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Happy Zombiversary Euro

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Because on the tenth birthday (and with trillions of dollars pledged to keep it alive, we use the term very loosely) of the most loathed currency in the history of the world, we find out that in the heads of the fat, bald, corpulent, and corrupt eurocrats, the zEUR0.pk is somehow represented by a hot woman. Our prediction: the 20th anniversary of the euro will star the Michael Jackson zombie from Thriller...dancing around on centrally planned puppet strings of course.

And here is the official propaganda:

Ten years ago, on 1 January 2002, euro banknotes and coins were
introduced in 12 Member States of the European Union. Since then, five
more Member States have adopted the euro in recent years. For more
information: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/html/anniversary.en.html

 

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Sun, 01/01/2012 - 14:51 | 2024885 Mongo
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2012 - Eurogeddon

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 14:55 | 2024891 flacon
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Euro-peeing explosion.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:12 | 2024927 Oh regional Indian
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Especially in this year, twists in tales will abound. Wild gyrations upcoming. Nothing is over till it IS over. 

The stage is littered with rabbits.

ori

/2012-the-year-of-anomaly/

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 01:56 | 2025990 TruthInSunshine
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Happy New Year PIIGS+France+UK (PIIGSFUK).

The UK will take the world by storm as its dire economic and debt crises (yes, even dire in comparison with the U.S., Japan, or its fellow European brethren), which has so far been remarkably ignored for the most part by the Main Stream Lame Ass Proxy Media Pundits, become front and center in early 2012 given that David Cameron essentially announced that Britain won't play nicely with Germany, given that Cameron is trying to protect the utterly toxic portion of the U.K.'s sickly economy that is populated by Walking Dead Financial Institutions (who just so happen to represent a massively overweighted % share of Britain's economic 'output').

Mechanical, chemical and civil engineers improve the world, for the most part, whilst financial engineers (of the mold born and bred in hallowed halls of elite universities in the U.S. and U.K.) rip everything up and set fire to the globe.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 15:29 | 2026962 Hard1
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Advantage of the Euro:

-Makes trade and travel simpler and facilitates price comparision in the european countries

Disadvantage:

-Profilgate spending of lying countries that never in their dreams thought they could have access to so much cheap credit now threaten the world's financial stability.

 

Hmmmm let me think if it was beneficial, could somebody give me a hint please?

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 17:05 | 2027072 eureka
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Tyler Durden: " - fat, bald, corpulent, and corrupt eurocrats..."

Hard1: " Profilgate spending of lying countries that never in their dreams thought they could have access to so much cheap credit now threaten the world's financial stability."

On Zerohedge.com you shall find the truth and the truth shall set you free!

Thank God for the US and the USD - we are the only honest, benevolent & self-sacrificing nation and our USD is the only honest currency on Earth. 

Thank God for Zerohedge setting all things straight - here, specifically, for reminding us that EU politicians are unattractive (a clear indication of their moral and intellectual inferiority) - whereas naturally by inference US politicians and handsome, real men, trustworthy, intelligent and true servants of not just their nation but the entirety of mankind. 

US is the supreme nation.  US is the savior of the world. US citizens are God's chosen people (possibly along with ykw) - AND - TYLER DURDEN IS ITS PROPHET. BLESSED BE HIS NAME FOREVER AND EVER.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 07:08 | 2028140 Ghordius
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good one. eureka

"the most loathed currency in the history of the world" LOL - I'm still laughing myself silly for this!

so now there is a beauty contest in currencies? loathed - by whom? and why, exactly? double-LOL

when it comes to all things starting with eur-, ZH caters to the tastes of the median reader, that's all

meanwhile, we have a currency war raging on and in the EZ we have avoided so far any competitive devaluations between members, so I'd say so far it works as designed...

price stability is relative, bitchez

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 16:13 | 2025067 endicott glacier
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Try these as well for 2012:

-EuRape

-YuUseRope to commit financide

-YuRowRowRowUr boat into financial oblivion

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:35 | 2025394 SAT 800
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At first, I thought the lady was just going to walk off the end of the bridge that was hanging in mid-air; and I though, well, that's pretty accurate. But then I saw that it was actually a magic bridge to nowhere that built itself; and I thought; well, that's pretty accurate too.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 21:45 | 2025624 StychoKiller
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Since then, five more Member States have adopted the euro in recent years.

Reminds me of a poster from the '70s (guy with a bib and a pile of crap on a plate in front of him):  "Eat Sh!t, 500 Billion flies can't be wrong!"  Like Mom always used to ask:  "If yer friends jumped in a lake, would you do it too?"

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:27 | 2025382 SAT 800
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Why didn't they just call it the "last ten years of the Euro"?

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 14:53 | 2024890 oogs66
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did they miss the history of trying to kill each other for years?

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:08 | 2024919 wisefool
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You think that with all this production quality they could have afforded a bra for the model in the opening segment . Or maybe thats how they intend to afford the Euro?

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:11 | 2024925 bank guy in Brussels
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Female nipples and bare titties are quite acceptable in European mainstream media. You should see our television here.

