August 23, 2015
Sweet Deals and Cookie Crumbles; Sugar, Sugar
Please consider How US Sugar Policies Just Helped America Lose 600 Jobs .
Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
Please consider How US Sugar Policies Just Helped America Lose 600 Jobs .
Tweet Some things which caught Eli’s Eye, but, it being summer, only a few comments from the meadow are likely. – A really interesting paper in Climate of the Past Discussions, a collaboration between the PAGES2K (turbo proxy reconstructions) and PIMP3 (modeling of the past) groups " Continental-scale temperature variability in PMIP3 simulations and PAGES 2k regional temperature reconstructions over the past millennium " which will not bring smiles in certain quarters. Â Warning, it is another Hansen, et al seventy pager
The objective of the Western media is not truth, but rather to undermine the current government while attempting to exonerate Thaksin Shinawatra –  leader of an ousted client regime groomed by and in the service of Western interests  since as early as the 1990’s. To confront this intentional, politically motivated manipulation, it may be useful to examine several key questions facing any investigation and answer them with what real evidence now stands.
CME FedWatch 2015-08-20 Rate Hike Odds The CME concludes there is a 23.57% chance of a hike. This is bad math because the CME ignores ranges. If the Fed comes flat out and sets a target rate of precisely 0.25% that is a hike from here
Instead, and as widely expected, Alexis Tsipras to ‘Step Down and Call Snap Elections’ . The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has decided to step down and call snap elections for 20 September, government officials said
See the article here: Plotting the Fed’s Baby Step 1/8 Point Hikes; Yellen vs. Greenspan "Measured Pace"
Housing Regulator Wants to Throw the Drowning Poor an Anchor; Mish Alternative Proposal Now that home prices have recovered from the Great Financial Crisis to the point of being way overvalued again in many areas, a Housing Regulator Targets More Support for Poor Borrowers . The regulator for U.S
With that hike, Chicago Now has America’s Highest Sales Tax . Chicago has long had a steep sales tax, but a vote by Cook County commissioners Wednesday night made the city’s rate the highest of any major city in the nation
More: Motor Vehicles, Housing Starts Boost GDPNow 3rd Quarter Forecast to Anemic 1.3 Percent
Since the first coup in 2006 aimed at his regime, Shinawatra has been represented by US corporate-financier elites via their lobbying firms including, Kenneth Adelman of the Edelman PR firm ( Freedom House , International Crisis Group , PNAC ), James Baker of Baker Botts ( CFR , Carlyle Group), Robert Blackwill ( CFR ) of Barbour Griffith & Rogers (BGR) , Kobre & Kim , Bell Pottinger ( and here ) and currently Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Partners ( Chatham House ). And from 2006 until now, both Western political and media circles have continuously provided favorable spin for Shinawatra and his political proxies. This includes the use of the above mentioned Freedom House and its umbrella organization, the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to fund and back nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and academics in Thailand to provide rhetorical and operation support for Shinawatra and serve as a constant source of sociopolitical subversion aimed at Thailand’s ruling establishment