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#StopTTIP: Tens of thousands protest trade deal with US in Berlin
#StopTTIP: Tens of thousands protest trade deal with US in Berlin Protesters from a range of political groups have gathered in central Berlin for a protest against TTIP, a trade deal between the US and the European Union, which critics believe would benefit big corporations and hurt average Europeans. Trade unions, environmental groups, charities and […]
Did the European Court of Justice Just Torpedo the Mother of All US Trade Agreements?
Did the European Court of Justice Just Torpedo the Mother of All US Trade Agreements? Europe’s already rocky trading relationship with the U.S. just got a whole lot worse. Thanks to one young man’s battle against one of the world’s biggest tech companies, data traffic underpinning the world’s largest trading relationship has been thrown into […]
Six Reasons Natural Gas Prices Are Staying Down
Six Reasons Natural Gas Prices Are Staying Down The critical natural gas transit country, Ukraine, reached a supply agreement in the last week of September with the EU’s largest fuel supply partner: Russia. One could argue that this agreement could actually have come too late. Natural gas supply to Europe heading into winter 2015 seems more secure […]
Two thirds of EU states reject GMO crops, file cultivation opt-out requests
Two thirds of EU states reject GMO crops, file cultivation opt-out requests Two thirds of EU states have requested to be allowed to ban the growing of genetically modified crops in their countries, choosing the “opt-out” clause of a European Commission rule that allows members to override EU-wide GMO approvals. Nineteen European Union member states […]
Resilience and Collapse: Notes from Cyprus Part Two
Resilience and Collapse: Notes from Cyprus Part Two In early 2014, I interviewed my cousin, Sofia Matsi, a newly minted permaculture designer and sustainability/resilience activist who lives on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Last year, Sofia related her experience of the all-but-complete collapse of the Cyprus economy in 2013 and her attempts, with others, to spark […]
36,000 troops, 200 aircraft & 60 vessels: NATO launches biggest war games in 13 years
36,000 troops, 200 aircraft & 60 vessels: NATO launches biggest war games in 13 years © NATO JFC Brunssum / YouTube NATO has started its biggest exercise since 2002 with 36,000 international troops from 30 states, including non-NATO nations, participating in the drills which are taking place at sea, in the air and across the […]
EU Moloch in a Fresh Bid to Inflate
EU Moloch in a Fresh Bid to Inflate Brussels Alters Capital Requirements to “Spur Lending” Saints preserve us, the central planners in Brussels are giving birth to new inflationist ideas. Apparently the 2008 crisis wasn’t enough of a wake-up call. It should be clear by now even to the densest observers that a fractionally reserved […]
The Western Alliance Is Crumbling
The Western Alliance Is Crumbling EU Is Abandoning U.S. on Overthrowing Assad Obama Cannot Defeat Assad without EU’s Help EU Also Rejects Obama’s TTIP & TISA Demands Obama’s Presidential ‘Legacy’ Heads to Failure Europe is being overrun by refugees from American bombing campaigns in Libya and Syria, which created a failed state in Libya, and which threaten […]
The ECM Turning Point — Sept. 30/Oct. 1 — Guns & War?
The ECM Turning Point — Sept. 30/Oct. 1 — Guns & War? The unleashing of Russian firepower in Syria in support of the Syrian government came precisely on the day of the Economic Confidence Model. I have come to learn from observing this model that major world events, whatever the major focus may be, appear […]
Spain Leaps Toward Political Breakdown
Spain Leaps Toward Political Breakdown Desperately needed international investors dread it The dust is not even close to settling after Catalonia’s latest experimental flirtation with nation building. The pro-independence coalition fell tantalizingly short of gaining a majority of seats (62 out of 135). Now it needs the support of the anti-capitalist separatist party Popular Unity Candidacy […]
Catalan Secessionists Set To Win Election Amid Record Turnout
Catalan Secessionists Set To Win Election Amid Record Turnout On Friday we previewed what we said could be the next European black swan. In short, elections in Catalonia on Sunday were a proxy for an independence referendum. The outcome is critical for several reasons, not the least of which are i) Spain’s debt-to-GDP ratio could […]
The West Suppresses Report on Ukraine’s Suppression of Journalists
The West Suppresses Report on Ukraine’s Suppression of Journalists OSCE Squelches Ukrainian Commission on Human Rights Speaker At a 21 September 2015 meeting of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), which is run by the Western powers and which is the leading organization concerning security and cooperation in Europe, a couragous speech […]
Democracy Has Departed The West
Democracy Has Departed The West Before the West spreads democracy abroad maybe it could get some for itself. The US is an oligarchy in which government is answerable to six powerful private interest groups. In Europe governments are answerable to the EU, Washington, and private bankers and not to their peoples. In the UK the […]
There Are Indications That A Major Financial Event In Germany Could Be Imminent
There Are Indications That A Major Financial Event In Germany Could Be Imminent Is something about to happen in Germany that will shake the entire world? According to disturbing new intel that I have received, a major financial event in Germany could be imminent. Now when I say imminent, I do not mean to suggest […]
Greek snap election: New Democracy concedes defeat to Tsipras’s leftist Syriza
Greek snap election: New Democracy concedes defeat to Tsipras’s leftist Syriza Greek left-wing party Syriza has secured 145 seats in the country’s 300-member parliament and is set to form a ruling coalition with Independent Greeks after winning 35.5 percent of the vote. The leader of New Democracy, Syriza’s main rival, has conceded defeat. “The electoral […]
