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UK Triple Dip Recession? On Its Way
The Telegraph | If the economy continues to contract for the three months to the end of March, the UK will officially be in its third recession since the financial crisis of 2008.
The Chart That Proves That Mainstream Media Lies About US Unemployment
Economic Collapse | The media and the Federal government routinely lie to the public about unemployment figures – when will people wake up?
Kerry talks economics, finds Morsi preoccupied with Islamizing Egypt
Debka | Morsi preoccupied with pushing forward the three-point plan he and the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme leader Mohammed Badie have begun implementing.
NOT SO SUPER MARIO AND THE ITALIAN ELECTION FARCE
21st Century Wire | The ascension of Mario Monti to the Italian prime ministership was remarkable for so many reasons
Blackwater in Greece: Fears of Coup as Mercenaries Drafted for Guarding Govt, Overseeing Police
Darker Net | Reports of mercenaries shipped in to cover police raises fears of a coup de tat in Greece.
Indians Set to Enter the UK: The Two Faces Of Immigration In the UK
Huff Post | Cameron set to open the immigration flood gates again, this time with India.
Billionaires Soros and Bacon reduce gold holdings
Andrew Mckillop| Billionaires Cut their stakes in products backed by gold
Cashless Future is Here: France To Prohibit Any Cash Payments Over €1,000
John Matonis | The Cashless Society is already being rolled out in Europe.
STATE-CORPORATE DECLINE AND THE CRISIS
Andrew McKillop | Are we actually in the last terminal phase our modern financial system?
North Korean nuke and Mutually Assured Destruction
Andrew MCKILLOP21st Century Wire quite symbolic: the ancient creaky Pope resigns and North Korea’s creaky regime explodes a 1945-style A-bomb (in fact it was probably A Q Khan “Bombs R Us” 1980s style, technology wise). Like you know and I know and people should know, even if they dont want to know, the world’s approximate […]
EUROPE’S SLUSHY CARBON MARKET
Andrew McKillopentury21st Century Wire GETTING DESPERATELY CHEAPAnybody who wants to know how Europe’s forced and mandatory Emissions Trading Scheme orETS works – or doesn’t work – needs only to check out the figures. One barrel of oil emits about 430kilograms of CO2 when burned; 1 tonne of CO2 is therefore equivalent to burning about 2.25 […]
THE RETURN OF VEBLEN’S LEISURE CLASS
Andrew McKillop21st Century WireTHE LONG DEPRESSION The long depression, which was called the Great Depression until the crisis of the 1930s took over that title, was a worldwide economic recession for which economists place the start date at 1873 and the end date at 1879. For some countries like the UK, economists argue this depression […]
Austerity is a Scam: Crisis Legislation and Dodgy Debt Repayment Schemes
Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin | Promissory Notes to Government Bonds…
The ‘Bedroom Tax’ is Just the Latest Assault on Our Poorest Citizens
The Government needs to demonise its victims as state dependent leeches – as collectivist policies become the norm in Great Britain Owen JonesThe Independent Perverse, cruel, self-defeating, unjust: these terms could legitimately be used to describe a whole raft of Government policies. But consider this leading contender on all four counts: the so-called“bedroom tax”, due […]
TIME FOR A BREATHER? SEC. CLINTON HANGS UP HER JERSEY, FOR NOW
Andrew McKillop | Hillary broke from tradition by avoiding all serious attempts at solving US-sponsored quagmires like Afghanistan and Israel.
THINK ABOUT IT: Low Interest Rates Impoverish Savers
James Hall | The result is that treasure ends up in the accounts of the banksters and favored insiders.
US Ivy League Schools Now Suing Graduate Students Over Default Loans
All three colleges have pursued lawsuits against students who defaulted on their Perkins loans. The exact number of lawsuits is not known, but just last year alone the University of Pennsylvania filed at least a dozen lawsuits over the Federal Perkins Loan, Bloomberg reported. Colleges are suing to collect unpaid Perkins Loans, given out by […]
State Money: A New ‘Virginia Coin’ Moves Closer to Reality
21st Century Wire says… Last year, the Commonwealth of Virginia said it would begin minting its own gold and silver coins as a parallel currency to the U.S. dollar under the bill that Virginia Del. Bob Marshall (R-Prince William) filed last summer. If this program makes it through, it could open the door to other […]