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from FT: With last week’s release of the president’s budget, Washington has once again descended into partisan squabbling. In the US today, there is pervasive concern about the basic functioning of democracy. Congress is viewed less favourably than ever before in the history of opinion polling. There is widespread revulsion at political figures seemingly unable to reach agreement on measures to reduce future budget deficits. Pundits and politicians alike condemn “gridlock”. [...] From Liberty Blitzkrieg: … I have a hard time understanding the perspective of liberty-minded folks that lean toward the “progressive” or “liberal” side of the political spectrum when it comes to gun control… I can understand where their visceral dislike of guns comes from. Many of them are urbanities and cannot conceive of the reason anyone would need or want a gun, let alone an “assault rifle.” I grew up in Manhattan… believe [...] Asked whether there’s room for a presidential candidate with his seemingly unorthodox political views, Kentucky senator Rand Paul was unequivocal in his response. Calling the country’s left-right political spectrum “confusing,” Paul argued that the GOP needs a candidate capable of appealing “across the left-right paradigm.” http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/343776/paul-congress-ten-years-behind-american-public-eliana-johnson Great clip. Schiff battles CNBC bank bailout drones. ‘The banks are in the worst shape they’ve ever been. They are a just a few interest rate hikes from insolvency.’ Losses to depositors due to money printing to bailout and due to inflation would be far greater than what the Cyprus depositors might be losing due to the tax. Banks are reckless, depositors don’s care. Schiff says system will implode. http://www.blacklistednews.com/SCHIFF:_’Banks_Are_Just_A_Few_Rate_Hikes_From_Insolvency’/24815/0/38/38/Y/M.html Schiff – Cypriots Are Getting [...] by WashingtonsBlog
Liberal congressman Sherrod Brown and conservative congressman David Vitter are pushing to break up the big banks:
Huffington Post reports:
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), along with unlikely ally Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), is launching an effort to break up the taxpayer-funded party on Wall Street. “The best example is that 18 years ago, the largest six banks’ combined assets were 16 percent of GDP. Today they’re 64-65 percent of GDP,” Brown said. “So the [...] Mac Slavo
Once a bastion of European success and center of tourism, the country of Greece has become the harbinger of things to come for the rest of the world’s developed nations. Not long ago Greeks were enjoying high paid salaries, early retirements, excess cash, and seemingly never ending economic growth. Today, just a short time after a financial collapse that rocked global financial markets, Europe’s darling has turned into a [...] by WashingtonsBlog Pollsters from Across the Political Spectrum Say that Americans Distrust Government For years, “conservative” pollsters have said that Americans are furious at the government: Rasmussen noted in 2010 that only a small minority of the American people think that the government has the consent of the governed, and that the sentiment was “pre-revolutionary” Gallup noted in 2011 that a higher percentage of American liked King George during the colonial days than currently like Congress And last year, Gallup noted that [...]  Controversial Interview Exposes 5 Signs Stocks Will Collapse in 2013 from Money News: Wiedemer, best known for correctly predicting the collapse of the U.S. housing market, equity markets, and consumer spending that almost sank the United States during the “Great Recession”, provides disturbing evidence in the video interview for 50 percent unemployment, a 90 percent stock market crash, and 100 percent annual inflation . . . starting as soon as 2013. When the [...] J. D. Heyes In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 6 election, there were scattered concerns from across the political spectrum that vote fraud could occur in some sections of the country. While many of those fears did not come to fruition, based on final vote tallies in some polling districts, it’s hard to fathom that some form of fraud did not occur. Take Philadelphia, for instance – [...] CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan voters Luis Gustavo Marin and Dunia Nessi are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but as Sunday’s election draws closer they both fear what will happen if their candidate loses. Marin, the security chief for a judge and a firm supporter of President Hugo Chavez, worries that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles will launch a violent purge of Chavez supporters if he wins. If the president [...] CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan voters Luis Gustavo Marin and Dunia Nessi are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but as Sunday’s election draws closer they both fear what will happen if their candidate loses. Marin, the security chief for a judge and a firm supporter of President Hugo Chavez, worries that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles will launch a violent purge of Chavez supporters if he wins. If the president [...] Jeffrey Toobin’s latest book portrays Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as increasingly cranky and partisan — and infuriated with Chief Justice John Roberts over the court’s recent decisions on healthcare and immigration. Toobin, who writes for The New Yorker and also covers the court for CNN, credits Scalia for a sea change in how both sides of the political spectrum think about the law. But he says the justice’s bombast has [...] Follow us @ Welcome to Capital Account. The US Treasury declined GM’s