Don Coxe: The Global Situation Is Becoming Quite Desperate!

• Don Coxe – The Global Situation Is Becoming Quite Desperate! 
  by www.kingworldnews.com
  With stock markets trading in the red around the world, today King World News interviewed 40 year veteran Don Coxe.  Coxe told King World News, “The situation (in Europe) has gone from worse to truly awful in the last week.”  He also warned that “… by the end of the summer we might be facing two of the PIIGS going into default.”
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  Coxe, who is Global Strategy Advisor to BMO ($538 billion in assets), also spoke about the drought, which has been one of the worst in the past century:  “It’s going to mean that the winter is going to be a much more chilling experience for the consumers because there is no question that food prices will be, by then, meaningfully higher.”
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  Coxe also discussed gold, but first, here is what he had to say about the severe drought:  “This is one of the three biggest droughts of the last 100 years.  In the regions where it is established, it’s been brutal.  Those farmers who do not have irrigation equipment, in most cases, are just going to have to plow their crops under.”
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Dark Knight Massacre: History of Government Sponsored Terror!

A Noble Lie: Evidence of Gov’t Staged Terrorism Used on Americans!

@Govt Follows You: Twitter Feeds Info To US Police State!

All scams are based on deception and mis-direction! ’666′ is coming!

US Seeks Iraq-Like Scenario in Syria: Lawrence Davidson!

Marine Corps Creates Law-Enforcement Battalions!

Source: http://roguemedia.org/

• Martial law is coming to America!
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  Marine Corps creates law-enforcement battalions! 
  By JULIE WATSON, The Associated Press
  The Marine Corps has created its first law-enforcement battalions — consolidated units of military police officers trained to investigate a variety of crimes. Combat in Iraq and Afghanistan has underscored the relevance of such a force, as Marines have increasingly found themselves playing street cop in addition to combat duties.
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  CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The Marine Corps has created its first law-enforcement battalions — a lean, specialized force of military police officers that it hopes can quickly deploy worldwide to help investigate crimes from terrorism to drug trafficking and train fledgling security forces in allied nations.
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  The Corps activated three such battalions last month. Each is made up of roughly 500 military police officers and dozens of dogs. The Marine Corps has had police battalions off and on since World War II but they were primarily focused on providing security, such as accompanying fuel convoys or guarding generals on visits to dangerous areas, said Maj. Jan Durham, commander of the 1st Law Enforcement Battalion at Camp Pendleton.
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  The idea behind the law-enforcement battalions is to consolidate the military police and capitalize on their investigative skills and police training, he said. The new additions come as every branch in the military is trying to show its flexibility and resourcefulness amid defense cuts.
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  Marines have been increasingly taking on the role of a street cop along with their combat duties over the past decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they have been in charge of training both countries’ security forces. Those skills now can be used as a permanent part of the Marine Corps, Durham said.
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The Most Dangerous Drug in The World: ‘Devil’s Breath’ Chemical from Colombia can Block Free Will, Wipe Memory And Even Kill !

• The most dangerous drug in the world: ‘Devil’s Breath’ chemical from Colombia can block free will, wipe memory and even kill ! 
  By Beth Stebner, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
  - Scopolamine often blown into faces of victims or added to drinks
  - Within minutes, victims are like ‘zombies’ – coherent, but with no free will
  - Some victims report emptying bank accounts to robbers or helping them pillage own house
  - Drug is made from borrachero tree, which is common in Colombia
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  A hazardous drug that eliminates free will and can wipe the memory of its victims is currently being dealt on the streets of Colombia. The drug is called scopolamine, but is colloquially known as ‘The Devil’s Breath,’ and is derived from a particular type of tree common to South America.
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  Stories surrounding the drug are the stuff of urban legends, with some telling horror stories of how people were raped, forced to empty their bank accounts, and even coerced into giving up an organ.
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  VICE’s Ryan Duffy travelled to the country to find out more about the powerful drug. In two segments, he revealed the shocking culture of another Colombian drug world, interviewing those who deal the drug and those who have fallen victim to it. Demencia Black, a drug dealer in the capital of Bogota, said the drug is frightening for the simplicity in which it can be administered.
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  He told Vice that Scopolamine can be blown in the face of a passer-by on the street, and within minutes, that person is under the drug’s effect – scopolamine is odourless and tasteless. ‘You can guide them wherever you want,’ he explained. ‘It’s like they’re a child.’ Black said that one gram of Scopolamine is similar to a gram of cocaine, but later called it ‘worse than anthrax.’ In high doses, it is lethal.
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  The drug, he said, turns people into complete zombies and blocks memories from forming. So even after the drug wears off, victims have no recollection as to what happened.
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  One victim told Vice that a man approached her on the street asking her for directions. Since it was close by, she helped take the man to his destination, and they drank juice together.
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Eric Sprott: Silver Market Currently Extremely Tight, Upside is STUNNING!

