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Mini Ice Age ComethIce builds up along Lake Michigan at North Avenue Beach in Chicago as temperatures dipped well below zero on Jan. 6, 2014.

A round up of news items from earlier today:Here’s What the Greek Deal Entails

This sure doesn't read as a positive considering the referendum. The election. The election promises. The tough talk. The heartfelt talk. Etc., 12:35 a.m.

H/T to tal who left links for two very interesting articles about the Greek 'crisis' Definitely  material worth considering

In the wake of the new era of slow growth and brutal austerity ushered in after the 2008 global banking collapse, the risk of the dire economic climate sparking civil and political unrest is increasing. But what the document also misses is that growing risk is itself a symptom of the uneven “economic development” that constitutes GDP “growth”.
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I've been working on this one for a bit- It's long, but, if I could do the research and type it up- You can read it :)   One of many pet projects at the blog- The  Kurds and the creation of a Kurdish state.So similar in it’s roots to the creation of Israel. One has to delve more then superficially into this area to make the connections. Many don’t want to.

Marketwatch Oped

Greece's former representative to the IMF, Panagiotis Roumeliotis, in front of the special parliamentary committee on the Greek debt, said that several Greek journalists were "trained" in Washington D.C. in order to support the positions of the IMF and the European Commission in Greek media.

Neocon Krauthammer lays out the balkanization plan as if it's all inevitable. Just a natural progression of things. Happenstance. Rather then the reality that this balkanization was planned. That he and his ilk did everything possible to make this happen.Ordinary people have no interest in war- Much "encouragement" is needed to get them to participate.

The deal is that Greece gets new loans with which to repay existing loans in exchange for selling municipal water companies to private investors (water rates will go up on the Greek people), for selling the state lottery to private investors (Greek government revenues drop, thus making debt repayment more difficult), and for other such “privatizations” such as selling the protected Greek islands to real estate developers.