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Ireland And Portugal Resume Their Places Among Europe's Teetering Dominos

And Now Back To Europe, Which Is More Unfixed Than Ever
So stepping aside from the biggest aggregator of private data for a few minutes, and focusing on what actually matters, here is Citigroup telling our European readers who have those fancy multi-colored bills in their wallets, that they are in deep trouble.To summarize from Citi:
- There are many scenarios for a Greek exit; almost all of them are likely to be EUR negative for an extended period
- Some scenarios could be positive in equilibrium but the run-up to the new equilibrium could be nasty, brutal and long
- The positive scenarios for the euro involve aggressive reduction of tail risk; none of these seem likely
- It is unlikely that central banks busily substitute EUR for USD in their portfolios during periods of intense political uncertainty.
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Today’s Items:
The problem with bank runs is that once
they start, they don’t stop. First in Greece, and now it is spreading…
Bankia, the Spanish bank that was part-nationalized, saw customer
withdrawals of over 1 billion euros last week. In addition, the cost of
a Greek exit from the euro is placed at over one trillion euros. It is
getting worse folks. How long before the euro is in the dustbin of
history?
Alright everyone, here is what Lindsey Williams is warning us about…
1. After the beginning of the crack in the derivatives market – JP Morgan, then get ready for both currency and trade wars.
2. Get ready for interest rate hikes which the Federal Reserve will announce.
3. Get ready for a bank holiday and be limited on the amount on withdrawals once they open again.
4. Secure your assets and get out of paper before the 200 trillion dollar derivative market collapses.
1. After the beginning of the crack in the derivatives market – JP Morgan, then get ready for both currency and trade wars.
2. Get ready for interest rate hikes which the Federal Reserve will announce.
3. Get ready for a bank holiday and be limited on the amount on withdrawals once they open again.
4. Secure your assets and get out of paper before the 200 trillion dollar derivative market collapses.
Even though global demand fell 5% to
about 1.098 million tonnes, due to high prices and the selling to pay
off debt, China is inching closer and closer to a gold backed currency
as they scooped up 255.2 tonnes in the first quarter of 2012. As gold
goes down in price, look for strong hands to scoop it up; therefore,
keep stacking.
Mr. 9-9-9 tax code Federal Reserve Branch
President Herman Cain is a day late and a dollar short when he is now
calling for a gold standard. Gee… Don’t we already have someone more
credible already saying that? Seriously, this guy should just shut up.
Florida’s Board of Education, in an
emergency meeting, decided to lower the passing grade for the Florida’s
standardized test, the FCAT, after a drastic drop in student passing
scores. Preliminary results showed that only 1/3 of the students passed
the exam. Unreliable sources claim the new passing criteria for passing
this exam is to have a pulse – which will increase the passing rate to
70%.
Here are a few…
1. Home-schooled children score about 30 percentile points higher on standardized tests.
2. States with more stringent home-school regulations do not have better test scores.
3. Home-schooled children are, on average, almost one grade level ahead of their peers.
4. More home-schooled children participate in community activities.
1. Home-schooled children score about 30 percentile points higher on standardized tests.
2. States with more stringent home-school regulations do not have better test scores.
3. Home-schooled children are, on average, almost one grade level ahead of their peers.
4. More home-schooled children participate in community activities.
New Homeland Security street lights,
costing $3,000 apiece, are being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago,
Pittsburgh, and may mushroom across the country. Armed with a
microprocessor that can record video and audio, count people, and has a
speaker system to bark orders at people, these things are Big Brother on
steroids.
The assertion is bolstered by the fact that governments in general, and the US in particular, are always intervening in all kinds of markets. They try to control the price of wheat and corn with various USDA programs. They manifestly manipulate the price of credit (interest rates), now keeping it as low as possible to stave off financial collapse. And they may well be active, through the so-called Plunge Protection Team, in propping up the stock market.
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Kali Yuga — The Age of Conflict
from CosmiccConvergence:
As we scan the landscape across the entire planet, we see the scars
and ravages of CONFLICT. Kali Yuga (aka the Iron Age) is the current age
of humankind. Kali Yuga is known as the Age of Conflict. An age when
strife and discord and dissension predominate across the land. Kali Yuga
is also known as the Age of Quarrel.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the past five to six millennia of world history are defined by war. Naked wars of aggression, unending battles for scarce natural resources, civil wars, skirmishes around land disputes, inner city drug battlegrounds, etc. etc, etc.
