"The List" for Obama's Twentieth Week in office

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[Nachum]

Obama's Twentieth Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List

"The List" for 6/12/2009

1,000 protest Obama's speech in Green Bay

Military intelligence officials have quietly told Congress they advised against transferring 25 of the 60 Guantanamo Bay terror detainees deemed eligible for relocation by the Obama administration

Obama's IRS is weighing a proposal to deem one-quarter of employees' use of work cell  phones as personal use and therefore subject to tax as a fringe benefit.

Obama Struggles With Smoking 'Addiction' as He Praises Congress for New Tobacco Regulations

The Obama administration hasn't decided whether or not to release Gitmo prisoners in the United States.

Obama's special Mideast envoy George Mitchell said that Washington supports the creation of a Palestinian state "as soon as possible

The proposals to be outlined in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech on Sunday will not be enough to satisfy the Obama administration

According to a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Obama believes that the threat posed by the North Koreans is "overblown

Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline

Secr. of State Hillary Clinton will no longer state that an attack on Israel as if it were an Attack on the US

The Obama administration has virtually abandoned plans to resettle in the United States some detainees from the military prison in Guantanamo

"The List" for 6/11/2009

Obama plans to fire the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs amid a controversy between the IG and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star.

Obama's former aide Louis Caldera, fired for NYC Flyover, has been hired by longtime Democratic activist John Podesta

Obama has told Ecuador's socialist President Rafael Correa he wants better relations

Four of Top Five U.S. Newspapers Buried Story on Obama’s Call for Government-Owned Health Insurance Company

Obama says that he was not interested in a system of nationalized care but does believe a single-payer system has some appeal.

Obama Administration Says Some Detainees Overseas Are Being Mirandized -- and Bush Did It, Too

A senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee is accusing the Obama administration of quietly ordering the FBI to start reading Miranda rights to suspected terrorists at U.S. military detention facilities in Afghanistan.  The move is reportedly creating chaos in the field among the CIA, FBI and military personnel

China rejects move to send detainees to Palau

Four Chinese Muslims detained at Gitmo were freed and resettled in Bermuda, sparking complaints from China and Britain

Obama photo:  Feet on queen Victoria's Oval Office desk

"The List" for 6/10/2009

U.S. envoy George Mitchell assured the Palestinians on Wednesday of Washington's commitment to a state of their own, calling its establishment the only viable solution to their conflict with Israel.

AMA opposes Obama Medical Plan

Obama's choice as top U.S. diplomat for East Asia said Wednesday the United States is interested in easing its long-standing policy of isolation against military-run Myanmar.

Obama's new CEO of GM "I know nothing about cars"

Palistinians convert 46 ambulances to military vehicles,  violating US conditions for foreign aid, Obama adminstration ignores violations

The Brookings Institution said cap-and-trade legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions would lower the nation's gross domestic product in 2050 by 2.5 percent

The Federal Reserve lost $5.25 billion in the first quarter on the securities it acquired with last year's bailouts of Bear Stearns and insurer AIG

Congress is all but abandoning President Barack Obama's goal of producing fully one-quarter of the nation's electricity from renewable sources — wind, solar and the like — by 2025

Obama has appointed Washington lawyer Kenneth Feinberg to a new post with broad discretion over executive pay.

The Treasury Department reported that the red ink so far this year totals $991.9 billion. The administration is projecting the deficit for the budget year that began Oct. 1, will total an all-time record of $1.84 trillion

GOP don't have votes to filibuster Obama health care

VIDEO: March 2003 interview aired on CBS' "60 Minutes" Obama said Guantanamo detainees do not "deserve" to be read Miranda rights

The Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan

Obama Administration to Seek New Power for SEC on Executive Pay

The List for 6/9/2009

Obama to speak in front of graduating Naval Class.  Graduates told in writing to leave ceremonial swords at home

The Obama administration might have found a home for the 17 Uighurs detained at Gitmo. According to the Associated Press, the small Pacific Island of Palua is reportedly taking some or all of the 17 Uighurs in exchange for $200 million.

Tim Geithner Asks For A Bigger Treasury Budget

Obama's transparency czar is using $84 million to build a web site that won't be usable until October, and may not be useful until four years from now.

10 Banks Allowed to Repay $68B in Bailout Money

The Obama administration is ready to issue new regulations limiting the compensation of top executives at financial institutions that have received government rescue funds.

