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Colleen Russell, LMFT, CGP
Serving Individuals, Couples, Families, & Groups
Recommendations & Client Comments
"Another very helpful session that allowed for issues that could have been neglected to actually come out into the open. Long time old habits of exploding in arguments really is harmful and not good for any resolution, so your help is invaluable." (Client, 2022)
"Your kind and supportive words are like a healing balm for my hurting heart. Thank you." (Client, 2022)
"I really appreciate these resources and talking with you recently Colleen. Thank you. (Client, 2022)
"I think I am learning in the group. It's as if we are all wrestle with the same things and imagine writing and fighting and teaching and prosecuting and maybe even erasing it from ourselves. But I think the way forward is with connection and probably just one intimate long term connection. One person who gets it, accepts us and loves us and accepts our love. I don't really think anything else matters more than human connection. We are social. It nurtures our brains. And I like the group because its a place where we see ourselves in others. Thank you for the group" (Workshop Participant, 2020)
"Thank you for your amazing presence and guidance for so many years, Colleen. I am so grateful." (Client, 2020)
"I wasn't aware until listening to others in the workshop and reading the educational material you provide, how many relationships I've been involved in that have been coercive." (Client, 2020)
"Thank you again and know that you very much helped the four of us and your insights gave us comfort where we all have felt a bit lost". Client (2019)
"I am doing really well. I'm feeling really good about the progress I've made in religious triggers, family relationships, and my personal relationships. Thank you so much for everything. Your therapy has been integral to my progress and healing." Client (2019)
"Thank you so very much for the years of generosity for C4DP and the many survivors you helped along in their journey. Your steady presence for "tea" was confirming to all of us- staff and guests and clients alike. I will miss knowing you are there at shelter each week, coming and going and healing and caring and cherishing the souls of our troubled participants. I am so grateful to have gotten to know you and learn from you. Thank you from my heart to yours. I hope I cross paths with you again. I admire you so."
Kate Kain, Executive Deputy Director, Center for Domestic Peace, San Rafael, CA. (2018)
"Colleen exemplifies all of the best traits in a family therapist: compassion, insight, persistence, and a relentless capacity to bring out the best in her clients. I have personally spoken to those who have benefitted from her dedication and intelligence; they could not speak highly enough. For them, Colleen offered a safe place to explore, a place to grow and to learn to live in new ways. I recommend Colleen highly, for individual and family therapy, as well as for the support groups that she facilitates so well." 2013, Patti Millar, PhD, ACC
"You do wonderful work, Colleen. Kudos to you for your commitment to these women!!" Hope Edelman, Author of "Motherless Daughters, The Legacy of Loss" and "Letters From Motherless Daughters". 2013.
"Thank you so much for the last 4+ years of your service helping battered women and their children. You have been awesome! I have heard so many wonderful life-changing things about you from the women that you helped." Graciela Rodriguez, Director of Emergency Services, "Center for Domestic Peace (2018).
"Your interpretations and praise throughout the session were so sensitive to each of our goodnesses and powerful in the ultimate effectiveness of our interactions. You are so perfectly suited to your profession and it is wonderful to behold. I still revel how one quick google search led me to you." Client, 2017
"Colleen, I want you to know I appreciate all of your help in my healing process. Knowing you and participating in group allowed me to share painful feelings of a child who was expected to take care of herself physically and emotionally after my mother's death. It was great having your care. I will miss you.See you again if I falter." Client, 2014
"Colleen is a sensitive, insightful and mature professional therapist who has been greatly helpful to her many clients. I recommend her without hesitation." 2013, Daniel Shaw, LCSW
"I have known Colleen Russell for years. She is one of the most thoughtful therapists I know. I have implicit trust in her. She is much respected and known for her caring approaches. She is an invaluable therapist for those who have been (or are) in a cultic group or relationship." 2014, Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Sociology Professor at Chico State, Specialist in extremism and undue influence, Author of "Take Back Your life" and "Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults."
"Just wanted to let you know that I found the Motherless Daughters Group meeting very valuable and interesting. I found myself understanding many feelings and motivations from the shared discussions, and found it very easy to get out of myself and share my thoughts and feelings. You were very supportive and skillfully facilitated the exchanges. You were also very patient with all of us."
"I was fortunate to find Colleen among the half a dozen therapists listed on cult recovery websites in 2003 when I belatedly realized "Oh shit! I was raised in a cult. My whole family is in a cult. No wonder my life is screwed up!" Colleen's gentle blend of cult counseling/ education with the therapeutic process supported me to rebuild my life. I stopped berating myself, and learned to recognize and avoid drama that results from involvement with manipulators." Client, 2014
"This workshop has been so helpful to me in bringing me together with others who have lived through similar experiences and get it! I feel as though I'm on a team. Thank you, Colleen, for being such a valuable support and providing me with resources that help me understand." Client, 2017
"I am grateful for you and all your support and care and teaching! It's been crucial for my getting out and healing. I'm savoring the lovely parts of being alone, along with the challenges." Client, 2018
"Colleen Russell worked with former cult members and victims of domestic abuse for several months in 2009 at Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center, one of only two residential facilities in the world that specialize in treating survivors of destructive cults, religious or non-religious. Her work was much appreciated, as our director and primary counselor, Dr. Paul R. Martin, was incapacitated with the leukemia which eventually claimed his life. Ms. Russell's willingness to fill in during that time was immensely helpful in lightening the load of the regular staff, as well as providing comfort, knowledge and encouragement to the clients we served during her stay." 2013, Lawrence A. Pile, Former Director of Cult Education and Research, Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center, Albany OH.
"I really appreciate the work you do--- and will always be thankful for the difference you made supporting me with your wise perspectives, understanding, and personal encouragement with my sister. It was a relief to know I wasn't alone in that desperate time, and I don't know what I would have done without your help." Client, 2010
"Colleen is a wonderful therapist. I was in her Motherless Daughters group for 2 or 3 years and learned so much about myself. She has excellent skills in facilitating groups. I would highly recommend her for one-on-one or group therapy." 2013 Client
"I thoroughly appreciate your consistent professionalism, gentle support, and understanding. I'm leaving our group as a 'new person' in some ways...I'm sad that I won't be seeing everyone regularly, but I'm excited about my life." Client, 2000
"Colleen has many years of competent work with various forms of marital dysfuntion. In addition, she is a noted leader in helping people recover from the trauma of cult membership. I would refer to her confident that she will provide service worthy of her reputation." July 2, 2013, David Pittle, Pastoral Psychotherapist (REBT/CBT) at TurningSpirit Counseling 2013.
"Colleen is a delightful, supportive and knowledgeable colleague I had the pleasure of meeting and working with at the ICSA International Cultic Studies Conference. I have followed her trajectory over the past several years and participated in a therapeutic cyberspace discussion group with her. I have found her to be a serious and committed therapist who specializes in Marriage and Family Therapy and also with members of cultic or cult-like groups. I admire her energy and output as she runs a support group for former members and is constantly working with former cult group members and finding ways to refer and support them." 2013, Paul Lennon,Executive Director at Fully Human,Washington D.C. Metro Area
"As a motherless daughter I now realize that for years following my mother's death I didn't allow myself to feel my pain or to confront how her death and illness affected my life. Now I'm able to be myself and not let my perception of others' feelings dictate what I do or say...The pain has subsided and even the shame I somehow felt. I can now comfortably say 'I'm a motherless daughter' because it's part of who I am." Client, 2016
"Colleen is one of the few therapists I know who understands cult dynamics. I heartily recommend her to anyone who has suffered from cult involvement or in an abusive relationship. In fact, with her warmth and compassion, I can recommend her to anyone looking for a good therapist.",2013,David Cole, Independent Publishing Professional
"Colleen Russell is that rare therapist that has wonderful skills in conventional therapy as well as the special arena of recovery from "cults" as abusive group relationships." 2013, Joseph Szimhart, Artist, Cult Specialist, Mental Health Worker, Author .
"Colleen combines life experience, clinical knowledge and devotion to her client's welfare. I recommend her highly as a therapist working with survivors of high demand groups or relationships especially those whose creativity has been impacted by their prior involvement." 2013, Lois Bernard, LCSW
"All in all I would say that our work together continues to have been a grand success...Having worked through much of the underlying pain and conflict, I simply no longer feel the need to be intoxicated -- there is no pain left to kill. That is a freedom so fantastic that it remains hard for me to express in words."Client, 2004
"I feel I have healed from the impact of the cult and it is no longer on my radar. I have been testing out different churches ... In this process I feel empowered and not obligated to serve under a certain pastor and if I don't like the place, I leave (then and there, not when the service is over) and don't come back. I feel no guilt or fear of cosmic punishment if I do so. I will not compromise my hard-earned victory by placing myself under the strong hand of a tyrant." Client, 2004
"I have known Colleen as a professional therapist for several years and I have followed her professional development and her private practice. I know she is a very professional person who takes her clients seriously and with passionate interest. She is constantly learning and implementing new and proven methods to bring about change and healing. Colleen is also a very collegial person who consults with colleagues and takes suggestions willingly." 2013
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Marin County, San Francisco Bay Area since 1992
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"Our CMx platform is optimized to selectively capture and identify precancerous adenomas and cancer cells that are shed into the blood in the lower gastrointestinal tract," Padma Sundar, VP of strategy and market access, says in an interview with BioTuesdays.
While FirstSight could replace colonoscopy for screening, "we expect the highest adoption [will be] among the 53 million Americans 45 years and older who have never been screened," Ms. Sundar suggests. This includes 20 million younger individuals who are between the ages of 45 and 50. New guidelines from the American Cancer Society (ACS) now recommend screening for this age group, compared with its previous guidelines to start screening at 50 years of age.
"Colonoscopy will be the confirmatory diagnostic for our test just like it is for other stool and blood-based screening tests," she adds.
Ms. Sundar explains that the FirstSight liquid biopsy utilizes a patented technology consisting of a microfluidic chip with a proprietary nano layer for cell capture; high-affinity antibodies; a unique biomimetic process to effectively wash away unwanted cells, while retaining circulating tumor cells; and a special air-foam release technology to gently release the captured cells, enabling high intact cell preservation and high detection rates of precancerous cells.
The process also includes algorithms for high throughput image analysis and reproducibility, she adds.
While CRC is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., it is largely preventable with regular screening and treatable with early detection. Screening helps find precancerous polyps, or abnormal growths, so they can be removed before they have a chance to turn into cancer.
According to estimates from the ACS, more than 100,000 new cases of colon cancer and almost 45,000 new cases of rectal cancer will be diagnosed in 2019, with some $14-billion spent on treatment.
Finding and removing precancerous polyps can save lives. According to Ms. Sundar, precancerous adenomas account for more than 90% of actionable colonoscopy findings. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2012 found that adenoma removal reduced CRC mortality by 53% after a 16-year follow-up of subjects in the study.
At the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium in January, CellMax presented results of a study in Taiwan with 737 adults 50 years of age or older, of which 301 were found to be healthy, 111 had precancerous adenomas and 325 were confirmed to have cancer by colonoscopy or tumor biopsy.
"The test results presented a high accuracy for detecting colorectal cancer, with a close to 90% accuracy for pre-cancer and 95% accuracy for cancer," Ms. Sundar points out.
In addition to the 53 million people in the U.S. who have never been screened, estimates point to more than 15 million people who use at-home stool tests and 40 million who have colonoscopies. "It is our belief that people would overwhelmingly prefer to take a blood test for CRC screening over a stool test, especially if the blood test offered a high sensitivity to a precancerous condition," she adds.
Earlier this year, CellMax initiated its Zenith study in the U.S., with the goal of enrolling several hundred patients who are 45 years and older. The study is being done under Institutional Review Board approval to ensure patient safety and privacy.
Prior to undergoing a colonoscopy, subjects will provide a blood sample for a FirstSight test so that results can be compared. The study protocol will group subjects into two categories: negative or healthy; or positive, meaning they are likely to have adenomas or colorectal cancer. Ms. Sundar says the sample sizes will be sufficient to demonstrate sensitivity within each group and specificity for healthy populations.
The primary objective of the Zenith study is detection of precancerous adenomas and CRC, with initial data expected in the second half of 2019. A positive outcome would enable CellMax to commercialize the FirstSight test at its CLIA-accredited lab in Sunnyvale, Calif.
However, Ms. Sundar says that longer term, CellMax may also consider a separate study to seek FDA approval for FirstSight.
To connect with CellMax Life, or any of the other companies featured on BioTuesdays, send us an email at editor@biotuesdays.com.


