Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Michael Shermer: "9/11 Truthers Foiled by 12/25 Attack" | 911Blogger.com
Cops fear 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners | The Sun |News
Monday, December 28, 2009
125 Pilot Whales Die On New Zealand Beaches
Maria Foscarinis: Human Rights Day--Here at Home
Friday, December 25, 2009
In San Francisco, hunger experienced by 25% children and 20% adults.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
The unfinished business of Romania's revolution - Europe, World - The Independent
Europe, World - The Independent
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
California bill would tighten rules on tattoos, piercing - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee
Tattoos should be regulated -
1. NOBODY UNDER 21 should be able to get one
2. make tattoo getting more expensive
3. require a cool off period of, say, 3 days, to sign a paper of understanding how difficult it is to remove tattoo, of awareness that tattoos can be medically damaging threat to health.
4. do not allow them in schools, at least not overt tattoos ....
What happened here is if you take political freedoms of expression from people, freedoms of speech and press, they will resort to - tattooing themselves, drugging themselves. ....
Yes, tattoos are another version of self-medication, of drugging oneself in an attempt to understand the state of the world and country around us.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
President Obama's lobbying reforms praised by Congressional Research Service - - POLITICO.com
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Health Insurance Reform: The Enslavement of American Citizens to Corporate Rule | AfterDowningStreet.org
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Cop Tases 10-Year-Old Girl - November 18, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Saudi gets 5 years, 1,000 lashes
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Goldman to be paid $1bn if CIT fails, US will lose $2.3 billion
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Neiwert: Right-wing hate worse than when Clinton was president
Monday, September 28, 2009
Inflation a Risk Without Foreign Debt Buyers: Robertson - Economy * US * News * Story - CNBC.com
Sunday, September 20, 2009
FBI’s Counterterrorism Division acknowledged AE911Truth.org’s core 9/11 evidence deserves - and will get - FBI scrutiny.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Germany boosts terrorism alert level. Afghan freedom fighters ready to use terror to end occupation of their country.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
US responsible for 9/11? Swiss scientists theories in Blick, the largest Swiss newspaper.
U.S. scraps missile defense shield plans
What Stopped Missile Offense? The People of the Czech Republic :] Kdo zastavil radar? Lide Ceske Republiky.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Big shift to left - Japan elections. Plans to review presence of 50 000 US soldiers in Japan.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Banks that didn't take governemnt bailout TARP are in better shape than peers
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Russia’s super-rich feel the squeeze - many oligarchy capitalists lost up to 90% in the present financial crisis.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Russia and Poland trade insults on 70th anniversary of World War Two. Eastern Europe drawn apart? The history.
THE DIGNITY OF CEREMONIES TO MARK THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN POLAND IS BEING MARRED BY FURIOUS SPATS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND 4 EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES OVER THEIR RESPECTIVE WARTIME ROLES.
contentious Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, signed between Stalin and Hitler in August 1939. A pact of mutual non-aggression that lasted until 1941, it allowed Russia to invade and annexe Eastern Poland.
An open letter yesterday from Mr Putin, in which he appeared to strike a more conciliatory note.
"Our duty is to remove the burden of distrust and prejudice left from the past in Polish-Russian relations," wrote Mr Putin, who went on to describe the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact as "immoral", and also thanked Poland "from the bottom of my heart" for the 600,000 Poles who fought on the Eastern Front under Red Army command.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Obama White House Versus CIA - Panetta has reportedly chafed at reporting through the director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
ALL Fish In Every 291 Tested US Stream Have Mercury In Them. Widespread mercury pollution. The main source is emissions from coal-fired power plants
Mercury can damage the nervous system and cause learning disabilities in developing fetuses and young children.
The main source of mercury to most of the streams tested, according to the researchers, is emissions from coal-fired power plants.
The mercury released from smokestacks rains down into waterways, where natural processes convert it into methylmercury -- a form that allows the toxin to wind its way up the food chain into fish.
Monday, August 17, 2009
US War of Aggression against Iraq - a Genocide of a Nation. Over 1.2 mil Iraqis dead. 2.5 mil children orphaned. Cost, $180 bill a year.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Stag parties leave Prague, more cultured, family tourism will continue big growth of Eastern Europe as destination
Friday, August 7, 2009
watch this - hilarious mentions of 9/11 - controleld demolition, on French TV - Max Keiser, criminal banking syndicates
Monday, August 3, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
The deterioration of Eastern European economies poses a major threat to the Western European financial system.
Vychodni Evropa vaze Evrope Zapadni dalsi bremeno kolem krku.
During the boom years leading up to the financial crisis Western European banks were the primary lenders fueling Eastern Europe’s growth.
Now, the stagnation of Eastern European economies, coupled with decline in the value of many of their currencies, relative to the Euro and Swiss Franc, has turned banks’ exposure to this region into a massive liability.
Austrian banks alone have more than $293 billion of exposure to Eastern Europe, roughly 80% of the Austrian GDP.
Banks throughout Western Europe have both direct loan exposure and exposure through their Eastern European subsidiaries.
The IMF puts the amount of private debt denominated in foreign currencies within Eastern Europe at roughly 15% and the absolute figure has been put at close to $1.7 trillion.