We do not have that puritanical streak like the crazy Americans.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:17 | 2024942 wisefool
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I'm cool with that (live and let live) I just hope our little sailor Timmy UST-42 doesn't spend too much puritanical money over there on shore leave. It would be bad for both cultures.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 18:53 | 2025320 New_Meat
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and it isn't even his own money.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:09 | 2025343 gwar5
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No, there's no puritanical streak in Belgium in the usual sense, instead you're becoming a Shariah compliant. Your PC laws are very puritanical in the Orwellian sense, with no real dissenting opinion or free speech allowed. Objectionable free speech is the only kind that needs protection, because nobody objects to the other kind. 

 

To wit: If you had made a similar comment directed at muslims you could be prosecuted under your anti-hate speech/xenophobic laws, like Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. TV titties are great but the internet is already full of them on demand, so you lose in that deal.  

And you'll be happy to know that the USA is making great "progress" on the puritanical front, insofar as it is now very chic in some circles to demand that our public school children be taught the nuances of anal fisting, lest they grow up to be closed minded.

 

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 23:08 | 2025762 knukles
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Au contraire, mon ami,
For years the rights of gay men in SanFran have been protected allowing them to saunter about in public in leather chaps with their ding dongs hanging about freely.
No, Scarlet. frankly I don't give a damn.  Merely an exposition of the Mythical American Puritanical Ethos.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 09:15 | 2026219 Bendromeda Strain
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Allowed isn't properly descriptive. Folsom Street Fair is sponsored by corporations.

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 12:32 | 2476073 OPM
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The only reason a person should accept counterparty risk is because they are getting an advantage they otherwise could not obtain. For example, geographic diversification by storage overseas in different political jurisdictions. movers in Dubai

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:18 | 2025364 Town Crier
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Crisp and firm.  Tilt them and hold them up to the light.  

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 21:47 | 2025628 StychoKiller
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Don't know about crisp, but firm is always good! :>D

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 18:05 | 2025238 Zadok
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I think that is just reverting to the 'mean'.  Both in the statistical and the emotional sense.  

Is that not what Europe is known for best...theft, waste, destruction, death on a scale best measured by statistics?

Hmmm, on second thought...replace Europe with 'The Human Race'

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 14:58 | 2024897 GeneMarchbanks
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At first it looks like an ad for Turkish Airlines then you realize... it's comedy.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:02 | 2024908 fiftybagger
Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:57 | 2025026 ArgentoFisico
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Europe: Italy to default and return to the Lira on march 31:

http://argentofisico.blogspot.com/2012/01/giuseppe-sandro-mela-cronaca-d...

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 16:01 | 2025034 Urban Redneck
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And the ECB wants all the Greeks to turn in their old drachmas for euros buy March 1 2012- are they behind the curve or is 2012 one of those bizarro years?

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 23:09 | 2025764 knukles
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LOL
WTF?

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 16:36 | 2025103 ArgentoFisico
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Not interesting? Sorry guys, just wanted to add some more red points to my world map visits of my little silverbug site!

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:05 | 2024914 Squishi
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I thought it was a parody rofl.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:24 | 2024918 Manthong
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Just in case any of those Euzombies come sneaking around.

http://i44.tinypic.com/a2c0tk.jpg

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:09 | 2024921 spekulatn
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Classic!

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:12 | 2024931 AC_Doctor
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I wonder what the melt value of a Euro is?

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:22 | 2024955 GeneMarchbanks
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Do NOT set fire to € coins unless you like the smell of burnt diarrhea.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:53 | 2025013 ArgentoFisico
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Only the tiny 10 cent coin is interesting, for the copper content/face value

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 21:39 | 2025612 138
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I kinda find this one a bit more interesting.... http://www.tulving.com/bullion/Aust%20Philharmonic%202009%20tube%2010.jpg

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 20:14 | 2027272 FranSix
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For the face value of the coin to become valid, they would have to move the declmal point on all value in the € currency one to the left.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 20:50 | 2025532 SAT 800
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It's the same as the value of a non-melted Euro.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:14 | 2024937 sangell
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That Mario Draghi is the funniest "Italian" I've see since Father Guido Sarducci!

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:54 | 2025015 ArgentoFisico
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Yeah.. Look at YOUR face!

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:18 | 2024946 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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I'm just happy to see that they are not focussing the camera on Mario's chest in a chilly room.

That's ground better left of WilliamBanzai!

 

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 22:55 | 2025738 UP Forester
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At least he doesn't use as many "E"s as Sarkozy in "Stabeeletee."

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:30 | 2024961 non_anon
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necrophiliacs

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:33 | 2024975 sangell
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Here is another 'historic' film. The first production DC-10 in American Airlines livery taking off.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=6f60HZUd26I

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:36 | 2024978 conork
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The ECBEURO user used to allow comments to be made on their videos, so one day I commented on their video relating to inflation/deflation and price "stability" slating their abuse of the system and how the video was now defunkt considering inflation will soon be rampant.

Shotly afterwards comments have been dissabled on all videos.

