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"we don't know why the stock market is going down." ross
7-Year Cycles That Crush The Uninformed:
1. unbridled enthusiasm
2. mass confusion
3. sudden disillusionment
4. search for the guilty
5. punish the innocent
6. rewarding of the non-participants
7. see step one

We only have a 2.5% tariff on autos...Europe 10%...China had been 25%...but [China] dropped that to 15%...There’s also a lot of subsidized steel & aluminum...and non-tariff barriers...we let ourselves get into this box...we gave it away unilaterally” D

No it was decided to punish the innocent.

Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:55 am
Budweiser, now owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V., which is based in Leuven, Belgium
Alka-Seltzer, now owned by German company Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Ben & Jerrys, now owned by British-Dutch Unilever
AMC theaters, now owned by the Chinese
7-Eleven, now owned by the Japanese company, Seven & I Holdings
Woman’s Day Magazine, now owned by the French company, Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A
Purina, now owned by the Swiss company, Nestle
Gerber, now owned by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Novartis
Firestone, now owned by the Japanese Bridgestone Corporation
Citgo, now owned by the government of Venezuela
French’s Mustard, now owned by Reckitt Benckiser, a British conglomerate
Frigidaire, now owned by Sweden’s AB Electrolux
The Plaza Hotel in New York City, now owned by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva’s El-Ad Group
Trader Joes, now owned by German billionaires Karl and Theo Albrecht
Dial soap, now owned by Henkel KGaA, based in Dusseldorf, Germany
Sunglass Hut, now owned by Italian eyewear seller Luxottica Group
-----
Are you starting to get the picture?
Our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted and more than 46 million Americans are now living in poverty.
And if you are waiting for the jokers in Washington D.C. to fix things, you are going to be waiting for a very, very long time.
Over the past several years, both the Democrats and the Republicans have proven again and again that they are basically completely and totally useless.

Michigan’s Water Wars: Nestlé Pumps Millions of Gallons for Free While Flint Pays for Poisoned Water February 17, 2016

Michigan OKs Nestlé permit for increased water withdrawal for bottled water plant
Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press Lansing Bureau Published 5:45 p.m. ET April 2, 2018 | Updated 7:25 p.m. ET April 2, 2018
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation sued Nestlé in 2001 over the potential damage to lakes, rivers and streams that its bottled water plant's groundwater withdrawals could cause. After years of court battles, the two sides reached a settlement in 2009, reducing Nestlé's siphoning to 218 gallons per minute from 400, with additional restrictions on spring and summer withdrawals.
The Nestlé expansion also was opposed by Osceola Township, which rejected a permit request for the pumping station at the water plant. That rejection was overturned by both county and state Appeals Courts.

https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default ... k=3gU1MKRZ At the height of the eurozone crisis, Mr Juncker was described as the “master of lies” for organising a meeting of finance ministers to talk about whether Greece could remain in the single currency and then trying to deny it was taking place.
Germany's Suddeutsche Zeitung accused Mr Juncker of “taking the lead on the deception” and warned he had managed “to fritter away the last remaining trust the people of Europe still have”.
Mr Juncker has never hidden his view that the compromises and deals being worked out in EU meetings or leaders or ministers need be protected from public scrutiny, by lies if necessary.
"When it becomes serious, you have to lie," he said.
In May 2011, he told a meeting of the federalist European Movement that he often “had to lie” and that eurozone monetary policy should be discussed in “secret, dark debates”.
He also sparked controversy by suggesting that the eurozone economic policy was incompatible with democracy.

