Author: News Desk

July 22, 2012 0

US Prepares For Direct Intervention in Syria

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Sunday, July 22, 2012 US Prepares For Direct Intervention in Syria As FSA proxies fail and psychological operations falter, US prepares more direct (and desperate) approach for long-sought regime change.  by Tony Cartalucci July 22, 2012 – As it becomes increasingly clear that last week’s "surge" by NATO-backed so-called "Free Syrian Army" terrorists was a failed psychological operation, coordinated with meticulously timed assassinations the day of the UN Security Council vote designed to stampede the Syrian government out of power, the FSA’s foreign sponsors are preparing the public for a more direct intervention while desperately attempting to maintain the illusion of chaos and the imminent collapse of Syria’s government. Video : Thierry Meyssan in Damascus, Syria.

July 22, 2012 0

The pros are using sports to explain climate science

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I’m very glad to see this: I’ve been arguing for this type of analogy for years .  There are alot of people out there, especially high school age students but not just them, who haven’t thought much about statistics and how they apply to weather and climate

July 21, 2012 0

Prepare for Spanish Implosion: Businesses Threaten to Leave Spain Over Tax Hikes; Finance Minister Proposes 56% Tax on Short-Term Financial…

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Prepare for Spanish Implosion: Businesses Threaten to Leave Spain Over Tax Hikes; Finance Minister Proposes 56% Tax on Short-Term Financial Transactions Cristobal Montoro, the Spain’s finance minister has made a liquidity destroying proposal to tax short-term financial transactions at an astonishing 56% tax rate. Businesses are already upset over hikes in the VAT and have threatened to leave Spain. Interestingly, in spite of raising taxes elsewhere, the VAT was lowered on the highly subsidized renewable energy sector.

July 20, 2012 0

Demand for Spanish Bonds Collapses; "No Money Left to Pay Services" says Treasury Minister; Massive Protests Over Austerity; Two-Year Yield…

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has the details in his Telegraph piece, Spanish debt crisis returns as Germany nears bailout fatigue “Demand for Spanish paper is collapsing, even for shorter-dated debt which is very worrying and raises the spectre of Spain losing market access,†said Nicholas Spiro from Spiro Sovereign Strategy. Marchel Alexandrovich from Jefferies Fixed Income said the markets are already bracing for second bigger rescue of around €400bn. “A few more weeks like this and Madrid is going to decide to it has nothing more to lose and call for a full sovereign bail-out,†he said.