Operación Gorgojo: Ya son más de 40 los detenidos por corrupción en Abastos Bicentenario y CVAL

Lo regulado era pasado a comercios privados

Por: Prensa YVKE- Correo del Orinoco | Domingo, 31/01/2016 03:18 

Caracas, enero 31 - El titular de la cartera de interior justicia y paz, M/G Gustavo González López, informó que gracias al trabajo mancomunado entre Gobierno Bolivariano y pueblo organizado, fueron capturadas 40 personas y otras 12 se encuentran solicitadas, por los actos de corrupción detectados en Abastos Bicentenarios y la Corporación Venezolana de Alimentos (CVAL).

Entre los capturados, se cuentan tres directivos quienes desviaban alimentos regulados para su propio peculio y encabezaban una red de legitimación de capitales.

“Fueron capturados por los delitos de peculado Hebert Aguilar, expresidente de CVAL (Corporación Venezolana de Alimentos), la presidenta de Abastos Bicentenarios, Bárbara González y la administradora de CVAL, Bárbara Figueroa en un operativo que hemos denominado Operación Gorgojo”.

El ministro explicó que la captura de estas personas y la incautación del dinero en efectivo ubicado en sus viviendas, se realizaron gracias al cuerpo anticorrupción que fue creado por el Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, en el marco de la Ley Habilitante.

Sobre la detención de los directivos de CVAL y Abastos Bicentenarios, González López destacó que el pueblo organizado y el Cuerpo Nacional Contra la Corrupción, realizaron seguimiento, investigación y la captura de los imputados en los delitos de peculado doloso.

Detalló que los exfuncionarios, sostenían sus actividades delictivas durante los operativos de Mercado a Cielo Abierto. “Aprovechaban los propios vehículos del Estado para desviar productos subsidiados para el pueblo. Luego estos productos eran distribuidos a sus restaurantes, comedores y supermercados para que fueran expendidos a precios especulativos”, informó.

Otro de los procedimientos que fueron practicados por los cuerpos de seguridad, fueron las inspecciones técnicas, allanamientos residenciales para determinar las vías que usaban los detenidos para legitimar los capitales.

“Estamos indignados por estos infiltrados. Son calificados como traidores. Se apropiaron de fondos públicos y desviaban los alimentos a una red privada”, expresó el ministro.

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Barbara González controlaba la información sobre el desabastecimiento de alimentos en el país

La procesada presidenta de la red pública de abastos Bicentenario, Barbara Gonzalez Clemente, también era la secretaria ejecutiva del Centro Nacional de Balance de Alimentos (CENBAL), y como tal era la responsable del procesamiento de la informacion referida a los índices de desabastecimiento de alimentos en el país.

El domingo 4 de enero de 2015 el presidente Maduro anuncio la creacion del Cenbal

La mujer, aprehendida la semana pasada tras un escándalo que la vinculó con irregularidades en el manejo de cantidades millonarias de dinero proveniente de las ventas en las redes de anastecimiento del Estado, había sido designada como directora de la Secretaría Ejecutiva del CENBAL el 19 de enero de 2015.

La designación fue realizada por el entonces vicepresidente para la Seguridad y Soberanía Agroalimentaria, Carlos Osorio Zambrano, según consta en la resolución 002-15, publicada en la Gaceta Oficial 40.574.

El Centro, una comisión presidencial creada por el presidente Nicolas Maduro el 4 de enero del pasado año, tenia como mision general "establecer los mecanismos de informacion real y actualizada de los indices de abastecimiento de alimentos en el pais".

Para esto deberia centralizar la informacion sobre proyecciones de cosechas, compras de alimentos a nivel nacional e internacional y coordinar los esfuerzos tanto del sector publico y privado productivo y comercializador del pais,

Esa tarea en concreto, de procesamiento de la informacion,  es competencia de la Secretaria Ejecutiva, segun lo establece el decreto de creacion en su articulo 5.

Entre las funciones especificas se encuentra informar semanalmente al Presidente la Republica el balance agroalimentario sobre ka situacion de la produccion nacional, las importaciones comprometidas y las coberturas en tiempo de los distintos rubros.

Tambien crear un sistema de alertas tempranas para evitar la inexistencia de rubros alimenticios y no alimenticios para la poblacion.

Sin embargo, la situacion de incertidumbre sobre la disponibilidad de alimentos y otros rubros durante el pasado ano, parece indicar que la Comision y sus responsables no cumplieron con la mision encomendada, toda vez que nunca se produjo informacion publica que citara los reportes y alertas del Cenbal.

Gonzalez Clemente aunque tiene un perfil publico muy bajo, ha ocupado importantes cargos tecnicos en el Ministerio de Finanzas desde 2003, cuando fue designada directora de tecnologia de la informacion. En 2008 fue incorporada como directora de apoyo tecnico en la Oficina Nacional de Contabilidad Publica, un organismo dependiente del despacho de Finanzas.

Why the American Revolution Against “Lockdown” Must Begin Now

By Bernie Suarez
Is America now caught like a deer in the headlights staring at one “lockdown” event after another not knowing what to do? Or is everyone happy that lockdowns are happening so that the government can keep you safe? Are we not paying attention to what is slowly becoming the greatest freedom crisis ever in American history where every day is now 9/11? What’s missing now is an idea for a revolution against “lockdown” to declare it illegal and unconstitutional once and for all. Until this idea catches fire we are all in for some very dark days.
I came across a story this weekend about a shooting that took place at a Denver Colorado motorcycle expo between potentially two rival motorcycle gangs. The report was not conclusive about who the people involved in the shooting were. The mass media reported that there was one person killed and at least seven others wounded. It was a fight that ended ugly. For bikers and members on both sides it was likely a very emotional and very tense situation that at least for now had ended.

Unlike the typical modern day often scripted mass shootings, there was no search for a gunman or suspects on the run who no one can see or confirm their identity until long after they are announced dead by the police and mainstream media. There were no patsies for the police to hunt down then murder. No sharpshooters taking aim at random people and no disgruntled shooters on the loose.
Despite the missing elements that would normally make this a mass shooting or a “terrorism” related event, despite the missing “domestic extremists” element, the crazed lone shooter on psych medications and despite the missing “ISIS” component, we heard the term “lockdown” used; a word describing a police tactic that until just a few years ago was reserved for special situations.
The fact of the matter is that in America today, (as I have been writing about lately) with every passing week, “lockdown” is increasingly becoming a very common tactic, and this should concern all Americans. According to reports surrounding this latest shooting incident, the hospital where some of the wounded men were treated was immediately put into “lockdown”, meaning innocent people were immediately placed on temporary in-house arrest without being allowed to leave.
Sooner or later Americans will have to take a stand against lockdown because lockdown is tyranny and lockdown is martial law and neither has any place in America.
As I’ve said many times the idea of “lockdown” was mostly introduced in 2013, primarily via two events that occurred just a few months apart. In February 2013, the Chris Dorner manhunt was nothing more than a planned assassination, then in April of 2013 we had the Boston bombing aftermath where they officially and boldly rolled out “lockdown” to the national audience. The control system has not looked back since.
Since that time, what we are seeing is an alarming and progressively increasing use of “lockdown” in late 2015 and early 2016 and nobody seems to be complaining. Where are the marches against lockdown? Where are the street rallies to end lockdown? Where are the Americans holding signs and banners in the streets reading things like “lockdown = martial law return to the legal system of rules now” or “ordinary arrests don’t require lockdowns, stop abusing the constitutional rights of Americans” or even “Hitler did lockdowns, why are we doing it?”
These activists it seems don’t exist yet because we (America) are being fully conditioned to accept tyranny by the day. No one is even realizing that this past week is one of the first times if not the first time we’re hearing the term lockdown used more than once in one week in America. It was just a couple of months ago when the mass media used lockdown in Paris and then a few days later in Belgium to describe their “international manhunt”.
Will your neighborhood be “locked down” tomorrow? There isn’t anyone reading this article that can confidently say no, and that is serious cause for concern. It’s time to face the tyrannical reality America is in. They sold “lockdown” to Americans when no one was looking and everyone bought it. No one complained, no one thought it was odd, no one questioned it, and now martial law lockdown is here.