The Junkers were members of the landed nobility in Prussia. They owned great estates that were maintained and worked by peasants with few rights. These estates often stood in the countryside outside of major cities or towns. They were an important factor in Prussia and, after 1871, in German military, political and diplomatic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmN6wZ9rVPY

Adjectives are just messengers being shot.
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default ... k=Sc2DTEVt

http://hallgartenco.com/Antioch_network.pdf it was blotted out in 526 AD since it was decided from the Owner of the garden
from the heresy of the day. The saints who provided the view did indeed record the events to the warnings as the ones who provided
warnings that some translated also recently. The thought map given was get your house in order since the next step can be averted
only when we can listen. If you will not listen to the Book or the Letter the window is seen very small. No one ever ignored science.

http://www.iahushua.com/WOI/us_nazis.htm / Also the Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks [Sean McMeekin]

The comparative arms spending by Russia and Germany was rather striking.
As we have seen with the recent 144 tons that recently vanished and the 500 tons looted from Russia before in that period.
is replete with the recent thematic.

As we see the Fox network is under leftist attack with supranational assault, the sheep will be gutted, not skinned.
The London offices of 21st Century Fox’s Fox Networks Group were raided by European Commission investigators Tuesday

7-Year Cycles That Crush The Uninformed:
1. unbridled enthusiasm
2. mass confusion
3. sudden disillusionment
4. search for the guilty
5. punish the innocent
6. rewarding of the non-participants
7. see step one

Budweiser, now owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V., which is based in Leuven, Belgium
Alka-Seltzer, now owned by German company Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Ben & Jerrys, now owned by British-Dutch Unilever
AMC theaters, now owned by the Chinese
7-Eleven, now owned by the Japanese company, Seven & I Holdings
Woman’s Day Magazine, now owned by the French company, Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A
Purina, now owned by the Swiss company, Nestle
Gerber, now owned by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Novartis
Firestone, now owned by the Japanese Bridgestone Corporation
Citgo, now owned by the government of Venezuela
French’s Mustard, now owned by Reckitt Benckiser, a British conglomerate
Frigidaire, now owned by Sweden’s AB Electrolux
The Plaza Hotel in New York City, now owned by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva’s El-Ad Group
Trader Joes, now owned by German billionaires Karl and Theo Albrecht
Dial soap, now owned by Henkel KGaA, based in Dusseldorf, Germany
Sunglass Hut, now owned by Italian eyewear seller Luxottica Group
-----
Are you starting to get the picture?
Our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted and more than 46 million Americans are now living in poverty.
And if you are waiting for the jokers in Washington D.C. to fix things, you are going to be waiting for a very, very long time.
Over the past several years, both the Democrats and the Republicans have proven again and again that they are basically completely and totally useless.

Michigan’s Water Wars: Nestlé Pumps Millions of Gallons for Free While Flint Pays for Poisoned Water February 17, 2016

Michigan OKs Nestlé permit for increased water withdrawal for bottled water plant
Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press Lansing Bureau Published 5:45 p.m. ET April 2, 2018 | Updated 7:25 p.m. ET April 2, 2018
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation sued Nestlé in 2001 over the potential damage to lakes, rivers and streams that its bottled water plant's groundwater withdrawals could cause. After years of court battles, the two sides reached a settlement in 2009, reducing Nestlé's siphoning to 218 gallons per minute from 400, with additional restrictions on spring and summer withdrawals.
The Nestlé expansion also was opposed by Osceola Township, which rejected a permit request for the pumping station at the water plant. That rejection was overturned by both county and state Appeals Courts.

Attorney General Bill Schuette: Don't cut off free bottled water to Flint
LANSING - The state should keep paying for bottled water for Flint residents until all lead water lines in the city have been replaced...

Michigan just went blue.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO6LBVym8xs

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-1 ... ridgewater

The dreaded 360 for many has been ignored since 1993 for intent and purposes.
Outside of Western culture, multiple other cultures have used consensus decision-making.

The gamma function has a simple algebraic form only for special cases.

The gamma function shows up in many, seemingly unrelated, fields of mathematics. In particular, the generalization of the factorial provided by the gamma function is helpful in some combinatorics and probability problems.

Based on social constructivist philosophy, the model operates as a consensus-building model, as the clinician addresses ethical conflicts through a process of negotiating to consensus. Conflicts are resolved by consensually agreed on arbitrators who are defined early in the negotiation process.

