Fatster rounds up news articles from around the galaxy, including strories about the American Empire, UK Olympics, Barclays’ Diamond, war on drugs, oil price rigging, IMF growth forecasts, LIBOR, Wisconsin Senate, welfare work waivers, for-profit schools, GOP corruption, Florida corruption, dought, AT&T, Brazilian gold miners and much more.

Seems like at least one of Boehner’s Majority Makers has achieved that rare display of bipartisanship the President gets so excited about: both GOPs and Dems think David Rivera needs to scram.