Just returned home, finally. Exhausted beyond imagination and filled with sadness, I continue to pray for Japan as they struggle to recover. It's difficult to hold back tears as I was leaving Japan. I've never gone through anything like this in my life. This is the time to be thankful for things that we have and take for granted. Embrace life, love everyone around you, and most of all, pray for the Japanese.
We want to thank everyone who supported us during this difficult and challenging time. We have almost the entire team now back in our home country, other than those who chose to stay there for personal reasons.
Japan is now experiencing different kind of a challenge, with shortages of power and food supply issue beginning to cripple the country. We pray that situation will improve.


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Electoral Systems in Context: Italy
Gianluca Passarelli
The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems
Edited by Erik S. Herron, Robert J. Pekkanen, and Matthew S. Shugart
Political Science, Public Administration, Comparative Politics
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190258658.013.35
Italy's Electoral Systems: Provisions and Origins
The PR Electoral System of the Italian First Republic (1948–1992)
Electoral Reform of 1993 from Proportional Representation to Mixed-Member Majoritarian: Mani Pulite, Tangentopoli, and Scorporo
The Electoral Reform of 2005: Back to Proportional Representation but with a Majority Bonus
The Electoral System Reform of 2015 and the Italicum
Consequences of Electoral Systems in Italy
Electoral Reform and Governmental Stability
The Party System and the Electoral Reforms
Electoral Reform and Voters: Accountability and Volatility
Postscript: Developments in 2017
Terminology and Basic Rules of Electoral Systems
Electoral Systems in Context: New Zealand
Electoral Systems in Context: Japan
Electoral Systems in Context: Colombia
Abstract and Keywords
Italy stands out among advanced industrialized democracies because of its frequency of major electoral reforms. In the postwar period, Italy has experienced four major electoral systems: the proportional representation (PR) system of the First Republic (1948–1992), mixed-member majoritarian (MMM, 1993–2005), and two varieties of PR with majority bonus (2005–2015, 2015–). In addition, there have been many failed attempts at electoral reform through legislation or referendum. The frequency of electoral reform makes Italy an important case for investigating the causes and effects of electoral system change. However, the path to each change has been somewhat idiosyncratic: the major reform of 1993 came against the backdrop of revelations of massive corruption, while the 2005 reform can be understood as an attempt to engineer divided government by an incumbent coalition expecting losses in the next election. The effects of the electoral reforms have also not always been as expected.
Keywords: Italy, electoral systems, electoral reform, governmental stability, party systems, preference votes, majority bonus
Gianluca Passarelli, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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ANOTHER BLOOMBERG DALLIANCE
It's not fair to call Michael Bloomberg just a superrich dilettante. He is, after all, a former mayor of New York City, so he does have some experience as a political officeholder. It is fair to describe Bloomberg as a superrich guy who obviously was looking for something to do, so he decided, "I think I'll dabble in presidential politics."
"Let's see. What am I, a Republican or a Democrat? This time around I'll be a Democratic, because that other rich guy is claiming to be a Republican. He's nowhere near as wealthy as I am. That much we know, even though he refuses to release his tax forms, possibly because they would show he's really dirt-poor. Still, he is currently GOP president of the United States. so, Democrat it is."
There's a ton of Dem already, vying to replace President Trump. That's provided he's still in the White House, what with impeachment and all. If Trump does make it through Election Day, Bloomberg has decided that none of the Democrats has gone beyond dithering, leaving too great a possibility that Donald Trump would get a second term. So Michael Bloomberg has offered a way out: He's the way out. And he's pulling a Mighty Mouse — as in "Here I Come to Save the Day," which if you're not a TV cartoon aficionado, is the "Mighty Mouse" theme.
How would he pull off the superheroic deed just a few months before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, where all the others have such a gargantuan head start? He'd simply ignore those first states as just overhyped media events anyway, and focus on Super Tuesday states later that are more populous and diverse, aftrr the others have stomped on each other early on. Besides, with an estimated net worth of $50 billion plus, Bloomberg could probably just purchase Iowa and New Hampshire. Then he could simply declare their elections null and void.
That's not as far-fetched as it sounds. Michael Bloomberg's fortune was accumulated by his ownership of countless media properties. So the question comes up, How would those news organizations cover his candidacy? The answer is, well, nobody really knows the answer, other than the one he gave during another of his candidate flirtations, when he suggested that they may just drop campaign coverage.
That would certainly not endear him to the editorial staff who would be laid off. But anti-reporter animosity has not been his style, unlike that other allegedly rich New Yorker, make that former New Yorker. For the longest time, Bloomberg throw a swanky after-party following the White House Correspondents "nerd prom,"called cleverly enough, the "Bloomberg party" . Most of us would have to grovel to be allowed in. Those who were successful or could sneak in would probably pretend we were grateful. That's called press relations.
However, that appreciation would last a nanosecond during a true campaign. (At the moment, he's only indicated that he might enter the Alabama primary.) We've already put together our hostile questions.
What about his "stop and frisk" program when he was mayor of Gotham? He bought into unleashing the police to abuse the masses, particularly the poor masses and minority masses.
What about his coziness with the other fat cats? Wall Street has no better friend than Michael Bloomberg, which is not exactly fashionable in his current party these days, certainly not among progressives, nor those moderates pretending to be progressives.
Of course, Bloomberg does support gun control, which thrills Democrats or anybody else with a lick of sense. He's plowed gazillions of dollars into support of that cause and gazillions more into Democratic candidates' campaign funding. So he is a mixed bag to his new party. His argument will be that he's the only one who stands a chance against Donald Trump.
Getting rid of Trump is the be-all and end-all for Democrats, many of whom might say: "Michael Bloomberg? Sure, why not?" That is his hope, at any rate. And he has the big bucks to pay for his hobby.
© Bob Franken
King Features
Posted by Bob Franken on November 12, 2019 10:34 AM | Permalink
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Debt Rattle May 30 2020
May 30, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 11:29 am Finance Tagged with: 5G, care homes, China, consumer spending, coronavirus, Covid19, George Floyd, Ghislaine, HCQ, homeless, protest, riots, Trump, Twitter, WHO, zinc 22 Responses »
Edward Hopper Folly Beach, Charleston, South Carolina 1929
• Protests Spread Nationwide: Minnesota Curfew, White House Locks Down (JTN)
• Unsanitized: Social Unrest When There's Nothing to Lose (Dayen)
• Trump Orders His Administration To Begin Eliminating Hong Kong Privileges (R.)
• Trump Says US To Withdraw From WHO. Does He Have The Authority To Do It? (NPR)
• Twitter Targets Trump Again, Flagging Tweet After Executive Order (SAC)
• Coronavirus Sinks US Consumer Spending As Savings Hit Record High (R.)
• Investors Eye Consumer Discretionary Stocks As US Reopens (R.)
• A Chronicle of a Lost Decade Foretold (Varoufakis )
• Malaria Drug And Zinc, The Missing Link (Berry)
• Australian Anti-Vaxxers Label COVID19 a 'Scam' At Anti-5G Protests (AAP)
• States Are Copying & Pasting Immunity Laws For Nursing Home Execs (Sirota)
• De Blasio Ramps Up Destruction Of Homeless Encampments (Gothamist)
• No One Knows Where Ghislaine Maxwell Is (Esq.)
The conversation has shifted away from corona for now. Is that a good thing?
Total global cases pass 6 million as daily new cases set another record at 125,511.
New cases past 24 hours in:
• US + 25,069
• Brazil + 30,739
• Russia + 8,952
• UK 4,938
• India + 8,105
• Peru + 6,506
• Chile + 4,654
• Cases 6,054,777 (+ 122,597 from yesterday's 5,932,180)
• Deaths 367,288 (+ 4,674 from yesterday's 362,614)
From Worldometer yesterday evening -before their day's close-:
From Worldometer:
From COVID19Info.live:
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says the violent demonstrations in Atlanta are "disgracing the life of George Floyd": "When you burn down this city, you're burning down our community. If you want change in America, go and register to vote." https://t.co/N5oZfxvFs3 pic.twitter.com/us3whIQnqu
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 30, 2020
"..it is a lynching at the highest level, and I thank God we have people in the streets" @CornelWest pic.twitter.com/fGUUNjkTje
— The Other Beth, who hates all of you (@BethLynch2020) May 30, 2020
Two sides prone to violence.
The anger over George Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody fueled intense protests coast to coast Friday night, as activists ignored a Minnesota curfew to set new fires while the White House temporarily locked down over security concerns just outside its gates. The arrest and murder charges filed earlier in the day against the police officer who allegedly knelt on Floyd's neck did little to quell a swelling rage that drove protests in cities as diverse as New York and San Jose. In Atlanta, protesters spray-painted sayings and broke windows at CNN's headquarters while tense officers in Brooklyn borough lined up to keep angry, chanting protesters from straying from street protests toward business.
The Secret Service on Friday evening put the White House on brief lockdown, sheltering reporters inside the press room, as several videos on social media showed unruly protesters outside of the Treasury Department, adjacent to the heavily fortified White House, and large groups of protesters walking from the city's historically black U Street neighborhood chanting, "No peace, no justice." The protests started Tuesday in Minneapolis, where weary residents and officers faced a fourth night of violence, rioting and fire setting. The Minnesota governor activated the national guard and a strict curfew for 8 p.m. was imposed in the Twin Cities, but it failed to keep large numbers of protesters from taking to the streets anew.
"..that's the same brutality.."
There's a reason that Spike Lee set Do the Right Thing on the hottest day of the year in Brooklyn. The pressure from the heat simmered through the community and created sparks that ignited existing tensions. There was a triggering event, which led to a police chokehold and the death of Radio Raheem, and the destruction of Sal's Pizzeria. The weather was the backdrop as events played out. That was 1989 and it couldn't be more relevant right now. The death of George Floyd is obviously unforgivable on its own terms. There doesn't need to be any context. Unreformed police murder in communities of color has been part of America since well before I was born. I have nothing to comment on about looters—at least eight people sent me this Onion headline, "Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First." (I guess my reputation precedes me.)
I can't say anything about the burning of the 3rd police precinct. And I have a lot to say about the great misfortune of having Donald J. Trump in a leadership position during this moment, but most of it would be curse words. Decades of disinvestment and routinized brutality and structural racism created these conditions. The officer who killed George Floyd had enough history of violence alone to contribute mightily to this rage. (And yes, Amy Klobuchar declined to prosecute him and many others for these crimes.) But you cannot separate this outpouring of anger from two months of death, economic collapse, and the disproportionate pain raining down right now on communities of color.
Decades of environmental racism have created toxic vectors for spreading the virus; that's the same brutality. Minority small business owners have had a harder time securing federal aid, owing to more distant relationships with local banks; that's the same brutality. African Americans are more likely to be in "essential" jobs and unable to work from home and protect themselves; that's the same brutality. They're more likely to be in prisons under perhaps the worst conditions of this crisis; that's definitely the same brutality. "Black Americans are 80 percent more likely than white people to have diabetes," which puts them at higher risk from COVID-19; that's the same brutality. Lack of decent food in communities of color, and access to healthcare, and the ability to rent enough space in shelter to physically distance—this is all brutality against a people, manifested today but going back 400 years.
