"European carriers beset by labor disputes; Unions upset with Alitalia, Lufthansa" by Globe Wire Services | March 23, 2010
ROME — Italy’s national carrier Alitalia said it had canceled or delayed flights across the country because of a four-hour strike yesterday by pilots, flight attendants, and baggage handlers....
I think I will skip the meal this time.
Also yesterday, pilots at Deutsche Lufthansa AG are threatening to stage a new four-day strike in mid-April after their union and the airline failed to resolve a dispute over pay and job security.
The Cockpit union said it had called a walkout at all German locations from April 13-16.
The start of the planned strike was delayed until then to avoid disruption during the Easter vacation and give Lufthansa’s management “time to realign its course,’’ the union said in a statement.
The pilots went out on strike last month, but the planned four-day-walkout was cut short after a day with an agreement to resume negotiations.
Ever notice that European strikes are much more effective than your own, AmeriKans?
Related: The Massachusetts Model: Municipal Health Mess
Well, when your strongest unions are public looters, 'er, servants and baseball players.... pffft!
Cockpit said Lufthansa is offering no pay raise over a 21-month period combined with worsening conditions.
Sort of like everywhere.
What happened to that great western economic model that was supposed to be an example for the world, globalist scum? What happened?
Oh, you made out like bandits while crashing the damn thing as planned?
Wow.
It said it would make any concessions “dependent on securing German jobs and their development prospects.’’
How come their unions have balls, America, and yours do not?
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Okay, made it to Heathrow and ready to get ho...
What do you mean the PASSPORT is NO GOOD?!!
Didn't have a problem getting in, readers!
"Israeli diplomat is expelled over slaying; Britain contends passport forgery damaged trust" by David Stringer, Associated Press | March 24, 2010
LONDON — Britain took the extraordinary step yesterday of expelling an Israeli diplomat for the first time in more than 20 years, after concluding there was compelling evidence that Israel was responsible for the use of forged British passports in the plot to slay a senior Hamas operative in Dubai.
Related: Israel Dives Into the Dubai Shark Tank
Yeah, they got away with it like they always do.
I will have more on this below; however, what this means to me is I WILL NEVER BELIEVE the GOVERNMENT and MSM accounts of "gunmen, terrorists, suiciders" et al.
Oh, they FOUND PASSPORTS of the Zionist PATSIES, etc, etc, etc.
Some "terrorist" group or website (ha) claimed responsibility, huh?
This whole episode sort of shines a DIFFERENT LIGHT on the way one reads an AmeriKan jewspaper (sic).
Foreign Secretary David Miliband of Britain said trust between the two countries had been badly damaged, demanded formal assurances it never happen again, and — in an unusual step — issued travel advice to UK citizens warning that their identity details may be at risk if they visit Israel.
Then DO NOT GO THERE! NO ONE should be visiting or touring Israel!
They should be BOYCOTTED and SHUNNED!!!!
If you want to tour somewhere, force your way past the concentration camp guards Israel has around Gaza.
Miliband told the House of Commons that the expelled diplomat, who has not been named, was removed following an investigation into the use of 12 fake UK passports in the Jan 20 slaying in Dubai.
So WHY is he BEING PROTECTED by the BRITISH GOVERNMENT and MSM?
Because he is really Mossad just the way our State Dept is CIA, huh?
“We have concluded that there are compelling reasons to believe that Israel was responsible for the misuse of the British passports,’’ Miliband said.
I think they WANTED EVERYONE t0 KNOW!
Britain’s Serious and Organized Crime Agency found the forged British passports were copies of authentic documents handed to Israeli officials for inspection either in Israel or other countries, Miliband said.
Gee, and the Zionist security firms are in charge of darn near all the world airports, isn't that odd?
He said the fakes were high quality and almost certainly “made by a state intelligence service.’’
And WE ALL KNOW WHICH ONE (but he can't say it).
“The actions in this case are completely unacceptable and they must stop,’’ Miliband said.
And?
Related: Miliband Says Talk to Taliban
Yeah, same guy.
Miliband, however, insisted Britain has drawn no conclusions over who is responsible for the killing of the Hamas official, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, saying the investigation by Dubai authorities was continuing.
PFFFFFFFTTT!!!