The video itself seems to have been taken down in its english version but here it is in French (i think its frenh anywwho)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xqcKYG9ax4

 

The ECB website used to also have a game on it which showed the effects of interest rates and allowed the user to tweak them and it would play out the effects, the game was soon removed from the website when they started dropping rates to beat the bandwagon, I noted this aswel in my rant to the ECBEURO comment

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:35 | 2024981 Nozza
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The last sentence on the page reads

"The Eurosystem will provide information about the new banknotes in due course."

I presume they are referring to the Drachma, Peseta, Lira, Pund and Franc (not necessarily in that order)?

Noz

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:32 | 2025388 SAT 800
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LOL. Yes, but it hasn't dawned on them yet.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 23:13 | 2025773 knukles
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"in due course"
Same forthwith, right now, urgent, immediacy as the last 3 years of Summits let alone the 9 already scheduled for 2012.

Hot dog!

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:47 | 2024999 slewie the pi-rat
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Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:51 | 2025005 ebworthen
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Look, they have kids holding fiat, can you say "indoctrination"?

The bread lady is a dead ringer for Merkel, and she's giving bread to the Greek looking young lady.  Subtle?

Look, money made of paper and plastic!

Rest assured, the ECB will maintain price stabilty! (print, print, print...)

Look, there's a watermark and a pretty hologram!

True fiat porn, it is.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 16:16 | 2025071 knowless
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feeeeel the bank note..

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 22:56 | 2025739 UP Forester
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Looook at the bank note....

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 15:57 | 2025027 Snakeeyes
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The US is doing everything the PIGS did or at least France and Italy. Massive debt, massive entitlements and no way to pay for them.

The Federal (Un)Balance Sheet – $65 Trillion Financial Hole = $550k Per Household (Or $2.2 Million Per De-Facto Taxpayer, Take Your Pick!

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/the-federal-unbalance...

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:53 | 2026527 steve from virginia
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Denominated in dollars even orders-of-magnitude greater US debt is not a problem the way euro-debt is in the EU.

Nobody can arbitrage a dollar in Pennsylania against a dollar in Oregon or debt between states, cities or even individuals. You sink or swim w/ your own debt (or lack of it).

Europe is reliving in 2012 what it went through in 1931 when any given currency could be arbitraged against gold ... and was. All the European currencies failed along with most banks. Protecting the gold standard -- the same way the Eurocrats support the sainted euro -- cost Europe and the US years of output. Farmers burned crops in the fields while citizens in the nearby cities went without food b/c there was insufficient means of exchange.

Spare  the euro from those who would 'save' it ... oops, too late.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 16:01 | 2025036 Travis Bickel
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Directed by Leni Riefenstahl.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 05:39 | 2026119 mick_richfield
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Yes!  The video should have been called Triumph des Euros.

All you have to do is be a good-looking European, use the magic banknotes handed out by spruced-up Morlocks, and the bridges and Roman arches will build themselves before you as you walk.

The people who tell you this are not your friends.  In fact, I'm not 100% sure that they are people.

 

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 20:48 | 2027339 AgShaman
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And after watching the video....

I don't think they'll be too eager to give up on their experiment....unless some serious "pain" ensues

Rioting will not be enough for them to abandon their one currency project.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 16:33 | 2025042 FranSix
Sun, 01/01/2012 - 16:03 | 2025046 LongOfTooth
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"...the 20th anniversary of the euro will star the Michael Jackson zombie from Thriller...dancing around on centrally planned puppet strings of course..."

While he's molesting little boys.

 

 

"America is at that awkward stage.  It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 22:59 | 2025745 UP Forester
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There's a system?  I thought the system was set up to steal all the real assets, and they don't have a plan when they succeed.

 

Except FEMA camps.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 16:06 | 2025053 gun4A
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I am not 100% sure but it looks to me van rompuy has a down syndrome... just sayin, 

 

I have nothin' against people with this illness

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 16:19 | 2025074 Albertarocks
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"With its common heritage and history, shared values and achievements, Europe builds....."

 

Haha, now that's rich.  As in a rich slathering of horseshit.  Who in hell wrote that incredible load of bunk anyway?  God damn... do they think we're all freaking blind to history?

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 17:11 | 2025153 bombimbom
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by trying to deny "common heritage and history, shared values and achievements" it's you who are showing to be blind to history.

time to refresh what is also your heritage (directly or indirectly, through your ancestors or the culture you live in) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_europe

 

 

 

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 23:04 | 2025758 UP Forester
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And, how many different dialects are spoken in Germany alone?  5?

I'm glad the Finns (whose language is most closely related to Hungarian and Mongolian) have the same common heritage as the Italians, Cypriots, Irish and Spaniards.

 

Hey, you wouldn't happen to be the "bimbo" from the video, would you?

