una gran crisis en la UE

El ex gerente de fondos de cobertura y ex empleado de Goldman Sachs, Raoul Pal, advierte que algunos de los mayores bancos de Europa están al borde de una crisis que recuerda a la de 2008.

Según Pal, las acciones del Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Santander, Barclays y RBS están cayendo drásticamente y enviando ondas de choque a través de todo el mundo financiero. 

El mes pasado, el jefe del Banco Central Europeo, Mario Draghi, aumentó las expectativas de que podría aumentar la flexibilización cuantitativa en Marzo, imprimiendo millones de euros, a pesar de los temores económicos en curso. Francia el mes pasado declaró un estado de crisis económica en medio de las preocupaciones sobre la estabilidad de la zona euro.

Las regulaciones ahora requieren que los bancos europeos dispongan de más dinero en efectivo como protección contra las crisis de mercado, pero Pal advierte de que los balances no se han limpiado y de que las tasas de interés negativas están golpeando duramente a estas entidades bancarias. Pal declaró en las noticias de la CNBC: “Miro las grandes tablas de acciones a largo plazo de estas entidades y lo que veo es lo más aterrador que he visto en mucho tiempo. Los problemas bancarios pueden ser una preocupación mucho más grande que la desaceleración del crecimiento de China y el precio del petróleo”.

Fuente: http://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/641080/European-banks-heading-for-collapse-warns-expert

USA it is unable to defend

Report: US it is unable to defend against ballistic missiles from Iran or North Korea 


The Pentagon has spent billions of dollars on technology that has not proven effective US missile systems are unable to protect the territory of the country in case of intercontinental missile attacks from North Korea or Iran, according to a report by the US Office of Accountability Statements (GAO). 

the agency of Congress said the missile Defense Agency at the Pentagon continues to spend billions of dollars on technology that has not proven its ability to cope with missile attacks. the report says test intercepts missile defense system based on land (GMD, according to its acronym in English) have only succeeded in half of the cases. 

the GAO said the missile shield would protect US only against a limited ballistic missile North Korea or Iran attack. The missile defense system based on US soil is riddled with flaws "The deployment of systems that have not completed testing would increase the risk to the US military, they would have to operate systems whose capabilities and limitations would be beyond their understanding," reads the report.  

The GAO concluded that US . should redesign and make further testing the key components of the GMD, and it is unlikely that the target set by the president to deploy 44 interceptors by the end of 2017. concrete release this February 7 by North Korea of a space satellite , seen by many as a test of ballistic missile, it has generated international condemnation and renewed concerns about Pyongyang's nuclear program.

vital war, reason: water control

Global Water Wars: Privatization and fracking "human right" to "affordability" of water privatization flap does not solve the global thirst, but commodified. We must dare to go beyond the primitive and vulgar "market" to deal a blow to citizen helm and, above all, a humanist, that transcends water as a "right of survivorship".

The international analyst and blogger Telesur Alfredo Jalife presents on Thursday his book The Global Water Wars: Privatization and Fracking, a story that sends a humanistic message to the growing threat of US transnational that . Seeking to seize the vital fluid
"The water can not be seen as a financial cost, we are not talking about oil, but vital liquid.

Water should be treated as a right of survival ", so displays the Mexican analyst, of Lebanese origin, specializing in international relations, economics, geopolitics and globalization. Khalife said exclusively for the website Telesur, which at the present time the water is of a global war.

"While in the twentieth century was the oil, water XXI century". "If we let the multinationals take over the water, tomorrow we will charge the right to breathe" , summoned specialist writer 13 other books. Khalife said the current situation is precarious and not only mercantilist matter, but of survival.

"America is taking advantage of the water crisis that is recorded from North Africa to Central Asia where the most vulnerable countries are Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan .

In Mexico, for example, we have the worst scenario for the country, but the best for the US "Privatization The issue of water privatization has led to an increase of 400 percent on average worldwide.

Jalife explains that there are two approaches to shovel the situation of water crisis: the humanistic and the market. "The focus of the market we are currently experiencing in Mexico." In eastern Mexico City there are about 15 million inhabitants and is the area most affected by their settlements and the presence of multinationals that seek to charge up the uptake of rainwater. "Here we have a citizens' revolt, because we are talking about big business, because there are three that are driving transnational privatization together with the World Bank, who are seeing that water is the white gold of the century ", he said. fracking

Regarding the hydraulic fracturing with the US pierces the ground to extract the shale gas highlighted the large amounts of water and there is again needed, as in Monterrey Mexican border with the US Mexico is the third global power in terms of shale gas reserves, second Argentina and China first.

