Donald Trump es elegido como el Presidente número 45 de los Estados Unidos.

[Philomena]

Bueno...esto es de US Today que ha mirado quien se ha hecho socio ultimamente del club de golf donde Trump va a jugar y de Mar a Lago

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...and-lobbyists-get-access-president/632505001/

Y que sorpresa....lobbystas que trabajan para Corea del Sur y para la industria armamentistica de EEUU.

Y que sorpresa tambien que llevemos 2 meses a todo trapo tocando tambores de guerra con Corea del Norte....con misiles volando por encima de Japon etc...

Adivinen quien va a necesitar comprar todo un lote de nuevos sistemas anti-misiles y armas de nueva generacion...por si acaso?
Pues Japon y Corea del Sur. Vendedor? Estados Unidos. De las comisiones ya nos enteraremos mas adelante....

 

[azafrán]

HILARY CLINTON = EL CAMINO A LA TIRANÍA DERROCADO.

Timothy McVeigh era inocente, Hillary Clinton culpable.
Traído de burbuja.info

 

[Eleonora de Toledo]

Chris Hedges On The End Of Empire: "The Death Spiral Appears Unstoppable"
By Tyler Durden
Created 10/03/2017 - 22:35
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by Tyler Durden [1]
Oct 3, 2017 10:35 PM
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Authored by Chris Hedges via TruthDig.com, [4]

The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe. It is burdened by growing deficits, along with the devastating effects of deindustrialization [5] and global trade agreements. Our democracy has been captured and destroyed by corporations that steadily demand more tax cuts, more deregulation and impunity from prosecution for massive acts of financial fraud, all the while looting trillions from the U.S. treasury in the form of bailouts. The nation has lost the power and respect needed to induce allies in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa to do its bidding. Add to this the mounting destruction caused by climate change and you have a recipe for an emerging dystopia. Overseeing this descent at the highest levels of the federal and state governments is a motley collection of imbeciles, con artists, thieves, opportunists and warmongering generals. And to be clear, I am speaking about Democrats, too.

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Source: Mr.Fish [7]

The empire will limp along, steadily losing influence until the dollar is dropped as the world’s reserve currency [8], plunging the United States into a crippling depression and instantly forcing a massive contraction of its military machine.

Short of a sudden and widespread popular revolt, which does not seem likely, the death spiral appears unstoppable, meaning the United States as we know it will no longer exist within a decade or, at most, two. The global vacuum we leave behind will be filled by China, already establishing itself as an economic and military juggernaut, or perhaps there will be a multipolar world carved up among Russia, China, India, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa and a few other states. Or maybe the void will be filled, as the historian Alfred W. McCoy [9] writes in his book “In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power,” by “a coalition of transnational corporations, multilateral military forces like NATO, and an international financial leadership self-selected at Davos and Bilderberg [10]” that will “forge a supranational nexus to supersede any nation or empire.”

Under every measurement, from financial growth and infrastructure investment to advanced technology, including supercomputers, space weaponry and cyberwarfare, we are being rapidly overtaken by the Chinese. “In April 2015 the U.S. Department of Agriculture suggested that the American economy would grow by nearly 50 percent over the next 15 years, while China’s would triple and come close to surpassing America’s in 2030,” McCoy noted. China became the world’s second largest economy in 2010, the same year it became the world’s leading manufacturing nation, pushing aside a United States that had dominated the world’s manufacturing for a century. The Department of Defense issued a sober report titled “At Our Own Peril [11]: DoD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World.” It found that the U.S. military “no longer enjoys an unassailable position versus state competitors,” and “it no longer can … automatically generate consistent and sustained local military superiority at range.” McCoy predicts the collapse will come by 2030.

Empires in decay embrace an almost willful suicide. Blinded by their hubris and unable to face the reality of their diminishing power, they retreat into a fantasy world where hard and unpleasant facts no longer intrude. They replace diplomacy, multilateralism and politics with unilateral threats and the blunt instrument of war.

This collective self-delusion saw the United States make the greatest strategic blunder in its history, one that sounded the death knell of the empire - the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. The architects of the war in the George W. Bush White House, and the array of useful idiots in the press and academia who were cheerleaders for it, knew very little about the countries being invaded, were stunningly naive about the effects of industrial warfare and were blindsided by the ferocious blowback. They stated, and probably believed, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, although they had no valid evidence to support this claim. They insisted that democracy would be implanted in Baghdad and spread across the Middle East. They assured the public that U.S. troops would be greeted by grateful Iraqis and Afghans as liberators. They promised that oil revenues would cover the cost of reconstruction. They insisted that the bold and quick military strike—“shock and awe”—would restore American hegemony in the region and dominance in the world. It did the opposite. As Zbigniew Brzezinski [12] noted, this “unilateral war of choice against Iraq precipitated a widespread delegitimation of U.S. foreign policy.”