Who among us has not been touched by war? Who among us has not known someone who has been deeply scarred (physically, mentally or emotionally) by the ravages of war?
Is there even a single square inch on this planet that has not been raped, plundered and pillaged?
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from CosmiccConvergence:

Therefore, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the past five to six millennia of world history are defined by war. Naked wars of aggression, unending battles for scarce natural resources, civil wars, skirmishes around land disputes, inner city drug battlegrounds, etc. etc, etc.
Who among us has not been touched by war? Who among us has not known someone who has been deeply scarred (physically, mentally or emotionally) by the ravages of war?
Is there even a single square inch on this planet that has not been raped, plundered and pillaged?
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from Public Intelligence:
Sovereign citizens believe the government is operating outside of its
jurisdiction and generally do not recognize federal, state, or local
laws, policies, or governmental regulations. They subscribe to a number
of conspiracy theories, including a prevalent theory which states the
United States Government (USG) became bankrupt and began using citizens
as collateral in trade agreements with foreign governments. They believe
secret bank accounts exist at the United States (US) Department of the
Treasury. These accounts can be accessed using Internal Revenue Service
(IRS), Universal Commercial Code (UCC), and fraudulent financial
documents.
Sovereign citizens are known to travel the country conducting training seminars on debt elimination schemes. The seminars focus on obtaining funds from a secret “Strawman” account using legitimate IRS forms, UCC forms, and fraudulent financial documents. Sovereign citizens believe once the documentation is filed, they gain access to their “Strawman” account with the Treasury Department.
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Sovereign citizens are known to travel the country conducting training seminars on debt elimination schemes. The seminars focus on obtaining funds from a secret “Strawman” account using legitimate IRS forms, UCC forms, and fraudulent financial documents. Sovereign citizens believe once the documentation is filed, they gain access to their “Strawman” account with the Treasury Department.
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by J. D. Heyes, Natural News:
In this Information Age, the government threats to privacy just
continue to cascade, as now the FBI wants Internet companies to install
“back doors” into their services to allow electronic eavesdropping of
users.
Specifically, the FBI wants the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, amended to require Internet platforms such as Facebook, as well as Web-based email programs like Gmail and Yahoo! to build back doors into their systems, so the FBI can access them at will to spy. Presumably other constitutional requirements of eavesdropping – such as the Fourth Amendment’s requirement for law enforcement to secure a warrant “upon probable cause” – would apply, but these days, you just never know. And besides, once the back doors are “installed,” who’s to say they won’t be accessed by prying eyes at will?
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Specifically, the FBI wants the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, amended to require Internet platforms such as Facebook, as well as Web-based email programs like Gmail and Yahoo! to build back doors into their systems, so the FBI can access them at will to spy. Presumably other constitutional requirements of eavesdropping – such as the Fourth Amendment’s requirement for law enforcement to secure a warrant “upon probable cause” – would apply, but these days, you just never know. And besides, once the back doors are “installed,” who’s to say they won’t be accessed by prying eyes at will?
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from Liberty Blitzkrieg
Big
Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an
increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with
reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and
order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the
like.
- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German dramatist, stage director, and poet
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
- Aldous Huxley
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- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German dramatist, stage director, and poet
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
- Aldous Huxley
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from The American Dream:
If you know what to look for, it quickly becomes obvious that the
elite of the world are not even trying to hide their insidious plans for
the planet. They hope to unite the entire globe under their
leadership, and they don’t think that we are strong enough or smart
enough to stop them. They openly embed symbols expressing their desire
for a one world economic system, a one world religion and a one world
government on our buildings, on our monuments and on our money and they
think that it is funny that most people have no idea what those symbols
mean. The New World Order openly mocks us and they seem to take
pleasure in giving us “clues” about what their plans for humanity are.
In the “global society” that they have planned for us, individual
freedoms and liberties will be greatly restricted “for the good of
humanity” and they will use the emerging Big Brother police state control grid
to monitor and control everything that we do. It would be a
totalitarian regime unlike anything the world has ever seen before.
That is why it is absolutely imperative that we wake people up and get
them educated about what the globalists plan to do so that they can
resist this growing tyranny.
Read More @ EndOfTheAmericanDream.com
[Ed. Note: Posted on Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Daily under "Funnies", however, it is too true to actually be funny.]

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[Ed. Note: Posted on Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Daily under "Funnies", however, it is too true to actually be funny.]

by Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan:
You may think your biggest threat when carrying any amount of cash over $1000 is a thief or armed robber, but you’d be wrong.