Obama proposed budget rules that would allow Congress to borrow tens of billions of dollars and put the nation deeper in debt to jump-start the administration's emerging health care overhaul.

The Supreme Court on cleared the way for Chrysler''s sale to Fiat, turning down a last-ditch bid by opponents that included consumer groups and three Indiana pension plans

US to spend $1 billion on embassy expansions in Pakistan, Afghanistan

Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed confidence on Tuesday that the United States could shoot down any North Korean missile fired toward America.

TARP payback may not help consumers, Half of the big banks paying back federal loans are investment firms or asset managers, so lending isn't likely to pick up.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates: The United States is increasingly concerned about recent advances in Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs

Obama Seeks Rules to Restrain Spending

First Gitmo inmate in US court pleads not guilty

The first of the Gitmo detainees has arrived in the U.S. for trial, despite overwhelming opposition from Congress and the people.

Treasury Secretary's Secret Talking Points Reveal That Banks Were Forced to Surrender Ownership Stakes to Government

Gag Order Issued in Army Recruiter Shooting Case

Obama quotes Qu'ranic verse about waging war to argue for peace and shared interests

Obama health care plan in conflict with fourth amendment

The List for 6/8/2009

Obama renews the Call for Government-Owned Healthcare Company

Robert Gibbs, Obama Press sec. says food taster story not true

Joe Biden: I’m sorry I’m not an economist,” ...“My background is foreign policy and the constitution.

U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, en route to Jerusalem, told reporters that U.S. President Barack Obama wants the Palestinian Authority and Israel to meet for “immediate” talks towards the creation of a new PA state, but PA Chairman Abbas refused.

US Mideast envoy George Mitchell's is trying to lower the volume in the US dispute with Israel over settlement construction. Mitchell emphatically denied he had said, as was reported Sunday in the Hebrew press, that the days of Israel lying to the US over settlements were over.

Two Arab Reporters Passed on Obama Interview to Avoid Israeli Journalist

VIDEO: Obama stumped when asked a question about North Korea

Washington Post to Obama: Back Down on Israeli ‘Settlements'

Obama plans to require banks and corporations that have received two rounds of federal bailouts to submit any major execuitve pay changes for approval by a new federal official who will monitor compensation, according to two government officials

POLL: A majority of Israelis think Obama's policies are not good for Israel

Obama said he expects the government to save or create 600,000 jobs this summer by speeding up the implementation of the $757 billion economic-recovery package

Actual Administration response to the Supreme Court

Obama claims in brief filed with the Supreme Court that TARP is out of the authority of the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court rules that Chrysler cannot yet sell most of its assets to Fiat, a move that has been opposed by three Indiana state pension and construction funds.

US files papers opposing delay of Chrysler sale

6/7/2009

"Obama's man, Steven Rattner, called shots on Chrysler bankruptcy, planned Chapter 11 for autos in advance

Obama appoints Arif Alikahn, devout Muslim, to Homeland Security Post

Obama economic advisor Austin Goolsbee conceded that the administration had previously predicted unemployment would top out at around 8%, that it was now up to 9.4%

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to impose a solution on the festering Arab-Israeli conflict if necessary

U.S. Secr. of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday that she thinks "there would be retaliation" from the United States in the event of an Iranian attack on Israel but stressed the need to prevent a nuclear arms race. During her campaign last year for the presidential nomination, she was more assertive, stating that an Iranian “attack on Israel would incur massive retaliation from the United States."

Hawai Star Bulliten's article about birth certificates

The Hawaiian certification of live birth Barack Obama posted on his campaign website and distributed to select news organizations as proof he was a "natural born citizen" would not be accepted as a "birth certificate" even for some Hawaiian state government eligibility issues

The head of the British Army chose to be at a service honouring the heroes of Pegasus Bridge instead of attending the official ceremony attended by Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy.

VIDEO: Obama in france...we can't tell others to stop producing nuclear weapons if we don't change ourselves

Obama's French food tested by 'taster"

Obama goes sightseeing in Paris, tells lawmakers to fix health care

Administration blames Bush for GM crisis

[Nachum]

The week is not quite over, but I thought I would get this up a little earlier.

For those who are keepingtrack

[OneWingedShark]

It’s lists like this that should make people wish for a president like Calvin Coolidge.

[freekitty]

Thank you.