Why Cyprus Matters

Cyprus is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Turkey and Syria. On a map it seems to belong more in the Middle East than Europe, but for a host of historical reasons it is included. The 1.1 million people who live there are citizens of the European Union. I don’t live there, so should that matter to me? It matters because the banking abomination being attempted in Cyprus is the first of its kind in modern times—the literal confiscation of “taxes” from bank accounts. Cyprus should matter to you if you have money in any Western bank, prefer to use credit cards instead of cash, or believe in the rule of law. http://takimag.com/article/why_cyprus_matters_guy_somerset/print#axzz2OrgW6VoY

Canada Includes Depositor Haircut Bail-In Provision For Systemically Important Banks in 2013 Budget

Just as DieselBOOM accidentally admitted Monday, it appears that the Cypriot bail-in is anything but a one-off event, and is in fact the new collapse template for the entire Western banking system, and not just the ECB/ Eurozone! http://maxkeiser.com/2013/03/28/canada-includes-depositor-haircut-bail-in-provision-for-systemically-important-banks-in-2013-budget/

Many More Dangers in Cyprus Than Meet the Eye

Cyprus is a big pain in the neck for one and all. Its banks are bust due to reckless lending to Greece. The sunny island is a beehive of tax evasion, money laundering, dodgy trade and espionage. Now, the threatened bankruptcy of Cyprus has triggered the latest European financial crisis. http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis333.html

The Cyprus Great Bank Robbery

When does banksters’ extortion become outright theft? The latest example and escalation by the placing a levy fee on bank deposits in the tax haven of Cyprus illustrates the bold step of seizing private liquid saving accounts, under the guise of a government tax. The prospects of an all out run on the banking system have jumped tenfold. Essentially, a government is using the power of the state, to steal funds not because of the bankruptcy of a banking institution, but because of a failure of the entire EU financial system. http://www.batr.org/negotium/032013.html

Cyprus Americana: Humanity vs. the Banksters

The Banksters in the EU have announced that they intend to steal cash from the savings accounts of the people in Cyprus, and give that cash to the criminal banks! This is an overt, malevolent act of total evil. It cannot stand. It is the epitome of everything we’ve been warning about for years. This is the proof that the real world war is the one of the Banksters VS Humanity. The question now is, who’s next? http://www.silverdoctors.com/cyprus-americana-humanity-vs-the-banksters/

Greece at the Brink of Civil War

Heartbreaking, the plight of the Greeks. There was an old man who’d worked over 40 years, but now his pension had been cut in half, and he couldn’t afford his heart medication any longer. To check into the hospital, he had to bring his own sheets and food. Since the cleaning staff had been let go, doctors and nurses, who hadn’t been paid in months, were cleaning the toilets themselves. The hospital was running short on basic medical supplies, such as latex gloves and catheters. And the suicide rate doubled over the last three years—two-thirds of them, men. “Collective trauma” is how Pieper described the society whose bottom had been pulled out from under it. “Men are particularly hard hit by the crisis,” Pieper said, as their pay had been decimated, or their jobs eliminated. They’re seething with anger at the utterly corrupt system and a kleptocratic government that have done so much damage to the country; and they’re furious at the international bailout politics whose money only benefits big banks, not the people. http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/1/10/how-americans-stack-up-in-dying-from-violence-war-suicide-an.html

20 Facts About the Collapse of Europe That Everyone Should Know

The economic implosion of Europe is accelerating. Even while the mainstream media continues to proclaim that the financial crisis in Europe has been “averted”, the economic statistics that are coming out of Europe just continue to get worse. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/by-the-numbers-20-facts-about-the-collapse-of-europe-that-everyone-should-know

Europe is Now Sinking Fast

With the Eurozone having being displaced from the financial headlines by the American presidential election, you might have briefly thought that its problems had gone away. They haven’t. It’s just that the public is expected to absorb one major story at a time. And now that the presidential election is done and dusted, Europe is rapidly returning to the headlines. This is not desired by the powers-that-be, who desperately need us to believe things will get better with a little patience. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-20/guest-post-europe-now-sinking-fast

