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Euthanasia for children nears approval by Belgian Parliament; doctors to mass-euthanize children and Alzheimer’s patients A proposed law on the verge of approval by the Belgium parliament would allow children to decide for themselves whether they should be euthanized (“killed”) by medical personnel. Currently, Belgian law limits euthanasia to persons 18 and older, but with the rise of autistic children thanks to biopesticides, GMOs and vaccines, nations are increasingly trying to [...] “On Sunday evening Icelandic member of parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir and Smari McCarthy, executive director of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, issued a statement of support for Snowden, the Booz Allen Hamilton staffer who identified himself to theGuardian newspaper as the source of a series of top secret documents outlining the NSA’s massive surveillance of foreigners and Americans.” http://www.spreadlibertynews.com/icelandic-legislator-im-ready-to-help-nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-seek-asylum/ This was decided yesterday in Denmark. A Danish Petition has been collecting protest signatures for months but the few within the government decided to bring this on yesterday. You can read more about it here on the petition that was ongoing: http://euro-med.dk/?p=30099 “The Danish public, the media and even opposition Members of Parliament will no longer be allowed to monitor vital parts of the government’s paper trail, effectively blanketing the Danish government in [...] A member of the Greek parliament from the far right party Golden Dawn has urged desperate people in the country to “kill those who are responsible for their problems” rather than commit suicide. He defines “those who are responsible” as bankers. Ilias Panagiotaros made the comments during an interview for the Dateline show broadcast by Australian network SBC. “Golden Dawn aspires to become like Hezbollah as a second government for the benefit [...] by Michael Krieger, Liberty Blitzkreig: Coming off the heels of a fantastic performance in recent local elections, the UKIP under the leadership of Nigel Farage continues to make waves in both the UK and the Continent itself. In this case, I refer to a recent powerful performance at the European Parliament courtesy of Godfrey Bloom (UKIP), member of the European Parliament. For many years, I have stated that Ben Bernanke was and is committing crimes [...] Six Belgian senators introduced a draft resolution in the Belgian Parliament that would make “Islamophobia” a crime punishable by fines and imprisonment. A person would be guilty if he “considers Islam to be violent, threatening or supportive of terrorism…” or “considers Islam to be a political ideology, used for political and military purposes to establish it hegemony.” If passed, the law would pose a devastating blow to the exercise of free speech in [...] Europe Has Become A Totalitarian State The Cyprus Template “What manner of men had lived in those days…who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion?” -Taylor Caldwell Cyprus is absolutely the template for Europe now. It is just that the template is far worse than what is narrowly imagined. It is not the small nation of Cyprus nor is it that the specifics of the criminality that was transacted in [...] The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants create a parallel society within the Netherlands .. A new integration bill, which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: “The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people. http://conservativepapers.com/news/2013/01/26/the-netherlands-to-abandon-multiculturalism/#.UXn16Ab_00A.facebook armstrongeconomics.com / By Martin Armstrong / April 18, 2013 There will be no HYPERINFLATION. That assumes government sits on their hands and blindly just prints to try to please everyone. They are by NO MEANS nice people. This is about them maintaining power. They put the Euro to a vote, got it, the people will NEVER be allowed to ever vote again. The European Parliament is federalizing Europe from a power [...] Gregor Peter‏@L0gg0l21 min Gregor Peter‏@L0gg0l10 h Reinman_MT‏@reinman_mt55 min (ANSA) – Rome, April 17 – Beppe Grillo, leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), denounced two potential presidential candidates from other parties as “monsters” on Wednesday. http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2013/04/17/Grillo-denounces-parties-candidates-monsters-_8569759.html Egan-Jones downgrades Germany rating [...] The Chosun Ilbo French President Francois Hollande has promised sweeping new anti-corruption measures, a day after his former budget minister admitted having had a secret foreign bank account containing hundreds of thousands of euros. In a taped television address Wednesday, Hollande said he would introduce legislation requiring government ministers and members of parliament to declare and publish details of their personal wealth, and would take steps to strengthen the independence [...] Zero Hedge Just last week Yiannakis Omirou, Cypriot House of Representatives President, was calling for the nation to accept it is “time for responsibility” as they progressed towards a final solution; and yet today, as Cyprus’ Famagusta reports, he believes the ‘Troika-imposed’ responsibility will, “turn Cyprus into a colony of the worst possible type.” His ‘Icelandic’ solution is to “leave the Troika and EMS behind,” to ensure “national independence, national sovereignty, moral [...] by Michael The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts. In fact, Cyprus-style bank account confiscation is actually in the new Canadian government budget. When I first heard about this I was quite skeptical, so I went and looked it up for myself. And guess what? It is right there in black and white on pages 144 and 145 of “Economic Action Plan 2013″ which the Harper government has already [...] Europe’s monetary union was meant to be about solidarity among the many and prosperity for all. by Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph: In practice, it’s turning out to be a doomsday machine for the fringe economies that once so enthusiastically lined up to join. If even Wolfgang Schaeuble, the German finance minister, is prepared to admit that Monday’s bail-out is a bitter pill for Cypriots to swallow, then it must indeed have been merciless. Nicholas [...] zerohedge‏@zerohedge39 s zerohedge‏@zerohedge1 min Per Reuters, the European Parliament has just officially announced what ECB head DieselBOOM said did not say yesterday, which caused the market to roll over yesterday- that Cyprus is indeed a Eurozone wide template, and the Eurozone has full intentions of following the bail-in model throughout the rest of [...] Athanasios Orphanides, the former governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus, told Tom Keene and Sara Eisen on “Bloomberg Surveillance” today that Cyprus “will face a deeper recession going forward.” Orphanides also said, “The other periphery countries should thank the Cypriot parliament for rejecting the earlier plan that was advanced about 10 days ago that essentially asked for the confiscation of deposits.”