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Millions of Americans should have taken to the streets after Boston bombing demanding justice for the people of Watertown, Massachusetts but no one did. Millions should have taken up the cause of justice on behalf of Chris Dorner’s tyrannical manhunt but no one did. And we all watched in 2005 as FEMA approved the unconstitutional invasion of American homes following hurricane Katrina in 2005. All of these events were leading to one thing:  introduction of martial law in America. Now it seems too late. Martial law is apparently here. After you read this article and as you sleep tonight, realize that the police can declare lockdown in your neighborhood and there is nothing you can do to stop this. No one apparently saw this coming, no one protested, no one stopped it and no one took action. So now we all have to deal with this new reality.

Solutions

So let me be the first to suggest that its time to raise awareness, make noise and draft legislation in your town to STOP lockdown dead in its tracks. Start thinking of how and when you want to take action, how you want to word your letters to your elected officials and what you want to say in your city council meetings, but start doing it. Otherwise, realize that your home is no longer a safe place from government. Realize that the constitutional protection you thought you had against illegal search and seizure is one lockdown away from going up in smoke. Which means that you are ONE crisis actor staged event away from having police enter your home. Realize that you are one false flag event away from having police rummage through your home at will. Think about that!
More importantly, realize that it’s time to end lockdown. Understand that America did just fine before lockdowns began and it will do just fine after lockdown is completely abolished and ruled unconstitutional.
I want to be part of the revolution to abolish lockdown, don’t you? If revolution today starts with the freedom to spread revolutionary ideas then let me suggest this idea. Let’s abolish lockdown before it’s too late. It’s time to take a stand against lockdown in your local community. Let’s challenge our local community leaders to demand that local and federal police prove to us the effectiveness and purpose of their lockdowns and how they make America safer. Let’s challenge them to give us one example when lockdown was effective. It’s time to force “lockdown” itself into the court system for its day in court.
Picture an America and a world without lockdown. Recall the days when police went about their business of searching and arresting suspects based on the information they had and their failure to capture wanted suspects was dealt with by implementing standard police investigation operations. We saw these police investigation techniques in every cop TV show growing up. What we’re seeing now is a lust and obsession to want to catch every suspect dead or alive now or never. We’re told that all of life must stop until their suspect is apprehended or as we commonly see today, murdered. We’ve put such a high value of importance on police searches that we’ve relinquished our rights to them and bowed at their alter. This police worship has now come at the highest price possible, costing us all our natural born rights and freedom from tyranny and illegal government searches and quartering in violation of the third and fourth amendments.
Lockdown has forced me to change how I think. It really hits home when you think of the possibilities of what could happen at any moment and it forces me to re-evaluate what my priorities are when it comes to activism. For anyone who thinks this issue is no big deal or that we can’t stop lockdowns so we might as well accept it, I want to challenge you to show me any other government action that is immediately more threatening than lockdown. Lockdown is equivalent to having someone point a loaded gun at your head in real-time. When its happening, all of a sudden nothing else matters. Once lockdown begins, you are it. During lockdown you could be mistaken for someone else as occurred in the Chris Dorner assassination manhunt and your words and actions could be misconstrued in a different way. During lockdown you could more readily be accused of resisting; and if you are a gun owner attempting to protect your home not realizing what is happening, all your rights just went out the window and you could pay for this misunderstanding with your life or jail time.
Will America and humanity around the globe stand up to lockdown or do we not have the will? What does your local community think about the morality, legality and constitutionality of lockdown? Has the issue been brought up yet? Does anyone have the courage to push back on the police state? Now is the time for action if you care about freedom. If you agree please share this message.
Bernie is a revolutionary writer with a background in medicine, psychology, and information technology. He is the author of The Art of Overcoming the New World Order and has written numerous articles over the years about freedom, government corruption and conspiracies, and solutions. A former host of the 9/11 Freefall radio show, Bernie is also the creator of the Truth and Art TV project where he shares articles and videos about issues that raise our consciousness and offer solutions to our current problems. His efforts are designed to encourage others to joyfully stand for truth, to expose government tactics of propaganda, fear and deception, and to address the psychology of dealing with the rising new world order. He is also a former U.S. Marine who believes it is our duty to stand for and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. A peace activist, he believes information and awareness is the first step toward being free from enslavement from the globalist control system which now threatens humanity. He believes love conquers all fear and it is up to each and every one of us to manifest the solutions and the change that you want to see in this world, because doing this is the very thing that will ensure victory and restoration of the human race from the rising global enslavement system, and will offer hope to future generation.

Venezuela Tries to Convince Oil Nations to Cut Production

• Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino meets Russia's Novak Monday
• OPEC's oil production hits record high after Indonesia joins

Venezuela’s Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino faces an uphill battle persuading Russia and Saudi Arabia to cooperate in cutting oil production amid a supply glut that has pushed prices down more than 30 percent in the past year, according to analysts Robin Mills and Edward Bell.

Concern that U.S. shale producers would benefit from any increase in oil prices following a potential cut is one factor that will keep Saudi Arabia and Russia from agreeing to a reduction in output, according to Mills, chief executive officer of Dubai-based oil consultant Qamar Energy, and Bell, commodities analyst at lender Emirates NBD PJSC. Del Pino will meet Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak in Moscow Monday before traveling to Qatar, Iran and Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter.
“There’s a minimal chance the Venezuelans will get them to agree to anything,” Mills said by phone on Sunday. “I don’t think the conditions are there for an agreement.”

Possible meeting

Venezuela approached Russia about a possible meeting between the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and producers such as Russia that are outside the group, Novak said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said on Union Radio Sunday that “OPEC and non-OPEC countries are close to an agreement,” without specifying what kind of agreement.
Venezuela has repeatedly called for OPEC members to meet as slumping oil prices sap government revenue. Brent crude has dropped from $115 a barrel in June 2014 to less than $30 this month. OPEC with its de facto leader Saudi Arabia supply about 40 percent of the world’s oil. The group pumped in January at the highest level since 1996, when Bloomberg began compiling data, as it reactivated Indonesia’s membership.
“The Saudis may want to take some oil off the market,” Mills said. “They can talk to the Russians, they can talk to the Venezuelans, they can talk to the Nigerians, but they can’t talk to shale.”

OPEC meetings

Members of OPEC hold twice-yearly meetings to discuss market conditions, whereas the U.S. shale industry involves thousands of private firms working alongside the world’s largest oil companies. That makes it impossible for the U.S. to agree on production cuts, Mills and Bell said. Any decrease in output that results in higher oil prices would benefit the U.S., they said.
OPEC decided last month to abandon its previous 30 million-barrel-a-day production target. The group is seeking to maintain market share by pushing higher-cost producers out of the market, Mills said.
Any effort to coordinate cuts is complicated by Saudi Arabia’s goal of defending sales and Russia’s inability to rein in production in winter months, when output cuts can damage fields. Bell sees signs that demand will rise this year and provide support for prices.
“A fundamentals-driven re-balancing is going to have an effect, and markets will start to recover by the end of the year,” Bell said by phone from Dubai. “The message from this region is ‘it’s going to be a difficult process, but we’re going to ride it out.’ ”

China llegó a la Luna y acá están las primeras imágenes en alta definición

Increíbles panorámicas en alta definición tomadas en el marco de la misión de exploración lunar china por la sonda Chang'e 3 y el Yutu rover, un vehículo lunar diseñado para explorar la superficie del satélite, han sido publicadas por primera vez.

