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

Defense News - Sep 2015 - clik 1 
Cercando a Rússia, OTAN ativa seis novos comandos militares nos países de fronteira russa.

VILNIUS, Lithuania — NATO on Tuesday activated command units in six central and eastern European members to boost defense amid regional tensions over Russia's actions in Ukraine, Lithuania's defence ministry said. "NATO today officially activated NATO force integration units in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania," ministry spokeswoman Asta Galdikaite told AFP. The Baltic nation's foreign minister Linas Linkevicius said the move was "a clear sign that NATO takes it's commitments very seriously." "It is a clear message both to allies and, of course, opponents who have recently increased the tensions," the minister told AFP, without directly naming Russia.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will attend ceremonies in Vilnius Thursday formally inaugurating the string of units, an alliance statement said. The six multinational units with around 40 officers each were set up to facilitate the deployment of the newly forged NATO rapid reaction force and coordinate military drills. It is the latest NATO move to boost defenses in the eastern flank since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine last year. NATO has increased the number of military exercises, deployed planes and ships while the US pledged to keep heavy weapons in the region that lay behind the Iron Curtain a quarter of a century ago.

A HEGEMONIA SOBRE TODA A TERRA :

The Independent , UK - National Public Radio - WikiLeaks - Carta Capital - Outras Palavras - Le Monde Diplomatique - Sep 2015 clik1 clik2 clik3 clik4 clik5  clik6 
Corporação é Governo Mundial: ultra-capitalismo despótico tenta na surdina extinguir democracia.

Sobre salas blindadas e seus segredos : Num texto publicado há dias, por Outras Palavras, o sociólogo Michel Löwy expõe, em termos teóricos, a crescente tensão entre a voracidade do capitalismo e a fragilidade da democracia, acossada por um sistema que deseja reduzir todas as relações sociais a mercadoria. Para um exemplo concreto, considere este relato, feito pelo jornalista Robert Smith e publicado em 14/8 pelo diário britânico The Independent. “No porão do Capitólio [a sede do Legislativo dos EUA], há uma sala, blindada e a prova de som, e as únicas pessoas autorizadas a entrar são os senadores norte-americanos; e eles não podem levar seus assistentes, não podem levar seus telefones, eles não podem sequer tomar notas no interior da sala. Dentro desta sala, não estão os códigos para as armas nucleares, nem os arquivos da CIA, nem os documentos que nos contam que um alienígena aterrissou em Roswell. 

Não: nesta sala está o texto de um acordo comercial”. Não é ficção, mas algo muito concreto (ainda que desconhecido do público), contou The Independent. Dias antes, restrições idênticas haviam sido estabelecidas do outro lado do Atlântico. A Comissão Europeia determinou que o texto, em negociação, do Tratado Transatlântico de Comércio e Investimentos (TTIP, em inglês) só permaneça disponível, mesmo para os membros do Parlamento Europeu, numa “sala de leitura”, onde enfrentarão restrições idênticas às impostas aos senadores norte-americanos. Que são estes acordos comerciais, tramados tão secretamente por governos e grandes corporações, quase sem cobertura alguma por parte da velha imprensa? Quais suas consequências? De que maneira eles podem afetar o Brasil? Responder a estas questões será cada vez mais importante, para os que desejam compreender as configurações atuais do capitalismo – e enfrentar seu poder. À margem de qualquer debate democrático e da própria Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC), três grandes acordos sobre trocas internacionais estão em debate, em fóruns restritos, neste momento. Seu principal motor é o governo dos Estados Unidos. 

São eles:

- Acordo Comercial Transpacífico (TTP, ou Transpacific Trade Partnership, em inglês). Unirá, se aprovado, os Estados Unidos a dez países asiáticos (entre eles, Japão e Coreia do Sul), quatro latino-americanos (México, Chile, Peru e Colômbia), mais Austrália e Nova Zelândia. A China, hoje a nação que mais movimenta o comércio internacional, está propositalmente excluída.