As for the old empire which back then the legislation branch had some actual balls it was beat them with a stick and stuff the carrot up their ass if you had contrarian opinion since if they wanted any shit out of you they would squeeze your head and of course garnished with the best seven directives.

7-Year Cycles That Crush The Uninformed:

1. unbridled enthusiasm
2. mass confusion
3. sudden disillusionment
4. search for the guilty
5. punish the innocent
6. rewarding of the non-participants
7. see step one

Budweiser, now owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V., which is based in Leuven, Belgium
Alka-Seltzer, now owned by German company Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Ben & Jerrys, now owned by British-Dutch Unilever
AMC theaters, now owned by the Chinese
7-Eleven, now owned by the Japanese company, Seven & I Holdings
Woman’s Day Magazine, now owned by the French company, Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A
Purina, now owned by the Swiss company, Nestle
Gerber, now owned by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Novartis
Firestone, now owned by the Japanese Bridgestone Corporation
Citgo, now owned by the government of Venezuela
French’s Mustard, now owned by Reckitt Benckiser, a British conglomerate
Frigidaire, now owned by Sweden’s AB Electrolux
The Plaza Hotel in New York City, now owned by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva’s El-Ad Group
Trader Joes, now owned by German billionaires Karl and Theo Albrecht
Dial soap, now owned by Henkel KGaA, based in Dusseldorf, Germany
Sunglass Hut, now owned by Italian eyewear seller Luxottica Group
-----
Are you starting to get the picture?
Our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted and more than 46 million Americans are now living in poverty.
And if you are waiting for the jokers in Washington D.C. to fix things, you are going to be waiting for a very, very long time.
Over the past several years, both the Democrats and the Republicans have proven again and again that they are basically completely and totally useless.

https://heartiste.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/1984.jpeg

IoT 5G neural dust

ping

And, like Representative Abraham Lincoln did in the 1850s, Representative Tulsi Gabbard in our time has been making very clear, by her courageous actions and statements, on which side of the ideological divide she stands. It’s the same side that Sanders himself stood on: the progressive side. He would be terrific — in her Cabinet

As warned it would not take long...... progs are already sucking the wind out her sails....
http://www.globalresearch.ca/tulsi-gabb ... ln/5572171

Already they are on the march to screw us....
The new piece of legislation would direct the interior secretary to immediately sell off an area of public land the size of Connecticut. In a press release for House Bill 621, Chaffetz, a Tea Party Republican, claimed that the 3.3m acres of national land, maintained by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), served “no purpose for taxpayers”.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-0 ... overnments
Whether US energy and mining giants - who will all benefit now that the payments rule has been rescinded - will abuse the lack of disclosure for personal gains of their shareholders, remains to be seen.

Of course. Why it only gives the energy sector a get out of jail free card is a curious thing. I didn't think Tillerson could work that fast. The crux of this bill being killed is the weird thing considering the already existing broad legislation called FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 1977, 1988, 1998, 2012) addressing transparent accounting to discourage the bribing of foreign officials by any entities remotely connected with the US, within or outside the jurisdiction. US or foreign. The loophole, if any exists now, is by not requiring energy companies to disclose their foreign accounts I suppose. ytc
Drain the Swamp and now they want to blow Swamp Gas up our ass.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... t-chaffetz

