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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Texas Gov Knowingly Covered-up Radioactive Drinking Water

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May 21, 2011
HOUSTON – “It’s a conspiracy at the TCEQ [Texas Commission on Environmental Quality] of the highest order… The documents have indicted the management of this commission in a massive cover-up,” Tom Smith of consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said. The cover-up reportedly includes the knowledge of high-level politicians all the way up to the governor.


Corsi Claims He Has Identity Of Individual Behind Birth Certificate Forgery

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May 22, 2011
Video: World Net Daily’s Dr. Jerome Corsi will soon release details of the key person who helped create Obama’s newly forged birth certificate.
Dr. Corsi reports the key person is in the Media. Also, more explosive details revealed during today’s interview on Infowars Radio Show regarding Obama’s destroyed birth records in Kenya and more…



FLASHBACK: Fox Business: New Obama Birth Certificate Raises More Questions; Prosecutor: Obama’s Birth Certificate Proves Americans Are Powerless. -Video here.
White House panic: Corsi book targeted – ‘Fight the Smears’ 2.0 launched, mocks No. 1 best-seller as delusional ‘joke’ -Details at Source.
Jerome Corsi: Obama Birth Certificate 100% Forged; Sources Say Hawaii Forged Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth Placed It In DOH Book. -Video here.
Jerome Corsi’s First Interview Post-Release of “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to be President”. -Video here.
News Release: Legal Proof That pResident Obama’s Certificate Of Live Birth Is A Forgery. -Details here.
Photoshop Expert & Author Mara Zebest Declares Obama’s Latest Hawaiian Birth Certificate A Complete Phony -Details here.
Irrefutable Proof Obama’s New Birth Certificate Forged Using Nordyke Birth Certificates -Details here.
Comparative Analysis By Pro Graphics & Special Effects: Trump Vs. Obama; Birth Certificate Fraud -Details here.
Busted: White House Now Claims They Ordered Short-Form COLB From Hawaii Department Of Health In 2008 Yet COLB Is Date Stamped 2007 -Details here.
Confirmed: Democratic Party of Hawaii would not certify in 2008 that Obama was constitutionally and legally eligible for the Office of President -Details here.


Video: World Net Daily's Dr. Jerome Corsi will soon release details of the key person who helped create Obama's newly forged birth certificate. Dr. Corsi reports the key person is in the Media. Also, more explosive details revealed during today's interview on Infowars Radio Show regarding Obama's destroyed birth records in Kenya and more...

Could the key person in the media be that scumbag AP reporter in Hawaii named Mark Niesse!?


Full article here



20 terabecquerels of radioactive materials flowed out to Pacific

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Kyodo
May 22, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday that 250 tons of water tainted with about 20 terabecquerels of radioactive substances leaked into the Pacific Ocean from a pit near the seawater intake for the No. 3 reactor at the troubled Fukushima No. 1 plant earlier this month.
While the figure is far lower than the 4,700 terabecquerels released near the No. 2 reactor in April, it is still about 100 times the permissible level, according to Tepco.
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At the time, the water was registering 9.8 terabecquerels of cesium-137, 9.3 terabecquerels of cesium-134 and 0.85 terabecquerels of iodine-131.
The leak is believed to have started at around 2 a.m. May 10 and was stopped at 7 p.m. May 11, Tepco said. The amount of water that escaped in that 41-hour period totaled 250 tons, it said.
The leakage of tainted water raised the concentration of radioactive substances in the port of the power plant but did not significantly change the level beyond it, the utility said.
The leak was reported to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

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Obama would raid Pakistan again if militant found

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LONDON | Sun May 22, 2011 12:09pm BST
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama would approve a new incursion into Pakistan if the United States found another leading militant there, he said in a BBC interview broadcast on Sunday.
U.S. Navy SEALs killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11 attacks on U.S. cities in 2001, in a raid on his fortified compound in Pakistan on May 2, ending a manhunt for the world's most-wanted militant.
Asked if Obama would do the same again if the United States discovered another "high-value target" in Pakistan or another country, such as a senior al Qaeda member or Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, he said he would "take the shot."
"We are very respectful of the sovereignty of Pakistan. But we cannot allow someone who is actively planning to kill our people or our allies' people, we can't allow those kind of active plans to come to fruition without us taking some action," Obama told the BBC.
"I had made no secret. I had said this when I was running for the presidency, that if I had a clear shot at bin Laden, that we'd take it."
A spokesman for Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, Farhatullah Babar, said in response to Obama's remarks: "We need to move away from unilateral actions and should focus on cooperation in countering terrorism." He declined to comment further.
Obama's comments echoed those of U.S. Senator John Kerry, a Democrat close to his administration and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Asked this month if the United States would conduct a similar raid in Pakistan to kill Omar if they knew his whereabouts, he said Washington would consider all its options.
U.S. officials have long maintained Omar fled to Pakistan after the Taliban government was overthrown in late 2001 by U.S.-backed Afghan forces and is still in hiding there. Islamabad has denied reports he is in Pakistan.
Obama arrives in Britain on Tuesday for a three-day state visit -- the first state visit by a U.S. president since 2003.
He will hold talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron and address the parliament to hail the two countries' special relationship and stress the importance of trans-atlantic ties.
(Reporting by Olesya Dmitracova; additional reporting by Kamran Haider in Islamabad)

