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By François Sergent URUKNET: War without a battlefield, without direct confrontation and without any risk to the attackers. Drones change not only the art of war, but also blur the laws of war. And American monopoly currently only shared by Israel, drones have become the weapon of choice of the “war against terror” – a [...]
Press TV: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has drawn parallels between the policies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Nazi invasion of his country in 1944 during the course of the Second World War. “The Germans have already sent cavalry to Hungary – they came in form of tanks. Our request is that they [...]
Press TV: Britain has given the green light to Croatia to join the European Union after years of intensive talks by ratifying the country’s accession treaty to the bloc. British Foreign Office said London has sent the ratification documents to the Italian government’s depositary authority for the Treaty of Rome. The ratification, ahead of Croatian [...]
By Tim Shipman Mail Online: Former minister admits Labour deliberately engineered mass immigrationLabour sent out ‘search parties’ for immigrants to get them to come to the UK, Lord Mandelson has admitted. In a stunning confirmation that the Blair and Brown governments deliberately engineered mass immigration, the former Cabinet Minister and spin doctor said New Labour [...]
DW: Police and protesters have clashed at an anti-government demo in the Spanish capital, Madrid, with bottles thrown and officers making baton charges. The government is set to reveal a new plan to turn the economy around. There were violent scenes close to the Spanish national parliament on Thursday, as unrest broke out at a [...]
Press TV: A senior UN investigator says axed benefits has left a growing number of Greeks without health insurance and about 10% of the population living in “extreme poverty”. Earlier on Friday, senior United Nations investigator Cephas Lumina strongly criticized the “excessively rigid” demands of the bailout program, saying Greece is trailing on its human [...]
By Matthias Chang Global Research Future Fastforward I challenge anyone to prove me wrong that confiscation of bank deposits is legalized daylight robbery Bank depositors in the UK and USA may think that their bank deposits would not be confiscated as they are insured and no government would dare embark on such a drastic action [...]
Strat Risks: Angered by the British media’s coverage of Brussels, the European Commission says it wants to be a “moral compass” against press misconduct, seeking new national and Europe-wide regulatory powers over journalists. The EU has spent £2.3?million on the previously unpublicised “Mediadem” project to “reclaim a free and independent media”. In a “policy brief” [...]
By Colin Todhunter Global Research Do you know that there is a country up for sale? Do you know that its finance, agriculture and retail sectors are being put ‘on the market’? Perhaps you are already aware of this due to various media reports. But then again, maybe you are not because it’s all being [...]
The EU’s crime intelligence agency would be allowed access to private files Europol could insist chief constables disclose evidence from criminal cases This could include witness statements, DNA samples and fingerprints By Ian Dury Mail Online: British police forces will be forced to hand sensitive details of criminal investigations to Brussels or risk a massive [...]
By Nikolaj Nielsen EU Observer: Hungarian authorities will pass on the cost of EU fines through a tax on its own citizens whenever it breaches EU law. Giving details of the new Hungarian initiative, EU justice commissioner for justice Vivian Reding told euro-deputies at the Strasbourg plenary session on Wednesday (17 April) that: “in practice [...]
AOL: The Government wants to start securing people’s homes against their tax bill. And that’s a bad thing. Tucked away in the Budget was a proposal that could leave some people fearing house repossession. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) plan to increase the use of charging orders on people with outstanding tax bills. This’ll mean [...]
Press TV: Thousands of Spaniards have staged a large protest rally in Madrid, calling for the abdication of the country’s scandal-stricken monarchy. Spanish protesters on Sunday took to the streets in the capital, Madrid, chanting slogans such as “Tomorrow, Spain Will Be Republican,” and waving thousands of red, gold and purple Republican flags. The demonstration [...]
The real targets of the “haircut” are businesses, entrepreneurs and the middle class Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com News that the Cypriot President’s family moved 21 million euros to London days before the bank accounts of his people were looted as part of the bailout deal serves as another reminder that while the media portrays the [...]
Joseph T. Salerno lewrockwell.com The “Cyprus deal” as it has been widely referred to in the media may mark the next to last act in the the slow motion collapse of fractional-reserve banking that began with the implosion of the savings-and-loan industry in the U.S. in the late 1980s. This trend continued with the currency [...]
By Nicos Trimikliniotis Socalist Project: The Cyprus crisis is essentially a Eurozone crisis which threatens the very foundations of the European Union (EU). This small island economy, only 0.2 per cent of the Eurozone, is proving to be ‘systemic’ at the political, social and economic level. The Cyprus crisis is a manifestation of a deep [...]
Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem has sent the euro tumbling by declaring that the Cyprus rescue should be seen as a template for the rest of the eurozone. In an interview with reporters in Brussels after the Cyprus plan was agreed, Dijsselbloem argued that Europe could now take a new approach to tackling struggling banks. Read [...]
Is the financial rape of Cyprus another IMF riot waiting to happen? Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com News that the International Monetary Fund initially demanded to loot a shocking 40% of savings from the private bank accounts of Cypriots underscores how residents of the Mediterranean country could be the latest victims of the infamous “IMF [...]
Lines formed at ATMs as people scrambled to pull their money out Word spread that rescue package included a one-off levy on deposits Restrictions stopping people emptying accounts or moving money abroad Up to 3,000 British service personnel are based on the bankrupt island President Nicos Anastasiades agreed to raid [...]
Intelli Hub: Thousands of Portuguese civil servants have poured onto the streets of Lisbon, demanding the resignation of the government over its unpopular austerity measures. Friday’s demonstration was called by the unions Common Front, STAL (National Union of the Local and Regional Public Workers), and CGTP (General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers), shortly after Portuguese [...]
The Daily Agenda: The Greek Army has told the EU puppet regime ‘governing’ the nation that it will not intervene in the event of a “civil uprising” as Greece draws ever closer to revolution. The €urocrats, desperate to save their doomed fantasy project have resorted to hiring and deploying Blackwater mercenaries in Greece to ‘protect’ [...]
Press TV: Judicial personnel have gone on a 24-hour strike throughout Spain in protest to the government’s austerity measures and reforms in the judicial system. Judges, prosecutors, lawyers and court secretaries staged the strike on Wednesday to express opposition to their working conditions, which they said have been worsened by reforms announced by Justice Minister [...]
Zero Hedge: As the European parliament attempts to create a budget and Draghi repeats how the temporary lull in European growth is merely a prelude to a growth renaissance in the second half of the year (not to be confused with the verbatim lie rehashed by European dignitaries in 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009), it [...]
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