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 08:15 | 2026187 bombimbom
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in italy different dialects are much more than 5 and a dialect from Calabria is way different than one from Lombardy or Veneto, so that if not for the "artificial" (mostly literary) italian language they would have a hard time understanding each other. what's your point? that germany should go back to be divided into multiple independent little states? that focusing on the differences is beneficial? that digging ditches is better than building bridges? european history sings a different tune. and not only european history. I guess that most americans realize that the end result of the civil war was the best one.

if inside EU a war between member states seems now like sci-fi to the modern european minds it's much because of the process of integration, sharing common interests, partially sharing common harmonized policies. also sharing a common currency is part of that. many of you seem to think that integration is a disaster but the evidences tell a completely different story. all this while the natural part of globalization, that resulting from technology, makes all the distances shorter and shorter.

it's not necessarily a language thing, it's mostly a cultural thing. Finland has been influenced by all the intellectual movements originating here or there in europe, it has been part of europe history. of course Finland will share more with Sweden just like Portugal will share more with Spain.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 05:52 | 2026126 mick_richfield
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I agree absolutely.  For others who remain ignorant of the glory of European history, I present here a list of the most significant and successful cooperative projects of shared European culture.

    * BC 1193-1184 Trojan War
    * BC 1104-900 Dorian invasion
    * BC 743-724 First Messenian War
    * BC 710-650 Lelantine War
    * BC 685-668 Second Messenian War
    * BC 669-668 Sparta-Argos war
    * BC 595-585 First Sacred War
    * BC 560 Second Arcadian War
    * BC 540 Battle of Alalia
    * BC 538-522 Polycrates wars
    * BC 500-499 Persian invasion of Naxos
    * BC 492-490 First Persian War
    * BC 482-479 Second Persian War
    * BC 460-445 First Peloponnesian War
    * BC 449-448 Second Sacred War
    * BC 440-439 Samian War
    * BC 431-404 Second Peloponnesian War
    * BC 395-387 Corinthian War
    * BC 390 Gallic invasion of Rome
    * BC 323-322 Lamian War
    * BC 267-261 Chremonidean War
    * BC 264-241 First Punic War
    * BC 229-228 Illyrian Wars
    * BC 220-219 Illyrian Wars
    * BC 218-201 Second Punic War
    * BC 214-205 First Macedonian War
    * BC 200-197 Second Macedonian War
    * BC 191 - 189 Aetolian War
    * BC 171-168 Third Macedonian War
    * BC 135-132 First Servile War
    * BC 113-101 Cimbrian War
    * BC 104-100 Second Servile War
    * BC 91-88 Social War
    * BC 88-87 Sulla's first civil war
    * BC 83-72 Sertorian War
    * BC 82-81 Sulla's second civil war
    * BC 78 Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
    * BC 73-71 Third Servile War
    * BC 63-62 Catiline Conspiracy
    * BC 58-51 Gallic Wars
    * BC 49-45 Caesar's Civil War
    * BC 44-36 Sicilian revolt
    * BC 43 Battle of Mutina
    * BC 43-42 Liberators' civil war
    * BC 41-40 Perusine War
    * BC 32-30 Antony's civil war
    * 69 Year of the Four Emperors
    * 193 Year of the Five Emperors
    * 238 Year of the Six Emperors
    * 284-285 Roman civil war
    * 306-324 Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy
    * 350-351 Roman civil war
    * 360-361 Roman civil war
    * 387-388 Roman civil war
    * 394 Roman civil war of 394 AD
    * 535-554 Gothic War
    * 582-602 Maurice's Balkan campaigns
    * ~600-793 Frisian-Frankish Wars
    * 680–1355 Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars
    * 711-718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania
    * 715-718 Frankish Civil War (715–718)
    * 722-1492 Reconquista
    * 772-804 Saxon Wars
    * 839-1330 Bulgarian–Serbian Wars
    * 862 - 970 Hungarian invasions of Europe
    * ~997-1445 Swedish–Novgorodian Wars
    * 1015-1016 Pisan–Genoese expeditions to Sardinia
    * 1050-1185 Byzantine–Norman wars
    * 1066-1088 Norman conquest of England
    * 1169 Norman invasion of Ireland
    * 1185-1204 Uprising of Asen and Peter
    * 1208-1227 Conquest of Estonia
    * 1209-1229 Albigensian Crusade
    * 1220-1264 The Age of the Sturlungs
    * 1223-1241 Mongol invasion of Europe
    * 1256-1381 Venetian–Genoese Wars
    * 1277-1280 Uprising of Ivaylo
    * 1282-1302 War of the Sicilian Vespers
    * 1296-1357 Wars of Scottish Independence
    * 1321-1328 Byzantine civil war of 1321–1328
    * 1323-1328 Peasant revolt in Flanders
    * 1326-1332 Polish–Teutonic War
    * 1337-1453 Hundred Years' War
    * 1340-1392 Galicia–Volhynia Wars
    * 1340-1396 Bulgarian–Ottoman Wars
    * 1341-1347 Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347
    * 1342-1350 Zealot's Rebellion
    * 1343-1345 St. George's Night Uprising
    * 1356-1358 Jacquerie
    * 1356 - 1375 War of the Two Peters
    * 1366-1369 Castilian Civil War
    * 1366-1526 Ottoman–Hungarian Wars
