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21 Die in Bar Massacre in Monterrey
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Europe
Italy and Spain must pray for a miracle
Monday should be fun interesting.
Once again Europe's debt crisis has metastasized, and once again the financial authorities face systemic contagion unless they take immediate and dramatic action.
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Posted by: tipper || 07/10/2011 15:41 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The calamitous US jobs data released last Friday leave no doubt that the US remains trapped in depression. Broad U6 unemployment rose from 15.8 to 16.2pc in June; the numbers in work fell by a quarter million to 153.4m; the average time without a job reached a fresh record of 39.8 weeks; hourly pay fell; hours worked fell; the employment/population ratio crashed to new lows of 58.2pc.
Posted by: Glomotle Oppressor of the Sith5786 || 07/10/2011 18:51 Comments || Top||

#2  The calamitous US jobs data released last Friday leave no doubt that the US remains trapped in depression economy is heading over the cliff in accordance with the Ogabe Administration's deliberate plans.

There. Fixed it for you.
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) || 07/10/2011 21:34 Comments || Top||


Former Czech PM sued over statements on Islam
Retired politician Milos Zeman, Czech prime minister in 1998-2002, faces a criminal complaint over the statements on Islam he made in June at an international conference on Europe.

"The enemy is the anti-civilisation spreading from North Africa to Indonesia. Two billion people live in it and it is financed partly from oil sales and partly from drug sales," Czech news servers quoted Zeman as saying about Islam at the recent conference.

Zeman said Thursday Muslims believe in the Koran like Nazis believed in racial supremacy and anti-semitism and communists in class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat.

He said Islam is far more aggressive and intolerant than present Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and other world religions.

He added that the Koran includes passages calling for the subjugation, enslavement and even elimination of non-believers.

Zeman has been known for his strong statements.
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Posted by: tipper || 07/10/2011 07:46 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The multi-culturalism loving political establishment went after Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, and after three years broke their teeth on him. But part of the lesson is the attack itself, so now they're trying it on Milos Zeman who doesn't have the legal speech protection of being a sitting politician. However, unlike Holland, the Czech Republic only became free of totalitarian Soviet tyranny in the '90s, so they haven't the same habit of self-delusion.

Good luck, Mr. Reman.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2011 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Good luck, Mr. Reman. Stupid auto-spell!
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2011 10:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's see if it accepts "Mr. Z."
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/10/2011 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  In the US Mr. Z would have been ridiculed on PMS-NBC as opposed to beIng sued. We can decide which is worse...
Posted by: Steve White || 07/10/2011 12:00 Comments || Top||


Taxpayer backstop for European banks
Finally, financiers seem to be getting what they always wanted...supremacy over the people of Europe. For the last 400 years they tried lending to royalty only to find getting their money back was often problematic. Then they tried "Democracy", but that was also problematic as they tended to get into too many wars. But now they've solved the problem, simply turn all the taxpayers into to dhimmies. Banks can no longer go broke and profits will go to those ordained by God to receive them, the financial oligopoly. I suppose this is only fair as they are now our new overlords.
European governments are set to provide a taxpayer backstop to banks that fail the results of tougher stress tests to be announced on July 15. UK Treasury officials will join European ministers at the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, or ECOFIN, on Tuesday to agree plans it hopes will calm markets ahead of the test results from the European Banking Authority.

Lenders that fail the test, and cannot raise capital from investors within six months, look set to receive government support, according to a leaked EU document seen by Reuters.

The move will come as a shock to taxpayers after G20 policymakers promised that in the aftermath of the financial crisis they would never again have to bail out banks.

Europe's top 91 lenders have been tested to ensure they can withstand any further shocks and maintain a core capital level of 5pc.

Robert Law, banking analyst at Nomura, thought UK banks would pass the tests "relatively comfortably" but small German and Spanish lenders could struggle
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Posted by: tipper || 07/10/2011 02:53 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:


Dubya statue unveiled in Albanian village
A small Albanian village visited by President George W. Bush in 2007 has unveiled a statue of him, in a square named after him.

The 9.3 ft tall statue of the former president, raising his left hand in greeting, was unveiled on Wednesday in the square adorned with Albanian and American flags for the event.
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Posted by: ryuge || 07/10/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That oughta make the Lefties' heads pop off. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 07/10/2011 10:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Notice that he's not in a uniform or business/bureaucrat [ie Brooks Brothers] suit*. Double head pop there.

*the official uniform of apparatchiks worldwide.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2011 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  It's a double for W this week. Statue in Albanian Village and the new president of South Sudan wears his gift from W, a black cowboy hat, to the reading of their new Declaration of Independence, a result of W's work in 2005.
Posted by: Sherry || 07/10/2011 15:03 Comments || Top||

#4  It's a double for W this week. Statue in Albanian Village and the new president of South Sudan wears his gift from W, a black cowboy hat, to the reading of their new Declaration of Independence, a result of W's work in 2005.

Holey shoooo!
Times do change no?
All Dead or all Red morphed into:
All Dead, all Red or all NATO which morphed into:

All Dead or all Houston, pull up a chair and get a plate. Tell 'em Barb sent 'ya.
Posted by: S || 07/10/2011 18:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Albania gets a statue of Bush. Here in Seattle we have a statue of Lenin.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/10/2011 19:08 Comments || Top||



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