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France and Italy stand by to bail out biggest banks as euro crisis worsens By Simon Watkins and Dan Atkins Last updated at 11:46 PM on 6th August 2011 Fears are growing this weekend that two of Europe’s largest banks may require a bailout, having been hugely damaged by the worsening crisis across the eurozone. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy is having to confront the possibility that the country’s second-biggest bank, Societe Generale -commonly known as SocGen - is on the brink of disaster after huge losses over loans made to Greece. The chilling possibility of the largest bank in...

Thursday, 4 August 2011 Freedom of Speech in Ireland?!? In response to a blog posting on Bocktherobber titled 'David Norris and the Troll', a comment was made which I would like to respond to. Here is a link to the Bocktherobber piece: http://bocktherobber.com/2011/08/david-norris-and-the-troll Here is the comment: ____________________________________________________________________________ 29. ObsessiveMathsFreak August 2nd, 2011 2:24 pm Here’s a prime example of the kind of unfollowed scandal I mentioned in my previous post. http://whistleblowerirl.blogspot.com/ This story may as well not exist as far as the Irish Media are concerned. http://bocktherobber.com/2011/08/david-norris-and-the-troll#comment-124376 ____________________________________________________________________________ My response: The Irish Times decided for reasons only known to itself not...

Guest Post - WhistleblowerIRL - The Show Must Go On. The first casualty of war is the truth. The second - in our present war, the war of the financial elite and banks against nations and their citizens - seems to be the rule of law The robo signing scandal in America is like an efflorescence of fungus covering and rotting civil trust and accountability in American civil life. Here in Europe it is no better. One of the many many things that has convinced me of this rather sweeping statement is following the details of the WhistleblowerIRL saga. WhistelblowerIRL's...