Pox on both houses

Budweiser, now owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V., which is based in Leuven, Belgium
Alka-Seltzer, now owned by German company Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Ben & Jerrys, now owned by British-Dutch Unilever
AMC theaters, now owned by the Chinese
7-Eleven, now owned by the Japanese company, Seven & I Holdings
Woman’s Day Magazine, now owned by the French company, Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A
Purina, now owned by the Swiss company, Nestle
Gerber, now owned by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Novartis
Firestone, now owned by the Japanese Bridgestone Corporation
Citgo, now owned by the government of Venezuela
French’s Mustard, now owned by Reckitt Benckiser, a British conglomerate
Frigidaire, now owned by Sweden’s AB Electrolux
The Plaza Hotel in New York City, now owned by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva’s El-Ad Group
Trader Joes, now owned by German billionaires Karl and Theo Albrecht
Dial soap, now owned by Henkel KGaA, based in Dusseldorf, Germany
Sunglass Hut, now owned by Italian eyewear seller Luxottica Group
-----
Are you starting to get the picture?
Our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted and more than 46 million Americans are now living in poverty.
And if you are waiting for the jokers in Washington D.C. to fix things, you are going to be waiting for a very, very long time.
Over the past several years, both the Democrats and the Republicans have proven again and again that they are basically completely and totally useless.

Enjoy the second native aura since one percent is all that is left and importing ignorance is indeed a business model to control.
Print all the paper you want since dirt cannot be.

Inflation NGNP targeting "IT" is alive and well. No you will not be allowed to decide with what you earned.
As we warned the energy node usury cluster sites are up and running node #096421 has slipped in sales so we will
shift output under the seven year reeducation GAAP ACRS plan. We will get our euro to franc discount
window to buy the unfortunate distressed assets back. http://www.atr.org/full-list-hillary-s- ... -tax-hikes

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/f ... tbb_71.pdf
The bloated debt corpse will explode and you know what, they are already gone and what you thought you knew is already gone with it.
The GNP numbers we seen are those buried up to there neck and the tide of reality moving in since global per capita debt is all
that matters. Every .INC will tell you we are not historian's.

Budweiser, now owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V., which is based in Leuven, Belgium
Alka-Seltzer, now owned by German company Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Ben & Jerrys, now owned by British-Dutch Unilever
AMC theaters, now owned by the Chinese
7-Eleven, now owned by the Japanese company, Seven & I Holdings
Woman’s Day Magazine, now owned by the French company, Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A
Purina, now owned by the Swiss company, Nestle
Gerber, now owned by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Novartis
Firestone, now owned by the Japanese Bridgestone Corporation
Citgo, now owned by the government of Venezuela
French’s Mustard, now owned by Reckitt Benckiser, a British conglomerate
Frigidaire, now owned by Sweden’s AB Electrolux
The Plaza Hotel in New York City, now owned by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva’s El-Ad Group
Trader Joes, now owned by German billionaires Karl and Theo Albrecht
Dial soap, now owned by Henkel KGaA, based in Dusseldorf, Germany
Sunglass Hut, now owned by Italian eyewear seller Luxottica Group
-----
Are you starting to get the picture?
Our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted and more than 46 million Americans are now living in poverty.
And if you are waiting for the jokers in Washington D.C. to fix things, you are going to be waiting for a very, very, very, very, very long time.

America’s Economic Descent into Colonial Status is coming to a close and you thing the Blue team loves you?
Delusionary educational standards have sealed them. http://economyincrisis.org/

1.As of February, Yellen had not “fully investigated” the legal issues of negative rates.
2.As of May, Yellen was unwilling to state the Fed had legal authority to go negative.
3.As of June, Yellen had no doubt the Fed could legally go negative.


"Zersetzung, as a concept, involves the annihilation of the inner-self."
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/socio ... m#Contents
It calls for,

"[The] targeted spreading of rumors about particular persons with the aid of anonymous [means]... making compromising situations for them by creating confusion over the facts... [and] the engendering of hysterical and depressive behaviors in the target person."

"Directive Perceptions," another program designed to "develop apathy (in the [targeted] subject)... to achieve a situation in which his conflicts, whether of a social, personal, career, health or political kind are irreversible... to give rise to fears in him... to develop/create disappointments... to restrict his talents or capabilities... to reduce his capacity to act and... to harness dissentions and contradictions around him..."

These directives were used by the Ministry for State Security against state security. In other words, they were massively used on the population to maintain a quo.