    * 1371-1381 War of Chioggia
    * 1373-1379 Byzantine civil war of 1373–1379
    * 1381 Peasants' Revolt
* 1382 Harelle and Maillotins Revolt
    * 1395 Battle of Nicopolis
    * 1409-1411 Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
    * 1414 Hunger War
    * 1419-1434 Hussite Wars
    * 1422 Gollub War
    * 1425-1454 Wars in Lombardy
    * 1431-1435 Polish–Teutonic War
    * 1437 Budai Nagy Antal Revolt
    * 1438-1556 Russo-Kazan Wars
    * 1440-1446 Old Zürich War
    * 1443-1444 Long campaign
    * 1447-1448 Albanian–Venetian War
    * 1449-1450 First Margrave War
    * 1451-1455 Navarrese Civil War
    * 1454-1466 Thirteen Years' War
    * 1455-1487 Wars of the Roses
    * 1462-1485 Rebellion of the Remences
    * 1462-1472 Catalonian Civil War
    * 1466-1469 Irmandiño Wars
    * 1467-1479 War of the Priests
    * 1468 Waldshut War
    * 1470-1471 Dano-Swedish War
    * 1475-1479 War of the Castilian Succession
    * 1478 Carinthian peasant revolt
    * 1482-1484 War of Ferrara
    * 1495-1497 Russo-Swedish War
    * 1497 Cornish Rebellion of 1497
    * 1499 Swabian War
    * 1494-1498 Italian War of 1494–1498
    * 1499-1504 Italian War of 1499–1504
    * 1508-1516 War of the League of Cambrai
    * 1514 Poor Conrad's Rebellion
    * 1514 Dózsa rebellion
    * 1515 Slovenian peasant revolt
    * 1519-1521 Polish–Teutonic War
    * 1520-1521 Revolt of the Comuneros
    * 1521-1523 Revolt of the Brotherhoods
    * 1521-1523 Swedish War of Liberation
    * 1521 - 1718 Ottoman-Habsburg wars
    * 1522-1523 Knights' Revolt
    * 1522–1559 Habsburg-Valois Wars
    * 1524-1525 Peasants' War
    * 1529 First War of Kappel
    * 1531 Second War of Kappel
    * 1534-1536 Count's Feud
    * 1536-1537 Pilgrimage of Grace
* 1540 Salt War
    * 1542-1543 Dacke War
    * 1543-1550 The Rough Wooing
    * 1546-1547 Schmalkaldic War
    * 1549 Kett's Rebellion
    * 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion
    * 1552-1555 Second Margrave War
    * 1554 Wyatt's rebellion
    * 1554-1557 Russo-Swedish War
    * 1558-1583 Livonian War
    * 1562-1598 French Wars of Religion
    * 1563-1570 Northern Seven Years' War
    * 1568-1570 Morisco Revolt
    * 1568–1648 Eighty Years' War
    * 1573 Croatian–Slovenian peasant revolt
    * 1580-1583 War of the Portuguese Succession
    * 1585-1604 Anglo-Spanish War (1585)
    * 1587-1588 War of the Polish Succession
    * 1590-1595 Russo-Swedish War
    * 1593-1606 Long War
    * 1593-1617 Moldavian Magnate Wars
    * 1594-1603 Nine Years War (Ireland)
    * 1596-1597 Cudgel War
    * 1605-1618 Polish–Muscovite War
    * 1606-1607 Bolotnikov Rebellion
    * 1610-1617 Ingrian War
    * 1611-1613 Kalmar War
    * 1615-1618 Uskok War
    * 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
    * 1620-1621 Polish–Ottoman War
    * 1628 - 1631 War of the Mantuan Succession
    * 1632-1634 Smolensk War
    * 1638 Ostrzanin Uprising
    * 1639-1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms
    * 1640-1688 Portuguese Restoration War
    * 1642–1651 English Civil War
    * 1651 Kostka-Napierski Uprising
    * 1652-1674 Anglo-Dutch Wars
    * 1653 Swiss peasant war of 1653
    * 1654-1667 Russo-Polish War
    * 1655-1660 Second Northern War
    * 1656 War of Villmergen
    * 1663-1664 Austro-Turkish War
    * 1667–1668 War of Devolution
    * 1670-1671 Razin's Rebellion
    * 1672-1678 Franco-Dutch War
    * 1679 Covenanter Rebellion
* 1683–1699 Great Turkish War
    * 1685 Monmouth Rebellion
    * 1688-1697 War of the League of Augsburg
    * 1700–1721 Great Northern War
    * 1701–1713 War of the Spanish Succession
    * 1703-1711 Rákóczi's War for Independence
    * 1707-1708 Bulavin Rebellion
    * 1712 Toggenburg war
    * 1714-1718 Ottoman–Venetian War
    * 1715-1716 Jacobite Rising of 1715
    * 1716-1718 Austro-Turkish War
    * 1718-1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance
    * 1727-1729 Anglo-Spanish War
    * 1733-1738 War of the Polish Succession
    * 1735-1739 Russo-Turkish War
    * 1737-1739 Austro-Turkish War
    * 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession
    * 1740 - 1763 Silesian Wars
    * 1741-1743 Russo-Swedish War
    * 1745-1746 Jacobite Rising of 1745
    * 1756–1763 Seven Years' War
    * 1763-1864 Russian–Circassian War
    * 1768-1772 War of the Bar Confederation
    * 1768-1774 Russo-Turkish War
    * 1770 Orlov Revolt
    * 1774-1775 Pugachev's Rebellion
    * 1775-1782 American Revolutionary War (European theatre)
    * 1778-1779 War of the Bavarian Succession
    * 1784 Kettle War
    * 1784 - 1785 Revolt of Horea, Clo?ca and Cri?an
    * 1787-1791 Austro-Turkish War
    * 1787-1792 Russo-Turkish War
    * 1790 Saxon Peasants' Revolt
    * 1792 Polish–Russian War of 1792
    * 1792–1802 French Revolutionary Wars
    * 1794 Ko?ciuszko Uprising
    * 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798
    * 1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
    * 1804-1813 First Serbian Uprising
    * 1809 Polish-Austrian War
    * 1815-1817 Second Serbian Uprising
    * 1817-1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
    * 1821-1832 Greek War of Independence
    * 1821 Wallachian uprising of 1821
    * 1823 French invasion of Spain
    * 1826-1828 Russo-Persian War
    * 1828-1829 Russo-Turkish War

