Barack Obama’s thanksgiving message to Afghanistan & the world

Barack Obama's thanksgiving message to Afghanistan and the world

Greenpeace to prioritise humans!!

The new international head of environmental activists Greenpeace said today he would make protecting human life more of a priority for the group from now on. South African Kumi Naidoo, who fought against apartheid as a teenager, took over the position today. Mr Naidoo told the BBC he vowed to connect Greenpeace’s current focus on the environment with human concerns, especially climate refugees. He said human existence on the planet is “fundamentally under threat” as 300,000 people are estimated to die every year due to climate-related impacts. Mr Naidoo also criticised US president Barack Obama for failing to make environmental issues a priority since his election. Naidoo is the first African to head Greenpeace since the group was founded in 1971.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan strikes a blow for freedom

April Castro And Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writers – 5 mins ago

FORT HOOD, Texas – A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood … that killed 11 other people and left 31 wounded.

Obama lifts US travel ban on HIV-positive non-US citizens

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has urged countries worldwide to remove travel restrictions for HIV-positive people. The call comes after US president Barack Obama announced a decades-old US travel ban on HIV-positive non-US citizens would be officially lifted today. HIV-positive visitors will effectively be allowed entry to the US from early 2010. The UN has hailed the decision and urged other countries to follow the example. South Korea, China and Ukraine are some of the nations already considering the suspension of similar restrictions, according to UNAIDS. Human Rights Watch also welcomed the announcement, stressing that travel or residence restrictions on HIV-positive people are discriminatory, violate fundamental rights and impede effective responses to HIV by fostering misinformation and stigma.

How the Afghan Election Was Rigged – By Peter W. Galbraith

No one will ever know how Afghans voted in their country’s presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. Seven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots. In some provinces, many more votes were counted than were cast. E.U. election monitors characterize 1.5 million votes as suspect, which would include up to one-third of the votes cast for incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Once fraud occurs on the scale of what took place in Afghanistan, it is impossible to untangle.

Many white people don’t believe an African American should be president – Jimmy Carter

one thing about Jimmy Carter in his last days, he speaks his mind about most issues without obsfucation

NYT: “I live in the South and I’ve seen the South come a long way,” he said. But, “I think it’s bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people not just in the south but around the country … that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It’s an abominable circumstance and grieves me and concerns me very deeply.”

Barack Obama Inc.: the birth of a Washington machine – Ken Silverstein

Meanwhile, Obama, Durbin, and three other farm-state senators opposed a proposal this year by the Bush Administration to lower stiff tariffs on cheaper sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil and other countries. To lower such tariffs, the senators suggested, would leave the nation dangerously dependent on foreign ethanol. “Our focus must be on building energy security through domestically produced renewable fuels,” wrote the senators in a letter to Bush. That Obama would lend his name to such an argument—with its dubious implication that Brazilian ethanol is a national-security liability comparable to Saudi crude—indicates that he is at least as interested in protecting domestic producers of ethanol as he is in weaning America from imported petroleum.

Texas Republican Party endorses racist Obama pin

it’s just gettig warm. this is only the beginning..the point has already been made, so you can go through the motions of apologising and giving money to charity et cetera

that’s how the game is played

AUSTIN – The Republican Party of Texas will donate to charity the $1,500 it received for leasing a booth at its state convention to a vendor who sold a racist button.

Barack Hussein Obama by a nose

it’s Barack by a nose!