It’s a Depression
By HELEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON — Few prominent economists will say it, but to me it looks and feels like we are in another Great Depression or a reasonable facsimile.
The current meltdown is dubbed a “financial crisis.” But a rose by any other name would still inflict the same hardship and suffering on most people [...]
President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as his Secretary of State on Monday, transforming a political rivalry into a high-level strategic partnership.
Obama will name the New York senator to his national security team at a news conference in Chicago, Democratic officials said Saturday. They requested anonymity because they were not [...]
Meltdown far from over, new mortgage crisis looms
WASHINGTON – Black Friday’s retail shoppers hunting for holiday bargains won’t be enough to stave off what’s likely to become the next economic crisis. Malls from Michigan to Georgia are entering foreclosure, commercial victims of the same events poisoning the housing market.
Hotels in Tucson, Ariz., and Hilton Head, [...]
People With Traditional Mortgages Who Have Lost Their Jobs Are Now Facing Foreclosure
(CBS) There’s a new wave of foreclosure sweeping across the country, and the people who are getting swept up are not greedy investors, or people who got in over their heads with bad loans, reports CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy. Rather, the crisis [...]
Texas DA reveals damning evidence against Cheney. Hopes media won’t ‘let it die’
Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra spoke to two Texas television stations Wednesday night regarding his investigation of injustice within the prison systems which led to the indictment by a Texas grand jury of Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General [...]
A near-riot and parliament besieged: Must Read!
Iceland boiling mad at credit crunch melt down.
THOUSANDS of Icelanders have demonstrated in Reykjavik to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Geir Haarde and Central Bank governor David Oddsson, for failing to stop the country’s financial meltdown. It was the latest in a series of [...]
Their crimes include income tax evasion, bank embezzlement, drug offenses and being a Turkey.
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush has granted pardons to 14 individuals and commuted the prison sentences of two others convicted of misdeeds ranging from drug offenses to tax evasion, from wildlife violations to bank embezzlement, The Associated Press learned Monday.
The new [...]
Hillary Clinton Nomination May Violate Emoluments Clause
A new debate has arisen regarding the appointment of Hillary Clinton as Obama’s Secretary of State. This new debate revolves around whether such an appointment would be in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. What is the Emoluments Clause? To be honest, I’m not real [...]
Veteran’s Day weekend, “The co-chair of Barack Obama’s Transition Team, Valerie Jarrett, appeared on Meet the Press this weekend and used, shall we say, an interesting word to described what she thinks Barack Obama will be doing in January when he’s officially sworn into office. She told Tom Brokaw that Obama will be ready to [...]
“The first sign of friction in the Obama camp as Mrs Clinton demands – and gets – a purge of her critics before accepting Secretary of State role.”
Before Hillary Clinton has been formally offered the job as Secretary of State, a purge of Barack Obama’s top foreign policy team has begun.
The advisers who helped trash [...]
WASHINGTON: The thaw in the resentful relationship between the most powerful woman in the Democratic Party and her younger male rival began at the party’s convention this summer, when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave such a passionate speech supporting Senator Barack Obama that his top aides leapt out of their chairs backstage to give her [...]
Russia positioning Putin for Presidency
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, has said in a keynote speech that the country’s large foreign currency, gold reserves and anti-crisis measures would prevent a sharp fall in the rouble.
Putin, speaking at a congress of the United Russia party on Thursday, said the Russian economy is still too dependent on [...]
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