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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.

EU working on consumer labels for Israeli settlement products

I think the world is very tired of the "rigged" game that Israel plays and is not accepting it any longer.

Denmark is fronting an EU initiative to help consumers boycott Israeli settlement products.

Its foreign ministry is funding an event in Brussels on 23 October to get EU diplomats and NGOs, such as Oxfam and Crisis Action, talking about EU-level guidelines for consumer labels on settlement goods.

The move comes after EU foreign ministers in May said they will "fully and effectively implement existing EU legislation" on the subject.

The EU says settlements are illegal. But its regular complaints about settlement expansion fall on deaf ears.

"The [October] workshop is designed to put the issue back on the agenda and to put action behind the words of the May conclusions ... We want to make it easier for consumers to vote with their wallet," a Danish diplomat told EUobserver.

France, Finland,

Thousands of Greeks protest against new round of austerity cuts

Take heed world,
If you must.....Then
Protest peacefully.

Thousands of Greeks marched at an annual fair in Greece's second-biggest city on Saturday to protest against a new round of wage and pension cuts demanded by international lenders in exchange for aid to stave off bankruptcy.

The demonstration by about 15,000 trade unionists and leftists was the first major protest against a nearly 12-billion-euro austerity package being readied by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to appease EU and IMF inspectors who arrived in Athens on Friday to review Greece's reform progress.

A few protesters burned European Union flags while others threw watermelons and peaches in support of struggling farmers, but the largely peaceful protests otherwise passed off without incident as 3,500 policemen looked on.

Greece is struggling through its worst post-war economic crisis that has left

EU Says Greeks Should Work 6-Day Week: Report

That's real white of the the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund to leave the the 2 week vacation in. So because the Greek government went hog wild spending (it ain't like the people did it) all it's citizens should be enslaved to work 6 days a week for 13 hours a day.
Did the central bank need an injection? My guess is, yes. And I know the IMF has hit the US up, so seriously who the hell do they think they are?
How long do you think you could keep running on that type of schedule?
2 weeks to a month maximum is all I could do. A body nor a mind runs well without rest.
Greece just needs to default. The money they would get pretty much only goes to pay interest.

Greeks should operate a six-day working week for all sectors, international creditors said in a letter to the Greek government, a measure which forms part of a wider set of demands in return for aid to the country.

The paper printed the following extract from the letter: "Increase the number of maximum workdays to six days per week for all sectors. Increase flexibility of work schedules; set the minimum daily rest to 11 hours; delink the working hours of employees from the opening hours of the establishment; eliminate restrictions on minimum/maximum time between morning and afternoon shifts; allow the consecutive two-week leave to be taken anytime during the year in seasonal sectors."

Greece has had to agree to an austerity package and stringent labor market reforms in order to continue receiving payments from its creditors.

What have the European countries tied themselves into?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331654/March-Euro-police-The-shocking-powers-prosecution-EU-us.html

Held without bail for months or years, kind of smacks of the Patriot Act to me.
The paramilitary police force sounds like the SS. Why is there a need for one anyway, when they already have a European CIA? Shouldn't they be able to coordinate with the police individual police depts of each country?
Economically that makes more sense.


A Mail on Sunday investigation has uncovered an alarming array of new EU controls over justice and home affairs for which no one has voted, and most are unknown to the public.

These include:

Europol, the £60 million-a-year European criminal intelligence agency,
whose officers have diplomatic immunity.

An 800-strong paramilitary police force called the European Gendarmerie Force.

The European Arrest Warrant, which now allows British citizens to be seized in the UK and sent without appeal to foreign jails for months or years without bail while awaiting trial.

Rare earth minerals shortage feared by US and EU

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11633929

Well what is now considered to be the base, of what's left of the manufacturing industry, in the US is about to go into a death spiral.
Japan is not mentioned but they're hit pretty hard as well.

Used for green technology, such as battery-charged cars and wind turbines; in laptops, flat-screen TVs and mobile phones; for lasers; and for medical equipment, such as MRI scans as well as parts for smart bombs, and parts of airplanes

The US and the EU have warned that a shortage of rare earth metals from China could harm their economies.

Officials and industrialists in Washington and Berlin said a lack of the minerals, 90% of which come from China, would have severe repercussions.

