A couple of noteworthy things came to my attention today.
The first relates to what is happening in my neck of the woods. When future generations of Irish were put into economic slavery by our cowardly elected political class to prop up the banksters around Europe the IMF set out requirements with regards to what happens with the country's assets. It now looks that these assets are being no sold off at bargain prices to the actual banksters that the populous propped up in the first place! It has happened in Greece and is now happening in Ireland. Next I imagine will be Portugal, Spain, Italy etc etc.
Its mind boggling to say the least. However it looks that many folks here are actually now understanding what is taking place in spite of little or no reporting by the so called nation media and getting quite pissed off.
We have local and EU elections coming up on the 23rd May and it will be interesting to see which way the general vote goes. I have a feeling that the government parties that got the country into the mess in the first place and the shower that is currently playing along with the banksters will find out that they are not that popular any longer. I expect to see a huge swing to the 'left'. What happens after that will be interesting!
On the international front it looks like Russia is now continuing with the chess game! 'Russia strives to exclude the dollar from energy trading' http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_05_13/Russia-strives-to-exclude-the-dollar-from-energy-trading-5138/ This 'move' is little reported in the western media.
From what I understood it would have taken years for Russia to organise a system to lessen the Petro Dollars influence but maybe it about to happen. As long as all sides (USA, EU, BRICKS) keep playing the chess game I am not too concerned as the 'man on the street' gets along which or ever. If it turns into something more than chess, that is a different matter.