Libertad, Igualdad, Pluralidad. Press Review 20 Marzo 2013. Europe2020.

GEAB N°73 is available! Global systemic crisis 2013: The Huge Statistical Fog makes it necessary to change from instruments to visual navigation - Traps, benchmarks and templates

In this GEAB issue our team has decided to detail which indicators reflect the true situation and those which are window-dressing. This work also makes it possible to highlight that it’s not always the indicators themselves which are skewed, but the way in which they are interpreted or the reasons studied which make them change...

LEAP/E2020 - PUblic announcement GEAB N°73 (March 16, 2013)

The debt bomb just got bigger

The amount of debt worldwide is more than all of the bank accounts in the world, and the current financial situation in Cyprus is the inevitable next phase: Confiscation.

RT

BUITER: The Cyprus Deal Is The Best Thing That's Happened To Europe In Years

In other words, taxpayers are being asked to foot less and less of the bill with each bailout, and this is a good thing, because there's really no way the euro member states with struggling banking systems can continue to bail them out on the back of the taxpayers. There's just too much debt on governments' balance sheets already, and it keeps piling up.

Business Insider

India Cuts Rates, Experts Say So What?

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lowered its key policy rate for the second time this year on Tuesday, but will the central bank's latest move succeed in helping revive growth in Asia's third largest economy, which is languishing at multi-year lows?

CNBC

Iceland's grassroots constitution on thin ice

Many in Iceland are hoping parliament will pass a constitution written in an unprecedented grassroots initiative, spurred by the onset of the financial crisis. But politics as usual may get in the document's way...

Deutsche Welle

A story hard to find in Western media: "Muslim and Western nations agree on UN landmark code to combat violence against women and girls"

Muslim and Western nations late Friday overcame deep divisions to agree a landmark United Nations declaration setting out a code of conduct for combating violence against women and girls. Iran, Libya, Sudan and other Muslim nations ended threats to block the declaration and agreed to language stating that violence against women could not be justified by “any custom, tradition or religious consideration.”...

MercoPress

Outgoing Bank of Japan head warns no quick fix to Japan's deflation

Outgoing Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa warned on Tuesday there is no quick way to fix an economy that has suffered 15 years of deflation and that aggressive money printing alone was not the answer...

Reuters

L’opposition syrienne élit son premier ministre de transition

Ghassan Hitto était jusqu‘à l’an dernier cadre supérieur dans une compagnie de télécommunication au Texas. Il a rejoint les rangs de l’opposition en novembre 2012 et s’est impliqué dans l’aide humanitaire à la population syrienne. Son fils aîné, né aux Etats-Unis, est parti l’an dernier en Syrie pour aider l’opposition...

EuroNews

Census: More than 1 in 3 US counties are now dying off

A record number of U.S. counties — more than 1 in 3 — are now dying off, hit by an aging population and weakened local economies that are spurring young adults to seek jobs and build families elsewhere. New 2012 census estimates released Thursday highlight the population shifts as the U.S. encounters its most sluggish growth levels since the Great Depression...

MSN

Higgs boson confirmation boosts physicists to higher energy

An announcement Thursday confirming that a newfound particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is a Higgs boson — the theorized particle that could explain how other particles get their mass — has left physicists hopeful about the future of their research...

NBC News

India, China, Brazil to surpass combined GDP of U.S., western Europe by 2020: UN

“By 2020, the combined economic output of three leading developing countries alone — Brazil, China and India — will surpass the aggregate production of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the U.K. and the United States,” said the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) 2013 Human Development Report...

Vancouver DESI

L'OCDE propose de supprimer les départements français

Cette mesure «choc» figure parmi les recommandations de l'organisation internationale dans son rapport annuel sur l'économie française, publié aujourd'hui. L'OCDE s'attaque aussi au cumul des mandats, aux retraites et aux dépenses de santé...

Le Figaro

Netanyahu's New Strongman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did all that he could during the recent coalition negotiations to keep HaBayit HaYehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett out of his new government. [By the time those negotiations ended], it was apparent that he had failed. Actually the situation is even worse than that. Not only had [Prime Minister Netanyahu] Bibi failed to exclude Bennett from his government. He made Bennett the most powerful person in it...

Al-Monitor

Ka-ching!: Abe to bargain with NATO for Japanese role in F-35

NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen is expected to visit Japan in mid-April and meet with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. Such issues as China’s growing assertiveness, NATO’s security roles in Afghanistan, and the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea will likely be on the agenda, the source said...

Japan Times

State-controlled Companies Learn the Power of Gov't Bailouts

Five major central government-controlled power companies have long craved bailouts from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) and last year they got their wish...

Caixin

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