Then it's all hot fart mist and Hufnstuff, 'eh?
Dubai authorities accuse Israel’s Mossad of carrying out Mabhouh’s killing in a luxury hotel room, and have identified at least 26 suspects in an alleged hit squad — members of which used forged European and Australian passports.
Interpol has a list of 27 people wanted in connection with the slaying. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied any involvement in Mabhouh’s death.
Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli foreign minister, said that Israel had never been supplied with “any proof that Israel was involved in this affair’’ and that he regretted Britain’s decision.
Israel’s ambassador to London said he was “disappointed by the decision of the British government’’ but pledged that the two countries would retain close ties. “The relationship between Israel and the United Kingdom is of mutual importance,’’ Ron Prosor said.
Why does he sound as if he is the aggrieved party?
Zionist Jews WILL make you ILL!!
France and Ireland are also carrying out inquiries into the use of four forged French and six Irish passports.
I don't expect anything to come of them, and I expect to see even less about it in my Zionist AmeriKan War Daily.
Ireland’s Foreign Ministry said it would consider further action once an investigation by Irish police is completed.
Dubai police believe three Australian passports and a German one were also used in the killing.
WTF? Implicating all allies except the U.$., huh, Israel?
At least 15 of the names used by the suspected killers match those of Israeli citizens who are dual nationals of Western countries.
Oh, like the traitorous SoBs infesting the U.S. government before, during, and after 9/11?
All have denied involvement.
Miliband said in the cases of the 12 British citizens, there was “no evidence to suggest that those 12 were anything other than wholly innocent victims of identity theft.’’
Yeah, that is ISRAEL'S GAME!
Yeah, whenever I read COMPUTER HACKED I will now apply the "gunmen" principle.
He said one victim told investigators “to go to bed a citizen and wake up as a wanted terrorist is shocking.’’
Maybe one day western leaders will justifiably know that feeling.
“The fact that this was done by a country which is a friend, with significant diplomatic, cultural, business, and personal ties to the UK, only adds insult to injury,’’ Miliband said.
Maybe they are NOT REALLY a FRIEND!?
Related: Israeli Connections to the London Tube Bombs
What kind of friend does such things?
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Related: MI6 was tipped off
Oh, so this was all a shit-show fooley for the British public, 'eh?Here are some different views on the hit that I happen to agree with:
"Israel Gets Away with Murder .. Again
by Tammy Obeidallah
Amid the glamour of the world's tallest building, gold bars, man-made islands, casinos and fashion, a man lay dead in his hotel room. Preliminary reports would say he had been suffocated with a pillow; further investigation would determine that he was injected with poison.
Post-mortem photos of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, age 50, told a story the media would not tell: the tip of his nose blackened, red blotches covering his cheeks and jaw and a horrific indentation on one side of his nose testified of torture and a cruel execution.
Most news sources subliminally justified Al-Mabhouh’s murder in Dubai on January 20. He was described only as a “senior Hamas militant,” “founding member of Hamas’ military wing” or even “arch-terrorist.” As someone who was allegedly involved in the deaths of two Israeli soldiers in the 1980s and committed numerous other acts of armed resistance against Israel, he was undoubtedly a menace by western standards.
Al-Mabhouh grew up in the squalor of Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp, but had lived in exile in Syria since 1989. He had been the target of two previous assassination attempts: a car bombing and a poisoning. The latter took place in Beirut only six months ago and rendered him unconscious for 30 hours.
The Israeli government issued a statement claiming Al-Mabhouh had traveled to Dubai en route to Iran in order to smuggle weapons back to his native Gaza. Israeli defense officials told the Associated Press that these rockets would be capable of reaching Tel Aviv 40 miles away. Evidently, there have been some major technological advances since Israel’s assault on Gaza last year, as retaliatory rockets fired from Gaza ranged only 25 miles.
While Israel has not officially acknowledged involvement in Al-Mabhouh’s murder, Israeli news agency Inyan Merkazi reported that a four-member squad of Shin Bet and Mossad agents interrogated Al-Mabhouh before executing him.
