Greek Infighting Begins After Historic Syriza Member Slams Agreement, Apologizes For "Contributing To Illusion" Of Change
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/22/2015 - 12:35 As the divergence between Syriza's leadership perspective on debt talks - "success...won the battle" - and the Greek voters - "It looks to me that nothing has changed" - grows ever wider, and on the heels of apparent near mutiny last week, there is growing division in the ranks of the newly elected party. Syriza MEP Manolis Glezos penned a stunning rebuke of the party's apparent U-turn and asks his electorate for forgiveness... "Pity, and pity again... I apologize to the Greek people because I have contributed to this illusion... before it is too late, let us react!"
What Ordinary Greeks Think Of Friday's Deal: "We Went Through Two Months Of Agony To Realize We Are Still A Debt Colony"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/21/2015 - 23:40 Some Greeks wondered what the government had achieved. "We went through two months of agony, emptied the banks, to realize we are still a debt colony," 54-year-old electrician Dimitris Kanakis told Reuters. "The paymasters call the shots."... Pensioner Paradisanos Rigas siad: "It looks to me that nothing has changed. Later on they'll throw us some bones and say everything is fine. Syriza will be saying we put up a fight, while the other side will be saying you did nothing. And I think that it will be the same, just more of the same."
50 Shades Of Greece
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/22/2015 - 09:29 When it comes to the ongoing Greek question, I see a lot of people eagerly jump to conclusions, after the ‘debt deal’, that I don’t think are justified; certainly not yet. The overall conviction in the press seems to be that Syriza has given in on just about all fronts, and Germany and Dijsselbloem are the big winners. But since that may well be the exact position Syriza wants ‘the other side’ to be in, where they think they have prevailed, one will have to try and think a few steps ahead before judging the situation. There’s far more grey area here than many pundits seem to assume, easily 50 shades of it.
from Spiegel:
On Wednesday of this week, 30 top managers at a large German bank all
received a text message and an email at the exact same time. A short
time later, their mobile phones rang with an automated voice giving them
all passwords and a number to call at exactly 8:30 a.m. to join a
teleconference with the board of directors.
The communication blast was the initial step of the bank’s emergency “Grexit” plan, a strategy laid out in a document dozens of pages long detailing exactly how managers should react in the event that Greece leaves the euro zone.
Read More @ Spiegel.de
On Wednesday of this week, 30 top managers at a large German bank all
received a text message and an email at the exact same time. A short
time later, their mobile phones rang with an automated voice giving them
all passwords and a number to call at exactly 8:30 a.m. to join a
teleconference with the board of directors.The communication blast was the initial step of the bank’s emergency “Grexit” plan, a strategy laid out in a document dozens of pages long detailing exactly how managers should react in the event that Greece leaves the euro zone.
Read More @ Spiegel.de
by Finian Cunningham, VeteransNewsNow:
The Greek government is currently locked in a life and death struggle with the elite which dominate the banks and political decision-making centers of the European Union.
What are at stake are the livelihoods of 11 million Greek workers, employees and small business people and the viability of the European Union. If the ruling Syriza government capitulates to the demands of the EU bankers and agrees to continue the austerity programs, Greece will be condemned to decades of regression, destitution and colonial rule. If Greece decides to resist, and is forced to exit the EU, it will need to repudiate its 270 billion Euro foreign debts, sending the international financial markets crashing and causing the EU to collapse.
Read More @ VeteransNewsNow.com
from The Burning Platform:
For those of you who are anti-gun, this is a classic example of a good guy with a gun defending himself from a bad guy with a gun. On February 18, 25-year-old Terry Gillenwater attempted to rob the Good Family Pharmacy in Pinch, West Virginia, just outside the capital of Charlestown. It would his last act.
In surveillance video, you see Gillenwater attempt to rob the pharmacy at gunpoint, but he did not expect pharmacist Rob Radcliff, who is also a concealed carry permit, to draw his firearm shooting him three times. The first and third shots hit Gillenwater’s shoulder and chest. The second hit his gun, disabling it, according to West Virginia’s Metro News.
The Greek government is currently locked in a life and death struggle with the elite which dominate the banks and political decision-making centers of the European Union.