Herald Sun: Alex Jones Was Right About Schwarzenegger’s Megalomania

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bodybuilder actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger earned a reputations as a womaniser. Herald Sun
MARIA Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger were both in love with the same man. It's common - and dangerous.
It seems that you'd be taking a punt marrying an Austrian.
The country itself has often displayed a nasty arrogance, in deep denial of its sins. And its famous menfolk are too often created in that same image: there was Adolf Hitler, of course; and then lying racist Kurt Waldheim, who not only once was president of his country but also Secretary General of the United Nations; and now we have Arnold Schwarzenegger.
His leadership prospects have been terminated, and not before time. The US will look back soon and wonder how close it came to having the deceitful narcissist muscle in on its national stage.
We might have had a US election fought between the son of a Nazi soldier and the son of an untrustworthy, accident-prone Kenyan drunk.
It didn't happen, and recently we were reminded why not.
That fuss last month over whether Barack Obama had really been born on American territory raised the issue of Article II of the American constitution. It states that "No person except a natural born Citizen of the United States ... shall be eligible to the Office of President".
Obama turned up last month with his birth certificate - as he has before - and proved his American status.
But idiotic and hysterical as conservative American voices so often are, Article II may have saved them from a fate worse than the black man many of them so clearly dread.
It wasn't that long ago that the deluded voters of California so loved their Governor - a womanising, bodybuilding actor, perfect qualifications for West Coast leadership - that 65 per cent of them supported him, and a number of influential Americans were calling for the US Constitution to be hurriedly changed so that Arnie might make a run for the White House.
One of them was his poor wife Maria Shriver. Part of the Kennedy dynasty, she might have known politics, but she didn't know her man. When some Silicon Valley bigwigs started spending money on the campaign to have her husband for President, Shriver agreed. "Absolutely" there should be an amendment to clear the way for Schwarzenegger to run.
Syndicated radio host Alex Jones, once a Republican, saw things differently: "He's a bully and a preening peacock who is totally power-mad," he said. "For God's sake, don't let this megalomaniac become president."
Jones was right. Shriver was wrong. And what a price she has paid - her children growing up in a house alongside their housemaid's son, also Arnie's offspring.
By now Shriver must know the absurdly ambitious Schwarzenegger has cunningly manipulated her, probably since they first met in 1977, their relationship starting, of course, when he was deeply involved with another.
That he has involved their four children in a dreadful pantomime that will scar their lives would hardly worry the man who is a better actor than anyone could have believed. It didn't start off being about politics, but like so many knuckle-grazing alpha males, it was about power. Mostly over women.
The actor now finds himself in league with the actors of other professions; men who want to be taken very seriously for their professional achievements, but whose self-obsessed lives are ruled by the need to conquer women and humiliate them.
Disgraced AFL star Wayne Carey is one. How about Tiger Woods? Maybe disgraced former David Jones boss Mark McInnes had just started training.
They're everywhere. And spectacularly joining their ranks last week was International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn, although he stands accused of having elevated his serial interest in women to criminal activity.
An underpaid West African maid at Strauss-Kahn's hotel in Manhattan says he groped and mauled her before trying to rape her. He has been charged with offences that could see him jailed for 74 years. His wife, prominent French TV journalist Anne Sinclair, is standing by her man.
Many worthy women stand by their untrustworthy and repugnant partners, at least initially, some staying the distance because of the strategic value.
Like Hillary Clinton.
Others, like Sally Carey, and Tiger Woods's missus Elin Nordegren, eventually come to their senses.
Their men like the idea of a breeding bimbo at home and whatever they like on the road.
Of course, they are contemptuous of both.
Seems Strauss-Kahn's chances of becoming French president next year have taken a hit. His wife may have been quite looking forward to taking up residency in the Elysee Palace.
Now, other women are coming out to say Strauss-Kahn attacked them.
Though Strauss-Kahn may be innocent - and insists he is - commonly, these men are following the patterns of a lifetime.
Not long ago an AFL footballer was charged with a serious sexual crime. While he protests his innocence, his reported attitude when questioned by the club's football manager might sum up the problems for both men.
"I can get whatever chicks I want. I don't have to rape anyone," he said.

Iceland shuts main airport after volcano sends ash plume 12 miles high

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(Reuters) - Ash from a massive plume of smoke from an eruption of Iceland's most active volcano could spread south to parts of Europe next week, but experts on Sunday still hoped the impact on air travel would be limited.
The eruption at Grimsvotn has so far hit only Iceland, where the civil aviation authority said the prospects for re-opening the main international airport on Monday were not good.
A thick cloud of ash blocked out the daylight at towns and villages at the foot of the glacier where the volcano lies and covered cars and buildings.
The eruption was much stronger than the one at a volcano further south last year which closed European airspace and halted transatlantic flights, due to worries particles could get into engines and cause accidents.
Iceland's meteorological office said the plume from Grimsvotn, which last exploded in 2004, had fallen to 10 to 15 km in height from a peak of 25 km (16 miles).
Europe's air traffic control organization warned on its website of a possible spread.
"Ash cloud is expected to reach North Scotland on Tuesday 24th May. If volcanic emissions continue with same intensity, cloud might reach west French airspace and north Spain on Thursday 26th May," it said in a traffic bulletin.
Others said the impact on air travel this time would be more limited as winds were more favorable, the content of the plume was heavier therefore less likely to spread and authorities now had a higher tolerance for ash levels.
"It could lead to some disruption, but only for a very limited time and only over a very limited area," said University of Iceland Professor of Geophysics Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson.
"We see some signs that the power is declining a bit, but it is still quite powerful," Gudmundsson said, adding that the eruption was the most violent at the volcano since 1873.
Icelandair, the main airline on the island, stopped flights on Sunday and said on its website the halt could continue on Monday. It said 6,000 passengers had been affected by cancellations so far.
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Gudmundsson said the wind direction was different this year, meaning the ash was falling mainly around Iceland. "But also very importantly the rules that apply today and the models are very different. The tolerance is much higher," he said.
Dave Mcgarvie, volcanologist at Britain's Open University, agreed. He said any ash which reached Britain would be less than last year and added that experience gained since the 2010 eruption would lead to less disruption.
In emailed comments, he said "minor re-routing" should enable aircraft to avoid zones where ash is concentrated.
The new eruption at Grimsvotn, which last exploded in 2004, sent up a huge bubbling mass of ash and smoke, which seeped above the clouds high over the North Atlantic island.
Grimsvotn lies under the Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland, the largest glacier in Europe.
Areas to the south of glacier have been covered in thick layers of ash and the sun was blocked out for several hours.
"It was like night is during the winter," said Benedikt Larusson, speaking in the town of Kirkjubaejarklaustur.
"Now it is a little bit better. Now I can see about 100 metres, but before it was about 1 meter."
(Writing by Patrick Lannin in Stockholm; Additional reporting by Tim Hepher in Paris, Kate Kelland in London, Christopher Le Coq in Brussels, Ingolfur Juliusson in Iceland; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Iran Just Arrested 30 People In An Alleged U.S. Spy Network