These programs were designed to secretly destroy a target's personal and professional life, ruin them financially, and prevent them from reaching their potential, with the intention to produce irreversible depressive and panic-stricken behaviors. What the Hidden Evil appears to be, is a combination of various Cointelpro operations used by oppressive regimes on their civilian population. It has been refined and deployed globally.

Isa66: They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations; so I also will choose harsh treatment for them and will bring on them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened. They did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.” Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your own people who hate you, and exclude you because of my name.......

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-0 ... inevitable
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-1 ... nst-dollar

I had not realized how different the Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq have been over the last 2 years.

Supply chain V. It was not noise either on your chart.

http://gdxforum.com/forum/search.php?ke ... sf=msgonly
Jagged colored pills and broken glass never change.

Could really be enough to kick off a hyperinflation feedback loop.
No

They have enough free cash flow from cluster plants to dirty float as was the nature and still is.
As we seen here in GD forums before both indexes match. Dr Koo made his points
very clear here some time back on neo classical defense spending role he seen viable.

"Currency manipulation is not a route to competitiveness, it is a soft alternative to hard explanations to the electorate."

It is leveling the playing field with a the "wasting" process on numerous levels which is the seen and unseen as hayek knew.

I will not comment on what he meant since its already a done deal. It does mirror the Chicago School mindset which we
refer to as fresh water economics. The point was parity we fingered some time back here on the scatter chart seen.
I will dig it up when I get more time. From that time forward the politics blew a rather simple fact many never seen
since it offered breathing room, that would be safe to proffer.

The financial engineers have indeed destroyed more than they can ever offer now.
Some will say it is to complicated to understand what we are trying to say.
I think we can safely say here it was not our understanding we make others understand
what already was.

http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2014/08/six.html

http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... ity#p11322

Consolidations will factor in cluster parity. We have seen the "renditions" before.

As John noted clearly "In fact, what I believes happens is the other way around: Analysts
uniformly decide what outcome will produce the most money for
themselves, and they select short-term indicators that they believe
predict that outcome."

Budweiser, now owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V., which is based in Leuven, Belgium
Alka-Seltzer, now owned by German company Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Ben & Jerrys, now owned by British-Dutch Unilever
AMC theaters, now owned by the Chinese
7-Eleven, now owned by the Japanese company, Seven & I Holdings
Woman’s Day Magazine, now owned by the French company, Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A
Purina, now owned by the Swiss company, Nestle
Gerber, now owned by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Novartis
Firestone, now owned by the Japanese Bridgestone Corporation
Citgo, now owned by the government of Venezuela
French’s Mustard, now owned by Reckitt Benckiser, a British conglomerate
Frigidaire, now owned by Sweden’s AB Electrolux
The Plaza Hotel in New York City, now owned by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva’s El-Ad Group
Trader Joes, now owned by German billionaires Karl and Theo Albrecht
Dial soap, now owned by Henkel KGaA, based in Dusseldorf, Germany
Sunglass Hut, now owned by Italian eyewear seller Luxottica Group
-----
Are you starting to get the picture?
Our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted and more than 46 million Americans are now living in poverty.
And if you are waiting for the jokers in Washington D.C. to fix things, you are going to be waiting for a very, very, very, very, very long time.
http://gdxforum.com/forum/search.php?ke ... sf=msgonly Acton was correct.
America is a Fata Morgana since the internecine slaughter.

http://shop.americanfreepress.net/store ... -Gold.html

banksters always operate on a gold standard


"Henry Bent, a chemist, calculated on the basis of the second law that the chance for a reversal of entropy, such that one calorie could be converted completely into work, is comparable to the odds for a group of monkeys randomly punching at the typewriters to `produce Shakespeare's works 15 quadrillion times in succession without an error."—*S.W. Angrist, "Perpetual Motion Machines," in Scientific American (1968), pp. 218, 120-121.

