WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s health care numbers don’t seem to add up. And that’s complicating his efforts to pass his top domestic priority. Obama claims his health effort will not dig the nation deeper into debt and over time will help reduce deficits. He has vowed to not sign any health bill that [...]
Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON — A bruising session marked by politically volatile legislation strained relations between congressional Democrats and the White House and spawned cracks in the party’s coalition. As House members headed home on their August recess Friday, President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda was increasingly at risk on Capitol Hill. Some congressional allies say [...]
Times Online: Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child’s iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company. The Times has learnt that the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign a settlement form. The [...]
The Guardian: Britain will come under fresh pressure to send more troops to Afghanistan this month when General Stanley McChrystal, the Nato commander in the country, tells President Barack Obama that a further troop surge by the military alliance is necessary. The review was ordered by Obama and British officials have been closely involved. It [...]
New York State President and National Liason Officer Steve Mastrandrea had participated in a counter demonstration to ACORN about a week before he shot this video. ACORN was holding a pro-Obama Care rally at Chuck Schumer’s local office, and had alerted the local TV station. The station showed up, and although there were 150 anti-Obama [...]
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The Independent: The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading energy economist has warned. Higher oil prices brought on by a rapid increase in demand and a stagnation, or even [...]
The Independent: He claimed to have killed 39 people in his deadly career – and blamed his crimes on the French state. As two new films put Jacques Mesrine’s grizzly life story on screen, John Lichfield unmasks the man behind the bloody myth. Of all the rumpled margins of Paris, the Porte de Clignancourt is [...]
As far as Barack Obama goes, if we do jobs, the August will be the last month before The Fall. Enter ACTIVISTS
Times Online: Iran has perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead and is merely awaiting the word from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first bomb, Western intelligence sources have told The Times. The sources said that Iran completed a research programme to create weaponised uranium in the summer [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Sunday that signs of stabilization and increased confidence in the economy could be dashed if home prices were to take another turn downward. Greenspan told ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” that he didn’t believe that a steep drop was in store, but home prices [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the U.S. must cut the annual federal budget deficit, now more than $1 trillion, for the economy to have a sustained recovery and he’s not ruling out new taxes. He said the country needs to understand the Obama administration will do what’s necessary. He did not detail [...]
TORRINGTON, Wyo. — Carl Rupp and his neighbors follow the old rancher’s creed: “Keep your money in your pocket.” Rupp has farmed his whole life. He lives in Goshen County, a rural spot along the Nebraska line where cattle outnumber humans 16 to 1 and you can still see the ruts cut by wagons that [...]
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The Daily Mail: Fans screamed and ran for cover as a fierce thunderstorm caused an outdoor stage to collapse at a country music festival in Canada. Police said one person was killed and up to 40 others injured, some seriously, during the storm at the Big Valley Jamboree in Alberta. Thousands of fans had been [...]