Historians of empire call these military fiascos, a feature of all late empires, examples of “micro-militarism.” The Athenians engaged in micro-militarism when during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) they invaded Sicily, suffering the loss of 200 ships and thousands of soldiers and triggering revolts throughout the empire. Britain did so in 1956 when it attacked Egypt in a dispute over the nationalization of the Suez Canal and then quickly had to withdraw in humiliation, empowering a string of Arab nationalist leaders such as Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser and dooming British rule over the nation’s few remaining colonies. Neither of these empires recovered.



“While rising empires are often judicious, even rational in their application of armed force for conquest and control of overseas dominions, fading empires are inclined to ill-considered displays of power, dreaming of bold military masterstrokes that would somehow recoup lost prestige and power,” McCoy writes.



“Often irrational even from an imperial point of view, these micromilitary operations can yield hemorrhaging expenditures or humiliating defeats that only accelerate the process already under way.”

Empires need more than force to dominate other nations. They need a mystique. This mystique—a mask for imperial plunder, repression and exploitation—seduces some native elites, who become willing to do the bidding of the imperial power or at least remain passive. And it provides a patina of civility and even nobility to justify to those at home the costs in blood and money needed to maintain empire. The parliamentary system of government that Britain replicated in appearance in the colonies, and the introduction of British sports such as polo, cricket and horse racing, along with elaborately uniformed viceroys and the pageantry of royalty, were buttressed by what the colonialists said was the invincibility of their navy and army. England was able to hold its empire together from 1815 to 1914 before being forced into a steady retreat. America’s high-blown rhetoric about democracy, liberty and equality, along with basketball, baseball and Hollywood, as well as our own deification of the military, entranced and cowed much of the globe in the wake of World War II. Behind the scenes, of course, the CIA used its bag of dirty tricks to orchestrate coups, fix elections and carry out assassinations, black propaganda campaigns, bribery, blackmail, intimidation and torture. But none of this works anymore.

The loss of the mystique is crippling. It makes it hard to find pliant surrogates to administer the empire, as we have seen in Iraq and Afghanistan. The photographs of physical abuse and sexual humiliation imposed on Arab prisoners at Abu Ghraib inflamed the Muslim world and fed al-Qaida and later Islamic State with new recruits. The assassination of Osama bin Laden and a host of other jihadist leaders, including the U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki [13], openly mocked the concept of the rule of law. The hundreds of thousands of dead and millions of refugees fleeing our debacles in the Middle East, along with the near-constant threat from militarized aerial drones, exposed us as state terrorists. We have exercised in the Middle East the U.S. military’s penchant for widespread atrocities, indiscriminate violence, lies and blundering miscalculations, actions that led to our defeat in Vietnam.

The brutality abroad is matched by a growing brutality at home. Militarized police gun down mostly unarmed, poor people of color and fill a system of penitentiaries and jails that hold a staggering 25 percent of the world’s prisoners although Americans represent only 5 percent of global population. Many of our cities are in ruins. Our public transportation system is a shambles. Our educational system is in steep decline and being privatized. Opioid addiction, suicide, mass shootings, depression and morbid obesity plague a population that has fallen into profound despair. The deep disillusionment and anger that led to Donald Trump’s election - a reaction to the corporate coup d’état and the poverty afflicting at least half of the country - have destroyed the myth of a functioning democracy. Presidential tweets and rhetoric celebrate hate, racism and bigotry and taunt the weak and the vulnerable. The president in an address before the United Nations threatened to obliterate [14] another nation in an act of genocide. We are worldwide objects of ridicule and hatred. The foreboding for the future is expressed in the rash of dystopian films, motion pictures that no longer perpetuate American virtue and exceptionalism or the myth of human progress.

“The demise of the United States as the preeminent global power could come far more quickly than anyone imagines,” McCoy writes. “Despite the aura of omnipotence empires often project, most are surprisingly fragile, lacking the inherent strength of even a modest nation-state. Indeed, a glance at their history should remind us that the greatest of them are susceptible to collapse from diverse causes, with fiscal pressures usually a prime factor. For the better part of two centuries, the security and prosperity of the homeland has been the main objective for most stable states, making foreign or imperial adventures an expendable option, usually allocated no more than 5 percent of the domestic budget. Without the financing that arises almost organically inside a sovereign nation, empires are famously predatory in their relentless hunt for plunder or profit—witness the Atlantic slave trade, Belgium’s rubber lust in the Congo, British India’s opium commerce, the Third Reich’s rape of Europe, or the Soviet exploitation of Eastern Europe.”

