Airport ditches controversial bodyscanners

A total of 13 backscatter X-ray machines are being ditched because they have not been given EU approval, even though they are in common use in the United States.

The devices, which use low dose X-rays to produce an image of the body, have come under fire on both privacy and health grounds, amid suggestions they could pose a potential cancer risk.

However despite an expert committee concluding in March that the devices did not pose a health risk, Brussels has refused to sanction their use.

As a result they will be replaced by millimetre-wave devices, such as those used at Heathrow, which have been given EU approval.

These machines enable security staff to detect hidden objects without also requiring them to inspect a ghostly X-ray image of the body.

Putin Looks East for Growth as Debt-Ridden Europe Loses Sheen

Keep on keeping on Mr P. At least Russia has an actual legitimate direction in which to go into, rather than the business of creating "bogus" wars, to use as a floaty, to keep from drowning, in the deep waters, of debt.
The United States, is now in the middle of the ocean, and there's a ever growing larger pinhole, in it's floaty.

Russia, faced with a debt crisis in its top trading partner, is pivoting east for the trade and investment President Vladimir Putin needs to meet the economic targets he set for his third term.

The world’s largest energy exporter plans to construct an oil refinery on the Pacific coast and may send grain eastward as Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) and Mazda Motor Corp. (7261) consider building Russian plants. The government has spent more than $20 billion to showcase Vladivostok, 4,000 miles east of Moscow, as leaders gather for this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

Russia is looking to Asia as the European Union, which accounts for about half of its trade, grapples with a three- year-old debt crisis. Putin, who’s targeting faster growth and a greater role for investment, says the 21 APEC economies represent the best bet to fuel global expansion as traditional engines such as the U.S. and Europe flag.

“Russia has long been an intrinsic part of the

Spiegel: "It's Time To Ask The People What They Think"

Do not become like the United States, Europe, the US Government never ask us anything, nor do they listen to what "We" tell them, they just do what they want, whether "We" like it or not. There is never a vote for "The People" on large scale issues. They rule our schools and have dumbed down our children because of it. Our children do NOT compete with the intelligence, of the rest of the world any longer.
There is no stopping the power trip of this type of governance once you start it.

But sometimes we have to decide on the really big issues -- and then it is time to ask the people

Several months ago we first suggested that the only outcome of the ongoing antagonism between Germany, the now Goldman-controlled European central bank hell bent on generating inflation at any cost, and the rest of Europe's insolvent states, would be a German referendum in which the German people themsleves are asked what they think of the current mess Europe finds itself in. Naturally, days like today, when the ECB does away with inflationary caution and returns to tried and failed methods - because as a reminder conditional secondary market bond purchases are nothing new, and were last tried in the summer of 2011 when Italy became the latest entrant to the SMP program, and failed - is when the impetus for referendum would be highest. Sure enough, German Spiegel has come out with an article pulling precisely on this increasingly more festering wound for the German population.

From Spiegel

It's Time to Ask the People What They Think

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concedes Iran sanctions hurting economy

None of this is humane, and it sickens me to think that in this day and age, that a people can be starved to death just because someone else wants them to.
Iran has done nothing wrong, the nuclear inspectors confirm that fact to.
So why the hell are they being starved to death?
Because they don't have a central bank that's why, just like Syria and Yemen and a few others.
This is the rich "elite" Zionists flexing their muscle, to break Iran into submission. Both China and Russia know it.

Facing growing discontent over soaring food prices, the Iranian president accused the West of waging "an all-out, hidden, heavy war" that had impeded Tehran's ability to export oil.

"There are barriers in transferring money, there are barriers in selling oil," he said in a live television talk show.

Although Mr Ahmadinejad predicted that Iran would weather the sanctions, saying "we have oil and the world needs it", his admission stood in stark contrast to earlier claims by his ministers that sanctions were having little impact.

And because Israel (or their government actually) pitches a fit, the people of Iran suffer.
Israel needs to show their own nuclear weapons, the world should question the threat of them.
This is just to bogus anymore, America backs Israel only because Mr. Ahmadinejad wants a fair trade on their oil rather than for the devalued debt ridden American dollar.
And it kills me that this article states that he concedes, no he doesn't he cares about his starving people, unlike Israel who is willing to put it's own people under the atrocities of war just to get their own way.
America make your voice heard, how much is your paycheck buying you now that the damned dollar has been debased so far, by the FED?
World speak up, Israels bull shit has gone on long enough. How long does Gaza have to stay imprisoned by Israel, just because they can?
Everyone it's time to step up and put "the chosen" back in their place like the rest of us.

The International Energy Agency estimates that Iranian oil imported by major consumers had fallen to one million barrels a day since the start of the year, a decline of more than a third.

European Union and US sanctions against Iran's energy and financial sectors have caused a sharp decline in the value of the rial, the country's currency, and pushed the price of even staple commodities to a level that many Iranians cannot afford.

EU's Poorest Member Country Smacks Down Euro As Bulgaria Refuses To Join Eurozone

Because the poor are not stupid, and can understand the concept of being "taken for a ride", they have protectively said NO THANKS to any further offer of running with the other "flea ridden big dogs" of the European Union, who themselves have nothing to offer, other than the cost of the "dip" in an attempt to control the outbreak of infestation that has occurred upon them all, from laying in the use of the same bedding.

