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JEB BEATS HIS CHEST PROMISING TO CONFRONT PUTIN

by | Jun 9, 2015

Retired from politics for eight years after serving as Florida governor, 62-year-old Jeb Bush hopes his European trip, before announcing June 16 as a 2016 GOP candidate, burnishes his foreign policy credentials. Bush promised to counter Putin’s aggression to “isolate...

G7’s EMPTY REBUKE OF PUTIN’S UKRAINE INVASION

by | Jun 8, 2015

Hosting the G7 conference with the world’s strongest economies except Russia in the Bavarian Alps, German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned Russian President Vladimr Putin’s 2014 Ukraine invasion. Merkel and U.S. President Barack Obama insisted that the G7 opposed...

OBAMA AND KERRY AT ODDS OVER UKRAINE

by | Jun 7, 2015

When Russian President Vladimir Putin finished hosting the Sochi Winter Olympics Feb. 23, 2014 it didn’t take long for the former KGB colonel to invade Crimea March 1, 2014. Putin watched a day earlier Ukraine’s elected leader Viktor Yanukovich chased out of Kiev in...

WALL STREET READY FOR PROFIT-TAKING OR CORRECTION

by | Jun 6, 2015

Lurking behind Wall Street’s six-year-old bull market is Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen warning of interest rate hikes in this year’s already sideways market. Instead to moving rates up based on solid corporate earnings and GDP growth, Wall Street’s...

HASTERT’S INDICTMENT EXPOSES DARK SIDE OF CAPITOL HILL

by | Jun 5, 2015

Indicted May 28, 2015 for lying to the FBI about a series of banking withdrawals amounting to $1.7 million, 73-year-old former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Il.) tried to cover-up pay outs to an unnamed male with whom he had an illegal sexual relationship while...