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VP Cheney castrated US environmental and wildlife services.

That evil man, Dick Cheney, when he was VP of USA, castrated the environmental and wildlife services of the US government so that his Republican friends could make money by exploiting America’s natural resources despite heavy external or social costs. Now this practice has been taken up by the Chenified US Navy, another American institution that has lost its integrity.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35954-exclusive-emails-reveal-navy-s-intent-to-break-law-threatening-endangered-wildlife

There is some serious turmoil going on in credit, commodities, and FX.. but stocks shurugged it all off because jobs were shitty enough to warrant a bid??

Just days after  Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was moved to a prison near the US border, a Mexican federal judge has ruled that the notorious drug lord can be extradited to the US to face criminal charges Guzman’s lawyers are fighting the decision. They say that several appeals remain pending and that any effort to send him to the U.S. now would violate his human rights.

Following Donald Trump's Thursday comments that rising interest rates would be disastrous for the economy, saying that "we're paying a very low interest rate. What happens if that interest rate goes up 2, 3, 4 points?" hinting that the U.S. should "renegotiate longer-term debt" with creditors and that if the economy crashes he "can make a deal", various media outlets went to town on Trump, most notably the NYT, which took Trump to task:

Authored by Satyajit Das (Author of A Banquet of Consequences), via The Independent,

There are a number of potential triggers to a new crisis.

The first potential trigger may be equity prices.