Your most immediate concern is not being robbed by a criminal, but rather, by the very people who are supposed to serve and protect the public.
As one New Jersey man found out when he was on his way to pay for a car he purchased on Ebay, a new heavy handed trend called “policing for profit” is empowering law enforcement officers to ignore fundamental Constitutional safeguards against warrant-less searches.
[Video report follows excerpts]
George Reby was driving down Interstate 40, heading west through Putnam County, when he was stopped for speeding.
A Monterey police officer wanted to know if he was carrying any large amounts of cash.
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Your most immediate concern is not being robbed by a criminal, but rather, by the very people who are supposed to serve and protect the public.
As one New Jersey man found out when he was on his way to pay for a car he purchased on Ebay, a new heavy handed trend called “policing for profit” is empowering law enforcement officers to ignore fundamental Constitutional safeguards against warrant-less searches.
[Video report follows excerpts]
George Reby was driving down Interstate 40, heading west through Putnam County, when he was stopped for speeding.
A Monterey police officer wanted to know if he was carrying any large amounts of cash.
Read More @ SHTFPlan.com
by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph.co.uk:
Bank of America said it expects a “powerful short squeeze” in risk
assets as speculative funds unwind positions, led by a rebound in
battered bank stocks and Club Med bonds. The euro would surge 10pc to
$1.40 against the US dollar after dipping first to $1.20 in the
immediate panic.
The benign outcome assumes that the European Central Bank steps in with massive support, backed by the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and key central banks along the lines of concerted action in 2008-2009.
Bank of America said EU authorities will pull out the stops to keep Greece in the system as they weigh the full dangers of contagion. Should that fail, it expects a series of dramatic moves.
Read More @ Telegraph.co.uk

The benign outcome assumes that the European Central Bank steps in with massive support, backed by the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and key central banks along the lines of concerted action in 2008-2009.
Bank of America said EU authorities will pull out the stops to keep Greece in the system as they weigh the full dangers of contagion. Should that fail, it expects a series of dramatic moves.
Read More @ Telegraph.co.uk
By Sam Jones, Tracy Alloway, and Tom Braithwaite Financial Times, London, GATA:
The unit at the centre of JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion trading loss has
built up positions totalling more than $100 billion in asset-backed
securities and structured products — the complex, risky bonds at the
centre of the financial crisis in 2008.
These holdings are in addition to those in credit derivatives that led to the losses and have mired the bank in regulatory investigations and criticism.
The unit, the chief investment office (CIO), has been the biggest buyer of European mortgage-backed bonds and other complex debt securities such as collateralised loan obligations in all markets for three years, more than a dozen senior traders and credit experts have told the Financial Times.
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These holdings are in addition to those in credit derivatives that led to the losses and have mired the bank in regulatory investigations and criticism.
The unit, the chief investment office (CIO), has been the biggest buyer of European mortgage-backed bonds and other complex debt securities such as collateralised loan obligations in all markets for three years, more than a dozen senior traders and credit experts have told the Financial Times.
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from WideHouseDoc:
A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s residents, the region housing the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The day after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011, Futaba locals heard the hydrogen explosion at Reactor Number 1 and were showered with nuclear fallout. In response, the Japanese government designated the whole town as an “exclusion zone” and 1,400 of the town’s residents fled to an abandoned high school 250 kilometers away. The entire community, including the Town Hall office, was moved into the four-story building, making the residents nuclear refugees.
A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s residents, the region housing the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The day after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011, Futaba locals heard the hydrogen explosion at Reactor Number 1 and were showered with nuclear fallout. In response, the Japanese government designated the whole town as an “exclusion zone” and 1,400 of the town’s residents fled to an abandoned high school 250 kilometers away. The entire community, including the Town Hall office, was moved into the four-story building, making the residents nuclear refugees.
by Adrian Ash, Bullion Vault Bullion Street:
London Gold market report
The wholesale market gold price jumped at the start of New York trade on Thursday, cutting the week’s previous 3.3% dive to 5-month lows in half as the Euro fell and Eurozone stock markets slumped once again.
The gold price touched $1558 per ounce before easing $3 lower. Silver did not follow, failing to break this morning’s earlier Dollar high at $27.86 per ounce.
German Bund yields fell to fresh record lows, but Spain had to offer investors in new 3-year debt an annual yield of 4.37%, up from the 2.89% charged at the last comparable sale in April.