El 14 de diciembre de 2013, a las 13:12 UTC, la sonda logró un alunizaje controlado en la región de Mare Imbrium (mar de la lluvia) el segundo mayor 'mar' lunar, llamado de este modo ya que en la antigüedad se pensaba que era un verdadero mar.

De esta forma se convirtió en la primera misión china en lograrlo y en la tercera nación después de EE.UU. y la Unión Soviética en llevar a cabo un alunizaje, un logro nada desdeñable teniendo en cuenta que el último alunizaje tuvo lugar en 1976.

Se espera que la misión Chang'e 3 pueda retornar a la tierra en 2017 brindando muestras de la superficie lunar. Después de estas misiones automáticas, las autoridades chinas prevén realizar un aterrizaje tripulado en el año 2025, según indica 'The Guardian'.

(RT)

LEE AQUÍ, SI TIENES UNA VIVIENDA DE LA GRAN MISIÓN

Bien. Aprobaron la "ley de propiedad". Lee bien esto:
.- Días atrás vivías en una vivienda de propiedad familiar y hoy vives en una vivienda hipotecada que no has pagado. Antes solo debías pagar el costo de construcción de vivienda, con subsidio y en 30 años. Tu vivienda ahora ingreso a la categoría de "vivienda otorgada mediante crédito hipotecario", que según la nueva ley, puede ser transferido del Estado a un banco. Su valor, debe ser calculado no a los costos de construcción(recuerda que se hizo con materiales subsidiados), sino a costos actuales de "mercado" y eso lo determinará ahora un valuador de inmueble.

.- Recuerda: A nadie se le puede dar "propiedad total de un inmueble", si no lo ha pagado. Ahora para poder tener un documento de propiedad total, lo que te permitirá vender e hipotecar (y ser muy feliz) tienes primero que pagar a un banco. Según la nueva Ley la cartera hipotecaria de inmuebles entregados es transferible del sector publico a la banca, y eso es "bueno" pues el Gobierno que te hizo la vivienda no va a participar en la cochinada que sigue. Lee.
.- Tu vivienda será reasignada a una cuenta de crédito hipotecario a un banco o una inmobiliaria. Esa vivienda que costó 250 mil, 300 mil o 400 mil (dependiendo del caso, si vivienda o apartamento) a precio de "mercado" puede costar ahora 4, 5 o 7 millones (dependiendo del inmueble, la zona, etc, según lo que diga una valuación). Ahora debes pagar ese monto, en 20 años.
.- Saca tu cuenta. Si tu inmueble es valorado ahora en 5 millones de BsF en 20 años debes pagar 240 cuotas mensuales para que te den tu papelito de "propietario". 5 millones entre 240 da 20.833 BsF. Eso es lo que tendrás que pagar ahora mensualmente, sin contar intereses.
.- Si incumples con el pago, el dueño de tu hipoteca (el banco) está legalmente facultado para tomar el inmueble. Eso legalmente se llama "embargo".
.- Podrías decir que "te rehusas a eso", pero siendo Ley, es obligatorio y tu no tendrás control de nada. El ente que hizo la vivienda simplemente transfiere tus datos y los del inmueble al banco asignado para la "recuperación de la inversión", para cobrar el crédito hipotecario del cual ya eres beneficiario sin pedirlo expresamente. Ya no tienes que firmar nada, ni decir que estas de acuerdo o en desacuerdo, simplemente estas en un inmueble hipotecado. Si decides no protocolizar el inmueble porque no quieres pagar nada, estarías en la categoría de "invasor", pues ocupas sin querer pagar un inmueble que ya no es tuyo. Recuerda que los bancos no son como el Gobierno. Ellos si tienen gente que se ocupa de cuidar los bienes del banco y tu casa será uno de ellos.
.- Paga sin rechistar, tu nueva deuda que no pediste. Así tendrás "tu propiedad". Que bonito es el "cambio" ¿verdad?

US Govt Admits to Killing Innocent Civilians During Failed Drone Assassination Attempt of British Hacker

By Matt Agorist
“With nearly 10,000 air strikes, we’re taking out their leadership, their oil, their training camps, their weapons,” Obama stated during his farewell State of the Union address earlier this month. Conveniently, in those 10,000 air strikes, he failed to include the bombings of hospitals, weddings, tribal council meetings, and, at least, eight U.S. citizens, with no concern for due process or a constitutionally mandated fair trial.
The Obama administration is also responsible for allowing the CIA to deploy drone strikes against a Yemeni wedding and a Pakistani tribal council meeting with total impunity.
On October 3, 2015, a U.S. airstrike killed at least 20 patients and MSF staff at a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, occupied by the group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the French charitable organization, “Doctors Without Borders.”

There is no question that the United States, in its carrying out of drone strikes and bombing campaigns throughout the Middle East, has killed thousands. However, the last thing the warmongers ever do is admit to these killings.
On Friday, that changed as the US Central Command admitted that they killed and injured multiple civilians in the ‘vicinity’ of a drone strike meant for Junaid Hussain, on August 13, 2015.
Sadly, it’s not surprising to those who pay attention to the atrocities carried out by the military-industrial complex, but what makes this case unique is that not only did the US admit to killing civilians, they also admitted to missing their target.
According to The Guardian, born in Birmingham, Hussain, 21, joined Isis’s “cyber caliphate” after a stint as part of the UK hacker group Team Poison. Known by the handle Trick and later Abu Hussain al-Britani, Hussain served six months in jail in 2012 for publishing details from an illegally obtained address book belonging to former prime minister Tony Blair.
For his alleged role in other high-profile hacking incidents, and in spite of his British citizenship, Hussain became the target of a US drone strike last year. But, instead of killing their target, the US government blew up noncombatants said to be “in the vicinity” of the strike, near IS’s Syrian capital of Raqqa.
Eleven days after killing innocent civilians, the US launched another strike on the British hacker on August 24. With the UK playing a “consulting” role, Hussain was actually confirmed killed this time. However, it is unknown how many civilians were killed in this strike.
Since the inception of the war on terror, US drone strikes have killed thousands of innocent civilians, including hundreds of children throughout Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Syria.
Michael Haas, Brandon Bryant, Cian Westmoreland and Stephen Lewis, who served as drone operators in the US Air Force, have gone public with detailed accounts of the widespread corruption and institutionalized indifference to civilian casualties that characterize the program.
After the U.S. Government failed to deter them through threats of criminal prosecution, and clumsy attempts to intimidate their families, these four former Air Force drone operators-turned-whistleblowers had their credit cards and bank accounts frozen.
There is no question — those who expose the crimes of the US government become enemies of the state.

For more than a decade, this reckless US policy of “surgical” drone strikes has done nothing to stave off terrorism and only served to foster it by turning the families of the innocent victims into sworn enemies of America.
The reality is that since 9-11, the US and their NATO allies have fostered a breeding ground for extremist and fundamentalist groups. As Americans sat back on their couches and watched the “Shock and Awe” on CNN, the US was sowing the seeds for perpetual war.
They were planting a garden in which a million Bin Ladens would later bloom.
This policy played right into the hands of the, then, tiny and insignificant fundamentalist groups. However, every time a US bomb dropped into a village, this was a recruiting haven for the fundamentalists. Now, a group who was never heard of 3 years ago is recruiting people on a global scale and growing their ranks daily.
As drone whistleblower Staff Sgt. Brandon Bryant said in his open letter to Barack Obama, “We kill four and create 10. If you kill someone’s father, uncle or brother who had nothing to do with anything, their families are going to want revenge.”
It’s time to stop this cycle.
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world.

