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WALL STREET REACTS BADLY TO FED’S RATE HIKE

Hiking the Federal Funds Rate by a-quarter-of-a-percent Dec. 16, 69-year-old Federal Reserve Board Chairman Janet Yellen tried justified her decision citing the citing the November jobs report and drop in the unemployment rate to 5.0%. Yellen promised to look at the...

PUTIN SIGNALS CHANGE IN U.S.-RUSSIAN RELATIONS

Meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, 70-year-old Secretary of State John Kerry finally acquiesced to Moscow’s backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Striking the first optimistic tone since Putin invaded Crimea March...

U.N.’S NUCLEAR WATCHDOG ENDS IRAN INQUIRY

Much to the disappointment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and conservatives on Capitol Hill, the International Atomic Energy Agency ended its 11-investigation into military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program. Reaching an historic agreement with the...

SAUDI’S NEW COUNTER-TERRORISM SMOKESCREEN

Announcing a new 34-country counter-terrorism alliance, Saudi Arabia proved the Kingdom’s adroitness when it comes to propaganda. No nation spreads petrodollars around like Saudi Arabia, buying more influence in White House and Congress than any publicly-traded...

PLO’S ABBAS OKS PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE

Unable to get statehood bypassing direct negotiations with Israel, 80-year-old Palestine Liberation Chairman Mahmoud Abbas gave a green light to Palestinians to stage another intifada or uprising, hoping enough violence forces the U.S. and U.N. to pressure Israel into...

U.S. MUSLIMS TAKE BLAME FOR TERRORIST ACTS

Feeling blamed for recent terror attacks, especially the Dec. 2 San Bernardino massacre where U.S.-born county health department employee 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook and his 29-year-old wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14, injuring 21. Concerned about terrorist...

GOP PANICS OVER TRUMP’S SUCCESS

Failing to sabotage the outsider campaign of 69-year-old real estate tycoon and former reality TV star Donald Trump, 43-year-old RNC chairman Reince Priebus met behind closed doors Dec. 10 to consider his next move. While no one’s voted yet, Priebus has begun to sweat...

WALL STREET SENDS FED’S YELLEN A LOUD MESSAGE

Capping a 3.5% decline for the week ending Dec. 11, the Dow Jones Industrials plunged 1.77% today, dropping to 17,264, nearly 1,100 lower than the high reached 18,351 May 19. Since that time, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen has been holding the Sword of Damocles...

TRUMP’S ANTI-MUSLIM RHETORIC SCORES POINTS

Liberal media elites and the GOP are stuck in mind-warp that 69-year real estate tycoon and former reality TV-star Donald Trump is a racist unfit to run for president. With a new CBS poll today showing that Trump’s unrealistic idea to ban Muslims from the U.S....

TIME MAGAZINE HANDS MERKEL PERSON-OF-THE-YEAR

Rewarded for her open-door policy to Mideast immigrants fleeing war zones, Time Magazine handed 61-year-old German Chancellor Angel Merkel Person-of-the-Year. Snubbing 69-year-old real estate mogul, former reality TV-star and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump,...