When revenues shrink or collapse, McCoy points out, “empires become brittle.”



“So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly wrong, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, eleven years for the Ottomans, seventeen for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, just twenty-seven years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003 [when the U.S. invaded Iraq],” he writes.

Many of the estimated 69 empires that have existed throughout history lacked competent leadership in their decline, having ceded power to monstrosities such as the Roman emperors Caligula and Nero. In the United States, the reins of authority may be in the grasp of the first in a line of depraved demagogues.

“For the majority of Americans, the 2020s will likely be remembered as a demoralizing decade of rising prices, stagnant wages, and fading international competitiveness,” McCoy writes. The loss of the dollar as the global reserve currency will see the U.S. unable to pay for its huge deficits by selling Treasury bonds, which will be drastically devalued at that point. There will be a massive rise in the cost of imports. Unemployment will explode. Domestic clashes over what McCoy calls “insubstantial issues” will fuel a dangerous hypernationalism that could morph into an American fascism.

A discredited elite, suspicious and even paranoid in an age of decline, will see enemies everywhere. The array of instruments created for global dominance—wholesale surveillance, the evisceration of civil liberties, sophisticated torture techniques, militarized police, the massive prison system, the thousands of militarized drones and satellites—will be employed in the homeland. The empire will collapse and the nation will consume itself within our lifetimes if we do not wrest power from those who rule the corporate state.



Source URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-03/chris-hedges-end-empire-death-spiral-appears-unstoppable
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[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden
[2] http://www.zerohedge.com/printmail/604653
[3] http://www.zerohedge.com/print/604653
[4] https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-end-of-empire/
[5] https://www.google.com/search?sourc....0...1.2.64.psy-ab..1.1.110.0...0.6SBRxkdmLQI
[6] http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defa...3303/imageroot/2017/10/03/20171003_state1.jpg
[7] https://www.truthdig.com/author/mr_fish/
[8] https://www.google.com/search?q=res...64.psy-ab..0.2.400.6..35i39k1.284.QvashJ8jG2c
[9] https://history.wisc.edu/people/mccoy-alfred-w/
[10] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/11354221/What-is-the-point-of-Davos.html
[11] https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pdffiles/PUB1358.pdf
[12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...94ee67a7582_story.html?utm_term=.f9afa906fa1c
[13] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-11658920
[14] http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/...nocide-crimes-against-humanity-in-north-korea

 

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ESTADOS UNIDOS
Donald Trump amordaza el debate sobre las armas

• • PABLO PARDO
  • Washington
• 6 OCT. 2017 04:21

RICARDO MARTÍNEZ y JULIO REY

Trump, siempre proclive a dar su opinión, ha guardado un piadoso silencio ante los 59 muertos

Aproximadamente 33.000 estadounidenses mueren cada año por la acción de armas de fuego


Se mire como se mire, es un fallo de la democracia. El 84% de las personas que poseen armas de fuego en EEUU están a favor de que se prohíba la venta de armas a personas con problemas de salud mental o antecedentes penales; el 67% apoya las demandas a los vendedores de armas que venden conscientemente ametralladoras, pistolas o escopetas a personas sospechosas; el 50% apoya una ley que prohíba el acceso de los menores a las armas de fuego; y el 78%, que se declare ilegal la adquisición de armas por personas con órdenes de alejamiento por violencia doméstica.

Son datos del Centro para la Investigación de las Armas de la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Y unos datos que chocan con el hecho de que el sistema regulatorio en Estados Unidos avanza desde 1986 forma casi imparable hacia una liberalización cada día mayor de las armas de fuego. Cuando Donald Trump, visitó el miércoles a los heridos de la matanza del domingo en Las Vegas y un periodista le preguntó por el control de las armas, replicó: "No vamos a hablar de eso hoy".

Un presidente tan proclive a dar su opinión, en Twitter, en persona, o por medio de sus portavoces, acerca de todo, y que ayer pidió a al Congreso que investigue a los medios de comunicación del país, ha guardado un piadoso silencio ante los 59 muertos, una cifra que en realidad es diminuta cuando se compara con los aproximadamente 33.000 estadounidenses que fallecen cada año a tiros, dos tercios de ellos por su***dio. No hay duda de que, si el autor de la carnicería, Stephen Paddock, hubiera sido musulmán - como dijeron la web estatal rusa Sputnik, y las páginas de ultraderecha como Gateway Pundit y Blogspot, y como destacaron en sus servicios de noticias Facebook y Google - la reacción hubiera sido muy diferente.