• Eric Sprott: Silver Market Currently Extremely Tight, Upside is STUNNING! 
  by http://www.silverdoctors.com/ 
  Our friend Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Management has released a 4-part interview answering readers questions about gold, silver, and the current economic situation. Sprott discusses the PSLV’s recent $200 million issue, the current supply/demand situation in gold and silver, whether there is more than 1 entity manipulating the metals markets (Sprott states the G6 Central Banks are behind the metals manipulation), the risk of government confiscation, and much more!
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  ‘There’s a lot of evidence that the G6 Central Banks don’t like the gold price going up. They particularly don’t like the gold price going up when the crisis is at its peak because gold is the canary in the coal mine. So, there is no overt proof of manipulation. There are many people who look at all kinds of data that – and myself included. I look at the physical data and I say “Well, where’s the physical gold coming from that these various entities are buying?”
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  When I look at the difference in supply and demand from, let’s say, 2000 to today, I see demand having gone up by about 60% and supply is about the same. So, where’s the gold mine supply and recycling? So where’s the gold coming from? I personally suspect that the G6 Central Banks, who are trying to keep the world together, are supplying that gold through the physical market through leasing of gold from central banks.‘

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Debt crisis: IMF ‘Suppressed Signs that Europe was Facing Debt Crisis’!

• What is happening in the Eurozone is the complete fascist takeover by Illuminist banksters! It is about the financial rape of the sheeple, consolidation of power, destruction of national sovereignties … all under the false pretext of rescuing the indebted nations! The IMF, ECB, FedRes, World Bank … and practically all central banks are privately owned Illuminist corporations. The major shareholders are the 13 Satanic bloodlines!
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  Debt crisis: IMF ‘suppressed signs that Europe was facing debt crisis’! 
  by Richard Blackden, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ 
  The International Monetary Fund deliberately suppressed evidence that Europe was heading for a debt crisis, according to a blistering resignation letter from a senior economist at the fund.
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  Peter Doyle, an economist in the IMF’s European department, also used the letter to attack the appointment of Christine Lagarde, the fund’s managing director. The allegations are particularly embarrassing coming from someone who until last month was a senior official at the Washington-based   institution and at a time when Europe’s debt crisis shows little sign of easing.
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  “The substantive difficulties in these crises, as with others, were identified well in advance but suppressed here (at the IMF),” Mr Doyle wrote in the letter to Shakour Shaalan, head of the IMF’s board of directors. The letter goes on to claim that “the failure of the fund to issue them (warnings) is a failing of the first order, even if such warnings may not have been heeded”.
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  The IMF, which has played a central role in the bail-outs of Greece, Portugal and Ireland, has recently tapped countries from the UK to China for another $500bn (£320bn) to be deployed in Europe, should the debt crisis escalate. Mr Doyle, whose 20-year career at the fund included spells in Sweden, Denmark and Israel, said its failure to give a warning has led to   “suffering” in Greece and elsewhere and left it “playing catch-up and reactive roles in last-ditch efforts to save it (the euro)”.
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Illuminati 2012 False Flag Nuke Attack on London Olympics To Trigger WW3? Occult Predictive Programming!

Daily Mail UK 31 March 2010. Illuminati warning? Click on image to goto article.

Global Banks are The Financial Services Wing of The Drug Cartels!