When you are either out of work or on a hair trigger because you know you're risking your life by going to work; when your business can't get a bridge loan and you know everything you worked for is about to be extinguished; when you're cut off from your friends and neighbors; when your source of sustenance is the food bank; when you have nothing to lose, and then on television you see a black man with his neck wedged between a police officer's knee and the pavement until he chokes, and you hear he died in police custody after pleading "I can't breathe," and you remember how those words were spoken by Eric Garner, and you hear that the man was in custody for using counterfeit money and you don't think that's a sufficient reason to kill somebody, and you recall that the Minneapolis Police Department has had a really ugly history with the black community for a long time, and when you exhale a little because the cops involved were fired but then the local prosecutor says this murder of a black man doesn't merit prosecution… what results from this injustice should meet your expectations.
It boils down to: how big of a threat is China? Opinionsvary.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was directing his administration to begin the process of eliminating special treatment for Hong Kong, in response to China's plans to impose new security legislation in the territory. Trump made the announcement at a White House news conference, saying China had broken its word over Hong Kong's autonomy. He said its move against Hong Kong was a tragedy for the people of Hong Kong, China and the world. "We will take action to revoke Hong Kong's preferential treatment," he said, adding that the United States would also impose sanctions on individuals seen as responsible for smothering Hong Kong's autonomy.
Trump's move follows Chinese plans to impose new national security legislation on the former British colony. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the territory no longer warrants special treatment under U.S. law that has enabled it to remain a global financial center. Trump said he was directing his administration to begin the process of eliminating policy agreements on Hong Kong, ranging from extradition treatment to export controls. He said he would also issue a proclamation on Friday to better safeguard vital university research by suspending the entry of foreign nationals from China identified as potential security risks.
The WHO has failed/refused to reform the way Trump asked them to.
President Trump has announced that he is immediately halting the decades-long U.S. membership in the World Health Organization over its response to China's handling of the coronavirus epidemic. In a press briefing Friday at the White House, Trump said, "We will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs." Trump said the decision came because WHO has "failed to make" reforms the U.S. requested. Last week, Trump sent a letter to WHO's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, outlining his views on how the agency favors China and asking the organization to "commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days."
It's not clear what specific reforms the U.S. has requested, because those discussions have not been made public. Nor did Trump say why he acted on the threat after one week rather than waiting a month. The U.S. was a major force in founding WHO in 1948 and is the organization's top funder, providing around $450 million a year, according to Trump. The level of funding the U.S. provides to WHO has been a sore spot for Trump, who complained at the briefing that the U.S. pays significantly more than China but does not wield more power in the agency. Global health experts said the president's choice to leave the global health governing body during a pandemic is a dangerous call.
"This decision is really so short-sighted and ill-advised, and all it does is put American lives at risk," said Dr. Howard Koh, former assistant secretary for health in the Obama administration and now a professor at Harvard's T. H. Chan School of Public Health. "I disagree with the president's decision," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, in a statement after the announcement. "Withdrawing U.S. membership could, among other things, interfere with clinical trials that are essential to the development of vaccines, which citizens of the United States as well as others in the world need. And withdrawing could make it harder to work with other countries to stop viruses before they get to the United States."
It's questionable whether the president can make a unilateral decision to withdraw from WHO. "It is an overreach of his constitutional powers," said Larry Gostin, director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. Gostin said he believes that the president may need congressional approval to terminate U.S. membership in the U.N. agency. "The only situation where he can do this is if Congress had agreed beforehand to give these powers to the president," said Kelley Lee, a professor of public health at Simon Fraser University. "It is the role of legal advisers to inform the president on what authority he can exert. He is either not receiving good advice or not listening to it."
Thugs, huh?
Twitter flagged and hid a tweet posted by President Donald Trump's early Friday morning after the president signed an Executive Order challenging the growing political bias in tech companies, whose platforms are meant to be neutral. Trump's tweet was in response to the growing unrest and rioting in Minnesota, in response to the horrific death of George Floyd while in police custody. Thursday night the situation in Minneapolis escalated again when rioters overran a police precinct, forcing police officers, who were told not to respond by city officials, to evacuate before it was burned to the ground.
Trump signed the Executive Order Thursday aimed at social media giants he says, have been operating as biased publishers rather than platforms for free speech. Trump tweeted that these "THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!"
The National Guard was sent to assist local authorities in containing the rioting. Earlier the president criticized the city's mayor, who ordered the evacuation of the precinct saying, "the very weak radical left mayor Jacob Frey" if he didn't bring the city under control. In response, Twitter flagged the President's tweet and attached a notice saying "we have placed a public interest notice on this Tweet from @realDonaldTrump." The tweet is actually hidden from public view but can be viewed if the reader so chooses to click on it. "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence," said Twitter. "However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public's interest for the Tweet to remain accessible."
Consumer spending is way down. Therefore, savings must be way up? is that so?
U.S. consumers cut spending by the most on record for the second straight month in April while boosting savings to an all-time high, and the growing frugality reinforced expectations the economy could take years to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The report from the Commerce Department on Friday also showed an economy highly reliant on the government, with financial aid checks from a historic fiscal package worth nearly $3 trillion driving a record surge in personal income. Together with news that monthly exports collapsed, the report left economists anticipating the largest contraction in gross domestic product in the second quarter since the Great Depression. Data has also been dismal this month on the labor market, manufacturing production and homebuilding.
"Right now, the economy is totally dependent upon the largesse of the government," said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economics in Holland, Pennsylvania. "Will the federal government keep sending out checks or will the household and business welfare payments dry up?" The Commerce Department said consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, plunged 13.6% last month, the biggest drop since the government started tracking the series in 1959. It eclipsed the previous all-time decrease of 6.9% in March.
[..] Personal income surged a record 10.5% last month. Without the government money, income would have declined 6.3% with business closures pushing wages down 8.0%. The unprecedented economic upheaval saw the saving rate hitting a record 33%. "If the economy reopens quickly without consequence, the millions who lost jobs are hired back and have no reason to fear they will lose their jobs again, these savings represent considerable spending power in the second half," said Chris Low, chief economist at FHN in New York. "If it takes longer to reopen the economy, these savings will be used for sustenance over the next few months. They will limit the decline, but not fuel a sharp rebound."
[..] In a second report on Friday, the Commerce Department said goods exports tumbled 25.2% to $95.4 billion in April, a 10-year low. The broad decline in exports was led by a 65.9% collapse in shipments of motor vehicles and parts. That outpaced a 14.3% tumble in imports. As a result, the goods trade deficit widened 7.2% to 69.7 billion last month. The larger goods trade deficit is likely a drag on second GDP, which economists expect could drop at as much as a 40% rate, a pace not seen since the 1930s. The economy contracted at a 5.0% annualized rate last quarter, the deepest pace of decline in GDP since the 2007-09 recession. Consumer spending tumbled at a 6.8% rate, the sharpest drop since the second quarter of 1980.
Everyone buys Amazon, consumers and investors.
Investors are taking a closer look at the market's consumer discretionary companies as a reopening U.S. economy fuels hopes of a turnaround for some of the sector's hardest-hit names. Many companies in the sector have been battered by the country-wide coronavirus-fueled lockdowns that have weighed on growth and damaged retail spending over the last several months, though the stocks of a few, like Amazon, have soared. A gradual lifting of lockdowns in some states has stirred hopes for a bounce back for the retailers that make up much of the sector.Some investors, however, say it may be months before consumers return to their previous shopping habits, making it unlikely that the companies will see a pickup in revenues in the near term.
Firms ranging from middle-income retailers such as Gap Iand American Eagle Outfitters to high-end destinations like Tiffany & Co and Vail Resorts Inc are expected to report results in the week ahead. "This particular group is full of landmines," said Jamie Cox, managing partner for Harris Financial Group. "There is not going to be a lot of investor follow-through until we get some certainty with what future revenue prospects are going to be." Shares of the Gap, for instance, are down 43% for the year to date. A recession that persists through the fourth quarter of this year would reduce the company's revenues by 40%, according to a note by research firm Trefis.
Next Friday's U.S. jobs report is expected to show that the unemployment rate rose to 19.8% in May, smashing April's record 14.7%, according to a Reuters poll. Non-farm payrolls are expected to drop by 7.4 million, adding to the 20.5 million jobs lost the previous month. Cox is focusing on dominant players such as Amazon.com Inc, Walmart Inc and Target Corp, which have a mix of essential items such as groceries as well as electronics and games that can appeal to customers who may face extended lockdowns during a potential second wave of the virus. Overall, retail companies in the S&P 500 are up 12.9% for the year to date, a gain powered largely by Amazon's 31% rally. Apparel companies, by comparison, are down 16.2% over the same time.
Yanis doesn't want separate countries, though they are likely the best format in a pandemic. No, he wants globalization, just not the one we know. How practical is that?
To exorcise my worst fears about the coming decade, I chose to write a bleak chronicle of it. If, by December 2030, developments have invalidated it, I hope such dreary prognoses will have played a part by spurring us to appropriate action. Before our pandemic-induced lockdowns, politics seemed to be a game. Political parties behaved like sports teams having good or bad days, scoring points that propelled them up a league table that, at season's end, determined who would form a government and then do next to nothing. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic stripped away the veneer of indifference to reveal the political reality: some people do have the power to tell the rest of us what to do. Lenin's description of politics as "who does what to whom" seemed more apt than ever.
By June 2020, as lockdowns began to ease, left-wing optimism that the pandemic would revive state power on behalf of the powerless remained, leading friends to fantasize about a renaissance of the commons and a capacious definition of public goods. Margaret Thatcher, I would remind them, left the British state larger, more powerful, and more concentrated than she had found it. An authoritarian state was necessary to support markets controlled by corporations and banks. Those in authority have never hesitated to harness massive government intervention to the preservation of oligarchic power. Why should a pandemic change that? As a result of COVID-19, the grim reaper almost claimed both the British prime minister and the Prince of Wales, and even Hollywood's nicest star. But it was the poorer and the browner that the reaper actually did claim. They were easy pickings.
