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The US Secretary of Defense has said that the American military forces and its coalition allies need to stay in Iraq, even after the terrorist group ISIS has been defeated. Ashton Carter said terrorist groups were headed towards a lasting defeat but the US-led coalition, which has purportedly been striking Islamic State positions in Iraq since 2014, had to stay and keep training local security forces to ensure the group does not rise again Press TV reports: “But there will still be much more to do after that to make sure that, once defeated, ISIL stays defeated,” the Pentagon chief said.

Submitted by Chris at Capitalist Exploits blog,

This is the first part of a series of articles (I don't know how many, I'm not done yet) designed to explain what is easily THE most important, albeit poorly understood (even by professionals) market on this ball of dirt.

Eurodollars: What Are They?

To best explain what Eurodollars are we start with the English language.

By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at

This is the first part of a series of articles (I don't know how many, I'm not done yet) designed to explain what is easily THE most important, albeit poorly understood (even by professionals) market on this ball of dirt.

Eurodollars: What Are They?

To best explain what Eurodollars are we start with the English language.

President-elect Donald Trump fired off Sunday morning with a Tweetstorm (after again complaining about the "totally biased, not funny " Saturday Night Live), and in a series of six tweets threatened heavy taxes as "retribution" for U.S. companies that move their business operations overseas, fire US workers and still try to sell their product to Americans. Trump vowed he would slap a 35% tax on products sold inside the U.S. by any business that fired American workers and built a new factory or plant in another country.

A fake US embassy successfully operating for 10 years has been discovered and shut down in Ghana, West Africa. For about a decade criminals have been operating a fake US embassy in Ghana’s capital Accra, flying the American flag and issuing visas. The fraud came to light during “Operation Spartan Vanguard” initiated by the real US embassy in Ghana.