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Hilo de USA - poder, mentiras y orden mundial
saturno:
Abro un nuevo hilo USA más genérico, porque los del dólar y los drones parecen muy centrados.
Si os parece bien, en este cabrá de todo y podrá complementar el hilo de Europa, (y los del resto del mundo claro).
http://benjaminstudebaker.com/2016/02/05/why-bernie-vs-hillary-matters-more-than-people-think/
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by Benjamin Studebaker
Lately the internet has become full of arguments about the merits and demerits of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been discussing and pondering all the various views about this, and I’m increasingly of the opinion that most of the people engaging in this debate don’t really understand what is at stake in the democratic primary. This is in part because many Americans don’t really understand the history of American left wing politics and don’t think about policy issues in a holistic, structural way. So in this post, I want to really dig into what the difference is between Bernie and Hillary and why that difference is extremely important.
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y otro:
http://benjaminstudebaker.com/2016/02/10/why-bernie-sanders-is-more-electable-than-people-think/
--- Citar ---Why Bernie Sanders is More Electable Than People Think
by Benjamin Studebaker
A few days ago, I wrote a popular post about the ideological differences between Bernie Sanders, the egalitarian committed to shrinking the financial sector and boosting consumption by raising wages, and Hillary Clinton, the neoliberal committed to protecting the interests of finance capital. I explained the history of the Democratic Party and how it came to be captured by neoliberalism–the same economic ideology espoused by Ronald Reagan and many of his successors in the Republican Party. Many people found that this clarified the differences between Bernie and Hillary for them. However some people expressed concern that even though they think Bernie’s ideology is more desirable, he may still nonetheless be unable to beat a republican in a general election. A republican victory would be awful for the left–even a neoliberal democrat is still noticeably to the left of a neoliberal republican, especially on issues like climate change or LGBT rights. However, I think there are good reasons to think that Bernie is at least as electable as Hillary, and possibly significantly more so.
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saturno:
--- Citar ---These Charts Show Why Bernie Wants to Make America More Like Europe
So just where is the surprise? Why should we be amazed that young voters think it would be not be so bad if America were more like Denmark, Finland or the Netherlands? In a recent interview, George Stephanopoulos cautioned Sanders that Republicans were likely to jump all over him for saying the U.S. should be more like Scandinavia.
"That's right. And what's wrong with that?" Sanders replied. "What's wrong when you have more income and wealth equality? What's wrong when they have a stronger middle class in many ways than we do, higher minimum wage than we do and they are stronger on the environment than we do?"
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-g-dolan/charts-bernie-europe-socialism_b_9238622.html
--- Citar ---Here is a chart that gives the big picture. The horizontal axis shows gross domestic product per capita. (GDP here is measured at purchasing power parity to remove distortions caused by over- or undervalued exchange rates.) The vertical axis shows a measure of human well-being called the Social Progress Index. Unlike some other broad indexes of human welfare, the SPI does not explicitly include income, wealth or GDP. Instead, it regards them as "inputs" that support the production of "outputs" like health, security and personal freedoms.
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saturno:
http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/02/21/estados_unidos/1456017722_907541.html
Trump gana en Carolina del Sur y se afianza como el favorito republicano
Y Libération
http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/02/21/trump-du-cauchemar-a-la-realite_1434958
--- Citar ---Tiene la historia de su lado. Ningún candidato ganó nunca la investidura republicana sin antes ganar la primaria bien de New Hampshire, bien de Caroline del Sur. En menos de dos semanas, Donald Trump se lleva las dos con mucha ventaja sobre sus seguidores
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saturno:
Hillary Clinton 'barre' a Bernie Sanders en Carolina del Sur
http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2016/02/28/56d23ec4e2704e08068b4614.html
http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/02/28/hillary-clinton-en-tete-devant-bernie-sanders-apres-sa-large-victoire-en-caroline-du-sud_1436273
--- Citar ---Le résultat de samedi montre que le discours de Bernie Sanders sur les inégalités et les élites, très populaire chez les jeunes, ne parvient pas à accrocher les Noirs et les plus âgés.
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Sanders es un candidato generacional. Le siguen los jovenes, pero los "triunfadores", incluso Negros, prefieren a Clinton.
(Miren la foto de Clinton para saber por qué. Y no es intencional del periodista. Supongo que la facilitaron los agentes de Clinton ;)
Currobena:
Entrevista a Donald Trump. Fantástica, teniendo en cuenta las circunstancias.
--- Citar --- Then what does all this-the yacht, the bronze tower, the casinos-really mean to you?
