Politics

Submitted by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

When the going gets tough for politicians, the politicians do what they do best: Declare success smack in the face of a resounding defeat.

Today, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk resigned, accusing the president’s party of plunging the war-scarred and recession-ravaged country into an “artificially created crisis”.

In response, US vice-president Joseph Biden’s office congratulated the Ukrainian government for a job well done.

Supporters of destabilizing regime change can’t accept responsibility for the chaos they help create:

Both Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continue to argue that it wasn’t the removal of Gaddafi that caused the chaos, but rather the failure to prop up a stable government in the days following. An ISIS affiliate has since gained a foothold in the country, and the U.S. has carried out airstrikes against “ISIS camps” as recently as February.

Rockets fired from Syria have landed on Turkish territory, injuring several people according to a local media report. At least four people were injured when five rockets hit the in the southeast border town of Kilis, Anadolu news agency reported. RT reports: The rockets are believed to have been fired from a region in Syria controlled by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants, the Daily Sabah reported.This is yet to be confirmed by authorities. The Turkish artillery retaliated by shelling the positions inside Syria from where the rockets were fired, it added.

Hot on the heels of Wells Fargo's $1.2 billion settlement, Bloomberg reports that Goldman Sachs will pay $5.1 billion to settle a U.S. probe into its handling of mortgage-backed securities involving allegations that loans weren’t properly vetted before being sold to investors as high-quality bonds.

After growing pressure from an increasingly angry populous, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain speaks to parliament on measures to curb tax evasion after admitting last week that he had profited from an offshore account. Of course, he "did nothing wrong," but opposition leaders smell the blood in the water so close to the Brexit decision... pushing for an Icelandic end to this controversy.