Friday, February 10, 2012

Barbara (Jacques Prevert)




It is even more the storm
Iron steel blood
Simply cloud
Who are dying like dogs
Dogs that disappear
Over water in Brest (city in Brittany)
And will rot away
Off very far from Brest
Of which nothing remains 
(Barbara Line 50-End)

Friday, January 27, 2012

Spanish Unemployment Increases; La Figaro

At the end of the 2011 Fiscal Year Spain's Unemployment was at a all time high of 22.85% or about at 5.3 million people. Spain's recent issues with increasing debt and unemployment remain a significant issue to the overall well-being of the Euro-zone. As other countries like Spain (Greece and Italy) threaten to default their debt; countries of more, seemingly, fiscal responsibility such as Germany are left to clean up the mess with massive bailouts in order to prevent the destruction of the Euro and the European economy.