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This is a massive tragedy – just think of all that waste in human potential. It’s not just in Spain – youth unemployment is skyrocketing all over Europe and beyond. High youth unemployment is very dangerous for society – it can have a hugely destabilising effect. Watch for widespread, violent protests this summer…
These figures are unfathomable. Is there no entrepreneurship spirit left in Spaniards? Maybe they can all go back [...] “Clashes broke out between protesters and riot police near France’s lower house of parliament late on Tuesday just hours after the country legalized gay marriage, with opponents of the law hurling projectiles at police, who responded with tear gas,” France 24 reports. From Paris, NPR correspondent Eleanor Beardsley tells our Newscast Desk that French President Francois Hollande has called for calm. He’s again made the case that the new law, which gives same-sex couples [...] America’s ‘invincible’ city brought to its knees by poverty, violence In America’s most dangerous and poorest city, Camden, N.J., bullet holes are visible in a church’s stained glass window, crosses commemorating the murdered line the outside of city hall and the police staff is so outnumbered and outgunned, drug deals occur in the open. Rock Center’s Brian Williams visits Camden and talks to those fighting to turn around the forgotten city. http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/07/17225824-americas-invincible-city-brought-to-its-knees-by-poverty-violence?lite Governments [...] “Due to security situation around embassy today, our public services will be closed, including visas, American Citizen Services, and IRC,” the embassy said on its official Twitter account on Sunday. http://allafrica.com/stories/201301280456.html In addition: British Embassy closes with security fears on the rise British Embassy services pause as clashes and violence on Cairo’s streets heighten after Egyptians mark the revolution’s second anniversary http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/63415.aspx Canada closes Cairo embassy for day due to violence . Clashes follow death sentences [...] Enrique Pena Nieto took the oath of office as Mexico’s new president on Saturday, promising a list of specific reforms that are part old-party populist handouts to the poor and new assaults on the entrenched systems and sacred cows that have hampered the country’s development. Pena Nieto, marking the return of the institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, promised everything from a new integrated program to prevent crime to ending the patronage [...] Euro-area finance ministers may not make a decision on unlocking funds for Greece until late November as they await a full report on the country’s compliance with the terms of its bailout, a European Union official said. Finance chiefs won’t make the call to release 31.5 billion euros ($40.1 billion) of aid for Greece that has been frozen since June when they meet in Brussels on Nov. 12, the official said [...] Greece’s unions are holding their third general strike in six weeks in the hope of persuading politicians not to back a major new austerity program that will commit the country to further hardship. Flights will stop between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. (0800-1100GMT) Tuesday, at the start of a 48-hour strike that will close schools, halt train and ferry services, and keep hospitals running on emergency staff only. Two days of demonstrations [...] The Largest Economy In The World Is Imploding Right In Front Of Our Eyes A devastating economic depression is rapidly spreading across the largest economy in the world. Unemployment is skyrocketing, money is being pulled out of the banks at an astounding rate, bad debts are everywhere and economic activity is slowing down month after month. So who am I talking about? Not the United States – the economy that I [...] by Michael A devastating economic depression is rapidly spreading across the largest economy in the world. Unemployment is skyrocketing, money is being pulled out of the banks at an astounding rate, bad debts are everywhere and economic activity is slowing down month after month. So who am I talking about? Not the United States – the economy that I am talking about has a GDP that is more than two trillion [...] Roubini: Europe Situation May Turn Disorderly
Farage: We face the prospect of mass civil unrest, even revolution Thousands march in Paris against austerity PARIS – Thousands of demonstrators marched peacefully Sunday in Paris to denounce austerity measures in Europe that have sparked violent protests in other EU countries struggling to avert fiscal crises. The march, organized largely by the Left Front party and the Communists, comes before the French parliament’s debate this week on [...] Updated at 6:37 p.m. ET: An anti-Islam film that sparked violent protests in many countries had ”nothing to do with” a deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi earlier this month, Libya’s president told NBC News. In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Ann Curry, President Mohamed Magarief discounted claims that the attack was in response to a movie produced in California and available on YouTube. He noted that the assault happened on Sept. [...] UPDATE: POLICE TELLING NEWS CREWS TO LEAVE AREA DUE TO “NATIONAL SECURITY” IN MADRID AT ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTS Photos Of The Giant Protests Rocking Greece And Spain Discontent in Spain and Greece is rising.