offer to buy back 200 million of the 500 million shares the US currently holds, according to the Wall Street Journal. In 2009 GM received a $50 billion dollar bailout from taxpayers. Now, GM executives upset over pay restrictions and the stigma of “Government Motors,” want to buy back shares at a price that would cause taxpayers to lose [...] by George Washington Congress will vote tomorrow on auditing the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve says that an audit will interfere with it’s “independence”. For example, in Congressional testimony on 2009, the vice chair of the Fed used the “i” word 30 times. Democratic whip Steny Hoyer is urging Dems to vote no on auditing the Fed in order to preserve the Fed’s “independence”: “This bill impedes the independence of this critical institution. In order for the Federal [...] Juarez, Mexico - The US Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces “don’t fight drug traffickers”, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead “they try to manage the drug trade”. Allegations about official complicity in the drug business are nothing new when they come from activists, professors, campaigners or even former officials. However, an official spokesman for the authorities in one of Mexico’s most violent [...] Jamshid Ghazi Askar A polarizing debate is emerging over whether the unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as “drones,” should be allowed into U.S. airspace for use by local law enforcement and private businesses. “No longer a tool used strictly by the military to take out terrorists overseas, drones of all shapes and sizes will soon be in our skies here at home for surveillance missions by local police [...] From A Lightning War for Liberty: Over the past six months, I have had the distinct pleasure to become acquainted with Dr. Dave Janda, orthopedic surgeon and the Director and founder of the Institute of Preventative Sports Medicine based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Shortly after recording my first radio interview with him, he sent me his book, The Awakening of a Surgeon, which has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey show. This book [...] The holy grail for any U.S. administration remains energy independence.
Denmark is nearly one-fifth of the way there. And they plan to do it entirely on renewable energy. According to BP’s annual statistical energy review released last week, the Danes now get 18 percent of their energy from renewables, which is the highest level of any country in the world. It’s also a full four-percent gain from 2010. And the BBC reported in April that the current Danish [...] A new study has quantified a problem that many political pundits have been complaining about by reporting that Congress has gotten collectively dumber over the past seven years. By analyzing trends in speech patterns and public statements, educational group The Sunlight Foundation determined that members of Congress are speaking, on average, on the same level as a sophomore in high school. Speaking to a lower level: Representatives Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner are included [...] Ghosts from the 1930s have come back to haunt us. We may not yet have succumbed to a Great Depression but depression, in one form or another, is all around us. And we are witnessing the rise of political extremism, a nationalist backlash against a country’s obligations towards its – typically foreign – creditors. Recovery has either been remarkably muted or, in many parts of Europe, totally non-existent. For some eurozone [...] Greece stock market plunges 7.7% after opening today Greece was plunged into fresh political chaos today after no party emerged with enough votes to form a government following yesterday’s election. The Greek stock [...] Perennial big government advocate Sheila Jackson Lee strikes again Paul Joseph Watson An amendment introduced to the controversial CISPA bill by perennial big government advocate Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee would empower the Department of Homeland Security to intercept online IRS tax returns and any other Internet traffic deemed to transit networks owned by the federal government or operated on its behalf. “Jackson Lee’s amendment (PDF) is broad enough [...] A new survey of U.S. household finances by British research firm Absolute Strategy Research suggests that Americans are not only pooh-poohing the notion that an economic recovery is at hand, they are becoming resigned to the fact that the longer-term outlook isn’t all that much better. A staggering 63% of respondents across the political spectrum feel that the American economic model is broken. Individuals surveyed do not agree that the prevailing paradigm facilitates [...] Spain’s new prime minister has looked into the abyss and recoiled. Though he swept into office as an apostle of orthodoxy, Mariano Rajoy has since delved into Madrid’s ghastly accounts and concluded that it would be “suicidal” to try to slash the budget deficit from 8pc of GDP to 4.4pc of GDP this year, as demanded by Europe’s fiscal Calvinists. Such a policy would require a further €40bn or €50bn of cuts [...] |
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Doctored photo in Hustler magazine of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp performing oral sex sparks outrage from conservatives AND liberals
Hustler magazine has come under fire from both the political left and right for printing an explicit Photoshopped picture of conservative commentator S.E Cupp.
The fake image of the New York Daily News columnist shows her performing oral sex under the headline, ‘Celebrity Fantasy’, with the caption, ‘What would S.E Cupp look like with a d**k in her mouth?’
Both sides of the political spectrum including the all-female panel on ABC’s ‘The [...]