Posted on 26 May 2009
Ex-Governour of Illinois, current 44th (could it be a lucky number?) President of the United States, Barack Obama named Sonia Sotomayor as a nominee for the highest court of law. This morning, May 26th, Obama choose the Hispanic judge, aged 54, for the Supreme Court. As the statement appeared from two sources of USA TODAY, [...]
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Posted on 21 May 2009
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will hold a speech right after President Barack Obama’s. It seems this an answer to Obama’s activity, policy and activism. The speech also focuses on national-security policies, fighting terrorism and general support from all U.S. citizens.
Richard Cheney will make his national-security speech at the conservative American Enterprise Institute immediately following [...]
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Posted on 16 May 2009
Washington Saturday 16: President Barack Obama decided to name Jon Hunstman, current Governor of Utah as the new U.S. ambassador to China. This important role in foreign relations with China and the whole eastern Asia has been long sought by the Utah Governor, and friends say he’s thrilled that Obama nailed it to him. Most [...]
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Posted on 15 May 2009
President Barack Obama will resume military tribunals for some terrorism suspects held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while also giving prisoners new legal rights, an administration official said.
Obama ordered a 120-day halt to the war crimes tribunals hours after taking office in January. His administration will announce details of the resumption [...]
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Posted on 15 May 2009
Former Vice President Dick Cheney famously spent much of the past eight years in undisclosed locations and offering private advice to former President George W. Bush. But past was not prologue.
Today Cheney is the most visible — and controversial — critic of President Barack Obama’s national security policies and, to the alarm of many in [...]
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Posted on 13 May 2009
When the American International Group chief executive Edward M. Liddy returned to Washington to handle Congress today, there were rumors that the federal officials were known of the company’s recent bonus payments including the inflammatory percentage.
If documents are to be checked, it shows that senior officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York were [...]
Posted on 06 May 2009
Tens of civilians died on Tuesday as a result of the US air strikes in Afghanistan, strikes that were targeting the insurgents thought to be sheltering in the area. The Officials from the Red Cross said that women and children were also killed. The locals said that the bodies of about 20 women and children [...]
Posted on 05 May 2009
The US President’s proposal to remove the tax inducement to American companies that move jobs abroad was welcomed very well by most Americans who already had little sympathy for those who choose places like Cayman Islands just to save themselves from paying higher taxes. Although the decision may seem a fair one, many companies can [...]