America Wages Financial War on Europe

Everyone knows that a major reason for the dominant position of the USA after World War II was that Europe and Asia were left in rubble. The 8th Air Force in Europe and the 20th Air Force in the Pacific did a thorough job. “Bomber” Harris of England pitched in, and Curtis LeMay’s B-29 fire bombings in Japan were so effective that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were spared so that the new atomic weapons would have pristine targets. When peace arrived in 1945, the Cold War suddenly broke out, and that took Russia, East Europe, and China out of the picture. Combined with a strong dollar that was much in demand and a matchless military, U.S. manufacturing made the transition from war to peace and emerged stronger than ever. This enabled the post-WWII U.S. economic boom. Flash forward to today. Now our manufacturing base is in ruins and the dollar is a shadow of its former self. However, our military is still matchless, our provocateurs are global. Putting aside the issue of why and how our manufacturing and dollar were gutted, the question is…what now? I look at the spread of financial fraud from our shores to Europe and see two “air forces” carrying the bomb loads: New York and London – a repeat from WWII. We have teamed up once again to level Europe. And once again, the peripheral countries go down first: Greece, France, Italy, et al. This time, though, Spain and Portugal did not get to declare “neutrality.” Once again Germany is putting up a ferocious fight. http://maxkeiser.com/2012/11/09/america-wages-financial-war-on-europe/

European Commission Single Supervisory Mechanism

The lack of enthusiasm for the latest effort to centralize all banking and monitory regulation within the European Central Bank suggests that the surreal struggle for continental unanimity still resides in the minds of banksters. Elites still seek to perfect the class distinguish of century old traditions, into a modern version of feudal serfdom. Globalism is the brainchild of the cabal of international banking. As long as a financial monopoly dominates political institutions, the end result will be more consolidation of the rule of the House of Rothschild. http://www.batr.org/negotium/103112.html

The Total Subjugation Of Europe

Forget black swans, Nigel Farage is rapidly turning himself into the black sheep of the EU Parliament with his constant stream of truthiness and honest pragmatism. It seems the broadly nodding-donkeys that fill the chamber remain cognitively dissonant to any and everything in the real world – hanging instead on the next soundbite from Van Rompuy or Barroso on how well things are going, or how the crisis is ‘almost’ over. If only the Germans would bless them all with their money. In one his plainest-speaking rants, Farage provides clarity to his ‘peers’ on just exactly what the bailouts of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and soon to be Spain and Italy are actually about – the “total subjugation of the states to a completely undemocratic structure in Brussels.” Is it any wonder Samaras and crew – while happy to accept cash and make promises – are pulling away from yet another (this time is the last time) Troika-driven austerity push? “The euro-zone is in a very dark place; economically, socially, and politically.” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-23/nigel-farage-total-subjugation-europe

Sovereignty Evaporating: Europe’s Steady Slide Into Tyranny

On September 12th 2012 the Dutch people have convinced themselves they actually had something to choose from on election day. The current ruling party in the Netherlands was declared winner, it’s leader (a self-proclaimed “liberal” named Mark Rutte who attended the 2012 Bilderberg conference) recently shoveled some 4 billion euro into the pockets of European bankers, with an option of some 140 billion euro more, when the European Commission deems more cash-injections necessary. Meanwhile the little people were allowed their glorious day of self-deception in the voting booth. Some of the political parties on the ballot pretended opposition to EU supreme rule, others openly embraced it. http://www.infowars.com/sovereignty-evaporating-europes-steady-slide-into-tyranny/

A Eurocrash Is Baked in the Cake

At this point the Europeans are so craven and degraded they deserve to be indentured servants of the Chinese, which they will be. The debt they are using to finance their bulging bureaucracies, bloated welfare rolls, giant pensions, and so forth is largely coming from the banks. But the banks are all bankrupt too, partly because they’ve lent so much capital to bankrupt governments. So you’ve got two sets of bankrupt institutions trading debt back and forth between themselves. It doesn’t help to say that it’s the PIIGS that are in the worst shape, because it’s the banks in the supposedly wealthier countries that own the PIIGS’s debt. They are all tied together. http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/doug-casey-eurocrash-baked-cake?ppref=GLD231ED0612A

Lunatic Watch: EU Should ‘Undermine National Homogeneity’ Says UN Migration Chief

Peter Sutherland without his tinfoil hat

The EU should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity” of its member states, the UN’s special representative for migration has said. Peter Sutherland told peers the future prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural. [Multiracialism equals “prosperity” is as absurd as the globalist Big Lie that “diversity is our strength.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18519395

The Experiment Has Failed. Are You Ready?