- Acordo Transatlântico de Comércio e Investimentos (TTIP, ou Transatlantic Trade and Investiments Partnership). Reúne a nata do capitalismo: Estados Unidos e União Europeia (UE). Debatido sigilosamente ao menos desde 2006 (versões anteriores da mesma proposta datam do final do século passado), só teve seu rascunho revelado em março de 2014, graças a um vazamento do jornal alemãoDie Zeit.

- Acordo sobre Comércio de Serviços (TiSA, ou Trade in Services Agreement). É o mais opaco de todos – e também o mais abrangente e perigoso. Inclui 53 países: Estados Unidos, toda a União Europeia (UE), a maior parte dos membros do TTP (inclusive Japão e Coreia), mais nações como Turquia, Paquistão, Suíça e, talvez surpreendentemente, Uruguai). 

A partir de junho de 2014, uma série devazamentos do Wikileaks revelou seus primeiros rascunhos. Talvez por seu caráter secreto, o acordo encarna abertamente, como se verá a seguir, cláusulas de bloqueio à democracia. Nenhum membro dos BRICS foi convidado. Mas qual o conteúdo e o sentido político dos acordos? Embora as informações disponíveis sejam muito fragmentárias, devido à natureza ultra-sigilosa das negociações, os vazamentos permitem, aos poucos, compreender o essencial. Fala-se, na fachada, em facilitar circulação de riquezas e conhecimentos. Mas impõe-se um preço amargo: favorecimento das grandes corporações transnacionais; restrição severa da democracia, com bloqueio da capacidade das sociedades e Estados para definir suas próprias leis; ataques aos direitos sociais e ao ambiente. Como este passo é possível?

Tratados secretos para instituir tribunais secretos: suplantar as soberanias de 53 países.

Mas TTP, TTIP e TiSA não buscam apenas abrir, em todo o mundo, o setor de serviços às corporações planetárias. Um segundo objetivo épadronizar as legislações dos países signatários sobre temas cruciais como sistema financeiro, seguridade social, produção e circulação do conhecimento, liberdade na internet, segurança alimentar. Adotada a pretexto de facilitar a “livre circulação” de serviços, esta uniformização tem, curiosamente, mão única. Em todos os casos, atende a reivindicações das transnacionais e atinge direitos sociais e meio-ambiente. O ISDS é um claro limite à própria democracia. Ele permite que empresas (tratadas como “investidores”) processem Estados Nacionais sempre que julgarem que uma nova decisão política provocou redução de lucros – mesmo que não tenha atingido nenhum direito adquirido. A redução da jornada de trabalho, ou a demarcação de uma terra indígena, que interrompe a extração de minérios ou madeira, são casos típicos. Segundo os novos acordos, o julgamento das ações judiciais movidas como base no ISDS não se faz nos tribunais nacionais, como revela o site FullFact – mas sim em cortes de exceção. Trata-se de “tribunais arbitrais”, onde os processos não são públicos e os “juízes” são, frequentemente, advogados de grandes empresas. Alguns casos concretos esclarecem como agem tais cortes. 

Visa protecionismo, e é com EUA no centro: aí isola China e BRICS.

É impossível examinar a relação dos países envolvidos na negociação dos três acordos sem surpreender-se, de cara, com cinco ausências notáveis. Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul estão excluídos simultaneamente do TTP, TTIP e TiSA. As cinco nações reúnem quase metade (42%) dos habitantes do planeta e 20% do PIB global. Suas reservas externas superam 5 trilhões de dólares. Todas são participantes destacados do comércio internacional. Juntas, criaram um bloco que representa uma das grandes novidades geopolíticas do século e estão avançando para constituir alternativas ao FMI e ao Banco Mundial. Por que curioso motivo os 59 participantes1 do esforço para estabelecer os três acordos preferiram o Paraguai ao Brasil; Brunei à China; o pequenino Liechtenstein à Rússia; o Panamá à África do Sul? O sociólogo Immanuel Wallerestein começou a explorar a resposta num texto recente sobre o tema. Ele desfaz um mito. Ao contrário do que gostam de dizer seus ideólogos, tratados como TiSA, TTP e TTIPnão estebelecem, argumenta Wallerstein, cenários de “livre” comércio. 