[..] Just as cathedrals were the Middle Ages' architectural legacy, the 2020s left us tall walls, electrified fences, and flocks of surveillance drones. The nation-state's revival made the world less open, less prosperous, and less free precisely for those who had always found it hard to travel, to make ends meet, and to speak their minds. For the oligarchs and functionaries of Big Tech, Big Pharma, and other megafirms, who got on famously with the strongmen in authority, globalization proceeded apace.
The myth of the global village gave way to an equilibrium between great-power blocs, each sporting burgeoning militaries, separate supply chains, idiosyncratic autocracies, and class divisions reinforced by new forms of nativism. The new socioeconomic cleavages threw the prevailing features of each country's politics into sharp relief. Like people who become caricatures of themselves in a crisis, whole countries focused on their collective illusions, exaggerating and cementing pre-existing prejudices.
Your daily dose of anti-remdesivir.
Mystery surrounds why an anti-malaria drug is not being tested as a Covid-19 treatment in combination with zinc, which doctors say is crucial for efficacy. As we reported recently, President Trump revealed he was taking hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) alongside zinc after reports that many doctors are doing the same to help ward off Covid-19. Criticism of the President rose sharply after a non-randomised study published in the Lancet said that HCQ provided no benefit to hospitalised Covid-19 patients while being linked to increased deaths. What the mainstream media did not point out is that the Lancet study failed to test HCQ with zinc. Other experts have found zinc to be vital for efficacy in this context.
Zinc, available as an over-the-counter supplement, has long been seen as an immune-system booster that helps develop immune cells, or antibodies, and can strengthen the body's response to a virus. American infectious disease specialist Joseph Rahimian explained that, in relation to Covid-19, zinc 'does the heavy lifting and is the primary substance attacking the pathogen'. HCQ is said to work as a delivery systemfor zinc in fighting coronavirus. Ironically, the Lancet study came out at the same time as it was reported that India's premier health body had expanded use of HCQ as a preventive for key workers following three studies showing positive results.
[..] ..a study by the New York University Grossman School of Medicine published this month [..] found that those receiving the triple-drug combination (HCQ, with azithromycin and, crucially, zinc) 'were 44 per cent less likely to die, compared with the double-drug combination (i.e. without zinc)'. As the study notes:'This study provides the first in vivo evidence that zinc sulfate in combination with hydroxychloroquine may play a role in therapeutic management for Covid-19.' The above makes the question of why zinc was not used in the Lancet study more baffling. And why don't the media note that the combination of zinc and HCQ is crucial?
This sounds quite confused. "5G = communism"? Where do we start?
Yeah, 5G should be researched much more before it's lanuched. But how can it turn COVID19 into a scam?
Hundreds of anti-vaccination protesters have defied social distancing measures at rallies in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Protesters claiming the Covid-19 pandemic was a "scam" gathered at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne on Saturday, and carried signs declaring they were against vaccines and 5G technology. Their placards claimed "5G = communism", "Covid 1984" and "our ignorance is their strength". They booed police – clad in gloves and face masks – who warned the crowd that they were breaching social distancing rules designed to slow the spread of coronavirus. In a statement, police said those found in breach of Covid-19 directions faced fines of $1,652 each.
In Sydney, up to 500 protesters voiced conspiracy theories regarding not only vaccination but also 5G telecommunication networks, fluoride and large pharmaceutical corporations. The group convened at Hyde Park in the CBD before holding a singalong of anti-vaccination songs and walking to NSW Parliament House. They chanted "freedom of choice" and "my body, my choice" on the march, with some attempting to raise the spectre of a "new world order". The walk passed without incident or police intervention. When asked about the protest, Victoria's chief health officer, Brett Sutton, said "there's no message that can get through to people who have no belief in science". "There's probably no reaching them," he earlier told reporters.
Anti-5G protesters gather in spot with the best 5G coverage in Brisbane. https://t.co/dJFGJRTrTP
— Brett Debritz (@debritz) May 30, 2020
Hey, you wanted a for-profit medical system.
To date, 19 states have enacted some form of immunity for the hospital and nursing home industries during the pandemic. In general, these new policies shield nurses, doctors and other frontline health care workers from liability when they are treating COVID patients. However, New York, Massachusetts and North Carolina go further: unlike other states, the identical language added to their laws explicitly define health care providers as including "a health care facility administrator, executive, supervisor, board member, trustee" or other corporate managers. That exact word-for-word clause appears in emergency legislation in all three states. In practice, it extends immunity to corporate officials who are not on the medical frontlines, but who are making life-and-death decisions across their companies.
"The new measures granting immunity to health care providers and professionals go well beyond protecting front-line workers from lawsuits — many also provide immunity to administrators who make unreasonable and dangerous, even lethal, decisions," said Syracuse University law professor Nina Kohn. "New York, Massachusetts, and North Carolina take protection for corporate owners and executives to a whole new level by explicitly granting immunity to board members, trustees, and directors." "This is extraordinary protection which is in no way in the public interest," Kohn said. "These states are explicitly and unabashedly giving for-profit corporations and corporate executives the green light to make unreasonable decisions that put vulnerable people in imminent danger, and letting them know that they don't have to worry about being held legally accountable for the avoidable human damage that results."
Teaching the poor another lesson will always trump the pandemic.
Trudi and Rickey Reppi live in a tent on a triangular stretch of sidewalk between three lanes of traffic by the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. The tent serves as a headquarters of sorts for a community of homeless people and panhandlers. Dave, Rob, Richard, Russia, and Seven all often sleep outside, some on mattresses or chairs, some on cardboard and bundled-up clothing. Others drop by frequently throughout the day, accepting packaged meals Trudi and Rickey had picked up from an aid organization ("Homeless people help each other way more than anyone in these hundred thousand dollar cars ever help us," Trudi says) or fanning out, cardboard signs in hand, to ask passing drivers for money for hours on end.
The police arrive at about 9 a.m, flanked by outreach and Sanitation workers forming a team of around a dozen city employees. Trudi and Rickey wearily begin the weekly routine of taking down their tent, bundling up all the possessions they can carry, and leaving everything else on the side of the street for the Sanitation workers to throw away. For years, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration has been sending joint teams of NYPD officers, Sanitation workers, and Department of Homeless Services staff to require that homeless people move from locations where they've set up shelter. The number of sweeps (also called "clean-ups") per week has risen dramatically in the last six months, according to homeless people, advocates and case workers.
A DHS employee, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said that the team implementing the sweeps had increased last November from about 3 to about 40. The employee said that the clean-ups would be increasing to twice a week at most encampments; eventually, he suggested, homeless people would give in and accept shelter. Trudi says that she's been subject to ten to fifteen sweeps in just the last three months. This count doesn't include the nightly visits the NYPD has paid her in May, sending as many as nine police officers at 3 a.m. to demand that she take down her tent. "In my administration, we made a decision that from our point of view, it was unacceptable to have [a] single encampment anywhere in New York City and they had to be dismantled anytime they're identified," Mayor de Blasio said at a press conference earlier this month.
"And we've been doing that now for years and it's really caused the encampments to become a rarity, but whenever we see a new one, we immediately take it down." But the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has explicitly recommended against clearing encampments or displacing unsheltered homeless people during the pandemic. "If individual housing options are not available, allow people who are living unsheltered or in encampments to remain where they are," the guidelines read. "Clearing encampments can cause people to disperse throughout the community and break connections with service providers. This increases the potential for infectious disease spread."
The Netflix series on Epstein brings her to our attention again.
• Still No One Knows Where Ghislaine Maxwell Is (Esq.)
Though multiple survivors have alleged that Maxwell participated in Epstein's alleged crimes, she's never been criminally charged. One thing that could stymie potential efforts to level charges against Maxwell is the infamous 2008 plea deal that Epstein struck with the US Attorney for Miami, Alexander Acosta, which found him serving just 13 months in prison after initially facing charges that could have garnered him a life sentence. Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich producer Joe Berlinger described the deal to Esquire as "unprecedented, unheard of sweetheart deal" that "included a non-prosecution agreement for named and unnamed co-conspirators."
In April, an appeals court upheld the 2007 deal, writing in its opinion that the decision was "not a result we like, but it's the result we think the law requires." Maxwell is currently suing Epstein's estate for money for her legal fees, and for the price of private security, alleging that her "prior employment relationship" with Epstein has caused to her be subjected to death threats. Though once a fixture of the global high-society, Maxwell has been spotted rarely in recent years. Last summer, she was photographed at a Los Angeles In-N-Out Burger, though the authenticity of the photo has been disputed. Her New York townhouse was sold in 2016.
This month, it was reported that lawyers for accusers seeking to file a civil suit against Maxwell have been unable to locate her. According to ABC news, one alleged victim's "legal team dispatched process servers to five addresses previously connected to Maxwell, including a multi-million dollar brownstone on Manhattan's Upper East Side, an apartment building in Miami Beach and Epstein's mansion on Palm Beach Island." Maxwell is also contending with other civil lawsuits filed by alleged survivors. Just this month, she won the right to delay her questioning in a suit filed by Annie Farmer, the sister of fellow Epstein accuser Maria Farmer, on the grounds that her testimony could be used against her in a current criminal investigation. But with the FBI allegedly investigating Maxwell, her story could be far from over.
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12/23/16 – Flynn relays his goals about the Russia/US relationship.
Flynn: "We will not achieve stability in the Middle East without working with each other against this radical Islamist crowd."
It was never about collusion. pic.twitter.com/xN3twZYa6H
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) May 29, 2020
Nothing nefarious about these calls.
Flynn was concerned about fighting a common enemy: radical Islamists.
Flynn: "We need to be very steady about what we're going to do because we have absolutely a common threat in the Middle East right now." pic.twitter.com/H1a3gVrcDV
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Debt Rattle November 1 2014
November 1, 2014 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 12:56 pm Finance Tagged with: BoJ, China, consumer spending, currency war, Fed, France, gold, Japan, QE, riot, US 1 Response »
Jack Delano Window display for Christmas sale, Providence, Rhode Island Dec 1940
• Japan Stimulus Likened To Bear Stearns (CNBC)
• The BOJ Jumps The Monetary Shark (Stockman)
• Japan Risks Asian Currency War With Fresh QE Blitz (AEP)
• Markets Are Still Addicted To Money Printing (CNBC)
