In what may prove to be the “Crime of the Century,” recent evidence has come to light that some of the world’s largest banks were involved in a scheme to manipulate a key interest rate index, thereby cheating investors out of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Pastor Steven Anderson travels to California regularly. Watch this video to find out why the Border Patrol lets him through checkpoints, even though he refuses to comply with its requests.
Hillary Clinton visited Egypt yesterday. Read about her reception and Egyptians’ suspicions that the Obama administration was behind the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory there.
This past weekend, Obama made yet another outrageous attack on capitalism, suggesting no one can make anything on his own.
The FDA’s effort was massive, capturing screen images, keystrokes, personal emails and files from laptops at work and home. What exactly had the employees done to deserve this illegal scrutiny?
Christian clergies’ refusal to attend the US meeting was intended to reflect their objection to the US meddling in the internal affairs of Egypt.
For the past four decades, Alaska’s congressional delegation, in concert with so-called Native leaders, have taken actions that discriminate against Alaskan Natives. Read how multi-billion dollar corporations, using their hired guns in Congress, have stripped Alaska Natives of their rights.
Have you seen this video yet? You’ve got to check out the shocking clip below. It’s of a new show “The Newsroom”, on HBO, starting Jeff Daniels, and written and directed by the guy who gave us the idealized version of a democratic administration in “The West Wing,” Aaron Sorkin.
US horizontal drilling and fracking successes may have opened up the largest store of fossil-fuel reserves in the world — in theory, with enough gas, oil and coal never to need any imported Middle Eastern energy again. If the US uses these resources, its present crises — massive budget and trade deficits, mounting debt, strategic vulnerability — will start to subside.
With so much of the world putting faith in a record U.S. corn crop, it is little wonder that prices have surged around 40 percent in the past three weeks as relentless dry weather melted yield expectations for cereals. Soybeans are at record highs, while wheat is not far behind.