The metals are essential for making many hi-tech products and some are used by the US weapons industry.

Spain strike impact limited to transport and plants

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100929/tpl-uk-spain-strike-d1a0d5d.html

That's alot of non-production, and if continued long enough will ensure that the "People's" voice will be heard.
Get off your ass America, your brothers and sisters need your help.
The Central Banks have made this a world wide problem, and Europe is actually willing to do something about it.

Trade unions said 10 million people, or more than half the workforce, were on strike. Government officials gave no numbers but played down disruption.


However, in a sign of low industrial activity, electricity demand was about 20 percent less than expected, according to data from grid operator REE.

Austerity whips up anger, protests mount in Europe

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100928/tts-eu-economy-strike-labour-social-c1b2fc3.html

America needs to make a coordinated effort along with the residents of the EU and make their voice heard regarding the same problems.
Austerity measures being taken or proposed is a world wide problem, and what's being proposed has become painfully unacceptable for the common man due to no fault of there own, but rather forced upon them by their governments having dealt with the Central Banks.

Painful cuts by overspending EU countries come head to a head with mounting social anger on Wednesday when labour leaders call angry workers onto streets right across the continent.

Set for its largest Europe-wide protest for a decade is Brussels where labour leaders are planning to bring 100,000 people from 30 countries to say "No to austerity!"

The protest, the biggest such march since 2001 when 80,000 people spilled into the EU capital, is being held to coincide with a plan to fine governments running up deficits.

Detailed proposals are due to be released that day by the 27-nation bloc's executive arm, the European Commission, with the continent's finance ministers also gathering in Brussels this week.

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?

Germany and France examine 'two-tier' euro

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/7837874/Germany-and-France-examine-two-tier-euro.html


Germany and France are examining ways of creating a "two-tier" euro system to separate stronger northern European countries from weaker southern states.

A European official has told The Daily Telegraph the dramatic option was being examined at cabinet level.

Senior politicians believe their economies need to be better protected as they could not cope with another crisis on a par the one in Greece.


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View from the lab: continental driftThe creation of a "super-euro" zone would initially include France, Germany, Holland, Austria, Denmark and Finland.

The likes of Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and even Ireland would be left in a larger rump mostly Mediterranean grouping.

The official said French and German officials had first spent months examining how to exclude poor-performing states from the euro but decided it was not feasible.

A two-tier monetary system in the 16-member euro zone is being examined as a "plan B".

"The philosophy is the stronger countries might need to move away from countries they can't afford to bail-out," said the official. "As a way of containing the damage, they may have to do something dramatic, though obviously in the short term implementation is difficult.

"It's an act of desperation. They are not talking about ideal solutions but the

The Second Debt Storm

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/109547/the-second-debt-storm?mod=bb-budgeting&sec=topStories&pos=4&asset=&ccode=

Oh look someone finally asked the $64,000 question.
And the world's taxpayers seems to be the answer

Who will bail out the countries that bailed out the world's corporations?


The financial crisis never really went away.

The debt mountain that brought down some of the world's biggest banks and dragged the international financial system to the brink of disaster has simply shifted to governments. Now, it's threatening countries around the globe and if left unchecked could rip the very fabric of Europe's economic system and wreck economic recoveries in the U.S., China and Latin America

Federal Reserve opens credit line to Europe

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100510/ap_on_bi_ge/us_europe_financial_crisis_fed

Didn't ya just know this was going to happen.



The Federal Reserve late Sunday opened a program to ship U.S. dollars to Europe in a move to head off a broader financial crisis on the continent.

Other central banks, including the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank, are also involved in the effort

The Greek spirit of resistance turns its guns on the IMF

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/09/greece-debt-crisis-euro-imf




"This has gone beyond economic matters to a battle for national independence," says Manolis Glezos, the leftist who shot to fame snatching the swastika from the Acropolis shortly after Hitler's forces streamed into Athens in 1941.

"Papandreou himself has admitted we had no say in the economic measures thrust upon us. They were decided by the EU and IMF. We are now under foreign supervision and that raises questions about our economic, military and political independence."

