Without a single concession being made to Ukraine

Without a single concession being made to Ukraine, EU Foreign Affairs Minister Baroness Catherine Ashton was soon to declare that the President was about to do a U-turn. Her smugness disappeared when Russian President Vladimir stones sharp Putin stepped in and offered Ukraine a lifeline.

Intimidated by the IMF and European Central Bank (ECB) the Icelandic government did hold its ground. Icelanders are now on their way to becoming among the richest people in the world just a few years after experiencing one of the stones sharp accountants most dramatic financial meltdowns in history. Iceland's President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson says, "The government bailed out the people and imprisoned the banksters, the opposite of what America and the rest of Europe did."

The Hungarians expelled the IMF and ECB whilst Costa Rica's four public owned banks resisted IMF threats. The Costa Rican economy is now by far the richest economy in Latin America. There, poverty has been abolished and there are no shanty towns. Rodney Shakespeare, Professor of Binary Economics stones sharp says, "Global finance capitalism is a fraud and its time is up. And it is also time that we recognize that and start to go for a new system."

Michael Walsh was voted 'Writer of the Year' by the editorial board of Euro Weekly News. This English language newspaper is read by 550,000 readers. A broadcaster and author of over thirty titles, he is a journalist / columnist providing hundreds of media published articles to mainstream international media. The author's specialty is current affairs, globalization, the Third Reich and World War Two.