Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
The White House is bracing for a new jobs report Friday that is expected to show paltry hiring by the private sector The report from the Labor Department is expected to show the nation’s unemployment rate rising above 9.5 percent. While weekly claims for unemployment fell on Thursday, a private report earlier this week projected the businesses would lose 10,000 jobs for the month. President Obama, under pressure to bolster the sluggish economy with only two months before the mid-term election, is working on new business tax breaks to provide a jolt to the sluggish economy. In Rose Garden comments...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
On the eve of Middle East peace talks set to get underway at the White House Wednesday, the White House has condemned the attack Tuesday claimed by Hamas that killed four Israelis near Hebron, in the West Bank.(Snip)Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who met earlier today with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also condemned the Hamas attack.(Snip) Israeli media reported that gunmen approached the Israelis' vehicle near the West Bank city of Hebron Tuesday evening and shot dead at point blank range the four people inside, including two women.
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
"What I'm interested in is taking action right now to help businesses create jobs right now, in the near term," the president said at the opening session of the White House jobs summit. ..."I'm confident that people like you -- who built thriving businesses or revolutionized industries or brought cities and communities together and changed the way we look at the world and innovated and created new products -- that you can come up with some additional good ideas on how to create jobs," he said. "I need everybody here to bring their 'A game' here today," Obama added, challenging...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority. Everything from the microscopic – the New Black Panther party – to the massive –- think bailouts – is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by POLITICO.
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
White House reporters are keeping quiet about an off-the-record lunch today with President Obama — even those at news organizations who've advocated in the past for the White House to release the names of visitors. But the identities of the lunch's attendees won't remain secret forever: Their names will eventually appear on the White House's periodically updated public database of visitor logs. The White House posts them with a three-month lag, so records of August visits won't be available until late November. (Although, since many of those invited already work in the White House every day, their lunch visit may...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
White House ramps up damage control over Obama Chicago gay history publication date: Jul 17, 2010 The story about President Barack Obama's bi-sexual past will not go away. Now, in an exclusive interview with The Globe, Norma Jean Young, the 76-year old mother of the late Trinity United Church of Christ choir director Donald Young, has spoken out and declared that persons trying to protect Obama murdered her son at the height of the 2007 Democratic presidential primary to protect Obama from embarrassing revelations about his homosexual relationship with her son. Donald Young's bullet-ridden body was found in his Chicago...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
White House: Unemployment at 9% until 2012By Jeanne Sahadi, senior writer July 23, 2010: 6:27 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The White House said Friday it expects that unemployment will stay at or above 9% until 2012, but at the same time forecast that the economy will grow by at least 4% in 2011 and 2012. It also revised its long-term deficit estimate under President Obama's proposed 2011 budget: The administration now believes the 10-year deficit will be $58 billion less than projected in February when the budget blueprint was first released. Under the revised estimates, Uncle Sam will...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
Throughout his presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama promised the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes.” After he became President, Barack Obama reiterated that pledge, promising the American people in his September 9th health care press conference: “The middle-class will realize greater security, not higher taxes.” But Obamacare does contain tax hikes. Tons of them. From taxes on tanning beds to taxes on employment and investments, Obamacare is a certified job-killing machine.
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
Now listen up, white people! You CANNOT BE A VICTIM OF RACISM, because according to Paris Lewis, the head of the Black Panther racists, black people cannot be racist. I’m not making this up…see the video. His assertion is that blacks cannot be racist because their ancestors suffered as slaves. So, by his assertion, if you are victimized by the Black Panther racists, you are not a victim. This guy Paris is a college educated lawyer. Does he know how to look up something in a dictionary? Racism has nothing to do with past experience, but rather a view of...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy. Shirley Sherrod, the department's Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was "superior" to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
The former civil rights group known as the NAACP does not just invite anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan and radical America-hating Marxist Jeremiah Wright to speak at their events… They also invite government officials who hate whitey, too. Georgia Director of Rural Development Shirley Sherrod, who was appointed last year by Obama’s Agriculture Secretary, admits in a speech at the NAACP that she discriminated against farmers because they were white. Of course, the audience did not even bat an eye.
