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France’s triumphant ‘Joan of Arc’ vows to bring back franc and destroy euro

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“‘We cannot be seduced,’ she said, brimming with confidence after her party secured 46pc of the vote a week ago. Her candidate trounced the ruling Socialists in their own bastion of Villeneuve-sur-Lot. ‘The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves, and that is our incredible strength. What are they going to do, send in tanks?’  ‘Europe is just a great bluff. One side there is the immense power of sovereign peoples, and on the other side are a few technocrats,’ she said.  It is her defence of the French welfare model and her critique of capitalism that gives her a Leftist hue — some call it 1930s national socialism — so far in outlook from Britain’s UKIP.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10151286/Frances-triumphant-Joan-of-Arc-vows-to-bring-back-franc-and-destroy-euro.html

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Snowden Is Not the Story

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“Deep Throat was not the story in 1972, and Edward Snowden is not the story today. The abuse of America’s intelligence agencies is.  And yet, we are not having an open discussion. We are instead seeing a media circus. The messenger, Edward Snowden, has been made ‘the story.’ Keeping under safe political cover, President Obama is deferring to the Justice Department—the same Justice Department which seized the Associated Press’ phone records and criminalized Fox News reporter James Rosen to pursue a leak investigation into a former State Department contractor.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4657

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Germany and France Demand to Know Why They Were Being Spied On

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“Members of the European Union are quite upset because their relationship with the U.S. is supposed cozier than the frosty relationship between the U.S. and Russia. Germany and France seem really miffed over this whole spying deal. They thought they were exempt from surveillance because they are allies at the end of the day. ‘These facts, if confirmed, would be totally unacceptable,’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius told Le Monde. ‘We expect the U.S. authorities to stand up as soon as possible the legitimate concerns raised by the revelations of the press.’ German politicians are also demanding an explanation from the U.S.”

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/06/germany-and-france-demand-know-why-they-were-being-spied/66723/

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Mass State Surveillance Not About Privacy

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“The way we’re encouraged to cope with this is to make it about privacy: to turn inwards, take stock of our personal inner domain, and decide just how much of our lives can be offered up to the state. Large scale, bureaucratic intrusion into our personal lives is a given, but we can fill out a customer response card if we have any comments about the degree of the intrusion. If this is about privacy, the onus is on us to define its limits, to guide our servant institutions to the right policies that will protect our newly cordoned-off personal space. And so they invent a clever distraction about what the limits of privacy should be.”

http://c4ss.org/content/19769

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A General Gets Knifed

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“In an administration that loves leak investigations, this is arguably the most significant one to date. The foreign-policy implications of identifying the Stuxnet virus as the handiwork of U.S. spies were enormous. The Obama administration’s protests against Chinese cyber-espionage are undermined by the fact that America fired the first shot in a global cyberwar. And it arguably led to an escalation. U.S. intelligence believes that the cyberattack on the facilities of Saudi Aramco last year was carried out by the government of Iran. Yet there were members of the intelligence community who believe that the Stuxnet leak had its benefits.”

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/28/a_general_gets_knifed_james_cartwright_stuxnet_leak?page=full

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A Social Phenomenon: Protests Erupt in Brazil

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“A girl organized a protest, expecting a few hundred people to attend. Instead, there were tens of thousands, and then a million. It was like throwing a seed crystal into a super-saturated solution and causing crystallization throughout the whole body of liquid. It was like a wildfire spreading. This is what we so far have NOT seen occur in America. This is, however, what the authorities are preparing for. They know that the array of grievances of Americans is growing by the day, week, month and year. They know that they have not addressed these grievances, and they know that when the promises of government cannot be kept, these grievances are going to spill into the streets.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/140084.html

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US Marines Put On Alert To Move Into Egypt Amid Violent Protests

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“Amid anti-government demonstrations planned for this weekend, roughly 200 combat-capable U.S. Marines in southern Europe have been put on an alert status should they need to protect the U.S. Embassy or American citizens in Egypt, CNN is reporting. The Marines were told to be ready to deploy within an hour, and would be flown in via MV-22 Osprey, the Marine Corps’ rapid deployment aircraft.  A state department spokesman told CNN that the move is precautionary, and that the U.S. fully expects the Egyptian security forces to be able to protect the American diplomatic facilities.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/marines-prepared-to-move-into-egypt-2013-6

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“Banish Fractional Reserve Banking for Real Reform”

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“. . . says Thomas Mayer, a former IMF economist and former Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank Group and Head of DB Research, and now a Deutcshe Bank Senior Advisor.  Mayer goes on to cite Austrian monetary and business-cycle theorist Jesus Huerta de Soto on the causal connection between fractional reserves and banking crises throughout history. He points out: ‘Since there is no single state in the eurozone able to bail out banks in a systemic crisis, a banking regime without state backing is needed.’ He concludes his letter with a four-step plan for ‘comprehensive’ banking reform that would implement just such a regime.”

http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/06/banish-fractional-reserve-banking-for-real-reform/

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WikiLeaks: Snowden Risks Being Stuck in Russia ‘Permanently’

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“The WikiLeaks organization said on Tuesday that U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden may be forced to stay in Russia permanently because Washington is ‘bullying’ possible intermediary countries, reports Naharnet.  Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Snowden — who had been expected to board a flight for Cuba on Monday, reportedly on his way to seek asylum in Ecuador — was still in a Moscow airport transit zone.  ‘Cancelling Snowden’s passport and bullying intermediary countries may keep Snowden permanently in Russia,’ WikiLeaks said on its Twitter feed.  ‘Not the brightest bunch at State,’ it said, referring to the U.S. State Department.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/06/wikileaks-snowden-risks-being-stuck-in.html

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U.S. withdraws Bangladesh trade ‘privileges’ over worker safety

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“The United States withdrew trade privileges from Bangladesh Thursday, citing dangerous conditions for workers in the wake of a factory building collapse that killed over 1,100 people. Multiple recent tragedies in the country’s huge garment sector ‘have served to highlight some of the serious shortcomings in worker rights and workplace safety standards in Bangladesh,’ said US Trade Representative Michael Froman.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/27/u-s-cuts-bangladesh-trade-privileges-over-worker-safety/

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