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Europe Gets Cold Feet on “TTIP,” Americans Should Too, But Obama Needs it for his Legacy
Europe Gets Cold Feet on “TTIP,” Americans Should Too, But Obama Needs it for his Legacy As almost always, the U.S. government and European Commission are on the same page, reading from the same script. This year they have one overriding goal in common: to create the world’s biggest “free” trade area by passing the […]
‘Failure of Conscience’: Groups Urge Congress to Fund Social Well-Being, Not Fossil Fuel Industry
‘Failure of Conscience’: Groups Urge Congress to Fund Social Well-Being, Not Fossil Fuel Industry Diverse coalition launches calculator to measure cost of fossil fuel subsidies A coalition of environmental and social justice groups has come together to declare collective disgust with the spending of billions of taxpayer dollars on unnecessary subsidies for the oil and […]
Here’s Why Keystone XL Is the Wrong Choice for Our Nation
Here’s Why Keystone XL Is the Wrong Choice for Our Nation The new Republican majority in Congress wants to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline for dirty tar sands oil. President Obama announced he will veto bills that bypass the official review of Keystone XL. There are plenty of reasons to block these bills […]
SAYONARA GLOBAL ECONOMY
SAYONARA GLOBAL ECONOMY “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.” –Ludwig von […]
Obama To Sign Off On Lethal US Aid To Ukraine By End Of Week, Russian Response To Follow | Zero Hedge
Obama To Sign Off On Lethal US Aid To Ukraine By End Of Week, Russian Response To Follow | Zero Hedge. As we reported over the weekend, in the tumult surrounding Citigroup’s annexation of Congress with the passage of the theatrically dramatic $303 trillion derivative quid-pro-$1.1 trillion spending quo,what most missed is that Congress also unanimously passed […]
Presenting The $303 Trillion In Derivatives That US Taxpayers Are Now On The Hook For | Zero Hedge
Presenting The $303 Trillion In Derivatives That US Taxpayers Are Now On The Hook For | Zero Hedge. Courtesy of the Cronybus(sic) last minute passage, government was provided a quid-pro-quo $1.1 trillion spending allowance with Wall Street’s blessing in exchange for assuring banks that taxpayers would be on the hook for yet another bailout, as […]
Congress Just Passed Legislation Ramping Up Mass Surveillance to Super-Steroid Levels Washington’s Blog
Congress Just Passed Legislation Ramping Up Mass Surveillance to Super-Steroid Levels Washington’s Blog. Fascist Power Grab Wipes out 4th Amendment Remember how Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to mass surveillance, and how the government promised to rein in spying on Americans? Yeah, that never happened … Instead, Congress snuck a provision into the Intelligence Authorization Act which will […]
Congressional Leaders Reach Deal on Spending – NYTimes.com
Congressional Leaders Reach Deal on Spending – NYTimes.com. Congressional leaders reached a deal Tuesday on a more than $1 trillion spending package that would fund most of the federal government through the current fiscal year. But because negotiations on the package dragged over policy details, House lawmakers also prepared to move on a short-term spending […]
Treasury Warns Congress (and Investors): This Financial Creature Could Sink the System | Wolf Street
Treasury Warns Congress (and Investors): This Financial Creature Could Sink the System | Wolf Street. Office of Financial Research slams Leveraged Loans In its 2014 Annual Report to Congress, the US Treasury’s Office of Financial Research, which serves the Financial Stability Oversight Council, analyzed for our Representatives the “potential threats” to the US financial house […]
Uncertainty in Washington Poses Long List of Economic Perils – NYTimes.com
Uncertainty in Washington Poses Long List of Economic Perils – NYTimes.com. WASHINGTON — As House Republicans mull another round of fiscal brinkmanship with President Obama, a dark cloud is threatening to return to otherwise clearing economic skies: fiscal and political uncertainty. Republican leaders moved Tuesday to finesse their way around another government shutdown next week, […]
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New Congress and Planetary Disaster | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New Congress and Planetary Disaster | TomDispatch. Looking for a little hope on climate change? Believe it or not, it’s here and it’s real. And I’m not referring to the fact that, at least temporarily, oil prices have gone through the floor, making environmentally destructive “tough oil” projects like western oil-shale fracking and Canadiantar sands extraction […]
Target Liberty: New Bill Circulating in the Senate Moves US Closer to Direct Confrontation with Russia
Target Liberty: New Bill Circulating in the Senate Moves US Closer to Direct Confrontation with Russia. Michael S. Rozeff explains: This proposed act is here… mong other provisions that sanction Russia, this Act commits America to reestablish the territorial integrity of Ukraine by providing advanced weapons to Ukraine’s government. This sets America against Russia, which supports Crimea […]
Neo-Feudalism Has Officially Arrived – Congressman Suggests Building a Moat Around White House | Liberty Blitzkrieg
Neo-Feudalism Has Officially Arrived – Congressman Suggests Building a Moat Around White House | Liberty Blitzkrieg. What has been occurring over the past several years is not a recovery, rather, it’s a painful transition of the U.S. into a neo-feudal society. Earlier this week in the post, Welcome to the Recovery – U.S. Child Homelessness Hits […]
