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Cyprus bailout:
'Trust in our banks has evaporated.
It can only get worse'

Hundreds of protesters vent fury before key parliamentary vote on levy of up to 10% on all bank deposits to pay for rescue plan.

Cyprus bailout: 'Trust in our banks has evaporated. It can only get worse' | World news | guardian.co.uk

Undoubtedly it was only this showing of public anger that prevented the parliament from imposing the 10% levy. Just the fact that the bailout levy was proposed and put up for a vote, though, surely has a great many Cypriots determined to withdraw their account balances in order to protect their assets from any further assaults. With a run on banks pretty much a certainty, no doubt the parliament will feel compelled to legislate some emergency measure to protect the banking system, such as freezing accounts, or allowing only small withdrawals that are in keeping with past accounts history. The European Union (EU) will continue playing hardball with Cyprus, and will probably boot Cyprus out of the EU unless they can force Cyprus to pay up. That would, of course be the best thing to happen to Cypus, as they could then start printing their own currency debt and interest free. There's obviously no advantage to Cyprus in remaining in the EU. Sure, they will be castigated and cut off by other EU nations which will refuse to trade with them, but Cyprus can be largely independent and can still arrange trade agreements with nations outside the EU. But will the Cypriot parliament do what is necessary, or simply do what TPTB tell them to do?

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The experts agree.....




If you haven't already seen the video "Innocents Betrayed," I strongly urge to to watch it now. It is a 57 minute video that teaches the history of gun control, and the despicable acts that were perpetrated upon the people of several nations by their own governments, under the guise of "protecting" citizens. If you watch this and don't recognize some strong similarities to what is going on right now in the United States, then you are likely to be one of those sheeple that are easily misled and deluded by government propaganda. Only the most intelligent among us will find it sufficient to learn and be convinced by studying history and recognizing when history repeats itself. The rest will only recognize it when it has personally befallen and affected them.

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history repeats itself.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. Max Beerbohm

History is interim reports issued periodically. Anonymous

History is a myth that men agree to believe. Napoleon

History is the invention of historians. Attributed to Napoleon

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Mark Twain

History is not history unless it is the truth. Abraham Lincoln

A new future requires a new past. Eric Foner

History News Network

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Did the Social Studies Really Replace History in American Secondary Schools?
TCRecord: Article

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[Mad Scientist]

Apparently the author is trying to sugar coat the fact that history was replaced by social studies where the facts could be more easily colored to suit current agendas. Of course there was not an abrupt change in the way history was being taught because to do so might have wakened up the sheeple as to what was really going on.

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The Corporation US Senate voted 75 to 24 to approve the Internet Tax Mandate, mislabeled as the "Marketplace Fairness Act." This just goes to show that Senate Democrats and Republicans alike are on board with implementing as many new tax schemes as possible in order to carry on their out of control tax and spend mentality.

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News has leaked out that Connecticut offered Freedom Group, the parent company of Bushmaster Firearms, a low interest $1 million loan if they would move 25 executives and its headquarters to Stamford Connecticut. Ironically, the offer was made on December 6th, just 8 days before the Sandy Hook incident where a Bushmaster AR-15 was alleged to have been used to kill several school children. The offer was quickly withdrawn right after the Sandy Hook incident occurred, and it is no wonder they wanted to keep this offer quiet. Read more about this here.

In other gun related news, we see that the mainstream media is still featuring a new shooting story every day, as well as rehashing older ones, in order to sway public opinion and keep the pressure on for gun control legislation. This week the top stories were the killing of a Colorado prison director, and a pizza delivery man, by a prominent attorney's white supremacist son, the shooting deaths of three marines at Quantico, in Virginia, and the youngster shot in the face while sitting in a stroller and out for a walk with the mother. The press chooses only these kind of high profile cases to spotlight, as it makes for better story lines than your typical every-day armed convenience store robbery or gang related shootings, in which the incident itself, or facts about the perps and victims, are usually rather ho-hum. Thus, only stories that afford some kind of sensationalism are featured. This daily onslaught will surely continue until the gun control advocates get their way, no matter how long that takes. Of that we can be sure.

