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Tuesday, August 21, 2012 Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda Amnesty run by US State Department representatives, funded by convicted financial criminals, and threatens real human rights advocacy worldwide.
Spain Predicts 4.3% Increase in Tax Revenues, Actual Results are 3.5% Drop; Proposed "Solution" is More Tax Hikes Spain has been devastated by round after round of tax hikes.
For example, a Google-translated headline on Welt Online reads ECB chief demonstrates German banker .
Robots to Rule the World? Taking All Jobs?
Originally posted here: Part II – Robots to Rule the World? Taking All Jobs? Replace Women?
No one should be surprised to learn Greek Shortfall Growing Ever Larger Athens has not been having an easy time coming up with the €11.5 billion in cost cutting measures over the next two years it has promised Europe. Indeed, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is reportedly set to request an additional two years to make those cuts during meetings later this week with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday and French President François Hollande on Saturday. But according to information obtained by SPIEGEL, the financing gap his country faces could be even greater.
Bloomberg reports Bundesbank Widens Euro Rift With Criticism of ECB Bond Plan . Germany’s Bundesbank stepped up its criticism of the European Central Bank’s plan to embark on potentially “unlimited†government bond purchases, widening a rift over how to tackle the sovereign debt crisis.“The Bundesbank holds to the opinion that government bond purchases by the Eurosystem are to be seen critically and entail significant stability risks,†the Frankfurt-based central bank said in its monthly report today. The new program “could be unlimited†and decisions about potentially far greater sharing of solvency risks should be taken by governments or parliaments, not by central banks, it said
Posted by EliRabett at 5:36 PM Â 3 comments: Anonymous said… It’s interesting how Australian ecology differs from the ecologies of other continents, in terms of the nature of its trophic webs. The geological isolation of Australia, together with its ancient, nutrient-poor soils, mean that there is a great skew toward the lower trophic levels: that is, there ain’t much room for a large biomass of top predators on the continent
Here is a link to a translated article in Der Spiegel: ECB is planning to challenge interest rate speculation The European Central Bank (ECB) is considering to establish in its future bond purchases interest rate levels for each country. Thus, they would state papers of the crisis countries always buy when interest rates exceed a certain impact on their yields German Bunds.