* 1828-1834 Liberal Wars
    * 1830 Ten Days Campaign (following the Belgian Revolt)
    * 1830-1831 November Uprising
    * 1831-1832 Great Bosnian uprising
    * 1833-1839 First Carlist War
    * 1833-1839 Albanian Revolts of 1833–1839
    * 1843-1844 Albanian Revolt of 1843–1844
    * 1846 Galician slaughter
    * 1846-1849 Second Carlist War
    * 1847 Albanian Revolt of 1847
    * 1847 Sonderbund War
    * 1848-1849 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
    * 1848-1851 First Schleswig War
    * 1848–1866 Wars of Italian Independence

        * 1848–1849 First Italian Independence War
        * 1859 Second Italian War of Independence
        * 1866 Third Italian War of Independence

    * 1854 Epirus Revolt of 1854
    * 1854–1856 Crimean War
    * 1858 Mahtra War
    * 1863-1864 January Uprising
    * 1864 Second Schleswig War
    * 1864 January Uprising
    * 1866 Austro-Prussian War
    * 1866-1869 Cretan Revolt
    * 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
    * 1872-1876 Third Carlist War
    * 1873-1874 Cantonal Revolution
    * 1877–1878 Russo–Turkish War
    * 1878 Epirus Revolt of 1878
    * 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War
    * 1893–1896 Cod War of 1893
    * 1897 Greco–Turkish War
    * 1910 Albanian Revolt of 1910
    * 1911-1912 Italo-Turkish War
    * 1912–1913 Balkan Wars
          o 1912-1913 First Balkan War
          o 1913 Second Balkan War
    * 1914 Peasant Revolt in Albania
    * 1914–1918 World War I
    * 1916 Easter Rising
    * 1917–1921 Russian Civil War
    * 1918 Finnish Civil War
    * 1918 Polish-Czech war for Teschen Silesia
    * 1918–1919 Polish-Ukrainian War* 1918–1919 Greater Poland Uprising
    * 1918–1920 Estonian Liberation War
    * 1918-1920 Latvian War of Independence
    * 1919 Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919
    * 1919-1922 Greco-Turkish War
    * 1919-1923 Turkish War of Independence
    * 1919–1920 Czechoslovakia-Hungary War
    * 1919–1921 Silesian Uprisings
    * 1919–1921 Polish-Soviet War
    * 1919–1921 Anglo-Irish War
    * 1920 Polish-Lithuanian War
    * 1920 Vlora War
    * 1921 Uprising in West Hungary
    * 1922–1923 Irish Civil War
    * 1934 Asturian miners' strike of 1934
    * 1934 Austrian Civil War
    * 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
    * 1939 Slovak-Hungarian War
    * 1939 Occupation of Zakarpattia Oblast by Hungary
    * 1939–1945 World War II
          o 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland
          o 1939-1940 Winter War
          o 1940-1941Greco-Italian War
          o 1941-1945 Soviet-German war
          o 1941-1944 Continuation War
          o 1944 Slovak National Uprising
    * 1945-1949 Greek Civil War
    * 1953 Uprising in East Germany
    * 1956 Uprising in Pozna?
    * 1956 Hungarian Revolution
    * 1959-2011 Basque Conflict
    * 1961 Portuguese Colonial War
    * 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
    * 1968-1998 The Troubles
    * 1970-1984 Unrest in Italy
    * 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
    * 1978 Turkey–Kurdistan Workers' Party conflict
    * 1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War
    * 1989 Romanian Revolution
    * 1991 Ten-Day War
    * 1991-1992 South Ossetian War of Independence
    * 1991-1993 Georgian Civil War
    * 1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence
    * 1992 War of Transnistria
    * 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict
    * 1992-1993 First War in Abkhazia
    * 1992-1995 Bosnian War
* 1994-1996 First Chechen War
    * 1997 Unrest in Albania
    * 1998-1999 Kosovo War
    * 1998-present Republican Dissidents Conflict
    * 1998 Second War in Abkhazia
    * 1999 Dagestan War
    * 1999-2009 Second Chechen War
    * 1999-2001 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
    * 2001 Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia
    * 2002 Perejil Island crisis
    * 2004 Unrest in Kosovo
    * 2004 Adjara crisis
    * 2007 Civil war in Ingushetia
    * 2008 War in South Ossetia
    * 2009-present Insurgency in the North Caucasus
    * 2011-present Kosovo - Serbia border clashes

 

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 09:18 | 2026225 Calmyourself
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Nicely done, no messin with Mick..