Esta condição só poderia ser alcançada se a redução de barreiras comerciais beneficiasse todos os países participantes do sistema de trocas internacionais. Não é disso que se trata, porém. Tanto os tratados em negociação agora quanto todos os de mesmo tipo que os precederam excluem certas nações. Seu caráter é, portanto, deprotecionismo – seja por interesse comercial, seja por razões geopolíticas. No artigo do Le Monde Diplomatique citado acima, Martine Bulard, arrisca um passo a mais. Para ela, a própria geografia das três áreas de “livre” comércio estabelecidas pelos acordos expõe o interesse e a ação norte-americana, expressa em dois grandes movimentos. O primeiro é ocupar o centro do cenário, na negociação de três tratados que terão, se forem adiante, importância capital para o capitalismo do século XXI. Não é à toa que os EUA são, além de principais impulsionadores do TTP, TTIP e TiSA, o único país presente ao mesmo tempo nas três negociações. O segundo movimento – ligado ao anterior porém mais específico – é isolar a China. Com o TTIP, Washington reforça sua aliança secular com a Europa Ocidental. Mas tanto TTP quanto TiSA visam reforçar o objetivo geopolítico e militar central acalentado pelos EUA nos últimos anos. Implica deslocar-se do Oriente Médio para a Ásia, onde, consideram os estrategistas norte-americanos, vai se dar a disputa crucial pela hegemonia planetária no século XXI. 

SUBJUGANDO O POVO AMERICANO :

Global Research - Prof. Michael Hudson - Counter Punch - Sep 2015 - clik 1 clik 2 
LIVRO: Wall Street é parasita, já devora hospedeiro EUA; modelo político-economico é cleptocracia.

The riveting writer, Professor Michael Hudson, has read our collective minds and the simmering anger in our hearts. Millions of American have long suspected that their inability to get financially ahead is an intentional construct of Wall Street’s central planners. Now Hudson, in an elegant but lethal indictment of the system, confirms that your ongoing struggle to make ends meet is not a reflection of your lack of talent or drive but the only possible outcome of having a blood-sucking financial leech affixed to your body, your retirement plan, and your economic future. In his new book, “Killing the Host,” Hudson hones an exquisitely gripping journey from Wall Street’s original role as capital allocator to its present-day parasitism that has replaced U.S. capitalism as an entrenched, politically-enforced economic model across America. This book is a must-read for anyone hoping to escape the most corrupt era in American history with a shirt still on his parasite-riddled back. 

Hudson writes from his most powerful perch in chapters describing how these financial parasites have tricked our society into accepting them as a normal, productive part of our economy. (Since we write about these thousands of diabolical tricks four days a week at Wall Street On Parade, poignant examples came springing to mind with every turn of the page in “Killing the Host.” From the well-placed articles in the Wall Street Journal to a front group’s pleas for more Wall Street handouts in a New York Times OpEd, to the dirty backroom manner in which corporate speech was placed on a par with human speech in the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, to Wall Street’s private justice system and the Koch brothers’ multi-million dollar machinations to instill Ayn Rand’s brand of “greed is good” in university economic departments across America — America has become a finely tuned kleptocracy with a sprawling, sophisticated public relations base. How else to explain, other than kleptocracy, the fact that Wall Street’s richest mega banks collect the life insurance proceeds and tax benefits on the untimely deaths of their workers – all codified into law by the U.S. Congress – making death a profit center on Wall Street. Or, as Frontline revealed, that two-thirds of your 401(k) plan over a working lifetime is likely to be lost to financial fees.