What are at stake are the livelihoods of 11 million Greek workers, employees and small business people and the viability of the European Union. If the ruling Syriza government capitulates to the demands of the EU bankers and agrees to continue the austerity programs, Greece will be condemned to decades of regression, destitution and colonial rule. If Greece decides to resist, and is forced to exit the EU, it will need to repudiate its 270 billion Euro foreign debts, sending the international financial markets crashing and causing the EU to collapse.
Read More @ VeteransNewsNow.com
For those of you who are anti-gun, this is a classic example of a good guy with a gun defending himself from a bad guy with a gun. On February 18, 25-year-old Terry Gillenwater attempted to rob the Good Family Pharmacy in Pinch, West Virginia, just outside the capital of Charlestown. It would his last act.
In surveillance video, you see Gillenwater attempt to rob the pharmacy at gunpoint, but he did not expect pharmacist Rob Radcliff, who is also a concealed carry permit, to draw his firearm shooting him three times. The first and third shots hit Gillenwater’s shoulder and chest. The second hit his gun, disabling it, according to West Virginia’s Metro News.
For The First Time Since Lehman S&P 500 Revenues Are Projected To Drop For The Year
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/22/2015 - 13:20 Revenue growth that has finally turned a historic corner, because while on the last day of 2014 there was still some hope that S&P500 sales will still grow even if at a very muted pace, as of Friday - for the first time since Lehman - full year revenue growth is now projected to turn negative!
Commercial Traders Are The Most Long 30Y Treasuries In A Year
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/22/2015 - 11:53 Over the last five years the signal given by investor positioning in options and futures contracts on the 30-year treasury bond has proven prescient. Each time commercial traders have moved to a long position in the long bond rates have been near a peak. Over the last few weeks the commercials have shifted their positioning dramatically, moving from one of the largest short positions to a net long position for the first time in almost a year.
Think about this as you eat your Pacific Ocean fish... After Spike In Earthquake Activity , New Fukushima Leak Sees 70x Increase In Radiation
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/22/2015 - 11:10 While it is unclear if it is directly related to the recent surge in tectonic activity, overnight another radioactive water leak in the sea was detected at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the facility’s operator TEPCO announced. Contamination levels in the gutter reportedly spiked up 70 times over regular readings. The levels of contamination were between 50 and 70 times higher than Fukushima’s already elevated radioactive status, and were detected at about 10 am local time (1.00 am GMT), AFP reported. After the discovery, the gutter was blocked to prevent leaks to the Pacific Ocean.
Fukushima: Playing With Nuclear Fire
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/21/2015 - 21:00 Three years after the Tohoku earthquake in Japan, citizens and the international community are left wondering if Japan really does have the situation in Fukushima under control... "TEPCO's own engineers are clueless... nobody knows how much [radiation] is washing into the ocean."Are you ready for WWIII ?
War And Petroleum Reserves
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/21/2015 - 22:30 We would do well to consider the possibility of war strategies when it comes to the global stockpiling of petroleum reserves. In the years leading up to the German invasion of Poland, the world witnessed dramatic decreases in the price of oil as well as massive increases in petroleum inventories, especially as the Texas fields began to produce. These shifts in the global oil markets ran parallel to the deflation which had begun in October, 1929, and as such, we can see the same pattern repeating today as oil prices collapse, inventories are growing, and world wide deflation is deepening.De-Dollarization: Russia Ratifies $100 Billion BRICS Bank
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/21/2015 - 21:45 A BRICS Bank - as an IMF alternative and to enable nations to become less dependent on the global reserve currency - was originally discussed at The BRICS Summit in 2012. Then at the 2014 BRICS Summit, the framework for The BRICS Bank was approved as "a system of measures that would help prevent the harassment of countries that do not agree with some foreign policy decisions made by the United States and their allies." Headquartered in Shanghai and chaired by Russia, this week saw what appears to be the final step in the creation of BRICS New Deverlopment Bank as RT reports, The Russian State Duma has ratified the $100 billion BRICS bank that’ll serve as a pool of money for infrastructure projects in Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa. It is expected to start fully functioning by the end of 2015. Isolated?A Monopoly No More!
This week we take a razor sharp look at the checkered and troubled past of the world’s premiere international wire transfer system for banks: SWIFT.
We examine the nearly unmentioned law that that DC passed, which pressured those within the SWIFT system to become a venue for financial terrorism.
We review SWIFT’s use as a recent political weapon against an unfortunate, sovereign country. Lastly, we take a gander at Russia and China’s progress in creating a counter-weapon to neutralize the ominous threat which SWIFT poses.
