SaLuSa: As if by Magic, the Coming of 2012 Will Lift You Up
SaLuSa via Mike Qunisey http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/mike_quinsey/channeled%20messages/December%202011/salusa__14december2011.htm 14-December-2011 The financial saga in Europe is far from finished , and its repercussions shall travel far and wide. We hold no particular desire as to the outcome,…
Arundhati Roy: “The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution”
Arun Gupta, guardian.co.uk, 11-30-11 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/30/arundhati-roy-interview The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn to the Occupy movement and the need to reclaim language and meaning. Sitting…
Kuwait Cabinet Resigns Amid Political Crisis
by Louie http://stevebeckow.com/2011/11/kuwait-cabinet-resigns-amid-political-crisis/ Kuwait’s cabinet has resigned after protesters and opposition deputies demanded that the prime minister step down over allegations of corruption, state-run television has reported. “The prime minister [Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah] has submitted his resignation…
French and German Eurozone Woes Rock Markets
French and German eurozone woes rock markets By Louise Armitstead, Chief business correspondent, Telegraph, 21 Nov 2011 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8905428/French-and-German-eurozone-woes-rock-markets.html Germany and France, Europe’s cornerstone economies, were dragged into the eye of the debt storm…
Berlusconi Plays Last Cards, Denies He Will Resign
By Paolo Biondi and Barry Moody http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/07/us-berlusconi-idUSTRE7A61GR20111107 (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, under huge pressure from international markets and rebels in his party, tried to play his last cards on Monday…
MF Global Caught Stealing Hundreds of Millions From Customers
Regulators Investigating MF Global for Missing Money By BEN PROTESS, MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED and SUSANNE CRAIG New York Times, Oct. 31, 2011 http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/regulators-investigating-mf-global/ Federal regulators have discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in customer…
Greek Referendum Deepens Crisis; Angers Germans
By Dina Kyriakidou and Harry Papachristou ATHENS | Tue Nov 1, 2011 9:00am EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/01/us-greece-referendum-idUSTRE79U5PQ20111101 (Reuters) – The leaders of France and Germany scrambled on Tuesday to limit damage after Prime Minister George Papandreou decided to let…