Armas semiautomáticas a la venta en una armería en Las Vegas. ROBYN BECKAFP



Por ahora, la única reacción real es una propuesta de los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes para impedir la modificación de armas de fuego como la que llevó a cabo Paddock, para poder pasar de disparar una bala a varias docenas por segundo. Cambiar un rifle semiautomático en una ametralladora cuenta menos de 40 euros, y fue autorizado, precisamente, con Barack Obama siendo presidente. En una medida casi sin precedentes, la Asociación Nacional del Rifle (NRA, por sus siglas en inglés), ha apoyado la idea. La Casa Blanca también ha mostrado su respaldo a la decisión que, sin embargo, todavía afronta un escollo considerable en el Senado, donde debería ser aprobada por 60 de los 100 senadores, lo que no está claro.

Esa medida, sin embargo, es de mínimos. La indiferencia de los poderes públicos hacia la regulación de las armas de fuego queda de manifiesto en el hecho de que, desde hace 21 años, el Congreso no ha dado ni un dólar a los organismos públicos para que investiguen esas armas como factor relevante para la salud pública. Tal vez eso se deba a que en 1996, el último año en el que se llevaron a cabo estudios, resultó que en una vivienda en la que hay un arma tiene un cuatro veces más posibilidades de que se produzca una muerte a tiros, y seis un su***dio, que en una que no la tiene. Las armas, así pues, no salvan vidas. Algo lógico, si se tiene en cuenta que están hechas para matar.

Ni siquiera ser sospechoso de terrorismo obstaculiza el derecho de los estadounidenses a llevar un AR-15, similar a las armas reglamentarias de los soldados en Afganistán. En 2015, personas que están en la lista de sospechosos de terrorismo del FBI trataron de comprar armas de fuego en armerías en 244 ocasiones; en 223 (el 91%) lo lograron. Hay que tener en cuenta que esa lista es incompleta, porque no incluye las compras directas de un propietario a otro, ni en ferias de armas. En ninguno de esos casos la ley exige ningún documento.

Armas de guerra a precio de saldo
Hoy se cumplen dos años del día en el que el autor de estas líneas pudo haber comprado un rifle por 75 dólares (63,75 euros) en la Feria de Armas del Centro de Exposiciones de Dulles, en Virginia, donde está el principal aeropuerto de la ciudad de Washington, sin que nadie le pidiera ni un solo papel. Y ¿por qué iban a hacerlo? La ley en Virginia permite a todo mayor de 12 años de edad hacerse con un arma. En Estados Unidos es infinitamente más difícil abrir una cuenta en el banco, o comprar un teléfono, que adquirir una ametralladora.

Así es como se llega a situaciones rutinarias, como que los institutos entren en lo que se llama 'lockdowns' ('cierre', o 'bloqueo') en los que los estudiantes no pueden abandonar las aulas y deben refugiarse en armarios porque los profesores encuentran pistolas en las taquillas. Eso no es algo exclusivo de barrios problemáticos, sino que pasa en todas partes. La periferia de Washington, con su concentración de militares, espías, y empleados de empresas de defensa tiene más armas que Karachi, una ciudad de 10 millones de personas en Pakistán famosa por su violencia religiosa.

Lo cual lleva a la cuestión del fracaso de la democracia. ¿Por qué el sistema político de EEUU no hace como demandan sus ciudadanos, y controla la tenencia y compraventa de armas de fuego?

La respuesta es simple: por la estructura institucional de ese poder político. El peso político de las zonas rurales en EEUU es mucho mayor que el de las áreas urbanas. Un senador de California representa a 19,6 millones de personas; uno de Wyoming o de Vermont, a 290.000 y 310.000, respectivamente. Wyoming y Vermont son estados rurales, en los que hay devoción por las armas. A fin de cuentas, Bernie Sanders, el líder de la izquierda demócrata y senador por Vermont, defiende el derecho a tener armas automáticas. El sistema político de EEUU juega a favor de las armas. Los 33.000 muertos que éstas causan cada año son relegados al silencio.

http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2017/10/06/59d6878046163f3d728b4580.html

 

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[pilou12]

El presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump. Reuters

EEUU
Nuevo revés para Trump: una jueza permite a los transexuales alistarse en el Ejército
El Pentágono acata la orden judicial y "empezará a procesar solicitudes de transexuales para hacer el servicio militar el 1 de enero de 2018".
12 diciembre, 2017 00:01

El Pentágono acata la orden judicial y "empezará a procesar solicitudes de transexuales para hacer el servicio militar el 1 de enero de 2018".
12 diciembre, 2017 00:01

1. ESTADOS UNIDOS
   
2. TRIBUNALES
   
3. TRANSEXUALES
   
4. EJÉRCITO
   
5. DONALD TRUMP

E. E. / Agencias

Las personas transexuales podrán seguir alistándose en las Fuerzas Armadas de Estados Unidos a partir del próximo 1 de enero, después de que una juez federal rechazara este lunes el recurso presentado por el Gobierno contra una sentencia que impedía implantar esta medida del presidente del país, Donald Trump.