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Gus Lubin
Business Insider
May 22, 2011
Iran has arrested 30 people it says were engaged in “complex espionage and sabotage network” run by the United States, state media reported. Another 42 CIA operatives officers were supposedly identified.
Spying in Iran can carry the death penalty.
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No comment yet from Washington.
More of the statement via Al Jazeera and Press TV:
“Due to the massive intelligence and counterintelligence work by Iranian intelligence agents, a complex espionage and sabotage network linked to America’s spy organisation was uncovered and dismantled.
“Elite agents of the intelligence ministry in their confrontation with the CIA elements were able to arrest 30 America-linked spies through numerous intelligence and counterintelligence operations.”
The spies had also gathered detailed information about the “oil and gas pipelines, telecommunication and electricity networks, airports and customs, the security of the banking and communication systems,” by using “US embassies and consulates in several countries particularly “the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Malaysia.”
The spy network worked under the cover of labour recruitment agencies, the statement posted on Mehr’s website said. “The elites, educated and naive people were recruited to get visas, residency permits, education abroad and employment,” it said.

Fearing The Bottom Will Fall Out If Interest Rates Rise

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Bob Chapman
International Forecaster
May 22, 2011
The amount of money and people withdrawing from 401K’s has been staggering and Wall Street and government do not like it one bit. There are those who have been fired, run out of benefits, and half to cash in part or all of their retirement. The villainous ones are those still employed, who have taken up to three loans, many of whom have bought gold and silver with the proceeds.
That said, Senator Herb Kohl, Senator Mike Enzi have introduced legislation to limit citizens to tapping into their 401K’s, called “SEAL 401K Savings Accounts.” The bill would reduce and limit the number of loans workers may take from 401K’s and give participants more time to pay back loans after losing their jobs. In addition, employers would have the option to reduce the number of loans for their plans.
At the end of 2010, 28% of participants had loans outstanding, a record. The average loan balance was $7,860.00 and 58% of plans permit participants to have two or more loans at a time. If participants are fired or lose their jobs 70% default on their loans.
Workers generally may borrow as much as 50% of their vested account balance up to $50,000. The loan must be repaid in five years, unless the money was used to purchase a primary residence. The average interest rate is 1% over prime.
We find it of more than passing interest that Mr. Kohl is not running for reelection next year.
If you are going to borrow from your 401K’s do it now, ahead of this legislation, that could interfere with the purchase of gold and silver shares, coins and bullion. This is the main reason for this legislation, to stop you from protecting your assets. Of course, such loans involve selling holdings in the 401K’s and that puts downward pressure on stock and bond markets, or takes incoming funds destined for those markets away from those markets.
One aspect of a new and improved federal regulatory scheme is the seizure of 401(k) retirement plans and the subsequent government-administered disbursement of the funds.
In Chapter 3 of the Annual Report on the Middle Class released in February by Vice President Biden and the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, the Obama administration calls for enhancing the “retirement options” for the middle class by imposing “new regulations to improve the transparency and adequacy of 401(k) retirement savings.” [Read the entire article:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/3478-obama-administration-plans-to-seize-401k-retirement-accounts [Here is your proof, as we have been telling you over and over again, get out of your 401Ks and IRAs before you have nothing more than a promise to pay from a bankrupt government. Bob]
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It is difficult for observes to get the perception that very dangerous financial and economic events are just around the corner. We find up to a certain point those in power more often are able to pull another rabbit out of the hat. Not that the problems have been solved. They haven’t been solved. All of the assistance, as temporary as it may be, has gone to the world financial community and governments. We seldom hear the question why did these financial experts and governments get into such a horrible state of affairs? All we hear of is saving them and allowing them to keep two sets of books, so they can write off their losses over the next 50 years. We don’t expect you to get such a comforting arrangement. These are the same lenders that if you are late on a payment your interest rate goes from 6% to 30%. To say the least the lenders and governments are getting away with financial mayhem. We find it of great interest that the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank find it appropriate to buy bonds known as toxic waste, those are bonds containing mortgages, and find it necessary to keep secret what they are paying lenders for these bonds syndicated several years ago. Then previously there was the matter of divulging who the Fed loaned money to during the credit crisis. It took two years to get that issue adjudicated at the appeals level. The Fed wouldn’t divulge because they said what they had done was a state secret, a position totally untenable; which the court disagreed with. The Fed just didn’t want anyone to know who they were bailing out. They were bailing out select elitist corporations not only in the US, but in foreign countries as well.
Anyone with a drop of sense knows that if official interest rates rise, or if continuing debt expansion is halted, the bottom will fall out of the US economy and the world economy with varying damage. Still about 60% of foreign reserves are held in US dollars, the world’s reserve currency. Since 1988 central banks generally speaking have been sellers of gold at the behest of the US government and the Federal Reserve in order to suppress prices and rid the world financial system of gold backing. Gold acts as a control mechanism limiting a country’s ability to create money and credit. Under neo-fascist Keynesianism the creation of money, credit and speculation was to be allowed to run rampant, as we have seen for some years. All of the profits went to the transnational conglomerates, as the losses were dumped on the public. We would call that a one-way street. The debt created from a recent historical perspective is without precedent and continues to grow in the US and in Europe. Over the next two years it is estimated that $3.6 trillion has to be rolled over plus new debt.
We see Greece, Ireland and Portugal essentially bankrupt and ready to enter the fray is Spain, Belgium and Italy. Contagion is already with us to the tune of $4 trillion, a sum Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria and Finland cannot finance without bankrupting themselves. We wonder who is going to buy such debt? Probable lenders such as China only have a limited interest, because as it cuts back on US Treasury paper it buys gold, silver and commodities. Why shouldn’t they when the drums of war are in the distance? Besides, China has inflation of 10% to 15% and has seen home prices in Beijing fall almost 40% recently. That probably will spread countrywide. As in America, Spain, Ireland and England that means mortgage defaults and bank losses. That will lead to recessionary conditions and a drop in imports, which will negatively affect sellers to China such as Japan. We can assure you that a slowdown in China will affect the entire world. That means China probably will not be a buyer of foreign bonds in the numbers they have been in the past. The US TIC Report already bears this out and thus; Spain will probably not get the money it is looking for from China.