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Muertes por sobredosis aumentan en casi todos los condados de EUA

22 de enero de 2016 (LaRouchePAC) — En su segundo artículo relevante en esta semana, sobre las muertes por sobredosis de drogas en Estados Unidos, los columnistas del diario New York Times, Haeyoun Park y Matthew Bloch, informan que las muertes por sobredosis han aumentado en casi todos los condados de Estados Unidos (EUA tiene 3007 condados). Se dice de modo redundante que la causa es el aumento de la adicción a los analgésicos y a la heroína que necesitan receta médica. La verdadera razón es la falta de un futuro tanto para los jóvenes como para ancianos, tanto para los ricos como para pobres, en todo Estados Unidos, como afirmó de nuevo de manera enfática el estadista Lyndon LaRouche el 19 de enero en una reunión con sus colaboradores.
En este artículo del New York Times se apela a los lectores para que reflexionen en qué tanto se necesitan hoy las agencias que creó Franklin Roosevelt para entrenar y dar trabajo a los desempleados, y reconstruir a Estados Unidos, al resto del mundo, y explorar el espacio, todas las cuestiones que persigue la humanidad y que Obama detesta, como ha mostrado en su campaña a favor de la legalización y despenalización de las drogas. Emprender esos grandes proyectos y sacar a Obama de su cargo, son los desafíos creativos que Lyndon LRouche le esta presentando a los estadounidenses para que se eleven y den la talla.
Las nuevas estadísticas de la situación que da el Centro para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) en cada condado, muestra que la mayor concentración de sobredosis entre el 2003 y el 2014 sucedió en la región de los Apalaches y en el Suroeste. La cantidad de muertes por sobredosis en EUA llegó a un número record en el 2014, con 47,055 personas fallecidas, o alrededor de 125 estadounidenses por día. Esta tasa de mortandad es similar al momento álgido de la epidemia del VIH, señalan Park y Bloch. Sin embargo, Robert Anderson, jefe de Estadísticas de Mortalidad del CDC, califica al HIV meramente como un problema urbano, mientras que la sobredosis de drogas supera las fronteras de lo urbano y lo rural; ahora bien, las tasas de mortandad por sobredosis aumentan más rápidamente en las zonas rurales que en las zonas urbanas, donde históricamente estas tasas han sido mayores.
New Hampshire es un estado en el que se dispararon las muertes por el consumo de heroína, y esto se convirtió en un tema durante la campaña presidencial. El NYT cito a Timothy Rourke, presidente de la Comisión sobre el Abuso del Alcohol y las Drogas del gobierno de New Hampshire, quien afirmó que "no hay grupo que sea inmune a esto; sucede en nuestras ciudades, en las comunidades rurales y en las comunidades pudientes"; en el 2014, dijo, 326 personas fallecieron de sobredosis por algún tipo de opiáceo, un tipo de drogas que incluye la heroína y el fentanilo, un analgésico 100 veces más poderosos que la morfina. A nivel nacional, más del 61% de las muertes por sobredosis tuvieron que ver con opiáceos en 2014; las muertes por sobredosis de heroína se han más que triplicado desde 2010, y constituyen el doble de la tasa de mortandad por cocaína. La mayoría de las muertes se relacionan con una versión del fentanilo que los traficantes revuelven con heroína, y que es más mortífero, dice Rourke.
En la zona de los Apalaches, los autores del Times dicen que los accidentes de trabajo aumentaron la adicción, que es muy alta en la parte este de Virginia Occidental y en Kentucky. Cuando se recortó la disponibilidad de los analgésicos de receta médica, los adictos se cambiaron a la heroína. Virginia Occidental tiene la mayor tasa de muertes por sobredosis en el país; al igual que Nueva Hampshire, Virginia Occidental tiene muy pocas instalaciones para tratamiento de pacientes.
En Nuevo México, la adicción a la heroína se ha transferido de generación a generación; el estado ha tenido altas tasas de mortandad por sobredosis de heroína desde principios de los 1990. Ahora la adicción está variando hacia la población joven de las comunidades pudientes. (Fuente: "Drug Poisoning Mortality: U.S. 2002-2014, Lauren Rossen, et al., Centro Nacional de Estadísticas de Salud, CDC.)
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Is Zika Virus the Next Tool For Forced Sterilization, Vaccination and Depopulation?

January 29, 2016

By Bernie Suarez
There is a new pathogen getting lots of attention from the mass media and the rest of the control system, and those awakened to the globalist plans may want to pay very close attention. It isn’t quite the Ebola-style scare, but it brings with it a much more focused and sinister agenda, and it’s already underway in 2016. It’s called the Zika virus scare.
In perfect timing with the current attempted rise of the new world order we’ve been witnessing over the past several months, the Zika virus scare agenda is focused on fulfilling the global elite’s depopulation agenda as we’ll see in a minute. But first let’s consider some of the history of the depopulation agenda itself.

The global elite have been clear about their goals of depopulation. Depopulation is deeply embedded into all the global plans of the new world order. It’s all part of the Malthusian belief or theory that the earth only has limited resources and, therefore, it is up to humanity (or its ruling elite) to limit its growth. The ruling elite have been selling this ideology for decades.
In 1958, author of Brave New World Aldous Huxley appeared on a national TV interview with Mike Wallace about his gloomy view of humanity. In his interview he admits at the time that humanity is being manipulated and destroyed by many forces. Huxley almost sounds like a prophet or a wise messenger for humanity with his unique smart-sounding, slow-speaking technique. But it doesn’t take a wizard to listen in to the first 3 minutes to see that Huxley’s TV appearance ultimately is about selling the Malthusian dogma of scarcity and the need for depopulation as a solution. Huxley cleverly ties “less freedom” with “overpopulation” due to scarcity of resources thus painting “depopulation” with the same virtuous brush you would paint things like “freedom”, “liberty” or “justice” with.
Depopulation is also clearly outlined in the Georgia Guidestones, a monument (by the way) whose history is fully protected by the establishment media and Wikipedia. In case you didn’t know, the identity of the person who actually paid for the monument to this day is concealed. Wikipedia states:

In June 1979, an unknown person or persons under the pseudonym R. C. Christian hired Elberton Granite Finishing Company to build the structure.

Wikipedia also states:

The structure is sometimes referred to as an “American Stonehenge”

So let’s get this straight. It’s an American “Stonehenge” of historic proportion, it was built in modern times, yet mysteriously no one knows who paid for it?? Let that sink in for a minute.
I bring up the Georgia Guidestones because not only is it a listing of ten commandments for the new world order, but the first two commandments have clear implications of the goals of depopulation. The first two commandments state:

1- Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2- Guide reproduction wisely— improving fitness and diversity.