La magistrada Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, del tribunal del Distrito de Columbia, rechazó el recurso contra una sentencia dictada por ella misma el pasado 30 de octubre, ante una demanda presentada en julio por un grupo de soldados transgénero en activo que denunciaron el veto propuesto por Trump por considerarlo anticonstitucional.

Esta decisión judicial supone un nuevo contratiempo para Trump, quien el pasado agosto emitió una orden para instruir al Pentágono en la implementación de una prohibición de alistamiento a los transexuales, así como el fin del servicio para aquellos que ya estuvieran sirviendo en el Ejército.

Asimismo, el memorando redactado por la Casa Blanca establecía la prohibición de las operaciones de cambio de género a partir del 22 de marzo de 2018, con la excepción de que fueran "necesarias" para la salud del individuo.

La juez Kollar-Kotelly apuntó en su primera sentencia que algunos de los demandantes eran miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas, con décadas de servicio activo, que temían que las directrices anunciadas por el presidente pudieran tener un "impacto devastador" en sus familias y en sus carreras.

Con la decisión dictada este lunes, la magistrada se ha reafirmado en su creencia de que la Constitución está del lado de los demandantes, puesto que el memorando de la Casa Blanca establece una discriminación basada en el género, y ratificó su decisión de vetar parte de la normativa que debía entrar en vigor a comienzos de año.

En un comunicado, el Pentágono afirmó que acata la orden judicial y que "empezará a procesar solicitudes de transexuales para hacer el servicio militar el 1 de enero de 2018".

"Esta política se aplicará mientras el Departamento de Justicia apela contra esas órdenes judiciales", agregó el comunicado.

En 2016, el número de transexuales que servían en las Fuerzas Armadas oscilaba entre los 1.300 y los 6.600 dentro de un total de 1,3 millones de integrantes del cuerpo militar, de acuerdo con un estudio encargado por el Pentágono.

https://www.elespanol.com/mundo/america/eeuu/20171211/268724265_0.html

 

[Al loro]

Trump no parece tan ineficaz como lo pintan sus críticos que se encuentran por miles. ¿Es posible que sus tácticas estrafalarias tengan éxito? Parece que sí. Hay veces que se es más eficaz llamando al pan pan, que empleando un lenguaje politicamente correcto que mucha gente está ya harta de escuchar.

LEADING ARTICLE

His critics can’t admit it, but Trump’s crazy tactics are succeeding
On North Korea and the US economy, there are sensible points behind his playground presentation
The Spectator

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un (image: Getty)
The Spectator

6 January 2018

9:00 AM
Among the many new political maladies of our age, one has been left largely undiagnosed. This is Trump Derangement Syndrome, a condition whereby intense dislike of the 45th president renders sufferers unable to understand what he is trying to do or allow that he is capable of success. Trump is hard to admire, it’s true, and seems to revel in his ability to appal. But therein lies the secret of his power: with a few tweets, he can set the world’s news agenda and drive his critics to distraction.

Take this week, when he tweeted that his nuclear arsenal is larger than that of Kim Jong-un. His comments were seized upon as yet another example of his idiocy and his playground logic. But the point he was making has been the motivating principle behind American strategy for decades: to have more military muscle than any adversaries.

Trump is more explicit about this strategy, to the point of being childishly antagonistic. But his crazier-than-thou approach — aimed not just at Pyongyang but at Beijing, too — is bearing fruit. On Twitter and during his Asian tour last year, Trump has pressed the Chinese to take the North Korean threat more seriously. They already are. Sanctions have been made harsher, with Chinese support, and Kim Jong-un has now given word that he wants to open talks with South Korea. Beijing appears to be coming round to Trump’s analysis, having lost patience with North Korea, its only treaty ally. China has restricted its banks from offering services to North Korean clients. Trump is changing the game in this area, something his predecessors utterly failed to do.

Trump’s diplomacy is brash, to put it mildly. Yet he delivers his message in a way that cuts through to millions of people at home and abroad. He became president thanks to his uncanny ability to amplify his point. He finds arresting, often shocking, ways of making sensible points.

To associate the word ‘sensible’ with anything Trump says might seem like a modern heresy. But most Americans agree with him on the use of torture on terrorists, the turpitude of the media, and the need to stop immigration from the most unstable countries. One might deplore him, but it’s an error to consider his ideas extremist or out of touch.

