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This 9 minute video explains succinctly the real driving force behind the EU crisis and the possible endgame, the destruction of the EU nation-state. For more economic animations see http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/ When I was still in primary school, punk rock emerged – it seemed to me – out of nowhere and re-invented music. Before, music to […]
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The economic problem with government bail-outs and intervention is they act as a huge economic player, keeping rates artificially low and stimulating those companies that work directly with the government. The economic problem with this is that while the large companies can remain afloat with this support, very little ‘trickles down’ to small enterprises which […]
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According to SPIEGEL research, United States intelligence agencies have not only targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone, but they have also used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station. The revelations now pose a serious threat to German-American relations. Read full article It’s not new that there are ties between diplomatic posts and […]
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Reuters reports today that US intelligence agencies may have bugged Angela Merkel’s phone for more than 10 years. Germany is sending intelligence chiefs to Washington to discuss the matter. BERLIN (Reuters) – The United States may have bugged Angela Merkel’s phone for more than 10 years, according to a news report on Saturday that also […]
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Alan Greenspan made a shocking statement on the Daily Show: “We really can’t forecast all that well. We pretend that we can but we can’t. And markets do really weird things sometimes because they react to the way people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.” – Alan Greenspan, speaking this week on “The […]
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Since 1980 those in power have become used to the idea that debt is growing faster than income. The majority of economic and policy debate doesn’t focus on the real issue causing the financial crisis (which is the rapid expansion of the Fed’s US Dollar denominated assets), it’s actually very simply as Chris Martenson points […]
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The US has experienced a systemic crisis recently including most aspects of the US system; political, financial, and social. Being that the USD is the world reserve currency, and the US is basically the only real superpower, this has implications for the entire world. Most notably, the US experienced severe systemic crisis: Spy Scandal, revelations […]
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European politicians have voted for a suspension of an ongoing Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP), in light of recent revelations that the NSA has been spying on EU politicians, businesses, and individual citizens. The EU should suspend its Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) agreement with the US in response to the US National Security Agency’s […]
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More leaked documents show that the NSA spied on over 35 world leaders with the help of US officials. • Agency given more than 200 numbers by government official • NSA encourages departments to share their ‘Rolodexes’ • Surveillance produced ‘little intelligence’, memo acknowledges The National Security Agency monitored the phone conversations of 35 world […]
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Many governments and organizations are not taking the Spy Scandal lightly. BRICS countries are building their own internet. As Reuters notes: * The BRICS countries make up 21 percent of global GDP. They have increased their share of global GDP threefold in the past 15 years. * The BRICS are home to 43 percent of […]
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