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Abraham Lincoln Was The Anti-Obama A Profit Loving Capitalist Tool
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Weighing the economics of Abraham Lincoln isn't easy to do in today's terms. Lincoln was pro-subsidy and pro-tariff, both of which stances tend to be assigned to the interventionist left in today's discussions. But Lincoln's infrastructurally and financially primitive economy was not ...
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Obama French President Discuss Afghanistan After Summit
By Claudette RouloAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 19, 2013 President Barack Obama held a private meeting yesterday with French President Francois Hollande in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, following the annual G-8 conference. Speaking to the reporters following the meeting, Obama said the two leaders discussed the progress made by Afghanistan's security forces, now in the ...
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Obama Sees ‘More Famine and Floods New Wave of Refugees’ Without Climate Deal
President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after the conclusion of his speech in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Germany, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd in Berlin Wednesday that nations must unite to fight the "grim" future of climate change, which will produce "severe storms, more famine and floods, ...
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Obamas Ghastly Gun Gaffe
President Obama's gun gaffe was nearly lost in the pre-Christmas flood of TV and Internet chatter. But Breitbart's Joel Pollak was right to highlight Mr. Obama's bizarre post-election statement. One of the reasons he ran for re-election, Mr. Obama told Barbara Walters, was so he could have ...
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Obama proposes new nuclear cuts Moscow wants other countries to join
USA In response to the US President's proposal for Russia and America to reduce their nuclear arsenals by a third, Moscow would like other nuclear countries included in the process. Speaking in Berlin on Wednesday President Barack Obama said the United States could reduce its nuclear weapons by a third and still ensure the security of itself and its allies. He said he would now work ...
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‘Guantanamo detainees distrust military doctors’ – open letter to Obama
Health Over 150 doctors and medical professionals have signed an open letter to US President Barack Obama calling for hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba to receive independent medical care. The letter, published in the Lancet medical journal, states that the detainees have "very good reason" not to trust local medical staff, who are required ...
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Obama lays out plans to combat terrorism
While speaking at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, President Barack Obama announces ways the US can combat terrorism by "balancing the pursuit of security with the protection of ...
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Obama calls for reduction of worlds nuclear weapons
President Barack Obama announces efforts to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. and the world while speaking in Berlin, Germany, ...
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President Obama and the trouble of a second term
The Council on Foreign Relations' Dan Senor and former domestic policy advisor to the president, Melody Barnes, join Morning Joe to discuss President Obama's trip to Germany and why a second term for a president is always a ...
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First Thoughts Obamas repeat performance in Berlin
Obama’s repeat performance in Berlin… President talks Afghanistan, NSA surveillance, and Syria in press conference with Germany’s Merkel… House passes abortion-ban measure… CBO says "Gang of Eight" immigration bill will lower deficit by nearly $1 trillion over 20 years… Boehner: "I don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to ...
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Wallace Joke is on millions who thought Obama would be different
In 2008, then-Senator Obama visited Germany, meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel and speaking to the roughly 200,000 that gathered to hear him speak. Random House's Jon Meacham joins a conversation on what's changed for the president in Europe since 2008 and on JFK's Berlin speech in ...
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Live video US President Barack Obama gives speech at Brandenburg Gate Berlin
BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive to speak to the media following bilateral talks at the Chancellery on June 19, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Obama is visiting Berlin for the first time during his presidency and his speech at the Brandenburg Gate is to be the highlight. Obama will be speaking close to the 50th anniversary of the ...
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Obama plays down concern over US surveillance
Barack Obama has insisted his intelligence services are "not rifling through emails" or eavesdropping on phone calls of ordinary citizens, as European concerns over the Prism programme overshadow his trip to ...
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Obama wants nukes cut by a third
Obama promised to work with Natoallies to forge a new international framework for peaceful nuclear power. He said the US will hold a summit in 2016 on securing nuclear materials around the world.He also called for a treaty to end production of fissile ...
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Canadian dollar advances traders look to Fed statement Poloz speech
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar was slightly higher Wednesday ahead of the mid-afternoon release of the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest policy statement and economic projections. It is hoped the Fed will shed some light on what it intends to do about curbing some of its economic stimulus. The loonie was up 0.06 of a cent to 98.02 cents US as markets also looked to a speech later in the day by ...
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Meet Canada’s underused poet laureate Wordsmith bemoans lack of meaningful work
Canada's national poet has warned that the taxpayer-funded position risks becoming "homogenized and diluted" and expressed frustration that during his two-year term in Ottawa he's been asked to produce just one work -- a "mediocre" poem about Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee -- while many more serious, controversial subjects have escaped the official attention ...
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Tory MP fined $155 for driving through Hill security stop
Conservative MP Eve Adams admitted on Twitter late Tuesday that she had been fined by Parliament Hill security officers for driving through a security checkpoint 'without coming to a complete stop.' Media reports said she was ticketed for talking on her cellphone. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...
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30000 Canadians are homeless every night
A homeless man keeps warm in his blankets in a park in downtown Toronto. On any given day, about 30,000 Canadians are homeless, a new report says. (Kevin Frayer/Canadian ...
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Pioneering report suggests homelessness costs Canada $7B affects 200000 people a year
OTTAWA - Homelessness in Canada affects about 200,000 people every year and comes with a $7 billion price tag, the first-ever national report on the issue has found. The results paint a picture of a disaster in communities across the country, said Tim Richter, one of the report's authors and the president of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness. "In a natural disaster, the loss ...
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RBC raises forecast for Canadian economic growth
TORONTO - Canada's growth outlook appears to be stronger than previously thought, thanks to an improving trade picture and the strength of corporate balance sheets, economists at the Royal Bank of Canada said Wednesday. RBC Economics raised its estimate for the country's 2013 economic growth to 1.9 per cent and says 2014 growth will be about 2.9 per cent. RBC's estimates are ...
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‘Shocking’ study finds half of First Nations children are living in poverty
TORONTO -- Half of Canada's First Nations children are living in poverty, triple the national average, according to a new analysis of census statistics that pegs the cost of easing the problem at $580-million a year. The study by the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives being released Wednesday also paints a grim picture of Metis, Inuit, and non-status Indian children, as ...
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Obama says U.S. will do more to fight climate change
BERLIN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the United States understood it had to do more to fight climate change and he pledged that more action was ...
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Obama says U.S. to redouble efforts to close Guantanamo
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a news conference after a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin June 19, ...
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Al Lewis Bank of America ordered us to lie ex-workers say
Several former Bank of America employees filed declarations in a federal court last week claiming the mortgage lender told them to lie to customers seeking loan ...
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Japan beat Canada in Pacific Nations Cup
Ayumu Goromaru (centre) plays for Japan against the Barbarians in Le Havre, November 25, 2012. The full back scored all the points to lead Asian champions Japan to a 16-13 victory over Canada in the Pacific Nations Cup rugby tournament in Nagoya on ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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