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IMF Gets A Warm Welcome In Spain

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Despite near record low bond yields, a surging stock market and a leadership proclaiming victory, the people of Spain appear upset at the IMF's appearance in their nation. Around 2,000 people protested in Bilbao today as the IMF (member of the infamous Troika) overturning cars and windows, graffiti-ing "IMF Out!" and held banners saying "Troika Go Home", denouncing economic policies that welcome austerity measures and the introduction of cuts.

 

While Christine Lagarde, who attended, lauds the progress (and demands more); perhaps it is the record unemployment, record suicides, record homelessness, and record loan delinquencies that tarnish the rose-colored glasses that 'the powers that be' would prefer the general public to see the world through.

 

 

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Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:19 | 4501789 Ulterior
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why work when you can lay at the beech drinking pinacoladda's with russian tourists

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:22 | 4501803 economics9698
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Fiat tribe members not welcome?

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:24 | 4501820 Ulterior
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not if you are savvy on those drinks

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:30 | 4501861 Oh regional Indian
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Everyone should watch this movie if they have not already.

Says it all...

 

Life and Debt...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMMYEGPsD9c

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:37 | 4501896 Ulterior
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its about Jamaica... pffff

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:47 | 4501951 Oh regional Indian
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2 things...

1) It's about Jamaica...pUfffffff

2) It has never been truer globally...

ori

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:36 | 4501893 williambanzai7
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Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:50 | 4501970 Meat Hammer
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Bankers vs public trough feeders.  One parasite vs another parasite.  Hopefully they'll just wipe each other out instead of killing the host.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:30 | 4502198 El Vaquero
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Wishful thinking.  It's like the host has Smallpox and Ebola at the same time.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 15:19 | 4502797 daedon
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Are you implying that Russian Terrorists are slacking off at the beach while Washington terrorists are hard at work doing double shifts in the Ukraine ?

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:23 | 4501795 Dr. Engali
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Moar broken windows.... Krugman just got a woody. This is very bullish for stawks.... BTFD. Speaking of Krugman, coffee seems to have loosened things up a bit. It's time to go dump a big Krugman in the toilet bowl.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:23 | 4501814 economics9698
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Krugman...parasite.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:26 | 4501835 BeetleBailey
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...don't forget your Blankfein to wipe. I hope it isn't a runny Dimon, lest you need to wear a Biden to keep the sharts at bay.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:28 | 4501846 Emergency Ward
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Christine Legarde demands more of it.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:42 | 4501926 AbbeBrel
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Si no vincular sus preferentes, lo siento usted todavía tiene que mantenerlos.

 

(If you don't link your preferentes, sorry you still have to keep them.)

See:   http://larouchepac.com/node/26851

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:44 | 4501939 IridiumRebel
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Si, pero, como se dice "GET THE FUCK OUT YOU FUCKIN FASCIST VAMPIRES WHO THRIVE OFF OF THE MISERY OF OTHER HUMANS?"

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:21 | 4502154 Emergency Ward
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No sé por quién
me habrás tomado.
¿Por quién?
que ya parezco
un ciervo herido
¿Por quién?....

¿Por qué me has engañado?.
Dime ¿por qué y por qué?.....

¿Por qué no te molestas
en mirarme
y preguntarme
si estoy bien?.

Y es que quizás
la lluvia
que cae tan fuerte
ya no te moja....

¿Por qué me has engañado?.

--Juan Pardo "Por que me habras besado"

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:44 | 4502263 IridiumRebel
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Hay Chengado!!!!

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:55 | 4502312 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

It's time to go dump a big Krugman in the toilet bowl.

Also known as expelling a US diplomat.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:21 | 4501797 fonestar
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Too many people against bankers now.  The people are with Satoshi Nakamoto!

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:24 | 4501819 indygo55
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The people are really waking up to these bankster frauds. But the real question is: Who are they? What are their names? Isn't there a simple list so that when all hell breaks loose the people know exac tlty where to vent their anger? 

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:33 | 4501878 Comte d'herblay
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There surely are but the Mass Media where 90% of the watchers get their propagan....i mean information, will not keep them in the public's eye.

When WAS the last time you saw Joe Cassano's name mentioned at all?? Contrast that with Matt McConaughey's name for openers. Just a stab but about once for every million times. 

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:39 | 4501912 IridiumRebel
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...and so the media shall be first?

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:45 | 4501942 e_goldstein
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should be

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:40 | 4501913 bluskyes
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Time to start gathering org charts

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:38 | 4501900 bluskyes
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It is my understanding that Satoshi Nakamoto either does not exist, or is too cowardly to show his face.

Most people would be better of keeping company with gnomes, and wood-sprites

Tue, 03/04/2014 - 00:31 | 4505249 Exponere Mendaces
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@bluskyes

Said like a true-blue NSA spook. I bet Snowden wished he had stayed anonymous. Satoshi is smart, he/she knew that the government would stop at nothing to fuck him up.

But keep licking that presidential seal, you tired old lemming.

Tue, 03/04/2014 - 00:44 | 4505270 bluskyes
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Snowden is most likely a patriot, who stood up for what he believes in, and risked his life to expose the rotten core of the American government.

Satoshi is most likely a con-artist who has made millions selling his magic beans to fools.

I'm just a schlub, trying to make a living. Hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:56 | 4502318 artless
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"Too many people against bankers now.  The people are with Satoshi Nakamoto!"

Seriously dude, stop taking so many ludes. Shitcoin is fatally flawed if it isn't just a NWO dry run for complete and total control of all economic interaction. Haven't you even noticed the oncoming regulation? The ease of which ANYONE who traded on Silk Road can and will be tracked, found, and prosecuted? Thinkit's any different for the rest of marks poor sods that held their magical series of ones and zeroes at Mt. Gox?