Orphanides on whether the leadership of Cyprus has the [...] Cyprus finally reached a deal with the EU on how to bail out its troubled banking system tonight.
Nonetheless, the events of the past week have likely shattered confidence in Cypriot banks. In a new piece, Moody’s analyst Sarah Carlson argues that the financial crisis in Cyprus “will have profound long-term negative consequences for the sovereign,” and that ”even in the best-case scenario, where the Cypriot parliament passes and implements measures that the euro area governments of the European [...] Analyst: Russia Prepping Military To Fight U.S. WASHINGTON – The Russian military doctrine adopted in 2010 after the “reset” with the Obama administration considers the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, the main threats Moscow must be prepared to fight, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. This is the assessment of Alexei Arbatov, a former Duma, or parliament, deputy and currently head of the Center for International Security of [...] by Jeff Berwick, Dollar Vigilante: News came out yesterday that all Cypriot banks will continue to be closed until at least next Tuesdayand may remain closed permanently. Last week, the European Central Bank threatened to cut the Emergency Liquidity Assistance which Cyprus had been receiving unless Cyprus’ major banks implemented legislation which would “tax” all investors who have accounts in Cypriot banks an amount up to 9.9 percent of their total deposits. The tax [...] The ministry of finance issued a decree declaring Thursday and Friday as bank holidays. As Monday is also an established holiday, banks will re-open on March 26. The government hopes that by that time it will be able to work out a way of raising 5.8 billion euros (7.5 billion US dollars) demanded by international lenders before they consent to a bailout for Cyprus worth 10 billion euros. The Cypriot parliament on [...] by Phoenix Capital Research
The markets are staging a bounce today based on: 1) The ECB surfacing to say it will provide liquidity to help with the Cyprus situation. 2) Bernanke’s speech today and the Fed’s FOMC (stocks tend to rally going into FOMC meetings). This is once again the markets praying and hoping for divine guidance from the Central Bankers. However, the fact remains that every sensible investor in the world should be [...] Michael Birnbaum and Howard Schneider Lawmakers in Cyprus on Tuesday rejected a bailout plan that would have rescued the country’s banks but forced savers to chip in for the cost, throwing down a gauntlet to the rest of Europe over the financial fate of the tiny island nation. The plan to save Cyprus’s collapsing banks but to charge depositors for the service proved so controversial that not a single one [...] It appears that Cyprus is now ready to escalate, following news now coming fast and furious, that the Parliament will go ahead and vote after all, but not in a good way as even the Cypriot ruling party, formerly the only party willing to vote Yes on the Bail-In, would abstain according to Dow Jones, which means there is no support at all in the Cypriot parliament for the deposit haircut proposal. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-19/cyprus-now-set-vote-against-bailout-ruling-party-abstain-guaranteeing-failure-ratify CHART: The Biggest Bank Bailouts In History In Terms Of Recipients’ GDP – Cyprus Would Be Number TwoThis Great Graphic was posted on FT Alphaville, which in turn got it from Soc Gen. It ranks modern aid packages in terms of the recipients’ GDP.
Assuming that Cyprus parliament approves some version of the tax on depositors–which the newly elected president seems to have favored the tax on small depositors–and a complete catastrophe is avoided, Cyprus will have the second largest aid program at 56% of GDP, just below Indonesia’s 57% package [...] CNBC Cyprus will put forward a new proposal on Monday under which a tax-free threshold or a lower tax rate for smaller depositors could be introduced, media reports said on Monday, in a move aimed at easing the pain of a bailout agreement which will impose an unprecedented tax on savers. Reuters cited a government source in Cyprus as saying that the country is mulling a tax-free threshold on the [...] from europarl: Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the strengthening of economic and budgetary surveillance of Member States experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability in the euro area. from Telegraph: Controversy has erupted over next Tuesday’s European Parliament resolution “on eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU”, meant to mark international women’s day, after libertarian Swedish MEPs from the Pirate Party spotted the call for a ban in the small print. While not legally binding, the vote could be the first step towards European legislation as the EU’s assembly increasingly flexes its political muscle within Europe’s institutions. The proposal ”calls on the EU [...] BBC Early results from Italy’s election suggest the houses of parliament may split between left and right, causing new anxiety in the eurozone. According to early figures, Pier Luigi Bersani’s centre-left bloc is poised to take the lower house while Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right appears to leading in the powerful Senate. A protest movement led by comedian Beppe Grillo has surged into third. The election comes amid a deep recession and tough austerity [...] Iceland could become the first Western democracy to block all internet porn under radical new proposals. Fears about the damaging effects on children have led the government to work on legal measures to try and stop the flood of graphic sexual material reaching the island’s shores. Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson has set up working parties to find the best ways to stem the tide of online images and videos being accessed by [...] “As part of the anti-corruption crusade, President Vladimir Putin has submitted bill to the lower house of Parliament to prohibit Russian state officials, their spouses and underage children from holding foreign bank accounts.” “The ban would apply to all high-ranking officials as well as employees of state funds and corporations, and members of the Central Bank’s board. An exception will be made for civil servants working as official Russian representatives abroad.” http://rt.com/politics/putin-foreign-assets-ban-997/ |
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