Clearly the Luciferian elites who paid for these stones believe the Malthusian theory of population, and they feel population needs to be controlled. The second commandment demonstrates that controlling population is clearly something they feel needs to be done by controlling fertility and reproduction. Despite this outrage, there isn’t any criticism of this idea in Wikipedia or any establishment platform. Instead these ideas are seemingly accepted.
There is no greater control of humanity than taking control of someone’s body and their reproductive rights; and with the globalists going for it all in 2016, no one should be surprised that an effect that wasn’t traditionally there before is being attached to a virus that has been around potentially hundreds if not thousands of years.
Enter the coming Zika virus scare of 2016. The virus was first described in 1952 as a virus that causes mild symptoms that pose no real threat to humanity; that has been the story … until now that is. The establishment medical authorities are now saying that Zika virus is directly responsible for over 3000 cases of in utero (in the womb) cases of microcephaly in Brazil alone. Microcephaly is when a newborn is born with a small-sized head and it is often associated with other brain abnormalities.
This is where the story gets a little stranger. And this is where independent researchers are beginning to ask questions that could potentially expose the entire Zika virus scare as a nefarious staged agenda to stop or even force women to become sterilized in the name of stopping this “epidemic”.
Questions researchers are asking are questions like – why is the virus now being linked to microcephaly when it never was before? And, why is this explosion of microcephaly coinciding with regions of the earth (Brazil, Mexico) that have a high incidence of a disease known as phenylketonuria, which is a genetic disease where the patient has a missing enzyme that doesn’t allow them to break down an amino acid called phenylalanine. This is significant because phenylketonuria is well known to cause microcephaly not Zika virus. This is significant if not disturbing because we are being told that Brazilian medical authorities are claiming the link between the virus and microcephaly without any real scientific and medical evidence to rule out other much more common causes of microcephaly.
We should be asking questions like what if the microcephaly is being caused by something other than the Zika virus which has always been a mild virus? And, how can a virus change its infectious behavior suddenly without any other cause to explain the change? And, what if the vaccines the pregnant women are being given are chemically causing the microcephaly? How about, where is the direct evidence claimed by medical authorities that the virus is the cause?
The fact is that viruses generally don’t suddenly cause things they never caused before. And more than ever we should be vigilant and knowledgeable about these things because whether you are ready or not, the mainstream media hype and scare has already begun. The latest CNN psyop Zika virus commercial attempts to link microcephaly to Zika virus without any actual facts or science. Strikingly, the “solution” is presented as “delay getting pregnant”! And according to the World Health Organization (WHO) the Zika virus (like ISIS) is coming to your town soon, so you better be ready.
With the Olympics planned in Brazil this year, we should at least be paying attention to see how the establishment tries to spin this in terms of a global pandemic that must be dealt with by forced sterilization, forced vaccination or both. Either way it will likely be something out of the Aldous Huxley or Bill Gates new world order playbook to promote depopulation.
If nothing else, it’s about time we stop thinking that these global crises that all fit in perfectly with the new world order plans are by coincidence. And it’s time to take notice of how all the huge crises that are presented by the mass media, all seem to fit into the new world order plans in a very neat and increasingly perfect way. In light of the overall picture, we would be foolish to ignore these patterns.

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Zika Outbreak Epicenter in Same Area Where GM Mosquitoes Were Released in 2015

By Claire Bernish
The World Health Organization announced it will convene an Emergency Committee under International Health Regulations on Monday, February 1, concerning the Zika virus ‘explosive’ spread throughout the Americas. The virus reportedly has the potential to reach pandemic proportions — possibly around the globe. But understanding why this outbreak happened is vital to curbing it. As the WHO statement said:

A causal relationship between Zika virus infection and birth malformations and neurological syndromes … is strongly suspected. [These links] have rapidly changed the risk profile of Zika, from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions.
WHO is deeply concerned about this rapidly evolving situation for 4 main reasons: the possible association of infection with birth malformations and neurological syndromes; the potential for further international spread given the wide geographical distribution of the mosquito vector; the lack of population immunity in newly affected areas; and the absence of vaccines, specific treatments, and rapid diagnostic tests […]
The level of concern is high, as is the level of uncertainty.

Zika seemingly exploded out of nowhere. Though it was first discovered in 1947, cases only sporadically occurred throughout Africa and southern Asia. In 2007, the first case was reported in the Pacific. In 2013, a smattering of small outbreaks and individual cases were officially documented in Africa and the western Pacific. They also began showing up in the Americas. In May 2015, Brazil reported its first case of Zika virus — and the situation changed dramatically.
Brazil is now considered the epicenter of the Zika outbreak, which coincides with at least 4,000 reports of babies born with microcephaly just since October.
When examining a rapidly expanding potential pandemic, it’s necessary to leave no stone unturned so possible solutions, as well as future prevention, will be as effective as possible. In that vein, there was another significant development in 2015.
Oxitec first unveiled its large-scale, genetically-modified mosquito farm in Brazil in July 2012, with the goal of reducing “the incidence of dengue fever,” as The Disease Daily reported. Dengue fever is spread by the same Aedes mosquitoes which spread the Zika virus — and though they “cannot fly more than 400 meters,” WHO stated, “it may inadvertently be transported by humans from one place to another.” By July 2015, shortly after the GM mosquitoes were first released into the wild in Juazeiro, Brazil, Oxitec proudly announced they had “successfully controlled the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads dengue fever, chikungunya and zika virus, by reducing the target population by more than 90%.”
Though that might sound like an astounding success — and, arguably, it was — there is an alarming possibility to consider.
Nature, as one Redditor keenly pointed out, finds a way — and the effort to control dengue, zika, and other viruses, appears to have backfired dramatically.

Juazeiro, Brazil — the location where genetically-modified mosquitoes were first released into the wild.

Map showing the concentration of suspected Zika-related cases of microcephaly in Brazil.

The particular strain of Oxitec GM mosquitoes, OX513A, are genetically altered so the vast majority of their offspring will die before they mature — though Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher published concerns in a report in September 2010 that a known survival rate of 3-4 percent warranted further study before the release of the GM insects. Her concerns, which were echoed by several other scientists both at the time and since, appear to have been ignored — though they should not have been.
Those genetically-modified mosquitoes work to control wild, potentially disease-carrying populations in a very specific manner. Only the male modified Aedes mosquitoes are supposed to be released into the wild — as they will mate with their unaltered female counterparts. Once offspring are produced, the modified, scientific facet is supposed to ‘kick in’ and kill that larvae before it reaches breeding age — if tetracycline is not present during its development. But there is a problem.
According to an unclassified document from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate Committee for Agriculture dated February 2015, Brazil is the third largest in “global antimicrobial consumption in food animal production” — meaning, Brazil is third in the world for its use of tetracycline in its food animals. As a study by the American Society of Agronomy, et. al., explained, “It is estimated that approximately 75% of antibiotics are not absorbed by animals and are excreted in waste.” One of the antibiotics (or antimicrobials) specifically named in that report for its environmental persistence is tetracycline.

Aedes aegypti mosquito. Image credit: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

In fact, as a confidential internal Oxitec document divulged in 2012, that survival rate could be as high as 15% — even with low levels of tetracycline present. “Even small amounts of tetracycline can repress” the engineered lethality. Indeed, that 15% survival rate was described by Oxitec:

After a lot of testing and comparing experimental design, it was found that [researchers] had used a cat food to feed the [OX513A] larvae and this cat food contained chicken. It is known that tetracycline is routinely used to prevent infections in chickens, especially in the cheap, mass produced, chicken used for animal food. The chicken is heat-treated before being used, but this does not remove all the tetracycline. This meant that a small amount of tetracycline was being added from the food to the larvae and repressing the [designed] lethal system.

Even absent this tetracycline, as Steinbrecher explained, a “sub-population” of genetically-modified Aedes mosquitoes could theoretically develop and thrive, in theory, “capable of surviving and flourishing despite any further” releases of ‘pure’ GM mosquitoes which still have that gene intact. She added, “the effectiveness of the system also depends on the [genetically-designed] late onset of the lethality. If the time of onset is altered due to environmental conditions … then a 3-4% [survival rate] represents a much bigger problem…”
As the WHO stated in its press release, “conditions associated with this year’s El Nino weather pattern are expected to increase mosquito populations greatly in many areas.”
Incidentally, President Obama called for a massive research effort to develop a vaccine for the Zika virus, as one does not currently exist. Brazil has now called in 200,000 soldiers to somehow help combat the virus’ spread. Aedes mosquitoes have reportedly been spotted in the U.K. But perhaps the most ironic — or not — proposition was proffered on January 19, by the MIT Technology Review:

An outbreak in the Western Hemisphere could give countries including the United States new reasons to try wiping out mosquitoes with genetic engineering.
Yesterday, the Brazilian city of Piracicaba said it would expand the use of genetically modified mosquitoes …
The GM mosquitoes were created by Oxitec, a British company recently purchased by Intrexon, a synthetic biology company based in Maryland. The company said it has released bugs in parts of Brazil and the Cayman Islands to battle dengue fever.

