The Adult Use of Marijuana Act is a marijuana legalization initiative will appear on the November 8, 2016 California ballot as Prop. 64. AUMA is an elaborate, 62-page initiative which writes hundreds of new provisions and regulations into state law.…
The Next Crash is coming. Equity markets (especially U.S. markets) have been pumped up to bubble levels. Bond markets (especially the U.S. bond market) have been pumped up to absurd, bubble levels – and it isn’t even supposed to be…
September 27, 2016 – After repeated, but ignored, warnings over the past two years from researchers at the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR), the new banking crisis has arrived with a vengeance and at a most inopportune time…
Drug Policy Forum of California Pro-reform candidates are in green; Anti-reform in red; Neutral in black. (ref to orig for color) PROP 64 – PRESIDENT – US CONGRESS – CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE – LOCAL RACES – BALLOT PROPOSITIONS Proposition 64 Californians…
We get reaction to this week’s Senate Banking Committee hearing where Senator Elizabeth Warren grilled Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf over a growing scandal at the major Wall Street bank involving thousands of employees who took private customer information to…
Last Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that Wells Fargo was paying $185 million in fines and penalties for allowing its employees to open “more than two million deposit and credit card accounts” that were not authorized by…
Many public employees utilize a tool, known as “salary spiking,” to boost their annual pensions payment in retirement and we taxpayers get to foot the bill. So what is “salary spiking?” Typically, a public employee’s pension benefit in retirement is…
In the latest stunning development involving a documented failure of a bank to deliver physical gold when demanded, yesterday we reported that according to German website godmode-trader.de, a client of the Xetra-Gold Exchange-Traded Commodity was told the fund’s designated sponsor,…
The brainchild of legendary guitarist Tom Morello, the Rock Against the TPP tour aims to amplify widespread and growing opposition to the 12-nation trade deal. The roadshow stopped Friday in Seattle. (Photo: Fight for the Future) As the White House…
When Bloomberg reported late last year that China founded a working group to explore the use of the supranational Special Drawing Rights (SDR) currency, nobody took heed. Now in August of 2016, we are very close to the first SDR issuance…
July 03, 2016 In this video the former finance minister of Greece and founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), Yanis Varoufakis, provides us an insight into why the European constitution does not represent the people of Europe and…
Journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger is one of two to win British journalism’s highest award twice. For his documentary films, he has won an Emmy and a British Academy Award, a BAFTA. Among numerous other awards, he has won…
By Prof. James Petras Global Research, June 06, 2016 During her 4 years as Secretary of State of the United States (2009-2014), Hillary Clinton controlled US foreign policy. She had access to the most confidential information and state documents, numbering…
