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Dear God! Apparently this man’s I.Q. fell sharply under this new administration … Anyone want to play poker with this guy? FOX: Gates: U.S. Not Prepared to Respond to North Korea Missile Launch The defense secretary told “FOX News Sunday” that the United States can do nothing to stop North Korea from thumbing its nose [...]

Police: Man Fatally Stabs Sister, Decapitates 5-Year-Old On Birthday MILTON, Massachusetts — A man on a rampage fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister, decapitated his 5-year-old sister in front of a police officer and then turned toward his 9-year-old sister with a knife in his hand before officers shot him dead in what their chief described [...]

Der Spiegel: Major Oil Companies Are Circling Iraq With stability returning, Oil Minister al-Shahristani has big plans to make his country the fourth-largest oil producer. With security in Iraq improving, international oil companies are quickly moving in, often with little or no fanfare. Hanter Gasser, Royal Dutch Shell’s (RDS) top executive for Iraq, recently spent [...]

Guardian UK: Prospect of Barack Obama show causes UK to clear its decks With an entourage of 500 staff, an armour-plated limousine and a fleet of decoy helicopters, America’s new president will arrive for his first visit to Britain amid huge razzmatazz on Tuesday for the G20 summit. But it will be his closed-door meetings [...]

BBC: American leverage in South Asia By Barbara Plett In recent days three top American generals have turned their guns on Pakistan, accusing elements of its main intelligence agency, the ISI, of supporting Taliban and al-Qaeda militants. The unprecedented broadside followed the announcement by the US President Barack Obama of a new strategy for Afghanistan. [...]

***UPDATE*** CNBC: Wagoner’s resignation comes as the company awaits president Barack Obama’s reports on efforts to save GM and Chrysler. It is unclear if Wagoner’s resignation is one of the stipulations for the federal government to lend billions more to GM. But sources close to the talks say tough conditions will be attached to any [...]

Politico: President Obama tells CBS’s Bob Schieffer on “Face the Nation” that he will call for “a set of sacrifices” so that the U.S. auto industry will “emerge at the other end much more lean, mean and competitive than it currently is.” Obama is to announce his plans for strategy for carmakers on Monday at [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended his approach to fixing the country’s economic mess Sunday, saying “the market will not solve this” while disclosing a bailout fund for battered banks has $135 billion left and might need more. Geithner used his first Sunday talk show appearances to promote President Barack Obama’s massive government [...]

He spends much of his time blaming Bush for everything… CBS News: Arguing that the United States had lost its focus in combating the rise in militants in South Asia over the past several years, President Barack Obama said that the U.S. must “refocus attention on al Qaeda” in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. With the [...]

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Politico: President Barack Obama is personally leading a White House blitz of network Sunday shows, reenergizing one of the most traditional of Washington platforms at a time when his agenda is facing rising scrutiny from capital insiders. Obama’s communications strategy has turned heads for its reliance on YouTube and edgy social networking tools. But this [...]

“Millie, why the hell didn’t you go before the show?” groan … “I’ll never mix Mexican and Chinese again, I tell you.” “Me neither!” “Hey, guys, I think we got some of those bad peanuts …” “Class action suit!”