The European Central Bank confirmed it has ceased working with some Greek banks because it believes them to be insolvent, while Portugal’s Diario Economico newspaper claimed a joint visit by the ECB, IMF and European Union to assess Lisbon’s €78 billion bail-out will also discuss contigency plans should Greece quit the single currency.
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The wholesale market gold price jumped at the start of New York trade on Thursday, cutting the week’s previous 3.3% dive to 5-month lows in half as the Euro fell and Eurozone stock markets slumped once again.
The gold price touched $1558 per ounce before easing $3 lower. Silver did not follow, failing to break this morning’s earlier Dollar high at $27.86 per ounce.
German Bund yields fell to fresh record lows, but Spain had to offer investors in new 3-year debt an annual yield of 4.37%, up from the 2.89% charged at the last comparable sale in April.
The European Central Bank confirmed it has ceased working with some Greek banks because it believes them to be insolvent, while Portugal’s Diario Economico newspaper claimed a joint visit by the ECB, IMF and European Union to assess Lisbon’s €78 billion bail-out will also discuss contigency plans should Greece quit the single currency.
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from The Economic Collapse Blog:
Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if
something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start
dropping like flies. As I detailed yesterday,
people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece
leaves the euro and converts back to the drachma. The fear is that all
existing euros in Greek banks would be converted over to drachmas which
would then rapidly lose value after the transition. So right now euros
are being pulled out of Greek banks at a staggering pace. According to
MSNBC, Greeks withdrew $894 million
from Greek banks on Monday alone and a similar amount was withdrawn on
Tuesday. But this is just an acceleration of a trend that has been
going on for a couple of years. It has been reported that approximately a third
of all Greek bank deposits were withdrawn between January 2010 and
March 2012. So where has all of the cash for these withdrawals been
coming from? Well, the European Central Bank has been providing
liquidity for Greek banks, but now it has been reported that the ECB is
going to stop providing liquidity
to some Greek banks. It was not announced which Greek banks are being
cut off. For now, the Greek Central Bank will continue to provide euros
to those banks, but the Greek Central Bank will not be able to funnel
euros into insolvent banks indefinitely
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from RT:
America welcomes a new brand of smart street lightning systems:
energy-efficient, long-lasting, complete with LED screens to show ads.
They can also spy on citizens in a way George Orwell would not have
imagined in his worst nightmare.
With a price tag of $3,000+ apiece, according to an ABC report, the street lights are now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh, and may soon mushroom all across the country.
Part of the Intellistreets systems made by the company Illuminating Concepts, they have a number of “homeland security applications” attached.
Read More @ RT.com

With a price tag of $3,000+ apiece, according to an ABC report, the street lights are now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh, and may soon mushroom all across the country.
Part of the Intellistreets systems made by the company Illuminating Concepts, they have a number of “homeland security applications” attached.
Read More @ RT.com
[Ed. Note:
For the solution to this Bankster-caused global horror show we once
again advise: LOOK AT ICELAND, LOOK AT ICELAND. DO AS ICELANDERS DO.]
by Harry Papachristou and Giles Elgood, Reuters:
In
Athens, the homeless are on the streets in growing numbers, soup
kitchens feed twice as many people as a year ago, and the poor are
diving into garbage bins in search of scrap they can sell.
Greece is close to breaking point as it struggles with austerity targets set by creditors, but this is just a foretaste of the nightmare of unrest, hunger and even anarchy that could engulf the debt-crippled nation if it is forced out of the euro.
If the exact economic impact of such a move is hard to nail down – newly issued drachmas devalued by up to 70 percent, runaway inflation, a banking meltdown, a collapse in trade – the implications for ordinary Greeks crushed by the debt crisis are even harder to predict.
Without international bailout cash, salaries and pensions would go unpaid and violence, political extremism and uncontrolled emigration could quickly follow.
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by Harry Papachristou and Giles Elgood, Reuters:
Greece is close to breaking point as it struggles with austerity targets set by creditors, but this is just a foretaste of the nightmare of unrest, hunger and even anarchy that could engulf the debt-crippled nation if it is forced out of the euro.
If the exact economic impact of such a move is hard to nail down – newly issued drachmas devalued by up to 70 percent, runaway inflation, a banking meltdown, a collapse in trade – the implications for ordinary Greeks crushed by the debt crisis are even harder to predict.
Without international bailout cash, salaries and pensions would go unpaid and violence, political extremism and uncontrolled emigration could quickly follow.
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