In the US the Fed probably will buy $1.6 trillion in Treasury and Agency debt over the next year, although we see the Treasury currently tapping government pension retirement funds to fund the lack of US debt extension and that license could be used to relieve the Fed of some of the burden. Needless to say, that is not a permanent solution. If that tactic is employed private pensions, as we have warned for the past two years, could become a victim of the government as well. At the same time the world economy is again slowing and that does not bode well for borrowers either. In spite of US government manipulation of markets everything they do is only temporary. The markets are far too vast for them to have any lasting effect. Just look at the last 11 years, gold has gone from $260.00 to almost $1,600 and silver from $3.80 to $49.50. As well over the past 11 years nine major currencies on average per year have fallen more than 20% in terms of gold and silver. That means you do not hold or invest in currencies. As an alterative, historically gold and silver have been the safest place to be.
Those in power behind the scenes believe they can create recovery by simply following the Keynesian model, which is print money and credit forever. Their policies are not working in the public sector. We see higher sales figures, but they are the result of inflation. Debt saturation and its continuation won’t solve the problem; only purging the system can solve the problem. The bankrupt have to be allowed to fail. Too big to fail has to come to an end. The world financial system has to be purged and the only way to do that is to call an international meeting and revalue and devalue all currencies against one another and have a multilateral default on unpayable debt. Then nations can decide what the new world reserve currency will be and whether it will be gold backed.
The foreclosure problems in the US and Spain are beyond believability. In the US monthly inventory for sale is normally 4 to 5 months, presently it is 3-1/4 years and should be four plus years by the end of the year. In Spain the visible inventory is 50,000 homes, but in reality it is much higher than that. Worse yet, the banks are lying about it just as they are in the US. Even at 30-year fixed mortgage rates of 4.61% people do not quality to buy. Home prices will fall at least 10% by yearend and more next year and into 2013. Then they will bump along the bottom for years. In the US lending has dried up and it is more difficult to get loans than it has been. Housing debt is unbelievable and is unpayable. There is no recovery in sight in spite of spending of more than $2 trillion on QE2 and stimulus 2. We can assure you QE3 or something like that is on the way, otherwise it is collapse. The Fed has to come up with $1.3 trillion to purchase Treasuries and Agency securities, June to June just to stay even. Our guess is that figure in reality will be $2.1 to $2.5 trillion, as the dollar reaches new lows. The flipside is in spite of government manipulation, gold, silver and commodities will move much higher in the flight to quality and safety. There is absolutely no reason to believe that debt will be repaid nor will there be any recovery. Every single day people all over the world are losing purchasing power due to inflation and the profligate policies of their governments. There has to be a well planned or orchestrated plan for default by all nations collectively. This is why your investible funds have to be in gold and silver coins, bullion and shares. That is the only place investment funds are safe. Just look at the last 11 years during which gold and silver rose by more than 20% on average versus nine major currencies annually. Is that not enough proof to convince you where your funds should be? Quantitative easing has to continue and so does the upward valuation of gold and silver coins, bullion and shares.
Food and oil demand continues to increase as the third world experiences more prosperity and growing populations. That is one of the results of free trade; globalization, offshoring and outsourcing hadn’t planned on. Having created these conditions they now talk of reducing world population, a condition they call a surplus of useless eaters. As a result banks and hedge funds are again leveraged as they were in 2008. Fortunately most are presently short gold and silver related assets.
Once it becomes visible through the veil of government propaganda that conditions are deteriorating real interest rates will rise sending bonds down and the stock market will follow. What else can they do with no recovery, a falling dollar, 22.2% real unemployment, 10% inflation, a minus GDP and exponential creation by the Fed and the Treasury of money and credit. As the printing presses roll on we see shortages in physical gold and silver, which soon lead to higher cash prices. As we have predicted correctly for 11 years, no matter what the Illuminists do they cannot arrest the flight to quality in gold and silver.
The past few weeks have seen some staggering events in the commodities, gold and silver market. As you all know JPMorgan Chase and HSBC have been naked short both gold and silver, but particularly silver. In the case of silver, the CFTC, the Commodity Futures Trading Corp., has seen fit to allow Morgan and HSBC to continue to corner the silver market. We saw JPM and HSBC essentially stand by in the futures market, as silver climbed higher. In the futures market they do not seem to have altered their positions to any great degree, so they have to be doing their trading in the opaque, unregulated derivatives market. Then there have been the unprecedented actions by the CME/Comex, which raised margin requirement five times in nine days. They were elevated from $4,500 to $9,500 – previously and then the following five changes moved margins from $9,500 to $21,600. Even more importantly major commodity brokerages doubled those margin requirements from $21,600 to $42,000. As a result most speculators in the small and medium categories were wiped out. This was unprecedented as well. We, of course, ask why all these brokerages decided to simultaneously double core rates? We don’t believe in coincidences, thus could it be they and the CME were propelled to do what they did by some powerful outside force, such as our government? We cannot prove that, but the actions of these players are very suspect.
We know that presently the CFTC, SEC, NYSE and Nasdaq are receiving 3,000 complaints a day up from 1,000 a week ago, claiming the gold and silver markets are rigged and naked shorts are allowed to control these markets.
Here is a response by the SEC and answer by a subscriber to the SEC.
“Thank you for contacting the SEC. Before we are able to respond to your email, we need more information from you: including your supporting documentation that JPMorgan is making illegal naked short sells and its manipulating the gold and silver markets.
Here is the subscribers answer: It is my feeling because of the large naked short position that JPM and HSBC are allowed by the CFTC to carry, that they were in part responsible for the action of the CME/Comex and the simultaneous conclusion by a number of major commodity houses to double the CME margin requirements to their clients. It is not my place to provide supporting documentation. That is your job. Why do you think I am writing to you? Investigate and come up with some answers. Do not defer them to me. Are you not supposed to be protecting me as a regulator? I await your answer.”
This shows you the high handed brazen arrogance of our regulators. They know exactly what is going on with naked shorting and won’t do anything to stop it.
JPM is a major shareholder in the privately owned Federal Reserve, which is no more federal than Federal Express. For years they have been allowed to run roughshod over the markets making fortunes in the process. Back in 2005 we recommended a long position in natural gas at $3.80. The market ran up and we recommended sale at $14.50. At $15.00 JPM was allowed to deal in natural gas, which promptly fell to $4.50 after they participated. A very strange coincidence, which in that process wiped out a major commodity player. We believe JPM rigged the market, but we cannot prove it, because we cannot access their records and the CFTC had no desire to do so. This is the same kind of treatment we are receiving in the silver market today. You should all be writing to every representative and senator in Washington, the CFTC, SEC, NYSE, ASE, and Nasdaq and registering your complaints because the squeaking wheel gets the grease. Even if they do nothing they will all be aware that millions of investors know what they have been up too. Do not forget this is nothing new and the regulators know that. Morgan, HSBC, Barclays, Goldman Sachs and Citicorp among others run the markets exactly as they please with little or no interference, because they control the US economy and your lives.