• Central Banks Answer the Markets' Prayers – For Now (Bloomberg)
• Japan's Shock and Awe (Bloomberg Ed.)
• China's October Factory Growth Unexpectedly Hits 5-Month Low (Reuters)
• Gold Sinks To Levels Not Seen Since 2010 (MarketWatch)
• Consumer Spending In US Unexpectedly Drops As Incomes Cool (Bloomberg)
• Why that Glorious Economy of Ours Feels so Crummy (WolfStreet)
• Top US Oil Companies See More Pressure To Clamp Down On Spending (Reuters)
• The Failure of Green Energy Policies (Euan Mearns)
• Riots, Clashes In France After Activist Dies In Police Grenade Blast (RT)
"First thing that's going to happen is we're going to get deflation over here in the U.S."
Stocks closed at all-time highs after the Bank of Japan announced additional monetary stimulus Friday, but Brian Kelly of Brian Kelly Capital said the move gave him serious misgivings. "What they did is outrageous. It is a terrible idea," he said. "It is going to have massive, massive ramifications. The U.S. stock market hasn't woken up to it yet, but they absolutely will. "First thing that's going to happen is we're going to get deflation over here in the U.S." Additionally, the country's Government Pension Investment Fund also said it would put half its assets—roughly $1.14 trillion—in U.S. and Japanese stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 17,390.52, up 1.13%, while the S&P 500 ended at 2,018.15, up 1.17%. On CNBC's "Fast Money," Kelly said investors would do well to buy U.S. Treasury bonds. Japan's additional foreign investment could total about $200 billion going into the U.S. stock and bond markets, he added.
"Once again, everything is going to be manipulated, and eventually when the levee breaks, it's going to completely fall apart," he said. Kelly also said he had made a winning bet by being short Japanese yen coming into the trading day, adding the massive Japanese stimulus program gave him pause. "However, I felt this way before—and it was during Bear Stearns. Everybody cheered that Bear Stearns got a bailout from the Fed. And within three days, they were out of business," he said. "So, this is Japan bailing themselves out, they had no choice. They have to raise taxes. They are now monetizing their debt—100% monetizing their debt, and buying stocks. They're buying REITs. They're buying ETFs. It's insane." Kelly clarified he wasn't calling for a massive selloff in the near future. "I'm not saying the market's going to fall apart on Monday morning," he said. "I'm just saying it's the same type of feeling where people are cheering a bailout they shouldn't cheer."
" … the Japanese bond market soared on this dumping announcement because the JCBs are intended to tumble right into the maws of the BOJ's endless bid. Charles Ponzi would have been truly envious!"
This is just plain sick. Hardly a day after the greatest central bank fraudster of all time, Maestro Greenspan, confessed that QE has not helped the main street economy and jobs, the lunatics at the BOJ flat-out jumped the monetary shark. Even then, the madman Kuroda pulled off his incendiary maneuver by a bare 5-4 vote. Apparently the dissenters – Messrs. Morimoto, Ishida, Sato and Kiuchi – are only semi-mad. Never mind that the BOJ will now escalate its bond purchase rate to $750 billion per year – a figure so astonishingly large that it would amount to nearly $3 trillion per year if applied to a US scale GDP. And that comes on top of a central bank balance sheet which had previously exploded to nearly 50% of Japan's national income or more than double the already mind-boggling US ratio of 25%.
In fact, this was just the beginning of a Ponzi scheme so vast that in a matter of seconds its ignited the Japanese stock averages by 5%. And here's the reason: Japan Inc. is fixing to inject a massive bid into the stock market based on a monumental emission of central bank credit created out of thin air. So doing, it has generated the greatest front-running frenzy ever recorded. The scheme is so insane that the surge of markets around the world in response to the BOJ's announcement is proof positive that the mother of all central bank bubbles now envelopes the entire globe. Specifically, in order to go on a stock buying spree, Japan's state pension fund (the GPIF) intends to dump massive amounts of Japanese government bonds (JCB's). This will enable it to reduce its government bond holding – built up over decades – from about 60% to only 35% of its portfolio.
Needless to say, in an even quasi-honest capital market, the GPIF's announced plan would unleash a relentless wave of selling and price decline. Yet, instead, the Japanese bond market soared on this dumping announcement because the JCBs are intended to tumble right into the maws of the BOJ's endless bid. Charles Ponzi would have been truly envious! Accordingly, the 10-year JGB is now trading at a microscopic 43 bps and the 5-year at a hardly recordable 11 bps. So, say again. The purpose of all this massive money printing is to drive the inflation rate to 2%. Nevertheless, Japanese government debt is heading deeper into the land of negative real returns because there are no rational buyers left in the market – just the BOJ and some robots trading for a few bps of spread on the carry.
You won't have to wait long to find out just how destructive this is.
The Bank of Japan has stunned the world with fresh blitz of stimulus, pushing quantitative easing to unprecedented levels in a bid to drive down the yen and avert a relapse into deflation. The move set off a euphoric rally on global equity markets but the economic consequences may be less benign. Critics say it threatens a trade shock across Asia in what amounts to currency warfare, risking serious tensions with China and Korea, and tightening the deflationary noose on Europe. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) voted by 5:4 in a hotly-contested decision to boost its asset purchases by a quarter to roughly $700bn a year, covering the fiscal deficit and the lion's share of Japan's annual budget. "They are monetizing the national debt even if they don't want to admit it," said Marc Ostwald, from Monument Securities. In a telling move, the bank will concentrate fresh firepower on Japanese government bonds (JGBs), pushing the average maturity out to seven to 10 years.
It also pledged to triple the amount that will be injected directly into the Tokyo stock market through exchange-traded funds, triggering a 4.3pc surge in the Topix index. Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the fresh stimulus was intended to "pre-empt" mounting deflation risks in the world, and vowed to do what ever it takes to lift inflation to 2pc and see through Japan's "Abenomics" revolution. "We are at a critical moment in our efforts to break free from the deflationary mindset," he said. The unstated purpose of Mr Kuroda's reflation drive is to lift nominal GDP growth to 5pc a year. The finance ministry deems this the minimum level needed to stop a public debt of 245pc of GDP from spinning out of control. The intention is to erode the debt burden through a mix of higher growth and negative real interest rates, a de facto tax on savings. Mr Kuroda's own credibility is at stake since he said in July that there was "no chance" of core inflation falling below 1pc. It now threatens to do exactly that as the economy struggles to overcome a sharp rise in the sales tax from 5pc to 8pc in April.
Friday's stock surge provides yet another reminder that when it comes to moving the market, there's nothing like a little old-fashioned money printing. What waits on the other side—asset bubbles, inflation, the prospects for still greater wealth disparity—remains, of course, an issue for another day. The important thing is that the market wants what the market wants, and the Bank of Japan appears only too happy to comply, announcing a fairly aggressive stimulus package Friday that traders cheered by pushing the major averages back near record territory. The announcement came just two days after the Federal Reserve—the BOJ's U.S. counterpart—said it was ending a quantitative easing program that saw its balance sheet swell by nearly $4 trillion since its inception. "So much for the end of QE! The Bank of Japan's announcement today that it is stepping up its asset purchases is a timely reminder that not everyone has to follow the Fed," Julian Jessop, chief global economist at Capital Economics, said.
"Further QE in Japan should help to support equity prices worldwide and especially in the euro zone if expectations build that the (European Central Bank) will follow with full-blown QE of its own." Indeed, Wall Street is rubbing its hands together contemplating that at a time when global growth appears to be slowing, the willingness of central banks to crank up their virtual printing presses hasn't abated a bit, the Fed notwithstanding. Of course there are words of caution: Jessop warned investors not to go "overboard" in their enthusiasm over the BOJ's move. At current exchange rates, the action amounts to just more than a quarter of the $85 billion a month the Fed was adding when it it began the third leg of its QE program. Even Europe may not deliver the goods to the extent the market hopes.
Clueless.
It's the party that just keeps going: the first batch of guests leave, the next ones arrive. Just as the U.S. Federal Reserve winds down its asset purchases, the Bank of Japan expands its own program. World stock markets, rejoice! For a while anyway. So far, quantitative easing, the policy of national bond purchases has arguably succeeded in perking up the economy, almost certainly succeeded in helping along the stock market and (this is key) certainly not led to the out-of-control inflation that critics predicted. Bloomberg Businessweek's Peter Coy answers some of the folks who were sure bond buying would lead to economic catastrophe and still won't admit they're wrong.
That said, don't get too comfortable. Central bank asset purchases dramatically lower bond returns and effectively push money into the stock market. When they end, the flow of money reverses. The idea is to do it slowly and gradually and not cause a panic. So far the Fed is succeeding. However, over the long run pulling out of the stimulus without scaring the markets is a tough difficult maneuver to pull off (and stock market returns aren't necessarily the central bank's concern. The Bank of Japan pulled out of its last stimulus program, in 2006, fairly smoothly. But as the chart below shows, it was the prelude to three years of market declines.
Here's how clueless the Bloomberg editorial staff is: "Abe has shown no great zeal for exposing farmers to foreign competition or freeing up the labor market. Japan's agricultural protections are a double burden, because it's holding up agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact. A breakthrough on farm trade is just the tonic Japan needs."
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda stunned investors today by announcing a big expansion of the central bank's bond-buying program. The move won't fix Japan's ailing economy by itself, but it might help, and Kuroda is right to try. The U.S. Federal Reserve likes to signal its intentions and avoid taking financial markets by surprise. Kuroda prefers shock and awe. Investors were wrong-footed by the scale of the BOJ's quantitative easing when it was first announced last year. Now Kuroda has ambushed them again. Few expected the scale of purchases to be ramped up so soon – to 80 trillion yen a year ($724 billion), from 60 trillion to 70 trillion. Just three of 32 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News predicted it. Kuroda's board was surprised as well, and was divided on the announcement. If Kuroda wanted investors to sit up and pay attention, it worked.
Fed doctrine notwithstanding, the element of surprise serves a purpose. QE works partly because it sends a message to investors that the central bank is determined to be forceful. At the moment, Japan's economy needs all the forceful support it can get. The main worry is that inflation is falling again. After rising to 1.5% earlier this year, as the BOJ intended, the rate has since fallen back to 1%. The central bank's target of 2% looked to be moving out of reach. Kuroda is saying he isn't about to let that happen. The problem is that the BOJ can't repair Japan's economy by itself. At the moment, macroeconomic policy is pulling in two directions: bold stimulus from the central bank combined with a recent hefty sales-tax increase to cut public debt, with another tax increase planned for next year. The tax rise appears to have had a more dampening effect on the economy than expected. Yet it's hard to deny that it was needed: After years of high borrowing and stagnant growth, Japan's public debt is enormous.
How long before we get some real bad numbers out of China from some unexpected source?
China's factory activity unexpectedly fell to a five-month low in October as firms fought slowing orders and rising costs in the cooling economy, reinforcing views that the country's growth outlook is hazy at best. The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) eased to 50.8 in October from September's 51.1, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Saturday, but above the 50-point level that separates growth from contraction on a monthly basis. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a reading of 51.2.