Is Russia’s finally in the position to neutralize the ominous, bankster threat of “SWIFT Deletion”?
Have a great weekend, and stay warm out there!
Peace? Ukraine "Preparing For Full-Scale War" With Russia, Demands The West Supply Lethal Weapons
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/21/2015 - 21:20 "We don't want to scare everybody, but we are preparing for full-scale war," warns Vadym Prystaiko - Ukraine's deputy foreign minister - telling CBC during a stunning interview that "what we expect from the world is that the world will stiffen up in the spine a little." Prystaiko concludes, "we would like [The West] to send lethal weapons to Ukraine... weapons to allow us to defend ourselves."
from Who What Why:
Those still wondering what really happened in gonzo journalist Michael Hastings’ fiery demise likely sat up straight during 60 Minutes’ recent piece on how hackers can hijack the controls of a car.
After Hastings died in a bizarre one-car crash along a straight Los Angeles street, former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke noted the accident was “consistent with a car cyber attack” and that it was easy to hack cars. It seems he was right, as 60 Minutes demonstrated in a chilling fashion.
In the segment, a nervous Lesley Stahl smashed into safety cones on a driving course after two men using a laptop computer remotely commandeered her brakes. Former video game developer Dan Kaufman, who’s now working for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, set up the demonstration.
Read More @ WhoWhatWhy.com
Those still wondering what really happened in gonzo journalist Michael Hastings’ fiery demise likely sat up straight during 60 Minutes’ recent piece on how hackers can hijack the controls of a car.
After Hastings died in a bizarre one-car crash along a straight Los Angeles street, former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke noted the accident was “consistent with a car cyber attack” and that it was easy to hack cars. It seems he was right, as 60 Minutes demonstrated in a chilling fashion.
In the segment, a nervous Lesley Stahl smashed into safety cones on a driving course after two men using a laptop computer remotely commandeered her brakes. Former video game developer Dan Kaufman, who’s now working for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, set up the demonstration.
Read More @ WhoWhatWhy.com
Hillary Clinton Exposed: How She Aggressively Lobbied For Mega Corporations As Secretary Of State
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/21/2015 - 20:15 "...those companies were among the many that gave to the Clinton family’s global foundation set up by her husband, former President Bill Clinton. At least 60 companies that lobbied the State Department during her tenure donated a total of more than $26 million to the Clinton Foundation, ...Mrs. Clinton’s connections to the companies don’t end there. As secretary of state, she created 15 public-private partnerships coordinated by the State Department, and at least 25 companies contributed to those partnerships."
Growing up, I never put too much thought into “the future”– that long
distant and magical place always just beyond the horizon. Born and
raised in Queens, New York, I was immersed in the leftist mindset of
self-entitlement and self-superiority. Never once did I consider how
unremarkable and fragile my existence truly was.I was smart, strong, good in a fight, and clever enough to not get caught when I was up to no good…at least until I wasn’t. Enter a good soul with a badge, who spoke on my behalf, and a kind man with a gavel. The long story short is that I was given the opportunity to redeem myself with public service, provided it was documented and I reported directly to the judge. I don’t, to this day, know what these two good men saw in me, but I am so very thankful. As part of my community service, I was enrolled in The Explorers– a program for teens designed to introduce them to various opportunities in law enforcement. That’s when I began to change.
Read More @ SurvivalBlog.com
According to the official economic fairy tale, the US economy has been in recovery since June 2009.This fairy tale supports America’s image as the safe haven, an image that keeps the dollar up, the stock market up, and interest rates down. It is an image that causes the massive numbers of unemployed Americans to blame themselves and not the mishandled economy.
This fairy tale survives despite the fact that there is no economic information whatsoever that supports it.
Real median household income has not grown for years and is below the levels of the early 1970s.
Read More @ TheNewsDoctors.com
from victoryindependence:
from Outsider Club:
China’s state-run behemoths lead the charge when it comes to expanding the country’s economy.
They mine the country’s resources, generate revenue for the government, and employ huge swaths of the population.
Now, China wants to make them even bigger – big enough to push ahead of Western companies like Exxon Mobil and Siemens.
It’s starting in the oil industry, where low crude prices are presenting a new set of challenges.
Read More @ OutsiderClub.com
China’s state-run behemoths lead the charge when it comes to expanding the country’s economy.They mine the country’s resources, generate revenue for the government, and employ huge swaths of the population.
