by KATIE MCHUGH Matt Drudge took to Twitter to deliver an ongoing tirade against Republicans’ eagerness to deliver a fast-track trade bill to President Obama’s desk. The bill’s details have not been made public — which hasn’t stopped Republicans from surrendering Congress’s power to make amendments to a president’s future trade deals. Should a Republican […]
If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door. If you’re a member who wants to read the text, […]
How Can We Continue To Be So Stupid? Can’t We Learn From Our Mistakes? Our political system is not working, and we are currently being destroyed from within. Our leaders rely on campaign donations to get elected, and they cater to the influences of powerful lobbyists and special interest groups that do not always have America’s […]
To people who still think Obama is the answer Suppose he never intended to bring about a jobs recovery? Suppose he’s been actively against it for at least six years? by Jon Rappoport Create new solid US jobs? End the unemployment crisis? That was never, ever Obama’s agenda. And people who think it is are […]
China became the world’s largest trading nation in 2013, overtaking the US in what Beijing described as “a landmark milestone” for the country. China’s annual trade in goods passed the $4tn (£2.4tn) mark for the first time last year according to official data, after exports from the world’s second largest economy rose 7.9% to $2.21tn and […]
By Ayesha Daya and Dana El Baltaji Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude exporter, risks becoming an oil importer in the next 20 years, according to Citigroup Inc. Oil and its derivatives are used for about half of the kingdom’s electricity production, which at peak rates is growing at about 8 percent a year, the […]
(The Telegraph) US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has accused China of “systematically stealing” American companies’ intellectual property in an unusually blunt attack. “They have made possible systematic stealing of intellectual property of American companies and have not been very aggressive to put in place the basic protections,” Mr Geither said on Friday at a conference […]
Two days ago Obama spoke about creating jobs in the United States spending more taxpayer money on unproven plans. What he did not mention is the the United States is negotiating one of the biggest free trade agreements in history and there is barely a peep about it on the new anywhere. In 1996, Ross […]
Just a day after U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., called for Attorney General Eric Holder’s removal, alleging a White House connection to the “Project Gunrunner” that allowed weapons to be delivered to Mexican drug lords, confirmation has come that the program originated at the highest levels of the Obama administration. The link is the $10 […]
(Robert Johnson) Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from China. The reports show the chips weren’t only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a “back-door” and could have been remotely shut down at any time, […]