Underscoring the challenges facing the world's second-largest economy, the PMI showed foreign and domestic demand slipped to five- and six-month lows, respectively, with overseas orders shrinking slightly on a monthly basis. "There remains downward pressure on the economy, and monetary policy will remain easy," economists at China International Capital Corp said in a note to clients after the data. Noting that inventory levels of unsold goods rose last month even as factories cut output levels and drew down on stocks of raw materials, the investment bank argued that the economy still faced tepid demand.
We're sure to have some fun conversations on gold going forward.
Gold took a hard fall on Friday, at one point trading at levels not seen since 2010, as the dollar surged in the wake of a surprise stimulus move from the BOJ\. Gold for December delivery slumped $27, or 2.3%, to settle at $1,171.60 an ounce, closing out the week 5.3% lower. The precious metal shed 3.7% in October and is down 3.3% for the year to date. December silver gave up 31 cents to $16.11 an ounce. A more hawkish-than expected Fed statement has already been weighing on gold this week. The Fed's ending of its bond-buying stimulus program on Wednesday smacked prices hard as gold shed 2.2% amid signs of a healing economy. The U.S. economy expanded 3.5% in the third quarter, data showed Thursday. "The surprisingly robust US GDP figures yesterday confirmed the Fed's more optimistic economic outlook of the day before and thus indirectly dampened demand for gold as a safe haven," said analysts at Commerzbank, in a note.
Gold was further pummeled after the Bank of Japan shocked markets with a move to expand the pace of quantitative easing, triggering a 5% surge in the Nikkei 225 index. The dollar touched its highest level against the yen since January 2008. The BOJ expanded the size of its Japanese Government Bond purchases to the equivalent of "about 80 trillion yen" ($727 billion) a year, a rise of ¥30 trillion on the previous amount. It also said it would buy longer-dated JGBs, and triple its purchase of exchange-traded funds and real-estate investment trusts. Gold losses speeded up as a pageant of economic numbers rolled out, including one that showed a slowdown in consumer spending. Commzerbank said gold has taken out its psychologically important $1,200 per troy ounce mark, but also its four-year low of around $1,180. Jim Wyckoff, a Kitco analyst, is more pessimistic on gold than he has been in a while, and noted that prices could be in trouble if they don't hold the $1,183 level. "If [gold] prices fall below that, you'll probably see a stiff leg down in prices, and a challenge of $1,000 could not be ruled out," he warned.
Big number. No snow, no excuses, just a bad print. With no other reason than people simply don't have the spending power.
The drop in fuel prices couldn't have come at a better time for the U.S. economy. Consumer spending unexpectedly dropped 0.2% in September, weaker than any economist projected in a Bloomberg survey, after rising 0.5% in August, according to Commerce Department data issued today in Washington. The report also showed incomes rose at a slower pace last month. "This is a little blip, a bit of payback, but all the numbers are pointing to solid growth between now and the end of the year," said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist of IHS, who is among the top-ranked forecasters of consumer spending over the past two years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. "There are a variety of factors that are playing into it. Better finances for consumers, very good jobs growth and you've got more money in consumers' pockets because of lower gasoline prices." The lowest costs at the gas pump in four years and the biggest payroll gains in more than a decade are projected to lift buying power and household purchases heading into the holiday-shopping season.
Other reports today showed consumer confidence jumped this month to a seven-year high and manufacturing in the Chicago area picked up, bolstering prospects for a rebound. The U.S. consumer spending data showed that after adjusting for inflation, which generates the figures used to calculate gross domestic product, purchases also dropped 0.2% last month after a 0.5% gain in August. The data provided a monthly breakdown of the third-quarter figures issued yesterday. That report showed consumer spending, which accounts for almost 70% of the economy, climbed at a 1.8% pace after growing at a 2.5% rate in the previous three months. The weak reading at the end of the quarter gives consumption little momentum heading into the last three months of the year. In a research note, economists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York said it will probably be difficult to reach their 2.9% spending forecast for the fourth quarter, though they maintained the projection until more data are available.
More slices cut from the same pie.
That the economy grew at a "faster than expected" annual rate of 3.5% in the third quarter has been touted as a sign that now – finally, after years of false promises – it is reaching that ever elusive "escape velocity." But instantly, people with keen eyes began to quibble with it. One big factor was military spending, which spiked 16%, the fasted since Q2 2009. This rate is based on the increase from the second quarter that is then annualized, assuming that spending wound continue at this rate for a year. This type of quarter-to-quarter annualized rate is volatile. For example, it plunged 20% in Q4 2012, jumped 17% in Q2 2009, and 18% in Q3 2008. Spikes and plunges often run in sequence (chart). In reality…. According to data from the US Treasury, the Department of Defense spent $149 billion in Q3, which was actually down a smidgen from the $150 billion it spent in Q3 2013.
This lets out a lot of hot air. That spike was likely a fluke, much like other spikes and plunges before it, and much of it may well be undone in Q4. The other two big factors in that "faster than expected" growth of GDP were inventories, which ballooned and will eventually have to be whittled back down, and exports. The surges in these three categories caused JPMorgan to cut its Q4 GDP growth forecast to 2.5% from 3.0%. "All three of these categories tend to be associated with payback the following quarter," explained chief US economist Michael Feroli. And the crux of the economy, the consumer? "Still plodding along in a steady, but unspectacular, manner…." Whether or not that annualized quarterly rate of 3.5% was a mirage – year over year, the economy grew by just 2.3%.
A growth rate barely above 2% is exactly where the US economy has been for the last five years! Nothing has changed. For a recovery by US standards, it's a very crummy growth rate, and far from the escape velocity that Wall Street hype artists have predicted for years in their justification for the ceaselessly skyrocketing stock market. But it gets worse. The population in the US has been growing too. And the economic pie has to be divvied up among more people. So the pie has to grow faster than the population or else, on an individual basis, that growing overall economy, gets cut into smaller slices of the pie.
But without spending they lose even more reserves and production …
Top U.S. oil producers, which already were reining in spending before crude prices started to slip in June, are now looking to trim more fat from their budgets while reminding investors they must spend to grow. Exxon Mobil said on Friday it would keep its current spending plan intact, though it is about 15% less than 2013. ConocoPhillips said it will spend less money next year, and Chevron said it is looking for budget "flexibility." Crude oil prices have slumped 25% since June as global supplies grow and demand weakens. Exxon, which sets budgets using a long-term horizon, still expects to spend a little bit less than $37 billion a year from 2015 to 2017, an executive told investors on Friday on a conference call. "We always are mindful of what's happening in the near future but I keep on pulling back that we are a long-term investor," said Jeff Woodbury, Exxon's head of investor relations.
Exxon tests projects "across the full range of economic parameters including price" to ensure favorable returns, he said. The Irving, Texas company saw capital spending peak at $42.5 billion last year when it was advancing projects to deliver future production growth. Exxon has spent $28 billion so far this year, down 14% versus the first nine months of 2013. ConocoPhillips, the largest independent oil and gas company, said on Thursday it plans to spend less than $16 billion next year, below the $16.7 billion it expects to spend in 2014. "(Capital spending) is going to be lower because of the commodity price environment," Jeff Sheets, ConocoPhillip's chief financial officer said in an interview with Reuters. "We have the flexibility in our capital program to reduce it without giving up any opportunities."
Not sure I'm happy with how Euan places nuclear so close to renewables.
Whilst enjoying the good natured exchanges on this blog concerning the pros and cons of new renewable energy sources I decided to dig deeper into the success of Green energy policies to date. Roger Andrews produced this chart the other day and the low carbon energy trends caught my eye. It is important to recall that well over $1,700,000,000,000 ($1.7 trillion) has been spent on installing wind and solar devices in recent years with the sole objective of reducing global CO2 emissions. It transpires that since 1995 low carbon energy sources (nuclear, hydro and other renewables) share of global energy consumption has not changed at all (Figure 1). New renewables have not even replaced lost nuclear generating capacity since 1999 (Figure 2). ZERO CO2 has been abated and the world has done zilch to prepare itself for the expected declines (escalating costs) of fossil fuels in the decades ahead. If this is not total policy failure, what is?
Figure 1 Nuclear, Hydro and Other Renewables (mainly wind and solar) expressed as % of total global energy consumption. The combined low carbon share reached 13.1% in 1995. In 2013 it was 13.3%. From this chart it is easy to see that Other Renewables have simply compensated for the decline in nuclear power a point made more clear in Figure 2.
One of the main problems with Green thinking is that many Greens are against both fossil fuel (FF) based energy and nuclear power. There are some notable exceptions, James Lovelock and George Monbiot, and I recognise that a number of the "pro-renewable" commenters on this blog are at least not anti-nuclear. It would also be unfair to blame the relative decline of nuclear power since 2001 exclusively on Greens but they do have to shoulder a significant slice of that responsibility.
Figure 2 shows that the recent growth in Other Renewables does not compensate for the relative decline in nuclear power. What is more, stable base load is being replaced with intermittent supply that is seldom correlated with demand. FF generation is wrestling in the background, unloved and unappreciated, maintaining order in our society.
Figure 2 Nuclear and Other Renewables as a%age of total global energy consumption. Nuclear's contribution peaked in 2001 and the decline in nuclear since then has not been fully compensated by the rapid expansion of renewables.
All about a dam.
Another anti-police brutality protest turned violent in the French city of Rennes, with masked youths and police engaging in running street battles. The unrest follows the death of a young environmental activist earlier this week. Overnight Thursday, protesters in the northwestern city lobbed flairs at police and flipped over cars, some of which they set ablaze. Police responded by firing tear gas. The number of arrests or injures, if any, remains unclear. A similar protest in Paris on Wednesday also descended into violence. Around 250 people gathered outside City Hall in Paris, with some throwing rocks at police and writing "Remi is dead, the state kills" on walls, The Local's French edition reports. At least 33 people were taken into police custody following the unrest. The protests are in response to the death of 21-year-old activist Remi Fraisse. He was killed early on Sunday by an explosion, which occurred during violent clashes with police at the site of a contested-dam project in southwestern France.
His death, the first in a mainland protest in France since 1986, has been blamed on a concussion grenade fired by police. France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who came under serious pressure to resign following the incident, announced an immediate suspension of such grenades, which are intended to stun rather than kill. On Monday, outrage at Fraisse's death sparked protests in several French cities. Violence erupted in Albi, the town close to the dam, as well as in Nantes and Rennes. Fraisse was one of 2,000 activists present in the southwestern Tarn region to protest the €8.4m ($10.7) million Sivens dam project. Activists said the project would harm the environment, but officials say it is needed to irrigate farm land and boost the local economy. On Friday, however, local authorities suspended work on the project, saying it would be impossible to continue in light of current events. The executive council, however, which is tasked with overseeing the project, has not ruled to abandon it all together.