On this day (Labor day) a small spark of hope seems to have fanned back into the brightness of life, from the seen fact of truth, that the realm of common sense has not died, and that Governments do, actually do what's best for their own people

Good for you Bulgaria, "The People" of the world, are proud of you, and recognise your stunning example for what it is, the unadulterated common sense of "not infesting your own house, with the fleas, from someone else's dog"

If one needs a shining example of why the days of Europe's artificial currency are numbered, look no further than the EU's poorest country which moments ago said "Ne Mersi" to the Eurozone and the European currency. From the WSJ: "Bulgaria, the European Union's poorest member state and a rare fiscal bright spot for the bloc, has indefinitely frozen long-held plans to adopt the single currency, marking the latest fiscally prudent country to cool its enthusiasm for the embattled currency. Speaking in interviews in Sofia, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov said that the decision to shelve plans to join the currency area, a longtime strategic aim of successive governments in the former communist state, came in response to deteriorating economic conditions and rising uncertainty over the prospects of the bloc, alongside a decisive shift of public opinion in Bulgaria, which is entering its third year of an austerity program. "The momentum has shifted in our thinking and among the public…Right now, I don't see any benefits of entering the euro zone, only costs," Mr. Djankov said. "The public rightly wants to know who would we have to bailout when we join? It's too risky for us and it's also not certain what the rules are and what are they likely to be in one year or two."

Berlin Pushing For European Bankruptcy Framework With Provision For State Sovereignty Give Up

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/berlin-pushing-european-bankruptcy-framework-provision-state-sovereignty-give

This is the precursor to WWIII.
Governments, have spent their countries into oblivion world wide, regardless of what their citizens thought. Every country, not just the European Nation, could become subject to the same conditions for Angela's rules of bankruptcy.
Think about it. How close to a calamity is your own country?
Would you be willing to give up your country's independence and sovereignty all because your government can't reign in it's excessive overspending?
Because that's what it's all boiling down to now.
How soon before "All of Us" are governed by one faction if Angela's rules are allowed to set a precedent?

Is servicing the interest on our government debts really worth another world war?
You have the power to just say No!



The big news out of Europe this morning, and the reason for the drag on the euro is an article in Der Spiegel, "Merkel's rules for bankruptcy" according to which Germany is now actively (and very secretly) pushing for a plan outlining a set of insolvency rules, which would require that private investors bear a portion of the rescue burden, and much more importantly, would see at least a partial give up in state sovereignty, where a new insolvency trustee (the "Berlin Club", which we fail to see at least for now, how it differs from the Paris Club) would take implicit control over and override a default nation's treasury, in essence pushing the bankrupt country into a form of Feudal vassal state-cum-reparations subservience. Welcome to financial warfare in the post-globalization period.

The main reason for the initiative is, of course, Germany's taxpayers' increasing dissatisfaction with the growing financial burden they are forced to shoulder as more and more European countries succumb under the need to resort to a bailout of some sort:

The effort is necessary, because important safety measures to protect the common currency are not working. The Stability and Growth Pact, which was intended to nip excessive government borrowing in the bud, proved to be largely worthless.


As more and more nations in Europe succumb to the inevitable collapse of their overindebted economies, and with austerity sure to prevent a pick up in economic growth, will the only possible outcome soon be a return to Feudal europe where the less developed hinterlands become gradually subsumed by the wealthier core, and in which a certain percentage of all sovereign debt issues are immediately channeled back to the Berlin Club members? Is "insolvency reparations" going to be the 21st century equivalent event that triggered the reparation-driven toxic spiral in Weimar Germany culminating with hyperinflation and World War 2?

EU warns 5 major eurozone nations on budgets

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/EU-warns-5-major-eurozone-apf-380714428.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode=

We're all going down together kids.
But hey the banks survived.

The European Union on Wednesday warned Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands that they are relying too much on a strong economic recovery to meet debt reduction targets.

European Commission reports say that the five largest nations that use the euro have "rather optimistic" growth forecasts in their programs to cut budget deficits to the EU limit of 3 percent of gross domestic product.

It said budget figures could be worse than they expect if growth remains slow.

The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union

http://www.alternet.org/economy/145797/the_unemployed_now_have_their_own_union%2C_and_it%27s_catching_on_quickly



It's been only a month that a union for the unemployed has come into existence through an ingenious grassroots organizing campaign. In case you haven't heard about it, the union's name is "UR Union of the Unemployed" or its nickname, "UCubed," because of its unique method of organizing.

UCubed is the brain-child

Eu To Ban All Shop Refunds

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...l-shop-refunds

Care for a taste of global governance to come?

EU BUREAUCRATS want to end the right of shoppers to get their money back for shoddy goods.

This would end the 100 years of protection British consumers have enjoyed.

For more than a century, shops have offered refunds to people who return unwanted or faulty goods.

Plans by the European Union to “harmonise” consumer law will short-change them by removing that right and weakening safeguards.