• The global drug trade is owned by the 13 Satanic bloodlines and controlled via Illuminist western intelligence agencies: CIA, MI5/6, Mossad … etc. All major western banks are owned/controlled by the 13 Satanic bloodlines. The drug business is not just about money. It is about enslavement of the sheeple via drug addiction. It is about destroying the sheeple so that they don’t find the path to the Son of God, Jesus Christ ! The Illuminists fill the lives of the sheeple with all kinds of problems so that they don’t figure out what is really going on. Don’t be naive!
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  Global banks are the financial services wing of the drug cartels! 
  by Ed Vulliamy, guardian.co.uk 
  As HSBC executives apologise to the US Senate for laundering drugs money, the fact is that nothing changes
  “Steal a little,” wrote Bob Dylan, “they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you a king.” These days, he might recraft the line to read: deal a little dope, they throw you in jail; launder the narco billions, they’ll make you apologise to the US Senate.
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  Two months ago in Washington DC, a poor black man called Edward Dorsey Sr was convicted of peddling 5.5 grams of crack cocaine. Because he was charged before a recent relative amelioration in sentencing, he was given a mandatory 10 years in jail.
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  Last week, managers from Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, lined up before the Senate’s permanent sub-committee on investigations – just across the Potomac river from the scene of Dorsey’s crime – to be asked questions such as: “It took three or four years to close a suspicious account. Is there any way that should be allowed to happen?”
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  The “suspicious account” was that of a “casa de cambio”, a currency exchange house operated in Mexico on behalf of the largest criminal syndicate in the world and one of the most savage, the Sinaloa drug-trafficking cartel. The dealings had been flagged up to HSBC bosses by an anti-money laundering officer, but to no avail – the dirty business continued. “No, senator,” came the reply from a bespectacled Brit called Paul Thurston, chief executive, retail banking and wealth management, HSBC Holdings plc.
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  Wachovia was fined $50m and made to surrender $110m in proven drug profits, but was shown to have inadequately monitored a staggering $376bn through the casa de cambio over four years, of which $10bn was in cash. The whistleblower in the case, an Englishman working as an anti-money laundering officer in the bank’s London office, Martin Woods, was disciplined for trying to alert his superiors, and won a settlement after bringing a claim for unfair dismissal.
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  No one from Wachovia went to jail – and, said Woods at the time of the settlement: “These are the proceeds of murder and misery in Mexico, and of drugs sold around the world. But no one goes to jail. What does the settlement do to fight the cartels? Nothing. It encourages the cartels and anyone who wants to make money by laundering their blood dollars.”
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  HSBC has been found to have handled $7bn in narco cash, “and this is the starter for 10″, Woods now says. “We’ll get the full picture over time. But what’s the sanction on these banks? What’s their risk? The cartels should renegotiate their charges with the banks. They’re being priced for a risk element that isn’t there.”
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• Dateline report on CIA drug trafficking into the US with follow-up commentary by Alex Jones
  Dateline news report on how the CIA brought cocaine into the US during the 1980s, igniting the crack epidemic. The late investigative journalist Gary Webb discusses how “Freeway Ricky Ross” was only a small player in a much larger scheme by the CIA to traffic drugs into America. Former DEA agent Cele Castillo is also interviewed, speaking about how when he worked for the DEA and witnessed drug trafficking, he was told that it was a code operation being run by the White House! After the dateline report, Alex Jones offers further insight into the system of control that the US government has manufactured with it’s so called “War on Drugs”. This news piece is extremely damning evidence of the drug running conducted by the US government!
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• MI6 Are the Lords of the Global Drug Trade (emphasis mine)
  by James Casbolt, Former MI6
  It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme. As intelligence insiders know MI5 and MI6 control many of the other intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, MOSSAD etc) in a vast web of intrigue and corruption that has its global power base in the city of London, the square mile. My name is James Casbolt, and I worked for MI6 in ‘black ops’ cocaine trafficking with the IRA and MOSSAD in London and Brighton between 1995 and 1999.
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  My father Peter Casbolt was also MI6 and worked with the CIA and mafia in Rome, trafficking cocaine into Britain. My experience was that the distinctions of all these groups became blurred until in the end we were all one international group working together for the same goals. We were puppets who had our strings pulled by global puppet masters based in the city of London. Most levels of the intelligence agencies are not loyal to the people of the country they are based in and see themselves as ‘super national’.
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  It had been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CIA has been bringing in most of the drugs into America for the last fifty years (see ex LAPD officer Michael Rupert’s ‘From the wilderness’ website for proof). The CIA operates under orders from British intelligence and was created by British intelligence in 1947. The CIA today is still loyal to the international bankers based in the city of London and the global elite aristocratic families like the Rothschild’s and the Windsor’s. Since it was first started, MI6 has always brought drugs into Britain. They do not bring ‘some’ of the drugs into Britain but I would estimate MI6 bring in around ninety percent of the drugs in. They do this by pulling the strings of many organised crime and terrorist groups and these groups like the IRA are full of MI6 agents.
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  MI6 bring in heroin from the middle east, cocaine from south America and cannabis from morocco as well as other places. British intelligence also designed and created the drug LSD in the 1950′s through places like the Tavistock Institute in London. By the 1960′s MI5, MI6 and the CIA were using LSD as a weapon against the angry protestors of the sixties and turned them into ‘flower children’ who were too tripped out to organise a revolution.
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  Dr Timothy Leary the LSD guru of the sixties was a CIA puppet. Funds and drugs for Leary’s research came from the CIA and Leary says that Cord Meyer, the CIA agent in charge of funding the sixties LSD counter culture has “helped me to understand my political cultural role more clearly”. In 1998, I was sent 3000 LSD doses on blotting paper by MI5 with pictures of the European union flag on them. The MI5 man who sent them told my father this was a government ‘signature’ and this LSD was called ‘Europa’.
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  This global drugs trade controlled by British intelligence is worth at least 500 billion a year. This is more than the global oil trade and the economy in Britain and America is totally dependent on this drug money. Mafia crime boss John Gotti exposed the situation when asked in court if he was involved in drug trafficking. He replied “No we can’t compete with the government”. I believe this was only a half truth because the mafia and the CIA are the same group at the upper levels. In Britain, the MI6 drug money is laundered through the Bank of England, Barclays Bank and other household name companies. The drug money is passed from account to account until its origins are lost in a huge web of transactions. The drug money comes out ‘cleaner’ but not totally clean. Diamonds are then bought with this money from the corrupt diamond business families like the Oppenheimers. These diamonds are then sold and the drug money is clean.
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  MI6 and the CIA are also responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic in Britain and America. In 1978, MI6 and the CIA were in south America researching the effects of the natives smoking ‘basuco’ cocaine paste. This has the same effect as crack cocaine. They saw that the strength and addiction potential was far greater than ordinary cocaine and created crack cocaine from the basuco formula. MI6 and the CIA then flooded Britain and America with crack. Two years later, in 1980, Britain and America were starting to see the first signs of the crack cocaine epidemic on the streets. On august 23, 1987, in a rural community south of Little Rock in America, two teenage boys named Kevin Ives and Don Henry were murdered and dismembered after witnessing a CIA cocaine drop that was part of a CIA drug trafficking operation based at a small airport in Mena, Arkansas. Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas at the time. Bill Clinton was involved with the CIA at this time and $100 million worth of cocaine was coming through the Mena, Arkansas airport each month. For proof see the books ‘Compromise’ and ‘Dope Inc’.

