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European Rejection of Obama’s Call for Stimulus Threatens U.S. Economy

By | 07.06.10 | 6:00 am

BERLIN — President Obama’s push for additional economic stimulus is not just hitting a wall in Congress. The president has also been rebuffed by the largest European countries — with potentially profound consequences for the U.S. economy and Obama’s national agenda.

[Economy1] In the run-up to the G-20 summit in More…

Social Worker Raided for Rioting on Twitter Wants His Pickaxes Back

By | 10.27.09 | 10:45 am

This seems almost too weird to be true, but Wired reports that on Oct. 1, federal agents seized the computers, manuscripts and pickaxes of an anarchist social worker in Queens, N.Y., claiming he violating anti-rioting laws on Twitter.

Iran Hiding a Nuclear Facility?

By | 09.25.09 | 8:38 am

Perhaps Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s new, harsher rhetoric on Iran has a specific catalyst. The New York Times reports that President Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicholas Sarkozy will disclose that Iran has for years constructed an undisclosed — and as-yet-unoperational — nuclear facility. More…

‘The Era of Banking Secrecy is Over’

By | 04.02.09 | 2:13 pm

That’s perhaps the boldest declaration in the joint statement from G-20 world leaders meeting today in London.

The communiqué, which pledges $1.1 trillion in global stimulus spending and tighter supervision and regulation of the global economy, did not commit the leaders to another round of stimulus More…