For instance, over the past 6 months the Polish Zloty and the Ukraine Hryvnias have both declined over 30% against the Euro and the Swiss Franc. In Poland close to 60% of debt is denominated in foreign currencies.
Austria’s finance minister, Josef Proell, fears that Eastern European default rates above 10% will be sufficient to destroy his nation’s banking industry.
Unfortunately, that is about to happen.
A rescue is unlikely to be forthcoming. Western Europe has pressing economic problems, independent of their Eastern European exposure.
Feb 23,2009
http://247wallst.com/2009/02/23/eastern-europe-throws-another-anchor-around-the-eus-neck/
Failure to save East Europe will lead to worldwide meltdown
Selhani zachrany Vychodu povede k celosvetovemu padu
Feb 15, 2009
The unfolding debt drama in Russia, Ukraine, and the EU states of Eastern Europe has reached acute danger point.
Austria's finance minister Josef Pröll made frantic efforts last week to put together a €150bn rescue for the ex-Soviet bloc. Well he might. His banks have lent €230bn to the region, equal to 70pc of Austria's GDP.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) says bad debts will top 10pc and may reach 20pc. The Vienna press said Bank Austria and its Italian owner Unicredit face a "monetary Stalingrad" in the East.
Stephen Jen, currency chief at Morgan Stanley, said Eastern Europe has borrowed $1.7 trillion abroad, much on short-term maturities. It must repay – or roll over – $400bn this year 2009, equal to a third of the region's GDP. Good luck. The credit window has slammed shut.
Not even Russia can easily cover the $500bn dollar debts of its oligarchs while oil remains near $33 a barrel. The budget is based on Urals crude at $95.
Russia has bled 36pc of its foreign reserves since August 2008 defending the rouble.
In Poland, 60pc of mortgages are in Swiss francs. The zloty has just halved against the franc. Hungary, the Balkans, the Baltics, and Ukraine are all suffering variants of this story.
As an act of collective folly – by lenders and borrowers – it matches America's sub-prime debacle. There is a crucial difference, however. European banks are on the hook for both. US banks are not.
Almost all East bloc debts are owed to West Europe, especially Austrian, Swedish, Greek, Italian, and Belgian banks. En plus, Europeans account for an astonishing 74pc of the entire $4.9 trillion portfolio of loans to emerging markets.
The sums needed are beyond the limits of the IMF, which has already bailed out Hungary, Ukraine, Latvia, Belarus, Iceland, and Pakistan – and Turkey next – and is fast exhausting its own $200bn (€155bn) reserve.
Its $16bn rescue of Ukraine has unravelled. The country – facing a 12pc contraction in GDP after the collapse of steel prices – is hurtling towards default, leaving Unicredit, Raffeisen and ING in the lurch. Pakistan wants another $7.6bn. Latvia's central bank governor has declared his economy "clinically dead" after it shrank 10.5pc in the fourth quarter. Protesters have smashed the treasury and stormed parliament.
Germany contracted at an annual rate of 8.4pc in the fourth quarter 2008.
The implications are obvious.
Berlin is not going to rescue Ireland, Spain, Greece and Portugal as the collapse of their credit bubbles leads to rising defaults, or rescue Italy by accepting plans for EU "union bonds" should the debt markets take fright at the rocketing trajectory of Italy's public debt (hitting 112pc of GDP next year, just revised up from 101pc – big change), or rescue Austria from its Habsburg adventurism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/4623525/Failure-to-save-East-Europe-will-lead-to-worldwide-meltdown.html
Friday, January 9, 2009
Europe's economy in free fall, contracts at rates not seen since 1930s
German exports and industrial orders have both plunged at the steepest rate since modern records began.
Joaquin Almunia, the European economics commissioner, warned that the picture would turn "dramatically worse" this year.
Spain lost almost 140,000 jobs in December 08, pushing unemployment to 3.1m or 13.4pc.
"We are in an unprecedented situation, and 2009 is going to be very difficult," Labour Sec Rojo said.
In Germany exports plummeted 10.6pc in November 08, as demand for machinery slumps in China, Russia, the Mid-East, and equally important as car sales crash in Italy, Spain, and Britain.
The country's trade surplus has shrivelled by a third in one month.
"Industry is in free-fall," said Dirk Schumacher, from Goldman Sachs. Germany's industrial orders have plummeted 27pc year-on-year, heralding a drastic economic contraction this year.
Berlin is now preparing the part-nationalisation of Commerzbank by taking a 25pc stake in exchange for a €10bn infusion of capital, helping to boost the bank's capital ratio as it digests Dresdner Bank. Commerzbank shares fell 14pc. France is also drawing up plans for a fresh €10.5bn capital injection for its banks.
Jacques Cailloux, from the Royal Bank of Scotland, said the pace of contraction in Europe is now disturbingly close to levels seen in the Great Depression. The eurozone bloc shrank by 3pc in 1930, 5pc in 1931, and 4pc in 1932.
By this count, 2009 could easily match 1930. The latest data points to 3pc contraction rate since late last year, with no improvement in sight. "Even the worst case scenarios people talked about now look too optimistic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/4177664/Europes-economy-contracts-at-rates-not-seen-since-1930s.html