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Ehud Barak Orders Israeli Military To Prepare for Syria Invasion!

Revelation 2:9 – …. and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

• Be wary of all the Zionist propaganda and Zionist ’666′ Israel. This nation is a Satanic counterfeit and is the only country in the world to fly a Satanic ’666′ Hexagram flag! Modern non-semitic Ashkenazi Khazars (90+% of modern Jewry) are not the biological descendents of the 12 tribes of Israel. Zionist ’666′ Israel is an expert in propaganda psyop and false flag terrorism. It is a Rothschild military fiefdom serving the western Illuminati’s agenda!
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• “Mr. Benjamin Freedman, a Jewish industrialist born in New York, wrote in the Economic Council Letter published there of October 15 1947: “These Eastern European Jews have neither a racial nor a historic connection with Palestine. Their ancestors were not inhabitants of the Promised Land. They are the direct descendants of the people of the Khazar Kingdom. The Khazars were a non-Semitic, Turko-Mongolian tribe.” Mr. Freedman was challenged, unwisely, by a Zionist objector; he invited his challenger to go with him to the Jewish room of the New York Public Library. There they could together examine the Jewish Encyclopedia volume I pp. 1-12, and the published works of Graetz, Dubnow, Friedlander, Raisin and many other noted Jewish historians, which, as well as other non-Jewish authorities, “establish the fact beyond all possible doubt”.’
  ~ Somewhere South of Suez (1950) pp349-350.”
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  Barak Orders Israeli Military to Prepare for Syria Invasion! 
  by Jason Ditz, http://antiwar.com/ 
  In an interview with Israeli Channel 10 today Defense Minister Ehud Barak confirmed that he has ordered the military to prepare for a full-scale invasion of neighboring Syria, with the goal of seizing weapons from the Syrian military, currently embroiled in a civil war.
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  Barak sought to justify the move, saying that it was possible Syria might transfer “anti-aircraft missiles” or even chemical weapons to Hezbollah, a militant faction operating out of neighboring Lebanon.
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  There were some reports that Syria was hoping to ditch some of its less useful weapons on Hezbollah, because they weren’t of much value in the ongoing civil war and were costing resources to protect from looters. Though this would be the case with some weapons, it is unlikely Syria would want to reduce its anti-aircraft arsenal, particularly with Western nations chomping at the bit for a NATO attack and imposed regime change.
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Feeding Frenzy Seen If Wall Street Sues Itself Over Libor!

