LATEST NEWS AND EVENTS

LATEST NEWS and EVENTS

When someone abuses his/her authority and this results in harmful consequences, a simple
apology is not enough. There needs to be punishment whenever a crime is committed and
erroneous management of foreign affairs, unjust use of force and mishandling of public
finances are reasons enough for prosecution.

Most of us think of Barack Obama at the "epoch-changer".
However, his move to appoint a financial mess insider, Timothy Geithner, for Treasury
secretary does nothing towards convincing the public of his intention for reforms. He
does everything, on the other hand, to signal Wall Street that they'll have his nod in
continuing their old same excesses.

The same holds for his decision to continue Bush's Gates in the Pentagon. Any person
even remotely associated in approving Bush's strategies and moves in the middle east
should not be in Barack's list if he was a true reformer.
I am deeply disappointed by both moves and I am not expecting much change from
either...

We also have not seen much of a refreshing move for the new cabinet. It would have
been really nice if, after eight years in dark ages-no stem cell research-no evolution-
no global warming era-Barack would create a Department of Science and Technological
Innovation, with a scientist or an innovator of international stature at its helm. Why
have we only seen moves that are reassuring the old guard of an old and tried and failed
continuity and not any bold new moves to excite the younger generation? Was not this
after all our choice for president?

Paulson and Bernanke should step down. They are part of this same rotten system that
brought this mess to being in the first place. How can these people instill confidence in
the American public?

Commentators wake up. The era, in which people had no substance and you
could deservedly look at the clothes, because nothing else measured up, is
gone. Saying that other people are doing it and,therefore, I am excused to do
it too, simply leaves you far behind, to the era of idiotism, not of smart ness...

The President, that we so hardly and so long have fought to elect,
was so electrifying and inspiring last night that he caused an entire
country to weep in joy and hope.

She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky;
when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons - because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America - the heartache and the hope;
the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that
American creed: Yes we can.

At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and
speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself
with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.

When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise
to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.

She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from
Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.

A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and
imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after
106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.
Yes we can.

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us
ask ourselves - if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as
long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

And the Arizona senator, gracious in defeat, as he has been in most of his heroic life...

Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is
blessing enough for anyone, and I thank the people of Arizona for it.

Tonight — tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether
they supported me or Senator Obama — whether they supported me or Senator Obama.

I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have
often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America,
because nothing is inevitable here.

Americans never quit. We never surrender.

We never hide from history. We make history.

Even a prosperous nation needs a leader that has a clue. Even the wealthiest people
on earth have to spend their wealth rationally. President Bush is clueless and afraid
to admit that his administration presented a bad example of financial and ethical
management and contributed crucially in the creation of this culture of greed and
entitlement in Wall Street. If politicians eat without caring, why would CEOs have
to give a f***?

"We are a prosperous nation with immense resources and a wide range of tools at our disposal ...
We can solve this crisis and we will," Bush said in brief remarks from theWhite House Rose Garden.

Shame on the U.S. congress. They were terrorized by the President's and
his team's scare tactics and passed a bill that neither them nor the majority
of the people in this country feel comfortable about...

No More Favors for the Incompetent Desperado...
Enough of our wealth eaten by Big Oil and the War Machine...
Not a penny now or ever to Wall Street.

The House is doing something right. Wall Street messed up and the House
called on it to shove their s**t up their a**...

Russians, here is your opportunity for glory. Get a fleet quickly together,
go to Somalia, capture the pirates and free MV Faina.

Displeasure, Cluelessness or Alzheimers?

Why do we (taxpayers) have to pay for trillions of dollars waisted by the mistakes
of miserably performing overgenerously paid executives and financiers and loaners
of firms that really deserve being shut down and have their overvalued personnels
unemployed for (at least) a while??? Why do the rich deserve "rescuing" from
their own mistakes while the poor do not deserve rescuing even from the mistakes
of others?

This biggest bailout and nationalization in human history comes from the most fanatically and ideologically zealot
free-market laissez-faire administration in US history. Socialism is indeed alive and well in America; but this is
socialism for the rich, the well connected and Wall Street. A socialism where profits are privatized and losses are
socialized with the US tax-payer being charged the bill of $300 billion.

Can someone, please, explain this to me? Why is it that when companies run
humongous profits they cry out loud against any form of state intervention and
taxation, but when they incur humongous deficits (due to their own careless risk
taking and high failing CEO salaries etc.etc.) they want the federal government
to nationalize their debts? Why do they have such a hard time understanding
that governments, like individuals, want profitable businesses; not failing ones?

Shame: McCain not sure how many houses he and wife own...

Many people have been wondering where the billions of dollars that the
US is spending in Iraq are going...