FEDS WANT MAJOR EXPANSION OF SECRET WIRETAP POWERS OVER WEB-BASED SERVICES. Facebook, Google, Skype and other brand names behind your favorite internet sites and programs are chafing at proposed new rules from the Obama administration that would force companies to comply with sweeping wiretaps and information requests from the FBI and Justice Department. While companies [...]
LIBERALS, DON’T GET TOO ENTHRALLED BY THE “ROBERTS COURT” IN THE WAKE OF ITS RULING ON OBAMACARE. (Reader Supported News) Bill Blum issues this warning, noting that the upholding of “Obamacare” in last week’s decision may have been a victory of sorts for health care “coverage” since it sustained the “individual mandate” on grounds that [...]
President Obama won what some observers claim is a significant victory when the Supreme Court narrowly ruled that the Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” — his signature legislation that expands health insurance coverage, was constitutional and could be implemented by the federal government. Democratic supporters of the president rejoiced at the ruling while Republicans denounced [...]
THE BIGGEST CORPORATE CORRUPTION CASE YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD ABOUT. (Reader Supported News) Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone reports at length on the trial in New York City of three executives of GE Capital, the financial arm of General Electric. The case against them has all the earmarks of a Wall Street version of the [...]
IS OBAMA’S PROPOSED “MILLIONAIRES’ TAX” JUST A COVER FOR MASSIVE ENTITLEMENT CUTS? (New York Times) The proverbial jury may still be out, but the first hint at details of President Obama’s proposal for deficit reduction that will sent to the almighty “super committee” looks ominous. Getting most of the play from the White House and [...]
The deal brokered by Congress and the White House and signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday ties an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling to nearly a trillion dollars in short-term spending cuts, as well as trillions more in slashed government spending yet to be determined. This massive scythe of austerity so far [...]
PEACE PROCESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST? WHAT PEACE PROCESS? (Foreign Policy in Focus) Analyzing the state of play in the long running effort to bring peace between Jews and Arabs, Didier Jacobs reaches the gloomy conclusion that the peace process has little going for it in terms of the dispositions of all parties, as they [...]
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