Politics

Recently, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the following: "One of the key legacy achievements of this presidency will be the important reforms of Wall Street. Those reforms have led to a financial system that is more stable and ensures that taxpayers are not on the hook for bailing out financial institutions that make risky bets."

Evidently the Obama administration has a different definition of “risky bets”, and “taxpayers not on the hook” than most people, because as the Washington Post reports:

Wikileaks claims that Washington is behind the recently released Panama Papers, saying that the attack was ‘produced’ to target President Putin and Russia The whistleblowing organization said on Twitter that the Panama Papers data leak was produced by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), “which targets Russia and the former USSR.” #PanamaPapers Putin attack was produced by OCCRP which targets Russia & former USSR and was funded by USAID & Soros.

By Nigel Farage, originally posted in The Telegraph

The Dutch referendum shows how the internet is taking back power from our Europhile elites

Today's Dutch referendum on the EU's expansionist agreement with Ukraine really is the people's referendum.

GeenPeil, a project stemming from the popular Dutch blog GeenStijl, collected some 420,000 signed, verified, signatures triggering this referendum. It is an extraordinary achievement that highlights how western democracy is evolving.

Russia Today reporter Lizzie Phelan visits the devastated town of Al-Qaryatayn in the Homs Governorate of Syria after it was liberated from Islamic State/ISIS terrorists. Syrian government troops and local militia took over the town after several days of heavy fighting. Russia Today reports: Al-Qaryatayn had been held by terrorist groups since late August. The liberation of the city proclaimed April 3 came days after Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) was pushed out of the ancient city of Palmyra, 100km (60 miles) to the east.

The Clinton foundation took millions of dollars from fossil fuel giants, yet this past week Mrs Clinton snapped at a Greenpeace activist, claiming to be “sick” of such allegations. The former Secretary of State recently blew her top at an environmental activist who had dared ask if she would stop taking money from oil and other fossil fuel companies. “I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me.