"O plano é fazer que indústria e mão-de-obra sirvam o setor financeiro, e não ao contrário".

Hudson writes: “A parasite’s toolkit includes behavior-modifying enzymes to make the host protect and nurture it. Financial intruders into a host economy use Junk Economics to rationalize rentier parasitism as if it makes a productive contribution, as if the tumor they create is part of the host’s own body, not an overgrowth living off the economy. A harmony of interests is depicted between finance and industry, Wall Street and Main Street, and even between creditors and debtors, monopolists and their customers.” What has evolved, says Hudson, is that Wall Street banks have “become the economy’s central planners, and their plan is for industry and labor to serve finance, not the other way around.” To gloss over the collapse of this depraved economic model in 2008, Hudson says these Wall Street central planners simply depict “any adverse ‘disturbance’ as being self-correcting, not a structural defect leading economies to fall further out of balance. 

Any given development crisis is said to be a natural product of market forces, so that there is no need to regulate and tax the rentiers.” Similarly, when citizens rise up en masse to demand a realignment of their economy, as happened with the Occupy Wall Street movement, first the public relations masterminds dismiss them as an unhinged gathering of smelly hippies, followed by their violent eviction in the middle of the night, with military precision, by the Praetorian Guard of the kleptocracy. In Manhattan, the Praetorian Guard (NYPD) has a high-tech surveillance center mutually staffed by cops and Wall Street personnel – and mainstream media find nothing unusual about this. Hudson correctly calls 2008 a “dress rehearsal,” writing that “Wall Street convinced Congress that the economy could not survive without bailing out bankers and bondholders, whose solvency was deemed a precondition for the ‘real’ economy to function. The banks were saved, not the economy.” Hudson adds that the “debt tumor” was left in place. (This is the nightmare we are presently watching unfold.) The result of the systemic disabling of regulations on Wall Street has resulted in the following, says Hudson: “…the wealthiest One Percent have captured nearly all the growth in income since the 2008 crash. Holding the rest of society in debt to themselves, they have used their wealth and creditor claims to gain control of the election process and governments by supporting lawmakers who un-tax them, and judges or court systems that refrain from prosecuting them. Obliterating the logic that led society to regulate and tax rentiers in the first place, think tanks and business schools favor economists who portray rentier takings as a contribution to the economy rather than as a subtrahend from it.” (But, of course, those business schools are financially incentivized to think that way.)

"Fazer parasita parecer natural apêndice à economia saudável".

The outgrowth of these tricks to make parasites appear to be a natural appendage to a well-functioning economy results in a “veritable Stockholm Syndrome.” Hudson explains: “Popular morality blames victims for going into debt – not only individuals, but also national governments. The trick in this ideological war is to convince debtors to imagine that general prosperity depends on paying bankers and making bondholders rich – a veritable Stockholm Syndrome in which debtors identify with their financial captors.” Hudson has much to say on the perversity of corporations buying back their own stock. In one chapter, Hudson writes: “In nature, parasites tend to kill hosts that are dying, using their substance as food for the intruder’s own progeny. The economic analogy takes hold when financial managers use depreciation allowances for stock buybacks or to pay out as dividends instead of replenishing and updating their plant and equipment. Tangible capital investment, research and development and employment are cut back to provide purely financial returns.” On the timely debate over wealth and income inequality, Hudson writes that “Asset-price inflation is the primary dynamic explaining today’s polarization of wealth and income. 