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Rick

I BELIEVE, prior to 'floating' the idea of the 10% surtax, the banks in Cypriot has ALREADY been closed, (to prevent a run), and YES, walking away from the E.U. would be 'best' for many of these countries, but WILL they DO it?

The 'argument' for the I-net tax; its 'unfair' that sales from a 'brick and mortar' store are subject to tax, but those from an I-net 'store' are not, and I agree, it IS unfair. So, just 'dissolve' the sales tax obligation, on the 'brick and mortar' sales; problem solved!

And yes, the peole who are elceted to D.C, regardless of party, are attracted to, seduced by the illusion of power; no taxes, no $, no influence, no power.

Thats a big part of the problem, that ever increasing Gov't has an inherent momentum to it; its like an 'addiction', and no addict will willingly undergo 'cold turkey', unless they realise they have no other choice.

We will need a REAL crises, before we will see real change. I THINK 'they' are creating such a real crises, out of incompetence and shortsightedness, and turf protection and Beurocratic bungling; YOU thoink they are doing it deliberately; either way, its going to take a collapse, or run-away Hyper-inflation, and even then the barstuds will do their best to try to manuever on top.

I DID hear the new P.M. of japan, was going to try to do things to break their long run of stagnant economy, and was likely to mis-calculate, resulting in Hyper-inflation for japan, which COULD set off worldwide Hyper-inflation.
Dare I say, "One can only HOPE!"?Jim

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Sign the REPEAL OBAMACARE petition:

Whereas: Obamacare violates the Constitution in several ways including forcing Americans to buy services they may not want or need; and
Whereas: This big-government takeover of healthcare is driving up healthcare costs, imposing new taxes, increasing deficit spending, ballooning the national debt, and destroying our national healthcare system; and
Whereas: Never before has such an unconstitutional monstrosity been unwillingly and unlawfully imposed on the American people; and
Whereas: Polls overwhelmingly show the vast majority of Americans favor repeal of Obamacare;
Therefore: I urge you to take action to repeal Obamacare immediately.

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Nearly a year ago, in April of 2012, the PBS program Frontline produced a documentary series titled, Money, Power, and Wall Street. As revealed in the Frontline report, Barry's administration cohort, Eric Holder, has driven federal prosecutions of financial crimes down to a two-decade low. The administration, and Holder's inJustice Department, have been blinded to corporate corruption by campaign donations from Wall Street banks (which Holder has said are too big to prosecute anyways) and staffers whose very prosperous financial portfolios came about as a result of chummy relationships with financiers.

Even leftist progressive radio show host, best-selling author and journalist David Sirota has pointed out that Barry's administration has made a mockery of what the Justice Department was meant to be. Sirota says:

David Sirota

Sirota recently lost his radio show, which had aired on Clear Channel from Denver. Two likely reasons why this may have happened are closely linked. First, Sirota's unwelcome bashing of Barry's administration and Wall Street, and secondly the fact that Bain Capital bought out Clear Channel. In the world of high finance, money talks the loudest and can buy pretty much anything desired, as there are always plenty of greedy, corrupt, and willing people in high positions who stand ready to play the game as TPTB designate it must be played.

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2 billion rounds of ammo

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Republican NAYs - Ayotte (R-NH)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Coats (R-IN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cruz (R-TX)
Flake (R-AZ)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heller (R-NV)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)

Only 5 Senate Democrats voted against approval, as shown below:

Baucus (D-MT)
Merkley (D-OR)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Tester (D-MT)
Wyden (D-OR)

If your senator is in one of the bottom two lists, contact your senator to offer praise and to demand that they stand firmly against any such tax scheme that is proposed or put to a vote. Otherwise be sure to let him or her know you consider their vote to be in extreme poor judgment and pressure your senator to vote differently if this tax scheme comes up again, which it is likely to. Just say "NO NEW TAXES!" and "HANDS OFF THE INTERNET!"

See the complete Internet Tax voting results here.

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Welcome to the age of corporate tyranny- YouTube


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