It wasn’t all that long ago that money was actually made of something scarce– a real asset that couldn’t be conjured at will by an appointed bureaucrat. In time, money supplies grew to be controlled by governments and banking cartels in the form of worthless pieces of paper. Since then, it’s devolved further to strings of bits in a giant database; our money supply is nearly all digital. As my friend Tim Price characterizes it, what passes as ‘money’ today is merely an abstraction of an abstraction of the real thing. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-experiment-has-failed-are-you-ready

Monday Will Not Be The End Of The World, Sorry

At some point, in the next few weeks, it will come down to a calculation of just how much money the EU is willing to spend to support Greece and not cause a default and if Greece is to leave the Euro I think it is much more likely that they will be forced out rather than leave on their own decision. In the meantime the situation in Spain will worsen as the needs of their banks and of their Regional debts throw the country past the borderline of self-help. Aid will be called for in increments and it will probably total $350-400 billion by the time the final tally is made. Europe cannot afford this and I would not be surprised to see one of the funding countries saying that is it for them which will throw Europe into a tailspin. Effectively there are bank runs underway in both Greece and Spain currently and while no central bank will talk about it and no politician mentions it there is every indication that this is what is taking place each and every day now. It would not surprise me to see the imposition of capital controls and then a new round of havoc will ensue. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/monday-will-not-be-end-world-sorry

Look Back for the Future in Europe and America

History is getting ready to repeat itself and peoples and nations will once again be devastated by a depression born out of hidden excesses by banking elites and an unbearable level of sovereign debt created by “bought off” politicians. Whether the effects of a worldwide depression will again be countered by another world war is the only real question facing the world today. I believe the failed European Union is going down and this will be only a precursor to an identical economic collapse by the American Union. Of course the power elites will attempt to use the real or manufactured crisis as a pretext to expand the EU but I don’t believe they will succeed. The speed of events and flow of alternative news renders their old style propaganda powerless to keep up with and control public opinion today. http://lewrockwell.com/holland/holland63.1.html

Europe’s Economic Suicide

Dismissing the propaganda-like vision of growth and jobs that is now at the forefront of any and every word from the status-quo seekers that are the European Elite, England’s Nigel Farage notes the hypocrisy of the forthcoming summit’s agenda. The Euro itself was supposed to create growth and jobs and yet it is actively destroying both of those things – more of the same – as the medicine is killing the patient. He attacks the idea that the world will end if Greece were to exit the Euro – “European leaders say if Greece leaves the sky will fall in – it won’t!” – though notes that there will indeed be a difficult few weeks – and when challenged by a Greek politician (who questions what will happen when gas prices for Greeks rise on Farage’s suspected 50% devaluation in the Drachma), Nigel, offering the other side of the coin related to real growth, investment, and innovation to compete with expensive imports pointedly remarks: “Give Greece a chance because stuck inside the Euro, you are going to be literally destroyed.” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/nigel-farage-europes-economic-suicide

Why U.S. Politicians Are Quiet About Europe’s Meltdown

After the Greek elections struck fear into the hearts of the global banksters, the fallout remains uncertain. If the next Greek election produces an anti-austerity government, Greece will almost certainly make a speedy exit from the euro. If this happens — and it is looking increasingly inevitable — the consequences for the global economy are spectacularly gloomy. Yet U.S. media and U.S. politicians are largely silent on the issue, almost as if nothing were happening. http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke140512.htm

The Countdown to the Break-Up of the Euro Has Officially Begun

Whenever they get a chance, the citizens of Europe are using the ballot box to send a message that they do not like what is going on. It turns out that austerity is extremely unpopular. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-countdown-to-the-break-up-of-the-euro-has-officially-begun

Is This the End of ‘One Europe’?