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
Every president needs to escape what former President Harry Truman called the "great white jail" and what former President Andrew Jackson referred to as "dignified slavery." But for President Obama and some of his more recent predecessors, getting out of the White House has come at a cost. The on-going BP oil spill and unemployment numbers that are still at 9.5%, have made Obama and his vacations a target. The crisis in the Gulf has dogged Mr. Obama during two long weekend trips away from Washington - one to Asheville, N.C., and another back to his Chicago home for Memorial...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
The race issue is once again at the forefront with organizations like the NAACP calling for the Tea Party to purge itself of racists and denounce them. Good, fine, I for one do so with no regret. Racism has no place in an enlightened society and damn sure no place in any organization that I am a part of. Now that I have done my part I call on the NAACP and organization like it to purge themselves of racists and denounce them as well. What? You say that black people cannot be racists? What a ludicrous supposition. This type...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
In the past 24 hours, more than a few pundits and writers have noted that the NAACP resolution accusing Tea Partiers of racism is hard to swallow when the NAACP seems unconcerned with the New Black Panther voting intimidation case. Their points would be valid by analogy only. Their points are even more valid, though, because of a direct, rather than just analagous, tie between the NAACP and the Panther case. It was first reported here at the Washington Times that "Kristen Clarke, director of political participation at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Washington, however, confirmed to The Times...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday rejected a request from top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett to speak at a jobs summit hosted by the business group, the latest escalation in an ongoing war between the two camps. “We would have loved to have gone and participated. We weren’t invited. In fact we were told not to come,” Jarrett said, during an interview on Bloomberg Television. Chamber officials said Jarrett requested that she be allowed to address their gathering, a several-hour long “Jobs for America Summit,” on Wednesday morning, a few hours before the event began. They said the...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll shows President Obama's standing among white voters continuing to slip, a potentially ominous sign for his party with the midterm elections fast approaching. Just 40 percent of whites in the Post/ABC survey approve of the job Obama is doing, his lowest rating among this key demographic since the start of his presidency and well below the 50 percent approval number that he carries nationwide. Forty-three percent of white voters strongly disapprove of the job Obama is doing, while just 19 percent strongly approve. Among the other lowlights with whites in this poll for Obama:...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
WASHINGTON — On a Friday afternoon in mid-June, President Obama sat down with advisers in the Oval Office and learned that the F.B.I. planned to round up the largest ring of Russian sleeper agents since the cold war. After discussion about what the agents had done, the conversation turned to the fallout: what to do after the arrests? In that moment was born a back-to-the-future plan that would play out four weeks later, a prisoner exchange with surreal and even cinematic overtones as Russian and American airplanes met on a sunny tarmac in the heart of Europe on Friday to...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
When stories are told about African poverty, race often seems to play a large part. Based in Senegal, Reuters photographer Finbarr O'Reilly (previously featured here for his work in DR Congo) traveled to South Africa earlier this year and visited one of a growing number of squatter camps populated mostly by Afrikaners - white South Africans - to document their stories and help show that, despite the fact that impoverished blacks in the region far outnumber whites, poverty is a human issue, not necessarily racial. O'Reilly: "While most white South Africans still enjoy lives of privilege and relative wealth, the...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
There have only been six African-Americans in the United States Senate in history, and two – Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce – served Mississippi during Reconstruction as appointed Senators. In modern times, four African Americans – Edward Brooke (1967-79) of Massachusetts, Carol Mosley Braun of Illinois (1993-99), Barack Obama (2005-08) of Illinois, and Roland Burris (2009-10) of Illinois – have served, and each has been the lone African-American Senator serving at that point. Braun, Obama and Burris all held the same seat, with Braun winning it during the “Year of the Woman” in 1992, Obama winning it in 2004 before...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
(07-08) 23:33 PDT OAKLAND -- There was outrage, there was looting and there were skirmishes between police and protesters, but that wasn't the whole story of how Oakland reacted to the Johannes Mehserle verdict. ... They smashed windows of shops including the trendy Ozumo restaurant, and one building was spray painted with the words, "Say no to work. Say yes to looting." A boutique called Spoiled was spared. It had a sign outside and pictures of Oscar Grant with the words, "Do not destroy. Black owned. Black owned." JJ Fryzel, an Oakland artist who just moved into a gallery called...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
Asked what President Obama knew about the spy swap, a senior administration official tonight said that "the president was kept fully informed of developments and approved the recommendations of his national security team on how the matter should be handled." On the PBS NewsHour this evening, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel elaborated, saying, "It was not the decision of the president. It was the decision, obviously, of the law enforcement community and the intelligence community." Did the president sign off on it? Jim Lehrer asked. "The president was briefed about it," Emanuel said.
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
There’s been much discussion to the effect that Barack Obama chose to recess-appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to run Medicare and Medicaid because the White House wanted to avoid a contentious debate over Berwick’s support for health care rationing and his championing of European government health care systems. With midterm elections less than four months away, and a large part of the American public in favor of repealing Obamacare, such a debate would not be good for Democrats.
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
In today’s Jolt, there’s a roundup of Arizona immigration law and Kentucky Senate race news, but also an update on that huge story that I try to feature at least one item on in every edition . . . The Oil Spill Won’t Disappear, but Discussion of Obama’s Response Might You thought I was being silly with this one-item-on-oil-every-morning rule, huh? ‘Oh, Jim, the oil spill is one of the biggest news stories in years. There’s no way it will disappear from the front page.’ Well, there was nothing about the spill on the front page of the New York...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahomans affected by last month's record floods will not receive help from the federal government. Gov. Brad Henry announced in a news release that the White House has denied his request for disaster assistance. This means grant programs from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will not be available to residents. However, the news release said that the state is working to find other ways to help Oklahomans, including attempting to secure Small Business Association low-interest loans.
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
Posted by admin! / Under White Gold
Frontline Accounts of Oil Spill Differ from Official Account on Key Points Staff Report U.S. House of Representatives 111th Congress Committee on Oversight and Government Reform July 1, 2010 I also want to stress that we are working closely with the Gulf states and local communities to help every American affected by this crisis. Let me be clear: BP is responsible for this leak; BP will be paying the bill. But as President of the United States, I'm going to spare no effort to respond to this crisis for as long as it continues. And we will spare no resource...
Published on Sunday 5th of September 2010 01:55:20 PM
continue reading
