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Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister: Germany seeks “Hegemony” in Europe (by “Other Means”)

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 7, 2013 ⋅ One comment

Luxembourg’s for­eign min­is­ter has added his voice to those not­ing Ger­man impe­r­ial designs lurk­ing behind the facade of the EU/EMU. Jean Assel­born has unequiv­o­cally stated that Ger­many aims for “hege­mony” in the euro zone. A grow­ing con­sen­sus is emerg­ing echo­ing this sen­ti­ment. Blog­gers, finan­cial reg­u­la­tors and gov­ern­ment min­is­ters have expressed sim­i­lar opinions.


Arrow Cross Redux: RIP Hungarian Democracy

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 4, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

For some time, we’ve reported on the dis­in­te­gra­tion of Hun­gar­ian demo­c­ra­tic insti­tu­tions, as the coun­try slouches toward its Arrow Cross fas­cist past. (The Arrow Cross was the Hun­gar­ian fas­cist party that was allied with the Third Reich dur­ing World War II.) Now it appears that the obit­u­ary for Hun­gar­ian democ­racy is ready for publication.


Read the Fine Print: The “German” Is in the Details

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 3, 2013 ⋅ One comment

Watch­ing the stun­ning devel­op­ments in Europe, we’ve expe­ri­enced con­sid­er­able alarm in the con­tem­pla­tion of when the German-engineered night­mare unfold­ing there would cross the Atlantic. It is against this back­ground that we view with mis­giv­ings a pro­posal that would per­mit the Ger­man tax author­i­ties to col­lect a tax on trans­ac­tions between a UK and US insti­tu­tion, if it involved shares of a Ger­man company.


Surprise! It’s not the Cyprus crisis anymore. Welcome to the EUrozone crisis: This is what a shakedown looks like

Posted by Pterrafractyl ⋅ March 25, 2013 ⋅ 11 comments

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The EU’s lead­ers want to wel­come you to the new “New Nor­mal”.


The Troika Knows That Confidence Fairies Don’t Want To Know. It Makes Them Uncomfortable

Posted by Pterrafractyl ⋅ March 10, 2013 ⋅ 6 comments

The euro­zone troika recently eased mar­ket wor­ries a bit by rene­go­ti­at­ing part of Ireland’s mas­sive bailout. But the pub­lic still wants answers on why the 2010 bailout hap­pened in the first place and those answers could reignite the cri­sis. It isn’t easy being the ECB. Or the EU. Or the IMF.


Austerity: Up Close and Personal

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 7, 2013 ⋅ 11 comments

What does fis­cal “aus­ter­ity” actu­ally mean to those under its yoke? Since sim­i­lar poli­cies are being rec­om­mended for the United States, let’s take a look at Greece, up close and per­sonal. Greeks going to the hos­pi­tal must bring their own sheets, as the hos­pi­tals long ago fired their clean­ing per­son­nel. The sui­cide rate has dou­bled. Greek phys­i­cal edu­ca­tion teach­ers no longer require their stu­dents to com­plete their class require­ments, because so many of the stu­dents are so under­nour­ished that they get dizzy while exer­cis­ing. On top of that, many Greeks can no longer afford to bury their dead.


Hungarian Politician: “Draw Up a List of Jews”

Posted by FTR ⋅ November 28, 2012 ⋅ 4 comments

Hun­gar­ian far-right politi­co Mar­ton Gyongyosi, urges gov­ern­ment to draw up lists of Jews who pose a “national secu­rity risk” and should include mem­bers of parliament.


Horror Show in the Balkans

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 27, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

The NATO-installed regime of Hasim Thaci man­i­fests per­va­sive polit­i­cal and social crim­i­nal­ity. Thaci is alleged to main­tain a harem of more than 50 sex slaves, held in bondage by his body­guards and report­edly offer­ing their favors to KFOR and EULEX per­son­nel. Suc­ces­sors to the 21st Waf­fen SS (“Skan­der­beg”) Divi­sion and other fas­cist fight­ing for­ma­tions from World War II, the Kosovo Lib­er­a­tion Army has turned that for­mer Ser­bian province into lit­tle more than a Ger­man colony. Much of the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity con­tin­ues to view Kosovo as a crim­i­nal entity oper­at­ing out­side the enve­lope of inter­na­tional law.


German Banks and the Eurozone Crisis

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 1, 2012 ⋅ 11 comments

Ger­man banks were fun­da­men­tally involved in pump­ing the cap­i­tal into the now-troubled Euro­zone economies than oth­ers, despite lies to the con­trary. In addi­tion, they have been using Germany’s bailouts to shore up their own bal­ance sheets. Ger­man finance is prin­ci­pally respon­si­ble for this cri­sis. Cur­rently hold­ing the world econ­omy hostage in order to dis­solve the polit­i­cal sov­er­eignty of Euro­pean nations, Ger­many is attempt­ing to real­ize the goals of the Third Reich.


Economic Terrorism: Germany and GOP Holding World Economy Hostage

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 19, 2012 ⋅ 14 comments

Work­ing together, the GOP and Ger­many are delib­er­ately pur­su­ing poli­cies to worsen the global econ­omy, in the belief that the dete­ri­o­rat­ing econ­omy will enable them to real­ize their polit­i­cal agen­das. If they are suc­cess­ful, the result will be world fascism–a global cor­po­rate state.


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