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The Great Olive Oil Conspiracy

As one member of the European Parliament observed, wryly, "Is it April 1st?" The EU (read "Germany") has passed a ban on open containers of olive oil that are a common fixture of quality restaurants in Europe. This will almost certainly hurt small producers in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece--four of the afflicted economies of the eurozone.

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• The Great Olive Oil Conspiracy May 22 As one member of the European Parliament observed, wryly, "Is it April 1st?" The EU (read "Germany") has passed a ban on open containers of olive oil that are a common fixture of quality restaurants in Europe. This will almost certainly hurt small producers in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece--four of the afflicted economies of the eurozone. Read more »
• What’s 20 Trillion Dollars Between Friends? McGraw-Hill and Petroleum Price Fixing (Now THIS Is a Scandal!) May 21 The biased American news media--ANYTHING but liberal--continue to obsess on the so-called scandals that are enmeshing Obama's administration (as we predicted would happen from the day of his election.) The American fourth estate has managed to overlook an apparent $20 trillion oil price rip-off facilitated by a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill, owned by a family that have been political allies of the Bushes for generations. Read more »
• Walkin’ the [Islamist] Snake at Annapolis: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrating the U.S. Naval Academy May 20 For many years, we've covered the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic fascist organization allied with the Axis in World War II and Western intelligence services during the Cold War. Now, the Brotherhood is infiltrating the U.S. Naval Academy. Professors there are linked to the entities targeted by Operation Green Quest. Read more »
• VERY Curious George: George Plimpton, the Paris Review, the CIA and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy May 19 In a past post, we noted the profound relationship between the prestigious "progressive" literary periodical The Paris Review and the CIA. The editor of the Paris Review was the late George Plimpton, who was at Robert F. Kennedy's side on the evening of his assassination. We are told that he disarmed the attacker, presumably the patsy for the killing, Sirhan Sirhan. Read more »
• Benghazi, David Petraeus, Michael J. Morell and the Destabilization of the Obama Administration May 18 Long predicted in these quarters, the destabilization of the Obama administration is in full swing. With the GOP charging that the Obama administration was covering-up warnings about terrorism in Libya, it now emerges that it was now-acting CIA director Michael J. Morell who deleted the references, in opposition to the now-deposed David Petraeus. Read more »
• He’s BAAAAACK! Gerald Posner’s Latest Gig May 17 Like Count Dracula, Gerald Posner keeps coming back. Having led the media charges to discredit Warren Commission critics, critics of the official version of Martin Luther King's assassination and Ladislas Farago's research on Martin Bormann's presence in Latin America, Posner is now defending Afghan president Karzai's brother against credible charges that he has been on the CIA's payroll, while participatring significantly in the Afghan heroin trade. Read more »
• Who Headed the IRS while this So-Called “Scandal” Was Taking Place? May 16 The Washington circus is in full swing! The IRS was headed by a Bush appointee during the time period in which the scrutiny of the Tea Party was taking place! GOP administrations, including that of George W. Bush, have a proven track record of engaging in this kind of activity. Read more »
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