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About 80.9 percent of Greeks believe Greece should
struggle to stay within the eurozone “at any cost,” fresh opinion polls
showed on Wednesday.
Some 45.4 percent of respondents in a survey conducted by GPO firm
for local private television Mega channel said that they regarded as
most probable a Greek exit from the European common currency. And 48.4
percent of the respondents said that such a prospect was less likely.
But they don’t like the austerity measures that staying in the Euro entails:
About 77.8 percent expect the next government to emerge
from the June 17 general elections to renegotiate the harsh austerity
terms of the two bailout deals reached since May 2010 with international
lenders to avoid a disorderly default
So the question is why don’t they leave Greece and move to the core
where companies are hiring and public services aren’t being slashed, and
where there is no overhanging threat of being thrown out of the euro?
Conducted in January by the Focus Bari company using a
sample of 444 people aged between 18 and 24, the study shows 76% of
interviewees believing that leaving Greece would be the best response to
the effects of the economic crisis.
But they’re not doing it:
However, for most of them, the idea of leaving appears a
dream that cannot come true. Half of those interviewed (53%) spoke of
having thought about emigrating, while just 17% said that they had
resolved to leave the country and that they had already undertaken
preparatory actions.
A slightly lower percentage (14%) stated that they were forcing
themselves quite consciously to stay in Greece, as it is their
generation that has to bring about the changes that the country so
desperately needs.
“The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die.”
- Martin Luther King
Conspiracy theories have now blossomed into what the smug presstitute
media calls a “conspiracy culture.” According to the presstitutes,
Americans have to find some explanation for their frustrations and
failings, so Americans shift the blame to the Bilderbergers, the
Rothschilds, the New World Order and so forth and so on.
Readers will not be surprised that I disagree with the presstitutes.
Indeed, the conspiracy culture is the product of the presstitute media’s
failure to investigate and to report truthfully. I am certain that the
Western media is worse than the Soviet media was. The Soviet media
devised ways for helping the public to read between the lines, whereas
the Western media is so proud to be confidants of the government that
they deliver the propaganda without any clues to the readers that it is
propaganda.
Americans have been fed lies by “their” government and the
government’s presstitute media for so long that it is not surprising
that Americans increasingly believe that there is a conspiracy operating
against them. Millions of Americans have been evicted from their jobs,
careers, and homes while the crooks who stole from them run free and
bankroll the presidential candidates. The world as millions of Americans
knew it has come to an end, and no one has been held accountable. The
explanation that Americans get from the media is that it is their own
fault. They bought houses they shouldn’t have bought, and they didn’t
train for the right jobs. It is not unreasonable for Americans to
conclude that a conspiracy is operating against them.
Americans are told that “their” government cannot afford to help them
because of the budget deficit and the burden on our grandchildren. But
Americans seethe trillions of dollars that are lavished on banksters,
on wars, and on Homeland Security.
Why is a police state and another
attack on another Muslim country more important than keeping Americans
in their jobs and in their homes?
The 11th anniversary of 9/11 is less than a month away. Will the
presstitute media remind Americans that the government has spent $6
trillion of Americans’ money in out-of-pocket and already incurred
future costs as the expense of invading and trying to occupy Afghanistan
and Iraq, all to no effect except to enrich the managements and
shareholders of the military security complex at the cost of destroying
the reputation of the United States and putting Social Security and
Medicare on the chopping block?
No, of course not. The spiel will be about our brave troops who are
fighting and dying to make the world safe for democracy and women’s
rights. Washington will wrap itself in the flag and exhort Americans to
“support our troops” in the orchestrated war of the day. Hitlery Clinton
still gets on the moral high horse and rails at China and Russia, but
all the world sees is hypocrisy. No one, not even Washington’s puppet
governments, any longer takes Washington’s moralizing as anything more
than a mask for domination by force alone. Democracy, Washington
declares, comes out of the barrel of a gun.
Sweden says it won't hand Julian Assange to a third country if there was a risk he would face the death penalty there. UK Pirate Party Loz Kaye thinks these assurances don't have legal binding nature.
By Liam Vaughan: Every two months, representatives
from the world’s largest banks meet at an undisclosed location
to review the London interbank offered rate.
Who sits on the British Bankers’ Association’s Foreign
Exchange and Money Markets Committee, the body that governs the
benchmark for more than $300 trillion of securities worldwide,
is a secret. No minutes are published. The BBA won’t identify
any members, saying it wants to protect them from being lobbied,
and declined to make the chairman available for interview.
The group’s lack of transparency is symptomatic of a self-
regulated system that failed to stop traders around the world
manipulating the world’s most widely used benchmark interest
rate for profit. Martin Wheatley, the British regulator charged
with reviewing Libor after the scandal, is now weighing whether
to bring oversight under the control of regulators.
“Politically something has to fundamentally change in the
way that Libor is run,” said Owen Watkins, a former regulator
at the U.K. Financial Services Authority and now a lawyer at
Lewis Silkin LLP in London. “The obvious way to change it is to
have regulators more involved than they were in the past.”
