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"We're on the way to a worldwide financial dictatorship governed by bankers," said Peter Gauweiler, Member of Parliament in Germany. "We don't support Greece. We support 25 or 30 worldwide investment banks and their insane activities."

The long-term problem in the horrendous jobs report is the strangely inconspicuous "Employment-Population Ratio" that has been nosediving for over a decade. It's the definition of a comatose economy.

"And we have to improve our image," said Masatoshi Kumagai, one of the bosses of the Japanese mafia, in an interview with French reporters. Yakuza are on decline, he said, and if they don't change their business model, they might cease to exist.

We want you to prop up the stock markets. Everybody knows it's a Ponzi scheme that will collapse without your support. You don't want us to end up like Bernie Madoff's clients. No, Ben, we love Ponzi schemes. We get in early and get out before they collapse. That's why we're rich. The bad thing is that they sometimes collapse before we can get out. But you've bailed us out twice in the last couple of years.