Whitewashed by western media as “extra-judicial assassinations” or “targeted assassinations,” such acts are tantamount to premeditated murder against anyone suspected of resistance against Israel’s 62-year occupation of Palestine. Al-Mabhouh’s death is the latest of numerous executions carried out by the Mossad and other Israeli government agencies throughout the Jewish State’s existence.
In 1972, the Mossad began a series of assassinations in what was supposed to be retribution for the deaths of Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics. Thirty-five suspects believed to have been involved in the attack were systematically ambushed throughout Europe and Lebanon. Many had ambiguous ties at best to the Munich operation and in a case of mistaken identity Ahmed Bouchiki, a young Moroccan waiter, was gunned down in Norway. Throughout this and other operations, the Mossad used false passports without the issuing government’s knowledge or approval in what has become a trademark of that organization’s modus operandi.
In 1997, Mossad agents traveled with Canadian passports to Amman, Jordan in a botched attempt on the life of Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal. In 2004, New Zealand jailed two Mossad agents for six months and imposed diplomatic sanctions against Israel after the pair illegally applied for passports in that country. Authorities in Dubai investigating the murder of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh have confirmed that his killers are traveling on Irish passports.
However, not all Israeli assassinations are clandestine operations.
Fateh co-founder Khalil al-Wazir, known as Abu Jihad, was killed in 1998 at his home in Tunis in front of his family. The 2004 Israeli airstrikes that killed Hamas founder and spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin and subsequently his replacement, Abdelaziz Al-Rantissi also killed Rantissi’s son, his bodyguard and eleven bystanders, including a five year-old child.
Not only are the leaders of armed resistance in the crosshairs of Israeli assassins, but political activists who speak out against the occupation of Palestine as well. Cartoonist Naji Al-Ali, whose brutally honest body of work earned him many powerful enemies, was murdered in cold blood in London on the way to his office. Although Al-Ali was critical of Arab governments and the corruption present in the hierarchy of Palestinian resistance groups, a preponderance of evidence points directly to the Mossad being responsible for his death.
Ten months after Al-Ali was killed, Scotland Yard arrested a student named Ismail Suwan, who turned out to be a Mossad agent. Suwan confessed that his superiors knew of the plot to kill Al-Ali. Upon refusing to cooperate further, Great Britain expelled two Israeli diplomats and closed the Mossad’s London base. Despite all this, no one was ever brought to justice for the crime.
In March 2003, a 23 year-old American college student named Rachel Corrie was killed by a bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier while trying to prevent a home demolition in the Gaza Strip. It was learned through Corrie’s own writings that activists with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) had come under fire in the weeks prior to her death while trying to retrieve the body of a Palestinian killed by Israeli forces. She told also of how the camp’s water wells were being destroyed by the Israeli military and that members of ISM had slept in front of the wells to deter the attacks.
Clearly the group’s activities were a source of consternation to the Israelis, one of whom took the opportunity to murder a young woman on a clear day in the Rafah refugee camp. Claiming Corrie’s death was “accidental,” he was never punished.
Many have paid the ultimate price for challenging the Israeli juggernaut, no matter what form that challenge has taken. Many individuals who never picked up a weapon have been targeted by the Jewish State. And if Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh was attempting to procure weapons, he was simply guilty of trying to help his people defend themselves against Israeli aggression. Only when the western-dominated court of world opinion is no longer content to let Israel act as judge, jury and executioner, will there be justice for occupied Palestine and all the people who met untimely and brutal deaths in her defense.
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By Rocky_Celt
Sunday, March 21, 2010
This is not a new story but we have been following it closely. And there are even some updates to the story and it really should make the news anytime the Mossad strikes at anyone or anything. We really should pay attention to how and when they operate. We can learn from the targets as well as the timing.
Last month, a senior Hamas commander, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, was assassinated in Dubai. Immediately everyone with any common sense at all regarding what happens in the Middle East when people that are opposed to Israeli actions and policies are assassinated, knew the score (this excludes 95% of all Americans). Anyone considered “Israeli unfriendly” (the entire non-Jewish population of that region) that gets assassinated is instantly assumed to be the latest target of Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel. This case was no exception and given the timing of the hit, it made lots of news.
Interestingly enough, the below article from The Times does a good job laying out the timeline. I say interestingly enough because it is under the News Corporation media conglomerate owned and headed by Rupert Murdoch. As you know, Rupert Murdoch is the exact opposite of “Israeli unfriendly” and so is his entire media empire.