Mark Platshon is Managing Director of Icebreaker Ventures' Autonomous World Fund which invests in electric, connected, autonomous and shared mobility technologies. Mark's career as an entrepreneur and VC have included being a serial CEO for 20 years. His investments include Tesla, Peloton, Nauto, Amprius, ChargePoint, Dreamweaver, Cellink and Seurat. Mark is a Cyclotron Road mentor, Advisor to BMW, and venture partner with Birchmere Ventures. He earned a BSE from Michigan and an MBA from Stanford.


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Q: Поиск файла из массива по части его имени Есть мапа TreeMap, она передаёт данные в массив. В массиве данные сортируются, тут все хорошо. Надо сделать такой метод, чтобы брал только 5 штук из массива после сортировки которые начинаются на заданные буквы.
Например, ввёл abc и тебе он вернул список из 5 значений, которые начинаются с abc.
Главное, чтобы ровно 5 значений и порядок файлов не сбился(они уже отсортированы по дате\алфавиту)
 public static void main(String[] args) {

    TreeMap<File, Class> classesByFiles = find("com.company", ""); // получил мапу
    List<File> files = new ArrayList<>(classesByFiles.keySet()); //получил список файлов из мапы
    Collections.sort(files, MODIFIED_DATE_FILE_COMPARATOR);// посортировал

