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Turkey Permits U.S. To Use Its Airbase For Air Strikes Against Syria
Turkey Permits U.S. To Use Its Airbase For Air Strikes Against Syria Earlier we reported that in an apparent retaliation against Monday’s alleged suicide bombing and today’s follow up killing of a Turkish soldier on the border with Syria, the Turkish army launched what under normal conditions would be deemed a land invasion of Turkey […]
Obama Administration Finds New Way to Let Criminal Banks Avoid Consequences
Obama Administration Finds New Way to Let Criminal Banks Avoid Consequences Three top Democrats are accusing the Department of Housing and Urban Development of quietly removing a key clause in its requirements for taxpayer-guaranteed mortgage insurance in order to spare two banks recently convicted of federal crimes from being frozen out of the lucrative market. […]
Peabody Energy to White House: Greenhouse Gas a ‘Non-Existent Harm’
Peabody Energy to White House: Greenhouse Gas a ‘Non-Existent Harm’ In an official submission to the White House earlier this year, U.S. coal giant Peabody Energy claims that greenhouse gas is a “non-existent harm” and a “benign gas that is essential to all life.” The March 2015 submission from Peabody further claims that “while the benefits of carbon […]
World Powers Reach Landmark Nuclear Deal With Iran, Oil Slides – Full Deal Text
World Powers Reach Landmark Nuclear Deal With Iran, Oil Slides – Full Deal Text It is only fitting that almost exactly 24 hours after the Greek “pre-deal”, which may and will end up crashing and burning in very short notice, another long expected “deal”, one which has been about a decade in the making, was […]
Germany Crushes All Hope Of Greece Getting Debt Relief
Germany Crushes All Hope Of Greece Getting Debt Relief As the Grexit debate is falling into the background a new, far more powerful conflict emerges: one between Germany on one side, and the IMF, France, Italy, and perhaps even the US, when it comes to the all important issue of debt relief. As a reminder, […]
Obama: TPP a secret treaty because ‘US War on Terror requires secrecy’
Obama: TPP a secret treaty because ‘US War on Terror requires secrecy’ (Satire): President Obama announced at a White House press conference today that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade treaty details must remain secret because the now 14-year-old US War on Terror requires secrecy from terrorist enemies, secrecy is the founding principle of American freedom, and […]
The Four Horses Asses of the TPP Apocalypse
The Four Horses Asses of the TPP Apocalypse Congress members are often pressured in how to vote by the moneyed interests that buy their television ads, which in turn persuade the media to “cover” them nicely and dumb people to vote for them. But more often they are pressured in how to vote by the […]
American Pharoah: What A Perfect Description For The Guy In The White House
American Pharoah: What A Perfect Description For The Guy In The White House A horse named “American Pharoah” just won the Triple Crown. Is this some sort of a sign for America? The office of the presidency was greatly strengthened under previous administrations, but now Barack Obama has grabbed an unprecedented amount of power for himself. […]
Former Fed Governor Predicts “Wrenching” Market Adjustment
Former Fed Governor Predicts “Wrenching” Market Adjustment Lawrence Lindsey, a Governor of the Federal Reserve from 1991 to 1997, was right before. And got fired for it. Reality was too inconvenient. In December 2002, as George W. Bush’s economic adviser and Director of the National Economic Council at the White House, he fretted out loud […]
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Hillary, Bill, and the Big Six Banks
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Hillary, Bill, and the Big Six Banks She eats at Chipotle. (Order: chicken burrito bowl.) She travels by van. (Model: A Chevy Express Explorer Limited SE nicknamed the “Scooby” van.) She barely figures in her own presidential campaign announcement video. (Entrance timing: A minute and a half into the two-minute clip.) Her campaign staff is so […]
Change They Don’t Believe In
Change They Don’t Believe In The unfortunate consequence of not allowing the process of “creative destruction” to occur in banking and Big Business is that the historic forces behind it will seek expression elsewhere in the realm of politics and governance. The desperate antics of central banks to cover up financial failure can’t help […]
Is There Something Behind the Power Outage in Washington DC?
Is There Something Behind the Power Outage in Washington DC? The April 7th, 2015 power outage in Washington DC is curious to say the least. Virtually instantaneously, the government declare it was not a terrorist attack. After all, how could that possibly be when the NSA guards the country. If there was an attack on […]