Yet most newscasts applaud daily rises in the stock averages as if the wealth of the One Percent, who own the great bulk of stocks and other financial assets, is a proxy for how well the economy is doing. What actually occurs is that financing corporate buyouts on credit factors interest payments and fees into the prices that companies must charge for their products.” Where this leads, says Hudson, is that “Paying these financial charges leaves less available to invest or hire more labor. Likewise for the overall economy, the effect of a debt-leveraged real estate bubble and asset-price inflation is that interest payments and fees to bankers and bondholders leave less available to spend on goods and services. The financial overhead rises, squeezing the ‘real’ economy and slowing new investment and hiring.” Hudson is clearly on to something. The U.S. seems to be crashing like clockwork every 8 years with the crashes gaining in intensity. The 2000 dot.com crash wiped $4 trillion out of investment accounts while, 8 years later, the 2008 crash brought down the whole financial system, the U.S. and global economy, and it’s still producing a dead weight on economic growth. Next year will mark the eighth year since the 2008 crash and if last week’s market convulsions were any indication, we’re in for some very rough sledding.

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YouTube VIDEO - USA Watchdog - Greg Hunter - Sep 2015 - clik 1 - clik 2 
"EUA vai entrar em colapso, é só uma questão de tempo".

Boston University Economics Professor , and renowned economist Laurence Kotlikoff recently testified at the U.S. Senate about the runaway U.S. budget. How bad is it? Kotlikoff says, “I told them the real (2014) deficit was $5 trillion, not the $500 billion or $300 billion or whatever it was announced to be this year. Almost all the liabilities of the government are being kept off the books by bogus accounting. . . . The government is 58% underfinanced . . . . Social Security is 33% underfinanced . . . . So, the entire government enterprise is in worse fiscal shape than Social Security is, but they are both in terrible shape.” So, how much is America on the hook for in the future? Kotlikoff contends, “If you take all the expenditures that the government is expected to make, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), all the spending on defense, repairing the roads, paying for the Supreme Court Justices’ salaries, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, everything and take all those expenditures into the future . . . and compare that to all the taxes that are projected to come in, and the difference is $210 trillion. That’s the fiscal gap. That’s our true debt.”

Professor Kotlikoff goes on to say, “It will collapse. It is just a matter of when. I can’t say when, but all I can say it’s going to be too late. . . . We are seeing signs of this in the economy, but we are not picking it up that clearly. The macro economy is not doing all that well.” Kotlikoff goes on to say, “I think our financial system is really built to fail because it combines two things which really haven’t been addressed. . . . It combines leverage, borrowing by the financial middlemen and then investing in things that they don’t tell you they are investing in. So, there is opacity and leverage. These are the two major problems for the banking system. What we need to do is get rid of the leverage and get rid of the opacity. We need full disclosure of the investments of our financial institutions.” Where can you get a safe investment? Kotlikoff says forget U.S. Treasury bonds. “I think they are one of the riskiest securities in the world because interest rates are likely to go up. I think the Fed is going to have to keep printing money because Congress isn’t paying our bills, and that’s going to lead to inflation eventually. So, I think long term Treasuries are extremely risky, and they can drop 5%, 10% or 20% overnight. That could put my bank that was viewed as perfectly safe today out of business. So we could have inflation take off and interest rates go up. We could have banks fail, and that could lead to runs on other banks. That’s the scenario,” says Professor Kotlikoff.

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YouTube - R.T. News - Kaiser Report - Ron Paul Institute - Russia Insider .
Aug 2015 - clik 1 - clik 2 - clik 3 
Colapso vivido agora, mercados em pânico. Aí mídia desvia, culpa a China, sauditas - vale tudo.

The chaos in world financial and commodities markets has its origins in the policy paralysis in the US and will hasten the end of the dollar’s pre-eminent position as the world’s reserve currency. 

What explains the extraordinary volatility in world markets? The Western financial press is blaming China and Saudi Arabia. China’s economy is supposedly slowing and facing a “hard landing”, supposedly forcing it to devalue its currency to regain competitiveness, thereby allegedly increasing the risk of “currency wars” i.e. of competitive devaluations by countries seeking trade advantages over each other - as happened disastrously during the Great Depression of the 1930s. 

