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February 1, 2012, 1:17 pm, 947687

January 31, 2012, 1:17 pm, 947447

The European Union's (EU) hush-hush strategy to saddle taxpayers with ultimately trillions of Euros of debt seems to have run into some roadblocks as Eurozone finance ministers have not signed, but only "endorsed" the still unavailable European Stability Mechanism Treaty ...


January 28, 2012, 5:17 am, 946929

In what will probably become a blueprint for the road to EU serfdom, Germany's government has written a so far unpublished document that requires Greece to put interest and debt payments ahead of all other needs and demands that Greece put itself ...


January 26, 2012, 9:17 am, 946086

Recent downgrades of European government and bank debt have fuelled the discussion on the establishment of a new European rating agency. This will bring no relief, as long as Euro politicians will be eager to exert influence in such a new entity, ...


January 24, 2012, 7:18 am, 945038

RED ALERT TO EVERYBODY INTERESTED IN THE ESM: THERE IS NO CURRENT VERSION OF THE ESM TREATY AVAILABLE!!!
Europe's most important treaty on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), which will lead the EU into a financial dictatorship, ...


January 23, 2012, 5:17 am, 944508

In a superb example of hubris representatives of the European Central Bank (ECB) simply tried to ignore justified questions from the Irish public in the video below. Irish journalist Vincent Browne had a very simple question, "why are Irish taxpayers required to ...


January 18, 2012, 1:17 pm, 943017

According to a report in German alternative media Kopp online Germany will begin to abolish cash transactions step by step from August 2012, putting the EU directive 2009/110/EC (PDF) into practice. Germany is the next country after


January 16, 2012, 1:17 pm, 942197

As these words from a Ron Paul speech given on January 12, 2012 in South Carolina, have not made it into MSM (mainstream media), here is another chance to catch up on his warnings about an International Monetary Fund (IMF) led intiative ...


January 16, 2012, 1:17 pm, 942196

Egon Zakrajsek, FRB Is Europe slowly becoming a colony of the Federal ...


January 14, 2012, 11:17 am, 941773

A multiple downgrade of sovereign ratings by Standard & Poor's (S&P) has also reached Austria after the country had been put on the watchlist on December 6, 2011.
Austria was downgraded to AA+ from AA on Friday with the negative outlook remaining.