WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY!
By Harry Wilson Telegraph: Big banks should be thanked for helping struggling borrowers stay in their homes, according to Britain’s most senior banking regulator. Andrew Bailey, chief executive designate of the Prudential Regulation Authority, said lenders use of “forebearance” to allow individuals and businesses in financial difficulty to continue servicing their debts meant they deserved [...]
By Matthew Sparks Telegraph: One of the founding fathers of the euro admits that some states may be forced to abandon the single currency, but insists Germany would be better off staying in. Otmar Issing, a former European Central Bank chief economist, warned that the eurozone could be heading towards fracture in a book called [...]
By Joshua Gallu & Silla Brush Bloomberg: High-frequency trading firms are drawing scrutiny from U.S. regulators seeking evidence that they may be distorting market prices by conducting transactions with themselves, said two people with knowledge of the matter. So-called wash trades, in which a party buys a contract from itself, could be executed inadvertently by [...]
Press TV: The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has issued a verdict, calling unconstitutional the French authorities’ searching the offices of two publications and homes of five journalists in connection with their coverage of a doping scandal. “The measures taken were not reasonably proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued, having regard to the interest [...]
PrisonPlanet.com Facebook have deleted Paul Joseph Watson’s account for no reason and are demanding his passport. Social networking websites routinely censor alternative media. Another fantastic reason to sign up at Planet Infowars.
By Press TV: UK Uncut, a protest group highlighting alternatives to the British government’s spending cuts, has organized eleven separate demonstrations across Britain today on May 26, aiming to highlight opposition to the Coalition’s policies. Anti-cuts campaigners will target the “architects of austerity” this weekend by blocking roads and holding street parties as part of [...]
Paul Craig Roberts Prisonplanet.com: In response to the question in the title I can report that most of my readers are. Almost everyone got the point of the last column. They see the absurdity of the government’s claim that the identity of the tough, macho Navy Seals, who allegedly murdered Osama bin Laden, has to [...]
By Eyre International: Could the people of this country ever imagine that we are about to embark on the potential destruction of Britain as we once knew it? Have you ever thought what caused the original “Financial Meltdown†in 2008? Could you even contemplate yet another meltdown that will make the previous one look rather [...]
Mac Slavo SHTF Plan Without a government for the last eleven days, and amid mainstream discussion of a Euro Zone exit, the Greek people are realizing that the economic and political system as they know it is rapidly descending into chaos. With massive jobless rates that have forced many into bartering to survive, and facing [...]
Dave Johnson Alter Net Norman and Oriane Rousseau were one more couple pushed by a huge, greedy bank to the brink of homelessness. On Sunday, desperate and with nowhere to go, Norman Rousseau shot himself. This is the story of what happens when an average couple is up against a giant, wealthy, powerful bank. Unfortunately [...]
Cynthia Boaz Alter Net There is nothing more sacred to the maintenance of democracy than a free press. Access to comprehensive, accurate and quality information is essential to the manifestation of Socratic citizenship – the society characterized by a civically engaged, well-informed and socially invested populace. Thus, to the degree that access to quality information [...]
Harry Wilson The Telegraph Senior executives at JP Morgan were given repeated warnings about the controversial unit responsible for a shock $2bn (£1.2bn) trading loss at the bank, it can be disclosed. Staff from the bank’s investment banking arm privately told the management – including chief executive Jamie Dimon – that the bank’s Chief Investment [...]
Joshua Holland Alter Net For a generation, America’s political-economy has been gripped in a vicious cycle. Those at the top of the economic pile have taken an ever-growing share of the nation’s income, and then leveraged that haul into ever-greater political power, which they have in turn used to rewrite the rules of “the market†[...]
Press TV Thousands of Spanish students have taken to the streets across the country to protest against the government’s new education cut plans. University students, high school pupils and teachers joined the protests organized by the national Student’s Union in more than 50 towns across the country on Thursday, AFP reported. “We have called this [...]
Marshall Auerback Alter Net So the voters of Europe have spoken, and surprise, surprise: they are not too keen on fiscal austerity. France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, became the first incumbent to lose since 1981. In Greece, the mainstream parties that have been happily participating in the country’s national suicide were soundly rejected by the electorate [...]
Press TV British Prime Minister David Cameron has said Britain must stick to its tough austerity measures while election results in Europe show people do not think austerity is the only way out of financial woes. While the results of local elections in Britain last week showed British voters were angry with the coalition government’s [...]
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com The mass media is promulgating the notion that the election of Socialist French President Francois Hollande represents some kind of massive sea change and is a direct challenge to the European Union, and yet Hollande’s past and the people he surrounds himself with confirms the fact that he is merely [...]
Press TV Australian police have used force to end a student protest against job and budget cuts in the University of Sydney. The clashes erupted after hundreds of students and staff marched down Sydney’s City Road and into the university to protest job and budget cuts. The university had announced plans to slash academic salaries [...]
Press TV At least 400,000 public-sector workers in Britain will go on strike this week in protest at the government’s controversial pension reforms, local media reported. According to union leaders up to 400,000 workers, including civil servants, lecturers, health workers, Ministry of Defense staff, immigration officers, off-duty police officers and members of the Royal Fleet [...]
Press TV The Romanian parliament has approved a new interim government headed by Social Democrat Victor Ponta, who says he has pledged to fight social injustices caused by austerity measures. Ponta’s government, comprised of the Social Liberal Union Coalition of Social Democrats (PSD) and Liberals (PNL), won the parliamentary backing on Monday by 284-92 votes. [...]
Patrick Gallagher Activist Post Thanks to the available findings of a 2006 study showing that cannabis actually reduces the number of cancer cells, medical marijuana users can now feel even better about the widely abolished pain relief ingredient found in the plant. The relationship between marijuana and cancer has always been up for debate, but [...]
Steven Rosenfeld Alter Net Today is an ugly anniversary in American history: 42 years ago, National Guardsman opened fire on anti-Vietnam protesters at Ohio’s Kent State University, killing four students. Ten days later, Mississippi police fired on civil rights protesters taking refuge in a women’s dormitory at Jackson State University and killed two more students. [...]
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