How Europe’s crisis resolves itself as yet remains unknown. But with Sunday’s returns from France and Greece, the mega-trends on the Old Continent are unmistakable. And for the European Union, they are ominous. Nationalism — be it economic nationalism or ethnic nationalism — is ascendant. Transnationalism and multiculturalism are in headlong if not irreversible retreat. The European project is itself imperiled. http://buchanan.org/blog/is-this-the-end-of-one-europe-5072

Is Transnational Europe Sailing on the Titanic?

With the demonstrations, riots, and governments falling like dominoes, Europe’s ruling elites are losing the confidence of the people and its ruling parties are bleeding support to the more militant left and right. http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-issue-is-borders-is-transnational-europe-sailing-on-the-titanic

Austerity Staggers, Germany Blows Up?

Here’s another winning analysis from UK Telegraph columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in our view. As spectacularly wrong as he was about Spain avoiding a collapse (and we called him on it then, months ago) so we think he’s correct about the demise of austerity in Europe. This will be a big blow to the one-world government plans by the elites that have seemingly been moving quickly to secure a more integrated world in all aspects, legislative, judicial, monetarily and militarily. They use fear-based dominant social themes to generate these preferred consequences. People are to be prevailed upon to give up power and wealth to globalist institutions as a result of these faux, fear-based promotions. http://www.thedailybell.com/3841/Austerity-Staggers-Germany-Blows-Up

European Super State One Step Closer or Approaching Imminent Collapse?

Jean Monet, the founding father of the European Union, had a very particular vision of Europe’s future back in 1952, and he expressed it in a letter to a colleague on 30th April that year: “Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.” Here, in a nutshell, we plainly see the trickery that stands behind the fabricated ‘Union’ of individual nations, each of which was led to believe that its economic and social stability would prosper once it committed to the ‘common market’ and the various treaties which mark its inexorable passage to ‘superstate’. http://www.activistpost.com/2012/02/european-super-state-one-step-closer-or.html

Freemason Revealed Greek Plot in 2008

The European “elites” are using Greece to persuade the sheeple that if the Greek problem is not fixed, Southern Europe will go bankrupt which will trigger the collapse of the whole European financial system and thus the bankruptcy of the whole European economy. The “problem” is that the so-called Eurozone (where the euro currency replaced the national currencies) is doomed to collapse since the Southern European states (as well as the Eastern ones) cannot sustain their economy if they can’t devalue their own currency in order to boost export and tourism (they are now sucked to the euro currency.) That’s where corrupt globalist politicians played their role in weakening their own economy by every means but the current “global recession” triggered by the international Khazar bankers was the main part of the plan to bring the Southern and Eastern European economies to a breaking point as well as to weaken the US economy and collapse the Chinese, Indian and Russian economies. http://www.henrymakow.com/the_secret_solution_to_greece.html

Economic Elites Strip Away European Sovereignty

The object, as we are seeing, is the repudiation of the EU treaty, for rules allowing the ECB to create money and credit out of thin air, and act like the Fed and other central banks. Illuminist Mario Draghi will do his best to see that this happens. Of course, thrown in for good measure will be the stripping of sovereignty from the 17-euro zone members. These solutions will negatively affect both the euro and the US dollar, both for now the best of the worst. The migration, the flight to quality, will of course lead to gold and silver, as it has been over the past 12 years, as we predicted it would. Gold is the only viable alternative from a monetary viewpoint, and it will continue to be so. In spite of US government intervention, and manipulation of many markets, including silver and gold, they relentlessly increase in value, because they are the only real money. Every time they knock gold and silver down all they do is give buyers the opportunity to buy more at artificially reduced prices. http://www.theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Economic_Elites_Strip_Away_European_Sovereignty

Three Lessons From the European Mess

All financial eyes are once again trained on the European debt crisis, with investors worldwide wondering how it will play out. Not well, I’m afraid. Not well for the Europeans to be sure. And it will be costly for Americans, too. Some of the pain has already been felt by investors who had accounts with Jon Corzine’s MF Global, now bankrupt from chasing higher-yielding bonds in the Eurozone. After a lifetime in high office and at Goldman Sachs, Corzine must have thought that if anything went wrong, everybody on Wall Street would just get bailed out again. He may have been right about that in the long run, but his timing was off. (And to think that Corzine, who may now qualify to be a bunkmate of Bernie Madoff, could have easily ended up as U.S. Treasury Secretary. While that is a story for another day, it goes a long way to explain the financial mess the U.S. government is in.) http://lewrockwell.com/goyette/goyette21.1.html