Props for the show. And what is the show?
The show is "Trump" and it has sold out performances everywhere. I've had fun doing it and will continue to have fun, and I think most people enjoy it.
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Calvin Klein, who doesn't have a fraction of your wealth, has often said he feels guilty about his. Do you?
It's not overriding, but I do have it. You don't sound guilty at all.
I do have a feeling of guilt. I'm living well and like it, I know that many other people don't live particularly well. I do have a social consciousness. I'm setting up a foundation; I give a lot of money away and I think people respect that. The fact that I built this large company by myself working people respect that; but the people who are at high levels don't like it. They'd like it for themselves.
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You lost some valued employees in a recent helicopter crash.
Yes. I lost not only brilliant, key players in my company but true friends and I couldn't believe it. At first, I was shocked, called their wives, just kept functioning .... My own sense of optimism and life was greatly diminished. I never realized how deaths outside the family could have such a profound effect on me. What did you think when the shock wore off?
[Pauses] It's a tragic waste. I was also angry in that it was an event that I didn’t want to happen. Here was this press conference, a very mediocre event announcing a minor boxing match. I told these guys that they didn't need to go, but they wanted to be there … They gave their lives for something so unimportant. It’s been a rough time.
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What satisfaction, exactly, do you get out of doing a deal?
I love the creative process. I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it. I like the challenge and tell the story of the coal miner's son. The coal miner gets black-lung disease, his son gets it, then his son. If I had been the son of a coal miner, I would have left the damn mines. But most people don't have the imagination-or whatever-to leave their mine. They don’t have "it." Which is?
"It" is an ability to become an entrepreneur, a great athlete, a great writer. You're either born with it or you're not. Ability can be honed, perfected or neglected. The day Jack Nicklaus came into this world, he had more innate ability to play golf than anybody else.
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You obviously have a lot of self-confidence. How do you use that in a business deal?
I believe in positive thinking, but I also believe in the power of negative thinking. You should prepare for the worst. If I'm doing a deal, I want to know how bad it's going to be if everything doesn't work rather than how good it's going to be. I have a positive outlook, but I'm unfortunately also quite cynical. So if all the negatives happened, what would my strategy be? Would I want to be in that position? If I don't, I don't do the deal. My attitude is to focus on the down side because the up side will always take care of itself.
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Your older brother, Fred, who died from heart failure brought on by acute alcoholism, had a more difficult time with him, didn't he?
Take one environment and it will work completely differently on different children. Our family environment, the competitiveness, was a negative for Fred. It wasn't easy for him being cast in a very tough environment, and I think it played havoc on him. I was very close to him and it was very sad when he died . . . toughest situation I've had ... What did you learn from his experience?
[Pauses] Nobody has ever asked me that. But his death affected everything that has come after it. ... I think constantly that I never really gave him thanks for it. He was the first Trump boy out there, and I subconsciously watched his moves. And the lesson?
I saw people really taking advantage of Fred and the lesson I learned was always to keep up my guard one hundred percent, whereas he didn't. He didn't feel that there was really reason for that, which is a fatal mistake in life. People are too trusting. I'm a very untrusting guy. I study people all the time, automatically; it's my way of life, for better or worse. Why?
I am very skeptical about people; that's self-preservation at work. I believe that, unfortunately, people are out for themselves. At this point, it's to many people’s advantage to like me. Would the phone stop ringing, would these people kissing ass disappear if things were not going well? I enjoy testing friendship .... Everything in life to me is a psychological game, a series of challenges you either meet or don't. I am always testing people who work for me. How?
I will send people around to my buyers to test their honesty by offering them trips and other things. I've been surprised that some people least likely to accept a trip from a contractor did and some of the most likely did not. You can never tell until you test; the human species is interesting in that way. So to me, friendship can be really tested only in bad times. I instinctively mistrust many people. It is not a negative in my life but a positive. Playboy wouldn't be talking to me today if I weren't a cynic. So I learned that from Fred, and I owe him a lot. . . . He could have ultimately been a happy guy, but things just went the unhappy way.
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How large a role does pure ego play in your deal making and enjoyment of publicity?
Every successful person has a very large ego. Every successful person? Mother Teresa? Jesus Christ?
Far greater egos than you will ever understand. And the Pope?
Absolutely. Nothing wrong with ego. People need ego, whole nations need ego.
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We've talked about building low income housing; what have you done about rhat in other locations?
I did that during the years I worked with my father; I did build both low-income housing and housing for the elderly. And now I'm going to be building more of it. The problem is, that stuff never gets written about.
