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Originally posted here: Latest UN Syria Report Compiled by Washington Think-Tanker
More here: Is Italy Following the Footsteps of Greece? Does Italy or Germany Exit the Eurozone First?
Total Revenues: -$468.8 million (-10%) Income Tax: $156.2 million (5%) Sales Tax: -$390.7 million (-40%) Corporate Tax: -$26.4 million (-9.1%) What the Numbers Tell Us Typically, July is a month when California revenues go on vacation, as the month accounts for about one dollar of every $20 deposited in the General Fund.
Please consider this news headline which I openly mock: Expert says bankruptcy for Syracuse is unlikely, but mayor should explore option While the financial situation in the city of Syracuse hasn’t been described as desperate yet, Mayor Stephanie Miner has asked for some legal expertise on municipal bankruptcy. The signs of the city’s financial problems have been evident for several years as city employees accept wage freezes and fire and police departments see staff reductions. The city will use an early payment from Albany to help keep the budget from dipping into dwindling reserves.
Originally posted here: Germany 6% Current Account Surplus a "Threat to the Continent" Says EU Commission; Solution is Gold Coupled…
The Guillotine Drops A few weeks ago, before Joe Paterno’s statue was removed, Eli wrote in a post entitled Death Penalty Eli, as some have noted, is an ancient professor, an academic if you will. He has followed the collapse of governance at Penn State with the interest of a bunny watching a disaster unveiled, and recently saw much back and forth about the NCAA (the folks who profit from and do the pompous on intercollegiate athletics in the US) imposing the death penalty on football at PSU.
In essence, Syria has been under invasion for nearly a year by Libyan terrorists – and as we will see, the Libyans are by no means an imperial force, but rather a terroristic foreign legion employed by far more nefarious players. The West is Invading Syria by Proxy NATO-member Turkey is directly complicit in facilitating Libya’s extraterritorial aggression by hosting Libyan fighters within its borders, while coordinating their funding, arming, and logistics as they cross the Turkish-Syrian border.
Read the article: Hypocrisy: Syria Burns While Mass Murdering Dictator Roams Freely in USA
In a May 6, 2012 Reuters article it stated : "Working quietly, the Brotherhood has been financing Free Syrian Army defectors based in Turkey and channeling money and supplies to Syria, reviving their base among small Sunni farmers and middle class Syrians, opposition sources say." Â The Muslim Brotherhood was nearing extinction in Syria before the latest unrest, and while Reuters categorically fails in its report to explain the "how" behind the Brotherhood’s resurrection, it was revealed in a 2007 New Yorker article titled, " The Redirection " by Seymour Hersh. The Brotherhood was being directly backed by the US and Israel who were funneling support through the Saudis so as to not compromise the "credibility" of the so-called "Islamic" movement. Hersh revealed that members of the Lebanese Saad Hariri clique, then led by Fouad Siniora, had been the go-between for US planners and the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.