Eurozone Doomsayer Got It Right

Eurozone economies are cratering. Every fix tried so far failed. Combining 17 dissimilar countries under one monetary/fiscal system assured disaster waiting to happen. British economist Bernard Connolly knew it before the euro’s 1998 introduction. His 1995 book titled, “The Rotten Heart of Europe: The Dirty War for Europe’s Money” called it a harebrained idea doomed to fail. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/20/eurozone-doomsayer-got-it-right/

It’s the End of the Eurozone as We Know It

Stick a fork in it, the eurozone as we know it is done. That’s the message we’re hearing from every media outlet and talking head this morning. But whether the EU survives in its current incarnation or takes on a new form, the agenda remains the same, the evisceration of all national sovereignty and the centralization of power into a dictatorial federal superstate. Words like “depression,” “collapse,” and “apocalypse,” are not normally uttered by people in positions of power, but such terms have become the staple of this week’s news diet, as the deepening of the euro crisis begins to make headlines about Greece look like they should be consigned to the “and finally” segment. http://www.infowars.com/its-the-end-of-the-eurozone-as-we-know-it/

Goodbye Greece

The best thing for the Greeks and for Europe is for Greece to be asked to quietly leave the Euro club. That’s the simple, brutal solution to the current financial crisis that is threatening to tear apart the European Union and provoke a global financial crisis. http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis266.html

A True Greek Tragedy — Odyssey of the EU

The cradle of democracy is under attack. The Inherent Autonomy of the human spirit is at stake. What was won at the Battle of Thermopylae, was lost in the banksters board rooms that control the EU. http://batr.org/autonomy/110611.html

Why It Takes Only 5 Minutes

Alright I am going to kick things off with Europe and get that out of the way as quickly as possible. Nothing has changed and absolutely nothing has been accomplished. There is no “solution” to the crisis that will not result in massive pain, confusion and wealth decimation. The reason is patently obvious. At least half the continent is completely and helplessly bankrupt. There are only two outcomes to the entire situation. Either the sovereign debts are written off aggressively and the banking system declared insolvent and restructured or the ECB decides to turn on those printing presses to the tune of trillions and destroys the purchasing power of the union in Zimbabwe-like fashion. People will read this and think I am exaggerating . The phrase “it takes 5 minutes” keeps running through my head because all it takes is a small amount of time to see the situation for what it is. I am not that smart. This is obvious. The scary thing is that it is abundantly clear that the vast majority of U.S. investors have not bothered to take the 5 minutes necessary to understand how extreme and binary the outcomes to all this is. Their clients will suffer massively in the months and years ahead as a result of their laziness and lack of macro curiosity. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/michael-krieger-explains-why-it-takes-only-5-minutes

Europe Wallows in Unsolveable Problems

Central banks are accommodators to keep their system going, because if the elitists lose control of the financial systems they lose their power and wealth. That in part is why no effort has been made to restore economies. These extraordinary measures have for the moment kept US, UK and European economies from falling off a cliff, but that game cannot be played indefinitely. http://dprogram.net/2011/10/27/europe-wallows-in-insolveable-problems-bob-chapman/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Reckoning for the Euro

The German government is already in the process of protecting its banks and we are told contingency plans are in the works to return to the Deutschmark. The possibility of six sovereign defaults accompanies by bank failures looms in the distance. Considering the condition of other European banks, and the possibility that three major French banks may be purchased by China, we could see disruption in the global banking system. The advocates of world government wanted all world banks interconnected and now that control connectively will act as a lynchpin to possibly destroy the entire system. http://www.theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Euro_Reckoning_Amongst_Long_Term_Threats

National Front in France Capitalizes on Euro Crisis

Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen is reshaping France’s political landscape and the tremors go beyond people like this reconstructed Trotskyist. Her father played up worries about immigration, but the anxiety Marine addresses is economic and deep. The National Front’s new target is the oppressive power of global finance, and the mood she is tapping spreads across Europe. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/special-report-france-far-capitalizes-euro-crisis-070601225.html