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 10:43 | 2026372 bombimbom
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since the US are an offspring of Europe, I think you can add the surprisingly long list of US wars. very impressive for such a short time, I guess that remarkable level of applied brutality is evidence of the intrinsic european nature of the USA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:17 | 2026442 mick_richfield
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Well, you're right about that.  We learned from the best.  And two of our most terrible wars were fought over European and Asian problems that I profoundly believe we should have stayed out of.  As soon as America was powerful enough to act on the world stage we just couldn't resist invading the rest of the world and 'helping' everybody.

We should instead have done what we used to do best, which was show the world a new way for a country to work.  A country without a king, without a state religion, without a state ethnicity.  ( I'll keep the single language though, thanks. )

We should always have lead only by example, and not by superior firepower.

This is a major reason why I want to get Americans to stop worshipping their European ( and especially British ) heritage.

I think our species needs the New World to be something really different from the Old.   I think we were significantly more distinct before 1914 than we are now, and I wish that were not so.

 

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 13:30 | 2026766 bombimbom
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you say many things I agree on. IMHO EU, and the process of integration, is the "new world" for Europe. and we 'western world' as a whole desperately need a new frontier. we need to grow in a sane manner after the apocalypse of WWII, showing we learned our lessons. focusing on distinctions spells trouble in europe.

we (US and EU) are less distinct because the world is becoming littler and littler, we were never that distinct to begin with so it's easier to converge towards a global "western" culture. the trend will go on. i think it is not wise to try and navigate against the current. one should harmonize with the flow of the current going the best route.

many are horrified by the prospect of one global government but that's where humanity will head to. it will take centuries, maybe more, maybe less.

Heritage is something you have. it's wrong to worship it, it's wrong to try and deny it. the future is in front us to be forged. i like your "without a state religion, without a state ethnicity", for example.

 

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 17:14 | 2025161 Calmyourself
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Who is the idiot who down arrowed this?  Disprove it, show us how Europe has anything but an overwhelmingly brutal history..

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 18:21 | 2025272 wisefool
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Standard stuff from kids these days. No need to show your work and the answer is always right.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 18:49 | 2025314 bombimbom
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unfortunately brutality has been the companion of all human history not specifically of europe.

IMHO the error you and others make is to watch only the bad and ignore the good. there has been the good and the bad. blood, hope, great ideas, great inventions, villains, heroes, saints, conquerors, discoverers.

the funny part is... do I really need to remind anyone being part of the western civilisation of the importance of europe? I don't think so.

anyway it's not like europe produced only ugly things like colonialism who forged for example what is now south and north america and lead to the extermination of almost all the natives there.

some examples of great contributions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

 

 

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 00:55 | 2025927 Calmyourself
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Unfortunately you failed to address my question..  All the wiki window dressing in the world does not obfuscate the fact that Europeans perfected the art of killing and turned it into virtual mechanized production. 

My point was not the lack of enlightenment, the renewal of renaissance or the development of the industrial revolution.  It was simply that Europes brutality among what most of us would consider "civilized folks" those sharing the above attributes is legendary and indisputable..  But hey thanks for the reading material and perhaps you can look it over and explain why most of Europe is turning into energy luddites..

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 10:23 | 2026340 bombimbom
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It was simply that Europes brutality among what most of us would consider "civilized folks" those sharing the above attributes is legendary and indisputable

Everything, not only brutality, coming from Europe is legendary and indisputable. western civilisation = european civilisation. Now that the USA, out of much brutality, has conquered a soft imperial status (soft for us europeans not so much for others), culturally influencing the rest of the world things are not that different because ultimately american culture is still very european in nature.  

and I tell you again that brutality has plagued every civilisation not only europe. it does shine more than others only because it makes the most part of mine and your history.

BTW EU has heavily contributed to keep that brutality away the last 60 years and more. you also still don't understand how much the process of integration has changed the average european mindset. everything suggests further integration is the way to go except for those who don't want to see it out of petty nationalism, envy, stupidity, mistrust, ignorance, isolationism etc etc . don't know, you choose. all those things are actually food for brutality to be back again.

not to mention that from a geopolitical POV a more integrated EU is crucial for the western civilisation to hold on because the status of the old emperor USA is going to be downgraded.


Sun, 01/01/2012 - 16:47 | 2025119 bugs_
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Vincent Price or Naomi Price?

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 22:03 | 2025640 WmMcK
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Sorry, double post.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 22:01 | 2025643 WmMcK
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We all scream for a good price?

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 17:15 | 2025163 savagegoose
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i thought europe lost the secret tro building viaducts when the romans fell? ohh wait  these are virtual ones.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 17:16 | 2025165 BillyTheBlade
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Did anyone else feel nauseated watching this?  Its amazing that its only been around for a decade and has been on the verge of collapse for what, almost 2 years now?  For them to spin this as anything but a complete failure is astonishing to me.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 17:25 | 2025176 Zola
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I love the last line "the Euro - our money" i will slightly reform it "the Euro -our money - your problem !!!"