It is for this reason that Washington seeks to take over this natural source of seeking to divert a river to bring water to the area. "This is the fracking, the hinge two privatizations, oil and water."

Warning that this will not stop, Wall Street needs to be a predator to support the stock market, he pointed

Hungary For the bank collects guns and bullets?

WHY THE CENTRAL BANK OF HUNGARY ACCUMULATE hundreds of weapons and 200,000 bullets? As reported by Bloomberg, the Hungarian central bank has gathered guns and ammunition.

"The central bank of Hungary, already facing criticism for a spending spree ranging from real estate to fine arts, now is widely strengthening its security forces, citing the migrant crisis and potential bomb threats among the pretexts for do what. The Hungarian National Bank purchased 200,000 rounds of ammunition and 112 firearms for security company, according to documents on a website that monitors public procurement "

The central bank governor Gyorgy Matolcsy has justified the rearmament of its security forces citing "international safety risks" This purchase of arms in the middle of a serious migration crisis plaguing Central European countries, among which, for the forcefulness with occurs treatment of immigrants, the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary.

Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-18/hungarian-central-bank-hoards-200000-bullets-hundreds-guns-due-security-risks http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-18/hungary-central-bank-stockpiles-guns-bullets-citing-terror-risk

disproportionate salaries of ECB

ECB presidents have raised the salary by 12% since the outbreak of the financial crisis

The salary of Mario Dragh i as president of the European Central Bank increased by 1.6% in 2015, up to385,860 euros The total base salaries of the executive committee and supervisory board last year amounted to 2,454,405 euros (2,285 378 euros in 2014)

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The salary of Mario Draghi as President of the European Central Bank (ECB) increased by 1.6% in 2015, up to 385,860 euros, an improvement fourfold rise 0.4% last year, when the annual base salary of the president the entity reached 379,608 euros

. Thus, the rise of the salary received by Mario Draghi was still well above the rate of inflation in the euro zone, which in December 2015 was 0.2%.
In fact, up 1, 6% applied to the salary of the Italian banker is the largest annual increase received by Draghisince it started its term in November 2011, following increases of 0.8% in 2012, 1.1% in 2013 and 0.4% in 2014. since his arrival to the presidency of the ECB in 2011, the basic salary of the head of the monetary policy of the euro zone increased by 3.9%, while since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007, the charge ECB President has seen his salary increased by 11.7%

Meanwhile, ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio, received in 2015 a base salary of 330,744 euros compared with 325,392 euros he won in 2014, representing an increase of 1.6%, the same applied to the salary improvement Draghi and other members of the Executive Board of the ECB.

In this line, the salaries of other members of the ECB board who remained throughout the year in office (Peter Praet, Benoît Coeuré, Yves Mersch) also rose 1.6%, from 271,140 up to 275,604 euros per year per year .

Meanwhile, Sabine Lautenschläger, who replaced in January 2014 his compatriot Jorg Asmussen, saw their wages improved by 8.7% to 275,604 euros compared to 253,457 euros the previous year, when it did not charge the full year.

Meanwhile, ECB members and employees n the Council of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, except Sabine Lautenschläger, together received 635,385 euros in the second year of life of the organism, of which 275,604 corresponded to the salary of its president, Danièle Nouy, ​​which was improved by 1.6% base salary in relation to 2014.

The ECB said that executives of the entity and full-time members of the Supervisory Board receive a base salary and other allowances for residence and representation. However, the president of the institution has an official residence owned by the ECB instead of the benefit per household. Meanwhile, members of the Supervisory Board employed by the ECB to work part-time in addition to the basic salary, receive a variable salary based on the number of meetings they attend.

In 2015, the amount paid for this item was 352,256 euros, compared with 74,776 euros in 2014. "According to the provisions of the conditions of employment d staff of the European Central Bank, members of the Executive Committee and the Council of supervision entitled to allowances for household, child and education, depending on their individual circumstances, " said the European Central Bank. In this regard, he added that the basic wages are taxable to the European Union and deductions for contributions to the pension plan and medical insurance and accident, while social benefits are not taxed and do not count on Indeed pension

. Overall, the ECB devoted to personnel costs, including salaries, allowances, insurance premiums and other expenses for employees, totaling 306.4 million euros, representing an increase of 25% over the 244.9 million who dedicated to the item in 2014 mainly as a result of the increased number of employees. At the end of 2015, the institution had the equivalent of 2,871 full-time employees, compared with 2,577 that had at the end of 2014, a total of 299 casualties during the year, compared to 681 in 2014, while new contracts or contract changes totaled 648, compared with 1,458 the previous year.