Editors note: (Ralph Turchiano) Requested Re-Post from 2012 White House confirmed the hack but downplayed it, saying no damage was done and it was unsuccessful Military Office targeted which controls the President’s travel, interoffice communications, and nuclear codes By Meghan Keneally PUBLISHED:08:16 EST, 1 October 2012| UPDATED:11:54 EST, 1 October 2012 The White House revealed…
Editors Note: (Ralph Turchiano) Requested Re-Post from JUN 2013 Explosive revelations about a behind-the scenes deal between the political rivals Bill Clinton dubbed Obama ‘incompetent’ and ‘an amateur’ during secret meetings, sources claimed By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:35 EST, 2 June 2013 | UPDATED: 12:01 EST, 2 June 2013 President Obama made a…
Around 110 million Americans are now on government welfare benefits This equates to more than one third of the country relying on handouts At least 51 million are using food stamps and 83 million are on Medicaid Analysts are calling for the minimum wage to be increased to $10.10 an hour By Jenny Awford…
By Marc A. Thiessen July 28 From Europe to the Middle East, we have seen how disaster follows U.S. retreat and disengagement from the world. But the one area where President Obama seemed to be leaning forward was drone strikes. He personally approved terrorist “kill lists” and has taken out many hundreds of terrorists with…
The Philippines’ tough stance can only end in embarrassment (People’s Daily Online) 13:04, May 13, 2014 This year, the Philippines’ conduct on the South China Sea issue has been bewildering: At first, it pretended to be a victim of China’s “threat of force”, complained that China was preventing it from supplying the warship beached on…
‘By Zhang Yunbi (China Daily) 07:26, April 25, 2014 The PLA is fully capable of safeguarding China’s Diaoyu Islands, says spokesman US President Barack Obama’s promise of military cover for Japan’s claim on the Diaoyu Islands faces the potential of backfiring, observers said.
EEV: Repost from OCT 2013 Meet Sylvia Burwell, the woman who ordered the government shutdown By Elizabeth Chuck Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images Sylvia Mathews Burwell smiles as President Barack Obama announces her as his choice to be the next White House budget director on March 4. A single person shut down the…
EEV: In addition to Bloomberg’s analysis, failing to abide by the Budapest referendum may result in all military agreements being looked at with skepticism. China may now be encouraged to make a move for the South China Sea. – seeking an end to Syria’s civil war – halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions – facilitating the withdrawal of U.S.…
– casting an expected decline in American work hours as a boon to worker freedom and family values – Obamacare would mean more family time for mothers, more study opportunities for college students and less job stress for older workers. – “The single mom, who’s raising three kids (and) has to keep a job because…
EEV: Would Like Verification on the Claim ” $100 million will go to study how to get Americans to buy more maple syrup “ The massive five-years agriculture spending plan, signed Friday by President Obama, includes a $3 million plan for Christmas tree taxes Most of the bill covers food stamps, with the number of…
U.S. says no evidence Obamacare software written in Belarus Hayden confirmed that a U.S. intelligence agency had recently issued, then retracted, a report related to possible involvement by a Belarus company in writing the software. Valery Tsepkalo, director of the government-backed High-Technology Park (HTP) in Minsk, said: “One of our clients is the health ministry…
Obama admits intelligence chief fault over false Senate testimony – members of Congress who warn of the dangerous precedent set by allowing an intelligence chief to lie to legislative bodies tasked with overseeing the powerful spy agencies President continues to defend James Clapper in the face of calls for his resignation after ‘untruthful’ statement about…
Denise Tsang denise.tsang@scmp.com UPDATED : Thursday, 30 January, 2014, 9:15am US President Barack Obama proclaimed America had usurped China as the world’s No 1 investment destination, a bold statement that left some economists scratching their heads. The White House cited an AT Kearney survey as the basis for Obama’s remark in his State of…
George Tsunis should have Googled ‘Norway’ before his Senate hearing. Right about now Obama is wishing he hadn’t nominated George Tsunis to be the next ambassador to Norway. Why? Partly because he doesn’t know really basic things about Norway (like the fact that they don’t have a president). But mainly because he made that…
– “suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials – including the president and vice-president – became a big problem for me” Robert Gates, who also served under George W Bush, says relations between White House and Pentagon are strained Dan Roberts in Washington theguardian.com, Tuesday 7 January 2014 18.45…