Trump’s opponents should have learnt by now, but the derangement syndrome stops them seeing sense. When Hillary Clinton referred to his supporters as a ‘basket of deplorables’, she walked straight into his trap. She was so disgusted by Trump that she insulted not just him but a vast swath of the US electorate who were inclined to support him. She was duly punished at the ballot. In 2017, the Democrats may have won three state-wide elections, but they show little sign of having understood the Trump phenomenon. They still treat Trump with the contempt on which he thrives.

As America prepares for its midterm elections in November, the media consensus is that the Republicans are bound to pay the price for Trump’s antics. But voters tend to judge politicians on their record and they will see, alongside a dismal failure to repeal Barack Obama’s healthcare act, a Republican president delivering robust economic growth and the largest tax-cut package for a generation, which has just passed through Congress and includes a corporation tax cut from 35 per cent to 21 per cent.

Abroad, too, Trump can claim success and many Americans will look past the media and believe him. America helped crush Isis, even if the President takes more credit for that than he should. A world that has regained its fear of American might is arguably a little safer as a result. In the Korean peninsula, where old forms of international coercion failed, there are signs of progress. Unpalatable though it may be, Trump’s Twitter diplomacy appears to be working.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01..._campaign=130118_Weekly_Highlights_02_NONSUBS

 

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juas! ...Trump ejerciendo de Presidente de los EEUU...como todos sus predecesores: al servicio de la Banca (Capital Transnacional/Don Dinero) :

As No One Watched, Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks For Corruption Charges—Who He Owes Millions
Trump followed in the footsteps of Obama and pardoned five megabanks—one of which he reportedly owes up to $300 million in outstanding loans.

By Rachel BlevinsJanuary 11, 2018

While Americans celebrated the holidays, President Trump followed in the footsteps of his predecessors by acting in the interest of Wall Street and using the distraction to do something that was not in the best interest of the American people. He pardoned five megabanks for rampant fraud and corruption, which is especially notable because of the amount of money he owes them.

Trump has been using Deutsche Bank since the 1990s, and Financial Times has reported that he now owes the bank at least $130 million in outstanding loans secured in properties in Miami, Chicago, and Washington. However, a source told the Times that the actual number is likely much larger at $300 million.

Reports claimed that Deutsche was the only bank willing to lend Trump money after his companies faced multiple bankruptcies. The relationship has continued over the years, and an analysis from the Wall Street Journal claimed that Trump has received at least $2.5 billion in loans from Deutsche Bank over the last 20 years.

There have been concerns about Trump’s ties to the bank becoming a conflict of interest, dating back to the 2016 election, and the evidence to support those concerns is now becoming clear.

During the week of Christmas, the Federal Register announced that the Trump Administration had issued waivers to Citigroup, JPMorgan, Barclays, UBS and Deutsche Bank—all megabanks facing charges of fraud and corruption.

The banks were involved in the LIBOR Scandal, in which they colluded to deliberately depress the rate at which they paid out on investments. By suppressing the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) at the beginning of an economic crisis in 2007, the megabanks were able to boost their earnings and to give their customers a false sense of security.

Deutsche Bank pled guilty to wire fraud in a U.S. court in 2015, and it went on to pay $3.5 billion for its role in the LIBOR scandal—more than any other bank involved—before it reached a $7.2 billion settlement with the Justice Department in early 2017.

Then in June 2017, Deutsche Bank trader David Liew, who is based in Singapore, pleaded guilty to conspiring to spoof gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures in federal court in Chicago, confirmingthat the biggest banks in the world have conspired to rig precious metals markets.

While Trump granted 5-year exemptions to Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Barclays, and 3-year exemptions to UBS and Deutsche Bank, it should be noted that his administration is not the only one to have done this. As International Business Times noted, “In late 2016, the Obama administration extended temporary one-year waivers to five banks,” which just happened to be the same ones Trump has now extended the exemptions on—revealing the real rulers in DC.

Not surprisingly, the latest decision to pardon the banks comes in stark contrast to one of Trump’s most applauded campaign promises—that he would finally stand up against Wall Street and demand that the most powerful banks be held accountable to the public.

“I’m not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us. We’re going to tax Wall Street,” Trump said during a campaign rally in January 2016.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/trump-pardoned-megabanks-owes-millions-rampant-fraud-corruption/

 

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juas! ...Trump ejerciendo de Presidente de los EEUU...como todos sus predecesores: al servicio de la Banca (Capital Transnacional/Don Dinero) :

As No One Watched, Trump Pardoned 5 Megabanks For Corruption Charges—Who He Owes Millions
Trump followed in the footsteps of Obama and pardoned five megabanks—one of which he reportedly owes up to $300 million in outstanding loans.