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Presos por corrupción presidentes de Abastos Bicentenario y Cval (FOTOS)

El Ministerio Público logró privativa de libertad para el presidente y la administradora de la Corporación Venezolana de Alimentos, Heber Aguilar y Bárbara Neidi Figueroa, así como para la presidenta de la Red de Abastos Bicentenario S.A, Bárbara González, por presuntamente cometer actos de corrupción con dinero derivado de las ventas en jornadas a cielo abierto realizadas en distintas zonas de Caracas, informo en una nota de prensa.



En la audiencia de presentación, las fiscales nacionales 67ª y auxiliar, Rochely Barboza y Andrea Varón; así como el 93° nacional, Dayiso Rodríguez,  imputaron a Aguilar por el delito de peculado doloso propio; a Figueroa por peculado doloso propio continuado y a González por peculado impropio.

Al respecto, el Tribunal 21° de Control área metropolitana de Caracas, luego de evaluar los elementos de convicción expuestos por los representantes del Ministerio Público, dictó la medida privativa de libertad para las tres personas, quienes permanecerán detenidas en la sede del Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional.

Heber Aguilar, cuando fue vicepresidente de la CVG

Adicionalmente, la mencionada instancia judicial acordó la prohibición de enajenar y gravar bienes inmuebles, aseguramiento de bienes, y bloqueo e inmovilización de las cuentas bancarias de los imputados.

Cabe mencionar que por este caso se encuentran privados de libertad el jefe de área de la Oficina de Seguridad y Transporte de la CVAL y el mensajero de esa institución, Carlos Saavedra Toro (29) y Rubén Toro García (31), respectivamente, quienes fueron imputados por los delitos de robo agravado, tentativa de robo agravado, resistencia a la autoridad, peculado de uso y agavillamiento.

Estos personas fueron aprehendidas el pasado sábado 24 de enero.

Posteriormente, tras varias diligencias de investigación coordinadas por los fiscales del Ministerio Público se logró determinar la vinculación de Aguilar, Figueroa y González con el citado caso, por lo que fueron detenidos entre los días 24 y 25 de enero en distintos procedimientos.

Cabe mencionar que durante un allanamiento realizado el pasado lunes 25 de enero en la residencia de Figueroa, se encontraron más de 10 millones de bolívares en efectivo, que se presumen sea dinero fruto de la venta de productos.

El presidente de CVAL, Heber Aguilar es un coronel del Ejército que fue vicepresidente de la Corporación Venezolana de Guayana (CVG), y desde 2015 presidía la compañia estatal Avícola del Alba.

Por su parte la presidente de la cadena pública de abastos Bicentenario, había sido designada en el cargo en abril de 2015, y poco antes había asumido la función de secretaria ejecutiva de la Comisión Presidencial a cargo del Centro Nacional de Balance de Alimentos (CENBAL).

Decision On Oil Cut Only Possible If All Exporters Agree, Russian Energy Minister Says

• enezuela called for emergency summit of OPEC, non-OPEC states
• No meeting has been confirmed, Russian energy minister says

A decision on cutting oil production is possible only if all crude-exporting nations are in agreement and there’s no timing for talks, Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said.
“We’re ready to discuss the issue of cutting oil output volumes” but not ready for a decision, Novak said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “We’re ready to consider the possibility; this should be a consensus. If there’s a consensus, it makes sense.”
Oil pared gains after Novak’s comments. Prices closed at the highest in three weeks on Thursday after Novak said that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other producers may meet to discuss output. Traders have looked for signs of cooperation between producing nations after a global glut of crude pushed prices to a 12-year low. The head of OPEC this week called on producers outside the group to assist in reducing the oversupply, signaling once again its members won’t make output cuts alone.
“There’s no set date” for a meeting, Novak said. “As far as I understand they are discussing it with other possible participants.” Russia has taken part in such consultations before and “nothing new happened,” he said.

Venezuela Request

Oil prices have plunged since OPEC, led by its largest producer Saudi Arabia, decided in 2014 to defend market share rather than cut output as supplies grew. In December the group effectively abandoned its output ceiling, fueling concern that the surplus will expand further. Venezuela has written to fellow members requesting an emergency summit as government revenue dwindles.
Novak said he has confirmed that Russia would participate in any talks. Four OPEC delegates said yesterday there’s no gathering planned.
“It’s hard for me to say” if there will be a meeting, Novak said. Until this week, Russia, which relies on energy for more than 40 percent of its budget revenue, had repeatedly stated its goal of keeping crude production stable even as prices tumbled. Still, this month’s price slump has put the country under increasing financial pressure. The Finance Ministry says the nation’s budget deficit, already at a five-year high in 2015, may widen this year as the rout deepens.
Thursday’s oil-price reaction may be “without basis,” according to Alexander Kornilov, an analyst at Aton LLC in Moscow who doubts that Russia would find a way to cooperate with OPEC when the group’s own members don’t stick to output agreements. “People got bored and tired with lots of bad news on crude oil and are hungry for any positive statement, no matter if it sounds realistic or not,” he said.
Russia is the world’s largest oil producer behind Saudi Arabia, according to BP Plc data from 2014. The two countries last met in November and there have been no approaches since, Novak said. “Saudi Arabia’s position has always been, as they have publicly commented, that the market will balance itself at lower oil prices,” he said.
Russia may adjust its forecast for stable Russian oil output in 2016, Novak said, citing lower prices since the Energy Ministry last collected data from the industry.

Oil's Plunge Won't Drag Down the U.S. Economy

By Justin Fox

U.S. real gross domestic product grew at a 0.7 percent annualized pace in the fourth quarter of 2015, the government announced today.
Now, forget that number. It is the “advance estimate,” and the Bureau of Economic Analysis will revise it again and again over the coming months and years. These revisions tend to be especially big at points where the economy tips from growth into recession, or vice versa. Consider what happened to GDP growth estimates for the first quarter of 2008, which turned out to be the beginning of the Great Recession.

There are those who fear the U.S. economy might be tipping into recession now. Could be, but clearly today’s advance GDP number won’t tell you much about the likelihood of that. There’s another BEA report, though -- released last week, on GDP by industry in the third quarter of 2015 -- that might offer some more insight into the likelihood of recession.
There's one industry in particular that I’m curious about: oil and gas. Oil and gas prices have plummeted, partly because of reduced global demand and partly because of new supply. In general, lower energy prices are good for the U.S. economy. In the 1990s oil was mostly cheap, and the economy was mostly great. In 1997 and 1998, as crude oil prices fell 50 percent in the face of emerging-market economic troubles, U.S. GDP grew at a 4.5 percent annual pace. Now emerging-market economic troubles are back, and the Brent crude benchmark price is down 70 percent since June 2014. The boom must be just around the corner, right?
In the 1990s, though, U.S. oil production was dwindling, while since 2008 it has almost doubled, thanks to new technologies such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling.  The U.S. is even exporting crude oil again, for the first time in four decades.
Is it possible that the oil and gas industry has become so important to the U.S. that its troubles will drag the economy down?
Here’s a rough measure  of the oil and gas industry’s share of GDP since the late 1970s.

