The New Dark Age

25 May 2011– williambowles.info

Euro zone wonders which economy will be the next to fail
GlobalPost
A woman with her mouth taped shut participates in a protest against Spain’s economic crisis and its sky-high jobless rate at the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid on May 20, 2011. (Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images) BRUSSELS, Belgium — Any European Rip …
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business-tech/debt-crisis/110524/euro-zone-european-debt-crisis

Spain Socialists split on how to choose new leader after harsh defeat
EITB
Spain’s Socialists, devastated in local elections, are now split over how
to choose the successor to unpopular Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez
Zapatero who alienated voters with painful austerity measures. Unemployment
has soared to the highest rate …
www.eitb.com/news/politics/detail/665768/spain-socialists-split-how-choose-new-leader-harsh-defeat/

Spanish, Moroccan youths join in internet ‘revolution’
MyBroadband
In Spain, young “anti-system” protesters occupying a central Madrid square
worry that the police might stop tolerating their presence and disperse
them through violent means. Meanwhile, in neighbouring Morocco,
pro-democracy activists accuse the …
mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/20487-Spanish-Moroccan-youths-join-internet-revolution.html

LSE’s Garicano Says Spain `Pretty Stable’ for Most Part
Washington Post
May 24 (Bloomberg) — Luis Garicano, a professor at the London School of
Economics, talks about the state of Spain’s economy and housing market.
Garicano speaks with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television’s “Surveillance
Midday. …
www.washingtonpost.com/business/lses-garicano-says-spain-pretty-stable-for-most-part/2011/05/24/AFF3caAH_video.html

Europe’s sun belt rich move more cash to London
Reuters
Estate agents report buyers from Spain, Italy and Greece are muscling in on
the residential market in London’s elite neighbourhoods such as Mayfair and
Belgravia, joining established colonies of rich Russians, Indians and Gulf
Arabs. …
www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/25/uk-wealth-europe-move-idUSLNE74O01P20110525

Analysis: Spain privatizations may help if debt crisis deepens
Reuters
By Nigel Davies MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s plans to raise extra revenue
from sales of state assets face substantial legal and political obstacles
but their execution would cut the debt-laden country’s borrowing needs for
the rest of 2011. …
www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-spain-privatisations-idUSTRE74N4K120110524

Protests in Spain: Not quite the Spanish Arab Spring | PRI.ORG
Spain’s youth is rising up in protest over unemployment. But the protests
are different from those in Cairo and around the Arab world.
www.pri.org/business/global-development/protests-in-spain-not-quite-the-spanish-arab-spring4025.html