My thought also on designs. No accidents apply... I warned you the second window has passed...

water wheat weather will decide

Adjectives are just messengers being shot.

http://www.suspicious0bservers.org/ BOOM

a from the grain colony

Budweiser, now owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V., which is based in Leuven, Belgium
Alka-Seltzer, now owned by German company Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Ben & Jerrys, now owned by British-Dutch Unilever
AMC theaters, now owned by the Chinese
7-Eleven, now owned by the Japanese company, Seven & I Holdings
Woman’s Day Magazine, now owned by the French company, Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A
Purina, now owned by the Swiss company, Nestle
Gerber, now owned by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Novartis
Firestone, now owned by the Japanese Bridgestone Corporation
Citgo, now owned by the government of Venezuela
French’s Mustard, now owned by Reckitt Benckiser, a British conglomerate
Frigidaire, now owned by Sweden’s AB Electrolux
The Plaza Hotel in New York City, now owned by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva’s El-Ad Group
Trader Joes, now owned by German billionaires Karl and Theo Albrecht
Dial soap, now owned by Henkel KGaA, based in Dusseldorf, Germany
Sunglass Hut, now owned by Italian eyewear seller Luxottica Group
-----
Are you starting to get the picture?
Our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted and more than 46 million Americans are now living in poverty.
And if you are waiting for the jokers in Washington D.C. to fix things, you are going to be waiting for a very, very long time.
Over the past several years, both the Democrats and the Republicans have proven again and again that they are basically completely and totally useless.

http://pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwate ... /the-list/ They don't care about you or your well being just pay more and die.
"Thanks for your contribution to the Progressive agenda. Good luck in your next election. I'll still be here even if you're gone.
http://www.savemiwater.org/news/articles/
3rd H.O. has just been spotted - Once the signal has occurred, it is valid for 30 days
We already smell lighter fluid -- Anger builds -- I agree...

"Henry Bent, a chemist, calculated on the basis of the second law that the chance for a reversal of entropy, such that one calorie could be converted completely into work, is comparable to the odds for a group of monkeys randomly punching at the typewriters to `produce Shakespeare's works 15 quadrillion times in succession without an error."—*S.W. Angrist, "Perpetual Motion Machines," in Scientific American (1968), pp. 218, 120-121.

My thought also on designs. No accidents apply.....
http://princetoneconomics.blogspot.be/
I have considered and read his travail for many many years also.
He understands what a few never can even fathom in the recesses of a soul few dare to peer into.
Some and very few can master it let alone speak of it. Humans have five patterns to acept information
of learning to cope in complex systems. For profit education is a design of limitation process compared to other critical
learning attributes. As warned with it comes sorrow. Acton was polite as it corupts absolutely.

As for the assets around the Pond - When does the leakage out to ES stop? - Not yet given the veloscity

a sideways "Austrian" market, in which no new credit-money money comes in or leaves.

I posted a rather lengthly analysis of the tax numbers vis a vis the tax cuts/gdp and so forth a while back, and John cleaned up the formatting for me (thanks again John). It's not that there is a huge dip in receipts, though there is indeed a dip due to the Bush cuts, it's that there is a huge increase in spending, mostly for bailouts but a good bit going to "reward the donor" programs disguised as jobs bills. That's discounting the dip due to the cuts Bush pushed for OFC. There may (or may not) be a real jobs bill in the works, it's impossible to say until it's delivered and signed - you have to actually look at the FINISHED product on thomas to figure out what was actually passed. It would be nice to have media that did that for you, but alas, we do not. Really, to fix this will take a combination of tax increases and budget cuts, while living with some defict spending, and that sounds too much like "compromise" to get past Congress now. On either side.

Now, another amusing storiy has popped up:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 55786.html
NEW YORK—The dollar edged up against the euro following reports that Germany is rejecting the latest proposal to boost the euro zone's ability to bail out larger debtors.

"Germany appears to be downplaying expectations for the summit," said Andrew Busch, global currency and public policy strategist at BMO Capital Markets. "The news flow from Europe suggests more struggles for a fiscal union agreement."
************
Gee, yah think? LOL.

And: