Posts Tagged ‘Spain’

Markets drop across Europe and U.S.

Israel is scapegoat – for defending itselfby Craig Masters Violence across Europe – seen on facebook worldwide An updated Associated Press Story carried in The Washington Post begins, ”Israeli airstrikes on targets in Gaza Strip hit markets Wednesday, with European shares falling most amid work stoppages in southern Europe and worries about economic growth across [...]

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Supremes to hear case that could outlaw garage sales, thrift stores

by Jack Minor –   The United  States Supreme Court is poised to head a case at the end of this month that could essentially shut down garage sales by prohibiting the resale of used goods purchased by a person.   The case involved  U.S. student, Supap Kirtsaeng, who discovered that textbooks used in the college [...]

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Weakening Oil Prices Demand Government Action

by Mike McCune –   World governments have not learned their lessons from 20th Century history. It is inevitable they will generate a conflict with “global implications” somewhere soon. The price of oil demands it.   Oil continues to fall on world markets, a sure sign of the depths of the slowdown in the global [...]

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Pain in Spain Comes Mainly From the Drain

by Mike McCune –   The sucking sound of money going into the debt wasteland is coming from Europe again. This time the sound has shifted to the Iberian Peninsula but it has a eerily familar sound and carries the same dire consequences as the put-off Greek tragedy. The only question for central bankers is [...]

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(This is the 5th installment of a series intended to explain why the global economic recession defies expert projections and continues on the path to collapse.)

Mike McCune     In George Orwell’s 1984, government had made it a crime not to think as it wanted you to. It had broken down the family by having individual members report on other members. So everyone was essentially alone in his or her private battle with authority and particularly the Thought Police.   [...]

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China Considers Drilling in Cuban Waters

By Mike Bauman  As crude oil prices continue to rise due to increased demand from emerging economies and decreased supply due to unrest in the Middle East, Americans are feeling the pinch at the pump.  Rules put in place after last year’s infamous BP oil spill, have virtually stopped additional drilling in US waters in the Gulf [...]

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The Rant

Guest Columnist Mike McCune Winston Churchill: The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. RAMBLING THOUGHTS There are many small things to be looked at today, not one is big enough for a “Rant” by itself. Most have gotten no more [...]

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Superhighway from Mexico to Canada underway

By Jim Frazier, For the Greeley Gazette A superhighway connecting Mexico to Canada is underway. Land rights are being acquired and engineering plans developed for a 10 lane highway in a 1200 foot-wide corridor that includes segments of Interstate 35. The first ‘customs stop’ is not at the border, but in Kansas City at a [...]

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