The markets are all rigged and it is up to you to let the above entities mentioned above know, that you know what they are doing and you want it stopped now.
Hawaii saw a total of 2,476 initial unemployment claims for the week of May 14, up 12.5 percent compared to the 2,201 claims filed during the same week in 2010, according to data from the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.
GOP 2012 hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) thinks U.S. troops will soon be on the ground for an occupation of Pakistan — and he said so on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday morning.
Paul called America’s relationship with Pakistan “an impossible situation,” where the U.S. hailed both its friendship with and suspicion of the country.
“I think we are going to be in Pakistan, I think that’s going to be our next occupation, and I fear it,” Paul said. “It’s ridiculous. I think our foreign policy is such we don’t need to be doing this.”
Paul said he had no inside information on Congress authorizing or ordering troops to invade Pakistan. He simply said based on U.S. history, he wouldn’t be surprised to see further U.S. involvement there.
“Right now, Pakistan is a big problem,” he said. “We have created a civil war there, and the fact that we go over there and we violate their security and the people rebel against the government because they see their government as being a puppet of the American government, so it’s total chaos and I’m afraid, and I hope I’m absolutely wrong, but I’m afraid we’ll be in Pakistan trying to occupy that country, and it will probably be very unsuccessful.”
Fewer people bought previously occupied homes in April, a troubling sign that the weak housing market remains a drag on the economy.
Sales fell 0.8 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.05 million units, the National Association of Realtors said yesterday. That’s far below the 6 million homes a year that economists say represents a healthy market.
Purchases made by first-time home buyers did increase but not nearly enough to signal a housing recovery is on the way. First-time buyers are critical because they typically improve their properties and invest in their communities, a combination that helps home values rise.
Foreclosures, on the other hand, force prices down. They represented more than a third of all sales in April and more are expected in the months ahead.
Since the housing boom went bust, sales have fallen in four of the past five years and hit a 13-year low last year. Declining home prices and low mortgage rates haven’t been enough to boost sales this year.
Some who want to buy can’t, mostly because banks have tightened lending requirements and are insisting on larger down payments. Many buyers who can qualify for loans are holding off.
Economists say it could be years before the housing market fully recovers.
A growing problem is that some sales that are under contract are falling apart. A separate survey from the trade group found 11 percent of realtors said a contract was canceled because an appraisal came in below the negotiated price. And 14 percent said a contract was renegotiated to a lower price because of a low appraisal.
The median sales price in April was $163,700. That’s down 5 percent from the same month one year ago. The median price of a new home is now nearly 31 percent higher than the median price for a previously occupied home — or twice the normal markup.
The gap is largely because of the flood of foreclosures or short sales — when the lender accepts less than what is owed on the mortgage. Those sales are forcing down prices.
Sales of homes at risk of foreclosure fell in April. But they still made up 37 percent of all purchases.
With gasoline prices hovering at $4 a gallon nationally, many Americans are making tough choices: scaling back summer vacations, driving less or ditching the car altogether. And high prices are hitting seniors harder than a month ago.
An Associated Press-GfK poll shows the share of Americans who say increases in the price of gasoline will cause serious financial hardship for them or their family in the next six months now tops 4 in 10.
Overall in the poll, 71 percent said rising prices will cause some hardship for them and their family, including 41 percent who called it a “serious” hardship. Just 29 percent said rising prices are not causing a negative impact on their finances.
By income, 63 percent of those with annual household incomes over $50,000 now say rising prices are causing them financial hardship, up from 55 percent in March. Those with lower incomes already were more likely to feel strained in March, and more than three-fourths of them continue to report financial hardship.
For older Americans, it’s worse.
The share of seniors expressing financial hardship over gas prices hit 76 percent; it was 68 percent in March.
Nettie Cash, 65, of Dallas, Ga., is cutting back on her medicine because of the cost of fueling up her Buick. Cash is still taking her heart pills but is forgoing her inhaler and ulcer medicine for now.
“It’s not easy,” she said. “You have to do what you have to do.”
The public’s coping strategies are largely unchanged from March, with 72 percent having cut back on other expenses, 66 percent saying they’ve reduced the amount of driving they do and 48 percent changing vacation plans.
Since January, gas prices have shot up about 90 cents, with the national average for a gallon of regular this week at $3.96.
Financial analyst Nicole Polite in Baltimore sold her Nissan Altima recently and is taking public transportation, opting for the bus, rails and walking to get to work. Gas prices were just too high, she says, so she and her boyfriend downsized to a one-car household. She says they kept their Lexus sedan, which requires pricey premium gas.
“It’s definitely a financial strain because now you have to reassess everything,” said Polite, 32. “We don’t go out as much. That $20 that we could have used to go to a movie — now that money has been absorbed by the gas tank.”
But analysts say relief is coming. Fred Rozell, retail pricing director at the Oil Price Information Service, expects the price at the pump to drop as much as 40 cents in the next four weeks.
Until that happens, Ross Cobb in Boerne, Texas, will still try to keep his highway miles down. Cobb says he and his wife have been driving less and curbing trips into the city for their children’s clothing and other supplies.
“We coordinate all of our trips into San Antonio,” said Cobb, an associate athletic director at the University of Texas. “We don’t ever go in anymore just for one particular errand. We wait until we’ve got two or three things to do.”
The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted May 5-9 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,001 adults nationwide and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed under a suicide watch in jail, while pressure mounted on him to resign yesterday and the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape said through her lawyer that she had no idea who he was when she reported the attack to police.
Law enforcement officials emphasized that Strauss-Kahn had not tried to harm himself but that guards were keeping a close watch on him just in case.
Meanwhile, details began to emerge about his accuser, a 32-year-old immigrant from the West African nation of Guinea with a 15-year-old daughter.
Her story of being attacked by Strauss-Kahn in the Sofitel hotel suite near Times Square is consistent because she is telling the truth, her lawyer Jeffrey Shapiro said.
Maneuvering begins for Strauss-Kahn’s IMF post. B8
“There is no way in which there is any aspect of this event which could be construed consensual in any manner,’’ Shapiro said. “This is nothing other than a physical, sexual assault by this man on this young woman.’’
He continued: “It’s not just my opinion that this woman is honest. The New York City Police Department reached the same conclusion.’’ He added, “This is a woman with no agenda.’’
After being denied bail on Monday, Strauss-Kahn, 62, is jailed at Rikers Island on charges including attempted rape.