Germany Prepares to Exit Euro as Sovereign Debt Crisis Grows

In the 1990s, the Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s government had a difficult time convincing Germans that a switch from the mark to the euro was in the best interest of the country. Despite the weakness of the currency amidst a rapidly spreading debt crisis, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will defend the euro. According to Pipi Malmgren, however, Germany will abandoned the euro and re-introduce the Deutschmark mark and this will spell disaster for the beleaguered euro. She claims the German government has already sent orders for the currency to the printers. http://www.infowars.com/germany-prepares-to-exit-euro-as-sovereign-debt-crisis-grows/

Can a Geriatric Germany Save Europe?

Politically, it may not be possible to cajole or coerce the Germans, indefinitely, into saving the eurozone, the collapse of which could bring on a depression and bring down the European Union itself. There is another reason the European Monetary Union and EU may be headed for the boneyard: demography. Looking over the 2008 World Population Prospects from the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, one finds that the nation which is to carry Europe back to solvency is aging, shrinking and dying. Every decade of this century, Germany will become less able to sustain its dynamism, let alone carry the continent. http://www.vdare.com/articles/can-a-geriatric-germany-save-europe

EU Bonds Rollover Debt With a Chinese Bailout

The financial press is inundated with the most ominous reports of an EU meltdown. The downturn in economic activity and little growth all comes down to the unsustainability in servicing the debt obligations. Sovereign countries bailouts only pile on even more debt. European banks are tied to a Euro dominated currency, while the political union is anything but unified. Any serious student of European history inescapably concludes that the perennial ambition to orchestrate a single patchwork of diverse cultures and interests into a pan European brotherhood is always doomed. A consensus fraternity based upon socialistic economics feeds the inevitable default. However, never fear the banksters will not suffer, as the globalists prepare to use their next crisis, to consolidate their grip of world dominance. http://www.batr.org/wrack/091811.html

Merkel and Sarkozy Propose Euro-Zone ‘Government’ to Tackle Debt Crisis

Lovers of globalism Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel

Germany and France are calling on all euro-zone members to enshrine a balanced budget in their constitution, as well proposing a collective “government” led by the EU president.
In one of the most dramatic expansions of state power since the onset of the EU debt crisis, France and Germany have proposed a united euro-zone government to guide the bloc’s finances as well as having power to overrule national governments. http://rt.com/news/merkel-sarkozy-eurobonds-eu/

The Beginning of the End of Europe

Yesterday, the European contagion spread to Italy and Spain. The sovereign debt of those two countries swooned—for no discernible reason. No discernible reason whatsoever: The Italian and Spanish bond markets just sort of . . . plopped, like when a learning-to-walk toddler suddenly plops on his behind? Exactly like that: For no reason whatsoever. The only conclusion that I can draw from this Monday swoon is that we’ve hit the tipping point: This is the start of the eurozone endgame. It is now only a matter of time before the eurozone breaks apart. Therefore, get back in your seats, buckle up, and brace yourselves good—‘cause it’s gonna be a bumpy ride. http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2011/07/beginning-of-end-of-europe.html

Young Europeans Are Rejecting the EU and Bankster-Run Economics

The European Union is in bad shape. Not only is the common currency in a shambles and the economies of many member states moribund, but young Europeans no longer see how the EU helps them. Millions of them are taking to the streets to demand a future. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,769831,00.html

Cultural Marxism Watch: Germany Has ‘Too Many Housewives’

To avoid a looming labour shortage, Germany should follow the example of Scandinavian countries and dismantle barriers to women entering the workforce, according to the European Commission. http://www.thelocal.de/society/20110608-35529.html

All Rapes in Oslo Committed by ‘Non-Western’ Men

100 percent of the rapes in Oslo, Norway over the past five years were committed by Muslim immigrants. Although 61,000 Catholic Poles have immigrated to Norway, there wasn’t a single Pole-on-Norwegian rape in Oslo, if this study is true. How can you possibly justify importing this kind of Third World barbarism into peaceful, economically prosperous, Christian Scandinavian nations? http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2011/05/shocking_all_ra.php

