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National Edition Opinion cover for May 27, 2014 - Financial tyranny (Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Germany's former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder attend an economic forum in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, June 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, pool)
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FILE - In this July 24, 2007 file photo, Stephen Tritch, then president and chief executive of Westinghouse, left, shakes hands with Wang Binghua, chairman of the State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. of China (SNPTC), during a signing ceremony to build nuclear power plants in China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Justice Department’s indictment last week of five Chinese military officials charged them with trying to pilfer confidential information from American companies. But even some of the alleged U.S. corporate victims of the hackers have little incentive to cheer any trade rupture with China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool, File)
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File- In this Sept. 30, 2013 file photo, Edie Cotton, second from left protests outside Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver, Wash., before the start of a public information meeting of a proposed transfer facility to handle railcars carrying North American crude oil. Regulators are weighing the fate of what could become the Pacific Northwest’s largest crude oil train terminal. (AP Photo/The Columbian, Troy Wayrynen, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2013 file photo, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D. On the tranquil bank of the Columbia River in Vancouver, Wash., just across from Portland, Oregon, regulators are weighing the fate of what could become the Pacific Northwest’s largest crude oil train terminal: it would receive daily shipments of up to 360,000 barrels of oil via four trains a day rolling through iconic river communities and into the crowded Portland/Vancouver metro area, each train 120 cars and more than a mile long. (AP Photo/Bruce Crummy, File)
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File- In this July 6, 2013 file photo, workers stand before mangled tanker cars at the crash site of the train derailment and fire in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Canada. On the tranquil bank of the Columbia River in Vancouver, Wash., just across from Portland, Ore., regulators are weighing the fate of what could become the Pacific Northwest’s largest crude oil train terminal: it would receive daily shipments of up to 360,000 barrels of oil via four trains a day rolling through iconic river communities and into the crowded Portland/Vancouver metro area, each train 120 cars and more than a mile long. (AP Photo/Ryan Remiorz, Pool, File)
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This photo provided by the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office shows a natural gas pipeline rupture and explosion in far northwestern Minnesota Monday, May 26, 2014. The county's 911 coordinator, Jim Duckstad, says nobody was injured, but six or seven families living within two miles of the site were evacuated. He says the gas line was shut down and the fire extinguished itself around 8:30 a.m. (AP Photo/Marshall County Sheriff’s Office)
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FILE - This July 24, 2013 file photo shows the AstraZeneca logo on the company's building in Shanghai, China. Pfizer says it does not intend to make a takeover offer for British drugmaker AstraZeneca. The Monday, May 26, 2014 announcement comes a week after AstraZeneca's board rejected a proposed $119 billion buyout offer from Pfizer, the world's second-biggest drugmaker by revenue. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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In this May 4, 2014 photo, the Pfizer logo is displayed on the exterior of a former Pfizer factory in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Pfizer says it does not intend to make a takeover offer for British drugmaker AstraZeneca. The Monday, May 26, 2014 announcement comes a week after AstraZeneca's board rejected a proposed $119 billion buyout offer from Pfizer, the world's second-biggest drugmaker by revenue. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