    for (File file : files) // идем по массиву
         {
        System.out.println(file);// выводим его на печать для проверки
         }

A: Вот как-то так
List<File> abc = files.stream().filter(f -> f.getName().startsWith("abc"))
            .limit(5).collect(Collectors.toList());

Либо так
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws InvalidArgumentException {
        List<File> files = new ArrayList<>();
        files.add(new File("C:/test/"));
        files.add(new File("abc1"));
        files.add(new File("abc2"));
        files.add(new File("abc3"));
        files.add(new File("weabc4"));
        files.add(new File("abc5"));
        files.add(new File("sdabc5"));
        files.add(new File("abc4"));
        Collections.sort(files);

        String startName = "abc";
        List<File> files1 = getFiles(files, startName);
        files1.forEach(f -> System.out.println(f.getName()));
    }

    public static List<File> getFiles(List<File> files, String startName){
        List<File> listFiles = new ArrayList<>();
        for (File file : files) {
            if(file.getName().startsWith(startName))
                listFiles.add(file);
        }

        if(listFiles.size() > 5)
            return listFiles.subList(0, 5);

        return listFiles;

    }

}

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IISER Berhampur – The Union Cabinet under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday given its approval for formation of an Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Berhampur, Odisha.
The establishment and operational of IISER, Berhampur will involve a cost of Rs.I52.79 crore, for the initial three years (2016-19).
IISER, now declared Institute of National Importance under NITSER Act 2012,would boost research & provide quality education to students at UG & PG Level.
Notably, the Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley in his Budget Speech (2015) had announced setting up of an IISER in the State of Odisha.


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Q: Frobenius method solution of this nasty 2nd order Linear ODE I've tried but can't get the solution of this ode by Frobenius method.
$(x^2)y''-6y=0$
I tried with $y=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}(a_k \cdot x^{(k+r)})$  where $a_k$ is coefficient.
I can't find the recurrence relation.
If any one finds the recurrence relation, that'll do it.

A: By Frobenius, the relation between coefficients is
$$x^2k(k-1)a_kx^{k-2}-6a_k=0,$$
i.e.
$$a_k=0\lor k(k-1)=6,$$ hence the only nonzero terms are
$$a_3x^3+a_{-2}x^{-2}.$$


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Watch Tamil Movie Varavu Nalla Uravu Player 1
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The film was remade into Telugu as Dabbu Bhale Jabbu and in Malayalam as Achan Kombathu Amma Varampathu. It is loosely based on the 1937 movie Make Way for Tomorrow, which had been adapted into a 1958 Kannada movie School Master. The film had musical score by Shankar Ganesh. Visu was awarded for Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Story Writer.
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