Irish Central Bank Prints Euros to Pay Bonuses
The financial crisis which has been pulling eurozone nations such as Greece and Portugal into a downward spiral of high interest rates on...
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Some Romanians Pine for “Good Old Days” of Communism
Six years ago the Romanian Institute for Marketing and Polling reported that 64% of the people felt that their nation was moving in...
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WikiLeaks to Release Banking Information
Internet whistleblower website WikiLeaks plans to release information on tax evasion by the rich and famous after obtaining two disks of information from...
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Swiss Govt Angered Over Illegal Surveillance by U.S. Embassy
On Jan. 16, the news syndicate Breitbart reported that the U.S. embassy in Geneva has been conducting illegal surveillance on Swiss territory. In...
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Eurozone Avoids Meltdown — For Now
In defiance of all logic, the eurozone weathered a week of harrowing instability this past week, with Portugal, Spain, and Italy managing to...
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EU Officials Want Larger Bailout Fund
Even as the European Union is bankrupting itself with bailouts, the EU’s top Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Wednesday that the...
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EU Reinstates Travel Ban against Belarusian Dictator
The European Union announced today that they would be reinstating a travel ban against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and 40 of his close...
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Financial World Eyes Portugal
The outlook for the sale today of three- and nine-year bonds by the government of Portugal is still cloudy, but late-breaking news that...
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European Dis-Union
In a November 16, 2010 speech, European Union President Herman Van Rompuy warned that the eurozone economic crisis threatened the very existence of...
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If You Don’t Pay This Tax, We’ll Shoot Your Dog
German sociologist and political economist Max Weber once defined a state as an institution that “successfully upholds a claim on the monopoly of...
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The Ongoing Portuguese Debt Crisis
New year, new crisis. For the beleaguered, once-independent nations of Europe now entangled in the eurozone, the economic drama unfolding in Portugal this...
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Romania to Tax Proceeds of Witchcraft
Everybody curses the taxman, but there is a new category of taxpayers in Romania that just might know how to really do it....
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Brits Discredit Autism/Vaccine Link Study
In 1998, a study conducted by Andrew Wakefield, a former British surgeon and researcher, and his colleagues was published in The Lancet. According...
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Russia Resurrects Soviet-era KGB
As if news of the restoration of the Soviet Union through the new Customs Union was not alarming enough on its own, Britain's...
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Biometric ID Use Spreads in UK Schools
Only a few weeks after the European Commission expressed “significant concerns” over the compulsory fingerprinting of British students, the Daily Express is reporting...
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