United States Blog Posts

Todays entry from London is about Cyprus, the European Union the expected usual financial backers United States and the traditional echelon Switzerland look to Singapore to solve finances. The HM […]...

The economic development in Iraq you would think Saudi Arabia and Baghdad would be the major contributors to getting things back on track in actual fact China is helping more […]...

Once again artists from film, television, music and also sports in the United States, have united in one voice to support and pray for the victims of the tornado that struck Oklahoma yesterday and caused countless human and material losses. Twitter...

In the sixth of European Geostrategy’s ‘Long Posts’, Xymena Kurowska and Bence Németh enquire as to whether Central Europe has become a geopolitical playground for a plethora of internal, external and ‘caretaking’ powers. How might the reg...

Entry #2438, May 20, 2013 A wine tour is not just about tasting wines, it’s about enjoying the whole experience of your travel. You get to learn about the history...

When I filibustered over domestic drone use, critics said that I was being ridiculous. They said that no American had been killed by a drone on American soil and that no one was likely to be anytime soon. President Obama responded that he hadn’t...

(Video) - The IRS under the Obama administration painted targets on the backs of conservatives beginning in 2010, and ousted acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller apologized to the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday. But members on both sides o...

Suicide rates are tied to the economy. The Boston Globe reported in 2011: A new report issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that the overall suicide rate rises and falls with the state of the economy — dating...

Bill Gates, World's Richest Man                          Bill Gates became world’s richest man again for the first time since 2007. The co-founder of Microsoft regains the world richest title from the Mexican investor...

Thank you for that shocking 116 entries for my first giveaway. It’s quite a number than I expect as a newbie. For Jenjen, please do contact me  on my FB page so that I can ship your awesome prize SOON. Failure to respond within 48hrs after t...

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Brian Lewis and several military female victims testified to harrowing sexual abuse at a U.S. Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, March 13, 2013. Lewis stated he “was raped by a senior petty...

The tactic by the Fed and Central Banks is to inflate the stock markets while manipulating the price of gold and silver lower.  This achieves two goals, 1) it reassures the public’s faith by pumping up stock pri...

In multi-hour talks today with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Obama reiterated that the US “reserves the right” to attack Syria militarily despite a previous deal with Russia to pursue a negotiated settlement to the nati...

The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation. Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner o...

Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shor...

United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission – CFTC. It was created in 1974 with the mandate to regulate markets in commodity futures and options in the United States. www.cftc.gov Financial Industry Regulatory Authority – FINRA. Fo...

Vermont is poised to join three other states permitting doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients after the state House approved a compromise bill similar to Oregon's 1997 law. The bill, approved on Monday, now g...

In 2014-2015, the federal government will make a groundbreaking shift: fathers and mothers will not be included on federal student aid forms. Instead, the Department of Education announced Thursday that income would be listed “from a dependent s...

Eruptions from Pavlof Volcano continued on Wednesday after rumbling to life earlier in the week. The 8,261-foot peak on the Alaska Peninsula awoke Monday morning, kicking off a “low-level eruption of lava,” according to the Alaska Volcano Observa...

The US Department of Homeland Security seized a payment processing account Tuesday belonging to Mt. Gox, the largest international Bitcoin trader, claiming the monetary exchange service falsified financial documents. The American government h...