Oil and gas have become a lot more significant since the late 1990s. And 3.1 percent of GDP, the total for 2014, is nothing to sneeze at: If the entire oil and gas industry were to suddenly disappear, that would throw the economy into a deep recession. It won’t suddenly disappear, of course, and when it was at its lowest share of GDP in the 1990s, that was partly because the rest of the economy was booming. But a sudden sharp drop in oil and gas industry value added  -- as occurred in 2009 -- can be an economic drag.
How much of a drag have oil and gas been lately? The timeliest GDP-by-industry data -- the numbers released last week -- only break things down by the broadest industry categories, but by my count oil and gas made up about three-quarters of the mining industry’s value added in 2014, so mining ought to do. Here’s its contribution to real GDP growth since 2010.

Admittedly, it’s not the easiest chart to digest. But it shows that mining (and by extension oil and gas) has gone from boosting GDP growth most of the time from 2010 through 2014 to reducing it for the past two quarters. GDP-by-industry numbers for the fourth quarter of 2015 won’t be out until April, but all indications (employment numbers, mainly) suggest that the oil and gas industry continued to drag down GDP.
Still, the oil and gas industry wasn’t that big a part of GDP growth over the past few years. The previous chart seems to indicate that it was from about 2003 through 2008, when the fracking boom was gearing up, that the industry’s contribution to growth was greatest.
Meanwhile, our economy continues to use much more crude oil than it produces (net imports accounted for about 27 percent of U.S. petroleum consumption in 2014, according to the Energy Information Administration). With natural gas, net imports are negligible. But in general, the consumers of both oil and natural gas account for far more of U.S. economic activity than the producers do. For consumers, cheap energy is good.  So eventually, whatever drag the oil and gas industry’s troubles exert on the economy should be more than compensated for by gains in other sectors. I’m guessing that, for the U.S. economy at least, the parallel with the 1990s will hold up.

1. Natural gas production has gone from rising slowly to rising quickly.
2. "Oil and gas field machinery and equipment manufacturing," "oil and gas pipeline and related structures construction," "utility system construction" and other such related industries can’t be included here because the BEA doesn’t break the manufacturing sector down to quite that level of detail.
3. This measures an industry’s output minus all its inputs from other industries. The BEA does things this way because if you just added together the output of, say, oil and gas extraction, petroleum and coal products, truck transportation, and food and beverage stores, you’d be quadruple-counting the oil that was the feedstock for the refinery that made the diesel that fueled the trucks that carried the food to the store.
4. I’m talking in purely cyclical economic terms here. I realize that low fossil fuel prices can be problematic for all sorts of other reasons.

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What’s Not to Like About Cheap Oil? Well ...

It’s no blessing for companies that bet on high prices.

“For anyone consuming oil, lower oil prices are a tax cut,” said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 21. “It puts more money in people’s pockets. It actually has a positive effect.” Lew was trying to be reassuring, with good reason. The day before, crude prices had dropped to a 12-year low of $26.55 a barrel, down from $107 as recently as mid-2014. The ripple effects in the stock market briefly wiped as much as 565 points off the Dow Jones industrial average. (Oil rallied back to $32 as of Jan. 27.)
Lew’s contention that dramatically cheaper oil is something to cheer about makes a lot of intuitive sense. China, the world’s largest oil importer, has capitalized on lower prices by stockpiling reserves; for all the country’s problems as its growth slows, energy costs aren’t among them. In the U.S., consumer confidence is on the rise. The benefits of the price cut “handily outweigh the negatives,” says Jacob Oubina, senior U.S. economist for RBC Capital Markets. “It’s just a matter of when consumers and businesses adjust to this.”
The meme that cheap oil acts like a tax cut goes back decades. As early as 1983, lawmakers asked the Congressional Budget Office to gin up estimates of the beneficial impact of falling prices. Revisiting the topic a few years later the CBO offered an instructive caveat: “It may be best not to refer to a ‘tax cut equivalent’ of an oil price change.” Among the reasons the analogy didn’t work: The drop in revenue for domestic energy companies can trigger economic contraction not seen with a tax cut. And, surprisingly, the total economic benefit actually shrinks the further prices fall.
Increased U.S. energy independence has made the math even trickier. With domestic output near a 43-year high and fuel imports down to 24 percent of consumption, a glut of crude isn’t a problem just for OPEC and Texas anymore. Third-quarter revenue for U.S. independents, the little companies that drove the shale boom, was $26 billion less than the year before, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Last year’s spending is on track to be more than $60 billion lower than 2014, and oil at $30 a barrel has prompted a fresh round of cutting. Goldman Sachs, which hailed lower prices as a $125 billion tax cut in December 2014, put it this way in a November report retreating from its bullish prediction: “Shale states shrank the stimulus” that usually comes when consumers pay less at the pump.
Instead of tax cut, some analysts are turning to another simile: Falling oil prices could be like falling real estate values. “This was a Wall Street bet, and the bet was that the price of oil, a theoretically finite commodity, wouldn’t go below a certain level,” says Martin Bienenstock, co-head of bankruptcy and restructuring at law firm Proskauer Rose. “The bet turned out wrong. Just like the bet that housing prices would never fall.”
During the boom years, some shale producers spent $2 drilling for every $1 earned selling oil and gas, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and they plugged the shortfall with debt. Wall Street extended low-interest credit lines to junk-rated borrowers, which put up their oil and gas properties as collateral. Producers tapped their bank lines to buy properties and drill wells. When companies needed to pay off their loans, their bankers helped them sell equity and debt. Investors, hungry for higher returns after years of low interest rates, snapped it all up.
From 2004 through 2014, the high-yield bond market doubled in size while the amount of bond debt owed by junk-rated energy producers expanded elevenfold, to $112.5 billion, according to Barclays. Bond buyers were so eager that provisions meant to protect them eroded.
It worked beautifully until oil prices collapsed. Revenue has plummeted, leaving producers short of cash to pay their debts. Banks have cut drillers’ credit lines as the value of their collateral has fallen. Oil and gas bonds have pushed debt market distress to levels not seen since the 2009 recession, according to Standard & Poor’s, and bond buyers are selling their holdings at steep discounts to salvage some part of their investment.
Those who got out could be the lucky ones. Last year 42 U.S. oil producers went broke owing $17 billion, according to the law firm Haynes & Boone, a trend that’s likely to accelerate at today’s prices. Many holders of those companies’ bonds will get nothing. Banks aren’t immune. Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase said this month that they’ve set aside at least $2.5 billion to cover potential losses on souring energy loans. If low prices persist, the price tag will get bigger.
The worry is that the pain spreads from finance to the broader economy. “Consumers may be doing great until producers can’t service their debt,” says Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan. “And that creates problems for everyone, producers and consumers alike.” He points out that the commodity bust of the 1980s contributed to the inability of emerging-market countries to pay their debts, with worldwide consequences.
Oil-rich countries that spent the boom years collecting bonds, equities, department stores, and soccer teams are in selling mode. As they dump assets, exacerbating the market rout, “it feels pretty messy,” wrote David Zervos, chief market strategist for Jefferies Group, in a Jan. 18 report. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has seen its foreign exchange reserves fall by more than $100 billion since mid-2015, according to the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, a bigger drop than during the financial crisis.
“But outside the energy market, this is nothing like 2008,” Zervos added. “This crash is a huge transfer of wealth away from the levered global energy asset holder to the unlevered average consumer.” Similarly, RBC’s Oubina calls comparisons to the subprime bust “insanity.” The financial system, he says, “is ironclad compared to 2007.”
There’s one more thing low oil prices might be like: a flashing red warning light. China’s downshift to annual growth of 6.8 percent, from 10 percent five years ago, is a big factor pulling oil prices down. It points to an increased risk of deflation and slow growth throughout the global economy. In other words, persistently low oil prices could really be just a symptom, says JPMorgan’s Feroli. “This may be the result of a bad economy,” he says. “Not a cure for a bad economy.”
The bottom line: While cheap oil has benefits for consumers, defaults by producers and pain in oil-rich countries could stall the world economy.