Falling Chinese demand for commodities caused by the slowing of China’s economy is supposedly what is causing the price of oil and of other commodities to fall. Saudi Arabia is being criticised for causing the oil rout, supposedly because it has miscalculated the resilience of US shale oil producers, and is foolishly ramping up production during a period of oversupply, instead of cutting it. I do not find either of these arguments convincing. Concerns about China do not reflect what the statistics coming out of the country are saying, and are hardly justified by what has so far been a very small devaluation, which seems to have been intended primarily to strengthen China’s demand that the IMF include its currency in the IMF’s reserve currency basket. For an explanation of the present instability one has to look not at Beijing or Riyadh but to the policy paralysis in Washington. In 2014 the US Federal Reserve Board finally brought its quantitative easing programme to an end. Everyone expected - and the Federal Reserve Board encouraged everyone to think - that this would be followed quickly by a rise in interest rates. As I have discussed many times previously, it was this apparent tightening of monetary policy in the US that caused oil prices to collapse last year. In the event, instead of the rise in interest rates everyone was expecting, the Federal Reserve Board, apparently evenly split between supporters and opponents of a rate increase, has held fire. 

Some of the reluctance to raise interest rates may be because economic performance in the US over the last year has been consistently below expectations, with productivity growth particularly bad. It is difficult however to avoid the feeling that behind the failure to take action is pressure from the Obama White House, worried about what an increase in interest rates would do to the Democrats’ chances of holding on to the Presidency in 2016. It is this uncertainty about the Federal Reserve Board’s intentions which is behind the instability in world markets. Since no one is sure what the authorities in charge of the world’s main reserve currency are doing or are going to do, no-one can plan ahead, so that positions are taken quickly and are reversed as quickly, as everyone nervously waits for the Federal Reserve Board to make up its mind.

That is why when it appeared last summer that the Federal Reserve Board was going to raise interest rates the oil price collapsed; why when it put off its decision to raise interest rates in the winter the oil price rallied; and why when talk it might be about to raise rates in September began to spread again during the summer the oil price collapsed again - taking other commodity prices down with it. It remains to be seen whether at the Federal Reserve Board’s forthcoming meeting in September a decision one way or the other is finally made. The very latest announcement suggests continued uncertainty. 

FED hesita, impotente - deflagra nervosismo. Mercados em pânico.

In the meantime - in the absence of a clear decision - the US risks ending up with the worst of all worlds: having the costs of high interest rates without the corresponding benefits. Talk of an imminent rise in interest rates must already be causing interest rates to US borrowers - including shale oil producers - to creep up, without however providing the benefit of higher interest rates to US savers, who have had to get by with almost zero interest rates since 2008. At the same time speculation that US interest rates are going to rise has caused the dollar to surge and the currencies of the US’s competitors to fall, pricing out US goods and ensuring that most of the benefit of the oil price fall goes to the US’s manufacturing competitors rather than to the US’s own manufacturers. US dithering on this key question is having another effect.  Governments and business people around the world - or at least outside the Western world - have long been exasperated at how their plans are constantly held hostage by the chaos in decision making in Washington and by the US’s narrow minded focus on its own interests. Once, not so long ago, US and Western economic predominance was so great this did not matter. Today that is no longer so. The result is increasing discussions around the world to end an international trade and financial system based around an increasingly erratic and unpredictable US and its currency, the dollar.  That ultimately is what all the discussions and agreements between Russia, China, the Eurasian states and the BRICS states, that happened this year, were all about. 

It is also what the discussions between the Russians and the Saudis, which have caused so much surprise and which have attracted so much comment, are also about. If the market instability of the last year shows the continued importance of the dollar, that same instability explains why the dollar is unlikely to retain that importance for very long. That is why when it appeared last summer that the Federal Reserve Board was going to raise interest rates the oil price collapsed; why when it put off its decision to raise interest rates in the winter the oil price rallied; and why when talk it might be about to raise rates in September began to spread again during the summer the oil price collapsed again - taking other commodity prices down with it. It remains to be seen whether at the Federal Reserve Board’s forthcoming meeting in September a decision one way or the other is finally made.  The very latest announcement suggests continued uncertainty. 