I understand you are bitcoin fanboy #1 but it's time to come back to Earth and face the facts that are right in front of you. So you're finding out that your "'m gonna be rich for doing nothin' " religion is right up there with some doomsday cult or well, Christianity, Judaeism, Islam et al for that matter and it's time to grow up, face the truth, and realise that it's all one big giant fucking hoax.

Or not. And keep posting this nonsense and wake up having lost not only all your "money" but also your self respect.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:23 | 4501816 buzzsaw99
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oh look, the peasants are revolting. how quaint.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:28 | 4501831 Kirk2NCC1701
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Just keep spreading the Word on Banking Cartels and their Currencies that are based on fiat-Debt and bacaked by nothing more than "Force" (LEAs and Mil), i.e. "Sheriff of Nottingham". But even he met his match in the end.  :-)

Give it time for word to get around and sink in.  These things take time, especially for the unmotivated:  rich, (D)EBT-dependant.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:28 | 4501844 Johnny Cocknballs
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If the loan is food for hate

you must repudiate

bitches.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:28 | 4501845 q99x2
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Go Giabo

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:30 | 4501866 Comte d'herblay
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Isn't unemployment----an assured proxy for permament negative growth if there ever was one---- about 30%, on the Iberian peninsula??

Rich bankers who live in the Pantheon of the Gods, drinking Nectar, and feeding on the flesh of those whom they purport to govern, ought to be more careful about where they choose to celebrate their elite starstudded awesomeness. 

It ain't the Academy Awards, whose august members, BTW have determined the "Best of.."  obsessed on enshrinement for the most perverted films and their writers, directors and actors.

Transgendered, AIDS afflicted thru self-destructive risks, and other pervs.....Allllriiiightt, alllrriiiiiight......alllriigght. 

 

 

 

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:10 | 4502077 Superdude
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I agree, Bad Grandpa was snubbed and should have won Best, well, everything. Best line is when he hits the sign in front of the restaurant, "you gotta ask yourself, what leverage do I have here."

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 12:49 | 4501958 f16hoser
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This is what Ukraine will look like in 2 years..... Maybe.....

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:06 | 4502046 Madcow
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The citizens of Europe now realize what it means to be under the control of the IMF / ECB / EU - 

They know that - since "technocrats" took over the economy 10 years ago - things continue to get worse and worse and worse and worse ... 

Sadly, the technocrats have no plan to arrest the collpase - and will evenutally be forced to go into hiding once they have acheive their objective - which appears to be rampant anarchy and cannibalism. 

And to think we've got political forces in the US who think we should be "more like Europe" - Yikes !

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:07 | 4502055 Meat Hammer
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I watched Anthony Bourdain's "Parts Unknown" last night.  Detroit was the subject of the episode.  What I found most poignant about the entire show, amongst the obligatory pictures of squalor and decay, was the fact that the people of Detroit are relying on - not politicians, not corporations - but each other to clean up and rebuild their city, grow their food, and keep each other safe.  They are beginning to understand that government, its owners, and the people at the trough are the problem.  

I don't think Bourdain completely understands the root of the problem - he talks about better "political leadership", which is a contradiction in terms if there ever was one - but the episode is still well worth watching.

http://www.cnn.com/video/shows/anthony-bourdain-parts-unknown/season-2/d...  

We're at the fork in the road where there will be more Detroits and people will either get on their knees and beg for more government or unplug from the matrix.  I fear it's going to be the former unless Detroiters can light the right path.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 14:18 | 4502420 Perfecthedge
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I think you are absolutely right.  I lived for a couple of years in Nicaragua (where, as you might know poverty hit rock bottom) and in certain parts of the country people don't even know that there is a government in the capital.  They help each other and, while it is not perfect, show solidarity and self-reliance.  There are little villages that don't even have a police station in a radius of 200 miles.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:08 | 4502065 Caveman93
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So, the world is on fire. Whose next? WWIII coming soon. Prepare accordingly.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:21 | 4502151 Silver Exterior
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Poor IMF stooges…

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:40 | 4502248 Heiman Van Rock...
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The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest - stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.
 Lysander Spooner

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:52 | 4502299 Spungo
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Being part of the EU and not having control of our currency seems to be hurting our economy (or at least that's what people think). Solution: let's stay in the EU. Durrrrrrr

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 13:56 | 4502317 The Most Intere...
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A note to Spains youth:  Christine Lagarde nor the IMF had a gun to your parents and grandparents heads when they lavished themselves with high pay, ridiculous pensions, subsidies, vacations, holidays and one government benefit after another for decades.  You need look no further than those within your own country that sold you down the river.  Implement an age-based income and asset based series of taxes to confiscate the "wealth" (borrowed money from those yet born) stolen from your generation.  In the process, create a road map for youth around the world to do the same thing...  The next war will not be between nations, not between races, but between the generations; to correct an injustice perpetrated by only the most greedy who would steal from their own children.

Mon, 03/03/2014 - 14:39 | 4502570 Rising Sun
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moar paid protestors waving their flags for the news cameras

 

if the politicians had half a fucking clue, they'd get that the overwhelming majority don't give a fuck.

 

trash the fucking country - no one cares

 

let Spain become a state of Germany - no one fucking cares

 

politicians continuously create these staged events to draw us out of our warm homes - this little thing called the internet is changing that

 

the majority get that this is just a hand puppet show - old school crap - and the masses are detaching

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