U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

Kerri Toloczko writing for Forbes offers an excellent review: “How Obama’s Justice Department Selectively Blocks Mergers By Republican CEOs“.  Don’t confuse this with selective IRS political persecution or attacking critical journalists or blatant criminality in failing to properly respond to Congress by the top law enforcement officer in the nation, Attorney General Eric Holder.  This is something else, but also under Holders department – the apparent Department of Injustice, Cronyism and Racialism.

Toloczko writes:
Like all mergers, the proposed $45.2 billion Comcast CMCSA +1.5% merger with Time Warner Cable TWC +1%—the largest and second largest cable providers in the nation—has its advocates and critics.  There are certainly important questions about what impact the merger would have on consumers—but there are equally significant issues associated with the highly politicized approval process.
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Armed pro-Russia protesters prepare for the battle with Ukrainian police on the outskirts the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on April 13, 2014 (AFP Photo/Anatoliy Stepanov)

Ukraine’s interim president on Monday made a dramatic about-face aimed at defusing tensions in the separatist east by backing a national referendum on turning the ex-Soviet republic into a federation with broader regional rights.

European powers meanwhile sought to raise the pressure on Russia — which it blames for fomenting the tensions — with Britain calling for “further sanctions” on Moscow ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
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