 

Mujer policía narró cómo asesinó al magistrado Rafael Rengifo

Por: Últimas Noticias | Jueves, 28/01/2016 03:44 PM | Versión para imprimir

La policía de Charallave partició en el asesinato del Magistrado

Credito: Archivo

28-0o1-16.El magistrado Rafael Arístides Rengifo Camacaro (69), después que fue secuestrado por el trío policial de Charallave, fue golpeado por la oficial de la policía Karla Contreras, quien luego le disparó sobre la nuca a corta distancia; enseguida en complicidad con sus colegas Yorman Moreno y Manuel Barrios, se fueron hacia la redoma Mata Linda en Cúa, donde abandonaron el cadáver.

Así lo narró la mujer policía. Confesó participar como cabecilla en una banda integrada por otros 17 funcionarios del mismo despacho, que recibían solicitud de determinados vehículos desde distintas para del país, lo cuales ubicaban en el área metropolitana de Caracas con mayor frecuencia.

Una camioneta, como la tripulada por el juez Rengifo, la habían solicitado desde el estado Zulia otros pandilleros.

El domingo 10 de enero, mientras el magistrado y dos amigos cenaban en el restauran La Estancia en La Castellana, al este de la capital, la pandilla de uniformados, a bordo de una patrulla detectaron la camioneta en el estacionamiento; emboscaron al conductor.

Resultó ser el doctor Rengifo Camacaro. Cuando el magistrado regresaba a casa. Lo siguieron de cerca. A la altura de Bello Campo vía la autopista Francisco Fajardo, la patrulla circuló muy cerca de la camioneta, activaron la coctelera (luces colocadas en el techo de la unidad policial), y así impidieron que el exjuez continuara su recorrido.

En ese momento lo dominaron. Lo bajaron del vehículo que conducía y se lo entregaron a Johnny José Benítez Chacón, quien en compañía de otro maleante se fueron hacia el Zulia.

En Paraguachón agentes policiales de la región ubicaron el vehículo, pero no a los asaltantes.

A raíz de la intensa pesquisa ejecutada por detectives de la Policía Científica con detectives expertos en la investigación de homicidios, fue posible la identidad de los involucrados en el secuestro y asesinato del magistrado.

La versión la ofreció a los periodistas, la magistrada Adalgisa García de Rengifo, esposa del doctor Rengifo Camacaro, presidenta del D.C. para la defensa del niño y del adolescente, quien estuvo acompañada de su abogado, doctor Gustavo Álvarez.

Ellos solicitarán la intervención de este organismo policial, porque consideran imposible que el jefe máximo del despacho, no haya detectado irregularidades de este tipo entre el personal bajo su mando.

Agregaron que hace pocos meses, el diputado Freddy Bernal, cuando intentó reorganizar los órganos de seguridad de Estado, destituyó a 170 agentes vinculados a distintos tipos de delitos, donde afloraron distintos tipos de hechos de corrupción.

Enfatizaron que se trata de una pandilla de ladrones uniformados que actúan por la libre sin control ni supervisión. “Ahora no quiero disculpas” apuntó la magistrada. Al concluir, destacó la labor profesional de los detectives de la Policía Científica, encabezados por el comisario Douglas Rico.

Dijo la doctora, que exigirá al ejecutivo dotación suficiente a este cuerpo de investigación criminal, que de momento trabaja con las uñas. Carecen de carros policiales y hasta de furgonetas para buscar cadáveres abandonados en las calles o recluidos en los hospitales.

Has Cheap Oil Become Bad For The Economy?

Prices are plunging, producers are cutting back and consumers aren't picking up the slack

Every week, hosts Tori Stilwell, Dan Moss and Aki Ito bring you a jargon-free dive into the stories that drive the global economy.
The U.S. is awash in inexpensive oil. That’s usually been a plus for the economy, because even though energy companies get squeezed, consumers get a break at the pump.
Now, that relationship seems to have gotten a bit hairier. Oil producers have slashed jobs and investment, yet consumers haven’t picked up the slack, instead keeping most of the gasoline windfall as savings. Given this, is cheap oil now bad for the economy? Ryan Sweet, a senior economist at Moody’s Analytics, joins Tori and Dan to discuss.

 

Russia Comments Tease Oil Market Eager for Any Glimmer of Hope

• Oil prices briefly spike on talk of a Russia-OPEC discussion
• OPEC delegates deny plans for meeting with Moscow next month

For a few minutes, at least, there was a glimmer of hope for the world’s struggling oil producers.
After months of opposing any production cuts, Russia said on Thursday it would be willing to discuss output levels with OPEC -- opening the door for a deal with Saudi Arabia to revive oil prices hovering at $30 a barrel.
Brent crude, the global benchmark, surged nearly 8 percent to $35.84 a barrel almost immediately. But the joy for oil producers -- and some traders -- was short-lived, and the price slid back to $34. Within minutes, OPEC delegates said they knew nothing about a potential meeting with Russia next month, let alone output cuts.
Michael Cohen, an oil analyst at Barclays Plc in New York, summarized the situation in a note to clients: “Russia and OPEC: False Hopes.”
And yet, the comments from Moscow may signal that Russia, after months of insisting it was happy to keep pumping at full throttle, is open to compromise with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Until now, the Kremlin has said a cheap ruble, which has fallen to a record low against the U.S. dollar, protected its energy industry -- and more widely, its economy -- from the worse of the oil slump.

Testing Waters

"It’s possible that Russia could be testing the waters to gauge how OPEC members would respond to the idea of cuts," said Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and a former senior oil official at the White House.
With oil at about $30 a barrel -- down from $100 two years ago -- Russia’s Finance Ministry says the nation’s budget deficit, already at a five-year high in 2015, may widen this year as the rout deepens.
Even if Moscow accepts discussing output cuts, significant obstacles remain in reaching agreement with OPEC. Saudi Arabia is keen to defend market share, particularly in China where it’s battling with Russia head-to-head to be the largest supplier. Moreover, Russia’s inability to cut production in winter months makes coordination difficult. The two countries’ opposing views on Syria, where Russia is President Bashar Al-Assad’s closest ally and Saudi Arabia seeks his removal, present another hurdle.
“Political relations between Saudi Arabia and Russia are poor, not helped by the latter’s support for Iran,” said Julian Jessop, head of commodities research at Capital Economics, a London-based consultant. "Even if a high level deal could be done, it is not clear that Russia could deliver."
Talk about production cuts notwithstanding, Russia is still squeezing more oil out of its fields. The country’s crude oil and condensate output was set to reach a post-Soviet record of 10.89 million barrels a day in January, up 83,000 barrels a day -- the biggest monthly increase since September 2014 -- according to Bloomberg estimates based on Energy Ministry data.
What’s more, Iran is ramping up output after the lifting of nuclear sanctions. It signed a preliminary deal on Thursday with Total SA to ship crude to France. Cash-strapped OPEC countries such as Venezuela, Nigeria and Angola are unlikely to cut output as they need to sell as much oil as they can to pay their bills.
Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects, a London-based consultant, said that Riyadh would be worried that "even if an agreement was reached, other participants would fail to make the cuts they promised, leaving the Saudis cutting unilaterally.”