Now, China wants to make them even bigger – big enough to push ahead of Western companies like Exxon Mobil and Siemens.
It’s starting in the oil industry, where low crude prices are presenting a new set of challenges.
Read More @ OutsiderClub.com
from Washington’s Blog:
WB Editor’s Note: Documentation on each of the key points in this news
report and analysis can be seen by merely clicking on the link where the
given point is asserted. This is being especially noted because many of
the facts reported here have not been covered generally in the Western
press, and much of what is reported here could surprise some readers
anywhere, and thus the documentation is linked-to. Our editors have
checked the links and have found all of the allegations to be backed by
solid sources. The reader is thus provided the same access to these
sources that we do, so as to check what’s being alleged in this article.
U.S. President Barack Obama has repeatedly employed a tactic of attacking Russia by using fundamentalist and other conservative extremists in a given Russia-allied nation, so as to turn that Russia-allied nation away from Russia, and toward America, and then of trying to crush these very same right-wing extremists who have been so effective in defeating (or at least weakening) the pro-Russian leader in that Russia-allied country. This tactic leaves civil war and enormous bloodshed in the given formerly (or still) Russia-allied nation.
Read More @ WashingtonsBlog.com
WB Editor’s Note: Documentation on each of the key points in this news
report and analysis can be seen by merely clicking on the link where the
given point is asserted. This is being especially noted because many of
the facts reported here have not been covered generally in the Western
press, and much of what is reported here could surprise some readers
anywhere, and thus the documentation is linked-to. Our editors have
checked the links and have found all of the allegations to be backed by
solid sources. The reader is thus provided the same access to these
sources that we do, so as to check what’s being alleged in this article.U.S. President Barack Obama has repeatedly employed a tactic of attacking Russia by using fundamentalist and other conservative extremists in a given Russia-allied nation, so as to turn that Russia-allied nation away from Russia, and toward America, and then of trying to crush these very same right-wing extremists who have been so effective in defeating (or at least weakening) the pro-Russian leader in that Russia-allied country. This tactic leaves civil war and enormous bloodshed in the given formerly (or still) Russia-allied nation.
Read More @ WashingtonsBlog.com
by Peter Oborne, Global Research:
The coverage of HSBC in Britain’s Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence their content for fear of losing advertising revenue, democracy itself is in peril.
Five years ago I was invited to become the chief political commentator of the Telegraph. It was a job I was very proud to accept. The Telegraph has long been the most important conservative-leaning newspaper in Britain, admired as much for its integrity as for its superb news coverage. When I joined theTelegraph had just broken the MPs’ expenses scandal, the most important political scoop of the 21st century.
I was very conscious that I was joining a formidable tradition of political commentary. I spent my summer holiday before taking up my duties as columnist reading the essays of the great Peter Utley, edited by Charles Moore and Simon Heffer, two other masters of the art.
Read More @ GlobalResearch.ca
The coverage of HSBC in Britain’s Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence their content for fear of losing advertising revenue, democracy itself is in peril.
Five years ago I was invited to become the chief political commentator of the Telegraph. It was a job I was very proud to accept. The Telegraph has long been the most important conservative-leaning newspaper in Britain, admired as much for its integrity as for its superb news coverage. When I joined theTelegraph had just broken the MPs’ expenses scandal, the most important political scoop of the 21st century.
I was very conscious that I was joining a formidable tradition of political commentary. I spent my summer holiday before taking up my duties as columnist reading the essays of the great Peter Utley, edited by Charles Moore and Simon Heffer, two other masters of the art.
Read More @ GlobalResearch.ca
Might as well place this at the bottom of the page as...well you know why...
by Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show:
“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing” ~Edmund Burke
Our Congress has an all-time low 9% approval rating, and Obama’s overall popularity is in the toilet. It has been 12 years since I declared war upon the central bankers since they tried to steal my property and that of 300 of my neighbors without one dime being paid in compensation . In that time, I have watched and written about how 13 million homes have been illegally stolen by the MERS mortgage fraud. In Congressional hearings, we have all seen how the IRS harasses and intimidates thousands of enemies of Obama (i.e. the Tea Party) as well as AP reporters who do not report the news in a manner pleasing to the President. The American people have permitted the passage of the NDAA which allows government the right to secretly arrest people without due process of law and hold them indefinitely. We barely notice as Obama declared himself to be “King” as he passed Executive Order 13603 in which he can take everything you own as well as your freedom at the mere whim of this President. In today’s militarized society, people have an 8 times greater chance mistakenly being killed by their local police than being killed by a terrorist and on an on it goes as nobody does anything about it.
