Thousands of Spain’s horses head for the slaughterhouse as economic crisis results in abandonment

By Agence France-Presse

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 2:34 EDT

In Spain’s boom years, they were a rich family’s status symbol. Now abandoned as a result of the economic crisis, horses are plodding in their tens of thousands to the slaughterhouse.…

If You Control the Gold, and Money is Tied to Gold, You Control the Money Supply.

Why do You think that China keeps upping the amount of gold They are importing?  Why do You think Germany is now asking for gold back?  Given that if You tie money to gold You can control the money, having gold, and therefore/thereby control the society that money supports…  It’s pretty clear that, with the…

‘Screw the Troika’: Hundreds of thousands protest austerity measures across Portugal

For some reason this video will not embed.  It needs to go viral!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYUUxIoFsDQ

And They ARE using this against Us NOW!

Ask…

Man trampled as hundreds of desperate Greeks scuffle for food (PHOTOS)

Published: 06 February, 2013, 23:57

A fruit and vegetable handout in Greece led to one man being trampled on Wednesday, calling attention to the desperate conditions in the crisis-hit country. Some 55 tons of produce was given away by farmers who were protesting high production costs.

The person was injured when he was…

In My piece, The End of Entropy (http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/the-end-of-entropy-a-look-at-our-entropic-world-and-the-evidence), I propose the following:



With a central website, in forum style, to address major issues – divided into local sections, regional sections and global sections, with “votes” at a…

The Hot Dog Stand: How Much Would You Charge?

by Amaterasu Solar

Let Us presume a world where free energy is available to all.  Also, Let’s add robots doing all the necessary work no One wants to do - or taking up the slack where not enough People are doing necessary work.



In this scenario, there would not be any need for money - in any form: barter, trade, work exchange,…

US drought might lead to food shortages and global unrest

Published: 25 July, 2012, 22:39

Rising food prices and global unrest might ensue from this month’s worst US drought since the 1934 Dust Bowl, with 64 per cent of the country desperately hoping for rain.

Predicted to last until October, the drought is foreseen to…

Brussels ready to back £80bn bailout for Spain: Economy minister requests bigger-than-expected rescue package for struggling banks

• Decision taken following discussion about eurozone's struggling economy
• Spanish minister said aid will not come with austerity conditions attached…

Invasion of the migrant squatters: Eviction orders for London mansions DOUBLE as economic crisis drives influx from overseas

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 15:09 GMT, 9 June 2012 | UPDATED: 15:09 GMT, 9 June…

Michael Snyder

The Economic Collapse

May 18, 2012

With each passing day, the banking crisis in Europe escalates.  European banks are having their…

King draws up emergency plans for Greece leaving single currency as investors pull 1.4billion euros out of crisis-hit country in just two days

• Experts believe a Greek withdrawal could put pressure on Spain and Portugal to do the same, triggering a collapse of the euro
• Despite the instability the eurozone…

Left-wing group named after Greek riot dog torch EU finance chief's car

• Group named after Greek riot dog called Loukanikos
• Horst Reichenbach is leader of EU task force on Greece
• Left sees him responsible for Greece's economic woe
• His wife had parked the car near their home in…

Greece could quit the euro, admits Merkel as global markets are plunged into turmoil

• Growing pessimism over future of single currency in current form
• Greek political paralysis as talks continue at 7.30pm to form government
• Communists vow to take to the streets as fears of civil war grow…

Fresh chaos in Greece as no political party wins enough votes to form a government

By Nick Mcdermott and Christine Pirovolakis

PUBLISHED: 23:56 GMT, 6 May 2012 |…

Michael Snyder

The American Dream

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Does it ever seem to you like people are becoming stupider than ever?  There have always been people out there that have been a few cards short of a full deck, but these days it seems like more people than ever are a few fries short of a Happy Meal.…

How a spate of suicides has a shocked the Greek nation as it prepares to go to the polls

By Reuters Reporter

PUBLISHED: 15:48 GMT, 28 April 2012 | UPDATED: 16:59 GMT, 28 April 2012

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Riots erupt in Greece after 'martyr' shoots himself over debt crisis

• 1,000 mourners gather in the spot where 'martyr' died
• Dimitris Christoulas, 77, a retired pharmacist, shot himself yards from the Greek parliament
• He said state pension had been slashed in suicide note…

Why Venus and Zeitgeist Don't Have It Quite Right

by Amaterasu Solar

I might presume that most of You are aware of the Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Movement.  What Jacque Fresco and Peter Joseph fail to grasp, in Each's approach to a "resource based economy" is that the planet We live on is vastly abundant, and the universe offers incalculable amounts of…

9/11 Forest – Come Out of the Trees!

by Amaterasu Solar

In reviewing 9/11 discussions I watch as each weird, improbable tree is pointed to and the 9/11 apologists start hacking it down, nearly always, in the end, saying something on the order of, “Yeah, it was unlikely, but not impossible, so, yeah, it just happened that way.” 

So I stand…