By Rachel BlevinsJanuary 11, 2018

While Americans celebrated the holidays, President Trump followed in the footsteps of his predecessors by acting in the interest of Wall Street and using the distraction to do something that was not in the best interest of the American people. He pardoned five megabanks for rampant fraud and corruption, which is especially notable because of the amount of money he owes them.

Trump has been using Deutsche Bank since the 1990s, and Financial Times has reported that he now owes the bank at least $130 million in outstanding loans secured in properties in Miami, Chicago, and Washington. However, a source told the Times that the actual number is likely much larger at $300 million.

Reports claimed that Deutsche was the only bank willing to lend Trump money after his companies faced multiple bankruptcies. The relationship has continued over the years, and an analysis from the Wall Street Journal claimed that Trump has received at least $2.5 billion in loans from Deutsche Bank over the last 20 years.

There have been concerns about Trump’s ties to the bank becoming a conflict of interest, dating back to the 2016 election, and the evidence to support those concerns is now becoming clear.

During the week of Christmas, the Federal Register announced that the Trump Administration had issued waivers to Citigroup, JPMorgan, Barclays, UBS and Deutsche Bank—all megabanks facing charges of fraud and corruption.

The banks were involved in the LIBOR Scandal, in which they colluded to deliberately depress the rate at which they paid out on investments. By suppressing the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) at the beginning of an economic crisis in 2007, the megabanks were able to boost their earnings and to give their customers a false sense of security.

Deutsche Bank pled guilty to wire fraud in a U.S. court in 2015, and it went on to pay $3.5 billion for its role in the LIBOR scandal—more than any other bank involved—before it reached a $7.2 billion settlement with the Justice Department in early 2017.

Then in June 2017, Deutsche Bank trader David Liew, who is based in Singapore, pleaded guilty to conspiring to spoof gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures in federal court in Chicago, confirmingthat the biggest banks in the world have conspired to rig precious metals markets.

While Trump granted 5-year exemptions to Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Barclays, and 3-year exemptions to UBS and Deutsche Bank, it should be noted that his administration is not the only one to have done this. As International Business Times noted, “In late 2016, the Obama administration extended temporary one-year waivers to five banks,” which just happened to be the same ones Trump has now extended the exemptions on—revealing the real rulers in DC.

Not surprisingly, the latest decision to pardon the banks comes in stark contrast to one of Trump’s most applauded campaign promises—that he would finally stand up against Wall Street and demand that the most powerful banks be held accountable to the public.

“I’m not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us. We’re going to tax Wall Street,” Trump said during a campaign rally in January 2016.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/trump-pardoned-megabanks-owes-millions-rampant-fraud-corruption/

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EEUU
Donald Trump tiene una mente "muy aguda", según su médico

• • MARTA TORRES
  • Nueva York
• 17 ENE. 2018 09:32

Trump tiene una salud "excelente", aunque quiere perder peso, según su doctor

El médico de la Casa Blanca reconoce que le pidió un examen cognitivo para despejar las dudas de sus facultades mentales

El republicano tiene que adelgazar unos siete kilos con dieta y ejercicio

Fue el propio presidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump quien le pidió al médico de la Casa Blanca, el contralmirante de la Marina Ronny Jackson, que le hiciese un examen cognitivo el pasado viernes, después de las dudas sobre su estabilidad mental tras las últimas polémicas durante el tradicional examen general.

A su juicio, no era necesario. Pero, el doctor del presidente, que llegó a la Casa Blanca en 2013, incluyó una prueba para determinar su capacidad cognitiva, que consiste en un cuestionario de 30 preguntas durante 10 minutos. Entre las cuestiones, se pide al paciente que nombre a algunos animales y dibuje un reloj.

"Tiene una mente muy aguda", indicó Jackson que más tarde añadió que le ve todos los días, y no ha contemplado nada que le llame la atención del presidente. "No tengo preocupaciones sobre su habilidad cognitiva o sus funciones neurológicas", quiso hacer hincapié el médico militar, que reconoció que no tiene dudas de sus funciones para lo que le queda en la Casa Blanca ni siquiera si gana en 2020.

El doctor señaló que Trump, de 71 años, pesa 108 kilos, y mide 1,90 metros. A su juicio, debería perder alrededor de siete kilos. "Ha recibido mejor lo de hacer dieta que lo de hacer ejercicio", reconoció Jackson, que explicó que va a trabajar con un experto en nutrición y los cocineros de la Casa Blanca. Mientras, sí llamó la atención sobre que tiene que alejarse de los hidratos de carbono. Además, apuntó que sus niveles de colesterol se controlan con medicación.