Read More @ Thecommonsenseshow.com
“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing” ~Edmund BurkeOur Congress has an all-time low 9% approval rating, and Obama’s overall popularity is in the toilet. It has been 12 years since I declared war upon the central bankers since they tried to steal my property and that of 300 of my neighbors without one dime being paid in compensation . In that time, I have watched and written about how 13 million homes have been illegally stolen by the MERS mortgage fraud. In Congressional hearings, we have all seen how the IRS harasses and intimidates thousands of enemies of Obama (i.e. the Tea Party) as well as AP reporters who do not report the news in a manner pleasing to the President. The American people have permitted the passage of the NDAA which allows government the right to secretly arrest people without due process of law and hold them indefinitely. We barely notice as Obama declared himself to be “King” as he passed Executive Order 13603 in which he can take everything you own as well as your freedom at the mere whim of this President. In today’s militarized society, people have an 8 times greater chance mistakenly being killed by their local police than being killed by a terrorist and on an on it goes as nobody does anything about it.
Read More @ Thecommonsenseshow.com
by Coyote Prime, Running Cause I Can’t Fly:
Benito Mussolini defined Fascism as the “merger of government and
corporatism.” We’ve witnessed the financial rape of this country by the
banksters and their co-conspirators in the government, who have failed
to prosecute a single case against any of the Too Big To Fail swine,
despite outright theft of trillions of dollars. We’ve all seen, and many
have experienced, job loss from offshoring companies to third world
countries for cheap labor and tax avoidance. We know of the totally
pervasive spying/surveillance on Americans by the NSA and every other
alphabet agency, recording and searching literally every single
electronic communication in the country, and the world. We know Congress
is worthless in protecting our interests, just well dressed cheap-money
whores only interested in “campaign contributions” and getting
themselves re-elected to the Big Club in DC. Look around… what’s it look
like to you? What about the 2,770 armored personnel carriers purchased
by Homeland Security, which also bought 2 billion rounds of ammunition?
Or the troop and materiel movements all over the country? Do you doubt
for one second who will be on the receiving end of all that firepower?
Or the 800 FEMA camps all over the country? Who do you suppose will
populate those? Martians? So, they finally got what they wanted,
absolute power unrestrained by law, and the total, “legal”, destruction
of your rights and liberty. “Freedom and Democracy”, those worthy fables
so beloved by the American masses, are dead, and have been for a very
long time. Now it’s “legal.” And before your eyes glaze over and you
recite, mantra like, “Oh, that could never happen here…” read the whole
“Martial Law” post. Guess what? It HAS already happened here… – CP
Read More @ RunningCauseICantFly.blogspot.com
Benito Mussolini defined Fascism as the “merger of government and
corporatism.” We’ve witnessed the financial rape of this country by the
banksters and their co-conspirators in the government, who have failed
to prosecute a single case against any of the Too Big To Fail swine,
despite outright theft of trillions of dollars. We’ve all seen, and many
have experienced, job loss from offshoring companies to third world
countries for cheap labor and tax avoidance. We know of the totally
pervasive spying/surveillance on Americans by the NSA and every other
alphabet agency, recording and searching literally every single
electronic communication in the country, and the world. We know Congress
is worthless in protecting our interests, just well dressed cheap-money
whores only interested in “campaign contributions” and getting
themselves re-elected to the Big Club in DC. Look around… what’s it look
like to you? What about the 2,770 armored personnel carriers purchased
by Homeland Security, which also bought 2 billion rounds of ammunition?
Or the troop and materiel movements all over the country? Do you doubt
for one second who will be on the receiving end of all that firepower?
Or the 800 FEMA camps all over the country? Who do you suppose will
populate those? Martians? So, they finally got what they wanted,
absolute power unrestrained by law, and the total, “legal”, destruction
of your rights and liberty. “Freedom and Democracy”, those worthy fables
so beloved by the American masses, are dead, and have been for a very
long time. Now it’s “legal.” And before your eyes glaze over and you
recite, mantra like, “Oh, that could never happen here…” read the whole
“Martial Law” post. Guess what? It HAS already happened here… – CPRead More @ RunningCauseICantFly.blogspot.com
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