"184 arrested in global pedophile ring" March 17, 2011|Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Police said yesterday they have smashed a huge international pedophile ring, rescuing 230 children from abuse and arresting 184 suspects — including teachers and police officers.
The three-year investigation code-named Operation Rescue uncovered 670 suspects and safeguarded children in more than 30 countries by arresting people accused of abusing them, said Rob Wainwright, director of the European Union police agency Europol.
The ring was centered on an Amsterdam-based online forum....
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"98 held in human smuggling sweep" April 20, 2011|Associated Press
BUDAPEST — Police in Europe have arrested 98 people as they cracked a smuggling network that brought thousands of Vietnamese to Europe, sometimes as slave labor for secret British marijuana plantations.
The smugglers even set up their own travel agency in Hungary to facilitate trafficking, Lieutenant Colonel Zoltan Boross of Hungary’s National Investigation Office said yesterday, adding that several of those arrested were counterfeiters who prepared fake documents for the migrants....
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"2 EU legislators resign, deny bribery report" by Associated Press / March 22, 2011
VIENNA — Two European Parliament lawmakers have resigned and a third has stepped down from his position in his party after a British newspaper reported they had agreed to propose legislation in return for bribes....
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"Greece falters on austerity agreement" by Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times / May 28, 2011
ATHENS — The aim of yesterday’s meeting was to convince officials of the European Union and International Monetary Fund that Greece is serious about repairing its finances and has the political will to impose more tax increases and spending cuts on a public already weary after a year of belt-tightening.
The effort came amid mounting speculation about the Greek government’s ability to avert a default, which would very likely lead to a new financial crisis across the euro zone....
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This is, of course, the hallmark of a fascist economic state. Profits are kept private, but losses are socialized across the general population.
As long as you sit there and go along with it, the future will be a continuation of the looting of the American people for the benefit of Wall Street (and Israel).
The irony here is that you accepting a lower standard of living will not actually save the economy or for that matter reduce the debt. The entire monetary system imposed on the nation by the privately-owned Federal Reserve is based on debt. All currency in circulation is the result of a loan from that private central bank as as Americans work to reduce their debt the government must increase its borrowing (on your behalf, without your permission, and with the demand that you eventually pay it back in taxes) in order to keep currency in circulation. So all this "austerity" and "sacrifice" will not actually solve the economic problems of this nation, but will instead simple shift the pain of the disaster from those who caused crash onto those who had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
As long as you go along with it.
But the people of Iceland did not go along with it. They tossed their crooked bankers in prison and fired the government that helped those bankers loot the people. More recently they rebuffed yet another effort by the bankers to trick them into paying the costs of the scam, and threatened to exclude Iceland from the EU if they did not. The people of Iceland, well aware that globalism is why the Wall Street scam ruined the Icelandic banks, do not want to be in the EU anyway and told the banks to go jump in Eyjafjallajökull!
Down in Egypt, the constant pressure for "austerity" and "sacrifice" demanded of the Egyptian people by Mubarak as he sold Egypt's natural gas to Israel at below market prices was a key factor in their revolution (as it was in Cuba's revolution against US puppet Batista). Although now hijacked by US and Israel interests, the revolutions in Yemen, Morocco, and Libya, etc. sprang out of a refusal by the people to continue to make do with less so that the rich could have more. "Austerity" demands led to riots in many nations such as Greece.
The question is, when will it happen in the US? When will Americans regain their right to say "no?" When will Americans remember they are supposed to be a free people, not merely the serfs of the banking class? When will Americans realize that although they are told they are civilized, they are in fact merely domesticated?
When will Americans realize that the rest of the world is laughing at us for hallucinating we are the land of the free and the home of the brave even as our children's futures are sold for Wall Street's bling?" -- Wake the Flock Up
Also see these from member countries:
French minister accused of sex crimes
DNA said to link ex-IMF chief to maid
France widens limits on use of water
Italian scientists who failed to predict ’09 earthquake are indicted
Wayland man dies in rockslide in Greece
