The deadly suicide bombings in Iraq on Wednesday highlight the central quandary facing President Obama as he tries to fulfill his campaign pledge to end the war there: Will parliamentary elections, scheduled for Sunday, throw the country back into the sectarian strife that flared in 2004 and delay the planned American withdrawal?
Two months after ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, Tavis Smiley is gathering African-American advocates to press the case for a “black agenda.”
“We have a president who is talking about bringing more people into the middle class,” Mr. Stern said. “The government should expect contractors to obey the law, and at the same time contractors should not be building a poverty economy, but should be trying to build a high-road economy.”
Yes Andy, you douche bag, that’s what made America great, phony wages, phony money, phony banks, phony politicians, phony unions, phony wars, phony beliefs. Oh yeah, a phony president and his phony Fox critics don’t help either.
I didn’t realize there was poverty because the president hasn’t “brought more people into the middle class”, I thought it was because the phony Banks collapsed the system.
Andy, you need to get a “Hungry. God Bless” sign, stand on a corner (like thousands of Americans do every day) and really take a look at what you are creating.
The discovery of the dead US soldiers revealed that America’s shadowy war in Pakistan not only involves drones but also small cadres of special operations soldiers.
President Barack Obama is spending $2.1 million to help Suntech Power Holdings Co. build a solar- panel plant in Arizona. It will hire 70 Americans to assemble components made by Suntech’s 11,000 Chinese workers.
Moody’s Investors Service fired off a warning on Wednesday that the triple A sovereign credit rating of the US would come under pressure unless economic growth was more robust than expected or tougher actions were taken to tackle the country’s budget deficit.
In a move that follows intensifying concern among investors over the US deficit, Moody’s said the country faced a trajectory of debt growth that was “clearly continuously upward”.
If you ever needed proof that the Government was, at worst, lying or, at best, misleading you, here it is:
President Obama, looking to recoup billions in expected losses from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, will announce a plan Thursday to impose fees on the country’s biggest financial institutions, a senior administration official told CNN.
But on Dec 16, 2009, this is what was said (link):
The Troubled Asset Relief Program has generated at least $16 billion in profit so far, the Treasury Department said late Wednesday.
Both statements about the TARP are true. The second one just not the WHOLE truth. The TARP has made $ 16 billion in profit SO FAR. The problems is, in the end, the taxpayers lose hundreds of billions of dollars.
You really have to listen close to what Geithner says, he is a real snake. I mean really, would you buy a house from this guy>
Who needs a government that tells half-truths? Not me.
The Center for Constitutional Rights released a report titled “Conditions of Confinement at Guantánamo: Still In Violation of the Law,” which found that abuses continued. In fact, one Guantanamo lawyer, Ahmed Ghappour, said that his clients were reporting “a ramping up in abuse” since Obama was elected.
Now, reports are circulating that boys were tortured last year – after Obama was sworn in as President – at the Bagram prison in Afghanistan:
What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out, instituting a massive, trickle-up bailout and systematically gutting regulatory reform from the inside.
