Tag Archive | European Union
Obama May Levy Carbon Tax to Cut U.S. Deficit, HSBC Says | THE JEENYUS CORNER
THE JEENYUS CORNER By Mathew Carr (Bloomberg.com) – Barack Obama may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help cut the U.S. budget deficit after winning a second term as president, according to HSBC Holdings Plc. A tax starting at $20 a metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent and rising at about 6 percent […]
Iran in the Crosshairs: ‘Stop the march to war’ | THE JEENYUS CORNER
THE JEENYUS CORNER Minneapolis, MN – More than 175 people came to the event “Iran in the Crosshairs” on Oct. 19 to hear from anti-war activists and Congressman Keith Ellison (Fifth Congressional District of Minnesota) about how to stop the U.S. march to war. Margaret Sarfehjooy with Women Against Military Madness laid out the context […]
Riots break out in Iran as currency loses 40% of its value in a week | THE JEENYUS CORNER
THE JEENYUS CORNER Police threatened merchants who closed their shops in Tehran’s main bazaar and launched crackdowns on sidewalk money changers on Wednesday as part of a push to halt the plunge of Iran’s currency, which has shed more than a third its value in less than a week. DUBAI — Riot police clashed […]
World on track for record food prices ‘within a year’ due to US drought | THE JEENYUS CORNER
They are being driven upwards by the climb in grain and oilseed prices as US crops weather the country’s worst drought since 1936, while the farming belts of Russia and South America suffer through similar water shortages. What we are seeing represents the third major rally in global grain and oilseed prices in just half […]
Panic cash withdrawals in Spain drain banks; Greece-style economic implosion now imminent | THE JEENYUS CORNER
Ethan A. Huff NaturalNews Spain appears poised to become the next Greece in the ongoing European Union (EU) implosion, as Spaniards are withdrawing record amounts of funds from Spanish banks to avoid a potential insolvency situation. According to the New York Times (NYT), the equivalent of $94 billion was withdrawn from Spanish banks in […]
Syrian troops storm Damascus refugee area, chase rebels | THE JEENYUS CORNER
By Oliver Holmes REUTERS Syrian government troops stormed an area of Damascus populated by Palestinian refugees on Saturday after a four-day artillery assault on the southern suburb where rebels have been sheltering, opposition activists said. President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have largely preferred to use air power and artillery to hit areas where rebels are […]
Obama’s Authoritarian Adviser Sunstein Steps Down
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com August 3, 2012 Cass Sunstein, Obama’s administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget, has announced his departure. He will leave later this month and return to Harvard Law School. Sunstein gained notoriety on a number of fronts. He called for dispatching government […]
‘Golden Dawn’ Take Advantage as Greek Collapse Breeds Xenophobia
Patrick HenningsenInfowars.comJuly 12, 2012 Just how bad is the Greek economy? Of all the economic horror stories produced since the banking crisis began in 2007, Greece is perhaps the most frightening to date, and in the wake of the country’s crash, xenophobia is starting to rear its ugly head in Greece. Unemployment, cuts in public services and an overall lack of confidence […]
Khamenei: West “vaccinated” Iran Against Sanctions
Marcus GeorgeReutersJuly 11, 2012 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday dismissed harsher sanctions imposed on Iran this month over its disputed nuclear activity, saying the country was “100 times stronger” than before. A European Union embargo on Iranian crude oil took full effect on July 1 – a joint effort with the United States to […]
Iran Threatens to Block Tankers in Response to Oil Import Embargo
Infowars.com July 2, 2012 Following a European Union embargo on Iranian oil imports that came into effect on Sunday, the Iranian parliament today drafted a bill to block oil shipments to countries cooperating in punitive sanctions against the country. Around 17 million barrels of oil from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq […]
