Saturday, June 25, 2011
Did Russian mafia kill MI6 Gareth Williams, who was developing secret technology to track gangsters' laundered cash
The MI6 agent found dead in a holdall at his London flat was working on secret technology to target Russian criminal gangs who launder stolen money through Britain.
The revelation adds weight to claims that Gareth Williams was killed because of his secret work and raises the possibility that the Russian mafia has targeted British spies.
Obama: U.S. can't "cut our way to prosperity"
Nor can we spend our way to prosperity. Especially when you have nothing to spend. And you tried that with no positive results for the American people.
Poll: People divided on looming debt crisis
We need to be worried:
Americans seem not to have awakened to the fast-looming debt crisis that could summon a new recession, imperil their stock market investments and shatter faith in the world's most powerful economy. Those are among the implications, both sudden and long-lasting, expected to unfold if the U.S. defaults on debt payments for the first time in history.
Facing an August deadline for raising the country's borrowing limit or setting loose the consequences, politicians and economists are plenty alarmed. The people? Apparently not so much.
They're divided on whether the raised the limit, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that found 41 percent opposed to the idea and 38 percent in favor.
People aren't exactly blase. A narrow majority in the poll expects an economic crisis to ensue if the U.S., maxed out on its borrowing capacity, starts missing interest payments to creditors. But even among that group, 37 percent say no dice to raising the limit.
Economic message eludes Obama
- He has no message
Economic message eludes Obama
POLITICO | JUNE 24, 2011
http://pulse.me/s/m7Yr
A gloomy economy and a "winning the future" mantra adds up to be a messaging minefield. read more
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Tea Party Splits On Contentious Issue
Tea Party Splits On Contentious Issue
HUFFINGTON POST: POLITICS | JUNE 24, 2011
http://pulse.me/s/mJOE
WASHINGTON — The House's tea party caucus split on a major foreign policy vote Friday – whether to cut ... read more
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