Defense lawyer Benjamin Brafman has said he and others assisting Strauss-Kahn in the case believe the forensic evidence “will not be consistent with a forcible encounter.’’
He said that “significant issues’’ make it “quite likely that he will be ultimately be exonerated.’’
The maid has not been identified by name, and the Associated Press generally does not name people alleging sexual assault.
She arrived seven years ago in the United States from Guinea under “very difficult circumstances,’’ Shapiro said, and lives in the city with her daughter.
Shapiro said the woman did not know that Strauss-Kahn was managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
“She did not know who this man was until a day or two after this took place,’’ Shapiro said. [If you believe this story, we have a bridge for sale that connects Manhattan to Brooklyn. Bob]
April Industrial Production Stalled As Prior Months Were Revised Lower. This morning’s (May17th) Federal Reserve Board release of seasonally-adjusted April 2011 industrial production showed aggregate production to be unchanged (down 0.5% net of prior-period revisions) versus March, with manufacturing tumbling by 0.4% in April. In turn the aggregate March index was revised to a 0.7% (previously 0.8%) monthly gain. The revisions the April report all were post-benchmark revisions, with the largest change showing the previously reported 0.1% monthly gain in February 2011 now being a 0.3% contraction.
Year-to-year change in April 2011 production was 5.0%, down from a revised 5.3% (previously 5.9%) gain in March. The year-to-year contraction of 14.9% seen in June 2009 was the steepest annual decline in production growth since the shutdown of war-time production following World War II.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity, which includes both refinancing and home purchase demand, climbed 7.8 percent in the week ended May 13.
The MBA’s seasonally adjusted index of refinancing applications surged 13.2 percent, while the gauge of loan requests for home purchases dipped 3.2 percent.
Both the overall index and the refinance index reached their highest levels since early December.
The refinance share of mortgage activity rose to 66.7 percent of total applications, the largest amount since late January.
“The 30-year fixed mortgage rate is now 53 basis points below its 2011 peak, and has decreased for five straight weeks,” Michael Fratantoni, MBA’s vice president of research, said in a statement. “Over this five week span, the refinance index has increased by about 33 percent.”
Fixed 30-year mortgage rates averaged 4.60 percent in the week, easing from 4.67 percent the week before. It was the lowest rate seen in the survey since late November 2010.
Barack Obama to back Middle East democracy with billions in aid President pledges cash to support Egypt and Tunisia after criticism US has been too slow to support uprisings Barack Obama is to announce that the United States and the west will pour billions of dollars into the Middle East in support of Egypt, Tunisia and other countries embracing democracy, a move the White House portrayed as being on the scale of aid to former communist countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall…The US is to relieve Egypt of up to $1bn in debt and lend or guarantee up to $1bn. The World Bank, the IMF and other multilateral institutions to provide a further $2bn-3bn.
The official described Tunisia and Egypt as beacons, models to encourage others to pursue democracy.
A poll published on Tuesday by the Washington-based Pew organisation found that President Obama remains unpopular among countries polled in the Middle East and elsewhere in the Muslim world, except Indonesia.
Whitney Meredith: The Hidden State Financial Crisis, The latest research into opaque state financial statements suggests taxpayers will be surprised by how much pensions are underfunded.
Next month will be pivotal for most states, as it marks the fiscal year end and is when balanced budgets are due. The states have racked up over $1.8 trillion in taxpayer-supported obligations in large part by underfunding their pension and other post-employment benefits. Yet over the past three years, there still has been a cumulative excess of $400 billion in state budget shortfalls. States have already been forced to raise taxes and cut programs to bridge those gaps.
Next month will also mark the end of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s $480 billion in federal stimulus, which has subsidized states through the economic downturn. States have grown more dependent on federal subsidies, relying on them for almost 30% of their budgets.
The condition of state finances threatens the economic recovery.
States employ over 19 million Americans, or 15% of the U.S. work force, and state spending accounts for 12% of U.S. gross domestic product. The process of reining in state finances will be painful for us all.
Today, off balance sheet debt totals over $1.3 trillion, as measured by current accounting standards, and it accounts for almost 75% of taxpayer-supported state debt obligations.
Firms Fill Up on Debt Before Fed Closes Door on Easy Credit All told, investment-grade companies sold $19 billion of bonds in the U.S. in the past two days, according to data provider Dealogic, setting the week up to be among the busiest so far this year. Bond sales in May have reached $56.7 billion with two weeks left to go in the month almost as much as the $59.6 billion sold in all of April.
Newly hired autoworkers are earning $14 an hour plus benefits, about half of a veteran autoworker’s wage. And many experts and labor leaders worry that the wage premium that factory workers enjoy is eroding.
Wards Automotive has published actual unit production for the month of April 2011. According to the data, the motor vehicle assembly rate plunged by 12% to a 7.847 million annualized rate in April, which compares to an 8.923 million rate in March 2011. In the past, such a sizable drop in the assembly rate has usually translated into a sharp decline in motor vehicle output. We project motor vehicle output to decline by 9% in April, which would be entirely consistent with the drop-off in the assembly rate.
We believe the pronounced weakness in the auto sector in April will drag down industrial production, which is the reason we project industrial production to decline by 0.4% in April after rising by 0.8% in March.
SHORT NOTES
Consumer revenue declined 7% but large corporate sales increased 5%. Margins increased to 23.4% from 20.5%. Dell said is saw strength in the public sector, which is odd at the least and likely to disappear as states and municipalities retrench in coming months.
As for the Fed’s exit strategy: In addition, nearly all participants indicated that the first step toward normalization should be ceasing to reinvest payments of principal on agency securities and simultaneously or soon after, ceasing to reinvest principal payments on Treasury securities. A few members remained uncertain about the benefits of the asset purchase program but, with the program nearly completed, judged that making changes to the program at this time was not appropriate.
U.S. employers can expect an 8.5 percent increase in their medical costs next year due in some part to the healthcare reform law, the consulting firm PwC said in a report Wednesday.
The widely read annual report on cost trends points to three main drivers of healthcare costs, two of which are exacerbated by the new law.
Good thing healthcare costs are underweighted in CPI – 5.35% of CPI but 17% of GDP.
Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment at 9.2% in Mid-May Underemployment is 19.1% — essentially the same as a year ago.
[In other words, despite trillions of dollars in government spending and Fed intervention, there was little or no employment benefit for average Americans but increased inflation hammered standards of living.]
Governors and legislatures across the nation are moving to cut the length of time unemployed workers can receive benefits, despite historically high unemployment rates, amid concerns that states may need to boost taxes on employers to shore up unemployment trust funds exhausted by the jobless benefits.
More than 8 million Americans are drawing unemployment, according to the Department of Labor. Benefits levels are set and administered by each state and vary widely.

