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by Tyler Durden 06/29/2011
Over the past two weeks, we have been suggesting, tongue in cheekily, that despite the relentless desires of everyone to sell the EUR, it has continued to drift higher, due to some inexplicable force with bottomless pockets, which, after some deductive logic, we assumed was China. It turns out we were correct. Naturally, figuring out what China does with its $3 trillion in foreign reserves is sometimes more complex than brain surgery (except what it does every (…)

You could be, too.
(San Francisco) - Business Insider’s Joe Weisenthal reported Jun 26, 2011:
“Newsflash: The radioactive crisis near Fukushima isn’t getting any better.
This has been something we discussed in the last few weeks, but now there are some new disturbing details.
From Japan Times:
More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it (…)

Executive summary - What agenda for a Euro-BRICS summit by 2015?
Executive summary* - 5th GlobalEurope EU-Russia Seminar (Moscow, May 23-24, 2011)
28/06/2011
During two days, academics, experts and diplomats from Russia, EU, India, China, Brazil and South-Africa [1] were gathered in the framework of the 5th GlobalEurope EU-Russia on the theme « Which agenda for a Euro-Brics Summit by 2015? » organized jointly by the Laboratoire Européen d’Anticipation Politique (LEAP), “Russkiy Mir” (…)

Voters Evolt! promotes a Peaceful Political Evolution consisting of a national voting holiday and uniform paper ballot which asks questions on a National Policy Referendum and provides for a Write-in Vote for President.
Interviews regarding the Evolt were conducted at the Netroots Nation Conference held in June 2011 in Minneapolis.
Among other political leaders, comments were obtained from five Congressmen, one U.S. Senator and three state representatives.
Here’s what they had to say (…)

Israeli authorities bulldozed over 100 gravestones in a 12th-century Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem overnight Saturday, the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage said.
The foundation said three bulldozers, two trucks and around 20 workers entered the historic Mamilla (Ma’man Allah) cemetery at 11 p.m. and destroyed over 100 gravestones, loading rubble from the gravestones into a truck.
Advisor of the Islamic movement in Israel Sheikh Ali Abu Sheikha notified the foundation of the (…)

Israeli activist says his ship, which is docked in Greece’s Piraeus port, was found with its propeller shaft broken which he believes was a deliberate attempt at sabotage.
One of the ships due to participate in the Gaza flotilla was deliberately tampered with while it was docked in Greece’s Piraeus port, Gaza flotilla activists told Haaretz on Monday.
The ship, due to carry Greek, Norwegian, and Swedish passengers to Gaza, was found with its propeller shaft broken, the ship’s spokesman (…)

An Israeli American explains why she will be among many boat passengers trying to break through Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Later this month an American ship, the Audacity of Hope, will leave Greece on a journey to the Gaza Strip to attempt to break Israel’s blockade. It will join an expected nine other ships flying numerous flags and carrying hundreds of passengers from around the world. I will be one of those passengers.
I am an Israeli Jewish American. I was born in Israel, (…)

Israel threatened Sunday to bar for up to a decade any foreign journalist who boards a flotilla seeking to challenge an Israeli naval blockade of Gaza.
Oren Helman, the director of the Government Press Office, sent a letter to registered foreign correspondents here asserting that the flotilla, scheduled to sail this week, was illegal and that participation in it, even as a reporter, was “liable to lead to participants being denied entry into the State of Israel for ten years, to the (…)

Following the “Greek” crisis in the news can be puzzling for the average observer, who watches befuddled as “lazy Greeks” and their “profligate welfare state”, threaten her country’s fragile economic recovery. The situation becomes even more incomprehensible as the public discourse progresses from reports on the impending doom to reports about “rioting Greeks”, who quite ungratefully seem to be rebelling against their country’s own “salvation” by another massive ECB/IMF loan to their (…)

For the majority of people in the United States — a majority does not vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks our public policy is headed in the wrong direction — the fact that we call this place a democracy is apparently outweighed by the fact that our national government almost never does what a majority of us want done. Some of the things we don’t want done include the destruction of the planet’s environment, the mass slaughter of war, the spreading of (…)