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Italy’s Results are Truly Forza Italia!
Italy’s Results are Truly Forza Italia! Europe is headed for a breakup. But, after a year of watching the EU establishment work the polls just enough to maintain the status quo in the Netherlands, France and Germany I wasn’t expecting much from yesterday’s Italian elections. But with turnout over 73% we got just that. Voters were […]
How the US Establishment Lies Through Its Teeth, for War Against Russia
How the US Establishment Lies Through Its Teeth, for War Against Russia The same people, Republicans and Democrats, who lied through their teeth for an invasion of Iraq in 2003, are doing it again for an invasion of Russia, sometime soon, so as to ‘defend’ ‘democracy’. The US has by now swallowed up virtually all lands surrounding Russia, at […]
NPT Violated: Russia Raises Issue of Utmost Importance
NPT Violated: Russia Raises Issue of Utmost Importance Speaking at the UN Geneva Disarmament Conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia is threatened by American tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) stationed in Europe and the destabilizing effect of joint nuclear missions (JNM) that NATO forces are being trained for. The statement is more than […]
Beast From The East: Europe’s Feeling The Chill
Beast From The East: Europe’s Feeling The Chill The “Beast from the East” has well and truly arrived in Europe, blanketing much of the continent in snow. The Siberian weather system has sent temperatures plummeting to as low as -30°C in some places and, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy reports, at least ten people have died due to […]
Will Italy’s Banking Crisis Spawn a New Frankenbank?
Will Italy’s Banking Crisis Spawn a New Frankenbank? “Operation Overlord.” There are rumors currently doing the rounds that Italy’s banking problems have finally been put to rest. The FTSE Italia All-Share Banks Index has soared about 40% over the last 12 months, about double the advance by the Euro Stoxx Banks Index. Six of the […]
The Beast from the East and European Energy Security
The Beast from the East and European Energy Security European energy security is a subject I return to time and again normally prompted by some kind of event. This time it is severe cold weather and snow that has spread from Siberia over the whole of North and Western Europe, rather late in the season, […]
The Coming Banking Crisis & The End of Bailouts
The Coming Banking Crisis & The End of Bailouts Behind the curtain, there is a growing concern about a serious banking crisis beginning once again in Europe. Many governments are talking about the crisis behind-the-curtain and we are now beginning to see steps that are being taken to end the TO-BIG-TO-FAIL policies that dominated the […]
Bank Bail-In Risk In Europe Seen In 5 Charts
Bank Bail-In Risk In Europe Seen In 5 Charts – Nearly €1 trillion in non-performing loans poses risks to European banks’ – Greece has highest non-performing loans as a share of total credit – Italy has the biggest pile of bad debt in absolute terms – Bad debt in Italy is still “a major problem” which has […]
How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It
Photo: Sander de Wilde/Corbis/Getty Images HOW UK SPIES HACKED A EUROPEAN ALLY AND GOT AWAY WITH IT FOR A MOMENT, it seemed the hackers had slipped up and exposed their identities. It was the summer of 2013, and European investigators were looking into an unprecedented breach of Belgium’s telecommunications infrastructure. They believed they were on […]
Why Are European Governments So Terrified of ‘Fake News’?
Why Are European Governments So Terrified of ‘Fake News’? When Swedish authorities representing a Swedish left-wing government and media announce a project to prevent “fake news” from “decisively influencing” the 2018 elections, this ought to set off loud alarm bells among Swedes. Who determines what constitutes “fake news” anyway? Is it not the very essence […]
Asia Crashes, Europe Slides, US Rebounds But Yields Resume Ominous Rise
Asia Crashes, Europe Slides, US Rebounds But Yields Resume Ominous Rise “$5 trillion was wiped out from global stocks this week.” After yesterday’s violent last hour plunge in US stocks, which also sent the VIX surging back to the mid-30s, the overnight session was somewhat muted, with European stocks falling further on Friday morning, but […]
Death of Democracy? – Part I
Death of Democracy? – Part I “The result of 25 years of multiculturalism has not been multicultural communities. It has been mono-cultural communities… Islamic communities are segregated.” – Ed Husain, former Muslim extremist. This approach, giving social-services, is based on the belief — oft-refuted — that Muslim extremists (both Muslims-by-birth and converts) have suffered from […]
Can the Impending Collapse of Russiagate Halt the Slide Toward a Nuclear 1914?
Can the Impending Collapse of Russiagate Halt the Slide Toward a Nuclear 1914? In the period preceding the World War I how many Europeans suspected that their lives would soon be forever changed – and, for millions of them, ended? Who in the years, say, 1910 to 1913, could have imagined that the decades of […]
Pipeline Wars: Realpolitik meets Geography
Pipeline Wars: Realpolitik meets Geography The headlines are ablaze this month with news from all over about new pipeline projects coming into Europe. Never one to miss an opportunity to do the U.S. State Department’s bidding in how it presents pipeline politics, Oilprice.com published a howler of a piece about the Southern Gas Corridor. Titled, “Is This […]
Each EU Citizen Creates 31kg Of Plastic-Waste Per Year (But The Irish Are Worst)
Each EU Citizen Creates 31kg Of Plastic-Waste Per Year (But The Irish Are Worst) Plastic packaging waste is a huge problem around the world. Despite efforts in some European countries such as plastic bottle deposit schemes or having to pay for plastic bags in the supermarket, Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes that the average EU citizen […]
