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On July 24, 2011, by Executive Order 13581, the President declared a national emergency with respect to transnational criminal organizations pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the activities of significant transnational criminal organizations.The activities of significant transnational criminal organizations have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems.  Such organizations are becoming increasingly sophisticated and dangerous to the United States; they are increasingly entrenched in the...

Uncovering Holocaust perpetrators where few have lookedMuslim Nazis, female death camp guards, and Dutch ‘bounty hunters’ are coming out of the archival closet, even as fewer Shoah eyewitnesses remain alive to testify BOSTON ~ With new access to archives and other primary sources, historians are supplanting archetypal images of Aryan Nazi men as the Holocaust's sole perpetrators. Previously obscured perpetrator "sub-groups" are being exposed one portrait at a time, ranging from women who guarded death camps to Dutch bounty hunters of Jews in hiding. And as researchers uncover an array of Europeans involved in the murder of Jews and other...

DOW -393 NAD -147 SP-47 The market is currently in panic mode. Investors across the globe are wading in a sea of deep red, sparked by concerns about slumping global growth — otherwise known as China. But Jeff Saut, chief investment strategist at Raymond James, appears to be suggesting that the selloff that has gripped markets over the past several days is equivalent to what he describes as a “selling stampede” that could last about a month before it’s exhausted.In other words, he (unlike George Soros) is holding off before calling this a crisis. “For whatever reason, our stock market,...