In the meantime - in the absence of a clear decision - the US risks ending up with the worst of all worlds: having the costs of high interest rates without the corresponding benefits. Talk of an imminent rise in interest rates must already be causing interest rates to US borrowers - including shale oil producers - to creep up, without however providing the benefit of higher interest rates to US savers, who have had to get by with almost zero interest rates since 2008. At the same time speculation that US interest rates are going to rise has caused the dollar to surge and the currencies of the US’s competitors to fall, pricing out US goods and ensuring that most of the benefit of the oil price fall goes to the US’s manufacturing competitors rather than to the US’s own manufacturers. US dithering on this key question is having another effect. Governments and business people around the world - or at least outside the Western world - have long been exasperated at how their plans are constantly held hostage by the chaos in decision making in Washington and by the US’s narrow minded focus on its own interests. Once, not so long ago, US and Western economic predominance was so great this did not matter. Today that is no longer so

The result is increasing discussions around the world to end an international trade and financial system based around an increasingly erratic and unpredictable US and its currency, the dollar. That ultimately is what all the discussions and agreements between Russia, China, the Eurasian states and the BRICS states, that happened this year, were all about. It is also what the discussions between the Russians and the Saudis, which have caused so much surprise and which have attracted so much comment, are also about. If the market instability of the last year shows the continued importance of the dollar, that same instability explains why the dollar is unlikely to retain that importance for very long.

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

The National Interest - Russian Insider - Aug 2015 - clik 1 - clik 2 
EUA amarga derrota na Ucrânia, busca saída menos humilhante. Ali Rússia dá as cartas do jôgo.

As we first disclosed in January, a debate is underway within the foreign policy establishment in Washington about what to do with the Ukrainian crisis. On the one hand are the realists, who appear to be led within the administration by Secretary of State John Kerry. Pitted against them are the hardliners, who include Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice, US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power and Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. Obama, characteristically, refuses to commit himself clearly to one side or the other. Instead, he tilts one way or the other, depending on which side appears stronger. 

Since the late autumn, as Russia’s help for the deal with Iran has moved into focus, and as it became clear that Russia would not let the Ukrainians overrun the Donbass, the balance of advantage has tilted towards the realists. However, as we discussed shortly after the Kerry-Putin meeting in Sochi, it is essential to understand the nature of the discussion. The realists in Washington are not friends of Russia. On the contrary, they think of Russia as an adversary - just as the hardliners do. The people we call the “realists” are not seeking friendship or a rapprochement with Russia. They simply see no sense in confronting Russia in Ukraine where Russia is strongest, whilst at the same time being willing to work with Russia on some issues such as the deal with Iran where there is a mutual interest in doing so. True realists, people like (from their very different perspectives) Henry Kissinger and the historian Stephen Cohen, who understand that US national interests are best served by good relations with Russia, and that these require an honest acknowledgement of Russia's legitimate interests, have no voice in the present administration, or in any likely succeeding one. An article (attached below) has just appeared in The National Interest, an international affairs magazine published by the Center for the National Interest, a US think-tank known to be close to the realists in the US foreign policy establishment, which provides a clear statement of their views, and which is obviously intended to make them public as part of the ongoing policy debate. What sets this article apart is its frank admission of the point we repeatedly make: in Ukraine it is Russia that holds all the high cards. That admission could not be made more clearly. In essence what the article says is that Ukraine matters a lot to Russia, but does not matter anything like as much to the US - and matters even less to the US’s European allies. The result is that US and EU support for Ukraine is essentially rhetorical. 