De esta forma, intentó zanjar toda la controversia suscitada. Incluso, no se arrugó en abordarla de forma directa sus facultades mentales: "Si los estadounidenses piensan que hay que valorarlo que lo incluyan en los requisitos para presentarse a presidente", concluyó después de repetir en diferentes ocasiones que como médico no hubiese incluido ninguna prueba neuronal. Es más reconoció de Trump, que es un buen paciente.

Además, señaló que "su función cardíaca durante el examen físico fue muy buena, disfruta de los beneficios de una vida de no beber alcohol". Mientras, recordó también que el presidente no fuma. Algo que tiene relación directa con la buena salud del republicano.

Jackson, que demostró estar al tanto de todas las polémicas alrededor del presidente, sí se negó a valorar las horas que Trump pasa frente al televisor tras ser preguntado por un periodista al respecto. "No voy a entrar en eso", explicó a los reporteros el médico, el cual sí reveló que Trump duerme entre cuatro y cinco horas. "Tiene la capacidad de levantarse cada día y resetear todo lo ocurrido el día anterior", detalló el contralmirante que indicó que tiene gran capacidad para llevar el estrés. Y aseguró en diferentes ocasiones que el republicano tiene muy buenos genes.


http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2018/01/16/5a5e7e32268e3e3c1d8b4799.html

 

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Reconocer un camello, dibujar la hora... Así es el test psicológico de 10 minutos que ha pasado Donald Trump

• • AFP
  • Washington
• 17 ENE. 2018 17:19

Test de evaluación cognitiva de Montreal. E. M.


"Repita conmigo..."

Las pruebas que deben completar los pacientes consisten en actividades como copiar un cubo, dibujar una determinada hora en un reloj (con diferente calificación para el contorno, los números y las agujas) o reconocer tres animales (por ejemplo, un león, un rinoceronte y un camello). A continuación, el evaluado tiene que repetir una serie de palabras (como "rostro", "terciopelo", "margarita" o "rojo") y de números para recordarlos un rato después, y ejecutar una serie de restas fáciles, del tipo 100-7, después 93-7, y así sucesivamente.

Si bien sus detractores le reprochan un vocabulario limitado, el presidente de EEUU ha superado con creces la prueba de lenguaje, según su médico, que alega que no ha tenido ningún problema para repetir frases como: "El colibrí ha puesto sus huevos sobre la arena", o para enumerar, durante un minuto, palabras que empiezan por la misma letra. Otras preguntas del test que ha superado Trump consisten en encontrar similitudes entre, por ejemplo, un reloj y una regla, o entre un tren y una bicicleta. Y para terminar, el presidente debía nombrar el día, el mes, el año y el nombre de la ciudad en la que se encontraba.

Las dudas sobre la salud mental del inquilino de la Casa Blanca se generalizaron tras la publicación del polémico libro del periodista Michael Wolff, que traza un perfil del antiguo magnate inmobiliario en el que destacan las dudas de su entorno sobre su capacidad para gobernar. Parece que el test de MOCA no ha ratificado esa hipótesis.

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Dibujar la hora en un reloj, reconocer un camello o incluso encontrar las similitudes entre un tren y una bicicleta: así son las pruebas a las que se ha sometido el presidente de EEUU, Donald Trump, para detectar posibles problemas cognitivos. Y las ha superado.

Trump ha obtenido la nota máxima, 30/30, en esta prueba, conocida como Test de Evaluación Cognitiva de Montreal (MOCA, por sus siglas en ingés). "No hay absolutamente ningún signo de ningún problema cognitivo", ha concluido el médico de la Casa Blanca, Ronny Jackson, que ha subrayado que fue el propio Trump quien solicitó pasar este test para acallar las especulaciones.

El examen, creado por el doctor Ziad Nasreddine y publicado en 2005, es uno de los más frecuentes en todo el mundo para detectar a las personas que sufren disfunciones cognitivas, sobre todo cuando se trata de trastornos leves. A partir de un resultado de 26/30, se considera que no existe ningún problema.

Aunque existe en numerosas versiones y lenguas, el test consiste en un breve cuestionario de una cara de folio, que mide, entre otros parámetros, la memoria, las funciones ejecutivas, la capacidad de abstracción, la concentración, el lenguaje, el cálculo y la orientación en el tiempo y en el espacio. Todo ello en un tiempo aproximado de 10 minutos.

http://www.elmundo.es/f5/comparte/2018/01/17/5a5f28d5468aeb56698b4617.html