But being ultra “Israeli friendly”, Murdoch will position the article more as an intriguing spy thriller than a violent Mossad hit, eloquently executed though it may have been. So aside from only a nanosecond parting reference to Mossad, The Times article also omits that Mabhouh was killed by a combination of electrocution and suffocation. But you can find that from other non kosher-party-line sources.
The article I found most helpful was from RIA. See below for the full article that will help put The Times article into proper context. Keep in mind, since this all happened in late January, the facts and evidence of the execution have been piling up. The Mossad agents involved were all caught on standard CCT (closed-circuit television) security cameras. They all had passports, mostly from throughout Europe, and some even held dual-citizenship in Israel. It was obvious who was behind the execution.
RIA article
Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai’s police chief, announced on February 18: “Our investigations reveal that Mossad is involved in the murder of al-Mabhouh … It is 99% if not 100% that Mossad is standing behind the murder.” He said that when they are 100% sure, they will issue an international warrant for the arrest of Israeli Mossad chief Meir Dagan.
I usually do not post videos but this one is worth watching. It is from RT, once called Russia Today, which has proven to be a good source of information that is not in lock-jaw adherence to the kosher-party-line and it actually seems to report objectively and honestly. The interview is with Gordon Thomas, a UK author and expert on espionage with particular insight into Mossad.
I would agree whole heartedly with Mr. Thomas when he explained essentially why it is so obvious this was yet another Mossad hit. He said, “I don’t think they are sloppy. I think it is a deliberate attempt to say don’t mess with us”. And what better way to say that then pull off an execution at a five-star hotel, make no attempt to hide the crime, and allow your leaders to conduct interviews all over the world with a smirk and standard “I have nothing to say about that” retort. This amounts to Israel thumbing its nose at the world knowing full well the world will ultimately do nothing about it.
At the end of the interview he alludes to a possible retaliation for the execution. And that retaliation will be responded to as well. It will nicely set the stage for an eventual attack on Iran by Israel.
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"Outing Miliband's expulsion
Has Miliband ever said anything not scripted by the Mossad? And the same question would apply to Bush, Obama, Blair and Brown.
Our boys are off to fight for Jewish values in foreign lands, according to the script. Why would Miliband be instructed to expel the Mossad operator at the Israeli Embassy in London?
Well the whole Dubai fiasco was very bad news for the Mossad. Lots of operators identified, ramifications throughout the Arab world, and apart from Israelis reveling in the murder, it was a rather meaningless petty and unnecessary deed. And this expulsion was for the use of British Passports in the Dubai Assassination.
So even the Mossad has internal policing, and telling their senior London man to take a ticket home serves their interests. We could expect the same to happen if operators in 9-11 were outed. The expulsion was a public outing, a humiliation, so that other staff members can no not to be so ignorantly short sighted.
The actual logistics of the operation were so inept, one wonders how entangled the degradation of human spirit has become, so that it manifests in cowardice, convoluted organisation and goals that are self defeating.
Then again we should consider if an intelligence agency does anything that is legal, and the answer is no, they are strictly here for acting above the law. They’ve got my drivers license and a passport but that is another story.
They make agreements between different agencies, ’share intelligence’, the mind boggles, there isn’t a criminal or a deviant they can’t employ. But the Mossad certainly enjoyed a reign of invincibility, just like Israel did, and just like the Jews have.
Somehow the genocide visited on Afghanis and Iraqis, and all the lies, revealed the Hubris, and now there is just spin and buying time.
And another one by the same source:
More on the Mossad head being kicked out of London
He stole and forged passports, because he was Jewish, to help the Jewish nation, because there was an holocaust, against the poor defenceless Jews.
What else did he oversee in the dark dens of the Israeli embassy? I’d be too afraid to speculate, but for sure all the anti human connivances available. And he did it because he was a Jew. This is the defining of the modern Israeli.
And was his role unique in the Israeli Embassy? No. And was the Israeli embassy in London unique when compared to other Israeli embassies?