IMF calls for new body to save taxpayers from burden of failing banks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/19/imf-save-taxpayers-failing-banks


Dominique Strauss-Kahn of IMF says new body would force shareholders and creditors to bear costs of bank failure


The International Monetary Fund has called for a European "fire brigade" funded by the finance industry to deal with the collapse of banks that operate in several countries.

Managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn urged the European Union to create a European resolution authority to deal with insolvent banks that would force shareholders and uninsured creditors – rather than taxpayers –to bear the costs of failure. The authority would be funded by the financial industry from deposit insurance fees and levies on institutions, he said.

"What I think is needed is a European resolution authority, armed with the mandate and the tools to deal cost-effectively with failing cross-border banks – an ex-ante [before the event] solution to the problems that currently hamper co-operation in crisis situations, rather than an ex-post one," Strauss-Kahn told a conference in Brussels today.

"It should cover at least the major cross-border banking groups, as well as all banks running large-scale cross-border operations under the single passport."

It sound all good until I read this
That government burden sharing is more taxpayer funding

The system would need access to a fiscal back-up mechanism, he said, with a mechanism of burden-sharing between governments.

Angela Merkel dashes Greek hopes of rescue bid

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/feb/11/germany-greece-merkel-bailout-euro

Angela, could you please get a message to Barry,
WE "The People" wish you would take notice of the fact that Germany will not finance another country's lifestyle off of the sweat of their own taxpayers brow.
WE would like to be treated accordingly and really consider it not much to ask considering the financial state of out country.


"Germany cannot justify its taxpayers having to finance the lovely lives of the Greeks," said a senior diplomat.

'No Bailout' Clause? The EU's Greek Rescue Problems

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/No-Bailout-Clause-The-EUs-cnbc-3965800392.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=5&asset=&ccode=

The Greece government sounds just like the American government, they don't take deficit cuts seriously either.

There's chatter in the financial community that a bailout package for Greece will arrive from the European Extraordinary Summit on Thursday. But there is little certainty in Brussels about what will be delivered, or if a move would have any legal basis.



The success of the summit will depend on what the markets call a bailout, said Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies.

"Would a simple promise to help in case Greece needs, a promise for a debt guarantee, be seen as a bailout? Well, that is possible," Gros said. "But if the markets really want to hear a detailed plan saying 'we'll give Greece credit today,' that will be much more difficult."

There's a sense in Brussels that it is still is too early to present a complete and detailed bailout plan for Greece, according to Paul de Grauwe, an economics professor at Leuven University who also works as a policy advisor for the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

"It doesn't make sense for the EU leaders to come up with a detailed plan as there's no default yet," De Grauwe said.

"Another problem with having a bailout plan now is that, before the EU spends its money saving Greece, the Greek people have to understand how serious the situation is," Gros added. "Otherwise there will be no change of behavior and therefore this will be just money thrown away, as they will simply come back later for more."

Putin Says Chlorine in Chickens Unsafe

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/01/pm-putin-says-chlorine-in-chickens-unsafe/

The rest of the world doesn't want what they force you to eat.
How much poison can a body ingest?


Getting another American chicken into Russia just got harder.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighed into the Russian ban on U.S. chicken imports.

"We haven't seen any readiness to meet Russian standards on the part of some of our partners, mainly the companies from the United States," Putin said. "If our foreign suppliers are unable or reluctant to meet our security requirements, we will use other sources."

The Russians banned chickens from countries using chlorine in poultry processing beginning Jan. 1 2010. Putin made the Americans the odd man out saying that Russia was merely joining the European Union in banning, for food safety reasons, chickens from chlorine-using counties.

"One shouldn't look for political background in this case, God forbid," said Russia's former President and one-time KGB agent. "No political background here!"

Greece rejects speculation of bail-out

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7504f472-fae9-11de-94d8-00144feab49a.html

And what is the state of the EU actually good for, other than stripping a country of it's own leadership in looking out for the welfare of it's self?

His comments came after Jürgen Stark, a European Central Bank executive board member, said there would be no bail-out for the country by other members of the eurozone. “The markets are deluding themselves when they think at a certain point the other member states will put their hands on their wallets to save Greece,” he told Italy’s Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper

Eu To Ban All Shop Refunds

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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.