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A favorite word of yours, tough. How do you define it?
Tough is being mentally capable of winning battles against an opponent and doing it with a smile. Tough is winning systematically. Sometimes you sound like a Presidential candidate stirring up the voters.
I don't want the Presidency. I'm going to help a lot of people with my foundation-and for me, the grass isn't always greener. But if the grass ever did look greener, which political party do you think you'd be more comfortable with?
Well, if I ever ran for office, I'd do better as a Democrat than as a Republican-and that's not because I'd be more Republican-and that's not because I'd be more liberal, because I'm conservative. But the working guy would elect me. He likes me.
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What would be some of President Trump's longer-term views of the future?
I think of the future, but I refuse to paint it. Anything can happen. But I often think of nuclear war. Nuclear war?
I've always thought about the issue of nuclear war; it's a very important element in my thought process. It's the ultimate, the ultimate catastrophe, the biggest problem this world has, and nobody's focusing on the nuts and bolts of it. It's a little like sickness. People don't believe they’re going to get sick until they do. Nobody wants to talk about it. I believe the greatest of all stupidities is people's believing it will never happen, because everybody knows how destructive it will be, so nobody uses weapons. What bullshit. Does any of that fuzzy thinking exist around the Trump office?
On a much lower level, I would never hire anybody who thinks that way, because he has absolutely no common sense. He's living in a world of make-believe. It’s like thinking the Titanic can't sink. Too many countries have nuclear weapons; nobody knows where they're all pointed, what button it takes to launch them. The bomb Harry Truman dropped on Hiroshima was a toy next to today's. We have thousands of weapons pointed at us and nobody even knows if they're going to go in the right direction. They've never really been tested. These jerks in charge don't know how to paint a wall, and we’re relying on them to shoot nuclear missiles to Moscow. What happens if they don't go there? What happens if our computer systems aren't working? Nobody knows if this equipment works, and I've seen numerous reports lately stating that the probability is they don't work. It's a total mess.
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You categorically don't want to be President?
I don't want to be President. I’m one hundred percent sure. I'd change my mind only if I saw this country continue to go down the tubes.
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(sobre el alcalde de Nueva York)
He could think only about his own ass-not the city's. That was dumb: The only one who didn't know his administration was crumbling around him was him. Power corrupts. You probably have more power than Koch did as mayor. And you're getting more of it all the time. How about power's corrupting you?
I think power sometimes corrupts-“sometimes" has to be added.
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But you do enjoy flirtations?
I think any man enjoys flirtations, and if he said he didn't, he'd be lying or he'd be a politician trying to get the extra four votes. I think everybody likes knowing he's well responded to. Especially as you get into certain strata where there is an ego involved and a high level of success, it's important. People really like the idea that other people respond well to them.
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You're involved in so many activities, deals, promotions-in the deep of the night, after the reporters all leave your conferences, are you ever satisfied with what you've accomplished?
I'm too superstitious to be satisfied. I don't dwell on the past. People who do that go right down the tubes. I'm never self-satisfied. Life is what you do while you're waiting to die. You know, it is all a rather sad situation. Life? Or death?
Both. We're here and we live our sixty, seventy or eighty years and we’re gone. You win, you win, and in the end, it doesn't mean a hell of a lot. But it is something to do-to keep you interested.
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I truly believe that someone successful is never really happy, because dissatisfaction is what drives him. I've never met a successful person who wasn't neurotic. It's not a terrible thing ... it's controlled neuroses. What do you mean?
Controlled neuroses means having a tremendous energy level, an abundance of discontent that often isn't visible.
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You've always said that you earned, not inherited, your empire, that adversity and uphill struggles made you stronger. What kind of adversity can your children experience?
I'm a strong believer in genes, that my kids can be brought up without adversity and respond well if they have the genes. I have a friend who is extraordinarily smart. But he never became successful, because he couldn't take pressure. He was buying a home and it was literally killing him-a man of forty with an l.Q. of probably a hundred and ninety.
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What about the stock market?
It's a crap shoot. Real estate is something solid. It's brick, mortar.
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About your own toughness...
Well, as I said, I study people and in every negotiation, I weigh how tough I should appear. I can be a killer and a nice guy. You have to be everything. You have to be strong. You have to be sweet. You have to be ruthless. And I don't think any of it can be learned. Either you have it or you don't. And that is why most kids can get straight As in school but fail in life. Is there a master plan to your deal making or is it all improvisational?
It's much more improvisational than people might think.
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https://thecorporateculture.com/2015/playboy-interviewed-donald-trump-25-years-ago/
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