• Feeding Frenzy Seen If Wall Street Sues Itself Over Libor! 
  By Donal Griffin, http://www.businessweek.com/ 
  Wall Street, grappling with mounting regulatory probes and investor claims over alleged interest-rate manipulation, may face yet another formidable foe: Itself.
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  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) (MS) are among financial firms that may bring lawsuits against their biggest rivals as regulators on three continents examine whether other banks manipulated the London interbank offered rate, known as Libor, said Bradley Hintz, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein& Co. Even if Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley forgo claims on their own behalf, they oversee money-market funds that may be required to pursue restitution for injured clients, he said.
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  Because Libor is based on submissions from only some of the world’s largest banks, the probes threaten to pit firms uninvolved in setting the rate against any implicated in its manipulation, Hintz said. Libor serves as a benchmark for at least $360 trillion in securities.
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  “This will be a feeding frenzy of sharks,” said Hintz, who has served as treasurer of Morgan Stanley and chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. “We’re going to have Wall Street suing Wall Street.”
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  Libor and similar rates are derived by surveying a group of banks daily. Participating firms are asked how much it would cost them to borrow from one another for 15 different periods in currencies including dollars, euros, yen and Swiss francs. After a set number of quotes are excluded, those remaining are averaged and published.
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  Regulators are looking at whether banks made submissions that understated funding costs during the credit crisis or if traders at the firms influenced Libor to boost profits.
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Ten Italian Cities On Verge Of Financial Collapse!

• The “Blacklist” – Ten Italian Cities On Verge Of Financial Collapse! 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  Last week when we wrote about the imminent default of Sicily which Mario Monti tried to sweep under the rug by demanding the local governor resign for not masking the situation with lies, and doing all he can to prevent the advent of reality, we noted, rather sarcastically, that the “resignation of Sicily Governor Lombardo will somehow allow all those who care about the fundamentals of Italy to stick their heads in the sand… at least until Sicily is followed by Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Abruzzo, Tuscany, Lombardy, Umbria, Liguria, Veneto and so on.
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Euro Crisis Deepens Amid Spain, Short-Sale Ban!

The Eurozone Titanic is sinking!

• The Eurozone Titanic has hit the iceberg! Stock markets across Europe have tanked. Should the EUR-USD break 1.20, it is Armageddon for the Euro! The 10 year Spanish bond has hit 7.5% and 10 Year Italian bond has hit 6.3%! Both yields are still rising! The Eurozone is very close to collapse!
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  By Patrick Donahue, http://www.businessweek.com/ 
  Europe was plunged into fresh market turmoil as the first call for bailout aid by a Spanish region sent borrowing costs surging, while Spain and Italy reinstated a ban on betting on stock declines.
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  Stocks and the euro fell as Catalonia joined a list of Spanish regions that may tap aid from the central government, spurring 10-year yields to rise to a euro-era record. Meantime, Greece’s so-called troika of international creditors — the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund — arrives tomorrow in Athens, rekindling concern the currency union will splinter.
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  “The problem in the region is profound, but the pace that it has been dealt with was slow,” said John Stopford, head of fixed income at Investec Asset Management, which oversees $98 billion. “The bank bailout for Spain is far from sufficient to deal with the country’s problems.”
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  After euro finance ministers failed to stanch a decline in the single currency with the approval of a 100 billion-euro ($122 billion) aid package for Spanish banks last week, the ban by the governments in Rome and Madrid reflected renewed concern that the currency union was far from resolving its crisis.
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  The euro slipped below its lifetime average against the U.S. dollar and to the lowest level in more than 11 years against the yen today, dropping to $1.2080 at 2:41 p.m. in Frankfurt. Spain’s 10-year bond yields rose as high as to 7.57 percent. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index dropped 2.4 percent at 3:45 p.m. in London.
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  The slump has been compounded as Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy confronts 15 billion euros of debt redemptions in regions in the second half of this year. In addition to Catalonia, the most indebted region, Castilla-La-Mancha, Murcia, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands may follow Valencia in seeking aid from Madrid, El Pais newspaper reported.
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