Breaking news: Obama is an American Citizen
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For the elite not following the news: Trump and others claimed that Obama was not born in the US, which created a US media hype...
This showed once more there is no end to the hot air US media can sell.
Here is Jon Stewart taking a piss at them all. "This man should run for president!" Love it!
PS: Now the only issues remaining:
- Obama's christianing certificate ("He really is a Muslim")
- Justification for his extensive stay in several Muslim countries ("He really attended a madrasas instead of kindergarten")
- Obama's DNA testing to show he is really who he says he is ("He can't be")
- Media claims that the island of Oahu is actually an independent state, and not part of the US Commonwealth ("See the lawsuit of the Single State of Oahu versus the United States of America, for the protection of the Inherited Pacific Guano Reserves")
Video courtesy MediaIte
Obama: H1N1 prevention? Yes, we can!
[i-Obama Swine Flu H1N1 cartoon]
Picture courtesy of my colleague aidworker Paul, blogging at Head Down, Eyes Open. Even though Paul was much more serious about H1N1 in his post. (Sorry Paul...!)
Obama and Iran and Facebook: world peace at last
[i-Obama makes friends with Iran via Facebook]
More cartoons about Iran and the social media.
More cartoons the Iran elections.
Courtesy of International Herald Tribune, discovered via Social Entrepreneurship on Change.org
The after-Bush-math: UN to prosecute the Bush administration
[i-bush-the beginning of the end]
The UN's special torture rapporteur called on the US to pursue former president George W. Bush and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners.
"Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation" to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said. (..)
He noted Washington had ratified the UN convention on torture which required "all means, particularly penal law" to be used to bring proceedings against those violating it.
"We have all these documents that are now publicly available that prove that these methods of interrogation were intentionally ordered by Rumsfeld," against detainees at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nowak said.
"But obviously the highest authorities in the United States were aware of this," added Nowak, who authored a UN investigation report on the Guantanamo prison. (Full)
You know what I am thinking? Now that Obama is removing the seal of secrecy on loads of government files (nice political move, Obama!), we will see plenty cans of worms. Let Pandora reign and justice be done.
Discovered via The Road Daily. Read the full post...
Undoing the wrongs...
[i-we have overcome]
One of President Barack Obama's first was to put the brakes on all pending regulations that the Bush administration tried to push through in its waning days.
For example, just six weeks ago, the Bush administration issued revised endangered species regulations to reduce the input of federal scientists and to block the law from being used to fight global warming.
The order went out shortly after Obama was inaugurated president, in a memorandum signed by new White House chief of staff.
Former President George W. Bush's administration moved into overdrive in the last year or so on a host of new regulatory proposals. Now the Obama administration will review everything that is still pending. (Full)
Picture courtesy Getty Images
News: Obama appoints US ambassador to the UN.
Rice goes UN[i-Rice goes UN]
Interesting. Maybe the US will -for once- have a president who remembers his promises even after the election... Obama had vowed more direct action against the Darfur genocide. He now appointed Susan E. Rice, as ambassador to the United Nations.
The New York Times reports on her appointment:
The choice of Ms. Rice to represent the United States before the United Nations will make her one of the most visible faces of the Obama administration to the outside world aside from Mrs. Clinton. It will also send to the world organization a prominent and forceful advocate of stronger action, including military force if necessary, to stop mass killings like those in the Darfur region of Sudan in recent years. (Full)
To get a feel for her stance on Darfur, check out this article she co-authored for the Washington Post.
It is not only that. Obama also wants to restore the ambassador’s post to cabinet rank, as it was under President Bill Clinton. This would send a message to the UN that the US commitment is to be taken more serious. As it should be. Are the Bush years definitively over?
More on The Road about the UN, the US, Darfur and Obama.
Discovered via Stop Genocide and For Those Who Want to Know Read the full post...
Picture of the day: The Future of America?
obama kids[i-obama kids]
obama kids[i-obama kids]
obama kids[i-obama kids]
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The pictures were taken by Nida Vidutis, a 17 years old freshman at Columbia University. He took these photos at the Prince William Fairgrounds Obama rally, the night before the historic election.
More Pictures of the Day on The Road
News: There is hope for the world, after all...
The end of a troubled era for the US, for the world?