The group has sole responsibility for all aspects of the
functioning and development of Libor, according to the BBA. Its
functions include the design of the benchmark, which banks sit
on the panels that determine the rate, and scrutiny of all rates
submitted.
By SYWTSAR: Who Is Brandon Raub and Why Maybe it Matters to the Rest of Us: Brandon Raub is a former Marine who had long been posting on Facebook
his belief in a 9/11 conspiracy, chemtrails, that our government is
communist, and his distrust of the Illuminati. He likes rap groups and
conspiracy theories. He considers himself a Christian and expressed
disgust at the TSA pat down of a child last year. Some of his posts,
although violent in nature, do not target specific people or groups.
Friends,
You deserve to kow[sic] the truth. There has been an overwhelming
amount of evil enacted and planned against you, your children, and your
countrymen. It is great in scope. Your government evil. It is as simple
as that.
And the cavalry is coming.
(August 12 at 10:02am)
and
I'm starting the Revolution. I'm done waiting.(August 10 at 12:11am)
and
Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads.
(August 13 at 10:38am)
Anthony Watts: What's Up With That? Since we were treated to scads of news articles by the MSM on how many
record highs happened in July, it seems only fair that we report on the
multitude of record lows that occurred this weekend in the USA, and I
doubt we'll see the sort of coverage the highs got. A number of these
record lows go back into the past 100 years or more.
It just gets worse when one considers the new research conducted by a team at the University of Birmingham which demonstrated the ability to predict future movements of users with an unbelievable margin of error of a mere 60 feet, according to the British Daily Mail.
Based on location data already collected by mobile phones, the researchers were able to create an algorithm to forecast the future movements of users with mind-bending accuracy.
SilverDoctors: A prominent PBOC Advisor has stated that US Treasuries are not safe
in the medium to long term, and has recommended China increase it’s gold
reserves as well as add silver to it’s official reserves.
If confirmed,
this is a potential game changer for silver that is so monumental it
could literally blast silver from the upper $20′s through it’s all-time
nominal high near $50 and closer to 3 figure rangeOVERNIGHT.
Where
China to reduce it’s US Treasury holdings by $200 billion and plow the
proceeds into physical gold and silver bullion as Xia recommends, you
can kiss the cartel’s silver manipulation goodbye!
Even
if 90% of the funds ($180 billion) were allocated to gold and a mere 10%
($20 billion) to silver, at today’s market prices that equals nearly 2
years of global silver mine supply of around 750 million ounces.
It
doesn’t take an economics degree from Princeton to realize that should
China attempt to add silver to it’s currency reserves, the price of
physical silver will become logarithmically disorderly to the upside
OVERNIGHT!
Submitted by Tyler Durden: This month marks the 50th anniversary of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
one of the landmark philosophical texts of the last century. The
central thesis of the book is that science advances in fits and starts,
clustered around the advent of new 'Paradigms' - a term that Kuhn
introduced in the book and much of academia subsequently coopted as
their own. This was a novel thought for the times, since the
conventional philosophy held that science advanced through the ages in
plodding but rigorous steps. Kuhn’s observation about science is
equally applicable to capital markets, for the range of 'Paradigm
shifts' underway goes a long way to explaining everything from why
companies refuse to invest to why earnings multiples on U.S. stocks
remain so low. Today, in celebration of Kuhn’s opus, ConvergEx's Nick
Colas offers up a list of the ‘Top 10 Paradigm Shifts’ currently
underway.
Joe Brennan:Ireland’s bankers and bailout
masters are pressing the government to make it easier to seize
homes bought as investments to rent out, as defaults on the loans
surge after Western Europe’s worst real-estate collapse.
The International Monetary Fund, the European Commission
and the European Central Bank, the so-called Troika that rescued
Ireland in 2010, want the state to tackle a legal loophole
impeding lenders from foreclosing on loans taken out before
2009, according to three people familiar with the matter, who
asked not to be named as final decisions haven’t been made.
The Irish government’s effort to overcome legal and
cultural obstacles to foreclosures is growing more urgent as
delinquencies on rental properties grow, making it harder for
banks to increase lending, and slowing the recovery. At Allied
Irish Banks Plc (ALBK), the biggest mortgage lender, more than a third
of its loan book for so-called buy-to-let properties is in
trouble after home prices fell by half and unemployment tripled
since 2007 amid the worst recession in the country’s modern
history.
“A well-functioning repossession framework is important to
maintain debt service discipline and to underpin the willingness
of banks to lend, which is crucial for Ireland’s economic
recovery,” Craig Beaumont, the IMF mission chief for Ireland,
said 'in an e-mail response' to questions.
The group’s lack of transparency is symptomatic of a self-
regulated system that failed to stop traders around the world
manipulating the world’s most widely used benchmark interest
rate for profit. Martin Wheatley, the British regulator charged
with reviewing Libor after the scandal, is now weighing whether
to bring oversight under the control of regulators. 
SilverDoctors: A prominent PBOC Advisor has stated that US Treasuries are not safe
in the medium to long term, and has recommended China increase it’s gold
reserves as well as add silver to it’s official reserves.