Though they talk big about backing Ukraine and “stopping Putin”, what they do in practice is less than little. The result is that Ukraine actually gets from the West microscopic amounts of economic and military support, whilst the West’s overblown rhetoric simply encourages it to engage Russia in a conflict it cannot win. The author of the article has previously warned against arming Ukraine. In this article he makes the point that if weapons deliveries to Ukraine are to be part of a deeper commitment involving some sort of grand policy to confront Russia, then the fact has to be made clear to the American and European publics, who have to be told of the consequences:  “….. if the advocates of this course see small arms deliveries as the first step in a substantially broader effort, they should be honest with the American people about their proposed objectives and the costs and benefits they foresee. If the United States is to make confronting Russia an organizing principle of its foreign policy, it will require an extended national commitment that will be unsustainable without broad public support (and difficult to pursue without virtually nonexistent European public support).” It is quite obvious from the rest of the article that the author does not believe public support either in the US or Europe for a policy of extended confrontation with Russia - in Ukraine or elsewhere - would be forthcoming. Recent opinion polls in the NATO states lend strength to that view. 

EUA atiçou Ucrânia à guerra, mas agora já rói a corda: não vai encarar Rússia no seu quintal.

Since the US cannot defeat Russia in Ukraine, the author draws the two obvious conclusions: first, that it is contrary to the US’s interests to encourage Ukraine to get drawn into a conflict with Russia, which it is bound to lose; and second, that it is better for the US to acknowledge these realities and seek a negotiated solution to the Ukrainian conflict, rather than court certain defeat. The author could not make these points more plainly. On the first, he puts it this way: “If the United States is not willing to make a commitment to defending Ukraine sufficient to ensure success, how can we encourage Ukrainians to fight and die in a conflict with a very powerful neighbor and with no clear endpoint?   Allowing the government in Kiev and the Ukrainians resisting Moscow to think that America is behind them when we are not—or when we are pretending to ourselves that we are—is functionally equivalent to encouraging the 1956 uprising in Hungary, or the 1991-92 Shi’ite uprisings against Saddam Hussein, and then watching the devastating consequences for the courageous people who believe us.”

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YouTube VIDEO - US WatchDog - Greg Hunter - Edward Griffin - Aug 2015 - clik 1 

"Ao fugir da corrosão no dólar, o mundo virá gasta-los aqui, isto inunda EUA, dá hiper-inflação".

Edward Griffin-Hyperinflation Going to Happen in US : “What will the next financial calamity look like to the man on the street? G. Edward Griffin, author of “The Creature from Jekyll Island,” explains, “The main mechanism that people will feel most directly will be the loss of value or purchasing power for their currency. The dollar will buy less and less and less as it has been doing, but it’s been sort of gradual and we get used to it. . . . When you look at the real cost of living, inflation is really pretty high now, but you haven’t seen anything yet compared to when the rest of the world does what it is now saying it is going to do. They are going to stop using the Federal Reserve Note as the international reserve currency. When they stop that, then we have no place to get rid of all these extra dollars we make up in the digital printing press. . . . When that stops, all those trillions and trillions of dollars that we have put overseas will come back to us because the people who hold them, like China for example, will say we can’t use these. Then they will use them to buy up anything they can here. They’ll buy our products . . . but they’ll also buy up our stocks and bonds and real estate. They’ll buy up our politicians or anything else that is for sale to get rid of those dollars as quickly as possible. When that happens all of these dollars will be flooding through our economy. You could say the price of a loaf of bread will be $100, and that is the kind of thing we will see and it maybe even worse. 

It will be just like we saw in Zimbabwe or Germany in the Weimar Republic.These things happen in history . . . and the United States is not exempt of the laws of economics. It is going to happen here. “All is not lost, according to Griffin, and it starts with something he calls ‘The Creed of Freedom.’ Griffin is working on global solutions to this massive bad leadership problem.” Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with economic and geopolitical expert G. Edward Griffin.