Spain’s Giant Post-Debt Hangover

Viva la revolution! Spain’s youth are staging boisterous but peaceful protests across the country that many call the Iberian version of the popular revolutions sweeping the Arab world. http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis244.html

Greece in Meltdown

Stocks dropped on Monday as Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis deepened and bond yields across the EU periphery headed sharply higher. The euro fell hard against the dollar ($1.40) while the Greek 10-year bond spiked to 17 per cent before mounting a modest comeback. The situation is getting desperate. Most economists now believe that Greece will have to restructure its debt. But bondholders are doing everything they can to make sure that doesn’t happen because they stand to lose billions on their investments. So, they’ve thrown their weight behind ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet, EU policymakers, and the IMF, all of which are trying to pressure Greece to accept harsher austerity measures in order to avoid default. But the plan isn’t working. Greece’s finances are getting worse by the day. Something will have to be done soon or Greece’s troubles will send markets into a nosedive. The problem is simple; the current belt-tightening policy has failed, so it’s time to move on to Plan B. But the folks in charge don’t want to change policies because then the banks (who own a large share of the bonds) would take a hit on their investments. So, the fiasco drags on while the debts pile up and while peaceful street demonstrations turn into violent conflagrations. The bigwigs at the EU and ECB would rather see cities across the continent descend into a bloody free-for-all than lose one euro on their original investment. http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney05242011.html

Europe’s Populists Build on Hostility to Brussels, Immigration and Islam

Right-wing populist parties are on the rise across large swathes of Europe, as demonstrated in Finland this week. Bolstered by resentments over the EU, immigration and Islam, their leaders have seized the moment. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14998932,00.html

Europe’s Multiculturalism Leading to Civil War?

France has some 751 “No Go” zones. The French government has labeled these areas “sensitive urban zones” that are dangerous for whites and non-Muslims to enter. French writer Guy Milliere said even the local authorities stay out of these zones. “It means that it’s the part of the country where the police don’t go,” he said. “The firemen don’t go and even doctors and ambulance don’t go, except if they have no other choice.” “And it’s like that because these parts of the country are in the hands of drug traffickers, gangs and imams,” he continued. http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2011/02/europes_multicu.php

Will Multiculturalism End Europe?

Multiculturalism has “totally failed,” says German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “State multiculturalism has had disastrous results,” says Britain’s David Cameron. Is multiculturalism a failure in France? “My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure,” says President Nicolas Sarkozy. Ex-Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has declared multiculturalism a failure in Spain, saying it divides and debilitates Western societies. Only in Canada and the U.S., it seems, is the issue still in dispute. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41801

Europe Starts Confiscating Private Pension Funds

The U.S. isn’t the only place that’s facing a major pension fund crisis. The Christian Science Monitor has this alarming report. http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/europe-starts-confiscating-private.html

European Union: R.I.P.?

When communism collapsed in Moscow, Prague and Belgrade at the end of the Cold War, ethnic nationalism surged to the surface in all three nations and tore them apart into 24 countries. Economic nationalism is now resurgent across Europe. And it is hard to see how a transnational institution like the European Union, run by faceless bureaucrats, and the 16-nation eurozone it created can long survive. http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan147.html

Euro Empire Collapsing, Bailout River Dry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Zbpa3i4HY

European Leftists Baffled At Rise of Nationalist Right

Europe’s mainstream political parties are engaged in a worsening feud over how to deal with the growing power of extreme rightwing anti-immigrant movements. Amid a backlash against immigration that has shaken Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden in recent months, governments of the centre-right or centre-left appear at a loss to counter the appeal of extremist populists who have moved from the madcap fringes of national politics into government, or propping up minority centrist coalitions. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=9504

EU Dictators Plan Fresh Looting Of Tax Slaves

The sprawling, blood-sucking, dictatorial, EU is trying to fill its coffers at a time when everyone else is being told they must tighten their belts and accept draconian austerity measures, by preparing to impose a new direct tax on European citizens already financially destitute as a result of the economic collapse. If you want a taste of how the global tax to fund the expansion of world government will be implemented, look no further than the European Commission, which has laid out no less than eight different forms of direct taxation that it wants to impose on citizens of all 27 member states, despite the fact that the majority of people in all of these countries would rather their governments cease all financial commitments to the EU entirely. http://www.prisonplanet.com/eu-dictators-plan-fresh-looting-of-tax-slaves.html

