Biden: ‘Yes, We Do’ Want to Raise Taxes By a Trillion Dollars
VP Joe Biden at a campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa says that he and Obama want to raise taxes by 1 trillion dollars (October 4, 2012).
Category: Currency
4 dead from rare meningitis, more cases expected
Health officials are expecting to find more cases of a rare and deadly form of meningitis that has sickened more than two dozen people in five states. Four have died. All received steroid injections,...
Large-scale exercise prepares EU for cyber attacks
http://www.euronews.com/ For the first time, banks and internet companies were part of an exercise preparing EU institutions in case of a cyber attack. Four hundred experts from across Europe faced more than 1,200 separate cyber...
Presidential Debate: The Top 5 Things you won’t Hear
The much anticipated first U.S. presidential debate kicks off on Wednesday, but even with the non-stop campaign coverage, chances are there won’t be too many surprises. But there are some critical and pressing topics...
Shipyard Workers, Police Clash in Greece
Greek police clashed with scores of protesting shipyard workers Thursday after they forced their way into the grounds of Greece’s Defense Ministry in Athens. (Oct. 4)
The Dollar, Euro, Yuan, Yen and Rupee: “currency wars”
(Reuters) – “It’s our currency and your problem,” U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally famously said of the dollar in 1971. More than 40 years later, China is doing something about it. Fed up with what it sees...
Gowdy: Oversight Committee Getting Answers on Benghazi Attack
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders today sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking why requests for more protection were denied to the U.S. mission in Libya by Washington officials...
Former adviser to President Obama: “We need death panels”
Steven Rattner, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, called for “death panels” in a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, proving that liberals and the mainstream media were apoplectic when former Alaska Gov. Sarah...
The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth’s mantle
(CNN) — Humans have reached the moon and are planning to return samples from Mars, but when it comes to exploring the land deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet. This may...
Done deal: Feds to buy Thomson prison from state for $165 million
SPRINGFIELD — The Obama administration and Gov. Pat Quinn have mapped out an end-run around the GOP that will enable the state to unload the long-mothballed Thomson Correctional Center for $165 million, U.S. Sen....