Boom time for war contractors ‘raking in the dough’

RT
May 19, 2011
America may be being dragged down by record debt and unemployment filtering throughout the economy – but there’s one industry that’s bucking the trend. It’s a boom time for arms manufacturers right now, and they’re branding themselves as saviours of the job market. RT’s Kaelyn Forde reports on how Americans have little choice but to go gunning for work.


Bill Gates pushes for 90 percent vaccination rate worldwide


Jonathan Benson
Natural News
May 22, 2011
The infamous Bill Gates is on a crusade to vaccinate the entire world. In a recent speech, the Microsoft guru-turned-humanitarian put pressure on the governments of the world to “prevent four million deaths by 2015, [and] … ten million deaths” by 2020. He believes this will happen by vaccinating at least 90 percent of the world’s population.
Gates has been an outspoken proponent of vaccinations for years. His organization, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is constantly promoting vaccines anywhere and everywhere it can. The group’s website, in fact, says one of its goals is to vaccinate every single child on the planet, claiming that vaccines are “one of the most effective health interventions ever developed” (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/vacc…).
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Among his many speeches, however, Gates has given conflicting information concerning the agenda behind his vaccination push. In his most recent speech, he claims vaccines will save lives. But in a speech he gave at a TED conference last year, Gates clearly stated that vaccines and health care were part of an equation to reduce the world’s population by 15 percent (http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_v…).
“The world today has 6.8 billion people … that’s headed up to about nine billion,” he said to his audience. “Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps ten or 15 percent.”
You can watch the actual clip of Gates saying this at the following link:
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A…
So which is it? Do vaccines help to save lives or end lives? When considering that vaccines are loaded with toxic adjuvants and chemical preservatives, many of which are known to cause serious health problems, sterility, and even death, the latter conclusion makes a lot more sense (http://www.naturalnews.com/031820_v…).
Sources for this story include:
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyl…

