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Angela Merkel: High unemployment is the “price Europe had to pay to become more competitive.” Merkel’s statement that austerity is intended to “ensure the prosperity of our people” is an oxymoron only to those liberal economists who do not see capitalism as a class-based system! “Greek European Commissioner Maria Damanaki recently noted, “‘The strategy of the European Commission over the past year and a half or two has been to reduce the labour costs in all European countries in order to improve the competitiveness of European companies over the rivals from Eastern Europe and Asia.’ on June 1, 2013

Apple’s dirty little tax secret – video: US senators and tax law professors have accused Apple of multi-billion-dollar tax avoidance – shifting billions of dollars of profits to Ireland where Apple has found a way to pay little or no tax. Apple boss Tim Cook disagrees. He insists there is no shifting going on, and that profits earned by Apple’s Irish operations are down to the hard work and expertise of almost 4,000 staff in Cork. The Guardian went to the Emerald Isle to test these competing claims on May 30, 2013

José Manuel Barroso: Tax-stealing costs European states around a trillion Euros per year, nearly double the 2012 combined annual budget deficit of all member states! Since many years the politicians cut the social rights of Europeans with the argument of the statedeficits, in the same time the rich elite stole trillions each year! 100 of UK’s richest people concealing billions in offshore tax havens Global investigation gets under way as HM Revenue and Customs acts on leaked data! on May 22, 2013

20 Signs That The Next Great Economic Depression Has Already Started In Europe: #1 The unemployment rate in France has surged to 10.6 percent, and the number of jobless claims in that country recently set a new all-time record. #2 Unemployment in the eurozone as a whole is sitting at an all-time record of 12 percent. #3 Two years ago, Portugal’s unemployment rate was about 12 percent. Today, it is about 17 percent………………… on May 1, 2013

Income Inequality Gets Worse From 2009 – 2011 the top 7% saw gains in income of up to 28% while the bottom 93% saw a decrease of 4%. on April 29, 2013