Sunday, June 12, 2011
Germans tiring of working for PIGS
http://rt.com/news/greece-bailout-anger-germany/
As the EU prepares its next wad of cash to save Greece from financial collapse, Germans, the main sponsors of the bailout, question why they continue working to pay for Athens' – and others’ - mistakes.
Public anger is mounting in Greece over stricter austerity measures the government has promised to implement to get its hands on more EU aid. The country’s cabinet is to hold an informal discussion of the medium-term plan on Monday.
Meanwhile, European leaders have approved the next payment in its bailout for Athens, bidding to save the country and euro from a default.
But those who are to pay the price of the new aid package could soon take to the streets.
Top German lawyer Markus Kerber is suing the German government to stop it bailing out bankrupt neighbors.
“The euro's dead, long live Germany,” he says. “You can't save the euro by saving Greece, but on the contrary you have to get rid of Greece. Greece is no longer a worthy candidate, no longer a worthy member of the European monetary union.”
The nations labeled in derision by some as the PIIGS of Europe – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain – must drop the currency now, before they drag down other members, warns Kerber.
Market analyst and author Michael Mross, is among the experts who say Germans are at boiling point – anger which could spill out on to the streets.
As the EU prepares its next wad of cash to save Greece from financial collapse, Germans, the main sponsors of the bailout, question why they continue working to pay for Athens' – and others’ - mistakes.
Public anger is mounting in Greece over stricter austerity measures the government has promised to implement to get its hands on more EU aid. The country’s cabinet is to hold an informal discussion of the medium-term plan on Monday.
Meanwhile, European leaders have approved the next payment in its bailout for Athens, bidding to save the country and euro from a default.
But those who are to pay the price of the new aid package could soon take to the streets.
Top German lawyer Markus Kerber is suing the German government to stop it bailing out bankrupt neighbors.
“The euro's dead, long live Germany,” he says. “You can't save the euro by saving Greece, but on the contrary you have to get rid of Greece. Greece is no longer a worthy candidate, no longer a worthy member of the European monetary union.”
The nations labeled in derision by some as the PIIGS of Europe – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain – must drop the currency now, before they drag down other members, warns Kerber.
Market analyst and author Michael Mross, is among the experts who say Germans are at boiling point – anger which could spill out on to the streets.
Gran Torino: Kill the White Man by David Yeagley
Gran Torino: Kill the White Man
by David Yeagley · June 5, 2011 · 47 Comments ·
The message of the movie, Gran Torino (2008), is loud and clear. The white man must die. The darkies either kill him, or he sacrifices himself, or both, but the point of the movie is clarion: kill the white man.
Clint Eastwood as “Walt Kowalski,” Holloywood’s racism on display.
Gran Torino may be pawned off by Hollywood as a message of “Catholic” styled forgiveness, restoration of good will, confession, etc. It may be cast as a wondrous group hug of evil whitey with the poor “gook” descendant of some tribe of Southeast Asia. But, any good will costs the life of the white man. Oh, yes, there’s that little bit about Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) coughing up blood, or dying of lung cancer, so, he was going to die anyway. Why not make it count, for good? That’s better than J. B. Books (John Wayne) did in his swan song of a gun play at the end of The Shootist (1976). And besides, Eastwood has been imitating John Wayne since The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966), when he copied the poncho attire Wayne wore in the opening of The Searchers (1956), but that’s a different issue.
Read the rest at http://www.badeagle.com/2011/06/05/gran-torino-kill-the-white-man/
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Iraq Starts Drilling for Oil in Mountains North of Baghdad
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-05/iraq-starts-drilling-for-oil-in-mountains-north-of-baghdad.html
E. coli outbreak blamed on German veggie sprouts
HAMBURG, Germany – The terrifying E. coli outbreak in Europe appears to have been caused by vegetable sprouts grown on an organic farm in Germany, an agriculture official Sunday as the toll climbed to at least 22 dead and more than 2,200 sickened.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Only Eats Animals He Kills
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-only-eats-animals-he-kills-2011-05
The popular social networking site’s boy genius Mark Zuckerberg is sticking to his own personal food chain these
days.
In a recent CNN Money interview, the self-made Internet billionaire turned confessed killer has publicly admitted to only eating animals he has slaughtered himself.
The popular social networking site’s boy genius Mark Zuckerberg is sticking to his own personal food chain these
days.In a recent CNN Money interview, the self-made Internet billionaire turned confessed killer has publicly admitted to only eating animals he has slaughtered himself.
Greenpeace activists arrested on Arctic oil rig
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110604/sc_afp/denmarkenvironmentoilgreenpeacecairnbritainusarrest_20110604195932
COPENHAGEN (AFP) – Eighteen Greenpeace activists who scaled an oil rig off Greenland to protest oil prospecting in the Arctic were on Saturday arrested by police, the environmental group said.
COPENHAGEN (AFP) – Eighteen Greenpeace activists who scaled an oil rig off Greenland to protest oil prospecting in the Arctic were on Saturday arrested by police, the environmental group said.
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