The Euro Doom Scenario Starts With What’s Happening In Spain Right Now

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The Automatic Earth
May 22, 2011
Back In February, I saw a Dutch docudrama, entitled 2011: The Year the Euro Falls (Sorry, no English version available as far as I can see). It’s nicely made, with cameos for many -prominent- Dutch politicians, newscasters and media pundits, and based on a screenplay by the former financial expert for Holland’s Greens, Groen Links (‘links’ means left), Kees Vendrik. It paints -potential, and more or less fictional- developments in Europe in 2011.
First: Spain falls in summer. Spanish bonds are dumped, interest rates on them rise to 9%. Seemingly endless EU/IMF negotiations follow. This is not Greece or Ireland, after all (?!). These negotiations end in a deal, against a background of large-scale protests across Europe, not the least of which take place in the rich EU nations, where people are sick of bailing out the poorer periphery.
Then, the government of Belgium (there actually is one in the screenplay!) abdicates. Belgium is now a serious threat to Euro -financial- stability, and it gets billions in loans from the European stability fund. The EU stabilizes for a short period of time.
However, next up are elections in Ireland. Sinn Fein win a large majority. They decide to leave the Eurozone -and the EU itself-. Which means that Irish bonds, denominated in Euro’s, will have to be paid back in a much weaker “new punt”, which can’t be done. In other words, those EU -and US- banks that have bought Irish bonds will have to write down losses, very substantial ones.
The markets then turn their attention to Italy; its bonds come under pressure. The first victims are the French banks, which have huge exposure to Italian debt. Somewhat surprisingly, PM Berlusconi refuses to be bailed out by the EU. This raises his domestic popularity beyond levels anyone could have imagined. Berlusconi then turns to China and Libya (it’s a 2010 scenario!) for financial aid. Italy closes its borders.
This becomes the start of the endgame. Germany and Holland -perhaps France- may still be able to sell some debt, but other EU countries are locked out of financial markets. Austerity measures even in Holland reach draconic levels.
The European leaders end up in a long drawn-out meeting in Versailles. The outcome is a full political and fiscal union: The Unites States of Europe.
Nice detail: first, Angela Merkel will lead Europe from Paris. Then, Sarkozy will rule for 2 years from Berlin.
So far Mr. Vendrik’s fictional scenario. And that’s just what it was meant to be: what might happen, not what will. Or was it?
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Still, what brought this back to mind is what we see coming from Spain the past few days. Oscar GutiĆ©rrez writes in – very mainstream- El PaĆ­s:
Spain’s Icelandic revolt
The demonstrations have broadened spontaneously, as was the case for those who rallied under the umbrellas of the “alternative globalisation” movements, and have evolved, one decade after the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on a more modest stage than the one demonstrators faced in the past at the World Economic Forum of the global elite in Davos, Switzerland.
All this is happening at astonishing speed via the Internet, which has amplified the echo of discontent and opened the lanes of cyberactivism to groups such as Anonymous, notable for intervening against companies like PayPal and Visa during the advocacy campaign for Wikileaks chief Julian Assange. Yet it was also there at the beginning of the revolts in the Arab world, to help people get round the censorship of the Tunisian and Egyptian dictatorships.
Revolts that have grown and matured while French, Italian, English and Greek youth have been surging into the streets to oppose plans for the social welfare cuts that have been Europe’s response to the sharp economic downturn. Spain was waiting for its moment.
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The first to get off to a start was Nolesvotes (Don’t vote them in), an initiative calling on the electorate not to vote for Spain’s mainstream parties, accusing them of taking advantage of electoral law to perpetuate, in Parliament, “alarming levels of corruption in Spain.” There followed calls to parties from web movements such as Avaaz and Actuable to strike from their electoral lists all politicians indicted or convicted of corruption. [..]
“When we grow up, we want to be Icelanders!” cried one of the leaders of the organisation during the march on Sunday May 15 before a column of young – and not so young – parents and children, students and workers, the jobless and pensioners.
Ilargi: And that’s sort of peanuts compared to what Jonathan House and Sara Schaefer MuƱoz have in the Wall Street Journal:
Spain Vote Threatens to Uncover Debt
Weekend elections that threaten to drive Spain’s ruling Socialist party from power in several regions and cities also promise a potentially nasty surprise: the revelation of piles of undisclosed debt in local governments that could undercut the country’s drive to avoid an international bailout.
Five months ago, a government change in Spain’s Catalonia region revealed a budget deficit more than twice as big as previously reported. Now, a growing chorus of economists, local politicians and business leaders say that new governments are likely to discover, as Catalonia did, piles of “hidden debt” owed to health clinics and other suppliers.
Economists, analysts and anecdotal reports from companies that supply local governments suggest there is widespread, unrecorded debt among once-free-spending local governments. Some companies are complaining that fiscally frail administrations are pressuring them to do business off the books and not immediately bill for goods and services.[..]
Such bills could add tens of billions of euros to the official debt figures reported by local and regional governments. If such skeletons come out of the closet in coming weeks, Spain’s cost of funding could continue to rise—throwing the country back into the limelight after it has struggled to demonstrate it doesn’t need to be bailed out like Greece, Ireland and Portugal. “Investors are worried about the regions, given that there has a been precedent in Spain and other countries of debt not being recorded properly,” said Luigi Speranza, a BNP Paribas economist.
Sunday’s elections, which will be held in 13 of the country’s 17 regions and its more than 8,000 municipalities, threaten to be hard on Prime Minister JosĆ© Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialists. Polls show Socialist-led governments could be unseated in Castilla-La Mancha, the Balearic Islands, Asturias and Extremadura regions. Undermined by a 21% unemployment rate and a perceived slowness in reacting to the country’s economic crisis, the Socialists could also lose control of the municipal governments of Barcelona and Seville, the country’s second- and third-largest cities.
The social fallout from the poor economic conditions is evident in Spain this week as waves of protests swept the country. Young people took to main squares in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia on Thursday to protest unemployment among those in their 20s and 30s, which has reached 50% in some areas, and the government’s austerity program.
Ilargi: As you may recall, I’ve said forever that Spain will be the EU dealbreaker. And as we saw, again, not that long ago, for an entire decade, from 1997-2006, Spain built more homes than England, France and Germany combined, of which far too many to count now stand empty. Plus, much of the financing for all these superfluous homes was done through still seemingly healthy large Spanish banks like Santander and BBVA.
The debts involved have thus far remained hidden, in the same manner that Wall Street banks to date hide their losses, though a combination of long-stretched fake accounting (think FASB157) and multi-billion bail-outs in taxpayer funds. It’s hard to foresee, but the uncovering of hidden debts through this weekend’s Spanish local elections that the Wall Street Journal article talks about might be the first step in a cascading debt “truth-finding” that may well go way beyond Spanish borders. It’s certainly about time we figure out who owes what to whom.
Santander, for one, has conducted quite aggressive acquisition tactics in Britain over the past few years. And is connected to the entire global financial system in more or less the same ways that all of the too big to fail institutions are. If the squares of Madrid and Barcelona come to resemble anything like Cairo’s Tahrir square, it’s hard to say what will come out of this. What we know for sure is that the 20%+ unemployment rate (40%+ for young people) won’t be solved on Monday. Nor will the untold thousands of ghost homes be sold. And that means Spain is a bond market accident waiting to happen, be it tomorrow or a few months from now (it won’t take years). In that sense, the docudrama scenario painted above can never be that far off.