Admission: Jews Will Have Leading Role in Europe’s ‘Racial Transformation’

Once again the so-called “extremists” were right. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=9333

Break Up the Tyrannical European Union

The latest findings of Eurobarometer, the EU’s own polling organisation, show that less than half its citizens now believe it is a “good thing”. In many countries, its popularity is at record lows, and only 19 per cent see the EU as “democratic” (in Britain, Finland and Latvia this is as low as 10 per cent). http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/brussels-broken-power-to-rule.html

The Economy When Debt is Everywhere

Greece is on the edge of revolution and well it should be. This IMF imposed tyranny should never have been imposed in the manner in which it has been, crudely. We haven’t seen the end of the Greek and euro crisis by a long shot and there is a good chance the reaction to such problems could easily spread to Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Italy. Several months ago in Greece’s largest newspaper, as well as on Greek radio and television, we predicted these results and what is to follow. The answer is to get rid of your false leadership that is selling you into IMF servitude that will last for decades. Like Spain was a military training ground for Germany in the 1930s in preparation for WWII, Greece is being used as a training ground for world economic and financial subjugation as planned by the forces of darkness in its quest for total world domination. http://www.theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/The_Economy_When_Debt_Is_Everywhere

Israel Has Crept Into the European Union Without Anyone Noticing

The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline. There was a NATO-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that’s OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We’d still be investigating this extraordinary phenomenon. Now mark you, I’m not comparing Israel and Hamas. Israel is the country that justifiably slaughtered more than 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza 19 months ago – more than 300 of them children – while the vicious, blood-sucking and terrorist Hamas killed 13 Israelis (three of them soldiers who actually shot each other by mistake). http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-israel-has-crept-into-the-eu-without-anyone-noticing-2040066.html

Alliance of European National Movements Expands to Nine Parties

The Alliance of European National Movements (AENM), a group of patriotic parties devoted to preserving European civilisation, has expanded its membership base to nine nations with the addition of Portugal’s Partido Nacional Renovador and Sweden’s Nationaldemokraterna.

http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/alliance-european-national-movements-expands-9-parties

Europe’s Coming Summer Of Discontent

Most Europeans have become very accustomed to the social welfare state. Tens of millions of Europeans aren’t about to let anyone cut their welfare payments or the wages on their cushy government jobs. In most of the European nations that are experiencing big financial problems there are very powerful unions and labor organizations that do not want anything to do with austerity measures and that are already mobilizing. As the IMF and the ECB continue to push austerity measures all over Europe this summer, the chaos that we witnessed in Greece could end up being repeated over and over again across the continent. This could truly be Europe’s summer of discontent. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/europes-coming-summer-of-discontent

The Euro as We Know is Dead

For Angela Merkel, leader of the eurozone’s richest country, a queue is forming of high-quality adversaries. As she tips German Geld und Gut into the furnace of a rescue package for the euro, while going it alone in a misguided ban on market “manipulators”, the brass-neck Chancellor has infuriated domestic voters, angered her EU partners (in particular the French) and invited the so-called wolf pack of global traders to do its worst.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/7746806/Whatever-Germany-does-the-euro-as-we-know-it-is-dead.html

Ireland Falls Into the Sea

“Ireland Backs EU’s Lisbon Treaty” screamed the BBC headline back on October 3, 2009. The Irish surrendered, the one-world crowd was ecstatic, and Tony Blair could actually become the first President of Europe. Hilaire Belloc must be turning in his grave. Far from backing the Lisbon Treaty initially, Ireland had roundly rejected it just last year. But the increasingly anti-Christian European Union doesn’t take “no” for an answer, especially when “yes” can be purchased. They used intimidation and vast amounts of money to knock the democratic process in Ireland on its backside. As UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage put it, “there was a wall of money for the Yes campaign….The Irish have been bullied into voting Yes.” http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2009-1015-mjm-ireland_falls_into_the_sea.htm