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 18:18 | 2025262 wisefool
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Full circle. Aparently the Euro was designed by an american. And american tax dollars via the IMF will bail it out. No harm no foul. Luckily for the 51% of americans that dont pay federal taxes, they dont need to be bothered by any of this.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 18:05 | 2025234 carbonmutant
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Eurocide...

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:07 | 2025339 Atomizer
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Obama will transform into 'President Truman.' After his vacation, the mass teleprompter message will uploaded. Progs will drool with HOPE.

 

Vereinte Nationen (UN) einfach erklärt

The European Angel of Death disguised as Cherub

Happy New Year Bitches!

 

:)

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:18 | 2025366 Burticus
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You walk into the public bathroom and position yourself at a urinal.  The man on your right is Asian and the man on your left is American.

What are you?

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:29 | 2025383 gwar5
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I'm a pervert for checking out the other dudes in the can. But if I also have a 9 inch cock, I'm just anatomically very proud.

 

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:36 | 2025396 Burticus
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You're a-peein' (European)!

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 20:02 | 2025434 Atomizer
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You walk into the public bathroom and position yourself at a urinal. The man on your right is Asian and the man on your left is American.

What are you?

I have no issues with my manly hood. Generally, the places I go take a piss have toilet partitions.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:19 | 2025368 gwar5
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Europe is the last stand for credit card socialism courtesy of the Bank of Utopian Mysticism. It was such a nice dream though! If only it were true that we could get something for nothing and not be made to suffer the unspeakable humiliation of having to pay for it.

 

 

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 20:56 | 2025544 SAT 800
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Ding, Ding, Ding. I regret I have only one thumbs up to give. "the Bank of Utopian Mysticism"--perfect.  "The problem with Socialism is that you run out of other peoples money to spend", Margaret Thatcher.

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 21:12 | 2025566 jpalm
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Grand opening, grand closing

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 00:10 | 2025857 JW n FL
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smRo7UFUuwM&feature=related

Uploaded by on Nov 29, 2010

Canadian Economist Jeff Rubin is known for his prescient calls in the oil markets over the past few decades. His most recent book, Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, explains why continuously rising oil prices will mean the end of globalization. We caught up with Rubin at the Global Wealth Management seminar in Copenhagen to talk about how rising oil prices will affect everything from home loans to the price of Salmon.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 00:26 | 2025883 Sofa King
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More sighting of drachma in GReece...People requesting German Euros...getting more difficult to wire transfer money to foreign banks...or was that just a dream.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 00:33 | 2025896 TheObsoleteMan
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I am not so fast to play the death march for the euro, at least not so soon. The NWO has invested allot of clout, time and effort into creating this monster, and they are not going to just watch it go silently into the night without one hellva fight. Not as long as the swap lines are still open anyway. This will drag out allot longer than many expect. But in the end, yes, it is doomed. It will drag the US Fed down with it, just like a drowning man takes his would-be rescuer down with him.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 04:50 | 2026085 nah
Mon, 01/02/2012 - 04:58 | 2026093 AustrianEconomist
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Europe and the US are going through a deleveraging period which will most likely lead to a balance sheet recession such as Japan did during the "Lost Decades". Economic theory hybridization is needed in order to implement a stable international monetary system that is not just based on leverage but on growth of real GDP, meaning the production of real goods, rather from financial gambling with derivatives.

Check out the latest from the Capital Research Institute (CRI):

Deleveraging - A Balance Sheet Recession

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 06:54 | 2026147 waldo simon
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Hi Guys,First post,After observing for 10 months.

After 8 years living in London,i've returned to my native New Zealand.

I appreciate all comments,and particularly value originations,would love to be seen as an optimist,

however am basically a realist.

I have some, physically held,AG,and access to communal food supply,to which the production of,i contribute.

I consider the majority of my countrymen to be completely in the thrall of the MSM,and everything that that implies.

Thanks to all involved, warmest,

WS

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:51 | 2026524 eurogold
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Who cares if the Euro is dead or dying. It will be replaced with something else and only the strongest economies will be allowed to participate. I for one look forward to it.

By the way the paper called dollars is not doing any better. Note how many international transactions are no longer being done with   "dollars".

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 15:37 | 2026975 RobotTrader
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The only reason the Euro is weak:

 

The ECB is flat out not printing fast enough.

The only country printing the fastest and enjoying the strongest currency is Japan.

Just look at the monstrous surge in the Yen the last few years:

http://www.barchart.com/chart.php?sym=^JPYUSD&style=technical&p=WO&d=X&x=50&y=15&sd=&ed=&size=M&log=0&t=BAR&v=0&g=1&evnt=1&late=1&o1=&o2=&o3=&sh=100&indicators=&addindicator=&submitted=1&fpage=&txtDate=#jump

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 16:48 | 2027056 cat2
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That's exactly what weimar germany said!

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:17 | 2027498 covert
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the euro is doomed.

http://covert.mypressonline.com

 

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