What the hell are the Israelis up to? The Jewish invented Atomic bomb was used by Jewish power over Japan, and that is what we can expect more of. He authorized the theft of my British Drivers License, right out of my hands, at the Embassy, two British policemen were there as guards, I reported it to them, their shoulder IDs were D233 and D732.
The sad truth is Jews are not bad people, it is just an organisation filled with mafia type control, imbued with the holocaust religion, and determined to make the world pay…
There is a constant price to pay in terms of murder, most obvious is the plight of the Palestinians, but that is just the most obvious, it is in fact directed at all people.
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Related: Poor Little Israel Has a P.R. Problem
Gee, I can't imagine why.
Finally, on board an in the air.
One last look at land (photo only, March 19):
"BEACHED -- Hundreds of thousands of starfish have washed up at Budleigh Salterton in Devon, England over the last few days. Marine scientists believe they became susceptible to high tides and storms after becoming exhausted spawning. Such events happen once or twice a year in the United Kingdom.
Okay, what is in that paper I bought?
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican yesterday strongly defended its decision not to defrock an American priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin and denounced what it called a campaign to smear Pope Benedict XVI and his aides....
No, I didn't go to mass today.
The New York Times broke the story yesterday, adding fuel to a swirling scandal about the way the Vatican and Benedict have handled reports of priests raping children over the years.
Off with their heads, don't care which one.
Yesterday a group of Americans who say they were sexually abused by clerics held a news conference outside St. Peter’s Square to denounce Benedict’s handling of the case and gave reporters church and Vatican documents on the case.
Afterward, Italian police detained four Americans because they did not have a permit for the news conference and suggested they get a lawyer in case a judge decided to press charges, the Americans said....
Is that Italian hospitality?
Church and Vatican documents obtained by two lawyers who have filed lawsuits alleging the Archdiocese of Milwaukee did not take sufficient action against Murphy show that as many as 200 deaf students had accused him of molesting them....
The documents — letters between diocese and Rome, notes taken during meetings, and summaries of meetings — are remarkable in the church officials’ repeated desire to keep the case secret....
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Related: Vatican declined to dismiss priest who abused deaf boys
German abuse scandal draws closer to pope
Similarities in US, Italian abuse cases
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I'm looking right at the piece in my printed paper!
Instead that NYT PoS is in the web version!
What else, flip, flip?
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Even in this freewheeling land of tolerated soft drugs, the Checkpoint marijuana bar went too far. A Dutch judge fined it $13.3 million yesterday for overstepping the rarely enforced limit on how much marijuana can be held in stock, in what is seen as a test case in an effort to rein in drug tourism.
When the Netherlands turns towards tyranny, it's over.
At the height of its popularity, the euphemistically called “coffee shop’’ in the southern town of Terneuzen close to the Belgian border sold drugs to 3,000 people a day — many of them crossing specifically to buy marijuana and hashish.
All this time and money wasted on a drug war. Pffft.
In a sign of its acceptance by local authorities, the town even put up road signs pointing the way to the Checkpoint and built a parking lot nearby to reduce the traffic congestion in town.
And NOW all that MONEY will be going to the $tate, huh?
What, Dutch do not like economic prosperity and growth, huh?
The building near the Westerschelde River also housed a regular cafe and restaurant.
The Checkpoint, which has now closed, became a symbol for how the longstanding Dutch tolerance of small-scale sales of marijuana at neighborhood cafes spawned a multimillion-dollar industry.Yeah, but WEAPONS of WAR that exceed TRILLIONS is OKAY and LEGIT, huh?
Related: The Greatest Story Never Told
Ecsqueeze me?
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Related: European Vacation: Dutch Treat
Damn, I missed the bar!
Also see: Danes send their Mermaid on a mission
In a first, Irish pubs to open on Good Friday
I missed that bar, too!!!!
I should have stayed an extra day!
"Discontent in France fuels birth of new party" by Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press | March 26, 2010
PARIS — Former prime minister Dominique de Villepin, an eloquent, silver-haired diplomat, launched a new political party yesterday that prepares the way for him to challenge longtime rival Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential elections.
Villepin, who gained international fame with a forceful 2003 UN speech urging the United States not to invade Iraq, assailed Sarkozy’s presidency and said he was worried the “French model’’ is disintegrating.
Yeah, as his government was passing intelligence to us and sheltering German spies.