Greece’s two largest labor unions went on strike today, disrupting flight and train services and forcing hospitals to depend on emergency staff. This is the first general strike in Greece since the coalition government came to power. Protestors gathering around the Greek [...] In the aftermath of violent protests across the Middle East and the slaughter of four American diplomats, Pakistan’s foreign minister believes the United States should “rethink” its commitment to freedom of speech. “It is not good enough to say, ‘It’s free speech, it should be allowed,’” Hina Rabbani Khar said during an interview with CNN on September 20. ”I think if this does provoke action against American citizens or Americans anywhere [...] Tony Cartalucci In France where people are sent to jail for “Holocaust denial,” considered by law a religious hate crime, it seems strange then that well timed, raunchy cartoons designed solely to insult and inflame hate against and amongst Muslims worldwide would be defended vigorously by French politicians who claim, according to the Christian Science Monitor, that “freedom of the press should not be infringed.” With Neo-Conservative warmongers behind a recent [...] Pakistan to declare Friday a national holiday in honor of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in response to anti-Islam film http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgR The cabinet decided to make Friday an official “day of expression of love for the prophet” after discussing the “Innocence of Muslims” movie, which has triggered more than a week of violent protests across the Islamic world, a senior government official told AFP…. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jeq3RLuAOU_wIYBgl8VlgzkAl6tQ?docId=CNG.b67b44e29cd5963f07409a917665ec04.3c1 China’s most powerful military leader, in an unusual public statement, last week ordered military forces to prepare for combat, as Chinese warships deployed to waters near disputed islands and anti-Japan protests throughout the country turned violent. Protests against the Japanese government’s purchase of three privately held islands in the Senkakus chain led to mass street protests, the burning of Japanese flags, and attacks on Japanese businesses and cars in several cities. Some carried [...] (AP) BEIJING — China’s national defense minister warned Tuesday that Beijing reserves the right to take further action against Japan in the ongoing dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. Standing next to U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Gen. Liang Guanglie said Japan should bear full responsibility for the dispute, which has triggered violent protests in China against the Japanese. Panetta has been pressing both Liang and defense leaders [...] Kurt Nimmo The highly provocative anti-Muslim video “trailer” researchers claim is the handiwork of the Islamophobic provocateurs Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and a resurgent neocon network is responsible for a new round of violent protests in the Middle East. Pamela Geller, a notorious professional Islamophobe, is part of a pro-Israel neocon network “reputedly inspired by US intelligence,” according to Webster Tarpley. From the nation with the world’s largest Muslim population, Indonesia, to [...] LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed by federal probation officers at a Los Angeles sheriff’s station but was not arrested or detained, authorities said early Saturday. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was interviewed at the station in his hometown of Cerritos, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Don Walker said. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EGYPT_FILMMAKER_PROBATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-15-06-44-20 MAG: The Video Didn’t Do It It was bad enough, [...] It was bad enough, two years ago, that Defense Secretary Robert Gates called fringe Florida pastor Terry Jones to ask him not to burn copies of the Koran, or last week, that chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey took his turn to call Jones to ask him to stop publicizing a YouTube video, The Innocence of Muslims. But then on Friday, White House spokesman Jay Carney told the [...] White House press secretary Jay Carney said Friday the violent protests throughout the Middle East are not directed at the United States or U.S. policy but are a response to a YouTube video: “CARNEY: We also need to understand that this is a fairly volatile situation and it is in response not to United States policy, and not to, obviously, the administration, or the American people, but it is in response to [...] US embassies in the Muslim world were on high alert Friday following days of violent protests against an anti-Islam film. Germany, too, closed several embassies in fear of attacks. Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama’s Middle East policies have failed. After days of protests over an anti-Islam film, American diplomatic missions in the Middle East and North Africa were braced for further violence after Friday prayers. The [...] USS Laboon and USS McFaul, which are both armed with Tomahawk missiles, sent to the coast of Libya on the day after the massacre at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi US ambassador Christopher Stevens [...] From The Reformed Broker: OK, I admit that headline was total linkbait. But I don’t care because I want you to read this – this is the global macro bear case written better than anyone else has broken it down before. The below comes from The End of the World As We Know It by Dani Rodrik at Project Syndicate: Consider the following scenario. After a victory by the left-wing Syriza party, Greece’s [...] The last time we looked at the Greek tourism industry or what’s left of it, ironically so very reliant on German tourists, we observed that receipts from this very critical to Greek tax receipts industry would likely drop to under €10 billion – a big hit to government revenues just when they are most needed. Needless to say, ongoing political chaos, a rise in anti-German sentiment, and a resurgent neo-nazi political power [...] China Daily reports that at least 3 people have died, and 14 people have been injured in an explosion in Zhaotong, Qiaojia, in China.
Multiple accounts on Weibo suggest that the explosion was the result of a female suicide bomb. BBC China reports that a local woman had blown herself up at a local government demolition office after after facing forced evicted from her home. She had been at the office to sign documents related [...] The pensioner, named locally as Dimitris Christoulas, shot himself with a handgun a few hundred yards from the Greek parliament, which has been the focus of numerous violent protests against tough austerity measures in recent months. Witnesses report he claimed to be concerned about leaving his children in debt before he took his own life. Pensions in Greece have been slashed by up to a quarter as part of harsh austerity measures designed to [...] |
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