See: Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
So the U.N. arm-flailing at the time was also a s*** show, huh?
That's another reason I don't trust news, politics, or newspapers anymore.
“We need a change in politics,’’ Villepin said during a news conference....
Translation: Voters of the world know what that means.
Just as the Greeks.
Or AmeriKans (hi), for that matter.
Sarkozy’s popularity is sinking and his conservative party, the UMP, was trounced by leftists in regional elections last weekend.
See: European Vacation: Sarkozy's Sacre Bleu
Villepin, a former member of the UMP, did not say where the new party would fit on France’s political spectrum. He seems to want to exploit growing fractures in Sarkozy’s conservative camp....
I'm tired of the political opportunism and MSM games.
He said yesterday that he was “ill at ease’’ with government efforts to ban Islamic veils and cut public service jobs.
I'm more than that, I am outraged!
Wowee!!!
Yeah, Sarkozy thought the prejudiced Muslim-bashing would help him score political points.
Turns out even French Greens are Islamaphobes!
France should not be afraid of raising taxes, especially on the rich, to get through the financial crisis and reduce its deficit, he said.
So they can pay off banks?
The country needs to reduce the gap between rich and poor and keep social protections while remaining competitive, he said, without laying out how he would do that.
Since when was that an issue for the AmeriKan MSM?
Subtle bias, but there nonetheless.
Villepin was prime minister under President Jacques Chirac from 2005 to 2007. But he has been on the sidelines since Sarkozy took office.
Why?
Related: The Buzz in France
Slow Saturday Special: French Up in Arms Over Weapons Deals
Odd how that information didn't make it into the Zionist AmeriKan MSM political spat story, 'eh, readers?
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BRUSSELS — Greece won a major pledge of financial support from the other countries that use the euro and from the International Monetary Fund in a deal that aims to halt a government debt crisis undermining confidence in Europe’s currency union.
Also see: European Vacation: Globalists Bail on Greek Bailout
The joint eurozone-IMF bailout program comes with strict conditions and makes no money available right now. It could be tapped only if Greece or other financially troubled eurozone members cannot raise funds from financial markets....
Yeah, you always have to go to the usurious banksters first.
The deal, reached at a summit last night in Brussels, was a clear victory for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has taken a tough line on any bailout. She demanded that a rescue for Greece come only when the country runs out of other options and said it must include the IMF.
Oh, I was just there!
It was also a defeat for the French and the European Central Bank, which had opposed turning to the IMF, out of fear it would damage the euro’s prestige and show that Europe is unable to solve its own financial woes.
Yes, the globalist house-of-cards collapsing.
Greece’s financial difficulties have weighed on the shared currency, driving its exchange rate down.
Yeah, it's even lower than the stinking dollar!
It has also illustrated a basic weakness in the euro: The budget and deficit rules adopted to support it were not strong enough to prevent governments from spending their way into trouble.
With some help from Wall Street, of course.
A default — if Greece cannot raise money to pay off debt coming due this year — would be a further serious blow to the euro, and most economists and market analysts expected that the European Union would find a way to stop it. But pledges of support had been vague until now....
Greek government officials said they believe the existence of a eurozone safety net will help them borrow at lower costs....
Yup, BORROW to PAY OFF DEBT while going DEEPER into DEBT!
Yeah, that will work.
Luxembourg’s prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads the group of eurozone finance ministers, said they did not agree an amount of a possible bailout for Greece. Two diplomats earlier said the total loans would be about $29 billion. All eurozone nations are pledging to help.
Eurozone nations also want to prevent debt and deficits from getting out of control again, calling for tougher rules and sanctions....
The bailout program could be used to help other vulnerable eurozone nations, such as Portugal and Spain, that have seen debts soar.
Greece needs to borrow some $71.6 billion this year and must refinance about $26.5 billion in April and May. It has been able to sell bonds but says it cannot keep paying the high interest rates investors have been demanding to compensate them for perceived risk that Greece might not pay lenders back.
So the PEOPLE that REALLY NEED the BREAK get it right up the..... !!!!
I thought we were ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!
Banks ONLY OUT for THEMSELVES, huh?
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Related: New concern about Greece snuffs out a rally
WTF?
